On August 2, the 22nd year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hengjia attacked Ganzhou.
The Ming army failed to attack Ganzhou three times before, which made King Jing, the superintendent of the country, understand a truth: attacking Ganzhou cannot be done without a small number of troops.
Zhu Hengjia ordered Li Yuanyin to lead Li Chengdong's old army of 50,000 men, and set out from Nanxiong, Guangdong, to attack Longnan, Anyuan, Huichang, Ruijin, Shicheng and other counties to cut off the connection between Ganzhou and Fujian; he ordered Hao Yongzhong and Wang Jincai to garrison the border between Guangdong and Fujian to guard against the Qing Dynasty in Fujian. He took Li Mingzhong, Yan Tianfeng, Li Dingguo and other troops with 110,000 troops, crossed Yuling, and attacked Ganzhou.
Liu Wuyuan, governor of southern Qing Dynasty and Jiangxi Province, discussed with generals such as Jiao Shang and Hu Yousheng, and decided that "the advantage lies in fighting quickly" and meeting the enemy outside the city was the main battle strategy.
Liu Wuyuan gathered troops from Xinfeng, Nankang and other counties to Ganzhou Prefecture to govern Gan County, preparing to attack the Ming army outside the city.
Zhu Hengjia fought all the way through Xinfeng, Nankang, and Tankou, but did not encounter a single defender. Something unusual happened, and the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became. He summoned generals Yan Tianfeng, Li Mingzhong, Li Dingguo, Zhao Yong, Zhang Chengwu, Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli, and Gao Minggui. Discuss the enemy's situation.
"Everyone, please tell me, the Qing army in Ganzhou has fought so many great victories and its morale is said to be very high. Why did it retreat instead of fighting and abandon many counties and towns?"
"To supervise the country, the Qing army will be afraid of the power of the supervising country's dragon, and intends to defend the city to the death, not daring to fight!"
The confidant general and the commander of the vehicle and artillery battalion, Zhao Yong, flattered him greatly.
Zhu Hengjia rolled his eyes at Zhao Yong and thought, you are so flattering and don't even look at the time. Jin Shengheng and Li Chengdong, two ruthless men, both suffered a huge setback in Ganzhou. Then will Liu Wuyuan be afraid of being alone and be too scared to fight?
Li Mingzhong spoke: "In charge of the country, I heard that Liu Wuyuan is very courageous and often attacks more with less. We must prevent him from sneak attacks on our army."
"Well, Li Qing's words are mature and prudent. No matter what the enemy of Ganzhou has planned, he only has six words: 'set up camp and wait for him to come'".
Yan Tianfeng said: "In the supervision of the country, Ganzhou is surrounded by water on three sides. Why not send a partial division to enter the Ganjiang River by boat from Zhangshui and land on the northwest bank of Ganzhou? I doubt that the enemy will expect our army to come from the water."
Zhu Hengjia's eyes lit up. This was a good idea. But as he went deep behind enemy lines alone, he needed to choose a bold and careful general.
Who should I choose? His eyes wandered over the generals.
"To supervise the country, I am willing to camp behind enemy lines."
A tiger general with bright eyebrows and bright eyes shouted for orders, it was the 28-year-old Li Dingguo.
Zhu Hengjia saw that Li Dingguo had dark skin and looked like he had been on the battlefield, and the more he looked at him, the more he fell in love with him.
"Li Qing, the ship capacity is limited, and I can only give you 10,000 horses. Are you sure that you can defend the camp with 10,000 troops behind Ganzhou?"
"I will definitely stay on the flanks of Ganzhou and make it difficult for Liu Wuyuan to sleep or eat well."
"Okay! You select the best and set off overnight."
Li Dingguo led 10,000 elite troops and sailed from Zhangshui to Ganzhou.
The fleet was traveling in the river and suddenly saw a small town standing on a hill surrounded by a half-circle-shaped river. The guide was summoned to ask.
"The terrain of this town is dangerous, and it chokes Zhang Shui. Is it famous?"
"This is Golden Town. It is said that the name of the town was given by Yang Junsong, a Feng Shui immortal master in the Tang Dynasty. Yang Junsong saw that this town is surrounded by water on three sides and is on the rise of hills. It is the dragon vein of 'Feng Shui Lailong'. Every inch of land An inch of gold, hence the name 'Gold'."
Li Dingguo laughed loudly: "Yang Junsong is wrong. The dragon in Feng Shui does not refer to the dragon of wealth, but the real dragon, the emperor, who oversees the country. Today I swear to be the supervisor of the country and seize this dragon vein."
The one who guarded Huangjin Town was the Southern Jiangxi guerrilla Kong Guozhi. Since the last time he defended Yudu County with 800 men and horsemen, Kong Guozhi had gained a reputation as a "good defender" among the Gan army.
Liu Wuyuan sent him to lead 800 troops and camp here to prevent the Ming army from attacking Jiangxi from the water. Of course, this was just a precaution. Liu Wuyuan did not really believe that the Ming army would come from the water, otherwise he would not have given Kong Guo just 800 troops to rule. Soldiers and horses.
The Ming army went ashore and formed an array. Li Dingguo pretended to attack the town on three sides, but he ordered his general Dou Mingwang to lead a thousand troops and sneak up on the northern hillside to attack the town.
"Kill!"
Jin Tongwu, Wu Zisheng and other Ming generals led their troops to feign an attack.
A group of five people, spread out widely, holding shields and waist knives, bent over to climb the mountain.
"Quickly, put down the rolling logs and stones," Kong Guozhi ordered hurriedly.
"Hulonglong", huge trees and large smooth stones rolled down the hillside.
The Ming army was dispersed, with large gaps, and most of them escaped the rolling logs and rocks. Only a few who were unlucky were unable to dodge and were crushed into meat pies.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!", the Qing army began to fire arrows.
Li Dingguo's men were all veterans of many battles. They hid under rocks or huddled behind shields to avoid arrows.
Kong Guozhi saw that there were not many Ming troops attacking the town, so he felt relieved, thinking that what came was just a scout team of the Ming army.
"Kill!"
Suddenly there was a commotion behind the town, and Dou Mingwang's troops sneaked from the back mountain and rushed into the town.
"Kill!"
Li Dingguo led Jin Tongwu and Wu Zisheng launched the real offensive.
The Qing army was overwhelmed and attacked from two directions, and the Qing army was defeated.
Kong Guozhi tried to escape, but Dou Mingwang arrived and cut him in two with a knife.
After Li Dingguo captured Huangjin Town, he left 500 troops to garrison, and the rest of the troops moved along Zhangshui River and Ganjiang River to the rear of Ganzhou.
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Zhu Hengjia's army passed through the mountains and reached the edge of Gan County, where it was blocked by a high mountain.
Shuiji Deng is the top of Gan County. Liu Wuyuan, governor of southern Ganxi in the Qing Dynasty, led the main force of the Gan army to camp here.
Liu Wuyuan held a telescope and observed the Ming army.
In the camera lens, the Ming army is not only extremely numerous in number, with no end in sight, but also the military formations are arranged in an extremely orderly manner, with orders and prohibitions exuding a murderous spirit.
"I've heard for a long time that the fake King Jing of the Ming Dynasty has a good command of the army and is a real enemy!"
The enemy is not afraid if there are many soldiers, but if there are many and sharp soldiers, it will be very scary.
Liu Wuyuan had doubts about the previously formulated tactic of "fighting quickly and defending the enemy outside the city", and he hesitated to issue military orders to attack.
"Commander, why haven't you ordered the attack yet?"
The Mele Zhangjing glue merchant asked anxiously.
"I observe that the Ming army coming this time is very organized in its advance and retreat, and it is not certain that it will win if it attacks. It is better to defend in the dangerous position of Shuiji Deng."
"Although the Ming army is large, I regard them as nothing more than a chicken with a dog's ears. I am willing to lead the cavalry into the battle and ask the commander to provide my backup."
Since the glue merchants entered Jiangxi, they have killed countless people and have never been defeated. Therefore, they are very arrogant and loudly ask for a fight.
When Liu Wuyuan saw the real Manchurian general asking for a battle, he had to give him face. In addition, he had defeated Jin Shengheng and Li Chengdong many times before, and he was also confident of victory. He ordered the cavalry to charge into the formation, and the infantry then covered them up.
The glue merchants led the four Jiala and six thousand cavalrymen of Manchuria's Zhenghong Banner and Zhengbai Banner and rushed to the front. Gao Jinku, Xian Qiyu, Yang Yuming, Jia Xiong and other generals followed closely with the infantry.
"Da! Da! Da!"
Thousands of fine cavalry rushed towards the Ming army formation, rolling up layers of smoke and dust.
Zhu Hengjia was overjoyed. The most difficult thing for the enemy in Ganzhou was the enemy's cavalry. If Liu Wuyuan used infantry to defend the city and cavalry to harass, Ganzhou would be really difficult to fight.
Now, the enemy's cavalry is so arrogant that only a few thousand of them dare to charge at the formation of our 100,000-strong army. If we don't take the opportunity to eat it, how long will it take?
"Array!"
The command flag was waved, and the vehicle and artillery battalions were arrayed behind the military formation. The sergeants put down the side cars one by one, set up the brackets, and connected them end to end. A "car city" was quickly connected. In the car city, 200 double-box cars were installed.
The modified mobile fort had its cannon set up before the war started.
"The Chinese army retreats," Zhu Hengjia issued the military order on the king's carriage.
The central army of the Ming Army withdrew into Checheng through the reserved entrance.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The cannons on the fort roared, and shells rained into the Qing army.
"咴聿聿!"
The Qing soldiers who were shot were thrown off their backs.
The experienced veterans of the Eight Banners Army crouched on their horses to reduce the damage from shrapnel.
"Ba!"
A war horse collided with the anti-horse gun on the outside of the chariot city. In pain, the rider was thrown off the horse.
"Bang! Bah! Bah", the Ming army gunmen in Checheng began to fire.
The Ming army's firecrackers were very dense, and the bullets flew like flying. The Eight Banners people and their horses were shot and fell to the ground.
A sharp whistling sound sounded, and the Eight Banners soldiers fired arrows into Checheng. Despite the protection of armor, under the dense rain of arrows, soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were shot down one after another.
The people in the front row were fighting on foot. Some carried the cavalry guns from the city and rushed in; some took out their big axes and slashed at the side carriages; some simply tried to get in from the bottom of the carriage.
The Ming army's artillery shells and firecrackers intertwined into barrages, blocking most of the cavalry.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
A small number of Eight Banners soldiers broke into Checheng and fought together with the Ming army infantry who formed a mandarin duck formation in Checheng.
Zhu Hengjia sneered when he saw that the Eight Banners soldiers were blocked by the chariot city, their horses slowed down, and many cavalry dismounted to fight on foot.
A mere few thousand cavalrymen want to break through Gu's 100,000-strong military formation, but they don't know whether to live or die!
"Encirclement on two wings", another military order was issued.
The infantry on both wings of the Ming army slowly charged towards the Eight Banners soldiers, trying to encircle them into the formation.
The glue merchant was covered in cold sweat. The cavalry, which had lost its speed, would be dead once it was surrounded by infantry.
"Mount your horse and retreat!"
?Shang led the Eight Banners troops on horseback, hoping to escape from the encirclement before being surrounded by the Ming army.
Zhu Hengjia in the royal carriage clenched his fists. How could it be so easy to run away?
"Cavalry attacks!"
Through the tea and horse trade, the Ming army obtained a large number of war horses. The Ming army in Checheng moved away their horse guns, and the deputy general of the cavalry camp, Sun Guangwei, led eight thousand cavalry to chase the Eight Banners soldiers and kill them.
"Da da da", the glue merchant fled.
"Da da da", Sun Guangwei chased after him.
"Where to go?"
The two horsemen chased each other closer and closer, and Sun Guangwei swung his long knife. The glue merchant lowered his head to avoid it. The knife did not hit the glue merchant, but hit the head of his horse.
With a mournful cry, the war horse landed with the glue merchant.
Countless war horses galloped over the rubber merchant, turning him into a puddle of flesh.
The defeated troops of the Eight Banners disrupted the infantry formation of the Qing army. The Qing army suffered a huge rout, with numerous casualties and numerous casualties. The Qing army had to retreat to the Shuijideng highlands and defend in danger.