"General, something is wrong! There is a fire at Jinshan Temple on the other side! Even the brothers in Guazhoudu can see the flames! Could it be that the prince's side has succeeded? ”

Liu Liangzuo, the Yangzhou guard, was woken up by his subordinate generals in his sleep, which made him a little annoyed.

But after calming down a little and confirming that it was the news about Duoduo, he immediately forcibly pinched his thigh, making himself completely sober from the pain, and he did not dare to slack off at all.

"Quick, put on my armor and I'll see it for myself!" Liu Liangzuo gave an order and asked the guards around him to help him put it on.

Then he hurriedly went out and got on the horse and rushed to the riverside wharf, and hurriedly changed the boat to board Guazhou, and prepared a Western-style monoculars on the way, and climbed to the south as soon as he arrived at Guazhou.

Since you have become a traitor, there is no way out. As a slave with three surnames, Liu Liangzuo knows very well that if he messes up again in the Qing Dynasty, the world is so big that there is really no place for him.

"This fire is definitely not fake, you can see that the Cishou Pagoda of Jinshan Temple has burned down, it is estimated that the prince's army finally took Zheng Chenggong regardless of casualties, right?"

After carefully observing it with a telescope for a long time, Liu Liangzuo finally felt a wave of confidence in his heart, because he saw with his own eyes the remnants of the famous Cishou Pagoda further collapse in the fire, which was definitely not fake.

As an aside, Zhu Shuren pretended to set fire to Jinshan Temple and showed weakness to lure the enemy, which is definitely not a destruction of historic sites. Because the Cishou Pagoda of Jinshan Temple was first built in the Southern Qi Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and another pagoda that echoed it was added in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was destroyed once as early as the early years of the Ming Dynasty and the civil war when Zhu Di usurped the throne.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, what was left was only a little remnant core, and the general situation was similar to the state of the West Lake Leifeng Pagoda written by Mr. Lu Xun in the early Republic of China, which had not yet collapsed, only some bricks and stones remained, and the wooden structure outside had long been gone.

It's just that these pagodas were originally more than ten zhang high, even if only the brick and stone remnants remained, they were still tall and conspicuous, and they were very eye-catching when viewed through a telescope across the Yangtze River.

The Cishou Pagoda seen by later generations of tourists was actually rebuilt until the Guangxu period, and of course the original site will be completely bulldozed before the reconstruction. Now, because of the butterfly effect of Zhu Shuren, the ruins have been cleared in advance, and they can be rebuilt directly after the war.

In a few hundred years, all the traces left by his Zhu Shuren will become places of interest, and who will make him the biggest historical machine.

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After gossiping, Liu Liangzuo carefully observed the enemy situation for a long time, and at the same time also ordered his subordinates and sailors to prepare their warships, and asked his subordinates to return to Huai'an, and informed Kong Youde, who was still on the way, to speed up and come to Yangzhou to listen.

He already had a hunch in his heart that there might be a new command from Dórd's side.

Because of the blockade of the Ming army, the news on both sides of the Yangtze River has been cut off for more than half a month, and the prince will not seize the opportunity to pull out the throat of the Ming army's river defense.

Liu Liangzuo's hunch was really right, just an hour later, the sky was about to brighten. Liu Liangzuo originally planned to return to the city, but suddenly a few flat boats appeared on the river, signaling to the Qing army in Guazhoudu, as if asking the Qing army to respond.

Liu Liangzuo didn't dare to slack off, and immediately asked his subordinates to sail over to confirm the situation.

And as the Qing warships approached, the scene in the darkness in the distance became clearer and clearer - it turned out that behind those small boats, there were still some Ming warships chasing and killing!

These Ming warships were not tall and sharp, they were not the main ship type, they were purely speed-seeking fast ships, and they were obviously patrols. The Qing army immediately killed the past, relied on the strength of the crowd to kill the Ming army's speedboat, and hurriedly responded to the rescuers.

After the rescuer was rescued, he was not grateful, but commanded: "Liu Liangzuo has been eating idle meals these days?" The prince is on the other side, and he doesn't bother to prepare for the reception and transport more supplies, he is simply afraid of the enemy like a tiger! ”

The soldiers of the Qing army in Yangzhou were scolded, and they didn't dare to fight back, they knew that the person from the other side was probably a celebrity in front of the prince. Those of them who are responsible for logistics support did not do their job well, and they should be scolded by the prince's people.

The Yangzhou officer also respectfully sent the rescued person to Liu Liangzuo, and as soon as the two met, they quickly recognized each other.

"Chen Shenling? How are you? Liu Liangzuo recognized that the person was Chen Shaozong, who was under Geng Zhongming, and immediately relaxed his guard.

Chen Shaozong's rank in the Qing army is actually not high, he is only a staff leader, so his status is one level lower than that obtained after Liu Liangzuo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Fengyang.

However, the boss who was killed by Chen Shaozong before the battle and voted for the name was even successful, and his level was about the same as Liu Liangzuo.

But everyone knows that their status in the Qing army cannot only be seen by their rank, but also by the number of years they have been in the dragon.

The old traitors under Geng Zhongming's command were all surrendered to the Wuqiao Mutiny in the fifth year of Chongzhen, and the traitors' qualifications are better than Liu Liangzuo, who has just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for a few months, which is twelve years old!

When the new traitor sees the old traitor, he is naturally a head shorter. So much so that when Liu Liangzuo just threw himself over, he had a good relationship with those low-level generals under Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde. Even if it is a participant, he gives gifts, drinks and invites women, in order to integrate into the warm traitor family as soon as possible.

Chen Shaozong was slightly relieved to see that Liu Liangzuo was still polite, but he didn't show it on the surface, he still maintained his momentum, and said the lines that Zhu Shuren taught him:

"You can't eat, drink, and drift all day long in Yangzhou? It's been half the night when the fire broke out in Jiangnan, and I don't know how to send troops to respond! Proactive Exploration!

Although the prince won a great victory in the land battle, there were not a few boats left around him, and he sent me to secretly cross the river to give the order, but I was almost intercepted by the remaining patrol fleet of the Southern Barbarians!

Just because you received it late, Sun Langzhong's ship was intercepted and martyred! ”

Chen Shaozong's precedent completely suppressed Liu Liangzuo's doubts.

Indeed, as the defender of Yangzhou, he should know that Duoduo did not have many ships left, but he was invincible in land battles. Even if the land battle is won and the Ming army of Jinshan Temple is completely destroyed, the number of ships that Duoduo can send to send orders for help and additional supplies will not be large, and the losses in the previous stage are too great.

At this time, the Yangzhou guard should take the initiative and see the fire on the south bank, no matter how to send a ship first! Liu Liangzuo didn't attack, that is, he hesitated, he wanted to preserve his strength, and he deserved to be scolded.

After this pistol and stick to divert his attention, Chen Shaozong also conveyed a message in the past: he was not the envoy sent by Duoduo to send the order, he was only protecting the envoy. However, because the Qing army of Yangzhou was unfavorable to the naval division, the ship of the envoy was intercepted and killed by the remnants of the Ming army's pursuing patrol ships just before their eyes!

This is also very reasonable, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, even if Zheng Chenggong's main force is surrounded and annihilated in Jinshan Temple, the Ming army will take out more than 100 patrol boats.

In this way, Liu Liangzuo wanted to ask Chen Shaozong why he couldn't take out Duoduo's own tokens, or the documents stamped with Duoduo's seal, and he had to explain.

Sure enough, after the two contacted for a while, Liu Liangzuo quickly remembered this question, but was prevaricated by Chen Shaozong.

Even if Liu Liangzuo still had a trace of suspicion in his heart, he always felt that there was fraud, but he made a mistake first, and his heart was extremely weak, so he could only admit it.

Only then did Chen Shaozong just follow the rehearsal lines and "ask the Yangzhou garrison to immediately prepare all the Hongyi artillery and ammunition stocks, and cross the Yangtze River to help."

According to Chen Shaozong, Duoduo has always won big victories, but the material consumption is too great, and the combat power has begun to decline, and now the most important thing is to ensure the supply of gunpowder for shells and arrows to deal with the strong walls of the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River!

Chen Shaozong also admitted that the Qing army was indeed defeated in the direction of Nanjing, but in areas other than Nanjing, it can still be slaughtered! Slowly stir up Jiangnan completely!

All his words are like that of a military general who is eager to atone for his sins because of the failure of escorting the messenger and the killing of the envoy.

This is not that Chen Shaozong's acting skills are good, but it is just a matter of his life and glory, and he has rehearsed repeatedly before coming to I don't know how many times.

As long as you are willing to work hard, who won't be able to act.

Liu Liangzuo was helpless, and the supplies must be transported, but when to go, how to bypass the patrols of the Ming army, reduce losses, and choose a route that is easiest to avoid the enemy after the Jinshan Temple changes hands...... These are all things to ponder.

Chen Shaozong didn't rush him, but just helped to say a few precautions for going down the steps, saying that the prince also knew that it was impossible to come over tonight to give the order and start immediately, and he would give them time to prepare.

But the day after tomorrow or three days later, the prince's army will try to respond at the Jinshan Temple wharf on the south bank, as well as the Luyuan Port and Huanggongshan Wharf that have just been captured.

The three alternative wharves in the south of the Yangtze River are controlled by the Qing army, and this Jinshan Temple is just the most difficult to fight, and the prince has only recently captured the one, and the other two are farther away and need to sail longer.

These details, needless to mention, are nothing more than to make Liu Liangzuo further feel that the chances of safe transportation are not small.

Liu Liangzuo finally decided on specific measures.

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After receiving the order and finally setting off, Liu Liangzuo still spent two days to prepare, and these two days were also to wait for the limelight to pass and for the Ming army patrol on the Yangtze River to relax his vigilance.

Liu Liangzuo was cautious enough, and he also thought of "If a small boat from Jiangnan just happened last night and successfully stole and passed on the news, would the Ming army become more vigilant and vigilant." Only by waiting for two days to be in the limelight can the Ming army mistakenly think that he is thinking too much, and no one in the world will guard against thieves for a thousand days, so he will relax.

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, in the middle of the night, Liu Liangzuo sent a group of Yangzhou Qing troops as escort reinforcements, and concentrated all the shells, gunpowder, and other materials that were desperately transferred to Yangzhou City from the rear in the past month, and all of them were loaded on the ship, and he consciously figured out the recent Ming army patrol rules and should be safe waterways, and transported them out.

There is no such thing as an absolutely safe shipping lane, at best it can be relatively safe. This relative security was also brought about by Duoduo's capture of Jinshan Temple, which deprived the Ming army of its forward nail stronghold.

The remaining risk of the Jiangbei Qing army must be taken, otherwise if Duoduo has an accident, they will all die.

Because Liu Liangzuo himself was the guard general of Yangzhou and was not directly responsible for the sailors, it was of course impossible for this fleet to be escorted by Liu Liangzuo himself.

And Kong Youde, who was in charge of the rear sailors, had to coordinate the overall situation, and he couldn't come to Yangzhou so quickly, and finally led the fleet to cross the river, and it was a coincidence that Kong Tingxun, who had just arrived in Yangzhou with the latest batch of material fleets the day before.

Kong Tingxun is Kong Youde's eldest son, and now he is only in his twenties, and he is completely dependent on his father's shadow to become a leader. I have to say that Kong Youde's name for his son is also very brazen-

Since ancient times, the father trained his son to call it "court training", which comes from the allusion of Confucius who passed through the court and was stopped by Confucius standing in the courtyard for questioning. Confucius asked Confucius if he had learned poetry and etiquette recently, and why he could stand if he didn't learn poetry if he didn't learn etiquette.

Kong Youde is originally from Shandong, and he has always advertised himself as a descendant of Confucius and a moral model, and named his son Kong Tingxun, making it clear that he is comparing his son to Kong Li, and comparing himself to the reincarnation of Confucius, which is simply too virtuous.

However, the Qing army did not know that when Kong Tingxun embarked on a journey to cross the river with the recently reassembled fleet and supplies of the Qing army in Yangzhou, everything about them quickly fell under the surveillance of the Ming army.

What's more, when Kong Tingxun chose the final route to cross the river, the two routes they didn't choose were also sent back to Jiangnan by the fine messenger sent by Chen Shaozong, and everything was transparent to the Ming army.

Then, when the Qing army crossed south, the Ming army asked Cao Bianjiao's army to choose another route abandoned by the Qing army, and quietly crossed north in the opposite direction to the vicinity of Taixing County, east of Yangzhou.

The Qing army in Jiangbei has been moving more frequently by waterway in the past two days, and the local defenders are also used to it, and they know that they can't ask more questions if they shouldn't ask, so they don't watch out at all-

All this was also requested by Liu Liangzuo himself, he was afraid that there would be traitors of the Ming army among the defenders in the counties, and once they inquired too much, they knew that there would be a fleet of ships crossing the river in the vicinity at night, and they would leak the information to the Ming army on the other side. So Liu Liangzuo greeted in advance and asked the defenders in Taixing County and other places not to meddle in their affairs, and not to inquire when the sailor was transferred! Everything is a military secret!

Cao Bianjiao has all gone ashore, and there are only more than 1,000 defenders in Taixing County, and they haven't taken it seriously, and they were attacked by Cao Bianjiao with a drum! After gaining a firm foothold in Taixing County and gathering the rear army, Cao Bianjiao immediately went west with cavalry to kill Yangzhou!

And on the same night, the Huainan Ming Army of Huang Degong's Department, which had been cautiously deployed in the west of Zhuzhou and Liuhe, also changed its previous defensive position, and suddenly became active, interspersed with the east!

Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong both bypassed the fortified city, regardless of the back road, and marched overnight, and the cavalry could travel hundreds of miles in one night. In addition to the county, Liuhe County was bypassed by Huang Degong, and Taizhou County was also ignored by Cao Bianjiao all the way.

At dawn the next day, Liu Liangzuo fell into an ice cave, because the scouts came to report that they had found a large force of cavalry of the Ming army, which had approached Yangzhou, and that the Ming army in the east had passed through Taizhou County, and the Ming army in the west had also passed through Liuhe County, and it was only one Yizheng County away from Yangzhou.

"What? That's impossible! The imperial court actually dared to fight back against Jiangbei? ”

When he received the report from his subordinates, Liu Liangzuo was shocked and inexplicable, and he didn't even notice that when he mentioned the Ming army, he couldn't help but use the word "imperial court" instead of "southern barbarian".

After dozens of seconds of downtime, he slapped his thigh and couldn't help screaming:

"Not good! Last night, Chen Shaozong took Major General Kong to transport ammunition, I am afraid that he also fell for the enemy's plan! I'm afraid that the Ming army has long known that we are going to cross the river! Fast! Send someone to inquire and see how the fleet that crossed the river last night is doing!

Also, immediately dispatch the Fast Horse Warrior to deliver the message! Go to Huai'an to ask Kong Youde for help! Go to Fengyang and ask Nikambel for help! ”

No matter how fast the cavalry of the Ming army came, it was indeed impossible to pass Liuhe and Yizheng overnight, and Liu Liangzuo could still send the letter if he wanted to.

But this time is limited to sending letters, and it is impossible to wait for Nikan or Kong Youde to reinforce him.

Before noon and in the afternoon of the same day, the Ming army, which bypassed the fortified city in the east and west directions, successively surrounded both sides of Yangzhou City.

At this point, the only thing Liu Liangzuo can count on is that the cavalry cannot attack the city, and his life should not be in danger for the time being. As long as it takes a few more days, Kong Youde and Nikan come to the rescue, and there is still a chance to break the cavalry encirclement of the Ming army.

However, in the evening of the same day, the worse news came again, which severely damaged the morale of the Qing army in Yangzhou.

It is said that Zheng Chenggong, who should have been killed by Duoduo, actually personally led his troops to appear in the south of Yangzhou City, crossed the river from Jinshan Temple to Guazhou, and easily cleared the part of the Qing army sailors in Guazhou with the momentum of Menghu going down the mountain, and the water village was also captured by the Ming army.

Zheng Chenggong's style of play is very fast, anyway, it is directly Hongyi cannon to open the way, bombard the dock building, and then land and attack, and advance quickly.

The Qing army never thought that a place like Guazhoudu would need to be heavily defended and fortified, nor did it expect that the Ming army would counterattack on land, and Guazhoudu, with a total of two or three thousand people, was completely swallowed by Zheng Chenggong quickly.

After taking Guazhoudu, Zheng Chenggong's warship directly forced the water gate on the south side of Yangzhou City, and divided the troops to land and began to deploy siege positions, and set up the first batch of siege artillery positions late that night, and began to bombard the city with Hongyi artillery.

It's just that the observation field at night is not good, and the artillery bombardment has no results, but only occasionally fires a few cannons to strengthen the army's might, intimidating the defenders in Yangzhou City, so that Liu Liangzuo can't sleep and is exhausted, and the soldiers are also demoralized.

For Liu Liangzuo, the longest day of his life has finally passed.

With the sunrise of another day, the time came to the fifteenth day of the lunar month. Just when Liu Liangzuo was worried about how long he could hold out and whether the reinforcements could arrive earlier. After the Ming army put on a posture of strong attack, they actually played another vicious trick.

Cao Bianjiao's cavalry, early in the morning, went to the east gate of Yangzhou to show off his might, Cao Bianjiao also showed his banner, personally inspected outside the range of the Qing army's bow and crossbow muskets at the head of the city, and let the scolding soldiers shout, and also took out a lot of loot tokens.

"Listen to the soft bones of the city! The court thought that you were just coerced by the generals, ignorant and misguided, and couldn't bear to kill them all, so this gave you a chance to surrender!

Otherwise, it would not be easy to recover Yangzhou as soon as possible with the imperial court heavenly soldiers to kill Duoduo's remaining power! See clearly, the head of the puppet king Duoduo is here! A few days ago, the fire in Jinshan Temple was actually the arrival of 200,000 troops surnamed Guoye, and they surrounded and annihilated Duoduo! Or can the imperial army easily cross the river to Yangzhou?

Now you have killed the chief general and boss who planned to lead the traitor, and sacrifice it with your head, according to the law of the imperial court, you can still be regarded as a 'refugee who was coerced and shaved his hair', although he is not as good as the righteous and unyielding righteous people, but after all, he will not be severely punished, and he can still be half of his merit! This is only one chance to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, once the city is broken, it will be too late to prove one's innocence! ”

Liu Liangzuo was also on the city gate at the time, and when he heard these words, he only felt cold, and hurriedly roared hoarsely to ask the generals around him not to believe these nonsense:

"How could the prince be so easy...... Unfortunately, this is all the trickery of the Ming army, you must not be gullible and shake the heart of the army! Those who dare to spread rumors are killed! ”

Cao Bianjiao's words were indeed impossible for the Qing army in the city to believe, but it was more than enough to shake the mentality of the Qing army.

It can only be said that Zhu Shuren has taken advantage of the information gap isolated by the Qing army in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and he has taken advantage of it to the extreme. In the future, he also plans to use "the Jiangbei Qing Army is finished" to hit the morale of the Jiangnan Qing Army, so now he will first have dates and no dates to hit the morale of the Jiangbei Qing Army.

One fish and three eats can be regarded as being thoroughly understood by Zhu Shuren.

The Qing army was really in chaos because of this, and as the sky completely brightened, Zheng Chenggong's artillery also began to bombard the city with all its might, and other directions were preparing to attack.

In less than half an hour, with the pressure of the Ming army, as well as the fermentation of rumors, the Qing army in the north of the city was the first to try to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and Liu Liangzuo commanded a garrison, although he did not have the opportunity to get close to Liu Liangzuo himself and assassinate Liu Liangzuo to surrender his name, but he also found a way to get in touch with Cao Bianjiao, and the line of fire negotiated to sacrifice the door in exchange for the lives of his subordinates and return to the imperial court.

After the north gate was sacrificed, Cao Bianjiao's cavalry finally found an opportunity to play and rushed directly into the city to fight with Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses.

Soon, Ximen was also captured by Huang Degong in the chaos, and another iron cavalry directly entered the city.

At this moment, the Han soldiers in the city, whether they were from the Han army banner of the Qing State or the former Ming army under the command of Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo, all lost their will to resist and surrendered.

Liu Liangzuo only brought a few hundred or nearly a thousand silver to feed the family Ding army, plus a Manchurian army with white flags in the city, plus a Mongolian soldier in Jiala, who swore to resist hand-to-hand and tried to break through.

These two Manchu and Mongolian soldiers of Jiala were the troops that Duoduo had left in Yangzhou City to see Liu Liangzuo, after all, Liu Liangzuo was a newly surrendered Han Chinese, and Duoduo could not have absolute trust in him.

Considering that the minds of non-our people will be different, it is also the consistent operation of the Qing State to let the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers monitor the newly attached Han army.

These Manchurian soldiers knew that they had no chance to surrender and live, so they naturally had to fight to the death and seek survival in death.

However, in the case that the Han soldiers had already defected to the army on a large scale and surrendered with Lilly, these three or four thousand Manchu and Mongolian soldiers plus one thousand Liu Liang Zuo Jiading, a total of 5,000 people, could not make waves at all.

"Death to the dogs!" Cao Bianjiao's cavalry, from the Meihualing into the north of the city's Guangchumen, along the long street all the way to kill, was the first to break through the white flag armor Erbut.

It is also fate, the area of Meihualing at the north gate of Yangzhou is where the Shi Gong Ancestral Hall is located in later generations, that is, the location of the tomb of Shi Kefa after he died in battle. This section of the long street in Guangchumen is said to be the place where Shi Kefa died in battle in history, but the bones are unrecognizable, so they can only leave a mound of clothes.

But now the situation has just turned, and this long street is about to become the burial place of Liu Liangzuo, Erbut and others.

Cao Bianjiao was extraordinarily brave, dressed in fine iron armor, with a steel blade as long as two feet, and a fine riding spear between beryllium lances, and stabbed Erbut wildly.

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The hundreds of horsemen behind him were also layered, dominating the long street, directly rushing and colliding with the Qing army, and meeting on a narrow road.

Erbut struggled to parry, wielding a big knife and slashing wildly, opening and closing, but he was still swept away by Cao Bianjiao, and directly stabbed his heart and fell off the horse.

"Kill all the dog tartars!" Cao Bianjiao made a move with a spear, and continued to kill through the long street like a mad tiger, and as soon as he was halfway through, he saw that Huang Degong was also a large circle of Mongolian soldiers hanging around his horse's neck, and he had already killed half of the city.

"I'm waiting for my wishes! We were forced by Liu Liangzuo to surrender to the thief! We have no way to serve the country! ”

The battle reached this point, and even the cronies and generals from Liu Liangzuo's side began to turn back, and finally someone sneaked up from behind, stabbed Liu Liangzuo to death with a knife in the back, and then announced his surrender before the battle.

It's a pity that he started a little late, and if he wants to make meritorious service and be rewarded, he can't do it at this time, at most, it is just to forgive his previous sins.

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ps: To recover Yangzhou, 6,000 words will not be demolished