I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The two of them each took more than 10,000 troops out of the city and crossed the Qiantang River.

Originally, Zhu Yihai asked them to stay on the south bank of the Qiantang River, even if Hangzhou could no longer hold it.

But now, the two of them have no such thoughts.

Even the city wall could not stop Wu Jun, and the river could not bring them a sense of security, so the farther away, the better.

"I plan to bring troops to Jinhua and rely on the mountains to continue the resistance."

Fang Guoan said that he was really afraid of Wu Jun now and did not dare to confront Wu Jun directly.

Therefore, he wanted to withdraw his troops to the Jinhua and Huangshan areas, and then rely on the complex terrain of those mountains to fight the Wu army.

Fighting in the mountains, Wu Jun will face serious logistical problems, and certainly not many people will be able to go, and at the same time, they will not bring cannons.

Moreover, in the complex terrain of the mountains, it is not easy to set up the formation, and the effect of the flintlock gun is also greatly reduced.

Fang Guoan, on the other hand, is in the mountains, so he is familiar with the terrain and has home field advantage, which is convenient for using tricks and ambush.

In short, it is very beneficial to fight the opponent's national security in the mountains, so he thought of withdrawing his troops to Huangshan and Jinhua.

"Then I will withdraw to Ningbo and resist head-on."

Wang Zhiren said.

In fact, he wanted to go back to Ningbo, find an opportunity to capture Zhu Yihai, and then present it to Wu Jun to see if he could get the treatment that Wu Changqing had promised.

If he could, he would do so without hesitation.

Anyway, he didn't want to fight Wu Changqing anymore.

The biggest pain in fighting Wu Jun is that you never know what novelty they will come up with next time, and you will be caught off guard every time.

The city wall can't stop it, can it be the mountain that can stop it?

With that little tax from Jinhua, how long can it only support the army?

Wang Zhiren was not optimistic about Fang Guoan's decision, feeling that Fang Guoan was just struggling to the death.

Now that Wu Changqing is unstoppable, it is a wise choice to follow the general trend. Sooner or later, he will face a bloodbath.

"Then let it go."

The situation was urgent, Fang Guoan stopped the ink, took the troops, and retreated westward to Jinhua.

And Wang Zhiren withdrew to Ningbo with his troops.

In the city of Hangzhou, the remaining troops continued to resist.

However, they are also on the verge of collapse.

If it wasn't for Fang Guoan's confidants who would be suppressing them, the soldiers below would have dispersed long ago.

Even if there is a city wall, it can't be defended, let alone the street fighting in the city.

Many clever and experienced soldiers have already guessed that those high-ranking officials may have fled, and they are acting as the abandoned son of the broken army.

In this case, they did not fight to the death, they all fought and retreated, and some even slipped into the houses to escape when they found an opportunity.

"Put down your weapons, surrender without killing."

Just when the Ming army was uneasy, the Wu army's Qing Suppression unit shouted a unified slogan.

It is better to be able to catch them alive than to kill them.

There was no grudge between the soldiers, and even many of the troops on both sides were fellow villagers.

Even if they are not from the same village, everyone is at least Han Chinese. Fighting in the same room is really unnecessary.

Hearing Wu Jun's shouting, the soldiers of the Ming army wanted to surrender even more.

"Don't believe their words, they are all lies. Those who surrender will definitely not end well."

Fang Guoan's heart will shout.

However, what he said was really unconvincing. These soldiers of the Ming army had never heard rumors that the Wu army had killed prisoners.

On the contrary, there are many rumors that Wu Jun treats prisoners leniently.

Many soldiers without the supervising team began to throw away their weapons and surrender, and soldiers from other places also began to follow.

This made Fang Guoan's confidants extremely anxious. He personally rushed to the front of the two soldiers who had surrendered, wielded a large sword, and slashed at those soldiers.

This move angered several other soldiers, who stabbed each other with a knife while they were not paying attention.

As soon as the commander died, the other supervising officers immediately gave up supervising the battle.

After all, not everyone is a diehard and everyone wants to live.

Without the commander's repression, the rest of the soldiers surrendered faster. Soon, there was no mass resistance in the streets, and Wu Jun easily took it over.

Two hours later, Hangzhou returned to calm, and the defeated troops in the city had basically been eliminated.

In this battle, the Wu army killed more than 2,300 people and seriously injured more than 400 people.

These are basically casualties caused by the battle for the city wall. In the short half hour, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

After taking down the city wall, Wu Jun basically did not die many more people, and the Ming army in the city was fighting and retreating, without encountering a hard battle.

Attacking a fortified city guarded by 50,000 people and only paying more than 2,000 casualties is not bad.

If this is replaced by the traditional siege method of the past, attacking a city with 50,000 troops garrisoned, it is impossible to win at the price of 20,000 people.

The Ming army defending the city suffered even more heavy casualties. More than 5,000 people died in battle, and no serious wounds were made, because the seriously wounded were also given a knife, which was counted as the death of the battle.

Most of these were also killed in the battle for the city wall. The ownership of the city wall actually determines the success or failure of this war.

Lost city wall

, the Ming army lost the will to resist.

There were nearly 20,000 prisoners, all of whom were used to cut off the queen and who had no time to evacuate from Hangzhou City.

There were nearly 24,000 Ming troops who had successfully escaped, but the Wu army had no choice, and their own strength was only 50,000.

Wu Jun rested for a day in Hangzhou, and then continued to advance.

This time they divided their troops into three routes, the first route was a regiment leader leading more than 1,500 people to attack Mount Huangshan.

In a small place like Huangshan, there are not many troops stationed by the Ming army, only one or two thousand people. There are too many, and the taxes around Huangshan can't afford it at all.

Another route, Xue Guiren, led 13,000 men to attack Jinhua, Quzhou and other places.

Compared with Mount Huangshan, there is a large basin in Jinhua, and the economy is relatively developed. During this period, Jinhua was a very important city in Zhejiang.

As long as Jinhua is controlled, the entire central Zhejiang can basically be controlled by relying on its ability to radiate to the surrounding area.

The Ming army will definitely place heavy troops in Jinhua, so Liu Hansan assigned a main division to Xue Guiren and let him be in charge of the war in Jinhua.

Liu Hansan left several thousand people in Hangzhou to guard the prisoners and garrison, and then personally led 30,000 people to Shaoxing and Ningbo.

The Ming army has become a bird of fright, and it does not require too many troops to attack those places.

Bringing fewer people can also reduce the logistical burden. The road from Hangzhou to Ningbo is also quite difficult to walk.