Gao Shiming began to want to sue Li Xin fiercely, but he felt that it was inappropriate to think about it, and praised Li Xin fiercely in the letter, and exaggerated and described several major battles under the cities of Loukou in Beiloukou, Xinzhou, and Taiyuan, and said that although Li Xin's soldiers and generals won a field victory, they were unable to attack the city, so they had to deal with the thieves in the cracks, waiting for an opportunity to destroy the enemy. Of course, he did not spare pen and ink, and wrote about his own central dispatch and strategic planning as the supervisor of the Three Guards Army......

After the guards left with the secret music presented to the emperor, Gao Shiming was proud, no matter the success or failure of this battle, this merit alone was enough to be prominent in front of others, and the reputation of a soldier would definitely not be able to run at that time, after all, Yang Sichang, the governor of the three provinces when he was in the cabinet university, was defeated, and the three guards won successive battles, which immediately highlighted the merits of him and Li Xin.

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Under the city of Xinzhou, the corpses are piled up, the resistance of the Ming army in the city is very decisive, and there are heavy casualties.

Kong Youde and Wu Shan, the main general of the reinforcements, decided to change their strategy the next day, changing the siege from all sides to a single breakthrough, and when the Ming army in the city relaxed the vigilance of the other three gates, they would inevitably go all out to rescue the attacked gate, and then send troops to attack suddenly, and they would inevitably hit with one blow.

Who knew that just after the time of the lantern, he received a letter from Liu Guoneng from Taiyuan asking for help, saying that the Ming army had raided the city of Taiyuan, and the banner should be Li Xin, the commander of the three guards of Datong, and almost beheaded the one-headed tiger in battle, so that he could immediately return to help.

Kong Youde and Wu Shan were very surprised, Li Xin was obviously in Xinzhou City, and there was still his general flag floating on Cheng's head, how could he raid Taiyuan again. This news shocked the two **, Taiyuan is their base, and it was easily infiltrated by someone, if the Ming army attacked on a large scale, would it be worth it?

Kong Youde slapped his thigh and shouted like waking up from a dream:

"Oops! In the plan, the guy surnamed Li must be making that sound of a plan to attack the west! It turned out that when he was in Gaoyang, this guy had frequent tricks! ”

Wu Shan nodded, which was regarded as an endorsement of Kong Youde's words, and then said coldly: "In this case, in Brother Kong's opinion, what should we do?" ”

Kong Youde stroked his beard under his chin, shook his head and said, "Taiyuan must be saved, and it must be before the Heavenly Star and the Black God." Xinzhou must also be beaten, and it must be beaten down as much as possible! ”

Both of them were new recruits in the winter of last year, and they came from behind in the army of the thief Liu Guoneng because of their military exploits, but after all, their qualifications are very shallow, and many old people are strongly opposed to the two of them, especially Wu Shan, who has a blunt personality, and they are most annoyed by Liu Guoneng because Liu Guoneng can let Kong Youde lead the army but dare not let Wu Shan lead the army, for fear of offending the anger of the old brothers.

"Brother Wu, now is a great opportunity, you are good at field battles, and I am good at tackling tough problems. It is better for you to lead most of the men and horses of your and my two departments to rescue Taiyuan and pursue Li Xin, while I will take a small number of people to stay behind and besiege Taiyuan. ”

Kong Youde's combat effectiveness of the thieves is well known, and he must have an absolute superiority in numbers when he goes out to fight in the field, and he has learned in the previous battle of Xinzhou that 20,000 people have not killed Li Xin's 2,000 soldiers, which can be seen. He and Wu Shan's soldiers and horses together can have more than 60,000 people, and it is enough for Wu Shan to take away 40,000 and leave 20,000 to attack Xinzhou, which is already the end of the strong crossbow.

At the critical moment, in order to gain a foothold in the team of thieves, the two of them had no choice but to huddle together to keep warm, and with Wu Shanzhi's ability, even if they couldn't win against Li Xin, they could always be invincible. Kong Youde has the following plans, and the reason why he is like this is that he does not want to face Li Xin face to face in his heart, in the end, he is still quite jealous of this person.

After making up the idea of dividing the troops, Wu Shan immediately led the troops south to Taiyuan, arrived in Taiyuan overnight but did not even see the shadow of Li Xin and the Three Guards, just when he thought he was fooled again, Liu Guoneng sent someone to send him a letter, saying that the Ming army had gone south overnight, and it was not a long time, so that he did not have to enter the city, and he must chase and annihilate it overnight.

However, the loose and rapid march of the thieves could not last long, so he had to chase after him with a thousand cavalry of his guard, and the army followed slowly. When he chased all the way along Fenshui to the vicinity of Qingyuan, he finally encountered a large Ming army, and Wu Shan, who was extremely confident, did not wait for the army in the rear at all, but directly ordered the cavalry to attack, and the Ming army was caught off guard by the chaos.

This Ming army is also tenaciously tight, unlike the Ming army that Wu Shan encountered in Shanxi before, after the initial chaos, it actually began to stubbornly form a counterattack, and the strength of the combat effectiveness made him can't help but be impressed. However, when facing the enemy on the battle array, Wu Shan used the mobility ability of the cavalry advantage to try to attack around the flank and rear flank of the Ming army, but was stopped by the opponent's timely change of formation several times.

Wu Shan knew that he had met an opponent, this was the combat effectiveness that the Ming army should have, and decisively gave up the attack, but he was sticking to the Ming army infantry, and at the same time sent people to urge the army to step up its advance, just waiting for the army to arrive and then join the attack, no matter how strong the officers and troops were, I am afraid they will not be able to withstand the impact of the tide. After several temptations, he already knew that there were not many men and horses in this Ming army, and it was around 5,000, which coincided with the information he had obtained about Li Xin, and he felt a sense of pity for this person in his heart......

Before Wu Shan could land with a sigh, the vanguard of the army had already arrived, and he no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the whole army to assault and kill the Ming army. For a while, the torches all over the mountains gathered into a sea of fire, and they swept towards the thousands of Ming troops who were in formation to protect themselves.

Like the flooding waters of the Yellow River, the thieves slammed into the embankment that blocked him over and over again, and countless Lang flowers fell on the embankment and rolled back into the river. The corpse of the thief soldier fell into a stubble, and immediately another stubble was made up, and the Ming soldiers cut the Yanling knife in their hands and rolled the blade, but the thief soldiers were like they couldn't kill cleanly, and they kept pouring up.

During this period, the thieves tried to collapse and flee several times, but they were killed in cold blood by Wu Shan with the cavalry supervision team. Wu Shan didn't expect that the battle would be so tragic, and a rough estimate showed that there were not four thousand but three thousand thieves killed by the Ming army at this time. It is said that killing 1,000 enemies will cost 800, but this Ming army is about to be overdrawn, the battle formation is relatively complete, and the morale is still high, which is really a hard bone.

If Liu Guoneng, the king of Chuang, first entered Shanxi, there would be a small half of the Shanxi army like this Ming army, Shanxi would not be swept away, and even Taiyuan City would be lost. Wu Shan suddenly found that the Ming army began to counterattack in the face of an enemy with superior forces, and the impact force faced by the thieves was significantly increased, and there was a great possibility of collapse at the touch of a button.

Wu Shan did not hesitate anymore, and immediately organized the cavalry to rush towards the flank of the Ming army, and now it has reached the critical moment of victory or defeat, but it is not the time to preserve strength, it must be won with one blow! The counterattack of the Ming army was indeed the end of the crossbow, and it returned to the light. In the face of the thousands of cavalry on the flank, there was no ability to fight back immediately, so they could only let the thieves rush into the formation, and the losses fell into chaos, and the thieves took the opportunity to finally break through the frontal defense line of the Ming army, and the two sides fell into an endless melee.

Wu Shan saw that the purpose of the cavalry attack was achieved, so he decisively withdrew the cavalry, and the work of fighting and melee was still handed over to the thief infantry army, and the fight continued until the east and the drug dealer Bai. None of the thousands of Ming troops surrendered, and almost all of them were killed on the spot, except for those who broke through and fled for their lives, and there was not even a single prisoner. Under the First World War, this Ming army was considered to be abandoned, and there were more than a thousand people who could escape.

The 40,000-strong army of thieves suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in a night of melee, and the other side only had about 5,000 people.

After the reconnaissance cavalry sent out, the Ming army that broke out of the siege should flee in the direction of Yuci in the east, Wu Shan immediately decided to continue the pursuit, but the thieves under his command have not rested for two consecutive days and nights, from Daizhou to Qingyuan, they have not even closed their eyes, and they have only eaten two meals of war food, after the siege of the city during the day and the high-intensity field battle at night, their bodies have long been exhausted. They begged Wu Shan one after another to let them rest for a morning before pursuing.

Wu Shan had no choice but to order the army to camp on the spot, and at the same time send people to Taiyuan to report to Liu Guoneng that the Ming army had been broken, and at the same time please rest assured that after the army rested for half a day, it would continue to pursue the Ming army that went deep into Shanxi, and kill it completely.

After Liu Guoneng got Wu Shan's report, he couldn't hang his heart for a long time and put it in his stomach, he let this Ming army torture can't eat or drink, and even the beauties around him are not interested in touching it, so he praised Wu Shan.

"General Wu is worthy of being the first general in the field, and I hope that one day I can beat Zuo Liangyu like this, looking for teeth all over the ground!"

The one-headed tiger said that the current Zuo Liangyu has long been not a person of the same level as King Chuang, didn't he dare to move forward without seeing him? Don't forget that he has a grudge against the Chuang Army, this guy has begun to be afraid of the Chuang Army, and the Chuang Army is not the Chuang Army of the last year, as long as the Black God captures Daizhou, the door of the Ming Jingshi is opened, and it is not a dream to destroy him in the future The Ming Dynasty Emperor is full of doors, what is a Zuo Liangyu?

Liu Guoneng immediately warned the one-headed tiger to guard against arrogance and rashness, their shape is still very unoptimistic, and only if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the south succeed in making a comeback, they can sit back and relax. Now, after the most powerful Ming army in Shanxi is eliminated, it must be able to deter other Ming troops who want to enter Shanxi.

It's just that their joy didn't last until noon, and they were poured down by a basin of cold water, Yuci was in a hurry, and sent three waves of people to ask for help, the Ming army attacked the city in a big way, please rush to the rescue!