Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 284 Ambush from All Sides
"Are the thieves in the south of the Yangtze River so powerful? Hong Chengchou really deserves to die!"

Upstairs in Wujin County, Changzhou Prefecture, Kang Kala looked at the Ming army gathered outside the city, his scalp was numb and he was very scared. He led the army south and walked along the canal. He never expected that at the junction of Changzhen and This important town in the south of the Qing Dynasty will be attacked.

When the attack happened, it was very sudden.

Numerous Ming army ships entered the canal from several canals near Benniu Town, and cut off the canal up and down. Countless rockets and artillery bombarded the convoy of convoys going south with Kangkala. The arrows and even the artillery he carried were all on board.

Surrounded by sudden bombardment, before Kangkala on the shore could react, his supply fleet was destroyed. A large number of ships caught fire and sank to the bottom of the water. A small number of ships were directly approached by Ming warships and seized by the gang. .

There were no soldiers on the fleet at all, they were all government servants and civilians conscripted in Jiangning, Zhenjiang and other places. Facing the overwhelming Ming army, these people had no intention of resisting. They either jumped into the river to escape or surrendered directly.

The Ming army moved extremely fast.

When Kangkala received the report and arrived with his cavalry, it was over there.

Most of his supplies, his military supplies, and his artillery were burned, and some fell into the hands of the Ming army.

Angry Kangkala sent people to shoot arrows at the boats on the canal, but who would have thought that this would be a hornet's nest. The Ming army who had just won the battle on the canal actually had guns on board, not transport guns, but gunboats, and directly shot at the boats. Then they went bang bang bang bang.

Unprepared.

The people who were bombarded by the Qing army fell on their backs.

The soldiers and horses scattered, and finally retreated to stabilize their positions. The Ming army actually came ashore. Many Ming army ships docked, and a large number of Ming troops landed.

To tell the truth, Kangkara followed his grandfather to conquer Mongolia and Korea, entered the customs many times, and fought many fierce battles, but he really didn't fight the battle like this one.

He is a dignified Meile Zhangjing, the deputy chief of Yiqi's military and political affairs, and he was beaten so embarrassingly by the Ming army?Although not many people died, but aggrieved.

After regaining his senses, Kang Kala ordered the whole army to mount their horses and charge, and cut down all the Ming troops who dared to go ashore to seek death on the shore.

But he underestimated the Ming army, they came prepared.

After landing, they quickly formed a square formation, and they were able to take out many refusal horses, forming three refusal walls directly in front of the formation, and then scattered many barbed wire.

What's even more exaggerated is that these Ming troops who occupy the upper air are still lighting piles of smoke in front of the formation.

Smoke was everywhere, and the battlefield soon filled the air, and the Ming army was covered by the smoke.

But Kangkala still firmly believes that the elite of the Eight Banners cannot be won by these small actions of the Ming army. He has [-] cavalry under his command, of which [-] are full of Mongolian Eight Banners, and [-] Han infantry.

But Kangkala hadn't read any books, so he didn't understand what it means to come prepared.

Since they came prepared, the battle plan drawn up by the Ming army was very detailed, and there were even Plan B, Plan C, and Plan D to deal with various emergencies.

Commanding the troops on the shore is the imperial camp Shizhong Battalion. After Zhang Mingyang, the former commander in chief, was transferred to Guangdong to serve as the admiral, his brother Zhang Mingbin from Jinwu Town came over to take over the post of commander in chief.

Among Zhang Mingzhen's four brothers, Zhang Mingzhen is loyal and brave, Zhang Mingyang is calm and steady, Zhang Mingjia is not good at military, Zhang Mingbin is the bravest, he fights like a gust of wind, swift as the wind.

Facing the recoil of Kangkala's infantry and cavalry, I had expected it a long time ago. It was not only courage to dare to stand in the water, but also the ships on the canal, and the artillery, archers, and musketeers on board.

The strength of these fire support is beyond the imagination of the Qing army.

The front was full of smoke, which did not affect the support, because the archers only needed to lob, and the artillery had already locked the position, and bombarded the front of the formation with shells.

Of course, that's not all.

Kangkala counterattacked, and the cavalry advanced, the smoke affected their sight, and the superb shooting skills of the Manmeng Baqi were useless, so they could only use the cavalry to attack in front.

Try to rush to the front of the Ming army, use bows and arrows, throw guns, or directly use cavalry to hit the formation. Although this kind of cavalry hits the infantry formation is too stupid, it depends on the situation. Kangkala believes that the Ming army is vulnerable, so It is also possible for cavalry to collide with infantry.

But when the artillery on the canal boat continued to roar, and from time to time, shells roared and landed on their left, right, front, back, and even directly on their bodies, they panicked a little.

When they rushed to the front of the Ming army in the thick smoke, they were blocked by three horse-rejecting walls. They wanted to hook or split, but found that there were many musketeers and archers in the Ming army behind them. The horses slowed their momentum, outputting at full speed in the distance.

The vagueness in the smoke is not very real, but the flying feather arrow lead bullets are real.

When they suffered casualties, resisted the arrows with shields, cut down two horse-repelling walls in a row, and were about to rush into the Ming army formation and drive them into the river, suddenly there was another gunshot from behind. .

It turned out that Wu Yi, the Governor of Water Transportation, led Cao Biao to land from the other side. Under the cover of smoke, he also brought some small artillery over on horses, and quickly gathered troops behind them to open the way with guns.

Misfortunes never come singly, and Lu Xiangguan of the Zhongsu Battalion also led his troops to encircle them from the other side. They shouted and bluffed, and went straight to the Han infantry behind the Qing army.

Kang Kara personally slashed at the front with a Shun knife in double armor, but the Green Battalion soldiers behind were scared and routed.

The soldiers of the green battalion heard the sound of cannons all over the sky, shouts of killing from all sides, and the Zhongsu battalion kept shouting that they were surrounded, and the Nine Kings led the imperial camp to the towns, etc., panicked.

Some people who were afraid of death ran away, and more and more people ran away.

Even the officers of the green battalion saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ran away with their elite servants. As soon as they ran, the entire green battalion was completely disintegrated.

After all, these people have always been like this. It is very brave to follow the Qing army to fight smoothly, but as they are doing now, they are showing their true colors.

"It's lost, it's lost." Some guys actually yelled while running.

Then the Ming army took the opportunity to shout.

Kangkala finally cut down the last row of rejected horses, although the price was that many of his men fell down, and even his mount was injured by stepping on a barbed wire, and he had to dismount and fight on foot. Still thinks victory is in sight.

Unexpectedly, behind the rejecting horse, he was greeted by rows of firecrackers exploding.

He has a layer of cotton armor inside and an iron armor outside. The double armor can't defend against the musket. The distance is too close, and he was shot in the thigh, bleeding profusely. Fortunately, the two layers of armor blocked most of the damage, otherwise it would be so close. A shot at close range, it is estimated that this leg is gone.

The shouts of killing gathered from all sides, and the green battalion behind them fled again.

Seeing that he was shot, the personal soldiers quickly dragged him up, and retreated with his back.

Enduring the pain, he gritted his teeth and reluctantly gave the order to retreat and break out of the encirclement. Finally, he snatched a horse and managed to break out of the encirclement with his troops, and ran into Changzhou Fucheng in one breath.

After counting the troops, except for the 1000 forwards who have arrived in Suzhou, he has [-] soldiers, and the other [-] civilians and a large number of supplies are gone. Qianman Mengbuqi followed him and ran back to Qianba.

Without the small two hundred, some people may have run dizzy and lost their way, but some must have been killed or captured.

As soon as he found a doctor to bandage his legs, the Ming army caught up and surrounded Changzhou City.

Looking at the flags of the Ming army, he hated Hong Chengchou very much now, and at the same time hated the Jiangnan Green Camp, he was so fucking incompetent.

(End of this chapter)