Looking at the expectant gazes of everyone, Yang Feng said slowly: "This time, Bengong and Li Yan personally led two thousand foot soldiers, a baggage battalion, a medical battalion and an artillery battalion to help Hangzhou, and Gou Xingma, Cao Yingmao and Yan Di led the rest of the men and horses to stand around Hangzhou City.

If the thieves continue to attack the city, they are not allowed to act without the order of the army, if the thieves retreat, you can take advantage of the situation to kill, and drive the thieves in the direction of Songjiang Mansion and Suzhou Mansion, remember to be measured, not to annihilate them all, but also not to let them escape too easily, understand? ”

"Whoa!" Everyone responded in unison.

However, Gou Xingma immediately asked with some concern: "Grandpa Guo, this humble post is not worried about whether you can rush into Hangzhou City, but I am worried that those officials in Hangzhou Mansion will not accept your affection, but take the opportunity to stumble on you." When the time comes, the kindness is not good to repay, but it is a commotion, which is called bad luck. ”

"Stumble." Yang Feng said contemptuously: "They also have to have that ability, if they really dare to do this, this duke will look down on them." ”

"Hahaha......"

Listening to what Yang Feng said interestingly, the generals of the Jiangning army also laughed, they have been in Jiangnan to suppress bandits for some days, and the virtues of those officials and gentry in Jiangnan have long been seen by them, but if the officials and gentry in Jiangnan are a little bold and bloody, they will not be beaten like a sieve by Li Zicheng.

Looking at the look of Yang Feng and the Jiangning generals talking about the officials and gentry in Jiangnan, Li Yan was envious and realized that he was indeed unjustly defeated last time.

Whether an army can fight or not can be seen from the words and deeds of the generals on weekdays.

Just like when Yang Feng said just now that he would go straight to Hangzhou City with the baggage battalion, the medical battalion and two thousand soldiers, the first thought of the generals was not that Yang Feng would not be able to enter, but that they were afraid that they would be troubled by those officials and gentry in Hangzhou after entering Hangzhou City and repelling the rogue.

What does this mean, it shows that they don't pay attention to the tens of thousands of rogues outside the city at all.

This is not arrogance, but confidence in oneself that will win, and this confidence is not made by blind confidence or silver, but by victory after victory.

Since the establishment of the Jiangning Army, whether it is to destroy the Manchu Qing Jiannu in the north and go south to exterminate Zheng Zhilong, or to defeat the red-haired ghost, it has never tasted defeat, it is this continuous victory that has cast the military soul of the Jiangning Army, no matter what kind of enemy is in the way of buying the year, they are confident that they will tear the enemy to pieces......

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The battle at the head of Hangzhou continued, and layers of corpses had been piled up outside the walls of Qingbo Gate, most of which were hungry and dead soldiers, and there were also a very small number of officers and soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets.

As far as the eye could see, the corpses under the city wall were superimposed, and there was crimson flesh everywhere, and under the scorching sun, the smell of blood in the air could not be eliminated.

It was only at noon that the rogue offensive stopped.

It's not that Li Zicheng doesn't want to fight, but both sides have to rein in the corpses.

This is not to say that Li Zicheng suddenly discovered it with his conscience, but it is now May, it is the height of summer, and if the corpses are not collected as soon as possible under such hot weather, it is very easy to cause a plague if these corpses are allowed to rot under the city walls.

In Huaxia, even children know the horror of the plague, the lethality of this thing is really amazing, and it is not a friend or foe, and no one can stand it if they really want to sit up.

It is precisely because of this that in the interval of each truce, the two warring sides will send a group of people to collect the corpses and let the other party's people run around on the battlefield, which is safe at this time, and no one will risk the disapproval to move at each other.

On the tower of the city gate, Pan Ruzhen sat on a stool, looking at the hungry soldiers under the city wall who were ragged and yellow-skinned, and threw one corpse after another onto the trolley with a numb expression, and soon these corpses were pushed to the big pits that had been dug just a mile away from the city wall, and poured these corpses down like garbage.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, Pan Ruzhen can even see that many people vomit while cleaning up, after all, the death of those rogues is really miserable.

Not to mention the corpses that were smashed to pieces by the artillery, even the rogues who were smashed to death by rolling wood and rocks, and the corpses that were burned to death by fire pots and other things, all of them were in a terrible state of death, and anyone who saw these things with blurred flesh and blood, or black as charcoal, would feel uncomfortable in their stomachs.

"One will be a success, and ten thousand bones will wither!" Pan Ruzhen let out a long sigh.

The adjutant general on the side said: "After this battle, the governor will definitely be famous all over the world, and Your Majesty will definitely know your name, and it will not be a problem to wait for a few years to enter the cabinet to pay respects to the prime minister." ”

Pan Ruzhen shook his head and said worriedly: "It's too early to say, let's talk about it when we survive this experience." ”

This is not that Pan Ruzhen is hypocritical, but he knows very well that after these days of bloody battles, the use of troops in Hangzhou City has reached the limit.

More than half of the original 5,000 officers and soldiers defending the city have already been killed or wounded, and the casualties of the young and strong are the largest, and more than 4,000 young and strong have died in the city so far, even those

The same is true of the private soldiers of the salt merchants and maritime merchants who were forcibly brought in by him, if it were not for the fact that this morning, he had obtained more than a thousand servants from the hands of those merchants and gentry and urgently joined the battlefield, and the Qingbo Gate would have been lost.

It's just that despite this, he still has little confidence in whether he can hold Hangzhou City.

There is no other reason, it is that the army is almost exhausted, although he has ordered the conscription of 8,000 young men again, judging from the situation these days, there is no problem with these temporary young men to carry stretchers or help with some groceries, but if they are allowed to participate in the defense of the city, the effect is not satisfactory.

Pan Ruzhen knew very well in his heart that once all the original officers and soldiers defending the city were exhausted or the private soldiers and family members he managed to get were killed and injured to a certain extent, the entire form of defending the city was likely to collapse.

Just when Pan Ruzhen was in a hurry, he suddenly saw a faint burst of shouts from the rogues who were collecting the corpses in front of him, and many people even put down what they were doing and fled in all directions. He could even see bands of rogue cavalry swarming around the walls and heading backwards.

"What happened, why did these people flee?"

Just when Pan Ruzhen was confused, an officer stumbled over and shouted, "Your Excellency...... Reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived......"