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Chapter 395
On the last day before the decisive battle, Zhu Shuren's advance speed can be said to be very fast and sudden, which made Doduo feel almost caught off guard.

In fact, anyone who looks at the map a little more will be amazed at Zhu Shuren's resolute and decisive actions.

Originally, even though the Qing army was repeatedly compressed to move space strategically, it still controlled the territory of Danyang, Jintan, and Wujin counties. It was precisely because of this that Duoduo did not come so quickly in the initial misjudgment battle.

The Ming army couldn't count the counties in a day or two, break through the buffer zone directly, and kill Duoduo, right?

But Zhu Shuren managed to "recover Danyang in half a day", and then he went around Wu Jin without attacking, and came to Duoduo in more than a day.Among them, there are naturally some twists and turns.

The restoration of Danyang County, in the final analysis, was an attack on the heart, which caused civil strife in the local Qing army. In the early morning of December 24, the Ming army changed the previous encirclement, three missing one, completely trapped Danyang, and then launched firepower preparations before the general offensive. .

While exerting pressure by force, Zhu Shuren asked Cao Bianjiao to take Liu Liangzuo's head and wandered around outside the city again. He also found a group of scolding hands with wooden trumpets and shouted in unison, dispelling the news that "the reinforcements of the Qing army in Jiangbei were destroyed" Further adding oil and vinegar to the propaganda, all kinds of chaos caused the defenders.

Although the Manchu generals in the city were not bewitched, the former Ming soldiers were shaken.

In addition, Duoduo also left a large number of traitorous civil officials from the Nanming Dynasty who jumped over the wall and surrendered to the enemy during the Battle of Nanjing, and left them in Danyang and Wujin counties. These people have also played a considerable role as pig teammates.

After all, Wang Duo, Qian Qianyi and others are old, and their physical strength is not enough to support the army to endure hardships. Elderly care placement, after the Qing Dynasty won Jiangnan, it will be used as a pretense to appease people's hearts.

In the past month, Qian Qianyi really regretted it.

Especially on the third day after he surrendered to the enemy and became a traitor, he heard that Guo Xingye arrived in Nanjing with 10,000+ Huguangqin King's troops and repelled Prince Yu's siege of Nanjing soldiers.

In the dead of night, Qian Qianyi couldn't help but make up his mind, "If I believed Shi Kefa's words at the beginning, I wouldn't have thought that he was trying to trick everyone into dying for the country together. One of ZTE's cabinet ministers."

This time, when the Ming army finally besieged the city, and all kinds of aggressive propaganda that the Tartars were about to die, Qian Qianyi was moved.

Taking advantage of his face among those Han people who surrendered to civil and military affairs, he jumped up and down and worked hard for a long time.A group of people found time during lunch time to invite a Manchu city gate guard to drink, and then secretly killed and offered the gate in the chaos.

After the Ming army entered the city, Zhu Shuren was of course very high-spirited and showed his face by posing for pictures.

Qian Qianyi was also carried in front of him by someone, and he was thrown a dozen steps away from him, and then he walked forward on his knees, not daring to look up, but kept begging for mercy:

"Guo Xingye, the sinful minister was deceived by lard, and took a wrong step, a wrong step! Seeing that the guilty minister has repented and once again abandoned the dark and turned to the light, please spare the guilty minister's life!"

Before Zhu Shuren could speak, Cao Bianjiao next to him became angry and spat: "Bah! Shameless old man!"

Qian Qianyi didn't dare to hide, and he didn't know if Cao Bianjiao was helping Zhu Shuren with dirty work, venting Zhu Shuren's desire to vent his anger but not to dirty his hands.

The other party has offered their door, so it is really not easy to kill. Zhu Shuren thought for a while, and pronounced the sentence in a deep voice: "You are a villain, but you are poor and come to vote. Why don't you take the initiative to offer your door before I attack? At most, I will save your life , wait for the exile member!"

Zhu Shuren just casually said that now Dayuan is of course still in the hands of the Dutch. Two years ago, the Dutch just went north from Dayuan and captured the chicken coop occupied by the Spaniards, taking control of the whole island.

When Zhu Shuren is free to take care of it in the future, he will naturally be able to use the senior officials as the new place of exile for criminal officials.

After Zhu Shuren finished speaking, some staff members around him felt that it was a little heavy.

Gu Yanwu then said: "We're not trying to excuse Qian Qianyi, it's just that the world is still undecided, and if we don't benefit those who surrender, it will not be conducive to recruiting surrender in the future."

Zhu Shuren said indifferently: "Who says I won't benefit the surrender? I am very tolerant of generals. It's just that I don't tolerate these ministers of literature.

When a dynasty has reached its peak, they are the most indispensable thing.Both the Song and Ming Dynasties had two or three hundred years of imperial examinations, and there were a lot of people who wrote lyrics and compositions.Even if you make a mistake once, you will never use it, and there will be endless people who want to make up for it. "

Only rare and professional talents need to be given the opportunity to reform themselves.

The kind that can't be finished by throwing ten with one, and give it a chance?Why don't people with criminal records be given a chance in the civil service examination in later generations?
Isn't it because being an official is the easiest thing, there are so many things you can do in line, and you are not afraid of not being able to choose people if you pick and choose and don't treat people as people.

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Zhu Shuren broke through Danyang and moved forward all the way, resting steadily for a night in the middle. In the morning of the next day, he finally arrived at the decisive battle between Wujin County and Jiangyin County.

Duoduo has also moved his army forward in advance, retreating more than 20 miles to the west, leaving the low-lying area outside Jiangyin City, and moving to a battlefield that is relatively suitable for a decisive field battle.

Previously, in order to defend the city, Yan Yingyuan dug a large number of canals to release water to block the enemy's detour space, which made the terrain outside Jiangyin city very unfavorable for large corps operations.Duoduo has long suffered from this, and of course he can't stay in that kind of place during the decisive battle.

And this final battlefield is roughly in the large unnamed wilderness between Changzhou City and Jiangyin County in later generations.

In fact, this battlefield is not very suitable for cavalry regiments to intersperse, but it is already relatively the best in the nearby hundred miles.

There are still water networks on the battlefield. Beitang River and Hengtang River, two natural rivers connected to the canal in Changzhou Prefecture, divide the battlefield into three parts.

At the southern end of the battlefield, there is also a large swamp and wetland dominated by Songjian Lake, making it impossible for both sides to achieve a detour on the southern line.

With a lake and wetland and two rivers, in such a terrain, it is really difficult for the cavalry on both sides to charge in a wide range. At most, it is a head-on cavalry charge. Sub tactics.

However, due to the fact that there are too many troops on both sides, a smaller battlefield cannot be accommodated at all, so it can only tolerate this kind of large battlefield across two rivers.

As the sky gradually brightened and the two armies confronted each other, the size of the two sides' forces gradually became more transparent.The main generals on both sides are equipped with binoculars, and they can roughly estimate the number of people on the other side by climbing up and looking at them.

In the final decisive battle, Duoduo brought [-] combatable soldiers in good condition. When he moved to Jiangyin, he claimed that there were still "[-] to [-] combatable soldiers", but after half a month's consumption , Another [-] to [-] lost their fighting power.

It's not that so many died when the Qing army attacked Jiangyin, there were also injuries.

Doduo considered that he needed people to guard the camp in the rear, and he needed to keep a general strategic reserve team in case of accidents, and he also had to guard against Yan Yingyuan's sudden rush out of the city and flanking the main force of the Ming army, so he kept most of the wounded and sick. Guarding the camp, there were still one or two Jiala supervisors left, and the rest were all pulled to the front, barely enough for 5 people.

For Zhu Shuren's side, the reinforcements he originally brought from Huguang amounted to [-] people, but the previous battles were also slightly exhausted. In addition, the navy he brought could not participate in the decisive battle, and had to stay on the flank of the Yangtze River. Patrol blocked.

Therefore, even if the most elite Li Fuming troops in Nanjing were added to the decisive battle troops, the field troops brought by Zhu Shuren would be about 9 people. Thousands of people come and go, and there are only [-] left in the [-] army.

Of course, Nanjing City, Jurong County, and Danyang County in the rear also have their own rear army reserves, all of which were originally under the command of Shi Kefa in the Southern Zhili area.

But those were old-fashioned Ming troops, their weapons hadn't been upgraded, and their combat power was not good enough, so they could only be used to defend the city. Zhu Shuren was afraid that bringing them into the field would cause chaos and shake the friendly army's position, so he simply didn't take them with him.

Zhu Shuren has been in charge of the military power in Southern Zhili, that is, in the last month. After the current battle is over, and the rest period after the war to digest and integrate the results of the war, he has the energy to reorganize and reform these old troops, and thoroughly investigate and clear the vacancies. shortfall.

On the other hand, the battlefield is indeed narrow. The Ming army has 14 troops, and the Qing army has [-]. A total of [-] people are piled up on such a battlefield that is [-] miles wide from north to south, which is already relatively crowded.No matter how many Zhu Shuren have troops, they can only be used as a reserve team and cannot be directly invested.

With a width of thirty miles, two soldiers in the front occupy a width of one foot, which can only stand 1 people.In fact, there are still large sections along the river, low-lying wetlands, bushes, jungles and reeds that cannot be deployed.

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In terms of the composition of the arms, among the 5 people in Duduo, the proportion of Manchurian cavalry is quite high. He led more than 2 Manchu cavalry across the river. There were heavy casualties, but that was a minority after all.

In the three siege battles, the heaviest casualties were the servant army and the Han army flag. Who made this part of the army have a high proportion of infantry and suitable for attacking fortifications, and the Mongolian army flag came next.

Today, Dodo can still gather about 5000 Manchu cavalry, which is also his greatest reliance.

Excluding the Manchu cavalry, there were 1 remaining, about [-] Mongolian troops, and the last [-] infantry, all of which were Han army banners and servants.

On Zhu Shuren's side, among the 2 Ming army, the total number of cavalry was no more than that of Duoduo, that is, the main cavalry force of the Huguang and Sichuan Ming army dominated by Cao Bianjiao, with a full force of [-].

So purely comparing the cavalry, the Ming cavalry is still nearly 1 fewer than the Qing cavalry.However, 2000 of the Ming cavalry were equipped with horse-mounted muskets, including revolvers and rear-mounted double-barreled nozzles.

The armor is also quite sophisticated, at least equipped with a one-piece forged steel breastplate and steel helmet forged with a hydraulic forging hammer.Those elite horse musketeers also have better armor for other parts.

Although the cavalry of the Qing army also generally had iron-clad cotton armor when they crossed the river, they were all the elite among the elite. However, in the three siege battles, the Qing army would cause a large number of soldiers to wear double iron armor and triple iron armor to attack the city first. The iron armor was left under the city and was captured by the Ming army who cleaned the battlefield.

In the previous siege of Nanjing, Duoduo lost at least 1 pairs of iron-coated cotton armor, and the battle of Jiangyin was no less than this number.Many dead soldiers temporarily borrowed excess armor from their comrades to rush to the city. Thousands of dead soldiers died, but more than [-] armor was lost.

In the end, the armor of the cavalry of the Manchu Eight Banners was not enough, so they had to invade and strip the armor of the Mongolian Army Banner.Now the Mongolian cavalry under Dodo's command basically don't have iron armor, and they are all taken away by the friendly army of the elder master. The Han army banner infantry lacks heavy armor even more.

In this way, Duduo was able to guarantee [-] Manchu cavalry, and there were still iron-clad cotton armors fully loaded.

Judging from such paper data, the size of the cavalry and the combat power of the equipment of the two sides are almost at the same level.The infantry unit of the Ming army was obviously much stronger.

Zhu Shuren's remaining 4000 troops are all infantry, while the Qing army on the opposite side has only [-] infantry, which is three times the difference.

Among Zhu Shuren's 7 horses, about 5000 are equipped with new-style firearms "made in Wuchang" newly released this year, and there are more than 1 bird guns, Lumi guns, and turtledove guns made by Zhu Shuren's army in the past few years. The inventory of the Ming army in Nanzhili.

Add up a total of [-] musketeers, [-] crossbowmen, and [-] melee infantry.

This ratio can also perfectly meet the needs of the combination of distance and distance in the Spanish phalanx. The Spanish phalanx in the later period can basically achieve a one-to-one ratio between pikemen and musketeers, and Zhu Shuren's current ratio of distance and near is three to four.

In the future, the production capacity of military exploits will be further on the right track, and the resources of the entire southern court can be dispatched by Zhu Shuren, and the rate of firearms will naturally rise rapidly.

"I haven't seen you for a few years. There are so many firecrackers in the new army of Nanmanzi. I'm afraid that the crossbow and firecrackers in the infantry can account for half of them. I have heard for a long time that the barbarian court is poor and weak. Where did Zhu Shuren come from?" How much money to make firearms?"

After seeing the enemy's situation through the binoculars, Duduo also felt uneasy for the first time. It was rare for him to shake his belief in the invincibility of the Qing cavalry in field battles.

But the arrow is on the string, and he has long been unable to turn back.Now there is only the last two or three miles between the two armies, and some parts of the two wings are more impulsive and forward, and they even exchanged fire from a long distance.

Duoduo could only bite the bullet and command the various departments to meet the enemy in an orderly manner.

"Let the cavalry of the Mongolian flag detour as far north as possible to see if they can get a chance to attack the Ming army's flank. The infantry of the newly attached army on the southern line can stick to it along the Hengtang River, and don't let the Ming army rush over.

The Han Army Banner infantry in the center is advancing steadily, and my Eight Banners cavalry is ready to respond at any time. If the Ming Army cavalry dares to charge against my Han Army Banner infantry, let my Eight Banners cavalry counterattack! "

Duoduo assessed the situation on the battlefield and realized that there was Songjian Lake swamp in the south, and the Hengtang River flowed into Songjian Lake all the way, so he let the weakest new army under his command block it.

The Mongolian cavalry had been stripped of most of their iron armor, and now they are dominated by light cavalry. It is definitely not possible to charge hard, so they can only entrust them with the roundabout task of the most detour.

Although the entire battlefield is only thirty miles from north to south, even if he detours to the Yangtze River, the Ming army may not give him a gap to make a detour, but how will you know if you don't try.

The ministries of the Qing army were quickly mobilized according to Duduo's command on the battlefield, and the infantry of the Ming army on the southernmost line and the newly surrendered traitors of the Qing army also quickly shot at each other across the Hengtang River.

These small rivers on the battlefield are not wide, at most dozens of paces, so both banks are within the range of muskets and crossbows, and shooting across the river can cause obvious casualties to the enemy.

As soon as they fought, the shortcomings of the Qing army's lack of firearms were exposed. The infantry of the newly surrendered traitor army on the east bank of the Hengtang River could only shoot with bows and arrows, while the Huguang musketeers of the Ming army on the west bank could use excellent blunderbuss and Lu Gunshots.

The traitorous infantry under Doduo immediately realized that "directly resisting the enemy on the beach" was a mistake. The firepower of the Ming army could completely prevent soldiers wearing round shields and armor from standing on the riverside, and the leading officers could not stand. Don't let your subordinates retreat dozens of steps from the riverside.

(End of this chapter)