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Since the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River has been draining into the sea along thirteen rivers such as the Si River and the Huai River, thus completely losing its main channel.

In order to prevent the Yellow River from returning to its original course and affecting the north-south transportation, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty spent huge financial, material and manpower to block the north embankment of the Yellow River, so the possibility of the Yellow River flooding to the north gradually decreased with hundreds of years of continuous renovation. However, the policy of blindly guarding the north and allowing the river to divert to the south has caused severe floods in the vast areas of Sihuai for many years, especially in Anhui, Shandong, and Jiangsu.

In order to relieve the suffering of the people of the three provinces because of the displacement of the Yellow River, Pan Jitao put forward the idea of "harnessing water and attacking sand" during the Wanli period, and thus established the Gaojiayan embankment, forming a plan to adjust the water level of the Huai River with Hongze Lake and the confluence of the Yellow River and Huai River to remove silt. However, Pan Jitao's plan had great flaws, so Yang Yikui, who succeeded as prime minister of the river, reopened the new river above the Qinghe River, implemented the strategy of guiding the Huai River into the river, and then entering the river and the sea, and achieved good results for a while.

However, the sediment entrained by the Yellow River is too much, and the diversion and transportation can not completely solve the problem of the river bottom lifting, so as a last resort, the Hongze Lake embankment is getting longer and longer, and the gate of Gaojiayan is built higher and higher, and in the process of renovating day after day, the area of Hongze Lake is expanding day by day, but the flood has not been reduced much, but it has only prospered Qingjiangpu as the location of the river governor and the Caodu yamen.

However, in today's war, the prosperity of the southern ships and northern horses meeting here in the past has disappeared, and all that can be seen are heavily armed soldiers, and the atmosphere of slaughter is completely shrouded in the sky above the "thoroughfare of the nine provinces".

"Your Majesty, Dongtai urgently reported that last night the gentry in the city opened the city gate and put more than 500 regiments to practice attacking our army's garrison, but fortunately, the defenders had already taken precautions, and with a weak enemy and a strong force, they defeated the offensive of the rebel army with 80 people in one fell swoop, and now they are in Dasuo City, chasing down the remnants of the rebel party."

"Eighty?" Zheng Kezhang looked at the reporting staff officer with some suspicion. "Why are there so few guards?"

Of course, Zheng Kezhang knew that because the Zheng army had limited troops and implemented the strategy of concentrated operations, the garrison strength in the occupied areas of northern Jiangsu was limited, and the location of Dongtai was not as important as Taixing, Taizhou, Gaoyou, and Baoying on the side of the supply line.

"Back to the king, the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Shooting Army was guarding Dongtai, which was responsible for garrisoning Tongzhou, Rugao, Dongtai, Xinghua, Yancheng and other prefectures and counties on the eastern road," Sun Youlao explained on the side. "Considering that Dongtai is still a hinterland, only one outpost is stationed to collect summer grain for the army to lose."

"Of the eight posts of the regiment, three are in Tongzhou, two are in Yancheng, and one is in Xinghua, Dongtai, and Rugao." The first staff officer of the first rank, who had initially reported, added. "Among them, this post guarding Dongtai was personally led by Ma Miao, the deputy commander of the regiment, Ma Zhaoxin, before the war, Ma Deputy Commander had sent two teams of soldiers and horses to levy the county's strong and strong people who resisted taxes, obviously the gentry who were in rebellion seized this opportunity, and Ma Zhaoxin was afraid that he also had insight before he planned it."

"Defending the city with eighty people, I don't know if it's martial or reckless." How could Zheng Kezhang not hear the meaning of the first-class staff officer, but he gave a not very reassuring evaluation, but fortunately, Zheng Kezhang did not wave the question and asked instead. "Ma Miao, is he from the Jiayin period, why is he still the deputy commander of the regiment now?"

"I'm afraid the king is mistaken." Sun Youlao was the first chief teacher of the boy boy camp, so he can't remember anything else, but Jia Yinsheng's name is still clear. "That is called Sun Miao, and now he is in the second division of the Longxiang Army as the fourth grade director army, and this Ma Miao is in the Bingchen period, and it is already good to be able to be the deputy commander of the regiment."

"Ma Miao, Sun Miao, it's lonely." Zheng Kezhang laughed. "However, if you can defend the county under ten times the enemy's night attack, you can also be considered to be able to fight, so you can record meritorious service and award honors as usual." Zheng Kezhang paused. "The position of the local gentry is uncertain, I am afraid that it is not only the same as Dongtai County, and it is necessary to pass it on to all departments, so be careful." Sun Youlao nodded, but before he could respond, Zheng Kezhang said again. "Let the Chongzhou Governor's Office send troops to take over the defense of Tongzhou, so that the three counties of Dongtai, Xinghua, and Rugao can each have one more sentry and horse, and it will be more powerful to deter the localities."

"Minister, this is Lord Wenlin." The governor's mansions of Ming and Zheng are subordinate to the water division, which is naturally the jurisdiction of the right side of the staff office, although it is Zheng Kezang's order, but Sun Youlao can't help but say hello to Lin Xian. "Let him take care of it."

"The text belongs to the text, but the soldiers are noble," Zheng Kezhang is not a person who comes by his own temperament, but there are still 20,000 Yangzhou defenders from Maqi in the hinterland of northern Jiangsu, and if it echoes, things may be out of control, so he has to make a decision immediately. "Come on, immediately go to the army with a lonely arrow."

When a swordfish guard received a silver arrow and turned away, Zheng Kezhang turned his eyes to Huai'an City in the distance: "Sun Qing, plus the enemy from Xuzhou to help, there are forty or fifty thousand defenders in the city, and they can go out of the city to the south to fight to the death with this domain, but now they are shrinking into the city, what do you think is the reason." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has consulted with a group of staff officers in the General Staff Department, and feels that the Qing army in Huai'an is secretive, and it is nothing more than trying to drag down the main force of the domain, so that the Qing army on the west road can gather under the city of Chuzhou and break the four divisions under Xi Daping."

"This judgment is not unreasonable, as soon as Xi Qing's side loses, the Qing army can go straight to Yangzhou, and the inside and outside should be combined." Zheng Kezang's expression was solemn, if there was really such a situation as he said, then the army of the Northern Expedition might be in the dilemma of being attacked by the Qing army from the north to the south, and the Northern Expedition would inevitably fail, and what was even more terrible was that all his capital would be lost. "After discussing with the General Staff Office, how do you think we should deal with it?"

"The ministers thought that it might be possible to withdraw the troops from under the city of Huai'an," Sun Youlao motioned to the staff officers to hang up a map, and then walked over and pointed to the road. "You can retreat to Baoying first, and if the Qing army still doesn't move, then retreat to Gaoyouzhou." Another advantage of retreating to Gaoyou Prefecture is that it is adjacent to Gaoyou Lake, which just allows Zheng Jun's red single boat to escort the left flank of the army. "Presumably, in this way, the Qing army must know that its plot to hold back our army has been seen through by this domain."

"In fact, the reason why I want to retreat to Gaoyou, the ministers and others have another concern." First Staff Officer Wang Ying then added. "The ministers and others are worried that the Qing dog will jump over the wall in a hurry and dig the Sihuai River to release water to invade the south."

"Thief Ann Dare!" Zheng Kezang's brain buzzed and blurted out. "Such a heart-wrenching thing, clear captive"

"Replacing soldiers with water is a soldier's old skill." Sun Youlao interrupted Zheng Kezang's words regardless of his dignity. "You can't have anything in mind, so the ministers feel that it is more reassuring to retreat a little bit first."

"Why didn't the General Staff Office take into account the Northern Expedition strategy when it was in the first place?" Zheng Kezhang was really angry, if he had judged in advance that the Qing army might release water, he would definitely not put the direction of the main attack in northern Jiangsu. "Now that the knife is on Lone's neck, what's the use." Sun Youlao and the staff officers in the room immediately knelt on the ground, and Zheng Kezhang finally calmed down after losing his temper. "Get up, Qing and the others are all southerners, and it is normal to not know the horror of the Huanghuai Flood, and it is the same for Lonely, I only know that there is a peach blossom flood, but I didn't expect that Qingyu might jump off the wall in a hurry."

"The king doesn't have to blame himself, and the ministers are also speculating." Sun Youlao got up and comforted Zheng Kezang. "It doesn't have to be that way."

"Needless to say, arrange the withdrawal immediately." Zheng Kezhang waved his hand. "Didn't you just say, don't be careful." After that, Zheng Kezhang turned his head and walked out of the house, and hung a group of people inside, Sun Youlao and several staff officers glanced at each other, smiled bitterly, and dispersed, and then the order to pull out the camp came out, and the army moved, and at this time, Zheng Kezhang was patrolling the camp with the reins, and the words "replacing soldiers with water" were repeated in his mind, and finally he stood on his heels and ordered back to a guard. "There is a very secret thing for you to do"

On the ninth day of June, the Qing army in northern Anhui and western Anhui arrived at the city of Chuzhou one after another, in view of the total strength of the Qing army after the division has reached 30,000, Xi Daping, who has not yet received reinforcements, had to retreat. However, the Qing army did not take advantage of the trend to advance eastward, but turned around and killed Lai'an after the change of banners. At this time, there were only more than 1,000 green battalions that had not yet been reorganized and more than 500 township regiments provided by the gentry of Yizhi, which were not at all the opponents of the Qing army of the brigade, and as a result, the siege of the city was lost in one day.

The Qing army that entered Lai'an was very animalistic, and carried out a terrible massacre in the name of punishing rebellion, and none of the people in the city were spared, and all of them died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army. After the news came out, the surrounding prefectures and counties were shaken, and the pro-Qing gentry in Xuyi City immediately instigated some of the uncertain green battalion soldiers to seize the county seat, and killed the county commanders and hostile gentry who surrendered to Ming Zheng, and then some of the gentry went to Chuzhou with county orders and heavy money to ask for surrender.

For the Xuyi gentry's "abandonment of darkness and surrender to light", Song Ju, the minister in charge of commanding the military in eastern Anhui, the former governor of Jiangsu, and the son of the traitor Song Quan, personally received and commended him on the grounds of "Wei has been given, and grace should also be given", and ordered the soft bones at both ends of these rats to cooperate with the Qing army to attack Tianchang and threaten ** from the flank.

However, Song Ju, who was both enwei and suppressed, did not realize that it was he who wasted enough time in Lai'an and Xuyi, so that Zheng Jun calmly transferred the troops of the eastern front to the western front, coupled with the fact that the officials and people of Tianchang burst out of great survival energy under the threat of the butcher's knife, and finally made his strategy of containing ** and contacting Yangzhou completely shattered