Lord of Ming Dynasty

Xuanyuan Longfei stood beside Zhang Qiang, looking at the densely packed soldiers of the Qing army guarding the city wall, and said in a low voice, "Master, this battle is not easy. The city is strong and the artillery is strong, and there are navy troops to help out. Jiang Tianxian, let alone our army of less than 1, even if there are [-] troops, it is impossible to conquer in a short period of time."

Zhang Qiang sneered, "In this case, let's get rid of the enemy army on the west bank first, and plow the whole west bank for me. Anyone who leans towards the Qing army will be arrested. Anyone who still remembers Ming Dynasty will be exempted from corvee and tax. Let's first All the sites in the West Bank and Yongfeng Town towards Jinhua Mansion have been firmly established."

Xuanyuan Longfei immediately shouted: "In this way, the enemy will have to take the initiative to attack us, otherwise, we will develop a territory under their noses, and they cannot be in a hurry, and it is impossible for them to ignore it."

Zhang Qiang stroked his chin and said with a smile: "The enemy is self-righteous, and will definitely not wait too long. In this way, we will turn our disadvantage into an advantage, wait for work with ease, and defeat the enemy on the plains on the west bank."

Chapter 80 Nosedive

The Jinhua rebels were unable to attack, and the Qing army in Fucheng, Taizhou did not attack. Across the Lingjiang River, anyone who attacked had to conquer the Lingjiang River first. It can cause you heavy casualties.

So the war situation entered a stalemate.

Here I want to say that the capital city of Taizhou in the Ming Dynasty was not in Taizhou, but in Linhai County, and Taizhou Prefecture took Linhai County as the center of government.

Time passes day by day.

This year, the temperature was relatively low. In less than three days after Zhang Qiang's garrison, there was a snowfall. Sometimes it floats for a hundred meters, sometimes it falls at an accelerated rate, and it pours into people's mouths and noses, making people feel cold and panicked, just like the people of Daming at this moment, dying of being tortured by the war, floating around.

The camp is rapidly expanding and expanding, and trenches are dug around. The front of the trench is full of potholes. At the same time, various horses, deer rocks, and boulders are placed to prevent enemy horses from attacking the camp.

The scope of the camp is very wide, five miles long from north to south, three miles wide from east to west, surrounded by highlands, and watchtowers are built on the top of the hillside. Widened to about [-] meters, there are crenels on the city wall, firearm shooting holes, and some places have horse-faced crenels, which can attack enemies climbing the city wall with bows and arrows from the side. The distance of the cannon is more than two miles.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhang Qiang to play a long-term confrontation game with the enemy here. Xuanyuan Longfei led his troops and began to sweep the enemy's territory in the southwest, west, and northwest. The number of civilian workers recruited into the civilian camp continued to increase, and then increased. In the end, there were already 3 people.

It is more than nine times stronger than Zhang Qiang's headquarters.

During this period, the Qing army was not silent. Twenty days later, the Qing army went to attack the artillery camp in Yongfeng Town. Zhao Siyang led the artillery to defeat the enemy's 20 attacking troops, built a barracks in Yongfeng Town, and held on for a long time.

One month, already in January 1647, the Qing army launched nine attacks on Zhang Qiang's troops, using naval warships to transport troops, attacking from multiple directions during the day and night, and even dispatched [-] troops once. The water division went to attack Xianju County, where Du Ge was defending, and fought there for a week, but was finally defeated and fled back.

Qing troops from Chuzhou Prefecture and Wenzhou Prefecture also attacked Zhang Qiang Xuanyuan Longfei's attacking team several times, and both sides suffered damage.

In the middle of the month, the Qing army dispatched a large number of soldiers and horses, more than 1 people, crossed the Lingjiang River, seized an impact beach protruding from the Lingjiang River on the west bank, and gradually developed to Zhang Qiang's camp, building eleven camps one after another. The number increased from 1 to 3, but Zhang Qiang remained unmoved.

Zhang Qiang is not without gains, his reputation is getting higher and higher, at least in Taizhou Prefecture and Chuzhou Prefecture, Jinhua Prefecture's reputation is getting higher and higher.

Jinhua Mansion Rebel Army, this force has spread throughout the south, and has a huge influence in the three surrounding state capitals.

Many southern rebels from the Ming Dynasty came to vote.

Zhang Qiang didn't want to mix with these rebels, so he built another camp for them by the river in the south.

The strength of the rebel army has grown from a few hundred at the beginning to more than 1 people. However, most of these rebel troops have no reputation in history. Zhang Qiang has never even heard of them, and he doesn't expect them to be useful. I still want to help them, give less food, and give them all the captured inferior weapons and armor without money. The purpose is to let them and myself take root in this land and give ourselves a platform.

At this time, I have gradually known the names of the main generals and some generals of the Qing army, and I have a general understanding of the composition and number of troops of the Qing army.

The Qing army finally broke free from the quagmire of rebels in Shaoxing and Ningbo, and basically pacified the area, but Tong Yangjia was transferred away and went to the Huguang area to conquer the Yongli Nanming and Dashun armies. The new general of the Qing army was Chen Jin, who was born under the banner of the Han Army, was based in Hangzhou. His main target was the army of the Southern Ming Dynasty under the supervision of Lu. The general opposite Zhang Qiang was called Fan Shaozu. , His main task is also to deal with the Lu Dynasty court in Ningbo Prefecture and the rest of the Lu Dynasty in Fujian.

But now the strength of Lu Jianguo has been greatly weakened, but Zhang Qiang's Nanming Rebel Army has emerged, and in half a year it has already gained a strong strength, guarding the entire Jinhua Mansion like an iron bucket, and expanding to Taizhou Mansion, This is not what he can allow. After receiving the letter asking for help, he brought an army of [-] to the valley to the south, and camped face to face with Zhang Qiang's army.

Xuanyuan Longfei was forced to withdraw his troops from the southwest and join forces with Zhang Qiang.

Form is not very good for Zhang Qiang.

In Xianju County, there are two thousand Qing troops in the prefecture capital to contain Du Ge.

In Yongfeng Town, [-] Qing troops came from Shaoxing Mansion to contain Zhao Siyang. To the east of Zhang Qiang's camp was Linhai County, Taizhou Fucheng, with a garrison of [-] troops.

On the beach to the southeast, [-] Qing troops held back the camp of the rebels. The rebels did not dare to go out to fight.

From the south to the west, Fan Shaozu's [-] troops confronted Xuanyuan Longfei's camp.

To the west, there was another [-] people from the new Qing army attached to Wenzhou Prefecture to oppress them.

Zhang Qiang found out that he had poked a hornet's nest.

It was so difficult to find an outlet to the sea, and the Qing army from all sides came to besiege him.

And if this matter could be easier, such as Taizhou City, which is easier to fight, he would have gone to sea a long time ago. He didn't expect that he wanted to consolidate the occupation of the territory first, and nibble away at the enemy's plan bit by bit, and finally came to this step.

He had only [-] troops in his hand, yet he was surrounded by [-] troops, and the situation became more and more unfavorable for him.

Even with the addition of the [-] rebels who are still there, he has only [-] troops here.

In Zhang Qiang's Chinese army camp, Zhang Qiang and Xuanyuan Longfei sat together, staring at each other for a long time, before Xuanyuan Longfei said: "My lord, why don't we withdraw our troops to an open area and fight the enemy again, for example Xianju County."

Zhang Qiang didn't speak. He felt that he was fighting alone. Ordinarily, the Qing army had already been attracted here by him, and most of them besieged him. But obviously, no matter whether it was the Lujian State Department in Zhoushan or the rebel troops in Wenzhou, the Zheng's Department did not move. , They were still suppressed and beaten by the Qing army, and they were almost powerless to resist.

This cannot but disappoint him.

Across a few fields, a few hills, a piece of farmland, a few streams, one or two villages, Fan Shaozu, who camped on a mountain, led the Qing army camp, and Fan Shaozu was also discussing the war with his generals.

Fan Shaozu had a preliminary understanding of the situation here, and set up camp. The army was ready. He was going to launch a big attack on Zhang Qiang's army, and completely wiped out the army that suddenly appeared from Jinhua Mansion.

Fan Shaozu's vision is still very high, he did not attack Zhang Qiang's troops as soon as he came up like other generals.

He weighed and weighed the two sides several times, and sent people to inquire about the news about the Jinhua Rebel Army led by Zhang Qiang.

He found that this rebel army was very powerful, otherwise it would not have defeated Ruan Dacheng's tens of thousands of Qing troops, and was surrounded by the Qing army and survived for more than half a year.

The letter Li Chengdong brought to him said, "Don't underestimate the great trouble of my dynasty. I am stumped by Long Wu and cannot help you. If I attack with an army, the outcome is uncertain. This thief is best at defeating each of them." , You must not divide your troops into a bandit's plan, this bandit is good at using firecrackers, I am not as good as him."

Before Tong Yangjia left, he summoned Fan Shaozu, who had just wiped out Chen Hanhui of the Linhai Rebel Army, and returned to Wenzhou with his squadron, and said: "This person is Zhang Qiang, the deputy commander of the Jinhua Rebel Army who once made Boluo Belle vomit blood and retreat from the army. You should not take him lightly."

Chapter 81 Arrays

After introducing Zhang Qiang's situation, Fan Shaozu said to the generals under his tent: "Generals, how do you think this battle will be won?"

All the generals stood up one after another, raised their words, and made a crusade. They despised some and despised some. Under the circumstances, it is possible to defeat the Qing army.

After being said by the generals, Fan Shaozu also felt that Zhang Qiang was nothing. If Zhang Qiang was too strong in the previous victory, it meant that Ruan Dacheng was incompetent. Li Chengdong did not fight Zhang Qiang directly, and was frightened by Ruan Dacheng's defeat.

The failure of Boluo was because too many Ming soldiers surrendered in the army, and Zhu Dadian in the city was too powerful. After all, Zhu Dadian still had combat experience in defeating the peasant army and even defeating the Portuguese invasion in the past, and fighting against the Qing army.

After some deliberation, Fan Shaozu said: "Tomorrow, forty thousand troops, [-] troops will attack the righteous army camp, [-] troops will attack the Jinhua Yi army camp in the southwest, another [-] troops will attack the Jinhua Yi army's middle camp, and the rest will be attacked by soldiers and horses. Containment is the main thing, as long as our army defeats the enemy's central army, other places will be destroyed in an instant, or flee, or surrender, go down and prepare."

The next day, while Zhang Qiang was still sleeping, he heard the sound of gongs and drums outside, which was extremely noisy. He couldn't help being nervous, and hurried out with his clothes on.

Climb up the archery tower and look towards the south.

He almost fell off in fright. The densely packed Qing army in the south, a crowd of people in red, grayish brown, and green, was coming towards his camp in mighty fashion.

"Beat the drums, gather the soldiers." Zhang Qiang immediately shouted to the soldiers below.

After observing for a while, the enemy had already spread across the mountains, and his camp was less than two miles away.

Zhang Qiang thought for a while.