Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 222
"Brothers~! Ahead is Dangyang City. The thief, Prime Minister Liu Dapao, is in the city. According to reports from the detectives, there are less than [-] troops around this thief. He is making great achievements at this time. If he wins this battle, his descendants will continue to live forever. Enjoy the splendor and cheer up!!"

On the battlefield, Tu Hai blushed and had a thick neck, screaming with all his strength, hoping to boost morale.

After the battle ended like this, both Jingzhou and Xiangyang were isolated cities, their morale was low, and supplies were difficult. If it dragged on, even if he commanded [-] troops, he would not be able to fight again.

Xiangyang is okay, after all, there are dangerous mountains and rivers here, and it is unlikely that the Ming army will go to the north of Xiangyang before they break through Xiangyang, but Jingzhou City, it is really surrounded by the Ming army that is almost everywhere. It is almost impossible to even get supplies from Xiangyang. It is really difficult for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city to eat horse chews.

The problem is that it is different from normal siege warfare. Standing on the city wall and looking far away, even a f*cking Mingjun can't see it, but small-scale troops go out of the city and die.

Even simple military rations are enough for a period of time, but how can the soldiers bear the psychological pressure?
In particular, the Ming army has been helping to spread the news that Tianjin, and even the entire Zhili area, has been restored. Tianjin has fallen, and the Forbidden City will be far behind?

These Eight Banners soldiers know better than anyone how empty the capital is now. This Ming army is different from the mob who broke the city before. A completely impossible thing.

If the capital and the whole of Zhili were to fall, the Qing court would almost be able to declare the end.

Not to mention, at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners stationed very few troops abroad, and almost all of them were stationed in the Zhili area and the capital. In other words, the Zhili area was their home. In the hands of the Ming army.

If there happens to be a Ming army outside the city, even if it surrounds Jingzhou City, there will be battles to fight, at least there will be a spiritual sustenance, and even fighting will not care about family or family, the key is that there is none.

The Ming army seems to be everywhere, but they can't see or touch it.

Who can stand this.

Patrols with nothing to do every day, everyone feels a little bit going crazy, and if this continues, Tu Hai is afraid of a camp tsunami one night.

So Tuhai almost bit the bullet and led the whole army out of the city to fight in the field.

Fortunately, because Liu Dapao had scattered all the troops, there were indeed not many Chinese troops left by his side. He had only reported five thousand when he came to visit the horse before. This is really not nonsense.

Theoretically, there should be no contact between Liu Dapao and his corps.

As long as their marching speed is fast enough, it is possible to take down Liu Dapao's headquarters in one fell swoop, or even directly capture or kill Liu Dapao.

This is also the only combat method that Tu Hai can come up with to decipher the tactics of the Ming army after pondering over and over again for more than a month.

However, this is only a theory.

Liu Dapao's style of play is too rogue, the key is to win the hearts of the people, so that they become the offensive side and fall into a civil war.

Not to mention whether Liu Dapao's five thousand elites are good enough to eat, if they can't beat them, won't they leave?
The reason why people chose to set up camp in Dangyang as the headquarters is that this place is about the same distance from Jingzhou and Xiangyang, and it is just in the middle of the two places, so it is more convenient to communicate with the legion below.

But such a headquarters does not have to be in Dangyang.

They can go to the countryside, and they can also go up the mountains, not to mention that they have the advantage of waterways. If Liu Dapao wants to leave, how can he stop him?Wouldn't it be enough for people to continue commanding in another place?
If you catch up, they will leave at the worst. The water system of the Jingxiang generation extends in all directions, and there are only 5000 people. They can't go anywhere in a small boat. You can take them as fools for a walk.

The advantage of cavalry can't be brought into play!

Just slipping around like this for a few laps, Jingzhou City will definitely be lost when they turn back.

In fact, Tuhai was indeed ready to abandon Jingzhou and completely retreat to Xiangyang.

So this time the [-] Qing troops he brought out were all Jingzhou troops, and the [-] main forces in Xiangyang did not move.

But if he really wanted to deal with Liu Dapao's navy, the only way Tu Hai could think of was to kill him.

Theoretically, as long as all the villages and towns along the river of this generation that may be landed and transferred by the Ming army are killed, all of them are burned, and an inland version of the border-moving forbidden river is created, then the Ming army's No matter how powerful the navy master is, it's useless, he can only force him to a head-to-head decisive battle with himself.

As for how many people will be massacred by such a method, it may be hundreds of thousands, or even 100 million, 200 million, then I don't care.

Of course, even so, this battle is extremely difficult to fight. With so many people in the Ming army scattered, the muskets were sent out like they didn't want money. Tu Hai couldn't do it even if he wanted to fortify the wall and clear the field without leaving the city, let alone Said that the border was moved and the river was banned, it could only be that he led a large army to slaughter village by village, killing and looting and burning them all.

This process must be extremely difficult, and it must also involve heavy casualties. His chances of winning are not only low, it can even be said to be extremely low.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if this strategy is successful, then the Ming army will retreat if it is a big deal. Even if he wins the battle, he will have slaughtered half of Hubei, except for Xiangyang City. So what's the point of him winning this battle?
The Ming army can make a comeback at any time after taking a breath.

People's hard power is not weaker than that of the Qing court, and they don't have to fight guerrilla warfare.

Really, if there is no other way, Tu Hai will definitely not make such a bad move.

After making this bad move and coming out of Jingzhou City, Tu Hai found out tragically that he still thought the battle situation was too good.

Even if Liu Dapao was forced to abandon Dangyang and abandon the city, it seemed... not too easy to do.

Because there is a prerequisite for this, that is, their marching speed is fast enough!Let those Ming troops scattered all over the city come to the city before they have time to return to help.

Ordinarily, this should be no problem at all. Jingzhou City is only about [-] miles away from Dangyang County. If it is cavalry, it will take about one day. up.

However, within ten miles of their troops leaving the city, the explorers in front of them encountered black guns. There were people planting landmines along the way, and sometimes the Ming army occupied the hills and fired black guns at them.

These scattered Mingjun, three to five hundred people dared to provoke his [-] army, and ran away after fighting. In order to march in a hurry, Tu Hai had no time to waste with them except for sending cavalry to pursue them.

Because these Ming troops recruited a large number of locals, they are much more familiar with the terrain than their Qing troops. Once the Qing troops chased them, they would either go to the sea or go up the mountain, and sometimes they could even kill them in counterattack. Three or five, he couldn't provoke Tu Hai into a rage, but he was helpless.

He couldn't just order the whole army to stop marching and search the mountains and seas just for the sake of a few hundred Ming troops?

Hurry up!
Sometimes when you meet someone who is not afraid of death, he forgets to maintain his formation while walking. The Ming army ambushed a few flat-firing Mingshen cannons in narrow places on the road.

Of course, in this way the cannon must be dropped.

But is his Qing army still lacking guns?What he lacks is time!
So much so that his marching speed is really getting slower and slower, the closer he is to Dangyang City, the more guerrillas he encounters and the higher the frequency of attacks he receives, walking just like that turtle .

The journey of three hundred miles took more than half a month in a daze.

And there were so many casualties.

8 people came out, and at this time there were only 7 people left.

And in half a month, the Ming army must have heard the news a long time ago. Is it true that there are only five thousand guards around Liu Dapao now?
As for going back, don't even think about it, Jingzhou City must have already changed the king's banner at the top of the city.

Under such circumstances, how could his morale be so high?

So much so that he yelled out his passionate pre-war mobilization lines without even a splash, and the soldiers didn't even want to talk to him.

Everyone's eyes were full of bewilderment.

I don't know if I am out of the city to fight, or out of the city to seek death.

I really can't see, where is there any hope of winning this battle?

(End of this chapter)