national surname chiming

Chapter 374

Although Duduo's plan to sneak across the Yangtze River regardless of the future was definitely sudden, it was still too risky in Zhang Cunren's view.

But neither he nor Wanyan Yechen has the power to dissuade Duoduo, and the final decision-making power still rests with Duoduo.Duoduo wants to gamble on this, and they can only execute it.

After calming down and thinking about it, Zhang Cunren can understand Duduo's excitement-in Duduo's view, if he wins this bet, the benefits will be too considerable!If the city of Nanjing is captured, it can be considered that the whole world has been captured.

Since ancient times when the north and the south were divided into confrontations, the psychological comfort of Nanjing City to the southern regime is too great. If Nanjing City can be defended, half of the southern country will feel hopeful. It's garbage time, it depends.

How many dynasties have changed in history, the southern regime basically won't fight in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, and the victory of Nanjing City is basically equivalent to the complete victory of the land of Wuyue.

Even if there are still separatists in the upper reaches of Jingchu, Bashu, and stubborn resistance, it can only be regarded as a local separatist regime, not a dynasty.

In contrast, even if the bet is lost, the loss is acceptable.

Not to mention that Duoduo was conceited that he would not be so easily hit hard this way, even if he retreated [-] steps, his troops on this way only accounted for more than one-third of his Qing Dynasty's current strength.

In other words, in the worst case of betting and losing, Daqing still has nearly two-thirds of the capital left for the next comeback.If the Ming Dynasty loses, it will directly play the poker table.

Use [-]% of your chips to bet on the opponent's life, why not bet?
……

Three days later, on the twelfth of November, Duduo really waited for a day with a very suitable wind direction.

On this day, most of the time there is no wind, or only a pure northwest wind.This kind of wind direction is very unfavorable for the fleet in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to quickly maneuver to the upper reaches.

Zheng Hongkui's fleet is mainly seaworthy Fuchuan, with a deep draft at the tip and a relatively high freeboard, which is not suitable for paddling to accelerate. After all, ships sailing in the sea rarely use paddling power. , Naturally, the seaworthiness of paddling will not be considered.

After the small-scale confrontation in the past few days, Zheng Hongkui's defense focus has really been placed between Jinshan Temple and Guazhou Ferry, fearing that the Qing army will land at Jinshan Temple first and seize a ferry bridgehead near the south bank of the Yangtze River.

However, Duoduo had already taken advantage of this misleading, and quietly assembled most of the small boats of the Qing army in the upper reaches of Luhe County, Chuzhou, and the ports on both sides of the Chu River in advance.

Chuhe River is a small river in the Jiangbei area on the opposite bank of Nanjing. Its source can be traced back to Luzhou Prefecture (Hefei), but most of the river is located in Chuzhou Prefecture.

The water flow of this small river does not flow through the Huaihe River and Fei River, so the boats brought by Duoduo from the north cannot theoretically enter the Chuhe River directly. They must first enter the Yangtze River from Yangzhou through Hangou, and then go upstream against the north bank of the Yangtze River. , to the mouth of the Chuhe River in Liuhe County, and then turn back to Chuhe Nei from the Yangtze River.

It is precisely because the civil and military officials of the Nanjing court knew this geographical feature, so they were not too wary of the Qing army's fleet coming out of the Chu River, but only focused on the mouth of the Hangou River.

Because among the rivers that flow into the Yangtze River within hundreds of miles nearby, only Hangou leads to the hinterland of the north.

In the past few days, Duoduo has been secretly making small moves like ants moving house, using the hours of darkness every night to let Liu Liangzuo attract Zheng Hongkui's attention in front of Guazhou, and actually let the small boat fleet not use lanterns, and post in the dark Transferring to the north bank, sailing into the mouth of the Chu River before dawn,

After dawn, the naval divisions of the Ming army patrolling the Yangtze River could not see any flaws, and they moved without anyone noticing.

Today, at this very moment, at the point where he could see nothing, Duoduo secretly ambushed the transferred fleet, and finally started to cross the river with all his might!
"Concentrate the main force of the entire army and rush to cross the Yangtze River! Be sure to cross at least 6 or [-] people to the south of the Yangtze River before the Ming army reacts!"

With Duoduo's order, hundreds of boats competed on the Chuhe Wharf on both sides of Liuhe County, and sailed into the Yangtze River in the dark in the middle of the night, heading straight to Huangtiandang and Qixia Mountain in Nanjing on the south bank!

This area is located in the outskirts of Nanjing, and there are a small number of Ming troops stationed there, but there will always be gaps in the night to patrol the river. When the Ming army discovers that the Qing army is breaking through here, it is already impossible to completely stop it.

A battalion of the Ming army on the south bank of the river, belonging to Longtanwei, was originally stationed in the Qixia Temple area at the foot of Qixia Mountain. Facing the landing of the Qing army, the Ming army also tried to resist the enemy at the beachhead. The army returned to the water,
The bows, crossbows and blunderbusses of the Ming army fired at the riverside shoal repeatedly, causing some casualties to the Qing army for a while.

This place is not a place where there is a traditional ferry, so the Qing army could not directly find the wharf trestle to go ashore. They could only drive a small boat to forcibly hit the muddy river beach, and then jump into the river at least waist deep and walk to the shore. The action is very slow.

The stray arrows and lead bullets flying around could kill a few people from time to time, and in a short while there were at least hundreds of corpses of elite Tartar soldiers left on the river beach.Once those soldiers in heavy armor were injured and fell, even if they were only in waist-deep water, they were often dragged down by the armor and couldn't get up, and they fell down and drowned in the river, or they were trampled on each other in the chaos.

On the big boat in Jiangxin, Duoduo observed the progress on the shore with the help of the faint light of the fire just before landing. Don't care about casualties, everything is based on gaining a firm foothold.

Under the landing of the Qing army regardless of casualties, the Ming army quickly showed its decline-the Qing army's landing line became longer and longer, almost involving the nearby river bank of more than ten miles.However, the Ming army has only one battalion here, and it is impossible for the main force in Nanjing to come so quickly.

So a quarter of an hour later, the Ming army only killed more than a thousand elite Qing troops on the river beach in front of Qixia Temple, but they were still successfully landed on a large scale by the Qing troops on the left and right flanks.

As the Qing army gained a firm foothold and surrounded it with two wings, the Ming army quickly collapsed. The Ming army in charge of the Longtan Guard had no choice but to grit their teeth and lead the soldiers back to Qixia Temple to defend against danger.

The Qing army tried it, but it was difficult to go up the mountain because it was dark, and the Qixia Mountain was guarded by the Ming army. A burst of muskets, bows, crossbows, rolling trees, rocks and rocks smashed down wildly. After the Qing army paid hundreds of lives, they had to choose temporarily They besieged Qixia Mountain without attacking it, and only cared about receiving more rear troops to land.

More than an hour after the Qing army landed, this important military situation was sent to the outside of Nanjing by the emergency horse scouts dispatched by the Longtan guard at the first time.

The Nanjing defenders couldn't see the situation clearly at night, so they didn't dare to open the city gate. They put down the basket and hoisted the messenger scouts to the top of the city, and then sent them to meet Shi Kefa to report the military situation.

The guards of Longtan sent more than one messenger. In addition to reporting to Nanjing City, he also sent fast horses to Caishiji further upstream to report the message, so that the Zheng Chenggong Department of Jiang's allied army there would also beware of the Qing army's devious attack across the river. .The messenger on the last route was to go on a fast horse to Jinshan Temple downstream to inform the Jiangfang Counselor Zheng Hongkui there.

Two hours after the Qing army crossed the river, Zheng Chenggong from Caishiji upstream and Zheng Hongkui from Jinshan Temple downstream hurriedly organized troops to board a boat and set off in the middle of the night, encircling Liuhe County and Qixia Mountain from two directions. After sailing for two hours, it was not until the noon of the day that the gap was completely closed.

But in the time difference of more than five hours, the small boats that the Qing army secretly hid in the Chu River had already transported at least two groups of people across the river.

Everything went more smoothly than Duoduo expected. He almost transported the Manchu cavalry under his command to reorganize two banners, and the Mongolian cavalry with two reorganized banners to the south bank of the Yangtze River!There are also Han servants about the size of three Han army flags.

During the whole process, the Qing army also paid a total of thousands of losses-in the process of landing on the beach, the total number of casualties was controlled within 2000, which is only a thousand or a few hundred.

The remaining two to three thousand were produced when they were intercepted by Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong who rushed over. The main reason was that some ships in the rear of the river just happened to be caught, and the last batch of Qing soldiers were attacked halfway and killed directly In the river, even people and boats were destroyed, or jumped to join gangs to fight and kill them all, and even boats were captured.

Hundreds of warships of the Qing army were also annihilated on the river after the uncle and nephew of the Zheng family arrived.

But compared to the total casualties of less than 5000 people, Doduo thinks it is completely cost-effective to be able to cross the Yangtze River with so many elite soldiers.

It doesn't matter that the Nanmanzi has the upper hand in the water battle on the river. He has already crossed the river now, and most of the Hongyi cannons followed the first group of main forces to cross the river, so they didn't suffer too much loss from being intercepted.Now he has cavalry and cannons, Jiangnan is still letting him go!

The only ones left in Yangzhou Jiangbei were the Manchu cavalry with one banner, as the backbone of the rear hub, to ensure that the Huainan field could be restrained, and to prevent the Ming army from counterattacking. It is about a quarter of Duo's total force along the way.

The core combat power of the whole country of the Qing Dynasty is nothing but the Manchu Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Han Eight Banners, plus some new soldiers and servants. This time, Duoduo crossed seven of the 24 banners across the Yangtze River at once. With this strength, even without the need for reinforcements, Jiangnan can be completely messed up!

On the day of crossing the river, Duoduo first concentrated his strength and wiped out the Longtan Guard in Qixia Mountain. The remaining 2000 Ming troops in the guard were indeed unable to withstand the attack of the Qing army, and they were destroyed in less than a day after resisting. After a bloody battle, there were no reinforcements outside, and the last few hundred defeated soldiers had to kneel down and surrender, and they really couldn't be blamed.

They fought for this day, but it allowed the other ministries of the Ming army to react, quickly shrink the front line, and guard the key points. In Nanjing, Shi Kefa and Shen Tingyang also had to urgently hold an imperial military meeting after ascertaining the enemy's situation to discuss urgent countermeasures .

(End of this chapter)