I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Li Chengdong's temporary residence, the personal soldiers rushed over to report that the city was broken, and told him to escape quickly.

"What, this city is broken, what is Zhang Yingyuan doing to eat?"

Li Chengdong was shocked. Although Wu Jun's weapons took advantage, they had more than 40,000 troops, and it was enough to support them for several hours.

However, it has only been a long time since the fight, and the city was broken in just over an hour.

"General Zhang took his troops out of the city from the west gate, saying that they were going to attack the rear of the enemy."

The soldiers reported.

Li Chengdong almost died of anger when he heard the words. He was not as foolish as those soldiers, and would believe that kind of nonsense.

Zhang Yingyuan's troops are all infantry, without high-speed maneuverability, they are a ghost in this plain area. Obviously, the bastard made an excuse to escape.

Run away if you run away, Li Chengdong can understand Zhang Yingyuan's fear. However, what he couldn't bear was that this bastard escaped without calling him, and even sneaked away.

This is obviously just to want to be the back, to act as a scapegoat.

"This bastard, I'm going to give him a hard copy."

Under Li Chengdong's rage, he habitually patted the table with his hand.

Then the sharp pain in his arm reminded him that the arm was injured. Li Chengdong bared his teeth, and his anger had nowhere to vent.

"General, let's run away, the North Gate is still under our control."

The personal soldiers reminded the urgency of the current situation, not the time to struggle with whether to participate in Zhang Yingyuan.

"Escape, where do you run, do you want me to jump into the Yangtze River and swim there?"

Li Chengdong said angrily, if Ximen hadn't been lost, he could have fled all the way to Tongling.

But now the west gate has been lost, only the north gate and the east gate are left, the east is the Wu Jun's territory, and the north is the dead end of the Yangtze River.

If his arm wasn't injured, Li Chengdong would mount a horse and struggle.

But the severe pain in his arm now makes him unable to ride a horse.

The personal soldiers closed their mouths, they knew that Li Chengdong was about to surrender. Let's go down, Li Chengdong doesn't even care about his family, and it doesn't matter if they are soldiers.

After more than two hours, the entire city was purged, and the calm of the past was restored.

Liu Hansan sat in the yamen and listened to the statistics of the victory.

"In this battle, our army killed a total of 9,500 enemy troops, captured more than 23,000 people, and all Zhang Yingyuan escaped. Another 7,000 people were defeated and disappeared. Our army killed more than 2,600 people. , 400 people were seriously injured.

We seized 5,000 bows and arquebuses, 20,000 sets of swords, spears and armor, 250,000 taels of silver, and other property..."

A moderate victory, the loss is within an acceptable range, and the gain is not bad.

It's not bad. Compared with the previous battles, if you compare it with the battles of other Ming and Qing troops, their victory is an uncompromising victory.

"The main force of the Qing army has been defeated, and there are not many enemy troops in Tongling and Xuancheng. I decided to divide my troops into two groups and take them down."

According to previous intelligence estimates, there are currently about 13,000 people in Tongling, and even fewer in Xuancheng, it is estimated that there are about 8,000 people.

"I'll go to Xuancheng, you go to get Tongling."

Wang Dayong said.

"You may be able to bring Li Chengdong to fight Xuancheng. The defender of Xuancheng is Li Chengdong's subordinate. Take Li Chengdong to blackmail the other party and use the remaining value of this guy."

Liu Hansan said that in his eyes, Li Chengdong was already a dead person.

Other subordinate generals can continue to mix in the Wu army, but Li Chengdong is absolutely useless, because when they rebelled at the beginning, they were fighting against Li Chengdong's troops.

And Wu Changqing's father was also killed by Li Chengdong's troops.

Although Xue Wu who killed Wu Zhifan has been executed, Li Chengdong can't escape the relationship.

Liu Hansan also knew that Wu Changqing hated Li Chengdong very much, because Li Chengdong once slaughtered the city.

After leaving a small number of troops to guard the prisoners, Liu Hansan and Wang Dayong each marched towards Tongling and Xuancheng.

After nearly three days of rushing, Liu Hansan finally arrived at Tongling. Some of the small towns passed along the way did not encounter any resistance.

Wars in this era are almost all fought around cities. As for rural towns, there is no need to attack them at all.

As long as the city is occupied, the officials in the county are under control, and then an order goes down, the surrounding villages and towns will declare their allegiance.

For these rural towns, it doesn't matter who is in power, they all have to pay taxes anyway.

Moreover, these townships were basically controlled by the gentry landlords, and they basically had no ability to resist the army. As long as the armies in power are not excessive, they generally choose to obey.

If the army in power wants to control these places, it must cooperate with these gentry landlords, and generally it will not be too difficult for them.

After arriving at Tongling, Liu Hansan was not ready to attack the city, but Zhang Yingyuan's messenger came out from Tongling, expressing his hope to surrender.

Of course, their surrender was conditional, and Zhang Yingyuan hoped to continue to hold military power.

"Of course it's okay to continue to lead troops, but there are about 10,000 people in a division on our side. It's probably impossible for General Zhang to come over and want to be a division commander. It's not a problem to be a brigade commander."

Liu Hansan said.

Although Tongling is also a small county, it is not very difficult to fight. However, casualties are definitely inevitable. If a thousand people die, the pension alone will not be enough.

Two or three thousand taels of silver.

In order to save the money, Liu Hansan was also willing to accept Zhang Yingyuan's surrender.

"This is a matter of course, and I don't dare to be on an equal footing with Master Liu. However, my general hopes that the brigade he will lead is still his old subordinate. The old subordinate is more familiar with it, and it is more convenient to command."

The messenger said that they carefully assessed the possible treatment before they came. A brigade commander can bring about 6,000 soldiers and horses, which is less than Zhang Yingyuan's current strength, but it is acceptable.

If you want to completely retain your own strength, you don't have to think about it. How can you get such a good treatment when you surrender.

After all, they were not forced to surrender helplessly when Wu Jun was in danger.

"There's no problem with that."

Liu Hansan said with a smile, he was smiling not only on his face, but also in his heart, laughing at how naive Zhang Yingyuan was.

Following Wu Changqing for a while, Liu Hansan has roughly figured out Wu Changqing's routine, which is to divide the soldiers and senior generals into two parts.

From time to time, the position of the general is mobilized, so that a general cannot control a certain army for a long time, so that the general cannot cultivate a force that belongs to him completely.

And the salaries of the army are also uniformly in charge of the logistics department. The money does not pass through the hands of their generals, and the economic interests of them and the soldiers are cut off.

It has to be said that this trick is simple and effective.

At least for now, Wu Changqing's generals have all adapted to this model. There are generals who are unwilling to change, but they are unable to change, and some generals even like this model.

In this mode, they don't need to worry about military spending, troops, or logistics. The only thing they need to do is to command when they go out.

This kind of work is much easier than before.

Although his power is not guaranteed in this way, it is all in Wu Changqing's thoughts. However, as long as they do not rebel against Wu Changqing, Wu Changqing will not cut their power for no reason.

As long as Zhang Yingyuan surrenders, Wu Changqing will have a way to break up the relationship between him and his troops.