Chapter Eighty-Nine

"Shaoxing Mansion, Hangzhou Garrison Eight Banners, Zhejiang Admiral Standard Battalion, Zhejiang Governor Standard Battalion crossed the Qiantang River and went south, the target should be Anhua Town......"

"The Taizhou Green Battalion and the Wenzhou Green Battalion of the Tartars went up the Ou River, intending to attack the capital city ...... the prefecture."

"The main force of the Tartars gathered in Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi Province has entered the boundary of Quzhou, but the speed of movement is extremely slow, which is very strange......"

"On the first day of the first month of April, the Fujian Admiral Standard Battalion, the Fujian Left Road General Soldier Standard Battalion, and the Fujian Right Road General Army Standard Battalion came out of Xianxia Pass, and the day was only a few miles, riding everywhere, slowly approaching Jiangshan County......

"Yanzhou Green Camp and Hangzhou Green Camp are still strictly adhering to the direction of Tonglu, and there is no change in the slightest......"

These five emergency military information came from Chen Guobao, the chief soldier of the Northern Front Regimental Training, Wu Dengke, the chief military officer of Chuzhou Town, Li Ruixin, the chief military officer of Quzhou Town, and the garrisons who remained in Jiangshan County and Yanzhou Fucheng. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The movements in Chuzhou have been expected by Chen Wen, and even the Qing troops in Guangxin Mansion and Xianxia Pass are no exception, but Tian Xiong's old brother San'er once again went to Anhua Town to run into a wall, which was still unexpected by Chen Wen. At least in his opinion, Tian Xiong is also a general, he hit the south wall twice in a row, and he still doesn't look back, isn't such a persistent general already dead in the battle between Chongzhen Dynasty and Liukou. Could it be that Hong Chengchou has a hobby of watching Tian Xiong's head hit the south wall?

This is a strange move, at least for Chen Wen, he will not touch the place where he has touched the wall twice again. It was only when he thought about it from Hong Chengchou's position that he discovered the significance of Tian Xiong's visit. But with so many troops, isn't it a bit too wasteful to contain a battalion?

The explanation was not clear, and Chen Wen fortunately did not continue to waste time on this. If you want to break the game, you must first defeat all the way, which is the advantage of inside combat, and the plan he made when he was in Dalanshan before was like this, and this time is no exception. As for which way to fight, it is also obvious.

The Qing army in the direction of Chuzhou was too thin and too remote, and even if it was completely wiped out, it would have no impact on the overall situation, which Chen Wen had confirmed earlier; On the other hand, the temptation of fighting to the death with the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison is quite great, but with the existence of the fortress of Anhua Town, it is completely possible to defeat other targets first and then go back to clean up the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and there is no need to be in such a hurry; Yanzhou Chen Wen didn't plan to go, and there was no need to go, because the two green battalions there were not capable of threatening him.

In this case, the only way left is to come from Guangxin Mansion and Xianxia Pass to encircle Quzhou. And among these two paths, Chen Wen chose the Fujian Green Camp - before fighting an opponent of Hong Chengchou's level, he must first weaken his strength in order to be more sure.

As Chen Wen's order was issued, the three battalions of Nantang, Shentang and Guard, which he had always controlled, were immediately dispatched. The three Qing armies in Fujian marched slowly all the way according to Hong Chengchou's instructions, only Tanma went far away, but Chen Wen used water transportation to enter the preparatory site before they arrived in Jiangshan County.

The ambush site chosen by Chen Wen was in the mountains and forests that Yang Jie had used, but Yang Jie was relatively far north at that time, while Chen Wen was relatively south.

According to Chen Wen's calculations, the three Fujian Qing armies moved slowly, but they always had to face the Jiangshan county where the Ming army was stationed. As long as it waits for it to attack the city, or even just launches a night attack after encampment, it can be easily defeated. After all, Chen Wen's cost of raising soldiers is not just as simple as military salary, the meat intake of the soldiers under his command is much higher than that of ordinary Qing troops, such as carrots, animal livers and other foods used to prevent and treat night blindness.

The only difficulty is that the mountains and forests are high and dense in the north and low and sparse in the south, and it is extremely difficult to hide the 6,000 army and the equipment that must be equipped. For this reason, Chen Wen placed the Shentang battalion in Jiangshan County, and closed the gates after the army entered the city to prevent the news from leaking, while he took the other two battalions to lurk in the mountains and forests, waiting for the three fish from Fujian to take the bait.

Since the beginning of April, almost ten days have passed, and the army composed of Fujian Biaobiao and the left and right road mark battalions has slowly marched north along Jiangshan Port, and their first destination is Jiangshan County, which has not long been captured by the Ming army.

For the people of the county, Hong Chengchou has already made arrangements, whether it is Yang Minggao, Wang Zhigang, and Ma Degong, they all agree with this. It's just that along the way, the three Qing armies marched together, counting the auxiliary soldiers, and the number of auxiliaries has exceeded 20,000, so that every morning in the morning, the left and near should be explored by the Tanma general, just walk a few miles at noon, and set up camp in the afternoon, and at night will arrange a large number of secret posts to prevent the Ming army from attacking at night. It is indeed safe enough, but Hong Chengchou does not have the slightest concept of military nobility and speed, and this style of seeking stability still makes them feel a little unaccustomed.

However, after attending the meeting at the end of last month, they were also able to understand Hong Chengchou's intention to use troops, this time to encircle and suppress, Hong Chengchou never thought of directly breaking the enemy with the Ming army in the field, which was a mistake Chen Jin had made before, and his purpose was only to use the absolute superiority of the Qing army in terms of strength to squeeze the Ming army between Jinhua and Quzhou.

In this case, walking slowly but not afraid of discharging the morale of the army, the soldiers were still very satisfied with the fact that they could eat and sleep well by walking only a few miles every day. As for the work of setting up camp, there were already auxiliaries to do it, and they only needed to divide part of the troops to scout horses, secret posts, and camps in order.

At this moment, the Qing army arrived near Hecun Town, which turned into Jiangshan County in Jiangshan Port, which was not far from Jiangshan County, where the Ming army was stationed, so Yang Minggao set up camp in advance, and sent a large team of probes to cover the left, in order to emphasize the stable word.

Hidden in the mountains and forests in the north only more than ten miles away, Chen Wen knew the movements of the Qing army well, but he was not in a hurry, because compared to the night attack, if the Qing army can touch it from behind when launching a siege war, then this army of up to 9,000 soldiers can say goodbye to Hong Chengchou, and the situation on the battlefield in Fujian will be worse for the Qing army, and he no longer has to worry about the Qing army in Fujian going north again.

Cautiously lurking in the mountains and forests, although Chen Wen was very worried about whether there would be any abnormalities on other roads, but on the surface, he could only show more wisdom in his hands, after all, he was the commander of this Ming army, and his every move would affect the psychology of the soldiers below.

The Qing army had already entered the edge of the mouth where he had set up an ambush, and Chen Wen could faintly see the Qing army the size of ants slowly advancing from the top of the two or three hundred meter-high hill near the left.

"It's almost done."

Chen Wen's idea had just been formed, and when he saw the world in the telescope, teams of Qing army horses began to radiate in all directions, far exceeding the number of previous marches, and it seemed that it was even Yang Minggao, Wang Zhigang and Ma Degong who sent out all the cavalry in the battalion. And what's even worse is that most of the cavalry is coming towards the mountains and forests where the Ming army is lurking.

At present, it is still the turn of spring and summer, and the effect of arson is far less than after autumn, Chen Wen is not worried about this, but the initiative will fall into the hands of the Qing army after the Qing army's exploration horses discover them.

The disaster of the three armies started from suspicion, Chen Wen knew this very well, since the Qing army could find them at any time, instead of hesitating, it was better to give it a go, even if it was just to defeat it, it was far stronger than being the Qing army to take the initiative.

As soon as the order was issued, the Ming troops of the brigade began to rush out of the mountains and forests, and maintained their own formations as much as possible during the march.

Birds in the sky above the mountain forest were aroused by this strange group of creatures, and they screamed and flew away from this familiar mountain forest. There were many experienced veterans among the scouts of the Qing army, and when they saw this, they immediately knew that the Ming army was lurking here, and just as they divided some scouts to return to the commander, a fiery red color began to pour out from the mountain forest, as if the magma rolled down the slope of the mountain forest after a volcanic eruption in the distance.

Riding his horse and rushing out, Chen Wen watched from afar as the cavalry of the Qing army kept a distance from the Ming army, and those scouts all turned around and left, without the slightest intention of continuing to observe.

These Qing troops only had a lot more experience in exploring horses than the Ming army, but this is in Zhejiang, and the field battle still depends on the infantry, and Chen Wen is full of confidence in his infantry.

However, the Ming army did not rush far before the scouts had already returned to the Qing army of the brigade, and then they saw the banner of the commander in the distance shake, and the Qing army of the brigade began to turn to the road from which they came, and the speed was much faster than when they came.

During this period, only those cavalry were still monitoring the Ming army from afar, and after a moment when the Qing army turned back and left, even these cavalry went all the way away, leaving only a mess on the ground and the Ming army stunned. (To be continued.) )