When Wu Zheng received the report from the herald, his face suddenly turned pale.

“**！” Wu Zheng scolded angrily, "It's a very good one, playing a game with this king that will not be affected by the king's life?" When Lao Tzu plays, you are still in Yizhen being pressed and beaten by the Tartars! ”

Wu Zheng is really stunned, isn't this a trick that he often plays?

Now he is being played by Jiang Quanyi.

Ma Shiying said: "Jiang Quanyi is so ignorant of the superiority and inferiority, he is so arrogant, he must be severely punished to set an example!" The prince, send his subordinates to personally send the order, relieve him of his military power, deport him, and let the prince dispose of it! ”

Hearing this, Wu Zheng calmed down, rolled his eyes and said, "Remove his military power, who will lead the Taizhou Guard?" If your old horse can replace Jiang Quanyi, this king will order him to come back. ”

Ma Shiying smiled bitterly: "Ma is just complaining about the prince...... ”

Wu Zheng took a deep breath, "Write down the account first, and settle it with interest in the future...... However, at present, Taizhou's defense has been exhausted, and it is difficult to do anything, and a new force is urgently needed to have a different direction to open the stalemate. Otherwise, once the enemy army in Xuzhou goes south along the canal, I am afraid that Taizhou Wei will suffer a big loss! ”

Speaking of this, Wu Zheng couldn't help but become angry again, "There are more than 10,000 enemy troops in Fengyang Mansion, and that's not an ornament...... Jiang Quanyi's guy is specially giving this king a problem! ”

Ma Shiying nodded and said: "If it is really as the prince expected, the enemy forces of Fengyang and Xuzhou are encircled, then Taizhou Wei Ke will be dangerous...... General Fang has no more than 10,000 people in his hands, and if he wants to defend Jiangdu and Gaoyou, I am afraid that there are not many troops who can be transferred, or if General Chen or General Chi are transferred to lead his troops north for reinforcements? ”

Wu Zheng frowned and looked at the map, shook his head thoughtfully, and said: "These two departments are reserves, and they can't be used easily, at least after the enemy forces in Fengyang and Xuzhou have made some moves...... Moreover, Jiang Quanyi's troops are only physically strong, not powerless to attack Huai'an, Taizhou Wei has 30,000 people, and it is enough to deal with the enemy army in Huai'an Mansion, and it is not necessary to fill in the two divisions of Chen and Chi. ”

Ma Shiying agreed: "Hey...... It would be nice if the imperial court could send troops to attack Chuzhou and contain the enemy army in Fengyang. ”

Wu Zheng's eyes flashed, and he said: "I personally wrote a letter, and you took it to Yingtianfu and handed it over to Your Majesty in person." ”

Ma Shiying hurriedly said: "Why don't you leave the matter of sending the letter to someone else, the prince can't do without people." ”

Wu Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then scolded with a smile: "Your old horse is not a twenty-eight beauty...... This king does not need to be served. ”

Ma Shiying smiled awkwardly, "Ma Mou means that now the left and right political envoys and other princes are not by the prince's side, and the prince must leave someone who can talk ......." ”

Wu Zheng smiled and said, "I understand what you mean...... Ying Tianfu is not far away, and this letter is related to whether the imperial court can send troops to Chuzhou, you can go and return quickly. ”

Ma Shiying replied helplessly: "Please take care of the prince!" ”

……。

Between these words, it was another day of bloody battles.

Jiang Quanyi really couldn't figure it out, even if Huai'an Mansion was full, it would only have an establishment of 20,000 people.

When the main force of Taizhou Wei arrived at the outskirts of Huai'an Mansion, Jiang Quanyi actually had 20,000 available troops in his hands.

In addition, there are no less than 300 large and small caliber artillery, but they can be attacked several times, but they are all forced back by the defenders.

And at this time, the shortcomings of the musketeers were also exposed...... Extremely poor defenses!

Because they were not equipped with armor, the soldiers faced the enemy's firearms, crossbows, slings, and rolling logs almost physically in the flesh, which was extremely lethal in the era when there were no repeating firearms.

The advantage of the musket is that it has long-range firepower output, and does not make close contact with the enemy.

Jiang Quanyi has always been "superstitious" about the power of firearms, of course, this is true, but the problem is that at the moment it is a siege, unless the morale of the defenders collapses and the army rushes in, otherwise, hand-to-hand combat is necessary.

Even in later generations, after the bombardment of aircraft and artillery, the infantry had to rush forward to be considered a real occupation.

As for the siege of the musketeers, the lack of actual combat examples has always been the lack of real guiding tactics in military schools.

The only tactical guidance is artillery bombardment, infantry rushing, infantry rushing after artillery bombardment, artillery bombardment after infantry rushing.

The walls of Huai'an Mansion are too strong for the twelve-pounder cannon to have a truly effective destructive power against it, and even if you are lucky, two shells hit directly in the same position, but they only smashed a big crater and dripped some rubble.

The enemy defenders obviously had precautions against fire attacks, and once the artillery bombarded the city with flowering shells, they all hid in the wooden and stone fortifications, and the casualties were very small, and when the Taizhou guards attacked the city, they rushed out, bows, crossbows, stones, and wood...... Anything goes.

The three successive siege failures made Jiang Quanyi have to start reflecting.

He immediately ordered the siege to be halted, and only bombarded the head of the city intermittently with artillery to prevent the defenders from suddenly leaving the city and launching a counter-assault.

At the same time, he had to send rescue messengers to Taizhou, hoping to be supported by the fire of a sixteen-pounder gun.

Such a strong city wall, and only more than sixteen-pound artillery, can pose a threat to the city wall, and the Northern Expeditionary Army has a sixteen-pounder artillery regiment in the first army, and the maximum caliber of each guard is only twelve pounder guns, which is not because it cannot be built, but considering the convenience of transportation.

Because the weight of a 16-pound gun is more than 1,800 catties, and at this time, the standard 12-pounder direct-fire artillery equipped with the Northern Expeditionary Army is only more than 800 catties, a difference of more than double the weight, the difficulty of transportation is not a star and a half, and the requirements for roads are more than twice as much.

……。

And just when Jiang Quanyi was in the dilemma of not being able to advance and retreat.

Wu Zheng received a secret report from Song An, and Chang Linwei found out who the chief general of the Huai'an garrison was.

This person's name is very loud, called Zu Dabi, and he is a Qingming general, but even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he is also a fierce general.

Zu Dabi has a nickname, called Zu Er Crazy, which comes from the reason for shouting and shouting during the battle.

This is different from Chi Erhan's shouting "Eat me with a knife", Chi Erhan's shouting has a premise, that is, he must shout before swinging the knife. And as soon as Zu Dabi went to the battlefield, he was shouting and screaming non-stop.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, he killed the Manchu (Later Jin) Tulush in Xuanfu, and in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, in Jinzhou, he killed the Qing army Baturu Muketan.

However, after the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with his younger brother Zu Dashou.

It was also his courage in battle that was favored by Dolgon and belonged to the Han army with a yellow flag.

In June of the second year of Shunzhi (1645), Dolgon ordered Zu Dabi to lead 8,000 people to attack Huzhou, Zhejiang.

After making his military exploits, Dolgon conferred the title of Zu Dabi as the Minister of the Scattered Ranks.