Chapter 23: The Battle of Qianshan (I)
In July, Zheng Chenggong sent reinforcements to suppress the pirate Chen Chun in the right town of Huangshan, the governor of Huangshan, the town of Qianfeng, the town of Huangshan, the north town of Chen Liuyu, and the town of Zhongquan Huang Xingjin to suppress the pirate Chen Chun, and at the same time to eliminate the threat of trade in the Fujian Sea, to deal a heavy blow to the Qing army in Tong'an County.
In August, Zheng Chenggong decided to use Huang Wu, the deputy general of the left battalion of Zhongquan Town, to manage the Ying barracks, the old general Wu Shizhen to manage the guerrilla barracks, the Rong Qizheng general Yang Sister to manage the Qi barracks, Lin Wencan to manage the palace barracks, and Chen Xun to manage the Zheng barracks. Following the five battalions of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, the five battalions of Zhengqi Aid Tour Ying were established, and quickly entered the intensive drill.
It is also because Zheng Chenggong showed a resolute maintenance of maritime trade, and this month, Zheng Hongkui officially decided to hand over all the soldiers and horses to Zheng Chenggong to command. Last year, Zheng Hongkui assigned his generals Xiao Gongchen and Shen Qi and his troops and horses to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong granted the two of them the dispatch to guard the left town and the right town. This time, Zheng Hongkui entrusted the other two generals who had followed him for many years, Shen Ming and Chen Kui, and their soldiers and horses to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong granted the two of them the dispatch to guard the front town and the back town, and completed the soldiers and horses of these two towns to the scale of two battalions of 1,000 people.
When he handed over the soldiers and horses, Zheng Hongkui made a special trip to Xiamen Island, and the uncle and nephew sat silently in the festival hall - Zheng Hongkui wanted to explain the battle in Xiamen to Zheng Chenggong again, but he also knew that it was useless to talk about this matter, and wanted to ask Chen Kai's whereabouts, but once his mother's attitude, he still couldn't export. On the other hand, Zheng Chenggong did not think about explaining Chen Kai's whereabouts to Zheng Hongkui, with the heart of An Zheng cherishing fate, but when these words came to his mouth, there was still no exit, and in the end, the two of them were just doing business.
The scars of betrayal will always exist in the softest part of the heart. Smoothing, almost unthinkable. Zheng Chenggong had no way to persuade him to trust Zheng Hongkui wholeheartedly as he once did, and he didn't dare to inform Chen Kai's behavior casually.
After a polite farewell, Zheng Hongkui returned to Baisha by boat. Shen Ming and Chen Kui's troops, one was sent to the north of Chaozhou to assist in guarding the Sanhe Dam, and the other continued to guard the Jieyang area. The merger of these two forces did not have any impact on the southern Fujian battlefield, but it was a supplement to the Chaozhou battlefield to a certain extent.
With the attachment of Zheng Hongkui, the Zheng Group, which had been divided for many years, was reintegrated. If you have to count, Zheng Cai still has one or two thousand remnants, drifting on the sea, and now there is no news, basically you can ignore it.
Throughout August, the troops were expanded and the absorption of Zheng Hongkui's troops was completed. In September, Zheng Chenggong decided to send troops to Zhangzhou Mansion, on the one hand, to continue to expand his influence on the ground of Zhangzhou Mansion, and at the same time to collect grain and grass to relieve the pressure of grain and grass, and on the other hand, to try to lure the Qing army out of the city and fight it out in the field!
In September, Zheng Chenggong personally led nearly 9,000 troops from six towns, including Rongqi Town, Qinding Town, Zuo Xianfeng Town, Aid to Suppress Zuo Town, Aid to Suppress Right Town, and Qianfeng Town, and landed in Zhangzhou Prefecture, and the army was stationed on the front line of Qianshan to wait for the Qing army.
In this regard, Wang Jin, the chief soldier of Zhangzhou, knew that Zheng Chenggong was not good at stubble, and he was in charge of the heavy position, and Wang Zhigang, the general soldier of the left road of Fujian, who was assisting in the defense, did not plan to continue to partner with Wang Jin, and had the intention to keep up with the pace of the three provincial capitals and go to Jiangxi to kill those righteous troops with weak combat effectiveness. However, Zhang Xuesheng, the governor of Fujian, was still in the stage of being questioned by the Qing court about his ability, and he did not dare to allow the Ming army to show off his might in Zhangzhou Mansion, so he simply sent the deputy general Chen Shangzhi's department as reinforcements to urge Wang Jin and Wang Zhigang to send troops to meet the battle.
In late September, Chen Shangzhi's troops completed the convergence with Wang Jin and Wang Zhigang, and arrived near Qianshan to confront the Ming army. The Qing army was better than this battle in history, and Zheng Chenggong's side, due to the replenishment of troops in Chaozhou and Guangzhou and the improvement of the production efficiency of the Ordnance Bureau, the six towns on the surface were still those six towns, but the internal strength was also different from what it used to be.
A few days later, on September 25, the Qing army arrived at the Qianshan camp of the Ming army. Zheng Chenggong dispatched Rongqi Town, Zuo Pioneer Town, and Zuo Town to fight outside the wall.
The strength of the two sides is roughly equal, but the cavalry of the Qing army accounts for a larger proportion. Zheng Chenggong blatantly fought with the Qing army, Wang Zhigang and Chen Shangzhi were eager to try, and Wang Jin was a little uneasy because the battle of the magnetic stove was broken by Zheng Chenggong's gong and drum in front of him.
"Attack, the old man of the Fu army is still looking forward to the good news."
Originally, he planned to say that if he broke the Haikou and maybe he could kill Xiamen Island and rob it to boost his morale, after thinking about it, it seemed that this was a little unlucky, so Chen Shangzhi carried Zhang Xuesheng out.
He came in a hurry, and he was in a hurry to launch an offensive without much rest, which shows Zhang Xuesheng's thirst for a good news. Beating the war drums, the Qing army moved forward with all their might, stepping on the ground with heavy footsteps, accompanied by the resonance of the ground, there was no thunder that was more than the war drums behind them, and it shook the creatures in this radius all the time.
Mixed with the rolling thunder is the electric flickering of the war horses, constantly squeezed by the Qing army on the battlefield, the cavalry of the Ming and Qing armies chased and killed, the cavalry of the Qing army, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, tried their best to press the Ming army battle formation, and the cavalry of the Ming army tried their best to provide cover for the formation.
Occasionally, there will be one or two horsemen or one or two groups of Qing cavalry to get rid of the Ming army's containment, arrive at the front of the battle, the wolf's waist twists lightly, bends the bow and arrows, and does it in one go, waiting for the finger to be lightly released, one after another sharp arrows pierce the air, screaming and sweeping through the Ming army's battle formation.
The arrows crackled on the rattan plaques on the side of the Ming army, some were bounced to the ground, and some were simply nailed directly to the rattan plaques, and occasionally there were one or two screams, which were also suppressed at the first moment of reaction.
Rongqi Town, Zuo Pioneer Town, and Zuo Town, these troops are the old troops of the Zheng Group, and most of them have been fighting for many years. At this moment, even if he was suppressed by the cavalry advantage of the Qing army and could not move, he still remained in place in front of the battle, covering his body and his comrades behind him with rattan cards, and he did not waver for a moment.
The battle formation of the Qing army was overwhelming, and with the fire of the artillery on both sides, the space for light riding and dog fighting became smaller and smaller, and gradually retreated behind their respective formations, leaving the battlefield to the infantry fighting in formation.
Gray-blue turbidity currents surged, vowing to extinguish the raging flames. The Qing army marched forward in formation, approaching a hundred steps, the archers in the front row pulled the bow and shot back, the rain of arrows in the sky was no longer like a light dog fight, and the three or two sharp arrows shot from time to time as long as they were experienced enough rattan players could predict the trajectory of the arrows flying, so as to resist with a shield, and its dense number was enough to make the shield in the Ming army formation stretched. Even if the number of shields of this Fujian Ming army is much higher than the normal establishment.
The arrow, which crossed a parabolic trajectory in the sky, was scattered like a scoop towards the battle formation of the Ming army. Under normal circumstances, rattan players will form a tighter shield formation, overlapping the rattan tiles one side after the other, forming a turtleshell-like formation to resist this wave of shots. However, when the arrows of the Qing army attacked, the formation did not change even the slightest, and it still maintained a state of waiting for engagement.
In this way, casualties are almost inevitable, and the integrity of the battle array can only be maintained by subsequent replenishment of soldiers. However, at this time, when the order of the officers of the Ming army was issued, the Ming army warriors with big shoulders and round waists held the thick bamboo poles in their hands, and together they lifted the other end high, and the quilt-like cloth barrier on one side after another carried the dust on the ground and rose into the air, directly blocking the trajectory of the Qing army's arrow rain.