Nanming Yiming

Chapter 100 Changes in Eastern Zhejiang 3 (for subscription support)

The lieutenant general led 300 cavalry directly to the artillery position of the Qing army, but unexpectedly, there were horse-trapping ropes and horse pits in front of the position. The Ming army cavalry in the front row fell off their horses and fell into the Qing army's trap.

At this moment, the battlefield was filled with the neighing of war horses!

Then a large number of firecrackers and archers appeared on the artillery positions of the Qing army, and they continued to shoot at the Ming army cavalry.

The cavalrymen of the Ming army were constantly shot down by firecrackers and bows and arrows, and the pikemen of the Qing army rushed forward to kill the fallen Ming army. Soon, nearly two hundred Ming army cavalrymen were killed by the Qing army.

The Ming army cavalry in the rear saw an ambush ahead, and immediately turned their horses to prepare to retreat.

At this time, the cavalry of the Qing army ambushed in the woods took advantage of the situation and rushed out, trying to cut off the return of the Ming army.

Seeing the tragic death of his subordinates, Ma Xin was furious, and immediately led the remaining 500 cavalry to join the battlefield. At this time, the Ming army led by Ma Xin was like an arrow that left the string, and quickly plunged into the Qing army.

The cavalry of the Qing army who were ambushing in the woods were preparing to surprise the retreating cavalry of the Ming army, but they didn't expect that a large number of Ming troops would attack them halfway, causing chaos in an instant.At this time, Ma Xin's eyes were even more red-eyed, like an angry lion, the cavalry of the Qing army fell to the ground and fell off their horses wherever they passed.

The cavalry of the Qing army who attacked was cut off by the Ming army and divided into two pieces.

When the hundred or so Ming soldiers who were fleeing saw their reinforcements approaching, they also turned their horses and joined the battlefield.

At this time, the Qing army's cavalry, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, was suppressed and beaten by the Ming army, and their momentum was greatly reduced.

Chuchen, who was watching the battle in the camp, said: "This Ma Xin is really not simple, and he turned the defeat in an instant."

At this time, Yang Wenqi's face was almost green, and he said: "The Daoist Priest Chuchen is still leisurely joking, and if this continues, Ma Xin will soon escape and ascend to heaven."

At this time, Ma Xin could of course choose to escape on horseback, and the cavalry of the Qing army could no longer trap him.But at this moment, the goal of Ma Xin's attack has not been completed, and the revenge of the sacrificed brother has not been avenged, so he cannot choose to retreat.

I saw that the cavalry of the Ming army still took the initiative to rush to kill the cavalry of the Qing army who had an absolute advantage in numbers with their inferior forces. At this time, Ma Xin led 200 cavalry to turn their horses and charged towards the artillery position.

The Qing army infantry who were chasing were dumbfounded, and the Ming army actually came back again.In a panic, a Qing soldier wanted to raise his blunderbuss to shoot, but the fuze of the blunderbuss had not yet burned out, and Ma Xin's sharp knife had already slashed at his neck.The sporadic firecrackers and bows and arrows could not effectively stop Ma Xin's cavalry. The Qing army spearman who was assassinating the Ming army's fallen cavalry just now has now become the soul of the Ming army.

In this way, thousands of Qing army infantry were directly dispersed by the Ming army cavalry, and became a rout, and were constantly hacked and killed by the cavalry behind them.Facing the Qing army who killed their comrades-in-arms, the Ming army did not show mercy, and they all killed them with one blow.

At this time, the infantry of the Qing army was already wailing all over the field, and they were defeated!
Seeing that Ma Xin was about to rush to the camp of the Qing army, Yang Wenqi quickly ordered the remaining Qing troops to form an formation to prevent the Ming army from entering the camp.

However, Ma Xin's target was not Yang Wenqi's camp, but rushed to the artillery positions of the Qing army, and directly ignited the gunpowder and shells left by the Qing army on the artillery positions with torches.

The soaring flames and huge explosions completely covered up the other fighting sounds on the battlefield, and also announced the failure of the Qing army's ambush.

If the morale of the Qing army was only low just now, it has completely collapsed now.

The Qing army cavalry who were still entangled with the Ming army cavalry before began to flee. They directly broke away from contact with the Ming army cavalry and left their infantry on the battlefield.

In fact, the Ming army at this time is already at the end of its strength, and half of the [-] cavalry when it attacked have now died.Of course, Ma Xin would not let go of this good opportunity to defeat the Qing army, and quickly regrouped the remaining troops to harvest the Qing army's infantry.

At this time, Yang Wenqi's heart was bleeding, and he really wanted to lead the rest of the troops out to fight the Ming army to the death to save the battle.But if he puts the remaining infantry on the battlefield, he may not even be able to keep the camp in the end.

Just when everyone was in despair, there was the sound of rumbling horseshoes from behind the camp.

Chuchen said: "I hope it's not too late to keep Ma Xin's team behind."

These people were the second batch of 1500 Qing troops who had gone north from Wenzhou. The generals of the Qing army led 1000 cavalry to Ninghai after receiving the order to leave the dust, leaving 500 infantry to slowly escort the food and grass.

At this critical juncture, cavalry unexpectedly appeared, and Ma Xin had to make a new judgment.Should he continue to annihilate the infantry of the Qing army or quickly retreat to Ninghai?
Obviously, the cavalry from the Ming army could not be the ones coming from the south, and there were more than a thousand cavalry at this scale. If they didn't withdraw at this time and were entangled by these cavalry, they might really be unable to leave.

After thinking for a while, Ma Xin quickly shouted: "Brothers, don't love to fight, and immediately follow me back to Ninghai. The reinforcements of the Qing army have arrived."

Although this battle was not fully successful in the end, the Ming army's combat objectives were basically achieved, destroying the red cannons of the Qing army, and killing and injuring a large number of Qing army forces.

Of course, the sacrifice of the Ming army was also very large. A total of [-] cavalrymen were sacrificed, half of them were ambushed at the beginning and killed by the Qing army infantry.

Although the Qing army was almost defeated, the actual casualties were not that great.Especially the cavalry, most of them are still alive, just fled the battlefield.

At this time, Yang Wenqi did not escape the joy of ascending to heaven, and he was once again killed by Ma Xin.He had a total of 4200 men and horses. With a 5 to 1 superior force, he also lost 400 cavalry and 800 infantry.

If the reinforcements hadn't arrived in time, it is estimated that the infantry's losses would have more than doubled.

In this case, he no longer had the courage to fight Ma Xin to the death.After leaving behind the cavalry in charge of covering, Yang Wenqi ran back to Linhai without looking back.

At this time, Ma Xin also gave up the pursuit, and now there are only 400 of his main cavalry left.Under such circumstances, being able to defend Linhai County and prevent the Qing army from going north to Ningbo is already the best situation.

On the Yongfeng gate in the northern city of Ningbo, Zhang Mingzhen shouted: "Fire me, hit me hard, and the Qing army's chariots must be destroyed!"

Then there were bursts of cannons in Ningbo City, and of course they all missed without exception.

Tian Xiong led his army to storm Ningbo, and now he has been fighting fiercely with the Ming army outside the north gate for 3 days.Because the moat in Ningbo is too wide, the river channel is more than 40 meters wide, which is not comparable to the moats that are less than ten meters wide in ordinary small county towns.

Why was Xiangyang City so difficult to fight in history?The invincible Mongolian iron cavalry attacked for 6 years before taking Xiangyang, and Lu Wenhuan voluntarily surrendered.It is because the moat in Xiangyang has an average width of 260 meters. This estimate cannot be called a moat, but can be called a moat lake.

Usually, if a large army besieges a city and encounters a relatively wide moat, the attacker will choose to cut off the water source of the moat first, and then fill up the moat.

However, outside the city of Ningbo is the place where the Yongjiang River, the Yaojiang River, and the Fenghua River converge. It is basically unrealistic to cut off the water source.

At this time, several bridges on the moat had been demolished by the Ming army, and the Qing army could only choose the most basic filling operation.So although the two sides have been fighting fiercely for 3 days, the Qing army has not even touched the city wall of Ningbo at this time.

In an important place like Sanjiang like Ningbo, the city is naturally equipped with many red cannons.And this time Tian Xiong also came prepared, also equipped with ten red cannons.

Therefore, the artillery battle between the two sides has basically never stopped, and they have been in a state of mutual shelling.Due to frequent shelling for a long time, several red cannons even exploded.

Fortunately, the hit rate of the red cannons is really not high, so after three days of confrontation, both sides still have several cannons that can continue to fire.

For three days, the Qing army has been working hard to fill the soil under the cover of the car. After paying the price of 500 people killed in battle, they are finally about to fill up a section of the moat.

The Ming army in the city was having a hard time, being attacked by the red cannons of the Qing army all day long. Although the number of casualties was not as high as that of the Qing army, more than 100 people were killed and injured, and the city wall is now riddled with holes.

Fortunately, the craftsmen did not cut corners when building Ningbo City. Although there were many traumas, there was no risk of collapse.

At this time Zhang Huangyan said: "Looking at the situation, we can't stop the Qing army from filling the river today. We must prepare for the Qing army's forcible attack on the city."

Zhang Mingzhen said: "Tian Xiong's cavalry is indeed stronger than ours, and his Zhejiang governor is also an elite Qing army, but he is too big to attack Ningbo City. A mere 5000 troops will attack our ten thousand people to defend The city is really a dream."

Zhang Huangyan said: "Northern City has already prepared a large number of materials such as thunder, stone, rolling logs, fierce fire oil, etc. If the Qing army dares to come and die, he will never come back."

Zhang Mingzhen said: "I'm not worried here in Ningbo, but I just don't know what's going on in Taizhou now?"

Before that, the intelligence department immediately sent the news of Yang Wenqi's rebellion and attack on Taizhou to Ningbo.Later, I received information: Linhai, the capital of Taizhou, fell, but Ma Xin, the general soldier of Taizhou, summoned the remnants of Ninghai to defend Ninghai, and was fighting fiercely with Yang Wenqi's troops.

Out of consideration for the morale of the army, this news was strictly sealed.Only a few high-ranking generals in the Ming army knew the news, and even Zhang Jie, the former commander-in-chief who had surrendered before, did not know about it.

However, the battle situation in Taizhou still affects Zhang Mingzhen's heart. After all, Yang Wenqi's betrayal at this time is too fatal.

Qian Mo had repeatedly reminded Zhang Mingzhen to beware of such a capricious villain as Yang Wenqi, so Zhang Mingzhen took Yang Wenqi away from Chongming.It's just that Yang Wenqi performed very hard this time, which made Zhang Mingzhen look at him with admiration, and specially allowed him to expand his troops and lead the three counties in the south of Taizhou.

Fortunately, Zhang Mingzhen still held back Yang Wenqi to some extent, instead of letting him be stationed in Linhai, the capital city of Taizhou, he chose to promote Ma Xin who had just surrendered.

Facts show that Ma Xin is trustworthy, thanks to Ma Xin burning the grain and grass in Linhai and Tiantai in time, and preventing Yang Wenqi from going north in Ninghai.

Otherwise, if Yang Wenqi goes north to Fenghua and Tian Xiong attacks Ningbo from north to south, it is likely that almost the entire eastern Zhejiang will collapse!
Zhang Huangyan said: "Judging from Ma Xin's handling of Linhai, it is quite timely and should be able to hold Yang Wenqi back. Now we have strengthened our defense in Fenghua, with a full 4000 troops; even if Yang Wenqi can conquer Ninghai and go north, we will not be able to take Fenghua for a while. , Marquis Dingxi needn't worry too much."

Zhang Mingzhen said: "Originally we successfully won the two prefectures of Taizhou and Ningbo. I also wanted to bring His Highness Jian Guo from Chongming to Ningbo. After all, eastern Zhejiang is our foundation."

"Now Taizhou has been gained and lost again, Ningbo is also at stake, and eastern Zhejiang is full of variables."

Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen are comrades who have fought side by side for many years. They have experienced many failures together, and they have miraculously made comebacks again and again.

Seeing his old friend a little discouraged, he quickly encouraged him: "Don't worry too much, Marquis Dingxi, the situation in Zhejiang is good now, I don't know where there is good news!"

Speaking of Qian Mo, Zhang Mingzhen felt very ashamed. Qian Mo had reminded himself several times to be careful of Yang Wenqi, but he didn't take his words seriously. In the end, this villain Yang Wenqi plotted against him.

Yang Wenqi and Qian Mo had a feud against their father. At the beginning, he had protected Yang Wenqi and asked Qian Mo to promise not to pursue the matter.Although Qian Mo expressed his understanding at the time, he still felt that he owed Qian Mo.

Hearing the good news from Qian Mo, Zhang Mingzhen was very happy, so he asked with interest: "This time we can easily sweep East Zhejiang, thanks to Wu Shi's planning, what good news did he hear?"

Zhang Huangyan said: "I don't know how to annihilate 5000 Zhenghuang Banners of the Han army under the command of Jiangnan Admiral Zhang Tianlu in Jiaxing, and recruited more than a thousand remnants of them."

"Yesterday I didn't know that the city of Hangzhou was conquered. Governor Xiao Qiyuan of Zhejiang committed suicide. Most of the defenders in Hangzhou were wiped out, and the rest surrendered."

"Hou Qianhai, the commander-in-chief of Yanzhou, led his troops in Hangzhou anyway, and directly slaughtered all the families of the Eight Banners in Hangzhou to show his sincerity."

"Now I don't know the three prefectures in northern Zhejiang, with tens of thousands of troops. He told us to defend Ningbo and not rush into the army. At that time, he will send his troops to the east and go straight to Shaoxing to open up contact with us."

Hearing this, Zhang Mingzhen was still a little shocked. Qian Mo not only took down all the Qing armies by himself, but also directly took down the three prefectures in northern Zhejiang, especially the fortified city of Hangzhou.

He said excitedly: "I don't know how to use soldiers like a god, even if Qi Shaobao is reborn, it's nothing more than that. I am hopeful that the Ming Dynasty will be revived!"

Not long after, news came that Ma Xin defeated Yang Wenqi at the foot of Ninghai City. Now Yang Wenqi was unable to go north and retreated to Linhai.

This made Zhang Mingzhen so happy that he directly took Zhang Huangyan to drink with him!
Almost at the same time, Tian Xiong under the city of Ningbo also received the news that the Qing army in Taizhou was defeated in Ninghai and was unable to go north to cooperate with it in attacking Ningbo.

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