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Updated: 2O12-1O-17

After conquering Chuzhou, Zheng's army underwent a brief two-day renovation. On the first day of the renovation, Zheng Kezhang personally ordered the 11th slaughter of the captured Qing troops in Chuzhou City to punish them for their heinous crimes under Lai'an City. In addition, under the coercion of the Zheng army, the Qing army, who were lucky enough to survive the eleventh smash, buried more than 1,000 wounded robes alive with their own hands. As for the captured Song Ju and other high-ranking officials of the Qing army, they were escorted back to Yingtian, and a few days later they were executed outside the city of Nanjing.

The tragedy of Zheng Jun's revenge naturally shocked the surviving Qing army, so the subsequent rectification was quite smooth. The Zheng army first drew troops from the new annex army with heavy casualties to fill the gap in each division, and then supplemented the new annex army with the newly captured Qing army.

On 4 July, Zheng Kezhang ordered Xi Daping to lead more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the two divisions of the Huben Army to march to the eastern Anhui region, where the army was empty. The brave Xi Daping was decisive in two routes, respectively to Luzhou, Fengyang two provinces marched, along the way the counties of the Qing army did not flee but surrendered, Zheng army was able to quickly swept the entire eastern Anhui, Anhui, only the remaining Luzhou, Fengyang two lonely cities are still under the command of the full prefect stubbornly resisted.

At the same time that Xi Daping was advancing wildly all the way, two divisions of the Longxiang Army and 5,000 new attached troops went up the river and attacked another key point and state of the Qing army along the Yangtze River. On 5 July, the four divisions of the Chizhou battalion of the Zheng army in Jiangnan were also ordered to cross north, and two days later, the two divisions of the Long Xiang Army met under the city of Hezhou.

The Qing army garrisoning Hezhou City saw that the Zheng army was strong, and they had heard of the killing of the Zheng army after Chuzhou changed hands, so their morale was extremely low. Seeing that things could not be done, Jin Min, the general soldier of Wannan Town, who was stationed in Hezhou, opened the city with Qian Yuping, the governor of Hezhou, and surrendered, and the Zheng army captured Hezhou without blood, and then the army continued to go up the river, and went straight to Wuwei and Lujiang, and went to Anqing.

When the good news on the Western Front was frequent, Zheng Kezhang himself quietly led the four divisions of the Xuanwu Army and other departments and more than 12,000 new annexed troops to return to the city of Yangzhou. At this time, Ambulu in Huai'an City had received the news of the defeat in Chuzhou, and also understood the purpose of the Zheng army's retreat to Gaoyou, but in view of the fact that the Zheng army under Gaoyou City still had 40,000, and the strength was almost the same as that of the Qing army in Huai'an City, the cautious Ambulu still could not decide whether to go out of the city to invite battle, so the Qing army on the northern front was still in a state of not advancing or retreating, which provided enough time for Zheng Kezhang to solve Yangzhou first and liberate the besieged forces.

On July 7, Zheng Kezang, who once again approached the city of Yangzhou, ordered a general attack on Yangzhou. The 4,000 new annexed troops immediately attacked the forts on Shugang against the bullets of the Qing garrison. The Qing army also seemed to know that the final moment had come, so they desperately resisted, and the two sides were killed in darkness and rivers of blood.

"Marshal, the soldiers and horses of the sea rebellion have attacked the West Peak, the guerrilla Wang Hua and the two hundred and eighty-six soldiers below the garrison Gao Kai have all been martyred, Wang Zongzhen has personally supervised the troops to counterattack, but the troops on the post are insufficient, and the marshal is asked to send troops to reinforcements immediately."

Hearing the military envoy's report, Ma Qi's brows condensed into Sichuan characters. It's not that he doesn't know that guarding Yangzhou must defend Shugang, but until now, the Zheng army has dispatched just some miscellaneous new annexes, but he has also forced himself to send reinforcements twice, although the reinforcements are only one battalion at a time, but how many battalions are there in Yangzhou City? Ma Qi couldn't help but think about how he would defend Yangzhou City once the reserves in the city were exhausted.

Seeing Ma Qi's expression, Jiangbei Admiral Hua Shan of course understood what was going on, he thought about it, and said: "Marshal, no matter what, reinforcements still have to be sent, I see that the new annex army used by Zheng Jun is only relying on blood bravery, if it can be blocked today, presumably if Zheng Jun wants to attack again, it will take three or five days." ”

Ma Qi nodded: "The military gate is very true, then draw a powerful battalion head over." ”

Ma Qi swept the generals beside him and pointed: "Military gate, why don't you let the left battalion go up?" ”

Hua Shan was stunned for a while, how to say it, it went around his head again, but looking at the faces of Zhang Rikang, the chief soldier of Guide Town, and other other towns, he still agreed: "What is the big marshal, they are all for the emperor's life, just a battalion head, and the big marshal will be transferred when he is transferred." ”

Speaking of this, Hua Shan ordered: "Come on, order She Wu, immediately send troops, if there is a delay, you will not be forgiven!" ”

Ma Qi chuckled with satisfaction, Hua Shan is indeed good at behaving and doing things, and in two sentences, he not only sold his own good, but also exerted due pressure on several commanders of other towns and the newly reorganized army commanders such as Fushan Town and Susong Town, making the expressions of these generals look extraordinarily dignified.

So Ma Qi hit the railway while it was hot: "Tell the sons, as long as you keep Shugang today, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver and promoted to one level!" ”

Under coercion and temptation, the Qing army really burst out with amazing combat power, and finally completely drove the new annexed army out of Shugang at the twilight of the West Mountain, but the new annexed army is a reasonable consumption of cannon fodder for the Zheng army, but the Qing army guarding Shugang is the elite of the army, and it is used to fight with the Zheng army.

"The number of people who have just reported the inspection report by Lord Wang shows that a total of about 1,500 people were killed and wounded today, 600 of our army were killed in battle, 300 were wounded, and the two battalion heads are completely finished." Holding a thin piece of paper, Ma Qi, who returned to the governor's office, had a solemn face. "At this level, if there are no reinforcements within ten days, Yangzhou will be in danger."

"Ambreu, this bastard who is in his place." Jiangning's political envoy 6 Ying suddenly burst out and scolded his superiors. "As a nation, he has tens of thousands of male soldiers, and he actually sat back and watched the sea go against northern Jiangsu and besiege Yangzhou, if he can escape this time, this official must go to Beijing to fight a lawsuit with this bastard."

"Okay, let's say something useful." Guo Qishan, the salt transport envoy of the two Huaidu, shook his head, obviously disagreeing with 6 Ye's words. "What's the use of complaining, besides, it's also difficult for Lord An, there are more than 100,000 troops on the side of Hai Rebellion, and there are at least 50,000 soldiers and horses besieging Yangzhou, at least 50,000 people are waiting in northern Jiangsu, and Lord An can protect the north of the Huai River without sending troops, if the troops are dispatched, I am afraid that the first line of Xuzhou will not be preserved."

6 Ye was about to refute, and suddenly heard the sound of teeth intersecting in the hall, and several people turned their heads to look, only to see Yangzhou Governor E'an trembling and shaking, looking extremely scared, and suddenly 6 Ye's anger exploded: "Lord E, you are seriously ill with cold and heat, and you are embarrassed here."

"No, it's not," Ean replied stammeringly. "Big, adults, things seem to be there, something is wrong."

Ma Qi was also extremely dissatisfied with this cousin of the same clan, so he glared: "No, what's wrong, if you can't say that you are ugly, don't blame Bendu for picking off your official clothes now!" ”

"Governor, Lord Governor," Ann replied in a panic. "This sea under the city, this sea, the sea is against it, how, how did it come from the west." A word woke up the person in the dream, and the civil and military forces present suddenly straightened up, and many people looked around in a daze, obviously surprised for a while. "It shouldn't be Anhui, Anhui has fallen."

"Smack!" Ma Qi slammed the startled wood hard. "Someone," several heavily armed Goshkha rushed in. "Come on, strip off the official clothes of E'an, who is deceiving the people, and put him in prison and strictly guarded it." E'an was dragged away in the wail, but the shadow brought by his words is still diffused in the hearts of everyone, you must know that if the whole territory of Anhui falls, then Huai'an may not be able to hold on, so Yangzhou will become a lonely city completely. "Adults don't need to panic." Marzi knew he had to say something. "This official looks at the camp of the sea rebellion outside the city, and the banner of the pseudo-Xia King is impressively in sight, obviously this is the home team of the sea rebellion."

"That's right," Birch Zen immediately continued. "Didn't the sea reverse team go north? How could it be possible to come from the west again, I understand, you adults still remember that a few days ago, the sea reverse ship went north, it must be, the sea reverse ship crossed the canal with troops, and came in a detour, so as to confuse my mind and fall into the heart of our army! ”

"It has to be so, it has to be so." The people present were all human spirits, although they knew that Hua Shan's words had great flaws, but there was a lesson from E'an's past, and who would not be interested in wearing it in person, so there was a sudden voice in the hall, as if he had really seen through Ming Zheng's plan.

"Now that you have understood the plan of the sea rebellion, let's settle down." Ma Qi waved his hand weakly, and the crowd of civil and military officers began to disperse. "Please stay at the Birch Army." Knowing that the two bigwigs had something to discuss secretly, everyone immediately walked faster, and after a while, only Ma Qi and Hua Shan were left in the hall. "Junmen, can Yangzhou hold out until the arrival of the emperor's reinforcements."

"Difficult." Hua Shan also replied without concealment. "If I hadn't divided the troops into the cities at the beginning, now I can fight to the death with the sea rebellion, but now it has become a pattern of being broken by the sea rebellion, if I were Ambulu, I wouldn't march lightly, so I can't count on the north." Hua Shan looked at the haggard Ma Qi and sighed. "But handsome and rest assured, the lower officials are deeply favored by the emperor, and they will definitely adhere to the responsibility of defending the land, which is nothing more than the final martyrdom with Yangzhou, if this can shine in history, it is worth it."

Ma Qi knew that Hua Shan's words were insincere, but as a hardcore traitor in the eyes of Ming Zheng, Hua Shan could only make such a choice, but this was not what he cared about, so he did not respond to Hua Shan's loyalty, but only asked: "In this way, the fall of Yangzhou is certain?" Isn't there a turnaround? ”

"Turnaround?" Hua Shan narrowed his eyes and thought about it. "Unless?"

"Unless." Marzi asked hopefully. "Unless what?"

"Unless something goes wrong in Gangnam"