Throughout the night, the Qing army successively invested two or three thousand troops and paid more than 1,000 casualties, but it was never able to successfully enter the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The fatigue of the Ming army defending the city has been revealed, and it is only this last breath of energy that supports them. Shi Tingzhu knew very well that as long as he held on for a while, the Qing army could completely kill it, and burn this city with such fierce resistance, and even those people were killed in the city, but the attack of the main force of the Ming army completely disrupted all this.

From the attack on Lanxi County last night, to boarding the ship and setting off in the morning, and then to the siege that lasted all night. Although the former was mainly the army he brought, and the latter was mainly fighting in Hangzhou garrisoning the Eight Banners, it was only a few hours of rest in Lanxi and on the ship.

The army was already exhausted overnight, and they thought that as long as they collapsed the city wall, they could kill it in one go and take the entire city. In fact, in the first half of the period, they did it, and it can even be said that they did it from the beginning, but whether it was from the gap or from the city gate, they were not able to achieve the set goal in either direction.

This was something that Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan had not imagined, and looking at those faces, their subordinates were also shocked when they thought about it. It can even be said that if Hong Chengchou or other Manchu officials heard about this, no one would believe it.

The tenacity of the Ming army is unimaginable, and the bigger problem actually comes from the impatience of the Qing army itself, which led them to attack without preparing any siege equipment. The time of their arrival was bound to enter the night battle, and it became impossible to separate and attack the other walls to cause more pressure. In the dark night, dividing troops is a great taboo, which will not only cause the consequences of not being able to coordinate with each other, but more importantly, it will be pitch black, and no one will know if you can't get it right, and no one will know if you fight with your own people.

From the point of view just now, impatience is the biggest drawback of the Qing army in this battle, but from the current point of view, Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan will never imagine this aspect again. Because the main force of the Ming army rushed back from an inexplicable direction, if they hadn't seized the opportunity last night, I am afraid that they would not even have the possibility of easily capturing the city.

How many people came from the main force of the Ming army, Shi Tingzhu did not know the specifics, but those experienced Tanma said that there was not much strength of the Qing army at all.

There are two choices at the moment, one is to withdraw the army and preserve its strength in preparation for another battle, and Lanxi County and the Qujiang Waterway are now also under the control of the Qing army, which can also be regarded as containing the Ming army in Jinhua to ensure the victory of the siege of Quzhou; The other was to meet the battle, and then take advantage of the situation to enter the city after defeating the main force of the Ming army, and annihilate the fearless defenders.

If the main force of the Ming army entered the city, then these two options could be decided by Shi Tingzhu and them, but now the main force of the Ming army not only did not enter the city, but did not even contain them on the flank, but directly marched and rushed to attack, obviously not wanting them to go back.

At this time, the Qing army, which lacked the cover of camps and fortifications, could only abandon all its baggage, artillery, and even the corpses of the wounded and the dead and fled in disarray.

What they led was the Eight Banners of the Han Army, which was one of the elite troops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and none of these Niu Lu brought were formed after entering the customs, all of them were the old foundations of the Eight Banners of the Han Army formed in the Huang Taiji era, the elite of the elite.

Crashing down the city walls but failing to capture the city, and as a result, they left behind their baggage, artillery, and wounded and fled, and even if they did not have a decisive battle with the Ming army, the charge of a crushing defeat would inevitably weigh on their heads. At that time, the wrath of the Manchu court, Hong Chengchou and others will definitely put the responsibility of the four provincial capitals on them, and the fate that awaits them is only death and the two ways of sending Ningguta to the armoured people as slaves.

They don't want to take either of these two roads, and the state of the Ming army may not be any better at this moment, so it is better to defeat it in the field battle and take Jinhua Mansion City by taking advantage of the situation, even if the casualties are larger, it is better than becoming a scapegoat!

Ming Jin withdrew his troops, and the various Niu Lu, who had begun to gradually suppress the Ming army by virtue of their absolute superiority in strength, had to withdraw from the city, and the defenders quickly erupted in cheers for the rest of their lives after standing still for a moment. Because they knew that their invincible commander Chen Wen had returned with the main force of the Ming army, and these Qing troops no longer dared to attack the city.

Faintly hearing the cheers in the city, Chen Wen signaled to the prison officers to boost their morale again, at least let all the soldiers know that the defenders of the city fought hard all night and did not let the city fall to the enemy, and at this moment they were there to see how they would avenge the death of their comrades.

After a night of marching, the Ming army could be described as exhausted. By the standards of this era, the normal marching speed of a feudal army would not exceed twenty miles, and it would still be a day. The marching speed of this army under Chen Wen on weekdays was actually just over 30 miles, reaching the passing line in the early stage of the modern army.

For example, in the whole day yesterday, the first rapid march of nearly 40 miles during the day to prepare for the assault of the Qing army, and then the return of the army, and even the forced march of 130 miles at night, is really unimaginable and difficult to replicate.

However, Chen Wen knew that this was not an expansion by the standards of modern armies, and the atypical feudal army of the Qi family army, which had begun to transform into a modern army, could be put aside, and the marching speed of the modern armies in Europe before motorization was always increasing rapidly. In his memory, there was once an illiterate modern army that defeated two enemy armies in 28 hours, attacked and advanced 240 miles on a rugged mountain road, and then immediately climbed over a chain bridge guarded by machine guns and routed the last enemy, and what is even more unimaginable is that they were able to carry a small mountain gun and several heavy machine guns with them as they galloped along the mountain road......

But for Chen Wen, along the way, the three battalions in his hands, which were almost all veterans, discarded all the artillery, and nearly 100 soldiers fell behind for various reasons.

Of course, it is extremely rare for a feudal army that has just stepped into the door of the modern army and has not yet completely completed the transformation to this point. And now, morale, this is already the most important factor for the Zhejiang Ming army to win at the moment. Running more than 100 miles in one night, although it is not as good as the mountain road that the Qi family army took back then, but at least it has surpassed it in the process, and this alone has aroused great fighting spirit. However, these are far from enough, at least there must be a breakthrough in tactics, otherwise there is still no certainty if you want to win the battle.

Chen Wen remembered that in the Battle of Huajie, the Qi family army first shot with firearms in turn to break up the formation of the Japanese invaders, and then the whole army came out and defeated the Japanese in one fell swoop.

But now, there are only a few tiger squat cannons left in his hands that Yin Yue turned out from the treasury of the Quartermaster Division, and it can even be said that even if the artillery is complete, the artillery owned by his army cannot be compared with the Eight Banners of the Han Army, let alone break up the opponent's formation with repeated shots.

In this case, there is no other way left for him, but to let the Tartars on the opposite side see what the infantry assault tactics of the Zhejiang Ming Army are! (To be continued.) )