Chapter 63: Sneak Attack Succeeds
For Ruan Dacheng's ruthlessness, Chen Jia was afraid, but he had to think for himself, several battles with Zhang Qiang, so that he lost his troops, and there were not many men and horses in his hands, if he could transform these rebel soldiers into his subordinates, then his strength would be able to recover, and his position in the Qing army could still sit firmly, if there were no soldiers, he, the chief soldier, was not as good as a coated slave of the Qing army.
Therefore, Chen Jia said: "My lord, this is a good time for us to expand our strength, besides, we have suffered heavy losses this time, just besieging Jinhua Mansion for more than a month, we lost thousands of men and horses, last night, we lost thousands of men and horses, plus because of the encirclement and suppression of Zhang Qiang's department, we lost 32,000 men and horses, and there are rebels and bandits in other counties to attack our army, this time our army can be said to be broken, if there is no supplement, my lord, your position in Belle Ye and the Qing Dynasty may be shaken." ”
Ruan Dacheng listened to him quietly, and then said: "Okay, I don't need to use this proof of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, I can defeat Zhu Dadian and take Jinhua Mansion, this credit, Bolobel will not be unaware, but if I have too many soldiers in my hands, I will be suspicious of the Jurchens, Chen Jia, sometimes, you should use your brain, see the form clearly, and conform to current events, otherwise maybe the catastrophe will come that day, and it will be too late to regret it." ”
Chen Jia nodded obediently, but he had to feel a trace of bitterness in his heart, he is a military general, a military general is different from Ruan Dacheng, Ruan Dacheng is a civil official, of course, he must be brave and courageous, he can only have soldiers in his hands in order to make meritorious contributions, otherwise, he will be replaced by others every minute.
Ruan Dacheng said to the generals beside him: "How many rebels and how many people have been caught?" ”
The military general said: "In this battle, as before, we captured a total of 3,500 rebels, plus the generals and soldiers of the rebels who surrendered on their own initiative, a total of 5,300 people; A total of 13,000 people were captured in Jinhua County, but they were all old and weak, and the young and strong had all been killed or captured in battle and fled. ”
Ruan Dacheng said coldly: "Kill them all, let the Jinhua Mansion and the surrounding Ming army and those who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty see what will happen to me against the Qing Dynasty." ”
The general shuddered and replied in a trembling voice, "Yes, my lord." ”
Ruan Dacheng walked down the hill in front of the mansion, this hill was Zhang Qiang asked Wei Wuji to lead people to pile up, at this moment, on the rugged road, you can still see the traces of the battle, but it is not too obvious, since last night, the main battles in Jinhua County took place in the streets near Zhufu, and in the second half of the night in Zhufu, in the early morning, there is basically only the pursuit and escape, and the traces of the battle in the county town are cleaned up.
Ruan Dacheng returned to Jindong Town to rest, a large group of Qing army Tartar generals, a large group of Han army banner Han generals, and Ming army generals, all gathered in Ruan Dacheng's temporary Chinese army tent in Jindong Town, a squire's compound, as for the squire's own family, it has become corpses piled up in the firewood room in the backyard.
Between the staggering, Ruan Dacheng also wrote poems and paintings, extremely vassal elegance, but the Qing army Tartars were extremely barbaric, and they were doing things in public with Han women in their arms.
At night, Zhang Qiang's troops quietly entered Jinhua County, and the screams were endless, and the sound of swords colliding occurred repeatedly.
Until Chen Jia woke up and rushed out with the guards from the palace, the entire Jinhua County was already Zhang Qiang's world.
Chen Jia didn't think of facing Zhang Qiang, but took his own soldiers, gathered the deserters, and headed towards the south gate.
However, this time he was not so lucky, as Wei Wuji's brigade suddenly appeared at the south and west gates, blocking his retreat.
In the rain of arrows, Chen Jia was the first to be hit by an arrow, flipped off his horse, and was rescued by his own soldiers, but was shot into a sieve by the rain of arrows, and the rest of the Qing soldiers fled one after another, or had to fight with Wei Wuji's sword and card players.
Zhang Qiang's headquarters entered through the north gate, Wei Wuji entered through the south gate, Mi Chun entered through the west gate, and Hu Kui entered through the east gate.
The county seat of Jinhua is in chaos.
By the time Ruan Dacheng got the news of the deserters and gathered his men, Zhang Qiang had basically ended the sneak attack and cleaned up the battlefield.
Ruan Dacheng led his troops to rush to the city wall of Jinhua County, and was blocked by Mi Chun's crossbow brigade, Hu Kui's cavalry rushed out of the darkness, and Ruan Dacheng's vanguard troops were defeated in the first battle, killing and wounding hundreds of people, and had to withdraw from Jinhua County.
Zhang Qiang's troops were busy in Jinhua County overnight, rescuing more than 3,000 rebels, although more than 2,000 were seriously injured, that was because they were being slaughtered by the Qing army, and were seriously injured because of resistance, but they finally waited for the arrival of Zhang Qiang's troops at the last moment, and their lives were saved.
More than 5,000 people were rescued.
Reoccupied Jinhua County, Zhang Qiang did not close his eyes all night.
The next day it appeared at the head of the city.
Outside the city, Ruan Dacheng was in a hurry, and he had already gathered more than 10,000 Qing troops, not because he didn't want to gather more troops, but the 5,000 troops in Jinhua County were annihilated by Zhang Qiang's overnight sneak attack.
In addition to more than 10,000 troops outside the city, the other troops were stationed in other counties, or to clear the remnants of the Ming army in the township or the deserters of the rebel army, and the main force of these people was He Jinbu and Milin Min.
He Jinbu fled when the Mongolian cavalry sent by Ruan Dacheng attacked, they were all old men, and they had their own set of escapes, which was also the reason why Zhang Qiang returned He Jin's old troops to him, and sent Zhang Qiang's regular soldiers, but there was only one result, fighting to the death, and being annihilated by the enemy's superior forces.
These old Kou also have an advantage, they all have a set of methods and consciousness to regroup, no need to discuss, they all know where to find He Jin, this is also He Jin as a rogue, how many times has he been defeated by the superior forces of the Ming army, but he can rise again soon after, because the dead are some peripheral rogues, homeless, Lao Kou are quite cunning, as soon as they see that the situation is not right, they immediately disperse in a hurry, and the fight is smooth, their combat effectiveness can not be underestimated, they can quickly reassemble after defeat.
So a miracle appeared, although He Jin was raided, but when he obviously knew that Zhang Qiang was sending them to attract the enemy's attention, he had already taken precautions, as soon as the Mongolian cavalry appeared, they immediately dispersed in a hurry, causing Sunit who led the troops to take a lot of effort, and spent a lot of time, but only killed two hundred, captured dozens of old Kou, and the other one regrouped with He Jin in the mountains twenty miles away.
Lin Chengcheng is the same, but he is unlucky, not only the Mongolian cavalry, but also the Manchu Tartars, and even the Han army flag infantry, his strength is small, he was surrounded at once, under the hard battle, except for dozens of Lao Kou who were wounded and fled, and then found He Jin's department, which was merged by He Jin, the rest were all killed in battle, and Lin Yangsheng was also captured.
The Milin Department is alert, but there are too many enemies, and the Milin Department is mostly young and strong, although there is a lot of combat experience, but in the face of the outnumbered Qing army, they fought to the death and did not retreat, and the final outcome was 300 people, only Milin fled with a few cavalry, and the others were annihilated.
The Qing army cast a wide net and pursued them closely, which also caused Ruan Dacheng to be unable to recover the troops he had scattered, and more than 5,000 soldiers and horses were pinned down in the county town and mountains around Jinhua Mansion.
In the face of the sneak attack of the Wuyi County rebel troops, the Qing troops around Jinhua Mansion were not prepared at all.