Chapter 62, there is a plan for a decisive battle

After the Ming navy completely knocked out all the warships of the Guangdong naval division along the Pearl River.

The initiative on the battlefield was completely in the hands of the Ming army.

It's like the Opium Wars of later generations.

The British army relied on naval superiority and mobility.

Head north along the coastline.

The location of the battlefield depends entirely on where the British want to fight.

The Qing army had an advantage in strength, but often the battlefield was over.

Most of the Qing Dynasty troops mobilized from land have not yet arrived at the battlefield....

The same is true now.

After it was established that there were no surface forces at the mouth of the Pearl River that could threaten the fleet of the Ming army.

Napoleon suggested that the battlefield should be placed under the city of Guangzhou.

"We now have the initiative on the battlefield, and now we are stationed under the city of Guangzhou, and our opponent has only two choices at this time: shrink the forces in the city of Guangzhou and concentrate the forces to defend the city; Lead the troops into battle and confront us outside the city of Guangzhou! ”

"No matter what the opponent chooses, the initiative is in our hands. If the other side shrinks the city of Guangzhou, we can attack other cities in Guangdong along the Pearl River, and encroach step by step, and in the end the other side will only be left with a lonely city in Guangzhou, and it is only a matter of time before we are defeated. ”

"If the other side chooses a field confrontation, so much the better... We can gradually increase our troops, force the opponent to throw all their chips into the battlefield, and we will fight a decisive battle with the Qing army in Guangdong under the city of Guangzhou! ”

"Destroy the opponent's main force in one battle!"

The commander-in-chief of this campaign was not Zhu Daohua.

It was Napoleon, the general adviser of the Ming Army at his side.

However, Napoleon also explained in detail why he placed the battlefield outside the city of Guangzhou.

It's a lure to the enemy.

For the Ming army.

The best strategy is to fight as soon as possible.

Therefore, the number of troops dispatched this time is not large.

Just the most elite Army Brigade was dispatched.

It was led by Wang Dayong, the commander of the 1st Brigade and one of the 300 elder brothers, while the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade of the Army, as well as a howitzer battalion, as well as more than 20,000 soldiers hired in the Governor's Mansion of the Straits and Lan Fang Province are still stationed on Lantau Island.

He also began to build forts, harbors, and camps on Lantau Island.

Lantau Island is located at the mouth of the Pearl River.

There is a natural deep-water harbor.

According to Boss Zhu's plan, after getting Guangdong in the future, it is necessary to carry out the large-scale development of Lantau Island - the development of special economic zones, not to mention anything else, just speculating on land can make Boss Zhu rich.

In the Hereafter.

Lantau Island, the largest island in the later generations, has not been developed - those real estate developers are really black-hearted, millions of people are crowded on the small Hong Kong island, and the land of Lantau Island, which is separated by the shallow sea, is tightly covered by the local wealthy family and is not developed...

However, Boss Zhu's purpose in developing Lantau Island is certainly not to speculate on land.

It is for the better development of maritime trade.

Therefore, the more than 20,000 people are now not wasting money on the construction of Lantau Island.

In the post-war period, these constructions were also useful.

.........

Just when the Ming army landed in Whampoa.

About 20 kilometers away in the city of Guangzhou.

Fukangan, who got the news, was furious.

"Alone! How daring!! ”

He slapped the coffee table and stood up suddenly.

After pacing back and forth for a few steps, the anger on his face had already subsided.

"The other party is a trick to lure the enemy!"

Fukangan said.

"But.... Just by virtue of a few thousand people daring to go ashore in Huangpu, it is inevitable that they are too confident! ”

Fukangan said, and he already had a plan in his heart.

"Pass on the Governor's Order!"

"The Han Army of the Eight Banners dispatched 300 horses in the upper three banners, 800 foot soldiers in each of the lower five banners, all the loyal and brave battalions were dispatched, and the Guangdong Governor dispatched 18,000 people in the left, middle and right three battalions, and the Guangdong patrol dispatched two battalions before and after, and went out of the city to listen to the order!"

As soon as Fukangan made a move, it was 50,000 soldiers and horses.

"Bite the men and horses of this brigade of the reverse Ming! I don't believe it... Zhu Daohua, the leader of the anti-Ming thief, will be willing to lose a brigade! ”

"If he doesn't want to... Then under the city of Guangzhou, invest all your capital!! ”

Fukangan squinted his eyes and glanced at the local officials in the two Guangzhous.

"I now have 150,000 regular soldiers on hand, and there are a lot of regimental training troops, which is enough to surround the Ming in Huangpu!"

"Even if we fight all these hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, as long as we can destroy the foot soldiers of the three brigades of the reverse Ming, we will win!!"

The Qing court had Han provinces, as well as Inner and Outer Mongolia.

After fighting hundreds of thousands of green battalions in Guangzhou and several southern provinces, the losses were large.

But it doesn't stop there!

On the contrary, Zhu Daohua must be reluctant to put all the foot soldiers of his three brigades under the city of Guangzhou.

Pay attention to both sides of the fight.

It's actually a decisive battle.

But the purpose is different.

Fukangan wanted to fight a war of attrition and consume more than 10,000 foot soldiers in Zhu Daohua's hands.

And for Zhu Daohua...

His purpose was to use this decisive battle to support the Qing Dynasty's forces in Guangdong as much as possible...

Clean sweep!!!

.......

It took almost two days.

Fukangan drove an army of 45,000 out of the city of Guangzhou.

When I arrived at Huangpu, it was already sunset.

After giving the order to set up camp, Fukangan took his entourage to Huangpu Longtou Mountain, and looked at the military formation of the Ming army on the top of the mountain.

What Fukangan saw was a defensive position composed of trenches and sandbags.

The position is backed by the Pearl River, and there are warships shuttling back and forth on the river.

The front of the position facing the land was an open field, unobstructed.

Inside the position was a breastwork wall of trenches and sandbags.

The Ming army in the trench could easily move to the front of the trench to shoot a row of guns through the communication trench, and at the same time, a lot of artillery was arranged behind these trenches and trenches.

Fukangan put down his binoculars and frowned.

"Although the camp of the Ming Dynasty has no high walls, it is indeed difficult to approach, and their trenches must have been arranged to use the fire of muskets."

It is not without fighting armies that possess European firearms.

The Dzungar Ministry obtained many weapons from Europe through trade from Russia and other countries.

"The anti-Ming army has formed a hard village, it seems that it is not here to test, but to fight on the edge of the Pearl River."

Guangdong Green Camp Admiral Sun Qijiao said.

He was also born in the Eight Banners Han Army.

The soldiers of the Green Battalion were all Han Chinese.

But the officer with the troops can be either Han or Eight Banners - on the contrary, Han people can never become the eight banners leading officers.

The official shop of the Qing Dynasty is basically divided into two shops.

One is the Eight Banners, including the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

And the Han people, who have a much larger population than the Eight Banners, can get much less official positions than the Eight Banners.

Fukangan looked at the camp of the Ming army in front.

Turn over and get on the horse.

"It seems that this battle will not be over for a while."

Sun Qijiao also looked at the sun and moon flags fluttering on the camp.

His face was so solemn that he could squeeze into the water.

This Da Ming.

They have been dead for more than a hundred years.

Why is it still haunted?