【2nd Update】

In a small village called Wangzhuang on the shore of Sheyang Lake. The sound of gunfire, explosions, horses' hooves, shouts, screams, and the neighing of frightened and wounded horses were all intertwined, and the earth-shattering noise was heard far and wide.

Zeng Ming's face was splashed with blood who he didn't know who it was, and his whole body was covered in blood, but he didn't care about erasing the sticky blood on his face, and threw the knife in his hand aside, leaning against the wall, panting heavily. Finally, finally, their team finally survived another wave of offensive. Zeng Ming never thought that his luck would be so bad, and he actually collided with a group of Qing army horse teams by Sheyang Lake, and he was also a banner soldier of the Eight Banners.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Zeng Ming secretly shouted bad luck and quickly moved to Wangzhuang on the side with his soldiers. But he was still rushed by the Qing army's flag soldiers and horses, and they were temporarily forced to retreat by relying on the two tiger squat cannons and grenades they carried.

Zeng Ming thought he was safe now. After all, the village is not as flat as the ground, and it is not suitable for horse teams to gallop, so he never expected that the flag soldiers outside would directly light a fire.

If Zeng Ming hadn't been decisive, letting the soldiers preemptively push all the houses around the courtyard where their team was located, and the trees were all cut down, splashed with water, and splashed with water, maybe they would have fled from the village in embarrassment like most of the people in Wangzhuang. Then he was killed by the Qing soldiers and horses, and no one remained.

The common people of Wangzhuang suffered an unwarranted disaster, and the fire of the Qing soldiers reduced their homes to ashes, and all their household food, including most of the livestock, were wiped out in this fire. The people who fled the village wept bitterly as their homes collapsed and destroyed in the fire, but they were lucky. Because the Fu Han army did not follow them and rushed out of Zhuangzi, otherwise the Manchu horse team would have cut them to the ground without the slightest mercy.

The Fu Han army, which was hiding in the courtyard of the landlord of Wangzhuang, just after the fire was extinguished and before the Qing army launched an offensive, used the remaining ruins and broken walls around it to hastily organize a simple line of defense.

Then, before the smoke dissipated from the ashes of the burned village, the Qing infantry gathered around began to attack Zeng Ming's team. Yes, it is the first time that the Qing Army Banner Soldiers and Horses have encountered by the Sheyang Lake, but it is normal to meet the small infantry of the Qing soldiers.

The number of Qing soldiers recruited by the Eight Banners Horse Team is not large, only more than 100 people, roughly equivalent to Zeng Ming's team, this is the silent tacit understanding and silent rules on both sides. Skirmishes are always kept small.

If only that green battalion infantry team attacked, Zeng Ming would never be as embarrassed as he is now, and those banner soldiers would also dismount and attack. Moreover, many people are very slippery with bows and arrows, and their heads are much stronger than the shotguns of the Green Battalion Infantry Corps, and they are much more lethal.

Zeng Ming now has sixty or seventy people left under his command, and of the other thirty or forty people, half of them are killed or wounded under the bow and arrow, and the remaining half are killed or wounded in hand-to-hand combat. It was Zeng Ming himself, if he wasn't lucky, he would have been pierced through his throat by a long arrow. Zeng Ming, who was leaning against the wall and panting heavily, was touched, and a scoop of cold water was handed to him. Zeng Ming drank it all, and the drops of water that spilled from his mouth flowed down his neck.

The battle has already been fought three times, "how many more grenades?" Zeng Ming didn't believe the news here, and he wouldn't know about it. But there are at least 200 cavalry in the flag soldiers and horses outside Zhuangzi, and this is only this team, and no one knows whether the Qing soldiers are only this team of flag soldiers and horses. encountered a hard rush of hundreds of horse teams in Pingdi, even the old battalion in the city couldn't withstand it.

Gaoyou Prefecture has cannons and grenades, but there are not a few muskets.

"Zeng, there are ten boxes of grenades, and each of the brothers has two or three ......" There is no shortage of grenades for the time being. What they lack now is hope, when will the reinforcements arrive. More than a third of them were killed or wounded, and if it weren't for the fact that there was no way to escape, and the Qing soldiers killed and wounded were obviously more than their own casualties, which made their morale a little higher, and they were afraid that they would have collapsed long ago.

"When will the reinforcements arrive, how will Lao Tzu know? I'm not a roundworm in Lu Hu's stomach......" After drinking a scoop of cold water, Zeng Ming regained three points of strength, and the rogue energy that opened his mouth was still the same.

Zeng Ming could not have surrendered. His family and relatives are all in Lushan, if Zeng Ming surrenders, his parents, wife and children, and all relatives of the family will be unlucky because of Zeng Ming. Many people will put their lives first, and in order to survive, their parents, wives and children can also abandon them, but Zeng Ming is not that kind of person. He treats his parents with great filial piety, even when he was in Lushan, he was scolded by many people for having no conscience, but Zeng Ming was very conscientious to his parents and relatives, so it was impossible for him to surrender.

His eyes swept over the surrounding soldiers, and Zeng Ming could see that these gray-faced soldiers were now very depressed. They had already repelled three attacks by the Qing soldiers in Wangzhuang and held out for half a day, but there was no sign of reinforcements.

"You can surrender. Few of your family members are in southwestern Henan. You have to run to the Manchus, as long as the Manchus are not stupid, they will not kill you now. Zeng Ming said to the soldiers in front of him, these soldiers are either recruits or captive soldiers, there are really few veterans, and naturally there are few family members in the base control area.

"You can also provide some names of the soldiers you know, where are they, and the Manchus are estimated to give you a reward. But don't forget the secret camp of the Han army. Those who are in power can't stop the assassination, can you stop it? Will your family be able to stop it? After Zeng Ming's stern questioning, his body softened, and his momentum was suddenly retracted, and the person leaned softly against the wall, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he enjoyed the sun's rays as if he were warm.

I didn't come to Jiangnan and didn't know that there would be so many rainy days here, Zeng Ming felt that his whole body was going to be moldy these days, and he never felt that the sun was so loving. Today may be the last sun he will enjoy in his life, and he wants to enjoy it more.

The team has reached this point, Zeng Ming can't control the cranky thoughts of his soldiers, he can die in battle, but his soldiers won't think like this. And Zeng Ming's restraint means are also very limited, and the few words he released are more threats and scares, and if he can't scare people, it's casual.

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Lu Hu, who had already personally rushed from Gaoyou Prefecture to the Jieshou Town of Ziyinggou [the intersection of Ziyinggou and Gaoyou Lake, also called Jieshou], looked at the news that the reconnaissance team had gathered, and was finally able to determine that the Qing army had broken the tacit understanding.

Three teams of Eight Banners and Horses, the sum of the strength of the army is at least 500 people, not counting the one on the edge of Sheyang Lake, and has it not been found by the scouts? I am afraid that there are thousands of horse teams invested by the Qing army this time, and they are all Eight Banner horse teams. They cooperated with the Green Battalion Infantry - although the number of Qing soldiers in front of Ziyinggou was small, they could match the infantry and cavalry, and their combat effectiveness could not be underestimated.

Especially in the lakeside plains. Thousands of horses rushed out, but there was not enough artillery fire and muskets to stop them at all.

Lu Hu is the commander-in-chief of the entire Gaoyou Prefecture Fuhan Army, and his eyes are not only at the team that is besieged, but also at the whole battle. The Qing army released the horse team, it was not to look for prey on the small battlefield north of Ziyinggou, their target should be the canal between Gaoyou Prefecture and Yangzhou, and the canal between Gaoyou Prefecture and Ziyinggou.

If these thousands of horses rushed through Ziying Gully, what would the Gaoyou defenders do to stop them from cutting off the canal?

"Commander Lu, Zeng Ming's troops have been besieged in Wangzhuang for half a day, when will Commander Lu send troops?" The officers of the Fu Han Army in Jieshou Town did not dare to ask Lu Hu about the matter of Wangzhuang, because the matter of Wangzhuang was too tricky, and no matter how you looked at it, Zeng Ming's team was dead or alive. But Duan Guorui dared to ask Lu Hu, Zeng Ming had a deep relationship with him, and he didn't want to miss even if there was a glimmer of hope.

"The Qing army has thousands of horses, and it is absolutely impossible to send troops to rescue Wangzhuang head-on. I have ordered the reconnaissance team to dive to Sheyang Lake and sneak up with fishing boats to the shore of Wangzhuang Lake. At night, the Zeng Ming team broke through and transferred from Sheyang Lake to Ziyinggou. Lu Hu waved his hand at Duan Guorui, he made a good choice to do so, all the Fu Han troops in Gaoyou Prefecture may not be able to deal with the Qing army horse team, it is just right to use the reconnaissance team, and he is also benevolent to Zeng Ming's team. Whether Zeng Ming can survive or not depends on his luck.

"Now the Qing army suddenly has a horse team going south, thousands of people and horses, spicy, this is a big trouble. If this horse team were to fight north and south of Gaoyou City, Gaoyou City would immediately become a dead city. However, the geographical location of Gaoyou City is special, and it must be protected no matter what, but it is difficult to preserve Jieshou Town, and there is Xinghua under Sheyang Lake......"

Lu Hu is not a Sven person, he speaks with dirty words, and blurt out mantras very commonly. "You all talk about it, what should we do next for Gaoyou?" But in the predicament in front of him, he racked his brains and couldn't think of a way.

The Qing army is hard power, thousands of horses, on this lakeside plain, as long as they don't attack the city and don't fight hard with the elite of the Fuhan army, who can stop them?

Compared with the general trend of the battle situation, what is the reason for Zeng Ming's team? Besides, it was a very light recruit.

As the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River subsided, the pressure on the 3rd Brigade in Jiangbei was increasing, and when Huang Jie's express news reached Chen Ming, Chen Ming led a large army to fight the canal outside Suzhou. Of course, he also sent a small force to defeat Wujiang County, and then entered Zhejiang Province, causing Cui Yingjie, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to keep urging the soldiers in Hangzhou to go north.

The total strength of the Qing army staying in Hangzhou exceeded 20,000, and this is not counting the banner soldiers in Hangzhou. A considerable part of Fujian's green battalions have gathered here, as well as the volunteers and regimental training armies formed by the local government in Zhejiang.

There are 12 land and water green battalion towns in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, five in Zhejiang, in addition to the two towns of Haimen and Dinghai, there are three towns of Wenzhou, Chuzhou and Quzhou land green camps, these three towns are located in southern Zhejiang, Wenzhou, Chuzhou and Quzhou are the southernmost three prefectures in Zhejiang, corresponding to Fujian and Jiangxi respectively.

At the beginning of the emergency in Jiangxi, the first part of Quzhou Town entered Shangrao, Jiangxi, to reinforce the east bank of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi. Then Jiangnan was in an emergency, and Duan Xiulin, the governor of Zhejiang Waterway, rushed to reinforcements with nearly 10,000 troops, and the men and horses of Quzhou Town also rushed back to Zhejiang.

The sailors of Haimen and Dinghai were all dragged down by the escort tasks of the ships at sea, and they were weak. The elite soldiers and fierce generals of the land green battalion in the three towns of southern Zhejiang were all taken away by Duan Xiulin, and the rest of the people gathered in Hangzhou were only a group of old and weak, but fortunately, the local regimental training in Zhejiang allowed the Zhejiang government to raise a lot of people. The elite of the green battalion in Hangzhou City is only Fujian Min Bing, and the Fujian Land Governor controls the four towns, in addition to raising the standard of the five battalions, he also leads the Fuzhou City Guard, Xinghua City Guard Second Association, Quanzhou City Guard and other battalions. Under his command, Funing Town, Tingzhou Town, Jianning Town, and Zhangzhou Town can be called a large number of generals, with a total strength of more than 35,000 people.

[The Admiral of Fujian Navy controlled the three towns: Taiwan, Nanao and Haitan. 】

One of them began to advance to Zhejiang in February, and Admiral Huang Shijian personally led the troops, and the team braved the rainy season to gather in Hangzhou City, and then rested so far, and now it is time for them to leave.

The soldiers went north, and the people who commanded the troops were Hangzhou General Esengge and Fujian Land Governor Huang Shijian, Esengge was a battle-hardened veteran, and he was Yue Zhongqi's deputy general on the South Road when he was in the first battle of Jinchuan, and he was desperately fighting for the position of Hangzhou general. And Huang Shijian is different, he is the great-grandson of Huang Wu, the Haicheng Duke of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. And who is Haicheng Gong Huang Wu? Before that, he was the general of the Zheng army, and the deputy general Su Ming led the people to surrender Haicheng to the Shun Qing court, and Haicheng was a strong fortress built by Zheng Chenggong over the years with huge manpower and material resources. For this reason, Shunzhi named Huang "Haicheng Gong" in the same year, a standard traitor and rebel general!

Huang Shijian was the sixth Duke of Haicheng, and in the 28th year of Qianlong, he was appointed as the governor of Fujian Land, and this person was a rookie compared to the monks.

The thirty-third year of Qianlong, at the end of June. The Qing army's horse team went south to Yangzhou, and the Qing soldiers in Hangzhou marched north. At this time, Chen Ming continued to linger in Suzhou, and followed the canal. Yes, the surface fleet of the Fu Han Army had already passed through the Wusong River east of the canal, successively broke through Zhangjiabang and Dangtou, and entered the confluence of the Wusong River and the canal. There is also the birthplace of the Wusong River - Guajingkou ahead, and then the fleet can enter the sea and enter the wide waters of Taihu Lake.

But half a month's precious time was also squandered. In addition to sweeping the outside of Suzhou City, the Fu Han Army entered Wujiang and divided its troops into Zhejiang Province, but did not deal a heavy blow to the Qing army in Suzhou City.

It is difficult to say whether Chen Ming's decision is wise or not, anyway, according to the news from the secret camp, many people in Jiangnan are already laughing at Chen Ming for his habit of being a rogue, reluctant to give up money and food, and wasting a good opportunity in vain. It's hard to make a big deal!

"Damn, a bunch of bastards. Lao Tzu is going to become a big tool, you turtle grandsons have ambition, don't come to kneel and add Lao Tzu's feet! (To be continued.) )