The Qing army moved south, and the Jianghuai area was once again under the harassment of war.

Perhaps because of the lack of food and grass supplies, or perhaps because of the corrupt military discipline of the Qing army, the people in the Jianghuai region were poisoned - they were all obedient people who shaved their hair and were easy to obey, but when the imperial army passed by, they were still looted by the "Wang Shi", or died unexpectedly, or became homeless and became homeless.

The former went from Xuzhou to Huai'an, and then to Yangzhou, burning and looting along the way, and thousands of people became homeless, or were plundered by the Eight Banners as slaves, Xuzhou and Huai'an prefects were furious and sent several impeachments to the imperial court, but they were like water dropping into the sea, without any repercussions.

The same is true of the latter, they snatched a large amount of food and property from the local people's homes, alleviating the crisis of food shortage, and the people who could be ruined for their families were miserable, they were in groups of three or five, angry at the atrocities of the Qing army, driven by hatred, rose up and became the anti-Qing rebels.

For a time, the rich Jianghuai was in chaos, and wolf smoke was everywhere.

Nikan didn't care about this, he looked at the city wall of Yangzhou City that was made of blue bricks, full of confidence, he brought tens of thousands of troops from the north, including tens of thousands of brave Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Han Army with a very high penetration rate of firearms, although the main force is still the green battalion, but Nikan does not think that Yangzhou City, which has been broken once, can withstand the second siege.

However, Nikan was soon slapped in the face.

After the Qing army surrounded Yangzhou City for ten days, it launched a fierce offensive on the city, the Qing army Han army flag with Hongyi cannon aimed at the Yangzhou city wall to launch a fierce bombardment, the green battalion soldiers and armor with the help of artillery cover, like a tide to push a large number of shield carts, battering rams, siege towers, carrying ladders and pedals across the moat to the city wall.

The Ming army fought back vigorously, the Franco cannons and tiger squat cannons erected on the city walls opened fire one after another, and the bird gunners and archers also continued to output after the Qing army rushed into the firing range, even with the cover of shield cars and shields, the Qing army still suffered many casualties, and people continued to scream and fall to the ground, or were directly cut off a certain part of the body by the flying cannonballs.

"Kill!"

Bang Bang Bang –

A long pedal was erected on the moat, dragging the slender pigtails of the Qing soldiers shouted on the pedal to reach the bottom of the city wall, and set up a cloud ladder on the surface of the city wall, the Ming army on the city wall did not hesitate to greet the projectiles, arrows and thunderbolts downward, and soon, many Qing army corpses were piled up under the city wall.

The first day of siege ended with heavy losses on the Qing army, who abandoned hundreds of corpses and numerous shield wagons, battering rams, and siege towers destroyed by cannonballs, and retreated into the camp like a tidal wave.

The degree of resistance of the Ming army was expected by Nikan, so he did not feel discouraged because of a defeat, but let the retreating soldiers rest well and prepare for the next siege, but many of the soldiers in the army who had participated in the ten days of Yangzhou were a little changeable, and they seemed to be able to see the shadow of the battle six years ago from the Ming army resisting today, and the Yangzhou defenders at that time were also stubbornly resisting.

At the same time that the Qing army besieged Yangzhou, the city of Luzhou, which had already fallen into the hands of the Ming army, also fell into a heavy siege, Shuo Sai adopted the proposal of the Han deputy general under his command, and adopted the tactics of encircling three queyi, storming Luzhou City from three directions, and leaving the Xiping Gate in the west so that the Ming army in the city could escape.

However, the Ming army showed no signs of retreating, and Wang Yi of Beixi Bo personally sat in Luzhou City to inspire the morale of the whole army and resist the siege of the Qing army.

During the siege, the cavalry who were sent out to bypass Luzhou and go south originally wanted to go deep into the rear of the Ming army to burn and loot and get food on the spot, but they had just arrived near Chaoxian County and were discovered and surrounded by the cavalry of the Ming army.

The appearance of the cavalry of the Ming army made Shuo Sai worried, he was worried that the main force of the Ming army was assembled behind Chao County, and these Ming troops were just forwards, out of caution, Shuo Sai sent a large number of scouts to go deep into the rear of the Ming army to inquire about the news, but the scouts he sent out seemed to have fallen into a bottomless pit, and there was no news.

This can't help but make

Shuo Sai became more and more worried, because it was a division of troops, the main force of the Qing army in the south this time was on the Nikan side, and the soldiers and horses on Shuosai's side were less than 20,000, of which the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were less than 5,000, and there were also a lot of losses under the siege of the city in a few days, so he was worried that the Ming army was preparing to break through one by one, and the first target was placed on himself.

In order to prevent himself from becoming the second prince to be slaughtered by the Ming army after Bolo, Shuo Sai decisively chose to preserve his strength and stop the siege of the city, but continued to surround Luzhou City, wanting to consume the food in the city, and finally forced the defenders in the city to surrender because of the lack of food.

Shuosai's guess was actually somewhat correct.

Because the main force of the Ming army did begin to assemble, but it was not assembled behind Chaoxian, but in Nanjing City on the other side of the Yangtze River.

Su Yan had no intention of personally crossing the river to command, he handed over the opportunity to perform to Zhang Mingzhen and the soldiers of Zhoushan Town under his command, although the people of Zhoushan Town had only received two months of training, but under the strict training requirements of the Guards Infantry, the effect of the training was obvious.

The soldiers of Zhoushan Town have been able to carry out orders and prohibitions, and they can also do uniform movements and strictly abide by military discipline when marching and arranging, which makes the generals of Zhoushan Town feel incredible.

It is worth mentioning that the two-month training also made the Guards infantrymen who served as instructors have a deep affection for the soldiers of Zhoushan Town, and the latter respected and admired the former, so that at the end of the training, the whole of Zhoushan Town felt sad and reluctant.

This emotion was quickly dispelled by the tension brought about by the upcoming expedition, Su Yan officially ordered Zhang Mingzhen to cross the river to support the Jiangbei war, and Zhoushan Town immediately fell into the busyness of preparing for the war, although it is now Jiangxi and Jiangbei are fighting on two fronts, but Su Yan is not worried, the money and food copied from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are still very rich, enough to support him to provoke the war.

Moreover, Su Yan does not think that it will cost much manpower and material resources to recover a small Taiwan, according to the historical record of Zheng Chenggong *** in his memory, the Dutch on the island is only 2,000 troops, and it is still relying on the castle to defend the Zheng army to consume a lot of manpower and material resources, otherwise, the Dutch will be beaten by Zheng Jun in the field.

The whole process of Zheng Chenggong***, the Dutch failed to please in the field battle, and could only hide in the impregnable fortress and wait for reinforcements, but the reinforcements they were waiting for were also defeated by Zheng Jun's sailors on the way, and finally isolated and helpless, the governor was forced to sign a surrender agreement and return the island of Taiwan.