You must know that because he was preparing to escape, Liu Guoneng placed the cannon fodder on the front line. But even those cannon fodder have made Nanjing Jingying retreat step by step. In fact, the reason for this is also very simple, the appearance of Nanjing Jingying is really good-looking, but just like the modern city honor guards, they have a beautiful appearance, but their combat effectiveness is still far inferior to that of the field army.

So as soon as he saw that there was a play, Liu Guoneng immediately transferred the soldiers and horses of the old battalion.

And there were also problems with the command of the Nanjing camp.

You must know that the eunuch who took office in Nanjing was sent to guard the cold palace because of the fall of Fengyang. Therefore, the current eunuch is quite sensitive to the invasion of the peasant army, so there is such a situation that he will immediately go out to fight and personally lead the army.

There is nothing wrong with attaching such importance to this, but the eunuch who guards the town first came to a layman to command the insider, and took all the command of this expedition.

It should be said that the reason why Emperor Chongzhen appointed this eunuch was also because he had a reputation for knowing military strategy in the inner court, but this situation was a bit like making the famous spray on the modern military forum immediately command the army.

It's not that those famous people don't have some real materials, but after all, military science is a very serious science, and even special universities have been set up for this science, which are divided into two types: elementary and advanced, which shows how broad and profound military science is. Therefore, even if you memorize Du Niang's posts on military science, she will not necessarily fight.

Of course, this eunuch must not be self-aware. But this can't be blamed on him, the system of the Ming Dynasty at that time was like this, pulling a civil official or eunuch who seemed to be able to fight was appointed as the commander-in-chief. But don't say it, there is indeed such a person who has two brushes for everything, such as: Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting. But the system looks like it's a gamble of luck. Unfortunately, the eunuch was a bad card in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.

So at the very beginning of the battle. The eunuch who guarded the town made the common mistake of an amateur "military strategist" - impatient, wanting to fight quickly, and wanting to become a fat man in one bite.

According to the idea of the eunuch guarding the town: the battlefield is small, and the number of people who fight on their own front will not suffer; The armor is complete and the weapons are excellent, and it also has a great advantage in wartime; There are also a large number of cavalry, firearms and archers and other jishu troops, so let's crush them at the first time.

Actually, that's not wrong. But the eunuch who guarded the town didn't think that he was simply using his own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths. He did not give full play to the advantage of Nanjing Jingying's long-range firepower, but launched a frontal hand-to-hand fight with Liu Guoneng's department, which really made Liu Guoneng overjoyed!

Actually, according to the normal routine. The Ming army should have distanced itself from Liu Guoneng's troops, slowly grinding with Liu Guoneng's troops, and using firearms and bows and arrows to kill and wound the enemy from a distance. In case Liu Guoneng counterattacked, he would suppress it with the counter-charge of the cavalry, and so on several times. I can hit him, but he can't hit me. Even the Iron Warrior collapsed.

After that, the cover-up and the pursuit that the person will. Anyway, it's easy, and your own casualties are small. The only downside is that the battle can last a long time, and it will also allow some of the enemy troops to escape.

But with such an outcome, would the eunuch who guarded the town care? The answer, of course, was no, because his original purpose was to prevent the peasant army from invading Nanzhili, and there was no hard indicator of how many peasant armies could be eliminated at the bottom.

But the eunuch just said no. Maybe he wants to annihilate Liu Guoneng's ministry. Perhaps he wanted Shiyan's own military theories, but for whatever purpose, the eunuch ordered the whole army to press down.

But the eunuch seemed to have forgotten the classic adage of "know yourself and know your enemy". This is also left over from the Song Dynasty: the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers. Therefore, when the city honor guard encounters the poor mountains and bad waters, the savage soldiers. That would be a tragedy.

The scene of limbs flying and blood splattering immediately caused chaos among the soldiers in the front row of the Nanjing Beijing camp. Moreover, the soldiers on both sides were very tightly entangled, and there was no way to give full play to the power of the cavalry and firearms of the Nanjing Jingying. When the soldiers engaged in the battle began to flee, the array of the Ming army was also rushed.

And when retreating, there were also problems, the water network near Chaohu Lake was dense, and the armor of Nanjing Jingying was heavy, and it was not even able to swim, so the situation became a mess.

If it weren't for the garrison in Hanshan County, the troops would have responded in time; If it weren't for Liu Guoneng's happiness coming too quickly and not transferring the main force of the old battalion in time, maybe this Ming army would have been disabled.

But that's it, the number of soldiers collected by the town guard eunuch Zuihou is still only more than 8,000, and the armor left on the battlefield is more than 6,000, although most of them are the most ordinary cotton armor, but it can also be seen how sophisticated the equipment of this Ming army is. In addition, horses, firearms, and other weapons seized by Liu Guoneng's ministry were piled up. And this defeat was transmitted back to Nanjing, which immediately caused an uproar in the entire Jinling City.

The eunuch didn't save face, and he immediately sent an urgent letter for help to the four directions. But it is impossible for the soldiers and horses left in Nanjing City to move anymore, and it is impossible for Zhu Dadian's department in Fengyang to lose the watermelon of Fengyang for the sake of sesame. And in the Runing Army in Runing and Guide? Let's not mention it again! Seeing that this Ming army had to flee back to Nanjing, and then look at Liu Guoneng's department at the Nanzhili Carnival!

But there is no endless road, and it just so happened that at this time, another Ming army rushed to Yangzhou, and the commander of the Ming army turned out to be a eunuch, and that person was Lu Jiude.

Will Lu Jiude Weishenme arrive so coincidentally? It was also because it was necessary to prevent Wu Shigong's rebellion in Runing. Although Emperor Chongzhen was constantly appeasing Wu Shigong, it was impossible not to make any preventive preparations, so he ordered Lu Jiude to lead the Wuyong battalion of Beijing Jingying and the border army of the general soldier Huang Degong, a total of more than 6,600 horses, to go south along the Grand Canal to Fengyang to strengthen Fengyang's defense, because Wu Shigong's Runing was simply too close to Fengyang.

But when he was in Yangzhou, Lu Jiude was asked for help by the eunuch guarding the town, and he immediately changed his direction and went straight to Hanshan County. So, who said that there is no comradeship between eunuchs?

Lu Jiude is one of the few eunuchs with military vision. And he is also a man who dares to do things, so he dares to do this first.

In fact, it is reasonable to make such a choice militarily, Fengyang is only of strong political significance, and its importance is definitely not comparable to that of Nanzhili and Jiangnan, which were rich in the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued......)