After receiving reinforcements, Chen Guobao, the deputy general in charge of the war in Chuzhou, immediately set off along the Oujiang River. However, when the Chuzhou Green Camp was evacuated, all the ships had been taken away, and those who could not be taken away were burned. At present, they had to walk all the way, and the target was the Qingtian County town stationed by Chuzhou Green Camp, which was displayed by the intelligence.

"Nine out of ten counties in Chuzhou have no cities, only half of Qingtian."

In fact, it is not only Qingtian, but also the city walls of Chuzhou, which is also the biggest reason why the Qing army chose to resist only in these two places. According to Chen Guobao's intelligence, the Wenzhou Green Camp seemed to have gathered a large army to assist in defense. In this way, the opponent he was facing was these two defeated soldiers.

Chen Guobao was under no pressure. Before leaving, Chen Wen completed the casualties of the half of the Dongyang Battalion he was responsible for. The reinforcements this time included two infantry bureaus, two hundred cavalry, and supporting artillery and engineers. In this way, the troops that exceeded one combat barracks would be able to capture even the number of defeated soldiers who could not surpass the Ming army.

Full of confidence, Chen Guobao led the troops advancing eastward to the bottom of Qingtian County on the third day of December.

The distribution of Qingtian city walls is not like the four sides or polygons of most cities, but like a triangle, which is why it is called half a city. The bottom is Linjiang Road in later generations. The corner of the West City is about a hundred meters above the Dabutou, while the corner of the East City is located in the Xingchunmen area. The commanding height is Taihe Mountain Sword Test Stone. The total length of the city wall is 3,312 meters. The purpose of the construction was to defend against the enemy, and later it also took into account the role of flood control.

When Chen Guobao arrived at the city, he sent someone to persuade him to surrender. Although the Qing army was not so determined, he finally refused the Ming army's persuasion to surrender.

Seeing this, Chen Guobao led his army to retreat and camp and build siege equipment. It was not until the next morning that the Ming army was at the city and began the siege battle after another persuading surrender without success.

Chen Guobao's method was very simple, that is, ant support siege. With professional engineers, the civilians built more siege equipment than the Qing army had imagined. So when the Ming army had just put out the formation, the Qingtian defenders quickly ignited the beacon.

The probe had already spread out, and Chen Guobao immediately launched an attack without any hesitation, but in order to prevent the Qing army from harassing, two infantry bureaus remained on guard.

The Ming army's siege equipment rolled forward, covering infantry carrying ladders approaching the city walls. The artillery at the city was far beyond imagination. I think it was those who moved from the heads of each county and were sent here in the end. However, Chuzhou has always been a poor mansion. Although there are many mine bandits in the mountains, the garrisons of each county do not use slightly larger caliber artillery. To this day, there are indeed a large number of artillery at the city walls, but most of them are small tiger squat cannons. There are also many outdated goods such as bowl-mouth guns and cub-mouth guns that were cast in the early Ming Dynasty, which were higher than the grandfather of the Qing army. I don't know where to dig out the outdated goods such as bowl-mouth guns and cub-mouth guns that were cast in the early Ming Dynasty, which were higher than the grandfather of the Qing army.

After giving up the entire Chuzhou, the Qing army was obviously determined to defend the place. Since the deputy general of Chuzhou had been captured by the Ming army, the flag of Wenzhou's deputy general Hu Laijin was erected here. However, although there were many firearms in the Qing Dynasty, most of them were small cannons with stones and iron sand. The Ming army quickly advanced to the city under the cover of siege equipment. But at this moment, news came from the Ming army's horse exploration.

Qingtian County is triangular, facing Oujiang River, and the other two sides form an angle with it. The direction of the Ming army's attack was the city wall close to the upper reaches, and the reason for leaving another city wall is nothing more than the military principle of "the siege is indispensable".

According to the report of the Exploser, in the east of the Ming army, a Qing army under the banner of Taizhou Green Camp was coming quickly. It was supposed that it was waiting for an opportunity to move in the mountains that had been lurking there before. Seeing that the Qingtian defenders ignited the beacon, they came towards the Ming army in a large manner. While the Qing army was moving, their army was far better than Chuzhou. Although the green camp in Wenzhou was far inferior to the Ming army, they were afraid that they would be attacked by the Qing army. Chen Guobao had to temporarily slow down the offensive and instead concentrate their efforts to destroy the guards at the top of the city. He personally led the two bureaus responsible for the guarding to fight eastward.

Soon, the two armies collided. Although Chen Guobao was not Chen Wen or the generals under Chen Wen, he was not a fledgling role. He has been following Chen Wen since the fifth year of Yongli. For a year and a half, he had already used the Mandarin Duck Formation. Although his opponent was the Taizhou General Ma Xin, who Chen Wen has always attached great importance to, the Taizhou Green Camp was only 2,000 troops, and there were not many people who could accompany him except those who stayed in Taizhou. Moreover, because he tasted the sweetness of the last sneak attack on Yushan Town, he did not carry out corresponding reforms, and the army still had the same old tactics.

Next, as expected, with the cooperation of the Ming army's neatly arranged spear formation killer team, Yuanyang formation killer team, artillery and firearm team, Ma Xin's army only stood up for a little longer than expected and the entire army retreated. It can even be said that if Ma Xin hadn't reacted quickly enough and the resolute hero cut off his arm, his army of more than a thousand people would have withdrawn from the battlefield as he had only left over three hundred people like now.

The devastating victory did not make Chen Guobao feel any joy, because the siege battle was declared defeated by the main general leading the army to fight reinforcements. After destroying some siege wares, the Ming army dropped a large number of siege equipment to retreat. Because of the long-term battle and getting closer to the Spring Festival, they were returning home more and more. The existence of the threat behind them made them far less likely to be as strong as they did in field battles.

He repelled reinforcements, but there was no siege equipment. Chen Guobao had to spend another day building siege equipment. It was not until the sixth day of the lunar month that the troops were coming to the city again, and Ma Xin's banner was even more on the top of the city.

It has been eight months since the first attack on Quzhou in April this year. Although there have been a few days of rest in the middle, many of the troops that did not enter Chuzhou have been issued for the previous battle. This partial division has long been returned. Moreover, most of the military merit fields of the Ming army in Zhejiang are in the Jinqu Basin. Not to mention that Chuzhou is mountainous, and it has not been time to sort it out just now. The soldiers are far less likely to recover Qingtian and even Wenzhou than to return to Jinhua to celebrate the New Year.

Chen Guobao knew very well about this. He also knew that this battle would be the last large-scale attack this year in any case. After all, the army's morale was about to return, and forcibly attacking would only backfire. If it were not done well, even the Chuzhou Prefecture that had just been recovered could not be saved.

Cheng and Bucheng both took this opportunity. Chen Guobao immediately ordered the attack without hesitation. However, as the beacon fires in the city were ignited again, the starting point where the sight was blocked by the city, Qing army warships appeared in front of the Ming army under the pull of the boatman. What followed was the roar of artillery.

At this distance, it was impossible for the Qing army to shell out the Ming army formation, but as the Qing army arrived another supporter, the eyes of the soldiers under their command also showed their thoughts of no intention to fight again in front of Chen Guobao. In desperation, the Ming army had to withdraw its troops towards Chuzhou Prefecture City and gave up its plan to attack Qingtian.

At the top of Qingtian city, Ma Xin and Hu Laijin looked at the Ming army who were leaving with lingering fear. The small Qingtian County was filled with green camp soldiers from Chuzhou, Wenzhou and Taizhou. Even if they were all just one battalion, or even less than one battalion, there were more than two thousand people. However, they had no chance of winning against the Ming army outside the city. In fact, if it weren't for the more than a dozen warships of the Taizhou Navy that appeared on the battlefield as planned, they would have been defeated and fled to Wenzhou.

Ma Xin knew very well that Hu Laijin must have complained about his field battle with the Ming army yesterday, but if he didn't fight against him personally, how could he see why this Ming army could beat the Qing army in southwestern Zhejiang?

The tactics of the two sides were completely different. Although the Ming army had a high proportion of firearms, they were not the original Qing army in hand-to-hand combat at all, and they still emphasized that individual brave battle formations could compete with each other. Moreover, those firearms were not decorations. When the Ming army's hand-to-hand infantry assaulted, the firearms would also advance with the previous ones and use various opportunities to attack the opponent.

Even today, Ma Xin couldn't help but feel a little respect and vigilance for Hu Laijin to escape back to Wenzhou in that crushing defeat.

After a long time, after the navy confirmed the news that the Ming army had burned down the camp and withdrawn the troops, Ma Xin said to Hu Laijin: "No matter what, it will be a good thing for the Ming army to withdraw its troops after all."

Upon hearing this, Hu Laijin nodded and then responded: "Brother Ma said that this document for winning is still necessary to carefully consider it." (To be continued.)

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