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The New Year is approaching, and the snow is falling, because it is the agricultural slack season, most of the people from all over the south of the Yangtze River are pouring into the local county town to work part-time, wanting to earn some silver and make this year more abundant.

Now it happens that the war in the west is urgent, and all factories, especially in the military industry, need a large number of laborers, even if all the peasants go to the county town to work for a short time, there is no need to worry about finding work.

The common people are making money happily, and the soldiers on the front line are also actively preparing for war, perhaps this battle a year ago will determine the fate of Nanming in the future..........

Nanjing, on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, Li Hongfei looked at the Yangtze River from afar, and saw the new warship led by Zheng Chenggong rushing to the battlefield, which was the first battle of the steamer, and also the decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing army on the Yangtze River waterway.

After winning, the Ming Navy Division officially took over the Yangtze River and coerced the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, as long as Zhu Youzhen was willing, the Ming army could cross the river at any time and go on a northern expedition.

Defeated, the two group armies near Chibi will be caught in the front and rear attacks, and even due to the emptiness of Nanjing's defense, Qi Hongying's Second Army must retreat south of the Yangtze River again, and three years of hard work will become a failure.

If the battle to defend Nanjing two years ago was to hang the last breath of the Ming Dynasty, then this Red Cliff War will determine who will finally win the Central Plains between the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

"What day is it?" Li Hongfei suddenly turned his head and asked Wang Guoxing, who came to see him off.

"Huh? ....... Oh! Today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the Stove King Festival (small year). Wang Guoxing didn't react for a while, but he still knew what festival it was today.

Xiao Nian is a traditional festival of the Han nationality in China, also known as Xie Zao, Sacrificial Stove Festival, Stove King Festival, and Sacrificial Stove.

The date is different in different places, in the 23rd or 24th or 25th lunar month (in ancient times, there was a tradition of "official three people, four boats and five" for the small year, that is, the official family's small year is the 23rd month of the lunar month, the common people's family is the 24th lunar month, and the water people are the 25th lunar month.

Li Hongfei, Wang Guoxing and others are all government personnel, and this small year will naturally pass today.

"Hey! The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I don't know if I can have peace of mind this year! Li Hongfei sighed.

"Don't worry, this year, you will be able to live a very comfortable life!" Wang Guoxing affirmed.

Wang Guoxing's military command ability is indeed not very good, but as an intelligence chief, the analysis of the situation is still very accurate, the combat effectiveness of the new Ming army, has reached the level of the peak of the Ming army, and with a variety of powerful firearms, even in the face of several times the enemy army, it can not fall behind.

The comparison of the military strength of the Southern Ming and Qing armies has been completely transformed after the completion of the national military reform.

Wang Guoxing's analysis is indeed correct, just near the place where the Fifth Division fought with the Guanning Iron Cavalry, Li Hongfei's First Army of 100,000 horses and horses dragged Haoge's 400,000 troops to the death, making it difficult for the other party to take another step forward.

In two consecutive days of fierce fighting, Hauge sent Ao Bai as the vanguard, leading 50,000 infantry troops and more than 700 large and small artillery pieces to attack Stilwell's Third Army day and night from the front.

At the same time, he ordered Wu Sangui to lead 100,000 Yueyang defenders to attack Guo Sheng's first army from the flank.

Ao Bai is known as the "first warrior of the Qing Dynasty", on the battlefield is unambiguous, Hauge ordered him to attack, he is really real, regardless of casualties, 50,000 infantry troops for two days and two nights to attack the third army without stopping.

If Hauge hadn't found out that the losses were too heavy and ordered Aobai to withdraw and recuperate, it is estimated that all 50,000 people would have to fight out.

Ao Bai is indeed brave, but that is only the courage of the horseman, in the face of cold weapons, maybe he can be a hundred, but the firearms troops rely on guns, even if it is an iron wall, there are heavy artillery to smash, just "the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty" on the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of people, it is really nothing.

Moreover, he was still facing the Third Army, which was known for its defense, and Stilwell, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, was also the direct commander of the Third Army, so he was naturally biased in terms of weapons, and even the guard brigade directly under the First Army was transferred to the Third Army to assist in garrisoning.

The Guard Brigade, also known as the Independent Brigade, is the only brigade-level combat unit of the First Group Army, and its responsibility is mainly responsible for guarding the top echelons of the Group Army, and its equipment is the best and most advanced in the entire First Group Army.

Each of the three infantry regiments of the Independent Brigade was equipped with a Furlong gun, in addition to being fully equipped with new rifles.

Although the artillery performance of the artillery regiment is not much different from that of the rest of the regiments, the number of artillery pieces is indeed twice that of the rest of the artillery regiments, and there are 200 field guns alone.

The Third Army cooperated with the Independent Brigade of nearly 40,000 people, and it can be said that it was easy to defeat 50,000 infantry.

The rate of fire of the breech-loading rifle even caught up with the archers, and in the case of two sides firing at each other, the archers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not even have the only advantage in the rate of fire.

Haoge's two yellow flags, I thought it was fighting with the Dashun army, although the new Ming army paid enough attention, but the tactical routine still could not be changed, as a result, two days down, the frontal battlefield Ming army casualties were less than 500 people, and Aobai's men, but the casualties were as high as 20,000, Haoge's first confrontation, it suffered a big loss.

However, Wu Sangui, who attacked the flank, suffered relatively slight losses because he had learned the previous lesson, and the 100,000 army only suffered more than 5,000 casualties.

But it's no wonder that these soldiers are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, all of them are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they don't dare to rush forward when they start a battle.

If it weren't for Guo Sheng's violent temper, he asked his subordinates to send a division to launch a surprise attack, fought a beautiful counterattack, and annihilated nearly 3,000 enemy troops, maybe he would not have had this record of killing 5,000 enemies.

In addition to the Third Army and the First Army, Zhang Chao's Second Army was even sent to harass the flanks and rear of Haoge's army as a regiment.

Hauge claims to be an army of 500,000 people, and his army is spread over a wide area, separated by more than 40 miles before and after, and with the current means of transportation, it will take a lot of time for reinforcements to really move.

Zhang Chao used the regiment as a unit to constantly harass the enemy's marginal areas, especially those garrisons that surrendered troops, as long as he seized the opportunity, he took a bite, and in just two days, he ate more than 10,000 horses of the other side.

In order to prevent similar incidents, Hauge had to send his only 50,000 cavalry, which was on standby all day to support all parts of the country.

The Qing army had a good offensive battle, and was unconsciously led into a defensive battle by the Ming army, and Haoge was also very helpless, so he could only hope that Daishan could launch an attack on Wuchang sooner, and after taking Wuchang, he would attack the Ming army stationed in Chibi..........

On the twenty-fifth day of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, Wuchang in the early morning, the temperature was extremely low, a heavy snow a few days ago, so that the entire Wuchang area became a white world, and now the snow has stopped, but the northwest wind is still blowing, which is very unfavorable to the Qing army's crossing of the river.

"According to the downstream spies 800 miles expedited, the Ming army has hundreds of big ships, heading upstream, the day before yesterday has already passed Nanjing, should we be on guard?" Handai, the secretary of the military department, said.

This Han Dai can be said to be Duoduo's henchman, Duoduo was the logistics supervisor responsible for the deployment of military quarters, Duoduo is now the deputy governor of the naval division, and Han Dai has become his intelligence officer.

Of course, Han Dai's real position this time was still quartermaster, and the Qing army's naval division was not only responsible for dealing with the Nanming naval division and covering the army's crossing of the river, but also responsible for transporting grain and grass.

In the name of mobilizing grain and grass, Han Dai followed Duoduo's side and helped the other party to get information.

Zheng Chenggong's hundreds of big ships were traveling in the Yangtze River, and anyone who was not blind could see it, so the Qing army was not surprised at all when he learned the news.

"Hundreds of large warships? How big is the whole warship? And the other side's warship, where is it now? Governor Azig asked.

Hundreds of large warships, that is not a small number, the Qing army did have more than 2,000 warships, but the large warships were less than 500, the rest are small and medium-sized warships, otherwise how could the shipyard built in two years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty build so many warships?

According to the proportion of warship configuration in the Ming Dynasty, this should be a fleet of five hundred warships.

"It's also interesting to say, the intelligence said that this time, only large warships, and all of them are lucky ships, their speed is only about two knots, not long ago the spies came again to report, the fleet only arrived near Chizhou yesterday afternoon." Han Dai replied truthfully.

In order to paralyze the enemy, Zheng Chenggong did not start the steam engine at all, but used the sail to advance, so Han Dai got the wrong information.

Soon, Azig and Duoduo found the location of Chizhou on the military map.

"This speed is really slow enough to ........" Duoduo looked at the map, his eyes were full of disdain: "Two days ago, because of the snow, the northwest wind was not so violent, but today is different, under such a strong wind, it would be good for this fleet to reach the mouth of the lake now, I am afraid that if they are given two more days, they will not be able to reach Huarong (this Huarong is not Huarong, it is Huarong County in Ezhou, Hubei, fifty miles east of Wuchang, and it is also the location of this Qing army's landing), and we can land today, and wait for the Ming army to solve the Ming army in Chibi, Just free up your hands to eat these 100 big ships! ”

Azig and Duoduo are not stupid, the first time they covered the army crossing the river, the Ming army sailors did not come to harass them, they understood that the purpose of the Ming army was to prevent the second crossing of the river, so the two put a lot of effort into the water war.

Covering the army's crossing of the river was just a pretense, and the key was to solve the more than 1,000 Ming warships near Chibi.

There will be a turning point in the waterway near Huarong County, and the river channel will become from north to south, and the water battle at that time, although it will also be beneficial to the upstream Ming army and water division, but the effect is not so obvious, the Ming army can use the northwest wind, and the Qing army at that time can also be.

The allusions to the Battle of Chibi are too profound, and both the Ming Army and the Qing Army have already touched it very thoroughly.

"But I'm still a little worried, why did the other party dare to send hundreds of warships to send hundreds of warships to die now, knowing that the Yangtze River waterway was now being taken by my Great Clear Water Division? After all, even if it is desperate, it needs to be assisted by small and medium-sized warships! Azig was still a little uneasy.

After suffering Li Hongfei's secret losses several times, Azig became more cautious.

Like the situation of the Ming Army's sailors going deep alone this time, he always felt that it was a trap, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

"What's there to worry about, maybe the other party doesn't have many large warships in Chibi, so this time I want to equip some large warships to supplement, the Ming Army Navy has only more than one hundred and fifty large warships in Chibi this time, and the number of small and medium-sized warships is obviously in surplus, and it is normal to supplement some large warships." In order to make up his mind for Azig, Duoduo even directly helped the Ming army think of a reason.

After all, when the combined fleet was formed before, Yan Yingyuan only sent small and medium-sized warships to join, and the ratio of Ming warships was indeed a big problem, which was also the main reason why Zheng Chenggong dared to lead the warships to swagger westward.

In this era when there were no electric lights, the navy did not have the habit of fighting at night, the waterway of the Yangtze River was not spacious, and the ships were already very reluctant to sail at night.

It is not difficult to use a boat at night to pass through the enemy's naval division's defense area, even if the Ming army lays mines, it is difficult to prevent the Qing army's naval division from breaking through the defense area at night, let alone dealing with the Ming naval division.

Therefore, Duoduo's explanation is reasonable, the reason why the Ming army sent large warships over this time was to break through the defense line of the Qing army's naval division at night and join the main force of the Ming army's naval division in Chibi.

"That's okay, according to the original plan, we will mainly guard against the Ming army sailors in Chibi, and the matter of covering the crossing of the river by the army will be handed over to Zuo Mengeng's sailors." Azig thought about it for a long time, and finally ordered it to be carried out according to the original plan.

Zuo Mengeng's sailors can transport about 30,000 troops across the river at a time, and 200,000 soldiers and horses under Dai Shan's command will take two days to complete the transportation, but this is the safest way, this battle is very critical for the Qing army, and no one dares to take risks easily.

As for the more than 100 Ming warships that went upstream, as Azig said, the speed was too slow, and by the time these warships arrived in Huarong County, the battle would have already ended, so there was no need to worry at all.

The reason why Azig is so confident is that the experience accumulated in China for thousands of years is that it is impossible for a large warship to be fast in the case of headwinds, which is an unchangeable fact.........

Historically, there are different opinions on the specific location of Cao Cao's defeat of Huarong Road, but the focus of the general controversy is Yueyang Huarong County west of Chibi and Ezhou Huarong east of Wuchang.

As for the specific location of Huarong Road back then, everyone is not clear, but the location of the Qing army crossing the river this time, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and chose Ezhou.