Dominate the Country

Let’s not talk about how the exasperated Chen Baoguang dealt with those little thieves. Just look at Chen Ming. Zhu Bangdao found out something was wrong too early and hurriedly led the team out of Junzhou. The location where the Qing soldiers camped at night was only twenty miles away from Chen’s army.

At dawn the next day, two thousand Qing soldiers set up camp. After the whole army had a meal, they continued to march on the road under the urging of Zhu Bangdao. Along the way, Zhu Bangdao let the scouts go far away, and one of the teams ran directly to the top of Yangpo. But God destined him to be finished today. The team of Qing scouts who rode on the top of Yangpo didn’t pay too much attention to the reeds on the river beach below the slope, and didn’t send anyone to really explore it.

Chen Ming saw that the five scouts in that team just turned their heads to glance at the reeds a few times, and then continued to go west. It may also be that the traces left by Chen Ming deliberately along the way confused these scouts. Anyway, Zhu Bangdao was harmed by them.

In the early morning, the sun had just risen, and a layer of hazy morning fog covered the area around Yangpo, making it difficult to see the surrounding situation clearly.

Zhu Bangdao, who was eager to hurry on his way, believed the report of the scouts he sent out, and did not send anyone to explore the reeds behind Yangpo. He directly led his troops to march quickly along the official road. Two thousand Qing soldiers lined up in a long line and went straight along the main road without any reconnaissance or vigilance on the terrain on the left and right.

In this way, the Qing army entered the narrow official road under Yangpo without any vigilance, and plunged into the encirclement set by Chen Ming.

"Ignite..."

"Fire the cannon..."

"All troops attack, kill them..."

Three orders burst out from Chen Ming's mouth like a string of pearls. Seeing that all two thousand Qing soldiers had entered the trap he had set, he was completely excited. The Qing soldiers fell into the trap obediently, and it was worth it that he had been ambushing here since yesterday afternoon.

"Boom--"

A cannon shot, and two thousand soldiers of the Chen family army, who were organized in a row, rushed out of the reeds and rushed towards the sunny slope.

There was no artillery fire in this ambush. If it went smoothly, the artillery hidden in the reeds would not have a chance to be used.

There was a small tiger squatting cannon in front of Chen Ming, purely for issuing orders.

The reeds were taller than a person, and the sound was a little quiet, and it could not be heard far.

"Kill--" After hearing the cannon sound, the two thousand Chen family army troops were all excited. After holding back in the reeds for such a long time, the patience in their hearts burst out instantly. Everyone shouted and killed and rushed from the ambushed reed marsh to the winding and undulating sunny slope.

The front, center, and rear of Zhu Bangdao were hit at the same time.

The two thousand Qing soldiers in Yunyang Town were suddenly ambushed, and it was an ambush by the Chen family army, and they immediately lost their footing.

The previous defeats had made the Green Camp of Yunyang Town completely lose the courage and fighting spirit to fight against the Chen Army when the number of people was small or equal. The army was in turmoil and the morale was low. When the ambush troops rushed from behind Yangpo, the whole army was in chaos and the defeat was irreversible.

Zhu Bangdao's heart trembled violently when the cannon sounded, and he was surrounded by a chilling cold all over his body. Although he didn't know how many Chen Army troops were ambushing, and he couldn't see the specific arrangement of the Chen Army, he knew that he had been completely defeated in this battle. Even if there were only three or five hundred Chen Army troops ambushing in front of him, his two thousand Green Camps would be finished.

In such a terrain, the whole army was in disarray and lost its morale. This scene was not to mention Zhu Bangdao, even if Zhaohui was reborn and Agui came in person, he couldn't turn the tide. It was impossible to just let him surrender, "Go!" Zhu Bangdao roared, and ran east with his personal soldiers.

In his haste, Zhu Bangdao had no time to think about Yunyang Prefecture, no time to sigh about Junzhou...

Once his two thousand green camps were destroyed, not only Yunyang would be destroyed, but Junzhou would also be destroyed, all destroyed.

Zhu Bangdao fled very quickly, and along the way he led his personal soldiers to gather the defeated soldiers under his command little by little like a snowball. Chen Ming stood on the top of the sunny slope, watching with a toothache, the rapid collapse of the Qing army was beyond imagination. That large group of... people, the determination to escape shocked him.

It was really thanks to this narrow terrain that all the Qing soldiers fell into the pocket set by Chen Ming, otherwise it would be possible for them to escape in large numbers. These people completely collapsed by themselves, and those Qing soldiers collapsed immediately under the charge of the ambush, and they had no power to resist at all.

They had no formation, no organization, and the Qing soldiers were in a state of chaos. Soldiers could not find their officers, and officers could not find their soldiers. From deputy generals and generals to ordinary soldiers, they were in chaos, like headless flies rushing around, completely losing the basic organizational ability of the army.

This battle should not be considered a battle, but rather a massacre with slight resistance.

When the morning mist dissipated, the battle was completely over. Two thousand Qing soldiers suffered a devastating blow. The battlefield was littered with corpses and a bloody scene.

The two thousand Qing soldiers left three hundred corpses. Except for a small number of them who rushed out of the front gate under the leadership of Zhu Bangdao and killed their way out, the rest either died or surrendered. In this battle, Chen Ming captured 1,300 to 1,400 people.

Touching the cool barrel of the iron cannon beside him, Chen Ming smiled speechlessly. Sure enough, no cannon was used in this battle, and it was not used at all.

…

Ankoudian.

A few Qing soldiers and scouts looked at the Chen family army that was parked far away in the wild, wondering and shocked. What happened? The "large group of people" that they had been chasing for half a day was just a bunch of bandits? The traces on the road clearly showed that it was a large army. The Qing soldiers and scouts were puzzled.

The "large army" in front of them only had so few people, so where was the main force of the bandits? The sweat on the foreheads of several Qing soldiers and scouts could not be stopped.

They knew that things were bad. They were nervous and didn't know if there was any room for recovery.

In the Chen family army camp, Huang Jingting looked at the Qing army scouts who retreated in a panic and laughed so hard that his stomach hurt. These grandsons had been fighting with the scouts who stayed behind since early morning, and it dragged on until the morning [9:00-11:00 in the morning]. Now they finally saw what they were chasing, and they were dumbfounded, right?

Huang Jingting understood that if everything went well, the two thousand Qing soldiers would have been finished at this time. Zhu Bangdao was killed by these scouts.

Chen Ming divided his troops into two groups very neatly. One group of soldiers escorted the prisoners to Ankoudian, and he led the rest back to Junzhou. Junzhou without two thousand Yunyang Green Camp was like a sweet lychee. As long as the outer shell, which was not hard enough, was opened, the delicious meat inside could be eaten...

He led the team to Yunyang for the abundant manpower in Yunyang, not to occupy the mountains in Yunyang and dominate. The team could enter Yunyang, and it was also necessary to ensure that it could fight out smoothly. When Chen Ming came out of Yunyang Prefecture again, he had not only three thousand people under his command, but tens of thousands. There were men and women, old and young, and all of them would move to Nanyang.

When Chen Ming attacked Yunyang, he had to ensure the safety of the exit.

——Then Junzhou is the eastern gate of Yunyang Prefecture, the key point for entering and exiting Yunyang by land and water!

It is much closer to Junxian than Xiangyang. If the Qing soldiers want to block the east, the troops stationed in Junzhou can quickly kill to Junxian. By then, the Qing soldiers in Xiangyang will have no use for blocking it.