Li Dingguo was also worried at this time, and the reason why he was worried was because he and Sun Kewang had a difference of opinion.

Sun Kewang hoped to occupy Yunnan and then Guizhou, because Yunnan was far away from the main force of the Ming army, and it was easier to take it.

Li Dingguo, on the other hand, hoped to occupy Guizhou, occupy Tongren in the north to help the Ai Nengqi Department in eastern Sichuan, threaten the grain base of the Ming army in Guangxi, and threaten Changde and Changsha in Huguang in the east.

Zhang Xianzhong directly adopted the suggestions of his two righteous sons, so that Sun Kewang entered Yunnan, Li Dingguo entered Guizhou, and even recounted his merits and crowned Sun Kewang as the Duke of Yunnan, ordered him to town Yunnan, and crowned Li Dingguo as the Duke of Guizhou and ordered him to town Guizhou.

Li Dingguo has quite an opinion on this, in his opinion, he and Sun Kewang are each other's horns, and they should not divide their troops, so as to advance and retreat in a measured manner.

However, Sun Kewang did not listen to Li Dingguo's advice, and relied on himself to be his brother, and on the grounds that his father had issued an imperial order, he first went south from Wusa to level the Wei, but he was attacked by the Ming army Yang Zhan in Jiaoshui, and was defeated and returned to Wusa Mansion, and has not yet entered an inch of Qujing in Yunnan.

Li Dingguo, on the other hand, had already taken advantage of the fact that the Ming army was guarding Yunnan and Guiyang to seize Zunyi with surprise troops, and finally even occupied Guiyang, Anshun, Pingyue and other cities for a time, and almost achieved the goal of occupying the entire territory of Guizhou.

But what Li Dingguo didn't expect was that the Ming army suddenly appeared a well-equipped and extremely tenacious army, and all the way west, it was to capture Zhenyuan, Biqiao, Xinglong and other key passes by filling in with human lives.

Li Dingguo immediately made a decisive decision to withdraw his troops back to the Zunyi Military and Civilian Government.

But he knew that at present, his solo march to Pingyue, Guiyang or Tongren would be rejected by the main force of the Ming army.

In addition, the rain becomes more frequent in the summer, and even sunny days can be difficult to heat and heat.

Therefore, in his opinion, without the assistance of Sun Kewang's troops, if he went deep alone, it would be difficult to achieve the goal of occupying the entire territory of Guizhou and expanding the base area for his Daxi regime.

Therefore, Li Dingguo once again conveyed to Sun Kewang that he hoped that he would lead troops into Guizhou, and also gave Zhang Xianzhong a lesson.

But Sun Kewang did not agree.

Sun Kewang felt that he was an elder brother, and he did not want to be reduced to a general who cooperated with Li Dingguo, nor was he willing to make a wedding dress for Li Dingguo, and used his army to help Li Dingguo achieve the goal of occupying the entire territory of Guizhou.

Even Sun Kewang, in the name of his brother, advised Li Dingguo to withdraw his troops from the occupied areas of Zunyi and Guizhou to Yunnan to assist him in capturing Qujing and then Kunming.

However, Li Dingguo also rejected Sun Kewang's proposal on the grounds that it was blocked by heavy rain and that Sun Kewang wanted to block the main force of the Ming army.

Thus.

Now the entire Daxi army in Guizhou is only one part of Li Dingguo, and Li Dingguo is responsible for it alone.

However, Li Dingguo also knew that it was more than enough to hold Zunyi with his own army, but it was very difficult to occupy the entire territory of Guizhou, so he never acted rashly.

"The Ming army will definitely try their best to recapture Zunyi next, and Zunyi must first capture Wujiang Pass, we have to send heavy troops to defend Wujiang Pass! But we can't just give up our plan to occupy Guizhou so easily.

Therefore, the general decided: the deputy general Feng Xianchu led the infantry with 5,000 elite ropes and planks, entered Loushan overnight, crossed the Renjiang River, Tanshui, Wujiang River, Wumeng Mountain, Tixi, Tongren River, Tongren River, and occupied Tongren with lightning speed!

The Ming army governor and its Yunnan-Guizhou governor He Zongbing are in Tongren, once occupy Tongren, it will achieve the purpose of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, when the time comes, he will lead the army south to Pingyue, will be able to sweep the entire territory of Guizhou, this is a dangerous move, but it is also the only way to achieve the occupation of the entire territory of Guizhou! ”

Li Dingguo conveyed his long-thought strategy to his generals in the form of orders.

It is his habit to plan and then act, and his careful thinking has always been happy by his subordinates, and his deputy general Feng Xian Chudang began to prepare, while Li Dingguo himself began to think about how he would guard Zunyi.

At this time, Li Dingguo did not know that his Ming opponent was Yan Yingyuan, deputy commander of the Second Corps of the Seventh Army of the Ming Guards, who was the best among the Qing troops of the Ming Dynasty who had participated in the battles against the Qing army of the Azig Division, the Qing Army of the Hong Chengchou Division, and the Qing Army of the Ming Dynasty, who had fought against pirates and killed the reactionary gentry.

Li Dingguo instinctively felt that the Ming officers and soldiers would still choose Wujiang Pass as the focus of defense.

But as a famous general, the most basic military quality is to be thoughtful, so Li Dingguo is no exception, he can expect that the Ming army will definitely focus on attacking Zunyi next, so he did not choose to personally lead the elite soldiers to attack Tongren, but personally sat in the rear, preparing to block the main force of the Ming army.

And at this time, Li Dingguo's own eyeliner came to Li Dingguo:

"Master, we have sent back news that Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Court has recently entered the territory of Guizhou, and at the beginning of the year, a decree was issued in Nanjing City, indicating that the court has declared war on the Qing court and is preparing to launch a northern expedition in October this year."

"Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Court came to Guizhou, why did he come to Guizhou?"

Li Dingguo was puzzled, but he still secretly thought to himself:

"This Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen has not tasted defeat since he moved south to take charge of military power, Duoduo and Azig and even Hong Chengchou were defeated in his hands, and now the war in the southwest is unresolved, he is afraid that he is also in a hurry to Jingping the southwest, so that he has no worries when he goes on the Northern Expedition."

"Thinking about it this way, the Ming army will definitely strengthen the offensive against Zunyi! This will be even more untakable! What else in Zunyi may be breached besides Wujiang Pass, could it be Loushan Mountain? ”

When Li Dingguo asked, his subordinate Du Shilun couldn't help but say: "The building mountain is very steep, the Ming army is all Huaiyang soldiers, swimming across may be okay, but it is estimated that it can't climb the mountain, now it is the middle of summer, leeches and poisonous snakes are infested, and the Ming army may not dare to take this risk." ”

"In any case, we still have to send more scouts in the area of Loushan Mountain, and in addition, send people to explore the direction of Wujiang Pass!"

……

The mountains in the southwest are no more than those in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and many of these mountains are uninhabited and barren mountains, or are infested with snow or wild animals all year round.

Otherwise, Yan Yingyuan would not personally lead the team to attack Zunyi.

And Li Dingguo will not send his most trusted and elite army across several steep rivers to cross the Wumeng Mountains to attack Tongren.

The two famous generals who had originally made meritorious contributions to the salvation of China began their formal confrontation in this way in the 100,000 mountains in the southwest.

At this time, Yan Yingyuan and Li Dingguo were both young generals valued by their own monarchs, Zhu Youzhen and Zhang Xianzhong, respectively.

One has been declared in the southwest and is in the position of the prince of the country.

A general who was already a popular general in the Guards, and under the domestic media of the Ming Dynasty, he had become the object of the secret love of countless boudoir ladies and famous prostitutes and singers.

(End of chapter)