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Chapter 1057 Invasion

The military meeting that morning ended quickly after Yang Zhen sorted out his thoughts and made up his mind.

With Yang Zhen's determination, Zhang Chen's deductions, and the additions of Li Lu, Yang Shen and others, an encirclement and annihilation plan was quickly finalized.

Because of Zhang Chen's previous analysis and Yang Zhen's decision, the direction in which the Qing captives in Jiulian City would divide their troops for field operations was as obvious as the lice on a bald man's head.

It is impossible for the Qing rebels in Jiulian City to divide their troops and go south, because not far south is Andong City and its defense outpost Zhenjiang Fort.

Moreover, the farther downstream, the Yajiang channel becomes wider after gathering many tributaries, and the water volume becomes larger. For the Qinglu, who do not have a navy or a large number of ships, it is difficult to cross the river quietly.

Therefore, they can only have one direction, which is to take a detour to the north, then find an opportunity to cross the Yajiang River in the upper reaches, and then go south from the east bank of the Yajiang River.

After coming to this conclusion, Yang Zhen's generals were divided into two groups.

One faction argued that their army should divide their forces and go north to find the place where the Qing invaders were crossing the river, and either attack them while they were halfway across the river, or set up an ambush at the place where they must pass on their way south, so that they would surely win a great victory.

The other group advocated relying on the ready-made camp to set up a pocket formation on the spot, waiting for the Qing captives to attack.

Faced with these two propositions, Yang Zhen decisively chose the second one proposed by Yang Shen.

Yang Shen still put forward his idea from the perspective that his artillery regiment and battalion were slow in movement, difficult to arrange and difficult to hide.

But his proposal made Yang Zhen realize the biggest benefit.

That means being silent and leaving no trace.

Because once the army raises its own troops and divides its troops to set up an ambush in the north, or makes other major moves, the Qinglu sentry scouts across the river from itself will definitely notice something abnormal.

Once unusual movements are discovered in the Ming army camp on the other side of the river, perhaps the Qing captives will not attack.

Therefore, in Yang Zhen's view, the best way to use this opportunity to fight a war of annihilation is to remain calm and prepare secretly.

When Yang Zhen expressed his idea, the generals quickly reached an agreement again.

On the morning of April 14, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, after the military meeting, everything in the Ming army camp outside Xinyi Fort was the same as yesterday.

Around nine o'clock, each battalion went out to exercise normally. At the same time, the cooks and auxiliary soldiers in each battalion began to light fires and cook stoves, bake pancakes, cook rice porridge, and prepare salted fish and pickles, which gradually became lively.

At around Chen time, after breakfast, the sentry soldiers, auxiliary soldiers and a large number of civilians in the Ming army camp who were supposed to go to the Xinyibao construction site were still working as usual. Soon the sound of trumpets at the Xinyibao construction site began to sound one after another.

Except for the generals and above the sentinel officers of each regiment who knew what might happen, Yang Zhen's decision at the military meeting in the morning was not conveyed to the ordinary soldiers.

As for the auxiliary soldiers of each battalion and the civilian workers who are mainly engaged in the construction of the new city, they have no idea of ​​the impact they may face.

Therefore, whether in the eyes of Yang Zhen or in the eyes of Fei Yangwu and the sentinels he sent on the other side of the Yajiang River, who have been paying attention to the movements of the Ming army camp, the Ming army camp and the Xinyibao construction site look like everything.

normal.

Fei Yangwu, who had always been cautious and not very enthusiastic about raiding the Ming army camp, finally calmed down after hearing the news brought back by the sentinels he sent out.

However, what he didn't know was that everything in the Ming army camp was normal, and that was just what it looked like on the surface.

After all, the Qinglu lookout post at the head of Jiulian City and the Qinglu sentry detectives hiding in the mountains on the west bank of the Yajiang River face each other across the river. They are separated from the Ming army camp on the other side of the river by a river. At the nearest place, there are three or four

Liyuan.

Even if Fei Yangwu's Qinglu Zhenglan Banner Ba Yala held a telescope and observed across the river, it was difficult to truly detect all the layout of the Ming army's camp and its surroundings.

In fact, before and after the battalion exercises at Mao hour, the drills on the mobilization, distribution and deployment of the sentry troops of each regiment and battalion have been completed.

The order to rely on the existing Jiangdong camp to conduct defensive counterattacks and strive to completely annihilate the invading enemy was conveyed to all battalion generals, sentry officers, and sentry adjutants who were scheduled to participate in the war as soon as the military meeting ended.

, as well as the team officers of each team and the first-level team adjutant.

Moreover, in order to concentrate combat forces, Liu Zhongjin's artillery battalion that Yang Zhenlian sent to the north of Xinyi Fort yesterday to be responsible for building artillery positions was replaced with auxiliary soldiers and civilians.

At the same time, all the light and heavy artillery that had not had time to move up the artillery positions north of Xinyi Fort were deployed on the two wings and deepest part of the Ming Army's Jiangdong Camp.

The artillery deployed on both wings are mainly sky cannons and flying thunder cannons.

Deployed in the deepest part of the camp were a whole heavy artillery battalion of heavy Hongyi artillery that had not yet been deployed to the north of Xinyibao City.

Yang Zhenzheng's Eastern Army Artillery Regiment Battalion has two heavy artillery battalions under its jurisdiction, both of which are heavy vehicle and artillery battalions. Each heavy vehicle and artillery battalion is equipped with fifty heavy Hongyi cannons with carriages and three shaft horses.

Every thirty people are responsible for one heavy artillery with carriages and horses. There are ten guns per sentry, and fifty guns are exactly 1,500 people.

Of the two heavy artillery battalions brought with the army, one had already been deployed along the river on the day of arrival, so naturally it could not be moved lightly at this time.

The other one was originally planned to be deployed to the north of Xinyibao City today.

At this time, it is stored deep in the camp, and it can be used in this waiting operation.

Fifty doors are not too many, but not too few.

If you add in the sky cannon battalions deployed on the left and right wings and more than half of the sky cannons and flying thunder cannon battalions, Yang Zhen's instant firepower output in the Jiangdong camp is definitely very rare in this era.

What's more, among the firearms currently used by Yang Zhen's command, there are several types of booby traps that are no less powerful than heavy artillery shells that can defeat thousands of enemies. They can be placed in advance in the middle of specially designed traps for invading enemies.

In this way, around 10:00 on the morning of April 14, Yang Zhen assigned the men and horses of each battalion, and on the pretext of repairing the camp defenses, he placed the participating battalions in the front, rear, left, and right sides of the camp, and waited while constructing.

Although as early as yesterday, Yang Zhen had dispatched a patrol headed by Li Shouzhong to the north and asked them to search for hidden Koreans while inquiring about the situation of the enemy.

However, no news has been returned since Li Shouzhong set off.

Therefore, Yang Zhen was not sure when and where the Qing soldiers and horses might cross the river, or when they would suddenly appear nearby and launch an attack on his camp.

However, Yang Zhen also had a rough judgment. Once the Qing captives in Jiulian City were really determined to divide their forces to attack, they would definitely do so within the next two days.

Because the sun-gazing tide on the 15th is approaching, by that time, the Jinhai Town navy stationed in Andong City near the mouth of the Yajiang River will pour into the river near Jiuliancheng, and the Qingluo will have no way to "defeat" the Ming army camp.

the best time.

Yang Zhen was very sure that it was impossible for Qinglu Town's Duke Fei Yangwu, who had been stationed in Jiulian City for more than a year, to be ignorant of the hydrological conditions of the Yajiang River, and to be unaware of the situation after the arrival of Jinhai Town's navy.

Even if Fei Yangwu, the lord of Jiulian City who was born in the Qinglu clan, was a dandy who was indifferent to food and work, there must be senior Qinglu generals under him who knew about this situation and were aware of the consequences.

As long as Fei Yangwu has such a person under his command, once the Qingluo makes up his mind, he will definitely do it sooner rather than later.

Therefore, Yang Zhen had already made preparations to face the incoming Qing soldiers and horses at the earliest in the morning of the 14th and in the evening of the 14th at the latest.

But it was said that this morning, Yang Zhen had just personally arranged the combat position of his own direct guard, which was the gun team of the general town government, and led Zhang Chen, Zhang Guogan, Yang Shen, Liu Zhongjin and other major generals who accompanied the camp.

While inspecting the camp, I came near the north gate of the huge camp and heard a commotion at the watchtower of the north gate.

"Hurry and report to the Governor! A small group of cavalry is coming, with thirteen horses and thirteen men!"

Yang Zhen and the others were still some distance away from the north gate when they heard someone on the north gate watchtower shouting down below.

The words shouted by the sentry upstairs shocked Yang Zhen and thought to himself: "He is indeed here!"

"Get out of the way, get out of the way quickly, don't block me!"

"Geng, you are so cowardly. You dare to ride your horse straight to the camp gate! Aren't you afraid of having your head chopped off?!"

"I have urgent military information to report to the Commander-in-Chief! If you delay the military information, you will see whose fucking head the Commander-in-Chief will chop off!"

Yang Zhen's Jiangdong Camp is a village built along the river. It is generally in the shape of a long and narrow oval, narrower from east to west, about one mile at its widest point, and longer from north to south, about two miles. It is definitely worthy of the title of Daying.

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The camp was separated from the inside and outside by trenches, earth embankments and solid wood fences. To facilitate entry and exit, four camp gates were left. Not far from the east gate was the river bank, not far from the west gate was the Xinyi Fort construction site, and further west were the mountains and dense forests.

Only the lowlands along the river lie in the north and south direction of Daying. The terrain is relatively flat and open, suitable for large numbers of people to enter and leave.

At the same time, because the camp was set up in a hurry, and to ensure smooth access for vehicles and artillery, there were only simple watchtowers at the four camp gates, and there was no time to build a deep trench suspension bridge outside the camp gates.

Only two rows of resisting horses were placed far outside the camp gate to briefly block the cavalry from charging into the camp.

However, since the cavalry was placed a little further away, the small group of cavalry could go around without slowing down and go straight to the camp gate.

When Yang Zhen led Zhang Chen and others to inspect the camp defenses and arrived near the north gate, they encountered a small team of sentinels returning from patrolling, bypassing the horses and rushing towards the camp gate.

"Geng Zhibiao, you are so fucking majestic!"

Zhang Chen, who was in charge of the frontline reconnaissance and combat preparation affairs, naturally recognized the leader who led the patrol team straight to the camp gate, and started yelling at him on the spot.

"Ah?! Is it the Commander-in-Chief? Geng Zhibiao, you have urgent military information to report!"

"Is there any urgent military situation?! The Governor is right here. Get off your horse and come see him immediately!"

"I obey, little one!"
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