The Gongyi battalion set off in the early morning and advanced towards Pizhen, sixty miles away.

Cavalry, infantry, Chinese army and baggage troops, the marching army of the Gongyi battalion was several miles long, and there was no silence or deliberate compression of the length of the marching procession.

This is the occupied area of the Qing army, and there are strongholds of the Qing army everywhere, and small groups of troops can sneak over, and the nearly 10,000 horses of the Gongyi battalion will definitely not be able to hide the eyes and ears of the Qing army, so they simply walk generously.

Along the way, they passed through several strongholds of the Qing army, and the Gongyi battalion bypassed and left directly, not entangled with them, Wang Kefan's goal was Pizhen, and he would not go back, these strongholds had no value.

Seeing the Ming army's brigade passing by, the Qing troops in those strongholds did not dare to come out to intercept, but sent a lot of scouts to follow behind the Gongyi battalion, Wang Kefan ignored them, unless they were too close, they sent cavalry to drive them away.

The scouts were all flies, and as soon as the cavalry approached, they turned and ran, and after a while they turned back and continued to follow, and the Gongyi battalion marched at full speed all the way as if they were not in charge, and finally arrived at Pizhen after dark.

It's this time difference!

Regardless of the back road, the Gongyi battalion went deep alone, like an assassin's sacrificial blow, and the cattle slaughtering knife had already caught the throat of the Qing army!

The Gongyi battalion set up camp, ate and rested, some auxiliary soldiers prepared siege equipment overnight, and all the soldiers slept...... Sixty miles of marching in one day, for the Gongyi battalion, which carried baggage and armor, had reached the upper limit of the marching speed, and the soldiers were very tired, and they had to rest well for a night and attack again the next morning.

It's a tough battle!

Pizhen is an important place for the Qing army, although it is only a town, but it has been repeatedly built. It has become a strong fortress, there are more than 4,000 Qing troops stationed in the town, and there are two large strongholds of the Qing army twenty or thirty miles away from Pizhen, which may send reinforcements at any time, and Jin Shenghuan's main force is near Ganzhou, dozens of miles away, if you go down the river by boat, you can reach Pizhen within a day.

This is not the surprise attack on Wuchao in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the Qing army guard in Pizhen is not the drunkard of Chun Yuqiong, Pizhen is not only heavily guarded. Moreover, the security is heavy, and it is useless to send a small force to carry out a sneak attack.

In front of the Gongyi battalion is a tough battle.

However, the Gongyi Battalion must win this battle!

The Ming army had few troops and poor combat effectiveness, so if it fought a decisive battle with the Qing army under the city of Ganzhou. You can't win...... Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800, even if it is a war of attrition. Even in every local battle, the Ming army can win. In the end, you will still lose the whole battle.

If the scale of the Battle of Ganzhou continues to expand, the Qing army will continue to send reinforcements, such as Bolo in Fujian is a huge threat, and the Ming army has basically emptied its family base, and it will not help to cobble together some rabble.

Only by defeating Pizhen can we win the Battle of Ganzhou!

The Gan River was the main artery of the Qing army. Pizhen was the logistics base of the Qing army, in order to attack Ganzhou, the Qing army spent half a year to transfer various materials from the rear, and most of them were stored in the warehouse in Pizhen. This includes a large amount of food, gunpowder, armor, weapons, and military salaries......

As long as the materials in the warehouse in Pizhen were destroyed, the Qing army would be defeated without a fight.

In the favor of the Gongyi battalion, the main forces of the Qing army were all attracted to the vicinity of Ganzhou, and there was still one to two days before their reinforcements arrived. In addition, Wang Kefan has long been collecting relevant intelligence on Pizhen, and he knows the garrison deployment of the Qing army here and the location of the warehouse.

As soon as it was dawn the next morning, the Gongyi battalion launched an attack......

According to the general principle, if the difference between the forces of the offensive and defensive sides is not large, it is not appropriate to divide the troops in the battle of fortified positions, otherwise the forces will be scattered, and even if the enemy's first line of defense is broken, there will not be enough strength to expand the breakthrough and advance in depth.

However, Wang Kefan still divided his troops and launched an attack from the east and south sides of Pizhen at the same time.

It's in a hurry.

Attacking at the same time will allow you to break through Pi Town more quickly, and put more pressure on the defenders. Wang Kefan's target is the warehouse in Pizhen, if the Qing army concentrates its forces to launch a counterattack on one side, it will cause the other side to be empty, even if it loses a local battle, as long as it can attack the warehouse in Pizhen, the price is worth it.

The first obstacle in front of the Gongyi camp was the wall of Pizhen.

Pizhen originally had no walls, but after the Qing army used it as a logistics base, they built a complete wall outside the town. The walls are one foot two feet high, with a two-foot-high bluestone foundation at the bottom, and the walls above are made of clay embryos, but these earth embryos have been burned and tamped to make them as solid as ordinary brick walls.

Compared with the regular city wall, this wall was relatively low, and there was no moat and moat protection in front, only some simple antler obstacles, and the Gongyi battalion did not have time to build complex siege equipment, so they used the tactics of crowds to carry the ladder to attack.

"Knock knock!"

The war drums were like thunder, and the soldiers were like ants, rushing towards the wall of Pizhen, the height of the wall was only one-third of the county city wall, and it was not worth the time to delay too much!

"Step! Trample! Stomp, stomp! ”

Braving the bows and arrows and firearms of the Qing army, one by one the ladders set up the wall, and the death squad held the ladder in one hand, and held a single knife in the other hand to protect the head and face with the small round shield on the arm, and climbed up towards the wall.

A row of Qing troops suddenly appeared on the wall, shooting at the Ming army with firearms and bows and arrows, and also lifting stone ash bottles and smashing them down, the Ming army on the ladder could not hide, and immediately more than a dozen people were injured and died, crackling and falling down the ladder.

"Boom!"

Hundreds of archers of the Gongyi battalion stood under the wall, shooting arrows to cover their companions on the ladder, and a row of arrows rained over, and the Qing troops on the wall fell to the ground one after another, and the blocking of the ladder suddenly stopped.

Climbing a ladder is only a matter of seconds for an adult man, and while the Qing army on the wall is suppressed, the Ming soldiers jump a few times and climb the wall.

Kill!

This wall is too low, and it is easy to storm it, but the real test is yet to come!

Sure enough, the Qing army had already prepared on the wall.

Presented in front of the soldiers of the Gongyi battalion was a neat queue of the Qing army, the first row was the regimental players, followed by three rows of pikemen, if it were not for the limited width of this wall, their formation would have been thicker.

The Qing army is ready for battle!

The soldiers of the Gongyi battalion are all death squads, and they are not afraid of strong enemies, but they have no long weapons in their hands, and they have no time to form a formation just after they go to the wall, so they can only fight with the Qing army in their own battles, and they are injured and killed one after another, and they are about to be driven off the camp wall. (To be continued......)