The news that the Qing army was in Anqing City was soon sent to Su Yan's table along with the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who were escorted to Nanjing.

Without dealing with these Manchurian Eight Banners first, Su Yan hurriedly ordered someone to get a military map, he looked at the Anqing Mansion City drawn on the river on the map, and combined with the intelligence that the Qing army did not have many troops, he was not worried that Zhang Mingzhen would not be able to hold this city.

In fact, even if it entered the pass, the Qing army was still not good at attacking the city, the Qing army soldiers who went south this time hit a wall after two roads, the soldiers and horses led by Nikan were still stumbling under the city of Yangzhou, hitting their heads and bleeding, and Shuosai's soldiers and horses hit the wall in Luzhou, and went to Anqing to eat deflated, completely helpless Su Yan built a defense line in Jiangbei.

However, Su Yan couldn't watch the Qing army continue to show off his might in Jiangbei, and he had a bold idea - before the Qing army followed up with troops and horses to go south, he would eat these two Qing troops and snatch the results of Li Dingguo's two famous kings in advance.

At present, Su Yan can only mobilize the Qinglong Left Brigade and the Suzaku Left Brigade stationed in Nanjing, the latter is composed of 6,120 Russian garrisons, Su Yan decided to personally lead the Qinglong Left Brigade and the Suzaku Left Brigade to cross the river to encircle and suppress Nikan outside Yangzhou City, and annihilate it in Jiangbei with superior forces.

He also ordered Wang Yi to send the White Tiger Left Brigade to the south to aid Anqing Fucheng, and the soldiers and horses under Shuo Sai's command were only more than 17,000 people left after the death of Suohong, and after the White Tiger Left Brigade entered the battle, the two sides would be equal in terms of strength, and even the Ming army would be superior.

The order to go out was issued, the two brigades stationed in Nanjing began to get busy, a large number of military supplies were carried onto the ship, the sailors commanded by Huang An also undertook nearly half of the transportation tasks, and the rest was undertaken by the ships levied in the port of Nanjing, the army will land in Pukou, and then go north to Liuhe, all the way to capture Tianchang County, completely put an end to the retreat of the Qing army.

The night before the expedition, Su Yan sat in the study to check the list of military supplies that needed to be prepared when going on the expedition, Zheng Chagu stood behind him, quietly massaging Su Yan's shoulders, and the two talked a few words from time to time, and the atmosphere was extraordinarily harmonious.

At this moment, the voice of the housekeeper Su Qian sounded outside the door, and he knocked lightly on the door and said, "Your Highness, Lord Zhang, the governor of Jiangning, wants to see you."

"Please." Su Yan put down the list and said outside.

After hearing this, Su Qian turned to leave, and Aunt Zheng also stopped and said, "Husband, that concubine avoided first."

"Let's go back, give me a warm quilt first, and then keep it warm with you at night." Su Yan held her little hand, squeezed it, and said with a smile.

Zheng Chagu glanced at him shyly, and then made a blessing and left the study, as soon as she walked on the front foot, Zhang Huangyan walked in on the back foot, he saluted Su Yan, and said, "Your Royal Highness is here to see His Royal Highness, and he is still disturbing at such a late hour, please forgive Your Highness."

"It doesn't matter." Su Yan waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down, and after Zhang Huangyan sat down, he continued to ask, "Is there something wrong with Xuan Yan coming to visit now?"

"Your Highness, the army will cross the river tomorrow, and the lower officer wants to go out with the army." Zhang Huangyan stood up again, bowed down and said.

"Why?" Su Yan didn't agree immediately, but asked him the reason.

"Xia Guan studied the art of war when he was young, and he was determined to promise the country with his body, and abandoned his pen to follow Rong, and now the king is about to go on a northern expedition, how can Xia Guan hide in the rear and steal his life, Xia Guan begs His Royal Highness to allow Xia Guan to go out with the army." Zhang Huangyan said, saluting again.

Seeing Zhang Huangyan's earnest words, Su Yan nodded and said, "Since Xuan is dedicated to the country, this king has agreed, and this king has temporarily granted you the position of staff officer of the Chinese army, and by the side of this king, add the rank of Zuo Du Lieutenant."

"Your Highness!"

Zhang Huangyan was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed deeply, since the goal had been achieved, Zhang Huangyan did not continue to stay here, so he proposed to say goodbye, and prepared to go home to spend more time with his wife and children tonight.

Another factor why Su Yan allowed him to be dismissed from the post of governor of Jiangning and join the army was because all the scholars selected in the imperial examinations of the three provinces held in early July had been arranged into the local government offices, and they also understood the content of their work after becoming officials.

It is worth mentioning that after three months of construction, the public schools in the state capitals have been successfully completed, under the propaganda of officials in various places, although no one responds, but there are also many people who send their children to the school to study, and the teachers of each school are either signed up under the call of Qian Qianyi

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They are scholars hired by local officials.

The main task of the school is to teach students to read and write, and the traditions of the Four Books and the Five Classics have not been abandoned, but because there are not many people who can do mathematics, it is not yet possible to popularize mathematics in the school.

Su Yan can only hope that after the university is completed, those who have learned mathematics in the university will go to the school to teach, so as to lay a good foundation for students to enter the university in advance.

In short, free education has been initially rolled out in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.

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On the fifth day of October, the Ming army officially crossed the river.

Su Yan boarded the ship under the eyes of Zheng Chagu and a group of officials, and Zhang Huangyan, who had changed into a suit of armor, had a sword hanging from his waist and a flintlock handcuff that Su Yan had given him, and followed Su Yan closely.

Zhang Huangyan stood on the deck, looking at the people who saw off him on the shore, he could clearly see his wife holding his son's hand, waving in his direction, after serving as the governor of Jiangning, his wife was already nearly two months pregnant, and was only found out not long ago.

"Ma'am, wait until I get back."

Zhang Huangyan muttered to himself in his heart, his eyes full of determination.

"Cross the river!"

With Su Yan's order, hundreds of ships carrying Ming soldiers, war horses, artillery and a large number of military supplies rushed to the opposite bank, until the next day all the soldiers and horses were sent to Pukou, Su Yan did not rush to set off, until the artillery and military supplies were delivered, he led the army unhurriedly.

Originally, Su Yan wanted to put all the military grain and grass in Yizhen County and use it as a military warehouse, but considering that the city wall of Yizhen County was low and difficult to hold, he could only put the military grain and grass in Pukou, and the soldiers and auxiliaries were responsible for escorting them to the front line.

The news of the Ming army's crossing of the river was soon spread to Yangzhou - while besieging Yangzhou, Nikan also sent a large number of cavalry to run rampant in the north of the river, collecting grain and grass, capturing the common people, and finding out the intelligence of the Ming army by the way.

The movement of the Ming army crossing the river was not deliberately concealed, and even if it was concealed, it was difficult to escape the eyes and ears of the Qing army, so the Qing army, who learned of this information, hurriedly sent the news to Nikan, which made the latter shocked.

After more than half a month of siege, he has personally experienced the Ming army that swept through the southeast is not easy to provoke, and the Ming army he fought against is completely different from the soft-footed shrimp that was about to collapse at the touch of a button, they have a high fighting spirit, and the combat effectiveness is higher than the Ming army that has been fought before, and the Qing army has been pushed down several times on the city wall.

Because of this, Nikan's heart rose to retreat.

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