The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 470 Darkness Chen Cang
Yu Yongshou was taken aback for a moment, "General, Lord Baylor let General Bu cut off his heir..."

Zhang Tianlu rolled his eyes at him, and made some arrangements in a low voice. Yu Yongshou was even more surprised, "General, this is a violation of military orders! What if Luke Dehun sues you to the Ninth Prince..."

"What are you afraid of?" Zhang Tianlu said disdainfully, "I'm under Hong Dutang's tent, why does he, Le Kede, send me?

"Military order? Huh, the military order I received was to rush back to Nanjing to encircle the Ming army. According to Luck Dehun's dilating now, he might have been escaped by the Southern army.

"Besides, for the security along the river, you can bring two or three thousand people. I don't think I missed Luck Dehun's military affairs. He can't pick a thorn."

Although Zhang Tianlu was only the commander-in-chief of Huizhou, the soldiers and horses in Wucai, Chizhou and other places were under his control, and Yu Yongshou and Bu Congshan were all under his command.

"This..." Yu Yongshou wanted to persuade him again, but he knew that Zongbing Zhang said that he was afraid of misunderstanding Hongdutang's military situation. "This subordinate will go to the rear army to deliver the order."

As soon as Bu Congshan heard Zhang Tianlu's military order, he knew that he was going to claim meritorious service, so he moved very quickly, and he led two thousand cavalry to the north of Zhenjiang before Yinshi.

Zhang Tianlu had already ordered [-] infantry, only took two days of rations with him, and left all his luggage behind. After Bu Congshan arrived, he rushed to Nanjing overnight.

When the two armies converged, Bu Congshan cautiously asked Zhang Tianlu, "General, this place is very close to the Ming army in Jiangning. Do you want to send cavalry to investigate carefully in front of the army to prevent the enemy from ambush?"

Zhang Tianlu whipped his horsewhip indifferently, "Don't worry about leaving! Last night, Luck Dehun's scouts just returned and said that there were earth fortresses and archery towers everywhere under the city of Nanjing. The soldiers came in and out, and the main force was still in Nanjing.

"I sent another person to explore the Jurong area at dusk, but there was no trace of the Ming army. In fact, there is a flat river between here and Nanjing. Where can I lay an ambush?"

Bu Congshan nodded when he heard the words, if the main force of the Ming army was still under the city of Nanjing, and they had explored carefully, then this journey should be very safe, so he stopped talking, flattered his horse and galloped away after Zhang Tianlu.

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Near Yinshan, which is nearly 2000 miles south of Jurong County, nearly [-] troops from the Longwei Army and the Polu Camp are waiting with bated breath.They had come here from Nanjing half a day ago. At this time, the "main force" of the Ming army under the city of Nanjing was actually only the engineer battalion of the Dragon Guards and some cavalry, with a total of less than [-] people.

However, in the Ming army barracks, torches enough to illuminate 3 people were lit, and many dummies were erected in Ming army uniforms, and some scarecrows were randomly placed in the tents.In the dim sky, only the shadows of the Ming Army camp could be seen from a distance, plus two thousand left behind soldiers walking back and forth between the camps, it was also a camp with tens of thousands of troops stationed.

Jianlu's scouts saw that there were siege equipment and earth barriers everywhere outside the city, and heard the continuous sound of cannons, so they didn't dare to get too close at all. Therefore, the two groups of people returned with certainty that the main force of the army was still under the city. .

It was near dusk, two hussars galloped to the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and shouted to Zhu Linmi, "Report! Tens of thousands of captives have camped seven miles northeast of Jurong, and the camp stretches for nearly four miles!"

"It's finally here!" Zhu Linmi smiled when she heard the words, "Qili, although it's a bit far away, it should be enough to launch a surprise attack before the captives react."

He immediately said to Zhang Jiayu: "Send an order, implement the 'A' plan, and march towards Jurong!"

"Yes!"

The main force of the Ming army had already made preparations, and when the military order was issued, the entire team immediately moved.

All the infantry dismounted and walked.The cavalry is equipped with only one horse, and the cannon is also carried by the least number of horses. All the horses are wrapped with thick cloth.The luggage was simply thrown outside Nanjing and never brought.

In this way, the tens of thousands of troops were all controlled by torches, the Polu battalion gathered in the middle, and the Dragon Guards walked on the two wings to ensure that the formation would not be scattered.

Although they were advancing in the dark, the speed of the Ming army was not slow.

Needless to say, the Dragon Guards had sneaked past Shifu's garrison at night and advanced into Xianxia Pass when they invaded Fujing in Boluonan.The two military academies of Ming Dynasty have repeatedly practiced the course of night marching, and the recruits are no problem.

Only the veterans of the Polu camp had urgently added night marches in recent days, but there were "experienced hands" on the front, back, left, and right sides to take care of them and to assist them with knots, so there was no problem.

The distance from Yinshan to Jurong is very flat, which further reduces the difficulty of the Ming army's march.Only two and a half hours later, the army had arrived in the south of Jurong City.

According to the plan, the south gate of Jurong City was closed for repairs yesterday due to a "broken gate shaft".At this time, the 3 horses of the Dragon Guards and the Polu Camp shrank to the south of the city, using the three-mile-long city wall as a cover.At the same time, a large number of detectives disguised as woodcutters and fishermen spread out within a few miles northeast of the city, monitoring the movements of the Qing army at any time.

This is Zhu Linmei's Jurong ambush strategy.

There is no shelter near Jurong, and it is absolutely impossible to ambush here without being discovered by Jianlu.But Zhu Linmei thought of setting up a false appearance to give Jianlu an illusion, and used the time difference to secretly hide Chen Cang, and finally achieved the effect of an ambush.

The reason for choosing Jurong County is that it is only [-] miles away from Nanjing, and the Ming army can reach it in less than a day from the city.

The second is that Jurong County can be regarded as the only "shelter" that can hide [-] troops within a hundred miles.At the same time, the nearest post road from Zhenjiang to Nanjing does not pass through Jurong County, but passes through three miles north of the city.In this way, the Ming army could attack suddenly from near the county seat, and quickly cut off the Qing army passing by from the north, achieving the effect of an ambush.

After choosing the location, it was how to deceive Luc Dehun.

The specific approach was the result of brainstorming at the staff meeting—first use the "war sudden project" and the method of erecting a large number of torches in the battalion to create the illusion that the main force of the Ming army was still under the city of Nanjing.Because it is very close to Jurong, it only needs to be able to paralyze Jianlu for less than a day, and there is basically no risk of being exposed.

When it was detected that the main force of the Qing army had arrived in Zhenjiang, the Longwei Army and Polu left Nanjing immediately, and made a circle from the south to the vicinity of Yinshan on the south side of Jurong to wait for the opportunity.After Jianlu explored the area around Jurong County, the Ming army set off for the ambush overnight.

At this time, Jianlu firmly believed that the Ming army was still outside Nanjing, and had just explored the seemingly unobstructed Jurong County. How could he have imagined that the Ming army had already used the time of night to ambush heavy soldiers under their noses.

The next day, as soon as the main force of Jianlu pulled out of the battalion and walked a few miles forward, they would be cut in two by the Ming army waiting in the south of Jurong City from the flanks without any precautions!
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