Chapter 70: The Red-Coated Cannon of the Ming Dynasty

Although the generals below were still a little uneasy, Xing Shengping said that the four battalions of reinforcements from Liu Yongxi were all calm.

Although from the performance point of view, Xing Shengping's 20,000 soldiers and horses are supported alone, and they have to compete with the two or three hundred thousand troops of Azig, Duoduo and Haoge, but it is good to enjoy the shade with their backs to the big trees, and now the entire Yue Ming Dynasty is supporting the combat operations of Xing Shengping's army, with Zhang Sunfan and Jin Sheng in the upstream, and more than a dozen battalions in the downstream are even more alone to take on the heavy task of blocking the Qing army in Nanjing.

Now there is only one thing that Xing Shengping's army needs to do, and that is to block the eastward advance of the Azig army with all his might!

As soon as he mentioned Azig, Xing Shengping became full of confidence: "Isn't it King Azig?" After these two days of fighting, everyone also knows what kind of color this is, anyway, as long as we hold on, my sister and brother-in-law will not give up on us, and more reinforcements are on the way!"

Thinking of the battle process of the past two days, the soldiers of the Ming army also increased their confidence: "Isn't it an Azig?" No matter how many soldiers and horses he has, don't take Tianmen Mountain!"

And for Azig, the two-day battle process can be described as a slap in the face: "In two days, you don't even know how many Ming troops there are in Xiliang Mountain, you rice buckets are angry with me, attack again, attack me again, you must take down Xiliang Mountain!"

Azig was very optimistic, he only gave the Qing army forward half a day, he even felt that half a day was too much, since entering the customs and the experience of fighting with the Ming army proved that this kind of surprise battle did not take half a day at all, and one round could take down the Xiliang Mountain held by the Ming army.

However, the Qing army launched more than a dozen attacks in two days and lost thousands of people, but so far it has not even broken through the peripheral positions of the Xiliangshan defense line, let alone figure out the specific deployment of the Ming army in Xiliangshan.

Once there was a situation of Jingxiang against Jinling during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the first thing the Jinling regime should do was to send troops to seize Liangshan, as long as Jinling controlled the east and west Liangshan, which was called "Liangshan" at that time, the upper reaches could not pose a real mortal threat to Jinling.

And now it is just a copy of history, Xing Shengping controls Liangshan Tianwei, and naturally occupies the initiative on the battlefield, not to mention that the Qing army that is now participating in the war is mainly a new annex army.

Faced with this situation, Wu Sangui could only defend the new annexed army that had been frustrated in the attack: "King Ying, don't be angry, the Jinhua thieves are originally different from ordinary thieves, and they have also set up several red-clothed cannons on Xiliang Mountain, with these red-clothed cannons here, let's not think about taking Xiliang Mountain with one charge!"

When it comes to the red-coated cannon, Azig also feels a headache.

For the Qing army, the red-coated cannon is a first-class weapon, and it can even be described as an artifact, as long as the red-coated cannon arrives, there is no unbreakable city and fortress.

The most typical example is the Battle of Taiyuan, when the Dashun army still had the confidence to survive and die in Taiyuan City under the siege of the Qing army, but as soon as the red-coated cannon was fired, the Dashun army completely collapsed, and then the Qing army easily conquered the entire Jinzhong.

But now the Ming army has set up several red-coated cannons on Xiliang Mountain, and it is the turn of the Qing army to be anxious about the terrible power of the red-coated cannons, especially in the past two days, the Zuo Liangyu army responsible for attacking Xiliang Mountain was not the opponent of the Yue Ming army, and it collapsed directly after a few more cannonballs in the battle, even if the cannonballs that fell on the head were not fired by the red-coated cannons, but they were directly defeated when they heard the sound of the cannons.

And Wu Sangui hurriedly persuaded: "The king of England should wait, when the red-clothed cannon of our Great Qing Kingdom arrives, how to deal with Xing Shengping, not to mention that King Yu and King Su will definitely not stand still, as long as they send troops from Nanjing, Xing Shengping will still be dead even if he has three heads and six arms!"

Although Azig was stubborn, he listened to Wu Sangui's words: "Then wait for two days, wait for the red-clothed cannon to catch up and then attack Xiliang Mountain, I don't believe that I can't break through a small Xiliang Mountain, but don't expect King Yu and King Su to be good!"

Although Azig has always been very pretentious and does not take other Manchu nobles seriously, his evaluation of Duoduo and Hauge is now very appropriate.

Until now, Hauge did not expect such a dramatic change in the situation on the battlefield: "What? Jinhua thieves occupied Liyang City? The seven hundred and eight banner warriors in the city only ran out of less than a hundred? ”

Although Haoge knew that Bolo and Duoduo were defeated under Liu Yongxi, he didn't take Liu Yongxi, the generalissimo of the Ming Kingdom, to heart, and always thought that he could solve Liu Yongxi with thousands of elite cavalry for dozens of rounds, but no one expected Liu Yongxi's shot to be so sharp.

Therefore, he asked in a rage: "Tell me, what happened in Liyang City?" How did Liyang City get lost? ”

Although Liyang City was just a trap, in order to avoid any accidents, Duoduo and Haoge still deployed heavy troops in Liyang, in addition to Li Benshen's five thousand Gaojie's old troops, there were also Wu Shengzhao's two thousand green battalion troops and seven hundred Eight Banner warriors, and the number of troops even exceeded that of ordinary Fucheng.

Haoge even felt that even if there was no new annex army and green battalion soldiers, the seven hundred and eight banner warriors in the city alone could hold Liyang City, but in the blink of an eye, Liyang City had fallen into the hands of the Ming army, and the Eight Banners Army in the city was completely annihilated, so Haoge couldn't figure out what was going on.

With Haoge, who has not been beaten by Liu Yongxi, Duoduo has suffered too many accidents in the past few months, and he guessed the truth almost immediately: "Most likely Wu Shengzhao has a problem!"

Although the old department of 5,000 Gao Jie is very unreliable, with generals such as Li Benshen, Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, even if Mrs. Xing and Liu Yongxi are under the city of Liyang, it will not be a big problem, but if Wu Shengzhao and his 2,000 green battalion soldiers have an accident, it will be a big problem.

And in fact, it is similar to Duoduo's guess: "King Yu is wise, it is indeed Wu Shengzhao, the thief, who suddenly turned back, and with him acting as the internal response of the Jinhua thief, our seven hundred and eight banner warriors were besieged by tens of thousands of Ming troops......"

Hauge originally wanted to accuse Duoduo of a few words, after all, it was Duoduo's idea to set up an ambush in Liyang, but when he heard Wu Shengzhao, he didn't have much to say.

The reason why Wu Shengzhao was able to sit in Liyang was largely the result of Haoge's push, and the reason why Haoge pushed Wu Shengzhao was because he received Wu Shengzhao's heavy gift, and if he really wanted to hold Duoduo responsible for this matter, he himself was also involved, so Haoge could only fool this matter first.

And Duoduo just wanted to fool the past first: "The key now is to withdraw all those men and horses in the south, and if you don't withdraw again, I'm afraid it will be troublesome!"

All the previous plans of Duoduo and Haoge revolved around how to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army outside Liyang City and how to block Liu Yongxi's escape path, without considering the possibility of the loss of Liyang City, but as soon as Liyang City was lost, all the plans were equivalent to all useless efforts.

But what is even more deadly is that the Qing army does not know how to take back Liyang City, although it does not know the strength of the Ming army near Liyang City, but just four or five thousand Gao Jie's old troops plus Wu Shengzhao's two thousand green battalion soldiers are enough headaches, not to mention that there are at least thousands or even tens of thousands of Yue Ming troops.

Now it is no longer a question of encircling and annihilating the Ming army or recovering Liyang City, but a question of how to hold Nanjing City, after the loss of Liyang, the Jinhua thieves are only two hundred miles away from Nanjing, as long as Duoduo and Haoge are a little careless, the Ming army will enter Nanjing City!

But God was afraid that the blow to Duoduo and Hauge would not be enough, and they were still thinking about how to deal with the aftermath, and immediately a thunderbolt came from the south: "Yixing has lost ......"

The loss of Liyang and Yixing represents that the Qing army's southern defense line is about to completely collapse, Haoge really hasn't been beaten by Liu Yongxi, he is stupid when he hears the news, just like when he was demoted to Baylor and the king of the county twice by Huang Taiji: "What should I do?" What should we do, we still have tens of thousands of soldiers in the south!"

In the south of Liyang and Yixing, there are tens of thousands of elites of the Qing army deliberately lurking and infiltrating the past, and not counting the thousands of Qing troops who have entered Guangde Mansion, but after Yixing and Liyang changed hands, this group of Qing troops is in the situation of being surrounded by the Ming army on three or even four sides, the south is the main force of the Ming army of the Hu Army, the east is Taihu Lake, the north is Yiyang and Liyang, and the west is the Jin Sheng Volunteer Army of Ningguofu, I am afraid that now the Ming army is launching a full-scale offensive to eat the 20,000 Qing army.

Duoduo has been beaten by Liu Yongxi and Yue Mingjun in the past few months, but he has been beaten more times, and he has summed up how to deal with it: "Let's quickly lead the horse team to respond, if the action is fast enough, at least seven or eight percent can be received!"

But Hauge was frightened by the number that Duoduo said, if he could only receive seven or eight percent, it would mean a loss of at least four or five thousand people, plus the losses caused by the loss of Liyang and Yixing, the Qing army would lose at least tens of thousands of people, and if it was difficult to lose 20,000 people, he could only shout loudly: "Hurry up and write to His Royal Highness King Azig, let him move closer to us, we need his support!"

However, neither Duoduo nor Hauge noticed that the situation of the Ming army was not limited to the direction of Changzhou, Yingtianfu and Guangdezhou west of Taihu Lake, and Suzhou Mansion west of Taihu Lake was also the focus of this round of offensive of the Ming army, but the Ming army on the east road launched the offensive only after the Ming army conquered Liyang and Yixing.

In this regard, the Ming army also dispatched heavy troops, not only Liu Kongzhao's naval division and Chen Yuan, Zhang Huangyan, Yu Huang's main force of the Yue Ming army, but also tens of thousands of righteous troops in Jiaxing Mansion and Songjiang Mansion to cooperate in the battle, and in Suzhou Prefecture, there are also tens of thousands of righteous troops and righteous divisions to provide support for the Ming army.

Although the Qing army in Suzhou Prefecture was prepared for this round of powerful offensive of the Ming army, it did not expect the Ming army to launch such a fierce offensive, so on the first day of the Ming army's offensive, it lost six new annexed troops at the head of the battalion, and in the following battle, the Qing troops deployed in various prefectures and counties and strongholds in Suzhou Prefecture suffered the fate of annihilation.