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Although Li Dingguo was good at leading troops, he was not from a regular army, and his tactics and tactics were summarized from actual combat, and he lacked the command and ability of large corps to fight.

The frontal battlefield of nearly 100,000 troops on both sides, how can this be commanded by the roar of the main general?

The capture of Bai Wenxuan, Ma Weixing and other generals made the command of the Daxi Army even worse.

To apply a "famous quote" from later generations, Li Dingguo guessed the beginning, but couldn't guess the end!

At the beginning of this battle, the cavalry of the Daxi Army who deviated to the West Gate launched an assault on the flanks of the Qing army. The elephant soldiers and infantry that suddenly emerged from the West Gate made Ajige even more in a hurry.

But Ajige's direct cavalry, without Ajige's order, quickly spread to both sides with instinctive reactions, and then integrated in a short time, and then launched a raid on the side of the cavalry of the Western Army.

In this way, the cavalry of the two armies actually broke away from the front battlefield and fought in the southwest of the Shangcheng City near the east bank of Wushuiguan River. The Qing cavalry's horse tactics were especially better than those of the Daxi Army. Although the Daxi Army had the advantage of the first move, as time progressed, its advantages gradually lost and instead fell into a disadvantage.

In this way, Li Dingguo's plan was greatly reduced. He originally wanted the cavalry to attack the unprepared Qing army from the flanks, elephant soldiers, and infantry from the front, from both sides, but the reality was that the cavalry left his command and opened up another battlefield with the enemy cavalry.

At this time, if Li Dingguo could realize that the situation of the war had changed and the hero cut off his arm and retreated back to the city, the losses would be controllable. As long as the main force retreated into the city, the situation would return to the previous battle, and it would be nothing more than losing some troops.

But at this time, Li Dingguo could no longer stop.

Li Dingguo was loved by the soldiers of the Daxi Army and was praised as "Little Yuchi" and "enemies of ten thousand people" because Li Dingguo must lead the way every battle and charge forward.

This combat mode of the main general charging ahead is the norm in the thousands of years of war history in China. In the era of cold weapons, generals do not take the lead in charging and do not have a battle flag. How can they guide the direction of the army's attack?

Even in later generations, if there are more troops in the battle, flags must be placed as guidance. Otherwise, the soldiers may not be able to distinguish between the east, south, west and north by crowds.

Li Dingguo was in the Elephant Army, commanding the Elephant Army to charge, and behind him were infantry.

If Ajige is lucky, in addition to the orders of Emperor Yongli, Li Dingguo's own intention was to capture Sun Kewang, and the purpose of capturing Sun Kewang was not to kill, but to save him.

In Li Dingguo's view, his righteous brother went astray because of his forced force. After all, Sun Kewang, the four kings of the Daxi Army, was the leader and the main one. However, after he seized the Daxi Army, Sun Kewang "had to" escape into Huguang and surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

However, as soon as the war began, Li Dingguo forgot Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang was the former commander of the Daxi Army. He was used to the tactics of the Daxi Army, especially Li Dingguo used war elephant soldiers to defeat the enemy.

When he joined Ajig to attack the mall, Sun Kewang repeatedly reminded Ajig to beware of the elephant soldiers of the Western Army and make preparations early.

Now that Ajig has calmed down, he has used it.

Sixteen red cannons fired together, and the archers fired rockets, and then ran to both sides to attract the battle elephants.

This method was immediately effective. The originally controlled war elephants were confused by the loud sound of rockets and artillery bombardment and ran around in a mess.

The archers and spearmen on the battle elephant were shaken by the sudden riot battle elephant, and many of them fell directly.

Azige took advantage of the situation and ordered the infantry to attack the front of the Daxi Army.

The Western Army infantry fought in a hurry, and the stalemate fell into chaos for a while, with countless casualties and injuries.

As the head coach, Li Dingguo was taken out of the battlefield by the crazy battle elephant for several miles, and all the guards were gone.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo adapted to the situation and drove the already quiet war elephant to approach the nearest city wall with the two personal guards on the same war elephant. Then the defenders on the city wall threw down the ropes before climbing into the city.

When Li Dingguo returned to the tower of Ximen, he saw the chaos outside the Ximen. He stomped his anger and vomited blood.

Only then did Li Dingguo really command his army when he lined up his guards.

With flags as orders on the city tower, Li Dingguo finally issued a retreat order.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo did not leave the entire army to fight, and the city was left with troops to defend the city. Under the cover of crossbows and artillery on the city wall, the rear army, which did not fight with the enemy, successfully retreated into the city.

But almost no one can come back to the striker who is already stalemate with the enemy.

When the last soldier of the Daxi Army fell, two groups of Li Dingguo burst into tears and shouted, "Li was incompetent and exhausted the three armies..."

Then fainted.

In this battle alone, the Daxi Army suffered casualties and more than 6,000 captured people.

This does not include the cavalry fighting against the Qing cavalry.

Although the cavalry finally retreated from the South Gate, there were more than 3,000 casualties, which means more than 30% of them were lost.

This battle really hurt Da Ben's vitality.

The casualties caused by Ajige's siege in the past few days were added up, and there were not as many casualties as in the past half day.

The mall blocked the city gate and entered the stage of defending.

....

Wu Zheng did not enter Ziyang after all.

It’s not because of the bad news from Runing Mansion.

Wu Zheng was actually prepared for a long time. He arranged Xia Wanchun, Chi Erhan and Liao Zhongping to lead the army to the border of the government, but Li Dingguo refused to let go and allowed the Northern Expedition Army to enter Huguang and Henan. Wu Zheng was worried that it would cause the two armies to get into the borders of the army, so he was passively waiting for assistance.

Therefore, as soon as Li Dingguo's letter of help came, Wu Zheng quickly ordered Xia Wanchun, Chi Erhan and Liao Zhongping to lead their troops to reinforce the mall.

It was another major event that forced Wu Zheng not to go north to Ziyang.

Hangzhou Prefecture, Jiaxing Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture... and Yingtian Prefecture, "civilian chaos" broke out one after another.

This "civil chaos" was not a real chaos, but a "petition" triggered by scholars and students, opposing the "petition" of Wu Zheng's signing of a ceasefire treaty with the Qing court.

Wu Zheng knew about this. When Song An reported to him, Wu Zheng casually said, "...Let's take care of the battle in front of him first. The scholars have not rebelled for ten years. They are energetic... Just let them make trouble if they turn too far."

But now, it’s too much trouble, it’s not just an ordinary one.

Hangzhou Prefecture, responded to the "petition" initiated by Tianfu and then spread to the surrounding area. The number of people increased, so that tens of thousands of people blocked the government office (not the General's Office) in Hangzhou Prefecture.

The "Han Ming Half Moon Talk" that has always been the mouthpiece of the King of Wu actually commented that this was the first awakening of the people's wisdom and a sign of the revival of the Ming Dynasty, etc.

What made Wu Zheng even more annoyed was that Chang Lin Wei reported that the "women's office" of various prefectures and counties also gathered many local Weaver Girls to promote the fire and join the "petition".

They shouted a common slogan: firmly oppose peace talks with Qing Dynasty, and the war must be carried out to the end!
Chapter completed!