Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 283 Observer, Napoleon of the Ming Dynasty
On August [-]th, Li Guo was ordered to lead the army to move northward from Xiangyang Mansion and stationed in Yunyang Mansion.His vanguard has reached Qingtongguan, west of Yunyang Mansion, and can go northward along the Jiahe River Valley to attack Shanyang County at any time.

The reason why the army stopped temporarily was because Li Guo was waiting for the imperial envoy sent by the emperor.That afternoon, when the imperial envoy came to Yunyang Mansion, Li Guo rushed out of the city to meet him.

"Mr. Xingguo, we meet again!" Silly Dazhu jumped off his horse.

"So it's... Marquis Shun, are you the imperial envoy sent by His Majesty?" Li Guo asked in surprise, with some indescribably complicated emotions in his heart.

Silly Dazhu saw Li Guo's strange emotions, and sighed secretly: "Hey, after all, Li Zicheng died in my hands, Li Guo still has a grudge."

"No, Master Ren is the imperial envoy!" Silly Dazhu pointed at Ren Qidao.

Li Guo looked at Ren Qi and found that he had broken his left wrist. He suddenly remembered the imperial envoy who had become famous in the past two years, and exclaimed, "You are the imperial envoy who promoted the New Deal in the south?"

"Exactly!" Ren Qi smiled, raised his severed hand and shook it twice.

"Oh my, I have admired your name for a long time, and I am truly lucky to meet Master Ren!" Li Guo said with a smile.

Ren Qidao: "Mr. Xingguo, you are young and promising. You are much better than Ren Qi. I should be the one who is lucky in three lives. Let's stop flattering each other, it's disgusting."

Li Guo laughed heartily. He grew up in the peasant army and liked to deal with straightforward and bold people. He welcomed the imperial envoy into the city and said, "Sir Ren, don't call me Duke Xingguo. After I surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, I have not made any achievements." , is really not qualified to be a prince.”

After entering the city, the three of them walked up to the city wall and watched the mighty grain transport team entering the city.

Ren Qidao: "These grains totaled 40 shi, which were transported from Nanjing City. I and Shunhou rushed to catch up, and finally caught up with General Li's army within 20 days. Didn't the military situation be delayed?"

"It took less than 40 days to transport 20 shi of grain from Nanjing to Yunyang Mansion?" Li Guo was surprised again.

"I didn't expect it to be so fast. It was unexpected. Along the way, cement roads were built in many places, and with the assistance of the postal department, it really saved a lot of effort." Ren Qidao.

Li Guo sighed sighingly: "Yes, my Ming Dynasty is changing with each passing day, and it has developed too fast in the past two years! All these changes and progress are brought about by His Majesty's strategizing, which is amazing and reassuring!"

"Peace of mind? How should I say it?"

"Master Ren, to tell you the truth, I used to serve in the Dashun Dynasty and lead the peasant army to fight. I always felt helpless. Now, with a solid rear and strong support from the court, I feel like I felt very peaceful and at peace.”

"Oh, so that's the case. This is probably because the tree is backed to enjoy the shade!" Ren Qi laughed.

After dinner, Li Guo invited Ren Qi and Silly Dazhu to his temporary command post and briefed them on the situation on the Western Front.

"In the past two years, our army has streamlined many old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers, with a total of 5 soldiers, but its combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, and its organizational system is very complete. There are vehicle battalions, infantry battalions, artillery battalions, cavalry battalions, The Musketeer Battalion, etc. In a word, all the troops in the Beijing Battalion are equipped here, of course, the number of people or the configuration of firepower cannot be compared with the Beijing Battalion.”

Seeing Ren Qi nodding his head, Li Guo took a sip of his tea and continued, "As for the Tartar army, they are mainly stationed in Xi'an City. Wu Sangui recruited a large number of troops, including He Zhen and Liu Jinzhong's troops, claiming to be 10. In fact, it should be less. In addition, I heard that Prince Zheng Jierhalang of the Qing Dynasty is leading 5 horses to support Xi'an. If he is full of power, he will act as if the Tartars have deployed 15 troops in Shaanxi."

Ren Qidao: "General Li, how should you deal with it?"

Li Guodao: "Your Majesty has a decree to let General Li Dingguo and I attack the city of Xi'an together, and put forward a strategic conception of consuming the enemy's vital forces regardless of the gains and losses of a city or a pool. I agree very much and decided to fight steadily and wait for Li Dingguo After the generals leave Hanzhong, attack the enemy from both sides."

"Master Ren, take a look, this is my tactical deployment for attacking Shanyang County."

Li Guo pointed to a map, which marked the marching route, where the various arms were deployed, and how to coordinate them.

Ren Qi praised: "General Li is really a man who knows how to fight, I admire him!"

"Master Ren, do you have any instructions?" Li Guo asked modestly.

"General Li, I think you have misunderstood something. Your Majesty sent me and Shunhou to Yunyang Mansion, not to supervise the army, but to serve as observers. Your Majesty has a clear order that we are not allowed to interfere with Li The generals line up their troops, and there is only one commander in the army, so we won’t allow us to point fingers at each other.”

When Li Guo was still a general of the Peasant Army, he knew that Emperor Chongzhen liked to place his confidantes in the army, and he was named Supervisor.

When the Ming army fought, the commander was often restricted by the interference of the military supervisors, making it difficult to use his hands and feet, and even delayed the opportunity of the battle.

Hearing what Ren Qi said, Li Guo was completely relieved, couldn't help being moved, and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, this general will do my part. Imperial envoy, Marquis Shun, let's see how our army attacks Shanyang County!"

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Three days later, the enemy's and our armies encountered each other in the upper reaches of the Jiahe River.

The enemy general was He Zhen, who was originally a subordinate of Li Zicheng. After the fall of the Dashun Dynasty, he surrendered to the Manchu Qing court in Hanzhong. Later, when the Ming army besieged Chengdu, he followed Wu Sangui and fled to Xi'an.

When the news of Li Guo's move to the north reached Xi'an, Wu Sangui ordered He Zhen to stop Li Guo's army.He Zhen led 5 people, and his strength was no weaker than Li Guo's, and he had been Li Guo's immediate boss before, so he didn't take Li Guo seriously.

The two sides lined up, Li Guo sat on the horseback, and asked the soldiers to wave their flags and shout: "He Zhen, you surrendered to the Manchu Tartars and became enemies of the Han people. After you die, what face do you have to meet Emperor Dashun and his soldiers? "

He Zhen scolded: "It's true that I surrendered to the Manchu Qing court, but you, Li Guo, also became a traitor and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty? We are all in the same boat, so don't make fun of each other! Let's talk about what happens after death. Who of us dies?" It's hard to tell who's ahead!"

Immediately after giving an order, the Qing soldiers launched a charge, with the cavalry taking the lead and the infantry following closely behind.

Holding up his binoculars, Ren Qi thought to himself: "If I were to command this battle, I should first send out a chariot battalion to hold back the charge of the enemy cavalry."

Li Guo didn't want to, but ordered: "The infantry battalion charges, the artillery battalion fires!"

"Ah, do you want to counterattack? Why didn't you send a cavalry battalion to meet the enemy?" Ren Qi was very surprised.

But I saw [-] soldiers of the infantry battalion brandishing weapons, screaming wildly, and rushing forward desperately.

At the same time, seventy red barbarian cannons and three hundred tiger crouching cannons were lined up in the artillery battalion, firing like a tsunami.

The artillery shells flew out and fell into the enemy's ranks, shattering and overwhelming.

What surprised Ren Qi even more was that he found that the soldiers of the Artillery Battalion had played new tricks in firing cannons. Some of the shells fired by the Hongyi cannons would bounce on the ground, knocking down a group of enemies, jumping up and flying out, knocking down again. A sheet of enemies.

"Can you still play like this?" Ren Qi exclaimed.

Silly Dazhu was also dumbfounded, he said to Ren Qi: "Master Ren, these cannons seem to have been improved, they are not the same as the Hongyi cannons I have seen before."

The Hongyi cannon in Li Guo's army is installed on the car, which can be easily pushed and the shooting angle can be adjusted.

Ren Qi discovered that when the shooting angle became smaller, the shells bounced more times on the ground, and the best artillerymen could actually make the shells bounce three to five times.

As an observer, Ren Qi faithfully recorded what he saw and heard, especially the situation in which Li Guo's artillery battalion cooperated with the infantry in combat, and sent people back to Nanjing.

Later, Li Cunming gave instructions and praised Li Guo in his reply, saying that he was the Napoleon of the Ming Dynasty, and he wanted to promote his combat method of using artillery battalions.

"Who is Napoleon?" Silly Dazhu was at a loss.

Ren Qi thought for a while, scratched his crotch and said, "Probably the one who picked up the broken wheel. Your Majesty should mean that General Li is infinitely powerful!"

"No, what praise is there for picking up a broken wheel? I can do it too!" Silly Dazhu said.

"Then tell me, what is Napoleon?" Ren Qi spread his hands and asked.

Silly Dazhu said: "Our Majesty always has many weird ideas. If I could guess everything, would I still be Silly Dazhu? Come on, there is no need to guess your Majesty's thoughts. You can't figure it out even if you guess. Anyway, Just know that His Majesty is wise and powerful."

"Hehe, I don't think you're stupid!" Ren Qi laughed.

(End of this chapter)