I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 166

After losing the first battle, the morale of the Qing army was low. There was no chance of launching another attack today.

Dai Kun remained calm on the surface, but deep down he was already anxious. His food and grass would not last for a few days.

It is true that before the grain road was cut off, Ningguo Mansion had already transported a batch of grain and grass.

But this is an army of [-] people after all, and Huangchi Town is also unlikely to give up directly. At least it has to hold on for a longer time, otherwise how can Dai Kun dare to go south with confidence.

In this way, if the food and grass are divided, there will not be much left.

That's why the Qing army arrived at the Ming army's camp and launched an attack in a hurry without even inspecting it.

Unexpectedly, the [-]-strong army could not even defeat a simple camp, but instead suffered a bruise and a swollen face.

At this time, the Qing army's camp no longer had the same bravery and morale as before the war, and the entire camp seemed quite noisy and noisy.After all, this is just a new army that has been trained for less than a month. It only guarded the city in Huangchi for a few days, and it was only with Dai Kun's money offensive that it had this combat power.

Now that the battle has been lost, morale is naturally low and the morale of the army is weakened.

Chinese army tent.

The few senior generals of the Qing army gathered together. Not only were there many people waiting in the entire tent, but even the senior generals at the level of Commander-in-Chief Qian were not able to come in.

Several senior generals here are actually on temporary duty, just like the leader Dai Kun.

It's just that Dai Kun's regimental training envoy was endorsed by Longkodo and reported to the court. However, the positions of generals of these people here were unilaterally appointed by Dai Kun. Not only are they not official positions, they also do not match their actual positions. I just sent it to Longko to report it.

As for whether the imperial court will recognize it or not, who knows?
"Can you all tell me what to do next?" Dai Kun started his remarks.

A military training officer immediately said: "Master Tuan Lian Envoy, I will attack it directly as you said. It's just a village. The general has attacked too many before. With so many of us going up together, how can we still survive?" Can’t capture it?”

As soon as he finished speaking, another person retorted: "Attack directly? How many troops will this cost? These are our brothers from the countryside!"

"Since ancient times, kindness has not led soldiers. How can a woman fight a war if she is benevolent?"

"But if the losses are too great, even if we successfully defeat the rebels on the opposite side, how can we resist the rebels from Taiping Mansion when they move south?"

"That's right. The soldiers' morale is low now. Even if our entire army attacks us, we may not be able to defeat them. It's not just that they are invincible. It will take a long time. If we are attacked from two sides, we can't defeat them. That’s not good!”

"This won't work, that won't work either, then just go around..."

"Go around, thank you for telling me!"

Several people were talking and talking, and it soon turned into a quarrel.

The quarrel got out of hand. If Dai Kun, the regimental trainer, hadn't stopped it in time, these people would have drawn their swords and started fighting on the spot in the tent.

"You are now considered an official of the imperial court, how can you behave like a shrew and scold the streets like this?" Dai Kun opened his mouth and reprimanded mercilessly.

Several people were so scolded that they didn't dare to say anything for a moment, but they still stared at each other.

Seeing this, Dai Kun didn't have any good ideas. Who would have thought that this was his own trap!
After all, although this new type of recruitment and training was created by him, the entire southern Anhui army is composed of these people. The army formed by the villagers working together, with sufficient food and pay, is indeed extremely brave, and its combat power is better than the previous one. I don’t know how much stronger Lvying is.

But the shortcomings are also obvious. Once these people rebel or disobey orders, Dai Kun has no choice.

Because this military training system is equivalent to changing the state-owned army to the general-owned army, Dai Kun can actually control only these senior generals, not the soldiers below them.

In a sense, these senior generals are the same as Dai Kun, with layers of arrogance, similar to the warriors of the island country.

Therefore, when Dai Kun entrusted (crossed out)... these generals, he deliberately created conflicts among them.

In this way, even if there is an individual general with evil intentions, it is difficult for his army to cause a big disturbance.

Dai Kun discussed with everyone for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a reason.

There was no way, the prerequisites were there, they were the passive side in this battle, because he didn't have enough food and fodder, he was still in the middle of two groups of fake rebels, and he was still in the wild.Even if he is not flanked, he will definitely run out of food if he waits a few more days.

Once there is no food, the morale of the army will be chaotic.

However, the Puppet Ming Army camp opposite him acted like a coward.

With the current strength of the Qing army, if they really attack with force, I don't know whether they can win or not, but they will definitely be defeated in the end, no matter whether they win or lose.

As for going around, Dai Kun and several other Qing generals knew that if they really went around, the counterfeit rebels in the camp would jump out and bite their tails in an instant.

The dilemma is Dai Kun's current situation.

Different from this, although Yang Gong in the Ming army camp could not eat food for ten days, he still had a few more days than the Qing army.

Of course, Yang Gong didn't know how much surplus food the Qing army had, but it didn't matter, the initiative was now in his hands.

Although Yang Gong only has the strength of three towns, he has a camp and can advance, attack, retreat or defend.

He had already planned that he would do nothing in the past few days and let the soldiers only train, eat and sleep. At the same time, he would not leave the camp and would only send scouts out to monitor them.

If you wait for work in leisure, you will drag it hard.

Yang Gong doesn't just take risks and fight tough battles. If time permits, he can achieve strategic goals at a lower cost.

Just when Yang Gong was waiting for work and preparing to forcefully waste time, the [-]-strong army left behind by Dai Kun in Huangchi Town in the north was destroyed first, without even a chance to cross the river and escape south.

Dai Kun's plan was very good. Huangchi Town had [-] troops left by him, and they were still defending the city. It was also adjacent to the retreat route of the Changhe River. Even if they couldn't fight, they could cross the river and retreat south.

Moreover, the Qing army garrison who was responsible for staying behind was also a steady-minded person, so he should be able to defend it for a while.

But Dai Kun, despite all his calculations, ignored the Ming army outside the city. His [-] troops crossed the river and moved south. The movement was so loud that unless the Ming army was blind, how could they not notice it.

Sure enough, as soon as Zheng Dingrui discovered that something was not right with the Qing army in Huangchi Town, he immediately realized that Yang Gong's plan had worked.

Therefore, he didn't care about the specific situation in Ningguo Mansion. As soon as the Qing army left, he immediately sent people to Huangchi Town to take turns shouting.

It was not to persuade them to surrender, but simply to tell the Qing troops inside.

Your food supply has been cut off, and even the adults in your family have fled with their main cronies. How can you idiots like you persist?

Since ancient times, attacking a city has focused on attacking the heart.

Not to mention that what Zheng Dingrui said was originally true. Even if it was false, with such conclusive words, the morale of the Qing army would definitely be weakened.

Because Dai Kun really "ran" with his main force.

And Zheng Dingrui did not give the Qing garrison in Huangchi Town any breathing space. After shouting here and disrupting the morale of the army, he immediately ordered a general attack.

The morale of the Qing army had long been weakened, and now they were attacked by tens of thousands of Ming troops. Artillery shells were fired upwards as if they were free, and the few remaining explosive shells were used. The siege troops even used grenade hammers. .

With all the tricks of the Ming army and a fierce offensive of tens of thousands of troops, the Qing army in Huangchi Town was completely defeated in just half an hour.

At this time, it was only two days before Dai Kun went south.

Zheng Dingrui only left one town soldier in Huangchi Town to guard the prisoners, and also to guard Huangchi Town, a long river artery.

Then he quickly crossed the river and headed south.

Dai Kun didn't know yet that if he continued to delay, he might be attacked by the Ming army before he ran out of food first.

By then, even if he has the power of Sun Wu, he will never be able to recover.

(End of this chapter)