Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 530
After the banquet was over, everyone dispersed, and Xia Guoxiang was driven back by Wang Yan to report to Wu Sangui, telling the conditions Wang Yan offered.

There are [-] Wu soldiers stationed in the village outside the North City, who can guard the horns with Wanxian. A large part of the reason why Wang Yan's camp is so strong is to guard against the Wu Bing village outside the North City.

If Wu Sangui is willing to withdraw his troops into the city and demolish Wanxian city defenses by himself, he is willing to give him another three days, because given the terrain of Wanxian County and the danger of the northern fortress, the Ming army may not be able to fight for three days. down.

In the middle of the night, candles were still burning in the tent of the commander of the Ming army, and Wang Yan's figure was printed on the white tent.

Dai Zhifan came outside the tent, saw the shadow on the tent, and strode to the front of the tent, the guards reported and raised the curtain for him.

"Sir, are you still not resting?"

Hearing the sound, Wang Yan raised his head, put down his brush, and asked, "Have the Wu soldiers in the village withdrawn?"

Dai Zhifan shook his head, "I was about to report to my husband, but there are still people patrolling with torches lit, and there is no sign of evacuation. Then Wu Sangui is determined to become a lackey of the Qing Dynasty."

Wang Yan was slightly silent. Wu Sangui surrendered first and then surrendered. He has a repeated personality and will never be loyal to any side. He is unwilling to do anything anyway, but he feels that it is not in the interests of the Guan Ning army behind him, or he is not optimistic about retreating to Guangzhou. Daming in the south.

Wang Yan sighed for a while. As a person in a high position, he no longer treats things based on his personal likes and dislikes, but analyzes the interests of things more. 5000 people outside, get rid of his double-faced thoughts!"

Hearing this, Dai Zhifan raised his brows, stared at him with one eye and said, "Master still wants to recruit him? A person like Wu Sangui who has no loyalty and helps the evildoers should be killed and fed to the dog."

Wang Yan smiled slightly, "I have no objection to what Mingzhang wants to do with Wu Sangui. What I care about is thirty thousand Guan Ning. Let us practice by ourselves, not to mention that we don't have horses, even if we have horses, we have to train three times." Four years will cost nothing, and you may not be able to defeat the Qing soldiers. Politics is like this, even if Guan Ning did a lot of evil and massacred the people before, as long as they resist the Qing, the cabinet and the court will still accept them."

After finishing speaking, Wang Yan waved his hand, "It's getting late, Mingzhang will go back to camp early to rest, let the Western Army take the lead tomorrow, and the Zhongyong Army will be second!"

Upon hearing the words, Dai Zhifan nodded, took his leave and left.

At dawn the next day, smoke rose from cooking in the camp of the Ming army, and the soldiers of the brigade gathered around the marching stove, holding bowls and chopsticks and queuing up to eat.

A man from the Western Army looked into the pot, his pupils dilated suddenly, and he laughed and cursed, "There's meat to eat?"

An old soldier behind him looked at it, but he was not so happy, "You have to fight after eating, you can eat."

The man in front was slightly taken aback when he heard this, and after a while he smiled and said: "If you fight, you will fight. Mr. Wang is very kind. When we were cannon fodder, we were forced to eat a bowl of porridge."

As he talked, it was the man's turn. Huotoujun shoveled a large spoon, and he smiled when he saw it, but Huotoujun seemed to be unable to hold the shovel firmly. Less than half.

"Brother, brother, it's on the hour." The man was disappointed.

But the Huotoujun didn't pay attention at all. He waited for a long time with his bowl outstretched, feeling bored, cursed secretly, went to the side and squatted down, picked up a piece of fat with his chopsticks, closed his eyes and put it under his nose to smell it, with a look on his face. Put it in your mouth with enjoyment.

The Ming army didn't have much meat, and even if they had money, there was no place to buy it. But with Qin Liangyu, the chieftain of Eastern Sichuan, as long as Wang Yan gave him money, he could exchange many wild animals in Miao village.

Although the portion is not enough for more than [-] people to eat at once, it is still enough to feed [-] people.

While the soldiers of the Western Army buried their heads in eating, Sun Kewang and others walked over wearing armor and holding sabers.

Originally, when they were in the South Bank, they were worried about being annexed by Gao Yigong, but there was an iron rule in the Five Loyalty Army that generals were not allowed to recruit troops privately, so the Western Army has always maintained its independence.

Sun Kewang originally thought he had escaped a catastrophe, but after they were coerced across the river, they were summoned by Wang Yan, and the Western Army finally could not escape the fate of being annexed.

Wang Yan's condition was to break up the Western Army into the Five Loyalty Army, and Sun Kewang would all be made earls.In Wang Yan's view, there were less than 1 people, and four earls were awarded. This was because the Western Army fought against the Qing soldiers and held back the main force of the Qing Army for the Ming Dynasty.

But in Sun Kewang's view, once they descended from princes to earls, it was difficult to accept, and breaking up and reorganizing the soldiers and horses was equivalent to depriving them of their military power, and Daxi really became history.

Sun Kewang was hesitant about this, so Wang Yan asked him to think about it again, but he didn't expect that before the result of the consideration came out, Wang Yan ordered them to be the main attack for today, obviously with the intention of wasting.

The tens of thousands of Western troops were coerced by nearly [-] Ming troops. The Western troops were either consumed or reorganized. Sun Kewang and others looked very unhappy.

At this time, the sound of beating drums in the camp sounded, and Li Dingguo looked at the soldiers around him and said, "Although we don't want to admit it, but we are only a few people, Daxi is really finished. Even if you feel unwilling, brother, there is nothing you can do. Besides, I think Wang Xianggong is a trustworthy person, the old generals of the Shun Army have been reused under his command, the four of us brothers are no worse than them, as long as we wholeheartedly support the bright future, we will not worry about our future."

"That's all I have to say, think about it." After Li Dingguo finished speaking, he turned around and walked to the center of the soldiers, shouting loudly: "After eating, stand up quickly, grab your weapons, and go outside the camp to form an array."

Seeing this, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi cast their eyes on Sun Kewang, and Sun Kewang sighed, "We'll finish today's round first, and we'll discuss it later in the evening."

Immediately, the three of them also began to urge the soldiers to come out of the camp and line up. The camp was suddenly crowded with people, and groups of people came out of the camp with swords, guns, bows and arrows.

On the top of the city, Wu Sangui and others came to Beicheng early and watched the movements of the Ming army outside the city.On the cottage four miles away from the city, the archers of the Qing soldiers had already stepped on the wall of the village, and the artillery was loaded with ammunition.

The road to Shu was difficult, so the Qing army did not carry many heavy artillery, and the road in Kuizhou was even more rugged. Naturally, the Wu army did not bring any red cannons, just four-pound Francois machine guns. Compared with other Ming armies, the quality of the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, artillery and guns are still much better.

If Wu Sangui brought heavy artillery this time, he could set it up on the city to cooperate with the cottage to form a crossfire, but now he can only watch.

It was Li Guoying's 2000 troops guarding the cottage, plus [-] Liao Town infantry, and Wu Sangui still had great confidence in them.

The cottage was built on the mountain, the range of the artillery was greatly increased due to the terrain, the Ming army basically couldn't hit it, but the artillery on the top of the mountain could cover the Ming army, and the Ming army attacked with their backs, they couldn't use any equipment, they could only climb the mountain with ants on all sides, the casualties must be huge .

The Qing soldiers prepared enough food for three months and fresh water for one month. Wu Sangui thought that the Ming army would attack the stronghold for half a month, so he resolutely refused the request to evacuate the stronghold in exchange for three days.

(Thank you, kamp for the five hundred book coins, thank you Wang Dana for the two hundred book coins, thank you for the reward from the happy woodpecker, and thank meilinyu for the two monthly tickets of kamp.)
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