Section 421 Pyrrhic victory
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Once upon a time, there was a man who did not know diplomacy, but he was burdened with a mission, and without hesitation, he rushed behind enemy lines, crossed the desert, and crossed the Jedi, just to give his country and his king, to find a spear that could pierce the descendants of their enemies. Captured twice by the enemy, he never forgot his mission, and after escaping, he continued to go on mission, and thirteen years later he reported the results of his mission to the king, and returned to his country.
This person's name is Zhang Qian, and the evaluation given to him by the historian Sima Qian is - hollowing out the Western Regions!
Once upon a time, there was a person he was a scholar, he felt that the hero should not be wasted, he threw down the pen, held the handle of the knife, only took thirty-six people, and rushed to the Western Regions without hesitation.
This person is called Ban Chao, and the road he runs is called the Silk Road.
Zhang Qian and Ban Chao are definitely not isolated cases, in the long history, such heroes are like carp crossing the river, innumerable.
The Chinese are like this, creating miracles one after another, opening up one field after another, starting from scratch, and creating earth-shattering achievements.
Now there is another young man with such a purpose, embarking on a journey, he doesn't know what to do, he doesn't even know what he should do, the chaotic situation has already confused him, he only has one original intention, that is, never give in.
His father's surrender to the Manchus conflicted with his ideas, and he left his father and went to sea, where he persuaded his father's old ministry to go to sea with him and fight with him.
This person is Zheng Chenggong.
"Little Hou Ye, they don't want to come."
In a sea area near Xiamen, a small boat approached a large boat, and a young soldier on board reported distressedly.
"Forget it. Horses of courses. Your Majesty has any news? β
"I heard that Your Majesty is fortunate to have gone to Guangdong."
Zheng Chenggong sighed: "As a courtier, you can't protect the king, you really live in the world without words." β
"The young marquis must not dare to think about it. Why don't we go to Guangdong to seek refuge with Your Majesty? β
"That's all there is to it!"
Zheng Chenggong has never been able to convince his father's old brothers, who only listen to Zheng Zhilong's "spirited appearance." From the fact that Zheng Chenggong was also named a loyal and filial uncle, and others called him the little marquis, everyone regarded him as Zheng Zhilong's son, more than as a big man who was in charge of himself. "Although he met the lord and the lord, he really didn't taste the handle of the army for a day", and now he is obviously unable to convince the public.
Zheng Chenggong couldn't help but glance towards the north, his heart was full of frustration, a fierce general like Yang Chao was defeated, is this Ming really going to die!
With a sense of despair and sadness, Zheng Chenggong ordered his men to sail.
Fortunately for Zheng Chenggong, the emperor was really fine and had already arrived in Guangzhou.
History changes from here. Or it has long since changed.
Originally, it was Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, who ascended the throne in Fujian, but unfortunately the appearance of Yang Chao allowed the four princes to come to Jiangnan unharmed, but this bold Tang king failed to ascend to the throne, and was still just an ordinary vassal king, of course, he was lucky to escape the end of being killed by the Qing army.
The Tang King in history, due to his repeated hardships when he was a child, had a tough temperament, and at the same time was a little childish, when Zheng Zhilong escaped. He also fled to Fujian, but he was reluctant to throw away a palace maid, gold, silver and jewelry, especially a huge box of books, and when he found the Qing army chasing soldiers. He began to throw away everything and flee in a panic, but it was too late, and he couldn't escape when he was seen by the Qing army, so he was caught up and taken to Fuzhou to be killed.
is different from the Tang King in history, Zhu Cihuan, the third prince of Zhu, obviously has an instinctive sensitivity to danger, and he can hide in history. exposed his identity everywhere, and was not captured and killed by the Qing army until he was seventy years old, proving that he had a unique ability to escape for his life.
When Zheng Zhilong told Zhu Cihuan that he was going to withdraw the three passes, Zhu Cihuan immediately ran away, without anyone notifying, only took his cronies Ma Jixiang, two people and four horses, and fled from Fujian like a fly, from Jianning to Yanping, to Quanzhou to Zhangzhou, and finally entered the Chaozhou Mansion in Guangdong.
Because Zhu Cihuan sensed the danger, he immediately ran and fled, fleeing faster than Zheng Zhilong's surrender and faster than the Qing army's march, so he did not have a result with the Tang King, he successfully arrived in Guangdong, and entered the city of Guangzhou under the escort of Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong.
Zheng Chenggong, who received the news in Chaozhou, was naturally very happy, but he was even happier when it suddenly came that Yang Chao had repelled the Qing army's attack and restored the city of Nanjing.
"Little Hou Ye, shall we go to Guangzhou?"
At this time, the subordinate asked.
Zheng Chenggong shook his head firmly and forcefully: "I'm not going." Your Majesty is fine, since Uncle Yang has restored Nanjing City, we will also kill back, take back Fujian, and ensure that my son of heaven is worry-free, this is what a hero should do. β
After saying that, he ordered the fleet to turn around and sail north, heading for Fujian.
At this time, it was the tenth day that the Qing army entered Fujian.
Go back to ten days ago.
As soon as the Qing army arrived in Nanjing, it surrounded the city on three sides, except for the side facing the meeting in the west, the other three sides were surrounded by the Qing army, but unfortunately the city of Nanjing was too big, and it was obviously impossible for the 30,000 Qing troops to surround it, and even they could not block every city gate, so they only camped in the distance of the three city gates in the southeast and north.
Yang Chao sent 50,000 soldiers to defend the city, Yang Chao did not plan to take these recruits out of the city to fight the Qing army in the field, that would be no different from looking for death, but he was confident enough to let the Qing army hit the head under the city of Nanjing.
But who would have thought that at night, suddenly there was an explosion at the South Gate Jubao Gate, and the city gate was blown open with a big hole, and hundreds of cavalry of the Qing army looked for an opportunity to kill, and then they attacked and rushed to occupy the city gate, and then a large number of cavalry poured into Nanjing, killing people on the street, and setting fire to houses when they saw them.
Slaughter! Blaze! Nanjing panicked!
Yang Chao admitted that he was a little flustered for a moment, but the spiritual will cultivated under years of bloody fighting was not so easy to collapse, he immediately sent most of his personal soldiers home to protect his family, he was selfish, when the country was ruined, he thought about his family the most.
But he did not go home himself, first stopped the commotion of the nearby recruits, and then rode a fiery red high-headed horse, and galloped on the city wall with a few old soldiers such as Zhang Dian Li Liang, and played his own banner for every soldier to see, and then personally conveyed the order to let the troops hold the defense area.
For a time, it was equivalent to abandoning the city, and letting the city of Nanjing grieve under the iron hooves of the Qing army.
After stabilizing the new recruits in the city, Yang Chao began to organize a counteroffensive, allowing the soldiers to walk down the city wall in an organized manner and compete with the Qing army under every city gate.
After the Qing army entered the city, they killed people and set fire to create chaos along the street, and also killed under the city gates, only on both sides of the city gate there were stairs leading to the city wall, the Qing army occupied the passage between the upper and lower cities, and locked the defenders of the entire Nanjing city on the city wall, unless they jumped down, they could only stay in the city and watch the chaos in the city, and break their military spirit step by step.
Yang Chao was just the opposite, first to stabilize the morale of the army, and then began to fight with the Qing army for the main road of the city gate, repeated battles, heavy casualties, until dawn to occupy half of the city gate, and many streets in the city have been burned to the ground.
Then Yang Chao conveyed the order, telling the soldiers not to panic, fight with the Qing army street by street, rely on the terrain to kill the enemy, and don't charge forcibly!
It took another whole day to recapture the area around Nancheng and continue to advance towards the north.
After three days of fighting, the Qing army was pushed back to the north of Yundu, and Yang Chao immediately set up defenses along the canal in the city, destroying all the bridges across the river and protecting the most prosperous southern city of Nanjing.
At this time, the losses were heavy, only 30,000 of the 50,000 recruits remained, and 20,000 were either killed in battle or scattered.
Nanjing, the most prosperous city of the Ming Dynasty, has never seen the enemy army since it was built, but who would have thought that one day there will be two armies in the north and south to confront each other, the people of Nanjing have no experience in the war, and there is no such preparation in their hearts, so they are particularly panicked, all kinds of escape, running around, crying, and also taking advantage of the chaos to make trouble, looting, revenge, the ugliest part of human nature is completely exposed, Nanjing at this time is a city of hell.
Yang Chao immediately stopped the attack according to the south of Yundu, not only was the army insufficient, but also from Yundu to the north, the city of Nanjing spread out, the north city was five or six times larger than the south city, even if he could attack the north city, to be honest, Yang Chao did not have the troops to defend it.
Therefore, the forces could only be reduced in the narrow urban area of the southern city, and even the imperial city in the north was ceded to the Qing army.
It took four or six days for many men to lead the 20,000 main forces back from the direction of Hangzhou.
At this time, Yang Chao ordered an attack to the north.
Many of the main forces of men opened the way, and the recruits who had already experienced the baptism of war followed behind and rushed to kill, beating and rushing, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated one by one, and it took only three days to completely drive the Qing army out of the city of Nanjing, but it was powerless to pursue.
Immediately began to stabilize the situation in Nanjing.
Under his own personal defense, he was even rushed into the city by the Qing army, looking at a ruined wall, and even the imperial city was burned down by the defeated Qing army before leaving, although the Qing army was finally repulsed, but such a victory is really not a victory.
From Yang Chao to the soldiers under his command, no one had the joy of a big victory, and everyone was in a heavy mood.
"Pursuit! Pursuit! β
"After ordering Xie Fei and Lu Mo to annihilate Shang Kexi's troops, they immediately swept in the direction of Nanjing City, and don't let go of any of the Qing troops on the road."
"Order the Zhejiang troops, abandon the defense of the city, and make an all-out attack, and engage the enemy in battle. Don't seek to recover the city, only to kill the Tartars! β
"Order Zhao Kang to immediately bring the cavalry back to help."
"Order Sun Changfu to go south immediately."
"Order Li Wuliu and Wang Pu to guard against the enemy situation in the north, and not to give the enemy any opportunity during the period of emptiness in Jiangbei."
A series of orders were conveyed, but Yang Chao's heart was full of anger and a feeling of being humiliated, if he didn't get this scene back, he couldn't take this breath! (To be continued.) )