Next, the left army launched several waves of attacks in a row, piling up corpses, arrows and ammunition under the walls of Jiujiang City.

However, Jiujiang City still stood majestically on the riverbank, and the remnants of the wall that were occasionally blown down would be repaired in time after the retreat of the left army.

Huang Degong personally inspected all parts of the city gate with the supervision team, carrying the heads of many officers and soldiers who fled due to cowardice, so that the officers and soldiers defending the city did not dare not fight.

Governor Tang Xiangtai led a group of subordinates to deliver broth and hot rice to the city tower for distribution.

The gunsmoke-filled Jiujiang City was filled with warm heat because of this.

In the camp of the Left Army on the other side of the Jiangbei River, Zuo Liangyu's illness became more and more serious, and the officers and men of the Left Army also sat on the ground with their heads down.

Most of them are armies that can only bully and bully the common people, and the generals have their own selfish intentions, so they are unwilling to attack Jiujiang City.

Coupled with the shortage of grain and grass, the left army is now beginning to try the consequences of its own trouble, and the officers and troops on the other side are still able to eat enough, while many auxiliary soldiers of the left army are already hungry and cold.

"Father, now the morale is low, and Jiujiang City is backed by the Yangtze River, coupled with the high walls of the city, we can't spend it here, Huang Degong drags us for a day, we have less food for a day, and then we will be starved to death even if we don't die in battle", no one dared to advise Zuo Liangyu at this time, and only his son Zuo Mengeng dared to fight at this time.

Zuo Liangyu sighed, and had to order: "Order the three armies, except for Jin Shenghuan's department to guard against the enemy's attack, the rest of the people are ready to pull out the camp and go north, and attack Anqing by Huangmei and Susong, capture a city, and slaughter a city!" ”

In order to meet military needs, and the mood was indeed very depressed, Zuo Liangyu issued a slaughter order to slaughter one city in the next city.

Hundreds of thousands of left troops heard that they could plunder and massacre the city again, and their low morale recovered a little, and they began to cooperate with the northward retreat.

As soon as the left army withdrew from the camp here, someone immediately came to Jiujiang City to inform Huang Degong of the news that the left army was going north: "Marshal, the left army has retreated!" ”

"What, the left army retreated!"

Tang Xiangtai asked excitedly.

And immediately after, the officials and people of the entire Jiujiang City shouted excitedly and excitedly.

"The left army retreated!"

For the officials and people of Jiujiang City, the retreat of the Left Army meant that they no longer had to tense their nerves, and they no longer had to worry about the consequences of the defeat of the Left Army once Jiujiang was broken by military discipline.

But Huang Degong and Wu Mengming were not happy.

As the chief general who coordinated the entire Jiangyou region to defend against the left army, Huang Degong knew that the left army's northward march meant that Weng Zhiqi's troops would face the attack of the left army, and next, Anqing would become the next major point of contention between the two sides.

"We can't let the left army withdraw so easily, all the cavalry will bring enough dry food for three days and follow me across the river to pursue the left army!"

After saying that, Jingnan Marquis Huang Degong immediately went down to the Jiujiang City Tower, and immediately rode out of the city on a war horse after entrusting the city defense task to the governor Tang Xiangtai.

Huang Degong knew that the left army would definitely have troops to guard the rear, so Huang Degong ordered the navy to avoid the Dehua realm, wait for a small ferry and wait for the shore, and take thousands of cavalry to kill directly at the right wing of the left army's Jin Shenghuan department.

Although Huang Degong's cavalry is not comparable to the Jiannu Eight Banners, it is also Huang Degong's daring iron cavalry raised by the 30,000 soldiers allocated by the imperial court, so as soon as he rushed into Jin Shenghuan's department, he slashed and killed.

Jin Shenghuan had to take advantage of the fact that the front army was not chaotic, discarded the rear army, and ran immediately with the front army, throwing away his armor and abandoning countless burdens along the way, and when he arrived at Zuo Liangyu's Chinese army's big tent, the entire Zuo Liangyu's Chinese army was also disheartened, mistakenly thinking that Huang Degong's army was coming to chase him, and fled north in a hurry, without any order.

Huang Degong killed all the way, recruited tens of thousands of left troops, in addition to sending the navy to deposit the surrender of the left army back to the city, he continued to chase the cavalry to the north.

However, after Huang Degong arrived near Huangmei County, he learned that Zhang Yuanliang's troops would join the main force of the Left Army, so he could only choose to retreat to Jiujiang.

Zuo Liangyu's army arrived near Huangmei County, because there was no pursuer behind, and Huangmei County was in the hands of the Ming general Li Shichun, so he could only camp near Huangmei County, preparing to conquer Huangmei County after raising his spirit.

The left army plundered everywhere, and in order to raise the military supplies of hundreds of thousands of troops, it almost scraped the entire Huangzhou Mansion.

Li Shichun, the general in charge of the guard of Huangmei County, was Yuan Jixian's person, and his official position was a deputy general, and he left Jiujiang with Weng Zhiqi and came here, and took the initiative to ask Ying to be in charge of the defense of Huangmei County.

Huangmei County is just a small county town, in addition to being able to resist part of the pressure for Susong City, it does not have much defensive significance, and the city wall is not a brick wall, but an earthen wall, so if it is not for the discouragement of the left army, Li Shichun will not be able to hold Huangmei County.

"The governor has an order, the left army is a soldier and a bandit, and the deputy general Li Shichun immediately transferred the people in the city to Susong, and took the initiative to abandon the city after the transfer, there must be no mistake!"

When he knew through Weng Zhiqi's scouts that the entire Huangzhou Mansion was being frantically destroyed by the Left Army, the governor Yuan Jixian resolutely decided to give up the defense of Huangmei and other non-defensible cities, and decisively ordered Li Shichun and others to transfer the people's property to Susong, and then transfer to Anqing, he also wanted to learn from Huang Degong to have a war of attrition with the Left Army under the city of Anqing.

This is also the greatest demonstration of Yuan Jixian's military ability, and the left army did not realize that they were about to face the next war of attrition, after occupying Huangmei without spending a single soldier, the left army was like a rogue, without the slightest intention of raising troops on the ground, frantically plundering and killing, until the city of Susong, because the people of Susong City had heard of the atrocities of the left army, they all went to the city tower, and the official army Weng Zhiqi Department guarded the city together.

The left army could not break through Susong City after attacking for several days, so it had to bypass Susong City and attack Anqing directly, but Anqing was stronger than Susong City, so naturally it could not be broken.

As a result, throughout March and April, the left army was trapped in the area of Susong and Anqing, and could not advance an inch, but fortunately, it was now in the spring season, and the temperature was suitable, so it could still hold on.

However, Zuo Liangyu's condition was getting worse and worse, and in order to reach Jiangnan as soon as possible, he could only issue a military order to attack Anqing again ten days later.

Even this time, Zuo Liangyu also put out a formation.

On this day, Yuan Jixian waited for the city wall as usual, but saw that the entire outside of the city were women and children who were stripped of nothing, revealing something unsightly, which caused the officers and soldiers on the city wall to widen their eyes, and even couldn't help but put their hands into their trouser pockets.

"What kind of formation is this, it is really shameless to take women and children as hostages!"

Yuan Jixian couldn't help but scold.

His student Fu Qingzhu replied: "Teacher, this is called the Yin 0 Gate Array, Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu used it in the past, but now I didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to also learn this trick, they captured women and children to expose their bodies is to deliberately transfer the yang energy of the officers and soldiers defending the city, so that people have no intention of fighting, and if they want to break this formation, they can only put Yang 0 Gate Array!" ”

"What is the Yangmen Array", Yuan Jixian asked.