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Chapter 76 Pre-emptive strike

Once the decision was made, Chen Wen immediately began to mobilize various battalions of war soldiers and battalions stationed in various places for training.

According to the appointment of the new recruits when they entered the camp, Yin Yue, the general of Jinhua Town, was also in charge of Dongyang Camp, Li Ruixin, the general of Quzhou Town, was also in charge of Yiwu Camp, Wu Dengke, the general of Chuzhou Town, was also in charge of Lishui Camp, and Chen Guobao, the general of the Northern Line Regiment, was also in charge of Pujiang Camp.

These four generals are already the highest-level generals under Chen Wen's command, except Lou Jiye. The generals of the three towns have the right to command the garrisons of each county in the town, and also command the war barracks. This is just to allow them to safeguard the place more safely when facing the Qing army. As for the northern line, in addition to the Anhua Town Bastion and the Hulu Town Bastion that had just been built, Chen Wen also left Chen Guobao a new recruit composed of two infantry bureaus. However, these soldiers are still training in the new recruits and do not have the ability to fight for the time being.

In addition, as Chen Wen said before, the commander of Shentang Camp was blessed by Qian Zongan, who was defending the left wing in the Battle of Shentangyuan. However, because his achievements in the martial arts school were still somewhat unsatisfactory, it was not considered to have completed this stage of study for the time being. The rank of the rank of the lieutenant of the Zhiguo Camp will not be awarded for the time being. Even the position of deputy general has become the title of deputy general and the general, which is also considered to be the word "spur".

In contrast, the new commander of Nantang Camp is much more comfortable. This general named Hou Guoyuan came from the first group of veterans in Nantang Camp. He was the sergeant commander in the first captain of the Chief of Staff Lou Jiye at the time, and Niu Ping'an, who was killed at the time, was still the commander of the sergeant.

Youdao only has wrong names, but no wrong nicknames. This former rattan player named Wild Monkey is not only thin and flexible, but also much smarter than An Youfu, who was also promoted this year. Not only did he fight bravely, but he found that Chen Wen was more eye-catching to the generals who were willing to work hard to learn military strategies, he spent all his rest time on learning like Wu Dengke. Hard work pays off, and now he can take the position of command in Nantang Camp without disappointing his efforts.

Among the seven battle barracks, except for the King Guards, Nantang and Shentang third camps were stationed between Jinqu and Qu, and the other battalions were directly responsible for Chen Wen.

Since we are the first to take action, we are very particular about suddenness. We are too far away to Nanchang, so Chen Wen decided to uproot the Jiangshan County Super Biao Battalion first to prevent the Qing army from causing a lot of trouble for the Ming army in the Battle of Shentangyuan and continue to copy his organization and develop, causing greater harm.

Of course, it would be better if Yang Jie and Wang Zhigang could tempt Yang Jie and Wang Zhigang to rescue him, come to siege the city and fight for help, and eliminate them together.

To this end, Chen Wen not only mobilized the three battle camps of the Guards, Nantang and Shentang, as well as some water camps, but also dispatched the Lishui camp, led by Wu Dengke, the general of Chuzhou Town, to strive to form a crushing situation in terms of military strength and eliminate the Super Biao camp in one go, and at the same time, the combat effectiveness of the Lishui camp can be improved to a certain extent in the battle.

At the end of February, when Li Dingguo was still hesitating in Yongzhou about whether to go to Jingzhou and Sun Kewang to discuss matters, Chen Wen's army had already dispatched. By the fourth day of March, Nantang, which had set out in advance, the second camp of Shentang was already at the city.

Along the way, the Ming army's whistle cavalry had already driven away the Qing army's probing horses. After arriving in Jiangshan County, they built a floating bridge with the help of the water camp. Shentangying passed through Jiangshan Port and blocked the Dubiao camp in Chengli with Nantangying, one south and one north.

Since the Ming army used the number of cavalry advantages to achieve the barrier of military information, Zhang Guoxun did not know how many troops the Ming army dispatched. He just sent people to Wang Zhigang and Yang Jie to ask for help from Wang Zhigang and Yang Jie according to Hong Chengchou's plan last year. However, to his surprise, the day after the encirclement was completed, Lishui Camp and the Guard Camp arrived at the battlefield, and they still surrounded Jiangshan County, one south and one north, and divided some troops to extend to the mountainous area west of Jiangshan County.

Four battle camps, nearly 8,000 soldiers. Although the Dubiao battalion has recovered some vitality during this period and at least returned to the full state, it is still at a serious disadvantage in terms of military strength. Moreover, the reprimands of the Qing court not long ago caused some chaos, which has caused them to regress in the problem of organizing the Mandarin Duck Formation. However, the Ming army is at the city, and these generals of the Dubiao battalion who have had a tacit understanding have had to take out the weapons that had already been thrown into the warehouse for the soldiers to use, so that they can continue to use the Mandarin Duck Formation to confront the Ming army. The two hundred troops left by Wang Sheng that have used the Mandarin Duck Formation for more than two years will be the last trump card in Zhang Guoxun's hands.

Although Jiangshan County is small, there are as many as ten city gates, which is in line with the principle of "there are many gates" when defending the city. However, the number of gates is the ability to go out of the city to attack, thus threatening the enemy troops who attack the city. At present, the Ming army's military strength is far greater than the Qing army. Even if it is rewarded and called for the dead soldiers to leave the city, it may not be able to defeat the opponent. Instead, it is still afraid that the Ming army will seize the city gate. At present, there is only one way to guard and wait for assistance.

With all the guards at the top of the city, Zhang Guoxun drove all the people in Jiangshan County to the city. The men and children helped the guards, and finally gained a new advantage in terms of number of people.

In order to attract Yang Jie and Wang Zhigang, Chen Wen specially asked the engineers and auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army in the north and south to deliberately speed up the speed of building siege equipment. Two days later, on the seventh day of the third lunar month of the seventh year of Yongli, when the horse exploration team responsible for covering up military situations had already discovered Wang Zhigang and Yang Jie's vanguard troops, Chen Wen issued an order to siege the city.

In common sense, it is extremely dangerous to act like this, but Chen Wen is still the same. With the order issued, a large number of Ming army auxiliary soldiers began to push the siege equipment toward Jiangshan County, and the Ming army's soldiers followed closely behind.

The Qing army in the city was originally a powerful brigade in the southern green camp, but the tactics of the two sides were already very different. However, they were defending the city now, and Zhang Guoxun was still very confident about it. When the Ming army began to attack the city, he did not hurriedly order the artillery, but waited until the Ming army's watchtower and rushing into the range before giving the order.

Taking advantage of this period of truce, the Qing court brought a large number of artillery to the Super Biao operation from Fujian, with all caliber sizes. However, because the Super Biao battalion, like other Qing troops, had no aiming skills and could only shoot with experience. The first shot of the fire was very bad, and it only smashed craters on the ground, stirring up black mud. Even black mud rarely touched the Ming army's siege equipment.

This was a test shot, and Zhang Guoxun didn't care. After ordering the musketeers and archers in the army to prevent them from moving, he continued to wait for the cannons to be reloaded at the top of the city.

The Ming army's marching speed did not change significantly, but in the second round of artillery bombing, only one shell hit the stand of a watchtower, but it did not completely destroy it. The shooting of the cannon was what Zhang Guoxu dreamed of, but if it was true, he should be besieging Jinhua instead of being surrounded by Chen Wen here.

The second round of shooting made Zhang Guoxun feel a little irritated, but at this time Chen Wen just smiled and shook his head. Under the monocular telescope, the Ming army's siege equipment was getting closer and closer to Jiangshan County.

Soon, as the Qing army's artillery began the third round of artillery bombardment accompanied by muskets, crossbows and bows on the city wall, the Ming army's watchtowers stopped one after another, and the musketeers and archers on the platform also began to fight back against the Qing army on the top platform.

The shells, iron sand, stones, and arrows intersected over the Ming army's infantry but did not affect the speed of the Ming army's advance. Under and behind the chariots, the Ming army's soldiers and auxiliary soldiers tried their best to move forward and soon approached the city. When the siege hammers under the chariot began to hit the city wall, the Ming army's infantry in the brigade also began to charge towards the city wall with a ladder as a scattered line.

The artillery and bow arrows on the top of the city were still ongoing. The Qing army and the civilians who were guarding each other began to attack the Ming army with guards such as rolling wood, stones, and gray bottles. Even in the center of the northern city wall, a pan filled with boiling oil was heated by the fire below, and the black smoke was emitting from the fire below was lifted by the Qing army, pouring it on the rusher under the city that was using siege hammers to destroy the city wall...

The battle went directly into white heat from the beginning. Chen Wen watched all this from afar through the monocular telescope without saying a word. Suddenly, behind the side of the army, a light rider came and rushed to Chen Wen's clean saddle dismounted near Chen Wen's flag, and knelt in front of Chen Wen with one knee.
Chapter completed!
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