On the east side of the mouth of the Yuanhua River, five kilometers east of Wuchuan County, Bomao inspects the city.

Li Mingzhong's largest boats also retreated to the East China Sea Island of Guangzhou Bay to avoid the wind, and Wuchuan Bomao left dozens of sampan boats, and there was a wooden water camp on the other side of the river at Bomao Fort, which was guarded by the Huajiang River with Bomao Fort.

The Northern Tartar Army Flag and the Ming Army Flag are 2 kilometers apart.

In the south, there is a line of light blue sea and sky, and the color of the estuary's fresh water and sea water is distinct.

Rulin's mast rose from the sea level, and the Ming army on the city wall let out a burst of cheers.

The guard Leng Xiongjie breathed a sigh of relief, and reinforcements came.

Seeing that there was still a long time before the mast arrived at the sailor, Leng Xiongjie walked to the north city wall and looked out.

In the clearing outside the city were dozens of piles of rotten wood, the remains of shield wagons and other siege equipment, and beyond that were the Tatar barracks.

Due to the cutting of the Jianjiang River and the Yuanhua River, the Tatars on the battlefield were actually divided into three parts.

The green battalion of the Jing Domain is full of 4,000 people, and there are 5 battalions in the front and back, left and right, and naturally they will not all be dispatched, and there are still a few hundred people left behind in Guangzhou. Lian Decheng collected and surrendered a lot of Ming troops along the way, and after shaving his hair, he entered the camp and passed the grain together, Leng Xiongjie estimated that his strength was in the early 4,000s.

The west bank of the Jianjiang River is the main force of the company's headquarters, with 3 battalions and 2,500 soldiers. On the east bank of the Jianjiang River and on the west bank of the Yuanhua River were the front battalions of the general Zeng Yangxing, and on the east bank of the Yuanhua River were the right battalions of the garrison Jiang Yuanxun, with 7,800 soldiers in each battalion.

The Ming army had three castles in Wuchuan, the left wing of Wuchuan City inspected the Sicheng of Ningcun, and the right wing of Bomao inspected the Sicheng. Among them, Ningcun Fort and Wuchuan are on the same island, and only Bomao Fort is on land.

In the early days of the siege of Liandecheng, Bomao was the key target of attack, and Li Mingzhong assigned all the wolf soldiers and buck soldiers who could fight to Leng Xiongjie, and carried the first wave of attacks of the green battalion. Lian Decheng only had 7 cannons, and he couldn't open the thickened Bomao city wall. The green battalion used primitive tactics to build shield carts to cover the people's trenches and ants to enter the city.

Leng Xiongjie also had 4 cannons, and the Ming army did not fight an artillery battle with the green battalion, and the ammunition was bombarded with shield vehicles. After blasting out the shield car, use the Franco, Tiger Squat Cannon, and Bird Gun to hit the naked infantry and people behind.

Lian Cheng attacked the city several times, with more than 200 dead and wounded, and did not dare to fight again, so he retreated to camp 3 miles away. Geng Jimao's order to Lian Decheng was changed to surround Li Mingzhong and cut off the connection between Wuchuan and Huazhou.

The two armies faced off like this for several months. Geng Fan took root in the hard village, and the trench outside the barracks was dug into a spider web. After a few rains, it was all filled with water.

In the early days of the siege, there were frequent skirmishes between the two armies. In the hot summer, when everyone couldn't move, they just sat down, staring at each other with big eyes, and when they were bored, they asked some loud brothers to come to the front and scold them. After scolding, the two sides had a tacit understanding, and they didn't fight, just scolded.

This kind of confrontation was originally unfavorable to the defenders, and there was no hope of breaking the siege. But Wu Chuan is backed by the lifeline of the sea, Deng Yao and Yang Yandi are on the East China Sea Island behind him, with nearly 200 large and small warships. Deng and Yang are both from Gaozhou, and the two sailors are also mainly from Gaozhou, and Wu Chuan's Mingjun has a relationship with them as uncles and nephews, so it is impossible not to save them from death.

Many of Geng Fan's soldiers fell ill from the soil and water, and for a period of time, the Ming army's lookout post could see the carriage pulling the dead out of the camp every day.

Because he never fought later, Leng Xiongjie can't figure out how many soldiers Jiang Yuanxun has in front of him. But that's okay, we'll find out soon.

In the afternoon, Yang Yandi landed in Bomao, and Deng Yao landed in Wuchuan. They are all Gaozhou brothers, and after Leng Xiongjie and Yang Yandi met, it was a hug.

Leng Xiongjie: "What's the plan?" ”

Yang Yandi: "Haikanghou and Deng Gong made a feint in Wuchuan and covered us to fight Jiang Yuanxun. ”

"I see that Deng Gong brought to Wuchuan as many boats as you."

"Yes, but there are only sailors on those ships, and the best soldiers are with me."

"How many soldiers do you have?"

"400, what about you?"

"You can draw 200 to fight."

"Can you please ask Haikang to allocate a little more?"

"I'll try." Leng Xiongjie immediately sent a herald.

Yang Yandi: "Take me to see the Tatar military camp." ”

Autumn is crisp, approaching evening, and visibility is good.

Yang Yandi put down the binoculars, "I brought 4 cannons, and you also have 4, we have more cannons than Jiang Yuanxun." But it was necessary to cut off the Tatar pontoon bridges. ”

The two battalions of the Tartar army Jiang Yuan and Zeng Yangxing were sandwiched between the river, and the pontoon bridge was the key.

Leng Xiongjie: "I tried twice, and I failed. The width of the river is only more than 100 zhang, and the Tartars can be covered from both sides with a franc machine. ”

Yang Yandi held his chin and thought for a while, "I can only do it at night." Did the Tartar army pull the iron lock of the river? ”

"Not seen."

"No, we have to confirm again. Find a few brothers who are good at water, and touch them tonight. ”

"I'll arrange it right away."

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During the night, Li Mingzhong tried his best to send 150 troops to reinforce Bomao.

Lian Decheng pulled an iron lock to block the river in the main fortified area of Jianjiang, but there was no one in the Yuanhua River.

After scouting and reporting, Leng Xiongjie and Yang Yandi agreed on a battle plan.

Three days later, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, when the murder was set on fire.

Wu Chuan and Bo Mao attacked at the same time in the early hours of the morning and started fighting on all fronts.

Yang Yandi personally led 22 of the fastest sampans upstream, and the 12 sampans on the outside set up Franc planes to shoot at the artillery bases on both sides of the strait.

The five sampans on the inside are equipped with axes and knives, and the five sampans in the back are filled with oil and firewood.

The soldiers of the green battalion guarding the bridge beat the birds indiscriminately, and Yang Yandi's soldiers were like a gang jumping on the sea, jumping on the wooden boat under the pontoon bridge, and more than 20 soldiers rushed to the bridge, cutting down the 3 Tartar soldiers who beat the guns, and the rest were scattered as birds and beasts.

Before reinforcements arrived in the West Bank, the strikers cut down the bamboo poles. The fire attack ship picks up the side and ignites the fire.

The pontoon bridge soon caught fire, and Yang Yandi saw that the goal was achieved, turned the bow of the ship, and retreated downstream. Counting the losses, not counting the fire attack ships, 4 sampans were lost. Yang Yandi is very satisfied, inland river operations, sampan is king, the target is small and flexible.

After dawn, Leng Xiongjie dragged 6 guns out of the city, and 750 soldiers and more than 400 sailors were in front of Jiang Yuanxun's camp.

Cannons were placed in columns, and sailors piled up artillery forts.

The green battalion opened fire, and of course the Ming army could not be bombarded in a linear formation.

When dealing with enemy troops with firearms, the Ming army's drill code required that the queue be dispersed to reduce casualties. The evil result of the low combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the later period was born from this, the infantry did not dare to line up in a dense formation, and there was no way to fight the cavalry.

Of course, Jiang Yuanxun would not sit back and wait for the Ming army to build a fortress and open the gate to kill it. More than 400 infantry lined up in the front, and more than 70 cavalry cruised on the eastern flank.

There were more than 2,000 Mongols under Geng Shang's second domain, and Beijing was specially assigned to them when they went south. After many years of war, many of the Mongols died, Shang Kexi asked Beijing for help, and the pro-government Shunzhi decreed that all scattered Mongols did not need to be sent to the Imperial Court, and served before the army of the two feudal domains.

The two feudal clans occupied many yamen in the old city of Guangzhou as stables, drove away tens of thousands of people, enclosed land within a radius of dozens of miles around Guangzhou, bulldozed farmland to plant grass and raise horses.

Horse breeding in the interior is to take food from the population, and behind each war horse is one hundred and ten starving deaths. Several civilian officials who were not long-sighted protested and were immediately removed from their posts and investigated. Relying on such extreme measures, the Second Domain maintained a large cavalry force.

In the fall, the bows and arrows of these cavalry were again useful. The power of mounted archery is extremely poor, and the ancestors of mounted archery have abandoned bows and arrows for decades since they got muskets in Jianzhou, and hunting all rely on dismounting and shooting shotguns.

However, the Ming army's field combat ability was extremely poor, and they were afraid of cavalry shooting, so they would not dense the infantry formation.

The Song army confronted the Liao army in the Hebei Plain with a dense infantry phalanx, and in the most extreme case, tens of thousands of people formed a battle formation, advancing and retreating dozens of miles in front of the Liao army's more than 10,000 cavalry.

When the Ming army entered the age of firearms, it only dared to let the infantry loosely form a formation or hide behind the chariot battalion, and its tactical foothold was to rely on its own cavalry.

The infantry protects the old battalion, and the general staff and generals with their families are the real combat output. Without cavalry, the Ming army would not have fought in the field. In the late Chongzhen period, the Ming army was comprehensively inferior in cavalry, heavy infantry, and artillery, and it was difficult to win a victory with the Tatars.

Yang Yandi, a sailor who was born as a pirate, has never seen mounted archery.

Leng Xiongjie was born as an officer in the guard and knew what was going on with mounted archery.

If you change to another Ming army, you will die.

Yang Yandi: "What should I do?" ”

"Look at the wolf soldiers."

Leng Xiongjie brought out more than 200 wolf soldiers and soldiers, and these young militiamen were wearing an old cotton armor and were barefoot. The front row of rattan cards, the back row of shotguns or bows and arrows, meet the green battalion cavalry to shoot.

Compared to the north, the ground outside Bomao City is still relatively soft, and Geng Fan has been on the expedition for several months, and the state of the war horse is not too good, so it will not be able to rush.

After carrying the cavalry, the Ming army and the infantry of the green battalion lined up to shoot at each other, and the ping-pong was indiscriminately fighting, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, in fact, they were all fighting birds, and they didn't kill a few people, but they made the two armies extremely excited and screamed all over the sky.

The 6 cannons were almost finished, Jiang Yuanxun had to rush up, and then stand like this and shoot indiscriminately, the cannon was flattened and the muzzle solid bullets were rolled over, and the green battalion knelt properly.

In close combat, the Ming army only had sailors with a number of hexagrams, and there were more people. From a close distance, it is even more obvious that Geng Fanbing's state is indeed not good, he is not suitable for water and soil, his face is yellow and thin, and he is sick.

On the flanks, the crazy wolf soldiers rushed up barefoot, not avoiding arrows, scaring Geng Fan's cavalry stupidly. Such a situation has also appeared many times in Xiangxi, and the Tusi soldiers of Yunnan and Guizhou who charged barefoot have frightened the Manmeng Eight Banners more than once in skirmishes.

The cavalry ran fast and retreated backwards. The range of a riding bow is only half that of a rifle, and it is not as good as a shotgun. The bumpy horseback was not as stable as the foot on the ground, and any cavalry of the Green Battalion who dared to slow down their horses and turn back to shoot was immediately returned with three or four times more accurate fire.

Many of the infantry of the Ming army and the Green Battalion were fighting, and their eyes were on the cavalry on the flanks. At this time, seeing that the cavalry was invincible, the momentum of the green battalion was depressed, and the strength of the Ming army was a little greater.

Jiang Yuanxun saw that it was not a way to go on like this, the pontoon bridge was broken, he had no reinforcements, most of the old and weak in the camp, and the castle behind the Ming army obviously still had troops. Jiang Yuanxun gave orders to Goshkha Lianlian, and the green battalion disengaged and retreated. Geng Fan's combat experience is rich, and his retreat is also better than that of the Ming army.

Leaving behind some armor and wounded soldiers, Jiang Yuanxun retreated into the camp. The Ming army chased for a while, and the guns in the camp came, and the Ming army stopped in front of the trench.

In the afternoon, the Ming army advanced and continued to build artillery forts.

Jiang Yuanxun sent military envoys to Leng Xiongjie.

Yang Yandi: "What? The Tartars said that if we release the wounded soldiers, he will give up the camp? ”

"That's what Jiang Yuanxun said."

"What about your decision?"

"Promise him that I only want that big camp."

Yang Yandi narrowed his eyes, "I'm a guest army, just make a decision." ”

Jiang Yuanxun still had considerable strength, and the cavalry losses were not large. Leng Xiongjie didn't dare to take risks.

The two armies reached a tacit understanding. Leng Xiongjie returned the wounded soldiers, Jiang Yuanxun destroyed the artillery, set fire to the camp, and retreated north.

The Ming army did not pursue.

The military discipline of the Tartar army was still very strict at this time, and Jiang Yuanxun dared to retreat because Lian Decheng ordered him to find a ship to withdraw to the west bank as soon as possible.

The Ming army came with reinforcements, and Lian Decheng wanted to concentrate his forces to secure the Jianjiang River on the flank of Huazhou, so he had to give up the blockade of the Huajiang River.