Sony discovered that Tangyin, Guangping and Kaizhou were attacked, and the Ming army acted as if they were slow and erroneous, and wrongly judged Li Dingguo's intentions.

He thought that the purpose of Li Dingguo's stance was to cut off the food route of Zhangde, and to "surround the site and attack the aid" to lure Sony to rescue him, while Li Dingguo would set up an ambush halfway and eat up the reinforcements.

Of course he understood the importance of Lu'an Prefecture, but Zhangde Prefecture blocked the important road to Lu'an Prefecture. If the Ming army wanted to bypass Zhangde and attack Lu'an Prefecture, there were only rugged mountain roads to go. The marching speed was not fast, which was not conducive to the action of the army, and it was difficult to do so without knowing it.

He didn't think that the Ming army dared to take Lu'an Prefecture before capturing Zhangde Prefecture.

However, he forgot that in addition to the powerful firearms of the Ming army, the elite mountain army also enjoyed a long reputation.

Feng Shuangli brought five thousand troops mainly from the mountain army, stayed overnight in the morning, and arrived at the city of Lu'an Prefecture without knowing it.

The city wall of Lu'an Prefecture was not high, and the Qing soldiers guarding the city did not receive an alarm in advance. The Ming army took advantage of the night to climb up the city wall. When most of the Qing soldiers were still sleeping, they became prisoners of the Ming army.

The fall of Lu'an Prefecture, Sony was shocked.

At this time, Li Dingguo was in the east, Ma Bao was in the south, and Ma Jinzhong was in the north. The three armies formed a siege against Zhangde Prefecture.

Knowing that he was defeated, Sony abandoned the city and retreated into the Taihang Mountains between Zhangde Mansion and Lu'an Mansion, and fought guerrillas with Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo did not expect Sony to be so tenacious and sent Ma Jinzhong to follow him to pursue and suppress him. However, Sony used favorable terrain to attack several ambushed one after another, with hundreds of casualties. He had to retreat to Zhangde Mansion.

Seeing that the strong attack was not possible, Li Dingguo had to change his strategy and ordered the army to block the important intersections and prevent Sony from breaking through. At the same time, he strengthened the walls and cleared the fields, "hiding" the Qing soldiers to death.

At the same time, three thousand mountain troops were ordered to enter the mountains to deal with Sony.

Although this move works slowly, it has excellent results.

As soon as the food route was cut off, Sony's army only brought less than ten days of food, and the army had not received wild survival training, so food became the biggest problem.

Secondly, although the number of soldiers in the mountain is small, they climb rocks and walk on the walls as if they are walking on flat ground, and have received wild survival training. Even if they don’t bring a grain of rice, they will not starve to death.

At the same time, the mountain army was well-equipped and had extremely strong combat power, causing great casualties to the Qing soldiers.

After persisting in the guerrilla war for a month, Sony looked at the soldiers who were like savages and finally made up his mind to venture to break through the Lu'an Mansion.

Their actions were completely controlled by Li Dingguo. When Sony and Feng Shuangli formed a stalemate under the Lu'an Prefecture, Ma Bao and Ma Jinzhong led their troops to abruptly and surrounded Sony. After less than a day of battle, the Qing soldiers suffered 8,000 casualties, and the rest surrendered, and Sony died in the chaos.

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Compared with other battlefields, Ai Nengqi and Wu Sangui have the longest battle and the most difficult process.

There are three main reasons why he has not attacked Xi'an City after more than a year of fighting, not that Ai Nengqi is incompetent or that Wu Sangui is so powerful.

First, Zhu Youlang announced a killing order against Wu Sangui, strengthening Wu Sangui's desire to fight to the end;

Second, Xi'an is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties after all, with high and thick walls that are difficult to climb;

Third and most critical one, Wu Sangui came up with a vicious plan to force the soldiers to defend the city day and night. If the Ming army attacked the city, it would tie the people to the city as a ferocious shield. The Qing soldiers hid behind it. The Ming army threw rats and was afraid of weapons and could not bear to attack the people, and the attack was greatly restricted.

Helplessly, Ainengqi had to stop the attack and switch to a long-term siege.

After Zhu Youlang issued the Northern Expedition Order, Xi'an had been trapped for a year. The city had basically eaten up all the food, most of the people starved to death, and the Qing soldiers were also half-starved.

Zhu Youlang sent some flyers to send them printed long ago, and asked Ai Nengqi to shoot the flyers onto the city wall, counting Wu Sangui's evil, and inciting the Qing army to turn against each other at the battle and abandon the secret and turn to the light.

At the same time, Zhu Youlang ordered a powerful guard with a strong martial arts to come with a letter from Yang Ai, and quietly climbed to the top of Xi'an while the night was dark and hid in the city.

The guard entered Xi'an, quietly found Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and handed her the letter from Yang Ai.

In the letter, Yang Ai first recalled some of the experiences of the two meeting in their early years, and then talked about the current situation of herself, Kou Mei, Gu Mei, and Li Xiangjun. Finally, she advised her to see the situation clearly, not to be a national sinner, and not to leave her infamous for the ages.

Although Chen Yuanyuan is a prostitute, she is not a person who goes with the flow. She is used to singing songs and knows that the betrayer will be arranged into books in the future and will be despised by future generations.

Since she followed Wu Sangui, she knew that she would be infamous in the future. Especially after Wu Sangui was given a killing order by Zhu Youlang, she knew that she would be burdened by Wu Sangui.

This time, Wu Sangui took her to Xi'an to serve the pillow mat, so she was ready to die.

She also thought about escaping from Wu Sangui's control, but she was a weak woman, and this idea... was just an idea.

Now that Chen Yuanyuan has received Yang Ai’s handwritten book, he is overjoyed.

Now that I finally got the chance to live, I don’t have to worry about leaving a bad reputation in history books in the future.

Chen Yuanyuan immediately made a decision and secretly invited Wang Fuchen to discuss how to capture Wu Xiancheng.

Wang Fuchen was Wu Sangui's guard. In the battle of Changde, he protected Wu Sangui disguised himself as a man who escaped from heaven.

If Wang Fuchen made such great achievements, he should be highly valued by Wu Sangui.

Unexpectedly, Wu Sangui did not reward him heavily, but promoted Wang Fuchen to a guerrilla general, and was still responsible for the defense of Wu Sangui's guards.

Although this position is not high, it is extremely important, which should reflect Wu Sangui's attention to Wang Fuchen.

But Wang Fuchen was extremely ambitious and thought that he would have to reward a general and deputy general Dangdang with his contributions. Therefore, he was extremely dissatisfied with this position and held a grudge against Wu Sangui.

After Chen Yuanyuan came to Xi'an, Wang Fuchen was shocked when he saw it.

Because he was responsible for protecting the royal palace, Wang Fuchen saw Chen Yuanyuan very often. Whenever Wu Sangui was not in front of him, Wang Fuchen frequently showed his eyes, and the admiration in his eyes was clearly visible.

Chen Yuanyuan's veteran in love has naturally understood Wang Fuchen's intention.

However, although she did not report Wang Fuchen, she did not like him, let alone fall in love with him.

This time after receiving Yang Ai's handwritten book, Chen Yuanyuan immediately thought of the brave guard leader.

Just in time, you can use it.

"Madam, what can I tell you if I summon the officials?" Wang Fuchen didn't even dream of Chen Yuanyuan summoning him alone. He was in a state of excitement, walking with the wind, and when he spoke, his voice felt a little fluttering.

“Geehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Chen Yuanyuan didn't say anything, covered her mouth and laughed a few times.

Wang Fuchen's body was already weak when he heard the fairy-like laughter.

I looked up and saw Chen Yuanyuan smiling and glanced at him a few times. He was really shaking and full of charm.
Chapter completed!