Here I have to mention that the chief general of the Qing army in this battle is named Ji Xiha.

Jixi Hafucha clan, Zhenghuangqi people, inherited his father's shadow, and the Qing court granted him the title of Niu Lu Ezhen.

When he was outside the customs, he fought bravely and repeatedly made military merits, and his merits were promoted to the red flag Melle Ezhen.

After entering the customs, he served under Duoduo, and together with Chen Tai, he conquered Zhengsen, Fujian, Lianke, Changle, Lianjiang, Tong'an, Pinghe and other counties, and after returning to Beijing, he entered the second-class Ada Hahafan (title), and the following year, he was promoted to Shangshu (temporary title), and entered the third-class Ashani Hafan.

This time, he went south with Dolgon, and stayed by Dolgon's side and did not participate in the battle.

Therefore, this time Ji Xiha was the main general, which he insisted on and took from Shen Zhiyuan.

Also, the military pays attention to seniority.

Shen Zhiyuan has been surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for less than three years, but he has only trained a new army, and the battle he has fought is to reinforce the British Prince Azig Mongols to quell the rebellion.

How can this be compared to a battlefield veteran like Jishiha?

In the eyes of those Manchu generals in Jixiha, Shen Zhiyuan, the little southern barbarian, is nothing more than a good-looking little white face, fortunate enough to marry the regent's daughter, and fall into the eyes of Dolgon.

Shen Zhiyuan was designated as an "auxiliary government", which made the Manchu generals very unconvinced.

But if you don't accept it, there is no way, who let Shen Zhiyuan have 30,000 new troops in his hands, that is to say, at this time, Shen Zhiyuan is the thumb of Yanzhou's strength.

Therefore, the Manchu generals were holding back their strength and wanted to have a long face and suppress Shen Zhiyuan's arrogance.

More than a dozen Manchu generals jointly proposed that the Eight Banners Army stationed in Yanzhou at that time come to fight this battle, and Dolbo did not agree at first, but under Shen Zhiyuan's persuasion, he agreed.

It is also true that among the generals of the Qing army, there are many people who are good at fighting, and after reviewing the several battles of Wu Zheng's northward journey, the final conclusion is that Wu Zheng does not know how to fight, does not know the art of war, and the dispatch is ridiculous...... The reason why I was able to win was because I was so lucky.

Does that sound familiar?

Dolgon once said the same thing about Wu Zheng.

This conclusion is accepted by everyone, and it's right, you can't grow the morale of others and destroy your own prestige, right?

But one thing is true, Wu Zheng will not fight.

To be precise, Wu Zheng's command ability is even inferior to Zhang Guowei, Fang Guoan and others.

In the past five years, Wu Zheng has been able to create a world and create a myth of an "undefeated god of war", all because of his experience of 500 years more than ordinary people.

The process doesn't really matter if it's in the right direction, is it?

For example, Wu Zheng's choice of Shaoxing seems to be a mistake, Shaoxing Mansion is attacked on three sides, there is no defense and so on, and so on, and even more so it is a dead place in troubled times.

But in fact, the real place of death is Fujian and Guangdong, the Qing army has already moved south from Huguang, and the main forces are there, and Zheng Zhilong's surrender directly ceded Fujian and Guangdong to the Qing army.

Compared with the history of Shaoxing Mansion that died in one year, did Longwu survive two years? Didn't you die in less than a year?

But because Shaoxing Mansion is inconspicuous and not a battleground for soldiers, the Qing army did not have many garrisons in Shaoxing, Hangzhou and other places, forming a military vacuum.

This gave Wu Zheng the best chance to rise, which is an opportunity that cannot be found anywhere else.

And Wu Zheng is indeed not a military genius, after changing the pattern of Jiangnan's strength, he is confused.

He magnified the difficulties of the Northern Expedition infinitely, not because he was timid, but because he could no longer predict the course of history, because he had already changed part of the course.

Why kill Dordor and imprison Bolo alive and dead, not even to give up the ransom?

Why did you come to see Dolgon desperately when you heard that Dolgon was in Xuzhou?

There is only one practical intention, Wu Zheng is afraid of these three people, and he must get rid of them quickly.

Of course, Wu Zheng will definitely not admit it publicly.

The real reason for not going on the Northern Expedition is not the division of power and interests, but that Wu Zheng has been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity in history.

But until now, this opportunity has not appeared, which makes Wu Zheng feel uneasy, is it difficult to disobey the will of God?

To put it simply, Wu Zheng has gradually changed from the original prophet to a materialistic person, which is an evolution from strategy to tactics, a kind of regression, and a kind of helplessness.

This has caused that to this day, after accidentally obtaining Xuzhou, Wu Zheng is still hesitating, whether to occupy Xuzhou at all costs, or to get a generous "compensation" from the Qing court and temporarily give up Xuzhou.

But Zishiha had no such worries and concerns.

The difference between a general and a commander is that one is strategy and the other is tactical.

Obviously, it is one-sided for a general to evaluate a commander, just like a county order evaluates a ruling decree, and the results are naturally fallacious if they stand at different heights.

So, from the very beginning, Zishiha was wrong, very wrong.

Maybe it was Lan Bai, Ji Xiha and other Manchu generals who wanted to give Shen Zhiyuan a dismount.

Ji Xiha ordered the siege of Huling City.

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Huling City really can't be regarded as a city, and the radius is only six or seven miles.

The two city gates in the north and south run through the entire city.

The wall is not high, one foot and two feet up and down, not thick, but the north and south towers may deploy defenders.

Such a city, if in the past, in the face of the attack of tens of thousands of troops, is almost a dead place, a desperate situation.

If nothing else, with 3,000 crossbowmen of the Qing army, half of the city can be covered, how to defend it?

But now it's different, the Northern Expeditionary Army has artillery, of course, this kind of city can't deploy field direct-fire artillery, it really has to be reluctantly placed, without the enemy attacking, as soon as the cannon is fired, he has to collapse the city wall.

Therefore, the six-pounder cannon has long been deployed to the city defense of Xuzhou, and there are only 100 tiger squat cannons in Huling City.

Will the firepower be too sparse?

Lu Zhiyu also asked Wu Zheng so.

Wu Zheng's answer at that time was, "I didn't let you hold on for ten days and a half months, what do you want to do with strong firepower...... If the city is lost, the cannon will be cheapened by the enemy. ”

Listen, listen, before the war started, I thought that I couldn't hold it, and I didn't plan to really defend it.

But Wu Zheng did not say it completely, in fact, the one-foot and two-foot city wall of Huling City had completely destroyed the enemy cavalry.

It's not a heavenly soldier, I haven't seen a horse that can cross a one-foot and two-foot high obstacle, if you really want to be able to cross, it must not be a war horse, it's a flying horse.

Then don't fight, go to sea directly, and go fishing for Luding Gong (self-styled).

Therefore, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not use six-pounder guns in Huling City, and the Qing Army also could not use cavalry, and this battle was tantamount to castrating the strengths of both sides from the beginning.

So what's the other fight?

Beat the momentum!

If the enemy is allowed to triumph all the way from Gu Ning to Xuzhou City, the morale will be unstoppable.

And their own soldiers and people could not understand it, they thought that the Northern Expeditionary Army was retreating, and did not dare to block the enemy's edge, so that the battle would be difficult to fight.