The battle report was sent back to Nanjing as soon as possible.

When Yang Chao saw the battle report, there was no surprise, and he mobilized more than 100,000 people, just to annihilate Haoge, simply defending the city, 30,000 people were enough, and there was no need to even transfer troops.

Although there is still a gap between the field and the Qing army, it is more than enough to defend the city, that is, the ability to fight in the field, the gap is slowly narrowing, Li Wuliu's elite soldiers can already carry out field battles in the same number as the Qing army, and his own personal soldiers are not lost to the elite of the Eight Banners.

In time, his own army can be compared with the Eight Banners, and the number is several times that of the Eight Banners, and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains can be launched in one go.

After looking at the battle situation, there is nothing brilliant, in fact, the decisive battle of the large corps, basically there are few outstanding places, this scale of war, compared not who is more scheming, than who is actually less likely to make mistakes, if both sides do not make big mistakes, the final fight is actually combat effectiveness.

However, there are also one or two bright colors, such as Li Yuanyin's command, and Shi Lang's raid.

Li Yuanyin, Yang Chao still has some impressions, he is Li Chengdong's godson, only twenty years old.

When he was in Yangzhou, this Li Yuanyin was one of the few Gao Jie remnants who were reorganized by Yang Chao.

The reason why Li Yuanyin's department was reorganized was because Li Yuanyin met the requirements for being reorganized, that is, he did not participate in the Yangzhou massacre.

Of course, the rest of Gao Jie's troops were absorbed by Duoduo and killed a group of middle-level officers, and Li Yuanyin escaped because he led an army alone.

His army was incorporated into Zhang Tianlu's account, and when he slaughtered the city, he gave them a region that was not very rich.

Li Yuanyin is not interested in slaughtering the city, in fact, he is still a little different from the rogue of Gao Jie's department, first of all, he did not voluntarily join the peasant army, but Li Chengdong invaded his hometown that year, because his family was a rich family, so he was slaughtered, but Li Chengdong saw that he was good-looking, so he took him into custody and raised him as a righteous son.

Ten years have passed. Li Yuanyin grew up to be a twenty-year-old young man, but he was still different from ordinary rogues, because of his background, he had read books. And he often studied in the army, often helped Li Chengdong with advice, and often persuaded Li Chengdong not to loot and so on.

When the Qing army gave him the territory to plunder, Li Yuanyin was reluctant to participate in the slaughter of the city, and he also tried to suppress his subordinates. But at that time, everyone was red-eyed, and they didn't listen to Li Yuanyin at all, Li Yuanyin could only take a few pro-soldiers, stay in a big family, hide and pretend not to know.

After dawn, everyone was captured by Yang Chao again, and a few days later, when Yang Chao screened, Li Yuanyin successfully proved that he did not participate in the massacre, because the big family he lived in had neither anyone killed nor anything robbed. The family was in a hurry and was willing to testify to Li Yuanyin.

So Li Yuanyin was incorporated into Yang Chao's army, and because he had rich combat experience and could ride horses, he was incorporated into the cavalry unit after passing basic training and became a thousand generals.

This time, he should be able to be promoted to deputy general.

Compared with Li Yuanyin, Yang Chao is more impressed by Shi Lang, first of all, Shi Lang is very controversial in history, and some people say that he is a hero. Because he led troops to pacify Taiwan and incorporated Taiwan's territory into the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, for later generations of Chinese, it can be regarded as a merit in opening up the territory and expanding the territory.

Some people also say that Shi Lang is a big traitor. Because the Taiwan he led his troops to attack was the territory of the Zheng family, and the Yongli year name used on it was the banner of the Ming Dynasty, saying that Shi Lang single-handedly killed the last hope of the Ming Dynasty and aided the abuse. Helping the Qing army attack the motherland is a typical traitor.

But at this time, Shi Lang obviously had not yet come to the time of the controversy, and his later achievements are enough to prove that Shi Lang is a general, he and Zheng Chenggong successively conquered Taiwan, and Taiwan was initially in the hands of the Dutch, the Spaniards wanted to get involved, and was repeatedly defeated by the Dutch, Zheng Chenggong defeated the Dutch, and brought the Netherlands into the control of the Chinese for the first time.

Then Shi Lang led the Qing army, defeated Zheng Chenggong's grandson, and snatched Taiwan from Zheng's hands. Similarly, when Taiwan was in the hands of the Zheng family, the Dutch and the Qing army tried to capture it many times, but they were defeated by the Zheng family many times.

Two things show that if Zheng Chenggong is the most outstanding admiral in the Eastern world after Zheng Zhilong, then Shi Lang is the most outstanding admiral after Zheng Chenggong.

Such talents are still quite attractive to Yang Chao.

But what really impressed Yang Chao was the way Shi Lang joined his own water army.

Last year, it was agreed with Zhejiang and Fujian to jointly attack Jiangxi, but both the Zhejiang soldiers and the Zheng army were defeated by the Qing army.

After the defeat of Zheng, he retreated to Fujian, and the people of Fujian were panicked, and Huang Daozhou, who thought he was well versed in the art of war, took the initiative to ask for help, and set off again with a rabble of 3,000 improvised patchwork to counterattack the Qing army.

At that time, Shi Lang was in the Zodiac Zhou army, and this Zodiac Zhou was very famous, not only because the article was well done and the literary name was very prosperous, but also because he was familiar with military books and made annotations for "The Biography of Guangbai Generals", so he was recognized as a civilian official who knew the soldiers.

It's a pity that everything is on paper, Huang Daozhou, who has no practical experience at all, actually doesn't know how to fight at all, of course, he himself doesn't think so, he sets off with confidence.

Huang Daozhou planned to make a big show and play the banner of his first assistant minister, believing that his appeal would definitely be able to make the crowd respond everywhere he passed, but Shi Lang suggested that Huang Daozhou stay hidden, take advantage of the Qing army's invasion of Guangdong to attack Ganzhou, and then flank the Qing army with the Guangdong Ming army.

But Huang Daozhou didn't look down on the little-known Shi Lang at all, he didn't listen to his idea at all, and still marched with a clear banner, Shi Lang sighed, saying that he was "a thief at the age of seventeen", with his experience, he determined that Huang Daozhou would be defeated, so he sighed on the battlefield, looked at the north, and sighed that "heroes are useless", and he wanted to "sell and know the goods with blood".

Shi Lang decided that Yang Chao knew the goods, so he came to Nanjing, and took his group of outlaws who were on the sea with Zheng Zhilong, and asked to join Yang Chao's army.

When Shi Lang asked Yang Chao to accept him, he was very rebellious, and Yang Chao asked him why he abandoned the Fujian court to vote for him.

Shi Lang told Yang Chao that "you are a hero, I am also a hero, a hero cherishes a hero, and he came to vote", I have to say that this kid is arrogant enough, no wonder he dared to call Zheng Chenggong later, but Zheng Chenggong took over the military power, and finally the two fought each other, Zheng Chenggong killed him Shi Lang and his father, Shi Lang in order to take revenge. Took refuge in the Manchus.

In just a few words, Yang Chao realized that Shi Lang was an arrogant person, but at the same time, he really had some real talents. A passionate person who desperately wants to prove himself, that is, a guy who hopes to realize his self-worth over the national righteousness, to be honest, this kind of person can't become a hero, at most he can be the most capable.

After pondering it repeatedly, I decided that this person was a talent. Yang Chao then temporarily took him in front of the station, incorporated him into Jiang Fan's navy, and let him participate in the battle of encircling and annihilating Haoge.

Unexpectedly, after Shi Lang arrived at the place, he checked the terrain and immediately suggested that he should lead his brothers to attack from both upstream and downstream, directly burn the pontoon bridge of the Qing army, and block the Qing army directly on the other side of the river.

Jiang Fan agreed to his suggestion, and Shi Lang really completed the task.

After Yang Chao read the battle report, he immediately printed it in the newspaper. Immediately sent to all parts of Nanzhili.

Nanjing City was the fastest to see this good news, but what made Yang Chao a little excited was that the people of Nanjing were unusually calm, of course, they were bound to be happy, especially the news of capturing Haoge alive, which still made people debate passionately for a long time, arguing about who is better than Haoge and Duoduo, but it was just a talking point on their lips.

No one set off firecrackers, no one threw a feast, as if they thought it should be. It's like they think. The Ming army should have won a big victory, and Yang Chao should have won a big victory.

Then again, this is not necessarily a bad thing, and the people's confidence in Yang Chao has reached the point of blind trust. To the point of an extraordinary trust in their own soldiers, this is the mentality that a normal, confident people should have, who believe that their country can give them security.

Seeing this situation, when Haoge was escorted back to Nanjing, Yang Chao didn't have the heart to drag him around.

Just after writing a short notice in the newspaper again. took Haoge to himself, but Yang Chao wanted to see this Eight Banners nobleman more than the common people.

"You are Yang Chao?"

When Hauge saw Yang Chao, he was a little incredulous at first, he was too young, and it was hard for people to believe that he was a veteran of the battlefield.

"You're Hauge?"

When Yang Chao saw Haoge, he didn't believe that this was an executioner who killed people, how he looked like a simple old farmer.

"Hahahaha!"

Hauge laughed.

"What are you laughing at?"

Yang Chao asked.

Haug snorted, "Tell me how you're going to humiliate me." ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "Why did this governor humiliate you?" ”

Hauge sneered: "You did everything possible to arrest me back, could you still let me go?" ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "Of course it's impossible to let you go." You have killed so many people, and the world will not tolerate you. ”

Hauge laughed and said: "Heaven and earth are not tolerated, heaven and earth are fair? Do you still believe this? ”

Yang Chao asked, "What?" You don't believe it? ”

Hauge shook his head: "It seems that I think highly of you, a character like ours, if you want to achieve great things, can you really take care of the small people?" ”

Yang Chao sighed: "So there are countless broken cities, and killing people is your way to achieve great things." ”

Hauge snorted: "If you don't talk about the wind and cold, the people you kill are not much less than this king." ”

Yang Chao said: "I kill all enemies, and you kill the people." ”

Hauge sneered and looked up at the roof, he really didn't expect Yang Chao to be such an innocent person.

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, this is the difference between agricultural civilization and nomads, the difference in moral concepts is too great, the agricultural nation is a productive nation, the nomadic nation is a plundering nation, one takes robbery and killing as the biggest crime, and the other regards it as an ordinary thing, and even the more people who kill, the more heroes they are, the more they can rob property, and the more respected they are.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, when are you going to kill me?"

Hauge felt that he and Yang Chao had no common language at all, felt that this person was not a hero in his mind at all, and he was not a person who did great things at all, he was completely wrong, he was able to defeat Duoduo completely by luck, and it was a complete shame for him to lose at the hands of such a person, it was better to die early, and he regretted coming to see Yang Chao a little.

Yang Chao smiled: "Kill you? How can it be! Wouldn't it be too cheap to kill you, Dorgon? ”

Hauge moved, and Dolgon was the pain in his heart, in other words, the person in his heart who could achieve great things. (To be continued.) )