Chapter 540: The plan is successful
The soldiers of the Eight Banners are not good at boating, and if they want to cross the river, they naturally have to rely on the help of the green camp and the water army. Fortunately, Li Guoying in the green camp was very loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and his more than 40,000 subordinates mastered more than 200 warships, helping to cross the river without any problem.
Yes, Azig has decided to abandon the unstable military spirit and collude with the Ming army to collude with the Green Battalion, and cross the river to the other side of Wuhu with his subordinate 20,000 Eight Banners and some Green Battalion soldiers loyal to the Qing Dynasty, so that these 20,000 Eight Banners can be invincible.
With the total destruction of the Duoduo army, Azig did not dare to take any more risks.
"Mr. Fang, the plan has been successful!" After receiving Azig's order to prepare secretly, Li Guoying was excited about Xia Dao.
"If you can destroy the 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers as you wish, General Li Bing, you are the biggest hero of this battle, and the Ming Dynasty will not treat you badly."
Fang Mingxia touched the short stubble on his chin, forcibly held back the excitement in his heart, and said to Li Guoying with a smile. If the Eight Banners are destroyed this time, Fang Mingxia himself will inevitably get the attention of the imperial court, and he will embark on the road to prosperity.
"It's all up to Mr. Fang's support and assistance, if Guoying has a bright future, he will not forget Mr. Fang's kindness." Li Guoying was sincerely grateful to the other party's name.
If Fang Mingxia had not sent people to secretly communicate with the Green Battalion generals in the name of the Ming Dynasty, and last night he had ordered someone to warn the Green Camp generals that Azig would take the opportunity of gathering generals to attack them, which made many Green Camp generals panic and did not dare to go to the Azig camp, how could Azig be panicked and retreat?
"Let's help each other in the future and conspire for great things!" Fang Mingxia smiled and said, "But now I have to go back to Wuhu and ask Pingnanhou to send troops to respond." ”
There are still more than 200,000 green battalion soldiers here, although many green battalion generals are said to be tempted, but without Chen Yue, the supreme general of the Ming Dynasty, these green battalion generals will definitely not surrender with peace of mind, so to achieve a complete victory, it is impossible to leave Chen Yue behind.
So even if Fang Mingxia hated Chen Yue no matter how much he hated it, he had to go to Wuhu to communicate with him and inform Chen Yue of this.
"There's Mr. Law!" Li Guoying said happily, although Fang Mingxia kept saying that he represented the imperial court, the supreme commander in Wuhu was Chen Yue. And this move would not have been possible without the Ming army's strategy, at least Li Guoying of the more than 200,000 green battalions would not have been able to handle it himself.
After pit Xu Ensheng and Hao Xiaozhong, Li Guoying has become infamous among the generals of the Green Battalion and is suspicious of other Green Battalion generals, after all, everyone is afraid of being killed and the army being annexed. This made Fang Mingxia dare not mention Li Guoying at all when he sent people to lobby and collude with the generals of the Green Battalion.
Therefore, Fang Mingxia had to go to Wuhu to report the matter to Chen Yue. Thinking about the fact that he had worked hard to defeat the Qing army, and in the end the credit had to be shared by Chen Yue, the enemy, Fang Mingxia felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he was helpless. Whether it was for the major affairs of the court or for his future future, he had to temporarily put aside the hatred in his heart and go to meet Chen Yue.
After the two discussed the details again, Fang Mingxia quietly left Li Guoying's water camp in a small boat and headed towards Wuhu. On the vast river that is several miles wide, on the river where there are hundreds of warships and countless boats in the company camp, Fang Mingxia's Yiye Lonely Boat is inconspicuous.
Watching Fang Mingxia's boat disappear into the river in the distance, Li Guoying turned around with a smile and began to arrange the retreat of the Eight Banners.
One hundred and fifty warships, each of which can carry more than 200 soldiers, is all the warships in Li Guoying's hands. If it was all used to load soldiers, it would be enough to transport all the Eight Banners soldiers to the other side of the river at once. However, considering the large number of war horses and other materials carried by the Eight Banners with the army, it would take at least two or three times to transport all the Eight Banners soldiers.
Each warship was garrisoned by Li Guoying's henchmen, and no soldiers were allowed to approach it within a mile of the pier.
After preparing the warship, Li Guoying personally went to the camp of the Azig Chinese army and asked him to lead the troops to set off.
On the riverbank, the Eight Banners Soldier Battalion, more than 20,000 Eight Banners soldiers were neatly equipped and quietly lined up in a queue, although there were many people, the whole camp was very quiet, except for the occasional snort of war horses.
From the capital to the ordinary vests, all the Eight Banners soldiers were in a very heavy mood, because they knew that this trip was not to fight the Ming army, but to retreat.
said that it was a retreat, but in fact it was almost the same as escaping, when was the Eight Banners warriors so frightened that they fled! This made many people very uncomfortable and complained about Prince Azig of England.
But no matter how dissatisfied they were, strict military discipline made them only obey orders.
Some people feel uncomfortable, while others feel relieved, after all, retiring means that they don't have to stay in the hot south anymore, the weather is hot and humid, and the climate here is really uncomfortable.
One last glance at Wuhu City in the distance, Azig let out a long sigh and took the lead towards the dock in Li Guoying's camp. This time, I don't know if there will be a chance to come to Jiangnan again in this life!
As soon as the Eight Banners moved, they immediately attracted the attention of countless people in the company and camp of the Qing army in the twenty-mile army.
"What? The Eight Banners are out of the camp! When the order was given, all the brothers immediately gathered and set up a camp for Lao Tzu. All the artillery guns were prepared for Lao Tzu, aimed at the outside of the camp, and the Eight Banners would bombard Lao Tzu as soon as they came. ”
Hearing that his subordinates reported that the Eight Banners had left the camp, the chief soldier Chang Deng was shocked at first, and then hurriedly gave an order. Because of the weakness of heart, he and Zhang Yingxiang and others did not dare to go when Azig beat the drum to gather the generals, which is already equivalent to rebellion, and now that the Eight Banners have opened the barracks, they must have come to suppress themselves.
"Who is that, you hurry up and take a boat to Wuhu to report to Pingnanhou, just say that Lao Tzu is anyway now, and he is fighting against Mantar, so that Pingnanhou can send people to support." After thinking about it, Chang Deng said again.
Without the support of the Ming army, with less than 10,000 people in the battalion, Chang Deng simply did not have much time to support. At the same time, Chang Deng secretly ordered his henchmen to prepare ships and retreat by water as soon as the situation was not good.
The departure of the Eight Banners was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, and the entire Qing army camp immediately caused countless waves.
When the drums were beating, everyone was terrified because they were afraid of the Green Battalion generals who did not dare to go, for fear that Azig would lead troops to crusade against him. Some of the Green Battalion generals are holding on to the defenses, and many more are preparing for an escape. At the same time, countless small boats appeared on the river, rowing in different directions, all heading in the direction of the Ming army camp downstream.
"Sure enough, the army's heart is lost!" Walking on the bank of the river on horseback, looking at the many boats in the river heading in the direction of Wuhu downstream, Azig did not know where they were going. At the same time, the decision to withdraw troops became more firm.
It was much better to withdraw the troops while the Ming army was defenseless and dissenting green battalion soldiers were still suspicious, which was much better than the Ming army's reaction.