"Chen Wang......"

On the mountain, Li Zicheng held the horsewhip tightly, his expression was gloomy, and a cold light flashed from his eyes.

The shouting and killing sound under the mountain was boiling, and Li Zicheng watched the soldiers under his command retreat again like a falling tide, and his expression became more and more cold.

Although attacking Hanzhong is only a virtual move, it is naturally better to be able to attack it.

There are not many places to loot in Gongchang Mansion, and most of the places are pitifully poor, but Hanzhong Mansion is different.

Most of the cities in Hanzhong Mansion are still in good condition, and once you invade Hanzhong Mansion, you can get a lot of grain, grass, gold and silver in a short time.

But right now, it's this Chen Wang again.

Starting from Hutou Town, Li Zicheng planned for a long time, and Ai Wannian and Liu Chenggong both fell under his hands.

Just a little, just a little, just a little, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao will be besieged and killed by him in Hutou Town.

But this Chen Wang seemed to have jumped out of a crack in the stone, and suddenly appeared in the ranks of the Ming army, disrupting all his deployments.

And when he was in Chunhua, he could have captured Chunhua in one go.

But that fire burned all his schemes, and burned everything he had accumulated for a long time.

In the end, he fled Chunhua with less than 1,000 people, and even separated from his nephew Li Guo.

And when Li Zicheng received the news of Li Guo again, it was the news that Li Guo had been killed.

Li Zicheng's eyes were gloomy, staring at the situation of the entire battlefield under the mountain.

Since the first battle of Chunhua, he has devoted some of his attention to Chen Wang.

He watched Chen Wang advance all the way, but he himself was chased almost to the sky and had no way to enter the ground.

The last time I received news about Chen Wang was the news that Chen Wang had slashed Gao Yingxiang in the Heishui Valley Array......

This Chen Wang seems to be his nemesis.

"Woo————"

The low horn sound sounded again at the foot of the mountain, and Li Zicheng looked at the lookout behind the Ming army camp in the distance, and he knew that Chen Wang was now on the lookout and observing the entire battle situation like him.

The offensive has been going on for nearly a month, and the county is close at hand, but the final hurdle cannot be crossed.

Here, Li Zicheng had already left more than 4,000 corpses, but he was not able to advance the front even one step.

With the increase in casualties, successive defeats and indecisive results, the morale of the army is now low and terrible.

"Big brother, it's not a way to fight like this......"

Although Liu Zongmin is reckless on weekdays, he also has a bitter hatred for Chen Wang, but he also knows that this battle cannot be fought any further.

"The guns under the command of that guy are excellent, and there is a heavy armor of 1,000 people under his command, the knife cannot be cut, the gun cannot pierce, and every time the infantry and hungry soldiers who charge past finally break the wall of the officers and soldiers, they will be killed back by the heavy armor of the officers and soldiers in the battalion."

During so many days of attacking, they did not fail to climb over the wall, but after each time they climbed over the wall, they were quickly driven out of the camp again.

Those who retreated from the front reported that a large number of shield carts were set up behind the camp of the officers and soldiers, and many officers and soldiers were hiding behind them, wearing heavy armor and holding strong bows, waiting for them.

The armor on those officers and soldiers was heavy, and the bows and crossbows in their hands were powerful, which was completely different from the Kaiyuan bow held by ordinary officers and soldiers, and the arrows were like a small spear.

If you are shot by an arrow, whether you are armored or not, you will lose your combat power or be killed on the spot, and you will not be able to support it at all.

Sometimes, officers and soldiers would suddenly open the gate of the fortress and suddenly launch a counter-charge.

They were heavily armoured, and firearms such as three-eyed guns and bird guns did no harm to them, let alone ordinary bows and arrows.

The heavy armor of the Ming army reached a distance of up to thirty paces and fired their bows and arrows, and their archery skills were extremely accurate, and there were almost no mistakes.

After several rounds of rapid fire, they launched a surprise attack together, and the soldiers in the front line could not cover it at all, and they often collapsed for thousands of miles.

Li Zicheng's eyes condensed slightly, and he had naturally gotten all the information that Liu Zongmin had gotten.

Li Zicheng, a heavy armored soldier under Chen Wang, has also heard a little, and his soldiers are not only Han Chinese, but also Mongols.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the proportion of Mongolians in the nine sides was not a lot, and the fierce tiger and the tiger Dawei were the Mongols who belonged from the north, and both of them eventually became the general army.

There are also a considerable number of Mongolian cavalry under Gao Yingxiang's command, and the military department often said from Yu Yu: "There are hundreds of thousands of rogues, and the strongest is not the king." The department has been demoted many times, and he will die, and he is unstoppable. ”

Li Zicheng's command naturally also had a lot of Mongolian soldiers, and many of these Mongolian soldiers had fought with Houjin.

Li Zicheng also learned some news about Houjin from the mouths of these Mongolian soldiers, such as how those people fought......

Chen Wang used Jiannu's tactics.

Li Zicheng's eyes jumped, and the defeat on the battlefield did not affect his mood too much.

Anyway, the attack on Hanzhong Mansion from beginning to end was just a sound attack, in order to hide his true intention - to attack Sichuan.

Li Zicheng is thinking about one thing now, he has not really seen Jiannu's tactics before, and he has only heard the Mongolian soldiers under his command mention it a few times during the conversation, so he does not have a detailed understanding.

Therefore, it has always been the same old set of tactics when he was in the border town, with fast horses and light knives, soft bows and long arrows.

After many years of fighting, this set is really useful, and the reason why it has been able to survive until now is precisely because of these four things, and it is still undefeated in thousands of miles.

But this time, he saw Chen Wang using Jiannu's tactics, and he felt that the tactics used by Jiannu did seem to have merit.

Heavy armor and heavy arrows, shield car artillery, for the improvement of combat power is indeed very strong, used for attacking fortifications, and breaking the formation in the field is simply invincible.

Perhaps, this method of warfare can also be extended to the military.

Choose a fine horseman, one person with two horses, or three horses, with three layers of heavy armor, strong bows and heavy arrows.

Riding a horse to the front, opening the gap with a strong bow and heavy arrows, and directly rushing through the enemy formation with heavy armor, the follow-up horse army followed up to expand the advantage.

It's just that the shield car is a little difficult to do, and how to do the shield car that is difficult to hurt by guns is still a problem, and if you bring a shield car, then the speed of transfer will inevitably be slowed down, and if the Ming army comes together, it will definitely be too late to take it away, so the shield car will not be able to.

The shield cart can't be carried, but it can be replaced by the Hungry Soldier, who acts as a human shield to resist the cannon.

Li Zicheng's thoughts were spinning rapidly, and in many places he couldn't compare to his uncle Gao Yingxiang.

But there is one thing that Gao Yingxiang can't compare with Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng is good at learning, and the speed of accepting many new things is faster than ordinary people, and he is often able to draw inferences from one another.

At the beginning, Chen Wang of Hutou Town used rotational firing to cover the retreat by concentrating the instantaneous firepower of the fire gun and the Francophone explosion.

Li Zicheng quickly summed up a set of tactics applicable to his own army after the war, using a small number of bird guns as a medium and long-range firepower supplement, most of them used three-eyed guns, and did not forget the tiger squat cannon and the Fran machine.

It was precisely because of the use of this set of tactics that Zhang Waijia rashly went out of the city to fight under the situation of unknown circumstances, and suffered a lot of losses under Li Zicheng's men, which indirectly led to the defeat of the later soldiers in Sanshui.

Li Zicheng held the horsewhip in his hand, walked forward a little, and raised his eyes to look at the defense line built by Chen Wang.

The tactics are one thing, and he feels that the camp set up by Chen Wang at the intersection is also desirable.

In the past month, after the initial temptation, and now the organization of the crowd attack, many attacks have not been able to achieve any results, and a large part of the reason seems to be because of this strange camp set up by Chen Wang.

Different from the ordinary quadrangular camp, or the simple concave and convex camp, the camp set up by Chen Wang has many sharp corners sticking out, and there are as many as eight or nine densely packed with them, like an angular and piercing bouquet.

Between the big corners, there are some small corners, all of which are made of earth.

The wall is not vertical, but has a certain degree of slope.

From the top of the mountain, Li Zicheng can see everything on the battlefield.

He could see that the soldiers who charged forward were not only difficult to climb and climb in the face of such a camp, but also suffered from many attacks as they attacked.

According to the reports of the generals who had retreated from the front line, when they were in the front line, they only felt the sound of guns in all directions, and the belly and back were full of enemies, and there was hardly much room to hide.

Perhaps, it can also be used for defense later......

It's just that some of the details still need to be observed, and Li Zicheng is still a little unclear in many places, and he hasn't figured out the tricks.

"In the next wave of attack, let Ma Jun take some of the craftsmen in the army to the position of the army in the front, let them observe how the camp of the officers and soldiers is built, let them remember it, and I will be of great use in the future."

Li Zicheng raised his horsewhip and gave an order to Liu Zongmin on the side.

"Don't worry, big brother, I'll do this myself."

Liu Zongmin didn't dare to slack off, and immediately received the military order, so he walked straight down the mountain.

His intuition told him that this matter that Li Zicheng was concerned about was not a trivial matter.

When Liu Zongmin walked down the mountain, he happened to meet Gao Yigong, who hurriedly walked up from the bottom of the mountain.

Gao Yigong's expression was solemn, as if he had received some bad news, but Liu Zongmin didn't ask.

Liu Zongmin doesn't want to think too much trouble, anyway, Li Zicheng will pay attention to the big thing, there will be no problem, and his trust in Li Zicheng can be said to be deep in the bone marrow.

"Breaking the King......

Gao Yigong looked embarrassed and stepped forward.

Li Zicheng frowned slightly, he had already noticed that Gao Yigong's face was wrong.

He sent Gao Yigong to collect intelligence, and now Gao Yigong's face is like this, I am afraid that there is something wrong with some important link.

"It's nothing, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

Li Zicheng stabilized his mind, he knew that at this moment, he had to keep a heart as calm as possible.

Gao Yigong thought about it and glanced left and right, but did not speak immediately, but stepped forward a little again, and said in a low voice that only Li Zicheng could hear.

"Tanma returned, and the officers and soldiers of northern Sichuan concentrated on Qipanguan, and the area around Qipanguan was already on full alert."

"There is a force of about 2,000 soldiers and horses through the south of the county, go to Ningqiang, gallop towards Qipanguan, find the banner, for the general's ......"

Gao Yigong wanted to speak and stopped, and his voice trembled slightly.

"Who is it?"

Li Zicheng was a little dissatisfied with Gao Yigong's attitude, and he saw the fear on Gao Yigong's face.

Gao Yigong settled his mind and said.

"Check the banner, the soldiers, it seems to be the Datong soldiers under the command of Cao Bianjiao......"

Li Zicheng's hand holding the horsewhip stopped in mid-air, and when he heard Cao Bianjiao, he already remembered some bad memories.

"Seven Plates Pass ......"

Li Zicheng's complexion changed slightly, and he was slightly embarrassed.

"Didn't Hou Liangzhu lead his troops to retreat to Guangyuan, why did he get to Qipanguan again?"

In order to attract the attention of the Ming army, he stormed Hanzhong Mansion, and asked the king of Zhengshi to lead his troops from Jiezhou and Chengxian to attack Xihe Heli County.

Originally, in May, Hou Liangzhu withdrew from Qipanguan, stuck to Guangyuan, and began to suppress the bandits in the province.

But now there is less than a month before the planned launch, and the Ming army is suddenly increasing its troops towards Qipanguan.

Not only did Hou Liangzhu lead his troops north to station in Qipanguan, but Cao Bianjiao, who was originally under the command of Sun Chuanting, actually entered the Hanzhong Mansion early, and then rushed to the aid of northern Sichuan through the Hanzhong Mansion.

Qipanguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and when Li Zicheng entered Ningqiang in Hanzhong Mansion once, he saw the defense of Qipanguan with his own eyes at that time.

The terrain of Qipanguan is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is located at the mouth of the lower mountain of Qipanling, the pass road is tortuous and winding, and it is called "Qipan".

There are more than 2,000 people under Hou Liangzhu's command, and Cao Bianjiao has brought more than 2,000 people, and now there are more than 4,000 people guarding Qipanguan.

Hou Liangzhu and Cao Bianjiao are both first-class fierce generals, with them guarding Qipanguan, and so many soldiers following, it is not much more difficult to defeat Qipanguan without ascending to the sky.

Li Zicheng's face was gloomy, and he looked up at the battlefield in the distance again.

It is still a trivial matter that Qipanguan is difficult to attack, but this action of the Ming army undoubtedly means that he has seen through his original plan and knows that his real intention is to attack Sichuan.

The road to Baoning Mansion in Sichuan was cut off, and the heavy defenses set up by Chen Wang of Hanzhong Mansion were also insurmountable, and Hong Chengchou of Gongchang Mansion in the north had set up a net of heaven and earth.

To the west is the desolate and mountainous Minzhou Wei, where the folk customs are fierce.

The trail that was originally taken to Xi'an Mansion was also found after being used, and now it has been blocked by Sun Chuanting's troops.

In the Tang report received not long ago, I heard that Sun Chuanting had already led the Governor Battalion, Luo Shangwen, Li Yuchun and other generals under his command, as well as thousands of guards all the way south through Fengxiang Mansion to Fengxian County.

You can't go to the south, you can't go to the east, you can't go to the west, and there is no way out for the north.

The current situation seems to be like being in the Carriage Gorge, falling into a dead end, falling into the encirclement......

Li Zicheng narrowed his eyes, and a cold color appeared in his eyes.

He did not fall into panic because of this, he has become more and more cautious since the first battle of Chunhua, and Gao Yingxiang's defeat also sounded the alarm bell for him, so he always has a backup when making plans.

It is not impossible to enter the south, there is only one road through Qipanguan, and he also knows that there is a road that can enter Sichuan.

The Ming army is now increasing its troops and gathering troops, which is actually not a bad thing.

On the contrary, it's still a good thing......

Tomorrow I will draw a map of the situation for you, otherwise you may not understand it well

(End of chapter)