The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 69 Tricks
"General, my subordinates have personally led people to investigate. Luxi has indeed basically dried up, and the water in the river is less than one foot wide." A confidant officer of Ke Yongsheng handed over the report.

Luxi is a major tributary of the Xinjiang River. Usually the river is more than half a mile wide, but this year it is almost dry.The alternation of extreme drought and extreme flood is also one of the remarkable characteristics of the climate of small glaciers in the late Ming Dynasty.

"Okay!" Ke Yongsheng stood up when he heard the words, clapped his hands and laughed, "God helped me! This time, I will definitely wipe out the Ming army in one fell swoop!"

A middle-aged man with a yellow face and a short beard standing at the bottom recalled the request letter sent by Gao Jinku a few days ago, and he said with a look of hesitation: "General, General Gao Shen mentioned in the letter that This Ming army weapon is fierce..."

"Firearms?" Ke Yongsheng smiled disdainfully, "What kind of firearms does Gao Jinku, who can only fight hard, know?"

He had read the mansion report of the Fuzhou battle a long time ago. Gao Jinku was ambushed and defeated by [-] Ming troops. When this guy reported the military situation, he only said that the enemy soldiers were numerous and powerful. Elite soldiers.

Ke Yongsheng snorted coldly in his heart and said, they are all ignorant guys. Books such as "Fire Attack" and "Western Magic Machine" have been written for many years, but no one has read them seriously.Gao Jinku is still holding on to the three-eyed blunderbuss that is hard to hurt at a distance of ten steps. In his eyes, the bird blunderbuss that are a little more decent are probably excellent firearms. No wonder he said, "Firearms are powerful" fierce".

Ke Yongsheng, who is "good at learning and memorizing", is familiar with all kinds of latest military books in the Ming Dynasty, and knows that in today's battles on the battlefield, excellent firearms are the way to win.

For this reason, he invested almost all the silver obtained from years of corruption and looting on thousands of private soldiers—800 of them, equipped with a total of [-] blunderbusses, all of which were made privately. pistol!The quality is several times better than those made by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, he also has [-] heavy-duty bird guns bought from the Helan people. The lead bullets fired by this gun weigh as much as one or two taels!No matter what kind of armor, it can be easily pierced within a hundred steps.

And his strongest trump card is the twelve thousand-jin Frang machine heavy cannons, which are extremely fast-fired. Together with fifteen smaller No. [-] Frang machines, the firepower is very fierce when facing the enemy.

He has led troops for many years, and has repeatedly defeated the bandits. After entering Jiangxi, he even wiped out the Ming Rebel Army more than ten times, and he has never failed.

Compared with the skill of firearms, he, Ke Yongsheng, has never been afraid of anyone!
But he is also well versed in the reason why a lion fights a rabbit with all its strength, especially since these Ming troops also have several cannons.Therefore, he did not choose a frontal attack, but arranged a winning strategy.

Gao Jinku's over ten thousand army was destroyed first, if he can defeat this Ming army this time, he will definitely be looked at by Jin Zongbing.

This time, in order to confuse the Ming army, he even mobilized more than a thousand Qing troops stationed in Xincheng.Now that Luxi is dry, it is God's help!

Ke Yongsheng glanced at the officer in the tent confidently, and assigned the tasks to each of them according to the plan.

Finally, he ordered several confidant generals: "Li Shiyuan, Zhao Ju, and Zhu Yanghua, order you to organize your troops and soldiers to bring ten days' rations, and move out to Luxi to prepare for battle!"

"Follow the order!"

Since Long Weijun entered the Guangxin Realm, the situation he encountered was completely different from that of Jianchang.

Along the way, the Qing army resisted steadily, and towns of a certain size had to guard for a while.However, in the face of the powerful combat power of the Dragon Guards, all these resistances were quickly disintegrated.

But since arriving in Yiyang, the fighting will of the Qing army began to decline significantly.

The Qing army in Yiyang City only defended the city for half a day, and took advantage of the cloudy sky and dark night, almost all of them abandoned the city and fled.

After Xing'an City and Qianshan City, the resistance became weaker and weaker.The defenders of Qianshan even only heard the sound of a cannon, and they immediately swarmed and fled.

In the county government office of Qianshan City, the Longwei Army is holding a post-war summary meeting.In fact, there was almost no fighting just now, so the summary meeting almost turned into a planning meeting for the people in the relief city.

Exactly the same as the previous counties, Qianshan was looted several times by the Qing army, leaving less than [-]% of the people in the city, and the streets were full of people who starved to death or were killed.

"The Qing army's food and grass seized this time is not much, and it has to be transferred from the less plundered places in Jianchang Mansion." Zhu Linmi is now the prime minister of northern Jiangxi military affairs, so he can directly allocate food and grass among the counties, " The other is to restore the administrative management here as soon as possible, and the important officials who are vacant will be promoted on the spot..."

After the relief matters were almost arranged, the topic turned back to the combat deployment.

"I see that Jianu has become a frightened bird after several battles." Li Ying said with a relaxed expression, "I ran so fast just now."

Zhao Zhibi immediately continued: "Of course, those who rushed out to fight Guixi City were scattered after a few rows of artillery. After that, no Jiannu dared to take the initiative to fight."

"According to this situation, by the time Shangrao is attacked, even the defenders will be gone, haha."

As soon as Huang Qishou finished speaking, he heard the sound of horseshoes outside the hall, and then a hussar ran in and saluted: "Report, my subordinates just inspected the city of Shangrao, but they saw that the gate of the city was not covered, and there was no prisoner at the top of the city." Defenders!"

Shangrao is where the government office of Guangxin Mansion is located. If this place is lost, the Qing army will lose control of Guangxin Mansion.

"Look, I really hit the spot!"

"No, what the hell is Ke Yongsheng trying to do?"

"Sing an empty city strategy? It's a pity that there is no Sima Yi in the Dragon Guards."

Zhu Linmei finally ordered: "Order the whole army to strengthen its guard, and send twice as many scouts before arriving in Shangrao."

"Yes!"

However, it didn't take long for the hussars in charge of scouting the enemy's situation to report back, saying that Shangrao was indeed an empty city.There was even a brave cavalryman who slipped into the city and heard from the people that the Qing army had fled in a hurry three days ago and left a lot of weapons in the city.

The next day, the Dragon Guards pulled out their camp and set off, and they bypassed the lower reaches of Luxi from the east in a short time, and they were less than two days away from Shangrao City.

The terrain in front of me is quite like a huge dustpan, with high sides on both sides and low middle, and it goes downhill from south to north.

When the neat infantry of the Dragon Guard entered the depression in the middle of the "dustpan", Zhang Jiayu hurriedly urged his horse to catch up with Zhu Linming who was walking in front, pointing to the surrounding terrain and said anxiously: "Commander, after repeated consideration , feel that this place is different!"

Zhu Linming stopped her horse and looked around, nodded thoughtfully, "This time when I came to Guangxin, the Qing army first defended everywhere, then gradually pretended to lose their fighting spirit, and finally created an empty city to lure us. it's here."

Zhang Jiayu is an expert in ambushes, so he cupped his hands immediately and said, "Your Excellency has seen that, you should immediately order the army to withdraw! The middle of this place is low and the sides are high. If the Qing army lays an ambush here, our army will be in danger!"

"Ke Yongsheng tried his best to be afraid that I would not come, but in fact, I was even more afraid that he would run away." Zhu Linmi smiled and shook her head and said, "If we don't take advantage of him, he will definitely run back to Shangrao. With his thousands of people To defend the city, it would take at least half a month to blow up the city with our light field artillery."

"Knowing that there are tigers on the mountain, I will go to the mountain!" He pointed to the depression in front of him, "Since Ke Yongsheng is waiting for me, then I will meet him."

"Knowing that there are tigers on the mountain, you prefer to go to the mountain?" Zhang Jiayu chewed on his words in a daze, feeling a sense of arrogance.

(End of this chapter)