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Chapter 684 Miao Village

Zhu Yousong was in Guilin, Guangxi. When the Ming army chased and wiped out Zhu Youlang and Sun Kewang, Zhu Yousong was traveling in mountains and rivers.

Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, Zhu Yousong doesn't have to worry too much about the battlefield now, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are too capable, two armies drove the false emperor Zhu Youlang from Guilin to Wuzhou, from Wuzhou to Nanning, from Nanning Then he went out of Guangxi to Yunnan.

Sun Kewang, Zhu Youlang and others were chased to the sky and had nowhere to go.When he learned that Zhu Youlang fled to Yunnan with less than 1 horses left, Zhu Yousong ordered Zhang Xianzhong and his army to continue chasing Zhu Youlang, and must kill Zhu Youlang, Sun Kewang and their party members. Captured, and transferred Li Zicheng's troops back.

Because he now knows that Zhu Youlang's demise is imminent, and there is no big storm to turn over, but the battle in Fuzhou, Guangdong is not over yet.He had just received a memorial from his nephew and uncle of the Zheng family. In this memorial, Zheng Hongkui first congratulated Zhu Yousong, congratulating him on his immediate success and swiftly quelling the bandit chaos in the Southwest. Relying entirely on His Majesty's supernatural power, it is really a blessing to Ming Dynasty, and then he reported on his journey of soldiers and horses.After more than two years of fighting by their uncles and nephews, it was generally smooth, and the troops of Tang Wang Zhu Yujian and Zheng Zhilong had been compressed to the coastal areas of Fujian and southeastern Guangdong.

Zhu Yousong was very happy after reading this good news. He put down the chaos in Guangdong and Fujian, and then took Lu Wang Zhu Yihai with him, and the whole Ming Dynasty was completely restored.

After thinking about it, he decreed to praise Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong, and let them make persistent efforts.In addition, here he let Li Zicheng's troops advance from Guangxi to the east, which is tantamount to attacking the flanks of Tang Wang and Zheng Zhilong, so as to reduce the pressure on Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong's frontal battlefield and accelerate the destruction of Zheng Zhilong's forces.

After Li Zicheng received the order, he didn't dare to neglect, so he immediately turned his guns and marched to Guangdong. The vanguard officer was still his cadre Zhang Huan.Now the ability of this ring is too great, not only is it good at archery, but also its sword skills have been greatly improved, thanks to Li Zicheng's guidance.The current Zhang Huan is singled out, no less than Li Dingguo.

Therefore, wherever you point to, you can fight wherever you can, and you can win every attack and win every battle.Li Zicheng's brigade arrived and solved the injustice of his vanguard battalion.

After Zhu Yousong was deployed, he waited to hear the good news of the three-way army horses. During this period, he took a dragon boat with his daughter and beauty and began to swim in the Lijiang River.

Now it is Zhang Xianzhong's men who are chasing and annihilating the remnants of Zhu Youlang in Yunnan, and Li Dingguo is the pioneer.

Knowing that Zhu Youlang and the others were taken in by the Miao Village, Li Dingguo reported to his adoptive father Zhang Xianzhong, and at the same time led the Pioneer Battalion straight into the Miao Village. The horse had to stop temporarily to find a place to set up camp.

Sending people to inquire, it is not the flood that caused the disaster at all, but the Miao people did it on purpose.A few days ago, they sent people to open the sluice upstream, and it was closed for several days at once. This time, it was opened all at once, which caused the river to overflow and flood.

So it was their plan?After hearing this, Li Dingguo didn't take it seriously. Why did these indigenous Miao people do this?Attempts to flood us will be impossible, the water will at best make this area a swamp, and it is autumn, the weather is so hot, and the flood recedes, the swamp will dry up soon, and then we can march again It's a war, can you stop the general's army?What a joke!

But Li Dingguo soon realized how powerful it was, and the conquest of the swamp became a nightmare for his vanguard camp.One night, Li Dingguo's battalion patrols suddenly heard something wrong, like thunder, but the sky was full of stars, so it couldn't be thunder. When they looked closely at the dark monsters coming from the ground, at first they thought It's an elephant, and it's not exactly an elephant until we get closer. There are also a large number of animals such as rhinos, hippos, zebras, and antelopes. There should be wolves, tigers, leopards, etc. among them, and they are coming to their camp.

How far away the war horses were already screaming in fright, some were so frightened that they urinate, some were frightened, some broke free from the reins, and ran wildly in the camp. These soldiers had never seen such a formation, so they hurriedly reported to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo was shocked when he heard the news. It wasn't Miao people and Sun Kewang's men, but a large herd of animals came to attack the camp?How could this be?
Before he had time to think about it, he quickly put on his clothes and took his soldiers outside the camp to see that these large groups of wild animals had already arrived at the gate of their camp, and some of them had already rushed in. The soldiers shot arrows at them, which angered them even more. Livestock, rampant, the camp has already begun to chaos.

Thousands of beasts rushed into the camp, trampling and biting, causing countless casualties of the Ming army.Many soldiers and war horses were either trampled to death or bitten to death as their delicious meal.

Li Dingguo saw that it was not good, who could deal with this thing, and quickly sent an order to retreat, but the entire camp was already in chaos. After they finally retreated for dozens of miles, the [-] Pioneer Battalion suffered heavy losses.

It was only later that Li Dingguo knew the reason. It turned out that after the Miao people released the water, they turned the whole area into a swamp, and then released a large number of crocodiles. The crocodiles are too fierce, and they like swamps, so their arrival drove all the wild animals here. These wild animals had to move back collectively, behind Li Dingguo's camp, this attack was caught off guard, and there was no warning in advance, so Li Dingguo's soldiers had no time to retreat, and some even shot arrows at them, which aroused even more Their wildness made Li Dingguo's camp mess up.

Li Dingguo was right in thinking that the swamp would dry up every few days, but the Miao people would release water every few days. This time Li Dingguo really had no choice but to stare and dare not approach, let alone pass here.

A few days later, Zhang Xianzhong's brigade arrived. After Li Dingguo reported to him, Zhang Xianzhong was also shocked. There was a lot of rain in autumn. How long would it be delayed? Could it be that the [-] troops were blocked here in the swamp?
In the end, Zhang Xianzhong discussed with Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Mu Tianbo and others, and decided to bombard them with cannons. Once the cannons sounded, these beasts would definitely not dare to come. It would be better to kill the crocodiles in the swamp and drive them away.

So fifty red-clothed cannons aimed at the swamp several miles away and opened fire.The bombardment lasted for more than half an hour, and the sound of the cannons rang out, causing water and grass to splash in all directions, and waves flying into the sky.

This trick really worked. The group of large beasts were blasted away, and some crocodiles in the swamp were also killed. But then the problem came, this cannon turned this small swamp into a big swamp.If men and horses want to pass, the boats can't go, and the war horses can't fly. They can only walk slowly. But there are still a certain number of crocodiles here. They hide in the deep-water swamp, and even cannons can't do anything to them. I had no choice but to report to His Majesty.

(End of this chapter)