It has to be said that Wu Sangui is still very prestigious in the Lueyang army. The vassal troops in Anxi and Hexi towns in Lueyang City have followed him for many years, some of them are second generation. And the newly attached volunteers have also heard about it

I heard about the name of "Uncle Zhu Ming Wu Guo" - I heard it from the master of the army above them!

Many princes from the Dashun Dynasty who were good at fighting took turns fighting Zhu Ming and Wu Guojiu for so many years, but they didn't do anything to him. They even broke into his hometown and snatched away important things like Lueyang.

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Now that the elder brother of the Empress of Ming Dynasty is on the front line, what else can others say? It is nothing more than resisting with all their strength. Those who are dead are carried down and buried quickly. Those who are not dead continue to obey the veterans under Wu Guojiu.

According to their orders, muskets are not their turn to use. All they can do is draw bows and shoot arrows (ordinary hunting bows are not considered weapons, but their power is limited and it is difficult to hurt the armored Dashun officers and soldiers), or throw improvised weapons.

spears, or using improvised spears (long sharpened wooden sticks) to stab people in a formation, or several people holding a log to knock over the enemy's ladder...

Up and down the castle, the tide of firepower from both sides generally surged back and forth. How many muskets were shooting at each other? From time to time, grenades with wooden handles that ignited the fire line were thrown out with great force, exploding on the attacking crowd or on the top of the city.

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Neither side has much heavy firepower. Xiangshan is not very steep, but there is no way to transport artillery up. When the Dashun Army was originally stationed, it was equipped with 3-pound cannons and mortars in the fortress on the mountain. But when they withdrew,

They were all blown up, so both sides now have no artillery to use. Now they are fighting with guns and swords, desperately!

Wu Sangui's personal soldiers were well equipped, including flintlock guns, and there were plenty of bullets and gunpowder for them to practice. If the flintlock guns were broken, they could be replenished in time. The sources of the personal soldiers were Anxi, Hexi, and Sichuan towns.

He is a veteran who is used to being on the battlefield and his hands will not shake at critical moments. In the past seven or eight years, Lao Wu has always been able to withstand Li Dingguo's heavy blows at critical moments because of this group of dead soldiers!

Under the guns of this group of Wu family soldiers, the casualties of Dashun's army increased greatly. Some people kept rolling down the mountain, but their follow-up troops continued to make up for it. A series of temporary bamboo and wooden ladders were erected on the top of the city.

, just after one battle, Dashun's dead soldiers rushed up with bullets! People kept falling down, but more people filled in.

After fighting for two or three days, there were already mountains of corpses under the fortress on the top of Xiangshan Mountain!

However, the corpses below were getting higher and higher, and the city wall above was also getting taller! Wang Youwen was also pulled up to the top of the mountain by Wu Sangui, and commanded a group of laborers to transport boxes of soil to the top of the city.

, right next to the dead bodies!

Everyone above and below the city was fighting for their lives, everyone knew the significance of this battle at Lueyang!

Lueyang is not only the junction of Sanguan Road, Qishan Road and Jinniu Road, but Wu Sangui, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, was trapped here.

If Wu Sangui can be killed, the Shaanxi Ming Army will definitely be greatly shaken! It is also possible to directly retreat to Guanzhong and Qishan!

"Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui...when will you die!"

In the distance, Li Dingguo held up a telescope and murmured to himself. No one behind him could answer this question. Everyone was silently praying to God - Wu Sangui is not a good person, accept him quickly!

"Your Majesty, there has been no news from Hanzhong for 12 hours..." Luo Hu's worried voice sounded in Li Dingguo's ears.

Something must have happened over there in Hanzhong!

According to Li Dingguo's order, the Dingjunshan camp must send a team of pond horses to the Lueyang army every six hours. But now it has been 12 hours without a troop of pond horses coming!

The absence of Tang Ma only means one problem: the road from Dingjunshan Camp to Lueyang has been cut off by the Ming army that invaded the Hanzhong Basin.

This thing is a bit beyond Li Dingguo’s expectation!

Because Li Dingguo deployed many defenders on Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, and Ziwu Road, and the plank road between Baocheng and Hutou Pass on these three roads except Baoxie Road was changed under the rule of Dashun Dynasty.

Except for the Qi Road, which has a strong traffic capacity, the roads elsewhere have not been repaired and are now very difficult to pass. Even the Guards of the Ming Army are unlikely to open the Baoxie Road in such a short period of time.

, any passage on the Tangluo Road or the Ziwu Road, right?

However, the interruption of Tangma between Lueyang and Dingjunshan Camp clearly told Li Dingguo that the Ming army not only entered the Hanzhong Basin, but also cut off the traffic between Dingjunshan Camp and Lueyang...actually

Above, Li Dingguo had sufficient defenders deployed on Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, and Ziwu Road. However, during the Battle of Baohe more than ten days ago, there was an omission that did not attract Li Dingguo's attention - Wu Guogui

When Baohe was defeated, half of the elite scout battalion was sent into Bao Valley!

Although the number was small, it frightened the Dashun army defending Bao Valley. They thought that Li Dingguo had been defeated in the Hanzhong Basin! Moreover, this group of desperate scouts were also quite capable of bluffing, and caused Dashun in Bao Valley.

The army thought that it was being attacked from both sides, so it deployed troops from the front facing Guanzhong to defend its buttocks. As a result, it was difficult to look back at the rear, and a Guards Division led by Yan Yingyuan broke the defense!

Yan Yingyuan, who rushed into Bao Valley, met the scouts of Wu Guogui's troops. He knew about the defeat of Hanzhong, but he still boldly attacked and captured Bao City with a night attack. Then he did not attack Zheng He's Dingjunshan camp south of Hanzhong Fucheng, but

He recommended along the edge of the mountainous area to the west of Jushui, cutting off the connection between Dingjun Mountain and Lueyang - thus blocking Li Dingguo's way back to the army.

Unless Dashun can quickly mobilize troops from Micang Road and Lizhi Road into Hanzhong, when the other two Guards Infantry Divisions enter Hanzhong through Ziwu Road and Tangluo Road, Li Dingguo will not be able to recapture Hanzhong even if he has only three heads and six arms.

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Although Li Dingguo now knows that something is not good, he can't look back.

Because his army had been fighting continuously for many days, it was already exhausted. Now it turned around and returned to Hanzhong, and it would not be able to win the victory like the Battle of Mioxian County and the Battle of Baoshui.

Moreover, Wu Sangui's reinforcements will arrive in Lueyang at any time. Once Li Dingguo's army retreats, these reinforcements will arrive in Lueyang unimpeded. By then, Li Dingguo, who has returned to Hanzhong, will be attacked from both sides...

Li Dingguo gritted his teeth and asked: "Has the mortar been transported? Has the gun emplacement been dug?"

A staff member on the side replied: "Two 12-pound mortars have been transported, and the gun positions are being dug."

"Let them hurry up!" Li Dingguo said, "Dig the artillery positions and then bombard them hard... In this battle, Wu Sangui must be killed no matter what!"

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"Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui, when will you die?"

It was Zheng Zhilong who expressed the same emotion!

In the Duke Quan's Mansion in Donghu Town, Zheng Zhilong had just read the latest battle report sent by someone from the Generalissimo's Mansion, and couldn't help but muttered.

"Abba, you can't talk nonsense!" It was Zheng Sen who reminded him.

Zheng Sen came to the court this time to resign Dongning Jiedushi and Dongning to withdraw from the vassal - Dongning Town, which governs Quanzhou Prefecture, is already attracting attention. Although Zhu Cixiang didn't say anything, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen

The three of them, Zheng Jiangong, knew this well.

So since last year, Zheng Sen has repeatedly submitted his resignation and asked to be appointed as an official in the court - he did not come to the court to be an apartment house, but to succeed the elderly Zheng Zhilong in the cabinet, either as the Minister of Household Affairs or the Ministry of Works.

Minister... In short, Zheng Ge is old!

In the first month of the 20th year of Hongxing, Zhu Cixiang finally agreed to Zheng Sen's entry into the court, but he did not agree to withdraw from Dongning. Instead, he asked Zheng Sen to enter the court to discuss the matter - and other emperors in the Ming Dynasty were keen on reforming the country and returning to the country.

Because the currents are different, Zhu Cixiang is not willing to withdraw the vassal, but is more willing to move the vassal... It is much better to move the vassal town outward, from the familiar place to the new place, than to withdraw it all at once.
Chapter completed!