On the twenty-fifth day of the sixth year of the Yongli calendar, it was almost the end of the year, and the war situation in the southwest and Zhejiang had already calmed down. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the two great victories of Chenzhou and Hengyang were staged repeatedly, although the Southwest Ming Army did not complete the plan to annihilate the heavy army group of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and was even forced to abandon Hengzhou Mansion, but under the offensive of the main force of the Southwest Ming Army led by Sun Kewang, the Qing army of Chenzhou was annihilated, and the Southwest Ming Army was able to control this area at the gateway of Guizhou in its hands, making the base camp of Yungui safer. As for the southeastern battlefield, Chen Wen in southwest Zhejiang had temporarily suspended his troops after annexing Chuzhou, and was preparing for the next offensive.

At present, among the large-scale Ming armies, only Zheng Chenggong's army is still besieging Quanzhou tirelessly, trying to completely turn the base camp into a hinterland.

Because Zheng Chenggong won a series of battles on the battlefield in Fujian, not only captured Zhangzhou, but the biggest problem was that the Qing army in Fujian did not dare to go forward to relieve the siege, Zhangzhou was like this, and Quanzhou was also the same.

In the current environment in which the Ming army in the southeast is getting stronger and stronger, this phenomenon has begun to show some signs, and Chen Wen's reputation for prisoners in Zhejiang is not very good, so most of the civil and military forces in Zhejiang are still looking at the style, but in Zheng Chenggong, he did notice something wrong from it.

In the entire sixth year of Yongli, because the tug-of-war between Chen Wen and the Qing army of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in the southwest of Zhejiang almost did not stop, all the Zhejiang Qing troops who aided Fujian in history were contained there, and most of the elite Qing troops in the surrounding areas could not be withdrawn, so the entire siege of Zhangzhou was never harassed. After a long period of no reinforcements, the Qing army in Zhangzhou was also forced to surrender to Zheng Chenggong in despair, which made the victory in the battle of Zhangzhou.

At present, although the Zhejiang side is temporarily resting its troops and accumulating strength to fight again, it stands to reason that it is impossible for the Qing army in Zhejiang and Jiangxi to send a large army to aid Fujian, because Chen Wen's threat always exists, and once the Zhejiang Ming army is given any chance, then he believes that Chen Wen will change the training ground to the battlefield to expand his advantage even if the recruits have not completed their training.

However, in such a situation, a Fujian civil official sent someone to send a message, saying that Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, had secretly ordered Zhang Xuesheng, the governor of Fujian, to prepare a large amount of grain and grass, but the reason was unknown.

has always fought against the Qing army in Fujian, and even the left office in the old nest has been taken out by Zhang Xuesheng and Ma Degong, and Zheng Chenggong has always maintained 120,000 vigilance against the Qing army. This year, Chen Wen's presence made his offensive a lot smoother, but it was not enough for him to let his guard down.

While besieging Zhangzhou, Zheng Chenggong had already sent spies to the surrounding areas, so he knew the situation in the surrounding areas very well. And when the news came, Zheng Chenggong increased the intensity of the investigation, and soon got an answer that surprised him.

Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and his vassal soldiers disappeared shortly before Li Dingguo's array beheaded Nikan, and when Zheng Chenggong got the news, another news also came, that is, the vassal soldiers of the Jingnan Domain appeared in the southern Jiangxi region of Jiangxi, bypassing the key Chaozhou, and were rushing towards Zhangzhou, his back road!

The road north of Zhangzhou is not easy to follow, but Zheng Chenggong has no time to verify whether this news is true, because once Zhangzhou is lost, not only will the efforts of last year and this year be wasted, but even his army besieging Quanzhou will face collapse.

Relying on the advantages of the sailors, Zheng Chenggong quickly completed the transfer of troops, and the two elites of the Fujian Green Battalion on the left did not dare to come up to find death. The army soon returned to the Zhangzhou front through Kinmen and Zhongzuo. As a result, within a few days, the news of the appearance of the Jingnan Domain in Quanzhou came.

It is good news that he did not appear outside the city of Zhangzhou in time, and it is even more good news that he was not blocked in Quanzhou by this elite army of the Qing army. But at the same time that Zheng Chenggong congratulated his luck, the news came from Quanzhou that Geng Jimao had joined forces with Fujian Governor Yang Minggao and Fujian Right Road General Ma Degong to march west to Zhangzhou after a very short period of rest.

Yang Minggao and Ma Degong were both defeated under him, so there was no need to worry at all, but Geng Jimao was so anxious, obviously he had received a death order from the Manchu court, and as soon as Zheng Chenggong substituted this order into the current situation, he immediately came to the answer of suppressing him first and then destroying Chen Wen.

The distance between the Zhejiang Ming army was almost a province, and the transmission of information took a long time, and it was impossible to talk about coordinating operations in such an emergency.

For this reason, Zheng Chenggong decided to concentrate the army on Tong'an. It is located between Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and it is the gateway of Zhangzhou, his current base. This place was originally a fortified city, with a circumference of 2,710 meters and a height of 7.4 meters, with more than 10 enemy towers and 10 forts, which were enough to resist the attack of the Qing army.

However, four years ago, the Qing army used artillery to collapse the city wall of this county, and it has not been repaired in recent years. Originally, when he sent troops to besiege Quanzhou, Zheng Chenggong once ridiculed the Qing army for lifting a stone and hitting his own foot, but to this day, he only regrets that he did not work overtime to rebuild the county during this time.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the people rushed to the year of chaos and the day of receiving the Jade Emperor, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties also hurried to this place, and those who didn't know thought that they wanted to show the Jade Emperor a military battle in the world.

The two armies lined up, and the Ming army was all towns and battalions under the command of Zheng Chenggong, although there were repeated battles during this time, but this time it also concentrated an army of nearly 30,000 people, and there were also an equal amount of auxiliaries to fight together; On the side of the Qing army, the auxiliaries were recruited from Fujian, and the soldiers were the 10,000 troops of the Jingnan Domain as the main force, assisted by the 6,000 Fujian Green Battalions of Yang Minggao and Ma Degong.

The two armies opened their positions, and with the accompaniment of artillery, the two armies soon entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat.

Due to the difficulty of purchasing iron armor, the soldiers have long switched to rattan armor and rattan cards as armor, but Zheng Chenggong has also developed an improved version of the tactics while using rattan armor soldiers, that is, with three people as a group, attacking and defending each other, and facing the green battalion soldiers in the past two years is no longer as embarrassed as before; The Qing army is still the original tactics and has never changed, but the army of Jingnan Domain is the elite of the Manchu Han army, whether it is the personal martial arts of the soldiers or the use of battle arrays, it is not comparable to the Fujian Green Battalion. Therefore, as soon as the battle was engaged, the front of the Fujian Green Battalion, which was in charge of the two flanks, began to be pressed back by the Ming army.

From a distance, although Geng Jimao was not as experienced as Xu Degong and Lian Decheng, the two left and right wing commanders left by his father, he also saw some clues a little later.

"This group of Fujian soldiers can't do it."

"What the prince said is very true, and it is true."

Geng Jimao's father, Geng Zhongming, was a veteran traitor who followed Kong Youde from Dengzhou, but a few years ago he committed suicide because of the secret possession of fugitive slaves. At that time, Dolgon, who was in power, did not let Geng Jimao inherit the throne, but led his troops into Guangzhou as a welcome deputy soldier in the position of Asihaha.

At this time, Xu Degong, the chief soldier of the left wing of the Jingnan Domain, said the word "prince", but it was inherited after Shunzhi ascended the throne, and even this time the dispatch of troops was decided by Shunzhi when Hong Chengchou proposed to move one of the two feudal domains in Guangdong to guard Fujian to contain Zheng Chenggong.

Geng Jimao's inheritance of the title is short, and his combat experience is far inferior to his father's, and he cannot be compared with Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, but his soldiers are indeed rare elites, especially the more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in their Geng family headquarters are more experienced in battle, so the battle has been fought so far, although the Ming army in the middle of the army has innovated in tactics and has a lot of firearms, but it has always been pressed and beaten by the Qing army. However, in comparison, the Fujian Green Camp on the left and right flanks is far inferior. In fact, at this moment, it is also the Qing army to complete the breakthrough from the middle first, or the Ming army to complete the flank outflank first.

On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Jingnan Domain, who had been in battle for a long time, relied on the formation to give full play to their personal martial arts advantages as much as possible, and the cooperation between them and their comrades was also quite tacit, and even the specially trained three-person tactics of Zheng Chenggong's rattan armor soldiers could only be parried.

However, on the flanks, these two Fujian Qing armies were not only as simple as they were, they had been repaired by Zheng Chenggong before, and there were quite a few new recruits in the army, and they could not parry the rattan armor soldiers who fought in groups of three with the Ming army. Often when attacking a Ming army, the Ming army immediately defended with rattan cards, and the Ming army that cooperated with it copied and killed, either defusing the offensive, or directly using the flaws of the Qing army to kill it.

The two armies are still in a stalemate, in fact, Zheng Chenggong's two wings were able to suppress the Fujian Green Battalion so quickly, mainly because he placed several more elite troops there, in order to form two wings as soon as possible to outflank and swallow the main force of the Qing army.

The Qing army also had an incredible number of cavalry in their hands, which Zheng Chenggong had already noticed. Cavalry, what he has in his hands is not enough to confront the Qing army head-on, but the stronger force is his advantage, at this moment he also has a few more elite towns in his hands, even if he can't eat the amazing number of cavalry, there is always a chance to eat most of the infantry of the Qing army, and once there is no support from the infantry, only the remaining cavalry can only withdraw from the battlefield.

It is not yet known who will win or lose, but at this moment, the wind suddenly rose, and the smoke of artillery and bird guns enveloped the Ming army's military formation, and at first glance it looked like the battle of Fengchao Mountain that should have broken out two months ago. (To be continued.) )