Dominate the Country

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While Huang Jie was muttering that the troops of Jiangyan Town would not go out until now, Chen Ming, who was standing by the Yunyan River with his personal guards’ right battalion, was looking at a large number of new recruits of the Fu Han Army crossing the Yunyan River and advancing towards the southern battlefield with great confidence.

He received a battle report from Huang Jie more than half an hour ago, saying that the Fu Han Army had completely defeated the 5,000 musketeers of the Qing Army. At that time, Chen Ming felt that Huang Jie had no chance of failing in this battle. He immediately ordered the tank battalion to go south and enter the battlefield, and then transferred more than 30 non-main forces and an artillery battalion to the south.

Chen Ming concluded that Feng Sheng'e would not lose this elite force that crossed the river. A large number of Qing soldiers would surely come to support them later. The counterattack of the Fu Han Army in the south was not smooth, and it could not cut off the salt transport channel of the Hailancha Army in time. This was a conspicuous proof.

Chen Ming had to make persistent efforts. After the Fu Han Army won the duel with the elite of the Qing Army, he immediately launched a duel with the Qing Army in the south. Taking advantage of the fact that Feng Sheng'e transferred a large number of Qing troops to the south to support Hailancha, he defeated the Qing troops again. Then, the army could destroy the Qing army's camp in front of Jiangyan Town.

The army of 20,000 passed through more than ten floating bridges built by the logistics troops and the sailors, and marched to the battlefield in the south.

When Huang Jie completely defeated the Qing army of Hailancha, the entire army had been engaged in the pursuit. When the victory report came, Chen Ming had already led the right battalion of the personal guards to the front line of the southern battlefield. The progress of the war was still not as expected.

The main reason was that Chen Ming thought Feng Sheng'e was too simple. In order to ensure the retreat of Hailancha's army, Feng Sheng'e did invest "a lot" of troops in the south, and this "a lot" was beyond Chen Ming's expectations to a large extent. Feng Sheng'e was very smart. After hearing that the Fu Han army drove a boat to blow up the floating bridge on the Yunyan River, he immediately thought of Hailancha's army. Obviously, the Fu Han army was cutting off the retreat of Hailancha's army.

Feng Sheng'e immediately transferred more than 5,000 people to the south, and also let go of the Green Camp cavalry of nearly 2,000 people.

So before Chen Ming led the army into the battlefield of the south, it was a duel between the Qing army, which had no flintlocks but only bird guns, and the Fu Han army, which lacked muskets. This gave Chen Ming a feeling of traveling through time and space - such a war reminded him of the Taiping Army in history.

Before the emergence of the Huai Army, a new type of army with many foreign cannons and fast guns, the confrontation between the Taiping Army, which mainly relied on hand-to-hand combat, and the Qing Army, which used half bird guns and half cold weapons, was not it?

Although the Qing Army's firearms were very backward, the Taiping Army rarely provoked the Qing Army, which fought in formation. Since the Jintian Uprising, the Taiping Army has had its own set of flexible and maneuverable strategies and tactics. It is good at fighting mobile warfare and interspersed warfare, but it does not have the capital and ability to fight positional warfare and offensive warfare.

The offensive of the Fu Han Army in the south did not progress as expected because they were not good at offensive warfare and failed in battle formation.

Although Chen Ming transferred the main battalion and the tank battalion, these were all hand-to-hand combat troops. Whether it was the main battalion or the tank battalion, no one would wear iron armor and rush directly into the Qing Army's musket array, right? Even if those muskets were bird guns, their lethality to iron armor was amazing.

And it takes a lot of time to make shield cars, so the progress of the southern battlefield at that time was far behind Chen Ming's expectations. Not to mention that the Qing army also had a cavalry of nearly 2,000 green camps.

It was not until Chen Ming arrived at the front line with the right battalion of the personal guards that he immediately understood the reason after hearing the report from the front-line battalion officer. "Mobilize mortars, thunder cannons, and their shells with all your strength, and bring as many as you can." The main musket battalions were all in the central battlefield. It was a very troublesome thing to let them assemble from the pursuit state and then move to the southern battlefield. It was much easier to mobilize cannons.

On the southern battlefield, the Qing army's artillery fire was not very fierce. The artillery power of the Fu Han army was also average before, but didn't he transfer an artillery battalion now? There were also many mortars in the right battalion of the personal guards, plus the thunder cannon group that was not needed on the central battlefield. "Order the artillery battalion to quickly set up positions, and bombard them to death when they are done."

What is the biggest advantage of the Fu Han army over the Qing army? Artillery. Chen Ming was stupid to leave the advantage unused and fill the lives of people.

"Grand Commander, Huang Brigade Commander has sent a victory message. We have completely defeated the Qing army and are now doing our best to chase and eliminate the remaining enemies."

Chen Ming had just given the order, and the battlefield that worried him the most was settled, and Huang Jie sent a victory message. Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief, "Open the channel to Jiangyan Town as soon as possible, and the artillery unit will enter Jiangyan Town." When Chen Ming was still by the Yunyan River, he received a letter from Miao Fuwei by carrier pigeon - the Qing army continued to attack fiercely, and his troops were unable to divide their troops to attack from both sides. This made Chen Ming also worried about the safety of Jiangyan Town.

Fortunately, Huang Jie did a good job and defeated Hailancha so early. It is estimated that before noon [1 pm], the main camp will be able to open up the connection with Jiangyan Town.

In the battle behind Jiangyan Town between the Fu Han Army and the elite Qing army, it took only more than an hour before the battle was over. At the beginning of the morning hour, when the victory message was passed to Chen Ming, he looked at his pocket watch, and the hour hand had not yet pointed to 12 o'clock.

Isn’t the one hour left for Huang Jie and his men enough to hunt down the remaining enemies?

Thinking of this, Chen Ming looked at the Qing army in front of him, and a wave of anger rose in his heart again. It was a pity that he had outlined the "encirclement". If the Fu Han army here could block the passage of the Salt Transport River on time, the entire army of Hailancha would be trapped in a jar, with no escape.

"Order the artillery battalion to speed up." Chen Ming shouted. In fact, the interval between this order and the previous order was less than a quarter of an hour.

From unloading the ammunition trucks and artillery trucks to arranging the artillery positions, the artillery battalion did not speak for more than two quarters of an hour. As a result, before the time was halfway, Chen Ming's urging came again.

No need to say, work harder.

On the bank of the Salt Transport River, Hailancha was carried by two Goshha and passed the floating bridge. There was a blood mark on his neck. At this time, his eyes were still red, but he had no will to die. After a person failed to commit suicide once, few people would have the courage to commit suicide a second time. Before that, Captain Goshha beside him took his sword at the last second.

The pressure of more than 10,000 elite troops being destroyed in an instant made Hailancha really only think of dying to atone for his sins. Even now that he has escaped back to the south bank and his life is safe, Hailancha does not know what his future fate will be, whether Emperor Qianlong in Beijing will kill him with a knife...

But Hailancha can swear by his ancestors that as long as he can save his life, even as an ordinary Eight Banners horse armor soldier, he will fight to the death with Chen Ni.

Chunshan, the deputy commander of the Cavalry Battalion, was shot into a hornet's nest. Hailancha saw with his own eyes that Chunshan led the three or four hundred remaining Eight Banners cavalry to break through the blockade of Chen Ni's cavalry and crash into the pursuing Fu Han army. Hundreds of good warriors almost all died after fighting hard, but it also stopped the pursuit of the Fu Han army.

Among the more than 10,000 elite troops who came across Hebei, the Eight Banners accounted for more than 30%, including 1,000 cavalry, 1,000 new troops, and a part of the firearms battalion and the guard battalion. How many people in the whole army have fled back to the south bank? How many of the 4,000 Eight Banners soldiers have fled back to the south bank?

Hailancha has committed a serious crime.

There was a layer of Qing army corpses floating in the Yunyan River. Those Qing soldiers who jumped into the river in a panic were shot by the Fu Han Army musketeers like targets, and died in the river one by one, except for those who were good at swimming, who dived into the riverbed as soon as they entered the water.

Huang Jie looked at the embarrassed Qing army on the opposite side and said in his heart: It's finally over. He won the final victory in this battle. In addition to the two or three thousand Qing soldiers who fled to the other side in a panic, only a few remnants of Qing soldiers were still fleeing in the large area north of the Yunyan River. Before, he even saw a group of Qing army flag soldiers rushing towards Jiangyan Town in a panic, and they were easily annihilated by the defenders in the town.

Chen Qi also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking of the Qing soldiers screaming and fleeing like a tide, thinking of the corpses and blood covering the entire field, and thinking of the soldiers in the front army array who were killed or injured by artillery shells. This battle was fought without danger, and the casualties were not as huge as expected, but the front army was really dead and wounded. Thinking of the dead and wounded officers and soldiers, his eyes were hot and tears flowed down.

"Wuwuwu..."

Ayintu was crying bitterly by the Yunyan River. The two thousand firearms battalion under his command were almost wiped out on the other side. After the timidity of running away dissipated, Ayintu burst into tears and was ashamed. He drew out his sword: "I have lost so many soldiers and generals, how can I face the emperor..." After saying that, he was about to slash his sword.

But a bloody hand stopped his action. Ayintu looked at Hailancha's pale face, which seemed to have aged 20 years. In a short time, his black hair had turned white at the temples. Hailancha sighed, "Why do you have to do this? I am more guilty than you. Let's apologize to the emperor together."

At the end of noon, Feng Sheng'e, who was waiting anxiously in Hai'an Town, finally received a report from the scout.

However, the content of the report made Feng Sheng'e completely stunned. He looked at the scout's mouth, but his ears were buzzing, as if he heard it, but he didn't hear it.

And the people in the field were all stunned. They couldn't believe their ears.

Hailancha was defeated and lost. Only two or three thousand of the more than ten thousand elites escaped. How could this be possible?

After the floating bridge of the Salt River was blown up by the Fu Han Army, Feng Sheng'e immediately dispatched cavalry and infantry to reinforce the battlefield in the south, saved the passage of the Salt River, and actively repaired the damaged floating bridge on the river. Everyone can think of the calculation of the Fu Han Army. They want to annihilate Hailancha's troops, but everyone is very confident and full of expectations for Hailancha's troops.

They don't think that the Fu Han Army has the strength to annihilate Hailancha's troops in the short term. The worst result is that Hailancha can't stand on the battlefield in the middle and retreat to the south bank...

Who would have thought that Hailancha would lose this battle so easily?

Feng Sheng'e instantly aged countless years. He opened his mouth, but found that his throat was hoarse. He wanted to speak, but he couldn't make a sound.

At this time, he suddenly saw smoke and dust rolling in the south road. Looking at the front battlefield, he also saw scouts rushing over. Feng Sheng'e was startled. He looked at the fast horses coming from two directions, and a bad premonition rose in his heart.

The first to arrive was the scout from the south road. When the fast horse came close, he saw Feng Sheng'e had already walked out and shouted anxiously from a distance: "Report, report to the general, the south road is in danger, the south road is in danger - the main force of the Fu Han army is dispatched to the south road, with more than a hundred cannons, bombarding fiercely, as if in a hurry..."

Then the fast horses from the front battlefield also galloped over: "Report to the general, the firepower of Chen's rebel army in Jiangyan Town has increased dramatically, and General Wang is urgently asking for cannons..."

Feng Sheng'e could no longer hear what the scout said next, but his mind was extremely clear at this moment: "Pass on my military order, withdraw all troops..."