On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month of the sixth year of Yongli, it has been nearly the end of the year, and the battle situation between southwest and Zhejiang has long since slowed down.

After the two major victories in Chenzhou and Hengyang were staged, although the Southwest Ming Army did not complete the plan to annihilate the heavy army group of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, and was even forced to give up Hengzhou Prefecture, under the offensive of the main force of the Southwest Ming Army led by Sun Kewang, the Qing army in Chenzhou was wiped out, and the Southwest Ming Army was able to take this area located at the gate of Guizhou, making the Yunnan-Guizhou base safer. As for the southeast battlefield, Chen Wen from southwest Zhejiang had temporarily stopped his troops after annexing Chuzhou and was preparing for the next offensive.

At present, among the larger Ming troops, only Zheng Chenggong's army was still struggling to siege Quanzhou, trying to completely turn the base camp into a hinterland.

Because Zheng Chenggong won consecutive victories on the Fujian battlefield, he not only captured Zhangzhou, but also the biggest problem was that the Qing army in Fujian did not dare to go forward to rescue the siege. Zhangzhou and Quanzhou were the same. Some Fujian civil and military officials who were used to seeing the style also began to secretly communicate with Zheng Chenggong, in order that once the Ming army, who was in power, would have the possibility of being spared if they recovered Fujian.

In the current environment where the Ming army in the Southeast is getting stronger and stronger, this phenomenon has begun to show some signs. Chen Wen in Zhejiang has a bad reputation for prisoners, so most of Zhejiang civil and military officials are still looking at the style, but Zheng Chenggong did make him notice something was wrong.

Throughout the sixth year of Yongli, Chen Wen and the Qing army in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces almost stopped the tug-of-war in southwestern Zhejiang, all the Qing army aided Fujian in history were restrained there, and most of the elite Qing troops around were not drawn out, so the entire siege of Zhangzhou was never harassed. After no reinforcements for a long time, the Qing army in Zhangzhou was forced to surrender to Zheng Chenggong in despair, which led to the victory of the battle in Zhangzhou.

Although Zhejiang has temporarily suspended its troops and accumulated strength to wait for another battle, it is logical that the Qing army in Zhejiang and Jiangxi cannot draw large troops to aid Fujian, because Chen Wen's threat always exists. Once the Zhejiang Ming army is given any chance, he believes that even if Chen Wen's recruits are not trained, he will change the training ground to the battlefield to expand his advantage.

But under such a situation, a Fujian civil servant sent someone to send news that it was Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, secretly ordered Fujian Governor Zhang Xuesheng to prepare a large amount of food and grass, but the reason was unknown.

He always fought with the Qing army in Fujian. Even the Zuo Suo in the old nest was taken by Zhang Xuesheng and Ma Degong. Zheng Chenggong was always wary of the Qing army. This year, because of Chen Wen's existence, his offensive went a lot, but this was not enough to make him relax his vigilance.

While besieging Zhangzhou, Zheng Chenggong had already sent the spies to the surrounding areas, so he was very familiar with the situation in the surrounding areas. When this news came, Zheng Chenggong even increased the intensity of the exploration, and soon got an answer that surprised him.

Geng Jimao, the King of Jingnan of the Qing Dynasty, and his vassal soldiers disappeared shortly before Li Ding's Bian Nasional Kan was killed. When Zheng Chenggong got the news, another news also came, that is, the vassal soldiers of the Jingnan Vanguard appeared in the Nangan area of ​​Jiangxi, bypassing Chaozhou, which was focusing on guard, and were rushing towards his back Zhangzhou!

The roads in northern Zhangzhou are not easy to walk, but Zheng Chenggong has no time to verify whether the news is true, because once Zhangzhou is lost, not only will the efforts of last year and this year be wasted, but even his army besieged Quanzhou will face collapse.

Relying on the advantages of the navy, Zheng Chenggong quickly completed the transfer of his troops, and the two elite Fujian Green Camps near him did not dare to come up to seek death. The army quickly passed through Kinmen and Zhongzuo's back to the front line of Zhangzhou. As a result, a few days later, news came that Jingnan Fan appeared in Quanzhou.

It was good news that he did not appear outside the Zhangzhou Prefecture City between him, and it was even more good news that he was not blocked by this elite Qing army unit in Quanzhou. But just as Zheng Chenggong was glad that he was lucky, news came from Quanzhou that Geng Jimao had joined forces with Fujian Admiral Yang Minggao and Fujian Right General Ma Degong to join forces to Zhangzhou in one place after a very short rest.

Yang Minggao and Ma Degong were both defeated by him, and it was not worth worrying at all. However, Geng Jimao was so anxious that he obviously received the death order of the Qing court. Once Zheng Chenggong imposed this order into the current situation, he immediately got the answer to suppress him first and then destroy Chen Wen.

The Ming army in Zhejiang is located in southwestern Zhejiang, while his Ming army in Fujian is concentrated in southern Fujian. The distance between the two is almost the same province, and it takes a long time to pass on the message. There is no way to talk about the coordinated combat under such an emergency.

For this reason, Zheng Chenggong decided to concentrate his army to defend Tong'an. This place is located between Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and is the gateway to Zhangzhou Prefecture, his current base. This place was originally a strong city with a circumference of 2,710 meters and a height of 7.4 meters. There are more than ten enemy towers and ten forts, which are enough to resist the attack of the Qing army.

However, four years ago, the Qing army used cannons to collapse the walls of the county town, and it has not been repaired in recent years. When he sent troops to besiege Quanzhou, Zheng Chenggong once ridiculed the Qing army for shooting himself in the foot. However, to this day, he only regretted that he had not worked overtime during this period to renovate the county town.

On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, the people are chasing the turmoil of the year. On the day of the Jade Emperor, the Ming and Qing armies rushed here. Those who don’t know thought they wanted to perform a military battle on earth for the Jade Emperor.

The two armies lined up, and the Ming army was all towns and battalions under Zheng Chenggong. Although they fought one after another during this period, this time they concentrated an army of nearly 30,000 people, and there were also an equal number of auxiliary soldiers to fight together. On the Qing army, the auxiliary soldiers were collected by Fujian, and the combat soldiers were mainly supported by the 10,000 troops of the Jingnan Fan, and the 6,000 Fujian Green Camps of Yang Minggao and Ma Degong.

The two armies set off their formation, and with the accompaniment of artillery, the two armies quickly entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat.

Because it is difficult to buy iron armor, the soldiers have long used rattan armor and rattan cards as armor. However, while Zheng Chenggong used rattan weapons, he also developed an improved version of the tactic, which is to use three people as a group to attack and defend each other. In the past two years, the Qing army was no longer as embarrassed as before. However, the Qing army was still the original tactic and had never changed. However, the army of Jingnan Fan was the elite of the Han army of the Qing Dynasty. Whether it was the personal bravery of the soldiers or the use of the battle formations, they were not comparable to that of the Fujian Green Camp. Therefore, once the battle was fought, the Fujian Green Camp's front, which was responsible for both wings, was soon suppressed by the Ming army.

From a distance, although Geng Jimao was not as experienced as the two left and right wing generals Xu Degong and Lian Decheng left behind by his father, he could see some clues a little later.

"This group of Fujian soldiers is not good."

"What the prince said is true."

Geng Jimao's father Geng Zhongming was an old traitor who had been rebelling with Kong Youde since Dengzhou, but he committed suicide a few years ago because of privately hiding a fugitive slave. At that time, Dorgon, who was in power, did not allow Geng Jimao to inherit the throne, but instead led his troops to Guangzhou with the position of Ashihahafan as Shang Kexi's deputy soldiers.

At this time, the word "Prince" in the left-wing general of the Jingnan vassal state Xu Degong only inherited the word "Prince" after Shunzhi ascended the throne. Even this time, Hong Chengchou proposed to move one of the two vassal states in Guangdong to guard Fujian to curb Zheng Chenggong, which was decided by Shunzhi.

Geng Jimao's inheritance of the title was short, and his combat experience was far inferior to his father, and he could not compare with Kong Youde and Shang Kexi. However, his vassal soldiers were indeed rare elites, especially the more than 2,000 troops in their Geng family headquarters were even more experienced in battle formations. Therefore, since the battle has been fought, although the Ming army in the middle of the army has made some innovations in tactics and many firearms, they have always been suppressed and beaten by the Qing army. However, in comparison, the Fujian Green Camp on both sides of the left and right wings is far inferior. In fact, at this moment, it is also the Qing army that completed the breakthrough from the middle, and the Ming army first completed the encirclement of the two wings.

On the battlefield, the Jingnan vassal soldiers, who had been through the battle formation for a long time, relied on their formation to leverage their own martial arts advantages as much as possible. Over time, they cooperated with their comrades with a tacit understanding. Even Zheng Chenggong's fungus armored soldiers, which were specially trained in three-person teams, could only resist.

However, on the flank, these two Fujian Qing troops were not as simple as that. They had been repaired by Zheng Chenggong before. There were quite a few new recruits in the army. Facing the three-person team of Ming army, the Ming army could not resist it. Often, while attacking a Ming army, the Ming army immediately used rattan cards to defend, and the Ming army cooperating with them, they rushed to either resolve the offensive or directly use the flaws of the Qing army to kill them.

The two armies were still in a stalemate. In fact, Zheng Chenggong's wings were able to suppress the Fujian Green Camp so quickly, mainly because he arranged several more elite troops there, in order to form two wings as soon as possible and swallow the main force of the Qing army in one bite.

The Qing army also had an astonishing number of cavalry in its hands, which Zheng Chenggong had already noticed. The cavalry was not enough to confront the Qing army head-on, but the stronger force was his advantage. At this moment, he was still holding a few more elite towns in his hands. Even if he couldn't eat the amazing number of cavalry, he would have the chance to eat up most of the Qing army's infantry. Once the infantry was not supported, the remaining cavalry could only withdraw from the battlefield.
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