At the beginning of the siege of Yangzhou, the Ming army gave up the north gate and did not encircle, firstly, because the Ming army was insufficient to besiege the four cities, and secondly, because the siege of three was lacking, giving the Qing soldiers in the city a way to retreat, which could weaken the Qing army's will to resist, otherwise Duoduo had no way out, and he would fight to the end and burn the jade of Yangzhou.

The goal of Wang Yan and the Ming court was to encircle and annihilate the Qing army in Yangzhou and prevent them from escaping to Huaibei.

The north gate of Yangzhou was opened, thousands of Qing soldiers rushed out, and went straight to the deep trench dug by the Ming army, and the Ming army guarding the trench was only more than 2,000 people, which could prevent the Qing army from sending a small group of Qing troops and cavalry out of the city to harass, and could buy the Ming army a little time to react, but if you want to stop the Qing army from escaping, it is obviously not possible.

At this time, in the face of the impact of thousands of green battalions, the Ming army guarding the trench put a row of guns, appropriate resistance, two thousand Ming troops retreated in a corner, took the initiative to get out of the way, retreated to the side of the trench to defend, rushed out of the Qing soldiers did not pay attention to the Ming army cowering in a corner, braved the guns, quickly knocked down the earthen wall, pounced on the plank, Duoduo led four thousand cavalry to rush out, nearly 10,000 green battalions with red-topped hats were defeated, and fled in a hurry.

Duoduo led more than 10,000 defeated troops from the north gate, with the cavalry in front and the foot soldiers behind running wildly, rushing out of more than 30 miles in one go. He looked back and saw that the infantry behind him had been thrown away without a trace, so he grabbed the reins of the horse and stopped the horse.

There was a burst of neighing of horses, and more than 4,000 horsemen stopped abruptly on the official road, and Suke Saha approached Duoduo with his horse, "What's wrong with the prince?" ”

Duoduo glanced back at the direction of Yangzhou, he couldn't help but feel an irrepressible sense of frustration in his heart, from the second year of Shunzhi, he went all the way south to the south of the Yangtze River, to today he was defeated by the Ming army like an autumn wind sweeping leaves, and fled from Yangzhou in a hurry, everything is like a dream.

"Wait for the infantry army behind!" Duoduo contained his emotions, he needed to sort out his thoughts, so he looked around for a moment, and then ordered with a finger of the horsewhip: "Send someone into the forest to see, the army will rest outside the woods for half an hour, don't go into the woods!" ”

Behind him, a group of white-armored soldiers obeyed the order, immediately grabbed the belly of the horse, ran to the edge of the woods, and then turned over and dismounted, and touched into the forest.

The Qing army ran for thirty miles in one go, and the cavalry were a little tired, so they dismounted and found a dry place to sit down, those who had dry food ate ate some dry food, those who had water drank some water, and those who didn't have it seized the time to take a nap.

Duoduo sat down on a stone on the side of the road, and Sukh Saha and other generals surrounded him and suggested: "Lord, there are still forty or fifty thousand horses in Hefei, and there are enough food and supplies, we can go west to Hefei and regroup." ”

Now there are only two roads in front of the Qing army, one is to go west to Liuhe through Chuzhou to Hefei to join Ma Guanghui, the governor of Jiangbei, where there are still 40,000 or 50,000 Qing troops, and the other is to go north to Sizhou, looking for an opportunity to cross the Huai River, and withdraw to Huaibei.

Guarding Yangzhou made Duoduo feel palpitations, he shook his head, "The Ming army has heavy troops stationed in Anqing and Wuhu, and the next step is to attack Hefei City, this time Yangzhou was besieged, Hefei did not support this king, we were too dangerous in the past, and Li Guo was in Chuzhou, this king may not be able to break away from his block." ”

In the west of Chuzhou, there are five loyal army loyal to the town to block, Duoduo and Li Guo have fought each other, is a hard stubble, not very easy to deal with, whether to rush through the blockage of Zhongzhi Town, he has not yet known, and Yangzhou lost, Hefei became the next point of the Ming army's attack, the Qing army is abandoned or defended, not necessarily, so Duoduo denied the suggestion to flee westward.

"Does the prince suspect Ma Guanghui?" Sukh Saha heard another meaning.

This is indeed one of the reasons why Duoduo does not want to go to Hefei, Yangzhou is defeated, so that Duoduo's mind is very confused, and now this question is answered, his mind is a lot clearer.

Duoduo snorted coldly, "Yangzhou and Hefei were originally horns of each other, and this king asked Hefei for help twice, but Ma Guanghui didn't make a big move. It's not that this king doesn't believe him, but the situation is very different now, and this king can't be careless. If Ma Guanghui is disgusted, detains the king, and exchanges benefits for Nanming, then everything will be over. In the current situation, those Han generals can be rich and noble, but if you want them to share hardships with the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that it is not okay, and we have to rely on us at the critical moment. ”

What Duoduo said was the truth, and now that the Han people saw that they were very nervous, they all disobeyed the order, and Suke Saha muttered, "If you don't go to Hefei, you can only go north." ”

The Huaisi line in the north, there is also the Ming army to block, but relatively speaking, Zhang Mingzhen, who is responsible for the blocking, is weaker in strength, the only thing that is a little difficult is that the Huai River is in front of him, but Dolgon sent He Luohui south to support, 30,000 horses have arrived at the Huaisi line, with them to respond, want to withdraw to Huaibei, the problem should not be big.

"Let's go to the north, the reinforcements sent by the regent are facing Zhang Mingzhen, we will walk for a long time, pass through Sizhou, follow the road to the south, and look for an opportunity to return to Huaibei."

Duoduo nodded and stood up, he looked at a few grazing war horses on the edge of the woods, and couldn't help frowning slightly, how did the soldiers who went into the forest to inquire not come out yet, which made his eyes immediately sharpen.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of a gun in the woods, and the horses that were grazing were suddenly startled, and immediately ran away from the edge of the woods, and the Qing troops who were resting along the official road were so frightened that they got up one after another, and at this time there were rows of figures at the edge of the woods, and countless firearms stretched out from both sides of the woods.

80,000 Ming troops besieged Yangzhou, 40,000 attacked Xicheng, 10,000 people outside the southeast two cities each, and among the remaining 20,000 people, 10,000 were responsible for staying in the camp, and the other 10,000 people, led by Wang Yi, a general of the Zhejiang department, ambushed the fleeing Qing soldiers outside the north city.

Wang Yi is the person who can fight in the faction of King Lu, when King Lu was the most difficult, there were only two pieces of territory left, one was Zhoushan, which was isolated overseas, and the other was the anti-Qing base of Siming Mountain, and Wang Yi was the leader of Siming Mountain, and it was the main combat force of King Lu on land.

He was ordered to ambush the routed soldiers, and chose to ambush in this wood, not wanting Duoduo to be very vigilant and unable to enter the forest, so that his plan to ambush and kill the Qing army in the woods failed, so he could only lead his troops to directly raid.

After the discharge of the guns, the edge of the woods was filled with a piece of gunsmoke, the frightened war horses were in pain, and after losing control, they ran wildly on the official road, and several Qing soldiers were knocked away in a row, and there was chaos on the official road, and there were constantly soldiers and war horses falling to the ground, and the horses were neighing.

"All armies mount and withdraw immediately!" Duoduo and the others got on their horses in a panic, and the war horse was restless, and he held the reins of the horse with one hand and shouted loudly.

If it was on the plain, Duoduo would have directly let the cavalry charge and kill, but the Ming army hid in the woods, but he had no choice.

Fortunately, he did not let the soldiers rest in the woods, and if he did not blame him, he really followed the way of the Ming army, it was easy to get in, but it was difficult to get out.

At this time, he didn't care about the more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers who didn't dare to come over, so he directly and decisively pulled out his horse and left, and the Qing soldiers behind him also got on their horses in a panic and galloped forward with him.

The cavalry was constantly shot off their horses under the blows of the guns on both sides, and fell like dumplings, and even Meler Ezhen Gechuha, who was closely behind Duoduo, was knocked off his horse.

There was a cry of sorrow in Duoduo's heart, but he didn't look back, and now he had to rush forward to have a glimmer of life.

For the cavalry to run, the Ming army actually has no way, the terrain of Jiangbei as a whole, or mostly flat land, if he is in array to block, Duoduo will definitely not take the official road, step on the fields and walk, now from the woods on both sides of the shooting, but can not prevent Duoduo from escaping.

Wang Yi let the soldiers release the guns for a while, and waited for most of the Qing cavalry to come out of the ambush circle, and then let the soldiers kill from the woods on both sides to encircle and suppress the remnants of the lost horses on the official road.

The whole battle lasted less than a moment before it ended, Wang Yi did not let the soldiers go after Duoduo, first, he couldn't catch up, and second, if he chased to the open area, let his cavalry rush in turn, but it was not beautiful, as for Duoduo, it could only be handed over to Zhang Mingzhen, who was deployed in Sizhou.

10,000 Ming troops, clean up the battlefield on the spot, and then wait in formation, not long after, more than 10,000 green battalions ran over, saw the battlefield and the waiting Ming army, led by the green battalion generals were stunned for a while, after half a ring, several green battalion generals, looked at each other, and then dismounted together, and walked towards the Ming army.

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