Dominate the Country

The fact was just as Fuyong and his men had imagined. The Chen family army, which had worked all night to complete the crossing of the river, left the camp the next afternoon and moved diagonally to the side and rear of the Qing army.

Chen Ming would not play a stalemate with the Qing soldiers. After tying the Qing army in front of him, he had to quickly turn to Nanyang, directly penetrate Nanyang Prefecture, and attack Yunyang in one fell swoop. This was a move that Chen Ming had started to arrange early. He believed that after entering Yunyang, the Chen family army would definitely enter the fast lane and win an unprecedented period of rapid expansion.

After taking Yunyang, the Chen family army had the capital to turn its attention to the wider Huguang and Jiangnan. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are definitely not as important as Henan in terms of geographical location to the Qing Dynasty, but Jiangnan in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is the Qing Dynasty's money bag; Huguang in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is the Qing Dynasty's grain storage.

Before the early Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan region was the "world's granary", and grain production became the lifeline of the country's economy. But in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the economic level of Jiangnan continued to improve, and even the private gardens of the rich won with exquisite elegance, and the area was generally not large. According to the economic theory of later generations, the transformation of Jiangnan from focusing on grain production to emphasizing grain production and developing a variety of economies and service industries was completely successful, that is, from the primary industry to the secondary and tertiary industries. Their position in grain was replaced by the Huguang region, which had an obvious advantage in irrigation, from "Su, Changshu, the world is full" to "Huguang is full, the world is full".

The Chen family army wanted to threaten Jiangnan, but it was still a little insufficient, but Chen Ming was very confident in disrupting Huguang, especially Hubei. Of course, all this was based on the premise that he could quickly defeat the enemy in front of him. There are many assumptions and assumptions...

Chen Ming, whose actual available troops were less than one-third of the Qing army, was now like a cheetah facing a strong bison. He approached the bison carefully, staring at every move of the bison, avoiding the savage collision that the bison might launch, and looking for a bite, or even a fatal blow.

"At night. Let's fight them at night!"

This was Chen Ming's little calculation. Under the cover of night, the effect of cannons and even muskets will be reduced to the extreme, while the easy-to-operate and powerful flying thunder cannon can be like a fish in water. At that time, the Chen family army wearing armor will take advantage of the flying thunder cannon to fight with thousands of blades. Can they not beat the Qing soldiers in front of them? Besides, the night will also hinder the mobilization of the Qing soldiers, and Chen Ming did not defeat the Qing soldiers all at once.

13,000 Qing soldiers, this "bison" is too big, and it has to be divided and eaten.

At night, the heavy firepower of the flying thunder cannon, which can easily change a place with a "shot", is completely a bug. The Qing soldiers can't threaten them no matter how many cannons they have.

So the Chen family army, which left the camp in the afternoon, only moved a position from time to time in the extremely vigilant eyes of the Qing army, and did not formally launch an attack until the sun set. But when the night fell, the nerves of the Qing soldiers were even more tense. No one thought that the Chen family army was going out for fun. If they don't fight in the afternoon, they will probably make a move at night.

Before nightfall, Chen Ming made Yongrui, Fuyong and others realize that the Chen family army would not only make a move at night, but also a big move.

The sound of fierce fighting sounded in the southwest of the Qing army's main camp. A Qing army camp three or four miles away was already caught in a fight. The Chen family army used the flying thunder cannon to smash open the "gate" of the military camp. A battalion of armored soldiers rushed in. Behind them was a professional grenade thrower. After the hand-to-hand fight, they completely swept through the small camp with only one battalion garrison in a horizontal push.

In the main camp of the Qing army, Yongrui was a little nervous, and Fuyong was also slightly worried. They couldn't tell whether this was a small counterattack by Chen Ming or the first shot of the night...

"Don't you need to send reinforcements?"

"Sending reinforcements will probably be blocked by the Chen army."

Night is not day, not to mention that the moon is not round today, and the vision is dim. The Qing soldiers are holding torches, and Fuyong can almost be sure that they will run into the blocking troops of the Chen army. In this way, there will be a big battle on both sides, but the night will greatly reduce the power of guns and artillery, and will also weaken the advantage of the Qing army in numbers to a certain extent.

Fuyong would rather fight the Chen army in the daytime than fight in the dark, which might be a chaotic battle. The Chen army, with all the soldiers wearing armor, will undoubtedly have a great advantage. If the Qing army is defeated, the consequences will be disastrous.

The slight increase in the ratio of guns and cannons has made the Qing Dynasty gradually forget what iron armor is. Even if the Eight Banners soldiers still wear their own cotton armor that is like a lightning rod, no one would say that they are really better than the elite Green Camp in Gansu and Shaanxi. However, the appearance of the Chen family army has made iron armor a fatal link in the war.

When the defeat was already decided, Ford submitted a memorial to Beijing suggesting that the Qing court should give armor to the Green Camp soldiers, but it was not recognized by Emperor Qianlong at all. At that time, in the eyes of Emperor Qianlong, the harm caused by giving armor to 600,000 or 700,000 Green Camp soldiers might be greater than that of the Chen family army, because it would shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

But on the battlefield at the moment, no matter how many more troops Yongrui and Fuyong had than the Chen family army, they did not want to fight a large-scale night battle with the armored Chen family army at night that was difficult to control.

The sound of fighting in the Qing army camp was gradually fading, and Yongrui felt very uncomfortable. This camp was abandoned by them.

"Kill!"

Chen Wei, from the first squad of the first battalion of the armored soldiers, had his armor covered in blood, but he still wanted to charge forward.

Before the battle began, he had hoped that he could be the first to break into the Qing army camp and the first to kill the Qing army's battalion officer, which would be a great achievement that could not be ignored. But he did not do any of these, and Chen Wei did not know whether this would affect whether he could get a higher-level medal. Anyway, when the long spear in his hand pierced into the body of the Qing soldier, all these thoughts disappeared, and there was only one thought left in his mind: "Kill, kill--"

The brave will win when they meet on a narrow road.

You cannot be timid in hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield. Regret and panic are all useless. If you want to avoid death here, you have to show more courage than the enemy.

Countless soldiers of the Chen family army who had the same idea as him waved their swords and guns vigorously, piercing the bodies of the Qing soldiers again and again. The Green Camp soldiers, who were only wearing thin uniforms, had no resistance to the sharp swords and guns.

The spear head in Chen Wei's hand pierced into the face of the opposite Qing soldier without resistance. With the help of the rush, the sharp spear head pierced through the Qing soldier's skull, and the spear tip came out directly from the back of his head. But his spear got stuck in his skull, and before he could pull it out, another spear stabbed him in the calf. Chen Wei screamed miserably, as if the spear had pierced through his calf. Then Chen Wei fell to the ground. At the moment he fell, he saw the Qing soldier holding the spear had his ferocious head removed from his neck by a flash of knife light, turning into a headless corpse...