Seeing that Wu Sangui had fallen into the trap, Fan Youxian and Li Dingguo led an army of 50,000 to Zhipingwu County, Long'an Prefecture.
Wu Sangui led Wang Pingfan, Wu Guogui, and Hu Guozhu to guard Pingwucheng with 20,000 troops. He also ordered Wu Zhimao and Guo Zhuangtu to lead 10,000 troops to guard Gaoyang Pass in the east of Pingwucheng.
"General, the Wu thieves are treacherous and suspicious. If they attack Gaoyang Pass first, they may not dare to rescue them. On the contrary, if they attack Pingwucheng first, the enemies at Gaoyang Pass will definitely rescue them. The general will request to attack Gaoyang Pass first." Li Dingguo told Fan Youxian
Suggestions.
"What Hong Yuan said is very reasonable. With you and twenty thousand soldiers and horses, I will monitor Wu Sangui. I will lead an army of thirty thousand to attack Gaoyang Pass." Fan Youxian readily agreed.
Li Dingguo camped between Pingwu City and Gaoyang Pass, deliberately planting false flags in the nearby mountains to confuse Wu Sangui. He also sent Jin Tongwu and Dou Mingwang to lead five thousand troops each to lie in ambush in the mountains.
What is false is true. If Wu Sangui really dared to go out of the city to rescue Gaoyang Pass, he would really dare to ambush him.
Wu Sangui was suspicious by nature. He joined the army as a young man and went through countless battles, big and small. After many experiences, he naturally became less courageous. As soon as he saw the Ming army flags looming in the mountains outside the city, he worried that he might be ambushed and did not dare to rescue Gaoyang Pass.
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The battle of Gaoyang Pass has begun.
Fan Youxian, the great general of the Ming Dynasty, led an army of 30,000 to the pass, and the Ming army was as mighty as dark clouds covering the sun. I thought that my troops were far more powerful than the defenders, so winning this pass was not a piece of cake.
Unexpectedly, a fight actually broke out, but it was not like this. The Wu army generals Wu Zhimao and Guo Zhuangtu were both veteran generals who had fought for many years. They built three layers of walls in Gaoyang Pass to serve as an inner city.
The Ming army used ramming chariots to ram the city gates, and the defenders used kerosene to burn the chariots; they used cloud ladders and smashed the city with wolf fangs; they used goose chariots with rolling logs and stones;
Fan Youxian ordered to cut off the water source in the city. The Ming army built embankments and dug trenches outside the pass to block the water, but it was useless. Dozens of deep wells had been dug in the city, and there was no shortage of water.
Seeing the vastness of the Ming army's engineering projects, Wu Zhimao and Guo Zhuang ordered the sergeants to splash water and play at the top of the city, and also ordered the soldiers to shout loudly, "General Pinglu has a good plan, and the soldiers of the three armies are sweating in vain."
Fan Youxian was furious. I followed His Majesty to raise troops in Guangxi. They were invincible and all attacks were invincible. The traitor general dared to humiliate me!
The commander was so angry that he laid down tens of thousands of corpses.
The Ming army attacked the city, and Fan Youxian personally supervised the battle.
Wang Mingchen, the deputy general of the Ming army, climbed onto the ladder with a sword and shield and rushed towards the gate.
"Buzz!"
A dark cloud, photographed from the top, is a wolf fang slap. This thing is made of elm locust wood, inlaid with hundreds of wolf fang iron nails, and has blades embedded on all sides. It is pulled by pulleys, up and down, and is specially designed to smash ladders.
Sergeant on board.
Wang Mingchen screamed and was beaten into a pulp by the wolf fangs.
Lieutenant General Liu Zhifu risked his life to climb up the wall and killed several enemies with his sword, but was stabbed in the throat by Wu Army Lieutenant General Guo Zhuangxun.
Another attack was repelled.
As soon as Guo Zhuangxun took a breath, he flew into the sky with a "boom". But Fan Youxian was annoyed that his side was repulsed again, so he ordered the artillery fire. The artillery fire continued all over the sky, and Guo Zhuangxun was killed in one fell swoop.
Attacking for seven days without any effect.
"General, the tunnel has been dug," his subordinates came to report. It turned out that Fan Youxian saw that this pass was very dangerous, and while attacking the city with ants, he dug a tunnel secretly and used the collapse method to break the pass.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", three loud noises, and three gaps appeared in the wall.
Li Chengjue, Chen Bao, and Hou Yongxi led their troops to advance through the gap.
Guo Zongfen, the son of Guo Zhuangtu, was a brave general of the Wu army. He led his sergeants to push a sword cart to block the gap. Chen Bao, a brave general of the Ming army, jumped over the sword cart and smashed his head with a mace.
The Ming army broke into the pass and found that there was an inner city inside. The Wu army defended the inner city and resisted.
"Set artillery in the outer city and bombard me hard," Fan Youxian ordered fiercely.
Cannons were pushed up the outer city wall one after another and fired fiercely at the inner city.
The inner city was built in a hurry and was far less strong than the outer city. It was blasted open on two floors, and the Ming army reached the third floor.
Fan Youxian was just feeling proud when Wu Zhimao and Guo Zhuangtu actually led their troops to attack at night. The killings were like thunder, and after a bloody night of fighting, the Ming army damaged artillery and countless siege equipment, and the commander-in-chief Wang Ziqi died in the battle.
This Wang Ziqi was born in the Great Western Army. He was a famous general in the Ming Army and Fan Youxian's right-hand man. When he heard that he died in battle, General Fan was saddened and became even more angry.
This general inspired his tiger nature and personally led his troops to attack the city. The general's personal visit boosted the morale of the Ming army.
The city is desolate. There is no replacement of soldiers; the wounded can only watch their death; but the Ming army is swarming in more and more numbers.
After three days of continuous attack, the city was broken. Wu Zhimao was killed by Li Chengjue's formation; Guo Zhuangtu broke out of the siege and was ambushed and killed by Li Dingguo's troops outside Pingwu City.
After capturing Gaoyang Pass, Pingwu City was isolated. Fan Youxian and Li Dingguo joined forces and attacked the city day and night.
After ten days of continuous attack, Wu Sangui could not resist and retreated to Songfan Guards. He hurriedly wrote a letter to Wu Yingqi and Xia Guoxiang, ordering them to join him from Chengdu to Songfan.
Wu Yingqi, the Prime Minister of Xia State, led an army to rescue Chengdu. They fought with the 5,000 miscellaneous soldiers of Gao Mingzhan of the Ming Army and defeated them, killing more than 2,000 people. When he was feeling proud, he received a letter from Wu Sangui and knew that he had been tricked, so he rushed to Song Dynasty.
The vassal guards evacuated. Unexpectedly, they were ambushed by the Ming army Hou Yongxi's troops in the area of Jinpingbao, and half of the troops and horses were lost.
Wu Sangui stationed troops in the Honghuatun area of Songfan Guards. Guan Ning's army only had 20,000 soldiers left. He defeated the King of the West in a dignified manner, but ended up miserable!
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"Your Majesty, the matter is urgent! You can rush west to Qinghai and join the Heshuote Khanate," Wang Pingfan suggested.
"Your Majesty, you first lure the Manchus into the Pass. If you surrender to Mongolia again, you will not be able to escape the infamy of the Qing Dynasty after a hundred years. It is better to return to the Ming Dynasty," Fang Guangchen advised.
"Hey, go and invite Mr. Meicun here," Wu Sangui sighed, "Now that the matter has come to this, I would rather die in the Ming Dynasty than be a ghost in a foreign land!"
"Pingxi Boken surrendered?"
Wu Weiye smiled jokingly, seeming to be both sarcastic and sympathetic.
Wu Sangui's face remained calm, "Sangui is convinced of his defeat and is willing to surrender!"
"Would you like to follow me to Pingwu to meet the general?"
"Natural".
The two men came to Pingwu on horseback. As soon as they saw Fan Youxian, Wu Sangui took off his clothes, stripped his upper body naked, and held his flesh exposed on a thorn tree to apologize.
There is no scene in the opera where the generals pay homage to the virtuous and corporal officers, and support them with their own hands. Instead, there are just dense forests of soldiers with murderous intent.
"Are you Wu Sangui?" Fan Youxian shouted.
"Exactly the sinner".
"You are indeed guilty. You are guilty of letting the Manchu people enter the prison; you are guilty of being a slave; and now you have committed a serious crime. Your Majesty once approved in Chen Duxian's letter that if Wu Sangui does not understand the destiny, then he should not live. Now,
Do you still want to live?"
After saying that, Fan Youxian looked directly at Wu Sangui’s facial expression.
Wu Sangui showed no fear and calmly replied: "I know that my crime is serious, but my subordinates are innocent. I am willing to die. I just ask the commander to treat Guan Ning's soldiers kindly!"
"You are a man," Fan Youxian nodded, "Let's do this. I will go to Daoshu to intercede for you. Whether I can survive or not depends on your care."
When Zhu Hengjia learned about Wu Sangui's request to surrender, considering that he still had 20,000 troops, he did not kill him. Instead, he gave him the false post of right governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, and divided the various departments of Guan Ning's army for use in different places.
This chapter has been completed!