Wu Zheng also believes in his heart that now the entire land is under the control of the Ming army, even if some Qing troops have not been cleared, in the face of their dozens of elite cavalry, it will be the end of the defeat with one blow.

Therefore, Wu Zheng didn't think about being blocked at all.

Who would have thought that Hong Chengchou had already mastered all this, and laid a trap for him, a dead end that was difficult to crack!

The Qing army attacked fiercely, and the Dantu defenders resisted desperately.

This is definitely not a feint agreed upon by Hong Chengchou and Qian Qianyi, but a frantic attack by 10,000 Qing troops on Jiangxin Island.

Xia Wanchun did make a mistake, and Wu Zheng had already sent someone to convey the order, so that Xia Wanchun must prepare for war and promote peace with war.

But Xia Wanchun did not raise his vigilance.

One Dantu and two troops suffered heavy casualties, and they really needed to be repaired. The second is that Xia Wanchun thought in his heart that it was impossible for the Qing army to attack Dantu, and the Qing army on Jiangxin Island was only 10,000 people, plus the previous night attack, the Qing army had a lot of losses, and at the same time, he already knew that Dantu had deployed more than ten artillery pieces.

This kind of artillery may not play much role in field warfare, but for attack and defense, it is a sharp weapon, especially for the wooden ships of the Qing army crossing the river, which have to sink under the river if they are hit by two or three cannons.

Therefore, Xia Wanchun only organized the army and civilians to repair the Dantu city wall, and did not deploy heavy troops to the river defense.

The only thing he did was to send a few more teams to patrol the river defense.

Fortunately, a patrol team was sent, otherwise in the middle of the night, the Qing army would have raided from Jiangxin Island, and the Ming army in the city would not even have time to organize defense.

The Qing army that attacked Dantu was by no means 10,000, but 30,000.

After Wu Sangui received the news from Hong Chengchou, he immediately divided the more than 60,000 Qing troops from Jiangbei that had been assembled into two routes, one to Zhenjiang and one to Dantu.

I have to say that Wu Sangui does have some ability.

Of course, the mobilization of ships along the north coast of the river is not easy to attract the attention of the Ming army on the other side, and the two armies are at war, but more than 60,000 Qing troops are gathered, but it is not easy to hide the eyes of the Ming army scouts on the south bank.

In the final analysis, the Ming army was too careless and lacked vigilance.

But it's no wonder that in the Qingtai Dynasty, how many famous generals can fight well?

It is nothing more than a group of half-way monks in the manipulation.

Even if it was Wu Zheng, he was just a small clerk in his previous life and had no experience in military affairs, and in this life, although he has experienced more than a dozen battles in the past two years, he was only a sentry with a hundred soldiers before, and he only served in the army with his uncle for three or four years.

In terms of the ability of the generals, the Qing court can definitely crush the Qingtai Dynasty.

The reason why he was fought by Wu for more than a month and hit Yingtianfu from Hangzhou was indeed lucky.

It seems that Wu Zheng was unlucky in his previous life, and God compensates him in this life.

The Qing court fought on three sides, and most of the generals and elites who could fight well were sent to the northwest, Jiangxi, and Fujian.

For example, in Hangzhou, if the Qing court had not transferred Dorobelle Lekedehun and most of the Qing army to Jiangxi, I am afraid that Wu Zheng would not have had the courage to recover Hangzhou with Fang Guoan.

Moreover, at the beginning of the battle to recover Hangzhou, Wu Zheng did not think about holding Hangzhou, just like Fang Guoan let his army loot half of Hangzhou City and transport dozens of ships of property.

At the beginning of this war, it was just a guerrilla and harassment war.

But today is different, Xia Wanchun has command experience, but he is a scholar, he has never studied tactics, formations, the organized rebel army, its centripetal force is nothing more than two points, one is that the people are unbearable to be slaughtered by the Qing army, and the idea of active resistance has been germinated, and the other is the personal personality charm of the Xia family's father and son.

If it weren't for Qian Sudian's march into Jiaxing on the order of Wu Zheng at that time, the thousands of "rabble" who were not even fully armed in Xia Wanchun's department would have been killed by Hong Chengchou.

Therefore, although Xia Wanchun has been the commander of one side and led Jianyang to guard the Taiping Mansion, his military talent is not qualified.

This battle was the litmus test of his military prowess.

If Wu Zheng was there, he would definitely shrink his forces and consolidate the city defenses when he heard of the Qing army's night attack, and then use artillery to fire non-stop on the tidal flats to prevent the Qing army from landing on a large scale, so as to delay the Qing army's attack on Dantu City, and then drag it out until dawn as much as possible.

In this way, the more than 7,000 defenders of the Dantu can fully support one or two days, or even three or five days, and then the whole situation will be clear.

But Xia Wanchun made a very wrong decision.

From beginning to end, he believed that the Qing army on Jiangxin Island was no more than 10,000 at most, which also proved Wu Sangui's ability to dispatch troops from the side.

Therefore, Xia Wanchun's decision was to lead the army to fight a counter-assault while the Qing army had not yet landed in large numbers, and to drive the enemy down the river while the Qing army was not firmly established.

Strictly speaking, Xia Wanchun's decision is not entirely wrong.

If there were really only 10,000 people who came to attack the Qing army, then although Xia Wanchun's tactic was risky, it also had the possibility of success.

With 7,000 to 10,000, the Ming army occupies a favorable position after all, and even if the Qing army counterattacks, even if it cannot win, it can at least delay the Qing army's attack on the city.

But the problem is that Xia Wanchun still worries that half of the defenders in the city are slightly injured, and he is also worried about the safety of Dantu City, so he only led 3,000 people to launch a counterattack on the river bank.

For the generals, it is the most taboo to suffer from gains and losses, and this kind of psychological vacillation is equivalent to burying the Dantu and the Ming army.

In fact, many Qing troops have already landed on the shore, and they have also organized thousands of crossbow soldiers on the shore to cover the continued landing of the rear army.

At this time, Xia Wanchun made another mistake, and in the dark night, the marching army lit torches.

It's no wonder that I can't see the way clearly.

But this gave the Qing crossbowmen an obvious target.

When Natsuwanjun arrived, he collided head-on with the flying arrows.

In an instant, more than 100 soldiers fell with arrows, and in the dark night, they couldn't even figure out where the arrows came from, just like a blow to the head, knocking out the Ming army.

In just one pillar of incense, the Ming army didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, and the casualties exceeded thirty percent.

Xia Wanchun had to order a retreat.

Retreat can retreat, in the dark night, as long as the torch is extinguished, both sides are in the dark.

But the Qing army landed thousands of troops in this pillar of incense.

As a result, the retreat of the Chunbu in the summer invisibly guided the direction of the Qing army's assault.

The two sides went one after the other, and the Qing army bit the tail of the Ming army to the death, and when Xia Wanchun had just entered the city gate, the Qing army also arrived outside the city gate.

It's so dangerous that I can't close the gates of the city.

But before Xia Wanchun could breathe a sigh of relief, the Qing army that followed quickly organized a siege.

Thousands of torches were lit, and the outside of the northern city was lit by fire.

The offensive and defensive battle of Dantu City began like this.