As night fell, the day-long battle slowly drew the curtain on. The Qing army withdrew from Yangzhou www.biquge.info, and the Ming and Qing dynasties licked their wounds.

In the camp of the Qing army, the Manchu commander, Prince Yu Duoduo, sat on a tiger skin chair with an angry face, listening to the generals report the losses in the battle.

In the siege during the day, Duoduo mobilized almost half of his troops and threw 13,000 soldiers into Yangzhou City, but less than 8,000 returned alive, and nearly 6,000 Manchurian warriors died in Yangzhou City. The gap made by the red-clothed cannon was like a huge grinding disc, grinding the blood of the Eight Banners warriors. The artillery at the head of the city caused huge losses to the besieging Eight Banners, especially the 100 small cannons of the Daishan Army, because there were mobile artillery carts that moved around the city wall, and the cannonballs fired gave great damage to the Eight Banners.

Six thousand warriors! More than half of them are real Manchurians, and how many Eight Banners soldiers are under the command of Duoduo? Now the number of Eight Banners in the army is less than 40,000! Duoduo did not want to go through such a battle again, and the blood of the Manchurian warriors could not be wasted in this terrible street battle. Duoduo even had an intuition that if he wanted to take Yangzhou, he was afraid that he would lose at least half of his troops! But if the losses of the Eight Banners are really more than half, what else can they do to deter the more than 200,000 surrendered troops!

In addition to the heavy losses of the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion lost more than 10,000 people when attacking Nancheng. Duoduo didn't care about this, and if he surrendered, the Ming army died and died.

What puzzled Duoduo was why the Ming army in Yangzhou City was so difficult, it was clear that the city wall had been broken but still fought to the death, and from the description of the Eight Banners who withdrew, the Ming army was obviously ready to fight in the streets, did they want to use the entire Yangzhou City as a battlefield to eliminate the living force of the Qing army? What a big appetite.

However, Duoduo also had to admire the courage of the Ming army's commander, daring to put the Qing army into the city to fight, and being able to mobilize the motivation of the people in the city to resist the Qing, all of which showed that this Ming general was very capable. And he checked his pulse, that is, the Eight Banners soldiers can't withstand this kind of consumption at all!

Duoduo is sure that the main general of the city is definitely no longer Shi Kefa, and through the detailed description sent by Wang Lin, Shi Kefa is an indecisive and obedient person, and he is not capable of fighting such an extraordinary battle.

Could it be that Su Lubo, who repeatedly led troops to attack the Qing army, failed? Because most of the gates of Yangzhou City were blocked, and Ren Siqi cleaned the city, Duoduo basically couldn't get information about Yangzhou City now.

Duoduo knew that the battle could not be fought like this anymore, and the Eight Banners Warriors simply could not afford another loss. But if you don't storm it, you can only besiege the city, there are more than 800,000 soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou City, as long as your army besieges it for a month, and when the food in the city runs out, you will be able to attack the city effortlessly.

It is only the end of April now, so it should be possible to pull out Yangzhou before the summer comes, and now Duoduo has no hope of quickly taking Yangzhou and approaching Nanjing, and if Yangzhou is not down, he will not be able to cross the Yangtze River with peace of mind.

Alas, one can only hope for the Azig of the Western Route Army! This work of extinguishing the light is handed over, and thinking about it makes Duoduo feel heartwarming.

But it is not so easy to besiege Yangzhou, because Yangzhou is relying on the canal, if the canal cannot be cut, there is no way to talk about besieging Yangzhou.

Duoduo immediately gave an order to Kong Youde Geng Zhongming, who was preparing the navy, and asked them to complete the formation of the navy as soon as possible.

In the following time, Duoduo divided the whole army into three parts, tightly surrounded Yangzhou from the north and southwest, and then divided his troops to plunder and occupy dozens of cities west of the canal and north of the Yangtze River.

The naval army formed by Kong Youde already had more than 200 large and small ships, and it tried to attack Yangzhou from the waterway many times along the canal southward, occupying the wharf outside the east city of Yangzhou, where was the Daishan army naval camp. However, under the attack of the city's artillery and the Daishan army, Kong Youde's intentions repeatedly failed to succeed.

After this battle, the Ming army in the city also suffered heavy losses, and almost half of the 10,000 infantry of the Daishan army lost almost half, and they no longer had the ability to attack out of the city. The Ming armies of the other divisions also suffered their own losses. In the final counterattack against the Eight Banners, the newly recruited township soldiers played a great role, and it was their decisive counterattack that became the last straw that overwhelmed the morale of the Eight Banners. Relying on the superiority of numbers, the Eight Banners were driven out of the city, and the township soldiers also suffered huge losses, and more than 3,000 people lost their lives.

However, through this victory, the entire Yangzhou army and people also saw that the Manchurian Eight Banners were not so terrible, as long as everyone was united, they would definitely be able to defeat the powerful enemy. The fighting passion of the entire Yangzhou broke out all of a sudden, and of course, the large amount of silver reward ordered by Ren Siqi also played a great role.

Among the township soldiers, young and strong soldiers were transferred to the Daishan army, and the scale of ten battalions of 10,000 people was replenished, although the combat effectiveness was somewhat lower than in the past, but I believe that through continuous fighting, these recruits will mature rapidly.

Under the auspices of Li Yanzhi, a propaganda team was set up, mainly composed of Jiaodong soldiers who had been invaded and plundered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, numbering 50 or 60 people, to spread the brutality of the Manchu Eight Banners in Yangzhou and arouse the hostility of the people in the city. The whole of Yangzhou was mobilized, and everyone worked together to resist the siege from the Manchus!

Time is deadlocked, and in the blink of an eye, it is May. During this period of time, there were basically no major siege battles, and the most carried out was the battle between the Daishan army and the Qing army on the canal.

Although the Qing army was newly built, there were many of them, and the number of ships searching around was not under the Yangzhou army, and in the end, it was comparable to the Yangzhou army. There was no way, Ren Siqi ordered to continue to recruit naval soldiers in Yangzhou City, all adult men who can row boats and learn to water are recruited into the army, with 5,000 Dai Mountain Water Army as the backbone, formed a huge naval army of 30,000 people and 1,000 boats, fighting with the Qing Army every day on the canal, trying their best to control the canal, the only lifeline of Yangzhou.

On 8 May, a fleet of more than a dozen ships marched north along the Yangtze River along the canal, broke through the Qing army's blockade and arrived in Yangzhou, bringing back the rewards of the Hongguang Imperial Court to the generals of Yangzhou, as well as the order to return to the capital with Ren Siqi's army.

Ren Siqi inquired in detail about the envoys of the imperial court, and learned that to the west of the Yangtze River, the Manchu Ying prince Azig led his army to defeat Li Zicheng's Dashun army and went down the Yangtze River. The more than 200,000 troops commanded by Zuo Mengeng did not dare to resist and surrendered without a fight.

With the power of defeating the Dashun army, Azig led an army of 300,000 down the river, and the troops approached Wuhu, which was guarded by Huang Degong, the Marquis of Jingnan. (To be continued.) )