In late April, on the head of the western city wall of Quzhou, as far as Chen Wen could see, it seemed that there were still Qing cavalry driving away scattered civilians in the distance. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info and as far as he knows, this scene is not only happening in Changshan County, but also in Jiangshan County.

Hong Chengchou's intention is very simple, that is, to use these people to speed up the consumption of the Ming army's warehouse, this dog traitor is obviously very clear, compared to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which occupies eight or nine out of ten of China, the foundation of the Ming army in Zhejiang, which has only three prefectures, is too thin. The Qing army was in an overwhelming position in terms of manpower, material and financial resources, and once it was discovered that there was no 100 percent chance of victory in the field battle, Hong Chengchou immediately changed his tactics, and now it was clear that he would use silver to smash it, bury it with troops, and use their cruelty to crush the Ming army in Zhejiang, which was known as loving the people.

The advantage of the Qing army lies in the huge human and material resources, and the Ming army has a weak foundation, which is conducive to quick battles. This is the advantage of internal warfare, and it has been used by too many Chinese and foreign soldiers in ancient and modern times, even Chen Wen has already played this hand purely very. But who knows, this time it won't work at all.

Since ten days ago, there have been three times before and after, and each ambush or surprise attack will be discovered by the Qing army's distant exploration horses. However, the number of cavalry of the Qing army was too superior, and no matter where the Ming army hid, it was impossible for thousands of soldiers not to leave some clues.

In fact, if the Qing army marched at a normal speed, their scouts might not have been able to spread so far and so densely, because the army was always moving, and the scouts would also have to speed up the pace of exploration, and the possibility that the Ming army would lie in ambush at a distance without being detected was not impossible. But whether it was the Fujian Green Battalion or the main force of the Qing army from Jiangxi, their marching speed was surprisingly slow. In Chen's words, a healthy snail crawls faster than them. But it was precisely because of the slow march that their already overwhelming cavalry could try to find out everything within a dozen miles of the surrounding area as much as possible, let alone a few thousand troops, even a few hundred people might not be able to hide from the world.

As for the night attack, in fact, it was originally one of Chen Wen's plans, after the first two raids hit a wall, the radiation intensity of the Qing army's horse exploration was significantly further strengthened, even to the point of completely disregarding the horsepower. By the third time, Chen Wen simply led the army to lurk in a more distant area, only relying on a very small number of spies to estimate the approximate location of the Qing army. In the evening, the army marched sharply and launched a surprise attack.

This plan was originally very smooth, Chen Wen's spies were not discovered by the Qing army during the day, but at night, who knew that the group of Fujian Qing troops actually scattered secret posts everywhere, just broke into the range of ten miles and discovered the movement of the Ming army, and then in the sound of gongs and drums, the Ming army was completely exposed to the Qing army's field of vision, and the Qing army did not defend the camp, but fled directly along the Jiangshan Port upstream.

As a result, by dawn, Chen Wen had indeed captured a Qing army of more than 1,000 people, but the vast majority of these people were auxiliaries forcibly recruited from northern Fujian, which was really meaningless. And from the mouths of those soldiers, Chen Wen also knew that these Qing troops had all slept in clothes under the orders of the above on these days, and once the secret sentinel found the Ming army, they would immediately flee upstream, and they would never allow the slightest war.

This is especially the three green battalions with the strongest combat effectiveness in Fujian, Chen Wen couldn't laugh or cry after hearing such an answer. Hong Chengchou's tactics seek a stable word, steadily overwhelm the Ming army with resource advantages, this kind of slow weight pressing, looks clumsy, but it is indeed far more clever than Chen Jin's straight-line military general-turned-governor used to fight with the Ming army once the army is assembled.

Everyone understands the principle of promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses, but there are very few things that can really be done. After getting the truth, Chen Wen gave up his plan to continue to attack another Qing army at night - each time he only captured more than 1,000 people, and most of them were auxiliary soldiers, even if he could capture some baggage, but the strength of the Qing army was there, and when the Qing army was not weakened much, he would have to exhaust himself first, and the gains really outweighed the losses.

For Chen Wen, it is better to break one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers, and if he can't defeat a Qing army in one go, there is no point in just grinding it so slowly.

In previous battles, Chen Wen relied on the infantry in his hands to defeat the opponent, and the cavalry, whose mobility ability was far superior to the infantry, was extremely disadvantageous because of the geographical characteristics of Zhejiang, which made the Ming army in which the cavalry was at a disadvantage able to win again and again.

Geographical advantage, this is the main point that soldiers are concerned about, and it is one of the most important factors affecting the outcome of the war. Zhejiang's water network and rugged roads were uneven, which was the reason why the Manchus reduced the most important cavalry of the feudal army to a pitiful proportion of one-tenth in the establishment of the Qing army in Zhejiang.

However, this situation was only for the Qing army in Zhejiang and Jiangnan, and this was not the case at all in other regions.

The main force of such encirclement and suppression, the green battalions in Fujian and Jiangxi are all cavalry for every five soldiers, which means that among the two Qing armies he is facing at the moment, 1,800 of the 9,000 soldiers on the Fujian road are cavalry!

The cavalry of that main force was more, not only because of the larger scale, because the Jingbiaozuo Town was transferred from the north, and the ratio of seven to three infantry and cavalry allowed them to squander the horsepower of the war horse to the maximum to find out the surrounding situation, so that Chen Wen, who was mainly infantry, only had three battalions of soldiers in his hands, and four or five hundred cavalry could not achieve his plan at all.

"Do you want to form a cavalry infantry?"

The disadvantage of tactical mobility made Chen Wen unconsciously come up with this idea, which he immediately rejected as soon as he thought of it.

War horses were too rare for the Ming army in the southeast. In history, Zheng Chenggong's cavalry holding the Taiwan Strait was pitiful, and Chen Wen relied on previous captures to achieve that each battalion could have a cavalry team of more than 100 people, plus his guards and the stagecoaches specially used by the garrisons to deliver news, which had reached the limit, and how could there be war horses used to travel for the infantry.

Even if there were, he would expand the cavalry of each battalion as much as possible, or directly form a cavalry battalion, which was too extravagant to travel for the infantry.

On the other side of the river, there were fewer and fewer Qing troops who drove the people, and apparently they were only ordered to expel the people to the areas occupied by the Ming army, and they could go back to resume their lives. Originally, when Chen Wen evacuated Changshan and Jiangshan counties, he called on the people to take shelter for a while, but the vast majority of people were unable to leave their homeland and were unwilling to leave their hometowns. But now, he was expelled here by the Qing army, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Sun Yu has begun to appease the displaced people, but considering that Quzhou is likely to be the battlefield of the confrontation between the Ming and Qing armies, Sun Yu has sent these people to the front line of Longyou and Tangxi as much as possible, and is preparing to build a camp of displaced people there, in addition to preventing these people from dying of hunger and cold, but also to prevent any Qing army's meticulous work from being mixed in.

After watching the people help the old and the young to go east, after a while, Chen Wencai returned to Xingyuan to listen to the results of the staff officers' deduction based on the intelligence of both sides, trying to dig out some points in Hong Chengchou's plan that could be used for him, even if it was better to take some risks for this than to continue to be squeezed like this.

A few days later, the main force of the Qing army completed the confluence at the confluence of Changshan and Jiangshan ports, and confronted the Ming army in Quzhou across the river. (To be continued.) )