Many years later, Li Dingguo led 100,000 cavalry to level the Western Regions, and crossed the green mountains to set foot in Central Asia, making peerless military achievements for the Ming Dynasty to expand its territory. However, looking back on the past, he thought that there were more than 100 battles in his life, and the most dangerous battle was the battle of Taiping Mansion City in the winter of the fourth year of Chongzhen!

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led more than 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack the anti-thief camp again, trying to reproduce the battle of the night attack outside Wuhu City, but he did not expect to fall into the trap carefully arranged by Yuan Chonghuan, for a while, the Praetorian Guards were panicked, but Li Dingguo maintained a rare calm, and ordered his subordinates to stop retreating.

"General, it's too late to evacuate." Luo Fengcai shouted.

"Yes, while the thieves haven't closed the siege yet, we still have time to withdraw." Liu Wenxiu also said.

Although there is a fire in the rear, the flames don't look too big, and they should be able to stand out, and if they grind again, once the thieves surround them, it will be difficult to retreat.

"Can't be returned! Kill me and kill the enemy camp! Li Dingguo pointed forward with a spear and said sharply.

"Huh? The thieves have already seen through our attack on the camp, and they can't attack anymore! Liu Wenxiu was in a hurry.

"There's no time to explain, listen to me, follow me!" Li Dingguo roared angrily, picked up his spear and headed towards a fire dragon that was killing in front of him.

Liu Wenxiu and Luo Fengcai glanced at each other, and had no choice but to follow Li Dingguo to attack the thief camp. And more than 2,000 troops also followed closely behind them, facing a slaughtering army of thieves.

According to the explanation, the best way to fall into the trap is to evacuate directly, but the Praetorian Guard is strictly disciplined, and the main general Li Dingguo wants to continue the attack, and the other generals can only follow if they are unhappy, and the soldiers can only obey orders.

At this moment, the strict discipline of the Praetorian Guard was finally manifested, and more than 2,000 soldiers, even if many were panicked and frightened, knowing that they would die if they continued to advance, they all rushed forward, and not one of them turned around and fled. Many soldiers waved their knives and guns in their hands, shouting and screaming, relieving the fear in their hearts.

Li Dingguo quickly advanced forward, seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the fire dragon opposite, and he could already see the faces of the thieves under the torches. At this moment, Li Dingguo still maintained a rare calmness, put the spear under his armpit, took out the grenade from his waist with one hand, lit the fuse on the guard torch beside him, silently counted three counts, and threw the grenade out with his hand.

There was a loud "boom", and the fire dragon on the opposite side shook violently.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

More explosions rang out, and the Fire Dragon Array was blown to pieces.

"Kill!" Li Dingguo roared, the spear quickly pointed at the throat of a thief, then quickly pulled it out, and inserted it into the neck of another thief, flew up and kicked over the body of the thief in front of him, took out the spear, and held up a steel knife that was cut over.

"Kill!" More than 2,000 Praetorian Guards roared angrily, followed by Li Dingguo, holding up the guns and spears, and launched a swift attack on the anti-thief army.

The flames flickered, screams and screams, countless torches fell, flames burned in pools of blood, and then extinguished.

In less than a cup of tea, the rushing thief army was defeated.

First bombarded by grenades, and then hit head-on, the thieves in front were quickly killed, seeing that the Praetorian Guards attacking the camp were so fierce, the thieves behind were terrified, many people turned around and ran, one person fled and led a piece, and then the whole team was defeated.

At this time, the other outflanked thief had not yet had time to feel it, which showed how quickly the battle ended.

"Kill!" Li Dingguo roared angrily, led the team to follow, and drove the rout soldiers to rush and kill in the camp.

In the camp, Yuan Chonghuan stood on a high platform, looking at this situation, his brows furrowed. He didn't expect that the trap he had carefully arranged, the enemy army obviously broke in, but the enemy's choice was beyond his expectations.

According to the normal way of thinking, when they know the plan, the vast majority of people's choice is to withdraw quickly. According to this line of thought, Yuan Chonghuan laid a lot of traps, and secretly ambushed a cavalry outside the camp, although there were only two hundred cavalry, but once the enemy withdrew from the camp, he immediately attacked with cavalry, this camp is surrounded by flat land, which is suitable for cavalry to cross and horizontally, even at night, there is no need to worry. And no matter how strong the enemy army is, in this case, there is no way to face the cavalry charge, and it will inevitably be crushed!

At night like this, once an army is crushed, the soldiers will not be able to find the generals, they will not be able to find the soldiers, and they will no longer be able to assemble. And he can command a large army to besiege and outflank, and he will definitely be able to annihilate this enemy army in one fell swoop!

The plan is very good, and the probability of successful implementation is very high. However, Yuan Chonghuan never expected that the enemy generals would see through their own strategy, and they did not choose to withdraw from the camp by the same route, but led their troops to attack the camp, in this case, they still had to forcibly attack their own camp!

Is this horse rider seeing through his own scheme, or is the enemy general a brainless reckless man! For a while, Yuan Chonghuan couldn't figure it out.

"If you want to break through the big camp of the Cabinet Department, you have to see if you have this good tooth!" Yuan Chonghuan snorted coldly.

Since he had already expected the enemy army to attack the camp and set up an ambush, Yuan Chonghuan naturally did not worry about the other party's dying struggle.

The number of troops in his battalion is nearly 200,000, and this enemy army is only more than 2,000 people. If you don't know it, it's just that, now that you have expected it, how can it be like that time in Wuhu?

Seeing that an army sent out was defeated by the enemy, Yuan Chonghuan was not nervous at all, but raised his hand, and the herald beside him immediately raised a lantern to the flagpole.

"Kill, the enemy army has fallen into the trap of the cabinet lord, and the enemy army will be annihilated!" A roar shouted, countless torches lit up, and an army of more than a thousand people quickly met the rout.

Seeing their own army appear, the routers did not choose to attack their own array, but bypassed from both sides.

"Kill!" Looking at the another thief army that appeared in front of him, Li Dingguo didn't say much, and rushed over again with a spear.

Shouts of slaughter erupted, firelight shook, grenade explosions rang out intermittently, and after a cup of tea, the battle came to an abrupt halt, and the thief was once again routed. However, not far away, another fire dragon appeared, it was another intercepted thief.

"General, no! There are too many thieves. Liu Wenxiu shouted.

"General, the thieves behind are coming!" Luo Fengcai shouted.

Li Dingguo hurriedly looked back, and saw that another thief army that had attacked him before had finally caught up, and Luo Fengcai was leading his subordinates to resist.

Diagonally in front is an intercepting army of thieves, and the army of thieves behind has already caught up, and in a few moments, the army will be caught in a two-sided attack.

"Let's go, this way!" Looking at the surrounding situation, Li Dingguo did not choose to continue to move forward, nor did he choose to fight with the pursuers, but rushed diagonally in another direction.

"Boom, boom", a few grenades were thrown, and after the explosion, the pursuers were blocked for a while, and Luo Fengcai led his troops to disengage with the pursuers, and fled immediately after Li Dingguo.

"Rush, they have nowhere to run!" The anti-thief general said coldly, gathered his army and chased after him again.

"Order, order Zhou Gang to lead a thousand people to block his way." On the high platform, Yuan Chonghuan saw the movement of the Praetorian Guards very clearly, and kept issuing orders in his mouth. Following his orders, army after army was sent out to outflank the Praetorian Guard in the camp.

Li Dingguo led the team to escape, so he paid attention to the movements in the camp and observed the local movement from the torches. As the Janissaries fled, they lit the tents along the way with torches. However, they found that most of the tents were empty, which meant that most of the camps were empty.

"Yuan Chonghuan of the dog day must have put most of the thief army in Taiping Mansion City, and then deliberately set up such a big camp outside the city to lure us to attack!" Liu Wenxiu scolded angrily.

Li Dingguo's face sank like water, but he didn't say anything. The situation is already so obvious, everything is a trick set by Yuan Chonghuan, in order to annihilate his two or three thousand people, Yuan Chonghuan can be said to be a big move this time, and Li Dingguo doesn't know whether he should be proud or not.

It's useless to scold at the moment, the key is to find a way to escape.

"Report, there are enemy troops in front of you."

"Report, an enemy army appeared on the left, only a hundred steps away."

"Report, the thief army behind is about to catch up."

The soldiers in charge of observation kept shouting, the army seemed to have fallen into a siege on all sides, and the only direction in which the enemy army did not appear was on the right side, but Li Dingguo was sure that there must be an enemy army waiting for him on the right.

At this time, everyone realized that they were facing a desperate situation, some were terrified, and many more soldiers clenched their weapons tightly, and their faces showed determination. At this time, it is useless to be afraid, and you can only fight the enemy to the end!

"Don't run away, fight with them!"

"Yes, fight with them, kill one is enough, kill two and earn one!"

"Haha, Lao Tzu has already killed three thieves, and he has already earned it!"

The soldiers cried out, and the fear of facing a desperate situation was gone, replaced by the pride of seeing death as home.

Defending Wuhu with an army of 3,000, he first repelled Song Jin's 50,000 army, and then faced Yuan Chonghuan's 200,000 army, and inflicted heavy losses on it with a night attack, killing and wounding several times the enemy army, such a record is enough to be proud of.

There is nothing to be afraid of dying in battle, they are all Praetorian Guards established by the emperor, and they all have the fields allocated to them by the emperor at home, and there will be a generous pension after the death of the war, which is enough to ensure that the family lives well!

When an army is not afraid of death, the combat effectiveness that erupts is absolutely terrifying. If you want to annihilate more than 2,000 troops, it is absolutely impossible for the thieves to pay four or five thousand lives!

However, Li Dingguo was unwilling to fail like this, and he didn't want his subordinates to die in battle.

It's not that Li Dingguo is afraid of death, but in his heart, even if he destroys several times the enemy army, if the whole army dies, it will be a great shame.

But is there any other way in this situation?

Yes! But some people need to be sacrificed.

"Wenxiu, you take all the brothers with torches and rush to the right side, you can rush as far as you can, I will give you the rest of the grenades, and when you encounter the enemy, you will use the grenades to blast away the enemy troops. The other brothers hid in the tents around me. Li Dingguo ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes, General!" Liu Wenxiu said with a serious expression, at this moment, Liu Wenxiu understood Li Dingguo's plan, and also knew that his task was to lead away the thief army, and knew that it would be very dangerous, and he would probably die. However, Liu Wenxiu is not afraid at all. Because he knows that there will be sacrifices, and if his sacrifice can buy the lives of most people, then he will have no complaints.

"Brother, take care, you can delay as long as you can, and try to survive!" Li Dingguo took a deep look at Liu Wenxiu and took the lead in getting into an empty tent.

"Rush!" Liu Wenxiu shouted, holding a torch aloft and rushing towards the right.

"Rush!" The Praetorian Guard soldiers with torches shouted, following closely behind Liu Wenxiu.

The other Praetorian Guards, who did not have torches, got into their tents.

The strict military discipline made no one disobey Li Dingguo's orders, and those soldiers who lured the enemy with torches, even if they knew that they were sent to death, had no complaints!

Li Dingguo led the people to hide in tents, and the entire camp was empty, and these tents were also empty. All the soldiers clenched their weapons and held their breath.

Not long after, heavy footsteps were heard, and through the gaps in the tent, countless torches could be seen appearing from the front, back, and left, crossing this area, and chasing after Liu Wenxiu's luring enemy troops.

Because the number of torches had not decreased, and it was a dark night, although there was a bleak moonlight, the thieves did not notice that most of the Praetorian Guard soldiers were hiding. ran over like this, leaving Li Dingguo and most of the others behind.

Waiting for the torch array to go away, Li Dingguo walked out of the tent with a spear in his hand, and at the same time, countless black shadows also walked out of the tent, and silently began to line up by the bleak moonlight.

"Let's count the sentries and see if anyone hasn't come out." Li Dingguo said in a low voice.

"A whistle counts."

“1，”“2，”“......”

"Two whistles."

Low voices sounded one after another, and a moment later, while the inventory of the team was completed, the various posts also gathered together by the moonlight to form a formation. And according to the statistics, there are only 1,500 people left here.

Before the attack, Liu Wenxiu took away more than 300 people at most, and the rest of the soldiers had already died.

At this moment, everyone was silent, silently looking at the burly black shadow in front of them, waiting for their general, Li Dingguo's military order.

"General, we have to save Liu Wenxiu and them." Luo Fengcai stood beside Li Dingguo and said in a low voice.

Liu Wenxiu only has more than 300 people, but he is facing the siege and killing of several thieves, if he is left alone, he will soon be wiped out by the thief army. As a colleague, Luo Fengcai did not want to see Liu Wenxiu and others die in battle. But if you go to save it now, even if you are prepared to attack or not, even if you attack the thief army from behind, you may not be able to save Liu Wenxiu and them, but Luo Fengcai is not afraid at all!

Li Dingguo shook his head slowly.