Chapter 262: Offensive and Defensive Battle of Pinggang Mountain

This is actually the main reason why the Shaoxing government does not recognize Zhu Yujian, and of course, their respective interests are also one of the key points.

So much so that later the two sides turned against each other and killed each other's envoys, until water and fire were incompatible.

However, although Zhu Yujian hit an iron nail in Shaoxing Mansion, he was not discouraged, according to his thoughts, this is a great opportunity, he thinks that eastern Zhejiang, Fujian has the troops of Lu Jianguo and Zheng Zhilong to resist the Qing army, as long as he moves to Ganzhou or Hunan, he can control the troops transferred from southern Jiangnan, Huguang, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Guizhou to compete with the Qing army, so as to recover the lost territory.

This idea should be correct, however, before his plan was implemented, it was opposed by Zheng Zhilong, He Tengjiao and others, and he was stillborn and came to naught.

Zhu Yujian repeatedly asked Zheng Zhilong to take advantage of the opportunity to send troops with water divisions to attack Nanjing when the Manchu Jiangning Mansion (Nanjing) garrison was stationed to aid Hubei, but the result was refused.

These powerful figures under Zhu Yujian just treat Zhu Yujian as a tablet and do what they want in the name of Zhu Yujian, but for what they don't want to do, I'm sorry, my strength doesn't allow it.

Therefore, Zhu Yujian could not move Zheng Zhilong's army from Fujian to Jiangxi, and He Tengjiao, who he had high hopes for, sent elite soldiers and strong generals from Hunan to Jiangxi to meet them, and they were all disappointed.

However, Hong Chengchou of the Qing Dynasty sent Ke Yongsheng, Gao Jinku and other troops to Jiangxi to cooperate with Jin Shenghuan's troops to fight, and successively captured Ji'an, Ganzhou, Nan'an and other prefectures.

The reversal of the war situation in Jiangxi was attributed to the selfish selfishness of Zheng Zhilong and He Tengjiao, which not only directly led to the fall of the Longwu court, but also had a great impact on the development of the situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the Qing army occupied the entire territory of eastern and southeastern Zhejiang, and the two roads broke into Fujian, and the Longwu Dynasty was already in danger.

To say that it is at the end of its rope is not an exaggeration.

The main reason why Wu Zheng did not go to Fujian and chose Shaoxing Mansion is that the Zheng Zhilong family of the Longwu Dynasty is dominant, and Wu Zheng Zheng will never be allowed to rise.

And Wu Zheng started from scratch, so he could only rely on Zheng Zhilong's snort to live, rather than being a lackey of a warlord and minister, it was better to be at ease in Shaoxing Mansion.

At least, there are righteous people like Zhang Guowei, Qian Sule, and Zhang Huangyan in Shaoxing Mansion who control the government.

Facts have also proved that Wu Zheng's choice is correct.

The first round of armistice negotiations between the Shaoxing government and the Qing court ended unhappily after three days of difficult process, and the demands of both sides were too related.

The Qing court demanded that the Ming army withdraw from Yingtianfu, and the border between the two sides was fixed on the line between Changzhou and Jiangyin, and at the same time a non-aggression pact was signed, which was valid for ten years.

Wu Zheng, on the other hand, not only did not want to withdraw from Yingtianfu, but also wanted the Qing army to withdraw from Zhenjiangfu, and the two sides took the Yangtze River as the boundary, and the non-aggression treaty could be signed, but the time needed to be shortened to three years.

The gap between the two sides is too great to make peace.

There is a saying that "if you can't get something on the battlefield, don't want to get it at the negotiating table".

The two sides broke out again, but this war, both sides had moderation, and did not break out on the Yangtze River, but transferred the main battlefield to Shaoxing Prefecture, that is, Pinggang Mountain.

The Qing court believed that a decisive battle was impossible in the short term, the imperial court could not mobilize more than 100,000 troops to oppress the Yangtze River, and there was no strong naval division as the vanguard, it was very difficult to break through the Yangtze River.

And this central idea is still caused by Hong Chengchou in Zhenjiang who wrote to the Qing court thousands of miles away, I have to say that Hong Chengchou was indeed scared by Wu Zheng three times, and he even wanted not to fight Wu Zheng again in this life.

The reason why the Qing court adopted Hong Chengchou's opinion was that the Qing court was indeed overwhelmed and could not transfer more troops for a while, and the Qing court did value Hong Chengchou, and finally, Hong Chengchou's influence in the Qing court was also very great. As we all know, among the Ming ministers who descended to the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou's official position was the highest, and these ministers invariably united around Hong Chengchou, which is called huddle for warmth.

Therefore, when Dolgon gave the order to talk while fighting, in fact, there was no substantive offensive and defensive along the Yangtze River, and at most the shore artillery on both sides of the strait fired a few rounds symbolically to show deterrence.

The real battlefield is in Pinggang Mountain.

In the past ten days, Duoduo transferred 16,000 reinforcements from Taizhou and Wenzhou, and he already had 40,000 troops in his hands at this time.

However, there are only more than 12,000 troops in Pinggang Cottage, and of course, there are nearly 10,000 people, of which the number of strong men is about 3 or 4,000.

In terms of troops, the Ming army is naturally at a disadvantage, but the topography of Pinggang Cottage is by no means won by numbers.

Dodor had also done a lot of homework in these days, and he sent dozens of scouts up the hill from the surrounding area, trying to attack the cottage from the top down.

But the problem is that Pinggang Mountain is not an independent mountain, it already belongs to the Siming Mountain System, continuous mountain ranges, it is impossible for the Qing army to find a way to break through by sneak attack, not only that, but many of the dozens of scouts sent out are missing because they are lost and can't find their way back.

In desperation, Duoduo dismissed the idea of taking a shortcut, so he arranged his troops and decided to break through head-on.

He divided the army of 40,000 into three parts, 10,000 on the left and right flanks climbed the mountain from both sides of the road, 10,000 broke through head-on, leaving more than 10,000 people to form a reserve to deal with the unexpected.

On the fourth day of the fifth lunar month, fighting broke out suddenly.

Although the Yongdao is narrow and not enough for the 10,000 frontal attacking Qing troops to rush up, the mountains on both sides of the Yongdao can accommodate a large army to climb the mountain.

The Ming army also had to deploy heavy forces on the mountains on both sides, because once the Qing army climbed to the top of the mountain, it would expose the entire cottage to the enemy's downlook, which would be a real catastrophe.

In the defense of the mountain, although the Ming army has a top-down terrain advantage, there are many difficulties.

Not to mention the dense trees, which create obstacles to rolling stones and wood, and even arrows cannot pass unimpeded, which also gives the enemy the possibility of shielding.

The frontal assault deployed by the Duoduo turned into a feint, and the main battlefield shifted to the two summit mountains.

In the first battle, the Ming army suffered a big loss, the enemy poured up from the mountain, and the ordnance in the hands of the Ming army almost did not cause much damage to it.

So much so that in the end, the whole army had to emerge from the position and charge downwards to drive the first wave of the enemy back to the forest below the mountain to eat soil.

As a result, in half a day, the Ming army paid thousands of casualties.

During a short break, after learning that the enemy was preparing to attack from the mountains on both sides, Chen Sheng and the others gathered together to discuss urgently.

It is not difficult to solve this problem, it is enough to send manpower to cut down the trees, but the problem is that the enemy cannot give himself so much time.