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Taizhou Mansion is deep and winding along the coastline, suitable for large sea ships to dock and land, as many as more than ten places, Huaidong Army at the same time to control Yueqing Bay in the south of Taizhou. The Zhejiang-Fujian army had only 10,000 soldiers and horses in Taizhou, and there were three counties along the coast that needed to be defended.

Ge Cunxin led the 2nd Water Battalion to distract the Taizhou defenders in the outer seas, and the commander of Huaidong who was responsible for attacking Wen Qiao was Chen Yan, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion. On the night of the 28th, by the faint light of the stars and the moon, the Chen Yan Department first landed at Hengpu at the north tip of Yueqing Bay, and in the early morning of the next day, they made preparations for an attack, and marched north from the valley road between the Baifengjian and Liushuiyan mountains, and entered the territory of Taizhou Prefecture to fight.

Wenqiao used to be called Haiqiao, since the early days of the previous dynasty, Wenqiao was built as a town because of the existence of an ancient road from the Taizhou Plain to Yueqing Bay, this ancient town has a history of hundreds of years, and it was once the seat of Wenling County.

Such a place, but also from Yueqing Bay into the Taizhou Plain the shortest, the most convenient passage, from the north shore of Yueqing Bay landing, over the five miles wide low slope ridge, is Wen Qiao, over Wen Qiao, is to Jinping Mountain surrounded by Wenling Plain, Wenling City Wen Qiao is ten miles apart, Wen Qiao is also the defenders of the key defense Huaidong from Yueqing Bay landing into Taizhou's walled city.

Taizhou then focused on defending Wenqiao, but due to the overall strength, the actual garrison force was also limited.

The most important thing at present is to quickly insert the Taizhou Mansion garrison into the northeast side of Wenqiao before finding out the active direction of Huaidong, so as to prevent the Taizhou Mansion defenders from transferring reinforcements from Wenling County to strengthen Wenqiao's defense.

In order to confuse the Taizhou garrison, they specially abandoned the road of directly attacking Wenqiao, and the elite two battalions that landed from Hengpu made a detour from Huwuling on the west side, and forced the Taizhou garrison to garrison Xiao in the southwest to defend another place in the direction of Yueqing. Chen Yan led a battalion to be lightly armed, dragged to the corner of the day at the Tangtou Temple to land, non-stop over the Xiaogenwu Ridge, and directly attacked Wenqiao.

The rate of the old stains is sharp, the negative bow and the knife, the light travel, the speed of the line is fast. Although when they landed at Tangtou Temple, they alerted the lookouts on Xiaogenwu Ridge, and when a battalion of sharp soldiers completely landed on the shore, the wolf smoke on Xiaogenwu Ridge was ignited.

The black smoke column blew away and rushed straight into the clouds.

Chen Yan led his troops to rush to the foot of Xiaogenwu Mountain, and only then did a garrison team of more than 100 people hurriedly climb up to the top of the ridge to intercept it. Obviously, Wen Qiao's defenders mainly guarded against the Huaidong Army to seize the valley road on the west side of Xiaogenwu Ridge, set up a large number of obstacles there, and laid down the defenders.

The Xiaogenwu Ridge is a plain mountain, and although it can hinder the passage of the brigade of soldiers and horses, it cannot intercept the lightly armed soldiers from crossing it at all.

Seeing that the defenders of Lingtou had arrived in a hurry, Chen Yan did not organize the formation, so he immediately ordered the relatively well-armored men and horses of the two teams to directly attack Lingtou from both sides. At this time, it is necessary to seize speed and time, and not let the defenders gain a firm foothold at the head of the ridge, otherwise even if the formation is rectified, the difficulty of attacking will be doubled.

Traveling lightly, carrying a bow and a sword, a lot of light armor, no big shields, big crossbows, and no flying contradictory vehicles that can cover the rain of arrows. The two teams of soldiers and horses divided into a dozen good marksman, from the two wings to advance, standing at a relatively high place, accurately shooting the defenders at the head of the ridge, other soldiers or with light shields to protect the front, or let the temporary soldiers wearing two layers of armor in front of directly raise their hands to protect the front door, and rush up.

More than 100 defenders, in a hurry, rushed to the head of the ridge is also out of breath, and to the local recruited township bravery, bow more hunting bows, see the Huaidong army like a wolf like a tiger rushing, most of the people feet soft heartbeat, although relying on the condescending advantage, but in a hurry to shoot arrows, sparse pulling, not into a threatening salvo.

When the archers of the Huaidong Army shot fierce and accurate arrows from 200 paces away, the defenders at the head of the ridge were suddenly in chaos. Even if the back attack rushes through the place of a stone's throw it is only twenty breaths of time, the armor rushes up, the Mo knife hand is under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, it is like a killing weapon, and the defenders also have armor, but they can't cooperate with each other to fight, no matter how thick the armor is under the 145 catties of Mo knife, it is also a split, and the ordinary spear is also broken with a split......

The defenders of the ridge were defeated, and the first armor to climb the ridge was not busy pursuing, but only let the archers occupy a favorable position to shoot them, mainly to stabilize the position, and cover the brigade of soldiers and horses to climb up.

The wounded soldiers were treated on the spot.

Each soldier of the Huaidong Army carried a hemostatic agent with him, which was packed in a small porcelain bottle, and the general knife wound was sprinkled with medicine powder on the wound, which could not only stop bleeding but also prevent the wound from festering, and tie and wrap gauze to continue the battle.

For those who are seriously injured, as long as they are not fatally wounded, they will also be treated and bandaged by the accompanying soldiers, and then five people will be left to cover the rear road of the soldiers who continue to advance, and ensure that the head of the ridge is not taken away by the enemy's scattered soldiers; Only three of them were deeply wounded by the arrow in the waist and abdomen, and the shaft of the arrow was reamed, and they had to be carried down the hill to get the arrow.

Chen Yan climbed to the top of the ridge and looked at the past, Wenqiao Town is at the northwest foot of Xiaogenwu Ridge, and you can also see the corner of the northwest mouth that enters Wenqiao from the Wenling Plain. The hundreds of defenders who had set up barriers and dug trenches on the valley road on the west side of Xiaogenwuling to block the passage into Wenqiao Town hurriedly retreated north and fled to Wenqiao Town.

Wen Qiao is worthy of being a big town that existed in the middle of the previous dynasty, standing at the head of the ridge and looking at the past, the black tiles and white walls are lined up one after another, the scale is not small than the ordinary small county town, and the periphery of the town is a circle of high and thick, stone and brick parapet walls.

According to the previous reconnaissance of the sentinels, the Taizhou government sent Wen Qiao's guards to inspect one of them. Although Wen Qiao had a battalion of defenders, there were less than 200 soldiers who were really directly subordinate to the Southern Zhejiang Governor's Mansion, and the rest were recruited from the local government.

Due to the attack and harassment of the East China Sea in recent decades, the towns and villages along the coast of southern Zhejiang have considerable protective power, and have been confronted with pirates for a long time.

However, the local forces in Wenqiao Town should be very limited in their loyalty to the luxury family, as long as the passage to support Wen Qiao from the Taizhou Plain is blocked in time, and most of the Huaidong Army will land on the valley road on the west side of Xiaogenwu Ridge, the will of the local forces in Wenqiao will not be too strong. Counting the time, unless there were reinforcements in Wenling on the way to Wenqiao when the wolf smoke was in the air, it would be impossible to block the entrance to Wenqiao Town from the north before the reinforcements came.

In addition to leaving the soldiers and wounded soldiers of the two capital teams to defend the ridge, Chen Yan did not delay, and immediately led the rest of the nearly 400 lightly armed soldiers to descend from the narrow and tortuous ridge road, bypassing the main village of Wenqiao Town, and storming Shuicangtou Mountain in the north of Wenqiao.

Xiaocangtou Mountain is not high, only more than ten zhang, but it is in the north of Wenqiao, to avoid Xiaocangtou Mountain, you need to bypass seven or eight miles of mountain roads to enter Wenqiao.

There is a mountain temple with only three houses on the top of the mountain, and Chen Yan is attached to the mountain temple, controlling the small cangtou mountain, and sealing the mouth from Wenling to Wenqiao.

Although the number of defenders in Wenqiao Town was large, a small group of soldiers first went out of the village to fight, but they shot back with a bow and crossbow on this side, and they guarded the town and did not come out. After about half an hour, Chen Yan relied on the mountain temple and stood firm in Xiaocangtou, and the reinforcements came belatedly from the direction of Wenling County, only more than 500 people, less than one battalion.

According to the topography of Xiaocangtou, Chen Yan mainly shot with a bow and a bow, intercepting the Wenling reinforcements and preventing them from entering Wenqiao. At this time, the main force of the remaining three battalions of the first brigade of the Chongcheng infantry battalion came from the southwest foot of Xiaogenwu Ridge to Wenqiao.

With no defenders behind, the ridge barriers and ditches on the west side of Xiaogenwu Ridge were easily cleared for soldiers and horses to pass through.

In the early morning, more than 1,000 elites who made a detour from Huwuling to attack Xi'ao Village thought that they were suspicious soldiers also rushed to converge from Hualing, watching more and more soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army entering Wenqiao, the defenders in the town completely gave up the intention of attacking Xiaocangtou Mountain with reinforcements, and could not hold on, and more than 500 reinforcements insisted until the afternoon, and also abandoned dozens of wounded soldiers and hurriedly retreated to Wenling City.

Chen Zhen is war-loving, if he is left to his temperament to fight, the next ironclad will be to forcibly attack Wenqiao Town with superior forces, but in the battle plan, after forming a siege of Wenqiao Town, ensure that the Taizhou garrison cannot form a threat, and give priority to persuasion to surrender.

Chen Yan was in the temporary command shed set up in the mountain temple, and the person who came to surrender from the Yueqing faction was Zuo Guangying's brother Zuo Shixiong, who was born in Xiucai and was also a well-known figure in the local area, and came to persuade him to surrender with a letter from Zuo Guangying and Liu Wenzhong.

Yueqing and Wen Qiao are next to each other, many people are related to each other, and it is good for everyone to be able to disarm Wen Qiao without bloodshed.

The biggest obstacle in front of him is the inspection sent to Wenqiao by the Southern Zhejiang Governor's Mansion and nearly 200 soldiers and horses directly under the Southern Zhejiang Governor's Office.

Chen Yan didn't have much patience, and he wanted to quickly open up the situation in southern Zhejiang, and he was destined to ask for a quick solution here, and said to Zuo Shixiong, who was going to enter the town to persuade him to surrender: "Don't go in, the guards sent by the luxury family are still controlling the situation inside, and if you want to go in, you will probably be beheaded with a knife." See that you are honest, I can't harm you to death. I asked the soldiers to take a big shield to protect you close to the wall, and if you see someone familiar, shoot the letters of Captain Zuo and Lord Liu into it. But to make it clear, the people inside don't fall before sunset, and Lao Tzu has no spare time to continue to spend time with them. Attack this side, and when the time comes, Hugh will blame the sword and gun without eyes and a river of blood! ”

Chen Yan asked Zuo Shixiong to get close to the town to find acquaintances to persuade him to surrender, but the preparations for attacking the village here did not stop.

The stone walls around the perimeter of Wenqiao Town are high and thick, which can effectively prevent pirate raids, but after all, they are not as good as the regular city walls.

This side opened the passage from Yueqing Bay to Wenqiao, and the components of large equipment were easily transported in, and two siege ramshells and several stone-throwing crossbows were quickly assembled and pushed into the open space that Wenqiao Town could see.

Just before sunset, a mutiny suddenly broke out in the town of Wenqiao. Wen Qiao, who was loyal to the luxury family, inspected and two hundred soldiers, insisted on not surrendering, and the Hu family, a big family in Wenqiao, persuaded the Minyong generals to coerce the two hundred soldiers to open the gate of the village and surrender. Unexpectedly, the matter was not secret, and Wen Qiao's inspection felt like an abnormality, and the inside was suddenly killed. Fortunately, the Hu family sent someone to open the gate of the village in time, let the soldiers of the Chongcheng infantry camp in, controlled the scene, and surrounded and killed the two hundred soldiers loyal to the luxury family.

Even so, more than 200 people were killed and injured in Wenqiao Town, and the blood flowed like a river.

Chen Yan didn't care about these, he was used to seeing dead and wounded, even tens of thousands of corpses piled up in front of him, and he could chew meat patties without changing his face.

After controlling Wenqiao Town, Chen Yan was stationed in a relatively open area in the north of Wenqiao Town, and would continue to send troops to come ashore to sweep away the towns on the periphery of Wenling and Huipu, in order to create a situation based on Wenqiao and attack to recover Taizhou, and attract the troops of the luxury family in Quzhou and Dongyang County.