I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

They are still in the mood to argue about the future, and the battlefield, chasing the Qing army has reached the final stage.

Xue Guiren, the forward general, personally crossed the canal and returned to the north. The Qing army in the south completely lost its command, and the Qing army began to kneel and surrender.

Their team is completely explained here.

The fiasco of the Qing army, Liu Liangzuo saw the end from the beginning to the north of the canal.

It was too fast. The 14,000-strong army fought against the 16,000 people of the Ming army, and it was completely defeated in less than half an hour. Next, the Ming army captured and defeated the defeated soldiers on one side.

There were less than 2,000 soldiers who escaped, and almost all the rest were left in the south.

Such a heavy loss made him almost fall off his horse.

"My lord, let's quickly retreat to the city, rely on the strong city to defend it, and then ask Nanjing for help."

Some subordinates persuaded that the Ming army had already begun to lay pontoon bridges, and a small part of the Ming army had already crossed the canal and was gathering. If they don't go, they will be in danger.

Although the number of Ming troops who have crossed the canal is very small, the current Qing army has become a bird of fear, and has no morale to fight again, and must return to the city to rest.

"Get out."

Liu Liangzuo ordered weakly, and at this moment he seemed to be several years old.

Another fiasco, almost wiped out his family, and his career basically ended here. It is impossible to be promoted again, and his life has no hope.

It would be a dream to expect the imperial court to allocate funds for him to rebuild the army, and the imperial court is thankful for not removing him from his post.

His value is completely dependent on the army under him. Now that this army is almost exhausted, he has become worthless on the Manchu side.

With the return of their troops, the fleeing Qing army was completely desperate.

When the cavalry units of the Ming army arrived, they had no hope of escaping. Except for a small number of people with poor brains who were still stubbornly killed, and a small number of people who escaped, almost all of them chose to surrender and wait. was captured alive.

In the camp, Wu Changqing and others were already counting the results.

In this battle, more than 1,400 people were killed or missing, and more than 2,500 people were injured.

Among them, the people who died and disappeared were basically Qian Su's club. When they fled and lured the enemy, they also lost a lot of people.

A small number of them were killed when they were in close contact with the left and right flanks of the Qing army. Although it lasted for a short time, it also caused hundreds of deaths and a large number of soldiers were injured.

However, most of these wounded soldiers suffered minor injuries and could be cured, and the losses were not significant.

As for the Qing army, nearly 15,000 people were directly damaged this time, accounting for half of their total strength.

Among them, about 4,000 people were killed, most of them by flintlock guns. About 2,000 people were missing, and the remaining 8,500 people were taken prisoners.

In addition, they also seized a large amount of weapons and equipment. Although they are all cold weapons, cold weapons are actually very valuable. A standard broadsword can be sold for at least three or four taels of silver.

These equipment can be used to arm those newly recruited soldiers.

The harvest was very good, and everyone was very happy.

However, this battle is not over yet, and Changzhou City is still in Liu Liangzuo's hands. Moreover, Liu Liangzuo still has 15,000 troops in his hands, which should not be underestimated.

If it is just a simple storm, I am afraid that thousands of people will not be able to attack this city.

"Do you have any plan to capture Changzhou?"

Wu Changqing asked everyone what he hated most about attacking cities before large-scale cannons were equipped.

"The water network around Changzhou City is dense, and it is difficult to dig tunnels. There is really no good way to do this except for a strong attack."

Xiong Rulin said that there are many ways to siege the city, but most of them cannot be used in Changzhou.

"I'm afraid a lot of people will be killed by a strong attack."

Wu Changqing said with emotion.

This made the other generals speechless. They found that Wu Changqing cherished the soldiers' lives too much. Since ancient times, people have to die in battle, and siege cities have to be filled with human lives.

They are used to this kind of thing.

"We can send people to persuade them to surrender, but now they are over, and the soldiers are terrified. As long as we promise to treat them well, there is a good chance that they will surrender."

Liu Hansan said that now their troops have recruited several people one after another, and he is a little addicted. After all, surrender is the least costly way.

"I'm afraid this is very difficult. Liu Liangzuo's family members have been taken to Nanjing as hostages. If he surrenders, his family will definitely be exterminated."

Qian Sule said that he actually recognized Manqing's method of detaining relatives, and hoped that Daming would follow suit. If all the relatives of the generals who lead the army are controlled, the generals will be exterminated when they surrender, and there will not be so many generals in Daming surrendering.

"Perhaps we can surround ourselves without fighting, wait for reinforcements from Nanjing to come over, defeat the Qing reinforcements in the field, and destroy the morale of the defenders in Changzhou city. When the time comes, we will hand over the letter of persuasion to surrender. I think there are low-level officers in the city who are willing to surrender. There will be a lot of soldiers. As long as they open the city gates and cooperate with the inside and the outside, winning Changzhou will be easy."

Dai Zhijun offered another tactic, which is a very classic tactic of encircling points to fight for reinforcements, focusing on destroying the enemy's living forces.

However, this strategy is actually very risky.

If the Qing army has too many reinforcements, then

It's hard to say whether they wiped out the Qing army in the wild, or were defeated by the Qing army's internal and external attack.

To put it bluntly, Wu Changqing and the others did not have enough troops, and it was a little reluctant to encircle Changzhou, let alone draw out the main force to fight against the Qing court reinforcements when encircling Changzhou.

At present, they have assembled more than 23,000 troops under the city of Changzhou, but it is far from enough.

It is not a matter of one night for the more than 8,000 prisoners to be recruited, mainly because of the lack of officers.

Those soldiers are actually very easy to incorporate, anyway, they basically don't mind who they give their lives to. But those officers are hard to say, the ghost knows whether they will still think about Liu Liangzuo.

Among them, there must be Liu Liangzuo's cronies, or they have received the kindness of Liu Liangzuo, or have friendship with Liu Liangzuo.

In short, the officers of this batch of prisoners cannot use them casually, at least they have to be sent back to Suzhou for some renovations before they can be used.

If there are not enough commanders, just stuffing these soldiers into other units will not actually improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

"Let's wait for our cannons to arrive, and then it depends on the situation."

Wu Changqing decided to encircle rather than fight, and wait for the cannons from Suzhou to arrive.

He now has twenty cannons by capturing and forging by craftsmen. These cannons are still very useful in sieging the city. If they are shot accurately, if they focus on attacking a section of the city wall, maybe they can blow a hole in the city wall.

Of course, this difficulty is too high, and the current cannons cannot be so accurate.