Nanming Yiming

Chapter 102 Riding against each other (seeking subscription support)

Almost at the same time Tian Xiong entered Shaoxing City, the vanguard of the Chongming Battalion also arrived in the west of Shaoxing City.It's a pity that they didn't know anything about the battle that just happened in the east of the city at this time.

Xiaoshan is not far from Shaoxing, but the Chongming Battalion and Shenji Battalion were originally planning to go south to attack Yanzhou, so the army marched into Xiaoshan from Xincheng and Fuyang, and the journey was delayed for half a day. Ningbo received information from Taizhou faster than Hangzhou, so Tian Xiong's cavalry took the lead.

Although it was said that the Chongming Camp and the Shenji Camp did not have professional cavalry, Qian Mo allocated the 2000 horses captured in Hangzhou to the Chongming Camp, and there were still some infantry on horseback.

Li Monk and others who had escaped before also ran into the vanguard of the Chongming Camp.

After learning the news that the rebel army was defeated by the Qing cavalry outside the city, Qian Mo also felt very regretful. If he marched faster, he could have avoided this tragedy.

Now that there are a large number of cavalry in Shaoxing City, this is very important information. Only Tian Xiong has a large number of cavalry near Shaoxing.

However, according to the information sent by the intelligence department, Tian Xiong's troops were still attacking Ningbo before, and his infantry should not have arrived in Shaoxing at this time.

Qian Mo said: "Tian Xiong's cavalry is not a small threat. The Ming army did not suffer from the cavalry outside the city of Ningbo. In Ningbo and Shaoxing alone, the Ming army killed by this Qing army cavalry has exceeded [-] people. Its own losses are thousands of people."

Lu Shanhai also said: "The infantry in the field is really at a disadvantage against the cavalry. We still have to be careful. After all, there are still many recruits in the battalion, and they are easily defeated by the cavalry."

"According to the battle report from the intelligence department, Ma Xin, the general of Taizhou, used the cavalry to win more with less in Ninghai, and defeated Yang Wenqi, who had several times as many troops as himself. We also need to accumulate more experience in fighting cavalry, otherwise we will face the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the future." The cavalry would be very passive."

Qian Mo said to Liu Yichen: "This Ma Xin is indeed a rare talent. He has the style of a general. The battle in Ninghai was fought beautifully, and he almost turned the entire battle in eastern Zhejiang by himself. The intelligence department must think hard. There is a way to bring this person over to me, we are most lacking of this kind of general who is good at cavalry combat."

Liu Yichen said: "The humble official has ordered Su Jian and Ma Xin to establish a good relationship, but he has already expressed his loyalty to Zhang Mingzhen. I am afraid that this matter will have to be discussed in the long run."

Qian Mo replied: "Twisted melons are not sweet, and it depends on chance and coincidence. However, Su Jian's information transmission on the Taizhou incident was in place, and he was able to discover talents like Ma Xin in time. It must be rewarded. You can focus on it." Cultivate it."

Hearing Qian Mo's great praise to Ma Xin, the generals felt somewhat uncomfortable.It was the first time that Qian Mo praised another general in front of them, which was clearly a slap in the face.At this time, they all held back their energy and must teach Tian Xiong a lesson, so as to make the name of Suhu Governor's Mansion.

Lu Shanhai took a look at Hong Fugui, and even the quick-tempered he understood, and immediately jumped out and said, "Your Excellency, don't underestimate me. The last general is also from the Liaodong frontier army, and he is proficient in cavalry battle formation. The 2000 cavalry of my Chongming Battalion, Although I haven't mastered cavalry warfare yet, the general is willing to lead these 2000 men to eat Tian Xiong's infantry."

Seeing Hong Fugui's anxious look, Qian Mo secretly smiled and said: This guy is still so impatient!
Said: "Vice General Hong is commendable for his courage, and this governor is very comforting. However, a general is most afraid of impetuousness. Although the cavalry is currently our army's shortcoming, there is no need to rush for success."

Huang Yu understood that Qian Mo would not be satisfied with just eating Tian Xiong's infantry, so he said: "Tian Xiong's infantry cannot run away, the key is to lure his cavalry to destroy them, as long as there are no cavalry in Shaoxing City , it would be like a big girl who has been stripped naked and let us ravage her."

Today's Shaoxing city was built in the seventh year of Goujian, king of Yue (490 BC). "Yue Jue Shu" calls it "Goujian Small Town", "Tuesday 220 three steps, Lu gate four, water gate one".Immediately afterwards, a "Shanyin Great City" was built to the east of the small city, "72 steps in the [-]th mile of the week", with three Lumen and three Shuimen. "Small city" and "big city" were built by Yue Wang Goujian, a senior official Fan Li, so they are also called "Licheng".

The small city of Goujian and the big city of Shanyin were built as the capital of Yue State in accordance with the purpose of "building a country and building a capital".Therefore, in the selection of the city site, the host Fan Li considered the strategic needs of transportation, defense, and expansion, and chose the isolated hill settlements such as Wolong Mountain as the city site.It is located in the north of Kuaiji Mountain, on the Shanhui Plain, and there are Zhongshan, Weishan, Jishan, Huozhu, Baolang, Yuemei, Pengshan, Baima and other mountains in the city. Qinwang, with Jianhu Lake, Yujia Tianzhu, surrounded by peaks", has the benefits of mountains and rivers without worrying about drought and flood, can attack and defend easily, and has a solid foundation. Therefore, it is called the first place in the history of urban planning in ancient my country. A masterpiece.

Lu You also said in Jiatai's "Huaiji Zhi·Preface": "Today's next giant town, only Jinling and Kuaijier. Jing, Yang, Liang, Yi, Tan, and Guang are all out of sight." Especially in urban rivers, through Thousands of years of dredging and excavation have gradually formed the water city pattern of "one river and one street", "one river and two streets" and "one river but no street".

Today, there are 33 rivers in Shaoxing City with a total length of 60 kilometers and 229 stone bridges; there are 27 large and small lakes and ponds with an area of ​​about 35 hectares; Contact everywhere.

The criss-crossing waterways in Shaoxing City are actually very unfavorable to the actions of cavalry.The role of cavalry is not to defend the city, but to always threaten the siege troops outside the city.

Tian Xiong also thought about stationing cavalry outside the city, forming horns with the defenders inside the city, threatening the enemy attacking the city outside the city at any time.

However, Qian Mo's Ming army was very powerful, and Tian Xiong immediately denied this crazy idea.

Although his cavalry easily killed a large number of Ming army infantry along the way, Tian Xiong did not dare to be too presumptuous in the face of the Ming army that had wiped out the Eight Banners in Hangzhou.

At this time, the soldiers came to report: "The Ming army did not besiege the city, but bypassed the north of the city and went directly to Shangyu."

Counselor Hu Rili shouted: "No, our 2500 infantry troops are still on their way to Shaoxing. Didn't the Ming army just bump into them on their way east. Admiral, please allow the last general to go out of the city to meet him? "

Hearing that the Ming army went around the city, Zhu Xu, the prefect of Shaoxing, was relieved, but he didn't dare to show a look of relief in front of Tian Xiong.Instead, he said in a heavy tone: "The Ming army suddenly went around the city. I'm afraid there are other plans. We still need to be careful. General Hu Shen left the city rashly and be careful to be fooled by the Ming army!"

Tian Xiong said: "The Ming army marched around the city, they must have aimed at our infantry. It's just that Qian Mo's soldiers are stronger than ordinary Ming troops. General Hu Can not underestimate the enemy."

After hesitating for a while, Tian Xiong shouted to Hu Rili: "General Hu, immediately gather all the cavalry in the city and follow me out of the city to pursue the Ming army."

Seeing that his coach was so supportive, Hu Rili was shocked and shouted: "The last general obeys!"

There are only 5000 troops in Shaoxing City, and now Tian Xiong has taken away 2000 cavalry, if there is any mistake, Shaoxing will not be able to defend.

At this time, Zhu Xu couldn't care less about the scholar's reserve, and said loudly: "Admiral Tian, ​​the army can't go out of the city. This is obviously Qian Mo's trick of 'leading the snake out of the hole'. This is going to be bad luck!"

Looking at Zhu Xu who was shouting loudly, Tian Xiong was quite surprised, even a little moved, he didn't expect that the prefect Zhu, who has always been cautious on weekdays, would stop himself from taking risks regardless of his image at this time!
Tian Xiong also changed his rough tone from the past, and calmly said to Zhu Xu: "Does Tian not know that the Ming army's move is to lure me to attack, but those infantry are the elite of my Zhejiang green battalion, I can't do nothing ah!"

"If Tian sits and watches them be wiped out by the Ming army, the morale of our army will definitely drop. How can we hold on to Shaoxing City?"

Seeing that Tian Xiong had made up his mind to go, Zhu Xu didn't stop dissuading him, and immediately cupped his fists and said to Tian Xiong: "Then Zhu will wish Admiral Tian a great victory over the Ming army and return to the city triumphantly!"

In fact, Tian Xiong has always looked down on this timid and fearful Zhu Xu, thinking that he is a nerd who doesn't understand military affairs at all, and is timid and gets in the way all day long.

But at this moment he could feel that Zhu Xu was really worried about his safety, not simply timid.So I want to tell Zhu Xu to guard the city tightly to prevent the Ming army from infiltrating, and if necessary, he can use Wang Yi and other prisoners to blackmail Qian Mo.

But when the words came to his lips, he took them back.Zhu Xu has always been cautious, these words are a bit superfluous; the literati's twists and turns are much thicker than his own, so he changed his words and said: "Zhu Zhifu does not need to worry, Tian's subordinates are all cavalry, they can come and go freely, even if they can't break the enemy , It’s always no problem to retreat to protect yourself.”

In the north of Shaoxing, there are countless rivers and lakes criss-crossing. Under the sunlight, the water surface is sparkling, making people's eyes dizzy.

Hu Rili said: "Master Admiral, the Ming army is ahead."

Tian Xiong frowned, and said: "These Ming soldiers are too cunning, they only choose these small paths by the river, and there are rivers and ponds nearby. If our army pursues them, they will definitely fall into the quagmire."

Hu Rili said: "This river pond is more than 10 miles long. When we reach the East Lake in front, the road gradually widens. Why don't we go directly to the East Lake to meet the Ming army."

East Lake is located at the foot of Ruo Mountain in the east of Shaoxing City. It was originally a bluestone mountain. Since the Han Dynasty, stoneworkers have been digging the mountain and quarrying stones here one after another.

This is also a battlefield that Qian Mo has preset. In order to avoid a large number of infantry being intercepted and killed by Qing cavalry on the plain, Qian Mo can only take the small roads in the north of the city. The cavalry dare not pursue that kind of road conditions.

Therefore, Tian Xiong will definitely choose to intercept the Ming army at the exit of these rivers, and East Lake has become the best choice for the Qing army.

At this time, the 2000 cavalry led by Hong Fugui ambushed directly in the woods south of Donghu Lake. If Tian Xiong gave up blocking the cavalry of the Ming army and chose to join forces with his own infantry directly to the east, the cavalry of the Ming army would block Tian. Xiong's way.

But now they just need to wait patiently for the East Lake battle to end.

The Qing army was intercepted by the lake, the east lake and cliffs were on the northeast, and the infantry of the Ming army was on the west. Unless the Qing army could defeat the Ming army in the west, it would be difficult to fly as long as the Qing army defended the south.

The distance of 10 miles is not far, and soon the Ming army appeared in the field of vision of the army. Hu Rili pointed to the opposite Ming army and said: "Master Admiral, the Ming army has already appeared. I will lead the cavalry to intercept the army." kill them."

But Tian Xiong said: "General Hu Shen, don't be impatient, the Ming army hasn't completed their formation yet."

Hu Rili asked full of doubts: "It is because the Ming army did not complete the formation, and the last general just went up to kill them by surprise. When they complete the formation, it will be difficult for us to fight."

Tian Xiong said: "This governor is not Song Xianggong. It is impossible not to know the truth of halfway attack. I don't want to wait until the Ming army completes the formation. It's just that the road ahead is too narrow for the cavalry to deploy. At this time Although the charge can catch the Ming army by surprise, the Ming army will quickly retreat to the lakes and rivers behind, and we cannot wipe out the enemy."

At this time, Qian Mo also saw the Qing army in the binoculars, and said to Huang Yu: "This East Lake is really a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers. The hiding place chosen by the governor for Tian Xiong is not bad."

"Mr. Huang, this is the first time that the Shenji Battalion has faced the elite cavalry of the Qing army in the field. You must show the prestige of our Ming army and avenge the rebel brothers who died tragically before."

Huang Yu shouted: "The army is in formation, the shield soldiers step forward, the spearmen follow closely, and the firecrackers are lined up in the rear. The artillery battalion immediately installs the tiger guns and adjusts the gun positions. After the formation is complete, the army slowly advances."

The Shenji Battalion is full of 4000 people, and 3500 people form a large phalanx.In the front row are 500 shield soldiers, then 1000 pikemen, and finally 2000 musketeers.

大型方阵的后方则是一个500组成的小型方阵。包括200名长枪手，200名火铳手和100名炮手，其中携带了20门虎蹲炮。

Other heavy artillery were left in the camp outside Shaoxing City due to their inconvenient movement.

Seeing this formation, Monk Li and the others who went out with the army dropped their jaws in shock.I thought to myself that it was really a good thing that the elite Ming army who wiped out the Eight Banners in Hangzhou actually directly formed an array in the field and used infantry to fight the cavalry.

The rebel army on Tiantai Mountain had already accepted the command of Zhang Mingzhen, and Qian Mo couldn't openly poach the corner, so he could only let them join them on their own initiative.Therefore, let Monk Li and others accompany him to "show their muscles".

Seeing that the Ming army was slowly advancing outward, Tian Xiong said to Hu Rili: "Now the Ming army has come out a little bit, and while they are not getting a firm foothold, Hu Shen will quickly lead you to overwhelm them."

Hu Rili had been impatient for a long time. To be honest, his cavalry beat the Ming army infantry all the way, but he really didn't pay attention to the Ming army in front of him.

Hu Rili shouted: "Brothers, the Ming army in front of us is just a glamorous flower display, everyone will attack with me and crush them!"

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