The Eastern Front under the leadership of Liu Guoxuan did not have much to tell. He faced the Qing army, which had lost Li Yuandu's army on the Jiujiang side, and the operation of taking Anqing in the east and attacking Hankou in the north.

Although with the strength of one of his divisions, the combat area is not small, but with the help of a hundred Furytide-class frigates, it is not worth mentioning to deal with these areas near the river.

The only commendable thing is that after the 100 frigates of the Shenzhou Army went up the Ganjiang River, they entered the Poyang Lake water system, and after the attack on Jiujiang cooperated with the Second Division of Liu Guoxuan's army, and after taking the important town of Jiujiang, the troops were divided into two routes. With a regiment of rangers, carried by the fleet approached Hankow.

In addition, Liu Guoxuan's main force went down the river and went straight to Anqing. This has always been a battleground for soldiers. At the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he won several battles on the Jiujiang section of Anqing.

In fact, the attack of the Shizhou army this time almost did not encounter any strong resistance, and it was entirely up to the Qing court, whether it was the core of their rule, Empress Xiaozhuang and Dolgon, or Hong Chengchou, who was close at hand. They almost had a common idea in their hearts.

That is because Yuwen Xiuyue and the descendants of the Yue family are hostages, although they have been safed for the time being. However, they also deduced that the Shenzhou Army's retaliation might be imminent, and the only place that worried the core of the Qing rule was Hunan and the Mashu region.

These two places, according to the previous operations of the Shenzhou Army, are always inseparable from the characteristics of the ship in the coming year, and they are most likely to be attacked. Therefore, they had already transferred Geng Zhongming's army to Jingzhou, and at the same time asked the Bashu side to make preparations. At the same time, all the ministers of the Qing court secretly made up their minds that even if the side of the river was lost, they would not provoke the Shenzhou army again.

Then, after the Shenzhou army took the land south of the Yangtze River, they tried to contact it and negotiate with each other, and finally reached the goal of dividing the river and ruling it. As for why he did not move, and did not withdraw the troops on the side of the river. The reason is that they never expected the Shenzhou Army to move so quickly.

Geng Zhongming did not follow the order to transfer to Jingzhou, but only deduced that it had been rainy recently, and the road was difficult to walk.

The actual reason is that he wants to fight with the Shenzhou Army in Hunan.

Geng Zhongming (1604-1649), a native of Gaizhou (now Gaixian County, Liaoning) in eastern Liaoning Province at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was a native of Yuntai. In the early years of Chongzhen, he was a general in Dengzhou. One of the three feudal domains in the early Qing Dynasty. Originally from Shandong, born as a miner, he was a pirate in Liaodong, and then took refuge in Mao Wenlong, and at the beginning of the same army as Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, he was a subordinate of Mao Wenlong, and was known as "Shandong Three Mine Disciples". Yuan Chonghuan supervised Ji Liao, killed Mao Wenlong, and then followed Kong De to Dengzhou, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Shandong, was appointed as the general of the left battalion of the infantry. Kong, Geng sent troops to the Imperial Empress Jin Army, the military salary did not arrive, angry, Chongzhen five years (1632) for Kong Youde Neiying, captured Dengzhou, self-proclaimed chief military officer. In the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), he surrendered to Huang Taiji from Kong Youde. In the eighth year of Chongde (1636), he was crowned King Huaishun and was under the yellow banner of the Han army. In the first year of Shunzhi (1644), he entered the customs with the Qing soldiers, entered Shaanxi from the Qing general Duoduo, suppressed the people's rebellion, and went down to the south of the Yangtze River and entered Hunan.

In general, he is one of the brave and warlike generals in the Former Ming Dynasty and in the successive occupations in the Northeast. And his heavenly estimate of the army can be regarded as an extremely powerful force back then, as for his desire to fight with the Shenzhou Army in Hunan, he did not eat the heart of a bear and a leopard.

"Humph! No matter from Jiangxi or Guangdong, you must pass through the mountain road. With all the enemy's ordnance, this battle will be surprising with male soldiers, and the front and rear of the enemy will be cut off. It is also necessary to take the surprise soldiers as the positive, and to ambush, rush, and harass the main ones in order to achieve great success. And the enemy army is gathered"

This is Geng Zhongming's thoughts, and this is the conclusion reached after analyzing the Shenzhou Army's Tiger Leap operation last time.

People often say, "People die for money, and birds die for food."

Approximately, Geng Zhongming didn't know the power of the Shenzhou Army, and it wasn't that he didn't listen to the prestige of the Shenzhou Army. The defeat of Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, there are routs under him who have fled back, how can they not be clear.

It's just that as a general who has been fighting for more than ten years, how can he be easily convinced? Speaking of which, he is much stronger than those Manchu juniors who were terrified by hearing the name of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

At this moment, when Liu Guoxuan took Jiujiang, he quickly divided his troops and advanced towards Hankou Town and Anqing. Huang Gu led the main three divisions to attack the Changsha line, and as Geng Zhongming had predicted, part of the troops and most of the supplies were transported along the Yuanshui, and the main chariots traveled along the riverbank.

And just as Geng Zhongming judged, Xinyu became Huang Gu's "urgent place" (Go terminology, popularly interpreted as "the place of death"). Therefore, Geng Zhongming led the main force of the 200,000 army under his command. In fact, with the newly recruited recruits, it is only 1780,000 people. And the main force of them were all 80,000 horses of the "Heavenly Blessing Army" of 150,000 in the past, of which 30,000 were responsible for harassing Huang Gu's army in the mountains of the Luoxiao Mountains.

His battle plan fully embodied "one heart, two preparations", and 100,000 cavalry secretly sneaked out of the middle of the Luoxiao Mountains. Directly attack the Shenzhou Army's theater supply base one by one.

"Humph! Just take it, and see that his chariot has no crossbow arrows, and his musket has no gunpowder, and how he can exert his might, and then it will not be all slaughtered by my cavalry! ”

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart. Another elite Heavenly Blessing Soldier, as well as tens of thousands of new troops. He was stationed in Zhuzhou, Changsha, and Xiangyin to ensure that his own back roads were unimpeded. At the same time, 30,000 elite Tianyou soldiers were stationed in Yuezhou, which is known as the gateway to Hunan.

Therefore, Huang Gu's advance was constantly disturbed by Geng Zhongming's troops, and at this time losses began to appear.

The chariot at the head didn't go long, and it had to face the air attack of the cavalry of the Tianyou Army from the mountains and forests, like the wind. Fortunately, most of the supplies and infantry of the Shenzhou Army are transported by the old military camp level, which is both draught-water and quite fast.

And the advance of the troops marching on the rough mountain roads was not so smooth. Due to the large size of the chariots and the fact that their large wheels can be used on the road, they are better than on bicycles. Therefore, most of the chariot troops of the Huanggu First Army were dragged by four horses and walked on the difficult road.

Among them, Huang Gu was about to arrange their chariots and troops as an important force to protect the supply channel because of the communication problems of the Dutch red-haired people.

The strength of a whole division is stationed in Yichun ~ Pingxiang ~ Liling, which is nearly 100 kilometers, of which Yichun, Pingxiang, and Liling each have a main force. Along the way, a regiment reinforced with drawn combat vehicles was deployed to patrol the mountainous plains and serve as a mobile force.

At this time, it reflects the Heavenly Blessing soldiers under Geng Zhaoming, they can be regarded as quite elite troops, and raiding and harassing operations is their forte. The battles here reflect the characteristics of long movement in the mountains and wilderness, and the characteristics of coming and going like the wind.

The first place to be attacked was Yichun City, which was closest to Xinyu.

This is the second day that the foreign mercenaries have come to Yichun, and in the small plain before the Luoxiao Mountain Range, the clear river is murmuring, and the foreign mercenaries have poured out and have not jumped into the river to take a bath. Although the river is also quite clear, and their behavior, it is estimated that the people here will not say anything.

It's just that since it's already the end of September, and seeing that winter is coming, the crystal clear river is only afraid that it will be cold. Garrisoned here are the soldiers of the former Dutch Marine Corps, who have already become the reborn Shenzhou Army after a long period of training.

In addition, the British fleet captured in the South Seas, regardless of the seamen and soldiers, still made the right choice to join the Shenzhou Army one by one, although their temporary idea was to save enough points to return to Britain as soon as possible. No one is going to worry about that, and what they're going to do in the end is something they don't have to discuss.

The worry of the Dutch soldiers was that if most of the two divisions were formed into two divisions in the future, most of them were Portuguese and British, and if that was the case, wouldn't these veteran foreign mercenaries just be their commanders, so they saved up their strength one by one, and waited for the battle to be completed, and then they were assigned to the officer examination.

Yichun City is not big, north of the north slope of Wugong Mountain, across the confluence into the Ganjiang River Yuan Shui is full of thousands of fertile fields. It is also the place where the prefect of Yuanzhou governs the government, because it can also be called prosperous.

The commander of the second regiment of the first division of foreign mercenaries is the lieutenant colonel Leken who wiped Roger's boots in the battle to liberate Mingyue Bay in China, due to the problem of exam results, until now, he is still a lieutenant colonel, and he still has not received his salary, and he only has a pitiful pocket money every month, so this time he vowed to fight this battle, after all, the number of Chinese dollars of the lieutenant colonel of the Shenzhou Army has long been something he has been coveting for a long time.

That's why when you defend, you're extra careful. This time, he personally led the main chariot force of his regiment to guard the north bank of the Yuan River, and in just a few days, he used sandbags to build two fire point defense lines.

Behind him, almost all night long, were the ships that came and went between the front line and Xinyu, and in the long searchlight, there was the continuous roar of machinery, and the shadows of those sails and the rather long hulls. Seeing these lieutenant colonels Leken smoking delicious cigars, I couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied.

"Fuck, you can't do it without the Chinese dollar!"

He doesn't love money so much, but officers like him, who have no money, no credit, and no military merits, want to cheat a MM in China Shenzhou, which is called difficult. So after he came here, the idea moved to the girls in Yichun City.

It's just that the girls here don't think about him!

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