Chen Guobao, the deputy general in charge of the war in Chuzhou, immediately set off along the Oujiang River after receiving reinforcements, and the green battalion of Naizhou had taken all the boats away when they withdrew, and those that could not be taken away were also burned, and now they had to walk all the way, and the target was the Qingtian county town where the green battalion of Chuzhou was stationed according to the intelligence. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"There are nine cities in ten counties in Chuzhou, and there is only half a city in Qingtian."

In fact, not only Qingtian, but also the capital city of Chuzhou also had walls, and this is the biggest reason why the Qing army chose to resist only in these two places. According to Chen Guobao's intelligence, the Wenzhou Green Battalion seems to have also gathered a large army to assist in the defense, so the opponent he has to face is the defeat of these two remnants.

In this regard, Chen Guobao can be said to have no pressure, before setting off, Chen Wen made up for the casualties of the half of the Dongyang battalion he was responsible for, and the reinforcements this time were also enough for two infantry bureaus plus 200 cavalry and supporting artillery and engineers. In this way, the strength of more than a battalion of soldiers, even in terms of numbers, can not surpass the remnants of the Ming army, and the defeated generals should be able to be captured.

Full of confidence, Chen Guobao led this eastward army to set off, and arrived at the city of Qingtian County on the third day of December.

The distribution of the castle walls is not like the four sides or polygons of most castles, but like a triangle, which is why it is called a half-jo castle. Its bottom is the Linjiang road of later generations, the west city corner is about 100 meters in the big port head, and the east city corner is in the area of Xingchun Gate, the commanding height is the Taihe Mountain test sword stone, the city wall is 3312 meters long, the purpose of the construction is to resist the enemy, and later also took into account the role of flood control.

When Chen Guobao arrived at the city, he sent people to shout to persuade him to surrender, although the Qing army was not so resolute, but in the end he still refused the persuasion of the Ming army.

Seeing this, Chen Guobao retreated and set up camp to build siege equipment. Until the next morning, the Ming army approached the city, and after persuading to surrender again to no avail, the siege battle began.

Chen Guobao's method is very simple, that is, the ants are attached to the siege city, and there are more siege equipment created by professional engineers and commanders than the Qing army imagined, so when the Ming army just put the formation out, the Qingtian defenders hurriedly lit the beacon fire.

The horse had already been scattered, and Chen Guobao did not hesitate at all, and immediately launched an attack, but in order to prevent the Qing army from attacking, he still left two infantry bureaus to remain vigilant.

The siege equipment of the Ming army rolled forward, covering the infantry carrying the ladder to approach the city wall, and the artillery at the head of the city was far beyond imagination. It's just that Chuzhou has always been a poor house, and although there are many mine bandits in the mountains, the garrisons in each county can't use slightly larger caliber artillery. Today, there are indeed a lot of artillery pieces in the city, but most of them are small tiger squat cannons, and there are many outdated goods such as bowl mouth cannons and lamp mouth cannons that are cast in the early and middle Ming Dynasty and are higher than the grandfathers of the Qing army, and I don't know where they came from.

This time, after giving up the entire prefecture, the Qing army was obviously determined to defend here, because the deputy general of the prefecture had been captured by the Ming army, and the general flag of the deputy general of Wenzhou Hu Laijin was erected here. However, although the Qing army had many firearms, most of them were small cannons with stones and iron sand, and the Ming army quickly advanced to the city under the cover of siege equipment. But at this moment, news also came from the Ming army's Tanma.

Qingtian county is triangular, one side faces the Oujiang River, the other two sides form an angle with it, the direction of the Ming army's siege is the city wall near the upstream, and the reason for leaving the other city wall is nothing more than "the siege must be lacking" this sentence of the soldiers.

According to the report of Tanma, in the direction east of the position of the Ming army, a Qing army under the banner of Taizhou Green Camp was rushing to march. Although it was much worse than the Ming army, Chen Guobao had to temporarily slow down the intensity of the offensive and concentrate on destroying the guards at the head of the city, while he personally led the two bureaus in charge of the vigilance to march eastward to meet the battle.

Soon, the two armies collided. Although Chen Guobao is not Chen Wen or the generals under Chen Wen, he is not a fledgling role, he has been following Chen Wen since the fifth year of Yongli, and he has been familiar with the use of the Mandarin Duck Array for a year and a half. And his opponent, although it is said that Chen Wen has always attached great importance to the Taizhou general soldiers and horses, but the Taizhou Green Battalion is only 2,000 soldiers and horses, except for those who stay in Taizhou, there are not many who can accompany them, and because the last sneak attack on Yushan Town tasted the sweetness, and did not carry out corresponding reforms, the army is still the same old tactics.

Next, as expected, with the Ming army's neatly lined spear array killer team and mandarin duck array killer team, as well as artillery and firearms team, Ma Xin's army only lasted a little longer than expected before the whole army retreated. It can even be said that if Ma Xin hadn't reacted quickly enough and resolutely broke his wrist, his army of more than 1,000 people would not have withdrawn from the battlefield with only 300 or so people left behind as now.

The devastating victory did not make Chen Guobao feel the slightest joy, because the siege battle was declared a failure because the main general led a large army to meet the reinforcements. The Ming army dropped a large number of siege equipment and retreated after destroying some pheasant moats, because the long-term battle and the proximity to the Spring Festival made them return to their hearts and minds, and the existence of the flank threat caused them to be far from the fighting spirit of the field.

Repelled the reinforcements, but there were no siege equipment, Chen Guobao had to spend another day to build siege equipment, and it was not until the sixth day of the first month that the troops came to the city again, and there was more Ma Xin's banner on the city.

It has been eight months since the first attack on Quzhou began in April this year, and although there have been a few days of rest in between, many of the troops that did not march into Chuzhou have already been issued with the rewards of the previous war, and this partial division has already returned to its heart. Moreover, most of the military achievements of the Ming army in Zhejiang were in the Jinqu Basin, not to mention that the prefecture was mountainous, and it had not yet had time to sort out the recovery just now, and the soldiers' desire to recover Qingtian and even Wenzhou was far less than that of returning to Jinhua for the New Year.

Chen Guobao is very clear about this, and he also knows that this battle will be the last large-scale attack of the year anyway, after all, this army wants to return, and forcing the attack will only backfire, and if it is not good, even the newly recovered state capital will not be able to keep it.

Success or failure is all in this move, Chen Guobao did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the siege of the city. However, with the re-ignition of the beacon fire in the city, at the starting point where the view was blocked by the city, a number of Qing warships appeared in front of the Ming army under the pull of the slender man. What followed was the roar of artillery.

At this distance, it was impossible for the Qing army to shell the Ming army's formation, but seeing the arrival of another support from the Qing army, the eyes of the soldiers under their command also showed their unwillingness to fight again in front of Chen Guobao's eyes. In desperation, the Ming army had to withdraw its troops in the direction of the capital city of Chuzhou and gave up the plan to attack Qingtian.

At the head of Qingtian City, Ma Xin and Hu Laijin looked at the Ming army in the distance with palpitations. The small town of Qingtian County gathered green battalion soldiers from the three prefectures of Chuzhou, Wenzhou and Taizhou, even if all of them were just a battalion, or even less than the establishment of a battalion, but there were more than 2,000 people. But for the Ming army outside the city, they had no chance of winning. In fact, if it weren't for the dozen or so warships of the Taizhou Navy Division that appeared on the battlefield as planned, I am afraid that they would only have the only way to escape to Wenzhou.

Ma Xin knew very well that yesterday Hu Laijin must have slandered him in his heart for his field war with the Ming army, but if he didn't fight it personally, how could he see why this Ming army was able to beat the Qing army in southwest Zhejiang.

Although the Ming army had a high proportion of firearms, it was not at all primitive in hand-to-hand combat, and it still emphasized that the battle formation of individual martial arts could contend with. Moreover, those firearms are not decorations, when the hand-to-hand infantry of the Ming army assaults, the firearms will also move forward, taking advantage of various opportunities to attack the opponent.

To this day, he can still attack so actively, Ma Xin can't help but have some respect and vigilance for Hu Laijin to be able to escape back to Wenzhou in that fiasco.

After a long time, after the sailor confirmed the news that the Ming army had burned down the camp and withdrew, Ma Xin said to Hu Laiji: "No matter what, it is a good thing that the Ming army has withdrawn. ”

Hearing this, Hu Laijin nodded, and then responded: "What Brother Ma said is that this document still needs to be carefully considered. (To be continued.) )