Chapter 12 The North Road
The severity of this battle exceeded the expectations of the two sides involved in the battle, but in half an hour, hundreds of people on each side lost their combat effectiveness, and the five battalion officers under Zhang Boyi were killed and wounded by two, and most of the 25 sentry officers were also killed and wounded by three or six, and many of the units that rushed to the front had suffered more than half or even more than two-thirds of the casualties.
The losses of the Qing army can also be described as extremely heavy, not to mention the new annex army of the Green Battalion, which has not experienced many major battles, even if the Eight Banners Han Army entered the pass, they have never seen such a tragic battle.
They could only watch one Niu Lu after another enter the battle and then be immediately mercilessly strangled, even if it was a stone battle, the Tongguan battle, these Eight Banners Han army had not experienced such a cruel scene, which made the Qing army officers can't help but think of the Songjin Battle and more distant memories, some painful memories even happened when they were in the Ming army camp.
Although the casualties of the troops were large, but Zhang Boyi was particularly excited, he personally waved the flag to lead the charge, the Ming army saw that Zhang Boyi, who was the chief officer, personally led the charge to launch another round of morale, and the Ming army in the city also killed after discovering this scene.
The performance of the commander of the Qing army was much inferior, although Duoduo and Bolo had high hopes for Zu Dabi, thinking that this brave general who caused countless big troubles to Houjin back then would definitely be able to create miracles again, but Zu Dabi didn't know what to do when he really encountered such a crazy Ming army.
Although the actual combat effectiveness of Zu Dabi's department is better than that of the two Ming armies participating in the war, and he does not suffer a loss on the scene, but in the double siege of the Ming army, Zu Dabi has lost the courage of the "Zu Er Maniac" to fight all over the field, after all, he has surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and entered the Eight Banners, and has the idea of stealing his life, how can he repeat the unstoppable courage of the year.
Therefore, this battle of Huzhou finally became a "fighting general", although in the whole battle Zu Dabi did not make many fatal mistakes and finally led most of the Qing army to break out of the encirclement, which is commendable in command, but he never personally rushed up to fight with Zhang Boyi, and the Qing army naturally became the losing side.
But Zhang Boyi fought all over the field, and he personally rushed over to put out the fire when there was a crisis in which direction the Ming army.
Zhang Boyi not only won the admiration of 2,000 officers and soldiers, but the Huzhou Rebels also regarded him as a real savior, although Zhang Boyi's attitude is extremely cautious now, but in the eyes of Fei Hongji and other leaders of the Rebels, Zhang Boyi, a scholar, can block a million soldiers on the battlefield with a sword: "General Zhang, with your five battalions of elite rushing to reinforcements, no matter how many soldiers and horses Jianyu sends to attack our Huzhou City, it is as stable as Mount Tai!"
Zhang Boyi is like a tiger on the battlefield, but he thinks more than the outcome of one or two battles: "Mr. Fei, don't say the four words of stability, Zhang Niangniang and Yue Guogong sent me not only to help Huzhou, Zhang Niangniang specially explained to me, the rise and fall of the country is all the way in Huzhou, I hope I Zhang Boyi must not be careless, not only to hold Huzhou but also to develop outward!"
As soon as Zhang Boyi said this, his image in the eyes of Fei Hongji and Wei Geng, the leaders of the Huzhou Righteous Army, was even higher.
And Huzhou all the way does have extraordinary significance, after all, Huzhou to the south is the Hangzhou Mansion where Bolo is located, although this time Zu Dabi lost his armor and lost, but Bolo will attack again.
Huzhou Mansion to the east is Jiaxing Mansion, it is said that the Jiaxing Righteous Army and the reinforcements of Yue Guogong and the Eight Banners are fighting fiercely, as long as Huzhou and Jiaxing are controlled by the Ming Army, they cut off the contact between Boluo and Duoduo two Qing armies, and Huzhou to the west is Guangde Prefecture and Ningguo Mansion, Liu Yongxi has told Zhang Boyi to strive for contact with Huizhou Jinsheng Righteous Army through here before the expedition.
To the north of Huzhou are Taihu Lake and Nanjing City, and the main force of the Qing army of Duoduo may come over to rescue the Boluo Department at any time, but don't look at Zhang Boyi's usual caution, when he thinks of the main force of the Qing army on the North Road, he becomes full of courage: "Even if 100,000 Jianyu come, I will live and die with Huzhou City, Mr. Fei, Mr. Wei, are you Huzhou willing to serve Zhang Niangniang, Princess Kunxing and Yue Guogong as the lords of the world?" ”
Fei Hongji and Wei Geng are the two most important leaders of the Huzhou Righteous Army, although they also think that Empress Zhang and Princess Kunxing are women, and Liu Yongxi, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, also seems to be a little inappropriate, but at this moment they know that the country does not have to stick to the subtleties when the country is dying, so they all knelt down: "I am willing to obey the dispatch of the Empress of the Prison State, the Princess of the Prison State and the Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, the Generalissimo of the Soldiers and Horses of the World!"
At this time, Liu Yongxi also got the situation in Huzhou and Jiaxing for the first time, but unlike Huzhou's defeat of the Qing army, the two sides formed a confrontation situation on the battlefield in Jiaxing, although Chen Yuan led four battalions to participate in the battle, but Chen Wu, the general soldier of Jiaxing, was really unable to support Adou, and was defeated by the Qing army on the first day.
However, Chen Yuan had a very low evaluation of the Jiaxing Ming Army and the Righteous Army, including Chen Wu, the chief soldier of Jiaxing, and believed that although they mobilized thousands or even tens of thousands of people, according to Chen Yuan, their combat effectiveness was at most equivalent to the head of a battalion under Chen Yuan, and what was worse was that the official gentry of Jiaxing, including Chen Wu, the chief soldier of Jiaxing, the review of Tu Xiangmei of the Hanlin Academy, and Xu Shiqi, the former secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, regarded themselves very highly, and never put Empress Zhang and Yue Guogong in their eyes, not to mention it, and helped from time to time.
These Jiaxing officials and gentry can be said to be a typical "usually talking with their hands in their hearts, and repaying the king when they die", although they are famous all over the world, but at this critical moment they are useless except to add chaos, Chen Yuan even feels that without these friendly troops who add to the chaos, the situation on the battlefield is more beautiful.
Liu Yongxi didn't expect that there was such a big gap between the situation in Jiaxing Mansion and Huzhou Mansion, he knew that Chen Yuan meant to solve some of the local gentry in Jiaxing, but Chen Yuan obviously thought about things too simply: "If our army wants to base itself in Jiaxing, it still needs the support of the local gentry in Jiaxing, Mr. Yu, what do you think?" ”
Yu Huang, who crossed the river with Liu Yongxi, immediately laughed: "This matter is not difficult to do, let the old man go to Jiaxing Mansion and invite these old friends to meet with the Duke of Yueguo, they will definitely all get lost!"
Although Yu Huang is the champion of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, he once edited and revised the "Three Dynasties Classics" and was beaten into the backbone of the eunuch party, and he can't pee in the same pot as Tu Xiangmei and Xu Shiqi, so Li Xiangjun, Zhang Huangyan, and Wang Zhiren around Liu Yongxi all looked at Yu Huang with suspicion.
And Yu Huang said generously: "Yue Guogong, please borrow me half a battalion of soldiers, if you have half a battalion of soldiers, I can invite these old friends to Xianghu, if you feel inconvenient, you can also let them go to Jinhua City to meet the queen of the prison and the princess of the prison country, and then come to meet the prince of Yue Guo." ”