Chongzhen Undergraduates

The regiment leader who led the troops was calm, knowing that he did not dare to act rashly when he encountered the main force of the Zhou army, so he could only ask for help.

Li Dingguo's frontline headquarters has been moved eighty miles away, and it will take half a day to hurry up.What Li Dingguo had to worry about was the whole chess game, and Xinyang could only be regarded as the main battlefield.

At present, the main problem on this battlefield is not how to kill the enemy, but how to surround and kill the enemy.This is a tedious job with a lot to do and a tight schedule.

Li Dingguo was most afraid that Wu Sangui would immediately disperse and break through the siege. In this way, tens of thousands of Zhou's troops would be sent into the mountains, and they would not be able to catch them all by simply catching them.If tens of thousands of rout soldiers go to the plain from various mountain passes, they will probably be infested with bandits.

Breakthrough requires a direction, and siege naturally also needs to correspond to the focus of defense.

From the terrain point of view, the most likely direction for Wu Sangui to break through this time is to go back the same way, fight the Ming army, and break through the northern defense line.

But what Wu Sangui brings out is cavalry, and in this kind of valley, he can't give full play to the advantages of cavalry. Wu Sangui won't be stupid enough to play this with Ming army infantry on this kind of terrain.

Li Dingguo immediately set his sights to the east, because Dawu in the south had already become Zeguo, and there were mountains in the west, so there was no way for large troops to leave.

"If Wu Sangui puts the main force to break through on the eastern front, then we will be in trouble. No matter how we calculate it, there will not be enough time." A young staff officer in the headquarters is making a battle plan.

"Report, to the commander-in-chief, this is the latest information sent."

Li Dingguo was still the same, sitting on a chair alone and staring at the map hanging on the wall, wondering what he was thinking.The chief of staff took over the two pieces of information and handed them to Li Dingguo.Only then did Li Dingguo seem to wake up.

Li Dingguo has a characteristic. The more intense the battle, the slower his personal actions will be, but the faster he will issue orders.He took the information and looked at it slowly, his whole body was like a cat lying down, sleeping and stretching.

After a while, Li Dingguo suddenly said: "Let the order go on, keep two divisions on the northern defense line, and transfer the strength of the other four divisions to the front line of Fengdian to form a defense line fifty miles away from Fengdian."

Everyone was surprised!

The defense line of fifty miles is not a joke. If it is placed on the plain, it may take half a year to repair.Even if the Ming army is now siblings, it cannot be blown out in one breath.

"Commander, the [-]-mile defense line is probably difficult to repair?" a staff officer asked tentatively.

"Tell them, learn from Zhou Jun at Hangu Pass, and use your brains more." Li Dingguo left a sentence, and then all the staff in the headquarters were looking for information, looking at the detailed report on the battle at Hangu Pass.

Two hours after Fengdian's information was sent out, reinforcements arrived.It's not that the information was delivered quickly, but that Li Dingguo responded quickly enough after receiving the information from Zhou Jun's insider.

At midnight, the five thousand forwards sent by Wang Pingfan were falling asleep after a salty dinner.It hasn't been so comfortable for many days. These soldiers are so thirsty that they can't even bear to drink water, for fear of recalling the years of diarrhea.

"Kill!" Dimly, there were killing sounds all around, and many people thought it was a dream.When hundreds of rockets with flame tails exploded in the Zhou army camp, the entire camp was blown up.

Tens of thousands of elites harvested five thousand Zhou troops, just like playing.There is no suspense in this battle.

Let's talk about the post-war period.

Fan Yiqu stood on the charred battlefield of Fengdian, and the corpses of the enemy soldiers were everywhere under his feet.

"Commander, what exactly is the method of Hangu Pass that the commander-in-chief said?" Fan Wenguang, chief of staff, asked.

"I just heard from the staff of the headquarters that Zhou Jun used the method of burning mountains to force the 53rd Division of the 53th Army out of the line of defense, and almost burned the [-]rd Division to death." Fan Yiqu said.

"Ah! That's the way it is. But how do we start the fire? How many mountains do we have to burn with such a long front?" Fan Wenguang asked back.

"You don't need to burn all of them. You just need to find a few mountain passes on the fifty-mile defense line that the enemy may break through, and then light them up. Burn the fire from east to west, so that Zhou's army is facing the head of the fire, which is equivalent to pushing them towards the middle of the encirclement. .” Fan Yiqu drew a random map on the ground, and then deployed some tactics.

The Ming army's approach was to use enough manpower to cut down trees and then set fire to the forest.Cut out a separation zone on the defending side, and then burn the fire to the enemy's direction, use the fire to force the Zhou army to break through, and then slowly build the defense on the burned open space.

This method is not environmentally friendly in later generations, but it is very practical on the battlefield.Strangling the enemy's breakthrough as quickly as possible, and then buying time for one's own side to build fortifications.

The enemy's good method is just for his own use.

Chapter 564: The Rabbit Dead Fox Sadly Ends the World

Wu Sangui had already taken his most trusted Wang Ping Fan to break out of the encirclement quietly at dawn.

However, the troops traveled thirty miles, and suddenly the troops stopped moving. Wu Sangui, who was walking in the middle, had a black line on his forehead, and he was stuck on a cliff that could not go up or down.

As soon as the troops stopped, Wu Sangui wanted to rest but couldn't. He wanted to walk but couldn't.

"What's going on?" Wu Sangui was trying to save face, originally to show that he shared weal and woe with the soldiers, but he stood there for too long, and he got really angry.

"Report to the emperor, it seems that something happened in front." A soldier sat on a stone far away and replied.

"Nonsense, what's the matter I'm asking?" Wu Sangui was furious, thinking that you kid would be happy sitting on a rock, while I'm still standing.

"It's not good, there is a mountain fire ahead, and the army is blocked." A voice came from the top of the mountain, and Zhou Jun in a valley basically heard it all.

However, at this time, a gust of southeast wind happened to blow, and the black smoke from the east floated over.Zhou Jun soldiers looked at it, my mother, such a big black smoke, what a big wildfire this is!

Zhou Jun immediately became restless, and some soldiers began to retreat towards the mountain. The crowded crowd didn't care who was behind them, and they pushed and squeezed Wu Sangui into the crowd.

"Don't squeeze, this is the emperor." The guards around Wu Sangui shouted anxiously, but unfortunately the crowd was too crowded and the scene was out of control.

Fortunately, this place is not a cliff, otherwise Wu Sangui would have to be squeezed out.However, when the crowd stabilized a bit, Wu Sangui found himself relieved all of a sudden. Only then did he realize that his armor was squeezed and hung on a branch, and the majestic Emperor Zhou was dangling like a hanged ghost.

"Pull me down quickly." Wu Sangui angrily scolded the guards under the old pine tree.

The fire dragons in the distance are rolling over like waves.The flames were so high that they covered half of the sky, even though it looked like a lush green ocean at first, it withered in the scorching flames in a short while, then burned, and then turned into a glowing red fire tree.

Wu Sangui was startled. He had seen wildfires before, but they were all seen from a distance.Now the turbulent and terrible fire is in front of you. A big pine tree that looked good just now has become a burning torch in a blink of an eye.

too frightening.

"Can you cut out a piece of open space?" Wu Sangui asked.

"It's too late for this place. Tens of thousands of us look like a lot, but to cut out enough open space, it will take at least three miles in radius to avoid being affected. Even if we cut it out, we must be exhausted. By then tomorrow The army rushed behind the fire, and we didn't even have the strength to resist."

"How far is it?" Wu Sangui asked.

"Retreat thirty miles," Wang Pingfan said.

"..."

Wu Sangui just wanted to scold her, and if he went back thirty miles, wouldn't that be the same as returning to the original place?Wang Pingfan was right, he had to go back for a certain distance, clear a large open space, and restore the soldiers' strength before they could fight.Calculated one by one in this way, it will take three days.

The Ming army calculated the three days accurately. With three days, the Ming army would have enough time to build a fortification.

Fan Yiqu lit more than a dozen fires before finishing the work, and the second order from the headquarters came again.

"What do you mean, you want us to put out the fire?" Fan Wenguang didn't understand, he asked us to set the fire for a while, and then put out the fire again, what a joke.

"You misunderstood. The commander-in-chief meant to set fires in important areas and put out fires in non-important areas. Otherwise, it would be a disaster if the mountains with a radius of a hundred miles were burned up." Fan Yiqu looked serious.

It is not easy for people in this era to take these things into consideration. War is inherently unscrupulous, and those who criticize the cruelty of war are those who have never participated in war.

Wu Sangui dragged his exhausted body back to the original camp. At this time, most of the middle and senior generals of the Zhou army had already guessed what Wu Sangui was thinking. who believe.

After all, Wu Sangui still has prestige. After all, this is the Guanning iron cavalry who has followed him for many years, and it is also the investment of his Wu family for decades.

"Investigate spies, yes, continue to investigate spies." Wu Sangui saw that he could not escape for the time being, and the army was in danger of instability. At this time, the best way to firmly control the army was to quickly eliminate dissidents.