According to the regulations, the Huang Fei Naval Division that had been trained made Luo Jian refreshed, and the entire Naval Division showed a completely different temperament from the last attack on Anqing, according to Huang Fei, this is the unique temperament of the Yangzhou Army.

On Huang Fei's command ship, Luo Jian saw Zheng Chenggong again.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong no longer had the appearance of a scholar in Nanjing, and the whole person had been tanned, and he also looked very energetic.

The formation and march of the entire fleet, Huang Fei no longer cares about it, and now Zheng Chenggong is arranging it, but he still orders it through Huang Fei.

Luo Jian did not interfere with the command of the sailor, and looked at Zheng Chenggong, who was becoming more and more mature, and felt quite relieved, thinking that there may not be a national hero to recover Taiwan in the future, but it is not bad to have an additional admiral who fights for the country.

After the entire sailor set sail, Zheng Chenggong ran to Luo Jian's side and saluted, and said, "Governor, this time to defeat Huai'an, you can build more warships!" ”

"Da Mu, your future stage is not these inland rivers, your stage is a vast ocean, these boats are too small, I hope you will prepare your mind as soon as possible." Luo Jian said with a smile.

"Really? The Grand Governor? That's great! Zheng Chenggong said excitedly.

"But if only the battleship could be equipped with the kind of cannon that can be equipped with artillery, who else is our opponent at sea?" Zheng Chenggong continued, he had already seen Yan Yingyuan's artillery just now, and he was very envious.

Hearing Zheng Chenggong's words, Luo Jian remembered a question, if Yangzhou wants to go to the ocean, the first opponent he faces is Zheng Zhilong, although Zheng Zhilong is a general of the Ming Dynasty in name, but his pirate career has not stopped, if he does something to Yangzhou's ships going to sea, I don't know what Zheng Chenggong will do.

It's just that judging from the current situation, the Qing army's attack on Fujian will come out much earlier than in history, and I don't know if Zheng Zhilong can hold on and not surrender, otherwise Zheng Chenggong's father and son will turn against each other, and Luo Jian will not want to see it.

"Damu, our future warships will be equipped with cannons, and by that time, the cannons will be even more advanced than what you see now." Luo Jian said that after this battle, Luo Jian wanted to solve the problem of artillery high and low aircraft and direction machines as soon as possible.

In the early morning of September 16, Luo Jian took the sailors to Gaoyou City, the army did not stay, Luo Jian took Liu Zhaoji and Huang Fei and others to Gaoyou for a short stay, and Liu Zeqing, the Marquis of Dongping, who had already received the news, took more than a dozen generals and more than a dozen personal soldiers to the flagship to meet Luo Jian in a small boat.

"The last general, Liu Zeqing, has seen the Grand Governor!" Liu Zeqing bowed down with Luo Jian, who was standing on the deck, and bowed his hand.

Luo Jian looked up at Liu Zeqing, and saw that he was about forty miles away, not like a general, but a white-faced scholar, indeed an old handsome guy, at this time Liu Zeqing had a smile on his face, and he was also extremely respectful to Luo Jian.

"Dongpinghou doesn't have to be polite, the war is urgent, I will only stay in Gaoyou for a short time, Dongpinghou has something to say." Luo Jian didn't have much affection for Liu Zeqing, but he didn't come to see him, but he wasn't too cold.

Liu Zeqing's strength is actually the weakest in the four towns of Jiangbei, there are only more than 60,000 people in the headquarters, and this time he is guarding Huai'an, and the loss of more than half of the people and horses is now, and now Liu Zeqing's men and horses are all gathered in Gaoyou, and there are less than 30,000 people.

"The last general lost Huai'an, the sin is not small, please ask the governor to speak on behalf of the emperor in front of the emperor, it is not that the last general is cowardly, but the Qing army is large, and the last general has done his best." Liu Zeqing was worried that Luo Jian would hold him accountable for losing Huai'an, so he preemptively said.

"I already know this, more than 100,000 Qing soldiers can not be resisted by your department, and I won't blame you if I want to come to the imperial court, so don't worry about Dongping Hou." Luo Jian said.

"The Metropolitan Governor personally led the army to recover Huai'an, I wonder if the last general can lead his headquarters to go with the Metropolitan Governor? The last general also wants to recover Huai'an as soon as possible, and he can also atone for the sin of losing Huai'an. Liu Zeqing said with some curtle.

When Luo Jian heard this, Liu Zeqing wanted to follow the Yangzhou army to pick a bargain, and after the Yangzhou army recovered Huai'an, he would have a reason to re-garrison Huai'an.

Seeing that Luo Jian groaned and did not answer, Liu Zeqing hurriedly said: "The army of the Metropolitan Governor is dispatched, and the last general has prepared 5,000 stone grain and grass in Gaoyou, and asked the Metropolitan Governor to accept it." ”

This can be had, Luo Jianxin said.

"Then I will thank Dongping Hou for his kindness, Division Commander Liu, quickly send someone ashore to Dongping Hou to handle the handover matters, but, Dongping Hou, your troops urgently need to rest after the battle, this time to capture Huai'an, we will adopt a new combat mode, and your department may not be able to help." Luo Jian is grain and grass to be accepted, but Liu Zeqing is not allowed to participate in the battle.

When Liu Zeqing heard this, his face changed a few times, and he wanted to say more, but he heard that Luo Jian had already spoken: "Dongping Hou, if your department wants to join the Yangzhou Army, it must go through reorganization and training, how about you think about it?" ”

Liu Zeqing also heard about the reorganization and training of the Yangzhou Army, and the former Jingnan Marquis Huang Degong's department now has only three divisions of about 40,000 horses, and Huang Degong has also become the commander of the Yangzhou Second Army.

Now there are less than 30,000 people in his own army, and it would be good to have more than 10,000 people left after the reorganization, and when the time comes, I am afraid that he can only be a division commander like Liu Zhaoji and Li Chengdong and others, and the generals of the Yangzhou Army do not have their own territory, and the troops are all unified supplies, and they still imagine that they dominate one side as before, which is impossible.

"Then the general wishes the Metropolitan Governor a victory, and the last general will go back to discuss with everyone before replying to the Metropolitan Governor?" Liu Zeqing didn't want to participate in the reorganization at all, and said perfunctorily.

Luo Jian knew his intentions, and he didn't pay attention to it, and when Liu Zeqing led people ashore, he ordered the flagship to continue to advance, and soon caught up with the army.

"Haha, Metropolitan Governor, Liu Zeqing has lost his wife and broken his troops now. This kid still wants to follow us to pick a bargain, how can there be such a good thing, we desperately take Huai'an, and then hand it over to him? It's a beautiful idea! Liu Zhaoji was so happy, he got so much grain and grass for nothing, and the logistics support of the army became more surplus.

"Huai'an is very important to our future development, even if it is defeated, it is impossible to hand it over to him for defense, Liu Zeqing is too selfish, and his military discipline is poor, so they can't be reused at all, wait for them to fend for themselves." Luo Jian said.

Then Luo Jian found several generals of the Navy Division and carefully inquired about the equipment of the Navy Division, only to know that the ships equipped by the Navy Division were all used in fresh water, and they could not sail on the sea at all, and if Yangzhou wanted to develop a navy, the warships would have to be rebuilt.

Liu Zeqing stood on the shore and looked at the Yangzhou Army and Sailors who were gradually moving away, feeling angry and anxious, but helpless against the Yangzhou Army.

The Yangzhou army can even defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops of Duoduo, and the Zhun Tabu is definitely not their opponent, Huai'an is about to recover, but the governor of the capital does not mean to hand over Huai'an to his defense again, what to do next, you have to come up with an idea as soon as possible.

Thinking about it, this metropolitan governor doesn't seem to be easy to talk to, and it is estimated that it is not possible to find the governor Shi Kefa, it seems that he can only think of a way in the court, and after thinking about it repeatedly, Liu Zeqing took people to Nanjing.

Huang Degong and Li Chengdong also took the Second Division to board the naval division warship in Baoying County, and they were only seventy or eighty miles away from Huai'an.

Zhun Ta was very shocked by the sudden attack of the Yangzhou army on Huai'an, Duoduo's army lost troops in front of the Yangzhou army, Zhun Ta did not know the details, Duoduo did not inform it, but it is always right to judge that the Yangzhou army is very strong.

Zhun Ta did not think that the Yangzhou army could capture the strong city of Huai'an, and his seventy or eighty thousand horses were all guarded in the city, and he could always hold it for a month or two with the tall city wall.

On the one hand, he reported the movements of the Yangzhou army to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he sent someone to report to Duoduo. Zhun Ta strengthened the defense of Huai'an City and killed two undecided Han generals in a row, which stabilized the Han army.

Duoduo hesitated on whether to rescue Huai'an, if the Yangzhou army captured Huai'an, the gate to Shandong would be opened as soon as the Yangzhou army was opened, and the Yangzhou army would definitely march to Shandong, and it would be their own business to defend Shandong at that time.

All the generals think that Huai'an has more than 80,000 horses, just stick to a city, and the Yangzhou army only has more than 40,000 horses, if you want to lay Huai'an, I'm afraid it is not a day's work, these ideas are similar to the tower, the generals also think that the problem of holding for a month is always not big, and then decide according to the situation whether to unite with the tower soldiers, eliminate the Yangzhou army of more than 40,000 people.

The news of Duoduo's failure to attack Yangzhou had already reached Beijing, and although Duoduo had exaggerated the effectiveness of Yangzhou's military weapons, the news of the defeat still shocked Dolgon and the ministers of the DPRK and China.

Dolgon spent a long time detailing the defeat of Duoduo's army, repeatedly analyzed the use of divine weapons by the Yangzhou army, and came to the conclusion that the Yangzhou army did not have many divine weapons.

However, the emergence of the new artillery of the Yangzhou army shocked Dolgon, and if there were more of them, the threat to the Qing Dynasty would be fatal.

Dolgon found Fan Wencheng and discussed with many Hanchen repeatedly, and finally personally went out to find the foreigner Tang Ruowang, a former Ming Qin Tianjian official who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and asked him to develop advanced artillery for the Qing Dynasty again.

Who would have thought that John Tang was not interested in the development of artillery, and Dolgon promised to make John Tang agree to help develop the flintlock pistol, but Dolgon saw that he could not get the advanced artillery, so he could only retreat to the second, the flintlock pistol was always much stronger than the arquebus.

In fact, the technology of the flintlock pistol at that time was relatively mature, but the quality of the spring steel plate was not up to par, resulting in a low firing rate, and was abandoned by the Ming Dynasty army.

According to Dolgon's idea, these flintlock muskets must be equipped with the Manchu army first, but this decision was unanimously opposed by the Manchu ministers, who believed that the Manchus relied on taking the world immediately, and let these warriors dismount and use these muskets, which may not be as good as the Han Chinese.

Dolgon once again retreated to the second, demanding that the Manchurian clothed minions must be equipped first, followed by the army of the Han banner.

Dolgon was very satisfied with Hong Chengchou's victories in Hunan and Liangguang, and was also proud of his own human vision, Hong Chengchou could only end up in defeat and capture in the Ming Dynasty, and now he has returned to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty will be able to give full play to his talents.

Fan Wencheng proposed to Dolgon that he could release Wu Sangui, a tiger, out of the mountain, but Dolgon refused.

Wu Sangui was not fully trusted by the Manchu court since he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty at Shanhaiguan, and he still had contact with the Southern Ming court at the beginning, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty only arranged for him to follow Azig to attack Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and after returning to Beijing with Azig, the Manchu court let him guard Jinzhou, which actually hung him up.

Wu Sangui, who had 50,000 Guanning iron horses, was extremely unwilling, and repeatedly showed his loyalty to the Manchu court, renamed Emperor Chongzhen as the "old master", and repeatedly confessed his "loyalty to the new dynasty".

But Dolgon was very strict about it, and did not want to release the tiger from the cage, but only told Fan Wencheng that the time had not come.

At this time, Luo Jian had already led the Yangzhou army to Huai'an City.