Chapter Eighty-Three: The Slave Commander Breaks the Arrow
Seeing the arrival of Jin Shengheng's troops, the generals of the Ming army in Ganzhou City couldn't help but look grim: their own reinforcements have not yet been seen, but the strength of the Qing army has doubled, and it seems that the next battle will be more difficult. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Especially Tong Yizhen and Chen Ke, who had just entered Ganzhou, looked at the dense Qing army camp tents and countless banners of various colors outside the city, and they were even more depressed, and it seemed that they had not recovered from the defeat in Ji'an a few days ago.
"The Tartars are powerful!" Tong Yizhen sighed with a sad face, "Now that the captives of Jin Shengheng have also chased to the city of Ganzhou, the situation will probably be even more dangerous for our army!" ”
Chen Ke also had the same expression, and sighed for a long time: "That day in Ji'an, the combat power of this Qinggou Jin Shengheng Department is quite strong, if it weren't for our timely response, I'm afraid it would ...... Alas, I wonder if the imperial court can still send reinforcements, and when will they arrive? ”
The words of Tong and Chen made the generals of Ganzhou Town, who were also observing in the city, somewhat disdainful, Shi Youliang simply walked away directly, and said in his heart: These two straw bales can't fight, but it is an expert to destroy their own prestige.
Pang Yue just smiled and said: "It is true that the Qing army's reinforcements have arrived, but the two generals don't have to be discouraged because of this. As long as our army puts away its arrogance and responds calmly, even the Manchurian slaves can't get much cheap, let alone those traitors who have turned their backs on their ancestors. ”
Just hearing Pang Yue's confident words, Tong and Chen were both a little surprised, but after thinking carefully about the morale of the soldiers in Ganzhou Town they had seen, and then linking it to the fact that the Jiannu soldiers had not been able to break the city for many days, they felt that Pang Yue's confidence was probably not without roots.
"If you don't believe it, you can ask General Hu and General Hezhao." Pang Yue continued, "The two of them led the Dian battalion to fight side by side with my Ganzhou Town many times, and they won a lot, and they also understood the essence of the Qing Dynasty. ”
After the first few battles, Hu Yiqing and Zhao Yinxuan did see a lot about the essence of the Qing army, so they were not as afraid as Tong Yizhen and Chen Xue, and now they heard Pang Yue mention themselves, and they were even more high-spirited.
"The huge man is right, although the Qing prisoner is notorious, but after all, he still does not get rid of the essence of thieves. The two of you can rest assured, as long as our army has the same hatred for the enemy, we will definitely be able to hold out until the reinforcements arrive! Hu Yiqing said.
"That's great!" Seeing that the eyes around him seemed to be looking this way, Tong Yizhen and Chen Jiao hurriedly ended their complaints.
After Pang Yue comforted Tong and Chen, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: In the late Ming and Southern Ming dynasties, the reason why the Ming army was defeated in the face of the Qing army was also a great factor. Once defeated, you will lose your soul and fear the enemy like a tiger, how can you have a chance to turn the tables? I hope that under my command, the soldiers of Ganzhou Town will not have this situation in the future.
Outside the city, Jin Shengheng looked at the Ming army battle flag still fluttering at the head of the city, and there was not much surprise on his face, as if he had expected this a long time ago. Ever since he had fought Pang Yue in Ji'an a few months ago, Jin Shengheng knew that this seemingly stunned young soldier was not only well versed in the way of military training, but also scheming, and was an extremely difficult character to deal with.
But even so, Jin Shengheng still felt some shock at the performance of the Ming army in the battle of Ganzhou, such as counterattacking out of the city, killing Li Yingzong and other green battalion soldiers to the ground, using firearms to annihilate a large number of Manchurian soldiers at the head of the city like killing pigs and sheep, daring to form a formation outside the city to fight against the Manchurian elite cavalry, and so on. Surprisingly, even the coach Turai did not escape the catastrophe, and was ambushed by the firearms who had been ambushed in advance, and almost lost his life.
As for Turai's injury, Jin Shengheng didn't take it to heart, and he didn't even pay too much attention to the fact that the Manchurian soldiers, Li Yingzong, and Ke Yongsheng's troops repeatedly ran into a wall under the city. For him, no matter who he is doing things for, the most important thing is that he can't suffer losses first, and then he thinks about other things. Now he is most concerned about how to deal with Pang Yue, a difficult character, although he is not afraid of Pang Yue, but I don't know why as long as he sees the "Pang" handsome flag, he will feel unsure. …,
What to do? A hard touch is definitely not good, and even if you win, it can only be a miserable victory. Thinking about it, Jin Shengheng couldn't help but think of the way of "fighting a living battle" that his cronies and masters around him had told him. As a former general of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Shengheng is naturally no stranger to this method, and his old superior, Zuo Liangyu, relied on this method to minimize his own losses in the battle with Zhang Xianzhong. But then again, today's Jiannu is not as easy to fool as Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers back then, do you dare not help? Definitely will be punished severely! Jin Shengheng, who had been beaten with a military stick by Turai not long ago, was convinced of this, and it was precisely because of this that he felt in a dilemma.
Jin Shengheng's fears finally became a reality, and the day after he arrived in Ganzhou with his army, Tulai, who was still in bed, instructed Durde to organize another siege. This time, it was naturally Jin Shenghengjun who took the lead. In the face of thousands of Manchurian soldiers who were eyeing the rear and pressing the formation, even if Jin Shengheng had a belly of heart, he did not dare to openly disobey the will of his master at this time, so he had to wave his army to attack the city.
After a whole day of fighting, this siege operation ended in failure again, and the Ming army in Ganzhou City once again beat the Qing army besieging the city with excellent firearms and equipment and high morale. Although Jin Shengheng deliberately put the newly recruited soldiers in front as cannon fodder in order to maintain the backbone strength, the losses suffered after a fierce battle still made him shudder.
Damn, why is it so hard to fight with Ganzhou Town? Jin Shengheng, who was bleeding from the head, thought of the past when he had suffered many times at the hands of Pang Yue, and said angrily in his heart.
While the war in Ganzhou continued, the situation in Fujian was also changing dramatically.
In the face of the Qing army moving south, Zheng Zhilong, the most powerful figure in Fujian, withdrew all the defenders in the major strategic points. I also went back to my hometown. As a result, the main force of the southbound Jiannu led by the general Zhengnan, Bellebolo, and a large number of green battalion soldiers passed the Xianxia Pass on August 16. Under the iron hooves of Jiannu, a large area of splendid rivers and mountains changed color in an instant.
On 27 August, the messenger sent by Bolo arrived in Ganzhou with a whip, ordered Turai to hand over the military affairs of southern Gan to Jin Shengheng, the governor of Jiangxi, and immediately led the men and horses of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty into Fujian, and together with the main army, pacified the prefectures and counties.
After receiving Bolo's order, Turai, who had suffered a big loss and had not had time to take revenge, was very unwilling, and even retreated from the crowd in a fit of anger, raised his head to the sky and yelled, once again pulling the wound.
However, after venting his words, Turai still did not have the courage to disobey Bolo's military orders, and that night he reluctantly summoned the generals of the Manchurian and Han armies to arrange the withdrawal of troops from Ganzhou.
Like Tulai, the Manchurian and Han generals were also surprised, followed by strong unwillingness. But the military order is like a mountain, and everyone has to silently accept this reality.
After arranging the withdrawal of the army, the more Turai thought about it, the more angry he became: how high-spirited he was when he personally led the army to the city of Ganzhou? I didn't expect to withdraw now! What a shame!
After resenting for a long time, Turai pulled out an arrow from his quiver, broke it in two, gritted his teeth and said: If I don't hate this in the coming day, and don't kill Pang Yue, I swear not to be a man!