Chapter 923: An Ambush of 3,000 Men Fighting an Army of 50,000?
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But Jiang Quanyi was not convinced.
He knew that if he wanted to get ahead under Wu Zheng, he had to make miraculous achievements.
was able to survive from Yizhen's flesh mill and survive being pursued by the Qing army for thousands of miles, Jiang Quanyi no longer had a trace of Buddha nature.
Kill, or be killed.
He has 3,000 elites under his command, and he is also such a veteran.
So, Jiang Quanyi left a small team of people for the purpose of contacting his follow-up troops, and he led his troops to quickly move forward.
He's going to fight, an ambush war!
Crazy!
Crazy indeed!
3,000 people, 50,000 people to fight an ambush.
If Wu Zheng is here, he will definitely kick Jiang Quanyi and roll over.
This is simply the birthday boy eating arsenic, and he is tired and crooked.
Let's not talk about whether the ambush can be successful, let's just say that it is successful, can you retreat?
Defeat the vanguard of the Qing army, let you use all your strength, kill as much as you can, can you kill 10,000 people?
The main enemy force will drown you like a tidal wave.
If the enemy has cavalry, not to mention, it can be surrounded and annihilated in minutes.
In later guerrilla warfare, it was a war of movement, dragging the enemy to run, and then, when a local superiority was formed, ambushing the vanguard that was close to him.
But now it's different, the Qing army is pouring in, and the goal is very clear, that is, Taixing, there is no possibility of being led by the nose by the Ming army and fighting a sports war.
But Jiang Quanyi, that's it, did it!
Jiang Quanyi wants miraculous feats, but he doesn't want to be sent to death, he hasn't reached such a level of madness that he doesn't care about, and besides, how can people who want to do miraculous feats want to die? Isn't that a waste of credit?
In fact, Jiang Quanyi is very familiar with the terrain from Taizhou to Taixing, and he led his troops to "hide and seek" with Jierharang, and made a "sin" in Yangzhou Mansion for so long, and took Jierharang's department to go back and forth vigorously, how can he not be familiar with the terrain?
In addition, when Wu Zheng negotiated with Dolgon in Taizhou City, Jiang Quanyi led troops to surrender, which was also the way he took.
Therefore, Jiang Quanyi still has a plan in his heart.
The official road from Taizhou to Taixing from north to south is in an "N" shape, which is actually the flow direction of the Yunyan River.
About thirty or forty miles east of the port town is the place where the official road "N" turns.
There is a stone bridge here, which is a necessary place on the march, otherwise you have to cross the river, but because of the bridge, there are few boats on this small river.
Jiang Quanyi's ruthlessness is reflected here.
After he led his troops to the stone bridge, he ordered 100 catties of gunpowder to be buried under the bridge, and hid the 1,000 mines he brought at the head of the bridge in the direction of Taixing.
These mines are the first products of the military workshop, they are not trip mines, they are pull mines, they are simple in structure and high in reliability. The manual rope is triggered by flint friction ignition, and the disadvantage is that people must be hidden nearby, but Jiang Quanyi's subordinates are indeed not short of people who dare to die.
The intention of allocating these mines to Jiang Quanyi was that it was difficult to bury such mines, and that it would be enough to dig a pit and bury them, and put a bamboo pipe on the fire rope, even if they were buried in the soil, the air of the bamboo pipe would be enough to ensure that the fuse would burn and not be extinguished due to lack of oxygen.
It took nearly two hours to bury, to put it simply, the surface of the Sanli official road in the direction of Taixing at the head of the bridge was basically turned over.
This crude method can be found by fools in later generations.
But in this era, the roads are all dirt, and there is no common sense of large-scale operations with mines, so the negative is positive, maybe God also intends to achieve Jiang Quanyi's great things, right?
When the deployment was completed, Jiang Quanyi ordered the army to withdraw to hide behind the five-mile official road.
His ruthlessness is not only against the enemy, but also against himself.
He was left behind as a member of the death squad to hide in the pothole under the bridge, and the command of the army was handed over to his lieutenant, who agreed to use the sound of explosions as a signal to attack the enemy crossing the bridge.
It's crazy!
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At the same time, Wang Zhiren's water division in the direction of Longtan has fallen into a crisis.
Wang Zhiren's sailors did not have many troops, but there was a lot shortage of warships, less than forty percent in their heyday.
In the previous battle for the defense of Tianfu, more than half of the sailors were killed or wounded, and the same was true for the warships.
The imperial court replenished the troops, but because of the lack of money, the warships were very small.
And this is not the main thing, the main thing is the shells.
At this time, the shells were gunpowder packets plus lead bullets and iron bullets.
There is no shortage of gunpowder, but lead bullets and iron bullets.
In this era, all metal products were expensive, and iron was even used to cast iron coins to make up for the lack of copper coins in circulation.
As you can imagine, all the guns shoot out are silver.
Fortunately, Wang Zhiren was also a veteran from the difficult period of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he ordered the stonemasons to chisel out stone bullets of similar size for use in the shelling.
But this caused a sharp decrease in the range and accuracy of the shells.
War broke out suddenly.
Wang Zhiren's sailor rushed to the battle, and it is no wonder that even Wu Zheng was kept in the dark, and he didn't realize that something was wrong until before the battle.
The Yixing Dynasty also thought that the direction of the Qing army's main attack was Jingjiang.
How could Wang Zhiren be mentally prepared for a large-scale attack by the Qing army?
But the problem is that even if Wang Zhiren's water division is full, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand such a large-scale surprise attack by the Qing army.
From Jiangpu to Yizhen, more than 3,000 ships on the river were dispatched, and Dolgon's tactics were simple and brutal, but they were also very effective.
I am afraid that even if Wang Zhiren's sailors aim and shoot with the few guns on the battleship, they will not be able to stop so many ships from advancing at the same time.
Quantity wins quality, on the battlefield, invincible.
In fact, this is also the main reason why hot weapons eliminate cold weapons.
Because compared to a string control who needs to train for three or five years, the musketeer is too cheap, just have a finger and pull the trigger.
Wang Zhiren sent people to report to the court urgently, and on the other hand, he personally led the sailors to meet the enemy.
Wang Yilin persuaded Wang Zhiren, "Uncle is the commander-in-chief, and my nephew is willing to go into battle on behalf of my uncle, thinking that he is the vanguard and leading the water division to meet the enemy." ”
But Wang Zhiren refused, "Uncle Wei should have died on the river two years ago, and he could live for two more years and earn money." ”
However, in a hurry, the army could not command the command, and the warships and the army were basically scattered.
Like a long crooked snake, fighting is a tactic to add fuel.
Before reaching the center of the river, the Ming army's naval division was quickly surrounded by countless enemy ships sailing.
It was a very difficult battle.
Often three, four, or even five or six enemy ships besiege a naval ship.
It's like an elephant, surrounded by five or six wolves, and it can't play its due combat power at all.
So much so that many warships were hooked up by enemy ships to board without even firing a single shot.
Straight into hand-to-hand combat.
But in hand-to-hand combat, how could the sailors and soldiers be the opponents of the main force of the Qing army?
When Wang Zhiren saw that even his flagship was climbed onto the side of the ship by the swarming Qing soldiers, he looked up to the sky and cried out, "I have the intention to kill the thief, but I can't return to the sky...... Die a well-deserved death, quickly, quickly! ”
He turned around and shouted to Wang Yilin, who was not far away, "Yilin, go quickly...... Go back and report that the river defense has been broken. ”