After more than half an afternoon of tug-of-war, the northern part of Yiwu County has been completely wiped out by the Qing army, not only the Ming army and the volunteers, but also the people who did not choose to leave have been completely reduced to a broken corpse.

At first, the Ming army was able to rely on the Mandarin Duck Formation and the understanding of the terrain to constantly compete with the Qing army for more important streets and alleys, but with the gradual increase in the loss of soldiers, the Ming army defending the city gradually gave up this kind of competition, but turned to resistance. But even so, the Fubiao battalion of the Qing army attacking Yiwu still relied on the absolute superiority of the army to press the Ming army defending the city to the south of the county little by little, until the Ming army was completely crushed or occupied the county seat.

As the chief general of the garrison who stayed in Yiwu County, Liu Cheng, the general manager of the bureau, leaned against the wall, panting heavily. Liu Cheng is a native of Taizhou, and was the first to serve as the captain of the Fourth Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team in Nantang Battalion, and he was the old commander of An Youfu, Ding Keji, Shi Daniu and others, that is, the "Liu Team Head" in An Youfu's mouth.

The first batch of captains of the Nantang battalion is also one of the most senior middle-level officers under Chen Wen's command, with his witty and brave performance again and again, Liu Cheng was not only sent by the bureau in this expansion, but also was appointed by Chen Wen as the Yiwu garrison responsible for staying in Yiwu County during the war.

The generals responsible for guarding the back road are generally the most trusted by the coach, Liu Cheng is illiterate, but he has heard Mr. Storyteller say this when he was young. Grateful for Chen Wen's trust, Liu Cheng conscientiously took the two new soldiers in his hands and the garrison troops left behind in the Ximen camp to maintain the law and order of the county, and cooperated with Sun Yu, the prefect of Jinhua who stayed in Yiwu, to organize the people to escort military supplies for the Ming army on all lines.

However, seeing that his former colleagues and old subordinates rushed to the battlefields on all fronts, and he was left behind to be responsible for maintaining law and order, Liu Cheng still felt a slight aversion to this work from the bottom of his heart.

I thought that the days would pass like this, but who knew that the Fubiao battalion actually bypassed the Dongyang battalion that was heavily assembled in Zhengjiawu Town, intending to seize the back road and military base of the Ming army.

The Qing army was menacing. And the army is abundant, but he has only two new outposts and very few camp troops left behind, and what needs to be defended is a county town without walls. Even if Sun Yu temporarily organized a group of volunteers to be sent, the situation of the enemy and the outnumbered people still could not change in the slightest.

Recalling the art of war and combat experience that Chen Wen and the senior officers of the Nantang Battalion had told him about this year, Liu Cheng soon realized that the Qing army would use the county government as the main attack location, so he persuaded Sun Yu to use the county government to set a trap for the Qing army.

In the skyrocketing firelight. The Qing army that invaded the county government will definitely not suffer less, leading the troops to repeatedly compete with the Qing army for the streets and alleys in the county, but even if they rely on the power of the Mandarin Duck Formation in the narrow terrain and are more familiar with the terrain, the defenders who are at a serious disadvantage in strength cannot expel the Qing army, and even at this moment they can no longer fight for the streets and alleys occupied by the Qing army, so they can only try their best to hold the little remaining territory and buy time for reinforcements. However, according to previous estimates, reinforcements will not arrive until tomorrow at the earliest, and the few troops he has left may not be able to support it even this evening.

Just repelled an attack by a Qing army. According to the previous combat methods of the Qing army, more Qing troops will soon come to suppress it. More than half of the soldiers around him have been lost, and more soldiers have been divided by the Qing army in the streets and alleys of the southern city of Yiwu County, and it is difficult to coordinate with each other like before.

With a short rest, the effects of the fierce battle on the muscles had gradually subsided, but the pain of those wounds became clearer in the contrast between mental and physical exhaustion. Most of the soldiers around him were like this, but the Qing army should soon launch a new round of attacks, and there was no time to deal with those wounds.

Sun Yu, the prefect of Jinhua who had previously organized Langzhong and Minfu to treat wounded soldiers, had disappeared in the previous battle. As one of the officers who followed Chen Wen the longest, Liu Cheng was well aware of Sun Yu's weight in Chen Wen's heart. But at the moment, there are no extra troops to search, and it can even be said that it is no longer enough to hold this dwelling.

Soon, the Qing army in the distance sounded the horn that had been used to signal the attack, and under the leadership of Liu Cheng, the Ming army, which was less than one infantry team left, hurriedly got up from the resting place with his weapons, ready to meet the approaching Qing army.

But this time. The Qing army did not attack, but retreated in front of these Ming troops, as if they were afraid that these inferior Ming troops would pursue them......

Half an hour ago, a cavalry of more than 100 people arrived behind a hill in the northwest of Yiwu County, waiting for the rangers to figure out the layout of the Qing army's Fubiao camp.

According to Chen Wen's arrangement, after the Fubiao battalion invaded Yiwu. There will be two support armies marching to Yiwu County to meet the Qing army.

The first was the Dongyang battalion, which had been bypassed before, and this force was already rushing in, but from Anhua Town to Yiwu, even if they were at the fastest speed, they were two days later than the Qing army, which was not enough to share the pressure on the defenders; The second support army was led by Chen Wen himself, and included a bureau of the Yiwu battalion, some of the bird gunners borrowed from Yu Guowang, two outposts in Fotang Town to cooperate with the water camp, and the more than 100 cavalry he drew from the cavalry of the Nantang battalion.

The reinforcements under Chen Wen's command are not much closer to Yiwu than the Dongyang battalion, and if they rush to Yiwu after the assembly, they will not arrive until tomorrow at the earliest. However, the troops left behind in Yiwu were too small to support until then. Therefore, Chen Wen ordered the two outposts of Youfotang Town to rush to Yiwu by water, and he commanded the cavalry to rush to Yiwu alone, while the remaining reinforcements continued to advance under the leadership of the officer in charge.

The reinforcements arrived in batches, and it was easy for the besieging party to besiege the city and send reinforcements to break each other, but this time the Qing army faced the Yiwu county town without a city wall at all, and when it arrived at the edge of the county, it was bound to rush into the city to eliminate the resistance of the Ming army, so Chen Wen took advantage of the tactical movement speed of the horses and the advantage of water transportation to share the pressure for the Yiwu defenders before the main force of the reinforcements.

The envoy sent to contact the Ming army defending the city had been sent, and Chen Wen did not know much about the situation in Yiwu County, nor did he know how much vitality was left in the defenders, and he didn't even know whether the two outposts in Fotang Town had arrived. After resting for a while, after the rangers had figured out the arrangements of the Qing army's siege, Chen Wen gathered all the cavalry and prepared to attack the Qing army.

Dressed in the set of mountain armor that had been repaired, Chen Wen looked at the subordinates who had been assembled, and decided to use the best way to boost morale before the battle.

"Three years ago, Ningbo ****** sought to capture Ningbo, and Wang Jingluo's army captured Shangyu County for the first time and killed Liu Zhangzhi, a puppet official of the printing industry. That night, Wang Shi did not have time to repair the city defense, Fubiao Battalion led troops to attack, Wang Jingluo was forced to lead the army south to Xinchangbo, and there were only more than 400 people left when they reached Tiantai. Later, the army practiced martial arts, broke the county town of Shangyu twice, and stood in Dalan Mountain, but he was martyred and failed to repay this old hatred. ”

"A few days ago, our army led a large army to meet the main force of the Tartars in Xiaoshun Town, and the battle was broken, and it was a great victory that had not been achieved in several years. However, it was this Fubiao battalion, which was accustomed to stealing chickens and dogs, that attacked Yiwu while we were waiting for the west, in a vain attempt to replicate the scene three years ago. ”

"It's just that the king master is getting stronger every day, and the king master of three years ago is no longer the same as today's king master, and the Tartars want to completely wipe out our department is just wishful thinking."

"Although there are many Tartars in the Fubiao camp, most of them have already entered the city. The comrades who stayed behind have been holding out for a day with absolutely inferior troops, and now it is time for us to cooperate with the robes who defend the city to completely eliminate this group of roosters and dog thieves. ”

"Gentlemen, let's go!"

Among the cavalry under Chen Wen, some of them served in the original cavalry team of the Nantang battalion, some came from the remnants of the left and right battalions of the Ming Army of Dalanshan after the Battle of Siming Lake, and some were once soldiers of the Pinggang Ming Army under Chen Tianshu, and the others almost all came from the recruits of Yiwu and Dongyang counties.

Whether it is a veteran or a new soldier, because Chen Wen was born in the Ming Army of Dalan Mountain, this period of history has been told to the soldiers under his command during training. Although the Dalanshan Ming Army at that time could not defeat the opponent even if it fought face-to-face with the Fubiao battalion, at this moment Chen Wen wanted to make the soldiers under his command despise the actions of the Fubiao battalion, so as to enhance their confidence in victory, so the specific strength analysis was no longer mentioned, but blindly emphasized the fact of the sneak attack of the Fubiao battalion.

At present, Chen Wensuo's department has repelled the Qing army on the southern front, and the green battalion of Sifu has suffered heavy losses and has been completely disabled, and it is difficult to recover in a few years, and the supervision battalion also chose to retreat when it was difficult to support alone. The largest Qing army has been defeated, and the city of Jinhua is about to be recovered, but at this moment, it was this Fubiao battalion that rushed out, so that they were forced to return to help, which naturally caused greater anger and hatred among these Ming troops.

Seeing that most of the cavalrymen under his command were angry, Chen Wen knew that his words had had had the desired effect. Drawing the long sword at his waist, Chen Wen rushed up to the hill first, while his men followed, crossing the hill and rushing towards the rear troops left outside the city by the Fubiao battalion. (To be continued.) )