In the half month that Wu Zheng was trapped in Huai'an, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, and Liu Tiren had already lived no less than ten times in total.

They were measuring, if something really happened to King Wu, where should they go?

Gao Yigong insisted on asking the General's Mansion to go north for reinforcements, but Li Guo and Liu Tiren both objected, on the grounds that the General's Mansion was not an irremediable army, after all, the First Army had 50,000 people and had not yet been mobilized, so why did Guangxinwei send reinforcements?

In case of suspicion and dissenting intentions by the General's Mansion, it will not be beautiful. In addition, Guangxin Wei is the weakest guard in the Northern Expeditionary Army, because there are too many people, only half of them have been redressed so far, which invisibly makes Guangxin Wei soldiers have a sense of inferiority that is inferior to others, as if they feel that they are raised by a little girl.

Therefore, Li Guo and Liu Tiren resolutely believed that instead of traveling thousands of miles north to reinforce the army, it was better to march west at the right time, first, to contain the enemy army in Jiangxi to go north for reinforcements, and second, to expand their own territory.

The opinions of the two sides formed opposites, and after several unhappy breakups, Li Guo proposed to ask Gao Guiying, the "Lady of Zhongyi" who lived in Hangzhou at this time, for a strategy.

Today, I received a reply from Gao Guiying.

When Li Guo, Gao Yigong, and Liu Tiren looked for Gao Guiying to reply to the letter, they found that there was only one sentence in the letter, "The self-winner is strong, and the self-improvement is the king!" ”

The next day, Guangxinwei began to assemble, another battlefield was opened, but the direction of Guangxinwei's troops, but not the north, but the west - Linchuan, the capital of Fuzhou.

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The Battle of Pizhou is the ugliest battle in this war, and there is no one.

The ugliness of human nature is completely reflected in this field battle.

In fact, this battle was not fierce, and it was much inferior to Huai'an City's half-month insistence.

However, the Battle of Pizhou pierced the hearts of the people, especially the hearts of the people in Jiangbei, especially the hearts of those who were willing to be obedient to the people.

About 40 miles east of Pizhou City, it is the section of the canal that leads to the Pizhou River, also called the Straight River.

The waters of the Zhihe River are vast, the north is connected to the Jia River, the south is connected to the Yellow River, the east is connected to the Luoma Lake, the river network is dense, so it is called Zeguo.

The strength of the Qing defenders in Pizhou City was actually enough to resist Wu Zhengsuo's troops, who were already short of ammunition.

And Wu Zheng's westward attack on Pizhou is actually just a gesture, because since the beginning of the war, Wu Zheng has always believed that this is not a good time for the real Northern Expedition.

God knows, what is happening in the Hangzhou Mansion behind him, Wu Zheng only knows that he was originally going to fight for ten days, but now it has been more than a month.

Let's not talk about the people who support more than 100,000 people every day, let's just say that in this month, the number of casualties in each guard has exceeded 20,000.

In Wu Zheng's heart, if he had to choose between stopping the Northern Expedition and destroying the entire Jiangnan, Wu Zheng would not hesitate to choose the latter.

Because for Wu Zheng, the Northern Expedition is a symbol, a symbol of national rejuvenation, and it is the goal rather than the ultimate goal, and the ultimate goal should be that the nation is strong in Asia and proud of the world.

Therefore, in the past three days, Wu Zheng's attack on Pizhou was almost all a feint, intended to promote peace with war, waiting for the Qing court's negotiation mission to go south, as one of the initiatives at the negotiation table.

Dolgon, however, sent his ironclad horsemen. This ironclad cavalry, in fact, Wu Zheng is no stranger, when he crossed the river for the first time to attack Taizhou, Wu Zheng saw, to be precise, he had fought each other.

Although it was only thirty against thirty at the time, the musketeers were all wiped out, and it was only in exchange for the killing of eleven horsemen in ironclad.

This record is a very good result in the eyes of ordinary people, but Wu Zheng's heart is stinging.

This made Wu Zheng adjust the tactical drill in the following days, and no longer required the guards to confront the court head-on according to the drill tactics when they encountered the enemy cavalry, because it was really looking for death.

The Northern Expeditionary Army has many victories against cavalry, and Wu Zheng himself has won no less than three times, but almost none of them are replicable, and there are strict requirements for the battlefield terrain, the strength of both sides, the morale and training of the soldiers, and an important point, that is, indispensable luck.

The chicken soup for the soul that people in later generations often poured said that success depends on the efforts of ninety-nine, plus one point of luck.

This is absolutely not credible, in fact, the opposite is the truth, that is, success depends on ninety-nine luck, and a little bit of effort.

The words sound a little evil, but, it's true.

There are more people in the world who work hard with their heads covered, how many are successful?

A truly successful person, after success, when sharing successful experience, advocates efforts "with righteousness and awe", in fact, he may be a lucky child who picks up seashells on the beach in private.

Therefore, Wu Zheng avoided the war.

Shengsheng retreated twenty miles to the west to the bank of the Zhihe River.

This tactic has been unanimously approved and approved by all the generals, of course, the generals think that the general is going to emulate the "last battle".

But what Wu Zheng thought in his heart was that if such a good water and river network was not used, I was afraid that God would have to smash a thunder for himself, in addition, Wu Zheng was a red heart and two preparations, in case he really couldn't fight, cross the river and retreat west. In the name of it, guerrilla warfare!

Even if there was not enough time to retreat at that time, he jumped into the river in a hurry, and as a soldier from Jiangnan, he took a big advantage.

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In fact, as Wu Zheng expected, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not have time to cross the river in formation.

Wu Zheng was on the bank of the Zhihe River and built three lines of defense.

I have to say that the speed at which the soldiers dug the trenches was really not built, and the three trenches that were eight miles from north to south, six feet wide and six or seven feet deep, took only eight hours from excavation to completion.

The three trenches were separated by one mile from each other, and it stands to reason that Wu Zheng's preparations were sufficient, but the battlefield would never evolve according to the foretold assumptions.

The first engagement between the two sides was a feint.

The enemy army slowly pressed forward with 60 iron cavalry, and about 600 crossbowmen behind them, divided into five lines, took turns to shoot and move forward, and used two teams of 100 rangers each to protect the two wings, attacking the first line of defense of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Three hundred steps.

One hundred and fifty steps.

One hundred steps.

Dense and coherent pre-tax arrows rained down, but the Northern Expeditionary Army's defense line did not move at all.

The Qing army thought that the Northern Expeditionary Army would not dare to meet the iron cavalry.

But in fact, the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army were saving ammunition.

Eighty steps.

Fifty steps .......

On the first line of defense, the sound of dense gunfire was accompanied by curling white smoke.

Wu Zheng knew very well that the bullets of the flintlock pistol could not penetrate the enemy's iron armor, at most it was a pit, breaking the enemy's ribs.

But on the defensive line, a volley of shots was fired.

Is it because Wu Zhengqian's donkey skills are poor and there is no way to deal with it?

Of course not, if there was really a lack of countermeasures, Wu Zheng would have heard the news and withdrawn his troops, at least he had to withdraw to the east bank of the Zhihe River and use the Zhihe River as a barrier to defend against the enemy.

To build three lines of defense on the west bank of the Zhihe River, Wu Zheng had only two words in mind - to train troops.