100,000 Qing troops went south, and when they reached Yangzhou, the number of people increased instead of decreasing, and nearly 100,000 rebels such as Xu Dingguo were recruited.

The war entered December, there were traitors in the Huai'an defenders, and the general Bai Yongfu surrendered in Kaicheng, Liu Zeqing saw that things were not good, so he could only surrender the Qing army by mistake.

Huai'an Fengji Warehouse, one of the four major granaries of Caoyun in the Ming Dynasty, also fell into the hands of the Qing army.

So far, the four towns in Jiangbei have surrendered to two towns, but the surrendered people and horses are far more than that, Xu Dingguo and Liu Zeqing two town soldiers, even Huang Degong's men, there are two general soldiers Tian Xiong and Ma Degong also surrendered to the Qing army.

A large number of Ming troops surrendered and became accomplices in the southern invasion of the Qing army, which aggravated the crisis in Jiangbei, but after these unwilled men and horses surrendered, they also made the Ming army sweep the sand, leaving a group of soldiers and horses loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

The four towns in Jiangbei, like Wuchangzuo Town, were all warlords, and the imperial court gave each town 30,000 soldiers, but each town was actually close to more than 100,000 horses. Most of these soldiers and horses are some dross.

At this time, with the surrender of a large number of Ming troops, the Azig troops surged to nearly 300,000, and the Ming army was only left with more than 100,000 people along the river, but Nanjing mobilized tens of thousands of officers and soldiers from all over the country, and the Ming troops from Huguang, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang took turns to fight, sacrificing countless sacrifices to resist the attacks of the Qing army and the rebels.

Gao Chengxun led the Huguang Water Division, and when he passed the Great Victory Pass, he saw an acquaintance from a distance.

In the middle of this year, the Nanjing Qincha, who had sent an envoy to Huguang, rode a horse, stood on a small hill, and was looking at a large ship, heading west. The ship, Gao Chengxun, knew that it was Licao who was sent from Huguang to pick up Princess Kunxing's big ship.

Gao Chengxun led the fleet, passed the Great Victory Pass, stopped the ship at the Nanjing Wharf, found the officials of the Nanjing Military Department, and handed over the supplies on the ship.

A director of the military department came to negotiate and asked Gao Chengxun to transport the materials to Zhenjiang, and hoped that the sailor could assist the Jiang waterproof division, defend the river, and reduce the pressure on the Jiang waterproof division, Gao Chengxun did not refuse, and accepted the official's request with a fist.

In the Daxiao field outside Zhenjiang City, more than 10,000 new soldiers are ready to go, they are the newly recruited central forbidden army of the Nanjing Imperial Court, and they are all men recruited in Yiwu, Jinhua and other places in western Zhejiang.

It was the place where Qi Shuai recruited soldiers back then, and decades later, it is still the best place to recruit soldiers in Jiangnan.

Zhu Cihong had high hopes for the new army, squeezed out money and food from the treasury to support them, and originally wanted them to train for two years, but now the situation is in crisis, and he has to let this group of new soldiers go directly to battle.

More than 10,000 new soldiers, wearing the newly issued battle jackets of the imperial court, stood on the school field with spears in hand, helmets like fire, spears like forests, and the faces of the soldiers were resolute.

At this time, He Tengjiao, a bachelor who came to supervise the war, hissed and shouted: "Decades ago, the Japanese invaders caused chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, burning, killing and looting, and did all kinds of evil. Today, the eastern captives invaded the south, and the ferocity was even worse than that of the Japanese invaders, and if there were many words, this pavilion would not say anything. I only hope that the soldiers will think that Your Majesty is in Nanjing, and behind them are the people of Jiangnan, your parents, wives and children, and I hope you will fight to the death! ”

Speaking of this, He Tengjiao himself was also a little moved and choked. These new soldiers have been trained for less than three months, and crossing the river is basically sending them to death, he paused, raised his eyes and looked at the 10,000 new soldiers under the high platform, "Sons, cross the river to help, take the flag." ”

Wang Yan, the minister in charge of recruiting and training soldiers, received the banner awarded by the imperial court, as well as a new military name, which Zhu Cihong personally named to support the Japanese army.

After receiving the flag, 10,000 Japanese troops will be directly on the boat from Zhenjiang and sail to the other side.

The defense line of the Ming army in the north of the river was not only several cities such as Yangzhou, Hezhou, and Liuhe, but also ferries along the river.

The Qing army was unable to capture the city for a while, and instead began to attack the ferry, and the defenders of the ferry had no city walls to rely on, and suffered heavy casualties.

The soldiers who supported the Japanese army were divided into several groups to cross the river to reinforce the Guazhou crossing under the fierce attack of the Qing army. It is said that the men and horses that took over the defense of Guazhoudu for half a month were replenished several times, but the casualties were too great, and the formation was exhausted, so it was necessary to replace the well-formed troops to take over the defense.

Wang Yan led the first batch of 3,000 soldiers to cross the river on a requisitioned merchant ship and even a painting boat in Qinglou.

Approaching Guazhoudu, the air was filled with a thick smell of gunpowder smoke and blood, and the smoke on the north bank of the Yangtze River was billowing and killing the sky.

It is said that a few days ago, a group of about 3,000 Huizhou volunteers crossed the river to Guazhou, and half of them died in three days.

When the flotilla approached Guazhoudu, the Qing army's warships began to come out to harass the flotilla crossing the river, and rockets "swished" at the Ming ships, igniting the first few small boats.

The new pawn on the ship was immediately a little panicked, and Wang Yan was also furious, how could the sailor let the rebel warship be so rampant.

Suddenly, a large ship of the river water division sailed over, a cloud of white smoke rose from the bow of the ship, and a cannonball hit a rebel warship, smashing the boat into a splash of sawdust.

Zheng Sen pierced the armor and pressed the knife, stood at the bow of the boat and waved his hand, and shouted angrily: "Chase!" ”

With the escort of the naval division warship, the ship transporting the Japanese soldiers slowly approached Guazhoudu.

At this time, the ferry was thick smoke, the sound of killing shook the sky, Wang Yan stood at the bow of the boat, took out a pair of clairvoyant mirrors, took out the mirror tube and watched in front of him, and saw the ant-like Qing army crowding into the Ming army camp at the ferry.

The Ming army at the ferry fought and retreated, and the soldiers were constantly shot and killed by the Qing army, stabbed to death by spears, and finally more than ten people retreated to a high platform.

Several soldiers resisted desperately, slashing the Qing army that rushed up with their knives, but they could take care of the Qing army in front of them, but they couldn't guard against the cold arrows of the Tartars.

The Qing army's archery method was very accurate, almost one arrow, harvesting the lives of the Ming army, and more than a dozen soldiers were either shot in the chest or were shot in the throat and fell.

More than a dozen soldiers on the high platform were hacked to death and shot to death by the Qing army one after another, and in the end, there was only one general wearing iron armor and wearing a galloping helmet.

Wang Yan watched the defenders being killed, but he couldn't do anything, he raised his clairvoyant mirror to look at the general who was surrounded by spears, and suddenly became short of breath.

In the circular vision of the clairvoyant, the general forced back the Qing army who surrounded him with a knife and wanted to capture him alive, suddenly put the knife on his neck, and then pulled it hard, and the person fell down.

Wang Yan burst into tears, and tears instantly covered his eyes.

He was about to get angry, and wanted to urge the fleet to speed up and retake Guazhou.

At this time, the sailor gunboat escorting them had already crossed the hull of the river, the side shook violently, and one after another the guns exited the gun window one after another, and the side instantly rose up with white smoke, and several iron bullets smashed against the north bank of the river, and the Qing army occupying the high platform was beaten to the back of the horse~

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