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Chapter 89 Bold Ideas

The Ming army suffered a setback from the gates of Wenzhou City. Although it was only a tentative attack, the loss was only over a hundred soldiers, and the losses were the combined losses of several first-camped camps. In fact, it was not a huge amount in isolation.

If the total strength of the Ming army entering Zhejiang is included, it will be even more insignificant.

However, this still allowed Yang Gong to roughly understand the garrison strength of the Qing army in Wenzhou City. It is conservatively estimated that there must be at least several thousand Qing soldiers in the city.

If you add in the young and strong civilians recruited, it is estimated that it is possible to reach tens of thousands.

Tens of thousands of people, not to mention not all Qing soldiers, even if they are all Qing soldiers, it actually doesn't matter.The Ming army entered Zhejiang this time with [-] troops, and they were well-equipped with armor and red-coated heavy artillery and Tianlei battalions to help.

Previously, the [-]-strong army under the command of Fujian Governor Lu Youlong was defeated by their [-] Ming army, not to mention the Wenzhou Prefecture, which only had tens of thousands of civilians and Qing troops.

The key problem is that the Qing garrison in Wenzhou City turned out to be a wise man. He played a tortoise tactic with them and even tried to clear the field by fortifying the walls.

In this case, if the Ming army wanted to capture Wenzhou City, they would either have to follow the Ming army's traditional skills and add artillery to the camp first, and then the army would attack and take it away.Or choose the normal play style and directly besiege the city until death.

After Yang Gong saw this, he immediately changed his mind. This Wenzhou defender obviously had some brains. If he attacked by force, he would not be unable to defeat him, but he did not have enough troops at hand. He must not involve too much in a small Wenzhou city.

Not only did the former cause a lot of casualties, it was also not conducive to the Ming army's follow-up strategy in Zhejiang. As for the latter, it was even more time-consuming. The supervisor's order when he came was very simple, at least to capture the city of Hangzhou before the New Year's Eve.

Otherwise, Ming Dynasty would be at risk of being surrounded by the Qing court.

Without even thinking about it, both of these can only be alternatives.

Looking at the slightly abstract sketch of Zhejiang drawn by the Privy Council on the case, Yang Gong couldn't help but frowned.

While he was thinking about it, suddenly, Yang Gong's eyes lit up (don't ask why), but a bold idea popped into his mind.

The Qing army in Wenzhou City was fortified and unable to retreat. It was obvious that they were going to waste time with the Ming army.

Although as long as Yang Gong is determined and pays some casualties, it is not impossible to defeat him. He can even repeat the same tactics and blast coffins as he did when he attacked Funing City before.

But the coffin cannon is easy to use, but it must be used in conjunction with cave siege. To put it bluntly, it is an improved version of cave siege.

If you really want to dig a tunnel, it will take a lot of time, and if you meet an experienced veteran on the battlefield, you can easily see through it even if you don't know what they are doing.

The order given to him by the Supervisory State was that he must capture the city of Hangzhou before the end of the year.

Ha ha.

Since no matter how we fight in Wenzhou City, we can't avoid a circle that will cause heavy casualties and take a long time. Fortunately, Yang Gong just ignores Wenzhou City.

In the previous battle of Quanzhou, Zhu Yijiong divided his troops for reinforcements and lured the puppet Qing governor Lu Youlong's army to attack, and then wiped out his troops in a battle in Quanzhou City.

As a result, the whole of Fujian was in a dilemma with no troops available for the war. Only in this way did Yang Gong easily sweep through all the prefectures in northern Fujian.

Now, Yang Gong wants to directly copy Zhu Yijiong's style of play in the Quanzhou battle.

No, this cannot be called copying. Yang Gong's idea is even more radical. Since the Wenzhou Qing army is unwilling to come out, then fortunately he will leave Wenzhou city alone.

Directly lead the army to go around and continue northward. It doesn't matter where they go, as all the food and supplies can be collected on the way.

Yang Gong just wanted to see if these Zhejiang Qing troops could hold back even though he had gone deep into the area alone. If they could hold back, then he wouldn't be polite anymore.

In ancient times, Xia Houyuan ran a thousand miles to attack Longyou and shocked Liangzhou. However, Yang Gong was almost there, so he rushed a hundred miles to attack Hangzhou City.Good guy, this is really a case of overturning the table at the slightest disagreement.

I have to say that Yang Gong’s idea is no longer bold, but very bold.

What Zhu Yijiong was afraid of was being surrounded by the Qing army, so Yang Gong took the initiative and jumped directly into the hinterland of the Qing army.

However, this is also in line with the character that Yang Gong has always shown. He likes to take risks when using troops. He was also the one who beat Du Junying before. With a few hundred people, he dared to chase thousands of elite soldiers. It really made him Caught up.

Now that he had decided, Yang Gong naturally did not waste any more time outside Wenzhou City.

Soon, the soldiers and horses from the first town headquarters of the First Army under Yang Gong set off first, followed by the second, third and fourth towns, guarding the baggage troops, quickly bypassing Wenzhou Fucheng in batches and heading north. Go straight to Taizhou Mansion.

In order to prevent the logistics and food routes from being cut off, Yang Gong directly asked the baggage troops to bring all the food, grass and ammunition, leaving only the remaining three thousand troops in the fifth town (two thousand troops were stationed in Ruian County, Pingyang), and Yu The thousands of civilians recruited under Wenzhou City are young and strong.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops bypassed the capital of Wenzhou and headed north. Naturally, all this could not escape the eyes of Dai Kun, the commander-in-chief of Wenzhou.

However, at first Dai Kun thought that the Ming army's big move was for the siege of the city. After all, at this time, sieges and sieges were very common, and it was a common tactic to besiege three people without one.

In particular, the Ming army went around in batches and did not move northward at once. They even left a town of [-] soldiers and several thousand civilians at the south gate. It was indeed very similar to a siege.

Then, the Ming army disappeared, and Dai Kun suddenly realized that except for the three thousand Ming bandits left behind at the south gate, there was no Ming bandit at the west gate, north gate, and east gate.

This is not a matter of surrounding three and missing one!
Where did the tens of thousands of Ming thieves who had gone around go?

You can't really just ignore it and go all the way north, right?
Dai Kun thought it was ridiculous. Although the Ming thieves did not have 20 soldiers and horses in the city a few days ago, there were still [-] or [-] soldiers, and most of them were real thieves.

The strength of such a large army is several times that of the defenders in Wenzhou City. In addition, the Ming thieves also have dozens of large and small heavy artillery, and their firepower can completely crush Wenzhou City.

If he hadn't been prepared in advance, he would have blocked the city gates with huge rocks, strengthened the walls and cleared the fields. He had made various arrangements in advance. He also boosted morale on the city tower and personally directed the soldiers on how to defend the city.

I'm afraid that Wenzhou City won't be able to defend it for a day, and it will be destroyed the same day the Ming thieves arrive.

However, the city guard was able to defend the city, but he failed to see the main force of the Ming thieves.

Dai Kun was anxious, always feeling that something bad would happen, but he did not dare to risk going out of the city to attack the Ming thief army at the south gate.

He was afraid that the main force of the Ming thieves was actually ambushing near Wenzhou City, waiting for his main force to leave the city before swallowing him whole.

On the Wenzhou City side, Dai Kun was still hesitating and was in a dilemma, but Yang Gong had already led the army, carrying grain, grass and baggage, bypassing the North Yandang Mountain, and advancing to Ningxi Town, a town near Wenzhou.

There was no surprise at all. When they saw the red Ming army and the sun and moon flag symbolizing the nine tribes' entertainment appearing outside Ningxi Town, the first reaction of both the town's inspection department and the local tycoons was: Wenzhou Prefecture fell.

Otherwise, how could this group of Ming thieves come from Wenzhou Prefecture?

As a result, everyone in Ningxi Town, from the inspection department to the powerful landlords, surrendered decisively.

"The lower officials (caomin) respectfully welcome the Master of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Where's the food?"

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(End of this chapter)