Among the rest of Gao Jie's troops, Li Benshen is the oldest and the most powerful, so Duoduo doesn't want to return to the mountain, if it weren't for Bolo's defeat in Hangzhou too badly, he really doesn't want to release Li Benshen, a real tiger.

And now Li Benshen is also a tiger, he said without scruples: "Then Prince Yu asked us to eat, let's do what he wants?" We really want to attack the city, and when Liu Yongxi and Xing Shengping come from behind, what should we do? Even the Eight Banners of Bolobel were defeated by Liu Yongxi and Xing Shengping! ”

Previously, Li Benshen, Guo Hu, and Yang Chengzu regarded Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing very lightly.

But the battle of Qianjiang Boluo was defeated and could only retreat to Hangcheng, losing to this extent it must be the Eight Banners Army, the Mongolian soldiers of the outer domain were pressed up and could not suppress the scene, it is said that the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners under Bolo were almost killed and wounded, and now they can only rely on Zu Dabi to support the scene.

Although these rumors may not be credible, since the Eight Banners have all been defeated, they, the new annexed troops who have only surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for a few months, can be used, and the best situation is to fight for both defeats, but for them, the warlords, the situation of losing both is simply worse than death!

So they have a completely different evaluation of Liu Yongxi, Mrs. Xing and Xing Shengping than before, and even have a fear of war and difficulty, always feeling that Liu Yongxi may come out from behind at any time.

After all, Liu Yongxi has established an invincible reputation in the past year, and now even Borobele's 40,000 troops are defeated by his men, Li Benshen, Guo Hu, and Yang Chengzu naturally have to be careful and careful: "This time, the army led by Yue Guogong and Xing Shengping is claimed to have 50,000 people, even if there are no 50,000, there are always 30,000, right?" Who of us can stop the full force of Yue Guogong's blow? ”

When Gao Jie's department was in its heyday, it was only 30,000 troops and 9,000 mules and horses, and when he thought of the situation where Gao Jie's army was launched with all his might, Guo Hu's face turned blue: "Brother Ben Shen is still thoughtful, everything is not worried about defeat before winning, Hua Ma Liu and others are a group of wastes that are completely useless, we still have to set up camp first!" ”

Although Liu Yongxi is still a hundred miles away, but everyone suspects that he will suddenly kill himself in the blink of an eye, Liu Liangzuo was defeated in Linhuai Town, but he didn't expect Liu Yongxi to suddenly kill by land and water, and now these Qing generals feel that Liu Yongxi is ambushed in his back at any time to stab him in the back, and he has no interest in attacking the city.

It's just that in this way, no one will carry out Prince Yu's siege order, Guo Hu whispered: "Then who will attack the city?" ”

Li Benshen had already thought about how to deal with Duoduo and these Manchurian powerhouses: "The Eight Banners powerhouses are invincible in the world, and they will naturally solve the problem of a strong city like Huzhou!" ”

Guo Hu knew that Duoduo would definitely vomit blood if he knew this situation, after all, according to the convention, the Eight Banners were only used on the most critical occasions, and this kind of occasion should have been filled by the new attached army, but now even Li Benshen, Yang Chengzu, Guo Hu and other "tiger generals" are afraid of the enemy like tigers, and the siege of the city can naturally only be entrusted to Duoduo's Eight Banners Force.

Although this kind of rule is not in line with the convention, Guo Hu knows that Duoduo urgently needs them to deal with Liu Yongxi, so he can naturally have no fear: "Actually, there is no need to be so troublesome, as long as the red-clothed cannon is pulled up, a few cannons can be used to solve the problem, and there is no stronghold that the red-clothed cannon can't break under this world!" ”

But for Duoduo and the commanders of the Qing army, this was an unacceptable outcome for them.

They originally thought that they would be able to break through Huzhou City with their superiority in strength, but no one expected that the generals of the new annexed army were all afraid of the enemy like tigers, and they were busy setting up camp to defend their own camps, and they did not have any enthusiasm for the siege of the city, even if they were under great pressure, they sent 180 people to try to attack, and they retracted after a slight setback.

And these generals also said eloquently: "Wait for the red-clothed cannon to come up and bombard a few cannons, let alone one Zhang Boyi, even ten Zhang Boyi can easily solve it!" ”

This is not the situation that Duoduo wants, although Duoduo also knows that as long as the red-clothed cannon is pulled up, let alone a city of Huzhou's level, even a strong city can still be blasted open, but the movement of the red-clothed cannon has always been slow, and it will take at least three or five days or even more to arrive, and it will take another day or two to set up an artillery position.

However, the soldiers and horses of Liu Yongxi, the Duke of Yueguo, are getting closer and closer, and they have entered fifty or sixty miles away, and the red-clothed cannon has not yet been set up, and the horse team led by Liu Yongxi has already been killed to the feet, so the concerns of these Han generals are more or less reasonable.

But the problem is that if Huzhou City is not breached, the main force of the Qing army under the command of Duoduo will be in danger of being attacked by the enemy in the front and back. ”

Li Shutai is the son of Li Yongfang, a Fushun concubine, although he also has Han blood, but he is actually already a Manchurian, and he is dedicated to the Qing Dynasty: "Prince, there are so many soldiers of the Eight Banners and Mongolia in this southern expedition, these Han people are unreliable, if the soldiers of the Eight Banners are lost too much, I am afraid there will be changes!" ”

Duoduo also had the same worries, but as the commander of the whole army, he couldn't shake the army's heart: "Now it's the Xu Er'an brothers and Liu Liangzuo who are going to stop the Jinhua thieves, others can't stand it, they have a common enmity with Liu Yongxi, they can always withstand it!" ”

Xu Er'an and Xu Erji brothers are the sons of Xu Dingguo, and Liu Yongxi has a grudge against his father, and it is precisely because of such a period of hatred that does not share the sky, so Duoduo deliberately cultivated the two brothers during this time, not only allowing them to recruit rebels but also handing over many rogue soldiers to them to absorb, so their strength suddenly swelled.

However, Duoduo felt that Xu Er'an and Xu Erji brothers alone were not enough to deal with the tens of thousands of Jinhua thieves led by Liu Yongxi, the Duke of Yueguo, so he specially sent Liu Liangzuo, who also had a common enmity with Liu Yongxi.

No matter how bad Liu Liangzuo is, at least he is one of the four towns in Jiangbei, he joins forces with Xu Er'an and Xu Erji brothers, even if he can't fight with the Jinhua thieves equally, but at least he can block the way forward for the Jinhua thieves.

Li Shutai also felt that the combination of the Xu brothers and Liu Liangzuo was enough, but he thought about it and said: "It's best to draw all the way from the two Han armies of Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde to press the Xu brothers and Liu Liangzuo!" ”

Duoduo suddenly became full of confidence: "Then I still need to say that I have sent 500 soldiers of the Eight Banners, and 300 Mongolian soldiers from the outer domain to suppress the Xu brothers and Liu Liangzuo. ”