On the afternoon of the fourth day of October, the war of northern Jiangsu, which had just begun, ended with the retreat of the Qing troops on all fronts, bidding farewell to the Gaoyu Dynasty.

The commander of the Qing army, Feng Sheng, was very decisive, and when the news of the defeat at Hailancha arrived, the news that the large forces of the Fu Han army were concentrated on the south road, and the news that the fire of the Fu Han army in Jiangyan Town on the frontal battlefield was violently strengthened, he decisively issued an order to retreat on the whole line. Of course, the retreat of the Qing soldiers was not a complete flaunt of their vests and fleeing with their heads in their hands - regardless of their heads, Hailancha still held a large number of horse teams in their hands, and the Manchu Han horse team attacked, and soon stopped the pursuit of the Fu Han army.

Early the next morning, the Qing army withdrew its troops from Hai'an Town, not only did not have a single man or horse left in Hai'an Town, but also cleanly blocked the Salt River with sunken ships. The Qing army retreated all the way from Hai'an Town to Dongtai.

The news was reported to the Fu Han Army, and of course Chen Ming wanted to pursue it. At this time, he regretted that he had left too few people and horses in Gaoyou, and he should have left more at that time, and now he could not let Gaoyou's soldiers and horses go north to attack Huai'an again. In that case, maybe it will really be possible to bury this Qing army in northern Jiangsu.

Of course, there are no ifs. Chen Ming led the team to follow behind the Qing army, Chen Ming wanted to make persistent efforts, and took advantage of the low morale of the Qing army to give them a hard blow. However, the three or four thousand Qing army horses were like an unsolvable scimitar hanging above his head. In desperation, the two sides had to do well water instead of river water. The Qing army's horse team was very powerful, but it was only powerful in the surprise attack after the large army fought, and if the Fu Han army was waiting in formation, they would run as far as they could.

Far away, the two armies were twenty or thirty miles apart, and they were quite afraid of beating the wolf with a hemp stick, and both sides kept a distance and were on strict guard.

After the Qing army was broken by Wang Jintai, the governor of Zhili, Hailancha was naturally beaten into the cold palace, the Qing army walked slowly all the way, and the Fu Han army slowly pursued all the way, and successfully recovered Dongtai and Yancheng all the way, and also watched the Qing army split into two in Yancheng, all the way north to Funing, all the way west to Huai'an......

Hailancha, who was strong enough to fight with his bare hands, fell ill, and he fell ill the day after the army retreated from Hai'an Town. Lying in the cabin, his eyes stared out the window at the army marching on land.

It is very different from when he went to Huai'an, the current Qing soldiers and horses are all depressed, more than 100 cannons have lost half, and many wounded soldiers are lying on the boat like Hailancha, from time to time let out a high and low wail. The voice was tormenting Highlanza's nerves all the time, reminding him of his defeat.

Many of them suffered gunshot wounds, the pain was indescribable, the wounds were large and difficult to suture, and there was lead poisoning, and shrapnel from flowering shells could easily cause tetanus. In addition, there was a lack of doctors in the ranks of the Qing army, and the medical conditions were backward. Many wounded soldiers and officers will die in agony for a long or short period of time.

Therefore, the spirit of the entire army has also become completely lost, and it is completely different from the vigor when he crossed the Yellow River and went down to Huai'an. This defeat dealt an unprecedented psychological blow to the Qing army, and the setbacks were unprecedentedly severe. And what is very much needed is Shandong Lian Yong, this team of nearly 10,000 people was originally a combat force in the Qing army, but Liu Yong's death made this Lian Yong fall apart, and the decision of Feng Sheng's quota made this army completely collapse. Nearly 10,000 people were cleanly divided by the various departments of the Manchu and Han Green Battalions, and when they arrived on the battlefield, the various units of the Manchu and Han Green Battalions really used Shandong Lian Yong as cannon fodder, and as a result, the 'performance' of these people could be seen in the last Qing army charge on the decisive battlefield.

pretending to be dead in front of the battle, surrendering, and even a dog-legged counterattack. Although not everyone is bold enough to directly 'counter-devour', Feng Zhenggang's knife also makes Hailancha remember it vividly.

These people can no longer be regarded as "practicing bravery", they are rebellious. Hailancha regretted it now, he should have killed all the three or four hundred Shandong Lianyong who had fled back from the north bank by the Yunyan River. Now that I think about it, these people are back in the ranks of practicing bravery, and they are all disasters.

He didn't know that in the current Qing army, Shandong Lianyong, who couldn't be twisted together like a hydra before, had been 'transformed' and turned into a 'united' team that could not be separated. They ate together and camped together, as if you didn't even exist at the beginning. All the departments of the Manchu and Han Green Battalions of the Qing Army understood very well that Shandong Lian Yong was frightened, they held together, held together to the death, everyone united together, and the contradictions and factions of the past were completely put aside. Feng Shengyi didn't dare to force them anymore, and if he forced them, he might have to fight among them.

Hailancha's series of battles behind the South Road and Jiangyan Town, and Feng Sheng's several attacks on the battlefield of Jiangyan Town, not only used the death camp as cannon fodder, but also really didn't use those Shandong Lian Yong as people, and those Shandong Lian Yong who escaped alive can be dissatisfied with the resentment of their stomachs? will definitely tell all the leaders of the Lianyong battalion what happened to him.

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and the things hurt it. Then they ......, and then they separated from the Qing army.

It's just that these Hailancha don't know. As a defeated general, in a certain sense, Hailancha has to bear a lot of responsibility for the failure of the Northern Jiangsu Operation, he seems to have come to the ship to recuperate, but in fact he has been isolated.

"Master." Hailancha did not stop in Huai'an, but crossed the Yellow River directly from the Qingjiang River, and his relatives handed him a codex. "This was sent by the general."

The grass-yellow cover, without a word on it, opened it with a smell of ink. Hailancha just looked at the beginning, and his face changed. Because the content of this codex is nothing else, but the casualty statistics of the great army. There are three major parts: flag soldiers, green battalions, and training bravery.

Hailancha looked at the respective casualty figures of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, Firearms Battalion, Eight Banners New Army, Guard Battalion and other departments of the Banner Soldiers, and the number of all the military attachés who died in battle, which occupied most of the page, his head buzzed, and his eyes were dizzy.

There are so many deaths, and there are so many people with good status.

Yellow belt, red belt, Tong Jia's family, Guarjia family, Ma Jia's family, Suo Yuluo family, Hesheri family, Fucha family, Nala family, Niu Hulu family, the clan is full of military flags, and the eight surnames are properly complete......

The Codex "snapped" slipped from Hylancha's hand.

"Master......"

"Take it and burn it." Hailancha said with a dizziness. The reason why Feng Shengyi handed him this thing was to let himself know it. After going to prison in Beijing, he has to run away from his crimes, and he also wants to find a giant who can really speak.

In the past battle, the Qing army suffered a total of more than 19,000 casualties, and more than 14,000 were killed, eighty percent of whom came from the Hailancha Department. And many of the wounded soldiers would die in the days that followed. Only thirty-three cannons were lost, and the gunners suffered heavy casualties, including the ten Portuguese gunners who followed the attack from Highlanda, all of whom were lost.

The New Army of the Eight Banners lost 900, and the firearms battalion and the cavalry battalion were all heavy.

The vitality is greatly damaged, and the vitality of the southbound army is greatly damaged.

Feng Sheng's heart was terrified, in this battle, the emperor's Eight Banners New Army and artillery battalion that spent countless money and energy suffered serious losses, and it didn't seem to play any role on the battlefield, Chen Wei is getting more and more powerful, how to deal with this rebel in the future?

Feng Sheng's panic was clearly expressed through the last paragraph of the codex, and Hailancha was dizzy and dizzy, but also thinking about this problem in pain. Because he was a direct witness of that battle, if he could sum up some good things, maybe his guilt would be lessened.

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On October 15, the Fu Han army received news that the Qing army had made a slight repair in Huai'an, and did not entrench in Huai'an City, but retreated directly to the north of the Yellow River. Wang Jintai of Funing also led his army across the Yellow River and retreated to Haizhou.

The speed at which the two Qing armies retreated was very fast, the scouts were meticulous, and many of the civilians who accompanied the army, Ding Zhuang, took the opportunity to escape, and the Qing army did not care about chasing them.

If in September, the Han army lost most of northern Jiangsu in half a month, now it is the Qing army that lost all the territory south of the Yellow River in less than half a month.

On the morning of October 17, after a month of absence, the Fu Han army once again occupied Huai'an, the focal city on the Grand Canal. At the same time, the victory and defeat and results of the battle in northern Jiangsu also spread throughout the south and north of the Yangtze River.

On the line of Jiangyin and Zhenjiang south of the Yangtze River, the Qing troops who were attacking the two places retreated one after another.

The Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and land Qing armies that attacked Jiangyin retreated directly to Taicang Prefecture; The Qing army in Suzhou, which attacked Zhenjiang, completely abandoned Changzhou and Wuxi, and the troops did not leave Hushu Pass.

Wuxi's regimental training armament, Chen Ziling and Qin Youzi sent people to secretly send a generous gift to the defenders of the Zhenjiang Fuhan Army: two thousand taels of silver and five hundred stones of rice, which is not a small amount. Especially for the small group training in Wuxi, which has only five or six hundred people, this is almost all the benefits of Chen Qin and the Qing army in Suzhou in Changzhou, Jintan, Danyang and other places.

But Chen Ziling and Qin Youzi were not distressed at all, when the Qing army in Suzhou counterattacked, the benefits of the two of them occupying Wuxi City were seen, not only did they get a great achievement in vain, but also followed the vanguard of the Qing army in Suzhou to seize Changzhou, which was abandoned by the Han army.

Although these two people are still talented, there are already rumors from above, asking them to behave well. If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army had behaved too poorly from offense to defense, Chen Ziling and Qin Youzi would have been promoted.

Now that the large forces of the Fu Han army have not yet turned back to Jiangnan, the Qing troops in Suzhou and Songjiang have obediently retracted their lair, which is too embarrassing.

Chen Ming had already returned to Yangzhou at this time, and the decisive battle of the Fu Han army was not too successful, but it only destroyed the elite and sharpness of the Qing army, but failed to completely annihilate the 50,000 Qing army. And the Fu Han army also paid a certain price.

Whether it was the South Road, the Middle Road, or the North Road, the total casualties of the Fu Han Army were more than 5,000 people, especially the death of Gao Pengyue. Then there are Huang Tianbao, Chen Yongshou, Chen Wenhua and others, the corpses of these three surnamed soldiers are also collected and stopped in Nanjing. In the future, when the army of the Fu Han army marched westward, these coffins followed home together.

No way. The Chinese now pay attention to one to enter the soil for safety, and to bury back to their hometown. The bodies of the soldiers who died in the general Fu Han Army, the Fu Han Army all found ground around the battlefield to dig up soil and bury them collectively, and did not dare to leave inscriptions and graves, but only recorded them in the book, and waited until the future to seize the world, and then set up a monument. The corpses of officers at or above the rank of team officer will be specially collected and disposed of at a later date.

Chen Ming returned to Yangzhou from the battlefield early, and then returned to Nanjing, not for anything else, just because the little lady sent by the Zhang family in Fujian had already arrived in Wusongkou...... (To be continued.) )