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Wu Sangui must prove his innocence, and the most direct way to prove his innocence is to destroy the True Ming Army.

As a result, Wu Sangui began to go all out.

He ordered an endless onslaught on Yizhen City overnight, and he would not stop dying!

Wu Sangui knew before that this was the second way to annihilate the Ming army in addition to besieging and killing the Ming army.

If Wu Sangui still had a trace of incense before, then at this time, he had abandoned the "kind" strategy of annihilating the Ming army and chose a murderous and simple and effective method.

After all, the Qing army is several times larger than the Ming army.

But this method is not a good thing for both parties.

Attacking the city at night, the casualties on both sides will increase, but now Wu Sangui can't manage so much.

Dead friends don't die poor, as long as he gets rid of the shadow of Li Guohan's death, he can do anything now.

But just when the Qing army was frantically attacking Yizhen City, there was an urgent report from Jiangxin Island that the Ming army had defeated the Dantu defenders and occupied Dantu.

Wu Sangui was shocked, mobilized 20,000 people to land on Jiangxin Island overnight, and ordered to join forces with the Qing army stationed on Jiangxin Island to attack Dantu urgently, and at the same time had to send people to report the battle situation to the Qing court.

This military newspaper has too much to do with it, even Wu Sangui can't resist it.

Dantu is the only channel for the Qing army in Jiangbei to connect with Zhenjiang through Jiangxin Island, if Dantu is occupied and the passage is cut off, then the Zhenjiang Qing army is a lone army.

I'm afraid that I won't even be able to keep the state before the war, and Zhenjiang City will be lost.

Therefore, Wu Sangui can't resist this crime, and he is not willing to resist, the so-called not in his position and not seeking his own government, his descendants are still on standby in the north, and he was just temporarily arrested to fight soy sauce, how can he bear such a major relationship?

When the sky falls, there is a tall man on top of it, and it is my business?

……。

The battle of Yizhen is in full swing.

Dantu is no exception.

Although there are not many Qing troops on Jiangxin Island, they are 8,000 elite divisions.

After joining forces with the 20,000 Qing troops sent by Wu Sangui, they rushed to the small city of Dantu with overwhelming momentum.

If the Yizhen Ming army still has more than three days to prepare for defense, then Xia Wanchun's army only has a short half a day.

Therefore, the casualties of the Ming people in the battle of Dantu were far greater than those of Yizhen.

This is not wrong, although the Qian family's uncles and nephews led more than 20,000 Ming troops to defend Yizhen, but when they were preparing for defense, they had already dismissed the people of Yizhen.

This is due to two considerations, one is that the uncle and nephew of the Qian family have understood that they are lucky in this battle, and it is impossible for the Ming army to continue to increase troops to Yizhen, that is to say, whether it can be defended or not, Yizhen will eventually be occupied by the Qing army, which is nothing more than delaying the Qing army in Jiangbei. The brutal massacre of the Qing army is known to the world, it is always good to have fewer deaths, but the people are suffering, why drag them down?

Second, Yizhen has been occupied by the Qing army for a long time, who can guarantee that the people in the city will not secretly communicate with the Qing army?

Therefore, it is necessary to dismiss the people, collect supplies, and block the city gates.

Then, even if the entire Ming army is killed, the number of casualties is a fixed value, and it will not exceed the total number of Ming troops crossing the river.

But Dantu is different, although the Qing army has always occupied Zhenjiang City, but the counties of Zhenjiang Prefecture are in the hands of the Qingtai Dynasty, and even the county officials, that are also Ming ministers.

Xia Wanchun occupied the Dantu who had been lost for a few days, and the people naturally filled the road and welcomed their soldiers.

And Xia Wanchun did not have time to evacuate the people, and in the face of the crazy counterattack of the Qing army on Jiangxin Island, he directly blocked the city gate, so the cruelty of this battle lies in the fact that countless people in the city were killed and injured in the battle to assist the Ming army in defending the city.

There is no accurate number, but after the war, Xia Wanchun was seriously injured, and only 1,800 people remained in 10,000 Jianyang Guards, and in Dantu City, it is not an exaggeration to say that every family is wearing filial piety, and ten rooms are six or seven empty, which shows the fierceness of the battle.

Of course, that's another story.

Whether it's Yizhen or Dantu.

In Wu Zheng's eyes at this time, they were two chess pieces.

It's not that Wu Zheng's heart has been ruthless to the point that his six relatives don't recognize him, but Wu Zheng, who has escaped death, understands the rules of survival in this troubled world, benevolence and kindness are no longer applicable, and only iron and blood can survive.

Be cruel to others, and be cruel to yourself.

With 5,000 cavalry and more than 3,000 infantry, he dared to think of fighting with 5,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, although it was indeed successful in the end, but this approach was indeed ruthless enough.

Even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, tens of thousands of Ming troops wanted to wipe out a thousand cavalry, which was rarely precedent.

At that time, the Ming army was able to annihilate one or two thousand Qing cavalry, which was a great victory to celebrate.

But that's not that bad.

Ruthlessly, after Wu Zheng annihilated the Qing cavalry in Danyang, he led his troops north without hesitation to attack Zhenjiang City, which still had more than 10,000 elite Qing troops.

It's a bit crazy indeed.

It's an all-or-nothing gamble.

The gambling Qing army did not dare to be like themselves, so they made a desperate bet and went out of the city to face the battle.

There is a good saying that those who are barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes.

The Qing army occupies Zhenjiang City, and has occupied it for more than a year, that is, they wear shoes, they need to defend on all sides, even if they concentrate the largest forces on one side, they have to guard against the Ming people in the city taking the opportunity to resist, so the dispersion of troops is certain.

As long as the Qing army does not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, then even if the siege fails, as long as it wants to withdraw, it can be completely withdrawn.

This is the situation of the two sides.

Three battles are being fought at the same time.

Yizhen is the first, Dantu is second, and Zhenjiang City is last.

But when the battle is over, it is reversed.

Zhenjiang was the first, Dantu was second, and Yizhen lasted until the war came abruptly.

Wu Zheng fought very hard.

During the three days, the south gate of Zhenjiang City was tortured by 16 artillery pieces of the Ming army in turn.

The city gate alone has been changed four times.

Finally, the Qing army began to dismantle the north gate and transport it to the south city to install it.

On the city wall, the artillery of the Qing army also smashed seven artillery pieces of the Ming army.

To say that it is smashed, not blown up, is because solid shells are not explosive.

Of course, this is not important, the important thing is that Wu Zheng found that the artillery could not penetrate the city gate, not because the city gate was so thick that it was difficult to destroy, but after the city gate was bombarded by the Ming artillery four times, the Qing army had built thick sandbags, stones, beams and so on behind the city gate.

This kind of solidity, even if the mountain artillery of later generations bombards for a day, it may not be able to explode, and the artillery of this era is equivalent to decoration.

Scratching his ears and cheeks now, Wu Zheng is really out of line.

Ying Tianfu is now taking care of itself, and it is impossible to increase troops to Zhenjiang, in fact, even if it can be increased, Chen Zilong and others will not send troops. Because in their hearts, the safety of the imperial court is more important than everything, and they even sent Ma Shiying and Qian Sule to urge them to reinforce Yingtianfu, how could they send troops to help them again?