"Ten thousand **? What the hell did your mother do!"

Zhou Quanbin has always regarded himself as a Confucian general, and it has been many years since Zhou Quanbin used such foul language. ∝Pine√apple√Xiao∝ Speaking of this, he not only cursed, but also kicked the Sihui Ming army who came to report the news.

The survivor kicked him to the ground, then pointed at his nose and questioned him again.

"How many Tatars have come, under the guise of which bastard? I don't want to hear even a single word of untruth!"

Originally, the Qing army used cavalry to harass Qingyuan County, which was a frequent drama after the war between Britain and Germany. Zhou Quanbin had already realized from the beginning when he received the emergency report from Huang Xing that Hong Chengchou cut into northern Guangdong to try to intercept the Ming army.

Occupying Yingde on the supply line can achieve this goal, and the same can be said for seizing Qingyuan. Therefore, as soon as he received the news, he directly asked Ma Bao to lead his troops to Yingde County to assist in the defense. Because of the Huangshui River, there was bound to be a

It will be the first target of the Qing army. And he will lead Qianchong Town to continue to guard Qingyuan.

His sudden decision further ensured the defense of the two places. It not only bought Yingde County time to wait for Chen Kai's reinforcements, but also ensured the safety of Qingyuan County. Originally, according to the current development of the situation, as long as it waits until tomorrow

The army made a final breakthrough in southern Jiangxi. Hong Chengchou was bound to retreat without a fight. He could perfectly complete the task entrusted by Chen Kai. However, not long after, the Qing army came from Sihui County.

News of the great attack and the fall of the city.

Sihui is about a hundred miles away from Qingyuan, and even closer to Sanshui, only seventy or eighty miles away, and there is also the Suijiang waterway. If you go down the river, you won't even be able to use it for a day. Regardless.

Wherever they are about to be attacked by the Qing army, it will be a great danger to this supply line.

Zhou Quanbin was so furious that he frightened the Ming army who reported the news and came out. Immediately afterwards, the Ming army revealed everything at once.

It turned out that this guy was not someone who broke out of the siege to seek help when the city was broken. Instead, when the Qing army successfully raided the city, he happened to be in the woods on the way back to the city, and happened to see this scene.

The Qing army entered the city in one fell swoop. He knew that with the strength of the defenders alone, he would definitely lose the city, so he rushed to Qingyuan County overnight to ask for help from the Ming army. As for why Sanshui County was not chosen, it was actually because he had predicted it at the time.

It was judged that the next target of the Qing Army was Sanshui County. Two legs could not run with four hooves, so naturally they did not dare to go in that direction.

"The cavalry of the brigade is endless as far as the eye can see..." Zhou Quanbin frowned, thought carefully, and then asked him: "The Tatars don't have infantry?"

"This, I really haven't seen this humble position."

Simply attacking the city with cavalry is in accordance with an old saying - when things go wrong, they must be monsters. Zhou Quanbin thought over and over the words of the Ming army. If he had any questions, he would ask them directly. But the more he asked, the more he asked.

The more strange it is, the tactics of the Qing army, and the even stranger purpose behind it.

"We must send someone to take a look."

Just relying on the words of a Ming army who saw the Qing army entering the city on the road was definitely not enough. Zhou Quanbin needed more information to make a better judgment. Seeing this, he quickly sent out detective horses to investigate in the direction of Sihui County.

However, the Ming army arrived on foot at first and snatched a mule halfway to travel. It took three days to barely encounter the Ming army's detective horses patrolling Qingyuan County. When he returned to the city, he fully understood the situation.

Bin explained that Zhou Quanbin would send his cavalry to Sihui County again, which would take another two days. But when he came back, the cavalry could cover the distance of more than 100 miles in one day, and Zhou Quanbin did not wait anxiously.

It took too long to determine the situation in Sihui County.

"Commander, the Tatars withdrew long ago. They only stayed in Sihui County for one night and left early the next day."

In just one night, the Qing army withdrew without a hair left. After Tan Ma arrived, he conducted a basic investigation and quickly determined that the Qing army did not spend time on killing innocent people indiscriminately after seizing the city, but only brought

They took away enough food and grass and threw all the prisoners into the county prison, and that was it. This style of work was just like the Qing army in the Ming army's impression that they were two biological forms from different planes. Tan Ma explained all this.

After meeting Zhou Quanbin, Zhou Quanbin couldn't believe it at first, but soon he figured out why the Qing army was so restrained.

"This is a drunkard who doesn't care about drinking!"

The two previous questions, one is why the Qing army chose such tactics. According to the reports from the detectives, the number of Qing troops, the officials in the city, the prisoners of the Ming army, and the people have different opinions, but one thing is certain.

This Qing army came from the direction of Guangning County, and the flags it carried were those of Zhang Yong and Hu Maozhen. Naturally, they were the southwest meridian marker south of the Huangshui River.

After the Battle of Yingde, Chen Kai made a report. Zhou Quanbin roughly knew how many troops the Qing army had. Those too huge numbers could be ignored directly. Moreover, according to the tactics used by the Qing army, and in all aspects, there were no

Seeing the fact that there is a large-scale infantry in the Qing army, it can be directly determined that this Qing army only has cavalry, and the number will not exceed two thousand. Otherwise, supply will be difficult, and problems will arise on the Anglo-German battlefield that are difficult to balance.

The Qing army was not large in number, but they still chose to defraud the county seat that was so far away from Huangshui Camp. After seizing the county seat, they abandoned the city the next day, treating it completely as a post station. Look at what happened after they left Sihui County.

direction, then the purpose of the Qing army is self-evident.

"This must be notified to Chen Fujun as soon as possible!"

The Qing army only attacked with cavalry. According to Zhou Quanbin's estimate, it should be more than a thousand. This number is still larger than the actual number of the Qing army, but it is still the smallest one after analyzing all kinds of intelligence, and it is also the most powerful.

A close one. But the problem is that even such a number is not something that his Qianchong Town, which has only four hundred cavalry, can resist. Even if Sanshui's guard Zhong Town and Guangzhou's reinforcements suppress the rear town are

Counting this, it is a tie with the Qing army.

However, when Chen Kai went on an expedition, he only dispatched various towns along the Beijiang River to defend the area. Each town had no authority and responsibility to govern between them. He could not control Chen Yaoce and Landeng, and Lan Deng and Chen Yaoce could not control him either.

Then there is no need to think about gathering troops to pursue and suppress them.

"It's been several days, and it's impossible to catch up."

The Qing army came from the direction of Guangning, and it had obviously been poisoned there. From Yingde to Guangning, the Qing army traveled by land in the mountainous areas, which would take at least more than 200 miles; from Guangning to Sihui, it would be more than 200 miles.

It is only a hundred miles away; and from Sihui to Zhaoqing, it is also only a hundred miles away. The infantry's daily marching speed is calculated based on many factors, but for the cavalry, the hundred miles journey often does not even take a day.

Even if the Qing army needs to explore along the way, it is impossible to run wild and they can always arrive in one day. In other words, the few days they were confused in Qingyuan were enough for the Qing army to cross Zhaoqing Fucheng and attack Wuzhou Fucheng.

Yes.

You can't just do nothing just because you can't catch up. Zhou Quanbin hurriedly wrote the emergency report. The thoughts that he had smoothed out before made the writing here seem to be done with a single stroke.

After calling the messenger, Zhou Quanbin raised his hand to hand the letter into his hand, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he suddenly hesitated for a moment. Then, he waved away the messenger and carefully weighed the moment.

Due to the pros and cons of the battle situation, it was not until a long time later that the messenger was called again and asked to deliver the emergency report to Chen Kai as soon as possible.

"Let Chen Fujun decide the specifics."

The messenger rushed towards Yingde County along the official road. Zhou Quanbin knew nothing about Chen Kai sneaking into Ganzhou Prefecture with the Iron Man Army. When the messenger arrived, he had no choice but to continue heading north after confirming that Chen Kai was not there.

, it was not until we arrived at Nan'an Fucheng that we took a boat and went down the river.

When the news was sent to Chen Kai's case, it was already at the governor's office in Ganzhou. The two armies of the Ming Army had just finished resting and were preparing to set off. After Chen Kai read the urgent report, he immediately pressed

Captured these two armies.

"A bunch of trash!"

At this moment, the person Chen Kai was cursing was certainly not the two armies, nor Zhou Quanbin, who had sent people all the way to deliver the message. Judging from Zhou Quanbin's urgent report, it is very likely that even Zhaoqing's capital city was lost at this time. Even the capital city of Zhaoqing was lost.

Even if Zhaoqing Fucheng was not lost, as long as the Qing army tried to spread rumors, it would be enough to shake the morale of the Ming army in Wuzhou Fucheng.

All this boils down to the fact that the Ming armies in Guangning and Sihui counties are too weak. If one had to rank the Ming armies in Guangdong in terms of their combat effectiveness, Chen Kai believed that the Ming armies in northern Zhaoqing would rank last.

The county's garrison - they were all recently recruited soldiers, coupled with some veteran soldiers. Those who were more capable of fighting were all drawn by Liancheng Bi to form the Supervisor, and they were nothing more than the defective products that had been eliminated.

But even such defective products are pitifully small in number. The two counties of Guangning and Sihui together have only about 200 garrison troops. Even if the regiment is in one county, there is not enough for Zhang Yong and Hu Maozhen.

It’s a gap in the mouth, let alone divided into two counties.

This is not the biggest problem. The key is that Chen Kai and Gao Wengui guard northern Guangdong and eastern Guangdong. Those areas in the northern part of Zhaoqing Prefecture are almost the hinterland. They are just useless wood, with a pitifully small number. Coupled with their carelessness,

There's nothing new about being calculated by others without any intention.

"Before Li Chengdong defrauded the city of Guangzhou, the Qing army entered Guangdong from Fujian and successively captured the two prefectures of Chaozhou and Huizhou. After seizing the two places, they first blocked the news and created false intelligence, and then attacked with light troops and deceived the city in one fell swoop.

He defeated the Shaowu court. Even Guangzhou can do this. The small Guangning and Sihui counties are still commanded by famous green camp generals like Zhang Yong and Hu Maozhen, so it is not a matter of holding hands."

After getting angry, Chen Kai quickly canceled the Huangshan Group's order to move north into the hinterland of Jiangxi. At the same time, he sent people from the Tiandihui to Jishui County to inform Zou Nan, ordering Tiandihui members in all counties in Ji'an Prefecture to strictly prohibit any action. As for Ke Chenshu

Group, Chen Kai assigned him to the two towns that were originally planned to stay in Ganzhou Fucheng to assist in the defense, and asked them to immediately go south to attack the Southwest Meridian. After expelling them, they immediately rushed to Wuzhou Fucheng to help in the battle without delaying for a day.

"If I were in Yingde County, I might have a snooker-style pursuit. If I played well, I would use the headquarters troops and horses as white balls, the southwestern meridian as red balls, and the various departments in western Guangdong as colored balls, and finally achieve a goal.

I have no chance to clear the stage. Even though, I never planned to do it. But now, not to mention these evil ways, I am afraid that if it is only a day and a half late, the entire battle situation in Guangdong and Guangxi will be turned upside down.

Change. This may be Hong Chengchou’s last trump card!”

Among the third-line battlefields, Wuzhou Fucheng may have always been the least valued, because Chen Kai did not intend to intervene in the war in Guangxi prematurely. Instead, he planned to directly penetrate Hong Chengchou's thousands-mile long border in southern Jiangxi. Northern Guangdong and southern Jiangxi

The war is centered on this. Now Chen Kai has basically achieved his goal, but Hong Chengchou obviously has no intention of admitting defeat. Even if he is not Chen Kai's opponent, he will do his best to change the current situation of the war.

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"This traitor is really a big player!"

The problem now is no longer to choose one of the two, let alone swallow it all in one breath. Hong Chengchou took advantage of the emptiness in the northern part of Zhaoqing Prefecture to reverse the situation in one fell swoop.

This kind of thinking is not a scheming one. Even Chen Kai had to admit that Hong Chengchou's strategic layout was indeed very large. It's a pity that all this great ability was used to serve me as a slave for the Qing Dynasty. It was really a waste of class.

It got to the point where it was unbearable to look at.

While complaining, Chen Kai simply handed over the defense of the southern Jiangxi area to Huangshan, and set off southward with Ke Chenshu. Now that the Ming army in western Guangdong is involved, he definitely needs to deal with the western Guangdong civil servant group.

, this is no longer a purely military issue, Chen Kai needs to go there personally, and at the same time, it is also to find the last opportunity, the opportunity to kill Hong Chengchou.

Returning the same way again, but this time it was no better than when Chen Kai rushed to Yingde County for reinforcements. There were only soldiers and horses from two towns - Zuo Admiral, Left Town, Houchong Town, Guard Front Town, and Guard Right Town.

, this is tens of thousands of soldiers.

When the Qing army fled, they took away a large number of ships, which inevitably affected the Ming army's transportation capacity. However, Chen Kai was eager to return, so he even transferred a lot of ships from Gongshui and Xinfeng River.

This ensures that the troops heading south can rush back to northern Guangdong as quickly as possible.

Along the way, Chen Kai blocked the news as much as possible, went up Zhangshui, passed Nan'an Fucheng, took the land route, and then changed to the Zhe River boat at Nanxiong Prefecture to reach the boundary of Yingde County.

Since he wanted to catch Hong Chengchou off guard, Chen Kai did not plan to disembark at Yingde County. Instead, he disembarked in advance, took a detour to the upper reaches of Huangshui River, and crossed the river from there, blocking Hong Chengchou's retreat route back to Lianshan County.

Chen Kai has done many simulations on the map, and the possibility of stopping Hong Chengchou is still very high. However, there is a problem, that is, once the Southwest Meridian is forced to fight against the odds, he may have to rely on throwing

The bomb soldiers and the Iron Man Army came to break the formation. After all, Hong Chengchou had read so many books, and it was impossible that he didn't know about Han Bingxian's methods back then.

Such worries have been weighing on Chen Kai's mind since he made the plan. It was not until the army entered the border of Yingde County and Li Jianjie sent a messenger that Chen Kai's worries were finally put to rest.
Chapter completed!