The soldiers used their lives, fearless of death, and played the momentum of the Suzhou New Army, not only annihilating the 30,000 vanguard troops, but also destroying half of the 20,000 cavalry that Kong Youde rushed to reinforce. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the narrow roads of the blocking site chosen by the three regiments, Kong Youde's cavalry was seriously constrained and could not carry out a group charge, so they could only send two or three thousand at a time, using cavalry and archery tactics to engage in wheel battles with the blocking troops.

The cavalry charged at night, the speed could not be increased at all, and the line of sight was blocked, and the lethality of the shooter was also greatly reduced.

However, this stalemate was the Ming army's blocking troops, in exchange for a life, Kong Youde was in a hurry to rescue, so he was unwilling to fight with the Ming army into a stalemate, but the Ming army's resistance was very tenacious, and the charging cavalry troops were beaten back again and again, Kong Youde tried everything he could, but he never came closer.

As the battle continued, the cavalry could no longer charge, because the road ahead was blocked by the corpses of their comrades and the fallen horses.

"The whole army dismounts and fights on foot!" Kong Youde ordered.

Since the cavalry could not charge, it was changed to infantry, using the surrounding corpses as cover to break through the Ming army's position.

At the beginning, the cavalry charged, only two or three thousand people could come up at a time, but now it is replaced by infantry, and the Ming army will face more than 5,000 people each time, and with the cover of corpses, the Ming army's firearms advantage is greatly reduced, and the casualties are multiplied.

Kong Youde commanded his subordinates to advance step by step, slowly advancing towards the position of the Ming army, and after entering the range of the archers, he took advantage of the archers' rate of fire to wear down the combat effectiveness of the Ming army little by little.

Although this style of play is effective, Kong Youde overlooks one important thing, and that is time..........

When Kong Youde used this steady and steady method to slowly advance, the Qing army that broke through in the rear had been frightened by the anti-charge troops led by Liu Shengli, and the Qing army, which had lost their fighting spirit, could only lay down their arms and choose to surrender.

The vanguard army surrendered, and the reinforcements of the remaining regiments quickly came up, taking over and consolidating the defense line of the three regiments, Kong Youde led the team to fight again for more than an hour, and the main force of Azig, also because of the cotton wool plug ear, has not yet pulled out the camp.

Kong Youde, who lost half of the cavalry, could only regretfully lead his team to withdraw in the end.

In the end, Zhang Chao's second division achieved a great victory in Fengtai Mountain with an astonishing record of killing 23,000 enemies and capturing 16,000.

At the same time, Li Hongfei was also distressed after reading the battle damage.........

A battle of annihilation was fought, and Zhang Chao's second division was seriously wounded and killed more than 1,700 people.

Of the three battalions of the regiment, two battalion commanders and four company commanders were killed, more than 900 officers and men below the company level were seriously wounded or killed, and the remaining officers and men of the regiment were all wounded, and even Liu Shengli himself was stabbed seven times (non-fatal), and the proportion of battle losses reached 60 percent.

After this battle, including the loss of ammunition, disability pension, death pension, war merit reward, etc., Li Hongfei spent almost 500,000 taels of silver.

This is only to destroy a vanguard unit of the Qing army, there are still 200,000 main forces in the rear, and the devil knows what this battle will end up in.

Li Hongfei feels sorry for the silver on the one hand, but what he feels most distressed about is the soldiers who died in battle, this is a new army that he has cultivated with great difficulty!

According to Li Hongfei's policy, the proportion of military service in Suzhou has become saturated, and for every person killed in battle, he will have one less soldier to fight, and at least before the implementation of reform in the whole country, it will be difficult for Li Hongfei to raise such an army that is not afraid of death.

Despite this, Li Hongfei has no other way, in the city of Nanjing, the only one who can really defend the Qing army head-on is his army, and the next battle will definitely be more tragic, he has no choice, and he can't retreat.

Just when Li Hongfei lamented that the troops were overstretched, another herald brought a piece of news that made matters worse: "Two days ago, Duoduo led an army of 100,000 to land from the direction of Jiangyin in an attempt to flank Nanjing. My 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Jiangyin are united in their hearts and minds, vowing not to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but the troops are limited, and they are afraid that they are not the opponents of the Tartars, so they submit a letter to Jinling and hope that the imperial court will send troops to rescue. ”

This is a letter of help sent by Jiangyin County.

At the same time, the Changzhou garrison sent someone to bring the news: Jiangyin was besieged, and the army of King Qinwang of Changzhou was preparing to return to the division to rescue.

The two pieces of news arrived in Nanjing almost at the same time.

Changzhou is close to Jiangyin, and once Jiangyin is broken, the next target of the Qing army will definitely be Changzhou.

After learning of this news, the prefect of Changzhou was shocked, and hurriedly sent people to quickly whip up the army of King Qinwang of Changzhou who had arrived in Zhenjiang Mansion, and ordered it to return to Changzhou, saying that it was to rescue Jiangyin, but in fact it was to protect Changzhou.

In fact, whether the army of Changzhou Qinwang can come to Nanjing, Li Hongfei does not care at all, and now the military strength gathered in Nanjing has reached more than 100,000, if you count Huang Degong, Ma Shiying and other troops who are returning to help, the total strength has been equal to the Qing army led by Azig.

Li Hongfei was worried about the 100,000 army in Duoduo's hands.

Originally, Qi Hongying was allowed to go west, just to attract Duoduo's army, but who knew that the other party not only failed to succeed, but also trapped Qi Hongying in Jiangbei.

When the 100,000 army entered the south of the Yangtze River, it would be good to say that the army of Qinwang from all walks of life could work together to rescue Jiangyin, but Li Hongfei knew the urine nature of these people, and at critical moments, self-protection was always the first element.

Knowing that the Qing army was going south, those who were far away might be able to send troops to rescue, and those who were closer to Jiangyin were probably stationed in the garrison to protect themselves.

Thinking of this, Li Hongfei had a headache.

"Jiangyin must not be lost, Lord Wang, now that time is pressing, can you fly pigeons to send a message to the garrisons everywhere and send troops to rescue?" Li Hongfei said to Wang Guoxing.

"It's not impossible to pass on the book of flying pigeons, but the army of Qinwang everywhere is on the way, and it is really hard to say whether it can be rescued in time." Wang Guoxing thought for a while and said.

Flying pigeons need to have strongholds in various places, so that carrier pigeons will come and go with each other, like those TV series, you can still receive flying pigeons on the way to the march, it's pure nonsense, and the carrier pigeon is not a military dog, can you still smell the smell of the owner?

Unless the carrier pigeon is passed to the nearby stronghold, and the people from the stronghold pass the letter to the marching army, so that the army can know the situation at the first time.

Like the small county town of Jiangyin, Dongchang and Jinyiwei have no strongholds, so Jiangyin was besieged, and Nanjing did not get the news until the third day.

As for other big cities, because of the reason for entering the king of Beijing, there must not be many troops left behind, and the flying pigeon passed the book, so it must not be of much effect.

"Send a message to Wu Hao, let the two thousand new troops left in Baoshan Town support Jiangyin first, if possible, go to Chongming Island to find Qi Zhifeng, see how many defenders he still has on his side, and then unite with the garrisons in Wuxi, Changshu and other places, go together, and the Qinwang army in Suzhou and other places along the way can also be gathered together to rescue Jiangyin." Li Hongfei said.

Suzhou has a stall in the east factory, and there is absolutely no problem with flying pigeons, which is currently the fastest and most effective way.

"As far as I know, there are not many garrisons in the Suzhou area, and this point of people passing over is not only difficult to rescue, but may also cause Duoduo to retaliate." Wang Guoxing said.

He was worried that if the already small garrisons were transferred from all over the country, not only would they not be able to rescue Jiangyin, but they would be taken advantage of by Duoduo because of the city's air defense.

As early as 1629, Dolgon had followed Huang Taiji to break through from Longjing Pass to the Ming Dynasty's border fortress, and captured Hanerzhuang with Beile Mang Gurtai and others, approaching Tongzhou and approaching Beijing.

And defeated the reinforcements of Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou outside the Guangqu Gate, and annihilated the reinforcements of the Shanhaiguan of the Ming Dynasty in Jizhou.

At that time, they did not conquer the city, but raided, plundered and annihilated a large number of Ming troops in the movement, causing peace on all sides.

If Duoduo also used this tactic, not only would the reinforcements sent be in danger, but the major state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River might be looted.

"No, this time Duoduo went south, the target must be Nanjing, and the biggest reason why he wanted to take Jiangyin was that the Qing army wanted to leave a way back for himself. Although the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are now blocked by the Qing army's naval divisions, I used to deploy a large number of heavy artillery along the river, and it is difficult for the Qing army to land from these areas. Therefore, before Duoduo took Jiangyin, he would definitely not send troops to attack the rest of the region. Li Hongfei's analysis is exactly the same as that of Duoduo and others.

Jiangnan is not as good as the north, a few decades ago, all parts of Jiangnan were repeatedly harassed by the Japanese pirates, in order to resist these pirates, a large number of walls were built in various places, these city walls, coupled with the water network extending in all directions, for the cavalry, it was simply a nightmare existence.

If Duoduo wanted to conquer the city, he had to rely on a large number of artillery, and artillery not only limited the speed of the cavalry, but also because it was a consumable and needed to be replenished continuously, without a safe base for advancement, Duoduo would not dare to rashly launch an attack into the interior.

"But in terms of troops, it's really not enough, by the way, isn't there still 5,000 iron cavalry in Nanjing? With the speed of cavalry, it can be reached in two days at most, and with the appeal of the forbidden army, it is not impossible to gather the army of King Qin along the way. Li Hongfei suddenly thought.

He had also thought about sending troops from Nanjing to support before, but the water could not quench his thirst, and it was definitely unrealistic to let the army of King Qin return to resist, as for the new army in Suzhou........ The whole infantry army, coupled with the heavy firearms, even if it marched all the way, I am afraid that it will be five days later.

Moreover, the Suzhou New Army is now the main force guarding Nanjing, and it is absolutely impossible for Zhu Youzhen to let Li Hongfei lead the army to rescue at this time.

"That's the forbidden army, the army guarding Nanjing!" Wang Guoxing reminded.

It's just normal times, but now that the war in Nanjing is deadlocked, how can the forbidden army be transferred elsewhere?

"Nanjing is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the Yangtze River is on the north side, what role can your cavalry play?" Li Hongfei asked rhetorically.

"This ........." Wang Guoxing didn't know how to answer.

Li Hongfei was right, the cavalry in the Nanjing area really did not have much effect, and Kong Youde's 20,000 cavalry would not have suffered such serious losses if it were not for the terrain restrictions.

"Don't worry, there is no shortage of these 5,000 cavalry in Nanjing, and the vicinity of Jiangyin belongs to the plain, which is the place where the cavalry gallops, the forbidden army is not a veteran soldier, and it will not experience the baptism of blood, how will it protect the imperial city in the future?" Li Hongfei took the opportunity to usurp the road.

"In this way, I will first let the pigeons fly and pass the book, so that the garrisons in the Jiangnan area will move first, and I will truthfully report to the Holy God about the transfer of the forbidden army, and ask the Holy Lord to decide." Wang Guoxing thought for a moment before replying.

"Rescuing Jiangyin is equivalent to rescuing Nanjing, I believe the Holy Lord will agree." Li Hongfei reminded.

Duoduo's purpose was very simple, that is, to capture Nanjing and prevent him from taking Jiangyin, which was equivalent to contributing to the defense of Nanjing.