In the past history, Wang Yihui was forced to go to Zhoushan to ask for help from the Chaoxian, trying to take advantage of the opportunity when the Qing army accumulated Simingshan to attack Hangzhou. But when he arrived in Zhoushan, the Chaoxian had been murdered by Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin. Wang Chaoxian's troops either surrendered to the Qing army or were divided up by Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin, and the sneak attack on Hangzhou was left unresolved.

After that, the Qing army gathered in Ningbo with an intention to attack Zhoushan. After Wang Yi received the news, he hurried back to Siming Mountain to try to share the pressure for the Ming army in Zhoushan. However, when he returned to Siming Mountain, he saw the tragic situation of the generals in the mountains surrendering and killing them all. Therefore, Wang Yi, who had no choice, went to Fenghua to recruit soldiers and was arrested in Beixi. After that, he was even more righteous and was brutally killed by Yu Dinghai after the assembly of the Qing army [Note 1].

Since the emergence of Chen Wen, this period of history has undergone a great deviation. The units of the Ming army in Siming Mountain, which were defeated in history, assembled more than 20,000 troops here, but the entire army was wiped out in the Battle of Siming Lake. Not only should Liu Yiming, who was supposed to die of illness in December, died in advance in battle, but even Wang Yi, who was captured in July of the fifth year of Yongli, was captured nearly a year earlier.

The Ming army in Simingshan still did not get rid of the fate of being wiped out, but the Qing army also suffered greater casualties. If this battle in Simingshan rear battle, the High Biao Battalion lost hundreds of war soldiers. These losses would be supplemented during the nearly one year of truce in the following year, but this battle in the rear battle caused the Zhejiang Admiral Biao Battalion to be completely broken. It is probably not possible to completely restore its strength for only two or three years.

However, as the news of Wang Yi's survival came from Xu Lei, Chen Wen faced another problem - whether to use Li Rong to exchange for Wang Yi.

As a member of the Ming Army in Dalan Mountain and Wang Yi's general, this is a matter of great responsibility. Under normal circumstances, Chen Wen should also ask Xu Lei to send the letter of Hetian Xiong's exchange of hostages, so that the best of both worlds can be achieved.

Thinking of this, Chen Wen immediately called Zhang Jun to prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and proposed to Tian Xiong the request to exchange Wang Yi with Li Rong for Wang Yi in the name of Wang Yi, and handed it over to Xu Lei to take it away.

Seeing Chen Wen handing the letter to Xu Lei, Li Ruixin immediately fell to the ground and felt tears flowing. Chen Wen could understand Li Ruixin's mood. Whoever has no relatives, put his heart in his shoes. If his relatives were in the situation of Li Ruixin's family, he would definitely hope to exchange for some hope, even if the hope was very slim.

"Mr. Xu Qian, what do you think of our general's Nantang Camp?"

The moment he received the letter, Xu Lei's nerves that had been tensed for a long time seemed to be relaxed suddenly, but when he heard Chen Wen's question, the nerves that had just relaxed immediately became tense again.

"Military Chen is very smart and brave, and this camp leader of Marshal Chen is also a rare elite. The villain thinks that even if the real Tartars come, they may not be the opponent of Nantang Camp."

Hearing this, Chen Wen just shook his head. He was not interested in complimentary words. This time, he aroused Xu Lei's answer was just to lay some preparation for his later words.

"Just a group of new recruits, Mr. Xu Qian is too good." Chen Wen's mouth curled a smile, and then he said: "But everything can happen on this battlefield. By the same token, the Qing court was all Tartars after all. Since the Liao incident, Jiannu has been in chaos for decades, and the Hu tribe's impetus at the beginning of the chaos has been almost exhausted."

"Although they have occupied 80 to 10 of China's land at this time, it's still unknown who can kill me with just their number? Xu Qian is always smart, so it's better to take care of himself."

After hearing Chen Wen's words, Xu Lei immediately changed into a look of enlightenment, and the words in his mouth were like "I wish I could join the command of General Chen at this moment, but my relatives at home were all in the occupied areas of the Qing army, so I could only bear humiliation for the time being."

Chen Wen would not believe Xu Lei’s nonsense even if he had a punctuation mark.

The Qing army is still in great power here, and even the Simingshan area is now occupied by the Qing army. Although Chen Wen, this time the battle behind the palace, did destroy the Zhejiang Admiral Biao Battalion, but compared with the Qing army, the disadvantages of the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang are still too obvious.

However, Chen Wen said this in fact, just to make Xu Lei treat the Li family well, because Chen Wen did not believe the "love stories" that Xu Lei said at all. At this moment, he chose to compromise because the person was still in the hands of the other party. This was really good for Xu Lei, so he believed that Xu Lei knew how to choose. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Nantang Camp in his hand is obvious to all.

After accepting a captured war horse from Chen Wen thankfully, Xu Lei embarked on the road of messenger, but the messenger had no intention of sending the letter.

Although Xu Lei took action to cut Li Rong's war horse, when the Qing army was defeated, the crowd fleeing north might not have noticed his behavior. However, Li Rong and his personal soldiers, who were in the authorities, obviously noticed all this. After all, they were on the spot at that time. So Xu Lei knew very well that once Li Rong went back, he would probably be dead.

He inquired indirectly along the way. Although Li Ruixin was so tight-lipped about Chen Wen and Nantang Camp, he did not think too much about the tragic situation of the Qing army, so that Xu Lei knew very well that Li Rong was captured, almost all his personal soldiers had died in battle. Based on this consideration, he dared to gamble whether Chen Wen knew the truth about Li Rong's capture, and he did win at this moment.

After Chen Wen, who knew nothing about this, let Xu Lei go, he sent an envoy to the old camp that continued to go south to report victory. At the same time, the Nantang camp fought against the dead soldiers, wounded, seized, and beheaded loading was basically completed.

In this battle, Nantang Camp fought against the Qing army five times that of its own with less than 500 soldiers, beheaded 592 people and captured nearly a thousand prisoners. Even the Qing army commander, Li Rong, deputy general of the Left Camp, was sent to Chen Wen's prison car by General Xu Daqian, who sold his teammates. In contrast, his losses were only 31 people killed and 98 people seriously injured.

The results of the battle are abundant, but this battle also exposed many problems. Among these problems, the first is configuration.

In this battle, the Qing army was full of chariots, horses and artillery, including cavalry and artillery, but there were no artillery in Nantang Camp, and the number and quality of the cavalry were much lower than that of the opponent.

However, Chen Wen's "road renovation" work on the way from beginning to end was too severe. Although the tiger squat cannons followed the queue, the two Fran machine cannons were left behind. As for the trapped horse pit in front of the formation, the Qing army's cavalry had no effect in this battle.

But this is the case under such terrain. In the future, once the Qing army exerted the maneuverability of the cavalry in other terrains, the battle situation would be completely different at that time.

The artillery battle was seized, with several tiger squat cannons and two Fran machine cannons. The number was not large, but it was a timely help for Nantang Camp. However, the gunners still needed to be retrained. At least Chen Wen did not intend to use the waste gunners from the Extrater Camp to join his beloved Nantang Camp.

As for war horses, I won’t mention this sad question. The cavalry of the Qing army was always in the back team. When the army was defeated, the cavalry all ran away. Only Li Rong, some officers who had no time to escape and their personal soldiers were left behind. The number was so small.

In addition to the configuration of troops, weapons are also a big problem. The effect of the Yuanyang Formation Killer Team is still satisfied by Chen Wen. However, due to the production capacity of Dalanshan Bird Guns, the Central Military Firearms Team in Nantang Camp still only trained two teams of bird gunners, while the remaining eight teams were still using bows and arrows, which made them look particularly weak when attacking the high-barrier soldiers wearing double armor.

Although the weather in Zhejiang can only be worn at this time, who knows whether it will be like this when fighting next time? You can't count on archers shooting the Qing army's face every time, so the firearms still have to be solved.

Next is training. Not only anti-artillery training needs to be put on the agenda, but even the attack of soldiers of the Mandarin Duck Formation that had been repeatedly urged on weekdays had to return to the queue after the attack was over to ensure the integrity of the formation. There were general violations in this battle. However, since he had won, Chen Wen did not intend to blame him anymore, but more rigorous training was obviously imperative.

In addition, in this battle, almost no soldiers from Nantang Camp were injured. Not to mention other teams, the killer team of the Yuanyang Formation is an extremely necessary formation. It is not possible to form combat effectiveness immediately by adding individuals. Each replacement of personnel will lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness over a period of time.

The problem now is that the opponent he faced here is very different from the Qi Jiguang era. Although it only lasted for decades, artillery has become a conventional weapon of the regular army. Such weapons that ignore armor and shields are really threatening to the Yuanyang formation, which is invincible in pure cold weapon confrontations. Chen Wen can rely on the vertical formation to reduce the impact surface, but once it is hit by a shell, the long cards and rattan cards will not be more protective than a piece of paper.

Damage means a decrease in combat effectiveness, and the battlefield healing ability of the Yuanyang Formation is not very strong. This is because of its exquisite formation that is too exquisite, which leads to its powerlessness when facing artillery, or to improve its battlefield healing ability, or to use other battle formations on the main position to deal with it, or to learn from Qi Jiguang to make the cart, horse camp, and baggage camp to cooperate with the infantry camp, otherwise, they will suffer a great loss when fighting with the Qing army on plain terrain in the future.

The last and most important point is the command issue at the moment. This issue is the top priority of all problems for Chen Wen. It is precisely because of the gap in battlefield experience that he was almost turned over by Li Rong this time. Fortunately, Chen Wen had already thought about the solution, but how to do it well still needs to move forward through exploration.

In short, Chen Wen won mainly in this battle because of his control of the terrain and understanding of the Qing army's combat methods, and more importantly, the formation of the Yuanyang Formation and his own courage. Relatively speaking, Li Rong lost because of underestimating the enemy. Without knowing the details of the opponent, he marches rashly and attacks, but was beaten to death by Nantangying.

However, after this war, such a large number of casualties would inevitably make the Qing army, at least Tian Xiong's high-branded camp, have a lot of precautions for Nantang camp, and I am afraid that there will be no such good chance of being slaughtered in the future.

However, if you win, you will win. Five hundred soldiers from the palace are fighting against more than 2,500 Qing troops. More than 30 people were killed and less than 100 injured. The Qing army was beheaded and nearly 600 were captured.

Although there were many Ming army who occupied the battlefield and took the wounded soldiers who could not escape according to convention, this was a very normal thing before the Geneva Convention emerged. After all, few people were willing to waste time and wounded medicine on the enemies who had just fought for their lives. Instead of letting them die wail, the final blow was a more humane choice.

This is a great victory. Whether it is for the sake of inspiring the soldiers to train harder or the news that Shaoxing Green Camp had already gone to Xinchang to rescue the situation, we should be motivated again.

"The soldiers of Nantang Camp." Chen Wence stood in the middle of the crowd. "In the battle of Siming Lake, the king's army was betrayed by a traitor and the entire army was wiped out. Our troops were ordered to cover the retreat of the people. However, the Tartars were determined to destroy our Dalanshan King's Army, and sent out an absolute advantageous force, led by Li Rong, the deputy general of the Tibiao Left Camp, to chase the rest of our Dalanshan King's Army."

"In order to protect the people's evacuation, the general decided to form a formation to fight the Tartars in the Dao. During this battle, the emperor depends on the protection of ancestors and gods, the guidance of the heroes of the Han family, and the subordinates rely on the lives of all the soldiers to fight hard, and even the feat of advancing against the artillery fire of the Tartars, so that our troops can win." As he said that, Chen Wen looked around and bowed.

"In this battle, our Nantang Camp defeated the Tartars five times more than five hundred soldiers, beheaded 592 levels, captured 919 people, and seized countless deaths. He even captured Li Rong, the chief commander of the Tartars, and rescued hundreds of Han sisters captured by the Tartars."

"You guys, our struggle today not only won the vitality for the people behind us, but also avenged the loyal and brave soldiers who died in battle on the banks of Siming Lake!" As he said this, Chen Wen took a deep breath, and then released the long-suppressed emotions in his heart with a louder voice.

"Avenge the wrongs for the living, avenge the dead, kill the thieves and protect the people, and rebuild peace. My Nantang Camp - the mighty and mighty!"

"mighty!"

"mighty!"

"mighty!"

“…”

Although not many people died on the spot, the minor and serious wounded exceeded 20% of the troops involved in the fight, and what they won was beheading more than their own troops, and the prisoners were nearly twice as brilliant results.

The efforts of more than three months were rewarded, and the sweat and blood that splattered out of this battle did not flow in vain. At this time, every soldier in Nantang Camp raised his weapons and raised his arms and shouted. Even the wounded soldiers who were resting in the cart were supported by their companions and started chanting the slogan of victory.

For a moment, in the sky in the southern part of Siming Mountain, the victor's bold words and hope for the future soared into the sky!

Note 1: The Dinghai here is actually the current Zhenhai of Ningbo, not the Dinghai of Zhoushan. Ningbo Zhenhai was called Dinghai in the Ming Dynasty. However, in the Southern Ming Dynasty, because Zhoushan was occupied by the Ming army several times, the Qing court changed Zhoushan to Dinghai, and Ningbo's Dinghai was changed to Zhenhai in order to seek auspiciousness from the name.

PS: The original plan is that this chapter and the next chapter are all four chapters. This chapter has been written last night, but when it is about to be published, I deleted and rewritten it. The battle has been completed so far, and the story of this volume has been finished. The next volume is about to begin. There is no need to write too much about some things, which seems too long-lasting.
Chapter completed!