As soon as the decision was made, Chen Wen immediately began to mobilize the battalions of soldiers who were still stationed in various places for training. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the appointment of the new recruits when they entered the battalion, Yin Yue, the chief military officer of Jinhua Town, concurrently led the command of the Dongyang Battalion, Li Ruixin, the chief military officer of Quzhou Town, concurrently led the command of the Yiwu Battalion, Wu Dengke, the chief military officer of Chuzhou Town, concurrently led the command of the Lishui Battalion, and Chen Guobao, the chief soldier of the Northern Front Regiment Training, concurrently led the command of the Pujiang Battalion.

These four generals are already the highest-ranking generals under Chen Wen's command except for Lou Jiye, and the general soldiers of the three towns have the right to command the garrisons of each county in their own towns, and they also command the battle barracks, just so that they can protect the place more securely when facing the Qing army. As for the northern front, in addition to the Anhua Town Fort and the Hulu Town Fort that had just been completed, Chen Wen also left Chen Guobao a new army composed of two infantry bureaus, but these soldiers are still training in the recruit camp and have no combat ability for the time being.

In addition, the commander of the Shentang Battalion, as Chen Wen said before, was Qian Zong'an Youfu, who defended the left flank in the battle of Shentangyuan. However, because his achievements in the martial arts academy are still somewhat unsatisfactory, so that he cannot be regarded as having completed this stage of study for the time being, the rank of lieutenant will not be awarded for the time being, and even the official position of deputy general has become a deputy general, which can be regarded as a spur.

In contrast, the new commander of the Nantang Battalion is much more comfortable, this military general called Hou Guoyuan came from the original batch of veterans of the Nantang Battalion, and he was the captain at the beginning of the army, and Niu Ping'an, who was still the captain at the time of the chief of staff, and Niu Ping'an, who was still the commander at that time, was still the commander at that time.

There is a way to only have the wrong name, not the wrong nickname, this nickname is the wild monkey of the former player is not only thin and flexible, but also far more clever than An Youfu, who was also promoted this year. Not to mention the courage of combat and martial arts, he found that Chen Wen was more open-minded to the generals who were willing to work hard to learn the art of war, so he spent all his rest time studying, just like Wu Dengke. The hard work paid off, and now being able to sit in the position of commander of the Nantang Battalion has not failed his efforts.

Among the seven battalions, except for the three battalions of Guards, Nantang, and Shentang, which were stationed between Jinqu and were directly responsible for Chen Wen, the other battalions were stationed in various places.

Since this time it was the first strike, the emphasis was on the suddenness, and it was too far to go to Nanchang, so Chen Wen decided to uproot the superintendent battalion in Jiangshan County first, so as to prevent the Qing army, which had caused a lot of trouble to the Ming army in the battle of Shentangyuan, from continuing to copy his establishment and development, causing greater harm.

Of course, it would be better if Yang Jie and Wang Zhigang could be lured to the rescue, come to the siege and reinforcements, and wipe them out.

To this end, Chen Wen not only mobilized the three battle battalions of Guard, Nantang, and Shentang, as well as some water battalions, but also transferred the Lishui battalion, which was led by Wu Dengke, the chief soldier of Chuzhou Town, to strive to form a crushing situation in terms of troops, eliminate the Dubiao battalion in one go, and at the same time enable the combat effectiveness of the Lishui battalion to be improved to a certain extent in the battle.

At the end of February, when Li Dingguo was still hesitating in Yongzhou about whether to go to Jingzhou to discuss with Sun Kewang, Chen Wen's army was already dispatched. By the fourth day of the first month of March, the second battalions of Nantang and Shentang, which had set off in advance, had already approached the city.

Along the way, the sentinel cavalry of the Ming army has already driven away the Qing army's exploration horses, and after arriving in Jiangshan County, a pontoon bridge was built with the help of the water camp, and the Shentang camp passed through Jiangshan Port, and the Nantang camp was blocked in Chengli by a south and a north.

Because the Ming army used the numerical advantage of cavalry to achieve the shielding of military intelligence, Zhang Guoxun did not know how many troops the Ming army had dispatched, but according to Hong Chengchou's plan last year, he sent people to Wang Zhigang and Yang Jie for help while defending the infant city. But to his surprise, the day after the encirclement was completed, the Lishui battalion and the guard battalion rushed to the battlefield, still from the south and north to surround Jiangshan County, and divided part of the army to extend to the mountainous area west of Jiangshan County.

Although the four battalions, nearly 8,000 soldiers, and the Supervisory Battalion used this time to recover a little vitality, at least to the state of full strength, they were still at a serious disadvantage in terms of troops, and not long ago, the Qing court's reprimand still caused some confusion, which made them regress in the problem of arranging and training mandarin duck formations. But now that the Ming army is approaching the city, these generals who have long had a tacit understanding of the standard battalion still have to take out the weapons that have already been thrown into the treasury for the soldiers to use, so that they can continue to use the Mandarin Duck Array to confront the Ming Army, and the two hundred troops left by Wang Sheng who have used the Mandarin Duck Array for more than two years will be the last trump card in Zhang Guoxun's hands.

Although the county seat of Jiangshan is small, there are as many as ten city gates, which also corresponds to the principle of "many gates" when guarding the city. At present, the strength of the Ming army far exceeds that of the Qing army, even if it is a heavy reward for calling the dead out of the city, it may not be able to beat the opponent, but it is also afraid that the Ming army will seize the city gate, and now there is only one way to go.

The guards at the head of the city are complete, and Zhang Guoxun drove all the people of Jiangshan County to the city, and the men assisted in guarding and the women and children carried the guards, and finally regained the advantage in numbers.

In order to attract Yang Jie and Wang Zhigang, Chen Wen specially made it possible for the sappers and auxiliaries of the Ming army in the north and south to deliberately speed up the construction of siege equipment. Two days later, on the seventh day of the third month of the seventh year of Yongli, Chen Wencai gave the order to attack the city when the Tanma Survey, who was in charge of covering the military situation, had discovered the forward troops of Wang Zhigang and Yang Jie.

From the point of view of common sense, it is extremely dangerous to act like this, but Chen Wen is still the same. With the issuance of the order, a large number of Ming army auxiliaries began to push the siege equipment to advance to Jiangshan County, and the soldiers of the Ming army followed.

The Qing army in the city was originally a strong force in the southern green camp, but the tactics of the two sides were already very different, but now they were defending the city, and Zhang Guoxun was still very confident in this. When the Ming army began to attack the city, he did not hurriedly order the artillery to be fired, but waited until the Ming army's lookout and rushing car entered the firing range before giving the order.

Taking advantage of this truce, the Qing court brought a large number of artillery pieces from Fujian to the operation of the superintendent, with a variety of calibers and sizes. It's just that because the Inspector Battalion and other Qing troops have no aiming technology, they can only rely on experience to shoot, and the first shot of the fire is very bad, just smashing out craters on the ground, stirring up patches of black mud. Even the black mud rarely touched the siege equipment of the Ming army.

This was a test firing, but Zhang Guoxun didn't care, and after ordering the gunners and archers in the army not to move, he continued to wait at the head of the city for the artillery to be reloaded.

There was no significant change in the speed of the Ming army's march, but in the second round of shelling, only one shell hit the frame of a lookout, but it was not completely destroyed. The cannon hit, this is what Zhang Guoxu dreamed of, but if this is really the case, now he should be besieging Jinhua instead of being besieged here by Chen Wen.

The second round of shooting made Zhang Guoxun feel a little irritable, but at this time, Chen Wen just smiled and shook his head. Under the monoculars, the siege equipment of the Ming army was getting closer and closer to the county seat of Jiangshan.

Soon, as the artillery of the Qing army began the third round of artillery bombardment accompanied by firearms, crossbow machines, and bows and arrows at the head of the city, the watchtowers of the Ming army stopped one after another, and the firecrackers and archers on the platform also began to fight back against the Qing army on the top platform.

Cannonballs, iron sand, stones, and arrows staggered over the Ming infantry but did not affect the advance speed of the Ming army. And when the battering ram under the charging car began to hit the city wall, the Ming infantry of the brigade also began to charge the city wall in a scattered line with a ladder.

The artillery and bows at the head of the city were still attacking, and the Qing army and the people who assisted in the defense also began to attack the Ming army with rolling wood, stones, ash bottles and other defensive equipment, and even in the center of the north city wall, an oil pot filled with boiling oil was also hoisted by the Qing army under the heating of the fire below, and poured into the city under the city The rushing car that was using the battering ram to destroy the city wall......

The battle went straight to the heat from the beginning, and Chen Wen watched all this from a distance through the monoculars without saying a word. Suddenly, behind the flank of the army, a light horse came on horseback, rushed to a clean saddle near Chen Wen's general flag, dismounted, and knelt down on one knee in front of Chen Wen by inertia.

"Report to the marshal, Yang Jie, the general soldier of Tartar Jiujiang, is speeding up, and his forward will be able to make direct contact with the rear team of our army in about a quarter of an hour!" (To be continued.) )