The bows, muskets and cannons of the Ming army in Fujian caught the main force of the Qing army off guard. A group of cavalrymen from Manchu, Mongolian and Han army and Green Camp were bombarded and knocked off horses, "more than a thousand killed, and the rest of the army was defeated", and the situation was in chaos.

At the same time, the Iron Man Army, who had just fled to the wings, turned around and attacked, and the defeated soldiers who intercepted the Qing army, started to slash and kill again.

The situation at the beginning of the war was completely changed. The officers of the Eight Banners of the Manchurian Banners were killed and killed, and even Guan Qizhong, who was under the throne from the rear was scattered by Guan Qizhong.

The front army was completely defeated, but Guan Qizhong did not give up. No matter how fast the infantry of the Ming army ran, he could not match the cavalry. So he retreated while restraining the defeated soldiers until he retreated to the hillside of Yinshan Mountain. He finally suppressed his position, reorganized the team, and dismounted the entire army.

The cavalry had proved useless, and Guan Xiaozhong still didn't believe in evil, so he simply took out the formation and infantry battles that the Eight Banners of Manchuria were good at. Unexpectedly, the Eight Banners Army abandoned the horse and infantry battles, and the Fujian Ming army, who was pursuing the victory, rushed up immediately after a little re-establishing the formation, as if they were afraid that the Qing army would escape.

The Eight Banners Army, which failed to charge at the cavalry, had not changed even after entering the infantry stage. The unilateral massacre had occurred for the third time. Guan Xiaozhong was trapped in a heavy siege and his mount was cut to death three times. He barely rushed out with his personal mounts and guards.

The commander abandoned the army and fled. The Qing army, which failed in the infantry battle, collapsed and fled in a hurry to the rear, scattering the Han army's musketeers, gunners and green camp soldiers behind the formation. The Qing army's defeated soldiers ran down the slope of Yinshan Mountain. The slope was steep and the escaped soldiers were stumbled, and they were tripped by the defeated soldiers who fell in front. This was repeated, rolling like a tide, and the defeated soldiers behind them continued to rush down the slope with their injured accomplices. For a moment, the casualties were insignificant.

Below the slope of Yinshan Mountain, there is a typical terrain of the water town in Jiangnan. The roads are narrow and the gullies are crisscrossing. The Qing army fled down, but unexpectedly, heavy rain fell. For a time, "those who cross the ditches died in the ditches, and those who cross the river died in the river", and the situation is terrible. The Ming army that caught up with them is in Fujian all year round, and has already adapted to the rain and mud in the south, and it is immediately slaughtered again.

The Ming army in Fujian chased and killed ten miles away before withdrawing its troops and returning to the camp. On the way back, the Qing army "filled the gullies and corpses everywhere". The Eight Banners Army was cut and killed, and even the Green Camp was not far away.

A few days ago, Guan Qizhong took 15,000 troops from Nanjing to fight. When he fled back, the Qing army of the 300 Qing camp in Changzhou, which participated in the war, took out only 37 people, and only 80 cavalrymen from Zhenjiang Green Camp, and the infantry were wiped out. Guan Qizhong personally led the 2,000 Jiangnan Jiangning Left-wing Four Banners and the 2,000 Han Army Eight Banners led by Guan Qizhong, and only 140 people fled back to Nanjing. Everyone was "shocked, and the warriors were unable to move forward."

The Qing army fled, and the horses, camels, armor, bows, arrows and firearms they carried were all captured by the Ming army in Fujian. In this field battle of nearly 50,000 people in the two armies, the Ming army in Fujian was seriously injured, and there were only a few people who died in the battle. This was the only exchange comparison in the history of the Ming and Qing wars.

The master of the country is mighty!

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The Zhenjiang victory was an extremely classic field battle in Chinese military history. Zheng Chenggong played the Eight Banners Army in his palm with his flexible use of firearms, sweeping the Eight Banners Army in Jiangnan, and sounding the clarion call for the last major counterattack of the Southern Ming Dynasty in history.

However, it is only the ninth year of Yongli, and Li Dingguo is still in Guangdong. Sun Kewang still controls a large area of ​​land in Yunnan, Guizhou, southern Hubei and parts of Guangxi. The fence-grass in the southeast and the remnants of the Qing army are trembling under the trembling pressure of Chen Wen. Everything may no longer be as it has in history.

The Qing army failed in the field battle, and the civil and military officials in Zhenjiang Prefecture City were in a state of disintegration and had to leave the city to surrender. Zheng Chenggong ordered Zhou Quanbin's Right Martial Guard and Huang Zhao's Houchong Town to join the city to assist in defense. He used the worker Feng Chengshi to prepare the troops for Changzhen, and the prefect of Zhenjiang remained in office, setting up the ruling airline of Zhenjiang.

On April 25, Zheng Chenggong personally visited Zhenjiang Prefecture City and held a military parade at Ganlu Temple outside the north gate. He ordered Zhou Quanbin and Feng Chengshi to be good at recruiting and pacifying, thinking that they were role models in the world, forbidding soldiers to disturb the people, and not allowing the Taoist servants to induce the gentry and the people. As a result, Zhenjiang Prefecture City "is not easy to invade, and the people do not know the soldiers", and nearby cities "received one after another", and Jurong, Yizhen, Chuzhou, Liuhe and other cities came back one after another.

The next day, Zhang Huangyan led a small army westward to recruit counties between Zhenjiang and Nanjing. On April 28, when Zhenjiang's recruitment and reunification work was completed, Zheng Chenggong held a military meeting to discuss the recapture of Nanjing.

However, the meeting was attended not only by the admiral of the Ming army in Fujian, but also by the senior officers such as Li Zhichun, the governor of the Zhizhe River, and He Wangsheng, the Minister of the Ministry of War.

"Zhenjiang is coming, and our army should recover Nanjing as soon as possible. Which officers and soldiers' itinerary, water or land should be quick?"

The main force of the Qing army was defeated and no longer posed a threat. The question of how to go to Nanjing is naturally the question of how to go.

Hearing Zheng Chenggong's question, Gan Hui, the general under his command, responded with gratitude: "The last general thinks that when taking advantage of this great victory, the enemy's army is scared, and there is no time to prepare. The soldiers are more powerful. They should drive in by land, travel day and night to force Nanjing. If the enemy's army blocks and uses this unstoppable force, they can also go down in one go; if the enemy's army shrinks away, besieges its city and breaks its county first, the lonely city will not attack itself. If the enemy's army advances by water, the weather will be unsatisfied at this time, and the migration will be delayed. The enemy's army gathers reinforcements and holds the city to defend it. If they want to attack, they will have to spend more time."

Gan Hui was one of the most trusted generals under Zheng Chenggong. He advocated the advance by land, and Zheng Chenggong secretly claimed to himself. But at this moment, several other generals expressed opposition, and the reason used was nothing more than "My army came far away, and they were not familiar with water and soil, and they carried more soldiers." He also said, "It was raining heavily and the rivers and ditches were full, which was not conducive to marching."

Zheng Chenggong saw the tragic situation of the Qing army a few days ago. The heavy rainstorm did cause the Qing army to suffer a sharp increase in casualties, but the muddy roads were also a great obstacle to the march.

It’s nothing to be unacceptable to the local conditions, but it’s true that it’s too heavy to bear too much weight. This time, Zheng Chenggong was able to say that he had brought the reserves of the Ming army in Fujian, with more than 3,000 warships, more than 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, and his weapons and equipment were even more amazing.

In history, a general of Zhang Mingzhen was adapted into the front army of the vassal state. He was dissatisfied. During the Zheng Chenggong's Northern Expedition, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. There were only five ships, soldiers and family members. "But the equipment he carried was thirteen red-clothed cannons, forty-five copper hundred-screw cannons, three-eyed guns, ten bird guns, and forty-two barrels of gunpowder. The barrel weighed a total of 1,889 pounds, 1,663 red-clothed iron bullets, 1,892 barrels of 1,899 pounds of iron bullets, 105 barrels of iron pieces, and 5,190 pounds of iron armor, 42 heads of iron armor, 26 bodies of iron armor, nine pairs of iron cover hands, nine pairs of iron skirts, fourteen pairs of iron cover nests, and cotton armor, knives, arrows, spears, rattan cards, etc.."

Even though this time was four years earlier, after sea trade with Zhejiang and ordering weapons and equipment, the family's assets were only slightly inferior. Zheng Chenggong carried no fewer weapons and equipment than in history.

The water flows against the flow and is not smooth. If you march by land, in order to prevent the Qing army from blocking it, you will have to carry a large number of weapons and equipment. If the weapons and equipment are transported by water, the soldiers will definitely be slowed down by the navy, and they will lose their original intention of advancing quickly. But if you do not carry weapons and equipment, if you fail to deal with the Qing army, you will be a crushing defeat and all your previous efforts will be wasted.

Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong had no choice but to adopt the opinions of the generals, and the entire army advanced by water and used a boat to pull the boat to travel the hundreds of miles.

After the military discussion ended, everyone dispersed, and Li Zhichun and He Wangsheng also returned to their temporary residence. The two had discussed how to march before, but they were in a dilemma. On the one hand, by land, the army showed off their power and made greater publicity and created greater momentum, but on the other hand, the army was bound to pass through the border, and disturbing the people. What's more, if the momentum was not done well, it would become a wedding dress for Zheng Chenggong, and the leaders of these people were tied up. However, when you go on the water, you don't have to consider these things at all, so you will naturally be as safe as possible.

Zheng Chenggong did not ask Li Zhichun for his advice on military affairs. Zheng Chenggong led his troops for many years and suffered repeated defeats in his early years. Of course, he knew the result of the layman commanding an expert. However, Li Zhichun was a manager, and this time he attracted Zheng Chenggong, so he naturally became dissatisfied with it. However, in Guazhou and Zhenjiang, Zheng Chenggong was in full swing, so the civil servants were naturally not tough enough to speak.

"Guazhou and Zhenjiang have two great victories, especially in Zhenjiang. The Eight Banners Army in Nanjing has disappeared. We should call on all the rebels to plan major events together."

"Just like this, we should win over Cangshui. He is a civil servant, a literati, not a military man from Yanping vassal or Kuaiji vassal. Now he is holding the army of Dingxihou, and he should try to turn this army into the basic force of our civil servants, rather than a vassal of Yanping vassal."

After Zhang Mingzhen's death, Zhang Huangyan took over Zhang Mingzhen's direct force, and his subordinates Luo Yunzhang, Ma Long and other generals also had considerable combat experience.

In history, this army was reorganized into a vassal front army because the general secretary Chen Liuyu was in Zhoushan at that time, and the Zheng army was in great power and still held the key points of food and grass. Zhang Huangyan had to do so. Now, Zhang Mingzhen passed away early and Chen Liuyu had not arrived in Chongming. A few months after Zhang Huangyan took over, Zheng Chenggong was also fully preparing for the Battle of Nanjing, and he was not so interested in forcing his army to take over.

“That’s right.”

Li Zhichun agreed with He Wangsheng's statement, and they have been doing this recently. Moreover, Li Zhichun was already a member of the Lujian Kingdom. Among them, Zhang Chongfu, who was an anti-Qing person, was also the Minister of War of the Lujian Kingdom. Yu Zhang Huangyan had a great origin and was naturally closer.

"In addition, we need to strengthen our liaison with Kuaiji Fan."

"The letter from the officials have sent it. With the relationship between my father, I can always get in touch with the Kuaiji vassal. Moreover, the Kuaiji vassal may not be happy to recover Jiangnan, and it just happens to start from here."

Last year, the Eight Banners in Hangzhou were defeated in the Eight Banners, Hong Chengchou was killed, Jiangxi was revived, Shang Geng's two feuds were all fought by Chen Wen. Even Sun Kewang regained southern Huguang, Chen Wen forced Fan Wencheng to get the large area of ​​land without fighting, otherwise Sun Kewang could recover southern Huguang so quickly?

It can be said that the general trend of the Ming army's counterattack south of the Yangtze River was raised by Chen Wen. After half a year of rest and recuperation, Chen Wen's army was ready to recover Jiangnan. Even the Qing army in Jiangnan was left with only the way to capture it. But at this moment, Zheng Chenggong came to pick peaches thousands of miles away from the sea. Any ordinary person would be very angry, and even faced each other with swords.

"I'm afraid it's not necessarily, but extreme dissatisfaction."

Speaking of this, Li Zhichun laughed and then said, "It's better to be dissatisfied. It just takes advantage of the conflict between the two to divide. Moreover, it is beneficial to have a good relationship with the Kuaiji vassal. The Qin vassal is powerful, and only the Kuaiji vassal can be no less than him. Moreover, Yanping vassal takes over Jiangnan and the benefits of maritime trade, and its strength may soon catch up with the Kuaiji vassal. Now the layout is stronger than cramming for the moment."

The Ming Dynasty controlled military generals and talked about a general scheming. According to their layout, in Jiangnan, Zhang Huangyan made the big and small Zheng Chenggong; in the southeast, Zheng Chenggong made the big and small Chen Wen; and among the various ministries of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Chen Wen made the big and small Sun Kewang.

In this way, through layer by layer of constraints, military generals will be subject to civil servants, which is their purpose. As for Chen Wen's bad habits to the literati, Zheng Chenggong was a pirate, his nature was still there, and Sun Kewang was even more a bandit, and they all needed to be restricted to ensure the interests of the gentry in the southeast.

The only thing is that Qian Qianyi, the old slip-on, refused to come forward to take charge of the overall situation. Otherwise, with his relationship with Zheng Chenggong, the help he has been to Chen Wen over the years is much easier than the two of them sing a black-and-white face.

"No matter what, Jiangnan is about to recover, and sooner or later, it will drive the Tartars out of our Ming Dynasty."

"That's true, but the more this happens, the more we should try to preserve the vitality of scholars."

After the military discussion ended, the army quickly set off from Zhenjiang to Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the place where the Ming Dynasty Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was the dragon-rise land.

Ten days later, on the ninth day of the seventh month, the vanguard arrived outside the Fengyi Gate in Nanjing. On July 11, he led dozens of generals Gan Hui, Yu Xin, Wan Li and others to "surround the Zhongshan Mountain and pick the terrain" under the protection of hundreds of guards. Twelve, Zheng Chenggong led Li Zhichun and other civil and military officials to worship Taizu.

He cried and ordered Gan Hui and Yu Xin to set up the Shizi Mountain; Wanli and Yang Zuzhan to set up the second bridge mountain; with Weng Tianyou as the rescue, Yu Yi and Fengmen were the important roads; Guo Yi, Huang Zhao and Xiao Gongchen were stationed in the west gate of Han, connected to Lin Ming, Lin Sheng, Huang Chang, Wei Xiong, and Yang Shide. He also ordered Chen Peng, Lan Yan, Chen Kui, Cai Lu, and Yang Hao to set up the southeast corner of the water, and the camps were stationed; Liu Qiao, Huang Ying, Yang Zheng, Dai Jie, and Liu Guoxuan to set up the northwest corner of the Zha, surrounded by mountains, connected to Zhou Rui, Lin Cha and other camps. He also ordered Zhang Ying, Chen Yaoce and Lin Xishan to set up the Jiumiao Mountain, and Lian Zhusuzhen to guard the Chenggong camp. Each set up a deer antler to look out, and the deep ditch and wood fence defense.
Chapter completed!