In the past, Wang Yihui was forced to go to Zhoushan to ask for help from the dynasty after the fall of Dalanshan, trying to take advantage of the Qing army's accumulation of Siming Mountain to attack Hangzhou. It's just that when he arrived in Zhoushan, Wang Chaoxian had already been murdered by Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin, and Wang Dynasty's troops had either surrendered to the Qing army or were divided between Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin, and the sneak attack on Hangzhou was over.

After that, the Qing army gathered in Ningbo, intending to attack Zhoushan, and Wang Yi hurriedly rushed back to Siming Mountain after getting the news to try to share the pressure for the Ming army in Zhoushan. It's just that when he returned to Siming Mountain, what he saw was the tragic situation of the generals in the mountain who had surrendered and killed. As a result, Wang Yi, who had no choice but to go to Fenghua to recruit troops, was arrested in Beixi. After that, he was even more righteous and dishonored, and finally after the Qing army was assembled, he was brutally killed in Dinghai [Note 1].

Since the appearance of Chen Wen, this history has undergone a great deviation, the history of the Ming army of Siming Mountain, which was broken by each one, gathered more than 20,000 troops here, but the result was wiped out in the battle of Siming Lake, not only Liu Yiming, who was supposed to die of illness in December, died in advance, but even Wang Yi, who was captured in July of the fifth year of Yongli, was captured nearly a year ahead of schedule.

The Ming army of Siming Mountain still did not get rid of the fate of the annihilation of the whole army, but the Qing army also paid greater casualties, if you don't count the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain, the standard battalion also lost hundreds of soldiers. These losses will be replenished in the truce period of nearly a year after that, but this palace war has led to the complete breaking of a leg of the Zhejiang Admiral's standard battalion, and it is not possible to completely restore its strength without two or three years.

It's just that with the news of Wang Yi's survival coming out of Xu Lei's mouth, Chen Wen is facing another problem - whether to exchange Li Rong for Wang Yi.

As a member of the Ming Army of Dalan Mountain and Wang Yi's general, this is a matter that should not be done. And under normal circumstances, Chen Wen should also ask Xu Lei to send the letter that exchanged hostages with Tian Xiong, so that he could have the best of both worlds.

Thinking of this, Chen Wen immediately called Zhang Jun to prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and in the name of Wang Yi's general, he proposed to Tian Xiong to exchange Li Rong for Wang Yi, and handed it over to Xu Lei to take away.

Seeing Chen Wen hand over the letter to Xu Lei, Li Ruixin immediately fell to the ground and felt tears streaming down his face. Chen Wen can understand Li Ruixin's feelings, who has no relatives, will be heart-to-heart, if his relatives are in the situation of Li Ruixin's family, he will definitely hope to be able to exchange for some hope, even if this hope is very slim.

"Mr. Xu Qian, what do you think of the general's Nantang camp?"

The moment he received the letter, Xu Lei's nerves, which had been tense for a long time, seemed to be relaxed all of a sudden, but when he heard Chen Wen's question, the nerves that had just been relaxed immediately tightened again.

"Chen Dashuai has excellent wisdom and bravery, and Chen Dashuai's battalion is also a rare elite, and the villain thinks that even if the real Tartar comes, he may not be the opponent of the Nantang battalion."

Hearing this, Chen Wen just shook his head, he was not interested in the words of compliments, and this time he provoked Xu Lei's answer just to make some foreshadowing for his later words.

"A group of recruits are just eggs, Xu Qian is overrated." The corners of Chen Wen's mouth hooked up a smile, and then said: "It's just that on this battlefield, anything can happen, the same reason, the Qing court is all Tartars in the end, since the Liao incident, it has been decades since the Jiannu rebellion, and the momentum of a Hu clan at the beginning of the rebellion has been almost consumed." ”

"Although they have occupied eight or nine out of ten of China's land at this time, with the number of their dingkou, I am afraid that it is still unknown who will kill this deer? Xu Qian is always a smart person, so it's better to cherish himself. ”

After listening to Chen Wen's words, Xu Lei immediately changed into a look like an initiation, and the words in his mouth were also "I can't wait to serve Chen Dashuai at this moment, but my family members are all in the occupied area of the Qing army, so I can only endure humiliation for the time being" Yunyun.

For Xu Lei's, Chen Wen would not believe even a punctuation mark.

During this period, the Qing army was still strong, and even the Siming Mountain area was now occupied by the Qing army. Although Chen Wen did cripple the standard battalion of the Zhejiang Admiral in this palace, compared with the Qing army, the disadvantage of the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang was still too obvious.

However, Chen Wen said this, in fact, it was just to let Xu Lei treat the Li family's mother and daughter well, because Chen Wen didn't believe the "love story" Xu Lei said at all, and at this moment, it was just because people were still in the hands of the other party that he would choose to compromise. And this is really beneficial to Xu Lei, so he believes that Xu Lei knows how to choose, after all, the combat effectiveness of the Nantang battalion in his hands is still obvious to all.

After accepting a captured war horse presented by Chen Wen with great gratitude, Xu Lei embarked on the path of the messenger, but the messenger had no intention of sending the letter over.

Although when Xu Lei slashed Li Rong's horse, it was just when the Qing army was defeated, and the crowd fleeing north may not notice his behavior, but Li Rong and his personal soldiers, who were in the authorities, obviously noticed all this, after all, they were on the spot at that time. So Xu Lei knows very well that once Li Rong goes back, then he is likely to be a dead end.

Along the way, although Li Ruixin was tight-lipped about Chen Wen and the Nantang Battalion, he did not think too much about the tragic situation of the Qing army, so that Xu Lei knew very well that when Li Rong was captured, almost all of his personal soldiers had been killed. Based on this consideration, he dared to bet on whether Chen Wen knew the truth about Li Rong's capture, and he did win the bet at this moment.

After Chen Wen, who knew nothing about this, let Xu Lei go, he sent an envoy to the old camp that continued to go south. At the same time, the loading of the Nantang battalion against the dead, the wounded, the captured, and the beheading was basically over.

In this battle, the Nantang battalion faced the Qing army five times its own with less than 500 soldiers, beheaded 592, captured nearly 1,000, and even Li Rong, the deputy general of the Qing army's commander and promoted the left battalion, was sent to Chen Wen's prisoner car by Xu Daqian, who betrayed his teammates. On the other hand, their losses were only 31 killed and 98 were seriously wounded.

The results of the battle are not rich, but this battle has also exposed a lot of problems. First of all these problems is configuration.

In this battle, the Qing army can be said to have all the vehicles, horses and artillery, cavalry and artillery, but the Nantang battalion has no artillery, and the quantity and quality of the cavalry are much lower than that of the opponent.

It's just that Chen Wen's "road repair" work along the way from beginning to end was too restricted, although the tiger squat cannon kept up with the queue, but the two Furlong machine guns were left behind, as for the horse trap in front of the formation, it also made the cavalry of the Qing army useless in this battle.

But this is also the case in such terrain, and in the future, in other terrains, once the Qing army gives full play to the mobility advantage of cavalry, the battle situation will be completely different.

The artillery captured a batch in this battle, several tiger squat guns, two Furlong machine guns, the number is not much, but it is really a relief for the Nantang battalion. It's just that the gunners still need to be retrained, at least Chen Wenke doesn't plan to use the waste gunners of the standard battalion to join his beloved Nantang battalion.

As for the war horses, don't mention this sad question, the cavalry of the Qing army has always been in the rear, and when the army was defeated, these cavalry ran away as soon as they slipped away, and only Li Rong and some officers who had no time to escape and their own soldiers' war horses were left, and the number was pitiful.

In addition to the configuration of troops, weapons are also a big problem, and the effect of the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team is still satisfied by Chen Wen, but the Chinese Army Firearms Team in the Nantang Battalion in this battle still only has two teams of bird guns due to the production capacity of the Dalan Mountain Bird Guns, and the remaining eight teams are still using bows and arrows, which makes them particularly powerless when attacking those soldiers who are wearing double armor.

Although the weather in Zhejiang can only be dressed in two layers of armor at this time, who knows if it will be like this in the next battle, you can't count on the archers to shoot the face of the Qing army every time, so the firearms still have to be solved.

The next thing is training, not only the counter-artillery training needs to be put on the agenda, but even the fact that the soldiers of the Mandarin Duck Formation, who have been ordered to return to the queue after the attack on weekdays, to ensure the integrity of the formation, have also been generally violated in this battle, but since he has won, Chen Wen does not intend to be harsh, but more rigorous training is obviously imperative.

In addition, in this battle, almost none of the soldiers of the Nantang Battalion were damaged, not to mention the other teams, the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team is a formation that needs to be coordinated extremely much, and it is not possible to immediately form combat effectiveness by adding it to it. Each replacement of personnel leads to a decrease in combat effectiveness for a period of time.

The problem now is that the opponent he faced here is very different from Qi Jiguang's era, although it has only been a few decades, but artillery has become a regular weapon of the regular army, such weapons that ignore armor and shields are really a big threat to the invincible mandarin duck array in the confrontation of pure cold weapons, Chen Wen can rely on the vertical formation to reduce the hit surface, but once hit by a shell, the long card and rattan card will not be better than the protection of a piece of paper.

Damage means that the combat effectiveness is reduced, and the battlefield healing ability of the mandarin duck array is not very strong, and this victory lies in the exquisite formation is precisely too delicate to lead to its weakness in the face of artillery, or to improve the battlefield healing ability, or to use other battle formations in the main position to deal with, or to learn from Qi Jiguang to toss out the car and artillery battalion, horse battalion, and baggage battalion to cooperate with the infantry battalion, otherwise it will suffer a great loss when fighting with the Qing army in the plain terrain in the future.

The last and most important point is the issue of command in battle, which is the most important of all problems for Chen Wen, and it is precisely because of the gap in battlefield experience that he was almost overturned by Li Rong this time. Fortunately, Chen Wen had already thought of the solution, but how to do it well still needs to move forward in exploration.

All in all, Chen Wen won this battle mainly because of his control of the terrain and his understanding of the Qing army's combat methods, and more importantly, the formation of the Mandarin Duck Formation and his own courage. Comparatively speaking, Li Rong lost at the point of underestimating the enemy, and rashly marched and attacked without knowing the details of the opponent, and was beaten to death by the Nantang battalion with a fist.

It's just that after this war, casualties of such a scale will inevitably make the Qing army, at least Tian Xiong's standard battalion have a lot of defensive psychology against the Nantang battalion, and I am afraid that there will never be such a good opportunity to fight the sticks in the future.

However, victory is victory, with 500 troops to face more than 2,500 Qing troops, their own side killed more than 30 people, wounded less than 100 people, and the Qing army was beheaded nearly 600, and the prisoners were nearly 1,000.

Although many of the beheadings came from the Ming army occupying the battlefield according to the custom of the wounded soldiers of the Qing army that could not escape, before the Geneva Conventions came out, this was also a very normal thing, after all, few people were willing to waste time and medicine on the enemy who had just fought for their lives, rather than let them die in wailing, mending the knife was a more humane choice.

Whether it is for the sake of motivating the soldiers to train harder, or the news that the Shaoxing Green Camp has gone to Xinchang to relieve the siege just received from Xu Lei, it should boost morale again.

"The soldiers of the Nantang battalion." Chen Wence stood in the center of the crowd. "In the first battle of Siming Lake, Wang Shi was betrayed by traitors, the whole army was annihilated, and our department was ordered to cover the retreat of the people. However, the Tartars wanted to exterminate the heart of our Dalanshan Wangshi and did not die, so they sent an absolutely superior force, led by the executioner who was stained with the blood of my Siming Mountain Wangshi, and Li Rong, the deputy general of the left battalion, to chase and kill the rest of my Dalanshan Wangshi. ”

"In order to cover the evacuation of the people, Ben decided to line up behind the palace to meet the Tartars. In this battle, relying on the blessing of the ancestral gods, the guidance of the heroic spirit of the Han family, relying on the lives of the soldiers, fighting hard, and the feat of advancing against the Tartar artillery fire, our department can win. As he spoke, Chen Wen looked around and saluted.

"In this battle, my Nantang battalion defeated five times the Tartars with less than 500 soldiers, beheaded 592 levels, captured 919 people, captured no calculation, and captured Li Rong, the deputy general of the left battalion of the Tartar commander, and rescued hundreds of Han sisters who were captured by the Tartars."

"Gentlemen, our fight today not only won the life of the people behind us, but also avenged the loyal and brave soldiers who died on the shore of Siming Lake!" Saying this, Chen Wen took a deep breath, and then released the long-suppressed emotions in his heart with a louder voice.

"Avenge the living and avenge the dead, kill thieves and protect the people, and rebuild peace. My Nantang Camp - mighty! ”

"Mighty!"

"Mighty!"

"Mighty!"

“……”

Although there were not many casualties on the spot, more than 20 percent of the army's men were lightly wounded, and they won the brilliant result of beheading more than their own troops and taking nearly twice as many prisoners.

The effort of more than three months has paid off, and the sweat and blood that have been splashed in this battle have not been in vain. During this time, every soldier of the Nantang Battalion raised their weapons in their hands and raised their arms and shouted, and even the wounded soldiers who were resting on the cart were also supported by their comrades to chant this slogan of victory.

For a time, in the sky south of Siming Mountain, the victor's bold words and hope for the future soared into the sky!

Note 1: The Dinghai here is actually the current Zhenhai in Ningbo, not the Dinghai in Zhoushan. Ningbo Zhenhai was called Dinghai in the Ming Dynasty, but in the Southern Ming Dynasty, because Zhoushan was occupied by the Ming army several times, the Qing court changed Zhoushan to Dinghai, and Ningbo's Dinghai was changed to Zhenhai, in order to ask for good luck from the name.

PS: The original plan,This chapter and the next chapter are four full chapters.,This chapter was written last night.,But when it came time to send it, the author still deleted it and rewrote it.。 This battle has long been over by now, and the story of this volume is also finished, and the next volume is about to begin, and there is no need to write too much, it seems too long-winded.

PS: This is yesterday's chapter, today starts New Year's Day off, go out to meet a friend in the afternoon, try to come back early in the evening, there should be another chapter before 12 o'clock.