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"Hurry up!" Yue Le stood up from the Taishi chair and helped Shi Lang up with his own hands, "A certain is not a prince for a long time, but now he is just a small shellfish, how dare he receive such a big gift from Shi Junmen!" ”

Shi Lang's eyes were red: "In the heart of the last general, the prince will always be the prince!" Now that Taishi Ao has been martyred, only the prince can block the attack of the thieves! ”

Yue Le smiled bitterly in his heart, he knew that he couldn't stop the Ming army at all, and now the Anqing defenders, the only role was to delay for a while. If he followed Yue Le's method, he would simply abandon the land of Lianghuai, and all the Qing troops on the east road would retreat to the Shandong line; The Qing army on the middle road held on to Xiangyang; The west road guards Shaanxi.

Shrink the defense with all your might, so that the Qing court can still survive in the pass for a long time.

But the imperial court wants to defend every city, so wouldn't it disperse the limited forces and wait for the Ming army to come and break through each one? The field battle could not be fought, every city of the Qing army was besieged, and the nearby troops were afraid that the Ming army would encircle the point and send reinforcements, so they did not dare to come to the rescue, and could only watch the friendly forces annihilated. Wasn't that how Huang Taiji dealt with the Ming army when he was outside the gate? Now it's all the other way around, and it's become the Ming army against the Qing army.

Whether an army can fight or not depends on the field battle. If you can beat the opponent in the field, you can turn the opponent into a turtle with a shrunken head, and the initiative to attack is all in your own hands.

Although the loss of the siege battle may be relatively large, but the initiative is in hand, I want to attack the city, I can attack the city, I don't want to attack the city. The losses will be large during the siege, but the besieging side will not be completely annihilated, and you can retreat if you see that it is not easy to fight. But the defenders of the city had no choice, once the city was broken, it would be the end of the entire army.

Today's defenders in Anqing City are all defeated generals who have retreated from Huguang, with more than 20,000 sailors from Shi Lang, 6,000 new troops from the Huguang Green Battalion who retreated with Yue Le and Jieshu, 8,000 people from the Ganshan Green Battalion, more than 12,000 people from the other miscellaneous Green Battalions, more than 1,000 people from the Manchurian Eight Banners, and 3,000 from the Han Eight Banners.

Originally, the Qing army had a lot of soldiers and horses in Huguang, why did only these people go to Anqing? Because after the defeat of Huguang, most of the troops fled to Xiangyang with Tuhai, and only 30,000 horses fled to Anqing on the naval warship, plus 20,000 sailors, the total strength was 50,000.

There were only 50,000 people, including 20,000 sailors, Yue Le was worried that there was no support at all, so he recruited a large number of soldiers and people near Anqing, and the defenders barely reached 120,000 people, known as 300,000 troops.

Although it is said to be 300,000, in fact, there are 30,000 real soldiers.

Every time he thought of this, Yue Le could only sigh. He knew that he had no way out, once Anqing was defeated again, Prince Kang Jieshu might still have a way to live, what about himself? There is only one dead end.

At this point, Yue Le's idea was to cause as many losses as possible to the Ming army, and he could be regarded as worthy of the imperial court. So this time he called Shi Lang to discuss how to deal with it.

"May I ask Shi Junmen, now that the thieves are menacing, how should we deal with it? The thief's army of 180,000, although it may be claimed to be 180,000, but after a certain calculation, the thief's elite soldiers are estimated to be more than 30,000, as well as the naval cannon. This battle, unless the sailor can win, it is possible to hold it! Yue Le sighed.

Yue Le also knew that the chances of the sailors winning were very small, and the Ming army's fleet was too strong.

Shi Lang arched his hand: "Lord Wang, the last general will definitely try his best, if he is defeated, the last general will be loyal to the court to the death!" ”

Yue Le asked, "How does Shi Junmen break the thief?" ”

"At the end, the plum blossom formation will be placed, with the big ship in the center and the fire attack ship outside, go downstream, first defeat the Puppet Ming Haikou giant ship that comes up from downstream, and then turn back to deal with the Puppet Ming boat coming downstream, it will be much easier." Shi Lang replied.

Yue Le knew that this battle was auspicious, so he didn't say anything more, just nodded slightly, and asked Shi Lang to go back and prepare quickly, ready to meet the Ming army.

Upstream, the general of the Ming army, Wang [Fu] Chen, rode on the flagship of Liu Guoxuan, the admiral of the naval division.

"Wang Junmen, it is said that the Tartars have 300,000 troops in Anqing, and they rely on the strong city to defend it, I don't know how sure Wang Junmen is to break the enemy?" Liu Guoxuan asked with a smile.

That is, because it was claimed to be 300,000, and later gave Wang [Fu] the capital to brag about: the old man led an army of 50,000 and defeated 300,000 Tartars!

Although the Ming army had a solid army of 180,000, when Wang [auxiliary] ministers calculated their own troops, they ignored the auxiliary soldiers and naval divisions, and ignored the Nanyang Navy and Zhejiang army that came downstream, and only counted their own 50,000 land divisions, plus the Qing army claimed to be 300,000, which created a miracle for Wang [auxiliary] ministers to break 500,000 and break 300,000.

Wang [auxiliary] sneered: "The Tartars escaped from Huguang, and only 30,000 land divisions fled to Anqing, and the rest were either water divisions or local recruited auxiliary soldiers, wouldn't it be easy to break the enemy with my 50,000 soldiers?" To win this battle, the key is to defeat the Tartar sailors, which is the Lao Liu Junmen. ”

Liu Guoxuan laughed: "The Tartar sailor is not afraid!" Please also ask Wang Junmen to see how to break the enemy! ”

Five days later, that is, the sixth day of the sixth lunar month of the sixth year of Kangxi, which was three days of six for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but it was not a good day, because the final battle of the Manchu Southern Naval Division kicked off on this day, and then the Qing court had no water division available outside the entire Guan, and the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty only left the Heilongjiang Naval Division. However, the Heilongjiang Navy Division was useless, it could not be navigated in winter, and could only be used as a fixed battery, which could be defeated by Zheng Zheng's sleigh car.

A few miles downstream of Anqing, the Yangtze River turns a big bend here that is almost close to a right angle, flows from west to east, becomes from south to north, on the west bank of the Yangtze River, there are mountains such as Yandai Mountain and Tiger Mountain, and there are mountains such as Wushi Mountain, Laoniukeng, and Catfish Mountain on the east bank. Because the Qing army gathered in Anqing, and Anqing had a huge naval battalion, the other side of the Yangtze River in Anqing was also the area controlled by the Qing court.

On the hills on both sides, forts were arranged, and there were lakes dotted along the river, and the Qing army ambushed the warships of its own sailors in the lakes, and could wait for the opportunity to attack. There were also many islands in the center of the river, and Yue Le and Shi Lang mobilized a large number of people to build forts on the islands in the middle of the river to block the Ming fleet.

Shi Lang considered that the fire attack ship was not suitable for sailing against the current with wind power, so he chose to use the fire attack ship to go down the river and attack the naval warships of the Ming army coming up from downstream. In order to make the fire attack ship play a role, Shi Lang not only strengthened the firepower of the battery, but also arranged a barrage rope and an underwater hidden pile in the river, which will not stop the small boat, but can block the way of the big ship, so that it is convenient for the fire attack ship to attack.