The forest fires in Dalan Mountain were not gradually extinguished until night. Since Feixiong Camp began to cut down trees around the old camp after climbing the mountain, clearing out a fire belt around the old camp. In addition, there was already water source on the mountain, the Qing army set fire to the mountain almost no harm to the Ming army in the old camp. However, the forests on Dalan Mountain were completely destroyed by this catastrophe, bare, as if the doomsday was coming.

In fact, Dasu and Tianxiong did not have much extravagant hope of setting fire to the mountains. In addition to Zhang Jie intercepting the Ming army in Simingshan Town, they also had 14,000 troops. After burning all the mountains and forests, they could attack them around. The Ming army in the old camp could only fight with only two thousand people.

At this moment, the Qing army had retreated to Yonghe Town, and Chen Wen was not worried that Dasu and Tianxiong would take the opportunity to escape. Siming Mountain was in hand, and he could cut off the Ningshao Plain and divide the two palaces into food. They would either fight to the death or simply retreat to Hangzhou directly, and there was no other way. However, Zhang Jie had already died, and the Dinghai General's Battalion was almost wiped out, and they would not give up because they could no longer explain to the Qing court on this matter.

According to the captured Dingbiao officer, Chen Wen obtained details of the Qing army, a five thousand admiral Biao battalion, a three thousand governor Biao battalion, and the highlight was the six thousand from Dasu's Eight Banners Army from Manchuria, Mongolian and Han army, which was his biggest enemy this time.

The main commanders of the Qing army were one of the General Dasu, the other was the Admiral of Pingnan, Tian Xiong of Zhejiang, and the Fubiao camp was mainly Chang Jingong, the former general of Zhang Jie. In addition, there was one of the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou because of his contribution to defending Hangzhou after the four provincial capitals, and Wu Rujie was promoted to Gushan Ezhen as Wu Rujie and a Mongolian Gushan Ezhen as Dasu's deputy.

"Master, Dasu, that Tartar brought these defeated generals to call out. He is too confident."

According to the deduction of the Staff Office, the terrain of Dalan Mountain was not conducive to the Qing army's advantage in leveraging its military strength, so they were likely to set fire to the mountain. For this reason, Feixiong Camp began to clean up the fire belt after arriving, but the staff really did make a mistake. Dasu and Tianxiong did lay a big fire under Dalan Mountain.

The soldiers did not suffer any casualties, but the smoke and the frightened mule made them a little dirty. From Lou Jiye, the soldiers of Feixiong Camp were all held back for a whole day.

"Dasu has his support. Don't forget that he still has two thousand Manchu real Yi and two thousand Mongolian Tartars in his hands."

"That's just right for them to know that our Zhejiang King's Army is no less than that of Li Dingguo."

After being trapped by wildfires for a whole day, Lou Jiye was full of anger and threw away the general's demeanor he usually had. However, when he heard the generals' ears, Chen Wen could see clearly how confident these generals brought this time.

In addition to Lou Jiye's Feixiong Camp and Hu Laijin's Huangyan Camp, there were also Nantang Camp, Tiantai Camp and Ruian Camp, a cavalry brigade composed of 500 cavalry, Chen Wen's cavalry guard with 200 people, and hundreds of new recruits who were prepared to be used as garrisons. Together, there were also 11,000 troops, which was only 3,000 less than the Qing army.

After a glance, Lou Jiye no longer had any fear of the Eight Banners Army. Hou Guoyuan and Ruian Battalion, as well as the military supervisors and military judges of each battalion, these people had either followed him in Dalan Mountain or Tiantai Mountain, or had joined the army as soon as they entered Jinhua Prefecture. They were all generals who had followed Chen Wen for many years and were quite confident in the group they were in. Even Ma Xin, the battalion officer of Tiantai Battalion. Only Hu Laijin and a few staff officers who later joined seemed to be somewhat affected.

After seeing the appearance of sentient beings, Chen Wen smiled and said with a sigh: "Brother Lou is right. The King of Xining can be a famous king. If we can't even deal with Zhang Jia Dasu, we don't have to come out and mess around."

After saying this, all the generals calmed down. After all, Chen Wen is now a famous general who can barely go hand in hand with Li Dingguo in terms of popularity. Li Dingguo can kill Kong Youde and Nikan. Chen Wen is here. One Dasu only brings two thousand real and two thousand fake Tartars, and two thousand slutty Tartars, so there is no need to worry too much.

In recent years, almost all the main forces of the Eight Banners of Manchuria have gathered in the southwest, and have fought arduously with Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. As a result, Chen Wen faced the most the Eight Banners of the Han army.

The long-term crushing of the Green Camp soldiers has caused the confidence of the Ming army in Zhejiang to rise, so I did not show any timidity when facing the Eight Banners of the Han Army last year. However, the reputation of the Eight Banners of the Manchus has accumulated over the years. Although it is more of the problems within the Ming court and the Ming army, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of the Manchus is also good. Otherwise, without the diamond, there would be no such porcelain work.

Through history, Chen Wen can clearly see that the invincible reputation of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is not so true, especially in the eighth year of Yongli and the eleventh year of Shunzhi, the Eight Banners Army has begun to decline in combat effectiveness after entering the pass. Otherwise, in history, they would not have put the military and political power of the southwest into Hong Chengchou so tremblingly, in order to maintain a balance of power.

However, only he himself knew these things at the moment. Others were able to reduce their fear after being influenced by the two famous kings of Li Dingguo. Even Lou Jiye and others were more likely to have their current state because of their strong confidence in their own group. However, if they wanted to truly eliminate the image established by the Eight Banners of Manchu in the past few decades, they still had to truly defeat them on the battlefield to destroy this myth.

And this battle will be tomorrow!

The situation has changed, but with the General Staff Office, the deduction can clearly show the possible tactics of the Qing army and how to deal with it. Several alternative combat plans can always be drawn to deal with the changes.

The staff work continued, but Chen Wen's captain Chen Fugui said that Huang Zongxi and others came to pay their respects.

Chen Wen knew very well about these "righteous men" who claimed to rebuild the Ming army in Dalan Mountain. They were very clear about what they were planning when they were doing this. So after approaching to the foot of the mountain, he was too lazy to pay attention to them, so he simply kept the others besides Wang Jiang and brought them with him until tomorrow when the war was met, so that they could see the true combat power of the Ming army in Zhejiang and lay the foundation for the next step of action.

In this way, before dawn the next morning, the fifth camp of the Ming army in Zhejiang, which had left Siming Mountain, drove north, and the goal was to the shore of Siming Lake as agreed in the war letter.

There are more than ten miles apart between Dalan Mountain and Siming Lake. The average army of this era has to travel for most of the day, or even for a whole day. However, the strategic movement speed of the Ming army in Zhejiang has already exceeded 30 miles. In less than half a day, it has arrived at Liangnong Town, where the Qing army had previously camped, and has buried pots and cooked rice here for repair.

Siming Lake was a beautiful place in later generations, but now, in this era without smog and industrial pollution, there is no local people on the shore of the lake towards Yonghe Town, but there is only some newly created corpses and skeletons that cannot be counted on the shore, like ghosts.

"Duke, this is..."

The Wan family brothers came from Yin County, Ningbo Prefecture. When they entered Siming Mountain, they also came from Fenghua and had never been involved in this place more than ten miles north of Dalan Mountain.

In fact, for the war, the battle three days ago had already released them from their fantasy and then threw themselves into fear. However, after seeing this scene, they realized that the previous fear was just an appetizing snack.

I didn't go to see the group of pale-faced scholars behind me, and Chen Wen's vision seemed to have returned to October 17th in the fourth year of Yongli.

"These are the remains of the soldiers who died in the Battle of Siming Lake. The next year, I sent troops to Tiantai Mountain and heard the general Chen Guobao mention that after the rebel Tian Xiong won, he killed most of the captured surrendered soldiers on the lakeside. If the ones who died in battle were counted, I am afraid that there will be no less than ten thousand people."

Huang Zongxi and others had known this answer in advance, and could understand why Chen Wen accepted the appointment of Dasu and Tianxiong. He, like this rescue of Dalan Mountain, wanted to avenge the soldiers who died in their country. It happened that the murderer of that year happened to be here. All the reasons are there, so there is naturally no reason not to be in the fight.

"Duke, do you want to bury these loyal bones first?"

Wansda tentatively expressed his thoughts, but immediately rolled his eyes around him, and then he heard Chen Wen say:

"No, we are here to kill the Tartars. After killing them all, we will bury them. In this way, they can see more clearly in the nine springs!"

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After seeing the skeletons by the lake, Chen Wen returned to the tent to continue handling military affairs and carried out the final preparations for the war. By the end of lunch, the explorer who came out also sent back the news of the Qing army's advance in Liangnong Town. Only the number of cavalry of the Qing army was roughly lower than that of the intelligence, which attracted the attention of the staff.

Among them, Zhang Gongyan, the former staff officer of Nantang Camp, made an overall coordinated training plan for infantry and artillery. Although the training plan was recognized by Chen Wen, it was temporarily unable to be implemented due to the excessive pressure of training for recruits. However, he himself was transferred back to the Staff Office as a staff officer at the beginning of the year.

"Master, there must be a conspiracy for the Tartars to do this."

After decisively speaking, Zhang Gongyan reported several possibilities to Chen Wen, and soon received Chen Wen's praise.

"You are doing a good job. If the soldiers come to block the generals, the water comes to cover the soil. If Dasu wants to play, then I will play with him."

With the order, the army of open-air dining immediately set off north in order, and began to gradually expand after advancing for a mile. Soon, the Tiantai Camp occupied the middle road, the Ruian Camp was the vanguard with the left wing close to Siming Lake, and the Huangyan Camp was the vanguard with the right wing extending towards the north mountainous area. Nantang Camp, Feixiong Camp and the cavalry gathered in Chen Wen will serve as reserves for the entire army to deal with the changes.

As both sides continued to advance, the two sides' explorations were testing each other, and the riding battle became more and more intense, in order to pass on the details of the other party back.

Not long after, the Ming army and the Qing army encountered each other on the shore of Siming Lake, and the distance between the two sides was only about a little while. This was the habitual use of the two sides to use the distance between the entire team and the formation in this era, and it was based on the range of the artillery.

"Fubiaoyouying, Fubiaozhongying, Fubiaolean camp, Fubiaolean camp, raise the right camp, raise the middle camp, raise the left camp..."

According to the report of the horse explorer and the flag observed in the telescope, Chen Wen counted the Qing army opposite from left to right, and frowned.

"Just keep a battalion with the lower battalion and the semi-disabled battalion as the reserve team. Tian Xiong, are you so confident in Dasu? Or is he your last hope?"

In Siming Mountain, almost all the soldiers brought by Chen Wen were here. Except for some of the new soldiers who were the local garrisons, they also guarded Dalan Mountain to protect the families of the rebels and some accompanying civilians, the other civilians were also behind the battlefield. Even in Liangnong Town, Chen Wen only left some horse-snooping horses.

Now that Dasu is missing, it is impossible to escape before the war to raise the mark and keep the bears. It is not that he is subject to moral constraints, but that once these green camps are gone, they cannot be defended by his Eight Banners Army in Hangzhou alone. If he escaped before the war, it would be better to withdraw together, give up Ning Shao directly, and defend the Qiantang River to the death.

The only answer is that Dasu intends to take advantage of the cavalry of the Eight Banners Army to attack the Ming army from a certain direction to completely defeat it.

The drum beat was different from the Battle of Siming Lake back then. The Qing army on the opposite side did not launch an attack, but instead put on a defensive posture. Instead, the Ming army, which took the defensive moment, took the lead in launching an attack.

Unlike the Ming army that brought red barbarian cannons back then, the Qing army carried a lot of artillery, but there were not many big guys. They were all Folang machines, tiger squats and some copper snatches. However, in terms of quantity, it was obvious that the Han army, the Eight Banners of Hangzhou, the Eight Banners, left some artillery soldiers here to strengthen their defense capabilities.

The range of the Qing army's artillery was roughly the same as the artillery that was advancing with the Ming army's guns. Until it was approaching the range, as the artillery of both sides launched the first round of artillery bombardment, all the soldiers of the three battalions, as the vanguard, roared in unison after the sound of war drums, and then crossed the artillery position, held weapons, and rushed towards the Qing army opposite in a strict queue.

On the Qing army, the gunners were still firing step by step. After the end, the gunner retreated; after the fire of the muskets was completed, it was loaded immediately after completing one round, and then shot straight into the archers, sprinkling projectiles at the Ming army's line between the shooting. However, on the Ming army, the firm and heavy steps were not high-frequency steps, which seemed to resonate with the land, but did not have the intention to stop at all. Instead, they aimed the front spear formation and the mandarin duck formation at the Qing army and poked them straight!

The vanguard of the Ming army was getting closer and closer to the Qing army's front, as if the collision was just in a flash, but at this moment, the cannon behind the turret camp sounded, and the Eight Banners Army, wearing various flag uniforms, rushed out from the hills on the other side of the lake and the woods, stirring up a faint dragon of smoke and dust in the distance, towards Chen Wenjiang's flag behind the Ming army formation in Zhejiang.

The three new battalions of the vanguard had already fought with less than 8,000 elite troops of Zhejiang Green Camp opposite. In the lens of the telescope, a long string of ghost paintings written on the flag in front of the smoke and dust were vaguely visible, and even the fishy storm from Tungus contained therein could be vaguely smelled.
Chapter completed!