Nanming Yiming

Chapter 76 Mutual calculation
Hangzhou Deputy General Li Baoguo stationed in Anxi was ordered to lead the 2000 Green Battalion northward to Wukang County overnight, preparing to gather with Jiaxing Deputy Commander Wang Zaixing to conquer Wukang County.

Anxi is only more than 20 miles away from Wukang, Li Baoguo hurriedly arrived at the city of Wukang after marching for an hour.

At this time, Wang Zaixing had already camped in the east of Wukang City, when he saw Li Baoguo and his troops arriving, he hurried out to greet him.

Wang Zaixing said: "Not long after I sent the request letter to Hangzhou, Lieutenant General Li led his troops to come for reinforcements, which is really fast."

Li Baoguo also said politely: "The military situation is urgent. I rushed here non-stop after receiving the order from Governor Xiao. How is the situation now?"

Wang Zaixing said with a little frustration: "Yesterday our troops raided Deqing County and conquered it in one fell swoop. We wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue Wukang directly. Unexpectedly, the Ming army was prepared. Our troops attacked several times in a row but couldn't take it down. The governor came to the rescue."

"The south of Wukang City is Qianxi, so it is impossible to attack the city. Now the east, west and north sides are surrounded by our troops. But I left 500 people to guard Deqing County, and only 1500 people are left to besiege the city. If we want to capture the city, there are not enough troops. I also ask brother Li to help me."

Li Baoguo said: "I don't know how many Ming troops are in the city?"

Wang Zaixing said: "There should be more than a thousand people, but the firearms of the Ming army are relatively sharp, and our troops are exhausted in the continuous attack on the city, and the casualties are not small. We can't do anything to them for a while.

Li Baoguo said: "It is very hard for Wang Zongbing to attack the city continuously, please help us to attack the two northwest gates, our troops will rest for a while and then attack the east gate."

After resting for a quarter of an hour, Li Baoguo began to command the troops to attack the city.

Due to the hasty march, Li Baoguo did not prepare chariots, but the Qing army still prepared a lot of large shields.

The large shield of the Qing army is made of thick wood covered with cowhide and iron, which has a very good defensive effect on firearms.

If it was replaced by the bird gun that used ordinary black powder before, it would be impossible to penetrate the large shield within 30 steps. Even if it could barely penetrate the large shield within 30 steps, it would be difficult to cause much damage to the Qing soldiers in cotton armor.

The Green Battalion under Li Baoguo is also a battle-tested force. Naturally, they understand the power of the Ming army's blunderbuss, so they charged quickly at the beginning. After reaching 50 steps, soldiers with large shields began to lead the way, and the rest followed behind the large shields. . ,
Wukang City also has a moat, but at this time the moat has been filled in half, and there are 7 or 8 passages directly under the city.

Li Baoguo thought it was the result of Wang Zaixing's siege before, which saved him a lot of energy.

In fact, this is the marching route deliberately left by the Ming army for the Qing army. The tiger squatting cannons on the city have already adjusted their positions and aimed at these passages.

At this time in Dongcheng, Huang Yu was leading the 400 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to stand ready.

Tian Xiong has already gone south to reinforce eastern Zhejiang, so Huzhou Fucheng can rest easy. Qian Mo specially asked Huang Yu to lead half of the Shenji Battalion south to help the Chongming Battalion eat up this wave of reinforcements sent by Xiao Qiyuan.

In fact, the improved Lumi gun can cause damage to the Qing army wearing cotton armor at a distance of more than 80 steps.

The barrel of the Lumi blunderbuss itself is longer than that of the bird blunderbuss, and the charge is also more than that of the bird blunderbuss. Coupled with the power of granulated black powder, the effective killing distance has been greatly improved.

Coupled with the stable shooting accuracy of the Lumi blunderbuss, it became the standard configuration of the Ming army under Qian Mo's command.

At this time, the Qing army had already entered the range of 80 paces, but Huang Yu still ordered the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion not to fire.

After the Qing army entered the range of 50 steps and began to advance towards the city wall, Huang Yu ordered the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion on the top of the city to shoot.

"Bang, bang, bang"

I saw bursts of white smoke rising from the top of the city.

Li Baoguo, who was watching the battle from a distance, laughed and said, "The Ming army really doesn't have a long memory. The firecrackers at a distance of 50 steps can't penetrate the big shield at all, and hurt the soldiers in cotton armor behind."

But as soon as the words fell, his smile froze instantly.

The soldiers holding large shields in the front row of the Qing army fell one after another. Not only did the Ming army's firecrackers easily penetrate the large shields, but even many of the Qing soldiers behind the shield soldiers who were seventy or eighty steps away from the city wall were hit and fell down. land.

After only the first round of shooting, the Qing army fell nearly 100 people.

Many Qing soldiers were stunned by the scene in front of them, and stayed where they were.

Fortunately, these green battalions are veterans who have experienced battles, and they know that there will be an intermission after a round of shooting.

The Qing army, who reacted quickly, rushed towards the city wall on the siege ladder while the Ming army was shooting.

However, the Ming army on the city used the "three-stage attack", and 400 people were divided into 3 groups to shoot in turn.

Soon the second and third rounds of shooting followed.

After three rounds of shooting, nearly 300 people from the Qing army fell to the ground.

At this time, many Qing soldiers had already rushed to the shooting blind spot under the city wall. Unless the Ming soldiers poked their heads out and shot down, they would not be able to shoot at them with firecrackers.

This is also the biggest difference between ordinary Chinese-style cities and western bastions. The multi-faceted wall design of Lingbao can shoot the enemy troops below the city without dead ends.

Just as the Qing army under the city wall was glad that their legs and feet were fast enough, and was about to set up a ladder to attack the city, the tiger squatting guns on the city wall opened fire.

The precise shells landed on several passages, and then the second round of "three-stage strikes" on the city wall began to harvest again.

Faced with huge casualties, the follow-up Qing army finally began to retreat.

At this time, the hundreds of Qing troops under the city wall instantly became a lone army. If they also escaped at this time, they would have exposed their backs to the Shenji Battalion on the city wall.

Moreover, several narrow passages could not allow them to retreat quickly.

Huang Yu shouted, "Get the bayonet!"

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion put the bayonets they were wearing on the joints below the gun barrels.

The design of this bayonet is quite mature, so at this time the Shenji Battalion is no longer equipped with special spearmen.

At the same time, the east gate of Wukang City was suddenly opened, and Hong Fugui, who had already had itchy hands, led hundreds of Chongming battalion to kill them out.

I saw Hong Fugui holding a big knife, rushing from left to right, feeling very uncomfortable. Wherever he said, there were corpses of Qing soldiers who fell to the ground.

And the few Qing soldiers who managed to climb up to the top of the city were skillfully sent down to the city with bayonets by the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion.

Li Baoguo was about to deploy follow-up troops to fight against the Ming army who had left the city to fight. He only heard Wang Zaixing yelling at Li's troops: "The main force of the Ming army has reached the city. Don't love to fight. Follow me and retreat to Deqing County."

When Wang Zaixing yelled, the morale of Li Baoguo's subordinates plummeted instantly, and he could only order the troops to quickly withdraw to Deqing County.

Fortunately, Deqing County is not far from Wukang County, only less than 20 miles away.

After running wildly for a while, Li Baoguo gathered nearly a thousand men and arrived outside Deqing County.

Fortunately, Deqing County was still under the control of the Qing army at this time. Wang Zaixing stepped forward and opened the city gate, and then immediately went into the city to tell Li Baoguo and others to enter the city quickly, so that the Ming army did not catch up.

At this time, the Ming army behind them had also arrived, and Li Baoguo hurriedly urged his subordinates to enter the city.

After entering the Wengcheng, the shocked Qing army rushed to the city gate, only to see that the city gate was closed after Wang Zaixing entered the city, and ambushes were everywhere on the city wall.

At this time, the suspension bridge outside the Urn City was pulled up, and this Qing army became the turtle in the urn.

Li Baoguo, who had reacted at this moment, cursed loudly: "What a good king Zaixing, you actually betrayed the Qing Dynasty and led me into the Jedi!"

Wang Zaixing said calmly: "I have long been the commander-in-chief of Jiaxing under the command of Qian Mo, Governor of Daming Suhu. Now that you are surrounded by my army, why don't you catch me without a fight?"

Li Baoguo laughed loudly and said: "Don't be too happy too soon, brothers follow me to fight out of the city."

At this time, in Deqing County, there were 2000 people from Wang Zaixing's Ministry, 400 from Shenji Camp, and 800 from Chongming Camp.

Outside the Wengcheng, Huang Yu led the 400 Shenji Battalion to aim at the gate of the Wengcheng, and Hong Fugui led hundreds of soldiers from the Chongming Battalion to guard it.

Where can Li Baoguo survive?
"Bang, bang, bang"

Gunpowder smoke was everywhere inside and outside the Wengcheng, Li Baoguo was shot several times and died, and the city was full of wailing!
At this time, the remaining more than 500 Qing troops completely lost their fighting spirit, and all knelt down and surrendered!

Qian Mo finally got his wish and ate the 2000 people Xiao Qiyuan sent to his door.
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Since Jiang Riguang and Pan Yongxi's Northern Expedition army captured Qimen County, they conquered Yi County and Xiuning County one after another.

Huizhou was shaken for a while, but at this time the reinforcements of the Qing army had already rushed to Shexian County, the capital of Huizhou.

On March 3th, the 8 Manchurian Eight Banners led by General Pingnan Jin Li ambushed the Ming army led by Pan Yongxi in Tunxi, and easily killed more than 4000 Ming soldiers. Pan Yongxi had to lead the remaining troops to retreat to Xiuning.

However, the Eight Banners led by Jin Li are all cavalry, and they are not good at attacking cities.

At this time, Jiang Riguang also led the reinforcements to Xiuning County in time, and the Ming army was able to stabilize its position.

The two sides faced off in the mountains of Huizhou.

It wasn't until March 3th that Jin Li received an urgent report from Xiao Qiyuan that he gathered his troops to take back Huzhou.

While Qian Mo was gathering the main force to encircle and wipe out Li Baoguo on the southern front, Jin Li's troops had already arrived near Guangde and were about to enter Huzhou.

As the Ming and Qing armies were confronting each other on the battlefield in Huizhou, Qian Mo did not receive news of the defeat of the Ming army.

Therefore, there was no precaution against Jin Li's actions, and the intelligence department did not discover this mobilization of the Qing army.

At this time, Qian Mo was concentrating on digging a hole for Xiao Qiyuan in the south, and did not realize the danger at all.

In Si'an Town, which is adjacent to Huzhou and Guangde, the Vanguard Battalion of the Qing Army is chasing the rangers of the Jingnan Battalion.

I saw Agari, the leader of the Eight Banners of Mongolia (the Chinese translation of Jialazhangjing), drew his bow and set his arrows in one go, and the three Ming soldiers in front fell to the ground one after another.

Aga Rixiu finished shooting arrows in one hand, and the Mongolian soldiers behind him shouted long live. At this time, his subordinates reported: "All the rangers of the Ming army have been cleaned up, and no one has escaped."

"Si'an Town is ahead, but the Ming army is already stationed in the town."

Agari shouted: "Mongol warriors of the Horqin tribe, come with me to flatten Si'an Town ahead!"

Zhang Xiaofan personally led 500 people from the Jingnan Battalion to station in Si'an Town. To the south of Anji was the Tianmu Mountains, and it was difficult for the Qing army to pass through. Only Si'an Town in the north guarded the passage to Huzhou.

Si'an Town is just a small town without city walls, only Si'an River runs through the town.

Therefore, the Jingnan Battalion chose to deploy defenses along the Si'an River to prevent the enemy from crossing the river.

At this time, the Jingnan Camp has also been equipped with a new type of Lumi blunderbuss, but unlike the Shenji Camp, the proportion of fire blunderbuss in the Jingnan Camp is only 50%, and half of the troops are still holding cold weapons.

Now it's past the time to come back to report, and the 10 sentinel riders didn't hear anything from them, which made Zhang Xiaofan feel a little uneasy.So he ordered all the staff of the Jingnan Battalion to be on alert.

Sure enough, not long after, 1000 Mongolian Qingqi led by Agari appeared on the other side of Si'an River.

Although the bows and arrows of the Mongolian cavalry can shoot at a distance of nearly a hundred steps, the effective distance that can really shoot through the cotton armor and cause damage is about sixty or seventy steps.

The Lumi gun can directly break through the cotton armor at a distance of 80 steps, and it still has a certain range advantage.

This group of Mongolian cavalry followed Jinli and defeated the Ming army in Tunxi. Naturally, they knew that the firearms of the Ming army could only break through the armor within 50 steps, so they wanted to use the advantage of the range of bows and arrows to shoot against the Ming army, so that they could hang Ming army.

This is also the tactic that the Manchu and Mongolian light cavalry have always used. Taking advantage of the range and archery to lob the Ming army, the Ming army often collapses after a few rounds, and there are almost no casualties here.

So the Mongolian troops advanced one after another and prepared to shoot arrows with bows 50 steps away, but unexpectedly, when they entered [-] or [-] steps, they were hit by firepower from the Ming army.

In an instant, dozens of Mongolian soldiers were shot and fell off their horses. Although some Mongolian cavalry rushed within 70 steps and shot arrows back, their accuracy and strength were really limited. Except for a few Ming soldiers who were shot at vital points such as the face and throat, there were basically no caused too many casualties.

However, the Ming army followed up with the second and third rounds of shooting, and more Mongolian cavalry were shot and fell off their horses.

More than 100 Mongolian warriors were lost in one face-to-face meeting, and Agari quickly ordered his men to retreat.

At this time, the stone bridge has been firmly held by the Ming army. Such a narrow place is really not suitable for cavalry to charge, and the tactics of the Mongolian cavalry are also different from those of some Manchurian heavy cavalry. They are mainly light cavalry. Rarely carry out frontal cavalry charges, just to use the advantages of range and archery to slowly grind them to death.

Seeing the Mongolian cavalry marching away, the soldiers of the Jingnan Battalion burst into cheers.

Many soldiers even shouted: "The Manchurian cavalry is invincible in the world, I think it is only at this level, and they were beaten away by our Jingnan camp in one wave."

Zhang Xiaofan quickly realized that the Si'an River was not a big river, and the Mongolian cavalry could find a place where no one was around and ride across the river directly.

Sure enough, in just a few moments, the Mongolian cavalry crossed the river from the north of the upper reaches of Si'an Town.

Agari cursed: "The cunning Ming army thought that we would foolishly rush up if we held the bridge. The Horqin warriors followed me and killed the generals to avenge the comrades who died just now."

At this time, dust and smoke billowed on the road north of Si'an Town.

The Mongolian cavalry who retreated just now waved their sabers, bows and arrows, and made another comeback.

Great momentum to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.

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