Chapter 642: The War Ends
Wu Zheng finally gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand, held the handle of the knife, and lifted it up forcefully in his hand.
Then turn around, get up, and leave.
There was a faint long cry behind him, and then, quietly.
Wu Zheng, who was at the door, reached out to wipe away the tears that oozed from the corners of his eyes inadvertently, and walked out of the house.
Song An greeted him and asked softly, "Young Master...... What to do with her aftermath? ”
Wu Zheng raised his head and replied astringently: "Go and pick a good coffin...... Buried! ”
"Do you want to erect a monument?"
"No!" Wu Zheng replied professionally, and after speaking, he strode away, but after taking a few steps, he stopped and said to himself: "She doesn't need a monument, what she needs is peace." ”
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The loss of Ningbo Mansion, Bolo is actually very clear about the consequences.
With his heart, he knew that he was invincible, and he should have led his troops to save Duoduo.
But Duoduo had strict orders, and according to Duoduo's instructions, Bolo issued an order to retreat to the Qing army attacking Jinhua Mansion.
In fact, at this time, the Qing army that attacked Jinhua Mansion had gradually lost its fighting spirit.
The forces of both sides are almost identical.
At war, there is no such thing as a surprise.
Even if the individual combat power of the Qing army is superior to that of the Ming army, in this kind of face-to-face fighting confrontation, the advantage is not obvious.
Moreover, the Ming army occupied the geographical advantage and the people, Yanzhouwei in the west, and Jinshanwei in the east, forming a pincer posture, which greatly offset the offensive advantage of the Qing army.
After eleven consecutive days of attack, the two sides fought a war of attrition.
The so-called war of attrition consumes not only human lives, but also materials.
For the Qing army, which was in the "away game" and came from afar, the pressure on logistics replenishment was obviously greater than that of the Ming army.
Cut off by the territory of the ten provinces of the Yixing Dynasty, the supplies of the Qing army came from Fujian, and the transportation capacity at this time was indeed very difficult, especially in the case of the initial determination of Fujian, when there were often righteous armies rising up, the supply was even more difficult.
At the time of the stalemate, the Qing soldiers did not dare to implement the strategy of "taking food on the spot", which caused a fire in the backyard.
Therefore, once this battle reaches a stalemate, time will not be on the side of the Qing army.
After Zhang Guowei and others "properly" solved Liao Zhongping, they mobilized 5,000 Jingwei with Liao Zhongping's military talismans, plus 2,000 Hangzhou guards, and quickly marched westward to reinforce the Jinhua battlefield.
Jingwei did not have an unstable position, but turned his allegiance to Wu Zheng.
It's that they don't understand why.
It has to be said that those who play conspiracy will never be able to play conspiracy.
Zhu Cihong is playing the city government, but he wants to play a Ming Jun.
All his plans were carried out in secret, so only Liao Zhongping knew the inside story.
For the 5,000 Jingwei, their order was to reinforce Shaoxing Mansion to fight against the Qing army.
Therefore, once Zhang Guo maintained Liao Zhongping's military talisman and went to transfer troops, none of the Jingwei generals felt abrupt.
As a result, Zhang Guowei smoothly led the second division of a total of 7,000 people to the west quickly.
The addition of these 7,000 new forces was the last straw that crushed the Qing army.
In other words, even if Bolo's military order did not arrive, the Qing army front was already in danger.
And the arrival of this retreat order allowed the tired Qing army to finally retreat justifiably.
After the Qing army withdrew to Taizhou and joined forces with the remnants of Boluo, it had to continue to retreat south under the pressure of the feint of Wu Zheng's forces in Ningbo Prefecture.
This withdrawal, until Wenzhou Mansion, barely gained a foothold.
And Wu Zheng did not really want to attack, after the battle of Ningbo Mansion, Lihaiwei did suffer a lot of casualties, especially the death of Qian Sudian, so that Wu Zheng was unable to expand the results of the battle.
Strangely, Taizhou Prefecture, which was located between Ningbo and Wenzhou, became an undefended city due to the retreat of the Qing army and the failure of the Ming army to follow up, thus becoming a buffer place for the two armies.
This offensive and defensive battle, which lasted 14 days, ended in the victory of the Ming army.
The Qing army of 40,000 troops, lost more than half, did not take advantage of the situation, but lost Ningbo Mansion, and even the commander Duoduo became a prisoner of the Ming army.
On the side of the Ming army, there were also heavy casualties, there were only more than ten cavalry left in the cavalry battalion that Wu Zheng regarded as his descendants, the casualties of the musket battalion were more than 30 percent, the 3,000 Hangzhou guards brought by Qian Sudian were more than half, and the casualties of Li Haiwei were also more than 40 percent, and the biggest loss was the death of Qian Sudian.
The First Battle of Jinhuafu, from the beginning to the end, was the longest, but the casualties of the two armies were the smallest.
Yan Zhouwei and Jin Shanwei combined suffered more than 2,000 casualties.
The Qing army was slightly smaller, with more than 1,000 casualties.
This also illustrates the fact that the battle looks magnificent, but in fact it has the fewest casualties.
In terms of casualties alone, the two sides were almost tied.
But strategically, there is no doubt that Wu Zheng is the biggest winner, and there is no one.
Because of the recovery of Ningbo Mansion and the buffer land of Taizhou, the strategic depth of Shaoxing and Hangzhou has become larger, which is of great significance.
To put it simply, if the Qing army wants to attack from the south again, Wu Zheng's early warning time can be extended by at least five days.
This is equivalent to having a relatively stable base for the Wu regime, which only owns the land of the three prefectures.
When cleaning the battlefield and pacifying the people in the city, Wu Zheng also "picked up" a few people.
Duoduo defeated the Longwu Dynasty and captured Emperor Longwu, the empress, the prince and others.
He immediately escorted Emperor Longwu and others to Shuntian Mansion, but Huang Daozhou has been imprisoned in Ningbo Mansion.
Duoduo originally wanted to talk about the descending of the Zodiac Zhou, which would be of great use to the situation in Fujian and Guangdong.
It's a pity that Zodiac Zhou awe-inspiringly refused, leaving Duoduo with nothing to do.
This time Wu Zheng led the army to attack, Duoduo did not expect that he would be defeated by Wu Zheng, so he did not think about transferring these prisoners of the Longwu Dynasty.
When Huang Daozhou and others were rescued from prison by the Northern Expeditionary Army, Huang Daozhou's body was almost collapsed.
Wu Zheng placed him in Ningbo Mansion to recuperate.
Yinxian County was originally governed by Ningbo Prefecture, and the Qian family was not taken to Shaoxing Mansion by Qian Sule, and the nearby branches were all in the city.
Hearing that Qian Sudian was martyred in Dongcheng, about 60 or 70 Qian family members and thousands of people rushed to come.
Wu Zheng wore black mourning clothes and personally sent Qian Sudian's body to the Qian family ancestral hall.
He also ordered to erect a monument for Qian Sudian to repair the biography, and reported to the imperial court for posthumous advice.
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Wu regime.
The mention of these four words seems a little abrupt.
But under the command of the Great General's Mansion, almost no one didn't know, but they just didn't say it.
It's an open secret.
Wu Zheng returned to Shaoxing City with Duoduo, who had been thunderous and had never been quiet.
The chief official of Hangzhou Mansion was already waiting there, and even Zhang Guowei rushed over from Jinhua.
After everyone made a brief report, Zhang Guowei knelt down towards Wu Zheng.
Zhang Guowei pleaded guiltily: "The lower official did not send troops to reinforce the general at the first time, causing the general to be in danger for a long time. It was the lower officials who insisted on not sending troops, and it had nothing to do with the princes...... Please ask the general to deal with the crime of ineffective rescue of his subordinates. ”
This is a courtesy of the monarch and the ministers, but no one finds it abrupt.