Zhao Shi's death made Wu Zheng's heart unusually depressed, coupled with more than ten days of siege and the huge casualties of the Taizhou guards, Wu Zheng had a kind of boredom with the people of Huai'an City, no, to be precise, hateful!

Wang Shi's Northern Expedition, in the siege of the city for more than ten days, no one has helped Taizhou Wei, even if it is a little bit, even if it only shows a trace of kindness, these are some numb people.

This concept led to Wu Zheng not wanting to appease the people in the city at the first time when he broke through Huai'an City, but quickly gathered the elite of Taizhou Wei to hunt down Zu Dabi and his remnants to the north gate.

This is obviously a mistake, a huge mistake.

As the commander-in-chief, to capture such a strategic location, you should first stabilize people's hearts and minds, and then try to do anything else.

In particular, the enemy cavalry coming from the east of Fengyang has outflanked the retreat of Taizhou Weinan, and it is even more necessary to stabilize the city and prepare for the arrival of reinforcements from the Northern Expeditionary Army.

But Wu Zheng is a human being, in essence, he is an ordinary person, he also has joys, sorrows, sorrows, and the seven emotions and six desires of ordinary people.

Repaying virtue with virtue and repaying grievances with straightforwardness, Wu Zheng is doing this.

Of course, Wu Zheng did not order the slaughter of the people of Huai'an City to vent his anger because of the hatred in his heart, but there was something good at the top, and it would be very bad at the bottom, and his every move, word and deed, and even joy and disgust, were infinitely magnified by the Taizhou guards and the survivors of Changlinwei.

This is an unintentional but unshirkable mistake, a mistake!

After Wu Zheng led his troops to the north, Taizhou Wei and Changlin Wei swept away the entire Huai'an City with a thunderous momentum, and the original Huai'an and Dahe Erwei soldiers were all arrested and detained.

Especially Chang Linwei, they were angry at their boss Zhao Shi, who was brutalized by the "rebels", and when they encountered people who dared to obstruct, resist or dissatisfied, they were categorically killed, so that in the end many innocent people were involved.

In fact, most of the people in Huai'an City are the families of the soldiers of Huai'an and Dahe Erwei, and this kind of resistance is inevitable when they see their fathers, husbands, sons, and brothers being arrested.

This brutal purge was unexpected by Wu Zheng, and it was also something that Wu Zheng could not have imagined in advance.

It is precisely because of this purge that Wu Zheng and Taizhou Weitian fell into an extremely difficult predicament in Huai'an City in the future.

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Zu Dabi's abacus played very smoothly.

The process of retreat was also like a smooth flow, with Huai'an and Dahe Erwei as their "queen of the palace", and he and his descendants of the Han army with yellow flags went out of the north gate smoothly.

Their goal was to join up with the cavalry set up in ambush at Qingjiangpu, and then cross the river to Caowan.

Zu Dabi had no other way to choose, and as for what Dolgon was going to do with him after the war, he couldn't care about it.

But what Zu Dabi never expected was that he had miscalculated.

It wasn't until he led his descendants to retreat, and the cheers of Taizhou Wei faintly came from behind him, that he knew that his real opponent in this battle was not Jiang Quanyi, but the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Wu Zheng.

In fact, if it was learned before the war, Zu Dabi was just as disdainful, Zu Dabi always believed that Wu Zheng's rapid rise was nothing more than good luck, accounting for the reason why the main force of the Qing army was being pinned down by the northwest and southwest, Dashun and Daxi armies.

Just as Zu Dabi sighed before, "There are no heroes when there is no hero, and the erector becomes famous in vain."

This view is very marketable among the Manchu generals in Jiangbei and the generals of the Qingming Army.

Of course, this is also a reason deliberately created by the Qing court, and the influence of the power of the Great General's Mansion of the Yixing Dynasty cannot be concealed.

The Qing court could only use the belittling of Wu Zheng to achieve the goal of consolidating the hearts of the people and the army.

Otherwise, you can't preach merit and prestige for the enemy, right?

The Qing court did this for another purpose, that is, he did not want the Ming generals who had already descended to the Qing Dynasty to be shaken again, otherwise, the trees would fall and scatter, and the life of the Qing court would be really difficult.

The Qing court not only belittled Wu Zheng's character and ability, but also imitated Chen Zilong's vicious rumors, exaggerated that Wu Zheng was an outlier and wanted to "rob the rich and help the poor", and compared Wu Zheng to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, which was even more unbearable.

Of course, these rumors could not deceive the wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials of the DPRK and the central government who were close to the trade in Jiangnan, but they were very useful to these rough people and ordinary people who led troops.

It is also strange to say that the generals who led the troops can be regarded as relatively rich people, and they are naturally disgusted by the matter of "robbing the rich and helping the poor", but ordinary people are also afraid of Wu Zheng's arrival, perhaps in their hearts, Wu Zheng is a mountain king who is nine feet tall, with a full face, eating in a basin, drinking in a jar, and eating meat with a knife.

Zu Dabi is the same, although he already knows that his real opponent in this battle is King Wu, but he has never seen Wu Zheng.

Even at this time, the two were only dozens of miles apart, and they didn't have a chance to see each other.

Therefore, Zu Dabi had no way to judge what Wu Zheng liked to do, how to do it, and how he would react next, naturally, he couldn't guess that Wu Zheng would let Jiang Quanyi lead a partial division to counter the ambush.

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Jiang Quanyi's leading troops this time was completely different from the previous 3,000 partial divisions that went around to Qingjiangpu.

Psychologically, this time the soldiers have the psychological preparation of the enemy to ambush the enemy from Wujiadun to Qingjiangpu.

On the contrary, the enemy was not prepared, although they were ambushers, but they never expected that the Taizhou Guard would come back the same way.

There is only Wu Zheng, an outlier, who will talk nonsense with his eyes open, what is the safest place to be, it is a nonsense to fool people.

Anyone who agrees that the most dangerous place is the safest, and there are only two kinds of people, one is God, a god who has the ability to subvert the battlefield pattern at will, and the other is a person who has no other choice than this path.

That is to say, Huashan is a road, go, you have to go, and you have to go if you don't go.

Taizhou Wei naturally does not belong to this situation, they have many options, at least the enemy sees it that way.

For example, if you can't break the city, then retreat.

For example, if you don't want to withdraw, then besiege the city.

In short, no one will think about hitting a stone with an egg.

But they don't know that in this world, there are really people who will hit stones, and they dare to test the hardness of the stones even if they know that they are eggs.

Not only does Wu Zheng belong to this kind of person, but Jiang Quanyi is also happy!

Jiang Quanyi's partial division is still 3,000 people, because there are too many people, there is no concealment of the raid.

In fact, 3,000 people are already too many, fortunately it is the second half of the night, fortunately, the enemy is really not expected, and even better, there are no mobile phones in this era.

When Jiang Quanyi led his troops, taking advantage of the cover of night, bypassing the enemy's police posts and encircling the enemy's camp, the enemy was still asleep.

Also, the second half of the night is the most comfortable time to sleep.

Jiang Quanyi was bold enough, he did not launch a surprise attack on the sleeping enemy, and in fact, his troops were not enough.