Li Achu crossed the mountains and was sent to sneak attack Yiliang City, trying to burn the Datong Army's food and grass in one fell swoop.
Thousands of peasant soldiers and ten thousand civilians are all in the city...
Even as soon as he came out of the mountain, Li Achu was discovered by the dragoons. Yiliang is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is a relatively flat land in the middle. The county seat is built there. The city is only five or six miles away from the mountainous area. If you send a few hundred cavalry out to patrol, you can observe it.
Offend the enemy.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuu"
A group of sentinels discovered the situation and immediately blew their horns.
"Kill all the Han troops!"
Taking advantage of the large number of people, Li Achu actually led his troops to charge forward, and the local soldiers under his command took out their bows and arrows.
This team of sentinel cavalry did not fire a single shot and continued to retreat while blowing the trumpet. After only withdrawing half a mile, two teams of cavalry came to support, and more than 60 cavalry began to outflank the retreat of the 5,000 native soldiers.
Li Achu knew that he would be kited by the cavalry, so he simply ignored it and led his elite soldiers to continue marching towards the county town.
Not long after, more than a hundred riders came.
As the cavalry battalion commander, Zhu Tinggao had the highest military position on the battlefield at the moment. He was dumbfounded when he saw the enemy's behavior.
Five thousand chieftains, under the surveillance of dragoons, actually dared to continue attacking the city?
Li Achu took it for granted. He had been a slave since he was a child and did not know which ethnic group he was from. Because he was honest and obedient, he was selected as Sha Dingzhou's follower. When he was fourteen years old, he began to fight with the sixteen-year-old Sha Dingzhou.
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For more than 20 years, he has rarely suffered a defeat and is the second most powerful general after Iron Tiger.
Especially in recent years, Li Achu has been invincible in all battles and conquered all attacks. He has encountered many Han armies. Except for a few troops, the equipment is better than that of the native soldiers. Most of the Han armies are scum, and Mu Tianbo's general
The government troops can still fight.
Now, Mu Tianbo has been defeated, and Sha Dingzhou has grabbed a lot of armor.
Li Achu felt that with his entire army in armor, he could sweep the world. So what if more than a hundred dragoons followed, or if there were defenders in the county ahead? As long as he led his troops to kill them, it would be like chopping melons and vegetables!
The city of Chuxiong in the west was captured by Li Achu with 3,000 soldiers. At that time, most of his native soldiers were without armor.
"Woooooooo~"
The dragoons were still blowing their trumpets to assemble, and more than 300 troops were gathered one after another. They were not in a hurry to attack, they all followed slowly, watching the enemy march towards the county town like fools.
Li Achu's army was moving forward quickly and could already see the city wall.
There are many houses outside the city. The door panels are removed to make ladders. Two wooden boards are tied together and the wall can be used to climb up. The city wall here is really short.
When the troops gathered to 400 men, the dragoons began to approach.
Upon seeing this, Li Achu quickly ordered to stop the march and gathered together to prepare for shooting.
There are five thousand elite chieftains. Although the formation is not neat, their morale is particularly strong. The composition of the troops imitates the Han army, with spearmen in front and a kind of melee soldier holding a small shield and an axe.
The four hundred dragon cavalry turned over and dismounted. Zhu Tinggao raised his command sword and said: "Raise the gun!"
Li Achu also shouted: "Archers come forward!"
A qualified Ming and Qing step bow, if fully drawn, has a shooting range similar to that of a musket.
Li Achu was very confident. The archers under him used good bows from the Mu family soldiers, and they could shoot farther and more accurately than the previous earthen bows. With his superior strength, he could kill all the enemies in front of him.
The archers of the native soldiers ran out of the formation. Upon seeing this, Zhu Tinggao immediately ordered: "Collect the muskets, mount your horses and attack!"
Zhu Tinggao is confident of winning, but there is no need to fight so hard.
Facing a group of bumpkins, any casualties on one's side are purely unnecessary losses.
While the chieftain was still drawing his bow, the dragoons had already mounted their horses and ran away. The four hundred dragoons dispersed into several groups, rode far away, and then began to surround them from all directions.
There are only 1,200 archers under Li Achu's command, so it is impossible to cover everything.
As long as there were no archers, dozens of dragoons would rush forward, shoot into the crowd and run away.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
Gunshots continued to sound. Although the hit rate was not high and the casualties caused were not large, the chieftain soldiers were completely in a passive position of being beaten.
After several rounds of random shooting, only more than 30 chieftain soldiers were killed, and the casualty rate was less than 0.7%.
But this is extremely annoying and there is absolutely no way to deal with it.
Li Achu felt upset. He had never encountered this kind of tactics before. He wanted to lead his troops to charge forward and attack the Han troops with real swords and spears.
The 1,200 toast archers were surrounded by dragoons and were running back and forth. They no longer knew which direction to aim. The melee soldiers were even more frightened. Bullets were coming at random, and a few unlucky ones always fell down.
After struggling for a while, Li Achu finally made up his mind: "Go back to the mountains and fight again, not the city!"
Thousands of chieftain soldiers were running towards the mountain, and their formation instantly became chaotic.
"Woooooooo~"
Zhu Tinggao seized the opportunity and asked the messenger to blow the attack horn.
Four hundred dragoons tightened the encirclement, those who had no ammunition quickly reloaded, and those who had filled their ammunition rushed closer and fired freely.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
There was another burst of chaotic gunfire, hundreds of chieftain soldiers were directly hit, and the breakout operation suddenly turned into a rout.
The dragoons put away their flintlock muskets, drew their swords and rode in pursuit. Many chieftains were so frightened that they threw away their weapons.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Li Achu took a few brave followers with him. He actually raised his sword and turned towards the dragoons. However, he was surrounded by defeated troops on both sides, and before the dragoons could catch up, the followers around him were scattered. In the blink of an eye,
Only two of them were still following.
What's even more ridiculous is that because there were too many defeated troops and too few pursuing troops, the dragoons simply ignored Li Achu.
As long as the chieftain soldiers and dragoons were not defeated, they would not engage in the battle. They would cut down the defeated soldiers first. Li Achu, with two personal followers, originally planned to fight in a bloody battle, but he saw the enemy troops bypassing him and attacking him one after another.
Zhu Tinggao personally led more than ten cavalry to go around the front to intercept. Some of the chieftain soldiers running at the front changed their direction and continued to flee, while some simply dropped their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy.
The number of surrendering chieftain soldiers increased, and finally they knelt down in groups.
Sha Dingzhou's most elite soldiers disappeared inexplicably. As for the Datong Dragoons, 400 of them annihilated 5,000, without even one of them being injured.
Zhu Tinggao rode towards Li Achu and ordered: "Kneel down and be bound!"
"I don't accept it!" Li Achu shouted in Chinese.
Zhu Tinggao slowly loaded the ammunition, aimed at Li Achu and shot, killing his entourage with one shot. This was a bit outrageous, and Zhu Tinggao inevitably blushed, but he pretended to do so deliberately and asked: "Are you convinced? Are you convinced?
Just kneel down!”
Li Achu looked at his fallen entourage, swallowed, and finally knelt down.
Zhu Tinggao ordered the soldiers to go up and kidnap people, and laughed and complained: "You local soldiers actually occupy most of Yunnan. There are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are the kings. You really think you are very powerful."
Li Achu was tied up and taken to the Shizikou Camp, and Huang Yao was in a happy mood.
The next day, Datong soldiers escorted Li Achu to the mouth of the valley: "Go, go back and report the news!"
Let yourself go?
Li Achu couldn't believe it. He was stunned for a long time and ran towards the valley. Soon after entering the valley, he was caught by his own people.
"How did you come out of the lion's mouth?" Sha Dingzhou asked in surprise.
Li Achu's face turned red and he said with shame: "General headquarters, five thousand... five thousand warriors are gone. These Han troops are so powerful that they can shoot blunderbuss on horseback. The Han army's fire blunderbuss can be fired without igniting fire, which is better than that of the Mu family."
The military's blunderbuss is better."
Sha Dingzhou asked: "Were you ambushed by the main force of the Han army?"
Li Achu's face became even redder, he lowered his head and said, "No, the Han army only... has only a few hundred cavalry."
Sha Dingzhou was stunned. This was his most elite unit, but it was actually destroyed by hundreds of cavalry.
After waiting for a long time, Sha Dingzhou sent his confidants to the south to speed up the evacuation of Wan. As for the too bulky treasure, Wan simply threw it away. He must reach Xinxing Prefecture (Yuxi) as soon as possible so that he could lead his army to catch up.
Convergence.
Not even half a day after his confidant left, he unexpectedly came back with two defeated soldiers.
The defeated soldiers cried: "General headquarters, Kunming is gone!"
Sha Dingzhou felt as if someone had hit him hard on the chest with a hammer. He stood still, took a breath and asked, "Where is my treasure?"
"No more." The defeated soldier replied.
Sha Dingzhou asked again: "Is it the Datong Army that captured Kunming, or the Han rebels from Chuxiong?"
The defeated soldier shook his head: "I don't know."
"The city has been occupied, how could you not know? Tell me! How come Kunming is missing!" Sha Dingzhou finally couldn't hold it in any longer and roared angrily.
The defeated soldier replied: "The mistress asked us to recruit civilian men and carriages, saying that they would be used to transport treasures. Everyone was looting in the city. Kunming was in chaos. It was pitch dark in the middle of the night, and I don't know how many Han troops came..."
Sha Dingzhou lost all interest in cursing. He sat slumped on the ground and looked at the mountains in the distance. He didn't know what he was thinking.
He felt like he had been in a dream these past few years.
First, he seduced his sister-in-law, made her belly bigger, and spent money to buy a lot of good things for her. His sister-in-law was so coaxed that she became dizzy, and after she got pregnant, she offered to murder her husband. So, the uncle and sister-in-law joined forces to kill his brother.
Then, he trapped and killed his ex-husband's son and occupied his ex-husband's territory.
Then he used the counselor's strategy to secretly instigate the chieftains to rebel. Sha Dingzhou continued to fight the rebellion and performed meritorious service, and became more and more trusted by Mu Tianbo. During the last rebellion, he led his troops directly outside Kunming City, and Mu Tianbo still had no doubts.
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Then, Sha Dingzhou led a small number of soldiers into the city and unexpectedly attacked the palace and Prince Mu's Mansion. His troops outside the city also raided the Mu family's military camp outside the city.
The wealth accumulated by the Mu family over the past three hundred years was seized by Sha Dingzhou, and most of Yunnan was conquered by force.
He felt that if he could be the king of Yunnan, even if he could not be crowned king, he could still seek the official position of Yunnan's ambassador from Emperor Zhao. Because Emperor Zhao and the puppet emperor of Yunnan were enemies, since he destroyed the puppet emperor of Yunnan, it was for
Emperor Zhao made great achievements.
Damn Emperor Zhao, he didn't reward his merits and even sent troops to kill him. It just didn't make sense at all.
Gone, so much treasure is gone, so much territory is gone.
That night, Sha Dingzhou, with only more than 2,000 cavalry, abandoned tens of thousands of troops and fled in the dark. He did not dare to wait any longer. If the Han troops from Chuxiong and Kunming came to kill him, he would be in the position of being attacked from both sides.
Dilemma.
As soon as the general fled, tens of thousands of troops quickly fell into chaos.
The soldiers who knew the truth panicked and wanted to escape back to their hometown. The soldiers who didn't know the situation thought that the Datong Army was attacking at night, so they broke down and ran around in the military camp like headless chickens.
Sensing the enemy's movements, Huang Yao smiled and said: "Surge into the valley and wipe out all the enemy troops!"
(Many book friends asked about the Buddha's capstone. It is a gold ore that looks like the top of a human's head, and the top is golden. It is described as the top of the Buddha's head.)
