The Guazhou Ferry that can provide the army with the river crossing the river is the Guazhou Ferry. In addition to this ferry, most areas along the river are muddy flats. Large ships cannot be approached, and small boats cannot be brought to the shore, but the baggage cannot be transported to the shore. Therefore, the northern army has always been crossing the river south, or the southern army crossing the river northward, either in Caishiji, or in Guazhou, or in Pukou.

Therefore, Lu Si also placed the decisive battle on Guazhoudu.

Before the war, Lu Si finally received a letter of help from Yu Huai'an City. The letter stated that the army launched a large-scale attack on the city, with no less than tens of thousands of troops, and the city was in danger. Lu Si could lead the southern army back to the rescue as soon as possible.

In this situation, Lu Si did not communicate to the entire army and was only focused on preparing for war.

Sun Wujin privately told Gao Jin: "Mr. Lu said that left-leaning adventure is not desirable, and right-leaning surrenderism should be damned."

When the Huai Army left the city, Lu Si ordered the officials and gentry in Yangzhou City to follow the army to Guazhou, calling it "watch the battle". In fact, he was afraid that these officials and gentry would cause chaos in the city when the main force of the Huai Army fought with the Ming army.

After this order, the city will be in chaos again.

The Ming army's "commander-in-chief" crossing the river was not the original Zhenjiang general Zhang Tianlu, but Shi Kefa, who came to Zhenjiang from Nandu to supervise the war.

In terms of force, the Ming army had more than a thousand soldiers in the Caojiang Navy Division, more than a thousand soldiers in the Zhenjiang General Zhang Tianlu, four thousand soldiers in the Zhenhai General Zheng Hongkui, and more than a thousand soldiers in the inner garrison. Thousands of troops from the Funing Marquis Zhu Guobi who retreated from Taoyuan, northern Jiangbei to the southern capital, and more than 15,000 Ming army participated in the battle of crossing the river.

Before the war, Shi Kefa had learned from it that the three divisions of Shi Dewei, Li Qifeng and Hu Shangyou were destroyed. He also knew that Yangzhou had been brought under the thief army and Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying reported the thieves in Huai'an. At that time, the Ming army and civil and military officials were shocked by the decay of Huaiyang.

In the southern capital city, the Duke of Baoguo Zhang Guobi, the Duke of Longping Zhang Gongri, the Duke of Linhuai Li Zushu, the Duke of Huaining Sun Weicheng, the Bo of Xincheng Zhao Zhilong and other ministers even believed that it was unnecessary to cross the river and recover Huaiyang. At present, the deployment of each army along the river should be gathered to prevent the bandit army from crossing the river, and to defend half of the country for the Ming Dynasty, the marquis "the emperor came from the north."

Shi Kefa insisted on recapturing Huaiyang, and Duke of Wei Xu Hongji also said that "to defend the river, must defend the Huaiyang", and Han Zanzhou had no opinion on the internal garrison. In this way, under Shi and Xu Li's support, the Ming army was able to continue crossing the river and fighting.

It only took another four days.

Liu Zhaoji, who had led his troops from Pukou to cross the river to Jiangbei, was so angry that he hated him: "I don't know a strategy, but I use strange things in the time, and I only fight and defend for several orders a day. How can I win this battle?"

He also scolded the Zhang brothers in Zhenjiang for having always been defeated. He heard that the thieves fled far away and did not know how to serve the state affairs. He only knew how to ask for internal wages and delayed the fighter.

In the midst of a mess, under Shi Kefa's personal supervision, the Ming army on the other side of the river made great efforts to cross the river to fight. At this time, it was twenty-two days before Yangzhou "fall".

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"Looking at this situation, could it be that the person who went down to Yangzhou is really a thief?"

In a warship on the river, the bandits were everywhere at the Guazhou Ferry, waiting along the formation, and there were several large flags with the characters "shun" that were inserted high. The old man in the 100-year-old couldn't help but be surprised by his long beard.

The old man was Chen Hongfan, the general of the Zhenjiang Guanjun, who was specially invited by Han Zanzhou, the garrison in the southern capital. This man was a martial artist and became the general of Juyongguan because he was very good at engaging in the Tianqi period. In the early years of Chongzhen, he was transferred to the Nanjing Admiral's Grand Seminary. Later, Kong Youde rebelled in Shandong. Chen Hongfan led 3,000 troops to participate in the suppression of the rebellion. He then guarded Dengzhou and Laizhou.

When Jiannu attacked Korea, the North Korean side could not resist it and asked for help from the Ming Dynasty. After hearing the news, Emperor Chongzhen immediately organized troops to aid Korea. The leader was Chen Hongfan, who specially gave him the seal of the General Pinghu. As a result, Chen Hongfan did not go to Korea at all, so he stayed on the Dongjiang Island and was finally dismissed.

After being dismissed, Chen Hongfan immediately took the path of an in-law minister and once again used Xiong Wencan to fight against the thief with Zuo Liangyu and others. As a result, he was dismissed from his post because he was not good at suppressing the thief.

Life can be considered a great ups and downs.

"If it was really a rebel army, how could this battle be fought?" The person who spoke was Zhang Tianfu, the deputy general next to Chen Hongfan, whose brother was Zhang Tianlu, the general of Zhenjiang.

Chen Hongfan said "hehe" and pointed at the Zheng Hongkui boat on Shi Kefa in the distance: "Shi Gong personally supervised the battle, asked for money and grain, do you two dare not fight?"

Zhang Tianfu said in a muffled voice: "I didn't say I won't fight."

Zhang Tianlu, who had been looking at Jiangbei with a thousand-mile mirror on the deck, turned around and suddenly asked Chen Hongfan: "Can the veterans recognize the figures in the army?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Hongfan was a little unhappy: "I am a Ming official, how can the person among the thieves recognize him!"

"There are no big turbans here, why should I hide the veteran and my brother?" Zhang Tianlu laughed.

"Yes, who doesn't know that the Great Western King treats the veterans as ancestors?" Zhang Tianfu also grinned.

"When talking about the thief, why did Zhang Xianzhong do that? He is a thief, I am a soldier. Since ancient times, soldiers and thieves are not in harmony. Even if he promises me and asks me to see him again, he will still slash him with one knife!"

Chen Hongfan looked dissatisfied, but his tone was quite proud, because he saved the fierce King Zhang Xianzhong of the West!

At that time, Zhang Xianzhong was the general of General Wang Wei. He was killed because he violated the law for participating in the mutiny. Chen Hongfan, who was the general of Yansui at the time, looked at his strange appearance and pleaded with General Wang Wei for him. Zhang Xianzhong was beaten with one hundred military sticks and then sued for the bandits.

It is true that Zhang Xianzhong is a man, and he will always remember his life-saving grace. So he carved a statue of Chen Hongfan in the army and called him his parents, burning incense and tribute to him every day.

Later, when the situation was wrong, he surrendered to the Ming court through Chen Hongfan. As a result, he rebelled shortly after surrendering, which caused Chen Hongfan to be dismissed.

The situation last year was unfavorable, and the court ordered Chen Hongfan to guard Denglai, but Chen Hongfan refused to go, but ran to Nandu to be sick.

Because of his infamous reputation, the honorary officials and officials in Nandu did not like him, but the new inner guard Han Zanzhou had contacts with him in the past, and was very close, and regarded him as a guest of honor. This time, the army crossed the river and recovered Yangzhou, and Han Zanzhou could not leave, so he asked Chen Hongfan to come to watch the army for him. Of course, this "watching army" also means to supervise the army.

"The veteran Tai's loyalty and righteousness are the two of me, but the current situation is said," Zhang Tianlu winked at his younger brother, and Zhang Tianfu hurriedly brought a stool to ask Chen Hongfan to sit down.

"I will know that your brother is not kind." Chen Hongfan sat down happily as he spoke.

"It's not that my brother is not kind, but who can't see clearly the current situation? The so-called "If you don't care for yourself, heaven will be punished by the earth." Zhang Tianlu shook his head and sighed.

"The Ming Dynasty is really about to perish. The Veterans Station can still come to Zhang Xianzhong as a guest. Where can I and my elder brother go?" Zhang Tianfu said more bluntly.

"You are all worried. Our Ming Dynasty is not dead now." Chen Hongfan gave Zhang Tianfu anger and gave him a look.

Zhang Tianlu hurriedly said, "This thing is like playing chess. You have to look at it earlier... If Jiangbei is really a Shunjun, wouldn't the Veterans have any other plans?"

"This... I don't know anyone on the side of the rebel army."
Chapter completed!