Besides, the first part of the Great Shun Southern Expeditionary Army Yuan Zong, all the way from the north to kill, almost did not encounter much resistance, just 20 days has entered the Jianghuai, the vanguard general Li Laixiang is brave and good at fighting, for Li Zicheng righteous son, this southern expedition, he personally led the iron cavalry 6,000 straight to take the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Anqing Mansion.

The main goal of the Southern Expeditionary Army was Nanjing, the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why it did not attack directly from Jianghuai, rather than attacking Anqing by detour, was because the Ming Dynasty had built a defeated Daming Naval Division for a long time in the river around Nanjing, and the Dashun army was afraid, so it was reluctant to seek the near and far, and took Anqing to cross the river and enter Nanjing by land.

There is a way that if victory comes too easily, pride and light enemy will spread, want Li Zicheng to be called the king of Dashun in Xi'an, to break through the capital, the front line is nearly 4,000 miles, but it took three months of work, where is the war, it is clearly running on the map of China, the current Ming Dynasty is vulnerable in their eyes, the army to the next station in the city, immediately someone erected a flag to surrender, without a fight and surrendered to the army, the Dashun army is the ultimate to play the soldier.

There is a saying in the Book of Changes, the extremes of things must be opposed, the moon is full, and everything has developed to the peak, then he is not far from destruction.

As the victory comes faster and faster, the military discipline of the Dashun army has been greatly inferior to before, the first to be corrupted by wealth is Li Zicheng, a group of rebels who came out of the mountains, who have never seen the prosperous world of flowers, for a time the Forbidden City thousands of palace maids are empty, even Li Zicheng personally named a palace maid as the queen of the main palace of the Dashun Dynasty, the concubine of Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan, the world's first beauty Chen Yuanyuan became the plaything of Li Zicheng's favorite general, but this is far from meeting the needs of the Dashun army, and the daughter of the last marriage in Beijing was quickly distributed to the whole army, The whole army was a groom overnight, and countless women were forced to die for a while.

With a woman, the silver of white flowers is also indispensable, but Li Zicheng promised that as long as he met the king, he would not pay food, so where did the supply of the army come from, so the princes and ministers of the capital became the number one target for the Dashun army to make a fortune.

Fight the local tyrants to divide the money, but the lower-level soldiers can't get the smell of silver, then they can only rob the small people, everyone is busy making money, military discipline is leaking thousands of miles, so that this kind of atmosphere all the way along the southern expeditionary army, where Yuan Zong's 100,000 army passed, mourning the people everywhere, 'meet the king, do not pay for food' slogan, exist in name only.

Although Yuan Zongdi knew that the current Dashun army was sloppy, he only went through the motions to criticize, because first, he was unable to change the heart of the arrogant soldiers who turned the Ming Dynasty upside down, and second, he didn't take the current Ming army in his eyes at all.

With such an army of military discipline, the Southern Expeditionary Army broke the Ming general Zuo Liangyu in Hubei, and the 6,000 iron cavalry of the vanguard general Li Laixiang was menacing, and stopped more than 50 miles away from Huaining City.

Li Laixiang has beaten half of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the combat experience is extraordinary, Huaining City is the main road to attack Anqing, there must be a heavy defense, the army is coming with iron horses, the heavy weapons of the siege are far behind, in order to measure everything, he stopped advancing and sent scouts to Huaining City.

In the west of Jianghuai, there are many mountains, under an unknown hill, 6,000 Dashun cavalry are like ants all over the four fields, or lying or lying, napping comfortably in the warm sunshine of March, or three or five groups of people huddle together to talk and laugh, chat and fart, it seems that they are not here to fight, it is more like a huge armed procession, and the faces of the people do not see the slightest tension and fear when they are about to fight.

Wisps of green smoke rose from the temporary camp, and the Dashun army had already begun to bury pots and make rice.

The vanguard general Li Laixiang did not restrain the military discipline of the march too much, but led a few middle-level generals to climb the highest part of the mountain along the winding mountain road.

Li Laixiang put his hand on the pergola and looked in the direction of Huaining City, and there were trees everywhere as far as his eyes could see, and he couldn't see the outline of Huaining.

A general pointed his finger forward, his face full of disdain, "General, Huaining City is close at hand, why don't you take advantage of the aftermath of the victory to level Huaining City with one drum, and stay here will not delay the fighter?"

Li Laixiang was tall and heroic, and the scar more than two inches long from the corner of his mouth to his ear added a bit of terrifying murderous aura, he glanced around at the generals around him, and everyone nodded, expressing their agreement with such an idea.

Li Laixiang said, "For the generals do not know how to lead the troops in the geography of the mountains and rivers, the more they go forward, the more mountains and roads, the more they are longitudinal and horizontal, which is very unfavorable to our cavalry army, if there is a Ming army in the middle of the ambush, it will suffer a big loss."

A leader patted his chest, waved his hand and said, "Beijing City has been defeated, the big fart Huaining is still afraid of him as a bird, and he is still in ambush, according to me, Huaining City is an empty city, general, you give me 2,000 people, I will come when I go, how can I rub it here"

The generals laughed when they heard this, only Li Laixiang waved his hand solemnly and said, "No, no, if you want to take the Yangtze River from here, you must take Anqing, Huaining is the north gate of Anqing Mansion, and you can't be too underestimated."

Some people are still full of care, "Hey, Chongzhen is dead, what are these remnants of the Ming Dynasty still making trouble, happily submitting to my Dashun Dynasty, those mothers-in-law in my family are still waiting for me to go home and live a good life, haha"

Li Laixiang nodded, "You're right, when the world is returned to the Dashun Dynasty, let's put Nanshan swords and guns into the warehouse, go happily, and live the life of a rich man."

Everyone looked at each other and laughed, Li Laixiang and the others walked down the mountain slowly in laughter, and the troops waited at the bottom of the mountain for the news from Huaining.

By the time it was dark, the sentry sent by Wang Lanping had already returned to Huaining City.

The only person around Wang Lanping who can be discussed now is Kong Zhixian, but Kong Zhixian is a civil official, and he knows almost nothing about the affairs of the army, and all decisions have to be made by Wang Lanping.

The sentinel reported that the Dashun army had stopped advancing nearly fifty miles outside the city, and the military discipline was very loose, and it seemed that there was no intention of launching an attack immediately, as if it was waiting for something.

Wang Lanping understood that the other party stopped at this time, it may be to explore the reality of Huaining City, looking for the best time and place to attack the city, or he is waiting for the arrival of the siege heavy weapons, at least tonight the Dashun army is unlikely to attack the city, the night is not conducive to cavalry combat, it seems that the leading Li Xianfeng is not an incompetent person.

It is very likely that the other party's fine work has sneaked into the city at this time, in case the other party finds out that the city keeper will use his family to threaten, Wang Lanping sent someone to take his wife and Fa Xiaoyunniang's family of three to the county government back house for resettlement, so that he can have no worries and let go of his hands and feet.

Yun Niang's eyes were red and swollen when she entered the county office, her face was full of sadness, and she was moving under a closer look, a family of three trembled, where had they ever lived in such a magnificent house as the county government in this life, in the room arranged by Wang Lanping, the three of them were stunned and did not dare to move around casually, for fear of soiling the house of the county lord.

The old lady of the Wang family has also heard of her son's unauthorized marrying of Miss Du, but at this time of great trouble, she did not criticize her son, her son must have his own reasons for doing so, her most important task now is to take care of the prospective daughter-in-law Yun Niang who she recognizes in her heart, in the morning, the Du family sent someone to the Wang family to pick up the old lady for the banquet, at that time Yun Niang was helping the laundry at the Wang family, when she heard about it, she immediately ran home with red eyes, and the old lady Wang did not go to the Du family in order to comfort Yun Niang, Until Wang Lanping sent someone to take them into the county office.

Time is urgent, the safety of the whole city is all on Wang Lanping alone, after he settled the old lady, he returned to the county Yahua Hall and Kong Zhi County to discuss the military situation.

There were only Wang Lanping and Kong Zhi County in the flower hall, and under the dancing candlelight, Wang Lanping said, "Kong Zhi County, have all the soldiers who fled south been settled?" ”

In fact, there is no way to do it, for a group of frightened deserters, Wang Lanping does not want to use it, but only with a small combat effectiveness is also an inferior loan of the Fengzi battalion, I am afraid that even the city walls of Huaining City will not be satisfied at that time, let alone defend the city, so he asked Kong Zhi County to pick some people out from the soldiers who fled from the south, even if it is to stand on the city tower and shout to cheer at that time.

Kong Zhixian was also busy today, and he couldn't even take a bite of food from morning to now, and his face with high cheekbones became even more pale, and he said, "According to the general's orders, all of them have been placed in the north of the city, a total of 218 people, and I have sent someone to deliver food."

This number is definitely not accurate, in the first battle of Hubei, Zuo Liangyu's 500,000 army was crushed at the touch of a button, Zuo Zongbing led 150,000 remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Jiujiang City, Nanchang Prefecture, and the rest of the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops scattered and fled, Anqing Mansion has not been fighting for the time being, and the Ming army that fled must be tens of thousands, but most of them are mixed with the common people.

Wang Lanping nodded not very satisfied, "Okay, it's better than nothing."

In the face of Wang Lanping's victory, Kong Rusong really couldn't understand why this young champion was so confident in the first real war in his life, hoping that it would not be the courage of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers.

Kong Zhixian said, "General, the safety of the 50,000 people in the city depends on the general, but the subordinate is the county governor but has no countermeasures, and the enemy is ten times more than ours, so I dare to ask the general what is the perfect plan to retreat from the enemy."

Wang Lanping understood his worries, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, and it was the first time he commanded this kind of city defense battle, and he himself did not have the grasp of victory, only the belief of fighting hard.

Wang Lanping smiled, "Since ancient times, I have never heard of a city that cannot be attacked, and there is no general who wins a hundred battles, and no one dares to say that his strategy to resist the enemy is foolproof, and it is up to the people to succeed in the sky, Kong Zhi County does not need to worry too much, the emperor does not hesitate to die and die for the country, what are you and I afraid of, the book of soldiers says that there will be a certain heart of death, so there is a chance of victory."

Kong Zhixian nodded with admiration, and respectfully bowed his hand and said, "The general is loyal and brave, I hope that the general's banner will be victorious, and Kong Rusong will thank the general on behalf of the people of the whole city."

Wang Lanping hurriedly helped him up, "Don't dare to be, please get up, come, Kongzhi County, you and I still have a lot to do, I have ordered the Fengzi battalion to be stationed on the city wall to keep vigil, tomorrow the Shun army is likely to attack the city, I checked the city defense during the day, the Huaining city wall is in disrepair, no more than two zhang high, and there are collapses in many places, although there are people rushing to repair it overnight, I am afraid that this will not help"

Kong Zhixian said, "So what? ”