Aspiration

Chapter 186 Capture the Iron City
As soon as this announcement was announced, discussions started quickly. It turned out that Niu Jinxing was the one who harmed us. No wonder, we Shaanxi people don’t like our Shaanxi emperor. It’s all bad things done by this guy on purpose.

Hao Yaoqi's move really made a great contribution, and played a key role in stabilizing Shaanxi later.

Li Laiheng's guards returned to Shandong. He handed over most of his troops to Li Yan to deploy defenses on important passes and cities, while he himself only brought more than 3 of his original cavalry divisions, mountain warfare divisions, and fortification divisions as maneuvers and troops. Attacking troops, he is now attacking Hebei.

Dorgon couldn't sit still, he didn't expect that a front army of Li Zicheng would be so strong.

Let Azig and Dodo retreat?Dorgon really didn't want to do this. They dealt with Li Zicheng and Nanming's army very easily. Let them come back, and the remnants of Nanming and Li Zicheng would grow up again, and the grand plan of conquering China would be abandoned halfway.For a strategist, this situation is absolutely undesirable.

Or do it yourself!
After thinking for half a month, Dorgon decided to defeat Li Laiheng by himself.Under the staff of Hong Chengchou and Fan Wentong, he formulated a set of strategic plans to attack Shandong and Henan.

50 troops gathered near Beijing from inside and outside the pass, and they were preparing to march south.Dorgon informed Azig and Duoduo that they would each prepare one-third of their troops to attack northward. Even if they could not break Li Yan's blockade, they could at least lead Li Yan's reinforcements.

And he himself led an army of 50, which was almost the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and pressed southward.

He urgently recruited troops from Shengjing and Mongolia, and managed to gather 50 people, of which 30 were used for combat, and the rest were logistics and logistics troops.

With such a powerful army, 20 horses are enough to deal with Li Laiheng.

Li Laiheng's 20 troops are distributed in three or four provinces, and the troops are scattered. The army that is really used to attack cities and land, apart from Hao Yaoqi's [-] troops, is Li Laiheng's [-] troops.

To attack Dorgon, Li Laiheng had a bold idea. He planned to use only his [-] troops to attack Dorgon, and the other troops would only serve as defenders.Li Laiheng thought for a long time and felt that only this method could defeat Dorgon.

His basic strategy is to "lure the enemy to go deep and defeat each one!"

Li Laiheng knew this kind of tactics by heart.

Dorgon's troops have not started to move yet, they are still gathering near Beijing, and Li Laiheng has already entered the attack state.

The first target he aimed at was Huang Rengui's troops. He guarded the iron town of Wuqiao in Shandong, which is the first critical pass into Hebei.Huang Rengui was originally the commander-in-chief of Hebei, and once surrendered to Li Zicheng. After Li Zicheng's defeat in Shanhaiguan, he and other old officials of the Ming Dynasty turned against each other. After Wu Sangui persuaded them, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Huang Rengui now has [-] soldiers, and he belongs to the more powerful category among the surrendered generals of the Ming Dynasty.Now, he is in charge of the garrison around Wu County, among which Tiecheng Town is an important pass for him to garrison.

To open the gateway to Hebei, Li Laiheng is going to bet all his 3 horses. Here, he doesn't want to fight for a long time. He must take it for a day at most.

For Huang Rengui, who is capricious, Li Zicheng is not prepared to be soft. He wants to let those traitors know the price of betrayal.

Tiecheng Town, as its name suggests, has always been considered as a fortress that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It runs north-south to a long canyon, with a slightly wider middle, where the original county seat was set up.However, due to the limited terrain, it was not conducive to development. Later, the location of the county seat was moved to the north for several kilometers, and the iron city was abandoned and used purely as a pass.

Huang Rengui knew that it was not easy to be a Manchurian subordinate, and if something went wrong, he would not be able to do the job, so he set up the headquarters in Tiecheng Town, personally guarding Tiecheng Town, and only set up a camp in the county.

He built several checkpoints in the narrow and long valley to the south, and pedestrians must be strictly checked.The elderly, children, and women can move freely, while young and middle-aged men, even if they are authentic locals, are often captured as spies or do coolies for them.

Therefore, Huang Rengui's defensive work is still very good.

Li Laiheng sent a small team to sneak into Tiecheng. If there are too many people, it will definitely not work. Tiecheng is not big, so it is easy to target if there are too many people.

The combat power of the mountain warriors can be brought into full play this time.Gu Ying led his [-] mountain warriors striding like flying from both sides of the canyon, and quickly knocked down the checkpoints in the canyon condescendingly. When they attacked the iron city, it took only three hours, walking as usual The speed is not much different.

Huang Rengui hadn't gotten the news that the checkpoint was captured in Tiecheng, and he was still very relaxed watching the defense preparations on the city wall.He was startled when he found a large number of infantry suddenly appearing at the mouth of the southern canyon.

Where is this army from?

Fortunately, Huang Rengui was a veteran in the battlefield. Seeing that the situation was not right, he quickly ordered the soldiers to close the city gate and all guards went to the city. Otherwise, he would be taken away if he had no chance to defend the city.

Huang Rengui ordered the city gate to be closed, and strange things happened, but no one at the south gate listened to him.

"Why don't you close the city gate?" Huang Rengui roared.

"Report to the general, the city gate is gone."

"What? Why is the city gate gone?"

Huang Rengui hurriedly led his troops down to look, not to mention, the city gate was really gone.A huge city gate door page fell to the ground.Obviously, the gate of the city has been tampered with and damaged.

"Quick! Quick! Fix the city gate quickly." If there is no city gate, what kind of city is there to defend?Huang Rengui knew that the big thing was not good, and thought to himself, I'm afraid I can't hold this iron city today.

If you can't hold the iron city, you will lose your head.The regent of the Qing Dynasty gave him such an important task, and let the enemy take the fort so easily, no one can afford such a crime.Therefore, Huang Rengui transferred a large number of troops to the south of the city. Even if he used the tactics of crowds, he must defend the iron city.

However, after he was busy for a while, he discovered a strange thing. Just now, more than 1 enemy troops were scattered on the mountains around the iron city. There were only less than 1000 cavalry at the south gate of the city, standing there quietly. There was no intention of attacking at all.

What did the group of soldiers do just now?
Gu Kecheng led his mountain warriors across the Iron City and headed north.Standing outside the city gate were Li Laiheng's [-] elite troops. Less than five miles behind them, Gu Ying's attacking division had already arrived.Huang Rengui has become the turtle in the urn.

Huang Rengui didn't know that he had no way to escape, so he said to Xiao Xiao, the deputy commander: "I don't know what the enemy is up to. There are not many enemies in front, less than a thousand. You go and kill them."

"General, I'm afraid it won't work."

"Why not?"

"The person in front seems to be Li Laiheng."

Huang Rengui was stunned.

Li Laiheng, a name I have heard a long time ago, I have never met in the past, and I thought I would never meet, but unexpectedly, now I really have to face it.

"Is he Li Laiheng?"

"I think so."

After being silent for a long time, Huang Rengui still tried to get away with it, he said: "Who dares to give it a try? Let him go for a while."

No one answered.

"I reward him with 1 taels of silver."

Still no answer.What is the use of 1 taels of silver when the head is lost?

"Huh? They're all cowards! You usually brag about how heroic you are, but now, why have you turned into a bear?"

"General, there's no way you can't be a bear in front of Li Laiheng."

When Huang Rengui was about to collapse, someone said in a low voice, "General, let me come. What's so scary about Li Laiheng, isn't he just a little boy?"

The big man covered in body odor raised his sword, "Follow me!" Three thousand soldiers followed him tremblingly out of the city gate.

"Weng Qing, you single-handedly killed this reckless man!" Li Laiheng said to Weng Qing beside him.

"Okay!" Weng Qing replied easily.As soon as the voice fell, he had rushed out more than two feet away.

When the enemy general saw a young general rushing out of Li Laiheng's team, he was a little bit scared just now, but now he is gone. What's so scary about being alone?
Huang Rengui's general led his troops to hide and kill him.However, he didn't realize that the so-called leading soldiers actually didn't have a single soldier following him, and he was alone.

A fight.In other words, there was no time to fight at all, and Weng Qing's sharp knife had already completed all the moves.Of Huang Rengui's partial general, only the body below the neck is still on the horse.

The people on the wall were stunned.

The generals who lined up outside the city gate were stunned for a moment, then they were stunned, and when they recovered, they all turned around and went inside the city gate, trampling each other chaotically.

Li Laiheng had no intention of chasing into the city gate at all, it seemed that in his eyes the city gate did not exist at all.

After Huang Rengui and others woke up, they thought of surrendering.

"Flag sign, surrender." Under the instigation of counselors, Huang Rengui finally decided to surrender.However, after the semaphore was played, the answer to them was: "I don't agree."

disagree?Can you disagree with surrender?Did you read it wrong?

"Please again!" Huang Rengui ordered anxiously.

"No!"

"Ask again!"

Still not allowed.

Huang Rengui is confused, what kind of world is this, is it not enough to surrender?

"Ask why?" Huang Rengui said.

Li Laiheng's answer is that we only need the head of Huang Rengui, and the others can surrender.

Huang Rengui was terrified. He turned his head, worried that someone would kill him.

What he saw was that all the eyes were gloomy, and the people around him were all staring at him, and the reason for staring at him was to kill him.

Only by killing him can others survive.

Huang Rengui understood.

Iron City won without a fight.Wu County won without a fight.Li Laiheng has the first pass in Hebei, and he has opened a door to Beijing.

Li Yan's follow-up troops quickly took over Li Laiheng's defense in Tiecheng.Li Laiheng led his [-] elite troops to continue north. He predicted that he might meet Dorgon's army near Cangzhou.

Thirty thousand versus 30, the power gap is too great, but it is not an inevitable outcome.When Liu Bang's 30 troops marched into the capital of Chu, wasn't it defeated by Xiang Yu's [-] elite troops?Liu Bang threw his son and daughter out of the car several times, and he almost became a prisoner.

Li Laiheng didn't plan to be a hero, he planned to maneuver quickly in the North China Plain to severely knock down Dorgon's morale.

Fighting on plains is the strength of cavalry.However, two-thirds of Li Laiheng's troops were infantry, so the battle on the North China Plain was destined to be a tough one.

Fifty miles east of Cangzhou, the two strikers of Li Laiheng and Dorgon met.The forward used by Li Laiheng was not ordinary cavalry, but half of his eight hundred elites, led by Weng Qing.

When Weng Qing met the forward of the Qing army, he completely wiped out Dorgon's five hundred outposts without any suspense, leaving none left.Therefore, when Weng Qing rushed into the enemy's regular front army, the enemy thought it was his outpost returning.

It's unreasonable to come back from the outpost, they can't let the main force be in front of the enemy's forward, so the general who leads the team scolded, why don't you go to the front to check out the sentry?
The enemy's front army had about two thousand light cavalry, and Weng Qing looked around at his four hundred elite.Li Laiheng once said to him, when you encounter an enemy, you make your own decisions. Opportunities on the battlefield are fleeting. In many cases, opportunities are hard to come by, so I give you the right to act on the fly.

Four hundred elites annihilated the enemy's two thousand cavalry and won, no problem.It's definitely not easy to wipe out.Weng Qing decided to try.

"kill!"

Before the enemy could figure out whether it was the enemy or us, Weng Qing roared in a low voice.

Four hundred good horses rushed towards the enemy like arrows.The enemy is confused.They were not ready for the fight.

Of course, if they meet other people, they can quickly adjust even if they get confused.However, today they never dreamed that they would encounter Li Laiheng's elite as soon as they took over the battle. Therefore, two thousand cavalry were rushed by Weng Qing's soldiers, and there was no way to form a formation at all.

Formed Weng Qing fought against the chaotic Qing soldiers. Weng Qing quickly changed from beating the crowd with the few to beating the few with the many. In the end, this group of geniuses who were good at killing soon felt unsatisfactory. Eliminate the enemy's formal forwards.

There is an advantage to fighting on the plains. If you can see everything at a glance, if you kill everything, then you will really kill everything.

In front, is the enemy's main force.Weng Qing thought, when the main force came up, the enemy's total strength along the way was 5, and his 400 men could not stop him. He had to wait for Li Laiheng's main force to arrive before moving forward.

After a few hours, Li Laiheng's large army arrived. He, Lao Jiu and others finalized the information, and then called Gu Ying, Gu Kecheng and others to discuss, and they formulated a basic strategy.

Gu Kecheng's mountain division was in ambush on the small rocky plateau on the east side.There is a lot of rocks there, and the hillside is not high, but there are many rocks within a few miles around, which is not conducive to the actions of the cavalry.

Gu Ying's fortified division is on the front. This is a typical loess land. Digging pits and blowing sand are his specialties.

Wang Hu and Luo Si followed Li Laiheng to challenge.The battles that can be won will be fought, and those who have difficulties can retreat. There are 2 people waiting here.

After settling down in this way, Li Laiheng, who had rushed thousands of miles away, became a teacher who waited for work with leisure. Now Gu Kecheng and Gu Ying can eat, drink, and sleep on the spot, and their spirits will be fully nourished when the enemy comes.

(End of this chapter)