Chapter 64: Benevolence
The gate of the courtyard has long been closed, otherwise the Qing army would have rushed in at this moment. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After listening to the fierceness of Huang Zongxi and others in the compound for a moment, Shen Jiabao leaned against the wall and stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears for his wife.
"Lady, this time, I'm afraid we won't have the same good luck as the previous two times."
In the fierce battle just now, Shen Jiabao, who was the commander of the first sentry, was injured and was escorted here by his subordinates, his left leg and right arm, a knife wound and an arrow wound, were bandaged, but he was bleeding a lot, so he began to show signs of weakness and weakness.
Seeing his own man like this, Shen Jiabao's daughter-in-law's tears could no longer be stopped, dripping down his hand.
"The slave family will never fall into the hands of the Tartars!"
In the woman's resolute voice, a pair of scissors was held upside down in her hand, as if ready to pierce her vital point with its sharp tip at any moment.
In this way, the young couple looked at each other silently, as if time had stood still. It's just that after a long time, the Qing army still did not launch a final attack, and even the shouts of persuasion to surrender did not come.
"Listen, it seems, it seems to be Mingjin!"
"Mingjin?!"
Huang Zongxi's eyes widened, he really couldn't believe his brother's screaming like a dream. This time the crowd, aside from those cowards who had already slipped away, there were only more than 200 people, most of whom had already died in the battle just now, how could there be any possibility that the Qing army would be able to withdraw its troops. But in the next second, even he heard Mingjin's voice.
"Quick, go up to the wall and take a look!"
Almost without Huang Zongxi's orders, a few soldiers set up a human ladder and climbed the wall, but what they saw was the figure of the Qing army gradually withdrawing from the old camp.
"Isn't it, Xiu Guogong came to rescue me?"
Saving lives is a great grace, and Wan Sicheng, who was a remnant of the eunuch party yesterday, said that he was Xiu Guogong, but this honorific title did not attract everyone's attention, because they were also shocked by this possibility.
However, at this moment, Xu Xin, the deputy general of the former battalion under Dalan Mountain, as the front-line commander of the military operation to encircle and suppress Dalan Mountain, was almost as surprised as they were at this golden sound.
"Which Naruto Kim?!"
Xu Xin shouted violently, and the pro-soldiers and cronies below hurriedly went to check, and there was also a herald who ran up the mountain road quickly, and the order to continue the attack was conveyed.
Mingjin's voice was not coming from this formation, which made Xu Xin suddenly feel a little uneasy, and in the next blink of an eye, this uneasiness was even more presented.
In the distance, as far as the eye could see, the herald hurried up the hill. Able to maintain such speed on rough mountain roads, his equestrian skills may not be much better than those of the best of the Mongol Tartars. But such an equestrian master actually fell from his war horse in a daze when he rushed halfway up the mountain, and the war horse under his crotch was still running forward.
"Hell yes."
Before the words fell, only a snap was heard, and Xu Xin slapped the mouthy soldier next to him in the face, and then shouted to him: "In broad daylight, have you ever heard of a ghost in broad daylight?" It's clearly a thief and someone is putting cold arrows on the mountain, you can't see it, idiot! ”
Drumming is advancing, and singing gold is retreating, this is an iron law in the army, even if the standard battalion is only a feudal army, but this point has also been resolutely implemented. In particular, they are still the elite troops of the Qing army in Zhejiang, even more so.
The movement at the foot of the mountain was unknown, and they did not dare to take action, so they had to withdraw from the stockade for the time being to observe the further development of the situation and the next orders.
In fact, there were people on the mountain who released cold arrows, which was not enough to affect the attack, but the main formation under the mountain was too far away from the Qing army outside the old camp on the mountain, the banner was not clear, and the golden drum was difficult to transmit to the top. As a result, he was shot with a cold arrow, which further delayed the attack.
A strange incident, the Qing army was delayed for nearly two quarters of an hour. And when they received the task again and were about to enter the village again, another herald came, ordering them to go down the mountain immediately to join Xu Xin.
This time it wasn't a strange thing to see a ghost, but a real threat was approaching, so Xu Xin had to give up the fat that had come to his mouth.
"What! How could it be so fast? ”
"Xu Shuai, the Ming troops who came over were all riding mules, and they never sleeped!"
Siming Mountain even three provinces and eight counties, of which Taizhou Mansion has been in the hands of Chen Wen, Xinchang and Shengxian in the south are also on the mouth of the Ming army, so when the standard battalion enters Siming Mountain, the first task is definitely not to besiege Dalan Mountain, but to the south to explore the horse to prevent being raided by the Ming army. Xu Xin obviously did the same, but who knew that the one they were guarding against would still be bumped into by him, and he didn't know if it was good luck or bad luck.
"How many people came, and what banner did they fly, can you see clearly?"
"Back to Xu Shuai's words, the Ming army came along the mountain road mightily, and there were 156 to 2,000 people. The battalion number, forgive the humble post did not read it clearly, but the general flag of the leading general was written Pujiang Bolou, the chief military officer of Siming Mountain. ”
Chen Wen was named the Duke of Xiuguo, as well as the five counts under his command, and Xu Xin naturally did not know about these extremely important military intelligences. It turned out to be Lou Jiye, although this general has always appeared in Chen Wen's army as a strategist, but earlier intelligence shows that this person's command ability does not seem to be inferior to Chen Wen's other generals at all.
The only thing he didn't know was that Lou Jiye would go out as a chief military officer this time, whether he was in charge of the overall situation, or as a partial division, or just a vanguard officer, which couldn't help but cause Xu Xin to think deeply.
"There's no time, let all the people on the mountain take down. It doesn't matter if the stockade is broken or not, it must not spoil the overall situation! ”
According to the previous understanding, it was thought that even if the Zhejiang Ming army came to the rescue, it should be forced to march with one or two infantry battalions, and they could rest for a day after capturing Dalan Mountain. But who would have thought that Chen Wen would actually form a new cavalry infantry battalion, and its marching speed would greatly disrupt their rhythm.
Since the first encirclement and suppression of Siming Mountain four years ago, although the Tibiao Battalion has almost won the merit of annihilating the main force of the Ming Army in Siming Mountain, the subsequent pursuit has made this land their sad place.
In the past few years, especially the fiasco and this expansion, their elite troops who spent Huang Degong to conquer the Liukou, sit in Jiangbei, and were relied on by Hongguang Tianzi as a pillar are filled with too many recruits. As a result, although the establishment has been expanded, the average combat effectiveness has declined to varying degrees.
What's more, compared to Li Rong, Xu Xin does not have much confidence in his ability to command operations. If you only count the soldiers, Li Rong was also two enemies and one enemy back then, and he was still invincible, but now he is only half of the Ming army that attacked him, and the result is even more self-evident.
Giving the order that the garrison leading the attack would lead its troops back to the camp where they set out, Xu Xin led the main force to retreat in the direction of Liangnong Town. It's just that the formation of the mountain and the battle, it is easy to break through the defense of the battalion, and there are not many defenders left inside, but they are forced to reorganize the team down the mountain, compared to the main force, the two garrisons who have been a little tired have spent more time to return to the bottom of the mountain, and before they have time to leave, they collided head-on with the outpost of the Ming army.
Due to the disappearance of Wang Jiang, Chen Wen increased his intelligence collection in Shaoxing and Ningbo, and soon discovered the actions of Huang Zongxi and others.
However, when he learned the news, he was actually one step behind the Qing army. Especially when the intelligence officers lurking in the city of Shaoxing received the news that the Shaoxing Mansion was ordered to prepare grain, grass and people for the standard battalion, he immediately understood the intention of the Qing army, so he had to change the established battle plan for marching into Jiangxi, and ordered the cavalry infantry battalion named Feixiong led by Lou Jiye to send troops to the rescue.
In this way, starting from Jinhua Mansion, the Flying Bear Battalion quickly passed through the line of Shengxian County and Xinchang County, and was directly inserted into the hinterland of Siming Mountain by the route that Chen Wen covered the evacuation of the people. During this time, they even met face to face with the two garrisons that fell at the end of the battalion before the promotion.
The flag was waved, and the first game, as the vanguard, immediately dismounted the mule, and the firemen led the mule to the side of the road and guarded it in case it blocked the path of the follow-up troops.
As a mounted infantry, the Flying Bear Battalion was not convenient to carry wolf whisks, and it was also a rapid reaction force in nature, with a full pike formation and an infantry bureau of the firearms team, and the artillery was drawn by mules and gun wagons, so it could not participate in the battle. But the soldiers who had disembarked from the mules began to reorganize under the arrangement of the officers, and the pikemen even assembled the special two spears together, turning them into spears one and a half feet long.
At the same time as the Ming army was reorganized, the two garrisons were also forced to regroup. It's not that they don't want to leave, but they were blocked on the road as soon as they came down the mountain, and they wanted to withdraw to the camp in Liangnong Town in an organized way, either bypassing this Ming army, or rushing over directly. Of course, it is not impossible to disperse through the mountains and forests, but in that case, the system will inevitably be bad, and no one will be willing to bear the responsibility of fleeing without a fight and losing their division until they are defeated.
The mountain road was narrow, and the follow-up troops of the Flying Bear Battalion were still on the way, but at this moment the forces of the two wings were almost the same, one was rushing day and night, and the other was climbing up and down the Dalan Mountain and engaged in a slightly easier battle to seize the village, all of them were exhausted. From the perspective of the combination of troops, both lack cavalry and no artillery, and are purely infantry attacks.
As a result, Lou Jiye did not give these Qing troops the slightest time to have a different mind, and when the army was completed, the war drums were beaten, and the forest of spears began to pounce on this Qing army.
Rulin's pikemen marched in a firm formation and rushed to the Qing army battle formation at the foot of the mountain, almost as soon as they came into contact, the Qing army, which was also exhausted but far less eager to fight than the Ming army in Zhejiang, was pressed back.
Under the cover of the long players in the front row, the pikemen frantically stabbed at the Qing army on the opposite side, and in the dense spear forest, almost several pikemen aimed at one or two Qing soldiers to assassinate. Taking care of the other, most of the original weapons were inferior to the Qing army, let alone fighting back, and even the ability to parry was completely useless.
"Give the order to go down and drive them up the mountain, into the old camp!"
Lou Jiye's order quickly spread to officers at all levels, and the two wings quickly began to outflank them in a small area.
The four rounds of the Flying Bear Battalion were originally drawn from each battalion, and the proportion of veterans was very large, and the rapid attack at this moment was as fierce and steady as their marching speed. The Qing army on the opposite side was originally the main force attacking the village, but it was abandoned here, and the army's heart was already a little unstable, but the speed of the Ming army was too fast, so that these instabilities were dissipated by the bloody smell of the battlefield before they were further fermented. However, once the battle was engaged, it was hoisted up and fought by the Ming army, and the unstable military spirit was hit by the spear forest, and its morale began to drip to the bottom at a falling speed.
As the Ming offensive continued, and when they found themselves being driven down the mountain road by the Ming army, some of the veterans on the flanks began to run into the nearby mountains and forests, hoping that they would be able to get out of this almost certain defeat.
Fleeing, like a dam that begins to seep under the pressure of a flood, at first only squeezes out a little drop of water from the crack, but as the crack gradually expands under the pressure, seeps and trickles, and soon turns into splash, and by the way, the entire embankment is washed away.
In an instant, the "embankment" that was blocked between the old camp of Dalanshan and the first bureau of the Feixiong Battalion of the Ming Army in Zhejiang collapsed, and the Qing army of the brigade soon began to collapse under the condition that it was difficult to cause effective casualties to the Ming army. Even the two garrisons, after boosting the last wave of morale, secretly ran into the mountains and forests with their own soldiers.
In just one hour, the collapse was staged repeatedly, but the last time the rebels and the large courtyard of the Chinese army hall could be used as a fortification for the last resistance, and Chen Wen was willing to send troops to rescue them, who were also friendly troops under the banner of the Ming army, but the Qing troops in the front camp of these banners did not have such good luck.
The infantry of the Flying Bear Battalion was aimed at clearing the Qing army on the mountain road, but because the main weapons were too long, the mountains and forests did not enter it, but only kept opening the road up the mountain. found that the Ming army did not chase and kill in the forest, and those routs were also frightened. Unexpectedly, he planned to continue to travel through the mountains and forests, fleeing in the direction of Liangnong Town or other places, but soon encountered those hunters who had been lurking in the mountains and forests for a long time.
"Medium!"
I shouted softly in my heart, only to see that arrow shoot out and stick straight into the eye socket of a Qing army, frightening the surrounding Qing army to run wildly.
Exhaling this sound when shooting arrows is an old habit of Gan Cang, and no one cares about this in the barracks, but this is not allowed by the special forces team, and after a few rounds of leather whips, he had to force himself to correct it to recite it silently in his heart.
Today's special task force, after assisting Ma Xin and Hu Laijin in Taizhou and Wenzhou, although there are still only more than 100 people, but they have a lot of experience. In the following months, wilderness survival, jungle warfare, rushing, street fighting, assassination, etc., almost all of them were not rigorously trained, and it can even be said that they may not be as good as the war barracks, but other means of killing the enemy are even better.
The small establishment is the biggest weakness of the special operation team, but there are also advantages of fewer people. Almost after Chen Wen sniffed out the general intention of the Qing army, he set off overnight, bypassing the sentry posts and rangers of the Qing army along the way, as well as the sentry scouts of the rebel army, and lurked in the mountains and forests near the left, waiting for the follow-up development.
It was they who had managed to delay the time, and then after evading the initial search of the Qing army, some of them had already gone around to the back of the old camp in Dalanshan and managed to infiltrate. Those who stayed continued to observe the movements of the Qing army, and became hunters in the jungle.
In this way, the Qing army, which had lost its formation in the jungle, blindly fled in the direction they thought would be safe, but they were always exposed to the sight of the special forces and were rounded up like lambs by wolves. The Ming army, which defeated the Qing army head-on, also quickly opened the way up the mountain.
"Governor Wang, Vice Huang Xian."
"Uncle Lou."
Ever since he got the news that Huang Zongxi had threatened to rebuild Dalan Mountain, Chen Wen immediately figured out what this representative figure of the gentry in the late Ming Dynasty and the defender of the interests of the southeastern gentry like his father wanted to do.
The thought of letting them die did not come to his mind, at least at least at the moment of the most anger. However, Huang Zongxi has also been helpful to him over the years, and Wang Jiang is also the internal talent he is eager for, so he also needs them as an arm for some follow-up actions.
And the most important thing is that the place where they are - Dalan Mountain, this is where Chen Wen will never allow the Qing army to slaughter again, and the tragedy like the ten years in history must be rewritten, even if it is two years in advance!
After confirming that the few people led by him were safe, Lou Jiye nodded to Luo Yongzhong, and previously managed to enter the old camp with some of his subordinates, and the special task force that protected them withdrew under the leadership of Luo Yongzhong, and entered the mountains and forests to hunt and kill those Qing army routs, and the defense here was handed over to the soldiers brought by Lou Jiye.
The Qing army, which had effectively suppressed them just now, was almost crushed in the face of this Ming army, and the original moral condescension of the "righteous gentleman" in the face of the "remnants of the eunuch party" disappeared with the rescue of the Ming army. At this moment, they were all stunned and silent, but put Huang Zongxi in front.
"Uncle Lou, dare to ask how Duke Xiu Guo learned that the Tartars would come to besiege me?"
Although the time of Lou Jiye's arrival was less than an hour, but with the cooperation of the special operation team, it was just right, and now the rebel army formed by Huang Zongxi suffered more than half of the casualties, and everyone was terrified, and they couldn't help but wonder if Chen Wen deliberately did this.
"Thanks to the information sent by Governor Wang and the intelligence department personnel lurking in Shaoxing Mansion."
Huang Zongxi of the Intelligence Department knew, but Lou Jiye clearly mentioned Wang Jiang, which made everyone look at Wang Jiang in surprise.
"The word governor, Uncle Lou is also exempted, now Wang Jiang is just an ordinary person, trying his best to do something for the Duke of Xiuguo and the Emperor Ming Zhongxing."
Wang Jiang acquiesced to Lou Jiye's rhetoric, which made everyone stunned and looked at this "capable official" who was famous for presiding over logistics affairs. Wan Sicheng, in particular, always believed that it was Wang Jiang's hesitation that caused the situation of this Dalanshan Ming army to become worse and worse, and it was only now that he discovered that in fact, this character who he had always despised actually did a good job of remedies without everyone's knowledge, and even played them in the palm of his hand.
In fact, since Shen Guomo sent news to Shen Tiaolun, when Wang Jiang began to flee the next day, he secretly sent a horse scout who was originally in the Ming army of Dalanshan as a cavalryman, and asked him to rush to Jinhua overnight to report to Chen Wen. Because he knew very well that what these guys had done during this period of time made this rebel army, which was already at a serious disadvantage in numbers, further lose the possibility of using its geographical advantages to thwart the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army.
This time the Qing army attacked, let alone defend it with its own strength, even if it fled, except for Shen Tiaolun, Zou Xiaonan and Jiang Han, everyone else would only do bad things. The only possibility for survival is for Chen Wen to send troops to rescue, but Huang Zongxi and others originally wanted to rebuild the Ming army of Dalanshan in order to drag Chen Wen's hind legs, and it is not certain whether they will come to help.
It's a good thing to be able to come; Sitting back and watching it fall apart, or being a step late, in fact, it doesn't matter to him anymore - there is no regret in this life to be able to die on this land that he once struggled for. It is precisely because of this that Wang Jiang has shown a noncommittal attitude towards all accusations made during this period of time.
Facts have proved that over the years, although he has been betrayed by Cao Conglong and others and scolded by some forces whose interests have been damaged, Chen Wen still maintains that pure heart, and he is still the brave warrior with benevolence and righteousness who did not hesitate to fight with his life to cover the safety of the people, and advanced against the Tartar artillery fire with his flesh and blood!
"Wanxun, supporting Furen's military training on this Dalan Mountain back then is probably the most correct thing you and I have ever done in this life."
The scene of working hard with Wang Yi and those with the same dream to drive the Qing army out of Zhejiang echoed in my heart, and I felt a lot of emotion for a while. However, as reason regained control of the brain, Wang Jiang suddenly realized a loophole.
"Uncle Lou, if I'm not mistaken, when the person I sent delivered the message, you should be ready to go on the expedition."
"The three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, this is nature."
Hearing this, in front of the unknown crowd, Wang Jiang's face changed suddenly, and almost all of his blood faded when he landed.
"Fooled, it's a trap for the Tartars!" (To be continued.) )