The Ming fleet finally managed to break out of the blockade of the iron cable, and the stone pillar at one end was destroyed, and after the iron cable lost its restraints, it was quickly dragged by its own weight and sank to the bottom of the river.

Subsequently, the Ming fleet increased its speed, broke out of the blockade, and withdrew from the city of Nanjing, in order to demonstrate to the Qing army in Nanjing, but also to show their anger, when driving to the ruins of the Longjiang shipyard, the fleet approached the shore and launched a continuous artillery bombardment towards the city wall behind the ruins.

During these rounds of artillery bombardment, the gunners deliberately raised the angle of the muzzle, so most of the shells fired crossed the city wall and flew into the military camp northwest of the city, destroying several barracks in the barracks.

After several rounds of continuous shelling, the Ming fleet left the confines of Nanjing, and it was these last rounds of shelling that almost depleted the black powder reserves on the ships, and what remained was barely enough to supply a small skirmish-scale naval battle.

However, the Qing army's naval divisions in the Jiangnan area were destroyed, and several of the eight warships that fled back before were seriously damaged during the shelling of the port, and they were not repaired in time, and sank directly in the wharf.

With all the sailors destroyed, and the Qing troops along the coast had no suitable countermeasures, they could only watch as the fleet of ten warships swaggered past them and sailed towards the mouth of the Yangtze River.

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At the same time, Su Yan didn't know how much impact the fleet he sent had caused in the Yangtze River Valley, and at this time he was distracted by another more important matter, and returned to the Xinshi garrison to hold a special military meeting.

The origin of the matter is a letter.

To be precise, it was a letter sent by Changshu, and the person who signed the letter was the famous Shui Tai Liang Itchy Layman who Su Yan had dealt with once-Qian Qianyi!

In the letter, Qian Qianyi provided Su Yan with some information about the Qing army in Jiaxing, especially the information about the discord between the Qing army in Jiangnan and the Qing army in Zhejiang, which was more detailed than what Su Yan had obtained from the prisoners before, and he suggested that Su Yan could seize the opportunity to make an article.

In addition, Qian Qianyi also revealed a blockbuster news - Yang Chengzu, the general soldier of Suzhou in the Qing army, has agreed to join the Ming army anyway after his persuasion, and all this information was revealed by Yang Chengzu.

Yang Chengzu also revealed a news that made Su Yan think about it and be terrified, Zheng Guohua, a general under Zhang Mingzhen of the Lu Wangjun, had defected to the Qing army, and was ready to open the city to meet the Qing army, if it wasn't for Su Yan's timely leadership, then Tongxiang County and the Lu Wangjun in the city would be wiped out!

After getting this news, Su Yan didn't dare to slack off, he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, and ordered this matter to be sent to Zhang Mingzhen by fast horse, so that Zhang Mingzhen could make his own decision - at present, although the two armies are united to resist the Qing Dynasty, but after all, it is still the army of the two systems, if Su Yan crosses Zhang Mingzhen and disposes of Zheng Guohua, it is likely to cause dissatisfaction within Lu Wangjun.

Although he was not afraid that Lu Wangjun would turn against him, the trouble caused by the brother's wall would still give him a headache.

After sending a fast horse to convey the news to Zhang Mingzhen, Su Yan convened a military meeting, his military meeting was not to discuss whether Qian Qianyi's intelligence should be believed, history has proved that although Qian Qianyi's character is not very OK, he is also loyal to Nanming, especially in the case of the Ming army's continuous advancement, the information he provided will not be false.

Therefore, what Su Yan wanted to discuss was how to use the information provided by Qian Qianyi, and Yang Chengzu, the general soldier of Suzhou, had already said that as long as the Ming army attacked Jiaxing, he would take the initiative to open the city gate to welcome the Ming army into the city, or when the two armies were fighting, he would revolt.

Su Yan was not ready to storm the stinky and hard Jiaxing City, even with the help of Neiying, Su Yan wanted to storm the city while the defenders still maintained high morale, and he would have to pay a heavy price.

Therefore, after Su Yan set the main tone, several generals expressed their opinions one after another.

Su Ci suggested releasing the news with great fanfare, telling Ma Guozhu that the main force of the Ming army was preparing to attack Huzhou, and let Ma Guozhu lead the troops to attack Tongxiang County again, but in fact, the main force of the Ming army set up an ambush around Tongxiang County, and when the Qing army arrived, cooperate with Zhang Mingzhen to cooperate with the outside to annihilate the Qing army.

Wang Yi fought with the Qing army many times, and he knew more about the tactics of the Qing army, so he suggested that he should come to a set of people to govern his body in the way of others, and the army besieged the counties around Jiaxing, lured the Qing army out of the city to rescue, and surrounded the Qing army after leaving the city to send reinforcements, and defeated it in the field battle.

Ma Xin's suggestion did not have much way out with Wang Yi, as a former general of the Qing army, he also knew the tactics of the Qing army, but he remembered the discord between the Qing army in Jiangnan and the Qing army in Zhejiang, and was worried that this would lead to the Qing army acting in two ways.

Su Yan felt that Ma Xin's worries were a little reasonable at first, but then he thought about it and denied this statement, he knew very well that in the early Qing Dynasty, the cohesion of the Qing army was quite strong, especially the banner people, especially the Zhejiang Qing army, who were Manchurian emperor banner people, no matter how bold Ma Guozhu was, he did not dare to deliberately let Chen Tai go to death.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Yan still decided to adopt Wang Yi's suggestion, but in order to make the Qing army more bold and pour out, he also decided to adopt some of Su Ci's proposals.

He decided to release the news that the army was divided into two routes, all the way to attack Huzhou, all the way to Jiaxing, in fact, there were very few soldiers and horses attacking Huzhou, just bluffing, and the main force attacking Jiaxing.

After entering Jiaxing Mansion, all the way to attack the counties around Jiaxing, so that Ma Guozhu misjudged the situation, led the army out of the city to help, after the Qing army went out of the city, the ambushed soldiers and horses intercepted the retreat of the Qing army, surrounded it in front and back, and annihilated the Qing army in the field.

Su Yan's neutralization move completely made the suggestions of the two generals go hand in hand, and both of them were adopted, which also made the two of them satisfied and did not raise objections.

Immediately, Su Yan made operational arrangements in accordance with the conclusions reached at the meeting, and he ordered Wang Yi to lead nearly 2,000 subordinates who had been incorporated into the Ming army with him, leading most of the punishment battalions to play the banner of the main force of the Ming army, and bluff in the territory of Huzhou Prefecture.

And Su Yan himself led the main force from Xinshi, and the troops entered Haining County, Hangzhou Prefecture in two ways, and then led by Su Ci, and arranged more than 3,000 people in the headquarters plus more than 3,000 soldiers and horses left by Wang Yi, a total of more than 6,000 soldiers rushed directly to Pinghu County, hundreds of miles away, so that the Qing army had the opportunity to cut off the supply line - this is a trap.

Su Yan led the remaining Shenji Battalion, the Chinese Military Battalion and the Xiao Cavalry Battalion to quickly march eastward and raid Haiyan County, and the Xiao Cavalry Battalion cut off all roads to prevent Jiaxing from learning the news in advance, and as long as the Jiaxing Qing army left Fucheng and pursued Su Ci, Su Yan would set off from Haiyan and come with a wave of nesting dolls to cut off the retreat of the Qing army.