At the same time that the second battalion of Yiwu and Lishui of the Ming army moved south, Yang Minggao, the Fujian governor of the Qing army, Wang Zhigang, the chief soldier on the left, and Ma Degong, the chief soldier on the right, also led the army south along the Jiangshan Port to prevent the Ming army from crossing Jiangshan Port. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Ming army's intention was so obvious that it was really not in line with the righteousness of the soldiers, but Chen Wen still acted so blatantly, and the Qing army could not ignore it. At least in the eyes of Yang Minggao, the more the Ming army goes south, the easier it is to become an obstacle for them to return to Fujian.

The three green battalions from Fujian marched hand in hand, heading towards Jiangshan County, no matter how you say it, you have to stop there first, and if there is anything in the future, there will be a way back to deal with it. However, before they could get out of the day, the news came from the Qing army camp on the west bank of Quzhou that the Ming army had forcibly crossed the Qujiang River and that tens of thousands of Qing troops had bombed the camp and fled.

As soon as they heard the news, Yang Minggao and others were left with suspicion in addition to shock, suspecting that this Qing army envoy was pretending to be a Ming army, and risked false news for the sake of cunning, but after they confirmed the identity of this person, this suspicion immediately turned into fear, driving them to no longer think about the problem of the back road of Jiangshan County, and they had to flee back to Xianxia Pass first.

Looking across the river, the Qing army on the other side was in an abnormal state, and then received the news that Chen Wenqiang was crossing the Qujiang River and was chasing and killing the main force of the Qing army.

Speaking of which, nearly 20,000 soldiers plus double the number of auxiliaries were in turn pursued and killed by a Ming army of only 6,000 people, which sounds ridiculous to a certain extent, but everyone has a heart of self-preservation, who is willing to turn back to face the battle, and most of the Qing army has been chaotic, and there is no way to return the scattered soldiers to their original ranks in a few days, even if the Qing army such as Li Benshen and Hu Maozhen reacted earlier and had a relatively complete structure, they were not willing to fold their own capital for the rear of the army.

After receiving the news, Li Ruixin ordered to cross Jiangshan Port, and stayed behind the three Qing armies, making surprise attacks from time to time, and never allowing the Qing troops to stop and rest.

In this way, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties marched south along the Jiangshan Port, and the Ming army occasionally pursued and killed to fight, and the Qing army did not dare to fight, almost leaving part of the palace troops to continue south. On the way, the Qing army once tried to ambush the Ming army, but the result was not satisfactory, and the Ming army only followed the Qing army after easily killing from the encirclement, and the enemy was no longer so light when they were attacked, and there was no way to get rid of them.

A few days later, the Qing army rushed to Xianxia Pass along the ancient road, and the Ming army followed closely behind.

Xianxia Pass is located on the Xianxia Ridge between Quzhou Mansion in Zhejiang Province and Jianning Mansion in Fujian Province, with two passes in the northeast and southwest, collectively known as Xianxia Pass

Xianxia Pass is connected with the high mountains from east to west, and there is a narrow road communication in the north and south, which is known as "the lock and key of the two Zhejiang, and the throat of Fujian". Wars are frequent, the beacon fire is not extinguished, and it has always been a battleground for soldiers. Not to mention, a few years ago, Emperor Longwu started in Fujian, so as to block the passage of the Qing army into Fujian, and later because Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong, the father of the pit son, withdrew the defenders of Xianxia Pass, the Qing army entered Fujian and destroyed the Longwu court.

Xianxia Pass is very important for the Fujian Qing army, once it is captured by the Zhejiang Ming army, it means that the Zhejiang Ming army has the capital and possibility to enter Fujian and join the Fujian Ming army, which can be said to be a devastating consequence for the Fujian Qing army.

Because of this, Yang Minggao would try to ambush the Ming army on the road, but this Ming army still easily defeated the blocked Qing army, and thus retreated. After that battle, they had no other way, after all, how to fight in the end had to be determined by the field battle, and now they had no way to trap the Ming army, and they couldn't fight it, so they could only flee all the way south, and how much they could escape back to Fujian.

Approaching Xianxia Pass, Yang Minggao and others abandoned the army with their elite troops and fled one night, leaving the Qing army in the brigade to the Ming army.

Li Ruixin was very dissatisfied with this gift, what he wanted was not these green battalion soldiers at all, but the Xianxia Pass that Yang Minggao and they cared about. So after discovering all this, the Ming army drove the more than 10,000 Qing troops composed of thousands of soldiers and thousands of auxiliaries to continue to the south, and even drove them to attack Xianxia Pass.

After Yang Minggao sent troops, in order to be safe, this place has been guarded by the green battalion soldiers of Jianning Mansion in Fujian. After Yang Minggao and others fled back to Xianxia Pass, they immediately ordered the gate to be sealed with large stones to prevent the Ming army from driving the rout into the area, and in fact it proved that their experience lived up to the title of general.

A few evenings in mid-June, outside the gate of Xianxia Pass, countless Qing troops rushed to the gate, and were attacked by the Qing army on the head of the city with rolling wood and stones and various guards, and they would never dare or could not open the gate and let these Qing troops enter the pass, because they knew very well that the Ming army was watching not far away, and as long as they opened and closed the door, they would drive the rout to attack Xianxia Pass. But even so, these Qing troops did not dare to turn back, because on the road to the north, the Ming army had only one word to kill them.

"Ma Degong, Lao Tzu has given you his life since Beizhili, and now you are doing this to us, aren't you afraid of going to hell after death?"

"Yang Dashuai, please, open the door and save us."

"Tu Shaowu's retribution came back then, it's not that he didn't report it, the time has not come, Wang Zhigang, you dog thief, Lao Tzu is waiting for you below!"

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Painful pleading, angry scolding, like a cuckoo crying blood, resounded outside the gate of Xianxia Pass. A few days later, almost all of the defeated troops were killed by the defenders of Guancheng, and those who survived went directly to the prisoner camp of the Ming army, and returned to Jiangshan County with the Ming army.

It's just that at this moment, the corpses outside Xianxia Pass are all over the field, the blood is flowing like a river, wild dogs, jackals, and crows have run out of the mountains and forests to enjoy this rare feast, but the Qing army on the city still does not dare to move the boulders and bury these Qing troops out of the pass, because they don't know if the Ming army has really left as they said.

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Because the Ming army blocked the channel with shipwrecks, the Qiantang Water Battalion had no choice but to abandon the ships and flee, and after boarding the ships on the Qujiang River, they went down the river in order to return to Hangzhou as soon as possible.

In this encirclement and suppression, the Qiantang Water Camp is the key to revitalizing the full plate of chess pieces, and they have indeed done this, whether it is transporting the Han Army's Eight Banners Army, or breaking through the direction of the Lanjiang River, or suppressing the Ming Army Water Camp in Quzhou, they have done what they can do. The defeat of this battle actually did not have much to do with them, especially the loss of nearly half of the ships, and the death of the guerrillas of the Shuizuo battalion proved how hard they tried.

But defeat is defeat, and it is estimated that there will be punishment, but it also depends on how they perform in the follow-up to prevent the threat that the Ming army may pose to Hangzhou, which is the general understanding of the Qiantang Water Division, and if you want to play a role, you must first return to Hangzhou, which is also necessary.

All the way down the water to the east, the Qiantang Water Division did not encounter any resistance, which is a very normal thing, because the water camp of the Ming army no longer exists, and it was either sunk by them or sunk by itself, so there was no wave until the front of Lanxi. As far as they were concerned, as long as they entered the Lanjiang River and continued downstream, they would soon be able to return to the occupied areas of the Qing army.

The Ming army in Quzhou was getting farther and farther away, and they were getting closer and closer to home, but after they turned into the Lanjiang River, they found that the Ming army had no intention of letting them go back at all.

On a narrow river north of Lanxi, the Ming army pulled up an iron cable to block the way, and the guerrillas of the right battalion of the Qiantang Water Camp immediately decided to use several large ships to forcibly break away the iron cable, but after paying these ships, he found that there were iron cables pulled up by the Ming army on the outer silt island, the back of the river beach, etc., and the Ming army was waiting for them not far away.

It is impossible to abandon the ship, and if they abandon the ship, they can still outrun the Ming army's infantry on land? Seeing this, the guerrillas of the water camp had to order the boats to break through forcibly, and finally broke through the encirclement.

But when he turned back, the guerrillas of the water camp cried, and there were only five small boats left, and the Qiantang water camp that once crisscrossed the Qiantang River was completely finished.

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After breaking through the Qujiang defense line, Chen Wenshuai's army pursued and killed all the way, chasing those Qing troops all the way. In this regard, tens of thousands of Qing troops did not dare to turn back to face the battle, and for the queen of the army, they could only keep leaving behind the stragglers, and even Changshan County and Yushan County did not dare to hold on.

Driven by fear, the Qing army went all the way to the west, constantly shrinking, from the initial army of nearly 60,000, to Guangxin Mansion when there were still more than 10,000 people left, and the rest were all lost to the Ming army.

Li Benshen completed Hong Chengchou's entrustment and successfully kept it for half a month, but in fact, they only stayed in Qujiang for a day in this half month, and the first ten days and the next few days were all running on the road, and they completely relied on the distance of the road to make up enough time.

Hong Chengchou didn't say anything about these, but just sent cavalry to their palace and put these survivors of the Qing army into the city of Guangxin Mansion.

The Qing army of Guangxin Mansion was bound to defend it, but Chen Wen did not have a way to capture it. It's not just that the artillery can't keep up with the pursuit, but a duplex fortress has been built outside the capital of Guangxin Mansion in front of him, which looks like it is easier to defend and difficult to attack than the current Anhua Town Fortress, and it is forming an angle with the capital of Guangxin Mansion.

Chen Wen didn't know how Hong Chengchou did it, whether he was recruited from Beijing or the Portuguese from Macau, anyway, the fortress had already been built, and the strength in his hands couldn't help it at all.

Seeing this, Chen Wen waved his hand, and a cavalry of the Ming army rode out, dragging a well-dressed Qing army and rushed to the city, killed it with a knife in full view of everyone, cut off his head and took it away, and then shot an arrow at the head of the city and flew away.

A strip of cloth was tied to the arrow, on which the identity of this person was written, and it was clearly "a first-class Jingqi Nihafan, the Han army inlaid with a red flag and a real stone pillar". Leaving these behind, the Ming army marched away in wild laughter and marched towards Yongfeng County, southeast of Guangxin Prefecture, because it was not far from the temporary base of Zhang Zisheng of Pingjiang Bo, and Chen Wen was already ready to talk to Zhang Zisheng about the confluence. (To be continued.) )