Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 253 The Sword Points at Xiangyang
Li Dingguo suffered a heavy defeat for the first time in his life. The halberd in his hand disappeared with one move, and the four-edged silver mace behind his back became a useless thing, and the bow and arrow failed to hit him.Especially the last arrow, which was shot down by Ji Dong with an arrow again.

If Ji Dong's arrow to save Hao Yaoqi just now belonged to a blind cat catching a dead mouse, then this arrow can no longer be explained by coincidence.

There is a saying that disobedience is a crime. Li Dingguo is completely convinced now. There are people beyond others, and there is a sky beyond the sky. Compared with Lin Yi in front of him, his martial arts are far behind. In this case, Li Dingguo, who is self-aware, has no choice but to flee.

Now it has become the officers and soldiers chasing bandits again. Outside Suizhou City, in the land of Jingchu, first Hao Yaoqi chased the bandits headed by Ma Huihui, then the bandits headed by Li Dingguo chased Hao Yaoqi, and now Linyi is the leader again. The officers and soldiers chasing the thieves repeated three times in one day, which is called a tug of war.

Fighting until dark, Lin Yi's men chased them for more than 20 li before they were captured.

After defeating Gezuo Fifth Battalion and Li Dingguo's men in a row, Lin Yi won the first battle and won a lot of spoils.

After this battle, Ji Dong's archery skills were well-known in the army, and privately gave him a good name - General of the Arrow.

Xiaoying clamored for Lin Yi to teach him the art of archery. She and Zhe Zhe's three hundred female battalion generals had already regarded Lin Yi as the male god they worshiped in their hearts.

Two days later, Ji Dong's men captured Yicheng again with an unstoppable force.

Zhang Xianzhong's men suffered successive defeats, the Gezuo Fifth Battalion, which had returned from old age, actually only had the third Battalion left, and Li Dingguo and Li Dingguo were successively defeated back to Xiangyang City.

At this time, the three generals who cooperated with Lin Yi to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong's troops, including Zhu Dadian, the general soldier of Nanjing, David Hu Dawei, the general soldier of Baoding, and Yuan Shu, the soldier of Henan Daliang, were ordered by Yang Sichang to drive more than 2 troops from Henan to Zao Yang area.

At the same time, Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, were the governors of the Ministry of War. Zheng Chongjian and the new governor of Sichuan, Ding Qirui, took Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong out of Sichuan to pursue Zhang Xianzhong. .

During Lin Yi's military training, there were frequent personnel changes in the imperial court. The original governor of Sichuan, Shao Jiechun, had been double-regulated by the Chongzhen Emperor due to his defeat in the army. Ding Qirui was replaced as the governor of Sichuan, and Wang Qiaonian was appointed as the governor of Shaanxi. Unexpectedly, Wang Qiaonian had just taken office. Then he received Fu Zonglong's order to go south to suppress the thieves, and died in Xiangyang in Xuanzhan.

Once Wang Qiaonian died, Fu Zonglong couldn't sit still anymore, and he and Yang Wenyue personally marched out of Tongguan to the south, pointing their sword at Xiangyang.

Over there, the great eunuch Lu Jiude brought Huang Degong and Huguang's soldiers and horses to Changsha.The encirclement and suppression of the Xiangyang area by several groups of government troops has become very obvious.

Zhang Xianzhong, who has just been out of Sichuan for a few months and has just gained a firm foothold in Xiangyang, can't sit still now.

The good situation just now is facing severe challenges.

In Sichuan, faced with heavy encirclement and suppression by the government and the army, they suffered consecutive defeats and fell into a situation of passive beating.

Zhang Xianzhong adopted the policy of mobile warfare, giving full play to the nature of the thieves, so that the thieves could flow 300 miles a day, and the officers and soldiers were dragged to exhaustion.

Especially after leaving Sichuan, they went all the way like a broken bamboo, and the situation was very good, but the good times didn't last long. Outside Suizhou City, within a day, Gezuo Fifth Battalion and Li Dingguo suffered disastrous defeats one after another.

Of course Zhang Xianzhong knew Lao Huihui's strength, and even more how capable his second godson Li Dingguo was, but they suffered disastrous defeats one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong was not calm anymore, and there was a shock inside him. It seemed that Lin Yi was indeed too difficult to deal with. No wonder Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others fell into his hands one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to underestimate the enemy at all, and immediately called a military meeting of high-level generals.

Zhang Xianzhong sat on the grand teacher's chair, and the generals on both sides stood up.The four godsons have all come, as well as the general Bai Wenxuan, and Zhang Xianzhong now has counselors, the most famous of which are Xu Yixian and Pan Duao. In addition, Ma Shouying, the old Huihui from the fifth battalion of Gezuo, He Jin, the king of Zuojin, and Liu Xiyao, the reincarnated king, They are also sitting.Zhang Xianzhong now has a lot of talents under his command.

Faced with the encirclement and suppression by several routes of government troops, and the successive failures of Hegezuo Fifth Battalion and Li Dingguo, Lin Yi, Zhang Xianzhong and everyone who are about to overwhelm the powerful enemy of the city, study countermeasures.

Zhang Xianzhong's counselor, Pan Duao, advised Zhang Xianzhong to give up Xiangyang and go south to take Yichang and Jingzhou. With the help of the natural danger of the Yangtze River, he could go to the south of the Yangtze River and return to Sichuan, the land of abundance. .

Zhang Xianzhong nodded and agreed to the plan, but this strategy was at odds with old Hui Ma Shouying.

Ma Shouying believes that it is right to abandon Xiangyang, but they should not go to the south of the Yangtze River, but should go to Henan and Shanxi to deal with the officers and soldiers. His reason is that although Yichang and Jingzhou are strategic cities and there is a natural moat on the Yangtze River, the army of the faint king Gathering, they are still besieged on all sides, and it is difficult to get out of the predicament.

They should go north. Although Li Zicheng is now wiped out, the officers and troops in Henan have also been transferred to the front line of encirclement and suppression in Sichuan and Huguang. Now Henan and Shanxi are bound to be empty. develop.

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while, compared the two plans, and still agreed with the plan of his adviser Pan Duao, and let Ma Huihui take the lead, leading the troops to the southeast to capture Chengtian Mansion and Zhongxiang City in Hubei Province, and then The soldiers took Jingzhou.

Old Huihui kept his face on the surface. A few days later, he led more than 1 men under him, including Zuojin King He Jin and Changed King Liu Xiyao, to break away from Zhang Xianzhong and march northward.

In the area of ​​Zaoyang, Ma Huihui's men and horses met the commander-in-chief of the Three Routes. These were Zhu Dadian, David Hu and Yuan Shu.

A fierce battle was launched in the area of ​​Zaoyang. The old man returned to Ma Shouying to lure the enemy to go deep. Just as these officers and soldiers were competing to cut off the heads of the dead thieves to report their military exploits, Ma Huihui led three battalions of troops and killed a Back to the carbine.

The commander-in-chief of the Three Routes suddenly fell into chaos and was defeated. Ma Huihui's men broke through the encirclement of the officers and troops and entered Nanyang again...

The commander-in-chief of the three routes asked Lin Yi for help, and Lin Yi didn't bother to answer them. After the victory, he didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue it, but instead fought for military exploits. It's no wonder that such short-sighted people don't lose battles!

Lin Yi was ashamed to be with them, so he sent troops to Yichuan City, and the soldiers pointed directly at Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is now Zhang Xianzhong's temporary lair.

When news of Ma Huihui's defection arrived in Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong was furious, "You son of a bitch, if I knew this, I should have killed them!"

Zhang Xianzhong may have stayed in Sichuan for a long time, and now he has learned some Sichuan dialect.

However, the current situation forced him to take measures as soon as possible, otherwise he might fall into the siege of the government and army again.

He immediately sent his capable general, Sun Kewang, who is also the leader of his godsons, to lead 2 elite soldiers, let him go out of Xiangyang to capture Chengtian Mansion, and then attack Jingzhou Mansion as a vanguard.At the same time, Liu Wenxiu, who is also the third son among his godsons and is familiar with water warfare, was sent to lead 2 elite soldiers to capture Yichang.

Zhang Xianzhong himself commanded more than [-] troops in the Central Army, and took his fourth-ranked godson Ai Nengqi and general Bai Wenxuan and others to Xiangyang as the main backup. They would support whichever army in Jingzhou and Yichang could not be captured. People and horses.

Then Li Dingguo was left to guard Xiangyang City, and he was given 3 soldiers and horses. He was asked to hold back the officers and soldiers first. After Zhang Xianzhong's two soldiers and horses took Yichang and Jingzhou, Li Dingguo was allowed to escape the golden cicada and retreat to the Yangtze River. .

After the soldiers and horses were distributed, the troops from all walks of life prepared immediately, and two days later, the three armies set off one after another.Only Li Dingguo's 3 horses remained in Xiangyang City.

Just a few days after Zhang Xianzhong and the others left, Lin Yi's army reached the outside of Xiangyang City.

Li Dingguo ordered his soldiers and horses to stick to the city and not to fight.

Lin Yi's men were fighting against the enemy outside the city, but the four gates of Xiangyang City were closed and they ignored them.

Ji Dong didn't rush to attack the city, but set up camp ten miles outside the city.He knew that Xiangyang was an important military town, which had always been contested by military strategists, and the defender of the city was Li Dingguo, a famous general. The next battle would definitely be a tough one, so he had to plan carefully.Regardless of the former, Li Dingguo failed, and he must not be underestimated. If he wants to storm Xiangyang, he must wait for the artillery battalion to arrive.

(End of this chapter)