The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 188
After the generals left Yang Tinglin's tent, Dai Xiuyuan returned to persuade him, but Yang Tinglin didn't know the art of war and wanted nothing to go wrong, so he still insisted on the strategy of defending the Baita River.

Seeing that the remonstrance was fruitless, Dai Xiuyuan finally begged: "My lord, I want to send more than a thousand troops to attack the captives, and I hope your lord will agree."

Yang Tinglin was so entangled with him, thinking that Guo Weijing's recruits were weak in combat power, and they were of limited use in the previous few battles, so it would be no problem to send out more than a thousand soldiers, so he nodded and said: "I will send a thousand soldiers from Guo Shilang's department." 300 men are under your command."

"My lord, how about 200 more people?"

Yang Tinglin frowned, waved his hands and said, "Okay, just one thousand and five."

Guo Weijing originally served in the Ministry of Officials. When Jiangxi was in a tight spot, he was ordered by Longwu to recruit soldiers, but he didn't think about leading troops to fight, so he asked Dai Xiuyuan to pick people up without saying a word.

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Liu Guangbi saw the old man who delivered the letter leave with the soldiers, but his expression gradually became serious.

According to what the old man said, General Boluo issued this secret order more than ten days ago.And all the roads out of Fujian have been sealed off by the enemy, the general mobilized all the secret agents in Fujian hidden in the Ming army, tried every means, until yesterday he sent the secret order out of Shanguan.

Only then did Liu Guangbi learn that the Ming army had captured Xianxia Pass, and tens of thousands of troops going south were trapped in Fujian.

The secret order required him to send troops to the west of Shanguan before mid-June at the latest, and cooperate with Azig to attack Shanguan on both sides at the same time, so as to quickly seize the pass and bring the two armies together.In addition, the general also ordered him to prepare more food and grass. Azig's army had been trapped in Fujian for a long time, and the food and grass would be unsustainable.

"Mid-June..." Liu Guangbi frowned, "There are only ten days left."

He raised his eyes to look at the defense line of the Ming army in the distance, and he could vaguely see densely packed black spots busy there.He knew that a large number of Ming troops were digging ditches and building walls.

These Ming troops were very good at this. They once dug three ditches ten miles long in the lower reaches of the Xinjiang River within two days, and built seven-foot earth barriers, so that the [-] troops he marched all the way had to start fighting with the Ming army. positional warfare.

The defense line built by the Ming army in the Baita River area is even more exaggerated. Two earthen walls more than one foot high have been built, and there are countless ditches and wooden thorns.

As usual, Liu Guangbi didn't care about it.He has more than 20 cannons in his hand, as long as they are set up in front of the formation and bombarded slowly, sooner or later they will be able to break through the Ming army's fortifications.

In fact, since along the Great Wall, the Ming army has been using this old-fashioned way of fighting, but they have never been able to stop the footsteps of the Jianzhou cavalry. They retreated all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, still digging ditches and building fortifications to defend the city, and rarely dared to take the initiative to fight. It is because of repeated battles and repeated defeats.

Even since he led the army into Guangxin Mansion, he has broken through five such lines of defense and advanced more than a hundred miles.

It's just that it takes ten days to reach Shanguan, but it can't be as easy as before.He planned in his heart that as long as the cannon blasted the gap, the army would rush forward and disperse the Ming army with hand-to-hand combat.

But in this way, there will inevitably be greater casualties.When he thought of this, his mouth felt bitter, Azig led the main force of the Zhenglan Banner and thousands of troops from the Zhenghuang Banner.In order to keep these Jianzhou banner soldiers, he would not hesitate to kill all the green battalions and even the Han army with the blue banner.

"General," Chen Sheng, the general at the side, stepped forward and cupped his hands, "the cannons are all ready."

Liu Guangbi nodded and pointed to the Ming army formation on the south side, "Spare ammunition, fire artillery day and night, and strive to defeat the enemy as soon as possible."

"Whoo!"

After a while, Liu Guangbi heard the roar of artillery, turned around and returned to the camp of the Chinese army, and called Chen Sheng, Li Quan and other officers.

He first ordered Chen Sheng to gather all the main force of the infantry and cavalry to stand by before the formation, and to take the Baita River within three days. It must be consumed a lot to prepare for its use.

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Dai Xiuyuan saw a man dressed as a Qing army approaching, but he showed no signs of change. Instead, he asked eagerly, "What's the matter, is there a flaw?"

"My lord, there are also two sentry towers on the west side of the barn, and the guards are very vigilant."

Dai Xiuyuan could only sigh when he heard the words, Jianlu had less than 2000 people stationed in the grain storage area in the lower reaches of the Guixi River, if he had more than a thousand more people in his hands, he would surely be able to burn the grain and grass in one fell swoop.

But right now with his [-] recruits alone, he is afraid that he will be defeated by the captive army before he can get close.Is it going to return without success this time?

"Go back to the camp first, and check the situation at night." He ordered, and retreated from the weeds where he was hiding, and several people who accompanied him immediately followed.

Dai Xiuyuan raised his head to see the direction, then stooped quietly and walked north.

Since the recruits assigned to him this time are really unusable, it may be difficult for them to find the enemy camp, not to mention inquiring about intelligence.Therefore, he had no choice but to bring four or five capable generals to the vicinity of Liu Guangbi's camp to investigate the truth.

After turning around a mound, Dai Xiuyuan judged that he should be far enough away from the enemy camp, and was about to stretch his muscles and bones when he heard a general whisper: "My lord, there are Jiannu!"

Dai Xiuyuan hurriedly lowered his body and looked up, only to see a dozen or so Qing soldiers passing in front of them [-] or [-] meters away lazily.

"Could it be that you went in the wrong direction and entered the Jianlu camp by mistake?" He hurriedly looked around, and then took out a map to compare, "It's strange, this place is nearly a mile and a half away from the north side of the enemy camp, why are there soldiers patrolling?" ?”

"Hu Jin, Zhang Peng," he winked at the general beside him, "Look around, be careful."

"Yes!"

After a while, the two returned one after another. They both said that Jianlu brought a large number of wooden boxes and sacks and placed them in the wasteland behind the camp. .

"Gunpowder?" Dai Xiuyuan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "How much is it estimated?"

Hu Jin said: "At least two to thirty thousand catties, and there are still horses and horses transporting them in a continuous stream."

"How many guards are there?"

"About 500 people."

Dai Xiuyuan nodded, "It's not as good as burning his food, but it's better than nothing." He carefully retreated behind the mound, and then quickly walked to his barracks, "I'm here tonight to burn the Jianlu ammunition."

It is night, the north wind.

Dai Xiuyuan's more than a thousand soldiers, all with guns in their mouths, carrying dry firewood, kerosene and other things on their backs, quietly headed towards the north side of Liu Guangbi's camp.

It turned out that Li Quan brought the gunpowder needed to bombard the Ming army, but he felt that it was dangerous to put it in the camp, so he piled it all on the north side of the camp.At this time, Liu Guangbi's main force was gathered in the south to confront the Ming army, and he never expected that there would be a sneak attack, so he only left thousands of soldiers and horses in the grain storage, and almost no one cared about gunpowder.

Dai Xiuyuan's troops went to the north side of the enemy's camp, but he did not attack by force. He only ordered hundreds of soldiers to unload their firewood, oil and other things half a mile away from the gunpowder pile of Jianlu, and then lit a big fire in the wilderness.

　Thank you, classmate Shi, for your generous reward, thank you very much for your support, and thank you!
　　
　
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