Chapter 35 Whale Swallow
When the shameless and hypocritical old man in the first half of his life was spending the rest of his life to repent and do his best to make up for the mistakes he had made, Chen Wen had already withdrawn from the city of Jiangshan County.
The purpose of attacking Jiangshan was to break the Qing army's encirclement in western Quzhou, thereby threatening nearby provinces and leveraging the geographical advantages of Quzhou.
Originally, Chen Wen planned to destroy the Jiujiang Green Camp that came to support by besieging the city and attacking aid during the attack on Jiangshan, further weakening the strength of the Qing army; if the Jiujiang Green Camp refused to fight, then he would swallow the Super Biao Camp that had already started to train the Yuanyang Formation in one go, and widen the tactical gap between them.
But when he really started attacking Jiangshan, he found that it was not as easy as he thought.
Jiangshan County faces water in the east and mountains in the west, and only the two walls on the north and south are convenient for siege. However, if the water battalion uses a water battalion to transport some of the troops to the south of the city to achieve simultaneous attacks on both sides, the Qing army can completely attack the weaker division of troops with superior forces, while the powerful headquarters cannot support it at all.
Fighting on both sides is a taboo in military strategists. By the same principle, both sides attack at the same time but do not cooperate with each other and do not help each other, which is as dangerous as the former. Unless there is an absolute advantage of power, such as the Qing army encircled Siming Mountain in the fourth year of Yongli, it is an example. If Chen Wen had not delivered the news to Wang Yi in advance, otherwise, the Ming army companies in Siming Mountain, which are usually stationed in various places and are in a dispersed sand, may not have any chance of defeating them by taking advantage of the advantages of inside-line combat, and there is only a dead end.
Because of this, Chen Wen chose to attack the northern city wall leading to Quzhou. However, the county town was rectangular, long from south to north and short from east to west. The Dubiao camp guarding the city concentrated most of its troops on the northern city wall, leaving only the necessary soldiers in the other cities.
There were densely packed sieges on the top of the city, but Chen Wen was extremely lacking in large-caliber red artillery artillery to collapse the city walls. The Ming army, which used traditional siege methods, was extremely inefficient. The defense facilities outside the city were removed and demolished two days ago, and the cannons were used to smash the siege. Logically speaking, the siege battle would definitely officially start on the third day. But on this day, when the Ming army launched an attack, a ray of smoke rose in the city, and the banner of Jiujiang Green Camp appeared behind the Ming army just a moment later.
A large mountainous area west of Jiangshan County separates it from Changshan County, but this mountainous area is not the kind of mountainous ridges that cannot pass through the large army. There are large areas of flat areas and valleys for the army to march and station. Chen Wen's horses spread out to that area, but they were the ones who found the Jiujiang Green Camp.
The plan to siege the city and fight for aid was the original plan, but when Chen Wen led his army back to fight against the Jiujiang Green Camp, a light yellow wolf smoke rose from Jiangshan County, and the Jiujiang Green Camp also fled far away, without any intention of confronting Chen Wen.
Chen Wen always felt familiar in a trance. When he thought about it carefully, it seemed that he had used this method to restrain the Qing army in Anhua Town. However, because the Qing army there had too much advantage in military strength, the defenders and the troops responsible for restraining also rely more on the defense ability of the bastion, so the effect was not very obvious. In fact, the tactics of the two sides were almost as different as those taught by the two apprentices by a master. It is inevitable that there are differences, but there are still little differences in basic techniques.
Once he reached this conclusion, Chen Wen suddenly became speechless and couldn't even mention the shameless ** of Yang Jie and Zhang Guoxun. Who told him to teach Yin Yue and Lin Zhongxiao like this?
The first day of the siege ended like this, but by the second day, not only Yang Jie and Zhang Guoxun were as usual, but even the banner of Wang Zhigang appeared on the top of the city.
With the Qing reinforcements entering the city, the number of Qing troops in Jiangshan County was as high as 6,000. Even if at least one third of them were new recruits, the Ming army's military strength advantage no longer exists. Moreover, in addition to these two turtles, there is also Yang Jie outside the city...
In the following days, Chen Wen repeatedly used frauds and sold all kinds of flaws, but the Qing army seemed to have a clear goal, that is, if the Ming army did not attack the city with all its strength, Yang Jie would never come out to make trouble. Once the Ming army returned to the army, no matter how big the flaws were, Yang Jie would never be interested in fighting and ran faster than a rabbit.
The total force was only half of the opponent's. Faced with the Qing army's shamelessness, Chen Wen and his staff had no choice but to go back to Quzhou for the time being, and gave up playing with the three Qing army commanders here. "Is it faster to smash the hammer or their heads faster" game of fighting the gopherm.
The messenger came from the partial army led by Chen Guobao. According to Chen Guobao's report, he set out to attack Chuzhou and arrived in Suichang all the way, but he did not encounter any resistance. When he approached more than ten miles outside the city, he saw a large number of local gentry and wealthy families in Suichang cut their whips to welcome the king into the city.
He has not seen such a thing before. After repelling Ma Jinbao and Zhang Guoxun last year, the Qing army abandoned the cities that were unable to hold on, but it was still far from the level of cutting a whip.
But now, not only did he go out to the city to welcome him or reward the Ming army, but he also cut his braids one by one. It is common sense to be a monster. Even if Chen Guobao didn't think about it, several staff officers sent to the army this time still felt that they should investigate and then enter the city. However, the result of the investigation was that the Qing army had evacuated. According to representatives of the gentry and wealthy families, the Qing army in Suichang was ready to escape half a month ago.
Suichang immediately went down, and then Songyang and Xuanping. After the partial army recovered Suichang, they quickly took down the two counties that the Qing army also fled.
Five of the ten counties in Chuzhou were arranged in the north of Jinhua and Quzhou, and the partial army had recovered Suichang, Songyang and Xuanping, while Jinyun had returned to the embrace of the Ming army earlier. After Chen Guobao recruited a large number of civilians as auxiliary soldiers, he marched towards Chuzhou Prefecture City in a large number of people.
There was the only place where the city offensive and defensive battle broke out so far. The defenders who were supplemented by the Qing army in Suichang and other three counties were initially very tenacious. However, when the defenders of Suichang were ordered to go south, the defenders who received the news took advantage of the night to evacuate the city and headed straight for Wenzhou along the Oujiang River.
In addition to these five counties, the other five counties in Chuzhou are scattered in a wider area, but the mountains and forests are denser, with the towering central and southern parts. Among them, there is a water system between Longquan, Qingtian, Jingning and Chuzhou Prefecture City, while Qingyuan and Yunhe are even far away in the mountains and forests.
After regaining Chuzhou Prefecture City, Suichang was no longer a hinterland that bordered his county, and half of the troops were divided into assisting the defense of the Prefecture City. Chen Guobao had the idea of continuing to lead his army along the Oujiang River. In that letter, he could be said to be very optimistic about the regaining Wenzhou with the flow.
Chapter completed!