The Battle of Longtan Camp was Ma Cheng's masterpiece. He used the defeated Qing army to take the lead, took advantage of the panic of the Qing army's failure to drive them to attack their own camp, and then used the defeated army to force the defeated army to ride on it, and rolled bigger and bigger like a snowball.

Tian Boguang was next to Ma Cheng back then, so he naturally knew how to fight. After hearing Ma Cheng's words, he quickly agreed: "Please rest assured, the general will save horsepower and drive away the defeated troops from behind and let them attack their camp!"

Ma Cheng nodded when he heard Tian Boguang say this, asking Tian Boguang to go down, then dismounted himself and sat on the hills. The personal soldiers prepared tables and chairs, while Ma Cheng sat down and drank tea. Bathed in the noon sunshine, waiting for good news on the front line.

Ma Cheng was busy here, but Qi Biaojia was panicked. At this time, Qi Biaojia had completely lost her calmness in the morning, and was escorted by personal soldiers and fled back to the camp like a stray dog.

Qi Biaojia breathed a sigh of relief when entering the camp. The personal soldiers beside him quickly called the soldiers guarding the gate to close the camp. However, Qi Biaojia was riding a horse and ran fast. The 30,000 infantry behind him had no horses and could only use their legs to rush, so Qi Biaojia was safe, but the large number of ordinary soldiers behind him did not enter the camp.

At this time, Ma Cheng's cavalry had already caught up with the back team of the Lu Wang Army. Most of Ma Cheng's cavalry battalions were Mongolians with skilled bows and horses, and a small number were Liaodong Han people who could ride horses. These people were completely different from Qi Biaojia's cavalry. They could all shoot arrows on the horse. In addition, Tian Boguang deliberately ordered the cavalry to drive away the defeated soldiers and attack the camp, so these unlucky soldiers ran to the camp one after another.

The general flag guarding the gate in the camp saw that something was wrong. Tens of thousands of soldiers outside the gate were about to rush into the camp. If they were allowed to come in, it would be over. The little flag was so scared that it shouted: "Close the door! Close the door quickly!"

Qi Biaojia was out of danger at this time, but when he looked back at the subordinates who were running a few hundred meters away, while the Ma Cheng cavalry not far away were massacring his subordinates behind him, Qi Biaojia felt unbearable and shouted: "Don't close the door, let them in first!"

When Chen Zhen heard Qi Biaojia say this, he quickly stopped him and said, "Sir, you must not. If these defeated soldiers rush in, they will destroy the camp. At that time, the opponent's cavalry will take advantage of the situation and rush in. That will be a big trend!"

Chen Zhen was right. Although Qi Biaojia failed, there were still 30,000 reserve teams in the back team, and 30,000 Fang Guoan's 15 miles away. There were still 5,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 farmers in the current camp. If the measures were done properly, there would still be a chance to turn the tables. After all, Ma Cheng's army on the opposite side could fight, but the number was too small.

However, when Qi Biaojia saw that the soldiers outside the gate either died under the enemy's horse's hooves or at the feet of his own people, he felt compassionate. Qi Biaojia shouted: "No closing the door, let them come in! Whoever wants to close the door and engage in military law!"

Seeing Qi Biaojia doing this, Chen Zhen sighed and said, "Sir, there are still five thousand people in the camp. The general wants to lead the team out to resist the opponent's cavalry and cut off the rear for our army!"

Qi Biaojia nodded, agreeing with Chen Zhen's opinion. But Chen Zhen already knew that it was impossible to do anything. What was going out to break the back, but he took five thousand men and fled to Changzhou after leaving the gate, leaving Qi Biaojia here.

Qi Biaojia saw that Chen Zhen did not go out to resist the enemy, but fled directly bypassing the camp. Qi Biaojia was so angry that he pointed at Chen Zhen and cursed: "Chen Zhen, you guys, wait for my official to return to Chang.

The state must kill you!"

But Qi Biaojia said a big talk, whether he could return to Changzhou was not the only way he could do. At this moment, the defeated soldiers finally rushed into the camp, and the 30,000 people were not a small number. They quickly stormed the camp gate, and the cavalry behind them followed into the camp.

After rushing into the camp, Tian Boguang was very happy and said to his soldiers: "Set the fire and burn everything!"

With the order of the commander, the soldiers under his command set fires one after another. The fire quickly turned into a raging fire with the help of the spring breeze in April. The defeated soldiers of the Lu Wang Army were even more frightened when they saw the fire. Many people fled from the camp and jumped into the canal, thinking that they could avoid the fire. But they thought it was too simple. Many of them knew how to water, but they ran a few miles just now and had no energy. In addition, the water in the canal was very cold in April, with only a few degrees of water. After exercising, they were covered in sweat. After being stimulated by the cold water, many people had muscle spasms and drowned in the canal that was not deep.

Some people were burned to death, some were drowned, but many people escaped from the camp and fled to the Zuojun camp not far away.

Tian Boguang was overjoyed when he saw it. Today seemed to be his lucky day. Not only did he break down one camp, but he seemed to have hope to break down another. As Tian Boguang expected, these defeated soldiers naturally wanted to return to their own people in times of crisis, and the Zuojun camp, which was three miles away, became the safe haven in his mind.

There were only 30,000 people in the Zuo Army camp, most of which were civilians, because this was the logistics base of the Lu Wang Army. The general of Hangzhou, Chen Keli, received an hour ago that the general led the team out of the camp to fight Ma Cheng. According to Chen Keli's idea, this battle would last for one day after that. If he might do it, he would have to fight at night. However, he didn't expect that Qi Biaojia was so useless and was defeated by Ma Cheng in less than half an hour.

When Chen Keli saw the black and rushing towards his camp in the distance, he was so scared that he asked his subordinates to close the camp gate and ordered the archers to shoot arrows as long as the bailed soldiers approached the camp gate. Although Chen Keli did this correctly, the defeat of the Lu Wang army was already in danger at this time, and the number of defeated soldiers outside the camp was too large. The camp gate was squeezed out before it lasted, and a large number of defeated soldiers rushed into the camp.

Tian Boguang was overjoyed when he saw another camp rushing out, and immediately took the cavalry into the same order and began to set fire to slaughter.

Tian Boguang was so happy that he killed Ma Cheng, who was drinking tea behind, felt something was wrong, because the scout came from the horse just now that Guoan, a fifteen-mile-to-between, had taken action.

Now Ma Cheng has only 10,000 troops in his hands, and they are all sent out to fight. There are only a thousand personal soldiers who are following Ma Cheng. Thinking of this, Ma Cheng did not dare to be careless, he immediately told Tian Boguang and An Zhennan to retreat to prevent Fang Guoan from taking all his own bets.

Tian Boguang of the Cavalry Battalion was killing and killing him at this time. The Lu Wang army was beaten to the point of no fight back. Chen Keli had no choice but to open the back door of the camp and retreat to Changzhou with a group of defeated generals. Seeing that the Lu Wang army was about to run, Tian Boguang led the team to continue chasing, but at this time Ma Cheng's messenger arrived.

"Master General Town, the general has his life, let the master return to the army immediately!"

When Tian Boguang heard that he wanted to go back, he immediately asked: "Now the enemy is defeated, why do you let me go back?" After saying that, he was about to pursue him with his men.

The commander's personal soldier quickly pulled Tian Boguang's horse head and said, "Master, General Town, from fifteen miles away."

Fang Guoan Ministry of Security has made an abnormal move, and the general is afraid of being attacked, so he asked the adults to return to the army immediately!"

Ma Cheng's military law is harsh. Tian Boguang suffered a lot because he did not uphold military discipline. Now he heard his personal soldiers sighing so much. He had no choice but to say, "I heard it all, go back to the army!"

The Cavalry Battalion is only five miles away from Ma Cheng, and soon returned to Ma Cheng. Together with Shenji Camp, he guarded Ma Cheng slowly retreated to the camp to guard against Fang Guoan's sneak attack. But to Ma Cheng's disappointment, Fang Guoan just acted like that. After leaving the camp, he only advanced five miles, then turned east and went straight back to Changzhou.

Ma Cheng breathed a sigh of relief when he received the news. Although he was not afraid of Fang Guoan's 30,000 people, he had fought for a long time and was trapped in the crowd, so he easily got to Fang Guoan's words. So when he heard Fang Guoan ran away, Ma Cheng felt relieved.

Fang Guoan has some skills. Ma Cheng wrote down Fang Guoan's name and could meet this guy if he had the chance.

At this point, the first battle between Ma Cheng and Lu Wang Group ended, and of course the result was that the Lu Wang army was defeated. The 120,000 troops that Lu Wang had pieced together in Hangzhou lost 50,000 this morning. The most elite Japanese army was lost in Lucheng, and the tens of thousands of people fled back to Changzhou were all guards, so their combat power was naturally not as strong as before.

The battle of Lu Cheng completely ended the people's suspicion of Ma Cheng's military achievements, which made the entire Nanzhili re-recognize Ma Cheng's great military achievements. From then on, when Ma Cheng's army arrived, all the prefectures and cities opened their doors to surrender, and no one dared to confront famous generals like Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng, who returned to the camp, began to order his subordinates to clean up the battlefield. The Lu Wang army left 20,000 bodies in the Lucheng area, and more than 20,000 people fled everywhere. In order to prevent these defeated soldiers from destroying local public security everywhere, Ma Cheng also ordered Zhang Guozhu of Zhenjiang to lead all the troops to join him. Qi Biaojia is now failing, and the entire Nanzhili is not resisting. The next step is to divide the troops and send generals to deal with prefectures and counties in various places.

Ma Cheng was excited about victory, but Changzhou, a hundred miles away, was filled with miserable mist. Chen Zhen, who had just been promoted to admiral, was the first to return to Changzhou, followed by Chen Keli and other generals, and Fang Guoan, who came back in the end. As for the Governor Qi Biaojia, there was no news. I don’t know if he had escaped or died in the chaos.

Since Qi Biaojia has not come back, Fang Guoan, who has the highest official position, immediately became the supreme commander of this army. Fang Guoanbu's first order was to behead the unlucky man Chen Zhen to boost the morale of the army.

In fact, the unlucky man Chen Zhen is still a little capable. His tactics against Ma Cheng are completely normal, but no matter whether your general is commanded by a clever general, he is a bunch of waste, and your general has no choice but to do anything about it. This failure is that the soldiers are inferior to others, and Fang Guoan also knows that the reason for the failure cannot be held on Chen Zhen. However, the army needs to boost morale at present, and the general needs to unite people's hearts. There is no way to let Chen Zhen be this big rooster.
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