Liu Liangzuo's rebellion made the situation in Yangzhou take a sharp turn for the worse, and the city was already noisy on the issue of defending or breaking through, although no one dared to openly shout for surrender, but everyone knew that Yangzhou could not be defended. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Shi Kefa withstood the pressure, he kept sending his cronies out of Yangzhou City, hoping that Zhu Youzhen could send troops to support as soon as possible, but unfortunately he didn't know that Zhu Youzhen would not support Yangzhou at all..........

Liu Liangzuo's rebellion not only turned Yangzhou City into a Jedi, but also disrupted Li Hongfei's "sexual happiness" life, the first time he got the information, Li Hongfei gathered the regiment commanders, held an emergency meeting, and then the combat deployment, the whole army entered a state of emergency combat readiness, how could he still have the heart to fall in love with Chen Yuanyuan.

Perhaps it was God's favor, the day after Liu Liangzuo's rebellion, the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River came, and it was drizzling for more than ten days.

The Qing army's siege weapon, the Hongyi artillery could not fight, although taking advantage of the rainy day Ming military firearms could not be played, the Qing army launched several fierce attacks, but were forced to retreat by the grenades supported by Li Hongfei.

The advent of the rainy season greatly reduced the power of firearms on both sides, but the offensive of the Qing army did not slow down at all, and there was no siege artillery, so send cannon fodder troops, use ladders and archers, and carry out primitive cold weapons siege battles, first consume the morale of the Ming army in the city.

Li Hongfei dared to assert that once the weather improves, it will be the day when Yangzhou City will be broken.

On April 23, 1645 (the second year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty), the weather was fine, and the rainy season, which lasted for half a month, finally stopped.........

"It's finally coming!" Li Hongfei looked at the sky, sighed, and then said to the herald beside him: "Pass my order, the coast of Zhenjiang will be closed from now on, and no ships will be allowed to pass. ”

Li Hongfei's move was to prevent the Qing warships from returning to the south gate of Yangzhou to block the breakthrough troops.

"In addition, all the mines that will be brought will be laid in Zhaojia Village downstream, and people will be sent to wait day and night, and they must not slack off."

Zhaojia Village is in the northeast of Zhenjiang Prefecture, which is the territory of Zhenjiang, the Yangtze River waterway is relatively narrow area, the narrowest of which is only 1.5 kilometers, most of the shore defense artillery is laid in that area, and now the mines are laid again, just to add an insurance.

Li Hongfei was hurrying to lay a defensive line, but the outside of Yangzhou City was surprisingly quiet, just after Shi Kefa urgently transferred troops to the city wall, the Qing army was unusual, did not launch an attack, and did not even send out harassment troops.

This strange situation lasted from morning to noon, just when the spirit of the soldiers was about to be polished, the Qing army camp outside the city sent a horseman, went straight to the city gate, and shouted loudly: "My prince said, give you the last day to consider, if you don't surrender, tomorrow the army will break the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!" ”

After the person finished speaking, he didn't give Shi Kefa a chance to speak, and directly turned the horse's head back to the camp.

Shi Kefa looked at the back of the messenger in the distance, although he knew that it was impossible, he still couldn't help but ask, "Do we still have reinforcements?" ”

"Five days ago, I received a message from the flying pigeon, Li Zicheng united with Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Wuchang, waved an army of 500,000 (in fact, the regular army was less than 200,000), and thousands of warships, wanted to go down the river, east into Nanjing, and the Ming Dynasty "united to resist the Qing", Fengyang general soldier Ma Shiying, and the general soldiers of all walks of life were worried that Li Zicheng was cheating, so they transferred troops back to defend the surrounding areas of Nanjing. Liu Zhaoji, the governor of the left capital, replied.

Li Zicheng was also unlucky, he was driven all the way to Hubei by Wu Sangui, and in desperation, he had to unite with Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Wuchang, which barely blocked Wu Sangui's pursuit.

However, Wu Sangui is only a vanguard army, followed by an Azig, and there is no way to fight with Li Zicheng and Wuchang Zuo Liangyu alone.

Zuo Liangyu originally wanted Li Zicheng to surrender to Nanming, but Li Zicheng still had a lot of troops in his hands, and he was unwilling to surrender anything, at most he only promised to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, Zuo Liangyu's idea is still good, he and Li Zicheng's coalition army, adding up to hundreds of thousands, can go to reinforce Yangzhou, and second, come to Nanjing, which is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, even if Li Zicheng is powerful, in the face of heavy troops on all sides, he can only obediently obey.

Li Zicheng now has a tiger in front of him and a chasing soldier in the back, and he only wants to get rid of Wu Sangui's entanglement, and he also understands that it is thousands of miles to Nanjing, and no one knows what happened along the way, so after some careful consideration, he also agreed.

However, Li Zicheng was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and directly sent people to spread rumors, saying that he had recruited Zuo Liangyu and waved 500,000 troops to advance by land and water to take Nanjing.

The rumors and Zuo Liangyu's excerpt arrived in Nanjing almost at the same time, making it difficult for the ministers to distinguish the true from the false, and Zhu Youzhen was unwilling to support Yangzhou, so he simply used the fake to confuse the real and mobilized heavy troops to defend Nanjing.

In this way, no one will care about the war in Yangzhou anymore..........

"Hey! It seems that this Yangzhou City is afraid that it will not be able to hold it! Shi Kefa couldn't help but sigh when he learned that there were no reinforcements.

"Old Shi Ge, since you can't defend it, why don't you take the opportunity to break through and leave the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood." Guo Sheng on the side persuaded in a timely manner.

He was ordered by Li Hongfei to take fifty people into Yangzhou, in order to break through with Shi Kefa when he couldn't hold it, and now the situation is clear, Yangzhou City can't last long, so Guo Sheng began to make plans.

"General Guo's mind is old and understandable, but the matter of eating the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, the city is in the people, and the city is ruined!" Shi Kefa has made up his mind.

"But ........," Guo Sheng wanted to say something.

"It's nothing, General Guo, you are a guest army, the old man is grateful for Lord Li's support, tonight I will order someone to open a gap at the south gate to help General Guo and his sergeants break through." Shi Kefa said.

In the battle of Yangzhou, only Li Hongfei supported 50,000 grenades and 51 sergeants, this love Shi Kefa remembers, and at the same time Shi Kefa also understands that Li Hongfei's new army has only been formed for a long time, and there is almost no combat effectiveness, and it is already good that the other party can do this.

Therefore, Shi Kefa didn't want the troops sent by Li Hongfei to die in vain, so he decided to concentrate his forces and open a gap for this army, so that Guo Sheng and others could break through smoothly.

"Shi Ge Lao is not leaving, how can I Guo Sheng be a person who is afraid of death, now Yangzhou is the time to employ people, we must not let other brothers die for us." Guo Sheng rejected the offer to cover the breakout.

His task has not been completed yet, it is impossible to leave like this, since Shi Kefa will not leave, then he can only wait for the city to break through, and forcibly lead him to break through.