Chongzhen was arrogant and continued: "Don't talk about fighting on all sides, even if you go west out of Jiayuguan to conquer Zhunger, and go south to Shu to pacify the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong, you also have spare strength!"

Gao Di, who had been silent, heard Chongzhen's heroic statement, and said excitedly, "The emperor is sage. The army of the southern conquest has long been stationed in Shandong and other places, practicing every day, and the supply is sufficient, and at this time it is the time when the soldiers are strong and the fighting spirit is high, and there is no pressure to pacify the south of the Yangtze River!"

Chongzhen looked at Gao Di with a smile, "Since Gao Qing said so, let's go out with me!"

Gaudi was overjoyed when he heard this: "The minister obeys the order."

Three days later, Chongzhen took Gao Di and the generals who returned from Korea, such as King Ding, Chen Yongfu, and Hu Guozhu, to march in person.

The army, which had been training for several months, had been waiting for a long time, and was soon mobilized by Chongzhen and rushed to Huai'an.

……

For a year, Huai'an has been calm, although Taishou Yu Guanhua knows that Huai'an will definitely be attacked.

But he also knew that when the Northern Army attacked Huai'an County, it would definitely take the lead in attacking Pizhou, Suqian and other places, so how could he leave himself half a month to escape.

Therefore, in addition to the fish and meat people, the two things he did the most on weekdays were riding horses and boats, and he was always ready to flee back to Nanjing.

However, this morning, the soldiers ran to his Taishou Mansion in a panic, saying that tens of thousands of troops had poured in from outside the city and had surrounded Huai'an City!

What frightened him even more was that the leader of the troops actually claimed to be Chongzhen, and the Taishou of Pizhou, Suqian and other cities had all surrendered yesterday afternoon and in the first half of the night.

They can descend, but they can't.

Because in order to curry favor with Ma Shiying, he has repeatedly published a crusade against fake Chongzhen, and now that people are attacking, even if he opens the door and surrenders, it will not end well.

Regardless of whether Chongzhen outside the city was true or not, Yu Guanhua didn't dare to go out.

When the news came out, many people knew that the battle of Huai'an was inevitable.

As the official of Huai'an's parents, Yu Guanhua seems to be calm, but he is panicked like a lamb to be slaughtered, and he can only ask his master Min Qiujie for advice in the back hall.

"Now, I can only hold on." Min Qiujie said: "Huai'an City is high and deep, and it is by no means easy to capture, and the Northern Court will not be unharmed if it pacifies Liaodong and North Korea and takes Southern Mongolia.

As long as we can hold on to the city and wait for reinforcements from the Nanjing court, we can be saved.

As soon as the reinforcements from the four towns and Shi Du arrive, the northern army will naturally retreat, and at that time, it is not impossible for Emperor Hongguang to give you the title of marquis."

Yu Guanhua's face turned pale: "But we don't have enough food and grass."

"Adults may have forgotten that there are still tens of thousands of people in Huai'an City......

Min Qiujie said vaguely, but Yu Guanhua immediately understood his implication.

With the people in the city, he can not only snatch the stored food, but even use it for them as human flesh and military food!

Min Qiujie continued: "Originally, we gave up Huai'an and fled back to Nanjing was the best way to retreat, but unfortunately, the northern army came too fast, and we lost the opportunity, and now we only have to wait for help.

Yu Guanhua gritted his teeth: "Then let's hold on!"

Min Qiujie: "I'll send someone to arrange for defense and the collection of grain and grass!"

On that day, someone outside the city shouted at the head of the city, ordering the defenders to surrender, and specially explaining the arrival of the Holy Driver of Chongzhen.

The soldiers looked at Huang Luo's umbrella and faintly stirred up, but no one surrendered, and no one opened the door.

Because Yu Guanhua sent all his cronies to supervise the battle in various parts of the city, no one dared to move for the time being.

Min Qiujie was worried about the fluctuation of the army's morale, so in order to boost morale, he sent 3,000 infantry and took the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy.

He was very confident in these soldiers, after all, this was the elite he had invited at a high price from Gao Jie before!

"Kill a northern soldier and reward 10 taels of silver!" Min Qiujie shouted.

"Kill......

Under the heavy reward, the soldiers still had the will to fight, and their morale was also high, so they immediately left the city.

As the elite of the four towns, they are from the heart

They looked down on the once erosive Jingying, and outside the city where they were stationed, they thought they still had some combat power against the enemy.

Even if you can't win, a draw is always not a problem.

At this time, Chongzhen sent a rifle team of 1,000 people to fight, lined up in three teams, and walked forward in order.

"Okay, the Northern Army is light on the enemy, this couldn't be better!"

Under Min Qiujie's full expectation, the two armies are getting closer and closer.

Bang bang bang......

Bang bang bang......

Bang bang bang......

Only three rounds of gunfire rang out, not even half an hour, the two sides did not engage in short-handed combat at all, and most of the Huai'an soldiers were killed and wounded, and they rushed back crying for their fathers and mothers.

"This ......" Min Qiujie and Yu Guanhua left the cold sweat brush.

One against three!

Spike!

No wonder the Northern Army was able to pacify Liaodong!

This battle can't be fought!

Chongzhen did not order a pursuit, but quietly watched the hundreds of remnants of the army return to the city.

"Keep sending people to persuade you to surrender!" Chongzhen spoke.

Liaodong, Mongolia, and Korea lacked people and were in urgent need of immigration, and the big clans in Jiangnan who supported Hongguang were one of his major goals.

Chongzhen doesn't want all the main forces of these immigrants to die at his own hands!

The first battle was defeated so badly, everyone in the city had no intention of resisting, and everyone was thinking:

"When will Taishou surrender?"

"Will the Northern Army really raid officials' property?"

"Is it really as rumored, that the land will be divided among the poor and the low-class soldiers?"

Min Qiujie and Yu Guanhua were cold in their hearts, and they didn't dare to fight anymore, standing on the city wall in embarrassment, looking at each other speechless.

Yu Guanhua was sighing and regretting, and suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps: "My lord, it's not good, the guards of the city opened the city gate and went out to surrender!"

"Ahh

Yu Guan jumped up in shock.

Min Qiujie was shocked: "Which city gate?"

"Except for the one we are, it......'s all open," the soldier panicked.

Hearing his answer, the pro-soldiers around Yu Guanhua also changed color one by one.

"What did you say?"

Yu Guanhua can't believe it yet.

Without waiting for the soldiers to answer, there were suddenly shouts and running outside the city, from far and near.

All of a sudden, the entire Huai'an City seemed to be churning.

Yu Guanhua had no luck, and said with a pale face: "You can't be caught, you will be Ling Chi!"

As he spoke, he was about to draw his sword and kill himself, but because he was too frightened, his fingers trembled and weak, and he pulled it out twice in a row, but he didn't pull it out.

"My lord, I'm sorry!" Min Qiujie said coldly.

"What? What do you say?" Yu Guan was startled, and then felt a cold object pass through his body.

……

Half an hour later, Chongzhen entered Huai'an, looked at the officials and generals who were kneeling in front of him to plead guilty, and said slowly: "All of them are in prison, put on shackles, and be escorted to Liaodong today!"

"Your Majesty, just now the last general opened the city gate, and the last general is not guilty!" There were generals shouting.

Chongzhen said coldly, "It is a sin to support Hongguang, if you don't open the door and surrender, you will be killed by me a long time ago!"

Mo Dacheng shouted to the kneeling man on the side, "Aren't you thankful yet?"