"What? Zuo Liangyu is dead! Ren Siqi looked at Song Liben in surprise. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, it's true, I interrogated several captured generals in a row, and they all said so."

It turned out that long before Li Guoying marched, Zuo Liangyu was dead, and the current left army pushed Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng as the queen.

According to the prisoners interrogated by Song Liben, the reason why the Left Army sent troops to attack Tongling despite Zuo Liangyu's death was because the Left Army was chasing Li Zicheng's Dashun Army behind the Left Army. Zuo Liangyu's army had suffered too many defeats in the hands of the Shun army before, and it had no courage to fight in the face of the Shun army, so it fled along the river in a hurry.

Listening carefully to the information that Song Liben interrogated from the prisoner's mouth, Ren Siqi pondered, and his mind became more and more clear.

Limited to the limited memory of the history of the late Ming Dynasty in his mind, Ren Siqi couldn't figure out the details of the Qing army's attack on the Southern Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In the original memory, there was not even the matter of Zuo Liangyu's army going east to the side of the Qing monarch.

So Ren Siqi is very confused about the development of the situation. Now combined with the information obtained from Song Liben's interrogation of the captives, Ren Siqi's mind is much clearer.

It seems that the Qing army marched south to attack the Ming Dynasty in two ways, one led by Duoduo to attack Yangzhou, and the other followed behind Li Zicheng's Dashun army. Because for the Manchus, there were only two enemies of them, one was the Southern Ming court, and the other was Li Zicheng's Dashun army. As for the importance of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Shun army was still above the Southern Ming court.

It seems that this is the case, Li Zicheng could not stand in Shaanxi and fled to the Yangtze River, while Zuo Liangyu was afraid of the Shun army so he went east along the river, and the Shun army followed the Manchu army behind it. Yes, that's it, wasn't Li Zicheng just killed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty on the Yangtze River, defeated in successive battles, and then killed by the landlord's armed forces in the Jiugongshan area of Hubei?

Ren Siqi never imagined that the situation would be so complicated, and the joy of the victory he had just brought was gone, replaced by deep worry.

What if you get a big win? What if the entire Left Army could be defeated? After the left army, there was Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and behind the Dashun army there were also powerful Manchu soldiers.

Ren Siqi did not think that with his 20,000 troops and 20,000 boatmen, he could defeat all the enemies, and with his own military strength and Huang Degong's army on the north bank of the river, he would definitely be able to block all the enemies west of Tongling. However, Duoduo's army had already attacked Yangzhou, and in Ren Siqi's memory, Yangzhou was easily captured, and the nearby troops of Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Gaojie surrendered one after another, and then the Qing troops successfully crossed the Yangtze River, and the Nanjing court surrendered without a fight.

Even if he is nailed here, it will not help the general situation, and when the Qing soldiers occupy Nanjing, their back road will be blocked, and then their tens of thousands of people will become a lone army!

We must withdraw our troops and return to Nanjing! At this moment, Ren Siqi made up his mind.

"Lord Commander, you're right, we have to retire." When discussing with his subordinates, Li Yanzhi was in line with Ren Siqi. In Li Yanzhi's opinion, he shouldn't come here at all, and the place where the Daishan Army should stay is Nanjing. In Li Yanzhi's plan, he should occupy a corner when the Qing army attacked Jiangnan, such as Songjiang and Ningbo, with his back to the sea and Daishan to stand by, and rely on a powerful naval army to block the Qing army's attack. Then it gradually encroached on the entire land of Koto.

Song Liben has no objections, limited by his knowledge, Song Liben's overall view is lacking, and he does not have as much ambition as Li Yanzhi. But in Song Liben's opinion, the labor expedition is not good after all, and there are so many enemies in front of them, and they are all so powerful. Although the left army was defeated, there were still 200,000 troops, and Li Zicheng's Shun army overthrew the Beijing court and forced Chongzhen to hang himself. And the full army is even more invincible, and the Shun army that was beaten and fled in embarrassment is the proof of the full combat power. It was easy for the Daishan army to grow stronger, but with only 20,000 soldiers, Song Li didn't want the army to be consumed here.

The only one who may have an opinion among everyone is Shen Tingyang, but Shen Tingyang is not from Daishan, even if he disagrees, it is useless.

To everyone's surprise, Shen Tingyang also agreed to withdraw from the army.

"Now that the left army has been defeated, it is bound to dare not continue its eastward advance. With the presence of the Marquis of Jingnan, it was enough to block the eastward advance of the left army. There is no need to put all the troops here, the Daishan army should go to more important battlefields, such as Yangzhou. Shen Tingyang said.

Since everyone agreed to withdraw from the army, Ren Siqi immediately sent someone to Jiangbei to inform Huang Degong that he was about to withdraw his army. Then Shen Tingyang drafted a letter to report the news of the defeat of the left army to the imperial court, and then asked him to be transferred back to the division.

Sent someone to Nanjing by speedboat to deliver the chapter, and then without waiting for the reply of the imperial court, Ren Siqi immediately ordered the whole army to set off and return to Nanjing.

Huang Degong left most of the captured ships and prisoners of the Left Army, and only took important prisoners such as Li Guoguang to sacrifice prisoners, and the soldiers of the Daishan Army left Tongling, and marched down the river to Nanjing.

Although he was very puzzled by the sudden withdrawal of the Daishan army, in Huang Degong's view, he should take advantage of the big victory and march the two families together to annihilate Zuo Liangyu's army in Anqing. However, the Daishan Army was not Huang Degong's subordinates, and if Ren Siqi insisted on withdrawing the army, Huang Degong would not be able to control it. Moreover, with the combat power that the Daishan Army had just shown, Huang Degong had to weigh his own strength even if he wanted to forcibly stop it.

After learning that the Daishan Army had withdrawn, Huang Degong personally came to the Daishan Army camp to see Ren Siqi off.

"The left army has experienced this great defeat, and it is bound not to continue eastward, and your army is enough to block their way. Master Hou, you are tired. Ren Siqi said apologetically to Huang Degong. Among the warlords of the four towns in Jiangbei, Huang Degong was the most loyal to the imperial court, and he was the only one who did not surrender to the Manchus.

"Alas, the situation is very good, as long as our two families work together, it will not be difficult to annihilate the left army in one fell swoop." Huang Degong shook his head and sighed.

"Zuo Liangyu is dead, and the left army has nothing to fear. Even if the left army is annihilated, there will be the Shun army behind it, and there will be Qing soldiers. It is better to keep the left army, they can still resist the enemy for a few days. Ren Siqi comforted.

"Forget it, everyone has their own ambitions." In Huang Degong's view, Tongling to Wuhu is his own defense area, and it should be guarded by himself. Ren Siqi is the chief soldier of Ningbo and a guest soldier, so he naturally has the right to choose to stay.

"I, Huang Degong, have fought countless battles in my life, and there are not many people in the world who I admire, and you are one of the chief soldiers." Huang Degong gave a thumbs up to Ren Siqi and said, "You don't have to say that the combat power of your Daishan Army is immeasurable, and your future as the chief soldier is immeasurable, and I admire it Lao Huang." On the occasion of parting, my Lao Huang has a piece of advice, don't learn from Zuo Liangyu, and be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )