When the golden gong sounded, the Mahada Department of the Qing Army, which was really unable to consume the Fat Army, began to withdraw its troops and retreat, and the rear team became the front team, and the front team became the rear team, and they withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner. Seeing this scene, the Fat Army roared with joy and thunder, and countless Fat Army generals poured in front of Li Tianzhi, asking for a general attack, and even Yao Qisheng, the military advisor of the Fat Army, agreed with this tactic and suggested to Li Tianzhi: "General Li, it's time for a general attack, eliminate one more full dog in the field battle, and there will be less resistance when attacking the city." ”

"Not busy." Li Tianzhi still looked unhurried, raised his binoculars to carefully understand the situation when the Qing army retreated, and praised it for a while: "I can't attack in general, Mangou, the general who leads the troops, has some ability, the first one is not impatient, the latter is orderly, and the retreat can still do this, it is rare." At this time, the general attack will not take a big advantage, and it will increase our casualties. ”

Putting down the binoculars, Li Tianzhi ordered again: "The Chinese army is slowly advancing, keeping a distance of two miles from the Mangou brigade, and the front team pursues and bites the tail of the Mangou." Then he ordered Itambu to let his headquarters cavalry quickly intersperse, detour back to the front of the retreat of the full dog team, block the full dog retreat, force the full dog team to be chaotic, and wait for the full dog team to be chaotic, and then launch a general attack. ”

The generals of the Suzhou Legion of the Fat Army, who had long been accustomed to Li Tianzhi's conservative style, agreed, and reluctantly followed the order, commanding the Fat Army to advance slowly, pursuing the Qing army in an orderly manner, and always keeping the queue intact. Yao Qisheng on the side praised: "General Li is really steady, no wonder the prince can rest assured that he will hand over the southern line to you, and he has never worried about the southern line." ”

"The military advisor has won the award." Li Tianzhi said modestly: "Li Tianzhi is stupid and dull, and his only strength is a little self-aware, knowing that he is not as good as General Gao Dejie in raid battles, not as good as General Wang Xu in tough battles, and his tactical command is not as flexible and changeable as General Han Daren, and it is not as unpredictable as the prince in using troops." Therefore, Li Tianzhi can only occupy a stable character, and would rather not have military exploits, nor be greedy for merit, take the surname of a soldier to risk, and not fight a battle that he is not sure of. ”

"It's rare for General Li to be so humble." Yao Qisheng slapped a sycophant, and secretly admired Lu Fatzi's good use of people, and put Li Tianzhi, who had a stable surname, on the battlefield in Zhejiang to suppress people, which could not only avoid capsizing in the gutter, but also minimize the useless consumption of the fat army on the secondary battlefield of Zhejiang. Basically, it can be said that if Han Daren, Gao Dejie and Wang Xu came to the southern front, with their combat style, it would definitely only take half or even less time to end the war in Zhejiang, but the casualties and consumption of the Fat Army were definitely much greater than Li Tianzhi.

Li Tianzhi's steady tactics once again hit Mahada's seven inches, in the case that the army has retreated in great strides, the fat army still did not launch a general attack, but only slowly advanced and steadily pursued, Mahada inevitably secretly complained, knowing that if the fat army pursues the general attack, the formation will inevitably be chaotic, as long as he keeps the Qing army in a disorderly manner, and retreats in an orderly manner, the loss will not be too big, and it will also create more casualties for the fat army. But the Fat Army also maintained an orderly pursuit, which was a big trouble for the Qing Army, and if the Fat Army was accidentally highlighted by the surprise soldiers and rushed to the queue, it would be the end of the collapse of the whole army and the wanton slaughter of the Fat Army.

In desperation, Mahada had to repeatedly send orders to generals at all levels, ordering the three armies to retreat slowly, resolutely maintain a dense formation, and never give the fat army the slightest chance to attack, fortunately, Mahada was very strict in governing the army, and most of the generals at hand were also powerful, so Mahada's order was still resolutely implemented, and more than 15,000 Qing infantry tried to stabilize the queue and retreat, while resisting the fierce impact of the front team of the fat army, while slowly retreating eastward. However, because of the different types of troops, the Qing cavalry on the two flanks of the battlefield could not do this, and were rushed by the fierce and vicious cavalry of the Fat Army, and gradually retreated to the east.

After another meal, the cavalry team of the Fat Army led by Qing Annihilation Itambu was completely retracted, and then launched a charge, outflanked and returned to the front of the retreat direction of the Qing army, and began to block the retreating Qing army with bows and arrows and muskets. Seeing this scene, the Qing army was in a panic, Mahada urgently ordered his deputy Ekuna to lead the army forward to open the way, and attacked forward with dense arrows and projectiles, in a vain attempt to narrow the distance with Itanbu Hand-to-hand combat, Itambu quickly commanded the cavalry of the fat army to turn the horse's head, while trotting forward to keep a distance from the Ekuna army, while constantly turning back and firing arrows, shooting and killing the Ekuna army that was chasing his own army on foot, in the roar of muskets and the sound of bows and arrows breaking through the air, the Qing soldiers of the Ekuna team howled and fell down one after another, and gradually fled to the wings, Ekuna tried desperately to restrain him, but it was always useless.

After shooting nearly half of Ekuna's more than 2,000 front troops, Itambu suddenly ordered the front army to turn around and launch a counter-charge towards the Ekuna army, and the cavalry of more than 4,000 fat army cavalry rushed to the west like a torrent, engulfing more than 1,000 infantry of Ekuna in an instant, and the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound also echoed in the cavalry sea in an instant, and the retreat of the main force of the Qing army was also temporarily blocked.

Seeing this, Mahada naturally ordered to throw troops into the front and disperse the fat army to intercept it with hand-to-hand combat as soon as possible; On the side of the Fat Army, Li Tianzhi quickly mobilized 5,000 troops to attack, charged from the right flank and detoured back to the front of the Qing army to strengthen the blockade, forcing the Qing army to break through from the north and south, prompting the Qing army to divide its troops. At the same time, the new Qing annihilation Hutu also broke the Qing cavalry on the right flank, and began to outflank the Qing army in a roundabout way and join the blocking battlefield.

When the infantry cavalry of the two Fat Army charged towards the blocking position, Yao Qisheng, who was expected to be the enemy's first, quickly made a suggestion to Li Tianzhi, suggesting that Li Tianzhi let the new army speed up the pace, and also detour to the south of the right flank of the Qing army, taking advantage of the favorable terrain of the Qing army with a canal blocking the road in the north, forcing the Qing army to immediately break through to the south and avoid being surrounded by the Fat Army on the east, west, and south. Li Tianzhi was very satisfied when he heard this, and immediately ordered the whole army to speed up its pace and bypass the main battlefield and outflank it to the south.

Seeing the Fat Army's infantry cavalry detour to the east, and seeing the main force of the Fat Army's sudden acceleration and detour to the south, Mahada, who was also cautious in his use of troops, finally couldn't hold his breath, knowing that once the Fat Army was surrounded on three sides, coupled with the blockage of the Grand Canal in the north, the army would inevitably suffer heavy casualties. Forced into desperation, Mahada could only grit his teeth and order: "The whole army breaks through to the south, charge at full speed, and can't give Wu Gou a chance to make us dumplings." ”

The order was conveyed, the Qing army team that had been strict and orderly finally loosened, and the Qing army teams that were attacked before and after turned around and went south, charging and breaking through with all their might, and the footsteps of the people were fast and slow, and the speed of the team was not the same.

When the main force of the Fat Army led by Li Tianzhi personally rushed to the right flank battlefield and plunged into the waist of the Qing Army Brigade, the Qing Army Brigade was finally completely chaotic, and the generals and soldiers of the Qing Army rushed to the no-man's land in order to survive, trampling on each other, and the Fat Army gradually divided into battalion-level teams, breaking into the chaotic array and impacting back and forth, cutting down on people when they saw zero and cutting down on the enemy, the Qing army collapsed even faster, and even Mahada lost the courage to organize the team, led the army that could be controlled to break through to the southeast direction where the fat army had no time to encircle, and secretly prayed that some more Qing soldiers would escape back to Shaoxing to defend the city.

The battlefield was chaotic, a part of the fat army attacked around the battlefield with battalions as a unit, and a fat army formed two brigades under the leadership of Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan, specifically chasing and attacking the Qing army brigade, forcing the Qing army to further collapse. The soldiers of the Qing army fled all over the mountains, trampled on each other, crowded each other, the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals could not find the soldiers, there were countless dead, and some Qing soldiers could not receive military pay for less than four months, so they simply took the opportunity to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Fat Army, which led more Qing soldiers to lay down their weapons and surrender, and became the preparatory cannon fodder for the next war of the Fat Army.

Fortunately, the battlefield is only ten miles away from Shaoxing, and the Qing cavalry that was killed and scattered by the Fat Army before was quickly assembled and gathered under the organization of Lang Su, another Tong Jia's staff leader, and returned to the battlefield to respond, and also relied on the response of these thousands of Qing cavalry and the death battle of the pro-army, Mahada luckily got rid of the pursuit of the Fat Army, and broke out of the encirclement from the southeast where the Fat Army was weak, and fled to the city of Shaoxing with about six or seven thousand Qing infantry cavalry. Li Tianzhi knew that if he let too many Qing troops return to the city, it would inevitably cause huge trouble for the fat army to attack the city, so he personally led an army to chase and kill, and also transferred Hutu's cavalry to chase and kill, and bit the tail of Mahada's brigade.

Under the galloping of people and horses, the distance of ten miles was instantaneous, and seeing the city of Shaoxing from a distance, Lu Zhangtai, the righteous brother of Lu Fatzi beside Li Tianzhi and Yao Qisheng, suddenly remembered a major event, and screamed like a pig: "What about Sanshui? What about my good brother Zhu Sanshui? Where did you go? He should have intercepted him outside Shaoxing City? ”

was reminded by Lu Zhangtai, Li Tianzhi and Yao Qisheng suddenly discovered that they did have an army that suddenly disappeared, and Zhu Sanshui's cavalry, who had preemptively killed Shaoxing, disappeared on the battlefield, and his 1,000 cavalry killed to the east in advance, and it stands to reason that they should be resolutely blocked here, which somehow disappeared without a trace, what went wrong? Was it a fork in the road? Or betrayal of the Fat Scouts? Returned to the arms of the Qing army?

The thought flashed, Yao Qisheng suddenly discovered another strange thing, pointed to the east and exclaimed: "General Li, look, the defeated soldiers full of dogs have rushed to the city, and the full dogs in Shaoxing City have not opened the city gate yet?" ”

Li Tianzhi hurriedly raised the binoculars, and sure enough, when the vanguard of the Qing army's defeated army had rushed to the west gate of Shaoxing, the west gate of Shaoxing was still closed, and even the suspension bridge was not put down, blocking the road for the Qing army's defeated soldiers to return to the city to guard, Li Tianzhi couldn't help but be puzzled, and said suspiciously: "In Shaoxing City, what happened?" ”

Yao Qisheng and Li Tianzhi were puzzled two or three miles away, and Mahada, who had already rushed to the city of Shaoxing, was even more confused than them, and ordered his own soldiers to come forward to ask about the situation, and ordered the defenders in the city to open the city gate quickly. Soon, Tian Fengji, who was left behind in the city to guard the governor of Zhejiang, shouted: "General Mahada, where is General Mahada?" Just now, there was a Wu dog army pretending to be our army, trying to deceive the city, and was killed and scattered by our army, are you really a Qing army? Ask General Mahada to come out and speak. ”

"Wu Gou pretended to be our Qing army to deceive the city?" Mahada was startled, quickly slapped his horse forward, trotted to the side of the suspension bridge, and shouted at Tian Fengji: "Lord Tian, I'm Mahada, open the city quickly, Wu Gou is about to rush up!" ”

"General, wait a minute, put the drawbridge away." Tian Fengji waved his hand and shouted, and the nervous Mahada also breathed a sigh of relief, but at this time............ "The dog thief is killed!" ”

In the shouting, Tian Fengji suddenly jumped out of a fat army general dressed in white clothes and white robes, holding a strong bow in his hand, pulling a bow and shooting an arrow, the arrow broke through the air, and the unprepared Mahada was shot in the face by an arrow, the arrow entered the brain from the eye, and then pierced out from the back of the head, blood and brain slurry splashed together, Mahada screamed, planted the war horse and died on the spot. The fat army general yelled in mite language again: "Listen to the Qinggou under the city, I am Zhu Sanshui, the general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the former blue flag commander Guerjia. Full of beads! Acquaintances, lay down your arms and surrender, spare you from dying! ”

Roaring, Zhu Sanshui waved his hand, the Qing army flags on the city wall fell to the ground one after another, and the white military flags of the Fat Army were inserted on the city wall. The generals of the Fat Man Army in the distance all high-fived and cheered, and Lu Zhangtai was even more happy to jump up on his horses, shouting excitedly, "Good job!" Sanshui is good! I said, "How can you abandon me?" ”

The city of Shaoxing inexplicably fell into the hands of the fat army, and the defeated Qing army who finally fled to this point was completely desperate, Shaoxing City could not enter, and the fat army had been killed to the front, and the nearest Shangyu city near Shaoxing was also seventy or eighty miles away from here (Shangyu in the Qing Dynasty was located about twenty miles east of Shangyu now, and it was still south of the canal), in the case of the fat army in hot pursuit, it was difficult to escape back to Shangyu after seventy or eighty miles, and it was difficult to cross the Cao'e River with a lot of water in the middle, There is even little hope of escaping back to Shangyu alive.

In desperation, countless Qing soldiers dismounted and surrendered, and most of them scattered and fled, only Tong Jia's family. Lang Su took more than 1,000 horsemen to bypass Shaoxing City, scolding Tian Fengji for not being a traitor to a good death, and fled to Shangyu County, more than 70 miles away, to the death and struggle. Li Tianzhi did not hesitate, and immediately ordered Hutu to lead the Qing army to pursue and kill, and do his best to annihilate the remnants of the Qing army, laying the foundation for the next Ningbo war, and at the same time, he also divided his troops to chase and arrest the Qing army deserters, and entered Shaoxing City to take over the city defense.

It turned out that Zhu Sanshui led the army to chase and kill the cavalry of the Qing army, and chased all the way to the city of Shaoxing, and the eight hundred cavalry of the hardcore Han Annihilation Bao Hu had been killed by Zhu Sanshui. didn't let go of the arrows to stop it, so Zhu Sanshui's team entered Shaoxing City.

Zhu Sanshui was inexplicable, Tian Fengji, who stayed in Shaoxing, appeared in front of him with Lu Fatzi's token, and told him that he was grateful for Lu Fatzi's kindness and care, and decided to surrender to the Fat Army desperately, leading the defenders to sacrifice Shaoxing City, after Zhu Sanshui came to his senses, he didn't let the Fat Army put the military flag on the city wall, and hurriedly took over the city defense and boarded the city wall to guard, laying a trap to induce the Qing army general to show up and snipe, relying on Tian Fengji's help and excellent archery skills, Sure enough, he shot and killed Mahada, the leader of the diehard faction of the Qing army.

After listening to Zhu Sanshui's introduction, Lu Zhangtai was of course happy to jump and jump, Li Tianzhi and Yao Qisheng were also overjoyed, and hurriedly said that they must ask Lu Fatzi for Tian Fengji's credit, and decided to give Zhu Sanshui a first credit, and issued a heavy reward on the spot. At the same time, the good news on the battlefield in the western suburbs of Shaoxing also came one after another, beheading Mahada's deputy Ekuna and the hardcore Han annihilating Li Rong, capturing the deputy generals Li Rongchun and Yang Lin, breaking through the temporary positions formed by the Qing army on the soil and mountains in the southwestern suburbs of Shaoxing, and forcing a large number of Qing soldiers to the side of the Grand Canal, recruiting and surrendering, and capturing more Qing soldiers in other positions.

Seeing that the overall situation of the Shaoxing battlefield had been decided, Li Tianzhi and Yao Qisheng couldn't wait to ask Tian Fengji about the situation in Ningbo, and Tian Fengji replied: "The remnants of Mangou's army in Ningbo are about 7,000 people, including about 1,000 sailors, stationed in Zhenhai, led by Chen Shikai, the deputy general of the naval division. The remaining 6,000 troops were stationed in Ningbo City and Fenghua City, and the main commander was the deputy commander Giltabu, and the deputies were mainly the acting staff leaders Chan Bai, Huang Lan and Liu Xianfang. ”

"By the way, originally Fu Lata also appeased a group of pirates called stinky red meat, but because there was no military salary for more than four months, last month the bandits went to the sea to rob again, and also abducted a large amount of ammunition from the Ningbo Naval Division, and now Ningbo Mangou, regardless of the naval division or the army, can only defend the city and port at most, and cannot take out the strength to attack, and because of the arrears of military salaries and isolation, morale has declined very much."

"Good!" Li Tianzhi was overjoyed and slapped his thigh, and ordered: "Hurry up and give Yang Yingyuan an order, let him lead the men and horses of his headquarters, chase and kill the defeated army that Mangou fled to Shangyu overnight, and be sure to wipe out the remnants of Mangou by the Cao'e River, and then station to rest and hand over the messenger who cleaned up the battlefield to others." ”

"General Li, General Yang's headquarters is the second and third batch of troops to enter the battlefield, and they are relatively tired." Yao Qisheng reminded.

"I have to chase when I'm tired, I have to reserve my vitality for the prince." Li Tianzhi said solemnly: "The news that we broke the dog in Shaoxing will soon reach Geng Jingzhong's ears, Geng Jingzhong's child is isolated, it is difficult to guarantee that the dog will not jump over the wall to attack Hangzhou, I will not leave a new force to prevent what if something happens in Hangzhou?" ”

"It's still General Li who calculates carefully." Yao Qisheng smiled, no longer objected, and let Li Tianzhi's personal soldiers go out of the city to give orders.

"General Li, Master Yao, and the criminal minister have an idea." Tian Fengji proposed: "The student has a little friendship with Chen Shikai, the deputy general of the Ningbo Navy Division full of dogs, and has a good relationship with Giltabu, and the criminal intends to write two letters to Zhenhai Port and Ningbo City to recruit them for the Great Zhou army." ”

"Lord Tian's plan is very good, but in this way, ...... your family in Shanxi?" Yao Qisheng asked hesitantly.

"The criminals have already sacrificed Shaoxing City to the Great Zhou army, and the paper can't hold the fire, so do you still need to worry about these?" Tian Fengji said with a wry smile: "I can only repair another book, and ask the people of the Great Zhou army to send it to Shanxi, and see if they can transfer and hide in time." ”

Li Tianzhi was silent, very sympathetic to Tian Fengji's current situation, and then nodded vigorously and said: "Okay, please ask Lord Tian to repair the book for your family quickly, I will immediately arrange for the speedboat to be sent to Hangzhou overnight, and ask the prince to send your family letter to Shanxi as soon as possible." ”

"General Li, please ask the prince to tightly seal the Qiantang River, cut off the connection between Shaoxing and Geng Jingzhong, and try to let Geng Jingzhong grasp some of the situation on the battlefield in Shaoxing." Yao Qisheng reminded Li Tianzhi, and then Yao Qisheng's eyes rolled, and he immediately turned to Tian Fengji and said, "Lord Tian, can you please write another letter to Geng Jingzhong asking for help?" Let's just say that we attacked Shaoxing City fiercely, you held the city and fought very hard, and the grain and grass in the city could only last for a month at most, so please fulfill his covenant and quickly send troops to rescue Shaoxing City, or besiege Wei to rescue Zhao from the side. ”

"Absolutely." Tian Fengji smiled and replied: "The covenant with Geng Jingzhong was signed by me, and of course he believes the letter I wrote asking for help." ”

(To be continued)