In Duoduo's eyes, as long as Yangzhou is taken as soon as possible, Liu Yongxi will not have any chance.

No matter how strong Liu Yongxi's skills are, can he still be stronger than Li Zicheng?

Li Zicheng concentrated all the main force of 70,000 or 80,000 people in Tongguan to start a strategic decisive battle with himself, and the final outcome was that Li Zicheng had been defeated before the red-coated artillery arrived, whether it was foot combat, cavalry combat, night attack or plagiarism, all of them failed, no matter how powerful Liu Yongxi was, could he still be stronger than Li Zicheng?

Li Zicheng concentrated 70,000 or 80,000 troops in Tongguan, while Liu Yongxi only had 10,000 horses at most.

So Duoduo doesn't think Liu Yongxi has any chance!

And Liu Yongxi didn't feel that he had any chance, but Mrs. Xing had a trace of illusion: "Although Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu have surrendered to Jianfu, as long as we take in the old Xingping Bo who have retreated, there is still a chance!" ”

Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu he said are also from Shaanxi, but they do not belong to Gao Jie's department and have always been self-contained.

It's just that the news I just got is that the two brothers' general soldiers have surrendered to Duoduo with more than 3,000 people, which is the worst news for both the Hongguang court and Liu Yongxi.

Most of the Ming troops who surrendered before were guerrilla scattered rabble, but Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu were real chief officers, and the 3,000 people in their department were also the elite troops of the Hongguang Dynasty, and their surrender had a very bad impact.

But Liu Yongxi's biggest worry is not these soldiers and horses that are not in the four-town system, he directly told Mrs. Xing: "What I am most worried about now is the rest of Xingping Bo, have you noticed that in the past few days, all the troops that have been contained are small forces, at most only two or three hundred people, where is Yang Chengzu?" Where is Li Benshen? Where is Li Chengdong? Where is Guo Hu? And where are the rest of the generals of Xingpingbo? ”

As soon as Liu Yongxi talked about these generals under Gao Jie's command, Mrs. Xing suddenly understood that although she had high hopes for Gao Jie's main force that fled south from Xuzhou, so far she had only contained some guerrillas and small troops, adding up to more than 2,000 people.

Although the harvest is quite large, the remaining main force of Gaojie who retreated south from Xuzhou has neither 30,000 nor 20,000 according to Mrs. Xing's estimate, but where have all these people gone?

She immediately thought of a very terrible ending: "Husband's intention to withdraw now?" ”

Liu Yongxi is most worried about the situation of the big avalanche now, no one expected that the two or three hundred thousand troops of the Southern Ming Dynasty would almost not resist under the attack of the Qing army and surrender collectively, although he had built up confidence in several battles with the Qing army, but there were too many uncontrollable factors.

Liu Yongxi said very clearly: "If Yang Chengzu, Li Benshen, Li Chengdong, and Guo Hu are loyal to the Ming Dynasty and are willing to come to us, it is no problem when we will transfer to Zhejiang, but which of these people can you count on?" ”

Mrs. Xing couldn't help but think of the day and night after Gao Jie's death, although several months have passed, but those unforgettable scenes echoed in Mrs. Xing, and even when Gao Jie was alive, Li Benshen and Yang Chengzu didn't take Mrs. Xing in their eyes, and often made her unable to get off the stage.

Her face turned pale all of a sudden, if Li Benshen, Yang Chengzu, and Li Chengdong collectively surrendered to Duoduo, then she and Linhuai Town might fall into a great crisis!

After all, they had more troops at hand than the entire Linhuai Town combined, and if they threw themselves into the Qing army, then no matter what efforts Liu Yongxi and Madame Xing had, it would be useless.

But I don't know why she has inexplicable confidence in Liu Yongxi: "Husband, I believe you have arranged everything!" ”

Liu Yongxi said very confidently: "I have already released the rumor to fully support Yangzhou, I believe that not only Duoduo heard the news, but also Yang Chengzu, Li Benshen, Guo Hu, and Li Chengdong also heard the same news!" ”

Mrs. Xing has experienced countless big scenes in the southern and northern wars for so many years, and now she cooperates very well with Liu Yongxi: "Yes, as long as we have no victory or defeat with the Qing soldiers, Li Benshen and Li Chengdong will definitely have a trace of illusions, and this matter has to work hard Xiangjun!" ”

In another time and space, Li Benshen, these old generals, fled to Yangzhou after abandoning Xuzhou, Shi Kefa was unable to contain these proud soldiers, and as a result, they fled to Guazhou in an attempt to continue to flee to Jiangnan, but were shelled by the chief soldier Zheng Hongkui and returned to the vicinity of Yangzhou, and now these generals did not run to Jiangnan, obviously taking a wait-and-see attitude and waiting for Linhuai Town and the Qing army to decide the victory.

Although Li Benshen, Li Chengdong, Guo Hu and others did not think that Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing had much chance of winning, so they did not take the initiative to contact Mrs. Xing until now, but they still waited for the final defeat of Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing with the attitude of both ends of the first mouse.

And Linhuai Town's several sentinel battles with the Qing army also made them feel that they could continue to maintain a wait-and-see attitude, and when Liu Yongxi and Duoduo suffered a lot of losses in the battle, these warlords with heavy troops took the initiative to surrender Duoduo, which would definitely make the Qing army attach great importance to their surrender.

It's just that they are using Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing, and Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing can also use them, and it is impossible for Duoduo and the Qing army to allow tens of thousands of main forces of the Ming army to maintain a wait-and-see posture near Jiangdu while capturing Yangzhou and sweeping away Linhuai Town, so Liu Yongxi completely agrees with Mrs. Xing's opinion: "This matter is indeed hard Sister Xiangjun, tell everyone that we will fight back sooner or later!" ”

With the order of Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing, the entire Linhuai Town was mobilized again to put on a posture of all-out rescue of Yangzhou, but in fact, it was the first time to retreat in the direction of Yizhen, and several red-coated cannons had been withdrawn from the waterway in advance.

In another time and space, Li Benshen and Li Chengdong, these old generals retreated to Guazhou to prepare to cross the river, but Zheng Hongkui, who was stationed in Zhenjiang, suffered heavy losses from shelling and was forced to retreat to Yangzhou, so Liu Yongxi was not ready to go to Zhenjiang to ask for hardship, but was ready to cross the river in the name of going to Taiping Mansion to defect to Liu Kongzhao.

The warships had already been prepared, but when the troops had just started to move, bad news came from Yangzhou: "Yang Chengzu has negotiated with the Qing army about surrendering?" ”

Mrs. Xing originally thought that these old Gao Jie troops would not consider surrender until they had a showdown with Duoduo, but they didn't expect that Yang Chengzu, the chief military officer, and the thousands of people under his command were already preparing to surrender to the Qing army, and Li Benshen, Li Chengdong and others were probably also playing the same wishful thinking, but they had not yet taken action, and if they and Liu Yongxi delayed for another three or five days, I am afraid that it would be the end of death without a place to be buried.