Kong Youde felt that Duoduo had finally made the right judgment: "What King Yu said is very true, as long as we work harder, the Jinhua thieves will completely collapse, who told them to have so many recruits!" ”

According to Kong Youde's experience in fighting for many years, Liu Yongxi's coercion of so many recruits to participate in the war was a complete mistake, and in the decisive battle, these new troops would not only not provide any help, but would instead add chaos everywhere, and as long as the pressure on the Jinhua thieves continued to increase, these recruits would completely collapse.

And Duoduo also said confidently: "Two days, two days at most, the Jinhua thief will completely collapse!" ”

Although the Ming army used villages, fortresses, trenches, rivers, lakes, woods, hills, and all other terrain to build defensive lines, the Qing army also adapted to this tactic, not only attacking from the east to the west, but also launching attacks in several directions at the same time, and even using the new annex army and the Han army to attract firepower.

The Eight Banners also changed their tactics when they launched an offensive against the Outer Mongols, not only would they use the speed of their horses to gallop all the way to the Ming defense line and suddenly kill them, but they would no longer concentrate on charging, but would instead use a more slippery way to create countless troubles for the Ming army.

Due to a series of measures taken by the Qing army, the losses of the Eight Banners Army and the Mongol soldiers of the outer domains were slightly reduced, but the problem was that the two-day offensive did not achieve the expected results, although the Qing army took six or seven small villages, but the Ming army immediately rebuilt a tighter defensive line, compared to thousands of casualties, such a result made Duoduo and the Eight Banners nobles anxious.

In fact, this is exactly what Yoo Yong-seok is aiming for.

As Duoduo discovered, almost half of Liu Yongxi's Ming army were recruits, and these recruits were forced to train themselves in actual combat after only a few days of training at most, but if they really want to win a decisive battle in the field, so many recruits will naturally collapse, even if these recruits have experienced several actual combat tests, but confronting the invincible Eight Banners in the world can only be a dead end.

However, although the head-to-head confrontation is not good, it does not lack the courage to rely on the defense line to shoot at the Qing army, which is also the inevitable trend of firearms in the world.

Arquebusiers are easier to train, training a qualified arquebusier often takes a year or more and a lot of money, while training a barely qualified arquebusier only takes a day, and you can continue to improve your marksmanship in actual combat.

And an arquebus is cheaper than a bow and arrow, a crossbow and other cold weapons, and the power of armor breaking is better than an ordinary strong crossbow, no matter what kind of armor the Eight Banners warriors wear, as long as the arquebus is used well, it is still a fatal ending, so although the arquebus has countless shortcomings, the Eight Banners Army also defeated the Ming Army again and again with its riding and archery skills, but firearms is still an irreversible trend.

As a commander who had experienced countless battles, Liu Yongxi knew how to use the arquebus, so on the surface it was the same shape of arquebus, but the arquebus used by the Yue Ming army was closer in quality to the Western-style original and used Western-style manipulation, and only when the Qing army approached did it launch a salvo, and it was replaced with granular gunpowder with a higher killing effect.

The Qing army often had to withstand multiple firepower salvos before they could rush up and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army's pikemen, but even if they broke through a heavy defensive line, the Ming army had already organized a second or even third defensive line, and the further forward it was, the more vulnerable it was to be shot by multiple firepower.

The Manchurian nobles, including Duoduo, now hate Liu Yongxi to the bones, and the tens of thousands of musketeers of the Ming army are obviously the cheapest consumables, but after Liu Yongxi's careful organization, they have become a sharp weapon against the Eight Banners cavalry, and many times Duoduo, who has finally broken through the multiple defense lines, is more distressed than anyone else: "We have killed and injured so many Eight Banner soldiers, just to capture such a small Zhuangzi!" ”

He longed to break through Liu Yongxi's defense line tomorrow and win the final victory, but the Ming army's hive-like defense line made him have to slow down and constantly compress the living space of the Ming army with meticulousness, patience and courage.

In any case, the Qing army has an advantage in strength and combat effectiveness, if it is a decisive victory in the field, Duoduo has a hundred ways to easily solve Liu Yongxi, and now Liu Yongxi Although Liu Yongxi adopts the strategy of shrinking defense, he feels that there are not many ways to start, but Duoduo and the commander of the Qing army feel that as long as they persist, the victory will definitely belong to the Qing Kingdom.

Neither Duoduo nor the commander-in-chief of the Qing army noticed that each offensive consumed or even overdrew the war potential of the Qing army, but on the contrary, Hong Chengchou, a military university scholar who had been recruiting Jiangnan for hundreds of miles, looked at the battle reports sent from Huzhou and his expression became more and more serious.

Although every battle report is that the Qing soldiers won a great victory on the battlefield and defeated how many Jinhua thieves and bandits, but after so many days, Duoduo's field army neither took Huzhou City, nor annihilated the reinforcements led by Liu Yongxi, but continued to transport more and more wounded and corpses from Huzhou, making Hong Chengchou smell a trace of danger, after all, he faced the same problem when he fought in the decisive battle of Songjin.

King Yu's field army has fallen into the black hole of Huzhou Mansion, originally thought that the red-coated cannon would be able to blast through Huzhou Mansion after it was delivered, but the red-coated cannon that was mobile along the waterway was attacked by the Jinhua thief sailor on Taihu Lake and suffered great losses, and now I don't know how to transport the red-coated cannon over, and now the army of King Yu has to keep an eye on Huzhou Mansion and attack Liu Yongxi's army at the same time, and even pay attention to the Ming army in the direction of Jiaxing Mansion, which is really lacking.

And the former Ming State Nanzhili, which had just been renamed "Jiangnan Province", was in turmoil, and more than 20 county towns were lost within a few days, which made Hong Chengchou feel more and more that there was a huge crisis hidden behind it, so he asked: "Mu Zhai, can you do something about it as a pseudo-queen?" ”

Although Qian Qianyi, a subordinate, took the lead in standing up to welcome King Yu's army into the southern capital, but King Yu was surrounded by old people from Liaodong, so he naturally would not put Qian Qianyi, a subordinate, in his heart.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi had already made up his mind: "It's naturally okay to talk about Empress Zhang's identity or even innocence, but it's not enough to save the overall situation. ”

Although Qian Qianyi is telling the truth, now he wants to conquer Jiangnan is first of all a military issue rather than a political issue, but the problem is that neither the regent nor the king of Yu has enough trust in Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou did not have the power to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, and he only had thousands of soldiers and horses composed of surrendered generals and soldiers.

These thousands of soldiers and horses are used to deal with the Tukou who started in a hurry, but it is quite difficult to deal with the Jinhua thieves who have infiltrated Jiangnan Province, not to mention that the Jinhua thieves have been combined with the Tukou, so Hong Chengchou feels that he can make a big fuss about the identity of the queen of the prison country and the princess of the prison country, not only can he accuse them of being fake queens and princesses, but also accuse them of being innocent and messing with the court between them and the puppet Yue Guogong.

But Qian Qianyi directly pointed out that Hong Chengchou really thought too much, everyone in the world is ready to accept an emperor from a different race, and naturally he can accept a prison queen and a prison princess, even if these two nobles have an ulterior relationship with Yue Guogong in their private lives, but at least they can keep the clothes of the Han family.

And Qian Qianyi's side of a warrior with a golden sword told Hong Chengchou not to have illusions: "Xiangguo, if you want to deal with the Jinhua thief or see the truth on the battlefield, King Yu will have a big problem if it drags on like this, and no one in the world knows how to deal with Liu Yongxi, a thief!" ”

Speaking of this is Liu Zeqing, the Marquis of Dongping who was sent to Nanjing just after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, but although Liu Zeqing was only a few thousand remnants of the defeated army, his tone was very big: "I have been fighting with Liu Yongxi, a thief, for more than a year, and it has always been an intractable situation, he didn't take much advantage of me, and I know what method to use to deal with him!" ”

Liu Zeqing behaved so positively that Hong Chengchou suddenly felt full of hope: "Dongping Hou, tell me, what do you need to deal with the Jinhua thief?" ”

Don't look at Liu Zeqing as a standard martial artist, but he is still a literati as a young man, and he speaks in a very orderly manner: "On the experience of dealing with Liu Yongxi, a thief, no one in the world can win, I have already thought about it before I came to Nandu, and there are three strategies to deal with this thief!" ”

Although Hong Chengchou was also the commander of the army and had seen many big scenes, he was still attracted by Liu Zeqing's statement at this moment: "What are the three strategies of the upper, middle and lower?" ”

Liu Zeqing first said the so-called best policy: "The best policy is very simple, as long as the regent takes back his fate, the chaos in Jiangnan can naturally be calmed down!" ”

Hong Chengchou knew that Liu Zeqing was talking about the shaving order, but this was the most unacceptable reverse scale of the regent Dolgon, when he left Beijing, Dolgon specially explained to him that other issues could be discussed and compromised, but the shaving order could not be discussed, so he asked expressionlessly: "Then what is the middle policy?" ”

Liu Zeqing patted his chest and said: "Then naturally ask the Eight Banners General to guard Nanjing, and use the four towns and the Han army to deal with the Jinhua thieves on the periphery, as long as the King of Yu and Xiangguo give us the name, I can pull up 20,000 soldiers, don't look at us We can't deal with the Qing Dynasty, but there are a hundred ways to deal with the Jinhua thieves!" ”

This is Liu Zeqing's boasting, but Hong Chengchou feels that what he said also has some truth, and it is true that the Han army must be used to deal with Jinhua thieves to receive miraculous results, but he still asked: "Then what is the next policy?" ”

Liu Zeqing laughed: "I heard that King Tang is the emperor in Fuzhou, Xiangguo is from Fujian, and Zheng Zhilong and others are old acquaintances, if you can come forward to contact the heroes of Fujian, the situation will naturally be different!" ”

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but tighten his brows, Liu Zeqing's so-called strategy is actually the real best policy, but he knows that it doesn't make much sense to contact Fujian in the current situation, because he is now appeasing Hong Chengchou, a scholar of Jiangnan Governor's University, so Hong Chengchou immediately said: "Marquis of Dongping, if you are given a name, how are you going to contain the puppet Yue Guogong?" ”