After half a month of fighting, the Qing army in Jiangbei has indeed been emptied.

Let's put it this way, south of Huai'an Mansion, except for the 3,000 Qing troops in Xinghua City who monitored Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin's department, the rest, with Wu Zheng's capture of Taixing, is equivalent to an undefended mansion.

At least 60% of the more than 5,000 Qing troops in Taixing came from the garrisons around Taixing and Taizhou.

Therefore, Taizhou City is an undefended city in front of Wu Zheng, which can be easily occupied.

The news of the Ming army's attack on Taizhou was quickly passed on by the people.

The garrison of Xinghua could not sit idly by and did not dare to sit back and watch Taizhou City fall into the hands of the Ming army, so as a last resort, they gave up monitoring Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin, and turned south to defend Taizhou.

And just like that, something happened inadvertently.

Although Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin were persuaded by Shen Zhiyuan, they agreed to surrender.

But now that I heard that Wu Zheng led his troops to attack Taizhou, how could I not want to return to the Ming army sequence?

So the two of them combined, the so-called hit it off, that's it.

As soon as the Qing army left, the two quickly gathered the army and followed the Qing army south with half a day's effort, which was to fight the Qing army in a north-south attack.

In fact, the Qing army in Xinghua was still late, because when Wu Zheng arrived fifty miles outside Taizhou City, the news had already reached Taizhou City.

This is definitely an exciting thing for those Han people in Jiangbei who still have a trace of their homeland feelings.

The scene of eating pot pulp and opening the city gate to welcome the king has appeared in the land of Jiangbei for the first time in four years.

Wu Zheng led his troops to enter Taizhou City under the cheers of the people.

When the 3,000 Qing troops arrived fifty miles north of Taizhou, some people came to report.

Wu Zheng heard that there were only 3,000 Qing infantry, so he planned to fight a battle of annihilation in front of the people of Taizhou, first, to boost morale, recruit some soldiers, and secondly, to show his face in Jiangbei.

While sending scouts, Wu Zheng had already gathered troops to set up a formation at the north gate to meet him.

Originally, this battle was very difficult to fight.

After all, the Qing army was not stupid, they just wanted to enter Taizhou City before the Ming army to garrison.

It can be learned that the Ming army has entered Taizhou City first, and there are tens of thousands of troops, how dare they hit the stone with eggs, so, as soon as they are total, they plan to return to Xinghua City, and want to block the Ming army from continuing to go north according to Xinghua City.

But this time, he collided with Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin.

The two sides fought an encounter on the official road.

But the problem is that Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin came prepared, but the Qing army really did not take precautions, in their opinion, the two main generals of this surrendered army have already gone north to the capital to accept the reward of the imperial court, no matter how before the main general comes back or is safe, this surrendered army will not make much noise.

This is indeed true, and it is rare that in the past few armies have had a general turn back when he was trapped in an enemy camp.

But the Qing army really doesn't understand, although this army is only more than 2,000 people, it is composed of two parts, and Shen Zhiyuan is not the real commander of these two armies at all, although Qian Qiaogong is the deputy general of the remnants of the original Jingwei, but for the Jingwei who only has a few hundred people left, they want more than the 20,000 comrades who died in battle.

Therefore, in this kind of encounter, the Ming army obviously took a big advantage, and the Qing army could not tell whether the opposite army was friend or foe for a while, so the Ming army launched an attack.

An attack is a desperate fight.

The Qing army was suddenly panicked, there were pursuing soldiers in the south, there was blocking in the north, the enemy was attacked on the back of the abdomen, and there were a lot of troops on both sides.

Jiang Quanyi is a powerful general who rolled out of the pile of dead people in Yizhen, he took the lead and personally led his own troops to charge forward.

Wang Yilin led the remnants of the naval division to the rear of the palace, and the musketeers fired at the opponent's two wings from both sides of the official road.

This kind of arrangement, even if Dolgon himself commanded it, would not be able to break the situation.

Therefore, when Wu Zheng and his army arrived, the encounter was nearing its end.

On the battlefield, only more than 1,000 Qing troops were still stubbornly resisting in the small trees on the side of the official road, and they quickly collapsed under the full force of Wu Zheng's army.

In the end, more than 600 people surrendered, and the rest died.

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Seeing that these two meritorious troops finally returned safely, Wu Zheng's heart was overjoyed.

The soldiers hugged each other to death, which is a kind of subconscious behavior of soldiers who admire the strong.

But Wu Zheng was sad after all, because he didn't see the two people he wanted to see the most.

From Jiang Quanyi's mouth, he confirmed his judgment on the deception of the two, Wu Zheng was particularly pleased, this is a tacit understanding that does not need to be expressed in words, I am afraid that only small people like Wu Zheng and Shen Zhiyuan can establish a good heart.

But when he learned that Shen Zhiyuan and Qian Qiaogong had gone to Shuntian Mansion, Wu Zheng's first reaction was to ask for a groove.

This army is related to the safety of the two in the Qing court, and once the Qing court learns that this army is against the water, it will inevitably pour out its anger on the two.

Looking at Wu Zheng's gradually solemn expression, Jiang Quanyi also slowly woke up.

Before, he and Wang Yilin slapped their heads and decided to turn against the water, but they really didn't think about it thoroughly, it wasn't that Jiang Quanyi wanted to harm Shen Zhiyuan and the others, but that he wanted to return, and he thought too urgently.

At this time, once he came to his senses, he was also anxious, "Zhenguo Gong, is it too reckless to be humble, or should you lead your troops back to Xinghua to win the trust of the Qing court?" ”

Wu Zheng shook his head silently, how could it be so simple to win the trust of the Qing court?

It was impossible for the Qing court to fully trust these two people before, and now that this army is backwater, even if the Qing court is extremely stupid, it is impossible to trust them anymore.

More importantly, how to explain the annihilation of these 3,000 Qing troops? It was said that the Ming army attacked Xinghua and only killed the Qing army and did not kill this rebel army?

Even if this reason is valid, this rebel army saw that the Qing army was completely annihilated and did not reinforce it?

It simply doesn't make sense.

Moreover, the battle lasted for half a day, and it was almost impossible to hide it.

Therefore, Wu Zheng had to make a choice, he said in a deep voice: "The responsibility for this matter is not all on you, my father is also responsible, without careful consideration, he waved his army to attack Taizhou, since your ministry has been exposed, then return to the building." ”

When Jiang Quanyi heard Wu Zheng's first half of the sentence, his face was already happy.

But when he heard the last five words "then return to the building", his heart sank suddenly, and he said to Wu Zheng worriedly: "Dare to ask the Duke of Zhenguo, can the imperial court still tolerate my department?" ”

Wu Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then patted Jiang Quanyi on the shoulder and said: "You misunderstood what this duke meant, you can be incorporated into the Northern Expeditionary Army sequence, temporarily subordinate to Hangzhou Wei, and after this battle is over, this guild will form a new guard for you." ”

Jiang Quanyi was both happy and worried, he said: "To be accepted by the Guogong, the lowly and the soldiers are naturally grateful, but most of the soldiers' families are in the capital, if they are under the command of the Guogong, I am afraid that it will be the imperial court." ”