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Chapter 626 Destroying West Strategy and Spring Strategy

Through a one-on-one battle, Zhu Yousong defeated Li Dingguo's spirit, and won a small victory in this field battle. In this battle, more than 2 Daxi troops were wiped out, including more than 8000 prisoners.

The grain and grass, armored tents, horses, mules, knives, guns and equipment obtained, etc., and the spoils of war are piled up like hills.

Don't chase the poor bandits, especially the leader of this group of bandits is Li Dingguo, so Zhu Yousong commanded the Ming army to chase and kill only a dozen miles, and then retreated.

Then clean up the battlefield, rectify the soldiers and horses, treat casualties, and deal with post-war affairs.

The matter of the captives was handed over to Ma Wannian. Zhu Yousong's policy towards the captives of the Daxi Army was the same as usual, neither killing nor punishing them.

The soldiers of the Ming army were elated and reported their military achievements one after another. Only the young general Zhang Huan sighed and was depressed.

The one-eyed general Ma Wannian certainly knew the reason for his displeasure, it was because Li Dingguo was not killed today to avenge his father, and he only had good words to comfort him.

Two days later, it was learned that Li Dingguo had fled into Wanxian with his troops and could not hold out. Zhu Yousong's troops set up camp about ten miles outside Wanxian.

For several days, Li Dingguo refused to fight, and Zhu Yousong, Ma Wannian and others discussed how to break the city.

In fact, it is not difficult for Zhu Yousong's 6 army to break through this small county. You can just attack directly. You can use 20 red cannons to open the way, or you can use the diggers to sneak under the city and dig the wall. Means to blow up the city.

But Zhu Yousong didn't intend to do this, because after breaking the city, there would inevitably be a bloody battle. What he was planning now was how to surrender Li Dingguo, rather than breaking the city and killing people.

The surrender plan was not mature yet, so Ma Wannian came in to report that more than 8000 captives had been dealt with, and some of those who were unwilling to continue to eat food to serve as soldiers were demobilized on the spot, and 5000 captives were reorganized into various battalions.

Zhu Yousong was quite satisfied, and after a few words of praise for Ma Wanneng, he sent him away.

At this time Li Quan hurried in from the outside, knelt down and saluted, and presented a letter.

Zhu Yousong took it over and saw that he was overjoyed. This letter was written by Li Dingguo to Wang Sun Kewang of Pingdong, the general guard of the Daxi Capital.

The content of the letter is that he has designed to drag Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong in Wanxian area, and the Ming camp under Fenghuang Mountain is bound to be empty, and Zhu Yousong, who the Ming army relies on, is also.This is a rare opportunity, he has already told His Majesty, King Pingdong immediately dispatched his army and His Majesty to dispatch troops in two directions, took down the Ming camp at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, and then sent his troops eastward, they attacked back and forth, Zhu Yousong was bound to be defeated.

Because from the perspective of Zhang Xianzhong's godson, Sun Kewang is his elder brother. Li Dingguo's letter was written in a more polite manner. Below it was Li Dingguo's signature, date and Anxi Wang Li Dingguo's big red stamp.

Zhu Yousong read it several times, and there was no flaw. He felt that the letter should be true, but he still asked Li Quan, where did he get the letter, because this letter is too important, it should not be Li Dingguo's scheme .

Li Quan saluted and said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that this letter will never be fake. It was Song Lian and his team who followed for several days before they obtained the military information. The Daxi army who delivered the letter was very cunning and dressed up as charlatans, and Song Lian and his team Dressed as bandits captured them in the mountains 200 miles away."

Li Quan went out with the army this time, selected a Jinyiwei elite of nearly a thousand people, cooperated with the Dongchang fans, and divided them into several groups with a hundred households as a unit to participate in military operations and monitor the generals in the army , responsible for collecting intelligence, and directly participating in the war when necessary, Song Lian is one of Li Quan's head of a hundred households, this man is highly skilled in martial arts, shrewd and capable.

After following Zhu Yousong on the expedition for more than two years, he has repeatedly made military exploits, and was promoted from an ordinary soldier in Jinyiwei to a small banner, general banner, deputy hundred household, and hundred household leader.

This time he got such important information again, Zhu Yousong was overjoyed, he believed in Li Quan, and even more believed in Jin Yiwei's work. With this important military information, it would be easy to handle, so he ordered Li Quansheng to reward this person.

A few days later, Li Quan promoted Song Lian to be the deputy thousand householder of Jinyiwei, and rewarded him with 500 taels of silver.

Song Lian was so grateful that he knelt down and kowtowed.

Li Quandao: "You don't have to thank me. If you want to thank me, you can thank His Majesty for your kindness. Today, His Majesty is a rare holy master, so you must do things well and repay the emperor's grace."

"Yes, yes, thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty, please rest assured, the villain will definitely die." Song Lian was obedient, grateful to Dade, and he was willing to let him die immediately.

After Li Quan left, Zhu Yousong took the letter and carefully read it twice, and then paced back and forth in the camp. A strategic plan to destroy the West, which he had planned to use, had gradually formed in his mind.However, this strategic plan has a few steps to go, and he decided to deal with Li Dingguo first.

After his thoughts matured, Zhu Yousong held a military meeting in front of the imperial court. Ma Wannian, Zhang Huan, Li Quan, Zhao Fu and other senior generals in the army attended the meeting and deployed a withdrawal plan.

Then deliberately let out the wind, and Zhu Yousong began to retreat.

Li Dingguo, who was covered in armor, stood on the top of the city with his personal guards, holding a single-tube telescope, looking at the Ming army camp a few miles away.

Some of the Ming army dismantled tents, some packed tents with gongs and drums, food, pots, pans, ladles and other military supplies and packed them into trucks. They were extremely busy.

Based on this, Li Dingguo believed that Zhu Yousong was really going to retreat. Li Dingguo insisted on defending the city without fighting. If they attacked by force for three days and five days, they would definitely not be able to attack in ten and a half months. Song must not be able to afford them, the retreat is inevitable, and Li Dingguo had already expected it

In addition, there was a detailed report last night, explaining that the army planned to withdraw its troops in the next few days. To be on the safe side, he wanted to personally observe the movements of the Ming camp.

At dusk, the Ming army's camp began to sham their flags and spread tents densely. Li Dingguo knew that this was their bluff to deceive people and confuse the Daxi army in the city. It seemed that the Ming army must retreat late at night tonight.

After Li Dingguo went down to the city, he returned to the commander's account, and immediately sent an order to raise the account, and the division sent generals to arrange for them to go out of the city to pursue them.

There are a total of 5 Western troops in the city, and 4 were dispatched at once. Li Dingguo personally commanded the general Zhang Sheng's 2 troops as the left army, and general Zhang Hu's [-] troops as the right army. He brought [-] horses as the central army. Tonight In the middle of the night, the three-way army went out of the city to pursue the Ming army.

Let the general Ma Weixing defend the success and give him 1 horses. This is their way of retreat. If the Ming army turns around and counterattacks, they don't intend to fight, and they still retreat to the city and stick to the city.This is the spring strategy of you retreating and advancing, and you advancing and retreating.

In the Ming camp, meals were made at the second shift, and after the 6 soldiers had had their fill of battle meals, they began to retreat.

The 6 Ming army retreated in three batches. Zhang Huan led the 4 troops to set off first. Half an hour later, Zhu Yousong's main force, a total of [-], began to retreat.

Ma Wannian was the third batch. He led 1 horses to take charge of the rear. After Zhu Yousong's brigade had all retreated, his 1 horses would leave.

Zhu Yousong ordered the three groups of retreating troops to put out their torches, and under the night, countless troops were winding like giant dragons.

Zhu Yousong's team didn't know how far they had gone. There was a faint cry of killing from behind. Mr. Zhu immediately ordered the team to stop and start an ambush. Since he had checked the terrain in advance, this area is mainly low mountains It is a hilly basin, so it is easy to ambush tens of thousands of horses.

Except for a team that drove grain, grass, carts, etc. into the mountain ring in front, the remaining more than 3 horses and horses were quickly ambushed on both sides of the road.

At this time, torches were shaking in the distance, and the sound of killing was approaching from far away.

(End of this chapter)