The general staff department's strategy for dealing with the enemy may seem conservative, but it is the safest method. After all, in the field, the current Eight Banners can be described as invincible.

In another time and space, the Qing troops of the Duoduo tribe marched south from Guide on April 5, reached Yangzhou on the 17th, then broke through Yangzhou on April 25, crossed the Yangtze River on the ninth day of May, and surrendered Nanjing on May 14.

The Qing soldiers also fought in Yangzhou for several days, and other places surrendered without a fight, and the speed of their march was also the speed of marching.

And if we can think of delaying the advance of the Qing troops, delay some time on the way, and then Yangzhou will hold on for a few more months, as long as the time is delayed until July and August, the humid and hot weather in the south will cause the Qing troops to collapse without a fight. After all, such weather is not something that the Mantars born in the north can adapt to. In another time and space, in the later period, the Manchu Qing Dynasty attacked the battle of the Southern Ming Dynasty, attacked Fujian, Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces, basically using the green battalion to surrender the army, and the Eight Banners did not adapt to the southern climate is an important reason.

As for the disobedience of those ragtag generals, the Governor's Mansion also has a way to deal with them. First of all, these generals were sent to Sizhou and Suzhou to garrison the front line, it was impossible to bring their families, most of the families of the generals and soldiers were still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, if they surrendered, their families would definitely be affected.

As for Hu Shangyou, Zhang Tianfu, Zhang Tianlu, and other armies in Sichuan and even in the north, their families were beyond the reach of even the imperial court, and the governor's palace promised that as long as they could complete the task of defending the city, even if they lost all their troops, they would be arranged in the Pingnan army with the same or even higher positions.

The current Ming Dynasty is not comparable to the Hongguang Imperial Court in another time and space, and the Pingnan Army is not the four towns in Jiangbei in another time and space, the prestige of the imperial court is quite high, and Chen Yue believes that there will not be a situation in which the Ming army surrenders in another time and space. After all, now that everything in the imperial court is thriving, the Pingnan Army can be regarded as an invincible strong army, and it has shown extremely strong combat power against the Manchurians, dealing with the thieves, and quelling the rebels. With the Governor's Mansion and the Pingnan Army in Yangzhou as the backing, things have not yet reached the time of despair.

These army generals have been soldiers of the Ming Dynasty for generations, and they will not easily surrender to foreign races until they are cornered.

In another time and space, not all the Southern Ming armies surrendered without a fight, and many generals still persevered to the end, and even martyred heroically, such as Liu Zhaoji, Ma Yingkui, Shi Dewei, Huang Fei, etc.

On April 8, the vanguard of the Qing army, the Outer Mongolian cavalry, arrived in Suzhou, and Wang Zhigang, the chief soldier guarding Suzhou, fled without a fight, which made Chen Yue furious and ordered the defenders along the way to arrest Wang Zhigang and escort Yangzhou Ming Zhengzheng to be punished.

Liu Zhaoji, the general soldier of the fortified town, took down Wang Zhigang at the banquet in the name of feasting and entertaining, and annexed his army. Wang Zhigang was escorted to Yangzhou and executed.

Wang Zhigang was originally a Kaifeng defender, when the Qing army attacked, he fled all the way, fled from Guide to Suzhou, and was appointed as the general of Sizhou by the Jiangbei Governor's Office, and now finally paid the price for his escape.

Wang Zhigang was executed, which made the deputy generals of the general army shocked, and they all began to weigh what they should do next. It is impossible to escape directly, and with Chen Yue's ruthlessness, he will definitely be executed by military discipline. If you don't surrender to the Qing army, you can only honestly obey the dispatch of the governor's palace and defend the city you are stationing.

Fortunately, the Governor's Mansion did not force them to a dead end, and it was not too difficult to hold on for two days.

On April 10, the Manchu Gushan Ezhen Baiyitu and Mel Zhangjing Yild led 3,000 Mongolian cavalry to Guzhen, and the general soldier Liu Zhaoji relied on the low city wall of Guzhen to confront the Mongolian cavalry.

The Mongolian cavalry's arrows rained down on the city, and the Ming army at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties.

Liu Zhaoji came to the city in person, roared and supervised the battle, and commanded the Ming army to counterattack with bows and arrows.

Even if you can suppress the defenders of the castle with bows and arrows, you will not be able to capture the castle with cavalry. After being shot and killed by dozens of cavalry from the city's head, Baitu and Ilde had no choice but to retreat with their cavalry, keeping a distance from the city walls.

Along the way, the Ming troops in various prefectures and counties fled from the wind and surrendered, and they did not dare to resist at all. The Ming army in Guzhen surprised Baiyitu, but in response to this situation, there was no other way to think about it than to attack the city. But his men are all cavalry, and they use cavalry to attack the city? Forget it.

Now all he could do was wait for the rear army to come.

Not all of the 100,000 Qing soldiers were cavalry, although everyone in the Eight Banners had war horses, most of them were also mounted infantry, and the habitual way of fighting was to dismount and fight in formation. And for a long-distance march, even if there are war horses, it will be sixty or seventy miles a day at most, and no matter how many war horses are, they can't stand it. Except for the Mongol light cavalry forward, which was one-man and three-horseed, the rest of the army did not march too fast.

And the entire army of more than 100,000 people, a distance of 20 miles before and after, it also takes a lot of time to camp and eat and sleep every day, and the speed cannot be too fast.

Therefore, after waiting outside Guzhen for a day, Baiyitu ushered in the follow-up army, which was the commander of the Protector Army, the first part of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Tulai Division, with more than 5,000 troops. It was accompanied by more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers, all of whom were the troops of Xu Dingguo who surrendered to Germany. Xu Dingguo was assassinated by Liu Neng, and this part of the army was led by his generals.

When Turai led his army to Guzhen, he did not set up camp and immediately ordered an attack on Guzhen. Baiyitu was not idle this day, and sent his cavalry to capture a large number of people in the vicinity, and built more than 20 ladders.

The Eight Banners soldiers forced the people and the Green Battalion soldiers to attack the city, and under the threat of the Eight Banners soldiers holding sharp blades, the people and the Green Battalion soldiers could only cry and attack the city, and anyone who hesitated was shot by the Eight Banners with bows and arrows.

Under the suppression of the Qing archers under the city, the Ming army at the head of the city endured heavy casualties and resisted the siege of the people and the green battalion soldiers. The bows and arrows of the Eight Banners were so accurate that anyone who dared to emerge from the battlement would be hit by the arrows, and the defenders could only hold shields to cover the door and fight the besiegers.

Fortunately, the people's combat effectiveness is not strong, and it is not so easy to attack the city.

As long as you keep it for another hour, it will be dark, and the task of keeping it for two days will be completed. Just when the defenders secretly breathed a sigh of relief, dozens of Eight Banners warriors mixed with the people and began to attack the city, these people were wearing heavy armor and covering the people's clothing, so that the defenders who did not dare to show their heads could not judge at all.

The arrows at the head of the city did not pose much threat to these people wearing heavy armor, and soon more than a dozen Eight Banners soldiers rushed to the head of the city, slashing and killing the defenders, and soon the head of the city was killed out of an open space.

Liu Zhaoji was shocked, and led his subordinates to rush over, and killed with the Eight Banners soldiers who climbed up to the top of the city. paid a heavy price to drive the Eight Banners off the city.

Night finally came, and the Qing soldiers besieging the city slowly retreated. When Liu Zhaoji counted the troops, he sadly found that more than 100 of the 300 family members had died in a day's battle, and 8 or 900 of the 5,000 men had died, and the morale was extremely low. This made Liu Zhaoji, who had planned to hold on for a while, retreat.

Now that the mission has been completed, let's retreat, if we wait until the arrival of the Qing army, it is impossible to retreat.

Taking advantage of the night, the gate of Guzhen was opened, and Liu Zhaoji led the army to withdraw from Guzhen.

The sudden withdrawal of the Ming army was a big surprise to the Qing army, and there was still a fierce battle during the day, why did it withdraw at night? However, it was impossible to pursue it at night, so it could only wait until dawn the next day.

On the second day, the Mongol cavalry pursued the retreating Ming army, and caught up with the exhausted Ming army fifty miles away......