At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 131 The army counterattacks
If Li Zicheng got rid of Erwuzi and relied on his own army of 20 direct descendants to fight to the end, could the Qing Dynasty win?Even if we can win, how many people will be left?
At this moment, Hong Chengchou felt that the [-] Qing troops in Guizhou were just like Li Zicheng's situation at the beginning. Although he had the power to dominate the world, if he was not careful, he would lose everything.

And Li Dingguo is our Qing Dynasty. He has 20 troops. Before Doni's main Manchu and Mongolian force entered Guizhou, he had an absolute military advantage over the Qing army in Guizhou.

An Kun and others are Wu Sangui, Jiang Xiang, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and others.

Therefore, if the Qing Dynasty does not want to be completely defeated, it can only learn from Li Zicheng's lesson and join forces as soon as possible for a decisive battle.

We also need to take good control of An Kun and other young men. If the Qing army in Guizhou always has the advantage, these people can naturally be used by the Qing Dynasty.

On the contrary, if it is not possible, we must act quickly to eliminate future troubles forever!

In this anxious waiting, time passes day by day.

In mid-June, as the climate changed, Hong Chengchou and others began to become restless.

At this moment, Nanming finally started to make some moves.

"Everyone, the court is in trouble. As ministers of the Ming Dynasty, we must not sit back and watch the crisis of our king and father and remain indifferent in the land of Kuidong!"

Sichuan, Kuizhou.

Wen Anzhi, who was over seventy years old and full of youth, spoke to the Kuidong generals with a righteous face.

"The Superintendent is right. If Yunnan does not defend Kuidong, it cannot survive alone. Only by working together with the imperial court to repel the Tatar invasion and protect the southwest can we have hope for great things!" Liu Tichun, Duke of Anhui, said in a deep voice. .

As soon as this statement came out, dozens of generals, big and small, had different expressions.

Although the soldiers and horses of the thirteen families in Kuidong are mainly composed of remnants of the Shun army.

But the commander of each army has his own thoughts.

In order to control this powerful army, the Yongli court granted dukes to Liu Tichun, Li Laiheng, Hao Yaoqi, Yuan Zongdi and other generals.

The purpose was to equalize the titles of the generals of the Shun Army and increase the centrifugal force within the Shun Army after Li Zicheng's death, so that the imperial supervisor could easily control this army.

However, this approach of the Yongli court seemed smart, but it led to many internal conflicts in Kuidong, and no one was convinced.

This army, which could have swept across Huguang, was trapped in the barren mountains and rivers of eastern Kui due to internal problems, unable to open up the situation, and caused immeasurable losses to the cause of fighting against the Qing Dynasty.

Now the Shunjun army has been messed up by the Yongli court, and the Xiying army has just experienced a long internal strife among the three kings.

However, thanks to the strong will of Xiying and Chuangying to resist the Qing Dynasty, the Nanming side does not seem to have no chance of winning.

"Uncle Erhu is right. If the Jin king is defeated in Yunnan and Guizhou, we will die at the hands of the Tatars in Kuidong sooner or later."

Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo, said in a deep voice: "Now only if the two families are united and join our hundreds of thousands of people to attack everywhere, can the Tatars focus on one thing and lose the other and reverse the entire southwest war situation!"

"What do you think of Little Tiger?" Yuan Zongdi, Duke of Jingguo, asked.

"Everyone, please take a look!" Li Laiheng pointed at the southwest map and said.

"Now that Guiyang has lost ground, Li Dingguo's troops are trapped in Yunnan and western Guizhou, and the three armies of the Tatars have joined forces in Guizhou. They look unstoppable."

"However, I look at the situation. If my soldiers from the Chuang camp can join forces with the Xi camp and combine the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from the two families, the Qing court's attack will not only fail to destroy the imperial court, but will suffer the consequences and bring about its own destruction. !”

"Little tiger, keep talking." Yiguo Gong Hao Yaoqi's eyes lit up.

"Everyone, the Tatars' 10,000+ troops marching into the southwest may seem huge, but in terms of troop strength, we actually have the advantage."

Li Laiheng said solemnly: "My Thirteenth Family has one hundred thousand soldiers and horses, including tens of thousands of elite soldiers who can wear armor and go into battle. The Xiying is located in the southwest, and Li Dingguo has no less than 20 soldiers and horses."

"With 30 people against the Tatars' 10,000+ troops, as long as they are operated properly, not only can the southwest be protected, but the main force of the Tatars will also be severely damaged or even destroyed!"

"That's right." Liu Tichun nodded slightly and said, "Those kids in Xiying are indeed capable. In the past, when they invited the King of Qin to build a wall, they claimed to have 20 troops."

"Lao Gao and the others thought it was a bluff at first. They thought our two armies were equal to each other."

"Then I thought that six years ago, those kids really brought out an army of 20, swept through the southwest, and launched an expedition to the north and east, shocking the world."

"Although Sun Kewang is now at odds with Li Dingguo and has taken away a group of soldiers and horses, in the past when the two brothers were on their own side, there were more than [-] soldiers and horses in the Yunnan-Guizhou area."

"Li Dingguo currently has more than 20 soldiers and horses, and the combined forces of my thirteen families also have tens of thousands of armored elites available. If the two families work together, it will be no problem to deal with the 10,000+ soldiers and horses of the Tatars! "

"Second brother Liu is right. A wall and little Yuchi are indeed capable. Now that little Yuchi and the court are in trouble, we uncles naturally have to help and deal with the Tatars together." Yuan Zongdi also smiled when he heard this.

For a time, all the generals in Kuidong agreed and expressed their willingness to send troops to help Li Dingguo.

"My lords, Prince Jin has already been granted the title of king. According to the ancestral system, you cannot call him that." A civil servant said.

"Donkey Ball, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo have to be ranked according to seniority no matter what. When I and their adoptive father called themselves brothers and drank and had a good time, these babies didn't even have hair!" Yuan Zongdi said dissatisfied.

In terms of seniority, people like Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi were actually uncles of Lord Sun and King Li Jin.

In the past, when Liu Tichun and Liu Erhu were rebelling against the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong had to call him Brother Liu.

With his seniority, Sun Kewang, the soldiers in Kuidong, would be difficult to deal with.

You know, when Liu Tichun and Zhang Xianzhong were drinking, the four brothers standing guard outside the door might be Sun Guozhu's four brothers.

Now that things are like this, what can Lord Sun do with people like Liu Tichun?
As for Li Dingguo, not to mention, it was because he could not deal with these people in East Kui that he chose to escape to the death place in western Yunnan.

What is the seniority of Liu Tichun and others?Can Li Dingguo's prestige suppress them?

Moreover, at that time, King Li Jin lost only his pants, and the people in Kuidong didn't care much about Li Dingguo's two heads.

It's not like the Thirteen Family had never fought against Li Dingguo. He Zhen was in Hanzhong, but 3000 people defeated Li Dingguo's 3 people!
The name of Liang Ke Mingwang is indeed very great, but it cannot scare the people in Kuidong at all.

It was precisely because Li Dingguo could not suppress the Kuidong generals that Li Jin Wang, who felt that his position was insecure, preferred to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a snake.

In order to prevent a few princes from eastern Kui from threatening his position, he resolutely rushed to his death in western Yunnan.

The generals in Kuidong were of very high seniority, and most of them had great achievements in the past, so they who often recalled the prosperous years of the past would naturally not have much respect for young people like Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang who were in their prime.

"Yes! So what if Li Dingguo is granted the title of King of Jin? Remember when the Eight Great Kings asked him to lead tens of thousands of troops to attack Hanzhong, I only had 3000 men at that time, so what in the end?"

He Zhen said happily: "Didn't I take the initiative and lead 3000 men to win consecutive battles? Li Dingguo was defeated like a mountain and was unable to fight back?"

"Brother He is right!" Liu Tichun agreed: "Prince Jin is a junior after all. Although his abilities are getting better and better, many things still depend on us uncles!"

Wen Anzhi frowned when he heard this. The thieves like Liu Tichun were so ignorant of the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty. This made him, the supervisor holding the Yongli Shangfang Sword, extremely dissatisfied.However, he had been feuding with Sun Guozhu in Kuidong for seven or eight years, so he was naturally familiar with the character of the generals in Kuidong and knew how to adapt to them.

"Uncles, let's talk about business."

Seeing Wen Anzhi's expression turned ugly, Li Laiheng spoke.

"Yes! Little Tiger is right, business is more important." Liu Tichun agreed.

Suddenly, as Li Laiheng spoke, the attitudes of the generals in the camp changed.

Under the general situation, people like San Tan stopped talking and listened quietly to Li Laiheng's speech.

"King Chuang is King Chuang after all. Even though he has been dead for more than ten years, Li Laiheng's surname is only Li, and people like Liu Tichun treat him with great respect." Tan Wen, the boss of Three Tans, said with emotion.

"Uncles, governors, Marquis of Fu, Marquis of Renshou, and Marquis of Xinjin."

Li Laiheng raised his hand and said: "With the 30 troops from our two families, it is worth 10,000+ Tatars!"

"If used properly, not only can the southwest be protected, but also the 10,000+ Tatars can be eliminated?"

"What suggestions does Duke Linguo have?" Wen Anzhi asked.

"Look, everyone, the Manchu Tatars seem to be powerful, but their troops have been exhausted after traveling thousands of miles."

"And Li Dingguo gathered 20 troops and gathered in central Yunnan and western Guizhou, ready to go!"

Li Laiheng spoke slowly, then pointed to his position and said: "Besides, our army's position is excellent. The Qing army penetrated deep into Yunnan and Guizhou and occupied Guiyang."

"Our army has been able to threaten their rear, which means that Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou's retreat has been exposed in front of us!"

"10,000+ Qing troops are concentrated in the Guiyang area. There are only two food routes for these soldiers and horses."

"The first one is to transport grain and wages from the south of the Yangtze River to Huguang through water transportation, and then transfer to Guizhou."

"The second is to mobilize grain and wages from Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu, cross the Qinling Mountains, pass through Hanzhong, and reach Baoning."

"Then go up the Jialing River to Chongqing, pass through Zunyi and Xifeng and enter Guizhou!"

Li Laiheng looked at the map in front of him and glanced at the Kuidong generals.

"Two grain roads like this, traveling thousands of miles away, appear under our noses again. If they continue, we will be in vain!"

"Little Tiger, tell me what we should do!" Liu Tichun said.

"Uncle Erhu, my nephew's opinion is to gather the strength of our thirteen families, use one hundred thousand troops and tens of thousands of armor, and attack from both sides!"

"The first army set out from Kuizhou and Wanxian, went up the river, and attacked Chongqing, forcing Wu Sangui, a traitor, to lead the main force back to support! Reduce the pressure on the King of Jin in Guizhou!"

"An army marched into Huguang! It turned the world upside down in Xiangyang, Yunyang, and Jingzhou!"

"If we can conquer the city and sweep across Huguang, it would be best. If we cannot conquer the important towns such as Jingzhou and Xiangyang, we should let the Qing army in Huguang be restless, contain Hong Chengchou's troops, and disrupt his food routes!"

As soon as this statement came out, the generals in Kuidong whispered, weighing the pros and cons of Li Laiheng's plan.

"Little tiger, what a good plan!" Hao Yaoqi laughed.

"If our thirteen soldiers and horses do this, the rear of the Tatars will definitely be in turmoil. Little Tiger, Governor Wen, leave the Yunyang and Xiangyang areas to me. I will make these places turbulent!"

"Yes! This is how we should fight!" Liu Tichun said seriously: "I, the three marquises, Lao Ta, Lao Dang and others are attacking Chongqing."

"Little tiger, you and other uncles and uncles are marching into Huguang. The hundred thousand soldiers and horses of our thirteen families, one on the left and one on the right, will definitely make the Tatars focus on one thing and lose another!"

"It's summer now, and Li Dingguo must be preparing for a counterattack. If we launch a counterattack immediately and steal Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou's retreat, Li Dingguo's chances of winning in the decisive battle in Guizhou will be greatly increased!"

"After Guizhou is recovered, we join forces with Chuangying and Xiying, or attack Sichuan northward, annihilate Wu Sangui, leave the camp at Shaanluo, or go eastward to Huguang, kill Hong Chengchou, and march directly to the south of the Yangtze River. The general trend of the world can be changed!"

Liu Tichun was full of energy and impassioned, making all the generals in Kuidong nod their heads.

In fact, when the Qing army attacked Yunnan and Guizhou, the remnants of the Shun army in Kuidong were risking their lives to hold back the Qing army.

Kuidong's troops attacked Chongqing twice, forcing Wu Sangui to return reinforcements for the first time, and delayed Wu Sangui's main force until November before rejoining the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield.

The second time when Li Dingguo was completely defeated, the thirteenth Kuidong family who had just been defeated mobilized troops and horses to attack Chongqing.

As long as Li Dingguo can hold on to the Beipanjiang defense line for three months, the war situation may be reversed.

However, the main force of the Xiying troops were completely defeated, and Kuidong's troops were unable to break the situation alone.

When news of Li Dingguo's defeat came, the main force of the Western Camp did not move to Sichuan to join forces.

In desperation, the Three Tans broke into internal strife, and the Battle of Chongqing came to nothing.

On the other side, Li Laiheng and others entered Huguang, harassed the Jianghan Plain, and even captured the important town of Xiangyang.

It's a pity that the big thing is over, and there is nothing we can do to save it.

The Shun army could only return to Kuidong angrily and carry out the final attack on Maolu Mountain.

The generals in Kuidong talked a lot and expressed their willingness to cooperate with Li Laiheng's plan.

"Okay! In this case, this opportunity must not be missed, and it will never come back again!"

Liu Tichun said sternly: "We will send out troops in two directions now to show Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou how powerful our Dashun Army is!"

Although Li Laiheng had a transcendent status among the thirteen families of Kuidong, he still lacked prestige after all.

Many times, the assistance of Liu Tichun, the veteran, is needed to make the final decision, unify the voices within the Shun Army, and then use the overwhelming trend to unify the opinions of San Tan and others to complete a resolution.

Fortunately, unlike in the past, the situation in the southwest is tense now. The Qing army's three-pronged advance is invincible, and the situation is not optimistic.

Under such circumstances, the Kuidong generals who had a relatively firm will to resist the Qing Dynasty naturally had much less internal disputes and much more cooperation.

A two-pronged counterattack quickly passed the strategic plan to hold back the Qing army, and various troops in Kuidong began to take action.

(End of this chapter)