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By the time the two sides officially met, it was already early October. At this time in the north, the first snow of winter has fallen in many places, while in the south, autumn is still a remnant. The eastern front of the Fu Han army was placed in Jiangyan Town, and the main force of the Qing army stayed in Hai'an Town. The big war is about to break out, and the heavy and solemn atmosphere does not feel that even the battle in Jiangnan has weakened by three points. There are too many eyes on this battle.

I don't know who took the lead first, and now there is a 'rumor' spread all over the south of the Yangtze River: if the Fu Han army wins this battle, then a big event can be expected. All of a sudden, the significance of the Battle of Northern Jiangsu was raised to N levels.

Although this battle was indeed important to the Fu Han army, it was much more important in Chen Ming's eyes than the Battle of the Rolling River.

The Qing army stood firm and immediately sent a horse team to infiltrate Jiangyan Town. However, this place in Taizhou, to the south and north, is crisscrossed by waterways, and it is not suitable for large groups of cavalry to enter at all. Only due east, the large area between Taizhou City and Jiangyan Town, cannot be said to have no river ditch, but is much less than that of the north and south.

Chen Ming's choice of Taizhou as the decisive battle place is not without a head. The waterways from north to south limited the interspersed flank attacks of the Qing army's horse team, and also made the Qing army's horse team lose a large piece of deterrence.

In a head-to-head showdown, Chen Ming's requirements for this battle are only two words - decisive victory!

The Fu Han army must win!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Several shotguns shot at the Qing army horses who were wandering outside the position, and the broken shotguns were like a big net falling from the sky. The Qing horsemen never stopped, and the cavalry on horseback clamped their horses when they heard the sound of cannons, and let their mounts run faster. But the tail was still slightly caught by the shotgun.

The thumb-sized iron pellet is like a sharp arrow shot by a giant crossbow, not to mention the small body of a person, it is the big body of a war horse, once it hits, it is also a bullet or two eyes, and it shoots out holes one by one, but it is not that shallow blood hole.

Duan Yonggui was startled by the shattered corpse behind him. After so many years in the army, he has seen many dead people, but he has never seen a group of people die so miserably. More than a dozen riders fell to the ground, whether it was a man or a horse, and not all of them died. But the splashed blood, the white brains, the arms and legs that were knocked off by the iron pills, and the big snow caves on the body, no matter how many people and horses have no way to live, Duan Yonggui who saw it felt cold in his heart.

As the hereditary leader of the white banner of the Han army, Duan Yonggui is not yet thirty years old this year, and he served as a general in Handan. After the green battalion of Zhili gathered, Wang Jintai transferred him to the horse team and led two or three hundred cavalry with the rank of general, which was very aggrieved, but Duan Yonggui felt that it was far safer to lead the horse team than to continue to lead the green battalion, and the horses ran fast. But now, it seems that the danger of this horse team is not small.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Several three-pound cannons rang out, and Duan Yonggui saw a few iron bullets sliding from the sky from a distance, which frightened him and kicked the horse's belly. The iron bullet didn't seem to be fast, but it came to me in a blink of an eye. "Boom ......" two more screams came from behind.

Duan Yonggui led the horse team to float five miles away from the position, and the Fu Han army was finally settled.

"Military Gate. Chen Rei's police force is five miles away, as long as the men and horses are not close to Chen Re's camp five miles, they will turn a blind eye. But once that line is crossed, the cannon is like a thunderbolt, and the thunder ......" Duan Yonggui also tutored twice in the process of the army going south, and gained a lot of knowledge, and knew what a shotgun is and what a flowering bomb is, and what the Fu Han army beat him was a shotgun and a flowering bomb.

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The Qing army divided the troops into three groups, the main force was located in the central part, and their battlefield was also the most suitable area for the large army to fight, the north and south flanks were not many troops, marching in the area of the waterway, according to the reconnaissance of the scouts, the Qing army on the two routes was only 10,000 people.

According to the summary statistics of various intelligence, the artillery of the Qing army is about 130. About 30 of them were the second batch of cannons sold by the Portuguese to the Manchus, mainly 12-pounder guns, with 6-pounder and 8-pounder guns. It was clear that the Portuguese in Macau simply could not afford to raise too many cannons for the Manchus in a short period of time. The rest is the old bottom of Beijing's Jingqi and the recent production of the three artillery factories in Beijing.

The cannons of the Fu Han army were 250 pieces, mainly five-jin guns, with a small number of three-jin guns and eight-jin guns, and all kinds of ammunition were piled up, which would be Chen Ming's biggest capital to win this duel.

Chen Ming hoped that the Qing army would take the initiative to attack Jiangyan Town and Taizhou. The Fu Han army stayed in Taizhou for many days and made a lot of arrangements, if the Fu Han army turned from defense to attack, it would have wasted too much effort.

"Jiangyan Town seems to be just a town, but it should not be underestimated. Tomorrow's frontal attack on Jiangyan is just a pretense, the elite of our army is placed on the south road, and the attack is launched from the south road, breaking through the obstruction of the opposing party, and quickly going around to the rear of Jiangyan Town, cutting off its connection with Taizhou City. ”

"Whether it will be a storm or a siege at that time will depend on the situation."

Feng Shengyi played his first hand, and the plan seems to be very good. When the army on the middle road launched a feint attack and the main force on the south road rushed forward, he also asked the team on the north road to also approach Taizhou as much as possible, which was quite hidden.

The military order was handed down, and the meal would be made on the fourth watch tomorrow, and the army would attack when the sleepiness was the strongest in the second half of the night. Feng Sheng's forehead simply explained his plan and asked the generals of each battalion to go down and prepare. There is nothing to hide about this kind of thing, after all, the entire battle plan was not finalized and formulated by him alone, and the general generals and deputy generals did not know, but Hailancha, Wang Jintai and the general soldiers of all walks of life knew it for a long time.

And now the sun is in the west. It is also time to inform the whole army and prepare for tomorrow's war.

The news was easily detected by the dark camp. In the second half of the night, the news was passed to Chen Ming, and Chen Ming, who was woken up in his sleep, saw the news and suddenly became sleepy. "Okay, the Qing army took the initiative to call."

"Order Miao Fuwei to let him settle down and defend Jiangyan Town." Miao Fuwei was the first non-third-surnamed son in the expeditionary force to be a commander. But he is from Ruzhou.

"No." The herald turned and left.

"Tell Gao Qiao that the North Road will nail me down. If the Qing army easily kills the north of Taizhou, I will pick off his head. ”

"No."

"Ordered Huang Jie to lead the main force to retreat to ......, Taidong Town overnight. Always be ready to attack, listen to my orders. ”

"No."

"Tell Nanlu that the Qing army will attack tomorrow morning, and they will ...... Be firm in your fight. At least give me the top until the dawn. ”

Chen Ming knew exactly who he was putting on the South Road, and it was unrealistic to expect them to resist the onslaught of the elite of the Qing army. It is foreseeable that when the Qing army storms the southern road, there will be no shortage of artillery. But if you work hard, it's still quite okay to fight until dawn.

At dawn, the sky gradually brightened. The Qing army outflanked Jiangyan Town from the flank, and no matter how narrow the Yunyan River was in the middle, it was also a river. The elite of the Qing army wanted to cross the river, and it was not like walking on the ground. How can you waste some time on them, then the sky will be bright, the morning fog will dissipate, and the army will attack, whether it is to eat the elite of this Qing army, or to defeat the elite of this Qing army, it will be a great thing.

After the grand strategy is arranged, what follows is the clever little means. For example, scouts were sent to infiltrate the Qing soldiers, looking for opportunities to assassinate the generals and officers of the Qing army, as well as the artillery team that accurately reconnoitred the Qing soldiers.

It's a dirty idea, but it also really works. In the past, it was not uncommon for scouts of the Fu Han army to pretend to be scouts and heralds of the Qing army, and directly beheaded enemy generals. Later, the Qing army learned to be obedient and was heavily guarded, at least the horse probes and heralds were very strict, and this kind of good thing never happened again.

However, it is very useful to assassinate the middle-level military attachés of the Qing army in the chaos of the army, to reconnoiter the location and number of artillery positions of the Qing army, and even to probe the follow-up reserves of the Qing army.

Chen Ming didn't feel sleepy at all now, looking at his pocket watch, there was only half an hour left before Yinshi, that is, three o'clock in the morning, and he was sitting here waiting for the war to start.

"This tea tastes too light, make me a pot of strong tea."

There was a big sand table on the table, and Chen Ming held a small red and black flag in his hand, which he kept inserting.

Time flies, half an hour, a few cups of tea. The sound of the Qing army's artillery reached Chen Ming's ears from Jiangyan Town.

"Report to the Metropolitan Governor, the Qing army went out in a big way and stormed Jiangyan Town." Liu Wu quickly delivered the news that had been sent before.

Chen Ming is undeniable. Jiang Yan Town didn't worry about it, "Focus on the south." Liu Wu went down quietly, and of course he was also focusing on the South Road, but the news of the South Road had not yet arrived.

The commander in charge of the guard of the South Road is the same as Gao Qiao, he is still a member of the Gao family, and he is an absolute close branch of the Gao family - Gao Pengyue, a cousin of Chen Ming's uncle.

I am forty years old. The position in the Gao family was like Chen Erbao in the Chen family. After joining the army, he was able to go all the way to the command position not because of how good he was in battle, but because he was serious and obedient.

He had a total of six battalion leaders, none of which were the main battalion. There are only 16 cannons, half of the three-pound cannon and half of the five-pound cannon. Although many positions and fortifications were built, they were all civil and masonry. In the face of the artillery of the Qing army, it is almost the same as paper paste.

"Tell Tang Wencan. He dared to take a step back now, and Commander Ben immediately cut him-"

At the same time as the cannon of the Qing army on the middle road sounded, the Qing army on the south road not only rang out the cannon, but even the men and horses rushed up. They also knew that there were fewer muskets of the Fuhan army on the opposite side, and it was dark now, and the men and horses of Hula took advantage of the night to pounce up.

Tang Wencan was put in the back vest by Gao Pengyue's knife, and no matter what, he had to fight hard. And the Qing soldiers who rushed up at this moment were also held against a knife in their vests. They are death battalions.

A thousand people were thrown into the first attack. The entire death battalion was divided into two in this attack, a small part of which accompanied Lian Yong in the middle battlefield, and most of the rest was placed on the south battlefield. The usefulness of these people is obvious, that is, 'there is no life and death'.

The grenades and tiger squat cannons equipped with Tang Wencan's battalion were fired one after another, and one group of people from the death battalion had not yet died, and the second group had already rushed up, still in the dark night, and the tiger squat cannon quickly lost its usefulness.

As for the artillery equipped on the south road, under the fierce artillery fire of the Qing army, the firepower of the counterattack has become moribund. The camp on the left side of Tang Wencan, Yuanmen was bombarded into pieces by shells, and no one could stand at all. The Fu Han army of that battalion was hit by dense artillery and dared to hide in the trenches.

The advantage of the Qing army was that there were many people. They can spare no manpower - the death battalion and the Shandong Lian Yong, forcing them to launch one charge after another, supplemented by elite soldiers like Huyi and rattan in the middle. It's like the raging sea that hits the seawall, and if you don't smash the seawall, you will never stop.

In just two attacks, within dozens of steps of the defense line of the Fu Han army, it was already a mess full of corpses and wounded, and the blood and cold wind solidified into reddish-brown, but the groups of forced death battalions and a few Lian Yong still rushed forward desperately, making Gao Pengyue shake his head speechlessly.

Due to the suppression of artillery, the counterattack of the Fu Han army was not very effective, the smoke and dust on the position were billowing up, the crowd was surging, the shouts shook the sky, and the eyes were shocked by the elite of the Qing army, after the soldiers of the death battalion and the Shandong Lian Yong wearing short coats and trousers consumed the two waves of the Fu Han army, the third wave, Hailancha, who supervised the battle, finally sent the elite of the Qing army.

The onslaught of the Qing army was wave after wave.

The weak artillery fire of the Han army on the southern road could not stop them at all, especially after the Qing soldiers saw the dawn of victory, these people showed really bravery. As long as you can break through the defense line of the Fu Han army, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver. That's twenty taels. (To be continued.) )