Emperor Kangxi still had two brushes!
Although he cannot reach the height of the "Holy Ancestor", he is definitely a more difficult opponent to deal with... Otherwise, Wu Sangui would not have been beaten to death by him given his tyranny.
And his best skill in this life is to use his skills to hurt people and fight protracted wars. He used these two moves to defeat Wu Sangui, the same two moves against the Yanping Palace, and the same two moves when he later confronted "Ga Er Dan". But later, when facing Peter the Great and his elder sister, the regent Princess Sophia, these two tactics were not easy to use, so they had to sign the "Treaty of Nerchinsk".
However, this time in Guangdong, something went wrong with Emperor Kangxi's "injury with one's own roots" and "protracted war".
It wasn't that Zhu Heji had so much money that he could play with the wealthy Kangxi, but that Guangdong was too far away from Beijing. Even if Emperor Kangxi had six hundred miles of expedited express delivery available, a round trip would take half a month or even longer.
And Shang Kexi, who was driven by him, was an old traitor with a little too much loyalty. He was completely different from Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, two guys with treason behind their heads.
Therefore, he was too enthusiastic when he killed the third prince and grandson of Zhu on behalf of the Qing master. Kangxi's edict to adjust the strategy of suppressing thieves had not yet arrived in Guangdong, but he had already worked tirelessly to rush back to Guangzhou with his soldiers.
In the dark of night, a fire dragon was moving forward mightily on the winding official road in Huizhou Prefecture!
This is an army of 17,000 or 8,000 men led by Pingnan King Shang Kexi himself!
When this army left the Jieyang camp of the Qing army, its number was still more than 20,000. However, after a circle in Chaoyang County, it suddenly turned west and ran more than 600 miles in five days to Guishan County, the capital of Huizhou. At the time of entering the country, the number of personnel had been reduced to a little over 17,000... A full 3,000 to 4,000 people had fallen behind.
Although there are many people left behind, Shang Kexi does not dare to neglect at all. Especially after leaving Guishan County, the "night shift mode" of traveling day and night began. We set off every evening when the sun sets, and stop and set up camp early the next morning... which takes about five or six hours!
There are two main reasons for working night shift. First, the sun is too strong during the day!
It's late April now... This is late April in the lunar calendar, which is almost June in the Western calendar.
It’s June in Guangdong!
Moreover, there are still a group of "Guangdong" Northeasterners in the army. Most of them are middle-aged and have been pampered for many years and are no longer able to withstand the heat.
The second reason is that he is afraid of smoke and fire... He is afraid of Zhu Heji's smoke bombs, incendiary bombs and sugar grenades!
The "Rainy Sky Breaking Thunder" move that Master Zhang gave him cannot be used to deal with enemy ambush - the initiative of ambush lies in the enemy's hands!
However, Shang Kexi is also an experienced soldier, so of course he will find a way to deal with it if he is beaten. So he was thinking about how to fight this whole time? When the troops entered Huizhou Prefecture, he finally came up with a stupid way, which was to walk at night!
Don't Zhu San and Zhuge Yaodao know how to smoke? If you put out smoke to cover the Qing soldiers, wouldn't it turn the Qing soldiers into blind soldiers?
Then just march at night and start the war at night!
If there is no light at night, both sides will be "blind". Wouldn't the smoke technique of Zhu San and Zhuge Yaodao be useless?
Moreover, fighting at night can easily turn into a melee, and a melee can easily become "mixed up"! The two families mingled together and started hacking at each other. Artillery, muskets, bows and arrows were not easy to use, and they basically relied on swords and guns to fight hand-to-hand. By analogy, Zhu San's sky thunder, sky fire, etc. should not be easy to use.
As for fighting with swords and guns, Shang Kexi is still very confident in the strength of his own soldiers and horses. Although he cannot defeat the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers, here in Guangdong, Shang Kexi's flag soldiers and direct green battalion soldiers are the ones who have never lost in killing people.
It's a cloudy day tonight, the sky is covered with dark clouds, and the sea breeze blowing from the southern sea is quite strong. It looks like a typhoon is going to cause heavy rain.
Although Shang Kexi's army didn't like walking in the rain and fighting in the rain in the past... But the situation is different now, fire defeats water! If it rains heavily, Zhu San and Zhuge Yaodao's sky thunder, sky fire, and smoke will not be easy to use, right?
So seeing that it is going to rain today, Shang Kexi, who is working the night shift, is in a pretty good mood! At this time, a bell rang, and several strong horses galloped from the rear team, finding themselves near the Wang Banner, which was illuminated by a string of lanterns. Shang Kexi looked back and saw that the first rider was his son Shang Zhixiao.
Shang Zhixiao was also excited. When he saw Shang Kexi turning around, he shouted on horseback: "Amma, good news! Master Zhang just watched the sky at night and found that our army will be very lucky in the next two days. If we can If we seize the opportunity to fight the thief decisively, we can avoid the danger and gain a lot. Moreover, Master Zhang will set up an altar on the east bank of the Zengjiang River to restrain the magic of Zhuge Demon Dao for us. By then, all the thunder, fire, and smoke of the Demon Dao will be ineffective!"
That Master Zhang is really working hard. Not only did he give Shang Kexi a clever trick of "fighting on a rainy day", but Master Zhang even calculated the time to send out troops this time on his fingers. It's a good thing!
Now look at the weather... you can see that this real person calculation is somewhat accurate.
Thinking of this, Shang Kexi raised his head and looked at the sky. There was no black hair at all. In this way, you can observe the sky at night and see good luck. It seems that Zhang Tianshi's Daoheng is really extraordinary!
Shang Ke was overjoyed with the master, and of course he was in a good mood. He immediately said to the soldiers who were delivering orders: "Pass this king's order, and the whole army should move forward quickly... Don't stop after daybreak, you must be here." Cross the Zengjiang River before the heavy rain comes down, and I will give you a big reward when the time comes!"
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On the same night, Zhu Heji and Taoist Zhuge, who had moved to the Huangpu camp on the north bank of the Pearl River, were also working the night shift... They were working overtime!
Here at Huangpu Camp, it is no longer "996", but people are on duty but not off duty. The nearly 17,000 soldiers and generals from the four towns concentrated here were all "curled up" to the extreme. They were training except for eating, sleeping, and defecating. It's not about practicing martial arts or marksmanship, but practicing formation and bombing.
It is too late to practice this martial art now, but there is no need to practice the gun law... Because these days, the powerful families in Guangdong have muskets at home, and they all have gunners. Therefore, the soldiers who were selected as infantry musketeers by the Jinyi army were already proficient in using muskets. It did not mean that they could shoot accurately. They would definitely be fine if they knew how to shoot.
As for the queues and formations of these newly recruited soldiers, they had to work overtime to train, otherwise they would not be able to go to the battlefield!
Moreover, Zhu Heji no longer cared about implementing any skirmishing formations, and went directly to the simplest battalion-level square formations and battalion-level marching columns. The establishment of battalions and leaders has also been simplified and adjusted, and the scale of the battalion has been expanded. One battalion has jurisdiction over four leaders, and one leader is a pure team of 100 people.
The so-called pure team of 100 people means that 100 people are equipped with the same set of equipment. Among the four collars under the jurisdiction of the first battalion, two collars are equipped with long guns, one collar is equipped with muskets, and one collar is equipped with muskets.
Of course, I don’t dare to think about going forward or anything like that. I just need to have basically the same pace and be able to expand, move, and launch attacks normally on the battlefield.
As for bomb-dropping, not everyone practices it, but relatively strong men are selected to form a 30-person deputy team, under the direct control of the battalion generals of each battalion, who specialize in bomb-dropping...
In addition to these infantry battalions, there are also artillery commanders, cavalry commanders, soldiers commanders and supply battalions directly under each town of Jinyi Guards.
Among them, the artillery leader is equipped with hammer-throwing cannons, and each leader is equipped with twelve. The cavalry leader consisted of forty to sixty mounted cavalrymen. There are about a hundred soldiers in charge. In addition to guarding the town, they are also responsible for delivering orders with flags and drums.
The baggage battalion is also a reserve team and an engineering team, with a large number of people, each battalion has between 800 and 1,000 people.
While Zhu Heji and Zhuge Sanhe led everyone to train day and night, they were not idle either. They were also busy reinforcing and expanding the Huangpu Camp on the north bank of the Pearl River.
In addition to the above-mentioned "Guangdong troops" who had their braids cut off and were determined to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, there were about a thousand "foreign brothers" under Zhu Heji, who formed an artillery battalion directly under Zhu Heji's Central Military Department.
In addition, Zhuge's military advisor also helped Zhu Heji set up a central military division. He first selected a group of small staff officers from young soldiers. Later, two to three hundred who seemed to be smarter were selected from among the gate coolies who had taken refuge, and were sent out to be employed as spies.
And Shang Kexi's army had just arrived at the bank of Zengjiang River. When they were searching for ships and waiting to cross the river, Zhuge's military advisor was already galloping towards Huangpu Camp.
