The scouts kept sending back news about the enemy. Although the scouts did not dare to follow the enemy too closely, they could still judge that the enemy's brigade was indeed evacuating by following the enemy.
There was no trace of other enemies within a few miles of the village, which also ruled out the possibility of the enemy pretending to retreat to lure them out. In fact, Jiang Wan felt that the other party did not need to be so cautious.
People, even if it is a hard reef in the sea, as long as the sea water continues to impact, the reef will be submerged by the sea sooner or later.
In the face of absolute strength, caution and prudence actually don't mean much. Unfortunately, Li Yongfang does not have the courage.
I can't bear the price of breaking this hard rock.
At this moment, it was only about half an hour until dark. Li Yongfang's troops, who were already ten miles away, could not make it back before dark. He could retreat calmly in the night, or
, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
Jiang Wan chose to retreat.
He was not sure whether the people who had been sent out to ask for help had sent the message back. If not, it would have been at least midnight or dawn before the reinforcements arrived. And if you stayed in this village for one night, too much would happen.
Accidents are possible.
The armored soldiers and horses of the Kongzi Camp began to take turns taking off their armor. The few horses originally lost a lot when they abandoned the periphery of the village. Even Jiang Wan gave up his mounts and let these horses carry the load.
These heavy armors from Kong Ziying.
Even so, it was still not enough. Those soldiers who were not in armor had to take turns carrying their armor with the armored soldiers, which made the retreat much slower than when they came.
In order to prevent accidents, Jiang Wan had to pull out several teams to cut off the rear or guard the flanks. After half a night of tossing, they finally returned to the T-shaped fort before dawn.
When the defenders of the T-shaped fort saw their embarrassed appearance, they immediately sounded the alarm, and the entire T-shaped fort suddenly became very nervous.
After entering the military fort, Jiang Wan asked, and sure enough, there were no people asking for help at all in the T-shaped fort. These people have not come back yet, and they are afraid that they will never come back.
Checking the battle losses, Kong Ziying lost more than thirty people, and Jiang Wan's personal guards lost more than ten people. After this encounter, almost hundreds of enemies were killed, but the Ming army also suffered huge losses.
Kong Youde felt that this was a victory, but Jiang Wan felt that it was not a victory at all.
His bodyguards were actually no different from the servants of other Ming army generals. They all used the best equipment and selected the most elite personnel. Kong Youde's armored bodyguards were also the best among the camps in Dongjiang Town.
Although it was Li Yongfang who caught them off guard by deliberately attacking them unintentionally, but who were those people on Li Yongfang's side?
A group of surrendered Ming troops and Ming people recruited from the territory of Houjin, plus a group of Korean gun soldiers recruited from unknown sources. To describe them as a rabble is to praise them. With this kind of battle on the other side, and "Manchu"
The gap between the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners who are "invincible and invincible" is at least as big as a street.
And this rabble actually surrounded Jiang Wan's elite troops and almost prevented them from coming back. Kong Youde said this was a victory, and Jiang Wan felt his face burning.
Everyone was exhausted. After being ordered to be on strict guard, everyone who had been running around all night ate and fell asleep. Jiang Wan was not surprised. When he woke up, Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui,
Already waiting for him outside his door.
"Commander, General Li and I have discussed it. As long as the commander nods, our Nanhai Battalion and the Guards Battalion will capture Malanyu for the commander and offer Li Yongfang's head to the commander!"
Wu Sangui said with a tigerish face: "A surrendered thing really thinks he is a person. We don't touch him, but he still dares to tease us!"
"I was a little reckless!" Jiang Wan shook his head: "I heard that the safari team was ambushed by the Fire Gun Team. I didn't know it until I saw it with my own eyes. Unexpectedly, I went to the place where the incident happened. Li Yongfang really saw it with his own eyes.
Let me see their Fire Gun Team!!"
"Even if we can't take Malanyu, we still have to beat them so that they don't dare to leave the military fort in the future!" Li Zicheng also said in a deep voice. I don't know what he and Wu Sangui discussed specifically, but obviously Jiang Wan almost died after being surrounded.
Death, this made the two generals who claimed to be Jiang Wan's direct lineage feel severely humiliated by that Li Yongfang.
"That guy Kong Youde was promoted and promoted by the Marshal, but he was of no use at the critical moment!" Wu Sangui said: "To avenge the Marshal, we have to rely on our Nanhai Battalion and the Guards Battalion!"
Jiang Wan pondered.
At present, the crops on the newly reclaimed land are about to reach harvest season, and whether the food in this land can be harvested smoothly is related to the belly of the nearly 100,000 people in Dongjiang Town, and even more to the lives of those who were attached to it last year.
The question of whether the refugees from various places in Dongjiang Town want to return to Dongjiang Town.
Previously, for the purpose of harassing the enemy, each fort sent out safari teams one after another. Now it seems that the Tartar garrison on the front line of Panjiakou in Malanyu will not watch helplessly as their side collects food.
In other words, regardless of whether they send troops or not, the other party will definitely harass them before the grain harvest. They may not directly attack the four auxiliary forts, but, like their own safari team, they will rely on the four auxiliary forts.
Villages and crops will probably not escape their looting and destruction.
Behind the opponent, there is an entire Dajin Khanate supporting them. Even if they push the battle line under their military fortress, they will not be in crisis of food shortage. However, if the opponent is allowed to push the battle line under their army, they will not be in danger of food shortage.
Below the fort, Dongjiang Town won’t have to live another day this year.
Using two battalions, nearly ten thousand people, to push the front line to the Panjiakou line in Malanyu, and using offense as defense, seems to be a good strategy.
"Three days later, troops were sent out. Li Zicheng led the guard battalion and marched towards Panjiakou as a feint attack to monitor and contain the enemies in Panjiakou direction. Wu Sangui led the Nanhai Battalion to march towards Malanyu as the main attack direction!"
Jiang Wan said slowly: "The primary goal is to capture these two military forts without paying any price. If this goal cannot be achieved, we will focus on confrontation until the end of the autumn harvest!"
"Yes!" The two of them looked at each other, both showing excitement.
"The other four battalions of Zhenjiang Fort are ready to assist you two at any time!" Jiang Wan said: "The army is dispatched to clear out the remaining enemies along the way and eliminate enemy scouts. I don't want to see another enemy appear next to you two!"