With the last stronghold of Liu Liangzuo's army, Huai'an Fucheng, was defeated by the Tang army, and Liu Liangzuo's forces were officially destroyed.

After leading all the defenders in the city and surrendering to the Tang army, Liu Zehan was like crazy, desperately digging out his father Liu Liangzuo, who had become a blurred ball of flesh and blood and was almost not human, from the ruins of the collapsed city wall.

He hugged the filthy and dry flesh tightly, and let out a loud cry of sorrow, which could not be suppressed, but moved the onlookers. After crying for a long time, he began to officially bury his father in a mountain forest outside Huai'an Mansion.

Next, Cao Bianjiao, the commander of the Tang Army, ordered Liu Liangzuo's troops in the entire Huai'an Mansion to surrender their troops and horses, a total of more than 35,000 people, all led by his son Liu Zehan. Since then, it has become an auxiliary unit of the seventh town of the Tang Army. They were asked to do the same as the Tang army, in the city of Huai'an, after resting for three days, and immediately attack Yangzhou in the south.

In these three days, Liu Zehan assigned his subordinates to order all the remnants of the army in Huai'an Mansion that had not yet surrendered to surrender, and all its soldiers and horses were transferred to Huai'an Mansion City and belonged to Liu Zehan's subordinates.

At the same time, the Tang army arranged for the people in the city, as well as a group of surrendered troops, to step up the repair of the eastern city wall damaged by the Tang army during the siege, so that the entire Huai'an Mansion City could be restored to integrity as soon as possible.

As for the meritorious soldiers in this battle, they all have their own rewards. And Liu Zehan and his subordinates, their families, lives and goods were properly preserved, and they were not taken at all, so everyone was happy, and the military was very determined.

After these orders were issued, the whole army began to carry out military orders, each doing its own thing, in an orderly manner, and everything was going according to plan.

What Tang Army Coach Cao Bianjiao never expected was that just two days later, an astonishing news came from the south.

That is, Liu Liangzuo's department sent a sentinel to Huang Degong for help, and he had successfully asked for help, and Huang Degong, the general soldier of Yangchu, was personally leading the elite 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and hurried north all the way to the emergency rescue of Huai'an.

Hearing that it was Huang Degong who personally commanded the troops to rescue, Cao Bianjiao, the commander of the Tang Army, frowned and pondered for a long time, but a smile appeared on his face.

He knew that this Huang Degong could be regarded as the most capable general in the Hongguang Dynasty. Compared with Liu Liangzuo, Zuo Liangyu, Zheng Zhilong and others, he can be described as a rare good general who stands out from the crowd.

Huang Degong, known as Tiger Mountain, was the founder of the Yuan Guards at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because he was often brave and good at fighting in battle, so he was nicknamed Huang Chuangzi in the army.

Huang Degong was born in the army, accumulated merit all the way to the deputy chief soldier, and was once a famous general in Beijing. In the war of conquest and suppression of the Liukou, Huang Degong once forced the landing of five battalions of enemy soldiers, captured the commander Ma Wu, killed the general Wang Xingguo, and also broke Zhang Xianzhong's department, which can be described as a great achievement.

In the last years of Chongzhen, Huang Degong was named Jingnanbo and led his troops to garrison Yangzhou and Chuzhou. After the establishment of the Hongguang puppet dynasty, because of his participation in the support of the Fu King Zhu Youxiang, he was called the four towns of Jiangbei with Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie. In the Hongguang Dynasty, he was more valued by the puppet dynasty than Liu Liangzuo and others, and his officials were Taifu, Zuo Zhuguo, Fengjing Guogong, and awarded Yang Chu General Army. It is the highest official title among the four military towns of the Hongguang Puppet Dynasty.

In the official history, Huang Degong was the only Ming Dynasty loyal martyr who fought to the death against the Qing army among the four major military towns of the Hongguang Dynasty.

In real history, after the Qing army went south, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Youxiang was desperate and hurriedly fled into the Wuhu Huang Degong camp in order to save his life. Subsequently, the Qing soldiers pursued and led the troops to attack, and Huang Degong led the army to fight with the Qing soldiers in Hagigang.

At this time, the Qing army sent Liu Liangzuo, a general, to deliberately shout on the shore to surrender him, so as to lead him to appear, and Huang Degong, who was carried away by anger, got out of the cabin and loudly reprimanded him for his shameless behavior of surrendering to the enemy. At this moment, a cold arrow suddenly shot from the Qing army's array, which pierced the throat on the spot, and a generation of famous generals were martyred.

And now, Huang Degong, who left a strong mark in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, after receiving Liu Liangzuo's request for help, actually came to personally unify the army in order to rescue the precarious Liu Liangzuo as soon as possible, which undoubtedly gave the Tang army a good opportunity to annihilate the enemy in the field.

After all, Yangzhou City is tall and strong, and Huang Degong's soldiers and horses are elite and good at fighting, if Huang Degong blindly defends the city, Cao Bianjiao's Tang Army's soldiers and horses in the seventh town are very likely to spend a great price to take the city.

You must know that in the official history, when the Qing army had hundreds of thousands of heavy troops to jointly attack the city, and the internal defense of Yangzhou City was in chaos, Duoduo fought for nearly a month to take this fortified city, which shows that it was not easy to conquer Yangzhou.

Taking a step back, even if the Tang army paid a huge price to take Yangzhou, the sacrifices and losses would inevitably be considerable. In this way, the Tang army consumed a lot of time, and it would definitely take a lot of time to rest and replenish in the later stage. In the future, I want to march south and cross the Yangtze River to pacify the entire Jiangnan, but I am afraid that the time will drag on for a longer time. Li Xiao's pace of unifying the entire Jiangnan region will undoubtedly be greatly delayed.

Therefore, Huang Degong is now leading his troops to the rescue, which is undoubtedly a good opportunity for the Tang army to take the initiative to attack and completely annihilate the enemy army.

After all, in the current era, no matter the Ming and Qing dynasties, there is no army that is better at joint operations in the field than Li Xiao's Tang Army.

"Then where are the soldiers and horses of Huang Degong's troops now?" Cao Bianjiao asked anxiously.

"Huang Degong's whole army has just passed through Baoying County, and once it crosses the Jing River, it will reach the boundary of Huai'an."

"Very good, don't alarm them, let them cross the Jing River smoothly. Carefully observe its movements all the way, and report any abnormalities in time! ”

"Order!"

After the sentry left in a hurry, Cao Bianjiao immediately quickly calculated in his heart.

He knew that as soon as Huang Degong's troops and horses crossed the Jing River, they could reach the city of Huai'an Mansion in about an hour, so the Tang army, which was now resting in the city, needed to immediately go out of the city to set up a formation to meet the enemy.

After thinking about it, a complete plan to meet the enemy was started by Cao Bianjiao.

He ordered that the entire Huai'an Mansion City was still hanging the banner of Liu Liangzuo's time, and the soldiers guarding the city wall also arranged for Liu Liangzuo's troops to surrender, so as to make Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses look like they were still desperately defending the city, so as to attract Huang Degong's soldiers and horses to continue to come.

Then, according to Cao Bianjiao's arrangement, the entire Tang army, as well as some soldiers and horses of Liu Zehan's troops, were all arrayed outside the south gate of Huai'an Prefecture.

The main part of the front is the gun and shield battle formation formed by the three battalions of soldiers and horses, and the left and right wings are protected by the heavy infantry battle formation composed of horizontal members. Behind the spear and shield battle array, there were a group of auxiliary soldiers with a large number of individual soldiers on their waists.

The entire cavalry of the Tang Army was together with the cavalry of Liu Zehan's troops who surrendered, divided into two parts, and hid in the woods outside the city. Their task is to wait for the enemy to attack, completely cut off the enemy's retreat, and strive to encircle and destroy them.

And the most novel point, and the most creative point, is that the coach of the Tang Army, Cao Bianjiao, has discharged a new formation.

That is, he ordered that all the ninety heavy dragon bombers used by the Tang army to attack the city be placed at the front of the gun and shield battle array, and made into a posture of attacking together.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji placed dozens of artillery pieces in the battle of besieging Dalinghe City, in this way, to snipe the 40,000 army led by the Ming general Zhang Chun.

As a result, Zhang Chun did not expect that at this time, the Houjin soldiers had already possessed extremely powerful red-clothed cannons, and they were lying in the middle of the avenue, waiting for the arrival of the Ming army. When the Ming army entered the firing range, forty cannons were fired successively, and the 40,000 Ming army was in chaos at that time, Huang Taiji immediately seized the opportunity and led the army to rush and kill, and the Ming army was defeated and fled, almost to the end of the whole army.

Cao Bianjiao naturally understands this bloody history very well, so it is really natural for him to use the battle example of Huang Taiji in the present.

When the Tang army was in battle formation, the rescue soldiers and horses of Huang Degong's department had just crossed the Jing River and were heading north to Huai'an Mansion to kill.

The aid to Huai'an this time was rescued by Huang Degong, the chief soldier of Yangchu, which shows that he attaches great importance to this rescue.

The reason why he was not worried about other generals leading troops to help him was that he considered that the safety of Huai'an Mansion was extremely important, and Liu Liangzuo's troops were in danger, so he personally sent troops to rescue him for fear of loss.

And along the way, Commander Huang Degong looked preoccupied and worried.

He knew that Liu Liangzuo's territory had been lost, and now there was only one Huai'an Mansion left, and it was besieged by the Tang army again, and he couldn't get rid of it at all. The situation is so critical, I really don't know if I can catch up with this rescue.

It's just that no matter whether you can catch up or not, all you can do is to come to the rescue as soon as possible.

After all, if the city of Huai'an, which is extremely geographically located, is lost, Yangzhou Mansion will be in danger.

Therefore, Huang Degong thought about it, and decided to send his elite to rescue Liu Liangzuo, who had a mediocre relationship with him, in the hope of saving Liu Liangzuo from this extremely dangerous situation before the Tang army conquered the city.

Speaking of which, in the battle with the Tang Army, Huang Degong was actually extremely reluctant in his heart.

Huang Degong thought that now in the Ming Realm, the Emperor Chongxing set up by Li Xiao in the north and the Hongguang puppet dynasty that occupied the south, the two masters competed and attacked each other, making the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty chaotic, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

At present, the strong enemy, the Liukou and the Tartars are eyeing each other, and now, the two so-called Ming Dynasty orthodoxy finally tore off the previous pretense of harmony and began to attack each other, but they don't know when such a civil war will end.

He thought sadly that Da Ming was in such an endless civil strife and attacked and killed, maybe the final result would only be cheaper for outsiders.

It's a pity that the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national fortunes is really rare in the world.

Thinking of this, Huang Degong's heart suddenly became even more gloomy. Sitting on his horse, he couldn't help but let out another long sigh.

The army of 30,000 went all the way north, winding and winding, like a long gray dragon with no head or tail. They marched with all their might, and they didn't notice the Tang army sentry cavalry in the distance, who were paying close attention to their movements, and they would never have thought that in fact, their every move had been closely observed by the Tang army, and their whereabouts were under control.

"Yasukuni Gong, not far ahead, is Huai'an Mansion City."

A sturdy general dressed in mountain-patterned iron armor rode forward to the place parallel to Huang Degong, then stretched out his arm, pointed to the shadowy Huai'an Mansion City in front of him, and shouted loudly to Huang Degong.

This general is one of the three most trusted generals under Huang Degong, named Tian Xiong. The other two generals are Weng Zhiqi and Ma Degong.

This person is very famous in the official history, after the death of Huang Degong, this person led the rest of the army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and since then he has become a powerful minion of the Qing court, and has worked very hard for the Qing court's eastern and western wars. In the large and small battles in which the Qing court eliminated Yongli and resisted Zheng Chenggong's attack, he made great contributions.

At this time, Tian Xiong, as Huang Degong's most trusted general, followed him to aid Huai'an. The other two generals, Ma De power 30,000 soldiers and horses, stationed in Chuzhou, Weng Zhiqi led 10,000 soldiers and horses, stayed in Yangzhou, which can be said to have their own heavy responsibilities.

Huang Degong looked along Tian Xiong's arm, and saw the vague Huai'an Mansion City in front of him, for some reason, he had been in battle for a long time, but there was an ominous premonition in his heart for no reason, which made his expression more and more solemn.

What is the situation in Huai'an Fucheng, Huang Degong has no bottom in his heart, and he doesn't know what the situation is now.

"The whole army slowed down its march, formed a battle formation, searched and marched all the way, and strictly guarded against enemy surprise attacks." Huang Degong's face was grim, and he ordered in a deep voice.

"Yasukuni, now that our army has crossed the Jing River, from here to Huai'an Fucheng, it is all a view of Pingchuan, and there should be no Tang army attacking." Tian Xiong was a little unimpressed.

"It's hard to say." Huang Degong sighed and said: "Now that the Tang army has occupied most of the Huai'an and Xu places in a short period of time, Liu Liangzuo is only left in Huai'an Mansion City. It can be seen how strong the Tang army's attack power is, and our army must not underestimate the enemy when fighting such a strong enemy, and it is necessary to act carefully, which is the most important. ”

As soon as Huang Degong made the final decision, the whole army immediately began to form a team on the spot, and then searched all the way forward.

In this way, it gave the Tang army enough time to prepare, so that they could fully set up an ambush, and waited for Huang Degong's soldiers and horses to come by throwing themselves into the net.

At noon, the soldiers and horses of Huang Degong's troops on the horizon finally appeared in the sight of all the Tang troops after a long journey.

At this time, Huang Degong, from the clairvoyant mirror, saw the banner of Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses in Huai'an Mansion City, and the largest stone in his heart finally landed.

However, he also immediately saw that the Tang army had lined up outside the south gate with the city, making a solemn appearance, and its strict formation, looking from a distance, made people's hearts chill.

He could clearly see that the Tang army had only more than 20,000 people in the formation, but he had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the Tang army did not have an advantage in terms of numbers at all. If you can then join forces with Liu Liangzuo's troops and horses in the city, and jointly attack the Tang army, it will not be difficult to win this battle.

Huang Degong had made up his mind, and suddenly felt bold, he put down the clairvoyant mirror, and immediately ordered loudly: "The whole army listens to the order!" Put yourself in a battle formation, attack the whole army, and fight to the death with the Tang army! ”