Lanxi County, located on the east bank of the Lanjiang River, is the key place where the Qujiang River and the Dongyang River converge to the north. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Chen Wen previously left two defenders of infantry posts and half of the Zhejiang inland water division here, but it can be said that the whole army was wiped out under the sudden and powerful offensive of the Qing army, as long as a very small number of them can escape back to Jinhua, the truth will be revealed.

The location here is extremely important, not only as a key to the Qing army's surprise attack, but also as a key point for returning. However, in order to achieve the effect of raiding Jinhua, the Qing army only left the Yanzhou Green Battalion of about 400 people here. There is nothing wrong with this arrangement, the waterway is controlled by the Qiantang Water Division, Jinhua is about to be quickly captured by the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the only Ming army that can pose a threat to them is far away from Zhengjiawu Town to Anhua Town, a hundred miles to the east. The only use of the 400 Qing troops here is to make other Qing troops feel at ease, and at the same time ensure the safety of the grain route, and there are no too important combat missions.

However, what they didn't expect was that when Chen Wen led the main force of the Ming army to rush back to the city of Jinhuafu, Chen Guobao, who received the order, also left Zhengjiawu Town after the main force of the Ming army, all the way to the east, and after entering Pujiang County, with the help of a large number of people and military households organized by the Pujiang County Ya and Pujiang Qianhu who had received the order, they quickly marched westward, even the part of the mountain road on the road did not delay too much time, and arrived at Xiangxi Town north of Lanxi County before dawn the next day.

The Pujiang battalion rested there for a while, and after making some ladders with the accompanying auxiliaries, they launched a surprise attack on the county seat of Lanxi.

In contrast, the Yanzhou Green Battalion of 400 people was re-established after being disabled by Chen Wen the year before last, and it also had the Qiantang Water Camp and the Eight Banners of the Han Army on the side, the vigilance of the city defense was very lax, and the vast majority of the soldiers were either robbing the people in the city, or they were still making up for sleep, and the defenders who only had three melons and two dates on the head of the city were just sounded the alarm and were drummed down by the Ming army, and those Qing troops in the city except for those who escaped from the city gate were all wrapped in dumplings by the Pujiang battalion.

After the Pujiang battalion took Lanxi County, it did not stick to it and wait for help, but requisitioned a large number of people according to the plan to block the official road leading to Jinhuafu City with trees in the mountains and forests on both sides, and dug a large number of horse traps by the engineering team, and then began to rest while scattering the horses.

The first batch of Qing troops who fled back to Lanxi was Liu Zhiyuan's team of nearly 1,000 cavalry, and when they found that the road had been blocked by the Ming army, the experienced Liu Zhiyuan naturally realized the fact that Lanxi was no longer owned by the Qing army, but the Ming army was driving the rout behind, and they did not dare to return, so they had to enter the mountains and forests on both sides and make a detour.

After the Qing army entered the woods, it was impossible to ride a horse, so they had to lead the horse, but after dismounting, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry was far inferior to the infantry in formation, and it suffered heavy losses after encountering the ambush of the Ming army.

After leaving behind more than 100 people, the Qing army that escaped by luck immediately became numb after leaving the mountains and forests, because most of the Qing cavalry led by Liu Zhiyuan, who was still on the official road, had disappeared, and looking at the hoof prints on the ground, it seemed that they had folded back along the mountains to the north.

These abandoned sons who were used by Liu Zhiyuan to attract the attention of the Ming army soon ushered in the next batch of routs in a panic, and it didn't take long for the rout of the brigade to flee under the drive of the Ming army, and every time they fell behind and were captured by the Ming army, they would be directly executed.

In desperation, except for some who fled into the mountains and forests, the other Qing troops all surrendered to the Ming army with tears in their eyes, and when Chen Wen arrived at Lanxi, he saw that he had nearly a thousand exhausted Han Eight Banners and hundreds of Yanzhou green battalions tied up with ropes, waiting for his next disposition.

Those who descend will not die, this is what he said before, but the specific will not be able to refine the disposal plan until it is screened after returning to Jinhua. It's just that Chen Guobao still has some objections to avoiding death and being released to go home.

"Dashuai, these fake tartars are not good things, they have I don't know how much blood of the king and the people on their hands, I can't just let them go."

has been a general under his command for a long time, and Chen Wen's understanding of this general is far deeper than when he first returned to the team. This guy is a straight intestine, when the other generals under his command have begun to grasp the demeanor of a general, Chen Guobao still can't hold his words, he can say whatever he thinks, no wonder he offended the powerful Pingxi Bo Dynasty of the Lu Jian Dynasty at that time when he was in Siming Mountain.

sighed, in fact, he didn't plan to explain it, since Chen Guobao made a suggestion, it didn't work if he didn't explain it clearly, Chen Wen had to speak: "There is at least one or two months between now and release, and I don't plan to let them eat rice." Especially those soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty stationed in Hangzhou, I have not forgotten the great revenge of the Zhoushan Massacre, and when they entered the coolie camp, some of them were tossed to death. ”

Hearing this, Chen Guobao couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. He had been in charge of the defense of the northern front for nearly half a year, and the officers of the coolie battalion had also led the coolies of the Green Battalion to expand the fort of Anwar Town, and he still remembered the methods of the overseers formed by those guys and their former Green Battalion soldiers. It is still very easy for those living Hades to exhaust some Qing troops, and even how long it will take can be roughly customized.

Thinking of this, and then thinking of Hou Guoyuan's smile just now, Chen Guobao suddenly found that what he said was nonsense, but if there were such doubts again, it was estimated that he would still be unable to control his mouth with his temperament.

Chen Wen returned to Jinhua with the captives, handed over the county seat of Lanxi to the Pujiang battalion to defend, in addition to clearing out the fleeing Qing army, he also gave Chen Guobao a new task, because there were some things, he felt that he had not done enough.

Returning to Fucheng, the three battalions of Nantang, Shentang and the three guards as the main force of this battle, as well as the Dongyang battalion defending the city, had already entered a state of rest.

The Dongyang battalion held out all night and suffered a lot of losses, more than a third of the entire battalion were killed, and the rest were wounded, and some of the seriously wounded probably did not survive the day of recovery. And the hundreds of recruits, who participated in the battle to defend the city, were almost all wiped out, only a dozen people remained, if it weren't for some lucky people guarding the other city walls at night, and after dawn they participated in the field battle, I am afraid that the overall proportion will increase a lot.

In contrast, although the three battalions attacked all night, and faced the elite of the Han Army in the field, the losses were not very large, and the casualties were actually only more than 600 people, which was lower than the casualties of the Shentangyuan victory. Most of them were just injured. It's just that among the more than 600 casualties, nearly 100 cavalry casualties alone are not small.

As the opponent of the Ming army in this battle, the Eight Banners of the Han Army from Hangzhou and the Eight Banners of the Han Army from Beijing were full of 8,000 people when they set off from Hangzhou, and according to the reaction of the prisoners, these Niu Lu were all old foundations established when Huang Taiji was still alive.

Such a "Chen Han army" Manchu Qing totaled only more than 33,000 people, and was defeated by a quarter of the Ming army in Zhejiang in World War I. There were already more than 1,000 casualties in the battle for the city, and the vast majority of them were only slightly injured. This would have been almost impossible had it not been for the collapse of the walls in the first place.

When it came to the field battle, the Ming army immediately recovered the field, and the Qing army was killed hundreds of people on the battlefield alone. It's just that after the Ming army occupied the battlefield, the wounded soldiers left by the Qing army were all mended, and in the end, it was only known that a total of 1,649 were killed on the battlefield, which ones were wounded on the battlefield, which ones were injured during the siege battle, and which ones were killed on the spot, and it is not clear at all.

In the next pursuit battle, the Ming army killed more than 600 people, in fact, there could be more, but because Liu Zhiyuan's cavalry completely withdrew from the battlefield, Chen Wen strictly ordered the pursuing troops not to go deep alone, otherwise the results of the battle would only be greater. However, more than half of the more than 600 heads were killed by the Qing army at the corner of the river, so that the Ming army's supervisors did not know how to remember their merits. In addition, I don't know how many fell into the water, and it is difficult to say whether they drowned or not, which has also become a problem for these poor prison officers.

Among the remaining Qing troops, the number of prisoners was really quite large, and the captives in the early 4,000s forced Chen Wen to convert the boot camp into a temporary prison.

Under normal circumstances this is difficult to appear and difficult to replicate, especially when it comes to cavalry. But it's a pity that both sides are tired soldiers, the morale of the Ming army is unprecedentedly high, and the Qing army is in the city overnight, has lost its sharpness, and when fleeing, the right wing and the middle army and part of the left wing were driven into a dead corner by the Ming army, and really suffered the blood loss of unfavorable terrain.

In terms of seizures, cold weapons and bird guns Chen Wen are no longer eye-catching, and the number of artillery is very large, but it is not a rare object for the Zhejiang Ming army, which has begun to mount the water conservancy workshop.

What really deserves Chen Wen's attention is the war horse, this battle Qing army alone has more than 2,000 cavalry, plus even more officers' mounts. Of course, the more than 1,000 Qing troops who were not killed or captured by the Ming army on the first day were almost all officers and cavalry, and these people had a far stronger advantage in survival than those two-legged infantry, even if the horsepower was insufficient, but it was not what the Ming army's cavalry team of only more than 800 horsemen before the war could do.

But after this war, the total number of cavalry of the Ming army in Zhejiang will be greatly increased in the next few months, and even Chen Wen is considering whether to form a cavalry battalion of 1,000 people, and then write a letter to Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, expressing his confusion that the Qing army must use so many cavalry in a place like Zhejiang, where the water network is crisscrossed, the roads are rugged, and the mountains and forests are dense.

After two days of screening, the officers at all levels among the captives have also been selected, whether it is the two garrisons of the Yanzhou Green Battalion and a few thousand generals and generals, or the eight banners of the Han army, Niu Lu Zhangjing and a group of people who have been assigned to the pool, they are all a group of small people who have not left their names in Chen Wen's memory. But there is only one exception, and this exception is enough to dissipate all the previous disappointments.

Looking at the prisoner kneeling in front of him wearing an ordinary soldier's uniform, a smile crossed the corner of Chen Wen's mouth. "I heard that Your Excellency's ancestors were Tartars, and you changed your Han surname when your father's generation. Then should I call you Jianzhou Tartar Guerjia Tingzhu, or the Han Army's Red Flag Gushan is really a dog traitor Shi Tingzhu, huh?! (To be continued.) )