Aspiration

Chapter 192 Dodo fiasco
The war on the Western Front will solve the problem in one battle.This is the specific manifestation of Li Yanxiong's general talent.

Azig is now missing, and it is not clear whether he is dead or alive.

Li Yan turned his attention to the eastern front again. Duoduo concentrated his forces on the line from Bozhou to Xuzhou, and he basically put all his troops into it.He was different from Azig. Azig still had [-] to [-] troops remaining in the Xiangyang area, so Duoduo came out in full force, and the [-] Manchu, Mongolian, and Han troops marched northward together.He marched northward in three routes, the most elite of which was led by himself. He had to pass through Bozhou and then enter Henan and Shandong.

Originally, Shandong was the best passage to North China, but now that it was captured by Li Laiheng and Li Yan, this road has become very difficult.His intelligence system told him that Li Yan is a very powerful person. If this person is not dead and can be used by Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng probably will not fail, and the Manchus will not have the opportunity to enter the customs.Duo ErGun is very critical, he ordered Duo Duo to attack north, Duo Duo naturally had to obey.Of course he knew that it would be difficult to get through the route of Shandong and Hebei, but he had no other choice and had to attack with all his strength.

Bozhou was captured without much effort, and Xuzhou was quickly captured, but further north, he felt very strenuous.He was very annoyed by the ambushes along the way. The thing called the pine cannon had already cost him more than 5000 people, and the enemy didn't even touch a hair on them.

The pine cannon was already a headache for Doduo, but starting today, he encountered a new type of weapon, land mines.

This is the first time I've seen a landmine. As I was walking, the ground suddenly exploded with "boom boom boom" and blood and flesh flew everywhere. It was really scary.

Of course, Li Laiheng did not manufacture landmines in the real sense. To manufacture real landmines, there were many difficulties that could not be overcome at that time. Therefore, the landmines Li Laiheng taught Li Yan and those craftsmen to make were very primitive, basically they still needed to be burnt by fuses. past.

Doduo really had a headache, thinking, this battle can't be fought.

It’s impossible not to fight, this is the way back, and if you don’t fight, you will die in the south.

Duoduo had no choice but to move forward. On this day, he lost troops all the way and finally reached Zaozhuang.

Zaozhuang is an important town that he must conquer. If he can't beat Zaozhuang, he can't pass Shandong.This is where Li Yan is heavily guarded.

Li Yan also just arrived yesterday. He cleaned up Azig, and now it's his turn to clean up Duoduo.

Li Yan intentionally gave up some areas in Anhui and closed the front line. He concentrated his forces in the Zaozhuang area, and quickly defeated the main force of Duoduo.

Li Yan was determined to completely defeat Duoduo's main force, so he worked hard on the Zaozhuang battlefield.One is that in terms of military strength, he mobilized more than [-] elite soldiers, which is slightly superior, but if the people guarding the city are added, it will far exceed Duoduo.On the city wall, most of the soldiers defending the city are young and middle-aged people, while elite soldiers lie in wait inside and outside the city, ready to attack and kill the enemy at any time.The second is that Li Yan's tactics this time are still based on hot weapons, which is an absolute advantage. If you don't make good use of this weapon, you will be sorry for the hard work of the skilled craftsmen in the past few months.The new weapons he prepared are cannons, which are made of iron and wood, and landmines. There is a kind of landmine that has not been opened yet. A catty of explosives, plus a large number of nails and iron pieces, once it explodes, the sound of "boom" not only shocks people to death, but also people within a dozen battles around will be blown to pieces.

This thing is the new weapon against Duoduo this time.Li Yan's troops had already been buried on the battlefield, and as long as Duoduo arranged people on the battlefield, and he gave an order, a large number of enemies would be blown up and howling.

Li Yan knew that Duoduo was all the cards in Dorgon's hand. If Duoduo was beaten to the ground, several provinces across China were under his control. Li Laiheng developed to the north, and Li Yan developed to the south. Well, it won't take long for most of China to settle down. At that time, Li Laiheng will be the emperor of the country. Presumably, there will not be many difficulties. At that time, a truly powerful dynasty may be established again.

Although Duduo's army is attacking from three directions, but Duduo's main force is in the middle, and after destroying this army, the others are basically nothing to worry about.

Li Yan stood on the city wall and watched Duoduo's formation. It was basically the basic tactics of the Qing Dynasty. The infantry and cavalry were all placed in attack positions, and there was no reserve team to stay. Once the battle started, they would attack with all their strength.Now Zaozhuang is surrounded by Duoduo people.Li Yan hoped that they would surround him tightly, preferably without leaving a single gap.Because, Li Yan basically arranged murderous things on every seat.

Duoduo arranged the attacking troops according to Li Yan's expectation.He began to beat the drums and began to shrink the encirclement. Their shieldmen and archers were the first echelon, followed by laddermen and axemen.Just when they were within a stone's throw away, the first wave of counterattacks on the city wall began, and ten thousand crossbows were fired.

Duoduo had seen a powerful crossbow, but he had never seen this kind of powerful crossbow, and many of his men were killed or injured.But Duoduo didn't frown, because he saw a lot of dead people.He commanded the army to charge.

"Boom boom boom" the second wave of counterattack artillery fire.Thousands of cannons fired at the city wall are of course an exaggeration, but there are still thousands of cannons.A large number of Duduo people fell down.

retreat.

There was no other way but to retreat temporarily.

However, suddenly the mountains shook, and a large number of "landmines" exploded violently farther from the city.

Outside the city of Zaozhuang, flames shot up into the sky.

The enemy is broken.

"Kill!" Li Yan ordered softly to the players.

A large banner was unfurled, and then, the banners of the four city gates were all unfurled.This is the signal for an all-out attack.

More than [-] troops poured out from the four city gates, and they rushed into the remaining enemy troops without any resistance, hacking and killing.When the people guarding the city saw this scene, they took up their swords and sticks one after another, and went after the enemy.

The pursuit of the enemy was so thorough that no one came back until three days later, and the pursuit continued.

After counting the results of the battle, 5 enemies were beheaded, and the Duduo army in the middle was almost wiped out.

It's a pity that the main general Duoduo ran away again.

All the generals sighed, it's a pity that Azig was not caught, and Duoduo was not caught.Someone complained in their hearts, why didn't they plan to capture the chief general?
Li Yan smiled lightly.

Why didn't he have a plan to capture or kill the enemy's chief general?He had already thought about it, Azig and Duoduo couldn't die too early, he had to keep them.

It is useful to keep them.

Li Yan's meticulous thinking is few people can compare with.What he thought of was not killing a few enemies, nor winning a few battles, but thinking about the whole thing.People who shouldn't step down prematurely have to stay on the stage, and it's boring without a few good roles.

Of course, this is not Li Yan's plan alone. It was formed after a long discussion between Li Laiheng and Li Yan. Among them, Hao Yaoqi also made a lot of contributions.

Li Yan didn't attack south anymore, he didn't chase Azig and Duoduo fiercely, he let them breathe, now it's Li Laiheng's turn to sing.

(End of this chapter)