Chapter 529: Precursor to Infighting

Wu Sangui led his army from the Taiping Mansion, where Wuhu was located, all the way east into the territory of Ningguofu, cautiously along the way, but did not encounter an ambush from the Ming army.

A few days later, he arrived at Ningguofu to govern Xuancheng and surrounded Xuancheng.

There are only thousands of local troops in Xuancheng Mansion to defend it, and its combat effectiveness is extremely low, and if it launches a strong attack, it will take it in a few days.

However, Wu Sangui besieged the city and stayed in Xuancheng for three days, waiting for the main force of the Ming army to reinforce Xuancheng from Wuhu. However, the Ming army in Wuhu turned a blind eye to all this and ignored Xuancheng, which was only more than 100 miles away.

Under the helpless rule, Wu Sangui waved his troops to attack Xuancheng, and after sacking, he led his troops north into Yingtianfu and forced Nanjing from the south.

Ningguofu was lost, the Qing soldiers attacked the city all the way into Yingtianfu, the Nanjing court was in an uproar, and the impeachment of Chen Yue for arsoning with the enemy entered the cabinet like snowflakes, which overwhelmed the three cabinet elders and also made Emperor Chongzhen worried.

However, for Chen Yue, Chongzhen still trusts him very much. All the impeachment recitals were left unresolved, and at the same time, the court severely reprimanded those who jumped up and down. At the same time, Chongzhen ordered martial law in Nanjing, with Wu Mengming, the Marquis of Zhenbei, as the governor, and assigned ministers to be responsible for guarding the city gates. At the same time, he gave Zhejiang, Su Song and other underground orders, ordering troops from all over the country to come to King Qin.

As for Wuhu, Chongzhen just ordered someone to send the situation in Nanjing to Wuhu so that Chen Yue would know, and at the same time tell Chen Yue that he trusted him.

The Qing army actually hit the territory of Yingtianfu, and Chen Yue knew that he could no longer be silent. Then he ordered LΓΌ Tai and Zheng Sen to lead the fleet and attack the Qing army's water camp.

More than 200 warships carrying more than 20,000 sailors went upriver and launched a fierce attack on the Qing army's water village.

In the face of the menacing attack of the Ming army, the Qing army's sailors did not dare to go out to meet the battle, but hid in the water village to defend it to the death.

The Qing army of more than 200,000 troops set up more than 10 water villages by the river, stretching for more than 20 miles.

The outside of each water village is filled with logs into the water to form a wall, and the inside is connected by boats, and there is a waterway between the boats for large ships to pass freely. In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking, there are countless sharp trees nailed to the wall of the wall, which can keep the enemy's arms ships out of the water wall.

The people responsible for guarding the water village are all green battalion soldiers, because in Azig's view, the shore is far safer than the water village, and he is familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he has lingering palpitations about the battle of Chibi, so powerful Cao Mengde is still defeated in Chibi, he does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so all the Eight Banners soldiers are camped on the river bank.

Lu Tai and Zheng Sen came with a huge fleet and launched an attack on several water villages at the same time.

The tactics of the two sides are not the same, the Pingnan Army Naval Division led by Lu Tai relied on artillery, and bombarded the Qing Army's water village with ship-borne artillery.

The sailors of the Zheng family army leaned on the fireboat, and the elite warriors first braved the rain of arrows and arrows of the Qing soldiers to arrive at the water village, and used a giant axe to cut down the gun forest that protruded outwards on the wall, and then set the boat to the wall and set fire to the wall.

The Qing army's counterattack against the Ming army was also very fast, and dozens of artillery pieces of the Qing army on the shore opened fire at the same time, and the shells flew towards the Ming army fleet in the river. At the same time, the green battalion soldiers in the water village desperately fired arrows and guns, and the Zheng family soldiers who cut down the wall of the village suffered heavy losses.

Several fireboats rowed towards the Qing army's water village, and before they hit the wall, the soldiers of the Zheng family army who drove the boats turned over and jumped into the river. The blazing fireboat crashed into the Qing army's water village with inertia, and the iron ramming angle sticking out of the bow of the ship was deeply inserted into the wooden wall.

"Push it out of the way!" Xu Enpeng, the deputy general of the Green Battalion in charge of the command of Shuizhai, screamed and ordered his subordinates to support the Ming Arsenal. However, the flames were burning, and the green battalion soldiers could not get close to it.

Seeing that the wall of the village was burned down by the flames, Zheng Hongkui, who was in charge of the command, gave an order, and the warships of the Zheng family army rushed into the water village from the gap, and the green battalion soldiers fled one after another.

The two water villages were breached by the Ming army, losing nearly 100 warships and more than 2,000 casualties among the green battalions. On the riverbank, listening to the reports of his subordinates, the muscles on Azig's face twitched, and his heart was full of rage.

"Behead all the officers above the general level of the defeated soldiers in these two water villages, and pass on the whole battalion. Then there are those who are unfavorable in battle, from generals to small soldiers, all of them will be killed! Azig gritted his teeth and said viciously.

Azig was furious, and all the generals of the Manchu and Han were solemn.

Xu Entai's lips trembled and he wanted to open his mouth to plead, but he was stopped by Hao Xiaozhong with his eyes. At this time, whoever dares to come out is Azig's next target.

On the bank of the river, as the hands of the Eight Banners soldiers fell, dozens of green battalion officers fell to the ground, and their bodies were thrown into the Yangtze River.

"Brother!" Tears flowed from Xu Entai's face, and the executed deputy general of the Green Battalion, Xu Enpeng, was his cousin.

"Let's go, let's go back to the camp!" Hao Xiaozhong pulled Xu Entai towards the camp.

"The Mantar of the dog day is too brutal and ruthless, people just say kill and kill, and they don't treat us as human beings at all!" Back at his camp, Xu Entai scolded angrily.

"Alas, what can I do, people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, since I have chosen to take refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I have to fucking be a man with my tail between my legs." Hao Xiaozhong sighed, after surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he knew how free he was in the Ming army, which made him nostalgic for his past.

"Brother Hao, I can't bear this breath, can you help me?" Xu Entai stared at Hao Xiaozhong with his eyes and asked solemnly.

"You, do you want to rebel?" Hao Xiaozhong looked at Xu Entai in shock, "Wake up, brother, Mantar is too powerful, our brothers can't beat it at all, don't lose your life in vain." ”

"We can't do it, but don't forget that there are 200,000 green battalions here, all of them are under the command of Marquis Zuo, and they are all our colleagues, and the total number of Tartars here is only more than 20,000!" Xu Entai said leisurely.

Well? Hao Xiaozhong thought about it carefully, the situation was indeed the case, since Wu Sangui and Ao Bai led the army out of the camp, the strength of the Eight Banners had been sharply reduced to more than 20,000 people.

"It's definitely not enough to rely on the two of us, we have to unite with other generals, who do you think we should find first?" Hao Xiaozhong asked in a low voice.

"Brother Li Guoying has the closest relationship with our brothers, of course I went to find him." Xu Entai said without thinking.

Li Guoying? Hao Xiaozhong hesitated, mainly because when Zuo Mengeng decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Li Guoying was an important promoter, if he hadn't been the main force, Zuo Mengeng would not have been able to make a decision.

"Now Brother Li is not as good as before, do you know, he has been very close to Wuhu recently, and there seems to be a messenger of the Ming army hidden in his camp." Xu Entai took Hao Xiaozhong's arm and said in a low voice, which surprised Hao Xiaozhong.