Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 460 Pocket Formation! (Please vote for me, please subscribe)

"Won!"

"Finally rushed forward!"

All the Qing soldiers around Kangxi cheered!

Kangxi was stunned at first, then looked in disbelief, then rubbed his eyes vigorously, then tremblingly raised a monocular telescope and looked at the top of Hujia Mountain again and again.

Only a group of Eight Banners new troops wearing blue mandarin jackets and hats were seen rushing to the top of the mountain, and a large national flag, the triangular yellow dragon flag, was planted on the top of Hujia Mountain.

Really won?The Ming army, which had fought so bravely just now, actually retreated!
It seems that the previous waves of offensives have also exhausted them!Kangxi said in his heart: My Qing heavenly soldiers are indeed good again!
Thinking of this, Kangxi loudly ordered to his left and right: "Follow me up the mountain. I want to see how the mountain tops built by my good man through hard battle are so impregnable!"

"Whoo!"

When Kangxi, surrounded by a group of Nanshu ministers, imperial ministers, bodyguards, and bodyguards, climbed to the heights of the escort mountain that the Qing army had conquered at great cost, and when he looked down, he felt that his eyes were turning black - he was exhausted. , and also very excited!
The battle was so fierce that it far exceeded his expectations. When he climbed up the Hujia Mountain and approached the trench line of the Ming army, Kangxi saw densely packed corpses, almost all of which belonged to the Qing army wearing blue linen coats. The total number of corpses (the Ming army took away the corpses of their colleagues when they retreated) was probably between one and two thousand!
And the victory came so suddenly.Just when the Qing army attacked in waves, causing heavy casualties and making it difficult to sustain, the Ming army's Hu Yifang Corps actually gave up their trench positions.

Moreover, Hu Yiqiang's troops obviously suffered a lot of losses, so that after giving up Hujia Mountain, they no longer had the strength to pick another hilltop among the series of hills in the southeast direction of Hujia Mountain.

In addition, they did not retreat southwest to the Jiehe River to join forces with the defeated Ming army that had fled there. Instead, they completely gave up resistance and retreated all the way to the east toward Yishan. No matter how resolutely they defended before, they could now run away. How fast!
It goes without saying that their casualties must have been quite heavy.
Emperor Kangxi, who was already on the verge of survival, suddenly became mentally alert after he was sure that he had won a key victory.I immediately decided to keep up the good work and continue betting.

So he first mobilized the left wing of the Zhengbai Banner and firmly occupied Huojia Mountain and several nearby hills. He also learned from the Ming army, dug trenches, and built shooting positions to ensure the safety of the army's flanks.

Subsequently, Kangxi ordered the right-wing cavalry of Zhengbai Banner (Kangxi's Eight Banners New Army had a lot of cavalry, almost left-wing cavalry, right-wing infantry, plus directly subordinate artillery, heavy equipment, etc.) to move westward and set up a warning net along the Baima River. And he himself led the new Xianghuang Banner army to station in Zouxian County.

As for the remaining new army with five flags of white, two blue and two red, under the command of the five ministers of Nanshufang, including Laita, Feyanggu, Malji, Langtan and Pengchun, they marched from Qufu together. The [-] Qing troops commanded by Jieshu who came out of the city (five thousand were left to guard Qufu) pushed forward towards the boundary river in the south.

This boundary river and the Baima River are both tributaries of Dushan Lake at the junction of Jining Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture, located east of the Grand Canal (close to the Grand Canal).If we advance downstream along the Baima River and the Boundary River, we will cut off several key north-south roads to the east of the Universiade!

If the [-] Qing troops on this route achieve their goal, Kangxi's army will cut behind the two Ming troops who are attacking Jining Prefecture City and Ziyang, the capital county of Yanzhou, and cut off their main retreat!
This move is the legendary interspersed and surrounded!

Kangxi's skills in using troops were getting better and better. Not only did he learn to line up and shoot, he also mastered the more advanced method of interspersed and surrounded!

Now that we know how to intersperse and surround, we should try to avoid the tough battle of lining up and shooting as much as possible. That way we can save a lot of deaths.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer serious Manchus. If the consumption continues, the tail of Han warlords like Yang Qilong will rise higher and higher, and he may really become Yang Jian's second!

In addition, Kangxi also planned to carve up Wu and Zhou with him after defeating Li Zhongshan, and divide the world into three parts: the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned seemingly difficult goals, Kangxi must defeat Li Zhongshan and at the same time preserve Manchuria's strength as much as possible.If all the last bits of essence in Manchuria were spent, he would no longer care about Wu Zhou. Even his family, no, probably his own life, might not be able to save it!

After thinking clearly about the key here, Emperor Kangxi made up his mind to risk everything and use the method of interspersed encirclement to get behind the Ming army and defeat Li Zhongshan's Northern Expeditionary Army at a relatively small cost.

In order to achieve his goal, Kangxi would really have to fight. If he didn't seize the opportunity to fight, it would be hard to say where the powerful people in Zhili and Shanshan would be when the tens of thousands of Ming troops who had detoured rushed to the gates of Beijing.

And in this stud, he won again as expected!

The main force of the Fourth Army of the Ming Army under Hu Yiqiang, who had been forced back by the Qing army before, while Hu Yiqiang abandoned guarding Jishan, also accelerated the pace of retreat south of the Jiehe River.There were only a small number of musketeers equipped with flintlocks and rifled muskets in the rear. Although their marksmanship was quite accurate, the musketeers would also launch attacks with sabers from time to time.But the Qing army was too numerous. As many as [-]!

Moreover, the Qing army also had a large number of cavalry, which quickly dispersed the small number of Ming army rear troops.

The Ming army was defeated in a hurry. Not only did they discard a large amount of baggage, especially precious military rations, they even blew up the sky cannons used to attack the city and the explosive shells used by the sky cannons!

As these siege weapons were blown up, huge fireballs rose up one after another on the battlefield at dusk!

The Ming army who retreated in panic also made an incredibly stupid mistake - after they withdrew across the pontoon bridge on the boundary river, they actually forgot to set the bridge on fire!As a result, Jie Shu's Eight Banners soldiers who spoke with a Shandong accent rushed across the border river in a surprise attack!

Now the morale of the Qing army is even stronger!
When night fell on the fifth day of October, the Qing army's shouts of killing filled the night sky, and the sound of gunfire and cannons and the sound of horse hooves also continued to the sky.

Throughout the night, the battlefield from Zouxian to the Beisha River (also a tributary of Dushan Lake) south of the boundary river was filled with an inexplicable frenzy. By the second half of the night, the Qing army had broken through the shallow water and could ford it. The Beisha River rushed all the way to the Jinggou River south of the Beisha River (also a tributary of Dushan Lake), and was finally repulsed by the Ming army who deployed defense lines along the river with flintlocks and cannons.

The Fourth Army of the Ming Army was indeed defeated miserably this time. It retreated from the Yi River south of Qufu City to the Jinggou River south of Zouxian County. Not only was the boundary river not guarded, but the Beisha River was also lost!But their casualties and captures were minimal.

As the sky gradually grew brighter, the Qing troops who began to stabilize the front and clean the battlefield found that although they had picked up a lot of rags abandoned by the Ming army (most of which were destroyed and burned alive), they could not hand over a few Ming troops. His head was not able to hand over a few prisoners of the Ming army, so it was a bit difficult to repay his merits!

And it's not easy for them to kill good people and take credit. The Ming army all had buns.But now the battlefield is in the Qing Dynasty, and ordinary people are not allowed to shave their heads and keep their braids. Even if they are caught and their heads are cut off, there is no way to report it!
They all had bald heads. Even if they said they were from the Ming army, Kangxi couldn't believe it. Kangxi was not stupid!
As for the Ming army and the Qing army that took all the corpses away when they retreated, both the Ming and Qing armies had this rule, but that could only be done when there was an organized retreat!

The Ming army retreated so quickly that they were completely defeated. How could they still evacuate with the corpses of their comrades on their backs?Isn’t this level of organization too high?So organized, why retreat?Can't we organize a resistance?

Could this be a scam?

By the morning of the sixth day of October, although many Qing generals felt that something was wrong, no one wanted to believe that they had finally won the battle. In the end, the enemy had faked defeat in order to lure them in!
This is too shocking!
Kangxi, who was in high spirits at this time, had just taken a nap and was walking in Zouxian County with his arms behind his back, looking left and right around a map table. He always felt that something was wrong!
Oh, it looks like his army just created a long salient!

Why does this look a bit like a pocket array?
Just when Kangxi thought of this, Li Guangdi's voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Your Majesty, Prince Kang sent someone to report that the flag of Ming Dynasty General Li Zhongshan has appeared on the south bank of Jinggou River!"

Kangxi was surprised: "Li Zhongshan is here? Why so fast?" He paused: "Is there any news from Jining Prefecture? Is there any news from Ziyang?"

Li Guangdi shook his head: "No. There has been no news from Jining Prefecture and Ziyang for two days. They may have been surrounded by the Ming army."

"Siege?" Kangxi frowned, "The Ming army there wouldn't be unaware of the fighting in Qufu and Zouxian, right? They're not far apart. Their way back is almost cut off, so they still want to besiege the city?"

There must be something wrong with this!

Li Guangdi asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to send two teams of cavalry to investigate?"

"Send! We must send!" Kangxi said, "Send someone to send a message to Prince Kang and Laita to let them put some cavalry to guard the south bank of Beisha River, and at the same time rely on Beisha River and Jiehe River to fortify!"

"Whoo!"

When Kangxi sent cavalry to Jining Prefecture and Ziyang, the first county of Yanzhou, on the wall of the fortress of Jining Prefecture, Chang Ning, Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty, was holding an autographed letter sent by his beloved sister-in-law and stared blankly at it. He led the cavalry he sent into the Ming army's camp outside the city.
That's right, his cavalry is entering the Ming army's camp!Because there was no one there for a long time, the Ming army left a brightly lit empty camp last night, and then quietly slipped away!
Tens of thousands of troops escaped under the nose of Chang Ning's command!
This is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is where did they slip away?
A whole legion, four divisions, a total of [-] Ming troops. It would be fine if they ran out of food and retreated. If not, where would they go?
"Your Majesty," Wang Jinbaozhan, the fierce general who originally followed Zhang Yong, is now Chang Ning's deputy. He is worshiped as the admiral of Shandong and is leading thousands of Shandong green battalion new troops to join Chang Ning in Jining Prefecture. At this time, he suddenly thought of something and said to him a little anxiously. Chang Ning said, "Should the Ming army attack Dongping Prefecture? Dongping Prefecture is empty."

"No, it won't, right?" Chang Ning said no, but the expression on his face was one of fear and worry.

There is a sister-in-law Yang Xiaomi in Dongping Prefecture. And Yang Xiaomi’s brother Yang Qilong led [-] troops to Beijing to help the king!Zhang Yong, the nine-door admiral who guards Beijing, was promoted by Empress Yang!
So assisting Youjun with my sister-in-law seems to be the best choice.
"You must not make any mistakes in Dongping Prefecture!" Wang Jinbao was also promoted by Yang Xiaomi, otherwise Yang Xiaomi would not have written to him, "The fortress in Dongping Prefecture is stronger than that in Jining Prefecture! And there are still some It contains hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and hundreds of thousands of bundles of horse grass. Once it falls into the hands of the Ming army, it will ruin everything!"

Chang Ning couldn't hold back his anger now. The Ming army might not go to Dongping Prefecture for Yang Xiaomi, but Dongping Prefecture's hundreds of thousands of shi of grain would definitely be attractive to them. That would be enough for 80 Ming troops to feed themselves for several months. of!
With the food from Dongping Prefecture, Li Zhongshan might go straight to Beijing after defeating Kangxi.
Thinking of this, Chang Ning loudly ordered: "Pass this king's order, the whole army will set off and move to Dongping Prefecture!"

"Whoo!"

At the same moment, Bahai in Ziyang City, the capital of Yanzhou, also discovered that the Ming army outside the city had left!

However, he did not hesitate like Chang Ning, but decided to go to Queen Yang at the first opportunity.

Of course, this old man didn't have any ill thoughts about Emperor Kangxi's wife, but all his savings from being an official for many years were stored in Ruixin Tang!
And he has been a figure in Chang Ning's circle these years.

Bahai, who has been playing politics for half his life, certainly knows that once Chang Ning and Queen Yang fall, he will definitely not get any good results.

So now no matter what, I have to get together with Queen Yang, Chang Ning, and Yang Qilong.

Moreover, Dongping Prefecture really cannot afford to lose it!

As for whether Kangxi is alive or dead... let the ancestors, Buddha and Changsheng Heaven bless him!
The behavior of Chang Ning and Ba Hai, two loyal kings and loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, undoubtedly gave their Emperor Kangxi a small blow!
Because Li Zhongxian's command of the Second Army of the Ming Army, which had previously been stationed in Anning under the city of Jining Prefecture, did not attack Dongping Prefecture.

It was impossible for Li Zhongshan and Li Zhongxian to know that Queen Yang had sent away all the Qing troops guarding the city (Suo'etu tribe), and then they were there alone to carry out the empty city strategy.Therefore, Li Zhongshan would not think that Li Zhongxian's troops could capture Dongping Prefecture quickly.

And now there is a more important target than Dongpingzhou and Queen Yang - Emperor Kangxi himself and the main force of the Qing army led by him!
The "pocket array" that Kangxi discovered on the map was actually carefully arranged by Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang!

But they didn't expect that such a pocket array could actually contain Kangxi.

They only temporarily modified the "Pocket Formation Plan" after Kong Shenggong sent someone to report that the Qing army's brigade came from Qufu.

At that time, they only planned to wipe out 50 to [-] Qing troops, take Qufu in their hands, and finally get [-] million shi of grain from Kong Shenggong.

In this way, the cause of the Northern Expedition will be stable!

But no one expected that Emperor Kangxi would lead nearly 10 Qing troops and rush over!
Isn't this just sending someone's head thousands of miles away, with less courtesy than more affection?

How could such a nice pockmarked head not be chopped off with a knife?
To eliminate Kangxi, the two legions prepared by Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang, totaling 10 troops, were not enough.

10 vs. 10... There is no generational difference in the weapons of the two sides now, and the Qing army still has an overwhelming advantage in the number of cavalry!
It is not easy for the Ming army to win. If they want to win an annihilating victory... they have to add more troops!
Fortunately, Jining Prefecture and Ziyang are not far from Qufu and Zouxian County, that is, they are tens to hundreds of miles away, and they can be reached in a short time.

Therefore, Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang immediately adjusted their deployment.

At the same time, Hu Yiqiang worked hard to lure the enemy and lure Emperor Kangxi into the trap as much as possible.

On the other side, Li Zhongxian and Chang Wei were asked to withdraw from Jining Prefecture and Ziyang City.Then they moved to the north and east of Baima River and Qufu respectively, striving to defeat Kangxi with four legions of 20 troops!
At the same time, the handwritten letter sent by Yang Xiaomi to Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong finally arrived at Tianjin Acropolis.

In the past few days, Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong were waiting for Yang Xiaomi's reply while quietly watching the great games of the Ming, Qing and Zhou Dynasties. At the same time, they also contacted Zhang Yong, the nine-door admiral, and got an astonishing news from Zhang Yong. The news is that Kangxi actually left a back-up in Beijing!
The old Queen Mother Bu Mu Butai guards Prince Baoqing (son of Yang Xiaomi) and controls [-] Horqin cavalry.

Although not all of these [-] cavalry are in Beijing, they are not too far away.As long as the old queen mother gives an order, these cavalry will march into Beijing!
In addition, there are still some Eight Banners soldiers in Beijing. Although the number is not too large, they can still guard the Forbidden City until the Horqin cavalry arrives.

In addition, Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong also received news that tens of thousands of Ming troops were driving towards Beijing from Damingfu!

This is the serious Ming Dynasty King Master... The closer they get to Beijing, the more enthusiastic the people here in Beizhili will be to welcome the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, Yang Qilong, Zhao Liangdong, Shi Lang, and Zheng Desheng were all a little hesitant.

At this moment, Yang Xiaomi's personal letter urging them to go to Beijing arrived!
(End of this chapter)