He Renlong and Liu Wenxiu chose the ambush location, there are some commonalities, He Renlong chose Wang Jiangjing, Liu Wenxiu chose Shitang, these two places are not very many, and the terrain is very flat, the army is ambushed in such a place, the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious, such a place, conducive to cavalry combat, can kill the opponent to the greatest extent, and it is not easy for the opponent to escape, but such a place ambush, the army is easy to expose, it is possible to alarm the opponent prematurely, so that the opponent is fully prepared.

If it was Jin Tartar after the ambush, He Renlong and Liu Wenxiu would never choose such an ambush location, it would be too arrogant, but in the face of the army under Liu Zeqing's command, the two of them had surprisingly the same idea, they just wanted to exterminate Liu Zeqing's army in a dignified manner, reflecting the power of the Jiangning battalion.

This battle is very critical, the next Jiangning battalion is going to conquer Nanzhili, there are a lot of troops stationed in Nanzhili, and once Nanzhili is threatened, the imperial court will attach great importance to it, and soon mobilize troops from Wuchang and Jiangxi, Zuo Liangyu, who is stationed in Wuchang, leads an army of 200,000, which must not be ignored. Once the Jiangning battalion is majestic, the reputation spreads again, whether it is Zuo Liangyu of Wuchang, Huang Degong of Luzhou, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, or the newly appointed Shangshu Sun Tai of the Nanzhili Military Department, when facing the Jiangning battalion, they will have a fear mentality, and the momentum will be lost first.

Liu Zeqing's two generals, respectively, led the army, from Hangzhou and Huzhou to Jiaxing, their harvest is very good, carrying a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, so the trip is not very fast, in fact, they are not in a hurry, after all, it is a 100,000 army, even if it is the Jiangning battalion. With 40,000 against 100,000, it is also necessary to be cautious, besides, even if they come back a little later, they can still carry out a front and rear attack on the Jiangning battalion, and defeat the Jiangning battalion besieging the city in one fell swoop.

With that in mind. The two generals did not deliberately ask for speed, but they did not care about another raid along the way, and the army was always on the march.

The fate of destruction awaits, but they are still dreaming, and they haven't even sent too many scouts to investigate.

Coincidentally, the two armies that returned from Hangzhou and Huzhou arrived at Wangjiangjing and Shitang in one day at the same time, which has to be said to be the tragedy of Liu Zeqing and the tragedy of the imperial court.

February 25, 15th year of Chongzhen. A.D. 1643.

Two battles were fought at the same time in Wangjiangjing and Shitang.

The battle of Wang Jiangjing began in Chenshi, and the battle of Shitang began at three quarters of Chenshi, and the difference in time between the two battles was three quarters, but the result was the same.

Both He Renlong and Liu Wenxiu focused on the use of Fran cannons and cavalry, first using artillery, especially Fran cannons. Suppresses the opponent's momentum and inflicts massive damage on the opponent. Then have the cavalry charge, chasing down the opponent who is already on the verge of collapse.

The battle situation is all one-sided mode, Su Tiancheng's prediction is very accurate, and the sergeant under Liu Zeqing, who is worthy of being a veteran soldier, found that the situation was not right. Thinking about scattering and escaping, there was no resistance at all, but unfortunately most of these sergeants were foot soldiers, and the cavalry was pitiful. To deal with the common people, Liu Zeqing did not need to send many cavalry.

When the foot soldiers meet the cavalry, they are already at a disadvantage, unless they form a square formation and use spears or spears to resist the cavalry, once they scatter and escape, they become the target of the cavalry, and they are mercilessly killed one by one.

He Renlong and Liu Wenxiu discussed it when they set off, although Su Tiancheng asked not to kill too much, but they knew that these veterans under Liu Zeqing had almost no effect, and it was impossible to enter the Jiangning camp, once they were captured, they would have to take care of the lives of these people and waste food, so the idea of the two was to kill to the maximum, as long as they did not direct the weapons, they would not leave any living mouth, so although there was some taste of slaughter, there was nothing wrong with it.

But their plan came true, the sergeants under Liu Zeqing's command thought of escaping, and at the beginning of the stage, no one thought of surrendering, this is because many sergeants are carrying gold and silver treasures in their arms, if they surrender, these treasures are not their own, they will definitely be confiscated, so they didn't think of surrendering, they all ran desperately.

The so-called people die for money, birds die for food, this is a true portrayal.

People's murderous spirit is not innate, it is tempered in a harsh environment, on the battlefield, if you don't kill the opponent, people will kill you, experience more such an environment, the murderous spirit will naturally arise.

The murderous spirit erupts to the limit, there are two possibilities, one is that the two sides are evenly matched, and they are caught in a desperate fight, and it really reaches the point where either you die or I die, at this time, even if it is a cowardly sergeant, it will be stimulated to kill, and it will explode in an instant, and from then on become an excellent sergeant, and the other situation is that the strength of the two sides is too different, and the battle has become a one-sided situation, the sergeant can raise the butcher's knife in the face of the defenseless people, which is also a manifestation of the explosion of murderous aura, but this murderous aura may be cultivated by bloodthirsty madness, not an excellent sergeant.

The soldiers of the Jiangning battalion met the second situation, but these sergeants are all excellent sergeants, and they have long been accustomed to killing on the battlefield.

After the massacre lasted for more than half an hour, the fleeing sergeants finally understood that they could not escape, looking at the corpses everywhere, holding the brothers around them kept falling, and some of the sergeants began to surrender on their knees.

With a man kneeling on the ground, soon sergeants followed suit and began to kneel on the ground as well.

He Renlong has long been killed, in the face of such a battle, he has long forgotten that he is the commander-in-chief, brandishing a steel knife and rushing up, Ai Nengqi is not much better, such a battle that can be easily won, there is no need to leave any reserves, and there is no need for too much defense, after He Renlong rushed up for a quarter of an hour, he also rushed up.

The sanity of Kehe Renlong and Ai Nengqi is still there, once the opponent surrenders on his knees, they can't slaughter indefinitely, and they can't kill the opponent who surrenders on his knees, this is the military regulations of the Jiangning battalion, the iron-like military regulations.

The slaughter slowly stopped.

When the general was escorted up, He Renlong and Ai Nengqi didn't even get off the horse, and the large amount of gold, silver and jewelry seized made the two of them have no good opinion about this general, besides, according to Su Tiancheng's handling opinion, this general has no chance of survival.

The task of cleaning up the battlefield was quickly arranged, but there was no need for the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion to do it, and the captured prisoners were the best laborers.

An hour later, He Renlong and Ai Nengqi got an accurate battle report, the 30,000 Liu Zeqing's sergeants who rushed back from Huzhou, more than 8,000 people were captured, and the remaining 20,000 people were all killed, and those who escaped were negligible, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the Jiangning battalion were killed and seriously injured, and the minor injuries were not counted for the time being.

This is a casualty ratio of thirty to one, even He Renlong and Ai Nengqi were stunned, they didn't expect that they would completely wipe out the 30,000 army with just more than 1,000 casualties.

More than 8,000 people who were captured dug a huge pit and threw all the more than 20,000 people who were killed into the pit, and as for the soldiers who died in the Jiangning battalion, they were cremated according to the rules, and the ashes were brought back and handed over to their families.

The battle between Liu Wenxiu and Li Dingguo did not last long, 10,000 against 10,000 people, in terms of numbers, it was the same, which made the battle much simpler, but the effect on the battlefield was almost the same, at first the opponent was also desperately fleeing, and later found that the situation was wrong, and only then did some people kneel and surrender.

The whole battle ended in just over an hour.

The results of the battle were brilliant, and the 10,000 soldiers under Liu Zeqing, who came back from Hangzhou, only saved their lives of more than 1,000 people, and the rest were all killed, and even the generals who led the team were directly killed in the melee, and the soldiers killed and seriously injured in the Jiangning battalion were less than 500 people.

At the end of the battle, after the results were cleared out, He Renlong and Liu Wenxiu quickly sent messengers to report the results to Su Tiancheng, who was waiting outside Jiaxing City, as for the two armies, the time to return to Pinghu was a little late, mainly because they carried prisoners, and they had to leave a part of the soldiers to watch over these prisoners, so the speed of the march could not be very fast, but after the vanguard troops rested a little, they would quickly rush to the outside of Jiaxing.

The heralds set off overnight and quickly rushed to the outside of Jiaxing on horseback.

At midnight on 26 February, the heralds sent by He Renlong and Liu Wenxiu arrived outside Jiaxing almost at the same time.

After receiving the battle report, Su Tiancheng's face was very calm, but Fan Jingwen and the others were stunned.

Su Tiancheng asked Liu Tiehan to bring Liu Zeqing's secret envoy over.

"Two days ago, didn't you say I was arrogant, now I can tell you, the 40,000 soldiers who came back from Huzhou and Hangzhou have been annihilated by us, more than 9,000 people have been captured alive, and more than 30,000 people have been killed, I can also tell you clearly, the battle will not last long, tomorrow these prisoners, you can be taken here, after dark today, I will let you go back, enter the city, you go and tell Liu Zeqing, get ready, tomorrow, when we start attacking the city, you tell Liu Zeqing, I hope to be able to fight with him happily, anyway, he Liu Zeqing once served as a garrison in Liaodong, and it can be regarded as resisting the golden Tartars, I hope he can show courage and not be too bearish......"

The secret envoy's face had turned pale, he didn't believe it, the 40,000 army disappeared like this, according to this situation, wouldn't the 60,000 army stationed in Jiaxing Fucheng also be annihilated by the Jiangning battalion in a short period of time, and now it is not a matter of negotiation, it is a matter of whether to surrender immediately.

It's a pity that Su Tiancheng did not accept surrender. (To be continued......)