Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 252 The First Eastern Expedition ([-])

When Zhang Chengwu received the battle reports from the fourth and fifth columns, another day passed.The fourth column wiped out thousands of enemies, and most of them were captured.The fifth column wiped out more than [-] enemies, killed less than a few hundred, fled more than a thousand, and the remaining [-] were captured.The exploits of these two columns can be described as illustrious, firmly controlling the situation in Changshu and Kunshan.It's just that Zhang Chengwu is always worried, and always feels that the situation of the battle will change.

"Kill!"

"Come on!"

"All members of the regiment follow me!"

"Kill the Tartars! Revenge for revenge, revenge for grievances!"

Zhang Chengwu's ears were filled with these messy voices, and his heart was extremely irritated.This was his first battle in charge of the Third Battalion, and he couldn't afford to suffer.It's just that the more Zhang Chengwu thought about it, the city of Suzhou couldn't be defeated.Shelling, hole attack, blasting, psychological warfare, ant-attached siege, and so on.Zhang Chengwu used all kinds of tricks, but the city just couldn't be taken down.

In fact, Zhang Chengwu was impatient. In this era, it is normal to fight a siege for a few months or even a year or two. It has only been more than half a month and he is anxious. How can it be so easy?And at this moment, Tu Guobin has no way out, so he can only stick to Suzhou.In order to defend Suzhou, he hoarded enough grain and salt to last for more than a year, enough wood to make a fire for cooking, and enough weapons and gunpowder for tens of thousands of people.This city defense battle is difficult as long as there are many people who are not afraid of death. If the city wall is strong and the commander is effective, it will be even more difficult to fight.

Therefore, Zhang Chengwu could only continue to send troops to the city.Fortunately, Qiu Tianxing didn't interfere much with the front line command.For the army, Qiu Tianxing is only responsible for the grand strategy and control ability, marching and fighting is the job of the frontline generals, and then Qiu Tianxing will be in charge of logistics.

The third battalion in the siege of the city suffered a lot of losses, especially those rookies who suffered heavy losses. Seventy percent of the more than 1 casualties were rookies.After the original 5 army sent out two columns and added these casualties, there are only more than 5 people still under the city of Suzhou.Although the Tartars in the city suffered heavy losses, they were able to maintain a strength of [-] troops because of the continuous training of regiments, which put a lot of pressure on Zhang Chengwu.

Seeing that the fourth and fifth columns had controlled the situation in Changshu and Kunshan, Zhang Chengwu ordered the two columns to search the entire county, provide the army with money, food, vehicles, and strong men, and then command most of the troops and supplies back to the third battalion. camp.Money, food, and vehicles are urgently needed at the moment. The supply of food in the enemy’s territory can reduce the logistics consumption and reduce the burden on the people under the security regiment. It can also reduce the enemy’s strength. After all, the city of Suzhou has not yet been conquered. Although two counties can be conquered, it will be difficult to protect Suzhou The government battle situation will not be repeated.As for the strong men, it was because Zhang Chengwu's men were not strong enough, so the transportation couldn't be wasted in vain, and it was better to use the strong men like the rest of the army.

After receiving Zhang Chengwu's order, Yu Yonghe and Chen Di began to search the entire county, even the only food left by the people.Of course, it is not good for the security team to come forward in this kind of thing, so those captured but not yet dismissed regiment training officials came in handy. Mission accomplished.After all, these people are experts, and they are good at such things as food collection, and in the face of these old faces, the common people are habitually obedient.

After getting supplies and most of the troops of the two columns returned to the camp, Zhang Chengwu's strength recovered a little.So Zhang Chengwu prepared to dig two more tunnels, and this time he must blow up the city wall.

Just when Zhang Chengwu was sharpening his sword and preparing to attack Suzhou City, a large army came from more than a hundred miles to the south, and the commander of this large army was the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chen Jin.

After the Tazi court received the Tu Guobin's request for help, they believed that protecting Suzhou was to put strong pressure on the bandits on the eastern front, so this Suzhou still had to be saved.Although he has the idea of ​​giving up Jiangnan, if he doesn't implement it for a day, Jiangnan still has to be scruples.Don't give up until you reach the corrupted and irreparable situation.So the Tazi court ordered Chen Jin, governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, to send troops to rescue Suzhou.

At this time, Zhejiang is also full of wars, and there is no fighting every day.After several battles between the two sides, the Canming Lu King has now retreated to the Ningbo, Taizhou and Wenzhou prefectures in the coastal areas.The remaining eight prefectures of Huzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Yanzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Quzhou, and Chuzhou in Zhejiang are controlled by the Tartars.Although Chen Jin was caught off guard by King Lu's troops in the early days, and local gentry in various prefectures raised troops to meet King Lu, but when Chen Jin led his army back to help, he killed several groups of gentry who supported Ming fiercely, and then several After defeating King Lu's army for the first time, the situation slowly turned to the Tartars.

Of course, this does not mean that Chen Jin has the power to wipe out King Lu's troops, but the strength of both sides has begun to tilt. King Lu's troops are compressed in three mansions, and their financial resources, material resources and manpower are weaker than Chen Jin's.Now that the two sides are fighting again and again, Shaoxing Mansion, Jinhua Mansion, Chuzhou Mansion and Ningbo Mansion, Taizhou Mansion, and Wenzhou Mansion, the six mansions that are in the warring places, have almost been beaten into a blank area.The thieves came to grab food and money and set fire to the house, and Kou Lai did the same to kill the good and pretend to be meritorious.The people at the junction of the forces of King Lu and Chen Jin can no longer tell who is a thief and who is a bandit. Perhaps to them, both parties are bandits.

So, in this kind of exhilaration of you coming and me killing each other, the people in the borderlands fled full of grief and hatred, from west to east, and of course the most people fled south to Fujian, but Fujian It is not peaceful at this time, and the two forces are also attacking endlessly, interpreting the story of Zhejiang.

Just when Chen Jin eroded King Lu's territory little by little, consumed King Lu's strength little by little, and was about to kill King Lu slowly, the imperial edict came down.Although the power of the imperial court in Jiangnan was declining day by day, Chen Jin still did not dare to disobey the imperial court's will, so he put down his offensive against King Lu.

On the third day after receiving the imperial edict, Chen Jin left the admiral Tian Xiong in Zhejiang to command [-] troops to stay in the various provinces in Zhejiang, and then personally commanded [-] troops to rescue Jiangnan again.In this way, King Lu's regime gained another respite.After helping the security team last time and reducing the pressure on the security team.This time the security team also relieved the pressure on the Lu Wang regime, and the two sides cooperated inadvertently.

When Chen Jin led the army to Huzhou Prefecture, he dispatched Pingnan General Jin Li from Huzhou Prefecture to the northwest to attack Changzhou Prefecture, threatening the regiment bandits attacking Suzhou Prefecture and forcing them to retreat.Then Chen Jin led the remaining [-] main force from Huzhou Mansion to the northeast and entered Suzhou Mansion, and went to Suzhou City in person to fight to the death with the bandits. (It’s a great event to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow up~click/Chinese website official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Pay attention to qdread’s WeChat official account!) (It’s a great activity to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow~click/Chinese website official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and join now! Everyone has a prize, now follow the qdread WeChat official account immediately!) (A good event for the pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow~click/Chinese official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread That’s it), join now! Everyone has a prize, now follow the qdread WeChat official account immediately!)

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