In August 1651, the cannon roared outside the stables. Cai Huaze wore a pair of light full-body armor on the east coast, and under the protection of his own soldiers, he went to the front line in person, commanding more than 2,500 sons and daughters under his command to fight to the death against the Qing army.

This is a small wharf on the side of the Cixi River, with a small fence built around it, and several 4-pounder guns are also erected on the wall, and Cai Huaze's department of the Dashun Middle Battalion is stationed here. This wharf was usually used for the east coast transport ships (small boats collected by the people) and shallow water gunboats, and it was not large, but at this time it became a thorn in the side of the Qing army. Tian Xiong, the governor of Zhejiang, who led the team, personally led more than 10,000 men and horses to besiege the team, intending to first pull out this key node of contact with the rear, and then slowly gnaw away the stable fort, which was nailed to the fortress on the road they had to pass to Yinxian.

It's just that it's easier said than done! Not to mention that when they were besieging the wharf, they would constantly receive "greetings" from the artillery shells coming from the castle of the stables, let's just say that after four "Amur" class shallow gunboats rushed over from the rear early this morning to join the battle, the Qing army's operation to besiege the wharf was basically declared a failure.

Whether Tian Xiong is willing or not, his two-day offensive has come to an end, and now what needs to be considered is how to withdraw from the front line safely despite more than 2,000 casualties. The four or five thousand people of Dashun Liu Guochang's department who stayed in the camp inside and outside the stable fort, plus Cai Huaze's department, who held the dock camp for two days and nights and the main force was not damaged, were not good. In order for Tian Xiong to be able to withdraw from the front line, the response of more than 10,000 Manchurian Han and Mongolian Eight Banners led by Chen Tai in the rear (some of the green battalion soldiers who followed him south to Fujian have been incorporated into the Han Eight Banners) is the key.

But no matter if you can let Tian Xiong retreat, he will leave some people behind. It is certain that this offensive of the Qing army will end in failure again. And this time, it was also since the establishment of the defense line of the Stable Fort and the Tianluo Fort (plus the naval gunboats cruising in the river to form a joint defense line). The Qing army suffered its sixth defeat. Whether it was Zhang Cunren, Chen Tai or Jierharang, they had exhausted countless efforts, and they lost more than 10,000 troops before and after, but they always used this garrison to defend the line of more than 9,500 people.

However, the Qing army could not gnaw at the defense line of the stable fort and Tianluo Fort to block the Yongdao, and made limited progress in bypassing the mountainous area of Wulei Mountain-Xiangshan (Dapeng Mountain) and attacking Cixi, the gateway to the northern line of Ningbo Prefecture. In addition to relying on the artillery purchased from the Dutch at the beginning, they broke more than 3,000 people of the Ding Weiyue Division of the 10th Division and removed the threat of the flank Guanhaiwei. There was no further progress.

At present, they are stationed in Cixi County, and they are fighting with the Fifth Brigade of the Standing Brigade and the Third Division of the New Army (Sun Shouzheng's Division. 2,000 soldiers), the 10th Division (Ding Weiyue's Division, 3,000 soldiers, 2,500 people remaining) and the East Coast Army, with a total of 7,000 soldiers (supplemented by a certain number of gunners and baggage troops), fought fiercely, not only suffered heavy losses. Even the artillery pieces were destroyed four or five, so that the leading soldiers of Meile Zhangjing, Dong Alai, Gushan Ezhen Jinli, Ningbo General Soldier Zhang Jie and others were disgraced and heartbroken -- this was the ordnance that the imperial court bought from Hongmao at a great price, and there were only a dozen of them distributed to Fujian and Zhejiang, and now five of them were damaged under a small Cixi county, how to explain to Prince Zheng after going back?

After losing more than 4,000 soldiers and horses before and after the city of Cixi County, and the artillery fire of the yellow-clothed thieves was very fierce, and the cannons smashed on the heads of our Qing soldiers like no money, this battle really could not be fought -- they never understood it. How did the yellow-clothed thief have so many cannons at his disposal - now in the face of the fortified city and the frighteningly large number of artillery pieces of the yellow-clothed thief, the assault is really powerless! In addition, the ships of the sailors of the yellow thieves have been cruising in and out of the sea, and a large group of men and horses will land behind them one day. Wouldn't my Qing soldiers on the front line sit on wax? It's better to retreat as soon as possible, at least retreat to the line of Guanhaiwei and Linshanwei, first block the possible westward path of the yellow-clothed thief, and then try to do anything else.

The two Qing armies were defeated outside Tianluo Fort and Cixi County respectively, and this offensive was mostly neutralized. Some other Qing troops who came through the mountains were physically exhausted. Second, there was a lack of baggage artillery and few horses. They were soon wiped out by the main forces of the East Coast Army (which served as the de facto general reserve), adding a touch of merit to their boredness.

The Qing army, which numbered as many as 80,000 (including more than 13,000 people in the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and thousands in the Han Army Banner), could not help a Ningbo Mansion with only more than 25,000 miscellaneous soldiers. Of course, it's not that no one said that their 80,000 army blocked the way for the yellow-clothed thieves to go out and plunder, but the problem is that your 80,000 relatively warlike army was dragged in Hangzhou Mansion, and it was not a matter for a long time. I have heard that the whereabouts of the yellow-clothed thief are strange, and the giant ship on the sea is also erratic, this mobile Qing army asks itself if it can't be compared, in case they use their army to attack other places everywhere, and then rush back with lightning, is this time enough for the Qing army to react? The answer, I'm afraid, is no!

The Qing army's contradictory and anxious psychology is not unclear to the people on the east coast, and this is also their own purpose: to contain a large number of living forces of the Qing army in the south like a magnet, and to create opportunities for the Ming army of Lu Wangsuo, Zheng, Li Chengdong, Wang Deren and other departments who had fallen into decline before. The opportunity to create a zào for you has come out, but whether you can grasp it is entirely your own business, and I am not your wet nurse, we are just here to collect people, books, works of art and some other useful things.

However, judging from the current trend of the war, the offensive of the anti-Qing army of various departments is okay, among which the Lu Wang's department has grown to tens of thousands of men and horses to capture most of Taizhou Mansion and Wenzhou Mansion. Moreover, King Lu's troops gained a foothold on the mainland, not only guarding the flanks of Ningbo Mansion on the east bank, but also effectively eliminating their internal cracks, such as Zhoushan Guard General Huang Binqing is very peaceful at the moment, no longer as arrogant as before. Why? Because Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin, Wang Chaoxian and others have laid a huge territory on the mainland, their strength is no longer comparable to him, so they have become very obedient to King Lu. Of course, the premise is that Zhang Mingzhen and others don't infect Zhoushan Island, which he already regards as his backyard, otherwise they will turn their faces sooner or later.

As for the Zheng armed forces led by Zheng Sen, another major force on the southeast coast, they were also attacking the cities of Zhangfu and Quanfu at this time, and they were making rapid progress. The Zheng family has been operating in Fujian for many years, and their power is deep-rooted, at this moment Zheng Sen took advantage of the main force of the Qing army to be taken away by Chen Tai to go north to rescue the three prefectures of Hangjiahu, which is a place of wealth, and the Fujian Green Camp was defeated by Li Chengdong in Chaozhou Mansion, and quickly led the army into Fujian. He himself is now sitting in Haicheng, with a small 100,000 horses (or 100,000 people...... It has penetrated into many places in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Local forces and even Qing court generals heard that the Zheng clan with the banner of the Southern Ming Dynasty had returned, and they came to vote one after another, causing the Qing court's power in these two prefectures to collapse in an instant and no longer become a threat.

After recovering these two provinces, the Zheng clan, which had a chance to breathe, had already joined forces with Li Chengdong's department in the Southern Ming Dynasty -- but it is difficult to say whether it was a good thing, and the relationship between the two ministries seemed to be not harmonious. In his opinion, the 100,000 army is pressed down like a mountain, and Zhao Guozuo's 20,000 shrimp soldiers and crabs in his hands will definitely become powder, how can he be the opponent of his Zheng family's army? Xinghua and Fuzhou are under the country, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou are already in their hands, and it is not difficult to capture the prefectures of Jianning, Yanping, and Shaowu.

Well, the Qing army captured in the battle can use it, and if it can't be used, it will be sold to the yellow-clothed thief. These northerners, who came to my Fujian to kill more evils, were originally to be punished by the canon, but now they can sell them to the yellow-clothed thieves in exchange for some much-needed weapons, which can be regarded as their atonement for their sins. A hundred years later, when I arrived in the underworld, I had more or less face to see my ancestors, which was cheap for them!

In addition, the men and horses led by Guo Sheng, the general of Youguoyi, who led the army into Jiangxi, consolidated the occupied territory of Yuanzhou Mansion and rapidly expanded the army to more than 50,000 people, and began to move east to occupy Linjiang Mansion, and then attacked the Qing army in Ji'an Mansion with Wang Deren's troops who went north from Ganzhou, defeated thousands of Qing troops, and recovered Ji'an Mansion. After doing this, Guo Sheng led his army to Zhangshu Town, Linjiang Prefecture, and defeated thousands of Geng Zhongming's general Xu Degong's troops who rushed to suppress him after hearing the news with skillful firearms tactics, and pursued them to Fengcheng County, and only returned to the starting place after a great raid. At present, Geng Zhongming and Shen Zhixiang, the commanders of the Qing army in Jiangxi, are firmly holding the prefectures of Nanchang, Ruizhou, Jiujiang, Raozhou, and Guangxin in the northern part of Jiangxi, and no longer dare to attack southward, and Wang Deren, who occupies the southern part of Jiangxi, is also greatly relieved.

"The defeat of the Jiangnan Tartars on all fronts is the time for our generation to rise up. Come on, bring Ben's Andalusian BMW, Ben will lead his sons out of the city to chase the enemy! Cai Huaze thought of the military situation in Jiangnan that he had listened to at the meeting by the commander of the Yellow Army, and suddenly felt that the Tartar court was crumbling, and the shape was very good.

At this moment, Tian Xiong besieged the dock camp for two days and nights, and was about to lead the army to retreat, the head of the stable fort had raised the banner of coordinated pursuit, Cai Huaze suddenly felt that the time had come, so he ordered his own soldiers, planning to take more than 1,000 elite men and horses out of the city to disturb the enemy, so that he could not retreat freely. Anyway, now that the gunboats on the east coast are blocking the river, it is not afraid that the old nest will be lost, and the Qing army will also withdraw its troops. (To be continued)