When I discovered the wolf smoke in Zhengjiawu Town, it was already afternoon. Before that www.biquge.info Chen Wen planned to spend one or two hours to end the battle on the northern front, return to Zhengjiawu Town in the evening to rest, and then return to Quzhou to meet the main force of the Qing army there. Unexpectedly, this series of events completely disrupted his plan.

In fact, from the beginning of the strange revelations of the Qing army in the direction of Quzhou, Chen Wen and his staff officers had already realized the possibility of Hong Chengchou advancing to a stalemate and waiting to break the situation.

If the Ming army wants to break the situation, it must use the advantage of internal combat to break through the Qing army on each of these multiple fronts. On the other hand, if the Qing army wants to liberate itself from the stalemate, it must try to break through at one point. The Qing army on the southern front in the direction of Quzhou was unable to advance an inch due to the existence of the Qujiang River and the Ming army's water camp, and the presence of the eastern front was almost zero, so there was only the heavy army group on the northern front, especially after receiving the information that the Qing army was using the epidemic to attack the defenders, Chen Wen and her staff department were even more convinced of this possibility.

After all, the banner of the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison was placed there, and the large-caliber Hongyi artillery used last time also appeared on the battlefield, so that from Chen Guobao and Yu Shizhong on the northern front to Chen Wen and Lou Jiye in Quzhou, no one in the Ming army from top to bottom, from near to far, suspected that there would be adulteration.

For this reason, Chen Wen chose the trick of repairing the plank road in the Ming Dynasty and darkening Chen Cang, and quickly transferred to the fortress of Anhua Town, striving to defeat the Qing army on the northern front in one fell swoop, and after relieving the pressure on the northern front, he gathered all his forces to return to the main force of the Qing army on the Quzhou defense line for a decisive battle. But along the way, the final answer was that the Dinghai General Military Standard Battalion was disguised as the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou Garrison, and almost all the baggage and heavy artillery and other things that could not be taken away with the lifting and lifting of the standard.

Hangzhou garrisoned the Eight Banners, whether it was the Qing army or the Ming army, they all agreed that it was far superior to those green battalion soldiers in terms of combat effectiveness, even if it was like Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie from Huang Degong, Li Benshen and Hu Maozhen from Gao Jie brought out the old foundations of the four towns in Jiangbei, they may not be able to do so. Those Han Eight Banner Army are basically not the Dongjiang Army, the Guanning Army and other Liaodong Han people who survived the suffering, or the soldiers and horses of other Ming Dynasty Nine Sides and the elite troops of the Northern Qing Dynasty.

There is a way that good steel is used on the blade, and because of this, Hong Chengchou will definitely use this as the key to breaking the game. It's just that what Chen Wen didn't expect was that Hong Chengchou did not pin all his hopes on germ warfare, which he didn't know if it was effective, but found another way to use the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison and its reinforcements in other directions. There is no doubt that this direction can only be Jinhuafu, because only there is enough strategic value!

"The hurried march returned to Zhengjiawu Town, and passed on the commander's order to let the camp in Zhengjiawu Town prepare drinking water. After entering the camp, I had dinner, left all my baggage, and returned to Jinhuafu City at full speed! ”

The beacon fire was lit in the afternoon, and if nothing else, the Qing army would have threatened there not long ago. Zhengjiawu Town is one hundred and twenty or thirty miles away from Jinhua Mansion, and hopefully, it is still too late......

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Lanxi County is located at the intersection of the Lanjiang River, the Dongyang River and the Qujiang River, and its city is located in the east of the Lanjiang River, which is only more than 30 miles away.

This distance is normally two days, but at this moment the Qing army has controlled the waterway in this area, although it seems that the Qiantang Water Division is not very smooth, but from there and the Taizhou Water Division transferred those troop transport ships are still intact, the Qing Army spent half a morning to reload the army attacking Lanxi County, and then slowly sailed towards Jinhua against the current of the Dongyang River. Only the cavalry, due to the inconvenience of boarding, continued to advance under the guidance of the guide.

Similar to the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty as reinforcements also drew a number of Niu Lu from each banner, and followed Shi Tingzhu from Beijing by their respective Jia Lae Zhen, and after entering Hangzhou, they were stationed in the full city of Hangzhou, and they were not allowed to go out of the city until everything was ready.

Wuzhen Chaoha, which means heavy army, was originally used as an artillery unit in the Manchu army, and was only the most Manchurian Eight Banners in the arms supplement. The first Wu Zhenchao Haang Bang Zhangjing was called Tong Yangxing, an old traitor, and his deputy and successor after his death was Shi Tingzhu, who came from this handsome army.

Later, with the surge of the Han people in the Manchu army, Wuzhen Chaoha was also constantly expanding, first divided into left and right wings, and then divided into eight, with a solid mountain for every two flags, and finally became the current Han Eight Banner Army.

Compared with Shi Tingzhu, Liu Zhiyuan's qualifications are much shallower, but Wuzhen Chaoha is divided into eight, and Ma Guangyuan, who is yellow and inlaid with yellow flags, was later seized of his post before becoming Gushan Ezhen, which is far inferior to veteran figures such as Shi Tingzhu.

Shi Tingzhu is one of the eight families of the Han Army Banner Shi family first began to serve the Manchu Qing Dynasty, its people in the Han Army Banner and the Manchu Qing Dynasty court has a great influence, although this time only led the reinforcements, but Liu Zhiyuan, who hung the seal of the general of Pingnan, was far from being able to compete with it, and everything along the way was headed by Shi Tingzhu, only in matters involving the geography of Zhejiang and other things that Shi Tingzhu was not clear about.

After several hours of driving, the army arrived at the expected landing point in the afternoon, a small pier a few miles from the city of Jinhuafu, and then began the landing. It was not until the afternoon that this elite force with 8,000 Han troops and eight banners completed the landing, quickly marched towards the city of Jinhuafu, and soon approached the city.

For the arrival of the Qing army, Yin Yue, the chief soldier of Jinhua Town, was not ignorant, but it was difficult to figure out how many Qing troops were coming with the beacon fire alone, and today, when the messenger sent by the defenders of Lanxi County rushed here, he hurriedly notified Guo Zhigang, the same governor who acted as the prefect of Jinhua, to organize the people to go to the city to assist in the defense, and brought in the hundreds of recruits who were still training in the recruit training camp in the east of the city.

Abandoning the outside of the city is an inevitable choice, because there is only one Dongyang battalion and more than 200 defenders and guards from various yamen and warehouses, and even if these recruits are pulled in, it will not reach 3,000 soldiers. What they had to face was the banner of the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison, and it was said that the number of troops would never be less than 6,000.

At this moment, Yin Yue can only rely on these soldiers, as for those auxiliary soldiers and the people who assist in the defense, at most they throw rolling wood and stones at the head of the city to help the Ming army carry the guards and the wounded. As for Chen Wen's army, although he knew the general trend as the chief soldier of Jinhua Town, he didn't know much about the specific process.

The only thing he could do right now was to hold on and try to wait for Chen Wen to return to his teacher. However, when he noticed the movement of the Qing army, he was like falling into an ice cellar.

In the distance, the Qing army of the brigade began to appear in the field of vision, and the cavalry of the brigade spread out in an orderly manner, tightly guarding any direction, but the total number of cavalry dispatched was much smaller than the green battalion he had seen before. Immediately afterwards, the main force of the Qing army began to push those artillery carriages to come slowly, and in Yin Yue's glasses, it seemed that a green battalion officer was guiding them straight to Tongyuanmen. And after they set up a formation under the city, they pointed the muzzles of their cannons at a city wall on the side of Tongyuan Gate without exception.

Yin Yue knew very well that it was the gap where the Qing army entered the city during the Jinhua Massacre, and although it was hastily repaired later, it was far less solid than other city walls. The Qing army obviously learned about this move, but what he didn't expect was that the officer of the green battalion was from the account of Liu Guangbi, the governor of Jiangxi, and Liu Guangbi was one of the accomplices of Boluo and Ma Jinbao when he was Tu Jinhua!

After the Qing army arrived, they did not even carry out the minimum persuasion to surrender, and directly ordered the siege of the city. Although there are no large-caliber Hongyi cannons, there are a lot of artillery pieces in the Qing army.

With that command, the newly loaded artillery let out an earth-shattering roar in unison. In an instant, the position of the Qing army was completely shrouded in gunsmoke, while the Ming army guarding the city wall only felt a burst of earthquake and shaking.

A large number of cannonballs hit the city wall, unlike the fortress, which can be relieved of part of the force with the help of the angle of the convex corner, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting the wall, the city wall of Jinhuafu City is still the original kind of old-fashioned city wall. Facing the bombardment of artillery fire, I only felt that the city walls under my feet began to shake under this series of impacts, and when the first round of shelling was over, except for most of the shells that did not reach the firing range, the rest left large or small marks on the walls.

Moments later, the second round of shelling began, and this time the Qing gunners were far more confident than just before in terms of the angle of the muzzle and the medicine, and soon hit most of the shells on the city wall, and blasted down large swaths of bricks, revealing the inner wall that had begun to have fine particles being shaken down.

After a while, the third round of artillery bombardment of the Qing army began, because the wall bricks were no longer there, and it was no longer those small particles that were shaken, but more large or small clods of soil began to be hit by the bombardment of this cannon and cannon again, and even the soldiers above felt that the shaking amplitude under their feet was getting bigger and bigger.

Knowing that the city wall was afraid that it would be difficult to bear it any longer, the officers of the Ming army began to call the soldiers and people on the city wall to retreat, and even the people behind the city wall were quickly evacuated to the area near the left.

Then, round after round of shelling, the more the wall was broken, and the amplitude of the shaking increased. It wasn't until a long time later that only a loud bang was heard, and the city wall began to collapse in a crumbling state, and the flying dust instantly submerged the surrounding area of hundreds of meters, and after that, there was the cheers of the Qing army. (To be continued.) )