Zheng Siwei, when Li Zicheng went north to fight for the Central Plains a year ago, he was specially appointed as the Jingzhou guard.

Li Zicheng led the army north to fight Sun Chuanting in a decisive battle, and the purpose of leaving Zheng Siwei was to balance the strength of Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, and to mix sand in the land of Jingchu, or bury eyeliners.

At the beginning, Sun Ang's troops were stationed in Jiangling City in the east, and he was very annoyed by Zheng Siwei's cunning. If it weren't for Peng Wuying's mediation, it's hard to say how things would have changed.

In addition to Zheng Siwei, Li Zicheng also left one person in the land of Jingchu, and that is Feng Yangzhu, the guard of Xiangyang City.

Zheng Siwei and Feng Yangzhu both had 5,000 horse infantry troops, including 800 cavalry.

Kong Youde pursued Hao Shaoqi's headquarters all the way to Xiangyang, Feng Yangzhu closed the door to Hao Shaoqi, and then threw himself into Kong Youde's arms.

Zheng Siwei was also ready to surrender, but unfortunately the incident was not secret, and was intercepted by Sun Ang to send a secret messenger, and then reported to Peng Wuying and Guan Datou in Jiangnan.

When Sun Ang rushed to Jingmen to meet Tian Jianxiu and Hao Shaoqi, Guan Datou and Tang Da were ordered to cross the river and take Jingzhou City and behead Zheng Siwei on the spot.

The 5,000-strong garrison army was reorganized, retaining 800 cavalry, and the more than 4,000 infantry troops only retained 1,800 men, making a total of 2,600 men.

As the vanguard of the right flank, Tongda's original army consisted of only 2,400 cavalry, which was more than enough to defend and not enough to enter.

Prince Xiong moved the camp of the Chinese army to Jiangling City, and ordered the reorganized troops to be handed over to Tang Da to lead the north to respond. At the same time, Guan Datou was ordered to prepare boats and arrange for the old and weak women and children under Tian Jianxiu and Hao Shaoqi to cross the river in the south.

At this time, Li Guo and Li Laiheng father and son completely got rid of Zhang Xianzhong's entanglement, and gained a firm foothold in Yiling and Dangyang, Gao Yigong, Bai Wenxuan, and Yuan Zongdi also fought out of Kuimen and set up camp in Nanzhang County and Yuan'an County respectively.

Li Laiheng was stationed in Dangyang, and Tang Da, who led his troops north, was close at hand.

Du Yinxi had already met Li Guo and Li Laiheng respectively, reported the news of Li Zicheng's disappearance, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed that "after Li Zicheng smuggled across the river, he was likely to be killed in Jiugong Mountain, Tongcheng County", and his intention was self-evident.

On the morning of the second day when Tang Da was ordered to go north, he was blocked by Li Laiheng.

"I'm going to urgently go north to pick up Tian Jianxiu, Hao Shaoqi and others, I don't have time to mess around with you here. What happened to Emperor Dashun, no one knows. If you don't believe it, just ask Geng Zhongming why. ”

Of course, Tang Da was not afraid of Li Laiheng, who was about the same age as himself, so he didn't have anything polite to say: "If you want to fight, let the horse come, and if you don't want to fight, quickly give way." My combat object is the Manchu Tartars, and I have nothing to do with you. ”

Although Li Laiheng's army of 40,000 was eight times that of Tang Da's more than 5,000 people, Tang Da was not worried at all.

Because he had a cavalry artillery force of 1,200 men, with 300 tiger squatting cannons. Moreover, the 1,800 infantry troops were all ballistae and birds, and the equipment of the two armies was completely incomparable.

Although the equipment is much worse, Li Laiheng has an absolute advantage in numbers, at least he himself thinks so, so it is impossible to be frightened by Tang Da, so naturally he did not give way.

The two sides were in a stalemate, Tang Da didn't know what to do, and was about to send someone to Jiangling to ask Prince Xiong, but he didn't expect that the person who broke the siege had already arrived, and appeared three miles behind Li Laiheng.

It was none other than Chang Delin, who crossed the river north from Yaoting, and led 2,400 cavalry to come just right.

The first meeting of Chang Delin, Tang Da, and Li Laiheng was a tense scene.

Chang Delin rushed over from the west with a single gun, and shouted at Tangda: "The 20,000-strong army led by Uncle Heligen will arrive soon, brother, you go first, I will contain this guy here." If he doesn't know what to do, Uncle Helengen's Mongolian iron horse will have him good-looking. ”

Li Laiheng saw that there were more and more opponents, and that there were 20,000 troops coming soon, so he would form a three-sided attack on himself, and his heart had already begun to retreat.

In order to find a step for himself, Li Laiheng had an idea with a roll of his eyes: "We are all about the same age, if any of you is better than the big knife in my hand, then let you go." ”

"If you want to fight, say it early!"

As soon as Tang Da loosened the reins, the war horse had already crashed out, and the spear in his hand grabbed the nest with one move, directly covering Li Laiheng's face.

The three phoenixes capture the nest, that is, the three guns head-on, belong to one of the tricks of the Chang family gun, Tang Da has been practicing hard for many years, but there has never been an opponent who can perform.

In Li Laiheng's hand is a simple knife, eight feet long, weighing more than fifty pounds.

The two of them exchanged guns and knives, and in the blink of an eye, there were eight rounds without a win.

Tenda put away his spear and exclaimed, "Good fellow, your sword skills are very good." If you're not afraid of death, we'll go north and see who kills the Manchu Tartars who is the real hero. ”

"Just go, I'm afraid that you will be unfavorable to Hao Shaoqi and others, so I will go to supervise you. ”

Li Laiheng's youthful temperament was aroused by Tang Da, and he suddenly became high-spirited, leaving 30,000 people to defend Dangyang, and took 20,000 cavalry and Tang Da and Chang Delin to the north.

It was precisely because he was blocked by Li Laiheng for half a day that he was one step late when he arrived at Tianmoling, and Wang Jincai was killed by Sun Long.

However, Tian Jianxiu got the news that another reinforcement came over from Sun Ang, and he was still a little worried in his heart, and now the three generals Chang Delin, Tang Da, and Li Laiheng came over with 40,000 people, which still made Tian Jianxiu overjoyed.

Tian Jianxiu led his troops to encircle and annihilate Sun Long's troops according to the original plan, and Chang Delin, Tang Da, and Li Laiheng immediately went north to kill them.

It turned out that Kong Youde did not slack off after receiving Sun Long's urgent message, and immediately ordered Dong Ying and He Jinsheng, the deputy generals of the Chinese army, to lead 5,000 elite cavalry reinforcements respectively.

It's a pity that their fate is not good, and as soon as they arrived at the edge of the battlefield, they were blocked by Tang Da and Li Laiheng.

As soon as Chang Delin gave an order, his 1,200 cavalry artillery and the 1,200 cavalry artillery under Tang Da's department set up tiger squat artillery on Tianmo Ridge to launch artillery bombardments on Sun Long, Dong Ying, and He Jinsheng's troops respectively.

Li Laiheng's men and horses had never received artillery support, and now when he saw He Jinsheng on the opposite side being blown up, he suddenly lifted his spirits: "The surname Tang, whoever can take the lead in killing the enemy's general is the real hero." Do you dare to fight?"

Tang Da laughed: "Lao Tzu didn't dare to fight, he only dared to kill!"

The laughter continued, and Tang Da had already taken the lead in the panicked crowd around Dong Ying.

Tang Da chased Dong Ying, Li Laiheng also chased He Jinsheng, Chang Delin had to serve as the commander-in-chief, leading his own men, Tang Da's men, and Li Laiheng's men to follow up and cover up.

Dong Ying and He Jinsheng had a total strength of only 10,000 troops, which was more than 30,000 fewer than the troops of Chang Delin, Tang Da and Li Laiheng.

Coupled with the fierce artillery bombardment head-on, Dong Ying and He Jinsheng's troops were in chaos on the spot. When the army needed the main general to stabilize the morale of the army, Dong Ying and He Jinsheng were chased by the two young generals and were too busy to take care of themselves, and the whole army collapsed.

The defeat was like a mountain.

Both the enemy and us are cavalry, and they are all long-distance reinforcements, and everyone's horses are almost exhausted, and the speed is naturally about the same.

40,000 cavalry surrounded and annihilated 10,000 enemies, and the battle lasted an hour before it ended.

When the sun set, the originally noisy battlefield suddenly fell silent. Except for the occasional cries of pain from their own wounded, there was only the scattered neighing of war horses.

The original purpose of a fishing operation designed by Miao Sanguan was just to eat Kong Youde's former army, that is, Sun Long's 30,000 horses. Unexpectedly, Dong Ying and He Jinsheng came over with reinforcements in advance, but the 10,000 troops were wiped out.

Tang Da and Li Laiheng did not distinguish between high and low, because Dong Ying and He Jinsheng were not killed by them, but died in the chaos.

Sun Yanling, Sun Long's father and son were beheaded, and Dong Ying and He Jinsheng died in the chaos. In this battle, more than 40,000 enemies were annihilated, which can be described as a complete victory, but his own troops still lost more than 15,000 people.

The heaviest losses were Zhang Jincai's troops, not only Zhang Jincai was killed, but his 12,000 men were finally left with less than 4,000.

Secondly, there were less than 2,000 of Hao Shaoqi's 5,000 elite cavalry, and the 30,000 people of Tian Jianxiu, who were later engaged in the battle, also lost more than 3,000, and the deputy general Wu Ruyi died in the chaos.

Only the troops of Chang Delin, Tang Da, and Li Laiheng lost less than 500 men in total and completely annihilated 10,000 enemies. The credit is that the first three rounds of heavy artillery fire caused the enemy to be dizzy, and it was impossible to organize an effective counterattack.

The enemy lost more than 40,000 men, including four generals. He lost more than 15,000 people and two generals, which was a crushing victory.

Even such a disastrous victory was the first great victory in which the Dashun army had completely annihilated the enemy without any of them since it withdrew from the Beijing Division, and it was a victory achieved in frontal combat. So instead of grieving, those who survived were demoralized.

"Brother Li, it is absolutely impossible for Lockthroat Kenhachiro to kill Emperor Dashun. Hao Shaoqi heard Tang Da say the reason for Li Laiheng's delay, and immediately stood up and said: "Emperor Dashun was ambushed and defeated on the front line of Xinyang Prefecture, and he did not enter the sphere of influence of Jian Hachiro at all. As for why he disappeared, no one can say clearly. ”

Li Laiheng nodded: "Tong Guò just fought, I already believe it." ”

Speaking of this, Li Laiheng turned to stare at Tang Da: "The surname Tang, I didn't tell the winner just now, which made me feel very uncomfortable." Do you have the courage to fight at night?"

Tang Da smiled: "The enemies have been killed, and you still fart?"

Li Laiheng sneered: "Has the enemy been killed? Kong Youde is still in Xiangyang, and there are generals such as Shen Zhixiang, Shen Yongzhong, and Lian Guoan, with a total strength of no less than 50,000, what does it mean to kill them all?"

"Isn't it?" Tang Da touched the back of his head: "Do you want to attack Xiangyang City overnight?

Seeing that he was surrounded by himself, Li Laiheng smiled and said: "Xiangyang City will definitely not be able to catch up tonight, but Sun Long, Sun Yanling's father and son are dead, Dong Ying and He Jinsheng are also dead, Yicheng County is an empty city, can't we take it down and let us rest for a while?"

Tian Jianxiu immediately stopped: "Before Kong Youde reacts, it is indeed a good idea for us to take advantage of the situation to take Yicheng County, but not now." Our horses can't move, you rest on the spot for an hour, and then flank the past and seize all the baggage that Sun Long has hoarded in Yicheng County. ”

Tang Da shook his head: "Of course, what General Tian said makes sense, but my mission is not this. It is the task of my eldest brother Chang Delin to seize Yicheng County in two ways, and I have another place to go, and it is urgent. Brother Li Laiheng, you don't have to worry, as long as the Manchu Tartars are not dead, we will have a time to play. ”

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