Gaoyouzhou is a Sanzhou under Yangzhou Prefecture. The magistrate was a fifth-rank official. He Chuan, the current magistrate of Gaoyou, was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Tianqi. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he was transferred from the magistrate of Xingguo, Jiangxi to this end last year. Hai Rui, a famous honest official, also served as the magistrate of Xingguo decades ago.

He Chuan was a pragmatic official. Although he had only been in office for more than a year, under his auspices, Gaoyou Prefecture dredged Gaoyou Lake in the territory and connected Gaoyou Lake with the river channel in Yancheng County to the east, which solved the flood storage problem that has plagued Gaoyou for many years.

We also used the numerous rivers and lakes in Gaoyou to vigorously help villagers raise ducks and geese. We also invited merchants from Jiangnan to collect ducks and geese, collect eggs in summer, sell ducks in winter, and hatch eggs in spring, forming an "industrial chain", which greatly increased the income of the people in Gaoyou, so it was loved by the people in Gaoyou.

When planting seedlings this year, the He Zhizhou led officials from all over the state yamen out of the city to the fields to plant rice with the people. This situation touched all the people, and it was also called Gaoyou gentry admired them very much. They all said that when He Gong came, Gaoyou would be like a new life.

Yangzhou Prefecture's annual performance rating for He Chuan is of the highest priority. If nothing unexpected happens, He Chuan is likely to be promoted in another one or two years, but all this was interrupted by the Huai Army who appeared under the prefecture city on the 17th day of the 12th lunar month.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Gaoyouzhou City received an urgent report from Qian Zhe, the magistrate of Baoying. He knew that something happened to the prefectures and county river workers recruited by the Huaiyang Governor's Office in the canal, but like Baoying, Gaoyou didn't know what was going on here. The only thing he could do was to keep the door closed and communicate with the nearby Gaoyou Guard and Yangzhou Prefecture.

On the fifteenth day, He Chuan got Tongzong Zhao Wen to inform him that the commander of Gaoyou Guard Wang Hong had dispatched troops to Baoying to quell the rebellion.

He Chuan calmed down and called his Tongzhi Qian Dalang to order him to prepare money and grain for Gaoyouwei to use the soldiers who quell the rebellion. He also asked the Tongzhi Zhao Wen to send someone to Wang Hong's army and submit messages to the city at any time.

However, one day later, He Chuan, who was sleeping, was woken up urgently by the magistrate Zhao Wen, saying that something big happened and the thief was at the city.

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The Huai Army arrived at the city of Gaoyouzhou at dawn on the 17th.

The day before, the Huai Army "completely annihilated" the Ming army led by Wang Hong, the commander of Gaoyou Guard in Lingjiazhuang dozens of miles away from Gaoyou City.

This battle, in Lu Si's own summary, is full of drama.

Before Lu Si could figure out the details of the oncoming Ming army, Baoying and the blind monks shouted and rushed towards the Ming army in a swarm.

These people may have been blinded by the victory of easily seizing Baoying, or they may have really thought that the officers and soldiers were vulnerable, but they rushed forward bravely.

Lu Si couldn't even shout!

As a result, the eight hundred people rushed, and the Fengzi Camp, who was preparing to line up under the constraints of the team officer, thought the attack began, so Hula rushed there.

When his subordinates rushed, Cheng Lin, the official of Fengying, knew something bad, but he had no choice but to follow him.

What can Lu Si do?

He had to follow him!

It’s just a joke, just like fighting on the street. It’s not a war, but everyone is holding a knife and a spear in their hands, and they really want to die of blood.

Lu Si, who personally led the flag team forward, had no other ideas at that time, so he hoped that God would not let him go to the hills and cry.

No matter how bad the Gaoyou Guard's troops were, there were more than 2,000 people, and there were hundreds of soldiers who could barely be called servants. Although they could not compare with the servants of the powerful generals on the Nine Borders, they were better than ordinary yamen.

Therefore, when the "thieves" were rushing over, the soldiers in the front who had just put down their farm tools and fishing gear were also scared, but did not run back together as soon as possible, but instead shouted at each other.

This scene surprised the eight hundred heroes who were attacking "not afraid of death", but they didn't have time to wonder why the officers and soldiers didn't run away.

The two sides collided and then mixed together, and they started to fight and kill on a wide area outside Lingjiazhuang near the river.

Perhaps the "emerging" momentum of the Huai Army suppressed the Ming army. Before the fight lasted for a while, the Ming army showed signs of losing support.

Gaoyou Guard Commander Wang Hong hurriedly led more than a hundred servants under his command to the front, and the sound of muskets sounded sparsely, pushing back the momentum of the Huai Army.

If the Fengzi Battalion had not arrived in time and disrupted the Ming army with its combat experience against the Jianhe soldiers, and did not allow their muskets to form a formation, those "ignorant" heroes who only rely on their passion would have woken up and then collapsed.

The number of Ming and Huai Army personnel was roughly the same, and the equipment of both sides was the same except that the Huai Army did not have muskets.

However, if the battle continues, the longer the time, the more unfavorable it will be to the Huai Army.

In the chaos, Lu Si led Sun Wujin and more than a hundred flag soldiers to pull out of the fighting crowd.

"Passing from the ice, going around behind the officers and soldiers!"

Lu Si pointed to a small river on the left and jumped from the ice layer on the river toward the opposite side.

A Ming army officer discovered the "thieves". A team of squads ran over the ice, but they might have thought there were too few thieves, and thought they were so scared that they ran away and ignored them.

After crossing the river, Lu Si led his flag soldiers to the southeast and then turned west, appearing behind the Ming army.

"kill!"

With a wave of Lu Si's long sword, he was about to lead the way again, but with a "whoosh" sound in his ear, Xu Chuanchao, who was a hunter, stepped out of the string, hitting an officer in the Ming army's rear formation.

Accompanied by the officer's scream, the Ming army's back formation found the "thief" behind him, but at this time something Lu Si never expected happened - the Ming army's rear formation bombed the camp.

The Ming army holding muskets were so scared that they dared not fire when they saw Lu Si and the others holding a big knife. They ran away to the left and right. The Ming army, who was fighting with the Huai Army in front, thought that the rear was defeated, and they all defeated the army and killed each other.

As a result, the Ming army suffered heavy losses, with 14 officers and 242 soldiers, 35 servants and 178 injured. 18 people drowned in the river, 31 people trampled to death by their own people, more than 1,500 were captured, and about a thousand fled.

After the war, Lu Si, who was also confused, found several captured Ming troops. These people were in the back of the Ming army at that time. Lu Si wanted to ask why they suddenly collapsed and refused to fight.

The reason for the answer made Lu Si laugh and cry. One of the soldiers said he didn't know either, and even when he saw someone running away, he also ran away.

Finally, a herd effect was formed.

No wonder the Ming army that surrendered from the north after the Qing army advanced south was able to run rampant without any obstacles. The Ming army in the south was really completely terrible!

Lu Si was both happy and sad about it.

In the history of previous lives, the main force of the Southern Ming Dynasty's anti-Qing was not the southern army of the Ming Dynasty, but the bandits and pirates. They even did not have the army that was truly loyal to Zhu Ming, so that the Grand Secretary of the Longwu court could only recruit 3,000 peasants to carry shoulder poles by scattering their family wealth.
Chapter completed!