After the general moved to Nanchang, Zhu Hengjia ordered all civil and military officials to accompany the army except those who stayed behind; he also dispersed the 50,000 new soldiers brought by Ma Jinzhong to supplement the battle losses of various departments; and ordered Li Mingzhong to lead 40,000 troops to guard the Nanchang expedition.
Now; lead an army of 200,000 to Jiujiang.
Seeing that the other troops were tired from long battles, he added a lot of new soldiers and needed to be retrained. However, Guangxi soldiers and Guizhou soldiers had just arrived and were at their peak of vigor, so he ordered Guo Xiong and Pi Xiong to be the left and right vanguards and march straight to Jiujiang. p>
"The pearls in the east are so bright that you can buy a big king's head with a thousand gold." The battle at Maozhushan destroyed the morale of the Ming army and broke the backbone of the Qing army.
Tunqi led the remaining 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners to join the 20,000 Green Battalion troops of the Qing Jiangxi Governor Cai Shiying who stayed in Jiujiang, and the Poyang Lake Navy Yang Guanglie and Lin Guangyuan's 10,000 naval divisions. Their strength barely reached 60,000, but their morale was at a loss.
Neither.
Seeing the dejected look of his subordinates, Tun Qi knew that Jiujiang could not be defended. He was a veteran general who had experienced hundreds of battles. He would retreat when he saw something was wrong. As fast as the wind, he withdrew across the mouth of Nanhu in one breath, preparing to follow Poyang Lake.
And keep.
Zhu Hengjia's army was unstoppable all the way, without encountering resistance, and successively captured De'an County, Zhuxi Town, Xingzi City, Qingshan Town, Ruichang County, and Dehua County of Jiujiang Prefecture without any bloodshed.
"Huh? Where are those arrogant Eight Banners gone?"
Along the way, there was not a single soldier. Even the government of Jiujiang was won without fighting. Zhu Hengjia asked the generals strangely.
"The Qing captives were afraid of the power of the country's troops and had fled in all directions." All the generals congratulated Zhu Hengjia in unison.
"Hahaha", Zhu Hengjia looked up to the sky and laughed, "Why are there less than ten thousand Jurchens and they are invincible? Why not let them lose their helmets and armor when they are killed alone, like a dog that has lost its family".
"Jianguo, generals, since ancient times, arrogant soldiers will be defeated. Isn't the reason why Nikan was defeated because he was careless and underestimated the enemy? You must not be careless," Zheng Feng advised.
Zhu Hengjia blushed and said seriously: "What Zheng Qing said is true. You must not be proud and underestimate the enemy."
"Yes!"
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At the village at the mouth of Poyang Lake, Tun Qi called Yang Guanglie and Lin Guangyuan with a pleasant look. Now that the morale of the land army was declining, he had no choice but to bet on the navy.
"Both generals, whether or not Hukou can be defended depends entirely on the two generals."
"Don't worry, Mr. Beile, we will fight to the last ship and soldier, and we will live and die together with Hukou." The second general clapped his chest loudly.
"Okay, if we can defend Hukou, the imperial court will not hesitate to confer the title of Hou Bo."
After inspecting the water village, Tun Qi went to inspect the Hukou Fort and Dagushan Fort.
This Dagushan has one end high and one low. From a distance, it looks like a giant shoe floating in the blue waves, so it is also called Shoe Mountain. It is a small island in Poyang Lake. It is not big, with a circumference of only a few hundred feet and no height.
It is tens of feet (90 meters) long, but it is extremely dangerous, with three cliffs on three sides, and only the northwest corner can anchor a boat.
Tunqi was a general. Seeing that this place was very dangerous, he built a fort here.
However, although Dagushan is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is difficult to escape once the army is defeated. Therefore, the precious Eight Banners warriors must not be sent to garrison. The hard work of guarding the fort naturally fell to Cai Shiying's Green Camp soldiers.
Tunqi asked Cai Shiying to select elite soldiers and strong generals to defend the island. Cai Shiying planned to let guerrilla Ma Sihan defend the island. Unexpectedly, when Ma Sihan heard this, he actually started crying and said that he had an old man above him and a young man below him. He really couldn't die and he was filial.
Cai Shiying received a large sum of money. Cai Shiying had no choice but to force General Chen De to lead 3,000 soldiers to defend the island. He also promised in sweet words that Dagushan would be defended and a deputy general would not be able to escape.
While Tunqi was inspecting the Hukou military camp, Zhu Hengjia also inspected the mouth of Nanhu. Seeing the sky above and below, which was a vast expanse of blue, he suddenly said: "Although the Tatar land army is dead, the navy is still there. I'm afraid it won't be easy to get to Hukou!" Sun Jinding suggested: "Why don't the Jianguo bypass Poyang Lake and capture Raozhou and Guangxin from Fuzhou?"
Zhu Hengjia thought for a while and said: "The detour is too time-consuming. Soldiers need to be quick. If we don't take advantage of the enemy's new defeat and capture Nanjing quickly, when the Tatar reinforcements arrive, Nanjing will be difficult to fight."
"Jianguo, the warships of our navy are similar to those of the Qing army. When the two armies meet, the brave will win. This can inspire the soldiers to bravely cross the lake," Liu Maoxia said.
Zhu Hengjia nodded. There was nothing fancy about this battle. It was fought in an upright and upright manner.
Zheng Feng smiled and said: "In the supervision of the country, the water channel at Nanhuzui is narrow. It is not necessary to use naval warships to cross the lake. Civilian ships, small boats, and bamboo rafts can be used. Fifty thousand infantry can be dispatched at one time to cross the river, with naval cover. So many
Even the Tatar navy cannot defend against the ship."
Zhu Hengjia was furious, "What Zheng Qing said is absolutely true, but 50,000 people may not be enough. Gu decided to send 150,000 people in three batches, each batch of 50,000 across the lake. If there are not enough boats, we will build bamboo rafts. So many
People have to fill it with human lives, and they have to fill the lake mouth, and they have to cross the lake quickly."
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On October 23, the 24th year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty, the Battle of Hukou began.
Wang Guoxi, Long Haiyang, Wu Zongxiu led 30,000 Guangxi soldiers, Pi Xiong, and Wu Bangxian led 20,000 Guizhou soldiers, rowing various boats and bamboo rafts directly to the mouth of the lake.
Zhou Jintang, Li Changrong, and Zhou Quanbin led 10,000 naval divisions to guard the perimeter. Their mission was to block the Qing navy and cover their own land divisions as they crossed the lake.
"Set the sails and attack!"
Hearing that the Ming army had begun to land, Yang Guanglie, the commander-in-chief of the Poyang Lake Navy of the Qing army, and Lin Guangyuan, the deputy general, boarded the ship to attack.
Fairy Lingbo travels late at night,
The lost fairy shoes floated on the water.
The years have not changed with the mausoleum and valley,
Become a pillar and block the flow.
The Ming and Qing sides each had more than 200 warships and more than 10,000 naval troops. However, the hundreds of heavy cannons on the Dagushan fort of the Qing army posed a great threat to the Ming army.
"Boom!"
A Ming army clipper was shattered by the red cannon on the fort.
"In the main town, the Tatar fort is too fierce. How about moving the fleet back three miles to avoid the heavy artillery on the fort," Li Changrong suggested to Zhou Jintang.
Zhou Jintang was furious: "Retreat? How to retreat? Once we retreat, the infantry brothers behind will be in danger. Even if we finish fighting the navy, we still have to stay here. If you are afraid, retreat first. I don't need it here."
Coward!"
Li Changrong's eyes were red with shame and anger, "The last general will lead the people to carry the Tatar fort." After saying this, he led a thousand people and twenty ships to attack the Dagushan fort.
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"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The fort was raining shells, but Li Changrong was not afraid. After losing two ships, he finally entered the blind spot of the fort. However, he found that the island was surrounded by cliffs on three sides. After going around in a circle, he finally found a landing point in the northwest corner. p>
Li Changrong led 600 naval troops ashore and attacked the fort on the mountain. Unexpectedly, there were three thousand defenders on the fort, and the location was advantageous. Two hundred soldiers were injured or killed, but they could not take the fort.
Li Changrong had no choice but to quickly order to return to the ship and withdraw from Dagushan.
Qing Army Staff General Chen De on the fort saw Li Changrong's flag, "Quick, aim at that ship and give me a hard blast!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
One shell broke off the mast, and another one dug a big hole in the deck??
Li Changrong's boat sank after being hit by dozens of bullets.
"Brother Li", Zhou Jintang burst into tears when he saw Li Changrong's ship sinking.
The Ming navy made huge sacrifices, blocking the Qing navy and covering the infantry landing.
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The first batch consisted of 50,000 people. From Nanhuzui to Hukou, the lake was full of boats and bamboo rafts.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The barrels of the Qing army's cannons on the Hukou fort were already red, and they had sunk countless ships and bamboo rafts, but they could not withstand the large number of Ming soldiers and could not kill them.
Ming general Wu Zongxiu led more than a thousand Guangxi troops to land. They hurriedly formed a formation and rushed to the Qing army's beachhead, but a trench blocked the way.
"Quick, lift the thick plank," Wu Zongxiu ordered.
In this battle, in order to deal with the Qing army's trenches, the Ming army prepared a lot of thick wooden boards seven feet wide and three feet long. When encountering the trenches, they would directly lay them down to pass over them.
When Gushan Ezhen Alashan saw Wu Zongxiu, he stepped on the wooden plank and came over to kill him. He took off his recurved bow and shot Wu Zongxiu down with one arrow.
The commander-in-chief at the back, Wang Guoxi, was furious. His Guangxi soldiers arrived late and did not catch up with the battle at Maozhushan. He was holding back his energy to make military exploits. Unexpectedly, as soon as the battle started, the general was defeated.
Wang Guoxi held the shield in his left hand and the sword in his right hand, and he attacked Alashan. Alashan fought with the sword. "Bang", Wang Guoxi threw out the shield with his left hand, and hit Alashan with the sword in the waist. While he was stunned, he killed him with the sword in his right hand.
Cut into two pieces.
After killing the Alashan tribe, Wang Guoxi seized the beachhead.
At the Ming Army Camp in Nanhuzui, Zhu Hengjia saw that his army had succeeded in seizing the beach and ordered the entire army to land.
Liu Wenxiu, Bai Wenxuan, Zhao Yong, Gao Minggui, Ma Jinzhong and other generals have landed.
As soon as the Ming army landed, the morale of the Qing army, which was already low, immediately collapsed.
Guerrilla Ma Sihan abandoned his position and ran away with his troops. Kuang Guogong Pixiong and his troops were in hot pursuit. The old general was seventy-one years old and in excellent health. In another time and space, he lived to be eighty-four and still rebelled.
Qing Dynasty, was captured by Wu Sangui and died on hunger strike. Like the Guangxi soldiers, Pixiong's Guizhou soldiers did not catch up with the Battle of Maozhushan, and were robbed of the first landing by the Guangxi soldiers, causing a fire.
He caught up with Ma Sihan and was about to cut him off with a sword. Unexpectedly, Ma Sihan knelt down on the ground and said, "I will surrender!"
Pi Xiong was stunned and gave Ma Sihan a riding crop. "Bah, you are useless trash. Cut off your pigtails and kneel aside. Don't block the way of the army."
The army was defeated like a mountain. Tunqi, Zakana, Yild, and Cai Shiying led more than 20,000 remaining soldiers and fled to Raozhou Prefecture.
The battle on the water was also over. When Yang Guanglie and Lin Guangyuan saw that the Ming army had crossed the river, they did not dare to fight and led the navy to withdraw to Bazinaogang, Raozhou Prefecture.
There is only one island left, a lonely island.
On Dagushan Island, Chen De and his three thousand green battalion soldiers were alone. Chen De also wanted to escape, but several small boats he had hidden in the northwest corner were completely burned by Li Changrong when he attacked the mountain. He had to be trapped.
The fort has become a turtle in a urn.
Thinking of the tragic death of Li Changrong, Zhou Jintang's eyes turned red, and he led the navy to surround the Dagushan Fort.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The two sides exchanged fire, and the Ming army began to land from the northwest corner.
"Vice General Chen, our army has been defeated. We are alone. There is no point in continuing to hold on. We might as well surrender." All his subordinates have lost their fighting spirit.
Chen De sighed, "As long as the Ming army is willing to spare our lives, they can surrender."
Seeing the envoy sent by Chen De to ask for surrender, Zhou Jintang sneered and agreed.
The Ming army boarded the fort and controlled the surrender. Zhou Jintang called Chen De, "Are you Chen De?"
"It is the guilty general".
"Now that you know you are guilty, what are you doing alive? Drag him down, tie him with stones and sink him into the lake."
Chen De refused to accept, "I have surrendered, why kill me?"
"Kill to pay for life, debt to pay for money. You kill my handsome brother, I will kill you to take revenge, it is only natural and right."
Several Ming soldiers restrained Chen De, tied him with stones, sank him into Poyang Lake, and fed him with fish and shrimp.
Jiang Qi, the governor of the capital town, secretly reported the matter to Zhu Hengjia, "Supervising the country, Navy Commander Zhou Jintang violated military discipline and killed the surrendered general Chen De without permission."
Zhu Hengjia was silent for a long time, then suddenly sighed, "Jiang Qing, you have never reported this matter to me, and I have never heard of it. Do you understand?"