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When receiving Liao Zhongping's recital, Zhu Cihong made an extremely correct decision.

Regardless of the opposition of the ministers, he transferred 5,000 forbidden troops out of the imperial city, and according to Liao Zhongping's strategy, he went west through the Xuanjin Bridge and along the Xianghe River, and launched a flank attack on the Qing army in the direction of Jilong Mountain.

This move is not only to reinforce the Ming army in the direction of Jilong Mountain, but also to drive a nail into Tan Tai and Jierharang with a hammer, cutting off the straight line connection between the two, that is to say, if Tan Tai and Jierharang want to contact, they have to go around the north, which will take half a day.

Zhu Cihong's decision really relieved the pressure on Liao Zhongping and bought time for the final victory.

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When the monarchs and ministers of the capital and the people were looking forward to the arrival of the reinforcements of the Zhenguo Gong Wu.

What is Wu Zheng doing?

Wu Zhengqin led the musket battalion and the Hangzhou guard, with the support of the artillery fire of the Zhoushan Water Division, to sweep the 3,900 Qing defenders of Jingjiang and occupy Jingjiang with the momentum of plowing and sweeping holes.

Just when Jierharang faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, Jinshanwei, who had set out from Dantu, had already arrived at the periphery of Longtan, and immediately launched an attack on the Qing army stationed in Longtan.

Longtan is a small town, but under Wang Zhiren's management, it has become a key pass, which was originally to pit the Qing army.

But Wang Zhiren was seriously injured, and the sailors poured out their pockets, giving the Qing army an excellent opportunity to easily occupy this key pass.

At this time, Jin Shanwei fell into a bitter battle because of this, which can be described as providence.

Wu Zheng originally wanted to seal the river with Wang Zhiren's water division and Zhoushan water division.

When it really can't be stopped, in the waters of Yingtianfu, a gap was made to let a part of the Qing army break in, and use Yingtianfu's strong defense to consume the Qing army that broke through.

In this way, with Zhenjiang Mansion as a stronghold, combined with the defenders and the two guards of Jinshan and Hangzhou, even if the waters of Zhenjiang are broken through, they can also resist the Qing army's siege.

This is not Wu Zheng's cowardice, and he doesn't want to be in harmony with the Qing army.

It is really not enough, whether it is the imperial court or the general's mansion, with only the financial resources of the ten mansions, it is already stretched to support the 70,000 army, plus the war that has almost never stopped, the foundation has been exhausted, and it is in urgent need of recuperation.

Wu fought to kill Duoduo, indeed wanting to drag the Qing court into this kind of financial predicament, but he definitely did not want to fight the Qing court immediately.

But Wang Zhiren's sudden serious injury made Wu Zheng have to change his original combat thinking.

In Wu Zheng's expectation, Ying Tianfu could block the Qing army for one or two months, which was enough time for him to calmly attack Jingjiang and then attack Taixing, so that a pattern of you fighting yours and I fighting me was formed.

The Qing army could not attack Tianfu, but Wu Zheng could capture Jingjiang and Taixing, so the Qing court was bound to fear that Wu Zheng would lead his troops to the north and go straight to the heart.

Therefore, according to Wu Zheng's idea, it is best to fight so that the Qing court has to take the initiative to retreat, and the ideal state is to occupy a state capital in Jiangbei as a springboard for the Northern Expedition in the future.

But people are not as good as heaven, the battle situation is changing rapidly, who can know, such a strong city and Ying Tianfu, which is not much less than the Qing army, was broken by the Qing army in less than four days.

If Wu Zheng could think of this, he was afraid that he would not have any ideas, and he would have directly sent Jin Shanwei to reinforce the capital, after all, once the capital was lost, the morale of the entire Jiangnan people would decline, and the good situation that had been hard to come to naught would come to naught. Wu Zheng can't afford such a loss.

But there are no ifs in the world, and there are no regret pills to buy.

When Wu Zheng learned that the capital was in danger, Hangzhou Wei had already landed on the opposite bank from Jingjiang and marched to Taixing.

The so-called arrow is on the string, and it has to be sent, even if the army retreats at this time, I am afraid that it will not be able to save the capital, and Wu Zheng can only go one way to the dark.

I just prayed in my heart that Lu Zhiyu and Wu Yi would attack Longtan smoothly, so that Wei would be encircled to save Zhao, and maybe Ji'er Harang could be forced to return to Longtan, so that Liao Zhongping's pressure might be relieved.

Wu Zheng ordered to speed up the march to Taixing, which was to accelerate, not to rush the army, in order to organize an attack immediately when he arrived at Taixing.

In the early morning of the next day, when Zilharang planned to retreat but was rejected by Tan Tai, Hangzhou Wei launched an attack on Taixing.

Taixing is a small county, built in the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and was subordinate to Yangzhou Prefecture at this time.

Originally, the Qing court did not store troops in Taixing, but only 3,600 troops were stationed in Taizhou.

Because Wu Zhengguang recovered the ten prefectures in the southeast of the Yangtze River, the Qing court stationed 1,800 defenders in Taixing.

But at this time, the news that Jingjiang was captured has reached Taizhou, where the 3,600 Qing troops have arrived before the Hangzhou Wei Qianfeng arrived in Taixing, and after the two departments met, there were 5,400 people, which made Wu Zheng unable to quickly capture Taixing, after a day of fierce fighting, Wu Zheng did not attack overnight, but ordered the soldiers to rest that night, waiting for the rear army to come.

Plan to attack at dawn.

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Two days is enough time to spread the battlefield changes to the Yellow River.

When Dolgon heard the news of the army, he already sensed that the situation of the battle was not good.

His judgment was almost the same as that of Zilharang, and the Qing army that had invaded Yingtianfu should immediately retreat from Yingtianfu.

Because Longtan is absolutely impossible to hold, Jinshanwei is twice as large as the Qing army defenders, although Longtan is a key pass, but it is only a key pass.

If there is no people to assist in defense, the Qing army will die one less.

In addition, the Qing army had just captured Longtan, and the surrounding area was controlled by the Ming army, and there was nothing to borrow.

It's okay to fight a good battle, but if you want these Qing troops to fight a battle to the death with Jin Shanwei, it is likely to form a mutiny.

In this way, the Qing army that attacked Yingtianfu was separated and lost its way out.

If it is good to capture Yingtianfu, it can be defended by the wall of Yingtianfu, and the hoarding of grain in Yingtianfu and the food storage of millions of people are enough to meet the needs of more than 20,000 Qing troops.

But if it is deadlocked, it is a state of no return.

The 10,000 Eight Banners Army is absolutely inadmissible, and even Dolgon can't bear the result of the annihilation of the 10,000 Eight Banners in Jiangnan.

Dorgon immediately sent a handwritten order for Zilharan to retreat.

At the same time, the change in the war situation was urgently reported to the imperial court, suggesting that as long as the Yixing Dynasty returned the body of Prince Yu Duoduo, the war could be ended with dignity, and then peace talks could be held.

After that, Dorgon began to organize the forward crossing of the river.

At this time, even if Dolgon was cautious, he could only take a risk.

Because once Taixing was captured by Wu Zheng, then there was no Qing army south of the Yellow River that could resist Wu Zheng's northward march.

This would spiral out of control, and the Qing court might lose the entire area south of the Yellow River.

So, even if it was a risk, Dorgon had to take a chance.