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Chapter 302 Digging a pit for Wu Sangui

The generals under his command laughed so happily after losing the battle, Zhu Yousong's abnormality was incomprehensible to ordinary people, and everyone was stunned.

And they all know that although they have defeated the Tartars Oboi now, and Zhu Yousong personally killed Oboi, the small victory in the local war does not explain any problems. Luoyang City is thirty or forty miles away from here. in the hands of the Tartars.

The 4 to [-] troops of the British prince Azige and Shang Kexi of the Qing court are not far from Luoyang, and Wu Sangui's [-] troops are copied from behind, so Zhu Yousong's [-] horses will fall into the danger of being attacked by the enemy. It's a hard battle, the Tartars have a strong city, and their military strength is more than twice that of the Ming army, but how can your majesty still laugh?
Zhu Yousong didn't care about everyone's reaction, and continued: "Pass down my will, let Zheng Hongkui and Zu Keyong continue to lose, and throw away everything that can be thrown away, the more embarrassing the better. "

Li Quan and Zheng Damu thought that what Zhu Yousong said was angry, and they looked at Zhu Yousong in puzzlement for a while.

But their majesty didn't look angry at all. In fact, Zhu Yousong is really happy now. It's not that he is sick, but that Zhu Yousong knows Wu Sangui too well. The cognition of later generations is on par with real people, who is Wu Sangui?How could Zheng Hongkui and Zu Keyong be rivals?Not to mention that Wu Sangui has 2 horses, while Zhu Yousong only gave Zheng Hongkui and Zu Keyong 1 horses.

That is to say, Zhu Yousong expected Zheng Hongkui and Zu Keyong to lose the battle. The reason why Zhu Yousong used troops like this was of course not a joke. He wanted to use these two warriors to test Wu Sangui's strength. Now it seems Sure enough, the reputation is well-deserved.

Zhu Yousong's eyebrows were not angry just now, but he was thinking of a countermeasure.Now that the countermeasures have been thought of, Zhu Yousong is of course happy. As for a small defeat, it is nothing. Victory and defeat are commonplace in military strategists. Since ancient times, there have been no generals who have never lost a battle.

After Zhu Yousong broke the secret, Li Quan, Zheng Damu, He Xuanjiao and other talents suddenly realized that their majesty was eager to use his wits to use Ye Bilong, the remnants of more than 1000 Tartar soldiers, as bait to lure the enemy into digging a hole for Wu Sangui .

Now that Wu Sangui has won the battle, the morale of this Qing army is high. According to their intention, they will definitely pursue the Ming army and drive the Ming army to Luoyang City, because the formation they set up is to make Zhu Yousong's troops fall into the enemy's back. Moreover, the news that Oboi had lost the battle and was trapped in the mountains reached Wu Sangui.

Li Quan hurriedly passed on Zhu Yousong's will.Zhu Yousong asked Zheng Damu to pass the decree, and asked Liu Zhaoji's two battalions to encircle and not wipe out the remnants of Yebilong, a thousand-odd Tartars on the mountain. The Ming army lay in ambush along the way, laying down pockets and waiting for Wu Sangui's men to sneak in.

Now Zhu Yousong's Chinese army camp is more than 30 miles away from Liu Zhaoji's battlefield, because Zhu Yousong's soldiers and horses chased for [-] or [-] miles across the Yihe River before trapping Ye Bilong.

And Zheng Hongkui's battlefield is more than 40 miles away from Zhu Yousong. Zhu Yousong still has time to calculate the distance. That is to say, it will take at least two hours for Wu Sangui and his troops to chase and kill them. More than two hours are used to set up an ambush It's just right, if you set it too early, it will be easy to be exposed, and if you set it too late, it will certainly not work.

But Zhu Yousong had to choose the ambush location, because what he ambushed was not an ordinary person, but the notorious Wu Sangui. Although he was notorious, it didn't mean that Wu Sangui was incompetent, at most it could only mean that his character was not good.

On the contrary, Zhu Yousong is not unfamiliar with this Wu Sangui. The history books and film and television novels of the late Ming Dynasty have written about this man badly, and all of them have performed miscellaneous performances. A complex figure that remains controversial to this day.

Wu Sangui was originally the most important general of the Ming Dynasty, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. He was originally a subordinate of Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao.This is mainly related to his family background.Wu Sangui was not from Liao, but his ancestral home was Gaoyou, Jiangsu. His father, Wu Xiang, was a general of the Ming Dynasty. The marriage between the generals and Wu Zu's family laid a solid foundation for Wu Sangui's prosperity.

That is to say, Wu Sangui's martial arts and military command ability absorbed the essence of Wu Zu's family, which was taught by his father and uncle and honed by his side.

Wu Sangui practiced martial arts since he was a child, and was good at riding and shooting.When he was a teenager, he won the laurel of martial arts and started his military career with his father Wu Xiang and uncle Zu Dashou.At that time, Emperor Chongzhen was in power. Wu Sangui served as a general at the age of 23, and was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief at the age of 26. At the age of 27, he trained as the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan regiment and was later promoted to the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. Emperor Chongzhen personally named him Ping Xibo and guarded Shanhaiguan. .

If it weren't for Wu Sangui's anger to surrender to the Tartars for his confidante and open the gates of Shanhaiguan, it would have taken at least a few years for the Qing army to enter the customs.After the Qing army entered the customs, there were many anti-Qing forces, and the war was still to come. The Tatars wanted to enslave the Han people, but it was only the first step of the Long March. Wu Sangui acted as the executioner and vanguard of the anti-Qing forces, chasing and killing Li Zicheng. Zhang Xianzhong wiped out the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the anti-Qing forces among the people. Wu Sangui was a Han, but his hands were covered with Han blood.

After the Qing Dynasty unified the country, Wu Sangui guarded Yunnan and Guizhou as Prince Pingxi.

Later, after Kangxi succeeded to the throne, he ordered the withdrawal of the feudal domain. Wu Sangui provoked the chaos of the San Francisco, ascended the throne in Hengzhou and proclaimed himself emperor. , Sichuan, Guangxi, Hunan and other ten provinces.

To put it bluntly, Wu Sangui also has the emperor's mandate. Although he has only been emperor for five months, his influence on history far exceeds that of Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong in history.From this point of view, Wu Sangui is much more powerful than Oboi and Azig. In history, only Emperor Kangxi could play with him, but now Wu Sangui is relatively young, just in his early thirties, but Xiaohe has already shown his talents angled.

To ambush such a super strong man in history, Zhu Yousong certainly did not dare to take it lightly.He rode a horse with He Xuanjiao, Zheng Damu, Li Quan, Liu Chunhong and other personal guards to inspect the terrain and find a suitable ambush location.

Fortunately, Zhu Yousong already has experience in ambush warfare, that is, he successfully ambushed Xingping Bogaojie a few months ago. He will never forget that battle in his life. In Yizhen, he personally selected the site and directed it. That beautiful Gao Jie's main force of tens of thousands was scattered in the ambush battle, and it was also that battle that severely injured Gao Jie's vitality and strengthened Zhu Yousong's confidence. If he cut down his vassal, he would have to kill anyone.

Zhu Yousong accumulated valuable practical experience in that ambush battle, so he quickly selected the ambush location this time, which is Xiaowangzhuang, a dozen miles west of Yichuan County.

The reason for choosing this mountain village is that it is a necessary place to pass, and the second is that it is densely forested and the terrain is complex, except for hills and valleys, which is convenient for hiding soldiers. without exposing the target in advance.

At this time, Zhu Yousong was no longer afraid of disturbing the people, and he didn't need to evacuate and protect the people, because the people in the village had already run away after the war in this area, and the [-] Ming troops under the leadership of Zhu Yousong began to ambush.

(End of this chapter)