The national battlefield was a game of chess, and the rest of the places were all moving, even the western army in Yunnan sent troops to Sichuan, but the most powerful cart of the Chu army stayed in the corner of the chessboard and did not give full play to the effect.

Wang Kefan waited a little anxiously.

But the time is not ripe, now we can only calm down and continue to wait.

There are two sides to everything, and the main force of the Chu army has been waiting in Raozhou Mansion for more than a month, and there is also a positive side. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, the whole army has seized the time to rest and recuperate and conduct targeted training and exercises, and the combat effectiveness of the troops has been completely restored, and even improved a little bit...... Although it is only a little better, it is a very difficult progress, and when you encounter an enemy of equal strength on the battlefield, this little improvement may be the key to victory.

The morale of the troops was also high. After enduring this more than a month, seeing that other friendly troops were fighting lively, the soldiers of the Chu army were holding back their strength, and the generals at all levels would receive a lot of letters of war every day, and the soldiers were eager to go out to fight immediately...... "the dog on the leash bites", the words are not rough, this is the truth.

Wang Kefan was in Raozhou Mansion, and the intelligence of the entire Eastern Crusade War Bureau was gathered to him, in general, except for Wang Jincai and Cao Zhijian in Shangrao, who had a defeated battle, the other departments were relatively smooth, and even Chen Bangfu, who was guarding Xianxia Pass, relied on his geographical advantage to repel the two attacks of the Qing army with the help of the Zhenxiao battalion, so that Zhou Lianggong, who was known as a soldier and a good fighter, had nothing to do.

Wang Jincai and Cao Zhijian's personal abilities are a little worse, and Wang Kefan is not worried.

Poor ability is not a problem, as long as it is not so bad that it fails. People with poor ability are easy to control, and Wang Kefan treats Pingjiang Camp and Changsha Camp preferentially, except for buying horse bones. I also want to form a balance within the Chu army.

As long as Wang Jincai and Cao Zhijian can adapt to the role of screws, obey orders and listen to commands, they can make up for their lack of personal ability to a great extent...... Besides, the foundation of the other generals of the Chu army is not much stronger, as long as Wang Jincai and Cao Zhijian can overcome this hurdle. The gap with Zhang Jiayu and Wang Ding is not big.

Regarding the battle of Shangrao, he gave full authority to Wang Sheng to deal with, although there were some minor problems. He also did not interfere with Wang Sheng's command...... In a sense, fighting a war is a skilled job like driving, and you can never drive well as a co-driver, and you have to let go when it's time to let go. If you can train a qualified commander. These prices paid now will pay off in the future.

Wang Kefan's eyes have been staring at Tan Tai in Xiaogushan.

Tan Tai's main force did not move, and neither did the main force of the Chu army.

After conquering Shangrao, there will be no barrier to the west of Zhejiang and Fujian, and Tan Tai will probably not be able to bear it.

In addition to Shangrao, there is also a troublesome thing on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition - King Lu.

There was an opportunity for cooperation between King Lu and Emperor Longwu, but in the end it was incompatible. When Bolo went south, King Lu was beaten to pieces. was forced to flee to Zhoushan Island, and there was a period of shelter by Zheng Cai in the middle, and it seemed that it was about to be finished.

However, he still had a strong appeal in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and with the launch of the Eastern Crusade, many righteous teachers in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and northern Fujian took him as the main leader, at least nominally under his command. In the past month, he has grabbed a large piece of territory in southeastern Zhejiang and northeastern Fujian, including all of Funing Prefecture, part of Fuzhou Prefecture, Jianning Prefecture and Wenzhou Prefecture, and the coalition army claims to be 150,000, and the front of the army is directly aimed at Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province.

On the contrary, Zheng Chenggong's army, which had just annexed Zheng Cai, was unstable, and the Qing army was heavily armed near Xiamen, although Zheng Chenggong was also counterattacking, but it did not make much progress. After Luo Mingshou and Zhang Jiabao went to sea from Hong Kong, there was no news coming, and after they attacked the Qing army's flank in a roundabout way, they had to pass through Zheng Chenggong's territory, and Wang Kefan was faintly worried.

With the deepening of the war in Fujian, it was inevitable that the Ming army in Jiangxi, the Ming army in Guangdong, the Chu army in Hong Kong, Zheng Chenggong, and Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, would come into contact, and how to deal with the relationship between them was also a thorny issue.

After thinking for a long time, Wang Kefan spread out his pen and paper and wrote a letter to Emperor Longwu.

……

Zhang Cunren found that the Ming army had blocked Balipu in the south of the city, and could no longer sit still, so he sent several small forces one after another to launch a tentative attack on Balipu.

Very smooth!

Unexpectedly smooth!

Bali Fort in the south of the city, as the name suggests, is only eight miles away from the upper ring of the city, that is, four thousand meters, in addition to an open field under the city, near Balibao is a hilly complex terrain, there are many woods and lakes and ponds, Zhang Cunren was very worried about the ambush of the Ming army, but he did not expect several small troops to be sent out, all arrived at the trench smoothly, only to meet the defending Ming army.

Zhang Cunren was still not at ease, and sent scouts to expand the search area. They were pleasantly surprised to find that there was a vacuum between the upper ring city and Balibao, and the Ming army did not deploy a single soldier except for the ranger scouts, but only deployed a defensive line in front of the trench, just like a big beautiful woman wearing only underwear lying in front of Shangrao City, and hooking her fingers to the Qing army temptingly.

Come on, let's fight Balibao, this defense line is very thin, let's decide the winner in the field.

The scout reported that Cao Zhijian in the north was guarding Lingshan, sixty miles away from the city, and Wang Jincai's main force was placed on the line of Baiyazui, thirty miles away from Balibao, far more than the distance of eight miles between Shangrao City and Balibao, no matter how you look at it, there is not much risk.

Zhang Cunren knew that it might not be advantageous to go out of the city to fight, but it was still difficult to resist this temptation. Not to mention anything else, if you open up Balipu, you can open up the communication channel with the outside world, and if you go along with it, you can also connect with Yongfeng County and Yushan County in the east, and get the support of Zhou Lianggong of Xianxialing.

"The southern thieves don't dare to attack the city, and if they want to win a decisive victory in the wild, I will fulfill Wang Jincai's gang and teach him a lesson in Balibao!" Zhang Cunren dispatched troops and carefully arranged to leave enough defenders in the city, and placed a large number of alert troops and sentinel scouts on the periphery, and then sent troops to attack the front line of Balipu.

Five hundred.

Eight hundred.

A thousand people.

……

He increased the intensity of his attack little by little, and at the same time stared at the white duck beak and Lingshan, Wang Jincai did not have many cavalry, if his main force rushed towards Balibao, Zhang Cunren would have already laid down his pocket, hit him head-on, and then immediately withdrew to Shangrao.

Wang Jincai's tactics seem to be very clumsy, a mind in the Balipu area and he for positional warfare, the Qing army conquered every trench, a camp, he sent reinforcements and then recaptured, each time the reinforcements sent are not much, that is, a few hundred, a thousand people, the standard refueling tactics, the Balipu defense line seems to collapse at any time, but it has been dangerous and dangerous......

On the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, artillery rumbled and war drums thundered.

"Kill!"

With frantic shouts of killing, hundreds of Qing soldiers, led by a dragon banner, launched a charge and rushed to a camp behind the trench. This flag is the battle flag of the Han army inlaid with blue flags, shaped like a pennant placed horizontally in later generations, rectangular with a triangle, embroidered with a dragon pattern in the middle, Zhang Cunren couldn't overcome it for a long time, and finally sent his elite Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers.

In addition to 500 Wuzhen Chaoha bird soldiers, he also brought two red-coated cannons, intending to take this camp in one fell swoop and use it as an outpost stronghold of the Qing army, and then launch a general attack on Balipu to completely destroy the Ming army's defense line.

Under the bombardment of the six-pounder cannon, the Ming army camp was beaten to a broken state, the wall made of new earth was not solid, there were several gaps on it, and the bamboo gate was broken into pieces by the cannonballs, and the empty gap was not blocked.

With the cooperation of the green battalion soldiers, the Wuzhen Chao Ha soldiers rushed to the front of the trench, the trench had already set up a flying bridge pedal, and the Qing soldiers rushed through, which was only fifty steps away from the Ming army camp, and basically had entered the range of the bird's gun, but the accuracy was not guaranteed.

"Quick! Fast! Fast! Immediately after crossing the bridge, line up and let Zhejiang Green Camp rush to the village! ”

The Qing army officer urged loudly, looking up at the camp of the Ming army from time to time, it was the most dangerous moment, fortunately, the camp of the Ming army was quiet, and there was no movement.

Suddenly, a whistle sounded from the Ming army camp.

On the wall, a flintlock pistol poked out of its muzzle and aimed at the Qing army who were crossing the trench.

"It's broken!"

The Qing officer hurriedly turned around and saw puffs of white smoke spewing out of the wall of the Ming army's wall.

Immediately after, the sound of gunfire like popping beans came to his ears along with the whistling of bullets, and at least a dozen flintlock muskets were aimed at the officer, and a series of bullets hit him like a combination of punches, and his body trembled violently before falling, like a strange dance, but at the climax he suddenly fell straight on his back.

These Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers are all veterans of the battlefield, although they were attacked by surprise, they were not in chaos, they squatted down on the spot, raised their birds in their hands to fight back, under the command of the officer, they were able to shoot a decent grouped salvo, not much different from a line of firing queues.

The so-called Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers, that is, heavy firearms soldiers, they are wearing bulletproof cotton armor, holding a powerful bird gun in their hands, they are never afraid of gunfights with the Ming army, if the Ming army sends cavalry to raid, they may also scruple three points, since they want to use muskets to decide the winner, then it is stronger than whose ability is stronger!

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" ……

After several consecutive rows of guns, the gunfire of Wuzhen Chaoha's soldiers was obviously much thinner, and there were many corpses and wounded soldiers lying on the ground, but the gunfire in the Ming army camp did not change much, and the muskets still firing did not decrease.

How so?

The commander of the Qing army realized that something was wrong and loudly ordered a retreat, and the Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers turned around and fled backwards in a chaotic manner.

After the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties attacked and defended the transposition, the flintlock guns against the birds, coupled with the help of the wall bunkers, the musketeers of the Pingjiang battalion won a complete victory! (To be continued......)