The Tartars are back! The Tartars are back!"

Looking at the Qing soldiers who threw their corpses and faded like a tide, the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou City cheered loudly, and everyone's faces carried the joy of the rest of their lives.

The last siege of the city, the Qing army was also ruthless, almost all the Eight Banners soldiers were put into battle, these Eight Banners wearing three layers of heavy armor were extremely strong, several times almost broke through the gap in the city wall into the city, fortunately, Su Ci took the lead, and led the team to make up in time to repel the Qing soldiers.

Under the stubborn resistance of the Ming army, the son of Nikan who participated in the siege of the city, Aixin Jueluo Nisiha, was also seriously injured and almost died on the spot.

Seeing the Qing army retreating north, Su Ci immediately sent a messenger to report the matter to Su Yan, who learned of this when he had just arrived in Liuhe County, since the Qing army had retreated, then Su Yan had to change the next plan - the army had already gone north, and the cancellation of the conquest at this time would only lead to a sharp drop in the morale of the army, and perhaps it could take advantage of the victory to pursue and occupy the entire territory of Jiangnan Province.

After informing Zhang Huangyan of this idea, Zhang Huangyan was very supportive, he said: "Your Highness, the people of Jiangbei have been living in dire straits under the rule of the puppet Qing Dynasty, and it is the desire of the people for the Northern Expedition of the Wang Division to recover their homeland, and the lower officials are willing to lead a brigade of soldiers and horses as the vanguard to open the way for the army!"

"In that case, let's go north to Huai'an."

Su Yan finally made a decision, and with his order, the army canceled the previous march plan and went straight to Huai'an Mansion.

Since there is going to be a northern expedition, then there will be a big wave, considering that Nikan's department still retains a certain strength, Su Yan issued several military orders at the same time, ordering Liuhe's Jiading Boyang Chengzu to lead 3,000 troops to join Su Ci in Yangzhou, and the two armies went north to Gaoyou together and attacked Huai'an Mansion from the south along the Grand Canal.

He also ordered Zhang Tianlu, the governor of Zhejiang stationed in Hezhou, to lead his headquarters of 3,000 to Chuzhou to join Ma Xin, who had been appointed as a general of the Chinese army, and the two led a total of 8,000 troops to attack Sizhou in the north, from Sizhou along the north of Hongze Lake, crossed the Yellow River that was still north of Hongze Lake at this time, and launched a siege from the north of Huai'an.

The large-scale military operation of the Ming army soon alarmed Nikan and Shuosai, who had withdrawn to Huai'an Mansion, and Shuosai under the city of Anqing, the former heard that the Ming army was coming towards Huai'an, and immediately keenly perceived the intention of the Ming army - the Ming army was preparing to recover Jiangnan in one go!

At that time, the Qing army in Huai'an City, counting the local defenders, had a total of less than 30,000 people, and they lost after the siege of Yangzhou, and there were many wounded, so they could not exert their full combat effectiveness.

And the Ming army that was coming to Huai'an added up, not counting the auxiliaries, at most only more than 28,000 people, Nikan couldn't figure out where the Ming army came from, daring to besiege Huai'an, which was almost the same as his own strength in defending the city.

Could it be that the commander of the Ming army thought that his Qing army had failed in the siege of Yangzhou, so he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, thinking that they were all a group of crooked melons and cracked dates?

Although Nikan was puzzled, out of prudence, he still took advantage of the arrival of the Ming army to strengthen the city defenses, and sent several twists and turns to ask the Qing court for help.

After sending out the fold, Nikan will deploy in Huai'an City, Huai'an City is precisely speaking, there are three urban districts, each urban area is separated by the city wall, respectively, the north city, the clamp city and the south city, and on the east and west sides of the north city, there are Hexia City, Xiaguan City, there is another Hebei town in the north of Hexia City, these three satellite cities are built with fences, legend has a dark ditch to connect the city, inside and outside the joint defense, impregnable.

The reason why it is a legend is because since the Qing army entered the customs and stole this city, it is difficult for people who know the existence of the dark ditch to find it, so the Qing army has only heard of the dark ditch, but does not know where the entrance and exit of the dark ditch is.

The three satellite cities were each other's horns, and they could not be easily abandoned, so Nikan sent 2,000 soldiers and horses to the outer three cities, and the remaining soldiers and horses held on to Huai'an Mansion.

In the middle of October, the Ming army of three soldiers and horses successively came to Huai'an City, Su Ci's soldiers and horses occupied the abandoned Song Dynasty South Suoguan Ancient City, the general attack on the south and east of the city, Su Yan ordered Zhang Huangyan to temporarily lead the Suzaku Left Brigade, set up camp in the west of the south city, and led the army to attack Hexia City and Hebei Town. Later, Ma Xin led the troops to take charge of the main attack on the north of the city and Shimonoseki City.

On the day of the siege, Su Yan gathered all the generals in the barracks, and the generals present were Fu'an Hou Su Ci, Jiading Bo Yang Chengzu, Chinese Army General Ma Xin, Chinese Army Staff Officer Zhang Huangyan, Zhejiang Governor Zhang Tianlu, and the generals gathered around the military map with the city defense terrain of Huai'an Prefecture.

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His eyes fell on Su Yan, who was standing on the main seat.

"Huai'an has been an important town in Huaibei since ancient times, the city is impregnable, although the Qing army was defeated under the city of Yangzhou, but it still retains a certain strength, and the strength is comparable to our army, this battle will be very difficult." As soon as Su Yan came up, he set such a main tone

Then, he pointed to the three satellite cities marked on the map, and continued: "The Qing army divided its troops to garrison the three cities of Hexia, Hebei, and Xiaguan, and each city was a horn with each other.

Therefore, in the early stage of the siege, the Governor will personally be responsible for attacking the two cities of Hexia and Hebei, and Ma Xin, the general of the Chinese army, will be responsible for the main attack on Xiaguan, and the rest of the troops will actively build siege equipment."

When Ma Xin heard him call his name, he immediately gave a military salute and agreed.

"Your Highness, since it is difficult to attack the city, why don't our army maintain the siege, exhaust the food in the city, and wait for the defenders in the city to run out of food before launching a siege?" Jiading Bo Yang Chengzu asked puzzled.

Before Su Yan could answer, Zhang Huangyan took the initiative to take over and explained: "Huai'an is an important town of Caoyun, and it is also the residence of the governor of Caoyun in the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, and there must be a large amount of grain and grass in the city, and I am afraid that it will not work to besiege this for a long time."

Su Yan nodded and praised Zhang Huangyan's explanation.

Then, with a light cough, he took out a slightly crumpled battle report from his bosom, and his face was also a little happy.

When several generals saw the expressions on his faces, they knew that it must be where the Ming army won the victory again, and it seemed that this victory was not small.

Sure enough, under the gaze of the generals, Su Yan opened his mouth and said: "This is a battle report from Anqing Mansion, on the eighth day of the first month of October, Wang Yi of Beixi Bo led the army to fight with the puppet Qing Dynasty and the prince of Shuo Chengze, Aixin Jueluo Shuosai, outside the city of Anqing, and Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, participated in the battle together, and after a fierce battle, the Qing army was defeated, Shuo Sai was captured, and he was escorted to Nanjing together with the prisoners."

"Shuosai captured?"

"Beixi Bo and Dingxi Hou are good! The capture of the Prince of Tartar is an unprecedented feat."

The generals suddenly became excited, since the Manchurian uprising, the Ming and the Manchus had never captured a prince in the battle, even Su Yan was only killed in the battle.

Su Yan's face couldn't help but smile, and he said, "Everyone, Wang Yi and Zhang Mingzhen have already made such great achievements, we can't lose to them, Nikan is waiting for us in Huai'an City."

"Vow to capture Nikan!"

Ma Xin took the lead and shouted.

"Vow to capture Nikan!"

The rest of the people shouted out as well.

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