Chapter 158: Where is Li Dingguo?
With lightning speed, the Wu army has arrived in northern Myanmar in just three days and captured the small city of Bansai in northern Myanmar, and everything seems to be under Wu Sangui's control. **Hot book library for reading - qianzai**
The people in Bansai City did not make any resistance, but some rebels began to rush into the city to loot, Wu Sangui who heard the news was immediately angry, looting is not a big deal, but just captured a small city and looted everywhere, the city encountered in the future heard the atrocities of the Wu army, where would they be willing to easily submit, then they would unite as one, sacrifice their lives to protect the city, wouldn't it be a stone to shoot their own feet.
"All the pro-soldiers went to the city to inspect them, but if they harassed the people, they were all beheaded on the spot." Wu Sangui snorted coldly.
"Wow!"
After some rectification, the public order in the city really improved, the Burmese people hid in the house and did not dare to come out, and the Wu army did not dare to enter the house to harass, all streets were posted with notices of peace and security, except for a part of the soldiers who stayed behind, Wu Sangui ordered to bury the pot to make rice, after eating and drinking enough, the whole army rested for two hours and continued to go south.
After the meal was full, the sky had gradually darkened, and the makeshift tents set up outside the city continued to wind up to the riverbank a few miles away, and the stars in the sky shimmered from the clouds and mist, reflecting each other with the bonfires on the ground, forming a brilliant point of light. All the soldiers were ordered to rest in their tents, and when they woke up in the middle of the night, they had to continue their march. However, Wu Sangui couldn't sleep, so he put on a python robe, came out of the tent, and took a few personal soldiers at the door to patrol the green flat ground of the camp to expose a layer of brownish-black mud, stepping on the boots and making a slight creak, Wu Sangui walked through the tents, and kept thinking about the possible movements of the Dingbei Army.
Wu Sangui since Shanhaiguan led the Qing army into the customs, relying on the Guanning iron cavalry, swept the Central Plains, to Yunnan and Guizhou, but was repeatedly defeated by Li Dingguo, if not Li Dingguo was outnumbered, but to cover Yongli into Burma. It is still a question that Wu Jun can sit in Yungui.
Today's Wu Sangui is full-fledged, has many soldiers, and has countless grains and salaries piled up in the warehouse. However, Li Dingguo also had a base and was supplemented with food and salary. With the source of soldiers to be recruited, it was really the moment of the decisive battle, but Wu Sangui was not fully sure.
"Lord Wang, this gallop is exquisitely built, and I don't know what it is used for? If you are riding a fast horse, what do you want to do on such a smooth gallop? These Burmese people are truly incredible. A confidant soldier whispered in the back.
Outside the city of Bansey is a straight road leading to the south, about a zhang wide, and I don't know what material it is. The road surface is smooth and tidy, even the blue brick paved road in Kunming City is far worse than it, although the words of the soldiers are low, but in this silent night it came into Wu Sangui's ears, Wu Sangui's eyes flashed, and suddenly thought of something, and then he was confused, and shook his head and said: "No." Haidu City is even if all the war horses are recruited. At most, there were only 3,000 horses, and even if 3,000 cavalry galloped along such a gallop road from Haidu to northern Burma. I'm afraid it won't help. ”
"Maybe this king is overthinking." Wu Sangui unconsciously smiled as if laughing at himself, and said loudly: "Go back to the camp and rest." In two hours, the king will wake up and go on
After trimming. Wu's army continued southward, marching along the Chi Road towards Taluo City. The dense fog in the early morning has not yet dissipated, almost defenseless to break through the city of Los Angeles, Wu Sangui estimated that after the city of Bansai was breached, Li Dingguo had learned the battle report of the front line, time is the key to determining the outcome of the victory, in addition to staying behind a part of the soldiers after the garrison of Los Angeles, Wu Sangui hurriedly urged the army to continue to march south, in one day, actually broke through three or four cities.
At this time, Wu Sangui felt that something was wrong, the mighty tens of thousands of troops went all the way south, and the broken city was actually defenseless, so far, except for a part of the militia groups that assisted in defending the city, there was no Dingbei army haunted.
Where is the Dingbei Army? Where is Li Dingguo? A chill arose from Wu Sangui's spine, he knew this opponent too well, every time he fought with Li Dingguo, you would never find him, like an assassin in the night, at the moment when the cold light of the dagger cut into the skin under your neck, you could never guess his location, and you could not expect his whereabouts.
Could it be that there is a Ming army in Kunming City? From the moment he took the oath to send troops, he had already quickly transmitted the war report to northern Myanmar? Wu Sangui immediately woke up, he originally wanted to take the northern army by surprise and force Li Dingguo to fight a decisive battle, but he didn't expect that there were internal ghosts in the city, and it was nothing if there were internal ghosts, the moment the inner ghosts got the news, his army had also been dispatched, the southwest was mountainous, not suitable for fast horses, even if the internal ghosts were to transmit information first, I am afraid that the moment the information was delivered to Li Dingguo, the army had already invaded northern Burma. What method did Li Dingguo use to get information so quickly?
"It's a carrier pigeon." Wu Sangui patted his smooth forehead in annoyance, and suddenly came to his senses, he had missed this one despite all his calculations.
Now that the arrow is on the bow, I have to, since it has come, Wu Sangui can only continue to fight this battle, Wu Sangui, who was annoyed, immediately calmed down, since the surprise attack could not work, then he could only take it step by step to avoid going deep alone.
In the newly occupied city of Kalun, Wu Sangui ordered the whole army to repair in the city, while sending a large number of scouts to explore in all directions.
"Has Yuan Rang's army entered Burma?" Wu Sangui held his chin and kept observing the map in the yamen hall of Karen City, and behind him were several generals with solemn faces.
"Tell the prince, Yuan Rang can get here tomorrow."
Wu Sangui nodded thoughtfully, pointed to the direction where the map Karen City is located and said: "This city is surrounded by mountains on both sides, it is the only way to enter Burma, if Yuan Rang can arrive tomorrow, let him lead his troops as the vanguard, this king in Karen in the middle of the strategy, this king does not believe, Li Dingguo does not come out." ”
After a short period of deployment, Wu Sangui already had a new plan, that is, to let Yuan Rang's 10,000 men open the way for the forward and fish out Li Dingguo, as long as Yuan Rang was attacked, then he could quickly rush to the aid and annihilate the Dingbei army in one fell swoop.
If Li Dingguo doesn't come out and doesn't matter, then let Yuan Rang's 10,000 troops attack the cities of northern Myanmar everywhere, and the entire northern Myanmar will be lost, and see what Li Dingguo will take to explain to the new emperor.
"Did you hear back from the scouts you were assigned?" Wu Sangui touched the prickly forehead, the money-thick braid at the back of his head was coiled around his neck, and he sat on the Taishi chair with a big smile, half-squinting and asked.
"None of them came back, according to their humble opinions, even if these scouts are released, it is useless, Li Dingguo is very cunning and cunning, and he will never be exposed until the last moment." A close counselor said with a grin.
"Hmm." Wu Sangui nodded: "If it's useless, you have to use it, when you march and fight, scouts are our eyes, our noses, whether we can see Li Dingguo's traces or not, we still have to use our eyes to see, use our noses to smell, even if it is to explore the road and survey the terrain." ”
"The prince is really insightful and has been taught." The general made a look of sudden realization.
"Let's all go down and rest, you don't need to wait here, if there is anything this king will ask you to come." Wu Sangui yawned, he didn't sleep well last night, and he hurriedly got up in the middle of the month to drive the troops to the night, Wu Sangui was old, and his body was a little unbearable.
"Humble resignation!" Several generals and guerrillas knelt down together and beat a thousand people in a hurry, and said goodbye.
That night, the sky over Karen City was pitch black, the stars and the moon hid in the thick clouds, and only occasionally flashed a faint light, and on the gallop road several miles away from Karen City, hundreds of soldiers in Dingbei Army uniforms were galloping towards Karen City with more than a dozen carriages.
The style of the carriage is very strange, the front is a horse, but the back is a huge caliber cannon, the two sides of the cannon are a pair of iron wheels, this is the new type of artillery developed by Haidu City according to the Fran machine cannon, there is a chassis under the cannon, two wheels are installed, as long as it is pulled upside down by the horse, it can walk quickly on the gallop road, and it is many times lighter than the previous bulky artillery.
After the artillery was developed, more than a dozen guns were sent to Dingbei and handed over to the Dingbei Army for use, Li Dingguo attached great importance to this new thing, and specially set up an artillery battalion of several hundred people, often practicing in the field.
Although there were hundreds of soldiers in the artillery battalion, there were only more than 50 real gunners, and the rest were cavalrymen, with long knives around their waists and steel crossbows behind them, as the artillery battalion guards.
At this time, all the horses were put on chews to prevent neighing, and the hooves of the horses were wrapped in cotton cloth, and hundreds of war horses did not make a sound, only the sound of the iron wheels rattling under the gun carriage, and then they were annihilated by the sound of insects and birds in the summer night.
"Hurry the fuck, Lao Zhang, pay attention to see if you reach the range of the artillery." A general dressed as a thousand households urged in a low voice, and in the dark night, the city of Karen in the distance was emitted a faint light.
The man named Lao Zhang measured the distance of Karen City very firmly, and said confidently: "Go two hundred zhang further, and you can set up a cannon." ”
When everyone heard this, they sped up again, and after half a burnt incense, Lao Zhang's horse gradually slowed down, and waved his hand softly.
"Stop, all stop, the gunners set up the cannons, calibrate, and the rest of the brothers looked around, put all the bows and crossbows on Lao Tzu, and prepared for battle." Chinohe gave an order in a low voice, and a soldier beside him waved a flag with a small white flag.
The gunners easily reined in the war horses that pulled the guns and turned the dock, more than a dozen black guns aimed at the city of Kalun, some people began to load gunpowder, and the other gunners did not stop, constantly swinging the barrel calibration.
After a few moments, the gunner, who was ready, began to blow the fire fold, ready to fire close to the lead behind the barrel.
Qianhu's hand was raised high, and after a pause, he suddenly pulled down in the night sky: "Set off the cannon and blow up the damn." ”
"Boom...... Thundered...... Rumble ......"