Chapter Seventy-Five: Xiangyang and Nanjing XVI

Is the Qing army such a person who sits back and waits for death? Is Zilharang the one who watched the Xia army attack the city without reacting?

Of course not.

The title of Prince Zheng was not given for nothing.

He opened four gates, and the Qing army almost poured out of the city and began to sweep the Xia army on the battlefield.

In order to avoid the bombardment of artillery, the Xia army was relatively scattered, so it could not form a joint force. As soon as the Qing army came out, they fell into a melee, and they were like cleaning.

Zhang Xuan, who had been sitting still without speaking, couldn't sit still anymore at the moment.

After the defeat in Guilin, Zhang Xuan made many changes, the biggest one was to train generals and no longer meddle in front-line warfare. It's not that Zhang Xuan doesn't fight anymore, but he understands that to his extent, the most important thing is to be a general, not to go into battle in person.

Luo Yulong is a real negative teaching material, and Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as a positive teaching material.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was just gaining momentum, he also fought one battle after another. Zhu Yuanzhang himself is also a very powerful general, but later, he almost stopped fighting, and entrusted all of them to the people below, which is why Xu Chang's generation has the great name.

Zhang Xuan may not have reached this point yet. But it has developed like this.

He intends to train the generals below to be able to take charge alone, hoping to start and finish well with these old brothers. For example, this battle was commanded by Deng He, although on the whole, the battle commanded by Deng He can only be said to be in the middle of the middle, step by step. Nothing is outstanding.

However, this experience of coordinating several combat units is important in itself.

It's just that he knows that the current situation is not something that Deng He can deal with.

The Qing army's counterattack was quite bold. Generally speaking, if there is a city, who will rashly go out of the city to fight. It can be seen that the Qing army is not too skilled in the business of defending the city, and it is also that the Qing army is rarely beaten to the point that it needs to be defended.

On the other hand, what Zilharang did can be called the right art of war.

Why? The battle to defend the city, in the art of war, is never only to defend the city wall. The practice of fighting in the city of Zilharang is a clever move.

It would be wrong to say that Zhang Xuan did not count Zilharang's counterattack. But what Zhang Xuan didn't count was that the scale of Zilharang's counterattack would be so large. So Zhang Xuan can't help but have a kind of remark, and after the card is over, it will be Hasuo.

At this time, Zhang Xuan's decision was to press it vigorously. Since he wants a decisive battle, then a decisive battle.

Zhang Xuan's decision was based on several judgments.

The first judgment was that Zhang Xuan came with the whole army and had an advantage in numbers. In addition, the field around Fancheng is not too large, and there is no room for cavalry to turn to battle. The more Zhang Xuan fought, the more he understood one thing, why the ancient soldiers called the cavalry a clutch soldier.

From the cavalry is to shock the infantry phalanx, which is always the ultimate act of stupidity.

The impact of the cavalry is good, but Zhang Xuan is not too worried, because he can trust the soldiers under his command, and he is most worried about the cavalry's marching ability, worried that the cavalry will be interspersed and detoured. If it was a hard-fought melee, the cavalry was not terrible in Zhang Xuan's eyes.

The second judgment is based on time.

At this time, Zhang Xuan had not yet received the news of the Battle of Nanjing, and only knew that the Qing army and the Zheng army had already fought each other, but he did not know what the battle had become. Zhang Xuan was worried that the Battle of Nanjing would end at any time, and at that time, the Qing army in Nanjing would be liberated.

What will they do?

Zhang Xuan didn't dare to speculate more, so he would rather suffer more casualties and end this battle as soon as possible.

The third judgment is that the Qing army is preparing for a decisive battle?

Although Zhang Xuan was not the roundworm in Jilharang's stomach, he concluded according to the usual theory that he felt that Jierharang was not prepared for his plan.

Since the beginning of the war, Zilharang's operational thinking has become obvious, that is, to drag the war on.

Probably not, all of a sudden, a change of course.

Since Zilharang's preparation was insufficient, Zhang Xuan felt that he was a little more prepared than the other party. Naturally, it is necessary to force the war.

Zhang Xuan got up and immediately ordered, saying: "All armies immediately attack, so that the Qing army cannot return to the city with a piece of armor." ”

As soon as Zhang Xuan gave the order, he took over the command of Deng He.

Under Zhang Xuan's order, the soldiers of the brigade rushed out, and the warships that were several miles wide outside Fancheng suddenly became small. It's not that the place has suddenly shrunk, but that a large number of people have been forced into this battlefield.

You must know that all the Xia soldiers who surrounded Fancheng have already exceeded 100,000.

Because the city of Fancheng was built with the specifications of a fortress, there were not many people in the city, so the city was not large, and the battlefield had no possibility of carrying more than 100,000 people to fight. But even so, this large area of black pressure makes people feel a little frightened when they look at it.

"What a Zhang Xuan." Zilharang slammed his fist on the female wall, and for a moment the blood flowed, and a sentence turned in a circle in his throat, and finally swallowed it again. This sentence is: "Do you think I don't dare?" ”

The reason why he didn't say it was because he found one thing, and that was that he really didn't dare.

It's not that Zierharang is old and his courage has waned, and it's not that Jierharang is afraid of Zhang Xuan, but that Jierharang knows that the current situation of the soldiers under his command is not suitable for a decisive battle with the Xia army. He understands very well that his army is small, he is a partial division, and the main force is his own people, plus some Han troops, and some local conscripted troops.

After this battle, Zilharang calculated that the chances of defeat would be greater.

Zilharang wasn't willing to gamble.

No matter how angry a general is, it will not affect his own judgment.

"When, when, when." The sound of gold above Fancheng sounded, and the Qing soldiers gave up their immediate goals and slowly retreated into the city.

And most of the Xia army are foot soldiers, it takes time to line up from the camp and then put it into the battlefield, not to mention, almost all the Xia army is out of the ranks, and it needs to be commanded, which takes time. Most of the Qing army were cavalry, and in terms of action, it was necessary to beat the Xia army faster.

The cavalry wanted to retreat, but the Xia army could not catch up.

Of course, the sudden attack of the Qing army was not without results.

Many of the besieging soldiers were killed. If they are given some more things, it is estimated that none of the siege soldiers will be able to go back.

Xia Jun can be said to have suffered heavy losses.

"When, when, when." This sound of gold is Xia Jun's.

When Zhang Xuan saw the Qing army retreating, he had the idea of forcing a battle, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up. After all, although Zhang Xuan felt that it might be a big victory, it was more likely to be a pyrrhic victory.

And now Zhang Xuan can't afford a miserable victory. After all, after the fall of the Xia army in Nanjing, the problem of insufficient troops has always accompanied Zhang Xuan, and now although Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, and several provinces are desperately recruiting soldiers.

But for a time it will not be replenished, those troops with rich combat experience.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan finally gave up.

Since he gave up, he also withdrew his troops by the way.

A big battle had been fought, and it was already afternoon. The soldiers who besieged the city were almost demoralized, and it was almost impossible to expect them to make any progress today, so Zhang Xuan let them come down.

With the clanging of gold, the Xia army stranded on the battlefield was like an amnesty, and immediately and slowly withdrew.

After about half an hour, the battlefield was completely evacuated, and the sound of artillery was gone.

As the sun sets, the light of twilight shines obliquely on the whole earth, hanging like a shadow of black cloth on one object after another. It's like the black veil at a funeral.

There are also some soldiers who are active on the battlefield, they have white flags on their bodies, they are the Lang Zhong of the Great Xia Medical Battalion, and there are some requisitioned soldiers.

They had come to collect the corpses.

If the corpse is not buried in time, I am afraid that there will be a plague, and it is already a common practice for the two armies to collect the corpse in front of the formation, and the two sides do not attack. Although this convention is a lot of the time, it arises between evenly matched opponents.

Otherwise, it is the victor who gathers up and buries the body.

And at this moment, Zilharang, standing on top of the city, looked at these Xia Jun who collected the corpses from afar, and didn't know what to think again.