As soon as the shouting ended, the cavalry behind Li Guo let out a thunderous roar, and the archers immediately released their arrows and shot a document into the city with the words "Slaughter the city for three days......

Zhou Yuji stood proudly on the city tower, unaware of the noisy behavior of the Shun army, and stared at the enemy with a pair of sharp eyes. After a while, Zhou Yuji raised his right hand and let out a loud shout: "Fire-!" ”

In an instant, the loud sound of "boom" sounded again and again, the fire was shining, and the smell of gunpowder came to the nose! The smoke on the entire city wall closed their eyes, and the soldiers and generals were deaf.

The guns were quite old, and even in this round of shelling, several of the Furlong guns were blown up, and the gunners were all killed. Rao was like this, and the Shun army under the city also suffered great casualties.

This sudden bombardment frightened the horses of the cavalry under the city, and the riders could not control it at all. The horses were either hit by shells and fell to the ground, or they scattered in all directions, and the formation was immediately chaotic.

Of course, Zhou Yuji would not let go of this rare opportunity, and ordered a series of shots until the end of the three rounds of bombardment. These rounds of shelling were heavy in the casualties of the Shun army, and the severed limbs and wreckage of men and horses were mixed with the bombed earth, which looked like the hell of Shura.

Li Guo, who was in the Shun army, was a personality who did not admit defeat, and his old battalion bandits were killed and injured a lot, which aroused more and more rebounds in his heart, and he urged more people and horses to attack as if he was angry, and surrounded the entire Ningwu Pass.

As a result, the casualties increased several times -- the four walls of Ningwu Pass were equipped with artillery, and as soon as the chambers were cooled, they would be fired at the same time from all sides, and the earth would be shaken. Not only were the people and horses trees and stones outside the city blown to pieces, but even the strong city wall of Ningwuguan was shaking......

The war is in full swing. It was the fiercest and most arduous battle in the lives of the two sides. At the end of the day, the Shun army kept sending more people to the front. More than 10,000 people had been lost before dark. Although Ning Wuguan was temporarily defended, he also used up half of the accumulated gunpowder.

"How will tomorrow's battle be fought?"

After the day of darkness after the troops were withdrawn, this became the focus of repeated hard thinking on both sides......

Just when the fierce battle of Ningwu Pass was in full swing, a cavalry team of 3,000 people was also speeding towards Ningwu Pass.

A white-robed young general took the lead and galloped at the front of the team!

When the cavalry passed through a river valley and beach, the white-robed young general gave the order to rest and drink his horses. Three thousand men and horses immediately scattered on both sides of the valley, while more than twenty horsemen and scouts rode out to the vicinity to guard the scouts.

The white-robed young man also led the horses to the river, and made the horses drink heartily. He himself looked around and looked around warily.

"Guerrilla Li, we are still more than three hundred miles away from Naning Wuguan, and it should take two days to reach ......" Behind the white-robed young general, the voice of a general came from behind, and he turned his head-

This white-robed young general, who is it not Li Dingguo?

At the same time, Li Dingguo glanced up at the sky, and then said to the general: "Meng Kuo, it's getting late." Let's camp in this valley tonight! ”

This team of 3,000 cavalry is actually not all cavalry, and those who can fight on horseback are only 1,000 people under the command of the thousand commanders of the Tuanshan Army cavalry team named Meng Kuo.

Li Dingguo led the 2,000 sailors of the Marine Corps urgently dispatched by Li Li. They are not good at slashing and slashing on horseback. Horses are just a means of transportation. If they encounter an enemy situation, the Marine Corps still has to dismount and fight on foot.

After Meng Kuo went to arrange the camping task, Li Dingguo sat on a stone by the river. I began to think about it.

Originally, his own Marine Corps was training in Ningyuan Zhongyou, but he suddenly received an order from Master Zhang. It is required to leave for Kannai immediately and choose the opportunity to fight. Hinder the pace of thieves entering the capital division to the greatest extent.

Choosing the right time to fight -- this is a test that Master Zhang gave himself, how could 2,000 marines and 1,000 cavalry stop the 500,000 army of thieves?

Li Dingguo frowned, and a contemplative look appeared on his face.

The Tuanshan Army also had a lot of eyeliner and intelligence sources in the Daming Pass, and Li Zicheng's peasant army also had many undercover agents, so the thieves' marching routes and every move were under the control of the Tuanshan Army.

Li Dingguo received a message from the intelligence department of Tuanshan Fort that Li Zicheng's main force was in Shanxi, so he took his men and horses to enter the customs from the front line of Duoyanwei and Xuanfu and went straight to Shanxi.

According to Li Dingguo's plan, the 3,000 men under his command will certainly not go head-to-head with the peasant army, and this is the most obvious truth -- how can 3,000 people fight against 500,000 people? To put it bluntly, it is necessary to cut down 500,000 pigs, and 3,000 people have no way......

Li Dingguo rubbed his temples and glanced at the soldiers not far away, only to see that the soldiers of the Tuanshan Army in the river valley and beach took out the marching tents carried by the horses one by one, and began to set up the marching tents skillfully.

Li Dingguo took his eyes back, he set up camp here tonight, and he was going to march to Ningwu Pass early tomorrow morning.

Since all the cavalry led by Li Dingguo -- uh, no, the Marine Corps of the Marine Division can be regarded as mounted infantry -- entered the pass to fight, it was necessary to give full play to the advantage of mobility, avoid the real and attack the weak, and take the army of thieves by surprise.

Before Li Dingguo set out from Ningyuan's Zhongyou Station, he specially applied to transfer 1,000 cavalry from Jinzhou to fight with him, precisely to implement this long-distance strategy.

In Li Dingguo's mind, there were two most suitable tactics: one was to attack the grain and grass of the peasant army, and it was best to burn them down with a fire. This is just like the battle of Guandu of Cao Yuan of the Three Kingdoms, if it succeeds, hundreds of thousands of peasant armies will immediately collapse.

However, according to the information obtained by the scouts, Li Zicheng's army did not have any place to store grain at all, and all the grain and grass were carried with the army. If there is not enough food and grass, they will plunder it on the spot!

This is obviously impossible to implement, and the enemy does not have a special place to store food.

The second is to adopt the strategy of "shooting people first and horses first, and capturing thieves and capturing kings first", and at the moment when the peasant army and the Ming army are at war, they find an opportunity to raid Li Zicheng's Chinese army headquarters in one fell swoop.

This is also the strategy set by Li Dingguo, there is really no decent resistance in the Ming Dynasty, but Li Zicheng was stopped by Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of Daizhou, in front of Ningwu Pass.

When attacking the city, it must be the army in front and Li Zicheng's Chinese army behind, this is not an excellent opportunity for a surprise attack!

Just when Li Dingguo got up and was about to go back to the marching camp tent that had been set up to rest, the voice of Meng Kuo, the cavalry commander, came from behind him: "Li Guerrilla, the flying eagle of Ningwuguan has arrived!" ”

Li Dingguo was overjoyed, only to see Meng Kuo come to him quickly and hand over a bamboo pipe.

Shanxi, Xuanfu and Beizhili are all key areas of activity of the Tuanshan Army's intelligence department, and Ningwuguan naturally also has eyeliner.

Li Dingguo took the bamboo pipe, removed the sealing mud, took out a crumpled piece of stationery and began to look at it. There were only a few words on the letterhead, but the battle in front of Ningwu Pass was clearly described.

After reading the secret letter, Li Dingguo couldn't help frowning, and muttered to himself: "I originally thought that the general army of a town also had 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, but I never thought that this generation of state general soldiers only had 5,000 men and horses, and they could still resist the onslaught of Li Zicheng's army in turn-this Zhou Yuji, what a capable person!" (To be continued.) )