Chapter 53: Slow Pursuit

Yuan Shizhong made a big splash in Henan, and He Hutou attacked again, which directly affected the logistics supply of the Qing army.

Of course, this is also one of the reasons. The Qing army sent a large group of men to block the news. It was only a little delayed, but Duoduo got the news much earlier than Zhang Xuan.

But how to deal with this situation is not something that Zhang Xuan can decide alone.

Zhang Xuan asked the people below to tell all the generals about the situation, and for a while, many generals were angry and said: "How can Dongyu come if he wants to, just come, and leave if he wants." It is necessary to send troops to pursue and leave the Dongyu south of the Han River. ”

"Yes." This suggestion was met by too many people, and there was everything at once.

Of course, Zhang Xuan knew that the battle of Xiangyang was fought too badly.

From the remnants of the camp to the losses of all the units of the Xia army, these generals should be angry. Zhang Xuan was also angry in his heart, but he had to focus on the overall situation and asked, "Generals, who is willing to pursue Dongyu as a striker?" ”

As soon as Zhang Xuan said this, all the generals were silent.

In this silence, Zhang Xuan sighed slightly in his heart and said secretly: "This is the real situation. ”

The Qing army withdrew on its own initiative, and although its strength was also greatly damaged, it was far from being slaughtered by others.

Under such circumstances, a war of annihilation was set off in the south of the Han River, Zhang Xuan thought, but a war of annihilation with the annihilation of more than 100,000 people was not so easy to fight. As long as Zhang Xuan thought about the appearance of the soldiers and horses in the city, he knew that there was no such tooth.

Of course, the absence of this tooth mouth does not mean that he will give up like this and let the Qing army leave.

Zhang Xuan said: "Zhou Fuchen. ”

"The end will be." Zhou Fuchen said.

Zhang Xuan said: "Immediately send troops to cut off the Dongyu pontoon bridge." ”

"Yes." Zhou Fuchen said loudly.

Zhang Xuan looked at Li Guo and said, "General Li, do you want to be ashamed of Fancheng." ”

As soon as Li Guo heard Zhang Xuan's words, he knew Zhang Xuan's thoughts, and said, "Okay, I'll arrange to cross the river and attack Fancheng." ”

Zhang Xuan immediately gave Cao Zongyu an order, asking Cao Zongyu to stick to Azig, at least not to let Azig leave easily.

Although there are three counterattacks, in fact, these three counterattacks are all put on a show. Of course, that doesn't mean that these shelves aren't useless.

The first to come to the good news was Li Guo, Li Guo crossed the Han River under the escort of the sailor, and defeated the Qing army to stay on the north bank of the Han River, not many, that is, more than 10,000 people, and these more than 10,000 soldiers are still surrendering the army, most of them are breaking into the camp and surrendering the army. It's a mix of fish and dragons, and everyone has it.

Li Guo immediately surrendered more than 10,000 soldiers. It greatly supplemented the combat power of Li Guo's department.

In fact, in the strategy of the Qing army, Ben did not take this place to heart, and it was almost an abandoned land. That's why it's so easy to get hold of.

After Zhang Xuan got the news, he immediately asked Li Guo to set up a village on the original site of Fancheng to prepare for the reconstruction of Fancheng in the future.

After the good news, there is bad news.

Azig moved quickly, Cao Zongyu couldn't stay at all, and had already disengaged from Cao Zongyu and headed north. Cao Zongyu couldn't catch up, and he didn't dare to chase too hard, so he could only go north step by step. Fortunately, the Qing army does not seem to have the intention of staying.

Large swaths of land have been abandoned.

The one who really threatens Duoduo's department is the sailor of Zhou Fuchen's department.

At this time, not only Zhou Fuchen's department, but also Zheng Tai's department, the two sailors together, there are only more than 10,000 people, but these more than 10,000 people make Duoduo very troubled.

Standing on the north bank of the Han River, Duoduo overlooked the fleet of ships in the middle of the Han River.

The upper reaches of the Han River are not too wide. The number of ships was also limited, but it was still very easy to deal with pontoons with these boats.

Duoduo could only see dozens of cannons on both sides blocking the river from both sides, and the cannons bombarding the ships.

It seems that because of Kong Youde's death, coupled with the cannon that Kong Youde threw on the top of Da Xian Mountain, the firepower of the Qing army has dropped greatly.

As a result, the guns look powerful, but they don't actually do that much damage.

On the contrary, the sailors of the Xia army braved the bombardment of artillery and bombarded the pontoon bridge, and for a time there were all kinds of firearms, such as artillery, rockets, and even all kinds of explosives and ignitions. But after a while, the pontoon bridge was set on fire. The flaming pontoon is like a fire dragon.

It burns inexhaustibly for a while.

And the Xia Junshui division was not unscathed, and after a while, he ate several cannons on one ship. The casualties on board don't say anything about him. As can be seen from Duoduo alone, the waterline of this ship has dropped quite a bit.

The reaction of the Xia Junshui division was quick and immediately began to retreat.

But after a while, another Xia army fleet came over.

They desperately tried to find a way to cut the chains that held the pontoon bridge in place. Otherwise, wait a while, the fleet cannot continue to swim against the current. And this pontoon bridge is not the only pontoon bridge of the Qing army, although there are a lot of losses, but there are at least 100,000 horses in the hands of Duoduo.

More than 100,000 people and horses crossed the river, and if only a pontoon bridge was used, it would take several days, more than ten days.

Under the perseverance of Zhou Fuchen and other sailors, the time for the Qing army to cross the river was delayed, and in the end, Duoduo even left the more than 10,000 Qing troops who fell to the bottom behind. Soon surrounded by the pursuing Xia Legion, he won a small victory.

Of course, after crossing the Han River, the pursuit of the Xia army was even more sluggish, full of a kind of send-off pursuit. Zhang Xuan didn't pay much attention to these things, but handed over this matter to Yang Chengzu.

Yang Chengzu's performance in this battle, although it is above the level, but it is not too good, after all, the key place of Da Xian Mountain was lost in his hands, and was taken by Zhang Xuan, the pursuit battle, as long as you are careful, the Qing army should not make any big moves. And with the current situation, it is not very likely that the Qing army will stay in Nanyang, so Yang Chengzu will be given some credit for recovering the lost territory.

This big war began in early March and now comes to an end in mid-May.

The number of people who joined the two sides in the second place is more than 300,000, and the loss figures have not been summed up by both sides now, and it can even be said that they cannot be summarized. In this war, there are many armies that have repeatedly defected, and it is estimated that neither of them will regard each other as soldiers on their own side.

Even with the exception of these troops, there were quite a few casualties.

At least the casualties of the soldiers of the Eight Banners were about 10,000. The Han army is even more. And the Xia army is the most effective several heavy army groups, one after another, Li Rugui died in battle, Li Rugui's department, almost no longer exists, Yang Chengzu's department, Zhang Xuan's department, Luo Rucai's Chinese army, have lost their troops and generals. The remnants of the barrage were even removed in a military sense.

With such a grand scale, both sides prepared in a hurry. But this battle was the beginning of the first year of Chongzhen, and the wars of various departments became bigger and bigger, from the battle of tens of thousands of people, to the battle of Songshan and Ruzhou, hundreds of thousands, to the current total of six or seven hundred thousand on both sides.

From then on, one thing was officially announced.

The whole world has officially changed to the era of the two heroes of the north and the south.

It's just that now the north and south have too many things to deal with internally, and in the years after the battle of Xiangyang, there was no big war between the two sides. On the border, there are many skirmishes, but there is no real big war, and it is not that I don't want to.

But after this battle, the Qing army didn't want to admit that Great Xia was a big country, and they looked down on Great Xia no matter how much they looked down on it, and they had to admit that Great Xia was a big country.

Conquest between great powers. There must be no hastiness, both sides are just accumulating strength. If you don't fight, it's enough, and a dozen is a shock. Of course, that's just another story.

Although Duoduo did not join the battlefield at the beginning, the fierce battle under Xiangyang City for more than a month damaged Kong Youde, no matter how you say it, it cannot be called a victory. In the convergence with Azig in Xinye, he immediately forcibly requisitioned new grain from all over the country.

It's summer and May.

The summer grain has just come down, and these grains have greatly supplemented the food gap of the Qing army, at least the food gap of the Qing army is not so big. However, due to the war, throughout the spring of this year, the fighting in the vicinity of Nanyang and Xiangyang was urgent, and the cultivated land in many places was destroyed.

The harvest was not too much. It was simply not enough to support the total army of more than 200,000 Duoduo and Azig.

Now the biggest enemy of the Qing army is no longer the Xia army, but food.