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

Chapter 406
Chengdu is no longer the capital of Daxi.

Last year, in 1646, Zhang Xianzhong was tricked by Lin Yi and was lured out of Chengdu to the Junzhou area, where he was captured by Gao Guiying and Li Yan. Into death row.

Daxi lacks Zhang Xianzhong and has no leader, but his strength is still very strong.

After all, Zhang Xianzhong is as famous as Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi is not inferior to Li Zicheng's Dashun in terms of strength.

It’s just that Zhang Xianzhong was arrested, and there are tens of thousands of people under his command. There are many generals who are used to fighting. Lin Yi knows best that he can name a few casually. look less.

In order to disintegrate the remnants of Daxi's forces, Lin Yi strategized and used clever tactics, and ordered Li Dingguo to be skillfully released on the way Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo were escorted to the capital, allowing him to find a chance to escape seamlessly.

After Li Dingguo returned to Daxi, he fell out with Sun Kewang.

The emperor was arrested, the dragons in Daxi had no leader, and the remnants were divided into two factions. As the eldest son of the emperor, Sun Kewang, the country should not be left without a master for a day.But this was too blatant after all, so the cunning Sun Kewang didn't want to speak directly, but found a spokesperson, which was his confidant Ainengqi and others.

But Li Dingguo disagreed, because he saw Sun Kewang's ulterior ambitions. He advocated saving the father first, and then talking about the enthronement. The father is now in the hands of Daming, and they are busy with enthronement instead of rescue. , It is a big treason.As the second elder brother, he scolded the fourth younger brother Ainengqi.

Li Dingguo is strict in righteousness and righteousness, occupying the commanding heights of benevolence and morality, and has been supported by many people.

Sun Kewang's ascension to the throne was obviously selfish. Even if Zhang Xianzhong was rescued in the future, would he still be able to be emperor?This is something that a fool can think of with his toes, so who would believe that Sun Kewang would go all out to rescue Zhang Xianzhong after registration?
But the civil and military officials knew it clearly in their hearts, but many people dared not speak out, only Li Dingguo dared to speak.

Li Dingguo scolded Ai Nengqi in front of Wenwu. In fact, Li Dingguo was insinuating and pointing the finger at Sun Kewang.

Of course, Sun Kewang knew in his heart that his dream of enthroning was blocked, and he was ruthless to Li Dingguo.

In fact, the conflict between him and Li Dingguo has been going on for a long time, and Sun Kewang is cunning.

Zhang Xianzhong likes to accept godsons. Over the years, he has received promising sons. He doesn’t know how many godsons he has, but the most promising are four. Sun Kewang is the boss, Li Dingguo is the second, and the third is Liu Wenxiu , the fourth child is Ainengqi.

After the founding of Daxi, these four cadres were all crowned kings.But Sun Kewang is the king of kings, as the emperor's eldest son, this is his advantage over the three kings, and Sun Kewang is well-deserved in his thesis on martial arts and military exploits.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong added the rank of supervisor to him and asked him to exercise restraint in civil and military affairs. In this way, Sun Kewang became the number one official in the Daxi Group except Zhang Xianzhong, and the three kings including Li Dingguo had to be controlled by Sun Kewang.

However, Sun Kewang obviously felt some pressure in the past few years before and after the founding of Daxi, because of the rise of Li Dingguo.

In the past, Li Dingguo's nickname was Zhang Yu'er, and in Sun Kewang's eyes, he was a little boy, but later on, it was different. Li Dingguo became a young hero. He joined the army at the age of 10. Wan Dajun stands alone, and is highly valued and loved by Zhang Xianzhong.

Especially in the past two years, Li Dingguo has repeatedly made outstanding achievements, and was successively promoted by Zhang Xianzhong to be the general of Anxi and the king of Anxi.

Zhang Xianzhong's love for Li Dingguo caused Sun Kewang to have a grudge, and the two brothers have had a estrangement since then.

Li Dingguo's status has soared, and Li Dingguo is also good-looking, a handsome young man, while Sun Kewang looks like an earth jar.Li Dingguo is straightforward, cheerful, modest and gentlemanly.Sun Kewang is treacherous, so more and more people support Li Dingguo, and many people who used to be Sun Kewang also fall to Li Dingguo's side.

Sun Kewang was very annoyed, and felt that this Li Dingguo would be a threat to him sooner or later, so he secretly formed a clique to exclude Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo had long been aware of this and knew it well.

But with Zhang Xianzhong around, neither Sun Kewang nor Li Dingguo dared to go too far. Gaining the upper hand, the last two people fought directly. In terms of fighting immediately, Sun Kewang's two big chicken feet were no match for Li Dingguo's Fang Tianji.

The ruthless Sun Kewang later tricked Li Dingguo secretly, but Li Dingguo was not fooled by his superior plan, and the grievances between the two brothers deepened.

This time Li Dingguo fell ill in the military camp. Zhang Xianzhong personally took the imperial doctor and left Chengdu to visit Li Dingguo in the Junzhou camp thousands of miles away. up.

Unexpectedly, this time Zhang Xianzhong will never return, Li Dingguo is sick, and Gao Guiying, Li Yan and others came to vote. On the surface, he was in a hurry, but in fact, he had an element of gloating in his heart.

But now that something happened to Zhang Xianzhong, the conflict between the two couldn't be covered.Therefore, Li Dingguo narrowly escaped from the Ming army and finally returned to Chengdu from the Ming army's prison car, like a dragon returning to the sea, but Sun Kewang wanted to kill him when he met. contradiction.

Li Dingguo and Liu Wentu took some troops to occupy Yichang, and only Sun Kewang was left in Chengdu. Li Dingguo was driven away, and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were designated as rebels. Then Sun Kewang continued to plan to proclaim himself emperor in Chengdu.

But at this time, a large number of Ming troops arrived. The leader and supervisor was of course Gao Guiying, and the military advisor was Li Yan. The 20 million Ming troops were coming in menacingly.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to hit Chengdu, the cunning Sun Kewang thought of Li Dingguo, and felt that he had to unite with Li Dingguo to fight against the Ming army, so he personally wrote a letter and sent someone to Li Dingguo in Yichang to make an apology. , The brotherhood is vivid on the paper, Li Dingguo puts the overall situation first and sent troops regardless of previous suspicions. The two Western armies joined together, and the combination of the two brothers really made Gao Guiying and Li Yan lose the battle.

But the good times didn't last long. With the defeat of the Ming army, the conflict between Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo became sharp again. The two of them couldn't get together like sand and clay.

The reason was that they still had to discuss the next step. Sun Kewang was about to ascend the throne again, and Li Dingguo advocated continuing to march after the Ming army. The two factions would not back down.

However, in terms of strength, Sun Kewang is relatively strong. Sun Kewang has been Zhang Xianzhong's most trusted eldest son these years. Zhang Xianzhong had long regarded these four sons as his own sons.

Sun Kewang formed a faction, besides Ai Nengqi, he has 10,000+ followers, and his strength is very strong. Besides Liu Wenxiu, Li Dingguo now has more than [-] followers, so Daxi Jingshi City has become them A battleground between the two factions.

In a great battle, there will be casualties, and of course the power of the Great Western Army will be consumed.

At this moment, Gao Guiying and Li Yan led the Ming army to make a comeback and defeated the Daxi army in one fell swoop. This time even the Daxi army's old nest was lost.

After the two brothers split, their strength was greatly reduced, and they were not opponents of the Ming army at all. Gao Guiying and Li Yan won successively and drove the remnants of the Daxi army out of Sichuan.

In the end, Li Dingguo occupied Guizhou with a defeated army, still under the banner of Daxi, and wanted to fight Daming to the end to save Daxi and his father, Zhang Xianzhong. opportunity.

Sun Kewang ran into Yunnan with a defeated general, wanting to occupy Yunnan and entangle with the Ming army, but at that time Yunnan Wang Mutianbo refused to agree, and led tens of thousands of local chieftain troops to fight with Sun Kewang again, who knew that he was severely injured The old Sun Kewang couldn't even beat Mu Tianbo, and he was ashamed to join Li Dingguo again.

Sun Kewang had no choice but to drill into the mountains and forests, desperate. When he was on the verge of extinction, he suddenly received news that the Burmese king Mangda and Mangbai had also begun to fight for the throne. Supporting Mangbai, defeated Mangda and won the throne. After Mangbai succeeded to the throne, he fully supported Sun Kewang and faced Mu Tianbo again.

The king of Burma was dealing with it, and the lonely king of Yunnan, Mu Tianbo, felt that he was no match for Sun Kewang and the Burmese army, and the Ming army was too far behind. What's more important now is that the old master, Emperor Chongzhen, is no longer there. Five or six-year-old Pianpian, who has no real power, is said to be like a fool in the palace. He only knows how to read every day, and he voluntarily gave up his seat. Lin Yi became the supervisor of the country.

If there is nothing tricky about it, the prince does have brain problems. Can he rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty?It is obvious that the big names and powers are falling apart.

He didn't know what Lin Yi's attitude towards him, the king of Yunnan, was after all.

So after thinking about it, Mu Tianbo finally chose to compromise, and the two joined forces to conspire for a great cause. In this way, with the support of the Burmese army, Sun Kewang and Mu Tianbo occupied the entire Yunnan together.

But the two parties reached an agreement not to mention Daxi, but to play a new banner "Qingjun side", the goal is to point directly at Lin Yi, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty. They don't recognize this supervisor at all, saying that Lin Yi is bringing the prince to order the world. The country thief who stole the Ming Dynasty called on the people of insight in the world to crusade.

Needless to say, this banner has much more appeal than the banner of "Daxi". Those who don't know the truth, Lin Yi's opponents, and those who have feelings for Chongzhen rushed to vote. In just a few months, Sun Kewang Together with Mu Tianbo and the original troops, the total strength exceeds 20, which is a huge momentum.

Sun Kewang and Mu Tianbo were overjoyed, and immediately rushed out of Yunnan and into Sichuan.

At the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan, Sun Kewang's troops faced off against the Ming army led by Gao Guiying.

In a fight, both sides have casualties, and it is difficult to decide the outcome.The cunning Sun Kewang used tricks, he and Ai Nengqi led the troops to fortify the fortress here, and asked Mu Tianbo to lead a team across the mountains and ridges, circled to the side of the Ming army, and launched a surprise attack.

Now the Ming army was killed and defeated, and this defeat was unstoppable.

There are three reasons: one is that the army was defeated like a mountain, and the other is that Sun Kewang, Mu Tianbo, and Ai Nengqi are too brave and good at fighting, and there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals.

The third is the main one, because the team led by Gao Guiying and Li Yan is a motley crew.The total number is also 20 million, but it has a part of the Dashun army and more of the old army.

There are Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and so on.These people are all old warlords of the Ming Dynasty, and they are all thorns that Emperor Chongzhen can't hold back.

Now that Lin Yi is in charge of the country, they dare not disobey the court, but it is not an exaggeration for these people to gather together and say that they are a mob. They can only win battles. If they lose battles, they will be defeated. One runs fast.

Therefore, the defeat of the Ming army this time could not hold back its position.

Sun Kewang, Mu Tianbo and Ai Nengqi led an army of 20 and chased after them.

The Ming army retreated for more than 200 miles at once. In the end, Li Yan was quick-witted. Seeing that Sun Kewang's men were holding on, he set up an ambush during the retreat. sides of the road.

Sun Kewang's men were really fooled. When they got here, two ambush soldiers suddenly rushed out from the left and right sides, cutting his 20 army into three at once, and then Gao Guiying, Li Yan, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, and Li Laiheng , Tian Jianxiu, Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, etc. led their troops back to kill.

At this time, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and others had already run away with their troops. Gao Guiying and Li Yan sometimes couldn't command them, especially Gao Jie, because he had kidnapped Li Zicheng's wife. Wearing shoes, they are in harmony with Gao Guiying's appearance, and they have always been obedient and contradictory, and they are always on guard against Gao Guiying and Li Yan.

Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing are cowards, and they don't have a good impression of Lin Yi, so they all hang out with Gao Jie, which is tantamount to eating out of a big pot.

Although Sun Kewang's men were fooled, the three main generals including Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, and Mu Tianbo did not retreat, and the generals under him also fought desperately.

Therefore, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties. Zuo Liangyu and Huang Degong were both wounded by Mu Tianbo's copper hammer during the melee, and the two generals had to flee for their lives with their subordinates.

The Ming army was originally small, but in the end Gao Guiying and Li Yan really had no choice. The Generalissimo and the military adviser charged in person, Gao Guiying, Li Yan, Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Li Laiheng, Tian Jianxiu, eight members The generals joined forces to defeat Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi and Mu Tianbo.

The two sides withdrew their troops, and this time no one was chasing the other. This fierce battle lasted for three days and three nights, and both sides suffered tens of thousands of casualties.

The two sides entered a period of confrontation again, but a few months later, the Burmese elephant army suddenly appeared, and the Ming army's horses were frightened before the battle. Now the Ming army was defeated again, and was chased by Sun Kewang's men.

This time, the Ming army defeated Chengdu in one breath, which is equivalent to losing half of the province in the southwestern part of Sichuan.

Sun Kewang's men chased them to Chengdu and set up camp outside the city. Gao Guiying and Li Yan had no choice but to defeat the Xiang army, and they were afraid that Li Dingguo would strike them from the side.

Sun Kewang's men scolded and fought outside every day, and even fired several cannonballs at the top of the city. Gao Guiying and Li Yan never fought, and the morale of the Ming army was greatly reduced.

On this day, Sun Kewang's men were tossing around outside the city again, and Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, and Mu Tianbo sent their generals to lead a team to scold and fight outside the city every day. When they were tired of scolding, they set up wine and ate meat outside the city , but also punching orders.

What's even more exasperating is that they are full of food and drink, some fall asleep, some are still drunk, and some women who don't know where they are snatched, as military prostitutes, let them accompany the wine, cuddling in broad daylight Hugging, kissing and gnawing, and some were even more disgusting, defecating and urinating at the Ming army at the top of the city.

This is blatant contempt and provocation.

The guards on the top of the city reported inside.

Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Huang Degong all had fiery tempers, and they came to Gao Guiying and Li Yan to ask for orders to fight. They would rather die in battle than not be so useless, and fight with them.

Gao Guiying and Li Yan's faces were full of frustration, and they were also very angry, but as the coach and military adviser, they must put the overall situation at the top of their minds, and they should not be impulsive.

We can only persuade them with good words and let them endure for a while. No one is allowed to open the city to fight without authorization. Those who violate the order will do so according to the military law.If a general couldn't stand it any longer, he could close his eyes or plug his ears, and let Sun Kewang's men toss around as long as they didn't attack the city.

It was like this for more than ten days in a row, but the situation of these Ming troops was terrible.

The 10,000+ Ming soldiers in the city were all downcast, whether they were soldiers or generals, all of them were full of frustration.

Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Tian Jianxiu, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Zuo Liangyu, Li Chengdong, and other generals were all sighing and dejected.

Gao Guiying and Li Yan were also full of gloom. The two discussed privately. It's not a way to just do this. How can they break his elephant army?When will the court's rescue soldiers come?
Who can deal with the elephant army in Myanmar?I'm afraid only Lord Jian Guo will come in person, maybe there will be a way.But this is impossible.

Lord Jian Guo has been fighting outside the pass all year round. This time, Daqing vowed not to give up until he was destroyed. It is said that Dorgon and others have been driven to heaven and earth, and Shengjing City and Hetuala have been given to them. The Manchu Tartars ran into the primeval forests of Baishan Heishui and dared not come out.

Even if Master Jian Guo is triumphant class teacher, can he still recruit himself when he has so many opportunities to deal with every day?Zheng Zhilong, the king of Nan'an, is now also sentenced to chaos, which has spread to Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan and other places.Their army has already approached Nanjing along the Yangtze River, and the battle there is so tense that Master Lin must not come.

How can we deal with the elephant army in Myanmar?Here Sun Kewang is approaching the city, and there is Li Dingguo watching over there.Li Yan was also helpless.

Just at this moment, Lin Yi, the supervisor of the country, led the reinforcements. There were 10 horses with hundreds of cannons and countless camels. They were only three or four hundred miles away from here. You can enter the city within.

When Gao Guiying, Li Yan and the generals heard this, they found it unbelievable. After confirming that the reporter was not mistaken, they were overjoyed. All the soldiers in the city immediately regained their spirits when they heard the words.

(End of this chapter)