Compared with the Battle of Nanjing in history, Zheng Chenggong was four years and two months ahead of time, but since Chen Wen entered Jinhua Mansion in the fifth year of Yongli, he was attacked by the Qing army far less than the same period in history. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

With more lost territory regained, fewer setbacks, and a senior sparring partner surnamed Geng on the side, coupled with the maritime trade with Zhejiang, as well as the weapons and equipment ordered from Zhejiang, the strength of the Fujian Ming army was far better than that of the same period in history, and it was only slightly inferior to the army in the thirteenth year of Yongli.

All in all, the number and combat experience of the army of the Yanping Domain in the north this time were slightly inferior, but in the exchanges between the Ming armies of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, the speed of improvement of tactics was even faster, and it should not be underestimated at all.

After several days of rest, Zheng Chenggong personally led the army into the Yangtze River. On the first day of April, Zheng Chenggong arrived in Jiangyin County, the capital of Changzhou, and the Qing army refused to defend the city. On April 16, Zheng Chenggong attacked Guazhou Town, the capital of Yangzhou, beheaded the defenders, broke thousands of Manchu and Han soldiers and horses in Yangzhou, cut off the "Rolling River Dragon", a defense line on the Lock River formed by the Qing side with iron chains and boats, burned three floating camps on the river of the Qing army, captured dozens of Tanjiazhou cannons, and collapsed all the river defense fortifications that the Qing side had painstakingly managed. On the same day, Zheng Chenggong captured Guazhou, and Li Ripeng, the governor of Qingcao River, committed suicide.

Five days later, Zheng Chenggong's army approached the city of Zhenjiang. This is the gateway to Nanjing, captured Zhenjiang, to the west but a hundred miles is Nanjing, the infantry only takes a few days, and the cavalry is even more immediate, so when Zheng Chenggong's army captured Guazhou, Ma Guozhu hurriedly collected all the troops that could be collected and went east to Zhenjiang, in order to Yu Zheng Chenggong to the east of Zhenjiang.

The tens of thousands of troops of the Ming army in Fujian, Zhang Zhongyuan, the governor of Jiangning, and Guan Xiaozhong, the governor of Jiangning, who were responsible for leading the reinforcements, and Guan Xiaozhong, the commander of the Han soldiers in the south of Jingjiang, were forced to retreat to the camp for ten miles, and planned to fight Zheng Chenggong in a decisive battle the next day.

"According to the reports of the horses, the Tartars had no more than fifteen thousand men, half of whom were cavalry. But judging from the banner, the source of this Tartar is huge, there are green battalions in various counties, cavalry stationed in Shaanxi, artillery and cavalry of the Han army flag, but what is really worth paying attention to is only the twenty Niu Lu of the four banners of the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan, that is the killer weapon of the Tartar! ”

Zhou Quanbin is Zheng Chenggong's mastermind, although it was not Zhou Quanbin's plan to attack Nanjing thousands of miles in the sea, but Zheng Chenggong still believes in the general's advice on weekdays.

The Four Banners of the Left Wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan is the predecessor of the Eight Banners of Jiangning Garrison, stationed here in the second year of Shunzhi, from Manchuria and Mongolia Niulu with yellow flags, white flags, white flags and blue flags, with more than 2,000 soldiers. The current Aung Bang Zhangjing is called Salhacha Kaqam, Manchuria is inlaid with a yellow flag, but the commander of the army is an old traitor who has surrendered from Liaodong to manage allegiance.

"The decisive battle is a little earlier than the king expected, but there is no need to change the plan. Before dawn tomorrow, the army lined up at Silver Mountain, waiting for the captive division. ”

"King, do you want to wait for the rear team to catch up before fighting the Tartars?"

If there are more people, it will be more secure, Li Zhichun thinks so, and Zhang Huangyan also has this intention. However, Zheng Chenggong had no intention of continuing to wait, or he was full of confidence in victory, so he naturally refused to continue to waste time here.

"Last year, the king of Huiji County defeated the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou at Siming Lake, and more than 3,000 Tartars were beheaded and captured. Now our army is facing only two thousand Jiangning left wing four banners in Jiangnan, which is mixed with a lot of Mongolian Tartars, and the number of Han army flags cannot be compared with the eight banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, but it is several times larger than the army of Huiji Domain. This king only asks you to wait, can you have confidence in tomorrow's battle?! ”

"The last general will obey the king's orders!"

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Zheng Chenggong claimed to be 170,000, but in fact there were only more than 20,000 soldiers who arrived in Zhenjiang, and almost all of them were infantry. In this way, half of the 15,000 Qing army was cavalry, even if the water network in the south of the Yangtze River was crisscrossed, but the impact in this local area was actually very small, it can be said that it was almost zero, and the odds of victory were naturally much higher.

Early the next morning, Guan Xiaoti's army went straight to Yinshan, and saw that the Ming army's battle formation had not yet been arranged, so he immediately issued an order, and the cavalry was divided into five roads, and the Ming army's battle formation was attacked.

The infantry needs to fight in formation, and the cavalry needs to destroy the infantry formation before they can start the pursuit and maximize the damage. Five teams of cavalry were exhausted, and the one with the largest number of people was the cavalry of the four banners on the left flank of Jiangning in Jiangnan under the personal command of Guan Xiaozhong, with more than 1,800 cavalry.

These Manchurian Eight Banners were good at riding and shooting, and when they rode their horses to get close to the range of the Ming army's bow and arrows, they shouted three times in unison, in order to take the lead and cause mental pressure on the Ming army. After the shout, more than 1,800 horsemen divided into three waves and rode their horses to attack the Chinese army of the Ming army.

The distance between the two sides was about two hundred paces, and at the same time as the horse was attacking, I saw that these Eight Banner warriors were skilled in holding bows and arrows on their war horses, and they hardly needed anyone's command, and they began to shoot at the arrows of the Ming army's infantry bows.

The rain of arrows in the sky pierced the sky, there were very few short distances, almost every arrow entered the battle formation of the Ming army, some passed through the gaps between the soldiers and inserted them into the ground, but more were inserted into the bodies of one Ming army after another!

The cavalry of the Qing army had the advantage, riding horses to attack, and it was inevitable that the cavalry would directly break through the battle formation, and the front row of the Ming infantry followed the most orthodox way of arrangement, and erected a dense jungle of spears with pikemen. However, the pikemen lacked protection, and the cavalry of the Qing army shot well on the armor, but it was inevitable that they would shoot at some vital points, resulting in actual attrition.

While firing, the speed of the war horse did not slow down, and the distance between the two sides was not very far, and the cavalry of the Qing army rushed to the front without firing a few arrows.

The collision was imminent, and the infantry of the Ming army, under the loud command of the officer, shouted and pointed their spears at the Qing army. But at this moment, the horses of the first wave of Qing cavalry closest to the Ming army turned abruptly, and the cable-pulled swept in front of the Ming army, and the cavalry of the Qing army was once again with arrows in hand, aiming at the face of the Ming army is an arrow.

In an instant, the infantry in the front row of the Ming army fell in an uproar, but the infantry without the rear team was replenished, and the second and third waves of cavalry of the Qing army continued to arrive, as just now, and once again staged the tactics of turning to sharp fire in front of the formation.

In the first shot, the damage of the Ming army was really not small, but those Eight Banner warriors flashed and moved on their horses, dodging one Ming army's arrow after another. Even if you really can't dodge, you should try to bear the thicker parts of your body as much as possible, so as to avoid those vital points.

The cavalry of the Qing army, which was inferior in range and even inferior in numbers, easily achieved a better exchange ratio by virtue of the high-speed movement of war horses and personal martial arts. Especially when the Ming army's pikemen were greatly reduced, the entire battle formation began to be no longer as stable as before.

After the Qing army's rapid shot, it quickly broke away from the range of the Ming army's infantry bow. Turning his head to look, the position of the Ming army had begun to be a little chaotic, and Guan Zhi was not waiting to rest, and immediately led the first wave of Qing cavalry to rush to the Ming army battle formation again, and the second and third waves of cavalry also followed.

The first round is not enough to break the formation, so come to the second round; The second round is not enough to break the formation, so come to the third round. As long as the horsepower is sufficient, the harassment of the hussars will not stop. There is no way, Zheng Chenggong's cavalry is too small, so small that it is almost negligible, and the initiative on the battlefield naturally falls into the hands of Guan Xiaozhong.

This Qing army has been stationed here since it went south, and even if it rotates, it selects elite troops, and it exists as the Dinghai Divine Needle for the Manchu Qing rule in the southeast. Similarly, there are the Four Banners of the Right Wing of Xi'an, Shaanxi, which are composed of the Eight Banners of the Manchurian and Han armies, and the gold content is slightly lower than this. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou Garrison, which was known as the Eight Banners of the Han Army, was originally only the establishment of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, which was even inferior.

Such elite troops, even in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, are rare, just as Hong Chengchou said when he recruited Jiangnan, the only person the Qing court could govern Jiangnan was the Manchurian soldiers stationed in Nanjing. There are not many troops, but they are incomparable, "the first voice is enough to seize the air, and the enemy is enough to destroy the front". And their commander Guan is loyal to the Eight Banners, and he is also known as the "brave and strong" general, otherwise it would not be his turn to be a Han Army Banner Man to lead the army of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

"This is the Eight Banners Army of the Four Banners of the Left Wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan, and it really lives up to its name."

The roar of iron hooves trampling the land south of the Yangtze River was heard, and the vibration on the ground became louder and louder like a nightmare that had temporarily dissipated again. The front of the Ming army in Fujian was already in tatters, because of its own losses, and the damage to the Qing army was really pitiful, the overall morale was extremely low, and the replenishment of the battle array was also extremely poor.

At this time, the Qing army attacked again, and the fear in the hearts of the Ming army in front of him also rose sharply, and the difference was only the last straw.

The Eight Banners Army of the brigade roared in, enveloping the strong wind outside the pass, and the dense and fierce arrow rain struck again, as if a straw fell, and instantly overwhelmed the hearts of the soldiers in the front line of the Ming army.

Collapsed, the moment the first wave of Qing cavalry rushed to the front, it suddenly broke out, and the panicked Ming army fled with shouts, like bursting the embankment. It's just that the torrent that burst the embankment flowed in the direction of Zheng Chenggong's banner, and they were immediately expelled, trampled, and even slaughtered by the wolves behind them.

The front was broken in only the second round, and a large number of routs had already been driven by the Qing army. The danger of the rout sweeping the battle array was about to appear, but Zheng Chenggong, who was under the general's banner, was unmoved, observed the moment, and immediately gave an order.

"Zhou Quanbin!"

"The end will be."

"It's your turn."

"The last general obeys!" After saying that, Zhou Quanbin turned around and immediately shouted. "Iron Man, dispatch!"

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It only took two rounds of cavalry to break through Zheng Chenggong's front formation, and from the beginning of the battle, he noticed that the Ming army was full of infantry and was very dismissive.

The cavalry of the Ming army in Fujian was too small, and the terrain was too poor to force the Qing army into foot combat, and was completely hung up and fought by light cavalry. Although Guan Xiaozhong has not learned the theory of mutual restraint between arms, his rich experience in actual combat for decades is also the reason why he was able to make repeated military exploits in the Manchu and Qing dynasties, commanded the Eight Banners Army as a Han and was able to suppress these Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners.

The front of the Ming army has collapsed, and the rout will sweep the entire Ming army battle formation like a frightened flock of sheep under the deliberate action of the Qing army, thus destroying the order of all parts of the Ming army. The infantry did not fight without formation, and the infantry whose formation was destroyed was nothing. All that's left is to be able to catch a few big fish in this easy victory.

The cavalry was still driving, but they all sneered. Chen Wen, who started in Zhejiang in these years, has put more and more pressure on the Qing army in the southeast, and now it is like a thousand jun pressing the top, Guan Xiaozhong has never had the energy to fight with the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, but seeing that Hong Chengchou was defeated in both battles, his estimate of combat effectiveness is naturally higher. But today, the performance of the Fujian Ming Army is still as unbearable as the Ming Army over the years, and the myth of the Eight Banners Army's invincibility has been reawakened in his heart, and even the side of the Ming Army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was immediately looked down upon by him.

"Hong Chengchou has his name, and Shi Tingzhu, Chen Jin, Jin Li, and Liu Zhiyuan are also a bunch of waste. If the emperor uses me to manage his loyalty, can he still make the surname Chen arrogant to this day? ”

Reverie is fleeting, regardless of the allegiance is a general, knowing that the fighter plane is only in a blink of an eye, so you must concentrate on the battlefield. At this time, the Qing army has pushed to the first piece of dominoes, and the chain reaction of collapse has begun, but there must not be the slightest distraction, otherwise it is likely that the previous efforts will be lost.

Relying on the banner and horn, Guan was loyal to the cavalry of the Qing army, and drove the routed troops to Zheng Chenggong's large array of Chinese troops. But a moment later, the rout of the Ming army retreated like a falling tide, and Zheng Chenggong's Chinese army revealed a small army of only about 200 people in front of the large array, and it was all infantry!

The Ming army had already begun to line up when the front collapsed, and there were not many of them, but they were all tall and strong men. These strong Ming soldiers were dressed in heavy armor, covering the whole body, with iron gloves in their hands, standard iron boots on their feet, iron helmets on their heads, and iron masks on their faces, painted with Zhu Bibiao text, which was very terrifying. And behind them, a long rope marks the iron order in the army that "those who retreat to the rope are killed"!

Although the number of Ming troops was small, they resolutely did not move in this torrent of defeat, and they could never be broken with one impact. Encountering a strong formation again, Guan Allegiance had to lead the troops back a little, and then suddenly lashed forward.

The arrows once again covered the sky and the sun, but the arrows shot by the Qing army hit the armor of the Ming army, but they were either shallowly nailed to it, or were directly bounced out, and it had no effect at all.

The infantry of the Ming army was separated from each other by a certain distance, and Guan Zhi did not hesitate to be loyal, and ordered the cavalry to attack directly without turning. The cavalry of the brigade roared and rushed to the front, slashing with their swords and stabbing at their spears, but they were as futile as arrows. At this time, the Ming army was suddenly attacked by cavalry, but it was as firm as a mountain, and did not retreat in the slightest, and the horse chopping knives wielding extended blades in their hands flew up and down in the shouts.

Guan Xiaozhong in the distance looked ahead dumbfounded, one of his cronies, Niu Lu, a Manchurian yellow flag who was very impressed by his martial arts, led the cavalry to charge, but he was cut in half by the Ming army in front of him with a sword!

The war horse that was broken from the neck fell to the ground, and the Niu Lu Zhangjing was not dead for a while, but he was stopped and cut off, and he just vomited a mouthful of blood and completely lost his life.

Guan Xiaozhong didn't see such details, but the whole process of the horse's head and the rider's upper body separating from the battle horse and landing together with the knife came into his eyes. For a while, a desire to vomit hit, and it was easy to be repressed.

He is not a first-time hina, he has been in a hundred battles and has watched too many familiar people being killed by enemy troops, so the more he wants to be on the side of the victors. But now, Guan Xiaozhong realized that the war did not end in the hunt, but only just began, and he had changed from a hunter to a prey at this moment.

The two hundred iron army resolutely did not move, wearing the standard armor created by the military industry workshop of the Wangfu of Huiji County, holding the horse chopping knife made by the same arms dealer, and wielding it wantonly in the cavalry of the Qing army.

However, the strength of this Iron Man Army was too small, and more than 300 horsemen still rushed through the gaps and edges. It's just that behind this Iron Man Army, there is still the Iron Man Army, and there are more of them, several times more than the former. There was another burst of chopping melons and vegetables, and these survivors who had run out of speed were like those Qing soldiers who took the first step, flesh and blood were flying, and people were on their backs!

Since the Qing army entered the customs, it has never encountered such an opponent. The Qing cavalry that fell at the end of the first wave were suppressed by this bloody scene at that time, and they turned their horses and were about to run back, but they blocked the path of the second wave of Qing cavalry.

Fortunately, these Qing troops were all rare elites, and when they saw that the momentum was not right, they hurriedly reined in their horses and stood still, and reorganized themselves under the command of the officers to return to the state of mounted archery, so as to disrupt the formation of the Ming army.

The iron army of the Ming army, all wearing thirty or forty pounds of iron armor, holding a huge horse chopping knife, and carrying weapons such as rattan cards and waist knives, just like human-shaped tanks. However, although the heavy infantry is strong, it has a fatal flaw, that is, it moves slowly, "it cannot be pursued when it is defeated, and it is difficult to retreat if it is defeated." When the assault failed, the Qing army immediately changed its tactics and relied on the mobility of the light cavalry to carry out cavalry shooting, and finally regained its foothold.

After cutting down the hundreds of cavalry that assaulted, the Iron Man Army stood still in the rain of arrows, and the arrows could not help these iron armor at all.

However, the Qing army was not in a hurry, in addition to the quiver carried by the cavalry, there were auxiliary soldiers loaded with arrows following up. Back then, in Hunhe, the car formation was broken, but in front of the mandarin duck array, the damage was too great, and they were unable to attack, and they also relied on arrow shooting to completely eliminate the newly built Qi family army. This tactic of "shooting arrows if you can't beat hand-to-hand combat" has long been integrated into the blood of the Qing army, and this is exactly the case against these slower heavy infantry.

A moment later, the commotion of the Ming army in the rain of arrows grew bigger and bigger, and with an order, the iron army of the brigade rushed to kill. The most terrifying thing is that these hoplites are not only not slow, but can also be said to be as fast as flying.

The Qing army didn't know that these iron men were all sharp soldiers repeatedly selected by Zheng Chenggong from the whole army, and they were trained twice a day alone. After years of training, they are physically strong as oxen, and even when they charge in armor, their speed is not slow at all.

The range of the riding bow was extremely close, and seeing that the Ming army was wearing iron armor, in order to seek a killing effect, they unconsciously got closer. The Iron Man Army rushed forward, and in an instant, it smashed into the cavalry formation of the Qing army like a knife into the flesh. In a group of three, one person holds a rattan brand waist knife for protection, and two people hold a horse chopping knife to cut the Qing army and cut the war horse.

The unilateral massacre reappeared, and these elites of the Qing army immediately became birds and beasts and fled for their lives.

The Eight Banners Army was defeated twice in a row in front of the Iron Man Army, and Guan Xiaozhong had realized that it was useless to mount bows and cold weapons against these heavy infantry, so he hurriedly transferred the guns and cannons of the Han Army Banner. At the same time, the scattered Qing cavalry was transferred to the middle battlefield, and the tactics also changed from harassment on the whole line to a breakthrough in the middle.

The cavalry has the advantage, and it stands to reason that the flank attack can give full play to the advantages of the troops. But now the middle lane is already a crushed situation, and if the tactics are not changed, the Ming army's middle lane breakthrough will be realized, and the left and right wings of the Qing army will be separated, and the defeat will be doomed.

With the tactical maneuver of the cavalry, Guan Allegiance soon regrouped the cavalry of the Qing army. It's just that the 7,000 iron cavalry at the beginning of the war are now gone, and what is not in the hands of the Iron Man Army is the elite troops full of eight banners, which is already a big loss that he has never suffered since entering the customs.

The cavalry regrouped, and there were still birds and artillery of the Han army flag behind the formation, and under the order of Guan Loyalty, thousands of cavalry jumped up and killed in the direction of the Ming Army's Iron Man Army.

There are only less than 3,000 people in the whole army of the Iron Man Army, and there are only about 2,000 people participating in the battle this time, and the thousands of cavalry of the Qing army do not seek to rush up and cut them, as long as they ride their horses to hit these heavy cavalry, the follow-up infantry can count people, dozens of people to pack one, and completely solve these heavy infantry.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, breaking the silence just now, but at this moment, a white flag was erected behind the Ming army, and it was unfurled in the wet wind.

"Surrender?"

The one who was hung up and beaten just now was obviously the Qing army, is the Ming army crazy?

Next, as the white flag was raised, the Iron Man Army who had woven a nightmare just now seemed to be exhausted, and they ran to the wings one after another, and even many of them who couldn't escape fell directly to the ground motionless!

First, the white flag was displayed, and then the Iron Man Army gave up the formation and scattered, and the cavalry of the Qing army was in great momentum, accelerating towards the battle formation of the Ming army. But when the Iron Man Army completely dispersed, what appeared behind the formation was a column of Lu Mi guns made by Lie Jinhua and artillery purchased by Zheng Chenggong.

In an instant, Lu Mi guns, "camp cannons, bows and arrows fired at once, and the sound of cannons shook the heavens and the earth", "guns and arrows were like rain", all of which were sprinkled on the bodies of these thousands of Qing army iron horsemen.