On May 15, 1653, the armies of Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo camped in Lingchuan County, Guilin, Guangxi, ten miles away. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sun Kewang commanded 36 battalions of 170,000 troops, and the tree fence company camp, more than 200 miles in length and width, all of which were near mountains and forests;

Li Dingguo's 60,000 people were arranged in three battalions, with strict military discipline, neat ranks, and majestic men and horses, each in order.

On 18 May, Sun Kewang summoned Zhang Sheng in the military tent.

Sun Kewang said: "Er Ke led Wu Dading and Ma Bao to choose seven thousand iron horses, and walked the road to Guilin City overnight to attack it. There are Wang Shangli, Gong Yi and so on in the city. As soon as you enter the city, you will know that your family has been lost, and you will leave without a fight!"

After Zhang Sheng listened to the order, he led Ma Bao and Wu Dading to take advantage of the night and quietly kill Guilin on a small road.

Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo originally agreed to fight on the 21st, in order to give Zhang Sheng and Ma Baojun more time to attack Guilin.

Sun Kewang postponed the engagement.

Sun Kewang thought that he had a well-planned plan and was foolproof, but he did not expect that his troops would be unknown this time to attack Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, and his subordinate generals were unwilling to fight in their hearts.

Moreover, Bai Wenxuan and others have shared weal and woe with Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu for a long time, and they are even more unwilling to merge with each other;

And the old generals Ma Jinzhong, Ma Weixing, Ma Bao and others, who were adapted from Liu Wenxiu's troops, were dissatisfied with Sun Kewang's long-term existence.

As a result, Bai Wenxuan, who was the commander-in-chief of the front, privately agreed with Ma Weixing and Ma Bao to rebel before the battle, and Wenxuan also personally galloped into Dingguo and Wenxiu's camp to report the news in the name of inspecting the front line, saying: "At this time, it is advisable to send troops to fight as soon as possible, Ma Bao, Ma Weixing and all important generals have already made an appointment. Li Dingguo was still wary of Bai Wenxuan's intention and hesitated.

Liu Wenxuan said eagerly: "If it's too late, my generation will die without a place." There is a word for the emperor and the country, when the death is under ten thousand arrows, I should go to the front of the battle first, and you will wait for the whole army to advance quickly. ”

After speaking, Liu Wenxuan got on his horse and galloped away.

Ma Bao, who was ordered to lead the army to attack Guilin, also wrote a secret letter and sent his henchmen to Li Ding's state camp, saying: "Zhang Sheng and others have led 7,000 elite soldiers to attack Guilin. The decisive battle must be fought tomorrow, and it will not be too late to do so. ”

Li Dingguo listened to Bai Wenxuan's opinion, and read Ma Bao's letter on the evening of the 18th, so he believed that the other party was sincere in helping him, and immediately ordered the battalions to fight the next day.

Before dawn on the 19th, Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses set out to fight.

When Sun Kewang saw it, he immediately waved his army to meet the enemy, and the two sides fought in Lingchuan County, Guilin.

At the beginning, Sun Kewang stood in Gaofu to watch the battle, and saw that Li Dingguo's army was weak, so he ordered the whole battalion to attack.

Bai Wenxuan saw that Sun Kewang was menacing and Li Dingguo's army was in a critical situation, so he immediately led 5,000 iron cavalry and Ma Bao's army to jointly attack Sun Kewang's formation, and broke several battalions.

Sun Kewang gave a sudden blow to his "comrades-in-arms" from behind, and immediately became chaotic and fled in all directions.

Li Dingguo saw that he took advantage of the situation to wave his army to attack, and Sun Kewang's army was in chaos.

After defeating Sun Kewang's rear army, Bai Wenxuan called his subordinates and shouted: "Welcome the King of Jin!" Welcome to the king! ”

The army of more than 100,000 collapsed in an instant.

Sun Kewang saw that the situation had changed drastically, and under the protection of a small number of soldiers and horses, he fled westward in a hurry.

When passing through Xing'an, Ma Jinzhong not only "closed the door", but also sent an army to pursue, "so that the people could not be gathered", Sun Kewang hurriedly fled to Guiyang.

Zhang Sheng, Ma Bao, and Wu Dading commanded 7,000 elite horsemen to take the small road after five days and nights of rapid march has entered the city of Guilin, Ma Bao is afraid that the city is unprepared, deliberately burn houses along the way, so that the sneak attack into an open attack.

Wang Shangli and others in the city heard that Sun Kewang's troops were approaching, and they were about to go to the city to respond, but they were guarded by Li Dingguo's general Jin Tongwu and his own army, and they couldn't move.

At this time, Lubu, who had won a great victory in Xing'an, had been sent to Guilin, and Jin Tongwu ordered people to send the good news to Guilin to calm the people's hearts.

Zhang Sheng led his troops to the city of Guilin to prepare to attack the city, and suddenly saw Li Dingguo report Jielubu, knowing that Sun Kewang's army had been defeated, and Wang Shangli, who had originally agreed to act as an internal response, had no sound at all, and the city was well defended, so he could only retreat.

On the way back to the city, he met Li Dingguo's reinforcement division, Zhang Sheng wanted to seize the road and fled, waving the army to the death, Li Dingguo's army was fundamentally first aid after the Lingchuan battle, the road was far away, and the soldiers were tired, and there was almost no support.

In order to turn the tide of the battle, Ma Bao enlarged the artillery after Zhang Sheng's formation, supported the troops to kill, and attacked Li Dingguo's army in front and back.

Zhang Sheng was taken aback and said, "Ma Bao is also the opposite!" "Gather up the remnants of the defeated soldiers and flee in battle.

The next day, Li Chengjue, the chief soldier stationed in the place, was originally his subordinate general and led his troops to meet him.

Zhang Sheng took a breath and was explaining the reason for the defeat to Li Chengjue, when several people suddenly rushed out left and right, and unexpectedly captured Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng reprimanded Li Chengjue and said: "You are a general, how dare you betray me?" ”

Li Chengjue replied: "If you dare to rebel against the Son of Heaven, how can I have anything to do with you!" Zhang Sheng was sent to Kunming to be beheaded.

In late September, Sun Kewang rushed back to Guiyang, ordered the left-behind general Feng Shuangli to lead his troops to guard the Weiqing Road, and agreed with him that if Liu Wenxiu's pursuers arrived, he would fire three trumpet cannons in a row to report the news.

Feng Shuangli already knew that Sun Kewang's army was defeated, and when he left the division, he had 170,000 soldiers and horses, and only 15 or 6 cavalry were left when he returned to Guiyang, so he decided to change his course, not only did not help Sun Kewang stabilize the situation in Guizhou, but ordered three cannons to be fired in a row before Wenxiu's pursuers arrived.

When Sun Kewang heard the cannon, he thought that the pursuers had arrived, so he hurriedly took his wife, children and entourage out of the city and ran east. Along the way, passing through Xintianwei, Biqiao, Zhenyuan, Pingxi, Yuanzhou, "all the guards are closed and the camp is not accepted", "the city gate is closed during the day, and it is called again and again, and only the big pot is expected to be paid; And there are those who should not".

Sun Kewang, the once invincible "lord of the country", rebelled and became a lost dog. In desperation, Sun Kewang decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

He said to the few entourage: "Today, Li Dingguo has humiliated the orphan here, and the orphan will not hesitate to vote for the Qing master to avenge the immortal enemy." ”

Traveled to Jingzhou, Hunan, where Wu Fengsheng, a scholar of the house, served as Jingzhou Road and led the department to greet him.

Sun Kewang said: "All the way, people's hearts have changed, and the only way to vote for the Qing Dynasty can be avoided." ”

So he sent Yang Hao to Baoqing (now Shaoyang) to negotiate and surrender to the Qing side. (To be continued.) )