Li Dingguo helped Gao Wengui up: "It's not your fault, it's all about the king's inconsiderability!" This Wang Jinbao is good at drilling mountains and forests and climbing cliffs, this king didn't take this into account and was escaped by this thief! What a pity! ”

In this battle, because of the accurate information provided by Wang Xinyu's night team, Li Dingguo targeted the Eight Banners general Nala? Mu Zhan's heart was arrogant, and he had a weak point of insufficient combat experience in the south, so he first lured the enemy to go deeper, then showed weakness with weak soldiers, and then used the fake Li Dingguo to introduce the Qing army into the Jedi, and the last blow was killed, killing Mu Zhan and defeating Wang Jinbao. In this battle, the Ming army won a complete victory, annihilating 300 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers, capturing countless armor and weapons, and capturing six artillery pieces. A large amount of grain and baggage discarded by the Qing army also became Li Dingguo's trophies.

Li Dingguo immediately ordered: "After cleaning up the battlefield, immediately return to Bamo, and then go out to Mubang to give Zhao Liangdong a head-on blow!" ”

Ma Jiugong asked: "Lord Wang, with the Qiongzhou army that came to reinforce us, our army is only 20,000 people, and the Tartar Zhao Liangdong Department of the North Road has an army of 50,000, can our army win?" ”

Li Dingguo replied with a smile: "Then Zhao Liangdong has been dragged in the mountains by our army for many days, and his morale will inevitably be low. When our army arrives, if Zhao Liangdong does not withdraw his army, he will definitely be defeated! What this king is worried about is that Wu Sangui saw through this king's strategy and asked Zhao Liangdong to withdraw his troops quickly, so that our army not only ran away in vain, but also lost a good opportunity to destroy the enemy! ”

After the Ming army cleaned up the battlefield, took the booty, took the prisoners, and returned to Bamo.

Who knew that Wang Jinbao was not an idle person, although he retreated into the mountains and forests, avoiding the edge of the Ming army. However, when the spies sent reported that the army had withdrawn, Wang Jinbao thought that Li Dingguo was likely to march into Mubang to deal with Zhao Liangdong.

"Brothers, our army was defeated in this battle, and even General Mu Zhan, the chief of staff, was defeated and died! If we can make meritorious contributions and turn things around, then we won't be punished by the court when we go back! Wang Jinbao said to the generals.

"I don't know how Lord Wang has to act to turn things around?" A subordinate general asked.

Wang Jinbao's eyes flashed with a sinister and cunning light: "That pseudo-Jin king will definitely take advantage of the great victory to send out Mu Bang to deal with General Zhao and them!" Then his lair will be empty! We can kill the puppet king of Jin and return to the horse gun. Raid Ba Mo! As long as we take advantage of their air defense, surprise attack Ba Mo, burn their grain and grass, rescue our captured brothers, and cooperate with General Zhao to win, then we will be able to make great achievements, and the court will not condemn us! ”

"High! Lord Wang is really clever! Wang Jinbao's subordinates stretched out their thumbs one after another.

One of the generals exclaimed: "Lord Wang killed the puppet King of Jin and returned to the horse gun, and the thief must be negligent in taking precautions!" We can do something unexpected! ”

The more than 2,000 Qing troops were all the best at mountain warfare, and they were good at walking in the mountains. You can also walk the mountain trail at night. If Li Dingguo's rear air defense is weak, Wang Jinbao will have every chance to attack Ba Mo.

In the Mubang area, Zhao Liangdong asked people to persuade Li Sixing and Bai Hui to surrender, and he did not dare to forcibly attack the strong Guancheng, but looked for people everywhere to ask if there was a small road to detour. But after finding many locals, Zhao Liangdong was very disappointed by the answers, because there was no path to bypass here.

At that time, human technology was very fragile in front of nature, especially in the tropical rainforest in the south, which was full of killing machines, poisonous snakes, pythons, poisonous insects, and leeches. If an army were to force its way through a primeval forest, after entering the jungle, not to mention the non-combat attrition caused by the bite of poisonous insects, even the forest would not be able to get out. Therefore, in those days, the avenues of human beings were all along river valleys, and the paths were also along rivers and streams.

Zhao Liangdong was not an impulsive person, and after careful consideration, he decided not to storm the Ming army's Guancheng. Instead, they camped on the spot, confronted the Ming army, and waited for the opportunity.

Besides, Wu Sangui was not as lucky as Zhao Liangdong. Since the moment Wu Sangui ordered to set up camp. Ai Xing Ah came to urge every day, asking when he could launch an attack.

"Lord Wang, it's been a few days! The prince still hasn't ordered an attack? If the time drags on for a long time, the Burmese side think that we are not sincere, if they change their mind and refuse to hand over the puppet emperor, I am afraid that the court will blame it, and you and I can't afford to take this responsibility, right? Let's meet in Ningguta! Ai Xing Ah came again to urge Wu Sangui to attack the city as soon as possible.

Wu Sangui is eager to drag it out for two reasons: the first is that if Yongli falls into the hands of Wu Sangui, it will definitely be a hot potato, and he will not be loyal to the Qing court. The second is that if the Wu army is attacked, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and once the Wu army loses too much, it will lose the capital to bargain with the imperial court.

It's a pity that the Manchurian adults don't allow Wu Sangui to delay any longer, anyway, the people who died in the siege were all green battalion soldiers, not those Manchurian Eight Banners.

When Ai Xing Ah walked out of Wu Sangui's Chinese army tent, Wu Sangui once again gathered his cronies Wu Guogui, Hu Guozhu, Gao Dejie, Xia Guoxiang and others.

Wu Sangui said with a solemn face: "Everyone, now we can't drag it out, if we drag it out any longer, then General Pingxi will be suspicious!" The court is also not at ease with us! The loss of the attack will be very large, but Ai Xing'a refuses to let go of this good opportunity to seize the puppet Ming Yongli Emperor, and we must attack. ”

Originally, in the siege war, more people and auxiliaries should be recruited to assist in the siege, but Yunnan has a small population, and Wu Sangui regards Yunnan as his own territory, how can he catch too many people and auxiliaries. After years of war, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are sparsely populated, most of the Wu army's people and auxiliaries were Hong Chengchou when he was in Yunnan, from Hunan, Hubei and Guangxi and other places to collect, after several major battles, have been consumed, the remaining auxiliaries and people Zhuang also have to help carry the baggage, to build siege weapons, it is impossible to consume a large number of people.

Go to the neighborhood to catch the people and use them as cannon fodder to siege the city? Wang Xinyu has already cleared the nearby walls, and the local villagers in the mountains and wilderness have already run away, where is Wu Sangui going to arrest people to be cannon fodder.

Xia Guoxiang proposed: "Marshal, we can let Gao Qilong's green battalion soldiers consume the thieves' city defense equipment!" ”

Wu Sangui shook his head: "This Gao Qilong originally surrendered to me Wu Sangui, if he let his soldiers be consumed ruthlessly, will these generals still be loyal to us from now on?" I'm afraid they'll push them to the court! ”

Hu Guozhu asked, "Dashuai, are we waiting for Zhao Liangdong and them to come back?" Let their Green Battalion soldiers go to the siege! They're not ours anyway. ”

Wu Sangui said: "This is a good way, this king will go to General Pingxi to discuss." ”

went to Ai Xing's big tent, Wu Sangui proposed to wait for Zhao Liangdong to come back and make plans, but Ai Xing immediately refused: "No! General Zhao is still five hundred miles away, and it will take at least ten days to arrive! It's been a long time, I'm afraid there will be many dreams at night! It may make the Burmese change their minds! It must be stormed as soon as possible! ”

Wu Sangui saw that he really couldn't shirk the past, so he had to go back, and he gritted his teeth and ordered his generals helplessly: "Go and prepare, prepare for a strong attack!" ”

In the city of the Ming army, the soldiers reported to Bai Wenxuan: "Report to the prince!" The Tartars are dispatched, and it looks like they are going to storm it! ”

Bai Wenxuan jumped up: "Let's go, let's go out and have a look!" ”

A group of people walked to the fortress located on the third layer of the city wall, stood on a high place and looked into the distance, only to see the outermost earthen city outside, dense Qing troops lined up in a neat formation, pushing shield carts, rushing cars, trench bridge cars, ladder cars, nest cars and other siege weapons slowly approached the city wall, and many Qing soldiers carried simple flying bridges and simple ladders, step by step approaching the earth city.

Behind the Qing army's large array, more than 20 tiger squat cannons have been erected, and the muzzles of the black hole are aimed at the city wall.

"Where's General Wang?" Bai Wenxuan didn't see Wang Xinyu, so he turned his head and asked a general.

The general arched his hand and said, "General Wang is going to command the seven cannons!" ”

On the hills, sixteen seven-pinned cannons more than four feet long were quietly erected on the top of the hill, and hundreds of auxiliaries and people were putting large and small stones into the stone throwing basket of the trebuchet. Each seven-pin cannon requires more than 150 people to operate, and 16 seven-pin cannons require more than 2,000 people to operate in total. But because Wu Sangui consumed time to build siege weapons, it also bought time for the infantry sent by Li Dingguo. At present, more than 10,000 people are stationed in the Ming army city.

Watching the Qing army under the city approaching step by step, Wang Xinyu personally visually measured the distance, and after the Qing army entered the range of four hundred steps, Wang Xinyu shouted: "Release!" ”

More than 600 auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang dragged the ropes of the four seven-pin guns, only to hear the sound of wood rubbing, the five-foot-seven-inch long counterweight arm quickly fell to the ground, the two-foot eight-foot-long throwing arm rose rapidly, and the large and small stones in the seven stone-throwing baskets flew out, like meteors in the sky, crossing the sky with a parabola, and flying towards the Qing army formation in the distance.

The rain of stones flying in the sky with the sound of howling wind smashed down on the densest part of the crowd. Every stone weighing a pound falls from a height of more than 100 zhang, as long as it hits a person, no matter how strong the armor is, it is vulnerable under the powerful kinetic energy of this stone.

The stone rain fell into the crowd of Qing troops, and the auxiliary soldiers pushing the shield cart in front were the first to be killed. The stone bullets shot down from a high position, with the powerful kinetic energy given by man and nature from the heights, a stone bullet weighing more than a pound can smash a shield cart to pieces, the sandbags on the cart were smashed and flying, and the auxiliary soldiers of the cart were smashed and broke their bones, and fell down screaming. Some people were hit directly in the head by a stone, and their whole heads burst like watermelons that had been trampled on.

Before the Qing soldiers could come to their senses, the attacks of the other four seven-pin guns came one after another, and a group of flying stone rain fell whistling down, smashing into the dense crowd of Qing soldiers, and suddenly screamed again and again, and a large number of Qing soldiers fell.

The third round of four seven-pin guns aimed at the Qing artillery position 200 steps away from the city wall.

Stone projectiles rained down and smashed into the body of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the stones collided with the steel, spraying sparks. Many Qing gunners were hit by stones and fell screaming. (To be continued.) )