The morale of the army under his command was low, and he wanted to boost his morale and defeat the Ming army in front of him, but he was continuously blocked by the Five Elements Banner, and in desperation, he could only slowly withdraw his troops and retreat to Yangzhou.

"Nahai, Mu Kuntu, Qiu Chengye! You three wastes, said that they assassinated Gao Cheng, but they put all the masters in it, even if you don't die, I will give Your Majesty a fold to ask you for your guilt when you come back!"

Tokhtar scolded angrily in his heart, the moment he saw Gao Cheng and the Ming army, he knew that the plan of Nahai and Mu Kuntu had failed, as for whether these people were dead or alive, it was unknown now. However, these masters, who are known as the top of the rivers and lakes, have been seriously injured even if they don't die.

Otherwise, these people wouldn't have been left without any news by now.

On top of the big ship. Gao Cheng saw that the Mengyuan army was slowly retreating, cautiously and orderly, and while retreating, there was a hidden counterattack formation, in which tens of thousands of cavalry were not led by the army of the army. Let him not dare to be careless.

"It seems that Toto's ability is not weak!"

Gao Cheng passed down the order, telling the army not to chase and kill, and watched Meng Yuan's hundreds of thousands of troops withdraw into the city. He sighed in his heart. in the original timeline. Tokhtar is the pillar of the Mengyuan court, at least, much more powerful than Zhao Min's father, King Ruyang.

Meng Yuan's government and army mobilization were all supported by him. It's a pity that when he led a million-strong army to besiege Gaoyou Zhang Shicheng, he was attacked by political enemies in the rear, allowing the emperor to change his commander in battle, resulting in a great defeat for Gaoyou. After taking off power, Meng Yuan was gone, and he was no longer able to suppress the rebel army in the world.

And now Tokhtar has just become prime minister, and the power has not yet stabilized, this time he led 500,000 land and water troops to the south, but the division was unfavorable, and the water division was defeated.

Maybe it won't take long, and Totoku will be the same as the original timeline, and he will be reprimanded by Emperor Mengyuan. Lose the power of the army.

Thinking of this, Gao Cheng did not rush to attack the city, but first sent a sailor to attack Mengyuan Water Village. At this time, there were only more than 10,000 people left in the Mengyuan Water Division, and they had not yet recovered from the rout. was attacked by Chang Yuchun and others, and suddenly couldn't hold on.

The sailors cleaned the periphery of Yangzhou, Gao Cheng personally led the troops to surround Yangzhou, and the soldiers of the thick soil banner were building a lot of construction every day, digging trenches everywhere on the land outside Yangzhou. The sharpest cavalry of the Mengyuan army was blocked in the city.

Gao Cheng was not in a hurry to attack the city, but Tokhtar sent a large army out of the city every day to break the siege, but he was never able to break through the five-element banner and the army formation composed of hundreds of thousands of troops.

For a time, the Ming army and the Mengyuan army fell into a confrontation in Yangzhou.

......

When the Ming army surrounded Yangzhou and blocked the hundreds of thousands of troops of Meng Yuan, the news of the Yangzhou War spread all over the world through various channels, on Wudang Mountain, Zhang Sanfeng showed a look of joy and relief, in Huashan, the two elders of Huashan and Ning Qingyu put down their hearts that almost jumped out,

Zhongnan Mountain, after Yang Yunling heard Gao Cheng's news, she thought of what Li Mochou mentioned to her, and her eyes became foggy. The extermination master of Mount Emei, after knowing that the Ming Sect defeated the Mengyuan army in Jiangnan. After hesitating, he gave up his plan to clean up the Mingjiao branch in Sichuan and Shu.

The news spread more and more widely, and the reputation of Gao Cheng, the king of Wu, became bigger and bigger, and he was regarded by the people of the world as the best candidate to overthrow Meng Yuan and restore the Central Plains.

In the blink of an eye, it was two months. Lan Yu, Feng Sheng, Feng Guoyong and Hu Dahai, each of them is a famous general with extraordinary ability. Gao Cheng dragged the Mengyuan army in Yangzhou, and they attacked the city and plundered the land in the land of Lianghuai, successively attacked Taizhou and Gaoyou, and the troops pointed directly at Huai'an.

In the south of the Yangtze River, Li Shanchang, Liu Ji and others sorted out internal affairs, and they gradually stabilized. A steady stream of money, food and soldiers for Gao Cheng was provided.

Chang Yuchun stayed in the Zhenjiang camp, constantly receiving new recruits, and began to train soldiers in the rear.

As long as according to this situation, with the support of the land south of the Yangtze River, and continuous farming and training, within two years, Gao Cheng will have the capital to push the world.

The Mengyuan court could also think of this situation, and began to draw cavalry on the grassland, as well as soldiers from the Central Plains, to form an army of 200,000, led by the king of Ruyang, along the Grand Canal to support Yangzhou.

On this day, Gao Cheng came to the top of the big ship and spit out the purple qi of the rising sun, and the incomparably pure innate qi was constantly refined, pouring into Gao Cheng's dantian.

The true qi that had condensed into a paste was like purple mercury, exuding a dense aura.

When he refined all the three strands of Chaoyang Purple Qi, he suddenly shook his body, and a faint purple aura surged around his body, and a supreme, noble, and pure aura appeared in his body.

"It's ...... The fourth level of Zixia Gong, Innate Purple Qi!"

Gao Cheng's face showed a look of ecstasy, after so many days of water grinding kung fu, he finally cultivated Zixia Gong to the peak. The Jiuyang True Qi in the body was also condensed into innate purple qi by Zixia Gong.

It can be said that no matter what internal strength was cultivated before, it can be condensed into innate true qi through Zixia Gong. He secretly ran the exercises, and a faint purple aura appeared around him.

"Innate Gang Qi! Combination of rigidity and softness, Yin and Yang in one! This kind of Gang Qi has greater potential than Jiuyang Gang Qi!"

There is only one step missing, as long as the Void Sutra is cultivated to the ninth level, Gao Cheng will be able to cultivate the innate skill. At the same time, he cultivated the Three Treasures of Essence and Qi and Divine Spirit, laying an incomparably mellow foundation for cultivation.

Gao Cheng practiced Zixia Gong, and when he was happy, Chang Yuchun and Zhu Sheng looked serious and came to this big ship.

"King Wu, the king of Ruyang has already led an army of 200,000 to Shandong, and it will not be long before he arrives in Xuzhou! If the king does not make a decision, then the 200,000 reinforcements of Mengyuan will come to Yangzhou and attack from inside and outside, and our army will be defeated!" Zhu Sheng looked anxious. These days, when he received military information, he persuaded Gao Cheng to withdraw from the army.

After all, there are hundreds of thousands of troops in Yangzhou City, and even if they attack the city at the cost of casualties, they will not be able to break the city in the short term. Once the Mengyuan reinforcements arrived, the Ming army, which had been unable to attack for a long time, would be taken advantage of by the other party to turn the tables.

Gao Cheng was not in a hurry, and took out a few silk silks from his arms, with red handwriting written on them, he handed these silk silks to Zhu Sheng, and the other party took a look. I was taken aback.

"This ...... This is a letter from the commander of the Mengyuan Han army in the city, how is it possible?" Zhu Sheng said in shock.

Gao Cheng said with a smile: "I sent Lan Yu to attack Taizhou and Gaoyou before, cut off the grain route in Yangzhou, and besieged the city for two months, no matter how much grain and grass there is in the city, it can't stop the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops!"

"Coupled with the hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou City, the amount of grain and grass consumed by so many people every day is astronomical!

When Chang Yuchun heard this, he showed a look of surprise and understood Gao Cheng's plan to besiege the city these days.

He said: "There is a shortage of food in the city, and as the prime minister of the Mengyuan Dynasty, it is natural to give priority to the supply of grain and grass for the Mongolian soldiers, and the Han army and the people will be hungry! The Han army has more than 200,000 people, and so many people are hungry, they will definitely be resentful, as long as our army repairs a letter and surrenders, these people will inevitably be obedient!"