The mountain fire in Dalan Mountain was gradually extinguished until after nightfall, because the Flying Bear Battalion began to cut down the trees around the old camp after climbing the mountain, and cleared out a firebreak around the old camp of Dalan Mountain, plus there was a water source on the mountain, and the Qing army's arson of the mountain almost did not hurt the Ming army in the old camp. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIt's just that the mountains and forests on Dalan Mountain were completely destroyed by this catastrophe, bare, as if the end had come.

In fact, how much effect can be played by setting fire to the mountain, Dasu and Tian Xiong do not have much extravagance. In addition to Zhang Jie's interception of the Ming army in Simingshan Town, there are 14,000 troops in their hands, and if they burn all the mountains and forests, they can attack it in a circle, and the Ming army in the old camp can only fight with only 2,000 people.

At this moment, the Qing army had retreated to Yonghe Town, and Chen Wen was not worried that Dasu and Tian Xiong would take the opportunity to escape. With Siming Mountain in hand, you can cut off the Ningshao Plain and divide the two mansions into food. Either they will fight to the death, or they will simply retreat to Hangzhou, and there is no other way. But Zhang Jie has already died, and the Dinghai General Battalion is almost wiped out, and they will not give up, because they have no way to explain this matter to the Qing court.

According to the captured calibration officers, Chen Wen obtained the details of the Qing army, a 5,000-strong commander's standard battalion, a 3,000-strong governor's standard battalion, and the highlight was Dasu's 6,000 Eight Banner Army from Manchuria, Mongolia, and Han armies, which was his biggest opponent this time.

The main commanders of the Qing army, one is the Pingnan general Dasu, the other is the Zhejiang governor Tian Xiong, and the Fubiao battalion is mainly based on Zhang Jie's former general Chang Jingong, in addition, there is also a Wu Ruyu who was promoted from Melle Zhangjing to Gushan Ezhen because of his meritorious service in defending Hangzhou after the suppression of the four provincial capitals, and a Mongolian Gushan Ezhen as Dasu's deputy.

"Dashuai, Dasu's Tartar brought this group of defeated generals to call for battle, he must be too confident."

According to the deduction of the General Staff Division, the terrain of Dalan Mountain was not conducive to the Qing army to give full play to its superiority in strength, so they were likely to set fire to the mountain. For this reason, the Flying Bear Battalion began to clear the firebreak after arriving, and the result was really calculated by those staff officers, Dasu and Tian Xiong did set a fire under Dalan Mountain.

There were no casualties among the soldiers, but the smoke and dust and frightened mules made them a little disgraced, and the soldiers of the Flying Bear Battalion held their breath all day long from Lou Jiye down.

"Dasu has his support, don't forget, there are still 2,000 Manchurian Zhenyi and 2,000 Mongolian Tatars in their hands."

"That's just for them to know that our Zhejiang Wang Shi is not inferior to that Li Dingguo."

was trapped by the mountain fire for a whole day, and Lou Jiye was full of fire, leaving behind the general's bearing on weekdays. However, his words, in the ears of the generals, really made Chen Wen see clearly how confident these generals were this time.

In addition to Lou Jiye's Feixiong Battalion and Hu Laiji's Huangyan Battalion, there were also Nantang Battalion, Tiantai Battalion, and Ruian Battalion, as well as a cavalry brigade composed of 500 cavalry, Chen Wen's cavalry guard of 200 people, and hundreds of recruits who were ready to be used as garrisons. Together, there are also 11,000 troops, which is only 3,000 less than the Qing army.

After a glance, Lou Jiye no longer had any fear of the Eight Banners Army, Hou Guoyuan and the battalion officers of the Ruian Battalion, as well as the supervisors and military judges of each battalion, these people had either followed him as early as Dalan Mountain or Tiantai Mountain, or they had just joined the army when they entered Jinhua Mansion, and they were all subordinate generals who had followed Chen Wen for many years, and they were quite confident in the group they belonged to. Even Ma Xin, the battalion officer of the Tiantai Battalion, was the same. Only Hu Laijin and a few staff officers who joined later seemed to be affected somewhat.

After seeing the appearance of all living beings, Chen Wen smiled and said: "Brother Lou is right, that King of Xining can become a famous king twice, if we can't even clean up a Zhang Jia * Dasu, we don't have to come out to mix." ”

After all, Chen Wen is now a famous general who can barely keep pace with Li Dingguo in terms of wind evaluation, Li Dingguo can kill Kong Youde and Nikan, Chen Wen is here, a Dasu only comes with two thousand Zhenyi and two thousand fake Tartars plus two thousand Sao Tartars, and there is really no need to worry too much.

In recent years, almost all of the main forces of the Eight Banners of Manchuria have been assembled in the southwest, and they have been waging an arduous struggle against Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, and the result is that Chen Wen has faced the Eight Banners of the Han Army at most.

The long-term crushing of the green battalion soldiers has made the self-confidence of the Zhejiang Ming Army have already risen, so they did not show the slightest timidity when facing the Eight Banners Group of the Han Army last year. However, the prestige of the Eight Banners of Manchuria has been accumulated over the years, although it is more of the problems within the Ming Court and the Ming Army, but the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is also good, otherwise without that diamond diamond, this kind of porcelain work cannot be done now.

Through history, Chen Wen can clearly see that the invincible prestige of the Manchurian Eight Banners is not so true, especially in the eighth year of Yongli and the eleventh year of Shunzhi, the Eight Banners Army has begun to decline in combat effectiveness after the corruption of entering the customs, otherwise they would not have been so trembling in history to put the military and political power in the southwest to Hong Chengchou, in order to maintain the balance of power.

However, only he knows these things at the moment, and other people are only able to reduce their fear a little after the influence of Li Dingguo's two famous kings, and even Lou Jiye and others are more because their confidence in their own group is strong enough to have their current state. However, if you want to truly clear the image that the Eight Banners of Manchuria have built up in these decades, you still have to really defeat them on the battlefield in order to dispel this myth.

And this battle is tomorrow!

The situation has changed, but with the presence of the General Staff, the deduction can still clearly show the possible tactics of the Qing army and how to deal with it, and there are always several alternative battle plans to deal with the changes.

The staff operation continued, but Chen Wen's guard captain Chen Fugui said that Huang Zongxi and others came to visit.

For these "righteous soldiers" who claim to rebuild the Ming Army of Dalan Mountain, Chen Wen knows very well what kind of plans they have in mind when they do this. Therefore, after approaching and camping at the foot of the mountain, he didn't bother to pay attention to them, and simply continued to dry the others except Wang Jiang, and waited until tomorrow when he saw the battle, so that they could see the real combat effectiveness of the Ming army in Zhejiang, so as to pave the way for the next move.

In this way, before dawn the next morning, the fifth battalion of the Zhejiang Ming Army, which had left Siming Mountain, pulled out its camp and headed north, and the target was the shore of Siming Lake as agreed in the war book.

Between Dalan Mountain and Siming Lake, separated by more than ten miles, how can the general army in this era have to walk for most of the day, or even a whole day, but the strategic movement speed of the Ming army in Zhejiang has already exceeded thirty miles, and now it will arrive at Liangnong Town, where the Qing army was camped before, and bury the pot here to make rice and repair.

Siming Lake was a beautiful place in later generations, but now, in this era of no smog and no industrial pollution, there is not a single local person on the shore of Liangnong Town and the lake in the direction of Yonghe Town, only some newly made corpses and countless bones scattered on the shore, like ghosts.

"Guogong, this is ......"

The Wan family brothers came from Yin County, Ningbo Prefecture, and when they entered Siming Mountain, they were also from Fenghua, and they had not set foot in this area more than ten miles north of Dalan Mountain.

In fact, the battle of three days earlier had freed them from their illusions and thrown them into fear. However, after seeing this scene, they realized that the previous fear was just an appetizer.

Without looking at the group of pale scholars behind him, Chen Wen's eyes seemed to have returned to October 17, the fourth year of Yongli.

These are the remains of the soldiers who died in the Battle of Siming Lake. In the second year, before I sent troops to Tiantai Mountain, I heard the captured general Chen Guobao mention that after the victory of the traitor Tian Xiong, he killed most of the captured soldiers on the shore of the lake. If you count those who died in battle, I am afraid that there will be no less than 10,000 people."

Huang Zongxi and others already knew such an answer in advance, and they could also understand why Chen Wen would accept the appointment of Da Su and Tian Xiong. He, just like this rescue of Dalan Mountain, is here to avenge those soldiers who died in the country. Coincidentally, the murderer of the year happened to be here. All reasons are there, and naturally there is no reason not to fight.

"Guogong, do you want to bury these loyal bones first?"

Vance tentatively said what he thought, but immediately ushered in a blank of eyes around him, and then only heard Chen Wen say:

"No, we're here to kill the Tartars. When the tartars are all killed, they are buried again. In this way, they can also see more clearly under the Nine Springs! ”

………………

After seeing the bones by the lake, Chen Wen returned to the big tent to continue to deal with military affairs and make final preparations for the big war. By the end of lunch, the Tanma who had gone out also sent back the news that the Qing army was advancing in the direction of Lianglong Town. Only the approximate number of cavalry of the Qing army was much lower than the intelligence suggested, but it still attracted the attention of the staff officers.

Among them, Zhang Gongyan, a former staff officer of the Nantang Battalion, made an overall coordinated training plan for infantry and artillery because he made a statement to Chen Wen, and although the training plan was approved by Chen Wen, it could not be implemented temporarily due to the excessive pressure of recruit training, but he himself was transferred back to the General Staff Department as a staff officer with the army at the beginning of the year.

"Dashuai, there must be a conspiracy in this move of the Tartars."

Categorically stated this conclusion, Zhang Gongyan immediately reported several possibilities to Chen Wen, and soon received Chen Wen's approval.

"You did a good job, the soldiers came to block, the water came to cover the earth, Dasu wants to play, then I will play with him."

At the sound of the order, the army of open-air dining immediately set off for the north in order, and after advancing for a mile, it began to gradually unfold, and soon formed a forward in which the Tiantai battalion occupied the middle road, the Ruian battalion was the left flank near Siming Lake, and the Huangyan battalion was the right flank extending to the northern mountainous direction. The Nantang Battalion, the Flying Bear Battalion, and the cavalry assembled in Chen Wen's hands will serve as the reserve of the whole army to deal with the changes.

As the two sides continued to advance, the two sides of the probing horses between the temptation and riding became more and more intense, in order to pass back the details of the other party.

Not long after, the Ming army and the Qing army encountered each other on the shore of Siming Lake, and the distance between the two sides was no more than a mile, which was the distance that the warring sides habitually used by the warring sides in this era to complete the formation and deploy the formation, and it was based on the range of artillery.

"Fubiao Right Battalion, Fubiao Middle Battalion, Fubiao Left Battalion, Raising Right Battalion, Raising Bid Middle Battalion, Raising Bid Left Battalion......"

According to Tanma's report and the banners observed in the telescope, Chen Wen counted the Qing troops on the opposite side from left to right, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

"Just keep a post-bid battalion and a half-crippled pre-bid battalion as a reserve, Tian Xiong, you have so much confidence in Dasu? Or, he's already your last hope? ”

In Siming Mountain, almost all the soldiers brought by Chen Wen were here, except for some of the recruits who would be used as local garrisons to guard Dalan Mountain to cover the families of the rebels and some of the accompanying people, other people were also behind the battle. Even in Liang Lane Town, Chen Wen only left some exploration horses.

Now that Dasu is missing, it is impossible to escape before the war to leave the lifting and stroking to feed the bears. It's not that he is bound by any morality, but once these green battalions are gone, he can't hold Hangzhou by his Eight Banners Army alone. If you run away before the war, it is better to withdraw together, give up Ningshao directly, and stick to the Qiantang River.

The only answer is that Dasu intends to use the cavalry advantage of the Eight Banners Army to flank the Ming army from a certain direction in order to completely break it.

The war drums sounded, and unlike the Battle of Siming Lake that year, the Qing army on the opposite side did not attack, but put on a defensive posture, but the Ming army, which took a defensive position that year, took the lead in attacking.

Unlike the Ming army that came with Hongyi cannons, the Qing army carried a lot of artillery, but there were no such big guys, all of them were Franc machines, tiger squats and some copper squirrels, but in terms of quantity, it was obvious that the eight banners of the Han army in the Eight Banners of Hangzhou garrison left some of the artillery here to strengthen the defense capability.

The artillery of the Qing army had about the same range as the artillery pushing the artillery cart forward on the side of the Ming army, until it was close to the range, as the artillery of both sides launched the first round of artillery bombardment, all the soldiers of the three battalions as the vanguard roared in unison after the war drums were beaten, and then crossed the artillery position, holding weapons, and rushed to the Qing army on the opposite side with a strict queue.

On the side of the Qing army, they still fired the artillery step by step, and the gunners retreated after the end; Immediately after the firing of the firebolt and the completion of a round, it was reloaded, and then projectiles were dropped at the Ming army column in between the archers' direct fire and projectile. But on the side of the Ming army, the firm and heavy pace was not a high-frequency pace, which seemed to resonate with the land, but it did not have the slightest intention of stopping, but had the ambition to aim the spear array and mandarin duck array in front of the Qing army, and stabbed it straight up!

The forward of the Ming army and the front line of the Qing army are getting closer and closer, as if the collision is just after the blink of an eye, but at this moment, I saw the cannon behind the standard battalion formation, and the Eight Banners Army wearing various flag uniforms rushed out of the hills and woods on the other side of the lake, stirring up a faint smoke and dust dragon in the distance, towards the Chen Wen general flag behind the Ming army in Zhejiang.

The three new battalions of the vanguard of 6,000 troops had already engaged the elite of the Zhejiang Green Battalion, which was less than 8,000 on the opposite side, and in the lens of the telescope, a long series of ghost paintings with twists and turns written on the banner in front of the smoke and dust were also faintly visible, and even the fishy wind from Tunguska that was wrapped in it could be vaguely smelled.

Under the general's banner, the reserves of the two battalions have been lined up, blocking the road behind the third battalion of Dasu's outflanking. Looking into the distance, Chen Wen shouted loudly: "In the fourth year of Yongli, the year when the Nantang battalion was formed, it was here, the king of Siming Mountain fought a bloody battle with the Tartars for one day, and the traitor Wang Sheng turned against him and was defeated. Today, the bones of the loyal have not yet been buried, and we are here to avenge them! (To be continued.) )