The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 424
When I arrived at Sishi, the sun was already in the sky, and the north bank of Qiantang was full of cicadas and frogs.

"Stand up the flag higher!" Deng Shan shouted to the flag officer, "Straighten your back! Hey, that's right."

He pointed to the two officers who had just boarded the land in a small boat, "Li Shi, Qian Lao Wu, take your men to the north to guard, be smart!"

"Yes!"

The two officers saluted, and one of them was puzzled: "General, we haven't established a firm beach yet, why are we making such a big fuss? This captive is on Dapan Mountain two miles away, if they find out..."

"Yes, just to let them see it. This is called knocking the mountain to shake the tiger." Deng Shan patted him, "Go and set up a whistle."

"Yes!"

In fact, as early as the warship of the Qiantang Navy of the Ming Army released the first landing boat, the captive soldiers on the observation tower on Dapan Mountain had already seen it from a distance, and immediately issued a warning.

It's just that the main forces of the Qing army Huang Ding and Yang Chengzu sent by Hong Chengchou have not yet arrived in Xincheng, and there are only more than 200 defenders here for the time being.

The Jianlu officer who was in charge of guarding Dapan Mountain was also extremely troubled when he heard the news. His duty was to prevent the Ming army from landing, but who knows how many troops came from the other side.

He hesitated again and again, and finally led 80 people carefully down the mountain, to the north bank of Qiantang.

"My lord, it seems that there are only a hundred or so people." Less than a mile from the shore, a Qing soldier climbed on a tree and looked south, "I didn't even set up the refusal horse."

"Oh?" The officer was overjoyed, and thought that if he could drive the Ming army into Qiantang while the Ming army was still standing, it would be a great achievement!
Thinking of this, he immediately drew out his sword, ordered his subordinates to form a team, and then took the lead to rush out.

After running a hundred paces, he saw that there were only a few dozen Ming soldiers scattered on the shore, and he was even more excited, "Kill this group of Ming soldiers, and I will treat you tonight!"

The captive official hadn't finished speaking, but found that the Ming army on the shore had gathered towards the river, and pulled back a large piece of khaki-yellow curtain, exposing the black hole in the muzzle.

He turned pale in shock, and hurriedly waved his hands and shouted, "Get out!"

On the other side, Sun Qi lowered his hand holding the knife and shouted, "Let it go!"

Immediately, more than a dozen four-pound and six-pound guns roared in unison, and the shells roared and rushed towards the Dapanshan Qing army who rushed halfway.

At the same time, there were a few small black dots faintly approaching on the distant surface of the water.The small black dot became bigger and bigger, and it was clearly a group of huge warships.

Luo Mingshou stood on the bow of the Yanping ship - Yanping has been chosen by him as a ship - saw the fleeing Qing army through the binoculars, and muttered: "His Royal Highness is too careful. It is a waste of shells to deal with these thieves and need the help of the navy."

He didn't know that Su Chengyu's purpose was to increase his momentum so as to better attract the attention of the Qing army.

After all, Luo Mingshou still signaled to the lieutenant beside him, "Let's fire a few shots at the captive soldiers on the shore."

"Yes!"

Immediately, with the Yanping as the core, the cannons on more than a dozen large and small warships also began to spit out their anger.

The [-]-pound heavy artillery carried on the Yanping was only fired at a distance of forty steps away from the captive soldiers, but the broken rocks thrown up by it still pierced through the heads of the two captive soldiers.

That team of Qing soldiers was almost suspicious of life - after such a short period of time, almost every two of them could hit one shell on the head!Who is this messing with?
A total of nearly 100 cannons from the infantry and naval divisions aimed at more than [-] people and bombarded them fiercely. The result can be imagined.Only four captive soldiers managed to escape back to Dapan Mountain, and the rest were turned into mud by shells.

After hearing the news, the Qing army who stayed at Dapanshan rushed to Xincheng to call the police.

"What?! Thousands of Ming troops, no fewer than thirty cannons?!" New City guard Hu Feng grabbed the soldier who reported the news, "Can you see clearly?"

"My lord, Wang Shishi and the others saw it clearly," the soldier said with a sad face, "The shells fell like hailstones, and our general Zhao lost his life on the shore. Although we didn't see the Ming army brigade, but With so many cannons, there are at least a thousand people hiding nearby."

The general of the Xincheng Department on the side cupped his hands and said: "My lord, when the enemy's foothold is not stable, hurry up and suppress him!"

"Damn it!" Hu Feng slapped him on the head, "There are more than a thousand soldiers in the city, not enough for thirty cannons to fit between their teeth!

"Send people to Yu Qian's direction quickly, and ask Mr. Huang for help! With his 2-strong Ma Ming Army, it will be no problem."

On the same day, the Huang Ding Department of the Jianlu West Route Army received an urgent report from Xincheng, stating that the army had landed near Dapan Mountain and was about to besiege Xincheng.

Huang Ding was very surprised when he heard the news. According to his pre-conception, the Ming army only had 4 to [-] troops. Facing the pressure of more than [-] soldiers from the Qing Dynasty, they should have shrunk to the south bank in fright and desperately deployed their defenses.Why did they dare to harass the North Shore?
He thought for a while but couldn't figure it out, and then he thought that he was going to Tonglu in the upper reaches of Qiantang, so he asked Yang Chengzu, who was in charge of guarding Fuyang, to send someone to help Dapan Mountain.

Unexpectedly, a few hours later, Yang Chengzu sent his confidant to join the general, saying that Fuyang also found the Ming army landing, and his duty was to go to Fuyang to retreat the enemy first, and he had to ask Huang Zongbing to take care of the Dapanshan Ming army.

Huang Ding didn't think he was disobedient, he could easily deal with the Southern Army along the way.So he ordered his troops to go to Xincheng to meet them first, and then turned to Dapanshan to wipe out the landing enemies.

But when he rushed to Dapan Mountain with [-] troops, he didn't even see a single person.

"Could it be that the Ming army detected my army and fled back to the south bank?"

Huang Ding was puzzled when he heard a guard coming to report, "General, Jinji Mountain defenders are asking for help."

Afterwards, two disheveled riders ran up to them, and when they saw Huang Ding, they burst into tears and told about Jinji Mountain being attacked by thousands of Ming troops.

Huang Ding couldn't help frowning, he thought that this southern army had some guts, they didn't retreat to Xiaoshan, but continued to harass westward.

He hurriedly ordered his troops to continue chasing westward, and arrived at Jinji Mountain after half a day, but he heard that the Ming army had already left after bombarding the camp.

That night, the Qing army from Changshan further west came to Huang Ding for help, saying that the Ming army attacked Changshan again.

Huang Ding was annoyed in his heart, these rats from the Southern Army only knew how to run around, but they didn't dare to confront me head-on!He then recruited Gou Fang, the commander of his own cavalry, and ordered him to lead his [-] Qingqi Xingye to chase the enemy westward, even if they couldn't wipe them out, they still wanted to entangle the Ming army.

"I don't believe you can outrun a horse's hoof!" Huang Ding watched Gou Fang's men and horses leave, and returned to the military tent to sleep contentedly, as if he had heard Gou Fang's words of victory tomorrow.

But this time he guessed wrong again.The more than 2000 cavalry he sent chased until noon the next day without even seeing the Ming army, but news came back that Fengchuan City was attacked by the Ming army.

Huang Ding was furious, and even sent out all the cavalry including his own bodyguards to search for the Ming army from north to west, while he himself led the main force to follow all the way west.

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