Yang Chao has been busy stabilizing order in Huai'an.

It's not too difficult, Yangzhou can be stabilized, let alone Huai'an.

Because Huai'an surrendered, it did not suffer much damage, and the Qing army did not massacre the city or plunder.

The biggest damage was left behind when Yang Chao attacked the city.

It's just that production is inevitably hit, this city is the same as Yangzhou, but also to the salt industry and canal grain as the core, after the Qing army occupied here, Huai'an is equivalent to losing the salt industry and grain transportation at the same time, because the south is impossible to transport grain to the north, and the north does not need Huai'an's salt, not to mention that the salt-producing Haizhou is also occupied by Yang Chao.

After the loss of these two pillar industries, Huai'an's economy was naturally greatly damaged, and a large number of unemployed laborers had nowhere to settle down.

After Yang Chao captured here, all the problems were naturally solved, the entire Huai'an Mansion was in the hands of Yang Chao, and the salt industry could naturally recover, but there was no need to count on the grain for the time being, and if Shandong was not recovered and the north was not recovered, it would be impossible for Jiangnan to transport grain to the north.

So settling in Huai'an is an easier thing to do.

Yang Chao was mainly busy pacifying the people, supporting the salt merchants, and at the same time promoting silver tickets.

Tell the salt merchants that they don't need to bring silver to Haizhou to buy salt, just bring their own silver tickets, and Haizhou can exchange them.

At the same time, they will give monetary compensation to the houses that were accidentally damaged by their shelling, so that the people can rebuild their homes.

Militarily, Li Wuliu had already marched to Xuzhou Mansion and was encroaching on the territory of Xuzhou in one state and one county.

Huang Degong's side had already sent the general to Sizhou and mobilized more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, intending to take Xuzhou before Yang Chao.

At this moment, Yang Chao suddenly received the situation in Nanjing, and that anger suddenly broke out.

I've always been very tolerant of the court, and I thought I was a loyal minister, but it turned out to be like this.

Yang Chao suddenly thought of Yue Fei, Yue Fei was not loyal back then, and he was bent on recovering the country. In the end, he died in the Wind Wave Pavilion.

Could it be that as a military general, in addition to self-castration, let his subordinates be a group of bear soldiers, so as not to be suspicious of the court?

Blessings and disasters do not go alone. Yang Chao was about to take his troops back to question the imperial court, when suddenly another bad news came.

"The Qing army surrounds Yangzhou!"

After getting the news, Yang Chao didn't believe it for the first time, how could it be.

"It's true!"

Huang Fengfu is very sure.

"In detail."

Huang Fengfu immediately chose the main point and said it again.

The news came from Gaoyou, and the Gaoyou defenders personally sent someone to confirm it.

As for how the Qing army suddenly appeared under the city of Yangzhou. No one knows, but one thing is confirmed, that is, the Qing army was all cavalry, and the number was at least 30,000 or more.

Cavalry, long run!

Yang Chao immediately flashed these two years, but where did the Qing army attack from.

Yang Chao spread out the map, no matter what, he couldn't find a road that the Qing army could sneak up on and suddenly rush to the city of Yangzhou, unless they flew over.

The roads from Shandong to the south are in the hands of Yang Chao, and the roads from Henan to the south are in the hands of Huang Degong. Yang Chao naturally won't have a problem here, so the problem must be Huang Degong's side.

Yang Chao's hand followed the Guide Mansion in Henan, crossing a southeasterly line, Suzhou, Lingbi, Hongxian, and then Sizhou, which was the route taken by Duoduo in his last attack on Yangzhou.

However, he defeated Gao Jie's troops in Suzhou last time, so the road was unimpeded, and the Sizhou defenders surrendered directly, but this time Huang Degong attached great importance to Suzhou and Sizhou, one was his important place to defend Hebei, and the other was his important place to enter Xuzhou. The two places were guarded by his two generals, with 50,000 troops, how could they be easily defeated.

And even if you lose, it is impossible not to have a little news.

Yang Chao couldn't help but wonder. 50,000 people were quietly wiped out by the Qing army, Yang Chao didn't believe it anyway, especially Sizhou, which is separated from Huai'an by a Hongze Lake, if Duoduo attacked Sizhou, the Sizhou defender was fully capable of coming to Huai'an from the waterway to ask for help. But there was no life at all, and the wind and waves on Hongze Lake were calm.

"Send someone to Sizhou to check the news, if Sizhou is occupied by the Qing army, there is no doubt that Duoduo will repeat his old tricks. I went down the old way again. ”

This is a bit interesting, Duoduo did not attack Yangzhou in the same way last time, which has a meaning of not admitting defeat, where to fall and where to get up, there is also a taste of provocation to Yang Chao in it, Duoduo wants to attack Yangzhou again in the last way, to see if Yang Chao can recapture Yangzhou like last time.

But Yang Chao was not interested in playing this game with him, although he mobilized all his troops to Huai'an, Yangzhou was a little empty, but he still had his own 10,000 soldiers, under the leadership of Sun Changfu, Duoduo would never be able to capture Yangzhou as easily as last time.

Tanma sent back the news that something really happened in Sizhou.

The first to have an accident was Suzhou, Huang Degong's department commanded Ma Degong to command 20,000 troops to guard Suzhou, and as a result, Duoduo attacked Suzhou from Guide Mansion, and actually fought down, the reason was that Suzhou was out of the internal response, and opened the city gate at night, Duoduo led his troops directly into Suzhou, and captured Suzhou Mansion and other important places overnight, and captured most of the high-speed senior officers.

After the soldiers took Suzhou without blood, Duoduo immediately sent troops to Sizhou, and the prefectures and counties along the way surrendered, the last time Duoduo came, they surrendered and were not slaughtered, so this time, they surrendered habitually.

When he arrived in Sizhou, he captured Sizhou City overnight, surrendered the vast majority of Sizhou defenders, and those who were loyal to Huang Degong and refused to surrender were directly slaughtered.

Then Duoduo asked Ma Degong to come forward without bloodshed, surrendered Xuyi, cleared the passage for the troops in one day and two nights, and appeared under the city of Yangzhou during the day on the third day.

Yang Chao couldn't guess when Duoduo's nails were planted in Xuzhou and Sizhou, whether he had planted them when he passed by last time, or recently, but the facts showed that Duoduo played the exact same trick as last time, and suddenly appeared under Yangzhou City again, which caught Shi Kefa off guard last time, and this time it was also a little difficult for Yang Chao.

Immediately call the officers.

"Many men and Lu Mo listened to the order, and the two of you took 30,000 soldiers and horses to the south. Lu Mo led an army of 10,000 as the vanguard and went south to rescue Yangzhou, and many men with 20,000 people sat in Gaoyou to support at any time! ”

"Inform Li Wuliu that the main force of the Qing army is going south to Yangzhou, and Xuzhou is bound to be empty, and he is instructed to capture Xuzhou, and then stick to Xuzhou, and not let the Qing army go south to support."

"Zhao Kang and Hu Quan, you two will lead the generals of your subordinates to cross Hongze Lake and capture Sizhou and Xuyi at all costs."

Yang Chao wanted to cut off Duoduo's retreat, as well as possible reinforcements from Henan to support him.

"Since you're here, don't go!"

Yang Chao snorted coldly in his heart, but there was a question he couldn't understand.

Duoduo's move is too risky, the last time he rushed to Yangzhou, there was a quasi-tower in the north and the Qing army went south to Huai'an, it can be said that the two roads go hand in hand, even if the quasi-tower department can't attack Huai'an, but it can also contain Huai'an's troops and can't go south to rescue Yangzhou, this time he is completely alone.

It is conceivable that Yang Chao will definitely return to the army from Huai'an, so why don't Duoduo leave a way back.

Moreover, Huang Degong's subordinates rebelled, Huang Degong will definitely march north from Taiping Mansion, Fengyang and others are still in Huang Degong's hands, Huang Degong still has 100,000 troops in his hands, and he will definitely be able to threaten Duoduo's back road, is Duoduo not worried about Huang Degong at all.

Yang Chao didn't know the confidence of Duoduo's lonely army, but his action to rescue Yangzhou in the south did not stop.

On the same day, many men and Lu Mo pioneers set off immediately, Yang Chao reorganized the rear team, and waited for Zhao Kang to send news that he had captured Sizhou and Xuyi on the second day, and then led the troops back to help.

Zhao Kang's loss is not big, he brought 5,000 personal soldiers under Yang Chao, after the battle of Pingzuo Liangyu and Yangzhou, Yang Chao had enough veterans to expand the personal soldiers to 5,000 people, everyone can wear double armor, everyone can ride a horse and gallop, there are the elite of these elites, Zhao Kang has no problem with the city guarded by Huang Degong's old department, but under the rapid attack, he still lost 800 soldiers.

After conquering Sizhou, Xuyi was directly persuaded to surrender, and then Zhao Kang led people to defend the two places, and incorporated Huang Degong's soldiers and horses, while Hu Quan led the artillery back to Huai'an to join Yang Chao and go south to rescue Yangzhou, and artillery was also indispensable.

Li Wuliu also came with news that Xuzhou was really empty, and he led his troops to take Xuzhou in one day, and immediately stopped in Xuzhou to defend, and never let a single soldier of the Shandong Qing army pass through Xuzhou.

Under the city of Yangzhou, Duoduo attacked Yangzhou for days.

He first persuaded him to surrender, but the city was Yang Chao's soldiers, well-organized, disciplined, and aware of the possibility of surrender, and after the last massacre of Yangzhou City, the people and officials in the city did not want to see the Qing army enter the city again, and spontaneously stepped on the city wall one by one to defend.

Seeing that the persuasion could not be achieved, Duoduo did not have too many illusions, and immediately attacked Yangzhou.

This time his cavalry advanced and it was impossible for him to carry a red-coat cannon, so he had to attack the city again.

The Qing army naturally suffered heavy losses, but Duoduo did not flinch and continued to attack fiercely, which also inflicted great casualties on the Ming army.

One attacked for two days in a row, until the next day Lü Mo had already brought the vanguard to support, Duoduo gave up the attack, began to intercept Lü Mo's reinforcements, the two armies fought fiercely for a day, Lü Mo put out a shield array, Duoduo failed to break through, and on the third day many male reinforcements arrived again, and they had already occupied an advantage in terms of strength.

But Duoduo still did not retreat, on the one hand, he sent troops to contain many reinforcements from Nan and Lu Mo, and on the other hand, he continued to nail Yangzhou City, and sent troops to blockade it on all sides to prevent Yangzhou troops from leaving the city.

The news that the Qing army had once again besieged Yangzhou soon reached Nanjing, and Nanjing was in a panic again, not knowing what was happening in Jiangbei.

Some say that Yang Chao was defeated by the Qing army, retreated to Yangzhou, and was surrounded by the pursuing Qing army, and some even said that Yang Chao died in Huai'an, and the Qing army took advantage of the situation to go south, but at this time no one said that Yang Chao surrendered to the enemy, because no one dared to think so.

Suddenly, the imperial court suddenly remembered Yang Chao's goodness, and sent people to inquire about the news of Jiangbei every day, and at the same time sent people to appease Wang Pu with kind words, hoping that Wang Pu would go north to rescue Yangzhou.

Of course, Wang Pu has nothing to say, that is, the court does not mention it, he has to save Yang Chao, although it may be a board to act without authorization, now that there is an order from the court, it seems that there is a reason, and he will not hesitate, and immediately send troops to Yangzhou.

But as soon as Wang Pu left, news suddenly came from the west, saying that the Qing army of 200,000 had traced down the river and attacked Nanjing!

At this time, the imperial court was even more panicked, and they only then learned that the main force of the enemy's attack was the west. (To be continued.) )