Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 503 A Hero Is Born
New book for collection: "The Rise of Great Powers 1900"

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After Song Kun was stationed in Guangdong, he fought against Kong Youde a lot, and he was very clear about the combat effectiveness of Kong Youde's army.

If it was a field battle, Song Kun would have a [-]% to [-]% chance of winning against Kong Youde, but if Kong Youde ended, the chance of winning would be greatly reduced to [-]% to [-]%.

From Song Kun's point of view, Kong Youde mobilized elites to defend Guilin, and Li Dingguo would not be able to attack anyway. If not, he committed suicide.

How could this kind of record not impress him.

Song Kun was not the only one who admired Li Dingguo.

"This is the hero!"

Looking at the battle report, Yang Chao couldn't help shouting excitedly.

"Report immediately. Don't change a single word. In the name of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, I wish the King of Xining a great victory in Guilin! I hope the King of Xining will make new achievements and capture Hong Chengchou alive!"

Yang Chao is completely kind. He admires heroes like Li Dingguo from the bottom of his heart. In history, Li Dingguo was on the same level as Zheng Chenggong in the late Southern Ming Dynasty, and he surpassed Zheng Chenggong in terms of power. It's a pity that he didn't insist on Zheng Chenggong. It's been a long time, but in terms of loyalty alone, Li Dingguo is even better than Zheng Chenggong.

The Jiangnan News soon spread to various forces.

Dorgon saw the newspaper: "The Ming court has added another general, could it be that the Ming Dynasty never perishes?"

Yang Chao's recent military mobilization really confused Dorgon. He deployed the main forces of the Eight Banners in Beizhili and Henan.Moreover, Li Dingguo captured Guangxi in an instant, and even killed Kong Youde, he really didn't expect it.

But at this time, Dorgon was unusually calm, and strictly ordered the Eight Banners in the north to guard the city strictly and not to fight with the Ming army. At this time, Guangxi has been corrupted, and Hunan is also in danger. Only after the victory was decided in the south did they dare to fight Yang Chao. At this time, if even the Eight Banners soldiers were defeated by Yang Chao, the whole world would be overthrown.

"Ask Hong Chengchou, is this Li Dingguo really a thorn in my heart?"

Changsha, where Hong Chengchou sits, still hasn't changed his deployment focusing on guarding against Yang Chao. Even though the Daxi Army has gained a lot of advantages in western Hunan, and even beat Shen Yongzhong to Changsha, he still hasn't changed his original intention.

As for Yang Chao's wanton promotion of Li Dingguo in the Jiangnan newspaper, in Hong Chengchou's view, it was just an ulterior motive.

"Such a trick, do you want this book to fall into the trap?"

Hong Chengchou believed that Yang Chao praised Li Dingguo because he wanted the Qing court to pay attention to Li Dingguo, so that the Qing army's attention could be shifted from Yang Jiajun to Daxi Army.

Up to this time, Hong Chengchou didn't take Daxi Army too seriously. He used to suppress Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to make a name for himself. He knew how the peasant army's combat effectiveness was. Although Li Dingguo defeated Kong Youde in Guangxi, he thought it was Kong Youde was too careless and caused the division of troops.

"Repaying the regent, this is Yang Thief's bluff. But since Nikan has already gone south, let Nikan lead his troops to attack Li Dingguo."

Dorgon has to care about Li Dingguo. If Huguang loses, he will lose the most important source of food now. If Yang Chao doesn't beat him, his huge army will starve to death. , Feng Nikan is the Prince Jingjin.

And gritted his teeth and asked him to lead 3000 Eight Banners soldiers to the south, of which [-] were full of Eight Banners, all of whom were elites of the Two White Banners.

Nikan arrived in Changsha in July, and went south to Hengyang in August, intending to wipe out Li Dingguo in Guangxi.

At this time, after Li Dingguo occupied Guilin, he originally sent troops to surrender the Qing army in Guangxi. With the cooperation of Song Kun, most of Guangxi surrendered, and Li Dingguo's troops increased. Going south, he couldn't wait to lead the [-] army of the headquarters to go north.

On August 21th, the Nikan army arrived in Xiangtan County and drove Ma Jinzhong, Sun Kewang's subordinate, back to Baoqing. On the [-]st, Nikan set off from Xiangtan and continued to Hengzhou. The next day, he reached a distance of more than [-] miles from Hengzhou Prefecture (now Hengyang City).

Li Dingguo sent [-] generals to pretend to arrive for a while, and then retreated.Nikan had just defeated Ma Bao's troops. He thought he understood the combat effectiveness of the Great Western Army, and felt that he was not an opponent of the elite of the Eight Banners at all, so he was a little careless and continued to advance.

Arriving at Hengzhou Prefecture in the dark the next day, he met Li Dingguo's army. As a result, after Li Dingguo's vanguard encountered the Eight Banners, he was defeated and retreated after a short contact.Nikan immediately took advantage of the victory and pursued for more than [-] li.

Obviously he fell for the trick. Li Dingguo lured the enemy twice, which made Nikan doubt that there was a fake. Of course, it also had something to do with Nikan's ignorance of the strength of the Daxi Army. If it was Yang Chao's army, even if it lost three times in a row, the Qing army would not Don't be careless.

After seeing Nikan enter the ambush circle, Li Dingguo gave an order, and the whole army attacked, the sound of killing was loud, and the momentum was like a tide. He killed the Qing army coach Nikan on the spot, and killed first-class Bo Chengni and Nikan's bodyguards.The Qing army did not dare to fight any more, and retreated to Changsha in despondency under the leadership of Dorobelle Tunqi.

Although he won, Li Dingguo couldn't help but feel a pity, because his ambush was originally a joint operation with Ma Jinzhong. Ma Jinzhong was repelled by Nikan in the first battle, which was actually part of the trick to lure the enemy, otherwise Nikan would not be so easy to repel. The Great Western Army who fought fiercely for three years.

But when Li Dingguo ambushed Nikan, Ma Bao, who had planned to attack Nikan's army from behind, did not show up, allowing Tunqi to escape with more than 2 people, and the main force of the Qing army was preserved.

Why did Ma Jinzhong break the appointment? It turned out that Li Dingguo had aroused Sun Kewang's suspicion because of his military exploits at this time.

As Sun Kewang's confidant, Ma Jinzhong was strictly ordered by Sun Kewang not to cooperate with Li Dingguo.

Yang Chao naturally saw clearly.

Can't help but sigh: "The pattern!"

Yang Chao admires Li Dingguo, but he is more optimistic about Sun Kewang.

To be honest, Sun Kewang might not be as erratic and nimble as Li Dingguo in using troops, but he fought steadily and steadily. He had a reputation as a wall in the Great Western Army. Sun Kewang was good at defending the city.

Moreover, in terms of governance, Sun Kewang is far superior to other generals of the Daxi Army. Sun Kewang implemented various government orders in Yunnan. Unfortunately, his background in the peasant army left him without much education, and he was psychologically flawed. He can't tolerate people, that is to underestimate him, otherwise he would have dealt with Li Dingguo and others secretly.

You must know that Li Dingguo's direct lineage has only about 20 troops. Although the level of combat effectiveness is relatively high in the Daxi Army, it does not have an overwhelming advantage. Sun Kewang, under the banner of Zhu Cihuan, recruited the Ming Army from Yunnan and Guizhou. [-], an absolute advantage.

It was precisely because of this advantage that Sun Kewang dared to let Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu lead the army.

But after Li Dingguo captured Guangxi and killed Kong Youde, he felt that Li Dingguo was too powerful, so he began to suspect.

This is actually not intolerant, but a lack of self-confidence, not confident that he can always lead a general like Li Dingguo.

Compared with Yang Chao's self-confidence that he has always been bold enough to have a total of [-] soldiers under his command, Sun Kewang still can't get rid of the limitation of being a small farmer.

If the political level is high enough, Li Dingguo and Li Dingguo's generals should be greatly rewarded.

At this time, Sun Kewang was the general appointed by Zhu Cihuan to control the world's troops, and Li Dingguo was just a vanguard under him.

Li Dingguo can fight, he should not be jealous, but happy.Since Li Dingguo can fight, then appoint him as the vanguard, let him continue to attack the Qing army, and then send his confidantes to occupy the city defense. The more Li Dingguo wins, the more benefits Sun Kewang will get. Get prestige, so what?How can Zhu Yuanzhang win the battle better than Xu Da!

But Li Dingguo obviously hasn't realized it yet, he is still in the joy of victory, and the morale of his subordinates is also extremely high.

Killing the two kings of the Qing army in a row made Li Dingguo's reputation soaring. Through the propaganda of Jiangnan News, the whole world knew his name. He was already the most famous general under Yang Chao.

As a general who admired Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, Li Dingguo was in high spirits at this time, and he didn't realize that a crisis was approaching.

Yang Chao could see that Sun Kewang was suspicious of Li Dingguo, so an old fox like Hong Chengchou naturally seized this opportunity.

At this time, Hong Chengchou did not dare to underestimate Li Dingguo. He was surprised to find that Yang Chao was really cooperating with Li Dingguo's actions.

This made Hong Chengchou start to deploy a trap. He withdrew many of the troops who had been dispatched to defend Sun Kewang in western Hunan. Get rid of Li Dingguo.

At this time, Li Dingguo sent [-] troops to attack Baoqing.

Shang Kexi's vanguard troops went south to Hengzhou Prefecture along the Xiangshui River, and soon surrounded the empty Hengzhou Prefecture.

But at this time, Li Dingguo himself suddenly appeared in Xiangtan, and raided the Eight Banners soldiers in Tunqi, who were suppressed by the Qing army.

At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army were already far away from the front line. Dorgon had issued a strict order requiring the Eight Banners soldiers to only be used as offensive forces, and not to be used unless it was absolutely necessary.

But who would have thought that Li Dingguo would suddenly go north from Baoqing, bypassing Shang Kexi's main force, and attack the Eight Banners in Xiangtan.

Hong Chengchou was also a little shocked. How could he have imagined that Li Dingguo would use his troops so openly, regardless of the gains and losses of a city or a place. He could only grit his teeth and dispatch Shang Kexi to send troops back.

Hong Chengchou believed that Li Dingguo's surprise attack on Xiangtan was to defend the empty Changsha. Shang Kexi besieged Hengyang's army.

In this battle, Li Dingguo will kill another king. Among the chaos, it is gratifying to kill the head!
(End of this chapter)