Fight Yuncheng again.

Chen Ming led his troops across the Shahe River, crossed the Dahong River, a strange river with a wide upstream and narrow downstream, and directly opened the scene for the Qing army from the north and south of Xiping County, Runing Prefecture.

There is still a river between the two armies, which is one of the tributaries of the Hong River, the Rolling River.

The Anhui Green Battalion of Chenzhou Mansion was dispatched again, and Chen Huizu led his troops to Zhoujiakou again, eyeing Yuncheng. This time, he simply started from the northeast corner of Yuncheng.

After winning the Henan Green Battalion again, Chen Jiajun used the captured mules and horses in his hands to organize a hundred-man horse team -- there was no shortage of men who could ride horses in Henan and Anhui.

The combat strength of Chen Ming's horse team has exceeded 500 people, and Lu Shan also provided him with a logistics battalion in a timely manner. The direct combat power of Chen Ming's subordinates exceeded 5,000 people.

But opposite him, there were 2,000 Jingzhou banner soldiers, more than 4,000 Hubei Green Battalions and 4,000 men and horses in Xing'an Town, Shaanxi, and counting the promotion of the four battalion heads in Fuyong, the Manchu regular army was as high as 13,000 people. This is not the army of 10,000 people led by Fode at the beginning, 13,000 people are all soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, with many shotguns and artillery, which can throw off the original Fode army three streets.

What's more, this army of 13,000 people also has Chen Huizu as a helper, and like Chen Huizu, who dragged the general cannon to Henan at the head of Anqing City, Yongrui also packed all the ten general cannons in Xiangyang City and Jingzhou City and brought them to Henan.

Chen Jiajun has already made a five-catty cannon in his lair, and is trying to produce more powerful eight-catty cannons and ten-catty cannons. However, the weight of this gun body is more than 600 catties, and if you add the gun carriage, trailer and attached ammunition box, the total weight can be as high as 1500 catties. In today's poor road conditions in China, it takes at least 4 to 6 mules and horses to maintain above the level of mobility and endurance.

Of course, the effective firing range of this cannon is also higher than that of three-catty guns and two-catty guns, which can reach seven or eight hundred meters, and the maximum firing range can exceed 400 zhang, that is, 1,300 meters.

Chen Ming pulled to the front line with only six five-pound guns. The two sides fought in Xiping, and the artillery across the river was very happy, but the distance on both sides was stretched to 200 zhang away, and the cannon roared, but the results were pitiful.

On the Chen family's side, six five-pound guns and one cannon were not destroyed, and one of the ten general cannons of the Qing army was destroyed, but it was not because it was hit by a shell, but because the operation of the Qing gunners had a problem, ignited the powder keg, and put a large firework bomb on the position, and the entire artillery crew became fragments.

The Rolling River is not a super river, and for war, there are no obstacles to such a river, which is only about two hundred meters wide.

Just when the artillery of the Chen family army and the artillery of the Qing army were coming and going, and they were vigorous, Chen Ming had already crossed the Rolling River with his troops from seven or eight miles downstream, and then quickly set up camp with his back to the river.

Of course, the Qing soldiers were also aware of Chen's moves, but by the time their troops arrived, Chen's army had already crossed the Rolling River with two musket battalions, and they also carried more than a dozen tiger squat cannons and flying thunder cannons. Ying Shou, the deputy general of the Jingzhou City garrison who led the team, only made a slight temptation, and then led the troops to retreat a mile, and by the time Fuyong led a part of the main force to kill, the Chen family's army had grown to 2,000 people on the other side of the river. The first two musket battalions also built two simple breastwork.

At that time, the breath was tense as if it was about to erupt, but Fukunaga finally retreated. The Qing soldiers came too quickly, and they didn't bring artillery, and it was too much of a loss to fight with the Chen Jiajun who had set up a shelf. Throughout the night, the surface of the rolling river that Chen Jiajun dealt with was as bright as day, and the torches on both sides of the river and the lights on the boats that stayed on the river lit up the night sky.

In one night, Chen Jiajun completed the transfer of most of the troops, and also transferred four teams of horses.

The lights in the Qing army camp were also bright all night, Yongrui's expression was very nervous, he was the 'Taiping General' for many years, and this real battle was an unprecedented severe test for him. And the real commander of the army, Huguang Governor Fuyong, summoned Changxuan, the deputy capital of Jingzhou, Ma Wenjie, the chief soldier of Yunyang Town, Qi Jian'an, the chief soldier of Xing'an Town, Zhao Yongji, the deputy general of the Xiangyang City garrison, and Yingshou, the commander of Jingzhou City, as well as his deputy general Zhou Lian, and other bigwigs in the army gathered in the big tent in the army.

A large map is spread out on the table, marking the locations of county seats, towns and even villages, as well as wide and narrow rivers, as well as peaks and hills of varying heights.

This is an unprecedentedly detailed map, the top military map of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is not at all on the same level as the map captured by Chen Ming in the past against the state capital and the Qing soldiers. Of course, there are still a lot of shortcomings in this map, and you can't compare the standards of this era with the satellite maps of the 21st century. As far as China is concerned, the map in Yongfu's hand is the top. And the map is a thing in China, except for the official and military, there is rarely a surplus circulation of private people.

This high-level map is now placed by Fuyong's group with paperweights, pen mountains, teacups, lids, and other miscellaneous things, and the targets of these things are all connected to the Qing army camp and the camp on the south bank of the Chen family army ten miles away from it.

These are not the routes for the Qing troops to attack the camp on the south bank of the Chen army, but the lines for the Chen army in the camp on the south bank to attack the camp of the Qing soldiers very likely. Chen Jiajun will not wait for the Qing soldiers to set up cannons and come to fight them with great vigour.

"What Thief Chen wants to do most now is definitely to fight a decisive battle with our army as soon as possible." Ma Wenjie's words would not be objected to by anyone in the big tent, but his words finally made Fuyong and Changxuan very dissatisfied, because Ma Wenjie's meaning was too negative.

Oh, Chen Jiajun wants to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible, and the Qing soldiers drag it out without a decisive battle. Maybe that's what the enemy wants to do, and I don't want to do it for him, right? But when Ma Wenjie, Chen Ming's subordinate, said it in his mouth, but there was a rush to avoid the enemy. This made Fuyong and Changxuan very dissatisfied. And one of them is the governor of Huguang, and the other is the deputy governor of the Jingzhou Eight Banners garrison, and their status is higher than that of Ma Wenjie, the general of the defeated army.

Fuyong was more able to calm down, he didn't directly put on a face for Ma Wenjie like Chang Xuan, probably because he, the Admiral, dealt with Ma Wenjie, the chief soldier, more often, leaving a face.

Ma Wenjie was silent, and the disdainful look on his head of the deputy capital Tong Changxuan made him want to scold his mother. He is now in the stage of meritorious service, and the people here are including Yongrui, who wants to draw Chen Jiajun as soon as possible? Throwing away the hat of 'wearing a guilty meritorious service'? However, there is no doubt that the Chen Jiajun is strong in combat. If you are not careful, you will suffer.

Fuyong and Changxuan are now showing great courage, and Ma Wenjie wants to spit on them. If Fuyong really had the courage, why didn't he attack the Chen family army who crossed the river before? If the combat effectiveness of his Jingzhou banner soldiers was strong, why didn't Chang Xuan take the initiative to ask for help at that time? Now it's an afterthought!