Chapter 383: The First Battle (Text)

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Fuyang is located in the upper reaches of the Qiantang River, Lin'an to the north, and Hangzhou Yima Pingchuan to the east.

After a whole day of fighting here, the scouts sent by Fang Guoan to inquire about the military situation arrived outside Fuyang County, saw the "Ming" banner erected on the city wall, and hurriedly reported to Yanzhou Mansion.

Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit.

Zhai Zhe has been planning for many years, concentrating all the troops of Ningshao Military Town, and then uniting the people of Zhejiang General Army Fang Guoan, regarding Hangzhou as a must-win place. However, the city defense of Hangzhou is tied with Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, second only to Nanjing, and it is very difficult to attack it, and only by using the Qing Dynasty to lure most of its main force out of Hangzhou City can we ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Feng Qin was setting up defenses on the city walls, reinforcing the defective places, and ordered the officials who had served as the chief to recruit strong men to form a team.

"Lord Qiyu, the scout is waiting for the light bike."

The wind of the car is faster than Fang Guoan's arrival, and Zhai Zhe sent almost all the elite cavalry under his command to Feng Qin's command this time, which shows the importance he attaches to this war.

The wind of the car "oh oh" went up to the city wall.

"General Che, you're just in time!"

"Just say what's arranged."

"You arrange for three hundred cavalry to march in the direction of Lin'an and Yuhang, and patrol outside the city, but don't get close to the city."

"Why? The last general is willing to ask for his life to capture Lin'an! ”

Feng Qin smiled and did not explain. His taciturn personality is familiar to all the generals in the army.

Che Feng waited for a moment, seeing that he did not change his words, and retreated stupidly.

Zhai Zhe's order to Feng Qin was for him to lure out the Qing Hangzhou defenders, so he had to grasp the strength of the troops.

Fuyang was only a day's journey from Hangzhou, and the Qing court's Hangzhou guard general Boluo only received the news that Fuyang County had been captured two days later, and Yuhang and Lin'an reported that small groups of light cavalry of the Ming army appeared around the county seat. Bolo was the son of Abatai, but not only at war like his father. Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang who had surrendered, was immediately called for questioning.

"The coming army claims to be under the command of King Yonglu, and there are cavalry, which is likely to be the remnants of Ning Shao's army."

"The deputy general of Ning Shaojun begged to surrender, and the general army heard that he fled to Minhai, and there are still remnants left in eastern Zhejiang?"

Zhang Bingzhen briefly described the process of the Xudu uprising and the encirclement and suppression of Ning Shaojun.

"This group of people wants to take advantage of the opportunity of the shaving order to make trouble, and if they don't press down, they are afraid that they will cause a bigger incident." Bolo saw Zhai Zhe's intentions.

Zhang Bingzhen told everything he knew, this was his greatest value, "I heard that there were more than 20,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 sailors in Ningshao Military Town, and Fang Guoan also had 20,000 soldiers and horses!" ”

Bolo doesn't care about the number of people in the military towns of the Ming Dynasty, there are many false reports, and few people can fight bravely, such as Zuo Liangyu, who is known as an army of 800,000, which is about the same as a group of pigs and sheep. But he was still a little more wary of Ning Shaojun Town, and all Beile and Beizi of the Qing Dynasty had experienced those battles in the Monan Grassland. Zhai Zhe's name is hidden behind several Mongol Great Khans and Lu Xiangsheng, but it is also often mentioned.

In the early morning of the next day, an army of 10,000 marched out of Hangzhou to Fuyang, half of whom were 3,000 Jurchens, 2,000 Mongols and 5,000 Hans. Bolo has taken it very seriously.

There are thirty miles away from Fuyang, and the scouts on both sides are engaged in battle, and Che Feng ordered the scouts to fight and retreat, and report to Fuyang County.

Fang Guoan's army arrived at Fuyang County the night before. The content of Fuyang City is not less than so many soldiers and horses. Feng Qin discussed with him and asked Fang Guoan to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the hillside twenty miles north of Fuyang City, and he himself left 5,000 troops to be stationed outside the north gate of the county town to echo Fang Guoan's army.

Bolo's army approached the city, and after watching the battle situation from afar, it was decided to attack the Fang Guoan army outside the north side of the city first, and clear the troubles outside the city so that they could attack the city.

Since the Qing soldiers went south, they have been like bamboos, and they have taken a clairvoyant mirror at the head of the city to see the military situation of the captives, which is the credit of Fang Yizhi.

From a distance, the Qing army was divided into two parts, the Mongolian banner men and horses stood at the north gate of Fuyang County, and the Jurchens and Han soldiers went straight to the direction of Fang Guoan's camp.

Whenever he was on duty, he ordered the cavalry to be on standby. Half of his command are newly recruited soldiers and horses, and the combat strength of the Zhejiang soldiers of the other country's security is wait-and-see, so he first let the cavalry be on standby, in case of timely rescue on the battlefield.

"The Qing soldiers are coming!"

There was a commotion in Fang Guoan's barracks, and the birds stood in a row with guns in their hands, and stood in neat rows after the horses that were simply piled up in front of the camp.

Bolo ordered the Han to be the vanguard, and the Jurchens were in the rear. These soldiers were originally Liu Zeqing's soldiers and horses, but after Liu Zeqing defected to Duoduo, he was beheaded for his capriciousness, and his soldiers and horses were assigned to the various departments of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

The top of the head was hung up, and the timidity and shame of these people seemed to be scraped off.

There are many firearms in Zhejiang, and the release is like a landslide and the ground cracks, and the gunpowder smoke in front of the battle is filled, and the clairvoyant mirror of Fengqin is quickly blocked by a layer of smoke. Judging from the initial cast of the guns, the guns were too anxious, but listening to the continuous sound of the guns, the level of the layout of the guns was okay, and Feng Qin's mind was a little fixed.

Feng Qin watched for half an hour, and heard the sound of the gun a little sparse, and the shouting of killing became dense. Turning around and going down to the city, Pegasus led his own soldiers out of the north gate and ordered: "Send troops!" ”

A cannon shot outside the north gate was earth-shattering, attracting Bolo's attention, and his order to give the order for the Jurchens to attack was slightly slowed down.

Five thousand pikemen lined up, five hundred men in a column, a row of pikemen and two rows of bird-gunners, a square queue, pressed against the Mongols ten miles away, in the middle of the phalanx two hundred armorers in black armor, dragging heavy axes.

The light cavalry of the Mongols moved first, and there was not much room for them to outflank in the mountainous terrain of eastern Zhejiang, and when the cavalry reached three hundred paces away, a majestic shout sounded in the phalanx, "Raise your gun!" ”

The rear end of the three-zhang long spear was clubbed to the ground, and the front section was in mid-air, and only a column of pikemen would use such a long spear, precisely to deal with the cavalry of the Qing captives.

The progress of the queue slowed, and the arquebuses on the hands of the bird were faintly burnt.

The Mongols rode sixty paces from the formation and drew their bows, sparse arrows falling from the air.

"Release!"

A neat row of clangs, mixed with the neighing of war horses.

There was a moment of panic in the phalanx, someone fell to the ground with an arrow, his clothes were stained red with blood, his spear lost control, and the barrel of the spear smashed on the head of the person in the front.

"Hold on to the spear! Look ahead! As a veteran, Mr. Qian shouted loudly. He had fought in the Tianxiong Army for seven or eight years.

The oncoming Mongols fell six or seven war horses, some fell to the ground and got up and fled, and some may have been injured and lay on the ground wailing, looking at the oncoming Ming army slowly approaching.

There was no need for pikemen in the ideal queue of Feng Qin, but he was still cautious when he used bird gunmen for the first time to fight against the Qing captives. The main purpose of these spears is only to give the birds and soldiers confidence so that they will not be disadvantaged by panic when reloading ammunition.

The Mongol cavalry was forced to retreat and make way for the opening of the barracks to Fang'an.

Three thousand five hundred cavalry appeared behind the phalanx, and the iron hooves of the horses struck the ground. The cavalry that is ready is the most terrible cavalry. Bolo dismissed the idea of letting the Jurchens attack.

The battle was at a stalemate, and no one dared to beat the last reserves out.

The army that Bolo is now guarding Fuyang County seems to be the dominant force in the entire battlefield, at least this general's control of the battlefield makes him a little uneasy.

The phalanx of 5,000 people confronted the Mongolian archers in the northeast corner of Fuyang City, and the sound of bows and arrows and birds did not stop.

Both sides did not have the courage to break the cauldron and sink the ship, and the battle lasted from mid-morning to mid-afternoon, and the Han soldiers of the Qing army had lost their sharpness.

Fang Guoan and his son Fang Yuanke relied on the advantage of their strength and began to mobilize troops and horses to counterattack from both flanks, and the sound of guns and artillery became dense again. Fang Guoan was very wary of the Jurchens who had been eyeing him, and he was worried that the movement of the entire army formation would not be able to resist if it was attacked by surprise.

Fang Guoan didn't dare to let go, and he didn't want to lose his strength too much, he mainly stuck to it, which coincided with Feng Qin's thinking, and the two cooperated for the first time, which made the entire battlefield invulnerable.

"Withdraw!" Bolo saw that the situation had turned unfavorable and immediately gave the order.

The Han soldiers retreated in a hurry, and the Jurchens set aside their archers to block the pursuing Zhejiang soldiers.

"Attack!" This is the moment that Feng Qin is waiting for.

The 3,500 cavalry of Che Feng pounced on the Mongol cavalry, who were still engaged in the battle with the phalanx.

The battle situation was like a game, the chess pieces of both sides were clear at a glance, Bolo moved the Jurchens first, and the light cavalry of the chariot style immediately joined the battlefield.

The men and horses of Mengqi divided their troops and fought for more than an hour, where to pass through the light horses of the car wind to wait for work.

The scout light cavalry with high riding skills bit in front and the light armored cavalry in the back, and the wide official road immediately appeared extremely narrow, and war horses were constantly squeezed into the rice fields next to them.

The wind and arrows of the chariot are incomplete, and each arrow must hit the head of the war horse, and the light rider will fight in the road with all kinds of shouts.

When the lancers approached, Che Feng ordered the light cavalry to jump into the rice fields to make way for the road, and the spears like a forest rushed to suppress the past, these people were Zuo Ruo's subordinates, and they were unstoppable in their charge, and the Mongols could not resist it, and fought and retreated in the direction of Bolo.

Che Feng still wanted to pursue, but there was a clarion call for retreating troops from behind.

The battle began at the time of Si and ended until almost the time of Shen, and the Qing army was slightly defeated and retreated to camp thirty miles in the direction of Hangzhou.

That night, the light cavalry harassed Lin'an and Yuhang with torches, scattered everywhere to drive away the Tartars, and Bolo urgently mobilized troops and horses from Hangzhou overnight to converge.

Although it was a small victory, it also made Fang Guoan extremely excited. Feng Qin is also very satisfied, at present, focusing on defense and training soldiers in battle is the most in line with his mind, not to mention that he is not a person who likes to be aggressive.

Some people are busy, some people are idle. Someone is bleeding, someone is in a hurry.

Inside the city of Hangzhou.

Ji Hongzang has been here for two months. These houses are nominally the property of the Zhedong Chamber of Commerce, and the shops outside deal in some seafood and medicinal materials on weekdays, and these businesses do not nominally belong to the business alliance, and most of the men in them are from his secret camp.

In the past six months, spying news and other affairs have been handed over to Wang Yi, and Ji Hong has only done this one thing. The northerners are not water-oriented, and the Hangzhou Water Gate is still guarded by the original soldiers, and several of them have always exchanged cups with him.

After staying in the shadows for a long time, if you can go to the battlefield again, it must be especially worth recalling.