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It's been two and a half months.

The city of Hangzhou is still so impregnable. It was like a solid stone tower, and it would only bleed when you hit it.

More than 200 huge cannons lined up on the position in the north of the city have not been as rampant as they were ten days ago in recent days. The walls on both sides of Hangzhou's north gate are riddled with holes, some sections have collapsed, and there are obvious traces of lime and boulders that have been newly built, and the houses near the city wall have been demolished.

Ten days ago, Dordor mobilized a huge cannon to collapse the walls of the north gate.

Chen Zilong personally came to the door and begged the stonemasons in the city to repair the damaged city wall under artillery fire, and it only took an hour to complete the repair.

Whether it was a battle at the head of the city, or a surprise attack from the cracked city walls, the humble tiger squat cannon was a nightmare for the armorers, and the muzzles of the cannons that slanted into the sky devoured the lives of the Jurchen armorers who were the vanguard of the raid.

Duoduo was distressed and frightened, he didn't know how the regent's brother would be so thunderous when he knew that he had lost four thousand Jurchens under the city of Hangzhou.

Since entering the customs, the Jurchens have fought for most of the Ming Dynasty, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves, and the Jurchen elite has suffered a lot of losses. Therefore, the regent Dolgon ordered the war in various places to drive the Han people to be the vanguard, and it was necessary to maintain the deterrent effect of the Jurchen army. In order to capture Hangzhou City as soon as possible and quell the turmoil caused by the anti-shaving order in Jiangnan, Duoduo deployed the Jurchens to go into battle in person, and finally lost his wife and his troops. Not only were the troops unwilling to fight hard, but the Jurchens left home in the first month, did not see their families for more than half a year, and suffered heavy casualties under the city of Hangzhou, becoming more and more disgusted with this offensive and defensive war.

The situation in eastern Zhejiang is very different.

Ning Shao's material resources continued to enter Hangzhou from the water gate, and the recruits of the Xiaoshan camp went to the city wall in batches to experience the battlefield. Some people peed their pants for the first time while standing at the head of the city wall, and some lucky ones were even able to stab a captive. However, the defenders became more and more adept, and there was no need for the cavalry to attack and assist in defending the city.

Balmy autumn day.

Feng Qin stood at the head of the city, holding a clairvoyant mirror, and the mobilization of soldiers and horses outside Hangzhou fell into his eyes.

The day before yesterday, the general's order came to Hangzhou, and he sent dozens of scouts out of the city overnight to investigate the military situation.

He was a very cautious man, not just on the battlefield.

The order given to him by the general was to hold the city of Hangzhou, and in the past two months, no matter how weak the Qing prisoners outside the city were, and how chaotic the queue was when they retreated, he never gave the order to take the risk of attacking. Only once, when Zhai Zhe went to Hangzhou to check on military affairs, he asked Che Feng to lead the cavalry to raid, but it was also a superficial taste.

It's not just a battlefield that's a battlefield, life is a battlefield everywhere.

More than ten years ago, his father hung him to the bottom of the well, he bit his lip to hold back his crying, heard the screams of the people closest to him in the village, and since then he has known the cruelty of life, and thus developed the habit of speaking cautiously. The general fished him out from the bottom of the well and brought him to the outside of the plug, he became the general's personal soldier, and now he is a marquis, and he is the chief soldier of Hangzhou, becoming the most beautiful person in the general's personal army.

He has no close friends in Zhai Zhejun, and his relationship with Zong Mao, who is also a soldier and is now in charge of the finances of the general's palace, has always been lukewarm. The secret of his being a general is to firmly carry out the orders of the general, never make his own opinions, and all the tasks assigned by the general must be completed to the letter. Therefore, even though Zuo Ruo is good at training troops and has outstanding military achievements, he has faintly surpassed the trend in recent years, which can be seen from the subordinates assigned to him by the general.

The heralds came every day to report the military situation, Zuo Ruo and Meng Kang joined forces to take Yuqian County, the battle was extremely fierce, Zhu Dadian led Jinhua 5,000 soldiers and horses to personally stationed in Qianxian County, and personally coordinated the defense of Qianxian County as a cabinet scholar.

It is clear in the clairvoyant mirror that the Qing captives are mobilizing iron cannons to go west, and there are cavalry escorts along the way, this is the second group of men and horses.

The opportunity in front of him is very good, and Feng Qin is patient, because Zhai Zheshang did not give him the order to attack.

Where are the most elite soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang?

It was not Zuo Ruo's foot soldiers, nor Zhai Zhe's personal guards, but the cavalry that had been idle in Hangzhou for two months. Among these 4,000 cavalry, there are Tumut Mongols who married Ulan, swordsmen and horse bandits who licked blood and bought and sold in Moxigan, and young men who joined the Han Department since the fourth year of Chongzhen.

This is a cavalry that can face the Qinglu head-on in the steppe.

The reason why Zhai Zhe put them in Hangzhou City was because of the vital position of Hangzhou City, and secondly, there was no battlefield suitable for cavalry combat in eastern Zhejiang except for Hangzhou City.

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The Battle of Huizhou had just ended, and the situation in Jiangnan had changed dramatically.

On the second day after Zuo Ruo surrounded the county seat, Meng Kang led Zhuji's reinforcements to the county seat. Zhuji was much more away from Qianxian than Huizhou Mansion, and the reason why Meng Kang arrived late was because he brought good things - twelve iron cannons. These iron cannons are not as large as the iron cannons placed outside Hangzhou by Duoduo, but Yuqian County is not as strong as Hangzhou City, and there are only 3,000 defenders in the city.

The soldiers of the Xiaoshan camp were almost out, and eighty percent of them were strong men brought back by Zuo Ruo from Songjiang Mansion, and it was difficult for them to go into battle to kill the enemy at the moment, but they were full of strength when they raised the iron cannon.

Twelve iron artillery mounts were located on the mountain at the north gate of Qianxian County, and iron balls smashed like hail towards the city.

Of the 3,000 defenders in Yuqian County, 2,000 were originally subordinates of Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong. Zhang Guowei, a cabinet scholar sitting in Xiaoshan, personally went to the front of Yuqian County to persuade the defenders to surrender.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, there was a great hunger in Shandong, Zhang Guowei was the governor of the canal at that time, and mobilized countless grains from Suzhou to Shandong for disaster relief, countless living people, and there were Zhang Guowei's living shrines in Jinan, Shandong, Zhang Guowei had great kindness to the people of Shandong.

Shandong people attach importance to feelings, morality, Liu Zeqing Beiduoduo killed, most of these people are a little unbalanced in their hearts, plus the Jurchens regard the Han people's surrender as slaves, beat and scold at every turn, and even kill mercilessly when the war is unfavorable, these people are already resentful, and see that the soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang are strong, and the artillery fire can directly hit the city wall.

Zhang Guowei shouted under the city for less than half an hour, and the defenders opened the city gate to surrender, so that all kinds of engineering equipment prepared by Zuo Ruo were empty.

Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top.

Zhai Zhe has not regarded the surrender of the army as a key target from the beginning, but has been trying to find a way to win over these people. At the beginning, when the Qing Dynasty was in full swing, he sent people to persuade him to surrender, even if the sky was in ruins, it was useless. But now the shape is different, the sharpness of the Qing people has been lost, and the people who surrender to the army are excited. For example, Zhang Tianlu's personal entourage Yang Shouzhuang, and the soldiers and horses left by Liu Zeqing, as long as someone starts to throw themselves into eastern Zhejiang, it is better than fighting a big victory.

When the surrendered army that had originally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty was thrown into the arms of Zhedong again, the Jurchens became more and more distrustful of the surrendered soldiers, and this crack opened, and the momentum of the Qing capture was destroyed. There are only 100,000 Jurchens, even if they are covered in iron, they can hit a few nails.

On the second day after the capture of Yuqian County, Zhu Dadian led 5,000 defenders to Yuqian, commanding Meng Kang's soldiers and horses and the new camp of Xiaoshan.

Zuo Ruo led the army to withdraw from Yu Qian and stationed on the mountain road between Changhua and Yu Qian.

The Eastern Zhejiang Righteous Army gathered in western Zhejiang, and was covered with battle flags in the mountains and forests that sneaked to Changhua.

After Zhai Zhe told Fang Guoan a thousand words and instructions, he led his guards to leave Changhua County and went to coordinate the war outside Yuqian City, and made a posture of besieging Zhang Cunren's soldiers and horses.

Eighty percent of Changhua County is mountainous, and when Zhai Zhe gave up the mountainous areas of Fuyang, Yuqian and Changhua in western Zhejiang, he took almost all the grain here, and eighty percent of the mountain people also fled. With 28,000 troops, he attacked Changhua County, which was defended by Zhang Cunren's 20,000 soldiers and horses, and there was no advantage. Duoduo's army of more than 100,000 troops spent two months and could not capture Hangzhou, and Liu Liangzuo's more than 3,000 soldiers and horses besieged Jiangyin for two months, losing troops and losing generals, which is the advantage of the defending side.

Zhai Zhe was unwilling to spend his troops to attack Changhua City, and wanted Zhang Cunren to run out of food in Changhua County and break through on his own. Zuo Ruo's 10,000 soldiers stuck to the mountain road leading from Changhua to Yu Qian, and then Fang Guoan's 18,000 troops blocked Zhang Cunren's retreat, he had nothing to worry about on the battlefield in Changhua.

The only weakness lies in diving, and Duoduo will definitely mobilize a large number of soldiers and horses to open up the road to Changhua in order to rescue Zhang Cunren.

The predator must be patient and be cruel to himself before he can be cruel to others.

When Zhai Zhe arrived outside Yuqian City, the army of Hangzhou City had not yet arrived.

Zhang Guowei and Zhu Dadian, two cabinet scholars, were there, and this time the soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang were really dispatched.

After the three met, they resigned to each other, and in the end, Zhai Zhe sat in the position of commander of the soldiers and horses, and Zhang Guowei and Zhu Dadian discussed the battle as supervisors.

Zhai Zhe pushed open the window and said brightly, "I don't ask for much, as long as Yuqian County can hold for half a month, besiege Zhang Cunren's 20,000 soldiers and horses to the point of running out of ammunition and food, the siege of Hangzhou City will be automatically lifted, and the general trend of the world will take this battle as the starting point, and it will only take a year or two to recover Jiangnan." ”

"General Pinglu is really a pillar of the country, I am convinced!" Zhu Dadian once served as the governor of Fengyang, was familiar with military affairs, understood Zhai Zhe's vision, and was passionate.

When Zhang Guowei took office as the secretary of the military department, he had never won the battle of the Qing Dynasty, and he had doubts in his heart, but seeing that Zhai Zhe and Zhu Dadian both had the same opinion, he could only hold back his words, and hesitated to remind: "There seem to be a lot of soldiers in Yuqian County, only the five thousand soldiers of the Zhu Pavilion Department have been on the battlefield, and the 40,000 soldiers in the Xiaoshan camp have just learned how to use weapons. ”

He won't say the rest, he is worried that stealing chickens will not make it a loss of rice, and don't let the shape of Zhedong that has a slight turn for the better become a failure.

Zhu Dadian disagreed, and said: "There is no danger and no soldier, and this kind of opportunity like Zhang Cunren's lone army is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." He was afraid of his chest and said, "I am willing to stay in Qianxian County." ”

Zhai Zhe smiled, "I still have eight thousand troops available." ”

The battle situation in western Zhejiang was not resolute, and the defenders of Hangzhou City could not show their strength.