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At this time, the battle situation in the north of the Ming River was very good.

With Yang Chao here, Yangzhou Mansion has been as stable as Mount Tai, that is, Duoduo uses the same forces last time to attack again, Yang Chao can also easily deal with it, although it is impossible to achieve the same results as last time, but there is no risk, the last night attack, completely relied on desperateness, relied on risk, the luck component is too heavy, and Yang Chao himself does not dare to guarantee winning or losing again.

Li Wuliu has already made a good start in Haizhou, which can be regarded as Yang Chao's experiment, proving that his army has the tactical ability to fight head-on with the Manchu group, but it is still at a strategic disadvantage, after all, the size of the army is not as large as that of the Manchu Qing.

Elsewhere, Anhui is Huang Degong's territory, his army has expanded to 150,000, Jiangbei has 300,000 reliable troops, it is time to counterattack, himself to enter Huai'an, Huang Degong to enter Xuzhou, in one fell swoop to drive the Manchu group out of Jiangnan.

"Send 5,000 horses to Huang Degong, tell him that this lord will return to Huai'an in the near future, and ask him if he would like a piece of the pie."

At the military meeting, the first thing happened, Yang Chao intended to unite friendly forces.

In Yangzhou, Yang Chao annihilated 30,000 banners and captured 50,000 war horses, which Yang Chao did not expect, not too much, but too little.

In the past, when I encountered the Qing army, it was at least two horses, or even three horses, but this time the 30,000 cavalry only had 50,000 horses, and it was obvious that the Qing army's war horses were too lost.

There was also news from Beijing that when Azig pursued Li Zicheng, he was the Northern Route Army, marching west from Shanxi, and he also made a trip to Mongolia to ask for war horses, but the fighter plane was delayed, and he was reprimanded by the Qing court.

Obviously, the continuous conquest has caused too much loss to the war horses of the Eight Banners, and they may not all be killed, most of them may be exhausted and sick to death, but this is enough to prove it. The combat power of the Eight Banners was in a weak state at this time.

Yang Chao didn't believe it, since the first half of last year, he has been pursuing Li Zicheng to the present, and the Qing army is not tired.

You must know that Li Zicheng dragged a dynasty of 200 million people to death.

This was also one of the factors that Yang Chao decided to counterattack.

"Send someone to inform Li Wuliu. Let him dispatch 3,000 men, attack south, and capture Yancheng! ”

Haizhou goes south along the coast, next to Yancheng, if the Qing army rescues. If the Qing army does not come to the rescue, Yang Chao plans to defeat all the prefectures and counties around Huai'an county by county, making Huai'an an an isolated city.

With a nail like Haizhou, Yang Chao took the initiative in the war.

"Zheng Yongwang, you set off with 10,000 soldiers and horses, and you also went to Haizhou by sea. After converging Li Wuliu, he can march towards Muyang and make a trend of attacking Muyang and Suqian to cut off Huai'an's retreat. ”

If the Qing army in Yancheng next to them doesn't care, then do they dare not care about Suqian behind Huai'an alone?

Yang Chao wants to take a look. Duoduo divides his troops and does not divide his troops!

"Summons Lu Mo, you can send out the camera to test the reaction of the captives!"

In the northeast and south, Yang Chao attacked from three sides to see how Duoduo reacted, if Huang Degong also attacked from the west, Duoduo could only be overwhelmed, maybe he didn't have to fight him, he himself retreated.

If Huai'an can go down without a fight, Yang Chao is naturally very happy. Because he was too familiar with that city, he knew that the defense structure of that city was extremely reasonable, and the defense side was too advantageous.

At the beginning of June, Lü Mo sent back the news three times. He attacked three times, defeated the Qing army three times, and most recently approached the school field on the edge of Huai'an City.

Lü Mo said that the Qing army was extremely weak, and it was ready to collapse at the first touch, and fled at the first moment, and was vulnerable to a blow. Lü Moda heard some news that the main force of the Qing army was no longer in Huai'an, and asked if he could send troops to attack the city.

Yang Chao was puzzled in his heart, he judged that the Qing army was indeed tired, and its combat effectiveness must have declined, but he didn't believe that it was so vulnerable, and his first reaction was that the Qing army was luring the enemy.

But with such an obvious temptation to the enemy, it was impossible for Lu Mo not to see it, Yang Chao still chose to believe in the generals on the front line, and still let Lu Mo take action.

But soon the defeat came, Lü Mo claimed that when he attacked the city, the Qing army was extremely strong, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers, Lü Mo fought steadily, and finally half of the soldiers fled back to Baoying, and they were refusing to defend the city, asking Yang Chao to punish him.

Victory and defeat are a common thing, if it is really as the news says, the Qing army has retreated, then it is a great achievement to easily recover Huai'an, but it is obviously fooled, and the Qing army has taught Lu Mo a good lesson.

Therefore, Yang Chao did not really punish him, but only fined him half a year's military salary, and then sent an official letter asking him to continue to stay in Baoying, and at the same time asked Gaoyou to send reinforcements.

……

"Zhun Tower, this king is giving you one last chance, you stay in Huai'an, I want you to hold on until July at the latest. One less day, and I'll cut off your head. ”

In the city of Huai'an, Duoduo had just won a battle, and almost the whole army attacked and defeated the Ming army of 10,000 people, but he let them run back by 5,000.

"You should be suspicious, I believe that after this defeat, the Ming army will never attack again within three or five days."

What else does Zhunta say, after the defeat of Haizhou, he besieged for several days and could not find the weakness of the Ming army, and the field battles were defeated, can you still expect to attack the city, after staying outside the city for three days, he was summoned back to Huai'an by Duoduo.

Then soon encountered the action of the Ming army, Duoduo let Zhun Tower lead the remnants of the defeated army to meet the battle, retreated to Huai'an after three defeats, at this time the Ming army came to attack the city again, Duoduo fortunately the whole army attacked, frontal defense, two wings out of the city to attack, and the result was defeated Ming army.

Zhun Ta didn't think that Duoduo was strong enough, but Duoduo had a lot of soldiers, and if he led the main force of 30,000 Eight Banners, he could defeat the 10,000 or so people of the Ming army, but he didn't dare to oppose Duoduo, so he could only agree to come down and stay in the lonely city.

Then that night, Duoduo's main force quietly left Huai'an.

……

Yangzhou, Tian Zhai.

Under Yang Chao's loan, the people of Yangzhou City slowly rebuilt their homes, and even in order to give the people a job, Yang Chao also spent millions of silver to repair some ownerless houses in Yangzhou City.

This farmhouse is one of them.

The area of the field house should be regarded as the first big house in Yangzhou City.

This is not someone else's, it is the house of Tian Wan, who has a grudge against Yang Chao.

The Tian family house starts from the Lijin Gate (East Gate) in the north of Yangzhou Dongcheng, and has been vertical and horizontal to the south, until the Tongji Gate in the south, the front door is in the most prosperous Dongguan Street in Yangzhou, and the back door is the gap gate (Tongji Gate) Street, and the length is almost half of Yangzhou City.

Among them, there are gardens and rockeries, which is the first garden in Yangzhou, and Tian Wan likes antiques. A curved building with calligraphy and painting works was built at home, which was rich in collection, but unfortunately it was lost in looting.

"My lord, there is no queen in this field. And has died of illness, this garden has no owner, if the adults accept this house, it is also a piece of Yangzhou people's hearts! ”

Cui Sihu, who was promoted by Yang Chao to act as an agent for Yangzhou government affairs, had the intention to let Yang Chao take advantage of this, and by the way, he stammered Yang Chao. Because of Yang Chao's promotion, he was very majestic in Yangzhou City for a while, but the new prefect and supervisor sent by the imperial court did not treat him very well, and he was recently excluded badly.

But he also has a point.

Although Tian Wan is greedy for money and lustful, the strange thing is that he only gave birth to one daughter in his life. It's Tian Guifei.

The family wealth he has accumulated in Beijing has fallen into the hands of Li Zicheng, and the real estate in his hometown in Yangzhou has no owner.

But Yang Chao smiled, shook his head and said, "Although Tian Wan has no children, he still has two nieces. ”

Tian Guifei gave birth to several sons to Emperor Chongzhen, two of whom survived and were brought to Jiangnan by Yang Chao, and are now the princes of Taiping in Nanjing, according to the inheritance law. These two people have the right of inheritance.

After seeing the Tian family's house, Yang Chao also had to sigh, these people are really good at playing, how can they be like the local tyrants of later generations. I like to live in Western-style villas, the stone shell of the West, where can I compare to the Jiangnan garden.

waited until mid-June, under Chen Jin's inspection, there were more than 100 qualified cannons in Yangzhou City, and Yang Chao directly took away 90 cannons. It is extremely convenient to load the gun cart, use the boat by water, and use the horse by land.

The ninety cannons, fifty of the general's cannons, forty of the Fran cannons, plus thirty of the cannons of the Red Coat, captured from Dord, made a total of one hundred and twenty.

"Inform many men and Zheng Yongwang that all the two armies will go north, and immediately rush to Baoying to join Lu Mo, without waiting for our army, and immediately march to Huai'an!"

The reason why Yang Chao set off now, in addition to the preparation of the artillery used for the siege, there are two other reasons.

The first is because they have received the news from Li Wuliu's side, Yancheng and Muyang have been taken, and they are marching to Suqian, if the Huai'an Qing army rescues Suqian, then Huai'an City will be empty, at this time Yang Chao's army attacked, they could not calmly rescue, if they did not accept that the back road was cut off, they could only give up Huai'an, try to protect Muyang, or directly withdraw to Shandong.

The second is because the armies of Tongzhou, Taizhou and other prefectures and counties have been assembled in Yangzhou, so that the troops in Yang Chao's hands have reached 100,000, leaving 20,000 in Yangzhou, and then the whole army will go north, and take Huai'an in one fell swoop with the momentum of Mount Tai.

These conditions made Yang Chao think that the fighter had arrived, so he set off immediately and took Huai'an within three days.

Along the way, there are frequent exchanges between the horses and the horses, and messages and orders are being delivered.

Lu Mo once again hit the city of Huai'an, this time he was much more cautious, and found that there were not many soldiers and horses in the city, and he was even patient and honestly waiting for the cannon to come before attacking the city.

Many male troops also rushed to Huai'an, and with Zheng Yongwang and Lu Mo, they divided their troops into three routes, and surrounded Huai'an City on three sides, leaving only the north, and the three were missing.

On June 20, Yang Chao's army arrived at Huai'an City one after another.

"Siege? No hurry! ”

As soon as the army arrived, many men and others came to ask for instructions, and at this time, they were surrounded on three sides, whether it was the strength of the army or the combat effectiveness, Yang Chao had the advantage.

Therefore, many men and others who arrived earlier asked for battle, thinking that they could climb the city wall in one go, especially Lu Mo, who was ashamed.

But Yang Chao did not agree.

"It is reported that there are 30,000 elites of the Eight Banners in the city, and Liu Zeqing's troops are not less than this number, and the casualties of the ant siege are too great. Duoduo attacked Yangzhou, and he still knew how to use artillery, are we not as good as them? ”

Yang Chao brought more than a hundred cannons for decoration, especially the thirty red-clothed cannons, which were still sent by Duoduo, Yang Chao felt that the cannons were kept, and it should be a good idea to return the cannonballs to him.

The cannon sounded quickly, Yang Chao looked outside the city, because there were also cannons on Huai'an City, so there was still a distance from Huai'an to camp in the camp, and a flag was seen from a distance, red, yellow, blue and white, which was the banner of the Eight Banners.

Let the red-coated cannons aim at the southeast corner and bombard continuously, only a small part of the cannonballs hit the city wall, most of them are either out of the way, or into the city, I don't know how many houses in Huai'an have become ruins after this battle.

After a day of fighting, Huai'an City was not bombarded, and it was obvious that Huai'an was much stronger than Yangzhou.

The second day, the third day, continued the bombardment, and it was not until the evening of the third day that a gap was opened in the walls.

Immediately let the army rush up with shields, and at the same time Yang Chao also let the artillery follow, and soon entered the attack range of the cannons on the city of Huai'an, and the cannons on the city rang out, and there were casualties in a short time.

But under the cover of the shield, Yang Chao's first batch of soldiers had already rushed up and engaged the Qing army at the gap slightly, and then the artillery suddenly burst forward and bombarded the gap at close range, and the Qing army that tried to block the gap was routed at once, and the infantry followed up and attacked the city in one go.

It's so easy!

Yang Chao copied Duoduo's method of attacking Yangzhou, although he had the idea of doing it deliberately, but he also had to admit that the Qing army's artillery and cavalry tactics were still worth learning.

The army that attacked the city immediately stabilized the position of the gap, and then more troops entered the city, and then began to clear the enemy troops on the southern wall, and finally occupied the south gate, and the whole army began to enter the city, and the overall situation was decided!

In the middle of the night, the sound of artillery and the fighting also stopped, and the entire Huai'an City fell silent.

The Qing army fled from the reserved north gate, Yang Chao did not take advantage of the night to chase, if it was daytime, you can also try your own cavalry, at night or forget it, Huai'an is surrounded by canals, many rivers flow to the canal, riding horses to pursue, if you don't get it right, you will fall into the water.

"Send someone to inform Huang Degong that Benjue has gone to Huai'an and is willing to join him in attacking Xuzhou!"

Standing on the city wall, looking at the dark countryside, Yang Chao said in high spirits. (To be continued.) )