Lanxi County, located on the east bank of Lanjiang, is the key to the convergence of Qujiang and Dongyang River to the north. Chen Wen had two infantry guards and half of Zhejiang Inland River Naval Division here, but under the sudden powerful offensive of the Qing army, it can be said that the entire army was wiped out. As long as a very small number can escape back to Jinhua, the truth will be revealed.

The location here is extremely important, which is both the key to the Qing army's raid and the key to the return. However, in order to achieve the effect of the raid on Jinhua, the Qing army only left the Yanzhou Green Camp with about 400 people here. This arrangement is not wrong. The waterway was controlled by the Qiantang Navy, and Jinhua was about to be quickly captured by the Eight Banners of the Han army. The only Ming army that could pose a threat to them was from the front line from Zhengjiawu Town to Anhua Town a hundred miles east. The only use of the 400 Qing troops here is to make other Qing troops feel at ease and ensure the safety of the food route. There were no too important combat tasks.

However, what they did not expect was that when Chen Wen led the main force of the Ming army to rush back to the city of Jinhua, Chen Guobao, who received the order, left Zhengjiawu Town after the main force of the Ming army, headed eastward. After entering Pujiang County, he quickly advanced westward with the help of the Pujiang County Yamen and a large number of civilians and military households organized by the Thousand Houses of Pujiang River. Even the mountain road on the road did not waste much time. He arrived at Xiangxi Town north of Lanxi County before dawn the next day.

Pujiang Camp rested there for a while, and then launched a raid on Lanxi County after creating some ladders by accompanying auxiliary soldiers.

In contrast, the 400-man Yanzhou Green Camp was reorganized after being crippled by Chen Wen the previous year, and the Qiantang Water Camp and the Eight Banners of the Han Army were on the side. The guards in the city were very relaxed. Most of the soldiers either plundered the people in the city or were still resting. The defenders with only three melons and two dates on the top of the city were just alarmed and were knocked down by the Ming army. Except for some of the Qing troops in the city who escaped, the rest were all made by the Pujiang Camp.

After Pujiang Camp easily captured Lanxi County, it did not stick to the rescue, but instead recruited a large number of civilians to block the official road leading to Jinhua Fucheng with trees on both sides. The engineers dug a large number of horse traps, and then scattered the horses and started resting.

The first group of Qing troops who fled back to Lanxi were the nearly 1,000 cavalrymen from Liu Zhiyuan. When they discovered that the road had been blocked by the Ming army, Liu Zhiyuan, who had experienced, naturally realized that Lanxi was no longer all for the Qing army. However, the Ming army was driving the defeated soldiers behind, and they did not dare to return, so they had to enter the mountains and forests on both sides and take a detour.

After the Qing army entered the woods, it was impossible to ride a horse, so they had to lead the horse. However, after getting off the horse, the cavalry's combat effectiveness was far less than that of the infantry formed a formation. After encountering the ambush by the Ming army, they suffered heavy losses.

After leaving more than a hundred people, the Qing army, who escaped by chance, immediately numbed their claws after leaving the forest, because Liu Zhiyuan, who was originally on the official road, led most of the Qing cavalry, had disappeared. Looking at the hoof prints on the ground, it seemed that they had turned back along the north mountain.

These abandoned sons who were used by Liu Zhiyuan to attract the attention of the Ming army quickly welcomed the next batch of defeated soldiers in a loss. Not long after, the brigade of defeated soldiers fled desperately under the Ming army's drive. Every time those who fell behind and were captured by the Ming army would be executed directly. In this way, they encountered these Qing army's defeated soldiers and realized that the road ahead had been blocked by the Ming army.

In despair, except for some who fled into the mountains and forests, the other Qing troops all surrendered to the Ming army in tears. When Chen Wen arrived in Lanxi, he saw nearly a thousand exhausted Han Eight Banners and hundreds of Yanzhou Green Camps tied up with ropes, waiting for his next step to deal with it.

He said before that the surrendered person was exempted from death, but the specific ones would have to wait until he returned to Jinhua to identify the disposal plan before he could refine it. However, Chen Guobao still had some objections to the exemption from death and the release of the house.

"Master, these fake Tartars are not good things. They have countless blood from the royal army and the people on their hands. You can't let them go like this."

Chen Wen had been a general under his command for a long time, and Chen Wen had a much deeper understanding of this general than when he first returned to the team. This guy was just a straightforward person. When other generals under his command had already begun to control the demeanor of a general, Chen Guobao still couldn't keep his words and said whatever he thought. No wonder he offended the powerful faction of the Lujian Kingdom at that time.

He sighed. In fact, he didn't plan to make it clear. Since Chen Guobao made a suggestion, he wouldn't explain it clearly, but it wouldn't work. Chen Wen had to speak: "There is at least one or two months from now to release. I don't plan to let them eat a meal. Especially those Han Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Hangzhou to guard the Eight Banners, I have never forgotten the great hatred of the Zhoushan Massacre. After entering the coolie camp, some of them were tormented and killed them."

Hearing this, Chen Guobao couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. He had been in charge of the defense of the Northern Line in the past six months. The officers of the Coolie Battalion also led the Green Camp coolies to expand the Anhua Town Bastion. He still remembered the methods of those guys and the former Green Camp soldiers under them. It was easy for those living kings to exhaust the Qing army, and they could even customize the methods of how long it took.

Thinking of this, when he recalled the smile of Hou Guoyuan just now, Chen Guobao suddenly realized that what he was talking about was nonsense, but if he had such questions, he would probably still be unable to control his words with his temperament.

Chen Wen returned to Jinhua with his captives and handed over Lanxi County to Pujiang Camp to defend. In addition to clearing out the fleeing Qing army, he also gave Chen Guobao a new task because of some things, he felt that he had not done enough.

Returning to the capital city, Nantang, the main force of this battle, Shentang, the Third Guards, and Dongyang Camp, which guards the city, have already entered a state of rest and recuperation.

Dongyang Camp held on for a night and suffered a lot of losses. More than one-third of the dead were killed in the entire camp, and everyone was injured. Some of the seriously injured were probably not alive on the day of recovery. And those hundreds of new recruits were almost wiped out, with only a dozen people left. If it weren't for some lucky people guarding other city walls at night, they would have participated in the field battle after dawn, and the overall proportion would have increased a lot.

In contrast, although the three battalions rushed all night and faced elite troops like the Eight Banners of the Han army in the field, they actually suffered very little losses. Aside from the fallen ones, there were only more than 600 casualties, which was even lower than the casualties of the Shentangyuan victory. Most of them were only injured. However, among the more than 600 casualties, nearly 100 were killed in the cavalry alone, and the proportion was quite large.

As an opponent of the Ming army in this battle, the Eight Banners of Han Army drawn from Hangzhou and Beijing, which were garrisoned by the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, had a total of 8,000 people when they set out from Hangzhou. And according to the prisoners' reaction, these Niulu were all established when Huang Taiji was still alive.

The "Chen Han Army" had only more than 33,000 people in the Qing Dynasty, and one-quarter of them were defeated by the Ming army in Zhejiang in the first battle. There were more than 1,000 casualties in the battle for the city, most of which were only slightly injured. If the city wall had not been collapsed from the beginning, it would have been almost impossible.

When the Ming army arrived at the field battle, the Ming army immediately found the place, and hundreds of people were killed on the battlefield alone. However, after the Ming army occupied the battlefield, they finally found that a total of 1,649 were killed on the battlefield, which were injured on the battlefield, which were injured during the siege, and which were killed on the spot, and it was no longer clear.

In the following pursuit, the Ming army killed more than 600 people, but in fact, there were more. However, because Liu Zhiyuan's cavalry was completely withdrawn from the battlefield, Chen Wenyan ordered the pursuit troops not to go deep alone, otherwise the results would be greater. However, more than half of the more than 600 heads were killed by the Qing army at the corner of the river, which made the Ming army's supervisors not know how to remember the merits. In addition, there were also many people who fell into the water, and it was hard to say whether they were drowned or not, and it became a trouble for these poor supervisors.

Among the remaining Qing army, there were quite a lot of prisoners. The more than 4,000 prisoners forced Chen Wen to convert the recruit training camp into a temporary prison.

Under normal circumstances, this is difficult to appear and difficult to replicate, especially in the cavalry. But unfortunately, both sides were tired, and the morale of the Ming army was so high that it was unprecedented. The Qing army lost its spirit overnight after the battle. When they fled, the right wing, the central army and some left wing were driven into a dead corner by the Ming army, which really suffered a blood loss due to the unfavorable terrain.

In terms of seizure, Chen Wen no longer looked down on cold weapons and bird guns, and there were a lot of artillery, but it was not a rare object for the Ming army in Zhejiang, which had already started to launch the water conservancy workshop.

What really deserves Chen Wen's attention was the war horses. In this battle, the Qing army had more than 2,000 cavalry alone, and there were more officers. Of course, the more than 1,000 people who were not killed or captured by the Ming army on the first day were almost all officers and cavalry. These people had a much stronger advantage in survival than those two-legged infantry soldiers. Even if they were not strong enough, they were not the Ming army's cavalry that had only more than 800 cavalry before the war started.

However, after this war, the total number of cavalry of the Ming army in Zhejiang will be greatly improved in the next few months. Even Chen Wen was considering whether to form a cavalry battalion of thousands of people, and then write a letter to Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, expressing his confusion about the Qing army's efforts to use so many cavalry in a place where water networks are crisscrossing, roads are rugged and densely forested.

After two days of screening, officers at all levels of the captives have also been selected. Whether it is the two guards of Yanzhou Green Camp, the several thousand generals, the generals, the number of Niulu Zhangjing of the Eight Banners of the Han army, and a group of small people who have not left their names in Chen Wen's memory. But there is only one exception, and this exception is enough to dissipate all the disappointments in front of him.
Chapter completed!