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Zhang Mingzhen put Zhai Zhe's handwritten letter on Yan Yingyuan's bandaged hand.

"General Pingyu's meaning is to let Jiangyin City continue to support!" Zhang Mingzhen said this sentence with great difficulty, "There are more than 30 boats of supplies on Jingjiang Island, as well as weapons and armor. ”

The flames shook in the wind, and Yan Yingyuan's face was as red as blood. He read the letter hastily, smiled self-deprecatingly, and asked, "What if I can't keep it?" ”

Chen Huwei, who was eavesdropping on the side, was also embarrassed, this was trapping Jiangyin City to death. The atmosphere was very awkward, it was like a basin of cold water poured on the heads of the Jiangyin rebels who were full of anticipation.

Silence, wheezing, after a long time, Yan Yingyuan suddenly laughed and said, "General Zhai can remember my righteous warriors in Jiangyin, and I will defend this city for General Zhai!" You help me bring a message back, and when the soldiers and horses from eastern Zhejiang enter Jiangnan, if Jiangyin City is gone, please don't forget to come and burn some paper money for the Jiangyin people. ”

Zhang Mingzhen lowered his head, and Chen Huwei turned his face away.

"The four towns in Jiangbei and the princes in Jiangnan have all knelt down at the feet of Qinglu as if they had no knees, I want General Zhai to know that Ning Shao is not the only one who has a good man!"

Yan Yingyuan didn't make a twisting attitude, and urged: "Please ask General Zhang to lead the way, and when the sky is clear, it will be too late for Liu Liangzuo to appear here!" ”

Zhang Mingzhen nodded and replied, "Okay!" I led the army to defend the palace in Dongcheng, and Chen Huwei led the Jiangyin rebels to pick up the goods. ”

Yan Yingyuan immediately ordered someone to return to the city to give orders. After a while, the villagers in Jiangyin pushed a wheelbarrow, carried a flat basket, threw off two big feet and ran to the bank of the river.

The water by the river is gentle, and the boatman is sweating profusely to unload his cargo.

Zhang Mingzhen carried all the grain that Chen Huwei had intercepted from the two Cao transport fleets, and returned more than 50 wooden boxes of lead and gunpowder, lime from half a large ship, and 500 sharp long knives.

It was dark, and there were scattered torches along the way to light the way.

The sound of guns and cannons on the side of Yangshe Town had subsided, and Yan Yingyuan was worried about Liu Liangzuo's movements here, so he didn't dare to make a big fanfare. Chen Huwei led a group of pirates to clean up the battlefield, collected the captured armor, knives and guns, and bird guns, and carried them to the north city gate.

Liu Liangzuo's reinforcements arrived in Yangshe Town, Wang Zhiren led the army to rush and kill for a while, feeling that he could not resist the enemy, and ordered the soldiers on both sides to just put guns and cannons, and he led 3,000 cronies to suppress the formation. In less than half an hour, the lookout soldiers told Jiangyin City that there were soldiers and horses retreating, and he commanded the rear army to extinguish the torches and retreat.

In the dark of the night, the dense torches were like an order to put out the lights in the barracks, and in a short quarter of an hour or so, the flames were completely plunged, and the sprayed flames could only be seen when the guns were loud.

After Liu Liangzuo retreated to Yangshe Town, he quickly realized that something was wrong. Although there are many soldiers and horses here, the battle is far less fierce than under the city of Jiangyin.

He turned his head on the horse and saw a faint light of fire in the north of Jiangyin City.

"Could it be that the soldiers and horses of eastern Zhejiang came to pick up the Jiangyin people and escaped!" A bright light flashed through his mind, and then he sighed to himself, "That's it, let them go!" ”

He and Yan Yingyuan once knew each other, and they besieged the city for two months, each with their own master, and he had already boarded this thief ship of the Qing captives, and there was no turning back. Yan Yingyuan is gone, he captured Jiangyin City, reported to Duoduo, everyone was happy, why force people to be Jedi. Besides, although the Ming army that attacked at night withdrew, the strength of these people was not bad, and it was almost the same if there were no 20,000 people in the movement, and under the strong attack, the victory or defeat was unpredictable.

In order to give an explanation to the Qing general who was watching, he commanded the soldiers and horses to kill Wang Zhiren's army with great momentum, but he didn't expect this movement to startle Wang Zhiren, and he led the army to retreat to the river bank in a panic.

In the second half of the night, the outside of Jiangyin City was quiet, the sound of guns and cannons was far away, and the humid air was filled with the smell of gunsmoke.

Wang Zhiren led his army on a warship and sailed up the river to the direction of Jingjiang Island. Liu Liangzuo packed up the remnants of the army and stationed in Yangshe Town. The shape is unknown, the Qing general did not dare to rush the army indiscriminately, once defeated, his head became Duoduo's outgassing object.

It's cloudy, and it's late in the morning.

The thin light sprinkled in the unharvested rice fields around Jiangyin City, and Liu Liangzuo struggled to look at Jiangyin City more than ten miles away with wide eyes. There was a little fog in the early morning, but I could still see clearly, and the flag of the Ming Dynasty was undoubtedly standing there. He looked at the river again, there were hundreds of large and small ships parked around Jingjiang Island, especially the big ships he had never seen before, each ship could hold at least a thousand soldiers, and there were artillery on both sides. There are still Ming troops on the shore cleaning up the battlefield.

"There are 20,000 of them!" Liu Liangzuo was a little annoyed, and secretly glad that he didn't act rashly last night. He began to make a small calculation in his heart, "Could it be that this army of soldiers and horses wants to assist in the battle with Jiangyin City, then it will be troublesome!" ”

Zhang Mingzhen didn't let him dwell on it for long.

In the middle of the morning, dozens of large ships sailed down the Yangtze River and sailed in the direction of Chongming Island. After the army left Chongming Island, the garrison there was empty. Zhang Mingzhen didn't believe that Li Chengdong dared to risk leading the army to sneak attack, but everything was careful, and it was useless to stay here any longer.

There was no sleep all night in Jiangyin City, and Chen Mingyu, Feng Houdun and others couldn't suppress their excitement. The new arrivals allowed the city to sustain itself for at least another two months. More importantly, the reinforcements let the people of Jiangyin City know that they were not fighting alone.

Yan Yingyuan was not so happy, but his face remained heavy after returning.

Zhai Zhe was not hypocritical, and made the battle situation clear in the letter, Jiangyin City was a thorn and a bait. With Jiangyin City, he can let go of the war in southern Anhui.

"When the war in southern Anhui is over, I will lead the army north to rescue Jiangyin." This is Zhai Zhe's promise. There is no deadline, no guarantee, what if the war in southern Anhui does not go well?

But there is a silver lining in the end. If a person is determined to die, he will sleep peacefully every day, but suddenly there is a glimmer of hope, and there is more thinking in his mind.

Jiangnan is a game of dead chess.

Duoduo did not dare to withdraw his troops from the city of Hangzhou, Liu Liangzuo did not dare to withdraw his troops from the city of Jiangyin, Li Chengdong wanted to monitor Chongming Island, and Wu Yi's rebel army was active in Taihu Lake.

Therefore, Dolgon sent Hong Chengchou south, and Zhai Zhe prepared to break through in southern Anhui.

When Hong Chengchou arrived in Jiangnan, the battle of solidarity with Jiangyin City has many significances.

Every victory, every sneak attack that breaks into the hinterland of Jiangnan, may make two people who don't know each other on the side of the road exchange excited eyes.

Qing Yu urgently needs a victory to suppress the undercurrent of the people's hearts, and Zhai Zhe also urgently needs a victory to break the stalemate.

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Xiaoshan camp.

At the crossing twenty miles outside the camp, a huge wooden sign was erected on the side of a row of sheds on the side of the road, with three words written on it: "Surrender to the Army". When a man who came all the way with a burden on his back, his eyes lit up and he stepped forward to ask.

After King Lu allowed Zhai Zhe to open the mansion, the Pinglu General's Mansion set up a special recruitment office to recruit righteous men from all over the country who joined the army.

General Pingyu invited righteous soldiers from all over the country to resist the Qing captives, and the text had already spread to various places with the caravan of the Shang Alliance.

At present, there are not many people who have joined the army, and Zhai Zhe's current fame is still limited to Jiangnan and eastern Zhejiang, and other places have served the Tang King of Fuzhou. The Qing army blocked the road from Jiangnan to eastern Zhejiang, and most of the righteous soldiers in eastern Zhejiang were already in the army, but this was only the beginning.

There are Zong Mao and Fang Yizhi to manage logistics, Xiao Zhiyan is in charge of military affairs, and Zhai Zhe is relieved to lead Bao Guang and other 1,000 soldiers to the north.

Since the capture of Fuyang County, Fang Guoan has stayed here and has not touched his buttocks, and the Pingyu General's Mansion sent him 50,000 taels of silver in two months, plus the income from the capture of Lin'an in the previous period, his life was very nourishing.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather in Jiangnan is not so hot.

Nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses were gathered in the mountainous area of the upper reaches of the Qiantang River, 18,000 from Fang Guoan, and 19,000 from Ningshao Town, eyeing the Huizhou Mansion.

Since the capture of Fuyang County, Fang Guoan has stayed here and has not touched his buttocks, and the Pingyu General's Mansion sent him 50,000 taels of silver in two months, plus the income from the capture of Lin'an in the previous period, his life was very nourishing.

The scouts reported every day about the war in Ningguo and Huizhou Mansion.

After the defeat of Ning's rebel army, some fled into the mountains, and many more fled to Huizhou. Huang Daozhou was busy collecting the remnants of the army, and he gathered more than 50,000 people at once, divided into Jixi and Jingde, and planned to **** Ningguo, regardless of the soul of the defeated army under his command, like a bird with a frightened bow. He is a Confucian of the Ming Dynasty and a member of the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty, although he did not win the battle, his reputation is really not comparable to Zhai Zhe now.

Huang Daozhou came specifically for the Northern Expedition, but he didn't expect that not long after he arrived in Huizhou, he received the news of the defeat of Ning Guofu, how could he swallow this breath.

At the end of August, he ordered Jin Sheng, the leader of the Huizhou Righteous Army, to join forces with Yin Minxing, the leader of the Ningguo Mansion Righteous Army, who fled to Huizhou, to invade Ningguo. The Northern Expeditionary Army met the pursuing army of Zhang Tianlu, the commander of Chi Ning Hui of the Qing court, outside the city of Jingde. The Ningguo rebel army was defeated first, and the 30,000 army fled like rabbits in the mountains and fields in the direction of Huizhou Mansion.

When the news reached Fuyang, two days had passed.

Zhai Zhe immediately ordered the Fang Guoan Army to leave only 3,000 men and horses to guard Fuyang City, evacuate the people of Tonglu, Zhuji and other places in the upper reaches of the Qiantang River into the mountainous area of eastern Zhejiang, transfer Meng Kang to lead Ning Shao to stay in the army and enter Zhuji County, block the road from the Qiantang River to Shaoxing, and supervise the 34,000 troops to march to Huizhou Mansion.

It is risky to transfer the troops and horses from the upper reaches of the Qiantang River, which is equivalent to letting the Qing army under the city of Hangzhou enter the road of Jinhua Mansion.

Zhai Zhe is gambling, betting that Duoduo will not dare to go deep alone.

The battle is so that I have to bet.

Moreover, he also left Meng Kang to guard Zhuji, and Jinhua Mansion was guarded by Zhu Dadian, so he might not be vulnerable.

At this point, all the cards in his hand were played.

Because he can't afford to lose the Huizhou Mansion, it is not only related to the flank of eastern Zhejiang, but also because he urgently needs to expand his power now, and he also urgently needs to be recognized by Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang.

In several places in eastern Zhejiang, the Tianfu of Jinhua Mansion belonged to Zhu Dadian, and the Pingyu General's Mansion supported nearly 100,000 troops in Ningbo and Shaoxing, all by gnawing the old bottom, if he could capture Huizhou and Ningguo, he could have two more Tianfu of the Prefecture.

Moreover, Zhai Zhe's real purpose is the rich businessmen in Huizhou, Huang Daozhou looks down on those people, and he Zhai Zhe can let go of this face.