Chapter 268: It's okay to cooperate
Huang Binqing, the commander-in-chief of Jiujiang, was defeated, and the 20,000 soldiers who had just gathered on the riverside were defeated in a single contact with the Qing army, and Huang Binqing, the commander-in-chief, had to retreat to the middle of the river.
It was raining in Tongcheng, and the news that the Qing army was coming along the river was obtained, and at the beginning of leap June, Zhu Dadian, the governor of Jiujiang, who was holding the title of secretary of the military department, arrived in Tongcheng. At this time, his subordinates had gathered the strength of 16 general troops, including the Huang Binqing department that had been gathered, totaling more than 150,000, including Liu Kongzhao, Huang Binqing, Fang Guoan, Zhao Minxing, Bu Congshan, Du Hongyu, Zhang Pengyi, Yang Zhenzong, and the main force of the naval army was Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Cai of Fujian.
Zuo Mengeng is too familiar with this area, and it is under his leadership that the Qing army quickly took Susong and Taihu Lake in Anqing Mansion without much effort in just three days.
The distance of 400 miles from Jiujiang to Shucheng to block the Qing army is very important to the whole battle situation, because the west side is Dabie Mountain, the east side is the Yangtze River, the Qing army will return north to pass through Susong, Taihu Lake, Qianshan in Anqing Prefecture, and then enter Lujiang County in Luzhou in Tongcheng, and the Qing army will have a new choice in Lujiang County, but the Qing army should not continue to attack Nanjing in the north, because the Qing army does not have such a liliang now. The front of Lujiang County is full of water and low mountainous and hilly areas, and the possibility of Jiannu continuing to the north is very low, and turning to Shucheng on the west side at the foot of Dabie Mountain is the best choice, and then, whether it is to run west to Henan, or to the north to Fengyang Mansion is a horse Pingchuan.
The most suitable place to block Anqing Province was in Tongcheng, which was bordered by Dabie Mountain to the west and lake swamps to the southeast, a narrow area with a horizontal defensive area of less than thirty miles. Based on the geographical advantage, it is very suitable to block Jiannu here.
Luzhou Mansion has the powerful Huang Degong, and the more powerful Zhou Yuji army is already rushing to Luzhou. What Zhu Dadian needs to do is to block the attack, he wants to buy time for Zhou Yuji.
On the seventh day of the sixth month of the leap month, Prince Shuoying of the Qing Dynasty and the general of Jingyuan, Azige, led the army to Qianshan.
At this time, the Qing army was led into the customs. Wu Sangui, a traitor who has always claimed to ask for help from the Qing Dynasty as a courtier of the Ming Dynasty and invited soldiers to "exterminate the Liukou", completely exposed his traitorous nature.
Wu Sangui initially repeatedly called the Ming Dynasty "China" and "My Dynasty", and the Qing Dynasty "Northern Dynasty". In other words, Wu Sangui originally asked for help from the Qing Dynasty as a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and the purpose of inviting troops was to "exterminate the Liukou" and enable the Ming Dynasty to "prosper". In this way, Wu Sangui pursued Li Zicheng as the vanguard of the Qing army, pacified the remnants of the rogue in Shaanxi and other places, and then prepared to deal with Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan. Now, Li Zicheng's army has been effectively dispersed. Due to the current situation, the Qing army gave up attacking Zhang Xianzhong, and Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi in the Qing Dynasty, was still the vanguard of the Qing army.
After repeatedly speculating between various political shili, left and right, and surrendering to the Qing army, Wu Sangui also vigorously preached to the world the so-called justice of leading the Qing army into the customs, and fought under the banner of begging to attack Li and "revenge the monarch's father". Right now. Wu Sangui's laurel of "pure loyalty and filial piety, revenge for the country, and division of the land" was shattered by reality, and his hypocritical and shameless true face was completely exposed.
Wu Sangui, a great traitor through the ages, deserves to be the first in the Ming Dynasty traitor spectrum.
It is the rainy season, and the rain in Jiangnan is delicate and not irritable. Clean and moisturizing, like a slow song in the distance. The wind blows, moistens thousands of homes, fluttering and sprinkling. The sky is flying, and the brisk and thin rain is like a girl's brisk footsteps, which makes people nostalgic. And now, this beautiful view in the drizzle is not appreciated. Because the war came to Tongcheng again.
Zhu Dadian served as the military department in the year of the Apocalypse, served as the deputy envoy of Fujian, and was promoted to the right political secretary of Fujian for his meritorious service in resisting the intrusion of "Hongmaofan". During the Chongzhen period, when Zhu Dadian served as the governor of Shandong, he was ordered to gather 30,000 troops, including the cavalry of the Liao army, to take the initiative to attack the rebels led by Kong Youde, and defeated the main force of the rebels who underestimated the enemy. He took advantage of the victory to besiege Dengzhou, killed the thief Li Jiucheng, and annihilated his entire division. At that time, Wu Sangui, Liu Liangzuo and others were all partial generals under the command of Dadian.
In the eighth year of Chongzhen, due to the capture of Fengyang and the destruction of the imperial mausoleum, Emperor Chongzhen edicted Zhu Dadian to be the governor of Cao Yun and the governor of Lu, Feng, Huai and Yang. When he was in Shandong, he recruited 1,000 soldiers and 1,500 horses as his own army and stationed in Fengyang. Since then, he has been repeatedly demoted for "losing the state and county" and "overdue for flat thieves". In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the governor of Jiangbei and Huguang in Henan was still in Fengyang. During this period, he was dismissed from his post pending trial because he was "unable to be honest".
In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Xu Du of Dongyang County gathered people to rebel, and besieged Jinhua in the first month of the following year. Zhu Dadian's son Zhu Wanhua recruited people to resist and repelled the thieves. The county magistrate Xu Tiaoyuan checked the roster of the capital department with Zhu Wanhua's name, and said that Zhu Dadian was "a thief", and Zuo, a patrol from Donglin, played according to this. As a result, this loyal minister who saved Jinhua was actually arrested and punished for "thieves" and "thieves go and the soldiers do not disperse", and his house was confiscated and ordered to be paid.
It was not until Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne in Nanjing that Zhu Dadian stood up again.
Throughout Zhu Dadian's life experience, in addition to being idle at home, Zhu Dadian's life can be said to be a life of fighting, and this life of fighting makes him know very well how to fight with the enemy and fight with different enemies.
Zhu Dadian knew the Qing army and knew more about his former subordinate Wu Sangui, so Zhu Dadian had invested a lot of money on this blocking front of less than thirty miles. As far as the eye can see, not only are the entire defense line lined with trenches, but the antlers are also covered in front of the entire defense line as if they don't need money. And behind this line of defense, there were flags and patches of army arrays everywhere.
The reaction speed of the Ming army was so fast, the defense was in place, and the strength was obviously not weak.
This kind of defense made the cavalry completely useless, and the only way was to advance with foot soldiers, Wu Sangui didn't need to look at it to understand that the infantry advanced while also bearing the attack of Ming artillery fire. The only thing that is fortunate is that it is raining, so you don't have to worry about the threat of archery.
In the mouth of the captive, Wu Sangui knew that the defensive commander was Zhu Dadian, Zhu Dadian used to be Wu Sangui's old boss, and he knew very well that this old guy had always been a troublemaker, and the combat command was very fierce, and there was a rare ruthlessness of the Ming civil officials.
"Infantry ready!"
This line of defense is very difficult to gnaw, the army led by Azig is not far behind, Wu Sangui, as the vanguard, must attack, it doesn't matter if this line of defense cannot be taken, Wu Sangui must make an offensive appearance even if he loses some manpower.
"Get your shield ready for me, and take it off for me in one go!"
Wu Sangui gave the order again, and his generals followed him for many years, and all of these generals understood that Wu Sangui was issuing a code word.
The attack of the foot soldiers is nothing more than advancing with a shield, but Wu Sangui's strength is limited, and now that he is under the fence, the soldiers are precious to him. This hint is equivalent to letting his generals understand that there is no need to rush to attack, and to make a show, to reduce their own casualties, and wait for the army behind to come up to assist in the attack.
This is the custom of the vast majority of the Ming army, because the generals have supervisors in their armies, and in order to perfunctory these supervisors, the Ming generals have their own set of code words. It's just that Wu Sangui's allegiance has now become the Qing army, but this survival habit is still valid at some times.
Not far behind the front, completely different from the general superintendent sitting in the rear command, Zhu Dadian boldly stood on a watchtower, holding a clairvoyant mirror in his hand.
This is the only clairvoyant mirror on this front, given to him by Zhou Yuji.
Zhu Dadian saw the banner of Wu Sangui's army, and also saw the familiar standard military uniform, this shameless traitor and his subordinates are still all wearing the costumes of the Ming army.
What is shame?
Where is Wu Sangui ashamed, in order to survive better, he has abandoned his family, and his father Wu Xiang and others have died in the hands of Li Zicheng. How much is shame worth? Wu Sangui's advertised "revenge for his father" was reported to his own country, to the court, and to his old boss. What is shamelessness? Wu Sangui is; Even if it is pointed out by thousands of people, it is just for himself!
The soldiers under Wu Sangui who came to attack moved very slowly, only a few thousand people, and the queue was very sparse, which was a little different from what Zhu Dadian expected. But soon, Zhu Dadian, who knew more about the generals of the Ming army, understood Wu Sangui's strategy; The old routine, common sense offense, and then wait for reinforcements, let the big troops behind come to be cannon fodder.
Although he was very disdainful of Sangui and gritted his teeth with hatred, Zhu Dadian didn't mind cooperating with Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui needed time, he needed time even more, and he could kill the enemy's majesty by acting, why not Zhu Dadian.
More than 100 guns of various sizes were placed on the trenches, which had been loaded. When Wu Sangui's thousands of foot soldiers slowly entered the firing range of two miles, an officer issued an artillery order after receiving Zhu Dadian's signal.
One cannon rang out one by one, Wu Sangui's soldiers were scattered, and the speed was even more lackluster, and the solid projectiles were visible to the naked eye and fell in the somewhat scattered crowd.
The casualties are different from each other, this kind of projectile cannot be said to be non-lethal, although Wu Sangui's soldiers are scattered, someone must have been hit, at least Zhu Dadian, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror, saw that someone was hit. The consequences of being hit by a solid bullet are serious, and the soldier will definitely lose his ability to fight, but it is a pity that the density and frequency of fire of the projectile are really not powerful, and coupled with the dispersion of the enemy troops, there are only a few enemies who are hit.
Wu Sangui's soldiers were too slow, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and these soldiers kept slipping and falling on some muddy ground, resulting in extremely slow speed. Despite this, Zhu Dadian was not happy, and after only a few shellings, there was a tragic explosion of artillery.
Under such an advantage, it is equal to five or five openings, injuring a few enemies and injuring a few himself, which makes Zhu Dadian very angry. (To be continued......)