The Qing troops who landed from Dangtu County were not only harassed by various attacks during the day, but also encountered a frenzied attack by guerrillas after camping at night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The commanders of the squads of the Shenji Battalion are all officers transferred from the Suzhou New Army, and they all respect grenades very much, and when attacking the camp at night, they usually throw grenades first (grenades belong to internal combustion, and they can't see the fire at night, which is very suitable for sneak attacks), and after a wave of grenade strikes, the enemy camp is quickly illuminated by the firelight.

At this time, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion can raise their guns to aim, and after a round of guns, they will not be in love with war, and retreat quickly.

After arriving at a safe place, loading ammunition, and resting for a while, the commanders will take the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to the next location to attack.........

Since all the members of the Shenji Battalion are equipped with firearms, once the fire is fired, the sound can basically spread throughout the entire camp.

The loud noise, coupled with the cold guns released everywhere, made the Qing soldiers, everyone in danger, and they didn't have the heart to sleep at all.

More than 70 guerrilla units attacked in turn, so that almost every moment, the Qing army spent time in battle, and prepared for battle, although the casualties were not large, but such a tired method was enough to make the morale of the Qing army plummet, and even seriously affected the speed of the march on the second day.

Moreover, the Qing army was large in number and huge in ranks, although the losses in each place were not serious, but once they were summed up, there were more than 2,000 people, and they lost 2,000 soldiers in just one day of landing, and the most odious thing was that they did not even catch the shadow of the enemy, which was a very fatal blow to morale............

Fortunately, after two days of harassment, Azig was able to "spot" the temper of these guerrillas, knowing that they were small in number and extremely scattered, in order to delay the march of the Qing army.

At the same time, Azig also knew that there were many mountains nearby, and it was basically impossible to completely destroy the other party, and the most important thing now was to attack Nanjing.

As for this "dog skin plaster", if you like to stick, let them stick!

Speaking of firearms, although the Qing army disdained to use them, it did not mean that there were none, so in the subsequent march, Azig was on the periphery, and also arranged a large number of firearms soldiers for the Han Eight Banners that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

After several collisions, although the Shenji battalion was also slightly damaged, the Qing army still suffered a big loss, but at least it had the strength to defend itself, not to mention that the dead were all Han troops, and the Manchu and Mongolian armies in the middle did not lose anything.

And at night camping, Azig also sent Han Baqi on duty, and all the sleeping soldiers plugged their ears with cotton wool, so that the Qing army did not have to worry about the noise of guns and cannons so that they could not sleep.

On the third day, the vanguard of the Qing army marched sixty miles and reached the mountains near Yuhuatai..........

Fengtai Mountain is located in the northwest of Yuhuatai, and is named after Phoenix Terrace here.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the vanguard of the Qing army led by Azig had stopped at the corner of Fengtai Mountain and occupied the hills on both sides, intending to set up camp.

In the first two days, the Qing army was harassed by various attacks by the Ming army's Shenji battalion, and they were worried all day long, and they were not at peace.

"Maybe the enemy is also lacking, or he knows that he is powerless to stop my Qing army, so he is no longer doing that useless work." Some generals think so.

"Don't talk nonsense, the prince said, this group of Ming troops is cunning and abnormal, it's better to be careful, continue to send additional personnel on duty at night, and don't slack off." The leading general scolded.

"Huh!"

The generals who were trained hurriedly took the order to retreat, but they didn't think so, it has been three days since they crossed the river, and everyone has already "known everything about the small actions of the Ming army", not to mention that this vanguard army, nearly 30,000 people, with the strength of the Ming army, borrow a few of their courage, and dare not defend it head-on.

However, in order to prevent the enemy from being tired and disturbed, the soldiers of the Qing army continued to use cotton wool to plug their ears when they went to bed.

The Qing army was extremely confident, believing that the Ming army would not dare to really attack.

At this time, Zhang Chao, the commander of the Second Division, who was stationed near Shizigang (later Daidai Chrysanthemum) in Yuhuatai, had quietly come to Fengtai Mountain with a guard platoon at some point.

"Report to the division commander, the Qing army's forward troops are about 30,000 people, and they are less than 20 miles away from the main force of the Qing army, and the use of heavy artillery is afraid that it will soon attract the siege of the main force of the Qing army." An operational staff officer of the division headquarters looked at several pieces of information that had been summarized and quickly analyzed.

"Do you think that a division (10,000 people) will be able to wipe out all of its Qing army if it is full of firepower?" Zhang Chao began to count statistics.

"In the case of a raid........ Two hours? The operational staff officer was not so sure.

After all, it was the first large-scale corps operation, and it was difficult to get exact data on many things.

But up and down the Suzhou New Army, basically no one would think that they couldn't do the 30,000 people on the other side.

This is not some blind self-confidence, but the conclusion reached through professional data analysis that in terms of artillery, the Suzhou New Army is an all-firearms unit, and if it was placed in the past, it would be enough to be equivalent to the 40,000 Shenji Battalion troops of the Ming Army.

In addition, the Qing army has been running around for days, and it has been harassed by the Shenji Battalion in various ways, and it has already shown a state of exhaustion.

After all, the battlefields are too close to each other, and once they can't fight quickly and are caught up by the main force of the Qing army, the infantry army can retreat quickly, but those artillery pieces are estimated to be hanging.

For this annihilation battle, Zhang Chao concentrated the artillery of the whole division together, and once it was discarded, the combat effectiveness of the second division would be greatly reduced.

"Now there are still three hours before the general attack, contact the nearby Shenji Battalion, and let them attack separately as soon as the time (23 o'clock --- 1 o'clock) arrives, attacking and disturbing the main force of the Qing army and confusing the public. In addition, after letting Liu Shengli's three regiments go around, if the Shenji battalion fails to harass them, the three regiments will be tasked with blocking the enemy, and if the attack is successful, they will cooperate with the main force to clear the enemy. Before the start of the general attack, the artillery regiment had only a quarter of an hour to open fire, and within a quarter of an hour, it was as much as it could fight, and when the time came, it immediately retreated! Zhang Chao issued a combat mission.

With Zhang Chao's order issued, the command headquarters also began to get busy, and the combat staff handed over the combat orders one by one to the heralds and conveyed them to the regiment commanders below.

The first to move was Liu Shengli's Third Regiment, which was a fast-robbing regiment of the Second Division, mainly equipped with Furlong guns, flintlock pistols, and revolvers as standard equipment.

The revolver equipped by the three regiments was still privately intercepted by Zhang Chao in the previous battle at the south gate of Yangzhou, because this thing was very useful, and Li Hongfei did not ask for it to be recycled afterwards, and Zhang Chao took it for granted that he "took it for himself".

The first battalion of the Third Regiment was the battalion that participated in the Yangzhou landing battle, and it was also the veritable main battalion of the Second Division.