Chapter Ninety-Four: Confrontation with Tumenji
PS: The next chapter is about to be revealed. That bug absolutely holds the live field.
Chen Ming was stunned by Li Xiaomei's eyes for a long time, this was the first time he confided his beliefs to others. Comparing the current strength of the Chen Jiajun with the prosperity of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this idea can be called a fantasy. Fortunately, although Li Xiaomei's eyes were straight, she did not reveal the meaning of 'you nerves and you ****'.
Chen Ming took a warm heart from his wife and children, and led the troops down the mountain. A team of thousands of people dragged a thin snake on the mountain road, and by the time he arrived at Tumenji, to the east of Tumenji, the vanguard of the Qing army had already set up three camps.
Wu Shixiong has not yet arrived here in person, he took the lead with the right battalion of Nanyang Town, and the militia groups of Xinyang and Xuzhou were entourage, and more than 1,000 people drove to Tumenji, and did not attack, but first built three large villages, and sealed the road to the east of Tumenji. From this point, you can see Wu Shixiong's personality and attitude. He didn't seem to be in a hurry to exterminate the Chen family's army, so that he could secure the position of the chief soldier under his ass by making meritorious contributions. At least that's the attitude he shows.
Chen Ming led people to Tumenji, and did not lead the soldiers to live in it, but built a small village outside the current Tumenji City, put two teams, and the large army was stationed behind Tumenji, and camped by the Yinma River.
The Qing soldiers also set up wooden rafts in the Yinma River. In fact, Chen Ming felt that Wu Shixiong really thought too much, and now is not a good time for Chen Jiajun to fight a decisive battle, if it weren't for the worry that the Qing soldiers would gather more and more, Chen Ming would want to confront Wu Shixiong for three or five months, and wait until all the rookies and weak chickens in the new barracks are baked, then it will be a good day to fight.
But obviously the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not give the Chen family three or five months, Chen Ming feels that this battle with Nanyang Town must be divided into two months, and then the Chen family will have to face the next Qing army.
This point, this rhythm, is very important. If you don't pay attention to it a little, Chen Jiajun may be stuffed in the pot by the Qing army. Although after the control area was expanded to Tumenji, it was not that there were no other roads leading to the outside of the mountain, but the road of the Yinma River was always the most aspect.
With the arrival of the Chen family's army reinforcements, the Qing army also drove to Tumenji in batches, and more than 1,000 people arrived in just one day.
Three or four thousand men and horses, looking east from the Tumen Fort, the three camps were black and pressed a large area.
Chen Ming knew that Wu Shixiong's troops were in Wuhe City before, which was a small town in the lower reaches of the Yinma River, just in front of Dangze. A small piece of land, four rivers converge into the Yinma River here, which is more fierce than Fenghuangtai, so it is called Wuhe City, and over time it becomes Wuhe City. Its commercial scale can be compared with the original Tumen Market, a market and a market, the same grade.
There are a lot of people in Nanyang Town, but there are at least four pieces of artillery. Although these four are all Weiyuan General Cannons. In terms of artillery power, on the contrary, the Chen Jiajun who was a thief army was much better than the green battalion soldiers who were the official army.
Chen Ming was not polite. On the day when Wu Shixiong arrived with his troops, he led people to drag the cannon and ran out of the range of the Qing army's Weiyuan general's artillery.
Wu Shixiong returned a tooth for an eye and an eye for an eye, and two days later, all the troops were properly settled, all kinds of miscellaneous matters were sorted out, and the people pulled the horses and dragged the four Weiyuan general cannons to the outside of Tumen Jibao. Of course, there was a counterattack on Tumenji Fort, but how could the artillery of this era and the gunners of the moment be so accurate?
The Qing army entered a distance of about 450 meters under artillery fire, and then two guns fired a cannon, and then packed up the guys and left.
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"Left and right, left and right, left and right, left and right, left, left, left, left, ......left, left,
"Thorn-"
"Thorn-"
Every day, there would be neat shouts from the back of Tumen Jibao, and Wu Shixiong sent someone to visit, saying that the Chen family thieves were practicing. Wu Shixiong doesn't believe it, no matter how new a recruit is, he won't be able to practice before the battle, right? However, the return of several visits he sent was like this, and Wu Shixiong had no choice but to believe it.
Chen Ming was not in a hurry to train the recruits at all, but it caused a lot of pressure on the head of the Qing army opposite. The two forces faced each other, and neither dared to move troops lightly. The city wall outside the Tumen Fort is two zhang high, and Chen Jiajun has more than 10 large and small cannons here, which is a hard bone that can no longer be harder. As for Chen Ming's troops, whether it is a small battalion parallel to Tumen Fort or a large battalion behind it, they are all very close to Tumen Fort and the direction of their side to Tumen Fort is completely within the fire coverage of Tumen Fort .
Win the Ruzhou camp, win Baoning, and then sweep half of Ruzhou, Chen Ming's current name in western Henan is a first-class loud. In Wu Shixiong's eyes, Chen Ming is much more capable than his father. Although the Chen family army now has weapons, iron armor, and guns and firearms, no matter how this credit is calculated, outsiders will be counted on Chen Hui, who is Lao Tzu, and no one believes that so many ironclad weapons will be prepared by the Chen family in just over a year after Chen Ming crossed. But Chen Hui's name is still not as loud as Chen Ming, and even the people in Lushan County have slowly separated Chen Ming from each other, instead of being perceived by everyone as Chen Huiyan's eldest son.
If you really want to talk about the root cause, this is the fundamental difference between the Wendou faction and the martial arts faction.
Chen Hui's image is more like a housekeeper and military advisor, and Chen Ming is a mountain bandit bully who slashes people with a knife.
Wu Shixiong and the others subconsciously put Chen Ming in a relatively high position, otherwise wouldn't Bao Ning and the two thousand Nanyang town soldiers die too unlevel?
Therefore, Wu Shixiong and the others subconsciously thought that Chen Ming had other plans, and the training on the battlefield in front of him was just pretending to be false and covering for his true purpose. Although Wu Shixiong looked at the map and looked at the information sent from the rear, he couldn't figure out how Chen Ming could still make a ghost if he thought about it.
The time entered the middle of April, Chen Ming received a message from Chen Guang, the carrier pigeon still has not been trained, and the news contact in the mountains and outside the mountains still depends on people.
Henan and Hubei are both mobilizing troops, Henan's Guide Town has dispatched thousands of soldiers, and Hubei is dominated by Yunyang Town, but the specific number of mobilized troops has not yet been explored, but at least it will not be less than 1,000 people. At the same time, Zhang Dajing, deputy general of the Wendeng battalion in Shandong, has been transferred to the general army of Nanyang Town, and will lead a part of the soldiers of the Wendeng battalion to Henan. This news was read by Chen Guang from the Di newspaper. And the Di newspaper was heard by his informants from the street teahouse. China's Di Bao has a history of more than 1,000 years, and by the Qing Dynasty, the bottom of it had already been integrated with the people. Even if the times remain unchanged, in less than ten years, the "Beijing Daily" developed from Di Bao will be truly popularized.
Chen Ming knew it was time for him to exert himself. If the Qing troops from Guide Town and Yunyang Town also gather in Lushan, then the pressure on the Chen family army will be too great. Fortunately, the reinforcements of the Qing army on both routes were dragging artillery and marching slowly.
"Pull out all the nails and outposts that the officers and soldiers have sprinkled outside, and I will give you three days. Turn the Qing soldiers on the opposite side into deaf and blind for me! ”