Chapter 46: The End
As soon as he opened his mouth, he ordered the water camp soldier who escaped to be arrested, but before he could get up with the righteous son who was kneeling on the ground, Ma Jinbao immediately overturned his previous order.
All the generals who came to the banquet in the water camp died, and even the former Quzhou Green Battalion officers who might have different intentions also died on the spot, and the most important thing at this moment is not to catch the guy who has taken the **** luck, but to get all the boats in the water camp as soon as possible while stabilizing the town standard camp itself. As long as you escape to the north bank of the Qujiang River, everything will be promising, and as for that small accident, it will not be able to make any big waves.
Thinking of this, Ma Jinbao hurriedly sent his righteous son to lead the cavalry team composed of his own soldiers and family members to support Du Pengcheng, who was plotting against the remaining troops of the Water Battalion, hoping that if Du Pengcheng's deeds were revealed, with this only remaining elite, he would be able to quickly eliminate the Water Battalion soldiers and regain control of the situation.
After sending away the cavalry, Ma Jinbao, who did all kinds of evil, had to pray for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas, hoping that Du Pengcheng and his righteous son could successfully clean up the water battalion soldiers and capture the warship. At that time, as long as the destruction of the water camp is said to be the water camp covering the north retreat of the town standard camp after the city is broken, and the Ming army water camp and the Ming army water camp behind the palace are both defeated, and he only needs to sink a few boats appropriately after crossing the Qujiang River, even if he is not unaware, with his silver bullet offensive can also eliminate the crisis invisibly.
Thinking back to everything planned before, and escaping to the north bank, he could tell Chen Jin that although the losses under his command were not small, he could cut off the grain route of the Ming army after resting for a while, and even directly take Lanxi County to the east, which would always drag the time until the Qing army encircled and suppressed Chen Wen.
Even if the Ming army marched north in its heyday, he could continue to retreat to Yanzhou. Even if the Ming army exerts its might, the upcoming Qing army will be completely wiped out and completely reversed in Zhejiang. At that time, as long as he is using Qian Qianyi's way to lose his sincerity to Cao Conglong, with the ancestral system of the Ming court, Chen Wen will not be able to help him.
As for the wife and children who are hostage in Beijing, they can't manage that much. If the daughter-in-law is gone, she can remarry, and if the son is gone, she can regenerate, as long as she can live. It doesn't matter who dies!
Relying on the anesthesia of sweet dreams, Ma Jinbao, who had not faced such a life-and-death situation for many years, gradually calmed down. However, the military information reported by his cronies who rushed in soon after still pulled his mood to the bottom step by step.
When the Qing army led by Du Pengcheng was about to succeed, the personal soldier who had escaped from the water camp rushed over. Relying on the iron armor lined with the gradually effective sweat medicine, even if the number was at an absolute disadvantage, in the confrontation in the village, the water battalion soldiers were quickly killed and turned on their backs. In particular, the cavalry sent by Ma Jinbao quickly approached the dock, and it seemed that victory was in sight from being a lost killing to forcibly seizing the town standard battalion.
It's just that when the water battalion found out that it really couldn't do this town standard battalion, the hungry ghost in the color immediately took the other water battalion soldiers to seize the ship. Even those who were still fighting and were too old to board the ship jumped into the water, completely leaving behind the iron-clad landlubbers of the town standard camp.
At the same time that cavalry arrived, although the Zhenbiao battalion had gained an overwhelming advantage in Yiqian Village, the attempt to seize the ships was not so easy to succeed.
When the weak chickens in the land battle of the water camp arrived on the ship, they were very different from the ones just now, especially after they had to take the small half of the ship with great effort, and they were immediately attacked by the water camp that had just left the dock. Hongyi cannons, Franc machines, bird guns, and those weapons used in water warfare like fires greeted the ships captured by the Zhenbiao battalion, and as a result, after a night, not only Ma Jinbao not only lost a lot of elites. The captured ship was also destroyed to the point that there was nothing left. And the Quzhou water camp that he calculated sailed to the north shore in a leisurely manner. It seems that he is planning to get a team of people to pull the fiber, so as to pull them back to the Quzhou Prefecture upstream.
"Every year, the family fights geese, but now they are pecked in the eyes by the little geese."
After hearing the bad news, Ma Jinbao sat down on the ground in a daze, and did not recover for a long time in the low sobbing of the female school book who was huddled in the corner. When he regained his senses, he walked towards the poor man who had just been raped. The knife slashed hysterically, and it was not until his body and hands were covered with shredded flesh and dirty blood that he regained his composure.
In Ma Jinbao's view, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's domination of the world has been the general trend, even if there are Ming generals like Zheng Chenggong and Chen Wen on the southeast battlefield, they are still trying their best to save the dead, but on the whole, the Ming army is still at a disadvantage. And it is an absolute disadvantage in strength.
In such a situation, you must not defect to the Ming army unless you have to, because it is just the difference between early death and late death. However, the Quzhou water camp has already gone away, and he will definitely not be able to stay on the side of the Qing army, but Chen Wen outside the city has just rejected his set of strategies to pretend to be an internal response, and only trying to escape and take Qian Qianyi's relationship is the right way.
Then the problem is back to square one, most of the captured ships have been burned, the others are broken in the chaos, and the Quzhou water camp is still eyeing the other side, and it seems that it has a great intention to cooperate with the Ming army to kill him as a traitor. Although there was a stone bridge named Tongsi on Lingxi earlier, it was demolished on the order of Chen Jin when the Ming army assembled a large army to march west, so as to prevent it from being used by the Ming army and at the same time to make it more convenient for Quzhou to enter and exit the water camp......
I wanted to preserve my strength, but the strategy was almost successful, but after a small accident, the whole situation was completely reversed. At this moment, Ma Jinbao still has an army of 3,000 under his command, but this city can't be defended at all.
A dead end, what can I do?!
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Chen Wen, who was in the camp outside the south of the city, had no idea about the change in Longyou County, and the sky was already bright, and the captain of the "toy soldiers" who had been guarding the entrance of the cave all night yesterday brought Chen Wen two pieces of news - one good news and one bad news.
The good news is that last night, the sappers found that the land close to the city was mostly fine sand, and after a hard shift of people transporting earthwork, the excavation speed of the Ming army was greatly improved, until he came to respond to the day and night when the excavation had been dug to the city of Longyou County for most of the day.
As soon as this news came out, all the generals congratulated Chen Wen, saying that this is a sign of God's blessing to the Ming army, and their commander Chen Wen must be a famous general of Zhongxing given by Emperor Gao, and Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty is hopeful!
Looking at the excitement of the generals, Chen Wen knew that this was indeed a good thing, but if he believed that Zhu Yuanzhang would drive a taxi and use taxi software, he would never believe it. There is no other reason, the painting style is too bad, that's all.
After hearing the good news, it wasn't until the enthusiasm in the big tent had subsided that Chen Wen remembered to ask about the bad news. After the captain of the "toy soldier" finished speaking, not only Chen Wen, but also the generals in the big tent immediately became crying and laughing - the sappers dug under the city in advance, but they found that under the city of Longyou County, there was an even older city wall under the city wall built in Longqing, and the two had long been integrated, and only the color difference between the bricks was not small, and the sappers who excavated could distinguish it. And if you want to dig out an inner chamber suitable for blasting, I'm afraid you will have to wait a little longer.
At this moment, only a few people in the Ming and Qing armies knew that this Longyou county town was built on the capital of Gugu, but even if they knew about it, they did not know that when the city wall was built in the Longqing Dynasty, a large part of the city wall was simply built on the old city wall that had been submerged in the rising land. The two are connected together, and the city wall of this Longyou county town is too deep underground, and it is really not easy to blast.
Sent away the sapper leader who still needed to continue to work, and he longed to see the collapse of the city wall accompanied by the loud bang, so he had to continue to press. However, the front foot ended the military discussion, and the back foot ushered in the messenger of Ma Jinbao last night, and this person brought a gift list that was far more generous than the previous gift.
500,000 taels of silver, 30,000 taels of gold, several boxes of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jewelry, and dozens of beauties......
Chen Wen knew that Ma Jinbao was very good at scraping the land, and he was far better than other Qing generals, but he didn't expect that his hand would be so huge. The condition offered by his people was that he hoped that Chen Wen would let him and no more than 500 soldiers under his command have a way to live, and when he was safe, he would give up the entire Longyou County without destroying anything.
With such generous and secretly threatening conditions, Chen Wen naturally rejected them. Before the Ming army attacked the city, Ma Jinbao was impatient to escape, and the amount of gold and silver he took out really scared him, there must be something strange about this matter!
It's just that the word strange just came out of the mouth of Lou Jiye, the chief of staff, who also held this idea, that the leading officer who was responsible for intercepting the Qing army outside the West Gate sent someone to send a Qing army anyway, and this person even said that the Qing army in Ximen was willing to hand over Ximen to make meritorious service and atone for their crimes, hoping that Chen Wen could let them go home.
With the idea that this matter might be Ma Jinbao's trick, Chen Wen personally interrogated the Qing army, but the answer he got was that Ma Jinbao killed these direct commanders from the Quzhou Green Camp at the same time as the Quzhou Water Camp last night. And wait until half an hour ago, the officers who stayed at the city gate refused this temporary change of defense after discovering the strangeness of the Qing army, and they were attacked by the town standard battalion, and at this moment they were guarding that section of the city wall and the city to confront it, if the Ming army was willing to let them go home, they would immediately hand over the city gate to the Ming army, and by the way avenge this arrow.
After making sure that this person was not lying, and the soldiers were very fast, Chen Wen asked this person to go back to negotiate with the conditions, and at the same time mobilized the army to march towards the west gate, but at the same time let the sappers, who were originally the key to breaking the city, continue to dig in order to be prepared.
The army quickly entered the city, and after the former Quzhou Green Battalion officer agreed to hand over his weapons, the gates and drawbridges of the Taiping Gate were opened to the Ming army, and those Qing troops went out of the city to exchange defenses with the vanguard of the Ming army. After taking the city gate, the vanguard troops belonging to the Yiwu battalion immediately rushed into the city under the guidance of the Qing army anyway, and went straight to the center of the city along the east-west avenue to the center of the city, where Ma Jinbao's line was, and surrounded it in the mansion in one fell swoop. (To be continued.) )