Dominate the Country

【First update today】

In the Qing army camp, Yongrui, who stayed behind, soon received the news from Yingshou. Chen Jiajun came up with a new gadget and directly killed the Qing soldiers' plan of 'quick attack' on the north bank. Yong Rui was hesitant. Ying Shou had more than 4,000 people under his command. Well, no, now we have to get rid of 500, leaving only 4,000. This was one-third of the Qing army's strength. There were only 7,000 Qing troops attacking Chen's army's camp on the south bank. Should the Yingshou tribe stay on the north bank and continue attacking the Chen family's camp, or should they quickly withdraw to the south bank?

Things are not looking good at the South Shore campsites either. Chen Jiajun seemed to have disappeared. Despite the heavy bombardment of the Qing army's artillery, he did not show his head. Yongrui was very happy when he received the news at first, thinking that Chen Ming was a coward. But then the fast horses came to report again and again, and the 'weird' was like a snake egg swallowed by him. It quickly broke out of the shell, grew up, and then bit by bit his self-confidence and bit his soul.

This 'movement and silence' really killed him.

For a 'Peace General', this feeling is completely unbearable suffering. He almost ordered Fuyong to lead the army back to the camp.

The battle situation on the south bank of Gun River and the battle situation on the north bank of Gun River have all reached a stalemate and are extremely unsatisfactory.

All the pressure acted on the frontline commander and also on Yongrui, who was about to have a mental breakdown. Based on his character, if everything goes as he wants, Yongrui will immediately withdraw with his troops to Xiping County. If the Chen family army wants to pursue him, he can also retreat to Ruyang.

This is just a Taiping general, how can he be as old and mature as a real battlefield veteran? The fifty-year-old Yongrui is not the increasingly spicy Jiang Gui, but a piece of rotten wood that will only become more and more rotten as time goes by.

Fortunately, Qianlong didn't get kicked in the head. He knew the virtues of his distant nephew, so he appointed Admiral Fuyong of Huguang as Yongrui's deputy general. Qianlong wanted to add a layer of halo to Yongrui, because in his heart as an emperor, it was impossible for the four provinces to dispatch nearly 40,000 troops to suppress a handful of rebels. Even though Chen Jiajun jumped very high and happily before.

But now that this campaign has been carried out, it has become a kind of torture for Yongrui. This general is not even as good as Chen Huizu, who has a very average official reputation. At this moment, Chen Huizu has reached Yancheng again. Yongrui's order to him is to attack Yancheng County with all his strength and capture Yancheng in the shortest possible time. . Cut off Chen Jiajun's retreat!

Chen Huizu knew very well how strong the fortifications he faced were, and the defenders of Yancheng should not be underestimated. Chen Huizu clearly realized that not only taking over the county seat of Yancheng in a short period of time, but also posing a real threat to the county seat, he would have to pay a bloody price. However, he issued the attack order with a relaxed expression and turned a blind eye to the subsequent casualties of Yongzhi from Lvying Township, Anhui.

Chen Huizu was a native of Hunan and the son of Chen Damou, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He is now an official in Anhui, and before that he was an official in Henan and the capital. He does not care about or pity his Anhui soldiers emotionally. When necessary, like now, he would dye his head red with human life and blood without any burden.

And Yongrui's performance was not as good as that of Chen Huizu. The constant suffering made him collapse.

Roll on the north bank of the river.

"What?" Yingshou seemed to have heard the most absurd anecdote in the world, and looked at the person in front of him with disbelief. If he was not Yongrui's Goshiha, and indeed had brought Yongrui's handwriting, Yingshou could have chopped him with one knife. He actually asked him to withdraw his troops and retreat to the south bank! Isn't this nonsense? Is it easy for more than 4,000 of them to cross the Gun River and reach the north bank? They came here to knock out Chen Jiajun's artillery and cut off Chen Jiajun's retreat. Now that he had only charged twice, Yongrui actually asked him to withdraw his troops. "Is it just because of the message he sent back?" Ying Shouyou had to doubt this.

After all, Yongrui was a man of such a moral character. Yingshou knew very well that seeing that the battle on the north bank was not going smoothly, it was very possible to recall their troops. But Yingshou himself really couldn't accept this order. Without taking the Chen family's barracks on the north bank, even if there was big progress on the south bank, it would be useless. At worst, the Chen family's bandits could be transferred back to the north bank. With the firepower of the bandits in front of them, the Chen family bandits were able to travel to both sides of the river very safely.

"My lord, hurry up and withdraw your troops. The general is very anxious. The battle of Fujunmen on the south bank of the river is also... not going well." Yongrui's Geshiha may not be loyal, but he must be very good at looking at faces. Seeing that Yingshou was so angry that he was about to hold the knife, he hurriedly lowered his voice.

Yingshou, who was so angry that he was about to burst into flames, immediately poured a basin of ice water over his head and regained his composure. "It didn't go well? How bad did it go?" Yingshou, who didn't know about the 'weirdness' of the Nanying battlefield, never thought that Fuyong's attack would be hindered.

It's broad daylight, it's daytime. Chen Jiajun's artillery fell on the north bank again. With the help of general artillery, it was hard for Ying Shou to imagine that the Qing army would suffer a loss.

"Replying to the adults, I don't know exactly how small it is. I only know that the Chen family's camp full of thieves seemed to have disappeared, and the general's cannon didn't seem to cause much damage to the thieves. But the strange thing is that the thieves The soldiers were indeed in the camp when they started." Goshiha said with a look of deep confusion on his face. But this did not attract Yingshou's eyes.

Geshiha's words made Yingshou feel as if he had fallen into an ice hole. All that echoed in his mind was 'it didn't cause much damage to the traitors', 'it didn't cause much damage to the traitors'...

What does this mean? This means that the Qing soldiers in the daytime battlefield can't do anything to Chen's army.

At night, the Qing soldiers who couldn't cause substantial damage to the enemy during the day are likely to be hit by a sharp counterattack from Chen's army. Not to mention how much damage this counterattack can bring, even if it is the same as last night, it is unpredictable what will happen to the Qing soldiers without Ying Shou, who is one-third of the troops.

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Chen Erbao and Huang Jingting were quickly reported on the retreat of the Qing soldiers. The cavalry battalion of the Chen family army left two teams on the north bank, and every move of the Qing soldiers was under their surveillance. Although they never launched an attack.

"They retreated?" Huang Jingting looked down on the Qing soldiers even more. Chen Erbao quickly sent the fast horse back to the cavalry, "Tell your team officers to closely monitor the actions of the Qing soldiers, but do not attack easily." Chen Erbao's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and his face showed a fierce look: "If the Qing soldiers are ready to retreat to the south bank, we will look for an opportunity to give them a blow."

The reason why the cavalry was not allowed to attack rashly was that the number of cavalry was too small and the lethality was not enough. When the results were not great, the Qing soldiers would be more alert. In Chen Erbao's eyes, to give the Qing soldiers a heavy blow, it was necessary to mobilize all the strength of the Chen family army on the north bank.

"Prepare to send someone to report to the Grand Commander." The Qing soldiers who crossed the river accounted for one-third of their total number. Chen Ming would not and dared not neglect Ying Shou's movements.

In front of the Henan Camp, more than 300 Qing soldiers were approaching the empty camp of the Chen family army step by step...