Dingyang River must not be defended, which is the consensus of the Qing army generals. The reason is that on the one hand, they have to face the main force of the Ming army across the river, and the long siege behind them is not far from being built. They also have to be wary of the Ming army in Quzhou, which was nearly two war barracks, being attacked from the enemy from both sides. If one accidentally gets annihilated, it is the end of the entire army, which is something that the Qing army generals don’t want to see.

But if it does not retreat, Dingyang River must be guarded everywhere. If the Ming army really cannot do it, it can enter the mountainous area to force it to cross. Facing the mountain road there, the Ming army cannot set up defenses on the other side.

Due to the destruction of the Han Eight Banners Army, the generals of the Qing army were now scared. Although the matter was still kept secret, the Ming army would inevitably pull out the captured Han Eight Banners and banners and the corpses to shave the morale of the Qing army. These people were old military affairs, and it was very clear that even if they denied it, the soldiers below would believe the Ming army on the opposite side, not theirs. In addition to the threat from the Ming army behind it, there was no way to fight this battle.

Retreat to Qujiang was already a consensus among the generals. After the Ming army had crossed Lingxi from Longyou County, the Qing army began to withdraw its troops. However, the retreat was not far away, it was just the previous joint camp on the west bank of Qujiang.

There is no way to use Qujiang to delay the Ming army's offensive, because the Ming army's water camp was not completely destroyed. There was also a small half of the Zhejiang Inland Water Division parked outside the west wall of Quzhou Prefecture. Every time the Qiantang Water Camp passed through that area, it would be attacked by the Ming army's water camp, which was almost inevitable. However, on the way westward and on the way to Jiangxi, there was no such barrier, and it was only possible at the moment.

Fortunately, Li Benshen still knew where Hong Chengchou's bottom line was, so he developed a way to defend one after another. First, Qujiang, then Jiangshan and Changshan, and finally Yushan County of Guangxin Prefecture. It took one step at a time, and half a month passed quickly. Moreover, on the day when the half month began, the Ming army might not be able to set off from Jinhua Prefecture.

Time was the only help from the Qing army on the southern front of Quzhou. When they discovered the Ming army, ten days had actually passed. I think this half month would be sure to win.

Two days later, the Qing army had already withdrawn from the west bank of Qujiang, and the main force of the Ming army followed closely through Dingyang Creek and completed the meeting with the Quzhou defenders.

The main force had just experienced a great war. Although the losses of the soldiers were not very large, facing the 30,000 Qing army soldiers on the front line of Quzhou, most of these Qing troops were veterans who had already served as soldiers and ate food before the Qing army headed south, with only four and a half battalions. The main force of the Ming army, whose Quzhou defenders had only 10,000 people, was still unknown.

Quzhou is safe, Chen Wen has already firmly sat on Diaoyutai, but if his army cannot be fought, he will sooner or later be trapped by the Qing army with overwhelming resource advantages in this basin. Therefore, we must seize every possible possibility of expansion. Although there are far less powerful than the Qing soldiers at this moment, the fact that the Han army defeated the Eight Banners has already been preceded. The Qing army had to lift the siege in shock, which is the best proof.

Upon climbing the city, Chen Wenyao looked at the Qing army joint camp on the west bank of Qujiang. He looked the same as he did when he returned to Jinhua - deep ditches and high trenches, spread across the banks of Changshan River, connecting with floating bridges and blocking the river with iron ropes, with a very strong and stance. Unfortunately, in Chen Wen's opinion, all this is like paper.

The way to defend is not to be deep ditches and high trenches, but strong walls are enough. Apart from the military strategist who "there is no soldier that must be rescued outside, there is no city that must be defended inside", the most important thing is the will of the defender. Without a firm defender, even the strongest city is just an empty bag.

Whether it is to live in a strong city without guarding it, or to resist the army with a small city with a low city and a low pool for a long time, there are too many such examples.

Not to mention the distant city of Nanjing and Hangzhou are also very strong. There are large armies in the city, and a large number of reinforcements are used near the city. However, the Qing army went south and almost made a decision. It seems that the ancient saying of Mrs. Huarui, "140,000 people are all unloading their armor, and no one is a man."

In contrast, there were no reinforcements outside Jiangyin and no strong soldiers inside. The guards of the city were just Jiangyin's migrant workers and commerce. Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun were either dictionary or instructors, and a few low-ranking civil officials were just faced with Prince Boluo, Prince Jingjin Nikan and King Kong Youde of Dingnan, who were still respectful at the time. But even so, they could lead the people to hold the city for 81 days under the bombardment of more than 200 Qing army cannons, which can be said to be a judge of the superiority and inferiority.

It is just like the poem written by the woman who died in Jiangyin: The dew leaves the white bones and the lonely loyalty is unwilling to surrender to the battlefield. The message to the pedestrians should not cover their noses, and the living is not as fragrant as the dead.

The most important thing in the war is people, and the most important thing in people is will. This is the case with field battles and the same is true for defending the city. This time, Chen Wen was able to defeat the Eight Banners of the Han army, and the army ran day and night. The will to defeat a strong enemy in field battles is the key, and the Jinhua defenders resolutely held on for a night after the city was broken.

At the moment, the Qing army was already scared, and Chen Wen did not intend to continue wasting time here. On the day the Ming army entered the city, Li Ruixin led the Yiwu Camp and most of the Pujiang Camp to head south along Jiangshan Port.

Facing the superior enemy, Chen Wen chose to divide the troops. This looked very strange and could be said to be a violation of the right path of military strategists. However, after discovering the movements of the Ming army, the Qing army divided the three green camp soldiers from Fujian without hesitation and immediately went south, and did not dare to hesitate at all, because they had no idea what the Ming army wanted to do, whether to find an opportunity to cross the river in Jiangshan Port, or go south all the way south here Xianxia Pass, and if it crossed the river, would it be to occupy Jiangshan County or try to encircle, and only by dividing the troops could it be dealt with.

The three Fujian Green Camps had a total of 9,000 troops. After the Qing army was divided, the Qing army immediately shrank a lot, but in terms of proportion, it seemed that the Ming army did not gain any advantage.

However, on the second day, the Ming army in the brigade began to leave the city from Guangyuan Gate to the south and Tongxian Gate to the southeast. Even the Ming army water camp, which had been busy all night yesterday, slowly drove out of the dock and headed south.

The main force of the Ming army was the most concerned by the Qing army generals. On the contrary, the water camp was not very concerned, but only let the Qiantang Water Camp, which was temporarily stationed in Qujiang and Jiangshan Port leave the port to prepare for the battle. However, when they found something was wrong, it was too late.

The ships in the Ming army water camp were very deep and sailed slowly. After all the ships, along with some civilian ships from the port, all entered the river between Yanjiayu and the east bank of Qujiang, the ships were divided into one front and one back. While one Ming army sailor after another rowed the boats, the ships also began to sink slowly, blocking the Yanjiayu section of the river.

Yanjia silt is Jiangxinzhou, but the rivers on both sides are not as wide as ordinary. The section of river blocked by the Ming army's shipwreck is used for passing large ships on weekdays. The other narrowest place is only more than ten meters wide, and large ships just won't pass there. It is impossible for the Qing army navy to pass all the rivers of the Ming army's shipwreck, but so many ships sink under the water, and some masts even reveal some of the water. Qiantang Water Camp is not very small in Jiangshan Port, and it is difficult to pass safely.

The Ming army's intentions were already very obvious, but they had no choice but to do anything, especially the sailors from Qiantang Water Camp. In this way, they had no way to return to Hangzhou on the current ship. The guerrillas in Qiantang Water Camp knew that there was no other way, so they had to drive the fleet into Changshan Port, get off the ship from there and walk to the navy ship stationed on Qujiang, and return to Hangzhou from there.

The Qiantang naval commander abandoned the boat and left, and Li Benshen had no choice, because these naval commanders were useless. Instead of staying here, it would be better to return to Hangzhou as soon as possible to ensure safety there.

This was what Hong Chengchou had ordered before, and he couldn't force himself to stay, so he had to do so. But shortly after the Qiantang Navy abandoned the ship, the Ming army's auxiliary soldiers and civilians rushed to the shore and began to build a floating bridge in the section of the river in Yanjiayu. In the afternoon, he even pushed a number of cannon cars across the Qujiang River and lined up on the side of Yanjiayu near the west bank of Qujiang River.

The Qing army's camp on the north bank of Changshan River was on the opposite side of Yanjiayu. After the Ming army had placed the unknown number of artillery, they started shelling after the Ming army's order.

The artillery of the Quzhou garrison and the main force of the Ming army was far less than that, and the number exceeded was nearly twice as many. However, when the Qing generals found that nearly half of the gunners were actually wearing the costumes of the Han army's Eight Banners, the fear immediately rushed straight from the soles of the feet.

Previously, the Ming army defeated the Eight Banners of the Han army and was just a statement. It sounded absurd, but it was not impossible. However, when they watched the gunners use their own eyes to steer artillery for the Ming army, their previous speculations immediately crushed the Qing army when they were confirmed.

Amid the deafening sound of artillery fire, there were countless artillery pieces on the Yan family, one after another, like a free-firing automatic firearm unit, almost completely roaring towards the opposite bank, and at the edge of the camp, which was only a hundred meters away from the river bank, it was immediately shrouded by the large and small cannon shells flying like rain.

In fact, the maximum range of artillery of the Ming army was not 500 meters. In addition to the waterways and the locations of the array, the coverage of artillery bombardment was not very large, and some of them could not even enter the camp. However, in the whistling barrage, the Qing army's barriers, watchtowers, deer antlers, door-sized knives and other defensive equipment were even more fragile than those made of paper, let alone defenders.

In fact, if the Qing army voluntarily retreated beyond the Ming army's range, these artillery would not do anything to them. However, when the gunners of the Eight Banners of the Han army began to steer artillery for the Ming army in full view of the public, almost all the Qing army from top to bottom collapsed. The aftermath of the shells swept across the Beida Camp with fear. In a blink of an eye, countless Qing troops began to flee westward. Even if they were a little rational, they would not dare to stay. Not only had the army already begun to be defeated, but the Ming army's artillery fire would inevitably land in large quantities. It would be a dead end to stay in the field at that time. It would be far better to leave this dead place quickly.

This is true for Beidaying. After discovering all this, Nandaying was only a little more orderly, but it was just a little bit, and escape was still inevitable.

Without a battle, the Qing army gave up its strong camp. The generals of the Ming army at the head of Quzhou and the Yan family silt, as well as the civil servants of Quzhou, and the gentry, were all shocked by all this in front of them.

"The shells have range, but they are not afraid. The Tartars have no determination to stick to them. No matter how strong the camp is, they are just paper tigers." After that, Chen Wen began to command the army to cross the Qujiang River and pursue those already scared Qing troops.
Chapter completed!