At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 164 Battle of Anshun
Shunzhi raised his forehead when he heard this, even his head hurt.

Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou were not only difficult to kill, they were even difficult to capture.

But if we don't control them, we worry that they will imitate Bai Wenxuan, making our Qing Dynasty become the second Sun Kewang in Yunnan and Guizhou.

"Obai, what do you mean?" Shunzhi murmured.

"Back to the emperor, Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou should not move until the truth comes to light."

"Otherwise, even if they have no intention of rebelling, they will rebel against our Qing Dynasty in Guizhou."

"Let the army follow the original plan and start trying to attack Yunnan after autumn." Obai replied.

"Ao Shaobao, what will happen if Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou rebel?" Xiaozhuang frowned.

Obai cupped his hands and said, "Queen Mother, please let Doni send Wu Sangui to attack Wu Sangui from the north. At the same time, let others monitor the movements of his army at all times."

"As for the main force of our Eight Banners, we will attack on the road from Guiyang to Kunming. We don't seek rapid advancement, but only stability. If something goes wrong, our Eight Banners have many heavenly soldiers, horses and mules, and they can quickly return to Guiyang along the road."

"At the same time, Hong Chengchou can be sent out with the army, and Luotuo can be sent to Guiyang to oversee the army's food affairs."

"In this way, even if Hong Wu rebels, Wu Sangui and Li Dingguo will not respond in a hurry, and our Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers can quickly retreat and preserve their strength."

As soon as these words came out, Shunzhi and Xiaozhuang's eyes lit up.

"Okay! Just follow this plan!" Shunzhi was overjoyed.

Ao Bai is indeed an experienced military planner. According to his arrangement, Wu Sangui and Doni's main Manchu and Mongolian forces are separated, and then he controls Hong Chengchou and food and wages. Even if Wu Sangui rebels, he will not be able to achieve the same effect as Bai Wenxuan.

Of course, if Wu Sangui really wanted to rebel in this way, his troops would be able to remain in the system.

It's just that now, the Qing Dynasty, which is in a dilemma, can no longer care about so much.

Faced with such a difficult situation, Shunzhi and Xiaozhuang could not be perfect.

"Quickly pass the order to Donnie and ask him to act according to this plan."

Shunzhi waved his hand and said: "At the same time, an edict was issued asking Sun Kewang not to go to Yunnan and to bring his troops to Guizhou to help in the war."

"If Wu Sangui doesn't rebel, his soldiers and horses can provide backup. If Wu Sangui rebels, Sun Kewang can join our Eight Banners and lock Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui together in Yunnan!"

Originally, Sun Kewang's suggestion of cutting out Ming's inner circle was to be directly restrained by the main force of the Qing army. It was the most brilliant strategy for him to enter Yunnan with tens of thousands of troops and imitate Li Dingguo and steal his family.

But now Sun Kewang is suing Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou for their rebellious intentions. In order to prevent the main force of the Eight Banners from getting into trouble, Emperor Shunzhi can only take one step forward and stabilize the situation in the southwest first.

"Your Majesty is wise!" a famous Manchu Qing minister complimented.

"Soni, as an important minister, I leave it to you to go to Guangxi to issue the edict." Shunzhi said.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will fulfill my mission!" Sony said respectfully.

"Then the order was sent to Li Mengzu and Zhang Changgeng. The soldiers and horses should go ahead without using the food and fodder. Let them quickly escort the 500 million taels of silver that the imperial court has prepared for Sun Kewang to Guilin."

"After Sun Kewang shaves his head, he will immediately send it to Guangxi and let his front-line troops enter Guizhou to help in the war!"

"I will obey the emperor's will!" All the ministers shouted in unison.

Seeing this, Shunzhi breathed a sigh of relief.

"I hope Sun Kewang's information is wrong and Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui have no objections, otherwise I will kill all nine of them!" Shunzhi sneered in his heart.

After making arrangements, Obai quickly left for Shandong to handle the case of Prince Zhu.

Sony, on the other hand, rushed to Guangxi to prepare to shave Sun Guozhu's hair.

In addition, many secret edicts were also sent from Beijing.

Not only Doni and others in the southwest region, but also Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, also received secret messages targeting Hong Chengchou's tribesmen in Fujian.

Of course, we in the Qing Dynasty were even more energetic and kept an eye on Wu Yingxiong, who was a guard in the palace.

At the end of September, when the Qing court was in a state of panic again because of Sun Guozhu's memorial.

Li Dingguo finally led an army of 10,000+ to cross the Beipanjiang River and approached Anshun and Guiyang.

The war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties began.

Anshun Prefecture, Pingbawei.

An army of more than [-] people established a huge camp relying on this small guard city.

"Eight hundred miles, hurry up, eight hundred miles, hurry up!"

A scout rushed in with a military order in hand.

Quickly enter Pingba Acropolis.

The leader of this army, Xianning Hou Qi Sansheng, took a look at the military order and his eyes suddenly widened.

"Send an order to have Di Renpin, Li Rubi, Ta Xince, and Wang Hui come to see me."

"Yes!" The guard ordered and quickly exited the lobby.

"Commander." The four Di Sanpins, whose status was not lower than Qi Sansheng's in the past, reluctantly saluted.

"King Jin, order our army to attack Anshun and open the gate to Guiyang. You all go down and reorganize your troops and prepare to attack the city."

Hearing this, the four Di Sanpins looked at each other.

"Commander, our army is short of food and pay, and its morale is low. I'm afraid it will be difficult to attack Anshun at this time." Di Sanpin said.

"That's right, Marshal, not only that, the red cannons of my army are still behind. It would be difficult to attack the city without the help of cannons!" Wang Hui agreed.

"Marquis De'an, there are only 3 defenders from Nan Yikui in Anshun City. Our army has more than [-] people. Are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat Anshun?"

Qi Sansheng said seriously: "This is King Jin's military order. If you dare to disobey it, even the commander will be killed. If you don't want to be killed by King Jin's military order, hurry up and prepare to attack the city!"

"Yes!" Di's third-grade and fourth generals retreated angrily.

Three days later, more than [-] Ming troops who had built ladders and shield chariots began to prepare to attack the city.

"Commander, our army lacks red cannons. Are you sure you want to attack the city?"

One of Qi Sansheng's cronies looked at the red cannons on the wall of Anshun and frowned.

"Military orders are overwhelming. Even without red-coated artillery, our army has no choice but to attack by force."

Qi Sansheng frowned and put down the monocular.

"Pass my order, more than thirty battalions of soldiers and horses will attack the city from the north, south and west! Before sunset, I want to see my Ming flag planted on the city wall of Anshun!"

"Yes!" The soldiers around heard the words and replied loudly.

Boom boom boom!
Heavy drums sounded, sun and moon dragons held flags and waved, and dozens of wolf smoke floated.

"Attack the city! Attack the city! Attack the city!" Hundreds of guards shouted in unison, their shouts shaking the sky.

Under the influence of drums, flags, smoke and shouts.

More than thirty battalions of Ming troops received orders from the general and began to approach the city wall in a mighty manner.

On the city wall, Nan Yikui, the commander-in-chief, looked at the huge formation of the Ming army and couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart.

"Fire!" came the order.

On the west wall of Anshun facing Qi Sansheng, six red cannons roared.

Boom boom boom!
Cannonballs hit the Ming army one after another, fell to the ground, and kept bouncing.

After the six red-coated artillery shells landed, the Ming army around them breathed a sigh of relief, because none of the six artillery shells hit the ground.

"kill!"

"Kill!" "Kill!"

The Ming army, which was lucky enough to escape the first round of bombardment by red-coated artillery, shouted and rushed forward with various siege equipment.

boom!boom!boom!
On the Anshun city wall, huge red cannons kept bombarding.

Finally, a shield car that protected Ming soldiers from bows, arrows and cannons was hit by a cannonball.

In an instant, the shield car, which was wrapped in cowhide and could withstand musket fire, was torn apart under the huge impact of the shells.

The terrifying red-coated artillery shell passed directly through the shield vehicle and hit the chest of a Ming army soldier.

puff--!
This Ming army soldier couldn't even scream.

A mouthful of blood spit out. Under the huge impact of the cannonball, the cotton armor on his body collapsed, and his strong body collapsed into pieces of flesh and blood.

A human head with a fearful expression flew high into the sky, and hit a soldier on the head with a frightened look on his face.

"Ah——!" A miserable howl sounded.

Looking at the heads of his comrades, the Ming soldier howled crazily and was extremely frightened.

Not only that, after passing through the shield car and passing through the No. 1 Ming Army soldier.

The power of the red-coated artillery shell was not exhausted. Among the dense crowd behind the shield vehicle, it hit the No. 2 Ming Army soldier again...

"Don't be afraid, don't be chaotic! Cannons can't kill many people. Anyone who dares to retreat will definitely die!"

Around the shield car, a Ming army general shouted loudly, trying to stabilize the morale of the army.

The red-coated cannon has a slow rate of fire and poor accuracy, so it really cannot kill many people.

But once the cannon hits, the devastating damage it causes directly hits people's hearts.

Under the bombardment of huge artillery shells, the human body is like tofu and will be torn apart easily.

Faced with such a tragic situation, although artillery cannot kill many people, it can cause an unparalleled blow to the morale of an army.

"Don't panic, don't be chaotic! Cannons can't kill many people!" It wasn't just the Ming army officer.

Many veterans of Xiying who had experienced the war also shouted to encourage military morale.

If it was a ragtag group of people, just a few rounds of cannon fire might cause them to disperse.

However, the army of more than 3 people under Qi Sansheng was a well-trained, highly disciplined and organized army.

In this army, there are enough outstanding officers and enough veterans of many battles.

Although Li Dingguo liquidated a large number of generals before driving, even so, this army could not be dispersed by a few rounds of artillery fire.

"Move forward quickly!" a Ming Army officer ordered.

Under the bombardment of artillery fire, the Ming army got closer and closer to the Anshun city wall.

"Fire!" Along with the roar of red cannons on the city wall.

The rapidly advancing Ming army entered the shooting range of the Qing army's small and medium-sized artillery.

On the city wall, the Qing army's Fo Lang machine gun opened fire rapidly.

Boom boom boom!
The Ming army pushing the shield cart was bombarded by artillery fire, and a large number of soldiers died in the hands of the Qing army.

"Speed ​​up, speed up!" There were constant shouts from the Ming army.

Although pushing heavy shield vehicles to attack the city, the Ming army would suffer heavy losses under the attack of artillery fire.

But the shield car is also their only bunker. Without the shield car, the impact can be dispersed, which can certainly reduce the losses under artillery bombardment.

But in this way, the soldiers of the Ming army would suffer greater damage when shot by cannons and bows and arrows!
"Damn it!" Seeing that his soldiers suffered huge losses under the Qing's artillery fire, Qi Sansheng clenched his fist and smashed it down hard.

"Commander, most of the brothers died on the small and medium-sized artillery of the Qing army, but without the red-coat guns, our small and medium-sized artillery cannot be deployed forward at all." A trusted general said bitterly.

Facing the small and medium-sized artillery of the Qing army, the Ming army actually had Fo Lang machine guns in its hands that could fight back.

However, if the Ming army's artillery positions want to deploy forward in front of the red-coated artillery that has a range far beyond their own.

They had to be continuously bombarded by the Qing army's red-coated artillery.

All in all, the Qing army's red heavy artillery can hit the Ming army's medium artillery.

The medium-sized artillery of the Qing army can hit the light artillery of the Ming army.

In this case, the Ming army could only give up artillery fire and attack the city with the lives of soldiers.

Soon, the Ming army, which suffered heavy losses under the Qing's artillery fire, advanced around the moat of Anshun.

"You son of a bitch, Tartar! Go to hell!"

The Ming soldiers, who were angry at the Qing artillery fire, broke out and cursed one after another.

"Brothers, call me!"

After giving the order, the Ming soldiers behind the shield car were filled with anger.

He used the muskets and bows in his hands to fight back wildly at the Qing troops on the city wall.

"Fill the moat quickly!" a Ming army officer shouted.

Countless Ming troops carried sandbags prepared in advance and threw them frantically into the moat of Anshun City.

boom--!
A gunshot rang out and a buckshot struck the officer in the face.

The officer brandished his saber and fell down unwillingly.

"The boss is dead!"

"The boss is dead!"

When several Ming soldiers saw their commander dying in front of them, they panicked and kept shouting.

The next moment, an arrow penetrated the throat of one of them.

"Anyone who dares to disturb the morale of the army will die!" Another Ming army officer shouted loudly, holding a hard bow.

When those soldiers were stunned.

The stiff bow in the officer's hand was strung up again and pointed at the soldiers.

"Sir, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me!" These soldiers dared to kneel down and beg in panic.

With a burst of artillery fire, the Qing army's artillery fire took away these soldiers.

"Hit! Beat me hard!" On the city wall, Qing army officers kept shouting angrily, urging the Qing army soldiers to open fire despite the Ming army's muskets and bows and arrows.

Under the organization of officers from both sides, the Ming army and the Qing army launched a fierce collision.

Countless Ming troops fell to the firepower of the Qing army, but on the city wall, the Qing army also suffered huge casualties under the fire of the Ming army's muskets and bows.

It's just that the Qing army occupied the city wall and was condescending, and they could rely on the female walls and crenels on the city wall to shoot.

Therefore, the losses of the Ming army were much greater than those of the Qing army.

Soon after countless dead bodies were sacrificed, a small section of Anshun's moat was filled in by the Ming army.

However, the Ming army still could not erect ladders to attack the city.

Because behind the Anshun moat and in front of the main city wall, there was a short sheep and horse wall about five feet high, blocking the Ming army's footsteps and preventing them from reaching directly under the main city wall of Anshun.

"Cut open the wall of sheep and horses for me!" a Ming army officer roared.

(End of this chapter)