It is necessary to have troops, and we can't just watch the Qing soldiers fill the moat and then attack the city wall directly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the daytime battles only took place in the southern city, the water in the moat has now been drained, and if the Qing soldiers take the same method to drive the people to fill the trenches, the moat will soon become useless.

And for the Ming army at the head of the city, what is the use of shooting more people? It was just to slow down the speed of the Qing army's trench filling. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the surrounding villages of Yangzhou, and as long as the Qing soldiers want to, they will definitely be able to catch enough people.

After the daytime battle, the archers of the battalion Zheng Mao Liulai pleaded guilty to Ren Siqi because his archers could not bear to shoot arrows at the people.

Ren Siqi didn't blame him, the archers were all natives of Yangzhou, and it was normal for them to not bear to attack the villagers. The Qing army drove the people to attack the city, and many cities in eastern and western Liaodong were broken in this way.

Ren Siqi very much agreed with Li Yanzhi's initiative to attack, but the direction of the attack was uncertain.

If you go out of the city and take the initiative to attack the Qing army, the other Ming troops in the city will not be able to count on such a dangerous task, and although the newly established township soldiers have a large number, they have no combat effectiveness at all. Only the Daishan army could go out of the city to fight. However, the Daishan army added up to more than 10,000 people, which was not enough compared with the more than 200,000 troops of the Qing army. And more than 10,000 people could not all go out of the city to fight, and it was necessary to leave enough troops to defend the city and deter other Ming troops. Ren Siqi calculated and calculated, and the only thing that could be drawn was only 3,000 infantry. Of course, sailors can also fight, but Ren Siqi will not make such a stupid decision to let sailors go to land to fight.

Three thousand is three thousand, as long as you choose the right direction to attack, you can also give the Qing army a heavy blow!

In the direction of attack, Ren Siqi and Li Yanzhi invariably chose the camp of the Qing army outside the southern city, because there were tens of thousands of people captured by the Qing army, and the people could be rescued by the way while attacking the Qing army, and without the people as cannon fodder, the Qing army had to go into battle or continue to capture the people if they wanted to fill the moat. The Daishan army would send sentry boats to various villages to publicize the atrocities of the Qing army, and the people would naturally flee their homes to avoid being captured by the Qing army.

As for the generals who led the troops to attack, Ren Siqi originally planned to personally lead the troops out of the city, but was unanimously opposed by Li Yanzhi and others, Ren Siqi is now the supreme commander of the entire Yangzhou, and he is concerned about the safety of the entire Yangzhou.

Li Yanzhi intended to lead the troops to attack, but the work on his shoulders was equally heavy, the entire city of 70,000 or 80,000 troops, 600,000 people, and the affairs were extremely busy, and since Ren Siqi temporarily took charge of the entire Yangzhou on behalf of Shi Kefa, the power of Yangzhou was transferred from the Governor's Mansion to Ren Siqi's Shogunate, and the officials of Jiangdu County, Yangzhou Prefecture, basically became subordinates of the Shogunate. Because of the importance of the General Staff Division, Li Yanzhi faintly became the head of the shogunate officials, and he almost couldn't leave.

Since neither of them can leave, they have to choose from among the subordinate generals. Among the two town generals, Jin Yufei is conservative and too conservative in the use of troops, which is not suitable for this kind of assault mission. And Ren Xingfan was born as a scholar, with a flexible brain and a jumpy personality, but he is a good candidate to perform this task.

So Ren Siqi decided that Ren Xingfan would lead three battalions of infantry to attack the Manchu battalion.

At the third watch, the water gate of Yangzhou Dongcheng quietly opened, and a hundred river boats quietly rowed out of Yangzhou and entered the Grand Canal.

It happened to be a cloudy day, with the stars disappearing without a trace, and a waning moon looming between the clouds, bringing a little light to the ground. The flotilla paddled slowly through the canal, and standing on the boat, only the two adjacent ships in front and behind could be clearly seen.

In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, the fleet rowed on the east side of the canal, and the rowing range did not dare to be too large, but only gently plucked with the oars, and the hull seemed to float on the water. One hundred river boats carrying 3,000 soldiers quietly glided south on the canal, the sound of the howling wind masking the sound of oars paddling.

The camp of the Qing army is located ten miles south of Yangzhou City, and such a long distance is not afraid of being discovered by the Qing army.

When the fleet had traveled eight or nine miles south, it turned east into a small lake, which was covered with reeds and connected with a canal, and occupied such an area that a hundred boats could easily hide their tracks.

Yes, they didn't plan to attack the camp at night from the beginning, but they couldn't do it again, not to mention that the last attack on the camp caused heavy losses to the Qing army, they must be on strict guard, maybe there are some traps waiting for them. And in such a dark night, even if you can touch the camp of the Qing army, it is a chaotic battle, and the night without moon and stars is not far at all, and even friends and enemies cannot be distinguished in the battle, and the Daishan army itself will lose a lot when entangled.

Therefore, if it directly attacked the camp of the Qing army, at most it would cause some disturbance to them, and it would not cause much loss, let alone how many people would be rescued.

And the Daishan army fought with the idea of attacking the flank of the Qing army after dawn! When the Qing army was busy driving the people to attack the city, if an elite force suddenly rushed directly to their flank, it would inevitably cause the Qing army to be in chaos, so that the people who were forced to fill in the trenches could be rescued.

With the flotilla of the canal, the attacking Ming army has a way out!

The third watch departed, and the fleet rowed to the lake by the time it reached the fourth watch, and there was still some time before dawn. All the soldiers lay down on the ship to rest and recuperate.

At the end of April, there were already a lot of mosquitoes, and even more so in the reeds, but fortunately, the soldiers carried a liquid made by soaking wormwood and iris in water and applying it to their bare skin, but they were not afraid of mosquito bites.

Although the night in Yangzhou in April is still very cool, it is not cold, and the soldiers are more comfortable to sleep on the boat in their mandarin duck jackets, but unfortunately the boat is too crowded, and more than 40 oarsmen on a river boat with rowing can only take turns to sleep.

As the sky grew brighter, the soldiers on duty woke up all the brothers, and they hurried down to the side of the boat to wash their faces. Take out the food you carry, add the rice cooked yesterday and the canned fish from Daishan, and then drink the cold boiled water you carry, and the breakfast will be solved.

"General, the Qing soldiers are having dinner!" A sailor who had been sent to observe the movements of the Qing army camp swam back and reported to the town general Ren Xingfan about the current movements of the Qing army.

The Qing army camp had 8 banners of Mongolian soldiers plus 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers from the green battalion, and the speed of eating must have been much slower. The 3,000 soldiers waited for another half an hour before the Qing army left the camp and drove the people to Yangzhou.

The lake where the Daishan army was ambushed was located between the Qing army's camp and Yangzhou, and it took half an hour to see the actions of the Qing army on the other side from the reeds.

Tens of thousands of people have walked over with weeping and sobbing, followed by tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers. In the back were 10,000 Mongolian cavalry of the Eight Banners.

It's time! Seeing that the Mongolian cavalry had also crossed, Ren Xingfan immediately gave the order for the whole army to attack.

A hundred riverboats flew out of the reeds and rushed to the other side of the canal! (To be continued.) )