Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 91 Counterattack
"Report, Mr. Zongzhen, there is a rebellion in the east, about a thousand people, under the banner of the Sizhou Volunteer Camp, about two miles away from us, they are arrogantly provoking!"

In Zhujiazhuang, a Tang Ma came to report.

Li Yuchun stared at the map with a stern expression. After hearing the news, he picked up a piece of silver and put it on the map to the east of Zhujiazhuang.

At this time, around the gold ingot that represented Zhujiazhuang on the map, there were already more than a dozen pieces of silver, one big piece of silver representing a thousand rebels, and one small piece of silver representing about five hundred.

In all directions, there are more than a dozen pieces of silver surrounding the gold ingot. After a rough calculation, there are at least tens of thousands of people gathered outside, and the number is still increasing.

The banners of Yangzhou Camp, Sizhou Camp, Nanjing Camp, Hangzhou Camp, Jiaxing Camp and even the damn Yongwei Camp, Banner Bearer Camp, and Yulin Camp all came out.

"Which rebel army is it?"

Li Yuchun didn't dare to fight easily, because of his previous carelessness, he had more than 8000 horses, and more than 4000 were eaten in one day. The opponent showed a strong ability to wipe out the enemy, which made Li Yuchun dare not fight easily.

He was knocked out of half of the troops, and he didn't even figure out who the other party was, but he just turned hard on Zhujiazhuang. He lost dozens of people and forced them into the Zhuangzi. Kill it cleanly.

Then he huddled in the village and dared not come out.

All the way along the road, Ma Qingqi went out to explore the road, and sent many messengers to Hangzhou for help. Li Yuchun was very afraid of death and cautious, which made the accompanying Manchurians laugh at him, but he still tried his best to persuade the Manchurians not to attack easily.

Li Yuchun was afraid that the little capital in his hand would be lost here. The enemy's situation is unknown, so he would take the risk to attack. It would be no good if he won. If he lost, then Li Yuchun would be finished. Will the Tartars still pay attention to the surrendered general of his subordinates?

If you are lucky, you may end up with an empty title and become a cold official, but if you are unlucky, the Tartars may directly attack him and use his head to vent their anger.

So go to the fucking Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, saving your strength is the most important thing.

"Report!"

"Report to the army, the puppet bandits are here to provoke again!"

Li Yuchun stared at the map without raising his head, "Don't worry about it."

"But they sent a set of women's clothes and a letter of challenge."

"Hmph, didn't they watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms too much, and thought that a set of women's clothes would be tricked by this town and be irritated?"

Li Yuchun sneered, "The more they are like this, the less this town should fight."

A group of officers in the hall looked at each other, and they couldn't hold back anymore.

"Everyone, the enemy is dark and we are clear, be careful."

"Junmen, these hypocritical thieves are too arrogant. They don't take us seriously at all. They must be taught a lesson."

Li Yuchun glared at the guard coldly, "Lesson? Who taught whom? In one day, more than 4000 people were killed, and more than a dozen battalion heads were eaten up and wiped out. There is not even a scum left. You should be conscious of teaching the lesson." Others? Our parents, who have been taught by others, can't recognize them."

"That's a treacherous sneak attack by the Pseudo-Ming bandit army. We are working together now, with strong soldiers and horses, especially with five hundred full cavalry. No matter how many Puppet Ming bandit troops are, they will definitely not be able to stop us."

"Fuck your mother!" Li Yuchun angrily grabbed a piece of silver and threw it in his face, "I fought from Sizhou to Yangzhou, from Yangzhou to Nanjing, and from Nanjing to Hangzhou. I just gathered up these few thousand troops and got a deputy chief soldier of Xie Town. Recently, I managed to recruit thousands of new recruits. Seeing that when Haining is taken back, maybe I can be promoted to the chief soldier of a town. You motherfuckers Reckless and arrogant, you cut half of my capital to enter, and now you dare to underestimate the enemy, do you think it's not your turn yet?"

"What about the challenge?"

Tang Qi hurriedly delivered it.

Li Yuchun took it apart and looked at it twice, but he couldn't read all the words, so he angrily threw it to the scholar who was trusted by his subordinates.

"Read to Lao Tzu."

Xiucai hurriedly read the letter.

"The Great Ming ordered the admirals to supervise the local military affairs of the Jiangnan provinces, the Minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of the Zuoqian capital, Shaobao, the general of the town, and Zhu Wu, the commander-in-chief of the standard-bearer battalion!"

Hearing this long list of titles, Li Yuchun was stunned.

"Where did this Zhu Wu come from? Have you heard of this person?"

"No." Everyone shook their heads.

The scholar shook his wits, "This person has a general in his title, and his surname is Zhu. He should belong to the clan of the Ming Dynasty, and he should be the son of a county king."

The son of the Prince of Ming Dynasty is appointed as the King of the County, the son of the Prince of the County is named the General of Zhenguo, followed by the General of Fuguo, and then there are Lieutenants of Zhenguo, Lieutenant of Fuguo and Lieutenant of Fengguo. Lieutenant Feng Guo is always different from ordinary people.

The sons of the county king conferred the title of general of the town, with a yearly salary of [-] shimi.

After all, Li Yuchun was once a general of the Ming Dynasty, from an official to a general, how could he not know this, he glared at this sour scholar, and almost gave him a piece of silver.

"Would I know that the son of the county king is the general of the town? I am asking who has heard of this Zhu Wu?"

"I've never heard of it, but judging by his title of admiral in the south of the Yangtze River, he seems to have a lot of background. Could it be that he is the son of the false Yiyang king in Chongming?"

"How old is King Yiyang, and how old can his son be? Besides, the false King Yiyang has assumed the title of Jianguo, and his son must be named prince and county king. How can he be the general of the country?" Li Yuchun scolded.

"I heard that there is also a prison country in the east of Zhejiang. It was originally the king of Lu. Could it be the son of the king of Lu?"

"The prince's sons are all county kings, how could they be Jian Guo? And when I was in Sizhou, I heard about the Lu king, but in his 20s, his eldest and third sons were not involved in the war in Yanzhou. There is only a young second son around, how old do you think a baby can come here to be the admiral of Jiangnan?"

"Maybe Lu Jianguo's brother?"

"Brother, the whole family of King Lu died when the city of Yanzhou was destroyed, otherwise it would be Zhu Yihai's turn to be King Lu?"

"Perhaps he is the brother of the false King Yiyang?" Another person said, "The false King Yiyang was originally the king of the Zhou Fan County. It is normal for him to have brothers or nephews who are the generals of the country."

The Jiangnan admiral Zhu Wu who appeared out of nowhere really made them a little confused.

In particular, this person wiped out more than 4000 of them as soon as he came, which is extraordinary.

Li Yuchun pinched his chin and meditated, burning, killing and looting like a tiger, but this guy was very timid when he actually fought. I think he was also born in the Yongwei Battalion back then. He was a general of Huang Degong's Hutou Battalion. passed.

But since he surrendered to captives, he has completely changed himself. He has become afraid of death, afraid to fight, and he will never face head-on. Preserving his strength is the top priority.

"What nonsense, Admiral Jiangnan, bah, you bastard who hides his head and hides his face, don't bother."

"Then we just do nothing?"

"Idle with food and drink, isn't it good, do you have to go out to die?"

After being scolded by Li Yuchun, those generals also put out the idea of ​​those arrogant and hypocritical bandits. Yes, it's midsummer in June, the sun is so bright outside, why go out and hide in Zhujiazhuang Wouldn't it be nice to live in the cool?

Those newly snatched women haven't gotten tired of it yet.

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"I didn't expect this Li thief to be so afraid of death, what a fucking coward!"

"Didn't it mean that the Tartars have always been arrogant, how can they learn from Li Thief and be a coward?"

"Your Highness, what shall we do now?"

On the surface of Mahu Lake not far from Zhujiazhuang, a boat was parked under the shade of trees by the lake, and Zhu Yihai was having a battle meeting with the officers of each battalion.

Zhujiazhuang is located to the east of Haiyan and north of Ganpu.

The terrain here is a typical Jiangnan water town, with lakes, swings, ponds, ponds, rivers, ditches, and canals everywhere, and the names of the surrounding villages can also be reflected, such as Hujiayan, Xindang Village, Zhaojiaqiao, Xujiawan, Wangjiagou , Yuehe Village, Chenjiabang, Liujiaxu, Xujiahui, Zhaojiazui, Hulutan, etc.

The water network is vertical and horizontal, and the ditches are densely covered.

There is a river for three miles, a lake for five miles, and a swing for eight miles. There are ponds everywhere.

At this time in June, the water level is full.

It was precisely because of this that Zhu Yihai dared to summon all the battalions to encircle Zhujiazhuang. Although the Tartars had [-] cavalry, the cavalry did not have much use in this place. There were rivers and ponds everywhere. Boat bamboo rafts are very convenient here.

"Since the Tartars dare not come out, shall we storm Zhujiazhuang?" a battalion officer asked.

If Li Yuchun was provoked and pursued, then the Ming army could take advantage of the location of the water town to cut and encircle the Tartars, and then destroy them one by one.

But now Li Yuthief is very cautious, huddling in a group and hiding in Zhujiazhuang, which is not easy to fight.

About one mile to the east of Zhujiazhuang is the lake called Nandang. It is very common in Jiangnan water towns. It refers to a lake with a large area but extremely shallow water, which is equivalent to a large pond.

More than two miles to the west of Zhujiazhuang, there is a long river.

This is a drainage canal, but it has been in disrepair for a long time and is seriously silted up. When the rainy season comes, the long river turns into a long lake.

Nanhudang and Changhudang are filled with ocean during the wet season, and become rivers in the dry season. The two rivers meet not far north of Zhujiazhuang.

Therefore, the geographical location of Zhujiazhuang is actually quite special. It is equivalent to being on a delta flat land surrounded by rivers and lakes on three sides. This kind of terrain is undoubtedly easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Tartar cavalry's pursuit is not very effective, but if they put on heavy armor and fight on foot in the plain outside the village, they are still very fierce.

Plans don't always keep up with changes.

Zhu Yihai's original plan was to use Haining as a bait to quietly ambush Li Yuchun who came to attack halfway, but this guy insisted on going to Tongxiang to rob.

Zhu Yihai acted accordingly, first quietly dispersed the troops in the countryside, beat up a wave of local tyrants, made some noise, and deliberately lured snakes out of their holes to lure him south.

The frivolous Li Yuchun was ruthlessly ambushed by Zhu Yihai segment by segment, killing most of them.

But after this defeat, this guy couldn't shrink back. He neither went to Haining nor ignored the Ming army's provocation. He put on a posture that a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.

Now that the situation has been discovered, Zhu Yihai is faced with a choice, whether to stop at the end and retreat after winning the victory, or to take advantage of Li Yuchun's loss of troops and generals, to beat the dog in the water and wipe out his thousands of troops.

Go, a little unwilling, fight, it's not easy to fight.

Zhu Yihai wanted to fight mobile warfare, and he didn't want to confront them head-on too soon. The essence of mobile warfare is to get active, look for opportunities, and try to fight as much as possible, or even engage in ambushes and surprise attacks.

Zhu Yihai is still not willing to fight a frontal battle of [-] against [-].

"Your Highness, there is a river ditch from Nanhudang to the southeast Zhuangkou of Zhujiazhuang. Although the water is not deep, the water surface is very wide, and small boats and rafts can be driven. I think this is a breakthrough." Zhang Mingzhen's admiral Ruan Jin said, "There are many ships in our Northern Expedition, both sea ships and river ships that can pass through inland rivers. We can remove the cannons from sea ships and install them on river ships, and arrive at Zhu's house directly from the river. Zhuangnan, bombard them."

"Then use the boats to carry archers and musketeers to shoot from long distances, and cover our infantry attacking with spearmen and sword shieldmen. In this way, the five hundred cavalrymen who are the most powerful bandit Li will not be able to threaten our rear. "

"Even we can take advantage of the fact that Zhujiazhuang is surrounded by water on all sides, and use boats to send soldiers ashore from all sides and surround them."

Zhu Yihai heard that the key point of Ruan Jin's words was that Zhujiazhuang was surrounded by water on all sides. It was not only surrounded by water, but also a prison wall to trap Thief Li.

It is also an active offensive route. Zhu Yihai has the advantage of boats and ships, so he can mobilize troops and horses through the rivers and lakes on all sides. Although Li Thief is on the shore, he can also use soldiers to block him, but Zhu Yihai is alive and can use it. Water and boats, quickly change the direction of attack, etc.

This kind of opportunity to change the army formation is very rare. In many cases, after a big battle is fought, it is very difficult to change the army formation, let alone change the main attack direction at any time.

But now this favorable location allows Zhu Yihai and the others to have this condition.

Through the water conservancy of these four rivers and lakes, Zhu Yihai's men and horses can change formations and adjust the direction of attack at any time, and the maneuverability of the boats and boats in the rivers and lakes is fast, even by no means weaker than the Tartar cavalry, especially when they change directions on the water, Even the Tartars can't stop them from adjusting the deployment of troops.

The only remaining question.

This battle was no better than any previous one, the enemy was four thousand puppet troops and five hundred Tartars, all equipped, and even occupied a village, Zhu Yihai's [-] vs.

Although there are still tens of thousands of horses on the periphery, those are only useful for cleaning the battlefield after the war, and they can't be counted on during the war.

Can Zhu Yihai's 1 people defeat these 500 people head-on?
If it can, how much will it cost in terms of casualties? Is it worthwhile?

This is a very headache.

In his heart, Zhu Yihai didn't want to fight this tough battle, because he felt that although Li Yuchun's puppet army was average in strength, the five hundred Tartars alone were not to be underestimated.

They wiped out more than 4000 puppet troops before, but that was an ambush in sections, and they were defeated one by one. Now they are fighting hard, which is completely different.

Reason told him that maybe he should give up this plan and think of a safer way, or simply give up swallowing these enemies.

But Zhu Yihai was not reconciled. He needed victory, a victory that was exciting enough, not a small victory like beating a few local tyrants, killing a few bandits, and destroying a small group of Tartar scout cavalry.

The opportunity in front of you is rare, and it is difficult to miss it again.

"Hou Fu, what do you think?" Zhu Yihai asked Zhang Mingzhen.

"I think our army has the prestige of a new victory, and its morale is high, while the newly defeated army of the Tartars is shrinking in fear. In terms of morale, we will crush them, and our military strength is more than twice that of theirs. There are tens of thousands of us on the periphery. Help. Besides, the geographical advantage here is good for us, not good for the cavalry. Moreover, the strategy offered by General Ruan just now has added a lot of victories to us. In this battle, our army will surely win, but the Tartars will surely lose. Please fight! "

"What about casualties, how many casualties will our army pay?" Zhu Yihai asked again.

"Your Highness, there is no one who is immortal in a war. Soldiers of my generation are not afraid of dying in battle and returning them wrapped in horse leather. As long as we can win, it is worth fighting, and we can fight!" Zhang Mingzhen said boldly.

Surrounded by water on all sides, it has the advantages of boat masters and the convenience of mobilization.Ships carrying archers and guns will benefit from long-range attacks, and they will not be afraid of captive cavalry attacking the rear.

The infantry is covered by artillery and guns, but they are not afraid of the attack of captive cavalry, and they are not afraid of fighting recklessly with the pseudo-Tartars.

What's more, the number of the enemy is more than twice that of the enemy, and there are tens of thousands of people on the periphery, who can also assist and supplement at any time.

As for the casualties and sacrifices, neither Zhang Mingzhen nor Shen Chenquan paid much attention to them. After all, there is no one who is undead in a war. As long as you can win in the end, you can fight.

"Your Highness, let's fight!"

"Let's fight, the opportunity is rare, it's hard to surround them here, how willing is not to destroy them."

"If you miss this opportunity, it will be very difficult to have it again next time."

All the generals join in the battle.

Zhu Yihai stared at the map, the situation was constantly changing and developing, it was unrealistic for you to train troops in the rear and wait for an elite army to be trained before going to war.

Guerrilla guerrilla, if you don't fight, you will become a bandit.

"Okay, fight!" Zhu Yihai waved his fist and shouted.

Dongfengchun, war drums beating, who is afraid of who is fighting against the sky and the earth!

(End of this chapter)