189.Battle of Wanquan River (continued)
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On the 12th of February, the main force of the Zheng army suddenly appeared in the north of Wanquan Hebei, and the frightened Qing army broke away from the original camp and gathered into a group, as if this would increase their own strength and block the Zheng army's troops. (If you like this book, please collect biquge.info) but to the surprise of the Qing army, Zheng Jun watched the Qing army gather, but did not immediately attack, but made a posture of digging and defending himself.
For Zheng Jun's movements, the Qing army's high-level quickly came to a correct judgment, out of the fear of insufficient support and the food route will be cut off, the three Qing troops did not care about verifying He Fu's life and death in Henan and made the decision to retreat as soon as possible. However, it was not easy to withdraw unscathed from under the nose of the Zheng army, no, as soon as the Qing army began to move, the Zheng army commanded by Wu Shu decisively sent troops to intercept it, and the two sides confronted each other again in Jiafengling and Boerponan.
It seems that if the two sides have not done a single battle, the Qing army will not be able to retreat with all divisions, but something unexpected has happened.
Shumulu? The Eight Banners Horse Corps commanded by Cozi left their slow-moving infantry and fled, regardless of the strength of their own side to fight. It didn't matter if the Eight Banners fled like this, more than 10,000 Qing troops immediately collapsed. Generals and officials at all levels who had horses fled one after another, and those who did not have horses fled one after another to the mountains and the sea.
Seeing this scene, Wu Shu, who was surprised for a while, quickly adjusted his subordinates, and he captured and dispersed the Qing army with Zuo Yongwei's division and Zuo Longxiang's division, and the remaining two divisions turned north and went straight to the front line of Anding.
On 19 February, the Zheng army, which had been killed from the direction of stability, appeared outside the Baisha Water Village, and although the garrison of the Eight Banners had just retreated to Wenchang, the news of the Qing army's defeat had already been transmitted back to Baisha with the remnants of the sailors returning north. When the people of Baisha were panicking, the appearance of the Zheng army forced the defenders to close the village and hold on. However, because there were still more than 3,500 water and land soldiers in the water village, the Qing army was still confident that it could hold on after appealing to Qiongzhou and Guangdong Province.
Since artillery and other heavy weapons were still being transported, Wu Shu, who was worried about the loss of troops, did not order an immediate attack on Shuizhai.
On 22 February, more than 3,500 Qing troops who had withdrawn from Wenchang and Huitong passed through Baisha Shuizhai, and just as the guards of Shuizhai were trying to contact this group of Qing troops to join forces with the Zheng army, the Eight Banners Horse Brigade, which accounted for the majority of the troops in the retreating troops, once again exerted its overspeed and mobility, once again throwing off the friendly troops and fleeing to Qiongshan on their own.
After the Eight Banners Horse Team fled without a fight, the remaining Qianwu Qing army, which had no fighting spirit, took the initiative to surrender. Wu Shu, who did not wait for the arrival of artillery, then drove the new annexed army to attack the village. Although the defenders of Baisha repelled this group of new annexes twice and inflicted great casualties, their confidence in holding on to Shuizhai and waiting for reinforcements has been completely lost.
On 23 February, Zheng's artillery arrived in front of the battle, and after some fighting, Zheng's army was ready for a strong attack. Seeing the sharp artillery fire of the Zheng army, a group of Qing army guards and some pro-troops who had a premonition that Shuizhai could no longer hold on to the village fled back to the mainland overnight on a few Canton ships and long dragons, and the remaining Qing army without a leader opened the village and surrendered early the next morning. After simply organizing thousands of surrendered troops, Wu Shu left a regiment to hold Baisha, and the rest of the troops and horses approached Qiongzhou non-stop, so on the 25th, the capital city of Qiongzhou was encircled, and the Qing army of about 7,000 people was surrounded in the city for a long time.
On February 26, Wu Shu sent the captured Qing army into the city with a letter to persuade him to surrender, but the Qing army refused, so the Zheng army collected all kinds of wood to build ladders and other siege equipment to prepare for the storm.
On 28 February, the Zheng Army's Zuo Yongwei Division and Zuo Longxiang Division, which had escorted more than 3,700 troops from the Ding and Ma divisions, arrived at the city of Qiongzhou. At this point, together with the 8,000 new annexed troops, the Zheng army has gathered a huge force of more than 22,000 people and more than 60 artillery pieces of various types, and an inevitably bloody siege battle is about to begin.
On March 3, under the thunder of three-and-a-half-inch artillery, the Zheng army launched the first wave of attacks, and thousands of new annexed troops, driven by the Zheng army, braved the bullets at the head of the city, first filled a dozen passages with sandbags in the estuary river (note: that is, the Meishe River) and erected a number of simple box pontoon bridges, and then attacked the city head twice. The Qing army defending the city resisted to the death, and although they repelled the Zheng army's offensive twice, they suffered extremely heavy losses in the artillery fire supported by the Zheng army.
On 4 March, more than 5,000 Qing prisoners captured at Wanquan River were escorted by Zheng's army to Qiongzhou, and they were immediately filled in with the teams of the new annexed army. It was precisely by relying on the survival ** of the new annexed army and the absolute superiority in strength that the Zheng army captured the sub-city outside the Hue Gate (West Gate) at three o'clock in the afternoon of this day without paying any casualties.
On 5 March, the remnants of more than 8,000 new annexed troops attacked Qiongzhou in four ways, and the Qing army was tired of coping, so they lost Yongtai Gate (East Gate) and Jingnan Gate around noon on the same day. On the one hand, the new annexed army that seized the gate attacked the Hue Gate along the city wall, and on the other hand, it went straight to the prefect and the Yamen of the general army, and the two sides fought each other on the long street, and the blood flowed like a river.
The Qing army is fighting less and less, and the steady stream of new annexed troops is full of murderous intent, so the balance of victory is self-evidently tilted in favor of the Ming and Zheng sides. In the middle of the afternoon, the second hall of the Qiongzhou Mansion was lost, and the Qiongzhou prefect chose to hang himself. Not only did half an hour pass, but the general soldiers of Qiongzhou also died in the hands of their former comrades in the process of defending the general army's yamen. As for the cowardly Deputy Governor Koqi, there was no escape this time, and he chose the most tragic fire.
At the beginning of the Shen period, the main force of the Zheng army successively took over the three gates, and then dispatched troops to carry out a purge of the new annexed army that was burning and looting all over the city, and after killing three or four hundred red-eyed new annexed troops in a row, the order in Qiongzhou County was re-controlled, but at this time, half of Qiongzhou had been reduced to rubble
The news of the fall of Qiongzhou was transmitted to the west like a shock wave, and the gentry and officials of Lingao and Chengmai counties boasted that they could not resist the attack of the Zheng army, so they fled to the mainland in small boats, while the governor and Dusi of Danzhou, who had once taken the merit, chose to surrender the city, so that Qiongzhou fell into the hands of the Zheng army for the first time.
"Wu Shu was renamed Lingshui Bo, 200 households were added to the food estate, and the rest of the officials and other meritorious deeds were recounted in Taiwan."
Hearing Zheng Kezang's reward, Wu Shu was a little scared, not to mention anything else, the rewards of other people have not yet been decided, why did he add 200 households first, and Ming Zheng is now a first-class earl, and the county earl is the highest rank among them, and then he only has a marquis who can be promoted, but now how many marquis does Ming Zheng have? Except for Chen Long, the Marquis of Labuan, who is similar to the distribution of the match, there is no one!
Wu Shu, who felt that the height was unbearable, was afraid that Liu Guoxuan's story would repeat itself in him, so he hurriedly pushed back: "This battle is the result of the concerted efforts of all the adults, and Lord Sun and they even forced He Fu and the minister to retreat before."
"Wu Qing, Sun Qing, Mao Qing, etc., Gu remembers it clearly, but although Qiongzhou won, it is not over for this domain, so it has to be postponed and counted, but Qing and Gu are about to return to Dongning together, so it is also an incentive for Zhu Qing to be awarded in advance." Zheng Kezhang interrupted Wu Shu's self-humility with a smile, speaking of which, this battle does have a revelation of enlightenment for Zheng Kezang, it turns out that the new annex army can be used in this way, so it is normal to add extra grace. "By the way, have you ever prepared the regulations for the withdrawal of troops?"
"First of all, please send a number of elites from the new annex army to fill the gaps in each division." This is the proper meaning, there are still more than 6,000 complete new annexed troops until now, which is not a good thing for the Ming Zheng side who is preparing to withdraw the army, and it is natural to reduce it again and again. "In addition, there was a supplementary submission from the Anping Left-behind Division before, and the minister thought that he could be drawn from the new annexed army."
"No, the responsibility of the Anping Left-behind Division is heavy, and it cannot be transferred from the new annexed army for the time being, but it can be filled by half a post in each of the six divisions, and the new annexed army will be added if each division is insufficient." Speaking of this, Zheng Kezhang suddenly thought of something. "Then draw half a sentinel from the Zuo Huwei and Zuo Yongwei divisions, and then draw a group of 500 people from the new attached army, and send them to Xiboni."
Zheng Kezhang has already laid a son of Chen Long in Beibo mud, but the lone son is not alive, so Zheng Kezhang has to send someone to settle in Bo Ni again, but this time Zheng Kezhang does not want to appear in an independent small feudal country, so there will be this scene of betting on the old capital.
Xibo mud? Wu Shu naturally didn't know Zheng Kezang's intentions, but there were only five hundred people, among which there were only more than a hundred Zheng Jun veterans, even if he was completely lost, he would not be too distressed, so he just nodded lightly to indicate that he knew.
"Before the wind period, this domain can withdraw two divisions from Qiongzhou first, so that even if the Qing army returns, it will have a royal power." So Wu Shu continued the previous topic. "The military academy is built here, and the division of Zuo Longxiang will be withdrawn first." This is a new division, and I don't think the department will compete with other divisions with old seniority. "Another division, Chen Jian yƬ is the right martial guard division."
"Yes." Zheng Kezhang agreed without thinking about it, but added another sentence on the topic of the new annexed army. "Allocate another 300 new annexed troops to Bintong Longjiao Cai Tong to grasp"
Not long after Wu Shu retreated, the guard Xi Daping walked in: "Lord, good news, He Fu can catch it." ā
Zheng Kezhang raised his eyebrows, and listened to Xi Daping's report: "He Fu didn't know that we had taken Qiongzhou, so he crashed into it in a daze, but it was really miserable, there were only four pro-soldiers left around him, and the rest of the people were probably pulled down by him." ā
"Pass the order down, let the Qing troops scattered in various townships take the initiative to surrender." Zheng Kezhang narrowed his eyes and thought about it, he didn't have time to suppress bandits. "Sue them that all those who surrender to sincerity will be forgiven for their innocence, or if there is peace, they can be released to the mainland first." Xi Daping just wanted to retreat, but Zheng Kezhang called him again. "Let the Zhizhou who surrendered in Kaesong come to see Lone." Zheng Kezhang has been in Qiongzhou for many months, and he found that because of the war and the forced relocation of Shitai, the prefectures and counties under the rule of Ming Zheng abandoned the famine, so that famine was inevitable, which inevitably affected the Ming Zheng in Qiongzhou to feed the war ideas, for this reason, he did not hesitate to use some local Chengcheng officials to manage Qiongzhou, so that the proper resumption of production could allow Zheng Jun to free up. "In addition, the magistrate who saw the concubine being humiliated also raised up, so let him act in Wanzhou first, and by the way, the so-called notice of surrender just now can let them go to the cloth"
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