Dingyang Creek must not be defended, this is the consensus of the generals of the Qing army. There is no other reason for the pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info on the one hand, on the one hand, we have to face the main force of the Ming army across the stream, and the long fence behind is not far from being completed, and we have to beware of the Ming army in Quzhou, which is the enemy on the back of the abdomen, and one is not careful is the end of the whole army, which is what the generals of the Qing army do not want to see.

But if it is not retreated, Dingyang Creek must be guarded against everywhere, and the Ming army can really not enter the mountainous area in the south and then force the crossing, in the face of the mountain road there, the Ming army can not fortify on the opposite bank at all.

Due to the collapse of the Han Eight Banners Army, now the Qing army generals have lost their hearts, although the matter is still being kept secret, but in front of the two armies, the Ming army will inevitably pull out the captured Han Army Eight Banners and banners, and the generals to frustrate the morale of the Qing army. These people are all veteran military officials, and they know very well that even if they deny it at that time, the soldiers below will believe the Ming army on the other side, not theirs. Coupled with the threat of the Ming army behind him, there is no way to fight this battle at all.

After withdrawing from Qujiang, this was already the consensus of the generals, and after receiving that the Ming army had crossed Lingxi from Longyou County, the Qing army began to withdraw. However, the retreat to the location was not far away, just the previous joint venture on the west bank of the Qujiang River.

Using the Qujiang River to delay the offensive of the Ming army, this is no way, because the water camp of the Ming army is not completely destroyed, and there is still a small half of the Zhejiang inland river water division moored outside the west wall of Quzhou Fucheng, and every time the Qiantang water camp passes through that area, it will be attacked by the Ming army's water camp, which is almost inevitable. But all the way to the west, on the way to Jiangxi, there is no such barrier anymore, and it can only be like this now.

Fortunately, Li Benshen still knew where Hong Chengchou's bottom line was, so he worked out a method of defense, first Qujiang, then the two county towns of Jiangshan and Changshan, and finally Yushan County of Guangxin Prefecture. Besides, on the day of the beginning of this half month, the Ming army may not be able to set off from Jinhua Mansion.

Time is the only help for the Qing army on the southern front of Quzhou, and when they found the Ming army, it had actually been ten days, and this half month should have been nine out of ten.

Two days later, the Qing army had already withdrawn to the west bank of the Qujiang River, and the main force of the Ming army followed closely after crossing the Dingyang River and completing the rendezvous with the defenders of Quzhou.

The main force has just experienced a big battle, although the loss of soldiers is not very large, but in the face of the 30,000 Qing soldiers on the front line of Quzhou, especially most of these Qing troops are veterans who have been serving as soldiers before the Qing army goes south, there are only four and a half battle barracks, and the main force of the Ming army, which is only 10,000 people including the defenders of Quzhou, is still unknown for the victory or defeat.

Quzhou is unharmed, and Chen Wen is already firmly seated in Diaoyutai, but if his army can't fight out, sooner or later it will be trapped in this basin by the Qing army, which has an overwhelming resource advantage. Therefore, we must grasp every possibility of expansion, although at this moment it is far less powerful than the Qing army, but the fact of the defeat of the Han army's eight banners has taken the precedent, and the Qing army was forced to lift the siege in shock is the best proof.

Ascending to the top of the city, Chen Wenyao looked at the Qing army joint camp on the west bank of the Qujiang River, and it looked like it was still the same as when he returned to Jinhua - deep ditches and high fortresses, all over the banks of the Changshan River, connected by pontoon bridges, and barricaded with iron cables, with a very strong posture. It's a pity that in Chen Wen's view, all this is like paper paste.

The way to defend the palace is not enough for deep ditches and high fortresses and strong walls, in addition to the soldiers' wisdom of "there is no soldier who must be saved, there is no city that must be defended inside", the most important thing is the will of the defender. Without a staunch defender, even the strongest city is just an empty skin.

Whether it is sitting on a fortified city but not defending it, or resisting a large army for a long time with a small city with a small city that is not high and the pool is not deep, there are too many such examples.

Not to mention, Nanjing Xiongcheng, Hangzhou is also very strong, there are large armies in the city, and a large number of reinforcements are used in the left and near, but the Qing army is almost determined by the spread of the south. It seems to be the reproduction of Mrs. Hua Rui's old saying "140,000 people take off their armor, and none of them are men".

In contrast, there are no reinforcements outside Jiangyin, there are no male soldiers inside, and the people who defend the city are only the scholars and industrialists of Jiangyin, led by Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun, who are either classics or instructors, and a few low-level civil officials, but there are many famous Qing generals such as Prince Boluo, Prince Jingjing, Nikan, and Kong Youde, King of Dingnan, who was still King Gongshun at that time. But even so, they were able to lead the people to hold the city for 81 days under the indiscriminate bombardment of more than 200 cannons of the Qing army.

It is just like what was written in the poem of the martyr woman in Jiangyin: The white bones are all over the territory, and the lonely loyalists are unwilling to surrender. Message to pedestrians to cover their noses, the living are not as fragrant as the dead.

The most important thing in war is people, and the most important thing in people is will, and this is true in field battles, and the same is true for defending cities. This time, Chen Wen was able to defeat the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the will of the army to gallop day and night and break the strong enemy in the field was the key, and the Jinhua defenders resolutely held on all night after the city was broken was also the key.

Now that the Qing army has lost its fear, Chen Wen does not intend to continue to waste time here. On the day the Ming army entered the city, Li Ruixin led the Yiwu battalion defending the city and most of the Pujiang battalion to the south along Jiangshan Port.

In the face of the superior enemy army, Chen Wen chose to divide the troops, which looks very strange and can be said to be against the right path of the soldiers. But after discovering the movements of the Ming army, the Qing army did not hesitate to divide the three green battalion soldiers in Fujian and immediately went south, never daring to hesitate at all, because they didn't know what this Ming army wanted to do, whether it was looking for an opportunity to cross the river at Jiangshan Port, or going all the way south to Xianxia Pass, which was in an empty state, and if it was to cross the river, whether to occupy Jiangshan County, or try to encircle, only the division of troops could deal with it.

The three Fujian green battalions totaled 9,000 troops, and when this army was separated, the Qing army immediately shrank a lot, but in terms of proportion, it seems that the Ming army did not take advantage of it.

However, on the second day, the Ming army of the brigade began to leave the city from Guangyuan Gate in the south and Tongxian Gate in the southeast, and even the Ming army water camp, which was busy all night yesterday and didn't know what it was busy with, slowly sailed out of the dock and headed south.

The main force of the Ming army was the most concerned by the generals of the Qing army, but the water camp did not pay much attention to it, but only let the Qiantang water camp, which was temporarily stationed in Qujiang and Jiangshan Port, out of the port to prepare for the battle. But by the time they realized something was wrong, it was too late.

The ships of the Ming army's water camp did not know why the draft was extremely deep and the speed was slow, and when those ships, together with some civilian ships in the port, all sailed into the river between Yanjiasi and the east bank of the Qujiang River, I saw that those ships were divided into one after another, and at the same time that one after another Ming sailors rowed small boats away, those ships also began to sink slowly, which happened to block the Yanjiasi section of the river.

Yanjia silt is the heart of the river, but the river on both sides is not the general width and narrowness, the section of the river blocked by the Ming army shipwreck is used to pass large ships on weekdays, and the other narrowest place is only more than ten meters wide, and large ships will not pass through there. It is impossible for the Ming army to sink the river channel, and the Qing army and sailors can't cross it, but there are so many ships sinking under the water, and even some of the masts are exposed to the water, and the ships of the Qiantang Water Camp in Jiangshan Port are not very small, and it is extremely difficult to pass safely.

The intentions of the Ming army were already obvious, but they were helpless, especially the sailors of the Qiantang Water Battalion, so they could no longer return to Hangzhou on the current ship. The guerrillas of the Shuiyou Battalion of the Qiantang Water Battalion knew that there was no other way, so they had to sail the fleet into Changshan Harbor, disembark from there, and then walk to the ships of the Navy stationed on the Qujiang River, from where they returned to Hangzhou.

The Qiantang sailors abandoned the boat and left, and Li Benshen had nothing to do, because these sailors were useless, and instead of staying here, it was better to return to Hangzhou as soon as possible to ensure the safety there.

This was what Hong Chengchou had ordered before, and he didn't want to force him to stay, so he had to act like this. However, not long after the Qiantang Naval Division abandoned the boat, the Ming army's brigade of auxiliaries and minfu rushed to the shore and began to build a pontoon bridge over the Yanjiasil section of the river.

The Qing army's camp on the north bank of the Changshan River was on the opposite bank of Yanjiasil, and the Ming army began to bombard the artillery after placing the unknown number of artillery pieces.

The artillery of the battalions of the Quzhou defenders and the main force of the Ming army was far from that much, and the number of exceedances had nearly doubled, but when the Qing generals found that nearly half of the gunners were wearing the costumes of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the fear immediately rushed from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.

Previously, for them, the defeat of the Ming army in the Eight Banners of the Han Army was just a statement, a one that sounded absurd, but it was not impossible to happen, but when they saw those gunners operating for the Ming army, the previous speculation crushed these Qing troops the moment it was confirmed.

In the deafening sound of artillery fire, Yan Jiazhu didn't know how many artillery pieces, one after another were dense like free-firing automatic firearms troops, and almost completely stopped sending out an angry roar towards the opposite bank, and at the edge of the camp that was only 100 meters away from the river bank, it was immediately enveloped by the large and small shells flying like a rain curtain.

In fact, the maximum firing range of the Ming army's artillery did not reach 500 meters, and coupled with the waterways and the location of the array, the coverage area of the artillery was actually not very large, and even some could not penetrate the camp. But in the barrage of roaring barrages, the Qing army's ramparts, lookouts, and defensive equipment such as antlers and knife carts were more vulnerable than paper-paste, let alone the defenders.

In fact, if the Qing army took the initiative to retreat beyond the range of the Ming army, these artillery would not be able to help them. However, when the gunners of the Eight Banners of the Han Army began to operate artillery for the Ming army in full view, almost all the Qing troops from top to bottom collapsed, and the aftertaste of the shells swept through the northern camp with fear, and in an instant countless Qing troops began to flee to the west, even if they were a little sensible, they did not dare to stay, not only the army had begun to rout, after the artillery fire of the Ming army, it was bound to land on a large scale, and it was a dead end to stay in the field at that time, so it was far better to leave this dead place quickly.

The North Camp is like this, and the South Camp is only a little more orderly after discovering all this, but it is only some, and the escape is still unavoidable.

Without a battle, the Qing army abandoned the strong barracks, and the generals of the Ming army at the head of Quzhou and Yanjiasil, as well as the civil officials and gentry in Quzhou, were all shocked by all this.

"Shells have range, but fear does not, the Tartars have no determination to hold on, and no matter how strong the camp is, it is just a paper tiger." With that, Chen Wen began to command the army to cross the Qujiang River and launch a pursuit of the Qing army, which had already lost their fear. (To be continued.) )