Chapter 620: Song An's Choice
Just when Song An was hesitant, Zhoushan finally entered the waters of the Cao'e River.
But the sailor division is a sailor after all, and the range of the artillery is far from being able to shoot twenty or thirty miles away.
Zhang Mingzhen, deputy commander-in-chief of the naval division who led the army this time, decisively ordered 1,600 sailors to land ashore to reinforce Guali.
This morning, the people of the two places came the news that the rebels had occupied Shaoxing City.
Between Shaoxing City and Guali, there are only dozens of miles apart.
It was only because of the Guali Qing Army in the middle that the news was a few hours late.
In other words, Song An was the first Ming army to get the correct news.
This made Song An and Zhang Mingzhen no longer hesitate, and ordered the whole army to attack Guali.
Under the first attack, the Guali Qing army only supported for an hour and a half before collapsing.
Song An said goodbye to Zhang Mingzhen and led the army straight to Shaoxing City.
There was a bit of a thunder in this battle and a little rain.
Perhaps, even if Song An does not attack, the Qing army will have the intention of going.
There are not many armies willing to be lone after all.
Of the 3,000 Qing troops in Guali, at least half were captured, to be precise, surrendered.
This is also the largest proportion of surrendered in the past three years.
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There are actually two kinds of fighting.
One is a feint, which is to test the opponent's virtual and real forces and the allocation of troops with a feint, and then determine a point or surface to break through, so that the enemy's front collapses.
Most of this kind of attack is a serious arrangement of troops, the so-called right fit.
One is a strong attack, once it starts, it is a real attack, and it will never stop.
This time, Wu Zheng was the second type.
There is no choice, either you die or I die.
Why are you so decisive?
Wu Zheng had to decide.
If the Qing army broke through the mountain and was not fast enough, then the Qing army of the Boluo Department of Shengxian County, which was only a hundred miles away, would arrive.
At that time, he will be caught in the dilemma of attacking from the north to the south.
Therefore, either you don't fight, or you will decide.
The surviving cavalry was "brutally" pushed down to the front by Wu Zheng.
They were the targets that attracted the arrows of the Qing army and the precursors that made a passage.
To put it simply, cannon fodder.
Before leaving, Qian Sudian said to Wu Zheng, "If one day, our army recovers Shuntianfu, please come to Qian's grave to inform you." ”
Wu Zheng replied dryly, "Okay! ”
The cavalry was like an arrow out of their hands, and at an extreme speed, they launched a brazen charge against the Qing army's position that had been fenced.
In the face of a dense stream of arrows, cavalry continued to fall from their horses.
However, this is not the greatest threat to cavalry.
The greatest threat comes from the one-man high fence and the sharpened stake heads on the fence pointing diagonally to the sky.
If the war horse is not careful, it will be pierced with people and horses, and it will become a string of human flesh sugar gourds.
But such a fierce assault did attract the attention of the largest part of the Qing army, to be precise, not to attract, but to focus on the cavalry, because the cavalry advanced too fast.
In fact, the infantry charged together with the cavalry.
At a distance of a mile, the infantry had barely half the way when the cavalry had already crossed the fence.
Wu Zheng's heart is dripping blood!
The distance is too close, you can clearly see the cavalry falling from the horse, you can clearly see the spears of the Qing army piercing the body of the cavalry, and you can also clearly see that the war horse that has no knight is smashing over the Qing army in front of it with inertia and forming "pits".
Infantry, still on the way!
At a cost of almost half of the loss, the cavalry that crossed the fence faced the Qing army's Rulin spears.
At this time, the proportion of war losses has been reversed.
The cavalry who still maintains the speed, even if it is dead, can pull a few cushions.
Even if the knight pierced it, the war horse was still galloping, and countless Qing soldiers were knocked away.
If you look down from the sky, the place where the cavalry passes is a series of dark passages, as if they have been plowed.
At this time, the infantry began to approach.
The Qing army, which had been knocked out of the gaps by the cavalry, began to close, and they no longer paid attention to the cavalry that had broken into the heart, because they knew that the real threat came from the infantry behind the cavalry.
It was a decisive battle, although there were not many participants on both sides.
But not to die.
When cleaning up the battlefield after the war, Wu Zheng found that Qian Sudian, who he once thought was dead, was lying on his back on the ground, looking at the sky.
Wu Zheng asked, "Regret it?" ”
Qian Sudian replied, "Yes." I regret why I didn't die in the first place. ”
As he said this, two lines of tears fell from the corners of his eyes.
Cavalry battalion, twenty-seven survivors.
Wu Zheng went on a northern expedition from Shaoxing Prefecture, and the cavalry battalion reached 5,000 at its peak.
After this battle, it was almost gone.
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The balance of victory swings, many times, is caused by a faint wave.
Facing Shaoxing City, an inconspicuous butcher caused a small accident.
Wu Zheng, Chen Sheng and even Song An have their own different interpretations.
The interpretations are not in line with reality, but they all read the same thing, and that is to seize the opportunity.
Three directions, the same reaction was chosen, that is, to turn a small accident into a big accident.
Tear it apart until it becomes a scar large enough to kill the Qing army.
As a result, the scales of victory began to swing, and it chose to tilt to Wu Zheng's side.
Duoduo did not panic.
Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers.
Generals who have experienced countless battlefields will never panic because of momentary gains and losses.
And never panic about failure.
But Dordor was furious, angry that God wouldn't help him.
This failure did not come from a mistake in command, nor from the soldier's lack of bravery, but from the fact that God did not help him.
Providence is so, not a crime of war! Discouraged generals will sigh like this.
But Duoduo didn't sigh at this time, there was, just anger!
The rout of the Qing army outside Pinggang Mountain made it impossible for Duoduo to continue to gain a foothold in Shangyu.
The initiative of the Lihai Ming army made it impossible for Duoduo to transfer troops from Lihai.
He can only choose to retreat, otherwise, he will become a turtle in an urn.
But the problem is that there is still a Qing army in Guali, and Duoduo is reluctant to give up this force.
He needed half a day to withdraw this force and the 2,000 men who had already set out to reinforce Shaoxing City.
Duoduo made a low-level mistake at this time, although it was a low-level mistake, but basically, seven or eight out of ten generals would make it.
These generals, who will not commit two or three out of ten, are the kind of bastards who fail as soon as they fail, or who flee before they see the enemy, regardless of the life and death of their soldiers.
Duoduo decided to take the risk of staying in Shangyu for half a day to receive the Qing army and the Qing army reinforcements.
In fact, this decision cannot be said to be completely wrong, because although the city of Shaoxing was captured by the rebels, the rebels were also disabled, and there was nothing to stop the Qing army in the city of Shaoxing.
The total number of the Qing army and the reinforced Qing army should be 4,000 people, even if the Ming army blocks it, I am afraid it will not help.
If he joined forces with these 4,000 men, Dodor was confident that he could turn the tide of defeat that had already been revealed.