The situation in Guangxin Prefecture deteriorated rapidly. Even if Tong Guoqi had extraordinary resourcefulness, he could not persist for too long in the face of absolute power. Therefore, he decided to reinforce the Guangxin Prefecture while asking for help from the Qing court. Gada decided to

Hun then quickly ordered his troops and horses to set off.

Due to doubts about Tong Guoqi's fighting will, Ga Dahun led the supporting troops to advance quickly. Along the way, Changshan County, Yushan County, and Guangxin Fucheng were all quickly left behind by them. When they passed Chating Town, the next

The urgent news that arrived was that Tong Guoqi's headquarters had been forced to retreat to Hekou Town by the Ming army.

Nahekou Town is located at the intersection of Qianshan River and Xinjiang River. Qianshan County was also moved there from Yongping Town in later generations. Along the Xinjiang River, the downstream is Yiyang and Guixi, and the upstream is Fucheng. They are right between the two at the moment.

If nothing happens, we should be able to come into contact with the Ming army's scouting horses when we approach Ehu Town.

"Baturuchuku, take your people to Ehu Town and threaten the bandits' flanks so that they cannot attack Hekou Town with all their strength."

"Slave obeys!"

Jia La Zhangjing took the order and left. Soon, a group of cavalry left the group and galloped towards Ehu Town. However, the splashing mud and rising smoke made Ga Dahun only feel that he was moving forward.

The feeling that the road is getting blurry. This feeling is not a physiological reaction fed back from the eyes to the brain, but a worry coming from within. And this negative state makes him drive his Qing army to speed up, it seems like this

Just do it and it will be wiped away.

The army continued to advance westward along the Xinjiang River, but the grain route was blocked. As he marched, he left troops in important villages and towns along the way to guard the grain route. Not long after, there was news from Baturuchuku that the Ming army was

According to the description of several emergency reports sent by Jiala Zhangjing who was highly trusted by him, after the Ming army first encountered the Qing army, they tried their best to rely on Ehu Town to resist the Qing army.

However, it didn’t take long for the Ming army to withdraw from Ehu Town. However, they did not simply leave. Instead, they continued to maintain contact with the Qing army and harassed them as necessary.

Apparently it really slowed down their continued westward march.

"If Hekou Town is still in Tong Guoqi's hands, then the bandits want to withdraw; if Hekou Town has been lost, then the bandits want to delay their persistence."

This idea flashed in my mind for the first moment, and then the idea of ​​launching an interception against the Ming army naturally came up. After calling out, two slaves laid the map on the back of another slave.

With his riding whip, he passed several key points such as Ehu Town, Hekou Town, and Qianshan County where the army was at the moment. A plan to go south from Ehu Town to take the Ming army's retreat was immediately formed in his mind.

From the map, Ehu Town is just north of Qianshan County, while Hekou Town is located in the northwest. The Ming army marched along the Qianshan River, or in other words, pursued Fubiao, Fujian Province. Assuming,

They went south from Ehu Town and captured the Ming Army's camp in the north of the city. They could release the Henan Green Camp in Qianshan County and block the Ming Army's path to the north. They could even capture the Ming Army's troops who were leaving Hekou Town.

The grain road is cut off, making it a lone army and eating it up.

This is undoubtedly a great temptation, but after fighting for most of his life, the loess has lost its chest. When the temptation takes effect, the first thing he feels is not impulse, but uneasiness!

Yes, he could indeed turn the tide of the war by leading his army directly south. However, the Ming army did not expect this, and were they not prepared in advance?

You must know that going south from Ehu Town to Qianshan County requires passing through a large mountainous area. This is already the home field of the Ming Army, which has a home field advantage. In addition, the Ming Army's tactics are more suitable for mountain warfare than the Qing Army. Once they win,

Ambush, on the battlefield where the cavalry advantage of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia has completely disappeared, it is inevitable to lose troops and generals.

What's more, Chen Kai, this non-mainstream civil servant is really too cunning. Since he can control the villages and towns in the mountainous area to advance into Qianshan County, it is impossible for him to not think of this loophole. Therefore, as long as he enters the mountain, he will definitely be ambushed.

Turning the tide of the war around is nothing but a fool's errand.

Thinking about this, Gadahun immediately gave up the dangerous plan and focused on pushing forward. The commander's will was the direction of the army, so they continued to go down the Xinjiang River, advancing step by step, and soon they were

Arriving at Hekou Town.

"Slave Tong Guoqi has met his master."

The men with the blue banner of the Han army were just fat rabbits in front of the Manchurian red flag Gushan Ezhen. However, the name of the Tongjia clan could add some color to them, but only after paying a grand ceremony.

He only has a seat among the Eight Banners generals of the Manchu, Mongolian and Han armies.

"Tell me, what's going on now?"

When Ga Dahun's reinforcements arrived, or to be precise when Batulu Chuku and Tong Guoqi reached contact, the Ming army had already withdrawn from Hekou Town. At this time, when the coach asked, Mr. Tang Guo stood up quickly and knelt down.

Reply: "The slave is incompetent. Since the bandits besieged the city, our troops have launched many attacks to try to relieve Qianshan County. However, the bandits are so powerful that they not only failed to relieve the siege, but were even forced to retreat here. If the master had not led the army to arrive, we would have

It’s hard to avoid this…”

In the big tent, Tong Guoqi spoke eloquently, telling the generals everything that had happened in the past few days. Listening to his words, although Fujian Fubiao's rescue operation failed, it also effectively interfered with the Ming army's

The rhythm of the siege. It is precisely because of this that the Ming army chose to send out a large army to remove this nail once and for all. In the following field battle, they were naturally no match for the Ming army. They retreated to defend Hekou Town, but they achieved a victory through street fighting.

The exchange ratio of kills and injuries is quite high. However, as the Ming army advances step by step, they are in danger. If the reinforcements arrive even a day and a half late, he will have to wipe his neck.

He expressed his gratitude to Gadahun and the generals present. Tong Guoqi kept his posture very low, which made everyone feel comfortable. After confirming that no information about the Ming Army's Hongyi Artillery Team had been discovered, Gadahun also

I felt a little more at ease.

"Didn't the green soldiers in the city cooperate with you to rescue the siege?"

After just asking a question, Gadahun immediately asked the next question. As a civil servant, Tong Guoqi answered fluently. According to his description, when he tried to rescue the Henan Green Camp for the second time, the city

The green battalion soldiers did fight their way out of the city, but were beaten and beaten back by a unit of the Ming Army called Liwu Town.

"This bunch of trash."

Gadahun blurted out without any scruples, which made the generals of the Green Camp who could only stand as waiters in front of the Eight Banners Army feel embarrassed. But the senses of the Han people were indifferent to the bannermen who claimed to be "invincible"

.But what he heard about the new camp head from Tong Guoqi gave him more ideas.

"Liwu Town..."

Having been in Zhejiang for more than three years, Ga Dahun remembered that this town was an old unit under Zheng Chenggong. To be precise, since the recovery of Fujian, the Ming army had not established a few field troops in Fujian. The so-called expansion did not mean that it was based on the original

To expand the number of troops under the designation, it is to establish a city garrison camp to free the original field troops from the work of guarding the place.

The reason is that the pressure on military food is too great. Even with the support of Guangdong and high-yield crops, Fujian, which has to import food from other provinces even in peacetime, cannot support more troops. What's more, the Ming army

There are also heavy troops gathered in Guangdong and southern Jiangxi. Chen Kai has just taken over the whole province of Guangdong not long ago. His policies place great emphasis on recovery and development, and he is never willing to make the most of the land. Even the civil servants in Fujian are not too cautious.

It is extremely difficult to achieve the current scale by being willing to over-exploit the local gentry and common people in order to expand the army.

Doing the math, the Ming army's partial division in Qianshan was already quite large - Dubiao Second Town, Zhongchong Town, Houchong Town, and Liwu Town. That's 12,000 soldiers. It seems that even Twenty-eight Su

One or two people from the camp also came. Tong Guoqi heard from the spies who had sneaked out of Henan Green Camp.

"The pirates planned to open up a situation here. Fortunately, they arrived quickly enough, otherwise they would have succeeded."

He breathed a long sigh of relief, but also became more certain about the Ming army's idea of ​​siege and reinforcements. In response, he quickly sent someone to report to Quzhou. Not only did he have relieved the crisis in Hekou Town, but more importantly, he reminded Jidu to be on guard against Xianxia Pass.

Zheng Chenggong. After doing all this, Ga Dahun rearranged the tasks, and then proposed to visit Fubiao, Fujian.

This was the right thing to do, and Tong Guoqi naturally had no reason to refuse, so he had no choice but to follow him to the military camp in Hekou Town. He just winked at a soldier before leaving, and the latter quietly left the team.

The Ming army had just been defeated, and Fujian Fubiao was still resting and recuperating, so it was difficult for them to perform martial arts. However, Gadahun was an old soldier, and after walking around, he had already learned the general situation of this army.

With an idea in mind, Tong Guoqi's words such as "several attempts to rescue the siege" were all nonsense. After all, with such a unit whose combat effectiveness is at most the average level of the Southern Green Camp, I am afraid that even the siege in the city

Henan Green Camp can't defeat it, so how can it be possible to successfully rescue the siege in front of the overwhelming advantage of the Ming army. At most, they can just send some cavalry to watch the excitement and fire a few arrows from a distance, and that's the end of it. Even so, this fire play

The flames still caught fire on his pants, and he almost burned himself to death, and even Guangxin Mansion had to be buried with them.

However, Ga Dahun did not have any intention to be harsh on this. After all, he had clearly seen the objective reality that the Green Camp was not the opponent of the Southeast Ming Army. Tong Guoqi was doing his best if he could send people to fire a few arrows. Even more pessimistically speaking,

Assuming that Tong Guoqi really did not care about life and death and took Fujian Fubiao to fight with the Ming army, let alone Hekou Town, it is estimated that half of Guangxin Prefecture already belongs to the Ming army.

Sometimes, a sense of existence is far more important than actually doing something.

"You really tried your best."

"Slave, thank you, Master, for your understanding."

Fujian Fubiao's combat effectiveness is not high. This is no wonder Tong Guoqi, nor the generals. There is no way, who made this army just a broken army, and Gadahun did not expect them to be able to do anything. Now I have seen it with my own eyes

, and feel relieved inexplicably. The only thing left is to test Tong Guoqi's ability and see how good this guy who has recently gained the reputation of a wise general is.

"Governor Tong, based on what you have seen, how should we defeat the bandits next?"

Tong Guoqi had obviously thought deeply about this issue. As a civil servant, he naturally took a high-level view, focusing on the national situation, and then radiating to the war of national annihilation in the southwest and the war in the southeast. In his words, these two are

They are complementary to each other, and this is true for both the Ming and Qing armies.

Gadahun agreed with this, but what he wanted to hear more was Tong Guoqi's analysis of the battle situation in the southeast, especially the Qianshan battlefield they were currently in. Unfortunately, before Tong Guoqi officially began to analyze his plan to destroy the southwest,

In the war between the two countries, the Qing army must win and the Ming army must lose. The origin of many theoretical basis in the theory of ten wins and ten losses, as well as the short-term and long-term impact on the war situation in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

He galloped forward on his horse, then rolled his saddle and dismounted, knocking his head to the ground.

"Report, on the orders of Fu Jun, our troops followed the bandits to explore the enemy's situation. We found that the bandits were cutting down trees indiscriminately, and they seemed to have plans to build siege equipment."

Needless to say, the target of the siege is Qianshan County. The siege and reinforcements may have become a choke point for the Qing army's superior strength. Therefore, the Ming army is likely to plan to swallow up the Qianshan county first.

and the 4,000 green battalion soldiers in the city, and then fought with all their strength against Gadakhun's reinforcements.

Any goal that the enemy wants to achieve will of course be what we need to do our best to prevent!

With this kind of thinking, Gadahun naturally could not give the Ming army any time to breathe. At this time, he quickly abandoned Tong Guoqi, which was still in full swing, and let Fubiao, Fujian Province, continue to rest and recuperate. While he organized reinforcements to launch an offensive along the Qianshan River

, at least it must threaten the Ming army and disrupt its siege rhythm.

With the evil idea of ​​keeping the Ming army at bay, the ever-stronger Gadahun organized a continuous offensive against the Ming army's camp in the north of the city. His diversionary operations were so effective that the Ming army had to use the resources originally used to build the offensive.

The wood from the city's equipment was instead used to build forts for better defense. But he soon discovered that he was wrong, he was really wrong, and he really shouldn't be fighting with an opponent who was decades younger than him.

Competing in terms of energy - whenever he wants to combine work and rest and let the offensive stop for a few days, his opponent will take advantage of every opportunity and start to rebuild siege equipment, no matter what, he must pull out the fishbone of Qianshan County.

fell. And he had to organize his troops again to continue the offensive.

This feeling of being led by the nose made him very uncomfortable. As a Manchurian veteran whose beard, eyebrows and braids were all gray to the point where there was no streak of color, Gadahun subconsciously felt something was wrong. So he started again

Expand the scope of Tanma's intelligence search to deal with any conspiracies and tricks that may come from the Ming army at any time.
To be continued...