Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 266 Offensive and defensive momentum, navy attack!
Liu Zongmin was scolding his mother, but Yang Zhan was already counting the gains and casualties.

Although it was just a hasty contact battle, because the cavalry of the Shun army were defenseless against bombs and horse pits, four to five hundred cavalry were lost on the battlefield in the end.

However, most of these people were injured, not killed in battle. They were captured by the Ming army because they were injured and could not retreat in time.

As for the horses left behind by the Shun army, there were more horses, but a considerable part of them ran out of the battlefield, and the Ming army and the Shun army could not catch up for a while.

The Ming army brought back more than 100 horses. Yang Zhan took a look at it himself and lost interest.

When he looked through the binoculars before, he discovered that although there were many Shun army horses, there were few real war horses.

For example, among the more than 100 horses they seized, most of them were ordinary draft horses, and there were even more than [-] mules, and only a dozen of them could be called war horses.

As for the casualties of the Ming army, except for one sword player who died when the cavalry of the Shun army rushed into the battle, only a dozen people went out to fight and were shot and wounded by the cavalry of the Shun army who stayed where they were.

Although few of these Shunjun cavalry could shoot on horseback, quite a few could shoot on foot, and some of them were quite stubborn. Even if they were injured and awaited capture, they would not accept their fate.

It's a pity that Yang Zhan's border guards are well-armored, even if they are shot by arrows, as long as they are not critical, they are only injured.

After learning the data on the gains and casualties, Yang Zhan used his binoculars to look at the Shun army four or five miles away.

I saw that the whole army was slowly retreating.

A general next to him couldn't help but said: "General Town, it seems that the Shun army is really going to withdraw, why don't we send troops to pursue it?"

Yang Zhan glared at the man, and said, "What are you chasing after? Don't forget, our mission is to guard Hanyang Town. If we really want to counterattack, we have to wait for the military order from above!"

Then he said: "I will send a general order to send a team of scouts to follow these Shunjun troops, and report back immediately if there is any new situation."

"Yes!"

The Ming army scouted horses and followed the Shun army all the way to the west, and found that the Shun army finally stopped on a hill more than ten miles away from Hanyang Town, set up camp, and looked like they were going to stay here for a long time.

After Yang Zhan learned about it, on the one hand, he asked Tan Ma to continue to monitor the movement of Liu Zongmin's Shun army, and on the other hand, he sent Tan Ma to investigate in other directions, so as to avoid being caught in Shun Jun's tricks.

He had heard from Aunt Zhu that the Shun army is best at fighting in movement, avoiding the real and attacking the weak, so you have to guard against it.

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Liu Zongmin wanted to lead the army to move around, to create a fog, so as to find an opportunity to break through Hanyang Town.

However, the area around Hanyang Town was so big, and the Ming army scouted horses and monitored them closely, and there were only a few mules and horses in the army, so he couldn't afford to exercise even if he wanted to.

Therefore, they had to wait for a day and gathered more than [-] land and water troops led by Li Zicheng.

After Li Zicheng saw Liu Zongmin, he said: "The Ming army of the demon girl is really difficult to fight. Yesterday, the sentry ships of the navy on the Han River fought against them a lot, and they rarely won."

When Li Zicheng said this, he was putting his face on the Shunjun navy. In fact, the Shunjun had never won the sentry ship water battle yesterday, and the Ming army did not know how many ships were captured by the ships.

After reports from the navy and Liu Zongmin, Li Zicheng found out that Zhu Wei's army is not only well-equipped, but also of high quality, and its combat effectiveness may not be inferior to that of the elite Shaanxi-Gansu Ming army 15 years ago.

Li Zicheng is not a person who likes to confront the enemy head-on, and after confirming that Zhu Wei's army is strong, he is even less willing to be tough.

He said to Liu Zongmin: "Cihou sent a letter saying that the Ming army in Hankou town is also tightly defended, and there is no opportunity to take advantage of it.

Therefore, he has led his army to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, looking for another place to cross the river, in order to raid Jiangxia City.

Now that the tens of thousands of Ming troops are attracted by us to Jiangbei, apart from the soldiers and horses under Zuo Liangyu's command, Jiangxia City must not have many direct troops.

In addition, the spies I sent out should have also arrived in Jiangxia. They only need to contact one or two generals from Zuo Liangyu's old army, cooperate with Cihou Liyingwai, break Jiangxia, or capture or kill the witch, and they will win the battle.

Therefore, what we have to do is not to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, but to attract the main force of the Ming army here, and prevent them from returning to defend Jiangxia in time.Do you understand? "

Liu Zongmin was able to become the general of Zhongying Quan not only because of his personal bravery and loyalty to Li Zicheng, but also because of his talent in leading the army and fighting.

Hearing Li Zicheng's words, he nodded and said: "I understand, we want to fight the Ming army, but we can't really fight, fight, but keep harassing and attacking them."

"Not bad." Li Zicheng nodded in satisfaction.

Today Li Zicheng is obviously in a good mood.

Because before leaving Hanchuan, he finally received the battle report from Baiwang from Xiangyang.

Azige led a total of more than [-] soldiers from Manchu, Mongolian and Han into Huguang, and went straight to Xiangyang. Xinlai Baiwang had already prepared, concentrated troops, horses, food and grass in Xiangcheng and Fancheng, and finally defended the fierce attack of the Qing army on the first day.

In the battle reports and letters, there is a sense of inviting credit and showing off.

Li Zicheng was happy, a little unhappy, and a little worried at the same time. His mood was complicated.

I am naturally happy because Xiangyang was not defeated by the Qing army like those cities in Shaanxi and Henan.

The reason for displeasure is that Bai Wang has shown signs of arrogance due to his meritorious deeds - before that, Bai Wang had become a big player because of his management of Jingxiang for two or three years. Now that he has blocked the Qing army, he must be even more arrogant.

As for being worried, Li Zicheng could see clearly that Bai Wang could hold on to Xiangyang for a while, but he might not be able to hold on for a long time.

First, the isolated city is not defended. Now Baiwang has concentrated most of Xiangyang's troops in Xiangyang and Fancheng. The defense of other cities must be empty.

Second, the Qing army chased Xiangyang so quickly, so they must have not brought Hongyi cannons.

This time, the Qing army could not attack Xiangyang. As long as the Hongyi cannons were transported from Shaanxi, Xiangyang would not be able to defend.

Of course, generally speaking, Bai Wang defended Xiangyang for the time being, after all, bought time for him to attack Wuchang, which was better than Xiangyang being directly captured by the Qing army, so he was mostly happy.

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On the afternoon of March [-]th.

Zeng Ying was standing on the deck of the steel-armored warship he was on, discussing the military situation with Zhu Wei, Hong Niangzi, Yang Zhan, and Liu Wenxiu on the walkie-talkie.

He said: "Jianguo, Li Zicheng's army arrived this morning, but it seems that they are not in a hurry to attack."

Aunt Zhu said: "We can't delay, and Li Zicheng can't delay either.

The Qing army will inevitably attack Xiangyang, and if he cannot defeat us before Xiangyang is breached, he will die.

He now shows a look of not being in a hurry, either he wants us to take the initiative to attack, or he has some conspiracy. "

Liu Wenxiu said: "Theoretically speaking, Hankou Town is also a breakthrough point for the Shun army, but it is very strange that the troops stationed here have not encountered the Shun army.

In Jianguo, the minister suspected that the Shun army might split a partial division, bypass Hankou Town, and go downstream to cross the river to attack Jiangxia.

Please transfer the first town of the imperial guards back to defend Jiangxia, and use two battalions of frontier guards to guard Hankou town! "

At this time, Hong Niangzi said: "The Shun army's attack on Jiang Xia with partial divisions is only a guess, why rush to send troops back to defend?

In addition, let me put it bluntly, even if there are tens of thousands of Shunjun troops attacking, relying on the first town of the imperial guards and the Yulin army, they can still protect the safety of the prison country and Jiangxia City.

On the other hand, if due to a momentary suspicion, the Shun army was given an opportunity to capture Hankou, then the subsequent battles would be difficult to fight. "

At the old house in the bamboo forest, Hao Guangming also heard the content of the intercom meeting on Daming's side through the mobile phone video.

He said to Aunt Zhu: "I think what Hong Niangzi said is more reasonable, Jiangxia City has the first town of the imperial guards and the imperial forest army, so it's not a problem to defend it.

But it is true that Li Zicheng can't be dragged on like this-you can let the navy take the initiative to find Li Zicheng's naval decisive battle, and it is best to defeat his navy. "

Auntie Zhu nodded, and immediately said into the intercom: "Zeng Ying, let the navy go to battle tomorrow. Even if Li Zicheng's navy cannot be defeated, it must be forced to go away."

"Yes."

March sixteenth.

Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai each led hundreds of warships of the Yangtze River Navy, sailing up the Han River to drive and attack the civilian ships of the Shun Army Navy.

The Shunjun Navy fought back with a large number of arson ships, but the Yangtze River Navy was already prepared.

If the leading warship is not a steel armored warship, it will be covered with wet cowhide, and there will be sand and poles on board.

Often, the Shunjun arson ship was sunk by shells before it approached.Or if there is one that is close, it will be opened by the pole and sink.

Occasionally, warships were quickly extinguished because the arsonist ship was close to the fire.

During this process, the Shun Army had organized more than a dozen elite soldiers to seize the ship, but they were all defeated by the Yangtze River Navy.

After nearly a day's battle on the Han River, the Shun Army Navy lost thousands of civilian ships. Not only did they gain nothing, but they also lost troops and generals.

Therefore, before sunset, they were driven by the Yangtze River Navy and retreated directly to Hanchuan.

Also in the afternoon of the same day, an elite Shun army of nearly 3 people appeared in Jiangxia County...
(End of this chapter)