At this time, the Qing army's Eastern Route Army had already been fully deployed in the Qishui River Basin.
The Qing army's Eastern Route Army started on June 18th. Ahanikan and Liu Zeqing sent troops from Huangmei and Guangji counties respectively. Ahanikan personally led 8,000 troops to advance towards Luotian. The road was five thousand men led by E Shuo, and the right road was seven thousand men led by Liu Zeqing. The three men were about twenty or thirty miles apart, in the shape of an arrow, heading south to north, and advancing into the control area of the merchant army.
Originally, when Liu Zeqing surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he had more than 30,000 troops. He was listened to Wu Sangui's subordinates and basically maintained his own troops. However, when Wu Sangui led his army westward, he left him in Nanjing. In Hong Chengchou, he rectified the army. At that time, the army led by Liu Zeqing was also reduced to 15,000. After attacking Hubei, although Ahanikan had only 5,000 troops, he became the leader of the entire East Road because he was a Manchu. And he also pulled away eight thousand troops from Liu Zeqing's troops. However, Liu Zeqing is now under the low eaves and has to bow his head. Although he is unwilling to do so, he dare not even say a word of no word, so he can only be secretly angry. Hold it in.
It had been five days since the Qing army sent troops. Although they were attacked by merchants along the way, the speed of advancement was very slow, and the daily march was not more than thirty miles, they had approached near Luotian County at this time. Eshuo on the left side had already crossed Xishui and arrived at Songshan, less than twenty miles from Luotianji. Ahanikan's middle army also arrived at Shiqiaopu, the east of Luotian County, and was also close to Xishui. He was preparing to cross Xishui and formed a cross-border attack with the Eshuo tribe against Luotian County, while Liu Zeqing tribe was a little slower and he was still staying in the Tanlin area near Qishui.
At this time, Li Dingguo led his troops to lurk in the mountainous area north of Yingshan County. He happened to be behind Ahanikan. After inquiring about the movements of the Qing army, he immediately led his army out of the mountainous area and headed towards Ahanikan. The troops launched an attack.
In fact, during the advancement, the Qing army has been paying attention to the attacks of the merchant army, because until now, the Qing army has not encountered the main obstacles of the merchant army, nor has it been found that there are signs of large-scale mobilization of the military army. Therefore, every route believes that the main force of the Merchant Army must hide in a certain place and wait for the opportunity to attack. Of course, no one wants to meet the main force of the Merchant Army first.
So when Ahanikan marched, he was always paying attention to the movements of the merchant army to prevent him from being ambushed. But Ahanikan's attention was always focused on the northwest, and he never thought that Li Dingguo had already made such a move. Going around to your back.
Therefore, the Qing army was not prepared for any reason. It was not until the merchant army reached a place only five or six miles away from the Qing army. However, everything was too late at this time. Ahanikan had to order to turn around and fight. Looking for help from E Shuo and Liu Zeqing, I just hoped that it was still time. But the distance between five and six miles was almost ten minutes. Before the Qing army could re-arrange the formation, the merchant army had already held the bayonet. The rifle rushed to kill.
At this time, the strength of the Shangjia Army and the Qing army was almost the same, but the Shangjia Army was the elite of the entire army. Most of the Qing army was the Han army that was surrendered after the Southern Expedition, which was very different. In addition, the Shangjia Army is now preparing for power After a long time, morale was high; but the Qing army rushed to fight, and the spirit of both sides was not on the same level at all. Therefore, although the merchant army took the initiative to attack and chose to fight hand-to-hand, it was still unstoppable, and all kinds of weapons were used at the same distance. The Qing army Being beaten down step by step.
Although Ahanikan commanded the Qing army to fight hard, hoping to persevere until reinforcements arrived, the gap between the two sides was not a little bit, so the battle lasted less than an hour, and the Qing army could no longer withstand it, and the Han army began to lose first.
When he fled, the defeat soon spread to the entire army. Seeing that the situation was not good, Ahani had to order a retreat.
However, although he was defeated by the merchant army, Ahnikan was still unwilling to fail and still hoped to join forces with the Eshuo army and then work together to fight the merchant army. Therefore, he commanded the Qing army to retreat south along the banks of Xishui.
Because E Shuo's troops are on the other side of Xishui, if they can arrive and cross Xishui, they can launch an attack from behind the family army and give the merchant army a front and back attack, and they will also hope to turn defeat into victory. Fortunately, his subordinates still
There are three thousand Manchu and Han flag troops, so they can fight and retreat, and avoid force to maintain the unbeaten defeat of the entire army.
Seeing that although the Qing army was not in chaos, Li Dingguo did not pursue it too much. After the Qing army retreated, he took the initiative to leave the battlefield and retreat to the north.
After more than an hour, the Ejie tribe crossed Xishui and arrived at the battlefield, the merchant army had long disappeared, and the Qing army lost more than 1,800 people in this battle, and more than 500 more.
People were injured.
Although it was defeated in this battle, the Qing army successfully found the position of the main force of the Merchant Army. It now seems that the main force of the Merchant Army is located on the east coast of Xishui, located at the eastern end of the entire battlefield, and is very far from the three counties.
Although I don’t know how the main force of the Merchant Army moved here in the core area, I found that Xing Cong, the main force, was a good opportunity for the Qing army to wait for it for a long time. Therefore, Ahnikan ordered it and was in Xishui.
He also stationed, preventing the merchant army from crossing Xishui again and returning to the central area. He also ordered Liu Zeqing's troops to immediately come to him. At the same time, he hurriedly sent someone to report to Shangshan to rescue and support.
At this time, Shang Shanji, who was in the middle, advanced to a place only fifteen miles away from Macheng. He was stubbornly blocked by the merchants left behind in Macheng and could not move forward for the time being. After receiving the urgent report from Ahnnikan, Shang Shan also thought about it.
You can seize three county towns when the main force of the merchant army is not there, but Shang Shan soon gave up this idea because the merchant army makes good use of firearms, which is conducive to defending the city. Although all the main forces are produced, the three county towns may not be
It can be successfully captured, and the main force of the Merchant Army is outside, which is always a huge threat to the Qing army. Even if three county towns are captured, it will be difficult to defend, and it will also cause the Qing army to disperse its forces.
But he is very good at defeating one by one.
Therefore, Shang Shan also made a decision to recruit other people and immediately rushed to Xishui to gather, preparing to concentrate troops between Xishui and Qishui to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Merchant Army. After that, the main force of the Merchant Army was dispersed.
If you attack three more counties, you will have no worries.
Just as the Qing army was urgently dispatching troops, the Shang army moved to the Qishui River and launched an attack on Liu Ze's Qing army.
At this time, Liu Zeqing had just received the order from Ahanikan. Of course, he did not dare to neglect. He immediately led his army westward to Xishui to meet with Ahanikan. However, when the men walked to Tianqiao, they were attacked by the merchant army.
Ambush. I heard the artillery fire on both sides of the avenue and the shouts of killing the sky. Countless merchant troops rushed towards the Qing army from the jungle on both sides.
Liu Zeqing has no ability to command the troops and fight and retreat. Of course, even if Liu Zeqing has this intention, his soldiers are not strong enough. Because Liu Zeqing's subordinates are all Ming troops from the past, their quality is very poor, although they have passed
After reorganization, the essence has not changed. In addition, there was no supervision from the Qing army along the way, so he was ambushed at the sight, and the opponent was the merchant army, so he dared to fight. Without waiting for Liu Zeqing to give the order, he immediately fled in all directions.
Liu Zeqing was also very clever. When he saw the soldiers running away, he also ran away.
As a result, the Qing army was defeated in this battle, and less than 3,000 people fled. Fortunately, Liu Zeqing ran fast and saved his life by chance. After the defeat, he did not dare to go west directly with Ahanikan.
He joined forces, but went north first and fled to Yingshan County for temporary stationing.
After the Shang army departed to the Eastern Front, it won two battles and destroyed more than 6,000 Qing troops, but its own casualties were less than 300. However, the strength of the Qing army is still very strong, so the situation is still not optimistic. Li Dingguo
The troops were temporarily stationed in Datong Town beside the Shui River, and they discussed the next plan with the generals.
At this moment, Li Dingguo received two consecutive messages, one good and the other bad. The good news was sent from Hangzhou. It turned out that Shang Yi had ordered the Second Army to draw a brigade of troops to reinforce the Hubei War Zone and stay in the future.
Hubei, commanded by Li Dingguo. This news really made everyone excited because the Hubei theater has very shortage of troops. Although this brigade came to Hubei, it could not give the family army an advantage, but it could solve a considerable lack of troops.
The difficulty. In addition, this is also a surprise weapon. If used well, it can play a great role in this battle.
The bad news was sent from Macheng. All the Qing army's troops are now moving towards the eastern front. Obviously, they are planning to concentrate their forces on the eastern front and encircle and annihilate the main force of the merchant army. If you are not careful, maybe the main force will have all
The army was destroyed, and the success or failure may be in a flash. Therefore, Li Yan repeatedly reminded Li Dingguo that he must be extremely careful. If it really doesn't work, he should go back to Macheng County from the same route and make plans after gathering.
This roundabout battle also achieved considerable results.
However, Li Dingguo also knew that returning to Macheng would definitely be a bad idea, because in this way, although this roundabout battle achieved two victories, it had little impact on the entire battle situation. Since all the Qing army's troops were heading towards the east line
If you move over, you can find new fighter opportunities here, win a few more battles, and reverse the situation in Hubei in one fell swoop.
So Li Dingguo also formulated a bold combat plan based on these two news. After hearing Li Dingguo's plan, the generals felt that although this plan was a little risky, there was also a great chance of success, and once it was successful,
You can defeat the attack on the Hubei base in one fell swoop, so it is worth a try. After all, fighting itself is a risky thing.