Chapter 161: The hearts of the people are scattered
[Today's first chapter, continue to ask for collection......]
In the Qing army camp and Yongrui military tent, a group of military bigwigs were all silent, and their breath was very silent.
Yongrui had a sad face, a pair of eyes staring at Fuyong, staring at Changxuan, staring at Ma Wenjie, and staring at Qi Jian'an......
How to curb the attack of the Chen Jiajun at night is a difficult problem that even veterans like Fuyong can't solve, let alone he, the 'Taiping General'. Yongrui knows his abilities, so he can only put his hope on his subordinates.
But these people in the big tent, they can't think of any way to stop the attack of the Chen family army at night, the attack and killing in the daytime directly let the whole Qing army face and stretch the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Chen family army, and now the morale of the Qing army is low.
His opponent has super hand-to-hand combat power, and with the powerful flying thunder cannon, this night battle is simply impossible to fight.
But before the sky is completely dark, this group of people in the big tent must come up with a definite defense method, and there is no way to be as passive as last night.
The sky is full of stars, and the moon is only a crescent moon, like a flat boat hanging in the sky. It's not a big deal, but it's a good opportunity to fight at night.
Although it is impossible to eat pork liver, sheep liver, chicken liver, and beef liver all day long, carrots, spinach, rape, camellia, horse, etc., in these appropriate seasons, these vegetables and wild vegetables will often appear in the soldiers' rice bowls. The proportion of night blindness in the Chen Jiajun was much smaller than that of the Qing soldiers.
When the clock comes to the end of the day, it is almost 9 o'clock in the evening when it is replaced by the 24-hour clock clock in the 21st century. Chen Ming led the team out of the Rolling Henan Camp, and soon got in touch with Huang Zitao's troops outside. The scouts led by Huang Zitao are an indispensable help for Chen Ming to fight at night, and if the team doesn't want to be cheated at night, the reconnaissance work must be watertight.
In the middle of the night, three Qing soldiers drove out of the camp, and their positions were determined by the reconnaissance troops early, and even the number of people was found to be eight or nine.
Chen Ming's first goal was to fight the nearest Qing army, which seemed to have only a small number of battalion heads, less than 500 people. However, the Qing army seemed to run quickly, and when they sensed that the Chen family army was killing them, they turned around and fled in the opposite direction. Chen Ming 'felt' in his heart that the morale of the Qing soldiers was not high, so he didn't take it to heart, and the army went directly to the Qing army camp to kill, but the scouts came to report, and the fleeing Qing soldiers came back!
"Governor Dadu, the Qing army is trying to contain us with a partial division." The battalion officers of the teaching brigade are not idiots, and Chen Dawei, who personally guards the right battalion, and Shi Meng, who guards the tank battalion, can also see the calculation of the Qing army. They just relied on the large number of soldiers and put some of them outside to contain the attack of the Chen family's army on their camp.
If this happened during the day, the cavalry battalion would immediately be able to teach them to be human again, but this was night, so Chen Ming would not risk his horse team. The south bank of the Rolling River was full of fields, and even though the war kept the peasants away from the area, and the fighting between the two sides destroyed a large area of crops, the remaining stubble and leaves in the fields, as well as the ditches and even ridges between the fields, were a danger to the horses.
Chen Ming's combat strength was only 3,000 people, and the rest of the soldiers and horses remained in Nanying. He was already short of troops, and he divided his troops [North Shore] twice, and his available combat power was even less. The Qing soldiers came out with three groups of men and horses, and the combined force was close to 2,000 people, if they rushed over, Chen Mingguang left a personal guard right battalion would not be enough, and the tank battalion should also be held in his hands to suppress the formation, so that the troops available for attack would only be 2,000 people.
With two thousand Chen family troops, facing an enemy four times his size, or in the opponent's camp, Chen Ming was not sure that he would be able to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop. It seems that his goal will change tonight, and he should continue to put pressure on the Qing soldiers, kill and injure the Qing soldiers, and make their morale even more depressed. Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, find another opportunity to break it in one fell swoop.
Chen Hongtao came to the news in Yuncheng, Chen Huizu fought very hard, and his troops gave a lot of casualties to the attacking Anhui Qing army, but their own pressure was also quite great. Gunpowder consumption skyrocketed, and soldiers were tired.
In a word, Chen Hongtao can still hold up in Yuncheng, but it is unrealistic for him to defeat the Anhui Qing army led by Chen Huizu. He now wants to send reinforcements from the artillery fort in the east of the city.
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When dawn came, the dark night sky turned a deep blue, and the horizon shone with light.
Chen Ming looked at the messy Qing army camp, and his nose could still faintly smell a trace of blood, the war is not over tonight, but the advantage of the battle situation has been completely controlled by him, when to completely defeat the enemy in front of him, it only takes a very short wait.
Two days, maybe three days......
At present, the Qing army still far exceeds the Chen family's army, but their military spirit has been dispersed. The army of 13,000 people, after a series of battles, the remaining troops are definitely less than 10,000 people, and the casualties have exceeded 20 percent, and if Chen Ming wants to do this again tonight, their casualty ratio will exceed 30 percent. Does the Qing army still have the fighting spirit of the army? In Chen Ming's 'feeling', the morale of the Qing soldiers is now low like a floating cloud in the sky, and it disperses as soon as the wind blows. And Chen Jiajun's morale is still a raging fire!
On this morning, the Qing soldiers did not come out of the camp again to shell Chen's army, and a fierce dispute broke out in their camp. On the contrary, it was Chen Erbao and Huang Jingting on the other side who sent a batch of small cannons across the river, as well as the horse team on the other bank. Chen Ming instructed Chen Erbao that his first battalion should always be ready to return to Yuncheng.
The battle on the south bank has not needed the first battalion to join, return to Yuncheng as soon as possible, and guard the territory, Chen Ming is more relieved and more at ease.
In the afternoon, Chen Ming received an urgent report from the scouts: "Governor Dadu, the Qing soldiers have left the camp and gone south." "It really took him by surprise. The Qing soldiers were so decisive?
Chen Ming didn't know that there was a fierce dispute between the heads of the Qing army in the morning, and this dispute did not get a convincing decision, but it made Yongrui completely lose confidence.
-- When the people's hearts are not aligned, how can they still fight the chaotic army? Yongrui made up his mind - withdraw his troops!
Under his order, more than 9,000 Qing troops abandoned all the baggage at hand, and even the nine treasure-like general cannons couldn't take care of it, and everyone went into battle lightly and rushed towards Xiping County, which was not far to the south.
When the Qing army went out of the camp to the south, the scouts immediately reported the news to Chen Ming, and the sound of drums and trumpets in the camp of the Chen family army suddenly became loud. "Tell Huang Zitao to go to the Qing soldier camp and see what is left." Nine general cannons Chen Ming is not rare, and I don't think that the Qing soldiers will really be idiotic enough to leave the cannons intact, but gunpowder Chen Ming is rare. The gunpowder formula of the Qing soldiers is not bad, but it is not granulated, and the power of nitrate, carbon, and sulfur is naturally greatly reduced after a long time. Qing Bing couldn't get it himself, but Chen Ming was clear.