When they learned that Liu Liangchen was Liu Liangzuo's younger brother, Huang Degong, Zeng Ying and others were all shocked.

Because Liu Liangchen surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the fourth year of Chongzhen, and at that time it was just a guerrilla in Zu Dashou's army and was inconspicuous, no one in the Ming Dynasty knew about this.

After all, the original Ming Dynasty could not even do internal intelligence work well, let alone obtaining external intelligence.

Soon, Huang Degong said, "If Liu Liangzuo really surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, I am willing to lead troops to attack him!"

Zhu Mai nodded, "Nan Bo Jing Nan believes that if Liu Liang surrenders to the Qing Dynasty, what will happen in the future?"

"He will definitely go south to attack Luzhou Prefecture." Huang Degong said confidently, "If you capture Luzhou, you can go south from Wuweizhou along the Yangtze River and cooperate with Duoduo, the main force of the Qing army, to attack Nanjing."

"What is Jingnanbo going to do?" Zhu Xian asked.

Huang Degong said: "Previously, the supervisor sent Ma Degong and Qiu Yue to guard Hefei, and Hefei was the must-attack place for Liu Liangzuo to go south to take Luzhou Prefecture.

With Liu Liangzuo's ability, even with the help of five thousand Han flag troops, he might not be able to attack Hefei so quickly.

Therefore, I asked the supervisory country to send Tian Xiong, who was stationed in Lu'an, to lead the troops up the Yangtze River and support Hefei from the south through the waterway.

I led my troops to take navy boats and sail north along the canal, first recovering Huai'an Prefecture, Shanyang, and Qinghe, and then from Hongze Lake to Huaihe River.

Then, along the Huai River, he would recover Sizhou, Xuyi, Linhuai, Fengyang and Shouzhou. By surrounding Liu Liangzuo's retreat, he would surely be able to wipe out all of them!"

As the most capable of fighting among the four towns in Jiangbei, Huang Degong was one of the famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty. Naturally, he was not only brave but also military strategy.

In history, he and Huang Fei first defeated hundreds of thousands of troops of Zuoliang Yu tribe in the Digang area.

Later, Liu Liangzuo led the Qing army southward, and Huang Degong directly destroyed 10,000 or 20,000 of his vanguards. He was so careless that he was killed by an arrow. Otherwise, Emperor Hongguang would not be so easy to be destroyed.

At the same time, Tian Xiong, Ma Degong and others under Huang Degong were not unable to fight - these people were quite capable of fighting, whether they were under Huang Degong or after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty in history.

On the other hand, even if Liu Liangzuo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he failed repeatedly in the war with the Southern Ming Dynasty, and his subordinates had never produced a "famous general in the early Qing Dynasty" like Ma Degong.

This shows how low Liu Liangzuo's combat effectiveness is.

That's why Huang Degong expressed such a strategy for sending troops.

Zhu Mai nodded after hearing this and said, "Jingnanbo's military strategy is indeed good, but to be safe, I can send a telegram to Huguang Governor Du Yinxi, asking him to send one or two towns of troops from Huangzhou Prefecture to Luzhou Prefecture.

One can be used as support, and the other can also block the retreat in the west of Liu Liangzuo. What does Jingnanbo think?"

Huang Degong was stunned when he heard this.

He knew that the radio station existed, but only because of his inertia of thinking, he forgot to use the convenience of radio transmission.

Otherwise, he would not have left this big loophole in the west.

When he came to his senses, he sincerely praised: "If the country is wise, if a partial army can be produced in Huguang, it will be just enough to make up for the shortcomings in the minister's military strategy."

"Then let's do the arrangement for Liu Liangzuo's troops." After making the decision, Zhu Ma asked again: "Who is willing to deal with the quasi-tower tower?"

"I am willing to go!"

Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan and Ai Nengqi made their way out at the same time.

Liu Wenxiu was obviously not interested in this matter, but when she saw this, she stood up and asked for a fight.

Zhu Meiyu smiled and said, "Then Yang Zhan leads the Second Border Defense Army Town to go."

"I accept the order!" Yang Zhan responded happily.

Among these generals present, he was the oldest, but his official position was average, and he was very eager to make meritorious performance.

Zeng Ying said again: "Responsible for the country, I am willing to lead troops north to defeat Xuzhou!"

"Yes." Zhu Mei nodded first, "but there is no need to be too anxious - let Ainengqi lead the fifth town of the Imperial Guard to follow Jingnanbo to the north to recover Huai'an.

Then he divided his troops and went east along the Yellow River from Ainengqi to conquer Andong and other places in the lowermost Yellow River.

Zeng Yingze temporarily stayed in Yangzhou, reorganized the Yangzhou defenders, civil warriors and Green Camp prisoners, and organized two towns of troops.

In one town, Liu Zhaoji can be the general officer, and in another town, Ma Yingkui is the deputy general, temporarily acting as the general.

After the reorganization is completed, you will take the troops from these two towns to the north.

Well, this palace will allow you to be the military affairs of the governor Xu Huai and command the troops of four towns, including the fifth town of the Imperial Guard.

Let’s take the task of recapturing Huai'an and Xuzhou, and guarding against the Qing army. Can Zeng Qing do a good job?”

This is a big job again.

Zeng Ying, who had not been able to catch the mission to drive the correct tower just now, was very excited and immediately clasped his fists and said, "I will never let down the entrustedness of the governor!"

Zhu Mai said to Huang Degong again: "After Jingnan Bo dealing with Liu Liangzuo, he should conquer the lost territory of Fengyang Prefecture, clear the local defeated soldiers, and bandits as his mission.

In addition, you need to be on guard against the Qing army in Henan. Of course, if the opportunity is right, our palace will order you to send troops to recover Henan.

When you go out of the army, our palace will also send a radio team to accompany you to facilitate your contact with us.

Well, Jingnan Bo will be the admiral of Henan and Fengyang’s military affairs.”

Seeing that Zhu Ma's arrangement was stable and he did not forget to take all the plans, Huang Degong was also excited, and immediately clasped his fists and said, "I will accept the order!"

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After this military meeting, Huang Degong selected troops from Yangzhou defenders, civil warriors and green camp prisoners on the same day to supplement the troops lost in the previous two battles.

The captives of the Green Camp soldier could only follow the arrangements of Zhu Mai.

The Yangzhou garrison was logically the former generals such as Liu Zhaoji, Shi Dewei, and Ma Yingkui. According to the previous customs of the Ming army, they basically had soldiers and generals, and it was difficult for the court to re-divided the troops of each unit.

However, Liu, Shi, Ma and others were more central to the Ming Dynasty; secondly, Zhu Ma is now very prestigious, but it has made civil and military officials dare to follow.

In this way, the Yangzhou defenders naturally allowed the generals from Zhu Mai to be eliminated and reorganized.

At the same time, Zhu Mai was also doing things cheaply, and in Yangzhou, he promoted the generals of Huang Degong's troops to the previous two battles.

Among his main generals, Huang Ming was promoted to the right governor, Xu Chong was promoted from deputy general to general, Chen Xiance was promoted to deputy general, and Zhang Jie was promoted to general.

Based on the former personal military camp led by Huang Degong, the 13th Border Defense Town was formed.

Based on the original yellow name and the troops led by Chen Xiance, two towns of Fengyang garrisons were formed.

As for Zhang Jie's army, it temporarily exists as an independent battalion. When Huang Degong overcomes Fengyang, the third town of Fengyang Garrison will be formed according to the situation.

In this way, by the time Huang Degong's three towns and one battalion replenished its troops, there would be nearly 40,000 people.

Therefore, things were delayed until the fourth day after Zhu Mei entered Yangzhou, Huang Degong and Aineng, led their troops and horses to the north along the canal on the Yangtze River Navy boats.

As for Yang Zhan, as early as the day of the military meeting, he led the third town of the border guards out of Yangzhou to the east and searched for the quadrail.

After sending Huang Degong and Ainengqi to the north, Zhu Mai took him outside the city to inspect various prisoner camps.

Four generals, Zeng Ying, Liu Wenxiu, Liu Zhaoji and Ma Yingkui, were accompanied by Yangzhou magistrate Ren Yumin, who was also called to accompany him.

"Before, we captured more than 13,000 Green Camp soldiers in Li Chengdong's army in Yangzijin, and nearly 4,000 Green Camp soldiers in the war south of Yangzhou.

In addition to the more than 5,000 prisoners captured by General Ai, the number of prisoners captured by the original Green Camp soldiers was once as high as 23,000.

However, Jingnanbo had previously selected more than 15,000 people from the Green Camp prisoners, but now there are only more than 8,000 people left."

Before coming to the camp where the Green Camp soldiers were in charge of the captives, Zeng Ying introduced to Zhu Xi about the current situation of the captives of the Green Camp soldiers.

After hearing this, Zhu Mai frowned slightly and said, "How many Yangzhou defenders and civil warriors are there at present?"

Liu Zhaoji immediately replied, "I reported to the supervisor of the country. After the rescue of the siege in Yangzhou, there were about 8,000 defenders, and more than 10,000 civilians who were mainly loyal to the camp.

But two thousand defenders were taken away by Jingnanbo two days ago, and more than three thousand civil warriors were more than six thousand defenders and seven thousand civil warriors were left."

"It seems that two more troops in the towns are set up, and there is still a gap of about 3,000 people." Zhu Mai sighed.

Zeng Ying said: "I think there are two solutions: one is to recruit new recruits from Yangzhou, and the other is to select 3,000 prisoners from the Han Banner Army."

The two town garrison troops to be formed have weak combat power. If three thousand new recruits are added, the combat power will be even weaker.

As for directly selecting people from the Han Banner Army, Zhu Mai was even more skeptical.

It should be noted that many Han flag troops have joined the Qing Dynasty for many years and have family businesses and families in the Qing Dynasty. Without transformation, their loyalty is difficult to guarantee.

Thinking of this, Zhu Ma said: "Let's go to the Eight Banners Army Captive Camp first."
Chapter completed!