There will be no fighting tonight.

After the victory, the Qing soldiers did not continue to attack the city.

The Qing army of Yanping Mansion led by Liu Liangzuo had already walked to the place where Zhang Qiang was fighting with Fang Anguo.

Ma Bao looked at the battlefield in a mess and said to Liu Liangzuo: "My lord, it seems that the Qing soldiers have been defeated very badly here. ”

Liu Liangzuo said: "Not to mention the remnants, three thousand cavalry were annihilated in Changqiao Town, and the main general Ruan Jie was captured, here, five thousand Qing infantry were defeated by others, two thousand people were taken prisoner, and the main general was beheaded, although Zhang Qiang also suffered heavy losses, but from the mouth of the deserters who were captured, they still knew that they gathered reinforcements from Pingnan County, and they grew stronger again, making up for the losses, not to mention, but also made those squires who were about to move around, Haoqiang heard the name of the Jinhua Righteous Army, and they were afraid to tremble. ”

He looked in the direction of Jinhua, "This person's climate has been formed, and in the future, the Qing army will have a big disaster." He was even more difficult than those courts of the Southern Ming Dynasty. ”

Ma Bao looked at Fang Anguo's head hanging on the treetops, "If he defeats Zhang Cunren's three-way army again this time and returns to Jinhua with Longwu, I am afraid that the Ming army in the southern provinces will be shaken in the future, and if he encounters the righteous army again, he will not dare to fight." ”

Liu Liangzuo sighed, "Yes, there will be no quiet time in the south in the future, look, the Ming righteous army will be like a spark burning the plain, burning the Qing army who dare to come to the south, burning, burning them know that it hurts, obediently retreat to the north, and the Southern Ming River and rule, the versatile regent sitting in Yanjing had to have a headache, change his strategy, and slowly plot against the Ming Dynasty." ”

Ma Bao said: "My lord, will there be another Southern Song Dynasty again, competing with the Jin people for a hundred years?" ”

Liu Liangzuo said: "I can't say for sure, it depends on the result of this Pingnan battle." ”

Just as he had finished saying this, a scout rushed in, "Report—"

Liu Liangzuo and Ma Bao reined in their horses, the scouts dismounted, and knelt down in front of them, "Report to the general soldiers, outside the city of Pingnan County, the Portuguese lost their troops, almost all the six hundred musketeers were annihilated, only the remaining eighty musketeers fled back, Fan Shaozu's 10,000 troops were annihilated more than 3,000 people, the cavalry was all wiped out, the infantry was captured more than 1,000 people, the remaining 6,000 troops retreated more than 20 miles, and the Fan general army retreated to Gantang. ”

"What about Zhang Cunren's army?" Ma Bao asked anxiously.

The scout said: "Lord Zhang's army was implicated because of the defeat of Lord Fan's army, gave up the siege, retreated five miles and camped, losing 5,000 infantry, 8,000 people, 300 cavalry, and countless supplies. ”

Liu Liangzuo and Ma Bao glanced at each other, "If there is a messenger from Governor Zhang who urges, just say that I am sick, you go and let the baggage behind you walk slowly, don't go too fast, let's see the situation here." ”

On the other side, Fan Shaozu touched his bald head, "Grandma is a bear, how can this Jinhua Righteous Army be so able to fight, even if I put tens of thousands of Qing soldiers, I can't win the Portuguese musketeers, they are only 1,600 musketeers, and they will destroy all the people." He also lost so many artillery pieces and explosives to the opponent. ”

The staff member on one side said, "Then, my lord, what should we do?" ”

Fan Shaozu said: "If Governor Zhang comes to ask, he will say that I am sick and let the troops retreat, if not, we will retreat to Gutian County." ”

Another staff member said: "My lord, you can't retreat, I'm afraid that Governor Zhang will join you, so it's better to be here for the time being and wait for news, after all, Governor Zhang's troops are still very strong." ”

Fan Shaozu frowned and thought for a while, then squinted at his staff, "Well, that's it, remember, I sent those messengers for me." ”

In Pingnan County, Zhang Qiang did not go to ask Emperor Longwu for peace after sleeping and got up, but summoned his subordinates to understand the situation.

"Gu Qianhu, tell me about the situation of our firecrackers." He asked.

Gu Yuesheng had a pair of panda eyes on his head, and a sling wrapped around his shoulders, he escaped from a book like a fold, opened it, and read: "In the past few days, our army has been fighting continuously, and the firecrackers have suffered heavy losses, with four thousand two hundred firecrackers at the beginning, plus the firecrackers of the righteous army who came to Pingnan County to collect, and the firecrackers who joined the captives converted into firecrackers, a total of about 5,300 people. ”

He looked up at Zhang Qiang, and continued to bow his head and read: "Now, after many battles, mainly the five hundred firecrackers led by you, my lord, and the one thousand firecrackers led by the lower officials, so far, nine hundred and twenty people have died, two hundred and eighty are seriously injured, and there are two hundred and ninety-five firecrackers left who can fight. ”

After a pause, he said again: "Yesterday I went out of the city to fight a thousand firearms, and so far there are more than 600 people left, and there are 987 people left on both sides. ”

"In addition, because the firecrackers fighting in the city did not participate in the battle, there are still 1,200 firecrackers left, and so far, our army has a total of 2,100 firecrackers left, 2,600 firecrackers have been killed in battle, more than 300 firecrackers have been seriously wounded, and more than 100 firecrackers have been lightly injured and cannot fight."

Zhang Qiang sighed, this time in order to save Long Wu, his elite firecrackers had lost more than seventy percent.

"How many firecrackers do we have now?"

Gu Yuesheng said: "After last night's statistics, there are 600 high-grade muskets, 600 Portuguese arquebuses, 300 high-grade Qing army guns, 200 medium Ming army guns, and the rest still have 1,700 inferior guns, our army has lost a total of 3,500 guns in previous battles, including 200 arquebuses, 100 bird guns, 2,100 medium Ming army guns, and 1,000 inferior guns. ”

In other words, Zhang Qiang's current army only has some inferior firecrackers and a small number of good firearms.

Because Zhang Qiang was reluctant to use the arquebus, the 800 musketeers did not take all the 800 musketeers out, so 600 were retained.

As a later generation, he knew that muskets, such as hot weapons, were the mainstream of future battles, so Zhang Qiang was particularly concerned about the firearms he owned and the soldiers who could operate firearms, so the first thing he asked was these, but next, what he wanted to know was cavalry.

In fact, there is no need to understand, he took all the cavalry out, and all that was left in the city were the personal guard cavalry of a few people and some sentry cavalry, and in this battle, there were a lot of losses, almost sixty percent of the cavalry were lost.

The losses are significant.

The only consolation was that he was not fighting the enemy in the wilderness, and that he still had a city to rely on.

It is possible to make full use of the infantry that does not lose much to fight the enemy.

Yang Yangyang said: "My lord, we also have Portuguese arquebuses captured from the Portuguese that are better than our existing arquebuses, as well as Portuguese artillery, as well as dozens of cannons left by Fan Shaozu to us. ”

Tang Dianfeng also smiled and said: "Yes, my lord, when you come back this time, you have captured five thousand stones of grain and grass from the enemy just by seizing them. This can make the army and the people in the city eat for a lot of days, before I had a headache with less and less food supplies, this time, we died at once, fled, plus yesterday the enemy attacked the city, I executed 5,000 disobedient prisoners, now the total population and total strength of our city, less than 30,000 people, save some food, almost a month. ”

Zhang Qiang still feels that it is not safe, a month, it will pass soon, but will the enemy give him a month?

Some words, some summarized news analysis, the enemy's strength is still strong, at least the enemy still has 20,000 elites, 20,000 followers, this is not counting the defeated Fan Shaozu and the Qing soldiers led by Liu Liangzuo, who is gradually approaching.

And although the enemy who was frightened in the first battle yesterday retreated, killed and captured so many enemies, and captured countless materials, he also paid two or three thousand casualties, and his current elite is only more than 5,000 people, plus the young and strong in the city, the remaining rebel troops are only more than 7,000 people, and the captive soldiers are unreliable, although they still have a huge base of 20,000.