The battlefield in the Zhiluo area was densely covered with corpses. They were surrounded by arrows, guns and artillery. The soldiers of the Shun army suffered heavy casualties. Only Yuan Zongdao, the general of Guoyi in the right camp, led more than 200 cavalry to break out of the encirclement of Cao's army. He was the leader of the right camp.
The younger brother of General Quan Yuan Zongdi has been stationed in the Yansui area with Yuan Zongdi to protect the hometown of the Li family and most of the Shun army Yuan Cong soldiers.
Yuan Zongdi could not have imagined that they were not defeated at the hands of the Qing army, and that their brothers were not sacrificed on the battlefield to defend against foreign aggression, but that they fell in the rear like Zhiluo!
Almost all of the more than two hundred cavalrymen were injured, and even the horses were breathing heavily. Everyone's flags and armor were torn and stained with blood. Yuan Zongdao was worried that Yanzhou had been captured by the rebels, so he rushed out.
After Luo's ambush circle, they made a special detour, avoided the main road, and took a small road straight to Yan'an.
Probably a few days ago, an envoy from Xi'an sent urgent military information to Yan'an Prefecture, saying that the Ming Dynasty surrender troops Mi Layin, Ding Guodong and other troops who had been summoned by Luo Rucai to leave the border to support the front line had arrived in Pingliang and Fengxiang areas.
At that time, they suddenly united with the local officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty to rebel, killed Xin Sizhong, the governor of Xining, and took advantage of the chaos to gather troops to attack the city. Troops from all over the country responded one after another. Ganliang was shaken and almost corrupted.
After hearing the news, Marshal Mianhou of Dashun and General Yuan Zongdi, the admiral of Youying Quan, rushed back to Yan'an from Yulin on the front line. Of course, Yan'an had been renamed Tianbaofu at this time, but many people were still accustomed to using its old name - Yuan Zong.
After arriving in Yan'an, they gathered the generals from the right camp who were still in northern Shaanxi, held a military meeting, and decided to follow Luo Rucai's request to send troops south to Yijun County at the junction of Yan'an Prefecture and Xi'an Prefecture, to fight with Luo Rucai's subordinates.
After Yang Chengzu's troops reunited, they marched from Yijun County to Pingliang to suppress the rebellion.
At this time, the Qing army in northern Shanxi on the other side of the Yellow River suddenly gathered troops and horses, and its strength became stronger and stronger. The elites of the Chinese army such as Rui Wang Dorgon and Yi Wang Wu Sangui also continued to attack Fugu, Baodou, Jiazhou, and Wubao.
Wait for a tentative attack to be launched.
Therefore, Yuan Zongdi paid even more attention to the rebellion in the Ganliang area in the rear. He sent his younger brother Yuan Zongdao to lead 8,000 elite soldiers from the right camp and ordered them to go to Yanzhou and mobilized 1,500 local defenders.
, nearly 10,000 troops joined forces and went south to Yijun County to join forces with Yang Chengzu.
After Yuan Zongdao, who was still kept in the dark, arrived in Yanzhou, he left only a few soldiers and horses to defend the city. He took most of the old soldiers of the Dashun Army and escorted a large number of armored weapons.
Yijun County.
He fully believed that after joining forces with Yang Chengzu in Yijun County, suppressing the Ganliang rebels would be an easy feat, and he was completely unprepared during the march. Yang Chengzu repeatedly sent cavalry envoys to guide Yuan Zongdao, urging him to hurry up.
Time marches rapidly.
As a result, a total of ten thousand old soldiers from the right camp walked into the ambush circle set by Yang Chengzu near Zhiluo.
The area in northern Shaanxi is already crisscrossed with ravines, high mountains and deep pits, and the terrain is steep and complex. Although most of the veterans of Youying are natives of northern Shaanxi, they cannot be said to be familiar with the geography. Moreover, Yuan Zongdao and the others are devoted to Yang Chengzu.
Li Xin, who had no idea that Cao Bing had rebelled, thought he would have to go to Pingliang Mansion before entering the war zone.
Every veteran soldier in Youying is a brave and agile warrior, and Yuan Zongdao can at least be regarded as a qualified general. However, due to Yang Chengzu's calculations and unintentional calculations, and in the face of Cao Bingluo Zhi's conspiracy, Yuan Zongdao finally
In Zhiluo, he encountered the cruelest, cruelest and most painful defeat he had ever witnessed in his life.
Relying on the terrain, Cao's soldiers formed several ambush lines based on ridges and ditches. It was not until the soldiers and horses of the right battalion were deceived by the guide sent by Yang Chengzu, and everyone passed through the two ambush lines, that Yang Chengzu decided to launch a full-scale attack by Cao's soldiers.
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Cao's soldiers surrounded them with dense artillery, crossbows and arrows, and fired fiercely from cannons arranged in advance. At first, the officers and soldiers of Dashun Army had no idea that they would be ambushed on their own territory. Yuan Zongdao thought it was an ambush at first.
Local officials and gentry organized rural soldiers to launch a rebellion.
Therefore, Yuan Zongdao once again underestimated the enemy's strength and regarded the enemy as a weak country soldier. Therefore, he advanced instead of retreating and personally led an elite team of jumping warriors to rush forward. However, he did not wait until he reached the vicinity of Yang Chengzu's middle army.
Later, the brothers who were familiar with Cao Ying suddenly discovered that it was Cao Bing who ambushed the right camp!
This news was like a thunderbolt that penetrated the psychological defenses of the old soldiers of Youying. The soldiers were soon thrown into chaos. Only then did Yuan Zongdao slowly come to his senses - not only himself, but also
Even the eldest brother Yuan Zongdi and the late emperor Li Zicheng were fooled by Luo Rucai!
Later, the original soldiers of the right camp were divided and surrounded by Cao's soldiers. The crisscrossing ravines and mountains cut off the communication between the various units of the Shun army. Several units were forced to fall into the dilemma of fighting on their own.
At the beginning, the elite soldiers of the right camp could still stand in formation. Yuan Zongdao also urgently ordered the troops and horses under his control that were not allowed to advance without permission. Everyone hugged together to form a round formation and did not move in formation. The three layers took turns to open fire to counterattack Cao's soldiers.
But not long after, Yang Chengzu saw that the formation of the right camp was in order and the battle line was extremely strong. Although Cao's soldiers had completely divided and surrounded the Dashun army, they still failed to succeed in many attacks, so he changed his tactics and mobilized a large number of artillery to start violently bombarding the right camp.
Battalion team.
Originally, Yuan Zongdao also brought a lot of artillery with him when he went south, but when they were halfway there, they encountered an envoy sent by Yang Chengzu. Yang Chengzu urged the right battalion to leave the artillery in Yanzhou first, and the light troops went south first to stabilize the morale of the Xi'an army.
Yuan Zongdi listened to Yang Chengzu's envoy's request, which was actually very unreasonable, without thinking deeply. As a result, the old soldiers of the Right Battalion fell into the tragic situation of being passively beaten and unable to fight back at the critical moment of the battle.
Intense artillery fire continued and the firepower continued, and the right battalion gradually became unable to support itself. The soldiers were killed by the artillery fire one after another, and the battle line was therefore incomplete. Cao Bing seized the opportunity to attack with all his strength, and Yuan Zongdao was unwilling to allow this elite army of ten thousand people to be destroyed.
, pulled out his sword and took the lead in shouting against the war.
The soldiers of the Shun army repeatedly launched counterattacks with sharp soldiers armed with swords, trying to concentrate their efforts to open a gap so that at least some of the troops could break out.
Probably Yang Chengzu did not expect Dashun's old soldiers to be so resistant to fighting. Even though they had taken advantage of all the advantages of the time and place, they were still almost defeated by Yuan Zongdao.
At the critical moment, a sudden stray bullet suddenly killed Yuan Zongdao's deputy He Dengyun. The bullet burst out of his head. He Dengyun's helmet shattered into a big hole, blood spattered, and his head exploded. The originally solid position was shaken immediately, and Yang Chengzu did not let go.
After this opportunity, Cao Bing immediately led 2,000 selected frontmen and rushed straight to He Dengyun's position. While the Shun army soldiers were still panicking because He Dengyun was killed, Cao Bing broke through the formation with flags and went straight into the battle line.
Yuan Zongdao's ring formation was torn apart by Cao's soldiers. At this time, it happened to be a windy and sandy weather common in northern Shaanxi. The sand and gravel were flying. The right camp was in an unfavorable position in the wind direction. Many soldiers were even affected by the wind and sand, and even their eyes were blurred.
Can't open.
The Dashun Army's last counterattack, its last chance to retain its strength and break out of the encirclement, disappeared as a result.
Soon the main force of Cao's soldiers surrounded and squeezed them. The old soldiers of the right camp could no longer stand in line, and finally suffered a complete defeat. In other ravines and valleys, the soldiers and horses of the Shun army were divided and surrounded by Cao's camp.
, also collapsed one after another.
Only Yuan Zongdao led more than a thousand soldiers to rush out desperately, but Cao Bing followed him all the way. By the time he escaped to the vicinity of Yanzhou, not only were there only 200 cavalry left among the more than a thousand elite soldiers, but even the capital of Yanzhou was
It has been captured by Cao Bing.
Yuan Zongdao still doesn't know whether the Pingliang rebellion is true or not, but he has been able to confirm that all Cao Ying's old troops have rebelled, and Luo Rucai will betray Dashun in Guanzhong!
For Yuan Zongdi, who was still fighting against the Qing army in the Yansui area of northern Shaanxi, this would be a disaster.
If both southern Shaanxi and Ganliang have rebelled against Dashun, Yansui will lose contact with the Shun army in the Central Plains and fall into a situation where the Qing army and rebels will attack and be surrounded from all sides.
Yuan Zongdao held on to his wounds and quickly headed north with the remaining 200 troops under his command. He had to tell Yuan Zongdi about the drastic changes in Guanzhong before Yang Chengzu went north to attack Yansui or the Qing army rushed to Yulin!