"Commander, the military supplies and supplies have been prepared, and the lost soldiers have been replenished."

Du Yonghe reported to Li Chengdong.

Li Chengdong nodded, with a sharp look in his eyes.

"Liu Wuyuan, this time, I will capture Ganzhou and chop you alive!"

In the first month of the 22nd year of Chongzhen, Li Chengdong ordered the entire army to assemble in Nanxiong Mansion, Guangdong. This time, 10,000 more soldiers and horses were mobilized than last time, a total of 90,000.

In addition to leaving Hao Shangjiu and Ma Bao to guard Chaozhou to guard against the Qing army in Fujian, and leaving Li Yuanyin to guard their old nest in Huizhou, Jiangning Bo Du Yonghe, Wuzhi Bo Yan Keyi, Xuanping Bo Dong Fangce, Baofeng Bo Luo Chengyao, Fenghua Bo Huang Yingjie, Le'an

Bo Yang Dafu, Zhen'an Bo Zhang Daoying, Boxing Bo Zhang Yue and other generals were dispatched.

In late February, Li Chengdong's army had all passed Meiling and entered Jiangxi.

"Let's all discuss how to fight this battle?"

After his first defeat in Ganzhou, Li Chengdong became much more humble and liked to discuss everything with generals.

"Commander, we have many troops, so we should attack Ganzhou with all our strength."

Generals Du Yonghe, Luo Chengyao, Huang Yingjie and others advocated attacking Ganzhou directly.

Li Chengdong frowned. He suffered a big loss last time. Ganzhou is not easy to fight.

"Commander, I think we should attack the peripheral counties of Ganzhou first to isolate Ganzhou from the outside world, and then attack Ganzhou.".

General Yan Keyi offered his advice.

"Commander, General Yan, this is a good idea. We have a large number of troops. If we divide our troops to attack each county, we will not be able to capture Ganzhou, and we will besiege Ganzhou to death."

Du Yonghe also agreed with Yan Keyi's idea.

Li Chengdong nodded: "That's it. Last time, my 80,000-strong army was defeated by more than 10,000 Liu Wuyuan's men. I lost all my face in front of the prison country! Wherever I lost my face, I must pick it up again."

.This time my 90,000-strong army will destroy the city of Ganzhou. Are you willing to join me in a bloody battle in Ganzhou to avenge the shame?"

"Bloody battle in Ganzhou, revenge for blood shame!"

The generals responded generously.

Li Jun fought fiercely with the intention of revenge.

Li Chengdong personally led the army and captured Xinfeng County, which is in the south of Gan County under the control of Ganzhou. He also sent Dong Fangce, Fan Chengen, and Yang Youguang to attack Yudu County to the east of Gan County. He also sent General Yan Keyi to garrison Quling. He was prepared to besieged and trapped to death.

Ganzhou City.

After receiving a letter asking for help from Yudu County, Liu Wuyuan, governor of southern Qing and Jiangxi, was hesitant.

If you don’t save it, let Li Jun attack one county after another, and Ganzhou will soon become an isolated city; if you save it, Ganzhou already has few troops, so if you divide the troops, what if the enemy directly attacks Ganzhou?

One person is short-term and everyone is wise. Liu Wuyuan also held a military meeting.

"Futai, the last general is willing to bring only 800 troops and horses to reinforce Yudu County", guerrilla attack on Kong Guo's rule.

"General Kong, there are no jokes in the army. You must think clearly."

"If you can't defend Yudu, the general will eventually come to see you."

Liu Wuyuan stared at Kong Guozhi and took a careful look.

"General Kong, if you can defend Yudu City with only 800 troops and horses, I will promote you to the rank of participating general."

Kong Guozhi took the order and left.

"Last time Thief Li suffered a big loss in our Ganzhou, and he will definitely take revenge this time. Let's discuss how we can defeat the enemy at the gate of Ganzhou?"

Xian Qiyu, Yang Yuming, and Jia Xiong advocated holding on to the city

Hu Yousheng, Gao Jinku, and Liu Bolu suggested that the policy of "quick combat is the advantage" and take the initiative to attack before the Ming army approaches the city.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!"

The Melezhangjing rubber merchant who came to Ganzhou to aid under Tan Tai's order suddenly laughed.

Liu Wuyuan was very surprised: "Why is the rubber merchant Zhang Jing laughing?"

The glue merchant said: "I laugh at Li Chengdong who doesn't know how to fight. He actually divided his troops to attack various counties. His troops were scattered, which is the only way to defeat. In the battle of Sarhu, the Ming army attacked the Qing Dynasty from all directions. The old Khan Wang said, 'Cure' "I have come several ways, but I only go one way." The same is true today. We should take advantage of Li Chengdong's opportunity to divide his troops and defeat Li's army one by one.

Liu Wuyuan was overjoyed: "The rubber merchant Zhang Jing is indeed a Manchu hero and can be the vanguard of the entire army."

To shoot a man, shoot a horse first; to capture a thief, capture the king first.

Liu Wuyuan ordered Jiao Shang to lead the 6,000 cavalrymen of Zhenghong Banner and Zhengbai Banner as the vanguard, and he led more than 10,000 infantry as the rear army. He first attacked Yan Keyi's troops stationed in Quling; then crossed Quling and attacked Xinfeng County where Li Chengdong was located.< /p>

On February 28, the Qing army attacked Quling.

Yan Keyi led an army of 10,000 to meet the enemy.

As soon as they formed their formation, they were overwhelmed by the crowd. The Qing army's cavalry used Jia La as a unit, lined up in four columns, and attacked fiercely.

Looking at the four-sided dragon flag that was either pure white or pure red, Yan Keyi was shocked: Eight Banners soldiers! Are reinforcements from the Qing army arriving?

The sound of artillery, the flash of arrows and the roar of gunfire.

Li Jun's artillery, bows, arrows, and muskets began to fire, and from time to time, Qing cavalry fell off their horses.

However, the Qing army was arranged in columns, the contact area was small, and the casualties were not large.

"咴聿聿!"

Zhengbai Banner Niu Luzhen Ebutai rushed to the front, and soon he was in front of Li Jun's formation.

He is a veteran, looking at Li Jun's long spears, turning the horse's head, and the horse galloping sideways.

Obtai took out a sharp sword and used the momentum of his horse to cut off the spears. Under the sun, the falling spear heads shone with silver light.

"Da! Da! Da!"

The Qing cavalry behind rushed towards the long spear without a spear head, broke the barrel of the spear, and jumped into the formation.

The cavalry who broke into Li Jun's formation wandered through the gaps in the small mandarin duck formations. They shot with arrows, stabbed with lances, or chopped with sabers.

Li Jun fell into a pool of blood one by one.

"Kill!"

The rubber merchant's yellow gelding rushed up, and the rider behind him carried his general's flag.

The long knife was waved, and heads fell to the ground one after another.

The seemingly strong Li Army's military formation loosened, and Yan Keyi was forced to retreat by the defeated army. The Qing Army's cavalry then chased him. On Quling, corpses littered the fields, and the vegetation was stained red with blood.

Yan Keyi fled to the wooden city and prepared to defend it. The wooden city is a kind of fortification, which is made of wooden piles partially buried in the soil and connected end to end.

Having learned the lessons from their last defeat in Ganzhou, Li Jun built a lot of fortifications. Yan Keyi even built five wooden cities in one go.

As soon as Yan Keyi retreated to Mucheng, the glue merchant's cavalry chased him.

Originally, the siege was a matter for the infantry, but the glue merchants gave up and ordered the entire army to dismount and fight on foot.

The Eight Banners soldiers dismounted one after another, leaving a few people per cow to guard the horses. The rest formed small square formations and charged towards Mucheng like a tide.

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The wooden city was not as strong as a real city, and Li Jun suffered a new defeat, and his army was demoralized.

The Eight Banners soldiers broke into the city and killed everyone.

Yan Keyi could not resist and retreated to the second wooden city. The glue merchants followed him to the second city.

The second city fell quickly, the third city, the fourth city, and the fifth city.

The Qing army captured five cities in one day, and on the 29th, they reached a point five or six miles away from Xinfeng County.

Li Chengdong was shocked when he saw that Yan Keyi withdrew to Xinfeng with only thousands of defeated troops.

"General Yan, how many soldiers and horses have come from the Qing army?"

Yan Keyi blushed: "The enemy army only has more than ten thousand soldiers and horses, but there are thousands of Eight Banners cavalry among them, which are very fierce and stubborn. The general was not prepared for a moment, which led to this defeat. Please punish me, commander-in-chief."

Li Chengdong felt relieved when he heard that the Qing army only had more than 10,000 troops in total. Although he divided his troops to attack various counties, there were still 50,000 Li troops in Xinfeng County.

Li Chengdong ordered the entire army to assemble and go out of the city to meet the enemy. He knew that the Qing army had many cavalry, so he ordered many spears to be deployed in front of the formation.

"Charge!"

The Melezhangjing glue merchants ordered the cavalry to charge into battle.

Jia La is still used as the unit, arranged in four columns, with 1,500 people in each column.

"Da! Da! Da!"

With the sound of horse hooves, the Eight Banners soldiers chopped off their guns and rushed towards Li Jun's formation with all their strength.

Those who were unlucky were stabbed to death with spears.

Li Chengdong's spear array is very thick, layer after layer.

Seeing that they could not take advantage, the glue merchants led their troops to pass through Li Jun's formation.

After galloping to the rear of the formation, he ordered the Eight Banners soldiers to dismount and take a hard lunge shot.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
To be continued...