Duoduo suddenly wanted to retreat, which made the Nanjing court, which was in order, enter a state of emergency and busyness.

For the battle of Yangzhou, the Ming Dynasty had already planned, but it was not well prepared in terms of materials, and there were still many problems that had not been solved.

Now Duoduo wants to escape, the difficulties are great, and the Ming army must also overcome, and the 50,000 Qing troops in Yangzhou must not be allowed to flee back to the north, which will bring a lot of trouble to the Ming army's future northern expedition.

The strategy adopted to annihilate the Qing army in Yangzhou, the Ming Dynasty has already decided internally, to sum up, that is, external blockade, internal encirclement and annihilation, the Ming army will be divided into three parts, one is mainly Huai'an Zhang Mingzhen, responsible for cutting off Duoduo's northward escape, and blocking the Qing army in Shandong and Beizhi to support the south, all the way to Li Guo in Anqing and Wuhu, and insert between Hefei and Yangzhou to cut off the connection between the Qing army in the two places, and also cut off Duoduo's westward escape road, and the third part is Liu Shun who retreated to the east bank of the Grand Canal, responsible for annihilating the Qing army in Yangzhou.

This was a strategy that had been set before, and after Wang Yan learned that Duoduo was going to flee, he decided to take the lead and galloped out of Nanjing, instructing all the troops to act according to the plan, and did not make any changes to the plan.

It's just that after all, the battle involves the two towns of the Wuzhong Army, as well as the soldiers of King Lu, not to mention the cooperation with the Zhejiang people, it is said that there are factional disputes within the Wuzhong Army, and they are not convinced by each other, and it is easy to form confusion in command, so Wang Yan ordered Chen Bangyan to supervise Jiangbei as the secretary of the Soldier Department of the Cabinet University, and Zhang Huangyan, the left attendant of the Military Department, as the supervising army, and Qian Qianyi, the imperial historian, as the minister of appeasement, responsible for the Jiangbei Campaign.

Yangzhou is so close to Nanjing, Wang Yan originally wanted to personally command, but considering various issues, he still did not dare to leave Nanjing, and there will be a lot of wars in the future, it is difficult for him to do it himself, participate in everything, in addition to him, there should be someone in the Chu Party who can shake the situation, even if he is plotted, he still has a successor in politics, and he can stabilize the overall situation.

In fact, Wang Yan has already begun to cultivate Gu Yanwu, Xia Wanchun and others.

It was not easy for Duoduo to escape, and the Qing army in Yangzhou, mainly the Green Battalion soldiers, was not ready for his army, and the news was leaked, and then spread to Nanjing.

This was the continued influence of Jiangnan after the First World War, and it was also the reason why Wang Yan wanted to keep Duoduo in Yangzhou, and the decisive battle in Jiangbei was beneficial to the Ming army both in terms of popular sentiment and terrain.

Zhang Mingzhen, the governor of Jiangbei, sent the general Ruan Jin to lead 10,000 horses and horses into Hongze Lake by warship, raided Sizhou, and cut off the road for Duoduo to retreat north of the Huai River through Tianchang and through Sizhou.

This road was also the road for Duoduo to go south back then, and Duoduo got the news and could only stay in Yangzhou temporarily.

The Ming army has learned that he is going to retreat, Liu Shun's 80,000 horses are on the east bank of the Grand Canal, as soon as he leaves, the Ming army will inevitably cross the river to chase and kill, so that he does not dare to act rashly.

If he led a few thousand cavalry back, the Ming army naturally couldn't help him, but he couldn't take away more than 40,000 green battalion soldiers, then it would be meaningless for him to go back.

After successive defeats, not only the bannermen, but also the Manchus did not even have many green battalions available.

Wang Yan obtained the same information from various sources, Duoduo was currently strengthening the city defenses in Yangzhou, concentrating his forces, and seemed to be preparing to rely on Yangzhou to confront the Ming army, waiting for the season to change.

It's the end of August, and Jiangnan will be the coldest in three months.

If the weather is like last year, the Huai River is frozen, then the battle of Yangzhou will inevitably fail, and Wang Yan will also have pressure, so Chen Bangyan will quickly go to Yangzhou to supervise the division, and he must end the battle of Yangzhou before the winter comes.

Although Wang Yan gave him a very anxious time, after Chen Bangyan arrived in Jiangbei, he did not rush to attack Yangzhou, but first cleared the west of Yangzhou, the state capital under the control of the Qing army, and swept away all the peripheries of Yangzhou.

This responsibility fell on Li Guo, who was responsible for containing the defenders of Hefei in the west, and Zhongzhi Town handed over the defense of Anqing and other places to the Ming army in Jiangxi, and then crossed the Yangtze River from Wuhu and swept north to sweep the state capital, Chuzhou and Sizhou, and completely cut off the connection between Yangzhou and Hefei.

In fact, after the Battle of Nanjing, many state capitals in Jiangbei have surrendered to Nanjing, but because after the defeat of Nanjing, the Ming army needs to breathe, if these Jiangbei prefectures and counties are attached, they will inevitably clash with the Qing army in Jiangbei, and the Ming army will send troops to support, so in order to rest, these states and counties to be attached to Jiangbei have been pressed down by the Nanjing court, so that they can rest quiet and wait for the opportunity.

As soon as the Jiangbei Campaign began, Qian Qianyi, who was appointed as the minister of appeasement, was active in many prefectures and counties in Jiangbei, and he was the leader of the gentry in Jiangnan and had a strong influence, so Wang Yancai sent him to preside over the appeasement.

Several prefectures and counties in Huainan, he ran one by one, talked with Zhizhou, appeased Zhixian, and secretly contacted the local wealthy clans, Li Guo led the troops across the Yangtze River, almost without a fight, he controlled the land of the two prefectures, even if the Qing officials were unwilling to surrender, the local wealthy people also opened the city gate in the middle of the night, and the enlarged army poured in.

The Ming army has been planning for a long time, 30,000 horses in Zhangming Town in the north, controlling Huai'an and Sizhou, blockading the north, Li Guo 30,000 horses, occupying Hezhou and Chuzhou, blockading the west, Liu Shun in the east 80,000 horses, more than 500 warships, preparing to re-cross the Grand Canal and besiege Yangzhou.

The reason why Yangzhou can become an important town in Jiangbei is because it is located in an important place and has the advantage of the Grand Canal.

The camp built by the Ming army under the city of Yangzhou has been demolished, and the Ming army wants to re-encircle Yangzhou, first of all, under the city of Yangzhou, and rebuild the camp.

In the periphery of Yangzhou, after being swept away and the supplies of the Ming army began to be continuously transported, the supervisor Chen Bangyan asked Liu Shun to cross the Grand Canal as soon as possible and set up the camp from the new.

Duoduo in Yangzhou City, intending to delay the war until winter, Jiangbei is not as many mountains as Huguang, as long as it enters the winter, the rivers and streams are frozen, the Qing army iron cavalry can be hired at will, the Ming army simply blocked them, as long as the northern cavalry went south to support, he could calmly retreat to the north of the Huai River.

Therefore, Duoduo did not want the Ming army on the east bank to cross the Grand Canal smoothly, so he asked the general Liang Huafeng to lead 5,000 men and horses to prevent the Ming army from crossing the river and camping.

There are cannons in Yangzhou City, and the Ming army naturally cannot cross the river within the range of artillery, Liu Shun personally led 15,000 people and more than 200 ships to cross the river in a hilly area south of Yangzhou, which is to prevent the Qing cavalry raid in Yangzhou City.

Standing on the boat, Liu Shun stared at a low hill in front of him, overgrown with broad-leaved trees unique to the south, whose leaves had turned yellow and began to fall in pieces.

Several big boats of the Ming army approached the river bank, the boat board was lowered, a team of soldiers got down from the boat, just stood in formation, in the woods of the low hills, suddenly there was a sound of bangs, mixed with a few bangs, a few white smoke rose in the woods, and the Ming army was immediately hit by dense arrows and lead bullets.

The Ming troops, who lined up hundreds of boats, were caught off guard and fell down with arrows, and screams suddenly sounded on the shore.

In the woods, the sound of killing suddenly broke out in the sky, rushing out of thousands of Qing troops and killing the Ming ships docked on the shore.

The sound of "Ding Ding ~" sounded, and the Ming army immediately shouted, "Retreat!" Retreat now! ”

The Ming army, who did not get off the ship, did not care about the comrades on the shore, and immediately drew the board of the ship and used a long pole to prop the warship to the shore.

As soon as the ship left a few zhang distance, the Qing army rushed to the shore, some of them hacked all the Ming troops on the shore to death, and some of them shot arrows at the ships, and there was a cheer.