Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

296. Offense and defense

"General Rong, Xin Feng Bo led eight thousand recruits from central Jiangxi to Changsha five days ago," said the Hengyong Chengui Road Yamen in Hengzhou Prefecture, which is now the Hunan General Army Mansion. As the Hunan General Army, Mao Hongyan looked solemn He listened to the report of his staff. "The governor of Hunan Province, Rong Ahe, and the magistrate of Changsha, Du Gui, closed the city to the death. Uncle Xinfeng was short of troops, so he led his troops northward to attack Yueyang as soon as they were unable to attack. It seemed that they intended to join forces with Uncle Yueqing first."

"Wang Xinhua wanted to borrow the power of the gunboats of the Yangtze River Navy." Lin Kang, who was next to Mao Hongyan with the rank of first-class staff officer in the General Staff Office of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, immediately pointed out the other party's intentions. "However, if we can lead the troops into Dongting, which is [-] miles away, it will be of great benefit to cut off the connection between the Qing armies in the two lakes."

"But we can't let the enemy of Changsha ignore our army." Feng Hui, who had just been promoted to the command of the Daozhou division capital, believed that the action of Wang Xinhua and Hong Gongzhu's joining forces would cause the Qing army to self-destruct in Baoqing. The two directions of Changsha and Changsha pose a threat to Zheng Jun on the southern line. Fortunately, he is still clear-headed and knows that his side does not have the strength to launch attacks on the two fronts, so he proposed. "Even if it's a bluff, it's better to keep the Qing prisoners from going out of the city."

"Our army is only [-], of which Dongning veterans number only eleven, and counting those who participated in the Battle of Shaoguan and the invasion of southern Hunan, there are only [-] people. Under such circumstances, our army must not be divided anymore." Regarding Feng Hui's proposition, Guiyang Shidu controls ancient music but objected. "The enemy of Changsha is nothing more than the trouble of Moss mustard. Now the key is to attack Baoqing and Yongzhou from the west, and cut off the road for Hunan Qing captives to go south to reinforce Guangxi, so that Uncle Changhua can take advantage of the momentum of capturing Guilin and attack Liuzhou directly. The Qing captives drove to the mountains in the west of Guangxi to shield the west wing of our army."

"Didn't your majesty call in Zhou Zhenghe's Master Zuo Funing?" Feng Hui had her own plans. "It just happened to free up a division to go north." Feng Hui looked around for a while, and when no one responded, she recommended herself. "If the adults don't want to miss the Baoqing battle, then let the Daozhou division go north."

Mao Hongyan, who had been listening for a long time, raised his eyelids at this moment: "There is no joke in the army, how dare you issue a military order?"

Feng Hui said with a light smile: "If you want to take Changsha City, the lower officials still dare not give this guarantee, but if it is just to restrain the Changsha defenders from attacking our troops in the north and south, the lower officials still dare to issue this military order. .”

Mao Hongyan didn't say much, just asked the staff officer at the side to hand over the pen and paper, and Feng Hui accomplished it overnight. After Mao Hongyan took the military order, he didn't look at it too much. He put it aside and ordered Feng Hui: "Go away."

Feng Hui gave a military salute and backed out. Mao Hongyan looked at his back, and then said in a concentrated voice: "Order Zhou Zhenghe to speed up and take over the defense of Chenzhou, Hengzhou and other places within five days. The rest of the divisions will be rectified immediately. Baoqing seized Yongzhou again, and expelled Sang Er to the mountains in western Hunan."

The large-scale changes in the hinterland of China finally reached Tibet through various channels. Dipa Sangye Gyatso, who was ecstatic to inquire about it, immediately sent an envoy to the Zhungeer Ministry, and the envoy arrived in Yili Pali at the end of August in the 33rd year of Kangxi (Ili), and then conferred the title of Cervan Arabutan as the Great Khan of Zhungeer west of the Altai Mountains.After Tibet's mediation, the two uncles and nephews who had turned against each other reached a peace.In the name of the Jungar Khan east of the Altai Mountains, Galdan, who had recovered a little bit, rekindled his ambition to take advantage of the civil strife in China and seize Khalkha Mongolia and Monan Mongolia.

In order to cooperate with Galdan's ambitions, Sangye Gyatso ordered the Yellow Sect lamas lurking in Inner Mongolia and other places to spy on the military intelligence of the Qing court in Gansu and Monan Mongolia.However, these Yellow Sect lamas are not qualified as military spies, so the information that the Zhungeer people are preparing to make a comeback was quickly collected in Kangxi's hands.

Kangxi was very angry that the Zhungeer people were going to take advantage of the fire to rob, but in view of the lessons learned from the Jin Dynasty's death in Mongolia, he did not dare to take it lightly, so on the one hand, the Qing court sent Shangbandi, the Lifan Academy, to Qinghai via Shaanxi and Gansu, The intention was to convey a message of harmony to the Dalai Lama, and on the other hand, it ordered Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi to strengthen the green battalion to prepare for the enemy.

But it was not only the pressure from the Zhungeer people that gave Kangxi a headache. Zheng Kezang's Fuqi, which was deployed in the Northeast a few years ago, has also played an increasingly important role. Facing the Eight Banners cavalry in Shengjing, Jilin and other places Zheng Jun took advantage of the large-scale guerrilla operations in Northeast China, which caused the encircled and suppressed Qing army to repeatedly fail. The wild Jurchens entered the banner (garrison), and then recruited these wild Jurchens to participate in the suppression of Zheng Jun's guerrilla forces in the northeast and went to Horqin and other places to "prepare the border".

"The news came from Zhendong Fort that the Qing Dynasty suddenly stepped up its efforts to suppress the Guanwai branch of the official department. Several cavalry teams of our army thought that the Qing Dynasty had broken through, causing heavy casualties. Some of the rescued people were also killed by the Qing Dynasty. massacre." The officers and soldiers of the Northern Fleet, who were gearing up after receiving the request from the Chief of Staff, finally got the permission of Chu Jin, who is the admiral of the fleet. "In order to cope with the actions of the staff in the Kanto region, the king agreed to the suggestion of the staff office and authorized the fleet to attack Lushunwei and other places." Chu Jin paused. "However, the naval force of this fleet is limited, so this officer has decided."

The weather in September in the Northeast is already very cold, but the coastal area has not yet completely frozen, so Zheng Jun's gunboats were able to push into the bay and bombard the shore very close to the coast first.

In the face of Zheng Jun's artillery fire, the Qing army's several artillery fortresses did not show any weakness, and they desperately spewed hot projectiles, but it is a pity that the Qing army's artillery caliber and range were relatively short, and they only hit the beach on the shore to stir up the fire. A few bursts of sand and mud soaring into the sky could not cause the slightest casualties to the Zheng Jun ships at sea.

Of course, the seemingly harmless artillery fire can also cause damage when the Zheng army lands. For this reason, Tian Chao, the commander of the regiment commanding the battle, shot a feint, taking advantage of the fact that several Qing army artillery fortresses in Jinzhou Bay were attracted by the artillery fire of the Zheng army ship. , the landing troops boarded small boats and successfully landed safely on an unattended beach a little far away.

After more than two hours, thousands of officers and soldiers of the Zheng army and the artillery equipped with them were continuously sent to the land. At the same time, a wooden trestle bridge built by the middle base soldiers was also extending into the sea. Army's attention.However, seeing such a large team appear behind him, the Qing army, which was attacked from the front and back, could only piece together less than half of the troops to respond to the enemy.

When the time had just arrived, more than 500 vests of the Qing army roared towards the Zheng army sailors who had been waiting in line for a long time.Zheng Jun immediately fired artillery, but because the Qing army's horses were faster, Zheng Jun's shelling effect was not very good.Seeing that the Qing army had broken through the [-]-step limit and charged straight ahead, the officers of the Zheng army's troops had no time to order a volley, and dozens of fire dragons that had been eliminated from the Zheng army's land division were fired together under Tian Chao's arrangement.

At this moment, the Qing army was about to shoot a round of bows and arrows, then dismounted and rushed into the formation of Zheng Jun, when they suddenly encountered the baptism of gunpowder arrows flying in all directions, causing chaos immediately---although the gunpowder arrows fired by Zheng Jun may not be able to penetrate the soldiers and horses However, the intense sound and light effects still frightened the mounts of the Qing army. Taking advantage of the chaotic situation of the Qing army, Zheng Jun first used the circle to row the guns, and then launched a decisive assault with the gun array.The Qing army, which had lost its impact, was first beaten to the ground by the bullets that hit the head and covered the face, and then encountered the seemingly continuous barrage of assassinations, and was knocked out all of a sudden.

Although a few brave soldiers of the Eight Banners outside the pass rushed into the gun formation and killed sporadic Zheng army officers and soldiers, but more Qing troops either died in the first battle or fled to the rear in despair and stayed in the artillery barracks to watch the battle. In the astonished eyes of the personnel, they were knocked to the ground one by one by Zheng Jun's shooters.

The guard captain of Jinzhou City, who had lost the ability to counterattack, had to abandon the artillery fortress and retreat to Jinzhou to defend. The Qing army from Zhouzhou, Lushun, Fengcheng, Xiuyan and other places came to help.In view of the fact that the Qing army arrived one after another, Zheng Jun did not take advantage of the trend to attack Jinzhou City, but just destroyed the coastal defense artillery barracks and moved away the shore fire artillery and ammunition supplies.

For Zheng Jun's sudden departure, Wu Deng'e, who didn't know why, didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief. However, just as the Qing army in Xiongyue was fully prepared for Zheng Jun's comeback, the Northern Fleet crossed Niuzhuang and rushed to Jinzhou, and once captured Suizhong. The county seat blocks the connection between the Northeast and Beijing.The vice capital of Jinzhou, who had just woken up from a dream, reported to Liaodong General Chuoketuo at this time, but Chuoketuo, who was born in the clan, had nothing to do about it. ) build up.However, due to snowfall and other reasons shortly afterwards, the Qing army was temporarily unable to recover Suizhong immediately, so that the news inside and outside the pass was interrupted for more than a month.

Kangxi was very annoyed when he received Yuguan Zuo's report that the news outside the customs was interrupted. He immediately ordered Yuguan to attack Jinzhou.At the same time, Chuoketuo, who knew that something was wrong, used Jilin's inability to use troops in winter as an excuse, and hurriedly dispatched troops back to aid Jilin, and then personally supervised the Eight Banners Brigade to attack Jinchuan Mansion against the wind and snow.In view of the fact that the Bohai Bay was frozen and the Qing army was coming again, Tian Chao had no choice but to drive the people in the city to evacuate Suizhong, so in the end Chuoketuo actually took back an empty city

Zheng Jun's actions reminded Kangxi that in order to prevent Zheng Jun from resorting to the trick of landing with the main force again, the Qing court had to garrison more troops on the front line of Tianjin. The Qing court, which was stretched out in terms of military strength, had to use the method of tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and took a large part of the troops to deal with Zhungeer to stay in Gyeonggi. The northern line has also implemented a policy of shrinking and defending!

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