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Chapter 255 Yang Gong: If he crosses the river, I will cross the river too

The next day.

Ming army camp.

Yang Gongzheng was discussing matters with deputy general Wang Zongtan and staff officer Huang Jizhong in the camp.

Huang Jizhong said: "General, although the Qing army is defeated now, our army still cannot take it lightly. I think we should immediately report to Nanjing and ask for reinforcements."

Yang Gong was convinced and said: "Well, please report to me for reinforcements. I have sent a fast horse to Nanjing."

Yang Gong turned to look at Wang Zongtan and said, "Vice General Wang, please pass on the order. The entire army will prepare for war from now on. Also, let's take a look at how many ferries we have."

Counting the ferry?

Wang Zongtan was stunned for a moment, but before he could speak, Yang Gong immediately reached out and pointed at a circle mark on the map.

"Huangdu!?"

Huang Jizhong immediately exclaimed: "Could it be that the general wants to cross the Huaihe River?"

Yang Gong nodded: "Since this Qing dog has come across the Huaihe River to fight, I, the general, should treat you as a courtesy."

The implication is, he crossed the river...he crossed the river, then I will cross the river too.

Huang Jizhong was anxious and quickly advised: "General, no!"

"Why not?"

Yang Gong sneered: "Yesterday in the battle at Huai River Ferry, our army captured and captured tens of thousands of Qing troops. The elites of the northwest of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty are nothing more than that. Now the Qing troops at Huangdu are only 3 in number, so why can't we defeat them?"

yes!Why can't we fight?

In particular, Huang Jizhong is a senior civilian in the military, so he naturally knows more.

The Ming army was able to achieve a complete victory last night, all thanks to the grenade hammer and blooming ammunition of sugar-coated ammunition.

These two epoch-making firearms can almost be regarded as a dimensionality reduction blow against the traditional army of this era.

Regardless of heavy infantry or firecrackers, they are all treated in the same way, highlighting the equality of all living beings.

The Ming army, which had sugar-coated ammunition, could really defeat the Qing army of equal strength.

The Ming army had previously thought too much of these pseudo-Qing northwest frontier troops. They were all flesh and blood.The Sauron soldiers were even a pure cold weapon unit. It was not until the middle period of Yongzheng that they began to be equipped with fire guns, and they were confiscated in Qianlong.

When faced with sugar bombs with astonishing destructive power, even wearing heavy armor is useless!

Cao Di, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army who led the team across the Huaihe River, was killed by a bomb. His body was damaged beyond recognition, but he could still identify it by looking at his armor.

Yang Gong continued: "Moreover, to put it bluntly, if we, the Ming Dynasty, want to truly replace the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, we can only crush the elite of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty with real swords and guns on the frontal battlefield. Only in this way can we truly conquer the world." People’s hearts will surrender to me, the Ming Dynasty.”

Huang Jizhong stopped talking, not because he was convinced, but because he understood that General Yang had made up his mind.

And this is indeed true. The so-called tactics and deceit are all strategies used out of desperation when the strength of the troops is unequal.

When the two armies are equal in strength, the only way to defeat the enemy is to defeat them openly.

Otherwise, if an army only knows how to take advantage of small measures, it will not dare to fight hard battles.Even if you win many games, you won't really win the hearts of the people.

Moreover, luck will always run out one day.

……

Two days had passed since the end of the Huaihe River crossing, and Zhang Wenhuan still could not make up his mind.

It was he who decided against all opinions and decided on the strategy of going south to capture Fengyang.

But now, before even a single step was accomplished, the elite members of the Northwest Green Battalion in hand were lost, and the army was in an embarrassing situation of neither advancing nor retreating.

If he really wants to quit like this, I'm afraid his old bones will be the ones to blame.

But if you don’t retreat, what can you do?

Should we spend another few months building a ferry and have another battle across the Huaihe River?
Not to mention whether he still has the time, the key point is that this method is one-time.But once again, the rebels on the other side are not fools, so how could they be unprepared?

After all, Zhang Wenhuan is a veteran. He has become old and has begun to become mother-in-law and hesitant.

This is a taboo on the battlefield. You will definitely not win if you are indecisive and hesitant.

At night, the moon is dark and the wind is high.

Killing night.

The two Qing soldiers on duty were chatting away.

"After all, Dashuai Zhang is also a member of the township party with us. We brothers have gone through life and death for him. Now we are going to kill him when he comes back."

"Say less! We are defeated after all. Even General Cao Town is on the other side. It's good to be able to come back alive. At least they didn't deduct our military rations."

"Oh, if you really dare to deduct military rations, believe it or not, we will surrender directly to the thieves, no, surrender to the Ming Dynasty?"

"Then, brother, do you want me to help you?" "...No more, I'll squint for a while, and you can help me look at it."

"Um……"

"Huh~"

A ray of cool breeze blew by.

The Qing soldier who was about to squint was all alert. He opened his sleepy eyes and looked at the river symbolically, and then saw many light spots suddenly appearing on the river.

"Uh-huh?"

The Qing soldier was stunned for a moment, and then woke up instantly.

Then, while slapping his colleagues who were already standing and sleeping beside him, he beat the gong and shouted: "The rebels are coming! The rebels are coming! The rebels have crossed the river!"

"Dangdangdang..."

"Dangdangdang..."

As he was beating gongs here, other places soon started beating gongs one after another.

Some were discovered by him when he woke up, and some were discovered on their own initiative. With so many people at the sentinel point, there would always be a few who were not asleep or who happened to take a quick look.

The entire Qing army camp suddenly became noisy and commotion, with shouts of "the rebels have crossed the river" everywhere.

Zhang Wenhuan didn't even have time to put on his armor and hurriedly ran out of the camp under the protection of his own soldiers.

While maintaining order in the camp, Zhang Wenhuan calmly gave orders: "Quick, push out all the red cannons!"

Zhang Wenhuan's army has artillery, and there are quite a lot of them. There are fifteen red cannons alone.

The red-coated cannons were pushed to the fort one after another, and Zhang Wenhuan then ordered: "Load all the cannonballs, ignite and fire!"

However, just like Zhang Wenhuan did before, at night, artillery cannot be said to be useless, but it is also greatly reduced.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery did fire, but the Qing gunners were completely unable to judge whether they had hit the river ferries or not, and how many rounds were hit.

Anyway, on the dark Huaihe River, the light from the torches not only did not decrease, but continued to increase.

According to a rough estimate based on the existing torches, there must be at least hundreds of pseudo-Ming ferries on the river.

This was also due to the disastrous defeat of the Qing army in the previous battle across the river. Not only did the Qing army lose [-] to [-], they even had no time to burn the ferry.

Most of the ferries were left at the river crossing, and all of them were made into wedding dresses for the Ming army.

Zhang Wenhuan's eyes were splitting, and he almost ignored the image of the coach and yelled: "Cao Di, this idiot!"

This puts all the blame for this battle on Cao Di. After all, Cao Di has died in the battle. Even if he did not die in the battle, he would still be a prisoner.

If this responsibility is not thrown on him, should Zhang Wenhuan be asked to shoulder it himself?
"Boom boom boom!"

Seeing that the Qing army's camp began to fire artillery, the Ming army simply stopped installing it and rolled out all the artillery, including ten.

The artillery salvo, although it was also a blind fire, was all aimed at the fire of the Qing army camp on the other side of the river.

Regardless of whether he can hit or not, bluffing is really a bluff.

I saw with my own eyes that a cannonball hit only four or five meters away from me, then bounced several times and collapsed a camp tent.

Zhang Wenhuan, who was protected by his own soldiers, was instantly startled. He quickly ordered the artillery to ignore the ferries on the river and directly turned the muzzle to bombard the Ming army camp on the other side.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery of the two armies immediately fired at each other across the bank. Although the Qing army's artillery was 1.5 times that of the Ming army, this advantage was completely useless at night.

The cannons on both sides were all blind firing. Even if they were not blind firing, God would bless them if they could hit, and it would be normal if they didn't hit.

Without the artillery interception of the Qing army, the Ming army crossing the Huai River quickly landed on the Huangdu beach without any hindrance.

Within a quarter of an hour, thousands of Ming troops gathered on the entire beach. As soon as these Ming troops landed, they quickly assembled in formation amidst noisy orders.

Zhang Wenhuan also noticed it and quickly ordered his army to stop these Ming troops and drive them down the Huai River.

Two thousand mixed regiments from the Green Camp and the Eight Banners fought towards the ferry beach under Zhang Wenhuan's command.

At this time, they no longer cared about whether the Green Camp could fight or not, they had to stop the Ming troops who landed ashore as quickly as possible.

And now that he has the home court advantage, the Ming army may not be able to get an advantage.

The Ming army had all formed up and started to seize the beach positions, but the Qing army was belatedly arriving.

　It's too late for the second update today. The company is sick and I have to work overtime late at night. I will make up for it tomorrow...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)