Chapter 513: Catch the Thief First Catch the King (1)
Outside the Guangxi Prefecture City, the sound of cannons rumbling and the shouts of killing were shocked.
The Qing Dynasty's Guangxi Admiral Guoan led Dingnanfan to more than 4,000 Han troops, the Fourth General Headquarters of the Green Camp and the Ming army in Guizhou to surrender more than 50,000 troops, and the Ming army in Guizhou were attacking Guangxi City, the Nanmen Gate of Kunming.
This Guangxi Prefecture and Guangxi Province have the same name as Guangxi Province, but it is one prefecture and one province. During the Yuan Dynasty, Guangxi Prefecture was renamed Guangxi Prefecture. In the 15th year of Hongwu, Guangxi Prefecture was renamed and was under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Chengxuan Government and Envoy. The prefecture under the jurisdiction of the government is divided into Shizong Prefecture, Maitreya Prefecture, and Vimalakirti. There is also a recruitment and patrol department. Shizong Prefecture, where Guangxi Prefecture is located, is located 120 miles south of Kunming, and is the gateway to the important town south of Kunming.
If Guangxi Prefecture is lost, there will be no more dangerous passes south of Kunming to block the Qing army. Therefore, in order to protect the safety of the court and the emperor, the Ming army in Guangxi fought to resist the Qing army to the death, and ordered the Ministry of State Security to stay at the city of Guangxi for four days. According to the combat plan originally formulated during the Yang Laobao military agreement, the Ministry of State Security should appear in the south of Kunming City at this moment, and jointly launched an attack on Kunming with the Qing army led by Zhao Butai, the Qing army led by the Manchu soldiers, Xin County Prince Doni, Roto and other troops led by Zhao Butai to join forces to launch an attack on Kunming.
Obviously, the progress of the Ministry of National Security in the Line was later than the original plan. This cannot be blamed on the Line Guoan, because the Ming army in Guangxi was too tenacious. For several days, the Ministry of National Security has been urging the various departments to take turns to attack the city. He built the camp outside the city and ordered the various departments to siege the city of Guangxi, so that it was incomplete.
Today, the left-wing general Quanjie was ordered to supervise the Guizhou surrendered soldiers to attack the city again. Less than half an hour after the battle began, hundreds of death-stricken soldiers selected from Guizhou surrendered soldiers took the lead in climbing to the head of Guangxi after half of the casualties. They pulled off the Ming army's flag on the city, causing the Qing army to cheer at the city.
All the Jie laughed loudly, thinking that there was hope of capturing the city. Unexpectedly, the general of the Ming army in the city, Qi Datong, the general under King Li Dingguo of Jin, immediately led his personal troops to counterattack after discovering that the Qing army had climbed the city.
Qi Datong followed the old emperor of Daxi to fight north and north in his early years. After joining the four kings into Yunnan, he participated in all the wars against the Qing Dynasty and was invincible. His personal soldiers were even more elite Daxi soldiers who were despised as "old thieves" by the Qing army. Under his strong counterattack, the Qing army that climbed the city was immediately dissuaded. After the reinforcements of the Ming army counterattacked, they were cut and killed. The rest were either jumped down the city by themselves, or they were lucky enough to escape to the top of the city before the Ming army came.
After defending this gap, the Ming army threw wood, earth, stone, and lime from the city, and used a fork rod to push the ladder up on the city wall. The Qing soldiers who were unavoidable under the city could only force the heavy objects falling from the sky, or were injured by mulch wood, and were killed by stones, or were choked by lime, and fell from the ladder. In an instant, there were wails under the city, killing and wounding. Seeing that the Ming army succeeded in counterattack, the Guizhou soldiers in front could not climb up again, and the morale of the army was also very depressed, he ordered the gold to withdraw the troops. After hearing the order to withdraw the troops, the Guizhou soldiers ran back desperately from under the city wall like a rabbit. The injured Qing army could run back by itself, and most of them could only lie under the city wall.
After more than a thousand heavy casualties, the Ming army finally defeated the Qing army's fifth attack.
Another failure to attack the Qing army was a little disappointed and discouraged. He looked at Quanjie who had retreated and shook his head. Quanjie didn't care. The left and right casualties were the Ming army who surrendered in Guizhou, and his direct troops were not killed or injured at all. So he was willing to fight this kind of battle. It would be good if he won, but it was not important to lose. After a few days of attack, the Ming army in Guangxi City also reached its limit. Today, Guizhou surrendered troops to the city and almost succeeded in proving that the Ming army in the city had no strength. Therefore, Quanjie believed that Guangxi City would definitely fall into the hands of the Qing Dynasty after attacking twice, so there was no need to be depressed for a loss.
However, when he came to the front of Xing Guoan, Quan Jie still apologized: "Admiral, the last general is incompetent, and he was defeated again this time!"
Xing Guoan nodded slightly, but did not say anything about Quanjie. Instead, he held a mirror and continued to watch the attacking troops retreating from the city wall. He was not angry at the failure of the siege on his face, but was very calm, and there was even a smile on his lips. This way, Quanjie couldn't help but feel at ease when he saw it, knowing that Xing Guoan would not punish him.
After looking at it for a while, Shi Guoan put down the Mile Mile Mile Mile, and said to the generals: "If you lose, you will be defeated. It's nothing to do, it's just a small setback. Can you still catch up with the old prince's battle in Guilin? You guys are just eager to win and pay too much attention to victory. You must know that victory and defeat are common among military strategists. Which general in this world only wins battles and does not defeat? Let's take it a little more. My supervisor takes it carefully. The Ming army in the city is at the end of his strength. When the troops are reorganized tomorrow, the city will eventually be destroyed."
The coach's words naturally made the disappointed generals rekindled their spirits, and the atmosphere changed, which was very active.
Quanjie looked at Guangxi City, but said, "Actually, it is not a bad thing for us to make progress slower, otherwise how could the court know our hard work? If we really have to go smoothly and fight to Kunming smoothly, Prince Xin and the court felt that our journey was too relaxed. Other troops would also say that we met weak enemies, which would not show our contribution."
"Yes, I agree with this. It's not our turn to Pingdian. We're just delaying this Guangxi City for two more days. The Zhu Ming court and the emperor are there in Kunming. Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan will definitely defend themselves. It will definitely be a bad battle if they fight. So we don't rush to be cannon fodder. When those families can't eat them, we will go again, which will also seem to be able to fight our Dingfan?"
The person who spoke was Wang Enzeng, who was born in Dingfan and was now the general of Guilin. Most of the people standing here were generals from Dingnan fan, and those who were not from Dingfan were also his own direct lineage of Xing Guoan. There were no nobles in the Qing Dynasty, so the generals spoke a little more presumptuously.
Xing Guoan nodded slightly. Wang Enzeng said it was right. It was not a good thing to make progress too smoothly. At present, all the troops attacked Kunming together. The Ming army would definitely not let their court and emperor fall into the hands of the Qing army, so they would definitely protect Kunming to death. This battle would be 100% a bad battle. Among the several troops, only Xing Guoan and Wu Sangui were the Han army, but Wu Sangui was the King of Pingxi, so the people of Manzhou would most likely let him go to Kunming as cannon fodder, so it was actually not a bad thing to go to Kunming late. At least you don’t have to fall into the end of fighting for heavy losses but making wedding dresses for others.
Chapter completed!