"Shi Tingzhu is also cowardly, I only have more than 11,000 soldiers, and the total strength is only more than 24,000 people, so he doesn't dare to fight! When did our Great East Coast army become so powerful? Outside Yangzhou City, Mo Ming rode on a war horse in a spirited manner, and his right hand wearing white gauze gloves pointed obliquely at Yangzhou City, and said with a laugh.

It's a pity that the officers under him were attracted by the tall and majestic city walls of Yangzhou City at the moment, and few people echoed it, which made him bored, so he smiled and ordered the military team to start camping, and at the same time ordered all the cavalry to dress up and prepare for battle, and the security team went out to reconnoiter the enemy.

Once the order is issued, there is no need for Mo Dashuai to ask any more questions, and the professional staff team will naturally arrange these things one by one. The operational staff officers began to arrange the barracks, the logistics staff officers began to count the materials and give instructions to set up camps, the intelligence staff officers began to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and the marching staff officers began to work on the map and draw maps...... The overall qiē is well organized, showing the high professionalism of the 6th Army on the east bank.

The location of the camp was selected about three miles away from Yangzhou City, because the northern city of Yangzhou had been bombarded by the Qing army's artillery, and although it was repaired, it was not as strong as the original after all, so the artillery officers of the 6th Army on the east bank fell in love with it at a glance. After reporting to Mo Ming for approval, the camp of more than 20,000 people was simply set up by a small river outside the city - for easy access to water and defense.

The encampment of more than 20,000 people is naturally not so simple, which involves all kinds of military knowledge, experience and principles, and the people on the east coast have not organized such large-scale military operations before, so at this time, everyone is working together to build a field camp according to their own understanding. There are all particulars about where the artillery camp is located, where the elite 6th Army on the east bank is located, where the 1st Wing of the Advance Brigade is located, and where the servant army Zhai Congge is located.

In addition, there was the placement of cavalry. Placement of military men and logistical baggage. Where to pull barbed wire, where to set up watchtowers, where to dig fire ditches, where to dig shallow trenches. It's all knowledge. There are also how to deal with various sudden incidents, how to respond to various departments at night, how to act once the camp is breached, etc., although a lot of plans have been made in peacetime, but at this time it is still inevitable to be in a hurry. Fortunately, everyone is not the first brother to go to the battlefield for the first time, and after expressing their opinions and fully exerting their subjective initiative, these small problems and small details have been well handled. But Rao was like this, and the rough completion of the entire camp still took the East Coast army three full days.

During these three days, the Qing army in the city once attacked, and its number was about 4,000 people. The East Coast army, which was encamped, was facing a great enemy. At the same time, the 1O2 and 1O4 companies of the 6th Army and 1 musketeer of the 1st Brigade of the Standing Team (newly reequipped) and the artillery (8 guns) of the 1st Brigade of the 6th Army were also sent forward to reinforce, and the cavalry brigade also dispatched a brigade (1ooo people) of cavalry.

This Qing army seemed to be dominated by the Green Battalion, and its combat effectiveness was unusual, but it was by no means the armed forces of the landlords encountered by the people on the east coast in Shandong. On the contrary, they held out for a short time under the blows of the artillery on the east bank, until they were charged by more than a thousand Polish cavalry. However, this moment of panic was enough to decide their fate, Mo Ming also threw the remaining 15oo cavalry into the battlefield at the critical moment, and at the same time, the tall black soldiers in heavy armor and spears also marched forward, plus the blows of the light field artillery of the 6th Army that was constantly moving. This Qing army finally collapsed irretrievably.

The fate of the infantry that collapsed in front of the cavalry was deplorable, especially in the face of these Polish and Tatar cavalry, who were well versed in cavalry tactics. These brave cavalrymen wore fur hats. Holding a cavalry spear or a scimitar, he wantonly divided the collapsing Qing army array, and then left them to the infantry who were catching up from behind, while he continued to rush forward and continue to divide the enemy array......

In the end, only half of the 4,000 Qing troops managed to escape outside the north gate of Yangzhou, and escaped from Ascension with the support of the red-coated cannons at the head of the city and the obstruction of the moat. But after this battle, they finally had an intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of the yellow-clothed thief. The Han army leading the troops was in the white flag, Niu Lu Zhangjing, Cai Shiying, and escaped with his life, and after he went back, he exclaimed to his boss, the Han army's white flag Gushan, Ezhen Shi Tingzhu, "This drama is also Kou! ”

The loss of two thousand Green Battalion cannon fodder was nothing to Shi Tingzhu, but the bravery of the yellow-clothed thief now made him very frightened. When he was in Beijing, he often heard that the yellow-clothed thieves were making a lot of trouble in Shandong, Beizhili and even Jiangbei, and they broke through the prefectures and counties, so that Haoge, Leke Dehun, Li Shutai and other Manchu and Han celebrities would be led by the nose, so that they would not be wolves. The regent was extremely worried about this, and strictly ordered the governors and commanders of the provinces to strengthen their defenses, so that they could no longer break into the interior of the country as if they were no one.

It was in this context that Shi Tingzhu was selected by Dolgon to be sent to Yangzhou, where he served as the governor of Jiangbei and the chief soldier of Huaiyang Town, and sorted out the defense of various places in Jiangbei and water villages along the river. In the past year, he has been trembling, for fear that something will happen and be punished by the court, to be honest, as the Han Eight Banner, he climbed to this position is quite embarrassing, it is already a glass ceiling, and there is no way to rise. At this time, the imperial court often finds some small mistakes to punish and belittle them, so he is especially cautious now, and many times he can't sleep well at night, especially for fear of being suspicious by the court.

Fortunately, the yellow-clothed thief seems to have stopped a lot over the past year, which made Shi Tingzhu slightly relieved, and he guessed that something might have happened to the yellow-clothed thief. But today, the sweet dream finally woke up, and his good luck came to an end, and the yellow-clothed thief actually climbed between Taixing County, Yangzhou Prefecture, and Jingjiang County, Changzhou Prefecture.6 Then, he quickly advanced to Yangzhou. Its strength is also terrifyingly large, Shi Tingzhu has seen the city tower, about twenty or thirty thousand people.

This number is scary! In the past, in Shandong, more than 10,000 yellow-clothed thieves were already out of control, and the 10,000-person rout of Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Yizhou Town (who had been asked for his guilt and was imprisoned), and the loss of land by Li Shutai, the chief soldier of Binzhou coastal defense (who had been cut to death), all reminded Shi Tingzhu that this was a group of bandits.

In the past, Shi Tingzhu may have been a little skeptical about this, but he clearly saw the rout of 4,000 people yesterday. The foot soldier of the yellow-clothed thief was quite sturdy, and he still walked freely in iron armor, and the formation was not chaotic at all during the march, which showed that he was well-trained. Those firecrackers are also quite not simple, and the rabble of the Ming army who put their guns indiscriminately outside the range are completely people from two worlds, these people seem to be veterans in battle, squad salvos, large salvos are very skillful, and many tricks he Shi Tingzhu has never seen. Moreover, their soldiers (non-commissioned officers) seem to be very assertive, and can judge the situation and command their subordinates (who have strong ability to read the battlefield) to make all kinds of reasonable tactical behaviors, which is not at all comparable to those dull-headed grassroots officers of our Daqing Green Battalion.

But what worried him the most was the two or three thousand cavalry of the yellow-clothed thieves. What a cavalry force it was, and the riders in it were astonishingly skilled. To put it mildly, many of the Manchurian officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were really inferior to them in horsemanship. The immediate killing technique is also quite clever, and it doesn't look like a new hand, but like a veteran who often fights on the battlefield.

That's the trouble! Shi Tingzhu couldn't help frowning, there was no shortage of troops in Yangzhou City, and there were many green battalion soldiers selected from all over the country, including more than 10,000 Jiangxi soldiers from the original Yuan Jixian Department (a total of 100,000 people from Yuan Jixian's Department were surrendered to the Qing Dynasty), 5,000 people from Huang Degong's department, 4,000 people from Zuo Mengeng's department, and more than 3,000 people from Yangzhou Zuo's newly formed regimental training arm, totaling more than 20,000 people. In addition, there are still 4,000 soldiers in the city of the Han army under his direct command - this is his old capital. Most of these people were soldiers (less than 20,000 men), and together with some miscellaneous troops (salt, tax, artillery), there were nearly 28,000 men. But the problem is that none of these people are cavalrymen, they are all fucking infantry! Although the four thousand Han army banners directly under him all have horses, they are all mounted infantry, and they can't be really, if they really want to fight with the two or three thousand cavalry of the yellow-clothed thief, they will be timid, and it will inevitably happen to some unbearable things at that time.

Thinking of this, Shi Tingzhu was a little depressed, now that the yellow-clothed thieves have come to the city, it seems that they are going to attack the city with yellow-clothed cannons, will they meet the battle or wait for help? This is a matter of stern. Fight? Just now, the 4,000 Jiangxi Yankees had already been defeated for a while, and the 2,000 who were reimbursed were reimbursed, and the 2,000 who fled back were also shocked and demoralized. Not to fight? The yellow-clothed thieves had a way to deal with them, such as using their sharp cannons to knock down the walls of Yangzhou, which the Qing army had done just over a year ago, and then using their fierce artillery fire and skillful combat skills to conquer the city. Although there were four precious cannons in Yangzhou City, Shi Tingzhu was not confident that these cannons could be compared to those of the yellow-clothed thieves.

It's hard to do this, are you sitting in the city of sorrow? Although Shi Tingzhu was quite moved, the residual self-esteem and some practical factors in his heart made him categorically veto this proposal, and Ma Degong, the general of the former Huang Degong Department who proposed this proposal, also severely reprimanded. If it weren't for the miraculous feats of this person, maybe Admiral Shi would have beheaded this person this time.

Admiral Shi was entangled in Yangzhou City, but the army on the east coast outside the city would not give him time. Marshal Mo Mingmo confidently planned to attack Yangzhou City immediately, although the enemies in the city were said to be more than the army on the east coast, but in his opinion, they were just a group of rabble, as long as their side stabilized their positions and did not make mistakes, these Qing army green battalions could not do anything about them.

On the morning of May 9, 1647, the artillery on the east bank of the position, which had been arranged, launched an artillery bombardment of the Yangzhou city wall across the moat. The two artillery pieces of the Qing army in Beicheng began to counterattack, and the artillery on the east bank mobilized four 12-pounder long-barreled heavy guns to suppress them and fired at the Qing artillery. The great battle between the two sides began with such an artillery fire...... (To be continued......)

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