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A broken soldier who came back from the opposite bank was being questioned by Li Dingguo: "How did General Ai lose?"

"I don't know." The rout soldier replied.

"Don't know?" Li Dingguo didn't understand.

Rout Bing explained: "At that time, I could see clearly that the enemy army was divided into three parts, and only the firecrackers were left in the front. General Ai told us to charge forward, and I rushed forward. I didn't know what was going on, so I charged Let’s fire the guns from the opposite side, and then the ones rushing to the front will be defeated. The enemy’s cavalry can also fire their guns, they are very close, and after a burst of gunfire, we will all be defeated.”

Li Dingguo knew how elite his soldiers were, and it was impossible for him to collapse after being shot. He thought carefully and asked, "How close is the opposite side to fire the gun? Is it thirty paces?"

The last time Sun Kewang suffered a disadvantage, the Datong Army fired their guns at thirty paces.

Qu Bing shook his head and said, "It's definitely not as far as thirty paces, maybe it's only twenty paces."

"Twenty steps..." Li Dingguo couldn't believe it.

The last time the two sides clashed, the Datong Army's 30-step firearm had already made it difficult for Sun Kewang to parry.

In just one year, the Datong Army has evolved again, can it be pulled closer to twenty steps before firing the gun?

Li Dingguo couldn't understand this, his soldiers were already the best in the world. Let these soldiers hold firecrackers, without the protection of melee soldiers, and fire them at a distance of 20 steps. I am afraid that if the enemy rushes within 30 steps, all the firecrackers will be scared and flee.

Forty steps, thirty steps, and twenty steps are nothing more than the difference between 60 meters, 45 meters, and 30 meters.

It seems that the gap is not big, but Li Dingguo knows very well how high the hit rate of the firecracker after shortening the distance is.

After this battle, Li Dingguo still had more than 60,000 infantry, thousands of cavalry, and thousands of cavalry across the river, and the rest were all peasants.

Moreover, Lieutenant General Ainengqi was captured, and the morale of the whole army plummeted.

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Continue to confront, continue to fill in the river, continue to build floating bridges.

During the confrontation between the two sides, many small boats suddenly rowed across the river.

On every boat, there were captured soldiers who shouted with iron horns: "Brothers, surrender quickly, we have already surrendered. The Datong Army does not kill prisoners, and treats them very well. They can eat three dry meals a day." Yes, see the meat once every two days. Don’t fight for Zhang Xianzhong anymore, vote for His Highness the King of Wu, everyone can share the fields, and the King of Wu will return the seeds and cattle. If you vote for the King of Wu, women and children will be hot every day!”

The continuous voices of persuasion made the people who filled the river and built the bridge stop and look around, showing longing for the content of the shouting.

Those soldiers who were closer to the river were also quite moved, but they suspected that it was a lie.

"Fire blunderbuss, shoot at the people on board!" Li Dingguo was afraid of shaking the morale of the army, so he quickly called in the only remaining blunderbuss soldiers.

The sentinel of the Datong Army on the shore, seeing clearly through the binoculars, hurriedly blew the horn to let the persuading surrender return by boat.

Anyway, in the next few days, Fei Ruhe sent someone to row a boat to persuade him to surrender as soon as he saw the gap.

It's a pity that Li Dingguo's cousin, Ma Siliang, successfully crossed the river with several thousand cavalry, and has been wandering behind the Datong army. These guys had no food, and they all relied on plundering in the countryside, which caused great harm to the farmers in Huoqiu County.

Lu Xiangguan and Chen Tangong led the dragoons and kept pestering the enemy cavalry, but they couldn't catch them at all.

As time went by, the river channel was filled to only about ten meters, and it was difficult to continue to advance the soil work.

The artillery set up and blasted fiercely, and after smashing the shield car, let the firecrackers shoot a salvo.

Even before the gunfire soldiers fired a volley, the civilian husband was defeated by the artillery.

Li Dingguo also has artillery, which shoots at each other every day.

The Datong Army has three regular divisions and 75 artillery pieces, while Li Dingguo has only 30 artillery pieces. The quality is also different, the Datong Army's artillery hits farther and is more accurate.

After a few days of shooting, Li Dingguo's artillery was destroyed 6 times. He was so frightened that he quickly withdrew the artillery, and immediately changed the artillery position after a round of fire.

"Great victory, great victory for our army!"

The messenger came galloping on horseback: "King Wu personally led the army to wipe out Zhang Xianzhong's infantry, and Zhang thief led the remnant soldiers to flee into the mountains!"

"Wow!"

"Long live King Wu!"

"Long live Mr. Zhao!"

"we won!"

The Datong Army began to shout excitedly, more and more people got the news, and tens of thousands of civilians were even more jubilant.

The change on the other side quickly attracted Li Dingguo's attention. He was about to send someone to investigate the situation, but Fei Ruhe had already sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender.

The mission officer Yang Jizong went by boat, and Li Dingguo told the soldiers not to attack.

After Yang Jizong came ashore, he was immediately tied up, escorted to Li Dingguo, and forced to kneel down in front of Li Dingguo.

Yang Jizong refused to kneel, and said sharply: "General Li, I am the emissary, if you want to insult me ​​like this, just kill me!"

Li Dingguo waved his hand to let the guards back down, and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Yang Jizong smiled and said: "Zhang Xianzhong's infantry has been destroyed. He only led a few thousand cavalry into the mountain, and the mountain pass was blocked and he couldn't get out. Do you want to continue to resist?"

Li Dingguo's face changed drastically: "Disturb our army's morale, kill this person!"

"The two armies are at war, and they actually cut them off? How narrow is General Li?" Yang Jizong sneered.

Li Dingguo frowned, and changed his words: "Let him go back, and shut his mouth!"

After Yang Jizong returned to the other side, Fei Ruhe sent his soldiers to continue shouting to persuade them to surrender by boat. It's just that the news of Zhang Xianzhong's defeat was added to the persuasion content this time, and Li Dingguo's soldiers were in shock.

...

Xi County.

Bai Wenxuan was still excited at the moment.

Ten days ago, he was flanked at Pingjingguan, and led tens of thousands of soldiers to surrender.

At that time, Bai Wenxuan only wanted to survive, but he didn't expect that Huang Yao asked him to choose five thousand elites to go out together and continue to lead troops to fight.

Moreover, Huang Yao only brought 5,000 soldiers, the same number as Bai Wenxuan's soldiers.

This is trust in yourself!

Zhao Tianwang... now he should be called Wu Wang, Wu Wang will definitely win the world. I am about to lead troops to defraud the city and completely block Li Dingguo's retreat. What a great contribution this is, maybe I can be the founding earl.

Bai Wenxuan led 5,000 troops, and Huang Yao led 5,000 people in disguise to follow.

The two jumped out of the Dabie Mountains from Pingjing Pass, crossed the Huai River, and headed for Zhecheng, Xi County from the rear.

Li Zheng, who is cautious, would never be able to do this kind of exciting gameplay, so Huang Yao dared to risk his life and go crazy. In case Bai Wenxuan suddenly turned his face, the whole army might be wiped out when he cheated the city.

The greater the risk, the greater the reward.

If it succeeds, Li Dingguo will not be able to go back. Not only blocked Li Dingguo's retreat channel, but also completed the siege ahead of time, putting Li Dingguo's army to death!

"Hurry up and open the city!"

Bai Wenxuan stood at the foot of the city and shouted.

The guard of Xixian County is called Jin Tongwu, and he is the number one general under Li Dingguo's command. He stayed here specially to guard the key city where Li Dingguo withdrew his troops. If Li Dingguo's food and grass were not enough, Jin Tongwu would also be responsible for arranging the delivery of food and grass.

Jin Tongwu stood on the tower with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "Why is General Bai here?"

Bai Wenxuan spoke half-truths and half-falsely: "Pingjingguan can't be moved, Wenxiu (Liu Wenxiu) stays there, and I will lead troops to reinforce Brother Dingguo. Quickly open the city, I haven't eaten anything hot all the way."

Jin Tongwu remained vigilant: "Why didn't General Bai come with food and grass?"

Bai Wenxuan said unhappily: "If I march with food and grass, I'm afraid the battle will be over by the time I get here."

Jin Tongwu always felt something was wrong, because Bai Wenxuan came too strangely.

But Bai Wenxuan is Zhang Xianzhong's favorite general, his status is second only to Si Yizi, and his military rank and prestige are higher than Jin Tongwu's.

After thinking about it, Jin Tongwu said: "General Bai, please set up camp outside the city, and we will arrange to provide food and grass at the end."

"Damn it, he came all the way, and the city won't let him in. I won't serve you anymore, so I'll go back and sleep with my mother in my arms!" Bai Wenxuan cursed and turned to leave.

Jin Tongwu really didn't dare to offend him to death, so he hurriedly shouted: "General Bai stays, and General Bai can bring twenty soldiers into the city."

Bai Wenxuan was afraid that Huang Yao would be angry, and also afraid that Huang Yao would suspect that he was going to betray him, so he subconsciously turned his head to look at Huang Yao.

Huang Yao whispered: "Don't look at me, promise him!"

Bai Wenxuan is also good at acting, and directly agreeing is not in line with his personality. He pointed to Jin Tongwu and said, "You damned, twenty is twenty if you say it? I'm going to bring a hundred people into the city!"

Jin Tongwu agreed: "Okay, General Bai will bring a hundred soldiers into the city. If you offend me today, please forgive me."

Bai Wenxuan sneered and said, "Speaking nicely, I must be scolding my cripple in my stomach!"

"Don't dare."

Jin Tongwu watched the 10,000 soldiers retreat beyond the moat, and finally ordered the gates to be opened.

Huang Yao followed Bai Wenxuan, pretending to be his personal guard, and came all the way, his face was so dirty that it was hard to recognize.

Bai Wenxuan walked in the city gate and shouted, "Get someone to boil hot water, I want to take a bath!"

The more arrogant Bai Wenxuan was, the more Jin Tongwu let his guard down.

Jin Tongwu went down to greet him personally, smiled and cupped his hands and said, "General Bai..."

"Do it!"

Huang Yao rushed over, knocked down the unsuspecting Jin Tongwu, and pressed the knife on the opponent's throat.

Bai Wenxuan led his troops to cut down Jin Tongwu's entourage, and shouted loudly: "Zhang Xianzhong is dead, follow me and surrender to King Wu!"

...

Behind Li Dingguo, soldiers rushed towards him in a boat.

"What's going on?" Li Dingguo asked.

The soldier panicked: "General Bai...Bai Wenxuan has defected to the enemy, leading troops to pretend to be Kaixi County, and our army's retreat has been blocked!"

Li Dingguo stood there dumbfounded.

After a long time, Li Dingguo came back to his senses, and his brain began to work rapidly.

Bai Wenxuan surrendered to Zhao Han, indicating that Huangzhou Mansion and De'an Mansion had been killed by the Datong Army.

The army selected by Bai Wen left the Dabie Mountains from Pingjing Pass, crossed the Huai River and went straight to Xi County. According to the estimated time based on the distance, Bai Wenxuan had surrendered at least seven or eight days ago.

According to the time of the victory report on the other side of the river, it shows that it only took about half a month for the Datong Army to destroy Huangzhou Mansion and De'an Mansion.

Sure enough, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, otherwise how could the Datong army attack the city so smoothly along the way?

At this moment, the guarding troops (farmers and soldiers) in Xinyang, Luoshan, Guangshan and other places are estimated to have assembled and surrounded them. And Li Dingguo's escape route was blocked by Bai Wenxuan, and the encirclement and annihilation battle would follow!

I can't fight anymore, I must find a way to break through.

But his cousin, Ma Siliang, was on the other side with thousands of cavalry, so he had to get the cavalry back first.

Li Dingguo sent people to smuggle in to pass the order, and just after sending them out, they rowed over from the other side.

This time it was Ainengqi who had only one arm left.

"Why is your left arm gone?" Li Dingguo asked with concern.

Ai Nengqi's face was pale, and he said with a wry smile: "I was shot by the fire, so I had to saw it off. The medical officers of the Datong Army are very skilled."

Li Dingguo asked again: "Are you also here to persuade him to surrender?"

Ai Nengqi sighed: "I am a useless person, it doesn't matter whether I surrender or not, and there is no need to persuade you to surrender. However, Zhao Han sent an order that if you surrender with your troops, your father (Zhang Xianzhong) will be saved from now on."

"How dare he save his father's life?" Li Dingguo sneered.

Ai Nengqi explained: "Zhao Han's intention is to exile his father to Dongfan (Taiwan) to fight against the barbarians on the island and help the Dongfan Han people develop their land."

Li Dingguo didn't even know that Taiwan Island existed, so he asked, "Where is Dongfan?"

Ainengqi shook his head: "I don't know, I heard it's similar to Qiongzhou."

"That's exile on the border." Li Dingguo sighed.

With a serious expression on his face, Ai Nengqi said seriously: "It is not easy to save one's life. Zhao Han's soldiers are invincible at all. I saw with my own eyes that day that two or three thousand firecrackers without friendly troops were killed by tens of thousands of soldiers. The man rushed to twenty paces before firing the gun. Brother, can you imagine that kind of scene? Three rows of guns rang out, and the soldiers under my command were shot through in person. In the area that was shot, only a thousand people were still standing, and the rest were all standing still. Fall to the ground!"

Li Dingguo said: "Their cavalry is useless."

Ai Nengqi said: "Zhao Han occupies several provinces, how can there be no cavalry all the time? Zhao Han is not a Ming government, and his father only has a few thousand horses left to enter the mountain. Even if he can go out of the mountain again, where else can he go? Come down and save your life." That's fine too."

Li Dingguo was silent for a long time, and finally said: "The way of retreat has been cut off, and the next step is to be surrounded from all sides. Forget it, it doesn't matter if I die, don't want to die with tens of thousands of soldiers. Surrender!"

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