Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 159
Chengjiang County, Yuxi, Liangwang Mountain.

Liangwang Mountain, also known as Luozang Mountain, is the highest peak in central Yunnan. It was named after the Liang King camped here in the Yuan Dynasty. It is one of the ten scenic spots in Chengjiang.

Standing on the top of the mountain, you can have a panoramic view of Dianchi Lake in Kunming, Fuxian Lake and Yangzong Lake in Chengjiang, and Xingyun Lake in Jiangchuan.

Li Dingguo's [-] soldiers and horses set up camp in Liangwang Mountain.

There are many ships in Fuxian Lake. Even if the Ming army surrounded Liangwang Mountain, Li Dingguo could still lead his army to retreat to the island in the middle of the lake and continue to resist.

Moreover, all the boats in the nearby fishing village were collected by Li Dingguo. When the Ming army arrived at the lakeside, they could only look at the ocean and sigh in vain.

There is heavy snow, the mountains are covered with silver, and the lake is shrouded in clouds and mist.

Li Dingguo stood at the gate of the camp on the mountainside, and he became very poetic, reciting: "Three million jade dragons were defeated in battle, and the broken scales and armor are flying all over the sky!"

"The general has a heroic spirit and is truly a hero!" Xia Wanchun arrived at some unknown time.

Li Dingguo turned back and said with a smile: "There are no heroes in the world, so I made Zhuzi famous. How dare I pretend to be a hero? Messenger Xia, Chongzhen has arrived at Yuxi, and sent [-] vanguard troops to kill here. In a few days, troops will come to the foot of King Liang Mountain. You can return to Chongzhen's side."

Xia Wanchun said: "The war is coming, general, why don't you prepare early?"

Li Dingguo said: "A mere [-] soldiers can't do anything to me!"

"General Li, I naturally know that you are very capable, and you are an ever-victorious general. But your Majesty the Emperor is very resourceful and resourceful, so you should not underestimate it. Especially in our army, there is a brave and good fighting team, known as the New Army, who is good at long-distance raids. I guess the vanguard that came to attack Liangwang Mountain this time must be the new army, the general must not underestimate the enemy."

"Envoy Xia, you are Emperor Chongzhen's confidant, why are you worried about me? Wouldn't it be better if I lost?"

"Of course I hope that the Ming Dynasty's army will win every battle, and I have this confidence. But my emperor has always been full of praise for the generals, expressing great admiration in his words. He only wants to recruit generals to serve the country. I I'm worried that when the two armies are fighting, the sword has no eyes, and if something goes wrong with the general, His Majesty the Emperor will be sad!" Xia Wanchun said.

Li Dingguo asked: "Chongzhen really values ​​me so much?"

Xia Wanchun said: "Is this false? I followed the emperor from Nanjing City, and I waited every step of the way. I have heard too many compliments from His Majesty on the general. General Li, Your Majesty knows your life experience very well, and your achievements are very precious. Congratulations to you for being a human being!"

"Let's put it this way, I have never seen His Majesty value anyone so much. The general is unique in His Majesty's mind!"

Li Dingguo was astonished, thought for a while and said: "I understand, Chongzhen wants to recruit the Daxi Army, so he is hypocritical. It is nothing more than Chongzhen's emperor's mind, the strategy of controlling people."

Xia Wanchun shook his head and said: "General Li, if you treat my Majesty the Emperor like this, then you are very wrong..."

Just as he was talking, the flags at the foot of the mountain waved, and people shouted and neighed.A general rushed over and shouted: "General Li, the vanguard of the Ming Army has begun to attack the mountain!"

"You came so quickly!" Li Dingguo said, pulled out his sword and shouted, "Meet the enemy!"

Not long after, the two armies met in an open area in front of the mountain.The [-] soldiers of the Ming army received the imperial edict and came to find out the real situation of Li Dingguo's army. As soon as they came up, they attacked fiercely, and the gunshots were loud.

"The Ming army is indeed well-equipped and can still shoot in heavy snow. What kind of muskets do they use?" Li Dingguo secretly asked.

Immediately ordered: "Turn your hands out to block the enemy's firepower! Archers, shoot! A battalion of cavalry, charge with me!"

As soon as the military order was issued, thousands of soldiers quickly moved into action. Fifty soldiers stood at the front of the line, holding wet quilts and stretching their corners.

Wet quilts were either covered on wooden boards or on the Eight Immortals table, and were erected together to form a shield formation.

It turned out that this was a set of defensive methods for restraining muskets that the peasant army had figured out during the long war.Later, the Qing army further improved this tactic, which was called "turning the quilt over".

Wet quilts and wooden boards have a good defense against lead at a certain distance, and this distance is roughly thirty paces away, which is recognized.This method is also often used in actual combat, and even until the modern Anti-Japanese War, some troops used the Eight Immortals table to support a few thick wet quilts to attack the city.

In fact, it was Qi Jiguang who was the first to use wet quilts to resist guns. He invented the rigid and soft card that used quilts: "Using a quilt covered by a person to cover the wooden grid is a convenient method for a while, but it is not as good as a rigid one." For the soft card, you can cover the lead at forty or fifty steps away, no failure after repeated trials. However, as close as thirty steps, you have to penetrate it. But the lead gun must be placed far away, and there is no way to release it at ten or twenty steps. It is a matter. The law will be developed now, and those who do not establish a plan will keep it a secret."

The peasant army was poorly equipped in the early days. They went to the battlefield with hoes and sickles in their hands. How to defend against the muskets of the Ming army became a big problem.Later, it was learned that wet cotton quilts and wooden boards could work, so they quickly spread.

The quilt-turners in Li Dingguo's army, in addition to holding shields, also held single and double swords in their hands and lined up in front, followed by a brigade of shotguns and spears, which was more effective than simply using shields.

However, this defensive strategy should not be exaggerated blindly. The firepower of firearms in this period cannot be compared with the firearms of later generations. The lead bullets fired have limited penetration, but they must be kept at least [-] steps away, otherwise death is still inevitable.

As for the plot in some anti-Japanese dramas that directly use wet quilts to resist machine gun bullets, it is pure nonsense and a complete insult to people's IQ.

For Li Dingguo, he didn't expect to be able to block the Ming army's attack simply by turning over the quilt, but had other plans.

The Ming army fired, and the lead bullets crackled on the shields, unable to penetrate.Taking this opportunity, Li Dingguo's army fired back with arrows.

When the pace of the Ming army's advance slowed down a bit, Li Dingguo led the cavalry and rushed out at the head of the horse, roaring like the wind and lightning.

When the Daxi Army was still in the hands of Zhang Xianzhong, it had one of its biggest characteristics: it was good at field combat and good at running attacks.

Among the heroes at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most important factor for Zhang Xianzhong's troops to stand out, run rampant in the world, and establish a country based on their territory is that Zhang Xianzhong attached great importance to cavalry, even more than Li Zicheng.

In the Zhang army, the ratio of cavalry to infantry is "three horses with seven steps", and the main force "everyone has fine cavalry or straddles two horses", "the horses are paid, and they come and go like the wind, walking hundreds of miles a day and night".Wherever he went, mules and horses were the most important thing when it came to capturing trophies, and he didn't care about the others.

Because of his powerful cavalry, it is said in history that "Zhang Xianzhong's marching troops came like a sudden storm, and their going was as unpredictable as ghosts and ghosts. Therefore, in a few months, they may gallop north of the river, or tend to Chu and Yu, and ravage the three provinces. Chasing without time, is the method of "go out of what you don't want, follow what you don't want, avoid the reality and attack the emptiness" as Sun Tzu said. The general will fall into his tricks without realizing it."

Li Dingguo followed Zhang Xianzhong for more than ten years, and he was influenced by his ears and eyes. Naturally, he also valued and was good at using cavalry, and he was even better than blue.

At this time, Li Dingguo was wearing a white robe, silver armor, holding a bright silver gun, and a white horse under his crotch. He took the lead and rushed to the front.

At first, he just drove the horse and galloped wildly, with the bullets flying around and the strong wind whistling beside his ears, but he didn't even frown.

In an instant, he rushed into the ranks of the Ming army, and his spear flew up and down like a swimming dragon.In the blink of an eye, several people were stabbed to death, the tip of the gun was bloody, but without stopping for a moment, they went straight to the depths of the Ming army.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Ming army were dumbfounded and shocked!
When he came back to his senses, thousands of cavalry had already disrupted the formation and their positions were unstable.

"Is this General Li Dingguo here?" a Ming army general shouted.

"It's right here!" Li Dingguo replied loudly after hearing this.The sound is like a bell, and the heaven and earth are in turmoil.

The general of the Ming army said: "Your Majesty has an order not to harm General Li, withdraw!"

The soldiers of the Ming army immediately turned around and ran wildly, and withdrew from the battlefield.Li Dingguo didn't pursue him either, he just sat on the horse's back carelessly, his eyes were like torches, and his face was like water.

Thousands of miles of cold light creates snow, and the dawn on three sides stirs up dangerous signals.The heavy snow was falling more and more tightly, and there was a white robe in the wind, drumming endlessly and hunting.

A silver gun stands upright between the sky and the earth, like a flying dragon about to ascend to the nine heavens!
(End of this chapter)