Zu Zerun was born in Guanning Iron Cavalry, is Wu Sangui's cousin, and Zu Zerun, who has been fighting with the Manchus and Mongols outside the Guanzhou all the year round, looks down on the Ming army in Guannei. This is also normal, Cao Wenzhao dared to attack Wang Jiayin's 30,000 peasant army with a thousand Liaodong iron cavalry, and also won. After this battle reached Liaodong, the generals of the Guanning Department looked at it very much, and it was not the Ming army in Guannei.

And among the miscellaneous troops led by Hong Chengchou, none of them except Hong Chengchou came from the three border armies, Wang Shixuan is Liu Zeqing's general, Zhu Shichang is Zuo Liangyu's general, and Ma Degong is even more rogue, so Zu Zerun, who was born in a family of generals, looks down on these miscellaneous generals very much in his heart.

Ma Degong and these people also knew that they were not treated well by others, but there was no way, their ancestral family followed the Manchurians outside the gate, and now they are still banner people.

Zu Zerun brought a thousand Guan Ning Iron Cavalry this time, and it was really suffocating him to not be able to go out of the city to fight in the field under the suppression of Hong Chengchou in this month, and now he can stop when he sees this opportunity!

"Your Excellency the Governor, the last general is willing to make a military order, if you can't destroy the Ming army's artillery when you go out of the city, the last general is willing to come to see you!"

Ma Degong and a few guys originally hated this Zu Zerun, but now they see that he is going out of the city to die, can they give him a ride!

Ma Degong stood up and said: "Lord Governor, Lord Zu was born in Liaodong Jiangmen, and he is naturally better at fighting than me, so it is better to let him go out and give it a try!" ”

Wang Shixuan and a few of them saw Ma Degong say this, and they also hurriedly expressed their support for Zu Zerun to go out to fight.

Hong Chengchou wanted to refuse, but Zu Zerun's family background was too awesome, and he could order him because he was the governor, if he didn't let him go out, he wouldn't be able to say something unfavorable to this guy when he returned to Beijing.

Hong Chengchou is not a good man and a woman, and when he saw that Zu Zerun was going out to die, he did not stop him, and said: "Since Master Zu is so determined, then the governor ordered you to lead 2,000 people from the headquarters to go out and try it, and if the war is unfavorable, you will return to the city immediately, do you know?" ”

Zu Zerun heard Hong Chengchou promise himself, and said happily: "Please rest assured, the last general will definitely live up to his mission!" ”

Just when Zu Zerun was seeking battle, the Ming army outside the city also ushered in their supreme commander, Ma Jiyuan, the governor of Liangjiang and the governor of Yangzhou, who supervised the cheap actions of the army and navy.

Ma Jiyuan arrived with the fleet last night, and the first time he went ashore was to read out the emperor's decree, and then ordered to start unloading the cannons.

Ma Jiyuan is now the highest military administrator in Yangzhou, so naturally all his officials have to report. Under the city of Yangzhou, there were the most army generals, and all the senior generals rushed to Ma Jiyuan's big tent, and the admiral Zhang Liang and the two pipes brought in, who were the commanders of the navy's 1,000 gunners.

Now it's not at the Guazhou Ferry, Zhang Liang doesn't have to hang Jiang Pengju at all, and now he is facing Zhao Guodong, one of the two bigwigs in the army.

Zhao Guodong is very old in Zhu Hongsan's military system, and probably no one is higher than him except Qian Yong. Zhao Guodong's full official title is the chief military officer of the Yangzhou Theater of the Ming Empire Army, commanding the officers and soldiers of the Yangzhou Theater Army and the inspection department of various places, while Zhang Liang's official position is the chief military officer of the Nanyang Detachment of the Ming Imperial Navy. Although Zhao Guodong and Zhang Liang are both admirals, they are promoted by the army

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A governor and a naval admiral are not the same. The admiral of the army is completely the commander of a theater of operations, with tens of thousands of men and horses, and his official position is from the first rank, while the admiral of the navy is only the commander of a detachment under the navy, and the official position is only the second rank.

Therefore, Zhang Liang can be embarrassed for Jiang Pengju, because Jiang Pengju's official position is not as high as his, but when he sees Zhao Guodong, he doesn't dare to pretend to be big.

Zhao Guodong came into the house and saw Zhang Liang sitting on the side, regardless of Ma Jiyuan who was sitting in the middle, he stepped forward to beat Zhang Liang.

"You bastard Zhang Shuiyu, why is it difficult for our army, do you know how many brothers our army has suffered in this month?"

Zhang Liang knew that this Zhao Guodong and Jiang Pengju were different, so he quickly stood up and hid behind Ma Jiyuan.

Ma Jiyuan saw Zhao Guodong leading the army generals in, and was just about to speak, but he didn't think that Zhao Guodong would start to clean up Zhang Liang first, which made Master Ma, the governor of Liangjiang, angry.

Ma Jiyuan stood up and shouted angrily: "Zhao Guodong, what are you going to do? Do you still dare to beat someone in front of your own officials? ”

After all, Ma Mingyuan is a Qincha, and he still has the privileges given by the emperor, no matter how arrogant Zhao Guodong is, he doesn't dare to do it in vain.

Zhao Guodong saw Zhang Liang hiding behind Ma Jiyuan, and said hatefully: "Lord Taiwan, this Zhang Liang is very hateful, and he disobeys the general of the last general, if it weren't for him, would our army be able to lose so many brothers?" ”

Ma Jiyuan didn't care about that, turned around and went up from the bookcase behind him to make a holy decree, raised his hands and shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor's holy decree!" ”

This time it was better than anything else, and dozens of army generals who entered the house knelt down to greet the holy decree.

Ma Mingyuan didn't open the holy decree, the content on it had already been memorized, and then shouted loudly: "Qin ordered Ma Jiyuan, the governor of Liangjiang, to supervise Yangzhou, supervise the army and navy, and act cheaply!" ”

Everyone in the room shouted, "Your Majesty's commandment!" ”

After Ma Jiyuan subdued these unruly generals with the holy decree, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he knew that these people were the emperor's descendants, and a scholar like himself was not in their eyes at all, the emperor was really a saint, and he had long thought that these guys were disobedient and gave him a cheap way to act!

Seeing the generals kneeling in front of him one by one, Ma Jiyuan said: "Okay, you all know the rights of the governor, officials below the fourth rank can be cut first and then played, I hope you don't fall into the hands of the governor!" ”

All the generals said under the leadership of Zhao Guodong: "Please rest assured, Your Excellency the Governor, we will fight to the death and serve His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Ma Jiyuan nodded and said, "Okay, let's get up!" After speaking, Ma Jiyuan turned around and put the amulet holy decree back on the bookcase.

"Admiral Zhao, tell me about the current situation of the war!"

Zhao Guodong glared at Zhang Liang, who had been redone, stood up and said: "Back to the governor, our army has been fighting under Yangzhou City for a month and a half, attacking the city fifteen times, and his brothers have suffered more than 4,600 casualties. However, the Qing army in the city couldn't please it, and they probably killed and injured 10,000 people! ”

"How many Qing troops are there in the city?"

"Hong Chengchou has withdrawn the Qing troops in Huai'an and Henan, and there are about 60,000 people in the city!"

When Ma Jiyuan heard this, he thought in his heart: Say this all

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There is no large Qing army in the Huaiyang area, and Huai'an, as an important canal town, is in front of you, and it is really anxious not to take it!

However, the emperor's order is still in his ears, Ma Jiyuan is not as bold as Tong Yangjia, he does not dare to disobey the emperor's order.

"Okay, now that the cannon has arrived, are you going to be the main battlefield in that place?"

Zhao Guodong had been under the city of Yangzhou for a month and a half, and he already knew the surrounding environment well, and he heard Ma Jiyuan ask: "Your Excellency the Governor, the last general has already selected a hill five miles outside the southern city as the artillery position, and at the same time has ordered his subordinates to prepare for the city, as soon as the city wall is opened, immediately attack the city!" ”

Ma Jiyuan nodded, and just as he was about to speak, he saw a soldier rushing in from outside the door, and the soldier entered the house and said: "Sir, the guards under the city wall have sent a message that the Anjiang Gate in the south city of Yangzhou is open, and two thousand cavalry rushed out of it, it seems that they are going to attack our army's position, what should I do, sir?" ”

As soon as Ma Jiyuan heard that the Qing army was coming out of the city, he hurriedly looked at Zhao Guodong, after all, he had just arrived, and he still had to rely on Zhao Guodong for everything.

Zhao Guodong laughed and said: "Don't worry, the Qing army in the city has been lying on the dead turtle for more than a month, and now it finally comes out, probably because I saw the artillery on the canal coming, and I want to pick up a bargain, please rest assured, the last general has been arranged, and these Manchu Tartars will not return!" ”

Ma Jiyuan listened to what Zhao Guodong said, and said uneasily: "In that case, how about we go out to watch the battle together!" ”

After Ma Jiyuan finished speaking, he came outside with the generals in the house, standing on a high slope and looking at Yangzhou City.

Yangzhou City is located in the Grand Canal, so the moat outside the south city and the east city is the canal, and the ships coming and going have to pass under the city wall, and the south gate Anjiang Gate is where the water pass is, and the cannons transported from Guazhou are unloading at the Anjiang Gate, probably the Qing army in the city saw that there was a cheap to take advantage of, and came out to fight the autumn wind. However, the Anjiangmen Wharf is less than 500 meters away from the city gate, and the Qing cavalry can still cause some losses if it is fast.

Zhao Guodong's command post was less than two miles away from the south gate, and he could see clearly from the hillside that the Qing army in Anjiangmen had come out of Weng City and was preparing for formation.

Outside Anjiang Gate were originally some shops, warehouses and shacks where homeless people lived, but Hong Chengchou burned down these houses in order to strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, and in the next month's battle, Nancheng was the main battlefield, so naturally there was nothing left. However, because there was nothing left, it happened to have an open line of sight, which was conducive to cavalry charge.

Zhao Guodong saw that the Qing army was forming a team, and said with a contemptuous smile: "My lord, these cavalrymen are probably from the north, they have never seen the rain of bullets of our army, and they dare to use thousands of people to attack our army's position, I really don't know how to write dead words!" ”

Ma Jiyuan had been a governor in Luzon and had seen the navy fight, but he had never seen the army fight, so he couldn't help but be very curious about how the army would respond to cavalry charges.

However, the ensuing battle made Ma Jiyuan lose interest, and the Qing cavalry charged after being ready, and the Ming artillery began to fire at a distance of 200 meters from the Ming position. Ma Jiyuan couldn't see clearly from a distance, only saw patches of white smoke rising from the Ming army's position, and the entire position was soon shrouded in gunsmoke, and it took a while for the rumbling artillery to reach the command post.

Ma Jiyuan waited for a while for the smoke to dissipate, and saw a dead body on the position, the corpses of the invincible Manchu cavalry just now were all over the place, and less than a hundred people fled back to Anjiangmen.