Chapter 1774: The Battle of the Xiaowen River

Because Wu Zheng deliberately delayed, this negotiation seemed a bit of a child's play.

The conditions put forward by Wu Zheng are also appalling, for example, Wu Zheng proposed that the east of Shanxi and the north of the Yellow River be the truce conditions of the Qing court's borders, and even Wu Zheng proposed to let Fu Lin abdicate and become a vassal king under the Jianxing Dynasty, etc., and so on, so that Su Ke Saha and Sonny did not have to live.

If they really bring these conditions back, I'm afraid their heads will have to move.

But Suke Saha and Sonny didn't dare to leave with their sleeves up, because Wu Zheng "wanted to talk", as long as Wu Zheng still wanted to negotiate, they had to talk, which was a strict order given to them by the Qing court.

Suke Saha and Sonny knew that Wu Zheng was opening his mouth in the lion and had no sincerity in negotiating, but they still had to tell the facts and reason, for example, the British prince of Runing Mansion Azig still had 60,000 or 70,000 elites, for example, the imperial court promoted Wu Sangui to the title of Pingxi County, and promoted him from the king of Pingxi County to the prince of Pingxi, so that he could lead the army to immediately reinforce the Runing battlefield, and then for example, Yue Le's army in Qingzhou, and the prince of Duanzhong, Boluo, would lead 100,000 new troops to the south to reinforce and so on.

However, every time he said to the end, he found that Wu Zheng either yawned or dozed off.

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There was a war of words in Xuzhou City, but the Xiaowen River Resistance War was irreversibly started.

Ao Bai is by no means as brave and less intelligent as in the joke.

On the contrary, Ao Bai is very cunning, and a man who can fight against Dorgon for several years, and it is at the time of Dorgon's power, that such an undead person is blind to say that he is unwise.

In the entire Qing court, there was only Zilharang.

Hong and Fan didn't die, not because they were powerful, but because they were playing Tai Chi with the circumferential kung fu of yang and yin at that time.

Even in front of Dolgon, he expressed his allegiance and the like, so he survived until Dolgon died, which can be regarded as a successful practice.

But Ao Bai was really unprepared, and the enemy army would set up an ambush on the south bank of the Xiaowen River.

First, the intelligence work was not at home, second, the cavalry scouts sent did not reconnoiter the other side of the river, and third, he had been fighting on the battlefield for decades, and the ordinary situation was no longer difficult for him.

That's right, Song An set up an ambush on the south bank, and it is indeed difficult to worship.

The Xiaowen River is a small tributary, which has been artificially developed to have a stable river course today.

But even so, the river is not wide, and the ambush section of the river is only six or seven zhang wide, which is enough for the Qing army to ride and shoot to cover the ambush soldiers on the south bank with arrows.

The ranger has strong power, and the ambush is difficult to aim, that is, the ambush cannot be set up but will be eaten by it.

And Ao Bai also thought that even if there were ambushes, there would not be many troops, and he did not know that Ziyang had been lost, and since it was still fighting, it was impossible for a large number of enemy troops to bypass Ziyang.

That's right, Song An brought 3,000 people.

For the more than 10,000 troops of Aobai, this is like an egg hitting a stone.

But what Ao Bai didn't know was that these 3,000 people were ordinary 3,000 people?

Although it is a criminately structured repeating gun, and it also has a slow rate of fire and often jams, it is a repeating gun after all.

Ignorance of the enemy was the main reason why Ao Bai suffered a big loss in this battle, and it was not related to his command mistakes.

At the beginning of the battle, the Qing army was taken by surprise.

Song An himself is a wilted character, the Qing army crossed the river on the north bank, a distance of six or seven zhang, not to mention the continuous fire, ordinary musket salvo can hit the opponent a mess.

But Song An has been holding back, and even when the first wave of hundreds of Qing army forwards landed on the shore and drove piles on the bank to assist the rear army to cross the river, Song An did not move.

It was not until the first wave of the main force of the Qing army crossed the river with more than 100 small boats and reached the center of the river that Song An gave an order to shoot at the hundreds of Qing troops who had landed on the shore with a partial division, and 100 repeating guns shaped like tiger squat cannons were saturated at the more than 1,000 Qing troops in the center of the river.

This kind of repeating pistol is not slow, but the projectile is large, the charge is sufficient, the projectile is oval, the shape is like an olive that bites off the buttocks, and when the military workshop tries to produce it, it can shoot through the seven layers of leather armor 500 steps away.

At this time, more than 100 steps away, beating these Qing soldiers who only wore a single layer of leather armor, it was equivalent to killing chickens with a bull knife, splashing water-like projectiles to tear apart everything that could be seen on the river, how could those small sampans block such a powerful projectile? They were beaten to pieces and sawdust flying and shattered.

In just a few minutes, the river was a mess, and there was no longer a boat still floating on the water.

On the contrary, the hundreds of Qing troops who had landed on the shore were "supported" for a longer time under the care of muskets, which was caused by the survivors of them scattering after a round of salvos, but with the second and third rounds of target shooting, they also returned to Mobei.

The speed was so fast that it didn't give Ao Bai time to react.

Song An quickly ordered to shoot at the Qing army on the north bank, but a large number of Qing troops had already taken the initiative to stay away from the river bank, and the results were not great.

Subsequently, Ao Bai quickly rectified the withdrawn men and horses, and in just a pillar of incense, the Qing army began to spread to the left and right, widening the distance, and fighting separately in a large-scale, long-term way, and the idea of crossing the river.

It's terrible, firearms are sharp, the reason is that it's dense, precision is secondary.

But the battle line is open, how can 3,000 people be able to defend the river bank line for several miles, or even more than ten miles?

If this is just an ordinary blocking battle, then the results are already very fruitful, as long as Song An orders a retreat, it will be a complete return.

But Song An's task is to stop it, at least for a few days, right?

After crossing the Xiaowen River is Surabaya, and the middle terrain is suitable for cavalry combat, and once the 3,000 musketeers are bitten by the cavalry, it will be a disaster.

How could Song An retreat?

Fortunately, Song An made preparations in advance, and built a simple fortification with a height of one person at the ambush site, that is, to pile up sand and gravel in sacks.

There are also techniques for stacking, the higher the pile, the more the sand and gravel sack is inside, and the inside is covered with wood.

This kind of fortification is not very useful for cavalry shock, but it is very effective against the cavalry of the Qing army's rangers, which means that there is no need to prevent the enemy from hitting his head with a high shot, and the piled up sand and stone bags leave a shooting hole to shoot the enemy.

As long as the ammunition is not stopped, this circular fortification can cope with the attack of enemies from all sides.

Song An led his troops to make a detour on the river bank line and snipe the Qing troops who crossed the river.

It was not until the next morning, when two Qing soldiers had successfully swam ashore from farther away, that Song An ordered the troops to withdraw into the fortifications.

As a result, this blocking battle turned into an offensive and defensive battle.

During the river crossing stage, Ao Bai had already lost 2,000 men and horses, and suffered a dumb loss.

Aobai, who went ashore and swore revenge, brazenly ordered an all-round cavalry charge against Song An's troops.

He still did not learn his lesson, believing that the scattering of the attack in three directions, as long as the cavalry dispersed and rushed quickly, was enough to weaken the fire of the musketeers, and the speed of the cavalry charge was enough to neutralize the threat posed by the muskets.