Chapter 66

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According to the distance, Simingshan Town and Dalan Mountain is only ten miles away, when Zhang Jie encountered this battalion named Huangyan, he immediately sent messengers to the north to continue to besiege Dalan Mountain and Tian Xiong.

The Huangyan camp was one of the four battalions that Chen Wen built after receiving the Zheng family's sea trade payment. The main members of these four battalions came from the Taizhou Green Battalion, Wenzhou Green Battalion and Qingtian City Garrison Battalion, as well as the garrison battalion belonging to the Separate Guards, and some new recruits were also recruited to supplement them.

However, due to the fact that there were too many soldiers in the former green battalion, which was not conducive to the implementation of the system, Chen Wen dispersed the other four battalions at the same time as the recruits of this four battalions completed their basic training. In this way, less than half of the former green battalion soldiers of these battalions remained, and there were also soldiers from the battalion heads of various anyway troops, the original structure was broken up, and the soldiers were reorganized into the new battalion as elements, which also ensured that those former green battalion officers could not threaten the status and rights of the Zhejiang Ming army system such as prison officers and military judges.

The battalion officer of the Huangyan battalion was Hu Laijin, the former deputy general of the Wenzhou Green Battalion, and before he was promoted to the deputy general of Wenzhou, he was just a guerrilla of the Chinese army in the standard battalion of the governor of Shaanxi. At this moment, Zhang Jie, the general soldier of Dinghai who was blocking him, was a person from Liaodong, and before the Qing Dynasty, he was one of the eight general soldiers under the command of Huang Degong, the most powerful of the four towns in Jiangbei. After the Qing Dynasty, he guarded Dinghai to control the Ming army of Zhoushan, and he was one of the most advanced generals in the Zhejiang Green Battalion, and he was not even qualified to face it directly.

But now, Hu Laijin is already a member of the Zhejiang Ming Army, but Zhang Jie is still the Dinghai commander. Here, even if the strength is only two-thirds of Zhang Jie's, Hu Laijin is full of courage, and once he encounters it, he immediately orders the whole team and puts on an offensive formation to attack Zhang Jie's own formation.

Simingshan Town, located in the southern center of Simingshan District, is surrounded by dense forests, undulating terrain, and many hills and streams, which is not suitable for fighting in arrays. Zhang Jie arrived in advance, and he had already occupied a relatively favorable terrain. However, even so, Hu Laijin simply used the infantry bureau of a spear formation as the backbone, and the infantry bureau of the two mandarin duck formations directly broke into the mountains and forests on both sides, so as not to hide their intentions to launch an attack on the standard.

The spear formation is suitable for formation warfare, which Hu Laijin learned in the martial arts school, while the mandarin duck formation is more suitable for operations in narrow terrain and complex environments, such as the mountainous areas in eastern Zhejiang, which are the most suitable for its combat effectiveness.

The spear array in the middle of the road slowly moved forward, rushing straight to Simingshan Town, where Zhang Jie's general banner was located, and the calibrated middle battalion of the back town formation did not show weakness, using the artillery that had already been erected to bombard the Ming army column. However, although it is the head of the new battalion, whether it is the former green battalion, or transferred from other battalions, the proportion of veterans is not too low, when entering the range of the Qing army's artillery, Hu Laijin, who was reminded by the staff team, immediately ordered a surprise attack, only to see the flag leaning forward, the Ming army of the brigade suddenly accelerated, and quickly rushed to the calibrated middle battalion in front of Simingshan Town.

At the same time, after the left and right wings broke into the mountain forest, they quickly closed in the direction of Simingshan Town.

After a few years of dealing, although there is no real head-to-head confrontation, but I have never eaten pork, I have always seen pigs go, and the standard promotion and other departments have repeatedly failed their hands, especially Wang Sheng also had the experience of arranging mandarin duck formations in Ningbo Green Camp, which made him have great resistance to going deep into the mountains and forests to fight with the Ming army. Therefore, when the two wings of the Huangyan battalion entered the mountain forest, Zhang Jie's left and right battalions lined up on the flat land outside the woodland to wait for the Ming army.

However, this kind of terrain was originally the home of the Mandarin Duck Formation, and Qi Jiguang was in this terrain to fight the Japanese who also relied on personal martial arts.

The Zhejiang Ming Army, the self-confidence cultivated by the almost crushing victory of the green battalion soldiers over the years, coupled with the desire for military merit, when the mandarin duck formations on both wings of the Ming army rushed out of the mountains and forests, the head of this new battalion, after coming into contact with the old green battalion with such a large proportion of veterans as Dingbiao, quickly separated the three battalions around the town like a red-hot steel knife cutting through the solidified butter.

As soon as he entered the battle, he was completely suppressed by the mediocre generals who didn't even bother to talk at the beginning, with only two-thirds of his own troops, and Zhang Jie, who was observing the battlefield situation from a commanding height in the town, almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

At the beginning of the war, as it were, if the Ming army broke into the town from any direction, the result would be completely self-evident. However, with such a terrain, it was difficult to give full play to the superiority of troops, and the only superior cavalry in his hands did not even have a path to raid. Even if there is, Hu Laijin still has a complete bureau by his side, all of which are five feet long spears, even if he is blindfolded to kick the spear forest, he can't kick it at all.

Once the suppression is formed, there is no other way to either try to break the game, or hold on until the opponent's attack ability is exhausted, or hold out until the reinforcements arrive to complete the outflanking. But his task was to intercept the reinforcements of the Ming army, and Dasu and Tian Xiong used their strength to encircle and annihilate the Ming army that entered the game, and it was impossible to help him before the end.

In this way, it is delusional to break the situation on his own, and he will hold on until the Ming army can no longer attack, and it is estimated that he will not see that day. Until this moment, Zhang Jie suddenly discovered that it seemed that it was not Chen Wen who fell into this trap at all, and it could even be shown that the army's rescue of Dalanshan was a plan, and Chen Wen's battalion to rescue Dalanshan was actually the bait used to catch the main force of the Qing army in Zhejiang!

Once he figured this out, Zhang Jie immediately sent his own soldiers to Dalan Mountain with a message to explain the situation to Dasu and Tian Xiong, asking them to make a decision as soon as possible. And he, a rebel general who betrayed the Son of Hongguang, from the bottom of his heart, no longer dared to expect the Ming army to accept his surrender, and now he can only support it with the strength of death.

Compared with Zhang Jie, Hu Laijin's use of troops is already decent, and even Chen Wen did not plan to quickly produce a group of famous generals with unbridled thinking at the beginning of the establishment of the martial arts school. As long as we can do what we need to do, it is enough, and the rest of the things can be completely relied on by a more mature military system to complete the crushing of the feudal army.

In terms of the use of soldiers, Hu Laijin was not even worthy of lifting shoes for Zhang Jie, but the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in Zhejiang was no longer comparable to that of such a feudal army, and the idea of change was suppressed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The result of the battle is naturally conceivable.

A moment later, Zhang Jie, who had descended from the commanding heights, approached the back of the calibrated battalion together with his general flag, boosting the morale of the battalion as the backbone and maintaining the possibility of continuing to hold on. However, as the two wings were pierced and collapsed by the Mandarin Duck Formation, the Ming army of the brigade entered the town and quickly completed the encirclement of Zhang Jie's department.

"Those who descend will not die!"

This sentence is often just a deceitful nonsense in the eyes of soldiers, but it has taken the pulse of everyone who has the idea of survival, so that there are kills and surrenders again and again.

The Ming army in Zhejiang is slightly better in this regard, but more than two years ago, all the soldiers of the Fubiao battalion were executed, and last year's Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners surrendered troops did not receive forgiveness from the evil trafficker Chen Wen, and went to Fujian to start their new life like those newly transferred Han Eight Banners troops from the north.

As soon as the encirclement was completed, the Ming army stopped the rhythm of the attack, in case the Qing army jumped over the wall in a hurry and suffered greater casualties. And the Qing army itself was not the opponent of the Ming army, so it was naturally impossible for the Ming army to rush out and commit suicide when the Ming army suspended its offensive.

In this way, the Ming army began to occupy all favorable terrain to monitor the movements of the Qing army, and constantly shouted to persuade them to surrender. Later, even Hu Laijin himself picked up the tin horn and shouted in the direction of Zhang Jie's flag.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm Hu Laiji, Ming people don't say dark words, you should know your own affairs, do you still plan to bring these thousands of brothers to the funeral with you?"

Although he knew that Hu Laijin was eager to complete the annihilation of his Qing army, the things he was referring to were irrefutable, and even many officers and non-commissioned officers couldn't help but change their colors after hearing this. It's just that once I thought that the military general who I didn't even bother to look at a year ago easily defeated Chen Wen after changing the court and hugging Chen Wen's thigh, my anger was as if I was about to burst my chest.

However, the situation is stronger than people, the Ming army has already won, and the calibrators who can escape are only the more than 1,000 people who are not surrounded by the left and right wings, and the rest is just a little difference between the head and the neck, so that Zhang Jie can't even say a word of villain's ambition.

"Gentlemen, I, Zhang Jie, am a traitor who personally tied up the Ming Emperor and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty back then, and there is only one way to die, but you all still have a small family, don't do useless resistance. When I die, come down. ”

"Dashuai!"

"Dashuai, let's fight with them, fight to the end of the net, and we can always protect Dashuai and rush out."

“……”

Zhang Jie's last words immediately aroused a fierce reaction from the officers and soldiers around him, but Zhang Jie was determined to die, leaving only one sentence that this was the last order, and then after explaining to Hu Laijin loudly, he wiped his neck and fell under the flag.

After a while, more than 1,000 people who were surrounded in Simingshan Town abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and Hu Laijin came to Zhang Jie's general's banner, but what he saw was that Zhang Jie and several cronies and soldiers had committed suicide one after another, and the remaining officers also knelt on the ground, trembling.

"Except for Zhang Jie, bury these strong men and leave them with a whole corpse."

Loyalty is something to be rewarded, even if it is only after death. But seeing that those officers and soldiers who died in command could be treated as whole corpses, most of the other soldiers also let go of their worries.

The soldiers who set the mark had already been tied to the ropes, and the routed Huangyan battalion, which fled in the direction of Fenghua, had no interest in chasing and killing them for the time being. At this moment, Hu Laiji, the battalion officer of the Huangyan Battalion who annihilated most of the Dinghai General Battalion in the First World War and beheaded Zhang Jie, said to the herald with pride:

"Report to the marshal, at three o'clock, the department broke the Dinghai General Soldier Standard Battalion in Simingshan Town, beheaded the 594th level below the captive commander Zhang Jie, captured 1,361 people, and the capture was not counted. When the follow-up troops arrived, the headquarters continued north along the road between Simingshan Town and Dalanshan to join the Nantang camps. ”

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The distance of ten miles is not even half an hour for the cavalry, and when Dasu and Tian Xiong, who were admiring the Dalan mountain fire, received Zhang Jie's report, the fire had just spread to the halfway up the mountain. Not to mention that the trees burned out and extinguished on their own, even if the entire Dalan Mountain was completely included in the sea of fire, it would take some time.

From the occupation area of the Ming army in Zhejiang to Dalan Mountain, the fastest route also needs to be from Dongyang County through Shengxian County, Xinchang, from the south of Siming Mountain, riding infantry battalions to help quickly, at that time because they were originally used for mobile warfare, but the infantry in the case of unknown enemy situation rushed to come, especially in this mountainous area is extremely dangerous. It stands to reason that it is impossible for the follow-up troops of the Ming army to come so quickly.

However, just like the appearance of the Flying Bear Battalion, the truth was beyond their expectations, which made Dasu and Tian Xiong can't help but wonder if the plan has leaked the news, or if Chen Wen guessed their intentions, so they simply calculated and used the Flying Bear Battalion as a bait, intending to gather and annihilate their only remaining elite troops of the Qing army in Zhejiang in the Siming Mountains.

Once he thought of this, Tian Xiong couldn't help but swallow his saliva, but Da Su was a little eager to try.

"Dashuai, what should be done, you still need to make a decision early."

However, before the decision was made, Zhang Jie's second messenger immediately caught up and reported to Dasu the decision to do everything possible to block the Ming army.

At such a distance, the generals who are in charge of the strategic side often have greater decision-making power. After listening to the messenger's report, he was indignant that the main general banner of the Huangyan battalion of the Ming army was the rebel general Hu Laijin of the Qing army, but Tian Xiong was also shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

"Marshal, I'm afraid that General Zhang won't last long, the terrain here is really not conducive to the officers and soldiers, so it's better to retreat and wait for the traitor Chen Wen."

Zhang Jie decided to defend to the death, leaving only three options for Dasu and Tian Xiong: first, send a large number of cavalry south, thinking that they would be calibrated for reinforcements; second, organize the defensive line, try to eat the Flying Bear Battalion first, and then fight a decisive battle with the follow-up Ming army; Third, the encirclement should be lifted and the Qing army should be withdrawn from this area, which was extremely unfavorable to the use of the superior arms of the Qing army.

All three options are theoretically possible, but in practice they are not.

The Siming Mountain Area, especially the place where the Huangyan Battalion fought with the calibration, is densely forested, and in later generations it was even within the scope of the Simingshan Nature Reserve. In this natural home of the Ming army in Zhejiang, the cavalry rushed south, and it was easy to be ambushed by the Ming army. Even if they were able to reach Simingshan Town, that area was extremely unfavorable to the cavalry to play its role, and it would be half the effort. And if the Ming army continues to complete the set task, if the Ming army follows not only the Huangyan battalion, but the main force of the Ming army, then the result of being attacked on the back of the enemy in this kind of terrain can be imagined.

Although Dasu is not resourceful and excellent in the Eight Banners Army, he is still a famous general for his martial arts and bravery like Aobai, but he has been in the army for many years, and the truth in this is still clear. Moreover, before sending troops, Hong Chengchou's order had already strictly forbidden a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army in the hinterland of Siming Mountain. Even if you can't understand the reason, you can still understand the command.

It's just that the exploits of annihilating a battalion of the Ming Army in Zhejiang in one fell swoop and killing its count-level generals are not so easy to let go.

Fortunately, compared to Dasu, a straight-line general, Tian Xiong's twists and turns in his mind are far better, and he can naturally see through what he thinks.

"Marshal, the disaster of the three armies started from suspicion, since the traitor Chen Wen dared to send Hu Laijin to attack the rebel Zhang Zongbing alone, his army would inevitably be behind. The Eight Banners Army is invincible, and naturally it is not afraid of thieves, but this area is really not conducive to cavalry display, and the casualties are too large, so I am afraid that the emperor will be unhappy. ”

Although the punishment results of the battle at the fork in the road have been issued, although on the surface it is accused of the fall of Nikan in Hengyang, but if it were not for the excessive losses of the Eight Banners Army in the first battle at the fork in the road, it would never be so severe. Da Su is not without a backer in the court, and the experience of standing guard for Huang Taiji together and even fighting side by side has made him and Aobai friends for a long time, and he naturally knows that if the Eight Banners Army suffers too many casualties, he may not be able to end up with anything good if he wins.

"But ......"

The fat in the mouth is about to fly, and anyone will be reluctant, Tian Xiong doesn't have these thoughts.

"The last general knows a place, as long as we make a war letter, Chen Wen will definitely come. That's where he was buried! ”

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In the afternoon, Chen Wen, who had come from the army, finally rushed to the foot of Dalan Mountain. The fire on the mountain has already completely spread to the whole mountain, and it is still unknown whether the Flying Bear Battalion and the Righteous Army in the old camp are safe. But after seeing the war letter left by Tian Xiong, the corners of Chen Wen's mouth couldn't help but skim a trace of cruelty that rarely appeared, and then he picked an officer out of the prisoners offered by Hu Laijin.

"Go to Yonghe Town and tell Dasu and Tian Xiong that since they want to die, I don't mind giving them a ride." (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.