The sky is beautiful, it hasn't rained in the past few days, otherwise I'm afraid that the cannon will not be so easy to transport on the road.

Among the common people were skilled craftsmen, who made transport vehicles for artillery.

And according to the two sides of the cannon horns unique to the Hongyi cannon, a copper wedge was made to facilitate the adjustment of the muzzle up and down.

Speaking of which, the artillery at this time did not set up a gun mount, aiming equipment, and gun gauge (the gun carriage can adjust the angle of the gun direction, the aiming device can determine the direction of firing, and the gun gauge is used to determine the angle of the gun), said to be aiming, the target is almost all by visual inspection, the only thing that can be adjusted is the muzzle up and down, I have to say that the craftsman created a wooden gun carriage for the artillery, which did solve the problem of transportation and combat, but the life of the wooden gun carriage is debatable.

This is irrelevant, in Wu Zheng's opinion, as long as the artillery can be transported outside Zhenjiang City, even if it is piled with earth and stones, it can also be used to fire at the city gate.

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Hong Chengchou, who was restless in Jiangdu, finally waited for the imperial court decree that he had been waiting for for two days.

I have to say that Hong Chengchou was excited at this time.

As a minister, the most gratifying thing is nothing more than the unconditional trust from the top, this time the little emperor Fulin is really too powerful.

Hong Chengchou can imagine what kind of pressure the little emperor will suffer in the face of Dolgon.

As a result, Hong Chengchou was very excited, and he had the urge to thank him and die as a reward.

He decided that even if he died by the Yangtze River, he would fulfill the emperor's entrustment to him.

However, the will is one thing, when the Qing army in Xuzhou can arrive, the Qing army in Jiangbei will change generals and how to quickly take over, that is another matter, everything will take time.

Wu Sangui can say and leave, but Tan Tai is the general of the Qing court's canonization of the southern army, and there are nearly 20,000 troops left around Jiangxin Island, all of which are his descendants, can he just leave?

What's more, Tan Tai is dedicated to the court, and he feels that he has not done anything wrong, and he is willing to give up the military power?

I have to say that Hong Chengchou's ability to lead the troops is worrying, although he has also led the troops, a few years ago, he led the main force of the Ming army to aid Jinzhou and Ningyuan, and was not defeated by Tan Tai's 400 people in Tashan and Xingshan?

Do you think Tan Tai can rest assured that he will hand over the army to Hong Chengchou's command?

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Here is intrigue and deceit.

But Yizhen's side has made a big move.

Wang Yilin and Qian Diansu, who had a chemical reaction, hit it off.

There is only one theoretical basis, taking advantage of his illness, he wanted his life, only 3,000 Qing soldiers in Yizhen City, were defeated by Wang Yilin in one fell swoop, and learned from Wang Yilin's mouth that Zhenjiang City had been recovered (when Wang Yilin set off, he didn't know that the Qing army counterattacked to recapture Zhenjiang City, and he didn't even know that Wu Zheng was in danger), such a good situation, how could there be less heroic achievements?

The two held the map for a long time, and finally circled a target - Jiangdu.

Crazy?

These two people probably ate the gall of a leopard, if Wang Yilin is a frog at the bottom of the well, he doesn't know how big the sky is, but Qian Sudian is a decent and knowledgeable talent.

Even he was crazy, they actually wanted to raid the lair of the Qing army in Jiangbei with 10,000 troops of Liuhe and Yizhen, which was not bold.

But history is often created by such a group of crazy people on a whim.

But I have to say that this plan still has a certain degree of operability.

Yizhen to Jiangdu, a rapid march for half a day, this is a prerequisite, otherwise the lone army will go deep, unable to replenish, and will starve to death if you are hungry, how can you fight?

Second, the main force of the Qing army was concentrated by Hong Chengchou to attack Dantu and Zhenjiang City, and the defense of Jiangbei was empty, and Jiangdu should not have hoarded a large number of Qing troops.

Unexpectedly, the lightning hit Jiangdu, the idea is wonderful, and it is amazing.

The most critical point of this strategy is whether Jiangdu is really empty, and whether the Qing army's recent wave of troops can return to help in time, but these Wang Yilin and Qian Sudian do not know.

In the words of Wang Yilin's boast after the war, he actually thought that if he didn't scrape oil and water from Liuhe and Yizhen, then Jiangdu, the command place of Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui, should always have oil and water to scrape, right? Otherwise, if you enter Baoshan and return empty-handed, won't you regret it for life?

But when his uncle Wang Zhiren heard this, he kicked him twice and punished him to think about it behind closed doors for half a month, and he was not allowed to go out of the room.

That's an afterword.

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This battle has been fought to this day, and four days and three nights have passed since the Qing army committed Dantu.

The battle was fierce, but the scale was not large, the largest was the loss of Dantu, the two sides invested nearly 20,000 troops, and the Qing army occupied Dantu with a small victory.

Even if 10,000 Ming army sailors crossed the river to fight, in fact, only a few thousand people on both sides really engaged in the battle.

But if you add up several battlefields, the scale is already huge.

To say that it was a local battle is not an exaggeration at all.

In other words, this battle has been fought so far, and it is obvious that it is out of control for both sides.

Although both sides realized that they could not fight any longer, in fact they could not stop, for many reasons, such as interests, unwillingness, face, etc., but the main reason was that they still felt that as long as they held on one longer, the enemy would be defeated.

Because of this, the scale of the war did not shrink, but grew bigger and bigger, to the point that both sides could not control it in the end.

This may be something that the initiators Wu Zheng and Hong Chengchou could not have thought of in advance.

Wu Zheng was just for the remnants of the Ming army in Yizhen, and also to go to Jiangbei to "rob", the eye of life and death, only "robbery" could delay the pace of the Qing army to the south, and win a rich time for the Qingtai Dynasty to breathe and recuperate.

Hong Chengchou's purpose is relatively complicated, in order to kill Wu Zheng to avenge the hatred of the previous several times to relieve pressure, to have his own voice in the court, to have a place in front of Dolgon, to reserve a springboard for the Qing court to go south, and so on.

But after the counterattack of the Ming army and the breakthrough of the naval division into the heart of Jiangbei, especially after the little emperor Fu temporarily gave him unconditional trust, all this changed, and Hong Chengchou's goal became simple, that is, to crush the Ming army with absolute strength, even if it did not destroy the Qingtai Dynasty, it would be greatly damaged and powerless to pose a threat to the Qing court.

The goal is simple, and the lethality is often greater.

People are most afraid of simplicity of purpose.

Wu Sangui's departure allowed Hong Chengchou to smoothly take over the command of the 20,000 Qing troops in Jiangbei and the more than 10,000 Qing troops stationed in Zhenjiangcheng.

In other words, in addition to Tan Tai's nearly 20,000 Qing troops, Hong Chengchou has truly become the commander of the Qing army in Jiangbei.

is a man, he has thought about leading soldiers, this is nature, and Hong Chengchou is no exception.

When he was a Ming minister, he led soldiers, but unfortunately he made a mistake and became a thousand years of hatred.

When he was a Qing minister, it was a pity that he really didn't have a chance to lead the troops, and people didn't give him a chance.

Now it's okay, with tens of thousands of troops in his hands, pointing out the country and scolding Fang Xuan, it is the time for the man to realize his ambition.

Hong Chengchou immediately ordered that the Qing army in Zhenjiang City must defend Zhenjiang City, lose the city and lose land, and behead!

At the same time, the army was urgently dispatched to reinforce Yizhen and Liuhe, in order to expel the invading Ming army.