The battle of Longtan camp was Ma Cheng's stroke of genius, using the defeated army of the Qing army to take the lead, using the panic of the defeat of the Qing army to drive them to attack their own camp, and then using the defeated army to coerce the defeated army, rolling bigger and bigger like a snowball.

Tian Boguang was by Ma Cheng's side back then, so he naturally knew how to fight, and after listening to Ma Cheng's words, he hurriedly agreed: "Please rest assured, the commander will save horsepower in the end, drive the defeated army behind, and let them attack their own camp!" ”

Ma Cheng nodded when he heard Tian Boguang say this, let Tian Boguang go down, and then dismounted and sat on the hill by himself, preparing tables and chairs for the soldiers, while Ma Cheng sat down and drank tea. Bask in the midday sun and wait for the good news from the front.

Ma Cheng was here for a long time, but Qi Biaojia was panicked, at this time Qi Biaojia had completely lost his calm and composure in the morning, and fled back to the camp by the guards like a lost dog.

Entering the camp, Qi Biaojia breathed a sigh of relief, and the soldiers around him hurriedly called the soldiers guarding the door to close the camp gate. But you Qi Biaojia rode fast on horseback, and the 30,000 infantry behind had no horses, so they could only use their legs to hurry, so Qi Biaojia was safe, but a large number of ordinary soldiers behind him did not enter the camp.

At this time, Ma Cheng's cavalry had caught up with the rear team of King Lu's army, most of Ma Cheng's cavalry battalion were Mongolians who were skilled in arching and horses, and a small part were Liaodong Han people who could ride horses, these people were completely different from Qi Biaojia's cavalry, all of them could shoot bows and arrows on horses, and Tian Boguang intended to order the cavalry to drive the rout to attack the camp, so these unlucky soldiers ran to the camp.

The general flag guarding the gate in the big camp saw that the big thing was not good, and the tens of thousands of soldiers outside the door were about to rush into the big camp, and if they were allowed to come in, it would be over, and the frightened little flag shouted: "Close the door!" Close the door! ”

Qi Biaojia was out of danger at this time, but when he looked back and saw that those subordinates were running wildly a few hundred meters away, and the Ma Cheng cavalry not far away was slaughtering his men behind, Qi Biaojia couldn't bear it in his heart, and shouted: "Don't close the door, let them in first!" ”

Chen Zhen heard Qi Biaojia say this, and hurriedly stopped: "My lord, don't let these routs rush in, they will break the camp, and when the other cavalry takes advantage of the situation to rush in, it will really be a big trend!" ”

Chen Zhen is right, although Qi Biaojia has failed on this side, there are still 30,000 reserves in the rear team, and there are 30,000 people from Fang Guoan fifteen miles away, even now in the battalion, there are still 5,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 farmers, if the measures are appropriate, there is still a certain chance of turning the tables, after all, Ma Cheng's army on the opposite side can fight again, but the number is too small.

But Qi Biaojia saw that the soldiers outside the door were either dead under the hooves of the enemy's horses, or died at the feet of their own people, and Qi Biaojia shouted: "Don't close the door, let them in!" Who wants to close the door to engage in military law! ”

Chen Zhen saw Qi Biaojia doing this, sighed and said: "My lord, there are still 5,000 people in the battalion, and the last general wants to lead the team out to resist the opponent's cavalry and cut off the rear for our army!" ”

Qi Biaojia nodded, agreeing with Chen Zhen's opinion. But Chen Zhen already knew that he couldn't do anything, what was there to go out and cut off, but with 5,000 men and horses, he fled to Changzhou after leaving the gate, leaving Qi Biaojia here.

Qi Biaojia saw that Chen Zhen did not go out to resist the enemy, but bypassed the camp and fled directly, and the angry Qi Biaojia pointed at Chen Zhen and scolded: "Chen Zhen, you are a puppet, wait for the official to return to Chang."

The state must decapitate you! ”

But Qi Biaojia said it loudly, and whether he could return to Changzhou or not was not the master he could do. At this moment, the rout finally rushed into the camp, 30,000 men was not a small number, and soon the camp gate was broken, and the cavalry behind followed into the camp.

After rushing into the camp, Tian Boguang was very happy, and said to his soldiers: "Set fire to everything and burn everything!" ”

With the order of the commander-in-chief, the soldiers under his command set fire one after another, and the fire quickly turned into a raging fire with the help of the spring breeze in April. But they think too simply, many of them know how to water, but just now after running a few miles, they have already lost their physical strength, plus the canal water is very cold in April, the water temperature is only a few degrees, after the exercise of the body is covered with sweat, by the cold water, many people have muscle spasms, have drowned in the canal is not deep.

Some were burned to death, some drowned, but many others escaped from the camp and fled to the camp of the Left Army not far away.

Tian Boguang was overjoyed when he saw it, today seems to be his lucky day, not to mention the collapse of one big camp, it seems that there is hope to break down another. Things were just as Tian Boguang expected, these routs naturally wanted to return to their own people at a critical moment, and the camp of the Left Army, which was three miles away, became a safe haven in their minds.

There are only 30,000 people in the left army camp, and most of them are still people, because this is the logistics base of the Luwang army. The main general Chen Keli, the chief soldier of Hangzhou, received the news an hour ago that the marshal led the team out of the camp to fight a decisive battle with Ma Cheng, according to Chen Keli's idea, this battle will be fought for a day, and if it is not good, it will be a night battle, but I didn't expect Qi Biaojia to be such a waste, and he was defeated by Ma Cheng in less than half an hour.

Chen Keli saw the black and oppressive defeated soldiers in the distance rushing towards his camp, and he was frightened and hurriedly asked his subordinates to close the camp gate, and at the same time ordered the archers to release arrows as long as the rout approached the camp gate. Although Chen Keli was right to do this, but at this time, the defeat of King Lu's army had been achieved, and the people in his army were panicked, and the number of defeated soldiers outside the camp was too large, and the camp gate did not last long before it was crushed, and a large number of routed soldiers rushed into the camp.

Tian Boguang was overjoyed when he saw that he had rushed out of a large camp again, and immediately led the cavalry into the Rufa concoction and began to set fire to the slaughter.

Tian Boguang was happy to kill, but Ma Cheng, who was drinking tea behind, felt a little wrong, because the scout had news just now, and Fang Guoan, fifteen miles away, had moved.

Now Ma Cheng only has 10,000 horses in his hands, and they are all sent out to fight, and there are only 1,000 personal soldiers with Ma Cheng.

Tian Boguang of the cavalry battalion was killing at this time, and the Lu Wangjun was beaten and had no power to fight back, Chen Keli had no choice but to open the back door of the camp and retreat to Changzhou with a group of remnants. Seeing that Lu Wangjun was about to run, Tian Boguang led the team to continue to chase, but at this time, Ma Cheng's herald arrived.

"Lord Zongzhen, the commander has a life, let the lord return to the army immediately!"

When Tian Boguang heard that he was asked to go back, he immediately asked: "Now that the enemy army is defeated, why do you let Lao Tzu go back?" "After saying that, he will chase after his men.

The herald's personal soldier hurriedly pulled Tian Boguang's horse head and said, "Lord Zongzhen, fifteen miles away."

There is an abnormality in the Ministry of National Security, and the marshal is afraid of being attacked by a sneak attack, so let the adults return to the army immediately! ”

Ma Cheng's military law is harsh, Tian Boguang suffered a lot because he did not abide by military discipline back then, and now he sighed when he heard his own soldiers say this, and he had no choice but to say: "I heard it, return to the army!" ”

The cavalry battalion is now only five miles away from Ma Cheng, and soon returned to Ma Cheng's side, and together with the Shenji battalion, escorted Ma Cheng slowly retreated to the camp to guard against Fang Guoan's sneak attack. What disappointed Ma Cheng was that Fang Guoan just made an appearance, and only advanced five miles after leaving the camp, then turned around and headed east, going directly back to Changzhou.

Ma Cheng, who got the news, breathed a sigh of relief, although he was not very afraid of Fang Guoan's 30,000 people, but his side had been fighting for a long time, and people were sleepy and tired, so it was easy to fall into Fang Guoan's way, so when he heard that Fang Guoan had run away, Ma Cheng was relieved.

This Fang Guoan has some skills, Ma Cheng wrote down the name of this Fang Guoan, and if he has the opportunity, he can meet this guy.

At this point, the first battle between Ma Cheng and the Luwang group ended, and of course the result was the defeat of the Luwang army. The 120,000 horses and horses that King Lu had scraped together in Hangzhou had lost 50,000 this morning, of which the most elite reserve army was all lost in Lucheng, and the tens of thousands of people who fled back to Changzhou were some guards and soldiers, and this combat effectiveness was naturally not as strong as before.

The first battle of Lucheng was a complete end to the people's suspicion of Ma Cheng's military exploits, and made the entire Nanzhili re-realize Ma Cheng's great military exploits.

Ma Cheng, who returned to the camp, began to order his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, and the Luwang army left 20,000 corpses in the area of Lucheng, and more than 20,000 people fled to all directions. At the same time, Ma Cheng also gave an order to Zhang Guozhu in Zhenjiang to lead the entire army to join him. Qi Biaojia has failed now, and the entire Nanzhi is in no resistance, and the next step is to divide the troops and send generals to clean up the prefectures and counties.

Ma Cheng was overjoyed in victory, but Changzhou, a hundred miles away, was gloomy and miserable. Chen Zhen, who had just been promoted to admiral, was the first to return to Changzhou, followed by Chen Keli and other generals, and the last to come back was Fang Guoan. As for the Governor Qi Biaojia, there is no news at all, and I don't know if he escaped or died in the chaos.

Since Qi Biaojia did not come back, Fang Guoan, who had the highest official position, immediately became the supreme commander of this army, and the first order issued by Fang Guoan was to behead the unlucky ghost Chen Zhen to boost the morale of the army.

In fact, the unlucky ghost Chen Zhen still has some skills, his tactics against Ma Cheng are completely decent, but no matter how commanded by the general, his subordinates are a bunch of waste, and the general has no way to do it. This failure lies in the fact that the soldiers are not as good as others, and Fang Guoan also knows that the reasons for the failure cannot be pinned on Chen Zhen's head, but at present, the army needs to boost morale, and the generals need to unite people's hearts, so there is no choice but to let Chen Zhen be the big rooster.

Now the Luwang army still has the strength of more than 70,000 people, although the number is about the same as Ma Cheng, but Lu Cheng lost all the baggage and food in the first battle, and many soldiers ran back empty-handed, even the basic swords and guns were lost. Fang Guoan couldn't help it when he saw this, Changzhou couldn't hold it anymore, so he could only retreat to Suzhou and use the strong city walls of Suzhou to resist Ma Cheng.