Chapter 37, The Battle of Mopan Mountain
In fact, Sun Qi knew the specific battle of this forest, but he did not mention this battle, first of all, there was no need to mention it, but he had always hidden this battle in his heart. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
According to the book, the specific content is as follows.
After the victory of handing over the water, Li Dingguo rewarded the soldiers and made great efforts. However, when it came to rewarding meritorious deeds, he called Sun Kewang's troops "Qin soldiers", and his subordinates who followed him were called "Jin soldiers", which caused many dissatisfaction among Sun Kewang's subordinates.
At the same time, he was not happy about Liu Wenxiu's acquisition of Sun Kewang's 30,000 soldiers to prepare for the side, so he was later recalled, so that Liu Wenxiu died of depression and dissatisfaction, which seriously weakened his combat effectiveness.
After Sun Kewang surrendered, he presented a map of the southwest region to Hong Chengchou, and told the specific situation of the Great Western Army, so that the Qing army could find out the details
In the fifteenth year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty and February of the thirteenth year of Yongli of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court decided to divide the army into three routes to attack Gui: Pingxi general Wu Sangui and Dutong Li Guohan led the northern route army to attack from Sichuan, Zhengnan general Zhuo Butai led the southern route to attack from Guangzhou, and Jingkou general Luo Tuo and the university scholar Hong Chengchou led the middle road to attack from the south.
Originally, the Great Western Army should have fought-for-tat, but at this time, Li Dingguo was suppressing the rebellion of Wang Ziqi and Guan Youcai in Yongchang, and he had no time to counterattack, resulting in Wu Sangui falling into Zunyi, Luotuoke Guiyang, and Zhuo Butai occupying Dushan, posing a serious threat to the southern tour.
In July, Emperor Yongli appointed Li Dingguo as the generalissimo of recruitment, and he began to deploy a counterattack.
First of all, he sent a letter to Li Laiheng, asking the Thirteen Families of Kuidong to besiege and contain Xiangchu, and then sent Feng Shuangli and Qi Sansheng to resist the enemy's middle road according to the Jigong back near Gui, sent Li Chengjue to block Pu'an Huangcao and resist the enemy's south road, and sent Bai Wen to select Zunyi Sunjiaba to resist the enemy's north road.
This deployment is purely passive and defensive.
At that time, the situation was that the Qing army had just entered the noble army and its forces were scattered, and if Li Dingguo could concentrate his forces and break through all the way, the tide of the war could be reversed.
In terms of command, Li Dingguo also fell for Hong Chengchou's plan.
When Feng Shuangli asked for more troops to enter Guizhou and attack Gui, Li Dingguo received a letter from Hong Chengchou, saying: "A certain person should be guilty of the first dynasty, and he will be in the same boat, but when King Wu arrives, he will join forces to listen to the command, and he will not bother the king to go far away."
Li Dingguo didn't know whether it was true or not, delayed the increase of troops, and delayed the fighter.
In August, Li Dingguo led his division eastward, and caught up with the rainy season, traveling for one or two dozen miles a day, and his morale was low.
On the contrary, the Qing soldiers got a chance to breathe, increased their strength, and began to attack the southern patrol.
In September, the Qing court sent Doni, the king of Xinjun, as the commander of the three routes, and went to the south to tour.
By November, the middle lane Doni defeated Feng Shuangli on the back of the rooster.
Wu Sangui on the North Road was defeated by Bai Wen in Qixingguan.
Zhuo Bu Taibu in the south forced a cool well, trapped Anlong, and Li Chengjue died in battle.
When Li Dingguo heard the news, he personally led the main force of 30,000 people to fight a decisive battle with Zhuo Butai. The two sides set up a battlefield at the mouth of the Yansha River, and the fierce battle of Panjiang began.
The peasant army bravely resisted and won the first battle.
The next day, the Qing army poured out of the nest, the Great Western Army was unprepared, and the north wind blew again, the golden gun caught fire, and the mountain grass was ignited, and the Qing army took advantage of the fire to shoot fiercely, causing the peasant army to collapse on all fronts.
The Qing army broke through Li Dingguo's Luoyan and Liangshuijing camps, and then massacred the Great Western Army and the local people, killing no less than 300,000 or 400,000 soldiers and civilians. However, this did not discourage Li Dingguo, he said: "The matter has come to this, what else to say, I will dedicate this loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and I will die." ”
On December 13, Li Dingguo retreated to the central part of the southern tour, and Emperor Yongli convened a pre-imperial meeting to study the way out.
The lecturer Liu Fan advocated acting according to Liu Wenxiu's legacy, entering Bashu, relying on the thirteen families in Kuidong, and running the Shaanxi and Luo regions;
Li Dingguo proposed to withdraw into the original area, if he won the six edicts, he could capture them, and if he did not win, he could enter other countries, gather the anti-Qing righteous people from Southeast Asian countries, sail to Xiamen and Zheng Chenggong to join him, and jointly resist the Qing Dynasty.
Liu Fan and Li Dingguo both advocated transferring first and then trying to recover.
However, most of the ministers of the Yongli Emperor were Dian people and did not want to leave their hometowns, so the ministers Mu Tianbo and the powerful minister Ma Jixiang strongly advocated retreating to western Yunnan, and fled into Burma in an emergency, and the Yongli Emperor agreed. Li Dingguo's army marched to a halt, and he did not dare to insist on his own opinion, but said to Mu Tianbo: "Gong Qi worked hard, and I hope to remember the rest of my words without regrets." ”
On the 15th, the Yongli regime fled westward. In advance, Li Dingguo issued a proclamation: "This domain has been in Yunnan for many years, and the people of Er, love both father and son, and now the state affairs are in danger, and the imperial court has moved...... It is advisable for you to take advantage of the time when the domain is not in action, and you should flee as fast as possible, so as not to make mistakes", and advised the people to evacuate. He also ordered the battalions "not to destroy their warehouses, for fear that they will have no food and harm our people in vain." Along the way, he also took in refugees. On the third day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty and the thirteenth year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers met the capital of the southern tour and immediately pursued it.
In order to protect Emperor Yongli from danger, Li Dingguo ordered the general soldier Jin Tongwu to lead 4,000 troops to protect Emperor Yongli Bentengyue, and he himself led 6,000 elite soldiers to stay in Yongchang to block the attack.
In February, Wu Sangui defeated Bai Wenxuan in Dali again, and chased after him violently. Li Dingguo was determined to defeat the enemy's spirit, annihilated the pursuers, and planned the last fierce battle of his life - the Battle of Mopanshan.
The Mopan Mountain in Yongchang is "deep bending in the inner basket, only allowing a single horse", "Dingguo builds several fences, sets up ambushes on the left and right, and the olive slope of forty miles behind Daying Tun Mountain, cooks and eats and waits, so that there are no fireworks".
He estimated that Wu Sangui would be unguarded, so he took Dou Minwang as the first ambush, Gao Wengui as the second volt, Wang Guoxi as the third volt, and the Qing army entered the three volts, "the head and tail struck it, and the piece of armor did not let it escape."
As expected, on February 21, Wu Jun chased after him, and his vanguard had entered Erfu, but there were extraneous branches, and Lu Guisheng, the young secretary of Guanglu Temple in Nanming, sneaked out to inform. Wu was shocked, ordered a retreat, and shelled the ambushes on the left and right. The peasant army went out to fight in ambush, "hand-to-hand combat, from Mao to noon, zombies were blocked".
In the battle of Mopanshan, two-thirds of the soldiers were killed, and most of the Qing army was killed or wounded.
Liu Binshi, a relict of the Southern Ming Dynasty, said: "Rin is lonely and loyal, holding a wood to support the sky, the mill battlefield people still know, and the phosphorus fire is often the same day." Due to the courage of the Great Western Army led by Li Dingguo, the Qing army no longer dared to be arrogant and pursued.
As for why Li Dingguo's army was so brave at that time, no one knows, and it has become a mystery in history, some people say that it was possessed by demons, some people say that it was a bewitcher, and even more outrageous is that the ghost helped Li Dingguo win the battle.
Sun Qi preferred to believe which of the latter statements, because he believed that the white light and the earth-shattering drums and horns were the war of the undead warriors, and there were really ghosts and spirits in the ancient world, and he believed all this.
As for the last night-bright thing the size of an egg, Sun Qi didn't know, he thought it was also a powerful ghost, but in the end he spared their lives.
Sun Qi didn't know, but who knew, maybe it was Li Dingguo's ghost, or something else, in short, Sun Yuan and Sun Qi didn't know what it was.
And he knew that there was a battle of Mopan Mountain, and that battle was not too far away from them.