From the Changshan River to the river, Chen Wen led Nantang and Shentang Second Camp to arrive in Changshan County soon. While sending a horse to explore the direction of Yushan County, he waited for several days and then all the subsequent troops arrived.

Fortunately, according to the horse exploration return, the Qing army might have determined that they were sure of victory, but perhaps they did not want to lose too much combat power in the siege. They just surrounded Yushan County and did not fight. They used auxiliary soldiers to dig trenches and build simple fortifications, but they paid great attention to the northeast direction where the Ming army was located.

"Hong Chengchou is waiting for me to go over and die."

Since Hong Chengchou was not in a hurry to attack the city, Chen Wen had made up his mind instead. The army stayed in Changshan County for two days before setting off and slowly heading towards Yushan County.

There is a Jinsha River between Changshan County and Yushan County. After flowing out of the mountainous areas in the north, it will turn from north to south, and the upper reaches will turn east, but the general direction will not change. It will not change until it flows one or two miles away from Yushan County. However, when she passes Yushan County, it will be called Xinjiang and it will be merged into Poyang Lake in the hinterland of Jiangxi.

It was obviously unrealistic for Chen Wen to reach Yushan County, crossing Jinsha River not far from the county town in front of the Qing army, and he could only cross the river upstream of Jinsha River.

However, the upper reaches of Jinsha River on the side of Yushan County is the area covered by the Qing army, and the Qing army has not been idle since the beginning of the siege.

In the north of Yushan County, the Qing army drove away the people and burned all the villages and towns along the way near the Yushan County side to the mountainous areas, in order to prevent them from being used by the upcoming Ming army. In order to cause greater trouble for the Ming army, the Qing army even organized the people to demolish all the bridges on Jinsha River, but did not strictly guard against them. Instead, they stayed at the camp under Yushan County to wait for the Ming army to arrive.

In the camp, the attacking Qing army was underway for the final rest. Hong Chengchou also roughly estimated Chen Wen's strength, the soldiers above 10,000 were far from the Qing army. However, he did not look down on the slightest. Not only did he not fight against Yushan County in the past few days to prevent the loss of combat power, he also gave the Ming army great importance to the predetermined battle sequence.

"In this battle, after Biaoqian Town, Jiangxi Tibiao and Jiujiang Town Biao continued to besiege Yushan County. The other four towns will follow my husband to fight against the rebel Chen Wen."

Jingbiaoqian Town had a great battle with the Ming army a few days ago, and it was a lot of soldiers. It was embarrassed to fight hard. Naturally, it had to stay and continue to besiege Yushan County to monitor and prevent the two Ming troops from joining. Although other troops were also trained in the Spanish phalanx, they were different after all. Jingbiao Five Towns were Hong Chengchou's direct subordinates, while Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie's men were subject to the control of the Jiangnan Jiangxi Governor and the Jiangxi Governor. The great contribution was about to be obtained, so naturally they still had to take care of these old subordinates he transferred from the north.

Moreover, Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie were both defeated by Chen Wen, and the match between Ming Dao and Ming Gu is inevitable to be timid and timid. Zhang Yong and others are all his old subordinates when they wiped out the bandits, and there are inevitably differences in Xin Chong.

All the generals knew the tricks in this. However, Hong Chengchou was very cruel, so Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie naturally did not dare to do anything. Moreover, Hong Chengchou had also known about it before. After defeating the main force of the Ming army in Zhejiang, he would also have to attack the eight prefectures in eastern Zhejiang in the future. Naturally, there are places to rely on them. The benefits of the robbery of wealth and children are of course indispensable.

In the last confrontation, the Qing army had increased a lot of confidence. Although they could not win the battle, they were at least not as good as in the previous years. As in the past few years, they could not win with more or less. Now that the same force could draw, their army of such a large size would have a greater chance of winning in the future, and naturally they would have a doubled confidence.

The war is imminent, and Hong Chengchou, who is on the front line, returned to the tent to rest after conducting military negotiations and accumulated more energy for the decisive battle. After all, he is 60 years old, and in a few months he celebrates his birthday, he is 60 years old. The last time he is on the front line like now was still more than ten years ago.

However, when he lay on the bed, Hong Chengchou could not fall asleep for a while. The last time he went to the front line to command the battle was the Battle of Songjin back then. He led the elite troops of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty to gamble on national fortunes with the Later Jin at that time. More than ten years later, he, who had been worshipped by the Qing Dynasty, led the most powerful green camp to fight the Ming army in Zhejiang, in order to have the same national fortunes between the two.

This familiar feeling made him a little confused, but as he was old and experienced, he naturally knew that it was time to calm down and rest well, so he emptyed his mind and soon entered his dream.

However, not long after Hong Chengchou fell asleep, he heard a quarrel outside the tent. He got up and called his personal soldiers in, and only then did he realize that there was military information to be sent.

"I missed the military situation and pulled this guy out and chopped him up."

As soon as this was said, the personal soldiers around him hurriedly dragged the personal soldiers who were afraid of disturbing him to execute the death penalty. He called the trembling horse in and asked him to tell what he saw and heard truthfully.

"Report to the old master of the court, the villain and others, who were ordered to monitor the movements of the bandits on the Jinsha River. Half an hour ago, I saw the bandits on the other side of the river, so I hurried back to report."

Crossing the river at night?

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but not wrinkle. According to his experience, the Ming army would have to start building a floating bridge after dawn and cross the river one by one. The army would have to struggle for a few hours at the fastest time. By then, the Ming army would be exhausted, and the Qing army's chances of victory would naturally be further improved.

However, this is the best solution for the Ming army. It is not only faster to cross the river during the day, but also easier to be attacked by the Qing army. More importantly, being able to rest overnight at night is far better for the soldiers than to struggle with the mentally nervous night, and on the next day, it will be better for the Qing army.

But now, the Ming army went against the rules. At this time, it was all time to cross Jinsha River and it would be dawn. There was not enough time to raid the Qing army in these ten miles, and it shouldn't be like this at all.

"reward."

After giving the reward, Hong Chengchou warned the horses that the Ming army had to report all the movements, and everything was very detailed. He also sent orders to various departments to secretly send a secret message, and patrol camps must pay close attention to the surrounding movements to prevent the Ming army from raiding. With this, he calmed down for a while and returned to bed to sleep.

However, after an hour, the horse stalker ran back and told Hong Chengchou that the Ming army had crossed the river quickly. In just one hour, not only did they build the floating bridge, but also transported a large number of soldiers to build simple camps on the other side of Jinsha Creek.

"Did you see clearly how they cross the river?"

It is absolutely impossible to swim over. Not only whether you can swim, but also whether you can swim, the physical energy consumed by swimming, armor and many weapons such as bows and arrows, muskets cannot be soaked in water. The only possibility is to build a floating bridge. However, the speed of the Ming army was really too fast, which was completely different from his understanding of the speed of crossing the river.

"Looking from a distance, the bandits are quick to do their own jobs, obviously they have been trained in advance. And..."

“And what?”

"And the villain looked from a distance with the moonlight, as if the bandits were still using large quantities of wooden poppies."

"Wooden Poppy?"

This kind of river crossing tool is not uncommon along the Yellow River. It is also recorded in historical books such as "Records of the Grand Historian * Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin" that Hong Chengchou had presided over the encirclement and suppression of bandits in the northwest. He naturally had seen this kind of river crossing tool, and he could even be said to be fresh in memory. However, he could not imagine how the Ming army in Zhejiang knew about this thing and made it in large quantities in advance.

The question dispelled the sleepiness, and Hong Chengchou immediately couldn't sleep. At this moment, more and more Ming troops had crossed the Jinsha Creek upstream of Jinsha Creek more than ten miles away. With the joint efforts of several battalions of engineers, especially with the more reasonable number and specifications of the floating bridges planned by the military staff team, the crossing of the river was orderly. Even the troops crossing the river in advance had begun to set off their tents and were preparing to sniff for a while in the second half of the night.

The engineers of the Ming army in Zhejiang were professionally trained, not only digging trenches, trapping horse pits, tunnels, laying defense facilities, or using the method of releasing the collapse, they were also proficient in all kinds of work. The army carried a large number of tools when they went on a war, and the wooden opium used by various engineers to cross the river were dug out from Mao Yuanyi's "Wu Bei Zhi" and were manufactured in order to compete against time.

Against the backdrop of moonlight and torches, the Ming army of the brigade silently stepped onto the floating bridge to cross this Jinsha River, and then, under the command of officers and staff, went to the areas designated for each department to set up tents on their own, so that they could have a more abundant spirit tomorrow.

At night, the army all crossed Jinsha Creek and built simple camps for rest. Such camps had limited defense effects for the raided army, but the scattered Qing army attacks could effectively protect and early warning.

The next day, the Ming army had already scattered the explorer out of the morning and drove out the Qing army's explorer. At the same time, the infantry continued to rest. According to the staff's calculations, they did not get up until an hour under normal circumstances and enjoyed the meals that the chefs had just made in the army. On the contrary, the Qing army became a little stunned after getting the Ming army to cross the river at night and even had some rest.

"Master Zhengli, the bandits have crossed the river. What should we do?"

Hong Chengchou was not in a good mood all night, but it had become a fact, and only a little negligible error compared to his original predictions did not affect his judgment at all.

"According to the original plan, we will bury the pot and make rice, and go north to fight the bandits."

"The last generals and others follow the orders of the boss of the strategy."

As planned, the Qing army built a pot and cooked rice. After the meal, they left Jingbiaoqian Town, Jiangxi Tibiao and Jiujiang Town Biao and other departments continued to siege the city. Hong Chengchou personally led the army north. After traveling to the four towns of Jingbiao for only two or three miles, they soon received news that the Ming army had already set up a simple camp and headed south.

The two armies began to confront each other more frequently. The Qing army obviously had more cavalry and had more combat experience. Soon the Ming army's horse exploration was unable to explore the details of the Ming and Qing army.

However, as the distance shortened, the Qing army inevitably appeared in the Ming army's sight, especially when holding a large number of telescopes in hand, the Qing army wanted to do something that the Ming army could not see, but it would take more effort.

From Jinsha River to the mountainous area to the north, it is only a few miles between them. The more you go to Yushan County, the wider it is, but the narrower it is to the direction where the Ming army is.

The Ming army in the brigade arranged a formation along the flat terrain from Jinsha Creek to the mountainous area, and the Qing army was the same. Hong Chengchou looked at the Ming army from afar. Although he could not see clearly, he could hear the horse's report and gained a general understanding of the situation of the Ming army.

"The bandits spread out in one word, from the right to the left, namely Feixiong Camp, Shentang Camp, Nantang Camp, Lishui Camp and Chun'an Camp. Behind them is an infantry and a large number of cavalry, and Chen Wen is in the back formation."

The Ming army went from right to left, and the one facing the Qing army was from left to right. Like the Ming army, the Qing army also placed the Jingbiao Central Camp with the strongest combat effectiveness in the middle. The Jingbiao You Town was near the mountains and forests, and the right wings were near the Jinsha River, which were the Jingbiao left formation and Jingbiao Hou Town.

The terrain is so, and both sides obviously have the same plan. Since the river bank on the side of Jinsha Creek is muddy and not suitable for encirclement, except for the strongest battalion head placed in the middle, the general with a stronger desire to attack will be close to the side of the mountains and forests. The Qing army was naturally Gao Jie's vanguard general Hu Maozhen, while the Ming army was the Feixiong Camp, a cavalry infantry battalion that was easier to cooperate with cavalry to pursue.

After setting up each other, Hong Chengchou felt much more at ease. In the last battle, the Qing army performed well in hand-to-hand combat, and could also achieve better exchanges in front of the Ming army in Zhejiang, which has always been famous for hand-to-hand combat.

In war, strategies are just used to prepare for real swords and guns. Hong Chengchou naturally understood this principle. Now he has troops with hand-to-hand combat capabilities that are not inferior to the Ming army, and the number is enough to complete wheel battles. The counter-traffic like a meat grinder crushed the Ming army. This is his simplest and most direct tactical idea this time. Now, it is obviously time to achieve all this.

"What does Mr. Zhan think?"

"Mr. Jingliu, although the formation of officers and soldiers is worse than that of our Taixi, it is still easy to use to wipe out some bandits."

This Jesuit monk has repeatedly stated that his Green Camp soldiers were not as good as Taisie, his personnel, his systems, and his combat effectiveness. Even his firearms were lightweight mesh guns such as bird guns, which were not comparable to the legion he followed when he was a mercenary in his hometown.

However, Hong Chengchou was not interested in this cliché. His original intention of compiling the Spanish phalanx was nothing more than to wipe out the Zhejiang Ming army with strong combat effectiveness. Whether this army was disbanded or retained after completing this mission depends on the master's intention. He, a slave of sixty years old, had no ambition to improve the army and completely improve the combat effectiveness of the Green Camp. This is a taboo. After making an exception, it is done, so why bother yourself?

After calming down his mind, Hong Chengchou was ready to issue an order to attack. At the same time, Chen Wen held a telescope and stared at the Qing army's battle formation from afar, which was quite mixed.

Most of his soldiers were in the army for only two or three years, and even fewer. However, the opponents they had to face this time were elite troops from Ganzhou, Xuandaguan, Liao, and the generals were also from Ganzhou, where the strongest green camp of the Qing Dynasty was located. The commander was Hong Chengchou, the most famous civil commander in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

"The strongest green camp in history!"

This title is undoubtedly the opponent he has to face.
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