On the current territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the places where the Qing soldiers gathered heavy troops were Yuhang, Jiangning, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Luoyang, and Beijing from south to north.

This time, the main battle of the Ming army was the Qing troops assembled in Hangzhou, Jiangning, and Yangzhou, with about 250,000 people.

The target of the Ming army was Nanjing, and it was easy for the Qing troops in Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and even Xuzhou to take the back road, so the Ming army on the western front was divided into three ways to attack.

Sun Shoufa on the right flank swept Huizhou, and then attacked Ningguofu, the purpose was to ensure that the emperor's Chinese army would not be outflanked by the Qing army in the direction of Hangzhou, and Dai Zhifan's goal on the left flank was naturally to block the Qing soldiers in Yangzhou and Xuzhou, prevent the Qing troops from turning back, and protect the left flank of the Chinese army.

Zhongyong Town 30,000 people, mixed foot, out of the North Gorge Pass, then into Luzhou, the goal is naturally Hefei, as long as Hefei is taken, you can control a large area of Huainan, protect the left flank of the Chinese army.

As an outpost of Hefei, Shucheng will inevitably bear the brunt.

At this time, the alarm bell sounded on the city wall of Shucheng County, and the nervous Li Shutai led several green battalion generals to rush up to the city wall, and he came to the city tower, holding the pergola in his hand and looking into the distance, and his heart was cold.

He looked to the southwest, and everywhere he looked, there was a rush of forest. The sun shone on the sharp tip of the gun, and he couldn't open his eyes a little with the light.

The soldiers in the city also stood by the wall at this time and watched, and they couldn't help but gasp.

They saw that where heaven and earth met, a red line slowly moved, slowly turning into a carpet spread on the earth. The first thing the soldiers saw was nearly a thousand cavalrymen, who carried war horses, swords, bows and arrows, and rode spears, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The war horses of the five loyal armies, thanks to Wu Sangui's sponsorship, but these nearly 1,000 cavalry are not the cavalry of Zhongyong Town. Although Zhongyong Town has also divided 2,000 war horses, but it has not yet formed a combat force, these cavalry are a thousand people seconded from the Governor Hengchong Horse Army, all of them have experienced several major battles of the elite, one by one prancing horses and swords, dragons and tigers.

As the first general, dressed in silver armor, with a red cloak, and a three-foot red feather on the top of his head, he has always been one-eyed, and he is the general Dai Zhifan.

Behind the cavalry, there was a large array of six infantry troops, and the banners swept like a cloud.

Li Shutai saw the flag clearly and took a deep breath, but he still couldn't suppress the wild beat in his heart. It was not other troops that came, it was Wang Yan's five loyal troops, and it was Wang Yan's henchman Zhongyong Town.

At this time, the cavalry had stopped two miles away from the city, and the infantry behind them had slowly reached the wilderness outside the city, and on the whole plain, as far as the eye could see, dense spears towered, dense saucer helmets were moving, and dense crowds of people were almost crowding the entire wilderness.

And after the infantry, the soldiers in the city can still see that one by one the towering objects with vague outlines are pouring in with the large number of figures behind, presumably all of them are large siege equipment.

Looking at the army under the city, the green battalion soldiers in the city couldn't help but tremble, they only had 5,000 people, and there were at least 30,000 people coming, more than six times as many as them, and they were the world-famous five loyal soldiers, and the eyes of the soldiers showed fear.

Seeing this, Li Shutai hurriedly shouted: "The soldiers of the city, each return to his position, the archers, gunners, and gunners all enter the battle position, and the enemy soldiers will immediately fire their cannons when they approach the city." ”

The generals in the city reacted, hurriedly passed the military orders, shouted loudly, and commanded the Qing soldiers to defend.

For a while, the green battalion soldiers on the city ran one after another and entered the battle position.

Outside the city, before Dai Zhifan came to the army, he was surrounded by Dang Shousu, Wang Guangen, Qin Feng and other generals, he rode on a horse, pulled the reins in one hand, and held a horse whip in the other, observing Shucheng County from a distance.

If he wants to fight Hefei, he has to pull out Shucheng, and the speed must be fast, otherwise when Duoduo transfers troops back to the Western Front, they should be beaten.

Dai Zhifan had already received information that the defender of the city was Li Shuitai, an old opponent of Yangzhou, who was the deputy general who commanded 80,000 horses to surround Yangzhou, and he was just a small officer in Yangzhou City, but now the situation has come, which makes him sigh for a while.

Dai Zhifan looked at it with his one eye, although this Shu city is small, but all kinds of fortifications are very complete, Li Shutai, the general of the defeated army, has now become really cautious, with a moat, but also build a horse wall, dig a deep trench, it is really not easy to fight.

"Damn, Li Shutai's grandson, when did he learn the turtle method." Dai Zhifan scolded with a smile, and then said to the generals: "Do you have any ideas?" ”

The generals looked at it, the other party made so many famous halls, it was clear that he wanted to be a turtle, unless the other party abandoned the city, otherwise he would just have to go through.

Dai Zhifan saw that no one spoke, and he was not in a hurry, he had 30,000 elite soldiers, couldn't he beat a small city? He was just trying to find out if there was a way to reduce the number of casualties among the brothers.

"Let's go, let's set up camp first, let's go to the tent and think carefully, this Shucheng County must be taken down as soon as possible." After Dai Zhifan finished speaking, he waved his horsewhip and pulled his horse back into the army.

The generals also followed closely and pulled the reins, clamped the horse's belly and returned to the big formation.

At this time, on the wilderness, the horn sounded, followed by the orders of the chess and card officials one after another, "There is an order to supervise the formation, set up camp and prepare for war." ”

"Set up camp."

When the western front was in full swing, the light on the eastern front seemed to be a little dim, although Zheng Chenggong was attacking Songjiang, his troops were not as strong as the western front after all, and he could not stir up too much movement.

After Duoduo withdrew to Yangzhou, Lu Wangjun re-entered Tai County, and there was no follow-up action, and he did not even cooperate with Zheng Chenggong.

This is also expected by Wang Yan, the three families all want Nanjing, so for King Lu, the situation at this time is very entangled.

Within King Lu, Zheng Cai and others proposed to watch the tiger fight on the mountain, and could not let Longwu get Nanjing, and Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan felt that this was a rare opportunity to take the opportunity to attack a large area of land and expand the land under control, and who could advance Nanjing would always have to fight.

King Lu was also very entangled in this, and he estimated in his heart that in this battle of Jiangnan, only the three could form a weak advantage over the Qing soldiers in terms of troops, and he was an important force that could contain nearly 100,000 horses in the north of the Duoduo River.

He sent troops to cooperate, he could contain part of Duoduo's men and horses in Yangzhou, create opportunities for Wang Yan on the Western Front, and also order the rebels on Siming Mountain to contain the Qing soldiers in Hangzhou. In this way, the Ming army has a big advantage, but if he is on the sidelines and watching the fire from the other side, then at least Zheng Chenggong on the eastern front will be difficult to make a breakthrough, and the Ming army on the western front will face twice as many Qing soldiers, and the chance of victory in the battle of Jiangnan will be minimal.

On the one hand, there is the general trend, and on the other hand, the interests of him and his supporters, King Lu is not entangled.

Just as he was pacing in the tent, Zhang Huangyan lifted the tent curtain, came in and saluted, and said, "Your Highness, the envoy from the Hengyang Domain is here." ”

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