When Yang Chengzu's envoy arrived, Yang Chengying was on his way to Yangzhou Mansion.

After listening to the envoy's words, Yang Chengying smiled: "You don't even know what I'm here for, so you dare to come and surrender."

The messenger's heart was shocked.

Yang Chengying said, "Go back and tell Yang Chengzu to ask him and his subordinates to wash their necks and wait for them to be completely wiped out by our army."

"King, our army has 200,000 people, if we fight hard, we may not be able to inflict a heavy blow on the king......

The envoy reined in his mind and turned to threaten Yang Chengying.

"Alright, I'll see how he hits me!" Yang Chengying does not believe in evil.

"Your Highness......

"Alright, let's go. You plundered the surroundings of Yangzhou Mansion and caused human suffering. If you do evil, you will pay the price."

Yang Chengying waved his hand, and the guards pushed Yang Chengzu's envoy away.

Lang Tingzuo on the side persuaded: "Your Highness, even if you want to kill them, you should pretend to agree to surrender and then attack suddenly, so as to catch the enemy by surprise."

"At this time and that time, if we want to recover Jiangnan, we must first destroy these armies that have caused suffering to the people of Jiangnan."

Yang Chengying said: "Therefore, we must eliminate them in a dignified manner and show them to the neutral people in Yangzhou Mansion and even the entire Jiangnan."

In the end, it's a political account.

When talking about Yangzhou, we have to raise Jie's cruelty to Yangzhou. He caused the people of Yangzhou not to dare to cooperate with the rest of Gao Jie to fight against the Qing army in history and the Liaodong Army today.

Historically, the river was blocked by the sailors, and the people of Yangzhou had nowhere to escape.

Coupled with the fact that the rations of the 200,000 newly surrendered soldiers were not available, there were ten days to leave a written word.

In order to avoid this kind of thing, and for the sake of long-term peace and stability in the future, Yang Chengying had to adopt a blank approach.

On the 19th, that is, the day Yang Chengzu sent an envoy, the Liaodong army came to Yangzhou Mansion.

The desperate remnants of Gao Jie finally united and fought a decisive battle with the Liaodong Army north of Yangzhou City.

However, they did not have the courage to take the lead in attacking, but chose to set up a formation behind the city and wait for the Liaodong Army to attack them.

North of Yangzhou City, west of the canal, ditches were dug on flat land.

In the face of Yang Chengying's 30,000 Liaodong Army and 50,000 Mongolian cavalry, the five general soldiers of Gao Jie's Department wisely chose to dig trenches to delay the offensive of the Liaodong Army.

Yang Chengying looked south with a telescope, and the rest of Gao Jie's troops tried a cavalry attack, but were easily repulsed by the nimble Mongol cavalry; Tried to alternate the car battalions, and the light and thin side box cars could not fight against heavy artillery.

In the end, they could only dig trenches in rotation day and night, and block the Liaodong Army with five-foot trenches, in an attempt to fight a war of attrition with the Liaodong Army.

Yang Chengying put away his binoculars and said to Bahana, who was staying on the dirt mountain to watch the enemy formation:

"They're trying to fight us."

Bahana nodded slightly, holding a telescope and looking at the distant city of Yangzhou, the gate of which was closed, obviously not wanting to get involved in the war.

In the hearts of these gentry and people, eighty percent think that the Liaodong Army and Gao Jie's rest of the Ming Army are dog-eat-dog.

This also dooms the rest of Gao Jie to be passive.

Bahana said, "Your Highness's plan has worked, and the people of Yangzhou are obviously unwilling to support this Ming army, and they are afraid that the rest of Gao Jie's troops will attack the city."

It is said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and the "hearts of the people" in different periods are also different, but one thing is the same, if you despise them, they will give you a key blow.

At this time, Gao Jie's remaining five general soldiers had a total army of more than 100,000, and the more people there were, the more troublesome it was, and the expenses were increasing day by day, and Yangzhou City was difficult to capture in a hurry.

Yang Cheng only chuckled at this and said, "Fight with me, I don't know whether to live or die at all. Didn't he know that at this time, the winter monsoon prevailed, and the grain of the Li Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom could be transported directly from the Yangtze River here."

"That army doesn't need to attack head-on at all, just recuperate for a few days, wait for the enemy to mess up, and then take the opportunity to attack in a big way." Bahana laughed.

"That's exactly what it is." Yang Cheng should be in good order

Pick up the binoculars again, and search for a familiar and unfamiliar figure in the enemy formation.

The person he was looking for was Shi Kefa.

Listening to the Tang soldiers of Gao Jie, who surrendered before the battle, Shi Kefa sat in Yangzhou City, and several times hoped that the Yangzhou gentry would provide money and grain to Gao Jie's rest of the army, but they were all refused.

The impact of the rest of Gao Jie's troops on Yangzhou was too bad, and the Ming army guarding Yangzhou City was no better.

Liu Zhaoji, Li Qifeng, Zhang Tianlu, Zhang Tianfu...... extorted the people's property every day, and the people could only endure it in order to prevent the rest of Gao Jie from entering the city.

However, Yang Chengying guessed that Shi Kefa would definitely find a way to transfer Hu Maozhen and Guo Hu to Yangzhou City to garrison, because they were the most obedient to Shi Kefa's words.

If I do, God will help me.

The gentry and people of Yangzhou are already highly nervous, and then transfer them into the city at this time, which will inevitably cause panic in Yangzhou City.

"Pass my military order, let the artillery move forward and arrange artillery positions, and once the battle starts, I want the artillery to hit the back of the enemy's camp."

After Yang Chengying finished speaking, the signal soldier behind him turned around and retreated.

Soon, through the binoculars, I saw the auxiliaries holding shovels and other items, moving forward.

They had no fear of the enemy attacking, for they had to step out of several five-foot trenches to attack them.

By the time the Ming army crossed the trench, the auxiliaries had already withdrawn to the camp, and then the artillery group greeted the Ming army enthusiastically.

Camp outside Yangzhou.

Supervisor Shi Kefa's eyes widened on the dirt mountain, staring worriedly at the artillery on the opposite side.

A well-made cannon showed great power from the very beginning, directly smashing the partial van of the Ming army that was trying to attack.

The enemy has a huge advantage in firepower, and he came from afar, but chose to defend, which gave Shi Kefa huge psychological pressure.

Hu Maozhen said behind him: "Supervisor, our army's artillery is not as good as the enemy's, and the grain and grass are drying up day by day.

Guo Hu also said, "Yes. The army outside Yangzhou alone has 150,000 horses, and the consumption of people eating and chewing horses is amazing."

"It's strange to say, Yang Chengying came from afar, and the consumption should be very large, why isn't he in a hurry." Hu Maozhen said.

"The other party has been marching slowly, in fact, they are accumulating food and grass, ready to fight with us. The problem is, we can't afford it."

Guo Hu sighed helplessly.

"The only way now is to transfer grain from Yangzhou City." Shi Kefa finally spoke, "I don't think it's better to do this, transfer you into the city first, and then I will ask the Yangzhou gentry for money and food."

"It's better to be able to go into the city to defend than to be outside. I'm afraid...... lest the people refuse." Hu Maozhen's face was happy.

Shi Kefa said helplessly: "I can't care about these now, anyway, Li Benshen and Li Xiangyun will not surrender. As for the gentry and people in Yangzhou, it is important to keep Yangzhou by suffering them for the time being."

Having lost Yangzhou, the imperial court had no place in Jiangbei.