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Chapter 65 Trap

Liangnong Town, on the banks of Siming Lake, after four years of rest and recuperation, the ancient town, which finally became more popular, was once again slaughtered as the Qing army used it as the site of the camp.

At night, the generals who participated in the encirclement and suppression gathered here in the tent of the central army in the camp. However, the one who was first done was not Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong, but Pingnan General Bayala, Zhang Jing and Zhang Jia Dasu. And those below Dasu were not limited to the officers stationed in Hangzhou in the Eight Banners and Zhejiang Admiral Biao Battalion, but also the generals of Zhejiang Governor Biao Battalion, which could be said to have all the elite land warriors on the front line of Hangzhou.

In this case, he only dispatched a camp with less than a thousand people, a camp with less than a thousand people, to encircle Dalan Mountain. No matter how he looked at it, the conspiracy was indifferent.

"Deputy General Xu, let's talk. The bandits who went to Dalan Mountain this time had three heads and six arms. They actually lost two guards in one battle and came back?"

Not long after, Xu Xin took his troops back to Liangnong Town Camp. Almost at the same time, the news of the two defensive defeats that climbed the mountain to attack the camp was sent to the camp. The news came so fast that before he could figure out how he lost, Dasu had already been scolded. However, for many years, he still had some experience in dealing with Shangguan.

"Reporting to the general, as far as the last general knows, these bandits are all riding mules, and the speed of the march is really not as normal. It is probably when retreating that the two guards of the palace were attacked and they were defeated by the bandits."

Xu Xin's remarks immediately attracted the attention of Dasu and the generals here. After all, this Zhejiang Ming army once again took out new troops to fight, and using mules as a means of transportation could indeed increase the Ming army's reaction speed.

"This is probably the rebel Chen Wen came to follow my example of the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty."

Because of the large number of war horses and sparse population, even infantry have many horses to ride, they often use infantry battles to break the formation and ride to pursue them. For example, Dasu's old friend, Oboi, the number one warrior in Manchuria, mostly came from this.

Dasu, this man was the imperial guard of Huang Taiji. He was the same as Oboi, and he was even famous for his martial arts. However, he was not as good as Oboi's second-generation official who was Fei Yingdong's nephew, and his achievements in resisting Dorgon after Huang Taiji's death. It was not until last year that he was promoted to the Bayala Banner Zhangjing with the merits of defeating the Ming army's partial division on the southwest battlefield.

In fact, this was the impact of Chen Wen, because the contribution in history was only to exempt him from punishment. If it weren't for the death of two generals of Pingnan, many people in the Eight Banners had begun to think that this position was unlucky. In addition to Oboi's strong advice, he would have to be promoted to this position this year.

Dasu did not feel dissatisfied with this dangerous place after being promoted a year early, and even believed that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity given to him by Huang Taiji in the Heavenly Spirit.

As a new generation of senior general who has experienced more than 20 years of war but has not experienced the bloody battle of Hunhe, Dasu has never had any doubts about the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of the Eight Banners of the Manchus. After all, over the years, only the Eight Banners of the Manchus beat others, and probably only strong men like Li Dingguo could barely set up a plan to kill Nikan. He was not very afraid of Chen Wen, who had defeated the Eight Banners of the Han Army, two thousand Manchus of the Eight Banners, two thousand Mongolian Eight Banners and two thousand Han Army Eight Banners, but was a little eager to try.

Without a prominent background and no luck to catch up with such a major event, he naturally had to rely on military achievements to gain power. Chen Wen is now regarded as a threat by the Qing Dynasty as the commander of the Ming army second only to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. If he can defeat him, his status in the Eight Banners Army can naturally be greatly improved. This time, as the news of Huang Zongxi and others rebuilding Dalan Mountain reached the ears of the Qing court, Hong Chengchou gave him such an opportunity, a chance to use this so-called Dalan Mountain Ming army to lure Chen Wen to aid, and then encircle and annihilate him in this Siming Mountain area!

After hearing Xu Xin's explanation, Dasu nodded. The appearance of this cavalry infantry did disrupt the rhythm of the Qing army. Originally, he planned to let Xu Xin take away the rebel army of Huang Zongxi as a small fish and occupy the old camp of Dalan Mountain. Then, when the Ming army attacked the mountain and took revenge, he would encircle it with a large army.

Under normal circumstances, the Ming army should have marched in a hurry and would have to arrive tomorrow. Time is absolutely sufficient for them. But now, since the marching speed of this cavalry infantry is different from normal, the battalion was not blocked at the foot of Dalan Mountain before the standard was upgraded. In fact, it also depends on Xu Xin's reaction and experience. As for the two defensives that were lost, it can be fully understood as a hero cutting off his arm.

"The bandits are cunning, but they must not be the opponent of our Eight Banners Brigades of the Qing Dynasty. Tomorrow morning, the two units of Fubiao and Raise will set out to encircle Dalan Mountain. The southern part of Dalan Mountain will also have the Biao Battalion of Dinghai General Soldiers who may appear at any time. The general will personally lead the Hangzhou garrison of the Eight Banners as your backing."

"The last general will obey the order!"

In order to prevent accidents, Dasu still sent a large brigade of cavalry to block the area around Dalan Mountain to prevent Lou Jiye from breaking through before the Qing army arrived.

After the military controversy ended, the generals quickly arranged tasks, and Xu Xin was even more busy restraining the defeated troops. However, Yu Fenqi, the deputy general of the Central Army of the Higher Band, found his son-in-law Xu Lei after the meeting, and came to the tent without any preparation and heading straight to the point.

"Son-in-law, the war is coming, and some things shouldn't be asked about you now. But this matter is of great importance, and I hope you can answer truthfully."

Xu Lei has known how to siege tomorrow and where his troops are in, and only the final confirmation will be made tomorrow morning. Logically, he should indeed inspect the headquarters at this time and then rest to ensure a full spirit for the war in the future. However, Yu Fenqi is not such a boring person, and there must be something important to do. In addition to his identity, he cannot do anything about it.

"My father-in-law, please speak frankly, and the son-in-law should know everything and say everything."

"Okay." Speaking of this, Yu Fenqi's voice couldn't help but lower his voice and asked Xu Lei softly: "I heard that the mother and sister of the rebel Li Ruixin are now in your home, but that's the case?"

This is not a secret, but as the Li family's family falls, it is gradually ignored. Now Li Ruixin has obtained the title of Count Guangning in the Ming Dynasty with Chen Wen. Although the Count has long been ruined, as the confidant general of Chen Wen, who is now in a prosperous state, his future is limitless.

Originally, Xu Lei had this idea to stand on the wall, and for this reason he deceived his wife and made sure that he kept it confidential. However, Yu Fenqi suddenly mentioned it, which immediately scared him and even subconsciously thought that his premeditation had been discovered.

In a blink of an eye, Xu Lei returned to normal, but his expression changes at this moment were all reflected in Yu Fenqi's eyes. With the experience of the old Taoist, Yu Fenqi immediately understood what this meant, and even this question was originally intended to test Xu Lei.

"It is still unknown who is in charge today, but like us, who betrayed Duke Jingguo and betrayed Emperor Hongguang, the Ming Dynasty may not dare to take in again. If you can plan ahead, I am naturally happy for you, but you still need to remember that the concubine is the concubine after all. At the critical moment, you can give up to you."

Yu Fenqi's words only reminded Xu Lei that even if Li Ruixin is there in the Ming Dynasty, their identity as Tian Xiong's subordinate may not be able to end up. Keeping the Li family is a way out, but it is also a time bomb. Even if this concubine has your child, once she is discovered by the Qing Dynasty, it will sooner or later be a disaster.

Originally, Yu Fenqi had only such a meaning, but he didn't know that because his daughter set up a plan at Xu Lei's house to deceive him and frame Li, the matter of the matter was exposed. This was completely different in Xu Lei's ears - Xu Lei, if you dare to treat my daughter badly, Yu Fenqi would expose the matter of the little girl named Li and make a desperate attempt!

The things in his house were threatened by his life. Xu Lei suppressed his anger and agreed a few words, then returned to the tent. He tossed and turned all night, but he still couldn't fall asleep. Even his anger became more and more intense with insufficient sleep.

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Lou Jiye did not give a positive answer to the possibility that Wang Jiang suddenly thought of. He just ordered the engineers who followed him to lead the strong men and surviving soldiers on Dalan Mountain to cut down the trees around the old camp to build the fortifications that the staff team thought they needed.

This work seemed difficult, but the Qing army had burned the old camp four years ago. Most of the trees around it were affected, so few too large trees existed. However, at night, they found that the Qing army's large cavalry were cruising at the foot of the mountain.

The rebels in the old camp seemed a little panicked. After all, they were defeated just once a few hours ago. If it weren't for the Ming army in Zhejiang, they would have been completely destroyed. However, the soldiers of Feixiong Camp who had arrived in the old camp still did what they should do under the supervision of the camp officers and the judges of the camp officers and did not care about the Qing army at all.

"This is the place where the commander established the first camp of the head of the Nantang camp of the Zhejiang King's Division, Dalan Mountain."

The Xiying District of the old camp, the area where the Nantang camp was first formed and stationed in the past, was not repaired after that burning. The reason is nothing more than the lack of manpower, and the number of soldiers and family members does not need such a large camp. Perhaps there are some ideas such as cleanliness.

In this area where weeds are overgrown and ruins are everywhere, the officers of the Feixiong Camp, like a tour guide, took a police officer from a bureau to visit this holy land when the Ming army in Zhejiang first started. The soldiers were also surprised by this extremely desolate place, and some even tried to find some traces of Chen Wen's military exercises here from the ruins.

"At that time, the general was here, and accepted the appointment of the left assistant minister and left deputy chief censor of the Ministry of War of Zhizhe, Prince Zhonglie, and became the chief general of the sixth battle barracks of the Ming Army in Dalanshan."

"At that time, the general was carrying only hundreds of heroes he recruited at the foot of the mountain, and there was not even a formal number. However, after a month's school competition, the armored whistle could defeat the Dalan Mountain Central Camp twice as much as his own with fifty people. It was an old camp that had been in force for two years, and the armored whistle had only five casualties, and only one of them was sentenced to death. Because of this, the Zhonglie Gong gave the name Nantang as the camp, in order to wish my Zhejiang King's Army to be invincible like the Qi family army that followed Qi Shaobao back then!"

Wang Yi had passed away for three years. At that time, only Wang Jiang knew more or less about how he thought about it. Even if the others were Shen Diaolun, Zou Xiaonan would not know his true intention. At least in the eyes of others, Wang Yi had the kindness of knowing Chen Wen, a righteous man who went south to join the army, and Chen Wen repaid him with a strong army, which was more in line with the normal of morality.

What happened at that time is now a thing of the past, just like the Dalan Mountain Ming army that year. However, the new Dalan Mountain Ming army was directly squeezed to the edge after receiving assistance from the Ming army in Zhejiang.

The defense of the old camp is entirely under the responsibility of Feixiong Camp. Except for Wang Jiang and Chen Diaolun and Zou Xiaonan who were guaranteed by Wang Jiang, who were also assisting in the allocation of civil servants, the others were directly invited to the area where families and wounded were placed. The name was: comfort, to put it bluntly, Lou Jiye was too lazy to listen to their "strategy".

In this way, the old camp in Dalanshan was orderly spent the night inside and outside. On the afternoon of the next day, the Qing army in Fubiao began to appear at the foot of the mountain, and soon surrounded the entire Dalanshan.

To use the encirclement and suppression of Dalan Mountain to lure the Ming army in Zhejiang, Chen Wen could not have dispatched too many troops at once, so that the Qing army could use Ningbo and Shaoxing's advantage in hand to siege reinforcements from the periphery, and spend some time to completely annihilate them.

This plan has reached the final step here, and the only thing that is to completely annihilate the newly built cavalry battalion in Chen Wen’s hands!

The Qing army participating in the war included 5,000 quota improvements, 3,000 quota improvements, 6,000 Hangzhou garrisoned Eight Banners as the stamina, and 3,000 quota adjustments to intercept reinforcements on the southern line. These 7,000 combat troops were concentrated on the only remaining elite troops of the Qing army in Zhejiang, and they were only to encircle and annihilate a camp with less than 2,000 people.

It was confirmed that the Ming army on the mountain did not evacuate at night. As the commander of this battle, Tian Xiong did not rush to attack the mountain, but wanted to ensure that the Ming army could not escape.

With Tian Xiong's order, a large number of civilians dug trenches under the rebuke of the Qing army and cleared out a treeless area. The purpose was obvious. In this way, the Qing army at the foot of the mountain made final preparations throughout the next day. Until the next day, with the arrival of the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, Tian Xiong ordered the trees that were dumped by the forest, and lit the first fire to set fire to the mountain.

A strong attack will inevitably face the problem of dense mountains and forests. It would be fine if other troops were surrounded. The Ming army in Zhejiang was famous for its mandarin duck formation, and it was more beneficial to the Ming army in the rugged and narrow terrain. In addition, the problem that the attacking army was hindered by mountains and forests was difficult to unfold. If you want to reflect the advantages of your troops, the best way is to try to burn the forests to surround the old camp in all aspects.

There was no wind in the mountains. With the help of tinder oil, a surging flame quickly formed and spread rapidly. The beasts in the mountains began to flee in a panic, while the birds even rose up in the air and flew around, so that the Qing army was not allowed to retreat for a distance.

The mountains and forests were completely burned down, and even if the Ming army in the old camp could survive this wildfire, they would inevitably face siege by the Qing army, which was eight to nine times more than that of them.

Looking at the vast wildfire, Dasu and Tianxiong couldn't help but show their satisfaction of getting their great achievements, and they were even surprised that the Ming army on the mountain had not launched a breakthrough before.

"This traitor named Lou seems to be just Ma Su."

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a must-listen "military textbook" for middle and senior officers of the Qing Dynasty. In Dasu's view, Ma Su, who lost Jieting, just confirmed that Lou Jiye, a former strategist. More importantly, he was more confident in this great victory.

"What the commander said is that Chen Wen used a counselor to lead the troops, and this is God bless me, the Qing Dynasty!"
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