The official letter was sent to the army by the cabinet in an expedited manner of 600 li, almost all of which were about Qingshun's battle situation in Huai'an, in the simple marching tent, Wang Lanping spread all of these in front of him, and there was a little chaos for a while, why didn't he find a good staff officer for himself before going out, this time he was blind, and he had to decide everything by himself, but after all, a person's thoughts and insights are limited, and it is impossible to achieve a mask.

Originally, there was a good candidate, Gan Hui who recommended himself from Zheng Zhilong, although this person is ruthless, but he is a talent, and what he does is more vicious than him, but in order to stay in Nanjing, it is better for Gan Hui to stay in Nanjing.

originally thought that Li Laixiang should be able to hold out until the end of the year no matter how much he nested Huai'an's war, and by then his side might have stabilized the overall situation, but today's military report showed that Li Laixiang was not only defeated, but also completely defeated.

According to the military report, Li Laixiang soldiers attacked the Qing army in Huai'an in two ways, Hao Shaoqi's men and horses just began to march high, and in three days they broke through the Xuyi City where the Qing army was stationed, and then fought Lianjie, marched along Hongze Lake, and the Qing army strongholds such as Turtle Mountain, Zhoujiaqiao, Gaoliangjian and Wujiadun were about to see Huai'an City, but they did not expect that the army fell into the Qing army's heavy encirclement in Qingjiangpu, and the Qing army's sailor Liu Kongzhao quickly cut off Hao Shaoqi's retreat, and Prince Yu Duoduo led 60,000 eight banner soldiers, almost making Huai'an an an empty city, surrounded Hao Shaoqi's 40,000 horses.

The two armies of Qingshun fought fiercely in Qingjiangpu for five days and nights, the Shun army of 40,000 people was annihilated, more than 20,000 people surrendered, and the rest were all killed in battle.

The 60,000 people of Yuan Zongdi on the other side of the Shun army also marched at the beginning of the speed, after breaking the Qing army's resistance in Tianchang County, echoing with Hao Shaoqi, marching hand in hand, conquering the city gate in two days, breaking the town of Bei'a in five days, and then did not encounter much resistance, and went north along the canal, until it reached the Baoying City in the south of Huai'an, that is, the south gate of Huai'an City, where Yuan Zongdi encountered the fierce resistance of the Qing army.

The 60,000 army surrounded the Baoying City garrisoned by more than 10,000 Qing troops, attacked day and night, dug tunnels, dug canals for flooding, and all other tricks were exhausted, but the damn Baoying City Wall was not moving, it was stronger than the girl's tits, and the Shun army suffered countless casualties, and stayed under Baoying City for 18 days.

But Yuan Zongdi's delay, Duoduo immediately seized the fighter, poured out of the city, and ate Hao Shaoqi in one bite, and then the army quickly went south, and the Qing army also entered the canal from Hongze Lake, and went straight to Baoying City, Yuan Zongdi heard this, and knew that the general trend was going, in order to keep this partial division, he only sighed, ordered the retreat of the army, and ran wildly for more than ten days, and when he fled back to Sangen Mountain in Dashun, the 60,000 partial division had lost half of the soldiers, and the Qing army city that had been beaten before was all discarded, and the ordnance, grain and grass were lost countless times, and the defeat was lost.

Wang Lanpingyuan imagined Li Laixiang's current mood in Huguang, and the first expedition after ascending the throne ended up with such a result, and even Hao Shaoqi, the general of Dashun, was killed.

Wang Lanping didn't have time to figure out Li Laixiang's mood at this time, because the Qing army chasing soldiers who followed Yuan Zongdi had already arrived in Chuzhou City, and maybe they had already marched towards Ludu (Hefei), the capital of Dashun, at this time.

What to do? According to the military report from Jinyiwei, almost all of Li Laixiang's garrisons on the eastern front were devoted to the war of Huai'an in the east, and most of the Dashun fierce generals who followed Li Zicheng to fight the world were stationed in Xiangfan in the west and the Huaihe River in the north, and the garrison had a total of about 200,000 people, but it was impossible for them to arrive before the Qing army attacked Ludu.

Wang Lanping does not sympathize with Li Laixiang's experience, but at this time Dashun can not fall, such a small / court across the Yangtze River can greatly reduce the pressure on the defense line of Nanjing and the Ming Yangtze River, if Dashun falls, Wang Lanping will face two serious consequences.

First, after Duoduo took Li Laixiang, Nanjing was completely exposed to the single threat of the Qing army, and it could be attacked at any time, and the Zhenjiang Naval Division had just been adapted from the Fujian Naval Division, although it was far superior to the Hongzehu Naval Division of the Qing Army in terms of equipment and warships, but the people's hearts were not completely stable, and it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no unclear orders, and the defenders around Nanjing had a total of 30,000 garrison battalions of Li Dingguo and Song Xian's 5,000 Yulinwei, of which only Song Xian's Yulinwei had some combat effectiveness, The 30,000 garrison battalions were at best a third-rate garrison force, and it was impossible to block the fierce attack of the Qing army.

Second, if Li Laixiang is killed or captured in Ludu, the Dashun Dynasty will not last long, and the threat of the Qing army in Jiangbei will be completely gone, even if the Qing army does not go south to cross the river to invade the Ming Dynasty, but it is a great news for Hong Chengchou who is fighting in Sichuan, he can attack Sichuan with all his strength without any care, and as soon as Dashun falls, the entire Jiangbei front will be completely opened up by the Qing army, and the supply of soldiers and food can be transferred to Sichuan faster.

What to do? Far away water can't solve the near fire, he is thousands of miles away in Huguang, it is unrealistic to save Li Laixiang, and his army has moved, at this time back to Jianghuai, can Zhang Xianzhong persist until he goes west again?

Wang Lanping didn't sleep all night, at dawn there were soldiers who brought toiletries and breakfast, after a simple care, picking up steamed buns is also tasteless, this pit daddy's Li Laixiang, the cowhide blows loudly, you can die if you persist for a few more months, the two armies are crusading eastward, the battle line is so long, I never thought that the march so fast is a plan to win the opponent's arrogance and lure the enemy deep? I didn't think about it at all, why did Hong Chengchou dare to use troops in Sichuan with great fanfare and ignore the situation of Jianghuai, he dared to go, it means that Jianghuai will not be able to lose it for a while and a half, and the Qing army has heavy troops in Jianghuai, this will be good, not to mention losing yourself, even I, Wang Lanping, have been surrounded by you.

At this time, there was a report from the Malays, saying that General Song Dali had detoured back to King Gui's back road, and had built a blocking fortification overnight, and Song Dali guaranteed that none of King Gui's soldiers would want to pass through his defensive line.

Wang Lanping could not hesitate, if he missed the opportunity, he was likely to fall into a bitter battle with King Gui's army, so he immediately ordered the whole army to abandon all baggage and go lightly, to capture the thief and capture the king before King Gui could react.

The army was drawn again, and according to the Tanmalay report, the army of King Gui and Zhao Zhishang, the former governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was stationed in Jiangxi Province

At the junction of the three provinces of Guangdong Province and Huguang Province, a place named Changle Mountain Pass is more than 80 miles away from Ancheng in the southwest of Jiangxi, 110 miles away from Shaoguan City in Guangdong, and more than 90 miles away from Chenzhou City in Huguang.

Changle Mountain is not famous, there is no danger, it is an ordinary mountain, the whole mountain is only five or six miles in radius, there is a stream between the mountains, the whole mountain is divided into two, there are hundreds of households on both sides of the mountain, the left of the mountain is Changle East Town, the right is the West Town, before coming here, Wang Lanping has never heard of such a place on the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

There are two roads across the mountain, one is the ghost crying ditch in the south of the mountain, directly through the mountain, through the right town out of the Changle mountain pass, the other is the Lei Po Ridge in the east, go around the mountain, the mountain pass is about a few miles away from the previous one, the intersection of the two roads is the cantonment of the Guiwang army, it is a large open land, the east is Changle Mountain, close to the left town, in this open land thousands of marching tents of all sizes and sizes, as for where the Chinese army tent of the Guiwang is, it has not been explored yet.

It is reported that as early as when Wang Lanping's army entered Ganzhou, King Gui and the others arrived here, and after that, they were unable to move forward, and he did not even move when Wang Lanping marched towards Nan'an, probably because he wanted to see it first.

The soldiers were fast, the sun was just right, and the army rushed to a place less than five miles away from Changle Mountain, and also captured a few scouts of the other party along the way, under interrogation, Wang Lanping was overjoyed, King Gui just knew that Nan'an was lost last night, and he didn't know that he had left Nan'an to kill him, and he didn't plan to stay here for a long time, and the defense was also very loose, today at dawn, he sent a hundred and ten scouts in the direction of Nan'an, even if he knew now, I was afraid that it would be too late to react, and 80,000 people all cowered in that open field, I can't imagine that scene, which one of the great people came up with it, and he is not afraid of dying of heat on a hot day, in case of any disease, he doesn't have to fight, and after three days, this army will lose its combat effectiveness.

And not only did he know this, but even the basic position of the Chinese army's big tent was tried.

Immediately, after thinking about it for a while, Wang Lanping made a decision, and the nearly 30,000 troops of the whole army were divided into three routes to attack from the two lines of Ghost Crying Ditch and Lei Po Ling, and Wang Lanping himself led a part of his men to stand by as the reserve of the two armies.

Wang Lanping's plan is that the two armies will attack at the same time, with this group of men and horses out of the ghost crying ditch as a feint (surrender troops in Jiangxi) to attract the opponent's troops, and the other way (Dingyuan Battalion) will bypass from Lei Po Ling, and then launch a surprise attack after the opponent's troops are attracted to the past.

After the plan was decided, the two groups of people set off one after another, and because there was no burden of baggage, the two groups of people quickly disappeared in front of Wang Lanping's eyes.

Yungui's soldiers are different from the Liangguang soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong has harassed the state capitals in the southwest of Yungui and Guizhou, there are always wars, and even some people are elite soldiers who have survived a hundred battles, and King Gui is the royal family of Zhu Ming, and he is very appealing to his generals, and he doesn't know what King Gui promised these people, so Wang Lanping can't fight positional battles with them, so he can only adopt this kind of heart-wrenching tactics.

After the army entered the mountain, Wang Lanping was worried about both ends, and he didn't know whether Duoduo had attacked Ludu, let alone how to deal with the current crisis in the direction of Nanjing.

Wang Lanping, who was waiting for the military situation in the mountain pass, had a whim, I can send suspicious troops here to attract King Gui, so why can't I let Nanjing also make a false shot, and make a frame of encircling Wei to save Zhao, maybe it can scare and scare Duoduo, even if he can't scare him, he has to make him dare not attack Ludu with all his strength, so as not to buy Li Laixiang some time to transfer troops from the west and north.

Thinking about it, it seems that only this method can be temporarily feasible, to send the army back is a fantasy talk, thinking of this, Wang Lanping immediately repaired the book, ordered the fast horse to quickly send back to Nanjing, now from Huguang to Nanjing The post road has been opened up in the whole line, with 600 miles to expedite at most four days to enter Beijing, I hope it is still too late.

When Wang Lanping was secretly comforting, the shouting and killing sound in the mountain had come from nothing, and from time to time a few cannon sounds and sporadic muskets could be heard, his current position was five or six miles away from the battlefield in a straight line, so it sounded that King Gui's army was also equipped with firearms, and the troops that could be equipped with such sharp weapons were all border troops, because according to the records of the Nanjing Military Department, the entire Ming Dynasty currently had 600,000 registered soldiers (excluding the guards), and there were less than 200 field artillery in total, and more than 90 under Wang Lanping's command;

The most advanced muskets were 16,000 rods, distributed in all the armies in the south of the Yangtze River, of which Wang Lanping had nearly 5,000 rods in his hand, the Zheng family in Fujian had 6,000 rods, Huang Degong had 1,000 guns, and the rest of the provinces also had some, and Yungui was the majority, because they had been fighting Zhang Xianzhong, and it was estimated that it was around 3,000 rods.

As for the close-range firearms like the three-eyed gun, there are too many, and generally no one uses them, and the lethality is not as good as that of the archers, and the unqualified gunpowder ratio will scare the other party at most and make the other party look black and gray, and the battalions under Wang Lanping are equipped with a large number of this kind of equipment, but except for the recruits, almost no one uses it, and it is still heavy to put it around, so the cavalry of Yulinwei is still with him.

Just by listening to this voice, you can know that the other party has all kinds of firearms, and King Gui has come to bring out all the main forces that he can move this time, and if it is hard, it may not be able to take advantage.

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At this time, the west of Changle Mountain is like an open-air crematorium, black smoke is billowing everywhere, people shouting horses, crying fathers and mothers, projectiles and arrows can almost collide in the air, needless to say, the fierceness of the battle.

Although Guiwang Zhu Youlang and the governor of Yungui were caught off guard at the beginning, but the governor of Zhao was a character who had been trained in the battle with Zhang Xianzhong, and immediately stabilized the camp after a little panic, how to say that it was also an army of 80,000, half of which were veterans, and the reaction was also very fast, more than 10,000 people of the Han Wang army rushed out of the ghost crying ditch have not been able to break the camp until now, one is that the mountainous environment cannot carry out a large-scale attack, and the other is that the terrain is not familiar, and in a blink of an eye, it has changed from a sneak attack to a tough battle.

On the other side, the Dingyuan battalion has not yet started, because from the beginning of the feint attack to the present, the defenders who have not seen this side have been transferred, not to mention how tight the opponent's defense is, but their response to the enemy is too fast, this kind of combat ability is not trained on the school field, but trained on the battlefield, this is a strong enemy.

The offensive military report was quickly fed back to Wang Lanping, he was a little surprised, and at the same time once again made up his mind, no matter what, he couldn't let King Gui leave here alive, this army was in his hands, and he would really be called the emperor in the future, and change the hearts of the people in the world, not to mention that Zhu Yousong in Nanjing would die, even if he couldn't live.

The changes on the battlefield are too fast, and a carelessness will lead to a big collapse, Wang Lanping paced the situation during the trial, and he couldn't go on like this, so he changed his strategy.

Wang Lanping immediately called the herald, "Order Song Dali's Yu Linwei to quickly join the battle, wait for the opportunity to find an opening to take the opponent's Chinese army, and at the same time order the Dingyuan battalion not to wait, immediately attack, with two ways of men and horses, to find a breakthrough for Song Dali's Yu Linwei"

At present, it seems that he is underestimating the enemy, and there is no need for Song Dali to stay in front to watch the battle, even if King Gui wants to run, with 5,000 people from Yulin Guard, he will not be able to stop King Gui's powerful firepower.

The reserve team is not needed, Wang Lanping himself personally led people to follow from the direction of Dingyuan Camp, so he didn't believe it, King Gui and they were even more difficult to bite than Kong Youde at the beginning.

When Wang Lanping came to the forward position, not only did he regret for a while, he was really too light on the enemy, the guns around the opponent's camp were overwhelming, and the arrows seemed to be inexhaustible, and the artillery fire even flattened a bunch of trees in the mountains, completely suppressing his own people, and wanted to rush over, how many soldiers would have to die, seeing this, he regretted that his brain hurt, and told you not to bring heavy firearms to rush in, should! It's hard for the whole army to get out now, it's all messed up. (To be continued.) )