The Ming army attacked Yangzhou in a surprise attack, and finally wiped out 4,000 Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, and achieved a perfect conclusion with the Han army flag and the newly surrendered troops of the traitors.

Of course, the total number of Qing troops in the Yangzhou Prefecture is far more than that, but the rest are the traitors under the command of Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo. These troops were already thieves, and Liu Liangzuo was killed again. Anyway, the generals under his command were naturally all over the place, responding to the call of the Ming court.

It can be said that because of the Fu King Rebellion, the Ming army was armed with being a traitor. Now only the direct descendants of Xu Dingguo and Li Chengdong were still insisting on being a traitor. The rest were either killed or returned to the court anyway.

The Ming army was able to fight so smoothly, on the one hand, Cao Bianjiao, and Huang Degong intersected and surrounded Xunmeng, which was indeed a good fight.

Zheng Chenggong then brought artillery to assist in the siege, which was also of great significance - and Zheng Chenggong's contribution was more than that. A careful viewer would definitely find that during the siege in Yangzhou, Zheng Chenggong came more than a day later than Huang Degong Cao's transformation into a Jiao.

With more than a day of time difference, Zheng Chenggong was certainly not idle either. He actually took the Ming Navy to intercept the Kong Tingxu team on the Yangtze River, which was previously sent by Liu Liang to transport supplies and reinforcements to Duoduo.

With the information about Kong Tingxun's crossing the river, there is nothing to say about the subsequent surface combat part. With the attack of a generation of naval generals like Zheng Chenggong, he set up his pockets and waited for Kong Youde's son to drill in. Is there still a suspense?

Kong Tingxun's death was naturally so tragic that it could not be more miserable, and it was also considered that he helped Kong Youde to exterminate first (a book friend in the previous chapter questioned Kong Youde but not queen. Let me explain that Kong Youde had a son. In history, only he and other family members were killed in Guilin together. Only his daughter Kong Sizhen was not in Guilin at the time, so she was not killed by Li Dingguo.)

The part of the Yangzhou Qing army sailors and material fleet brought by Kong Tingxun was naturally killed, and all the materials could be seized were seized.

In ancient wars, ships were not so easy to be sunk. Basically, only gunpowder ships exploded or self-destructed would almost sink. Therefore, except for those gunpowder ships that the Qing army in Yangzhou suffered heavy losses, the rest were basically surrendered or killed people and robbed the supplies.

This is equivalent to spending most of the military strategic reserves that the Qing army raised from the rear to Yangzhou to conquer Jiangnan, which directly benefited Zhu Shuren. It was indeed a great achievement.

However, the core achievement of the Yangzhou Battle was undoubtedly convinced, believing that it should be the strategic plan of the country's master and the command of the wise and divine martial arts.

The deception that repeatedly jumps and plays the enemy in his palms, and the trick of using information on both sides of the Yangtze River to cut off repeated deception and disrupt the enemy's morale and dismantle the enemy's will to resist is the most decisive factor.

When a person's heart collapses, no matter how strong the physical combat power is, it cannot be exerted.

...

The Ming army was Yangzhou City, which was surrounded on the 15th day of the 11th lunar month. It broke the city on the evening of the 16th. It then took several days to eliminate the remaining enemies and capture the enemy's hidden deserters. On the 18th, the sporadic battles in the city gradually subsided.

Early in the morning of the 19th, Cao Bianjiao's troops in Yangzhou City began to cross the river south again, preparing to participate in the final field battle against Duoduo that was about to begin.

Huang Degong's troops were left behind, and some of them were divided into troops to help defend Yangzhou City to prevent the possible counterattack of the Qing army.

Zheng Chenggong's navy was also divided into part, moving from Jinshan Temple on the south bank to Guazhou Ferry on the north bank to help occupy this vital pier island, echoing the Huang Degong army defending the city in Yangzhou City.

Most of his generals naturally had no idea about Zhu Shuren's deployment.

The Guo family has already led everyone to win so many great battles, and this prestige is already at its peak. It is even more authoritative than when Jia Sidao defeated Kublai Khan in Ezhou in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

However, Zuo Zixiong, who had been with him for the longest, knew more about other old people under Zhu Shuren's command, so he persuaded him privately:

"Mr. Master, I, the audience, are worried that Yan Yingyuan will not last long, so as soon as the battle in Yangzhou was over, I was anxious to fight Duoduo's last battle.

But you and I all understand Yan Yingyuan's ability. He also got a lot of firearm supplies before the war. With his ability to defend the city, there would be no problem if he could defend for another month. Even if the ministry wanted to kill Duoduo within the year, there would be more than ten days left now.

General Cao's cavalry crossed the river twice, fought for three days, rested for three or five days, and maybe they could recover one or two percent of the combat power, and it would make Duoduo even more exhausted, so why not slow down?”

Zhu Shuren always disagrees with public opinion and advocates delaying consumption, but at this time it is abnormal:

"From the perspective of local military in Jiangnan, it is indeed not costly to delay for a few more days. The enemy and our combat power can also increase and grow, and their condition will recover better.

However, since the thunder in Yangzhou succeeded, we can't just look at the corner of Jiangnan. We must learn to see the world - just imagine, before Yangzhou fell, even if some people in the Qing army in Jiangbei were suspected that Duoduo was in Jiangnan and the news was cut off for more than half a month, would it be unfavorable, but they would never be so bold that they speculated that Duoduo was at risk of collapse.

Moreover, people seek benefits and avoid harm. With the original temperament of Liu Liangzuo, Yangzhou, Kong Youde and others in Huai'an, even if they temporarily lose contact with Duoduo, they will cover up first and conceal the real situation from the north. I hope the situation will improve by itself, so that they can avoid being punished by the Qing court, which will be beneficial to the career of the government."

Zuo Zixiong never thinks about these dirty things in the officialdom. He is just a pure soldier. Even though he has studied hard in recent years and has made progress in military strategy, he still knows nothing about political strategy.

Zhu Shuren's analysis from a political perspective immediately made him suddenly enlightened. As expected, the Guo family still has a lofty view.

Zhu Shuren looked like he was holding his wise beads and continued, "Now, Yangzhou has been lost, Liu Liangzuo was killed, and the Qing army in Huainan wanted to cover it up, it would be absolutely impossible. Even if they were afraid of Dorgon, they would still report their worries as soon as possible.

In this way, we must be wary of the Qing court's further dispatch of troops from Hebei to reinforce. If it is faster, the Ajige tribe in Huaixi and Henan will also be transferred.

Now I only keep a small half of Huang Degong's troops, plus Zheng Chenggong, defending Yangzhou Prefecture. They blocked Fengyang Nikan and Huai'an Kong Youde were more than enough, but it would be difficult to block the large number of elite reinforcements newly transferred from Hebei and Henan.

Therefore, we must take Duoduo's head before the main force of the Qing army in Hebei and Henan arrived in Huai'an! Once the Qing reinforcements knew that Duoduo was dead, their determination to rescue would be severely damaged and would not risk their lives with us at all costs.

And as long as they know that the Qing army in Jiangnan has been completely destroyed, the top leaders of the Qing court will naturally calm down and re-evaluate the strength comparison between the enemy and us. Only in this way can we stop the war and get time to rest and digest the results of the war."

Zhu Shuren said not only to Zuo Zixiong, but also to listen to the other generals who had just come in to ask for instructions and deployment. It could be considered half of the explanation and half of the war mobilization, so that everyone realized the political significance of quickly resolving Duoduo.

"The master of the tribe is indeed a great calculation. After the tribe analyzes this, we realized that the quick destruction of Duoduo has such a great extra significance. Indeed, we have to compete with the Qing court for time!

They cannot be allowed to transfer the army from the rear to rescue Duoduo to Jiangbei to launch a general attack! They must destroy Duoduo before this! By the way, they will also destroy the morale of the new Qing army, and let them run for nothing!”

After the generals unified their thoughts, their fighting spirit was naturally even more explosive. All departments prepared in full swing, and from thoughts to material things, they were all ready for the final decisive battle.

...

Zhu Shuren's estimate of the speed of the enemy's reaction is really accurate.

As mentioned earlier, Yangzhou City was broken on the 16th. Before the city was besieged, Liu Liangzuo actually sent a letter to Nikan and Kong Youde.

However, at that time, Nikan and Kong Youde did not feel that the situation was so serious that they needed to ask the court for instructions. They still felt that relying on the Qing army in the Lianghuai region was able to solve this problem.

In their eyes, Cao Bianjiao's crossing of the river was also characterized as a group of tentative sneak attacks by the Ming army. Maybe the Ming army just wanted to disturb Jiangbei, so they could get a vote and leave to fight pirate wars.

If a pirate war is directly reported to Dorgon as a big threat, he will eventually find that something is wrong, which will be a big negative for their career promotion, and no one wants to joke about their future.

However, this contempt was finally completely corrected when Kong Youde's reinforcements arrived in Gaoyou County between Huaiyang and Yang two and a half days later.

On the afternoon of the 17th day of the 12th lunar month, Kong Youde's reinforcements marched to the shore of Gaoyou Lake. Seeing that he could not continue to arrive in Yangzhou overnight, he wanted to go to Gaoyou County to rest overnight to avoid the pain of camping in the wild.

As a result, shortly after entering Gaoyou County, news of the fall of Yangzhou came one after another. Kong Youde confirmed it again and again and again, only then did he realize that the matter was really big.

Moreover, among the news brought by the defeated soldiers who fled back, there were many rumors that were difficult to distinguish between true and false. For example, Zhu Shuren asked Cao Bianjiao to shout, "The Battle of Jiangnan has ended, Duoduo has been killed by the Ming army, and the entire Qing army in Jiangnan has been wiped out" and other words, such as the defeated Qing army in Yangzhou, who were also brought out by the defeated soldiers of the Qing army in Yangzhou.

In the face of the ironclad evidence of Kong Youde's defeat in Yangzhou, coupled with the superposition of these many negative news, he was simply shocked and could no longer think about the future of his career. At present, he just wanted to save his life and stabilize the situation.

"Quick! 600 miles of speed! No, 800 miles of speed! Report the urgent to the capital immediately! Wait! Just reporting the urgent to the capital is not enough. Send the urgent to the capital all the way to Huaixi and Henan to find Prince Ying! Prince Ying is close, and may be able to abandon the attack on Nanyang and divide the troops to rescue him!"

In order to prevent the messenger from being accidentally or being intercepted halfway, Kong Youde spared no effort to send three messengers in each direction. In this way, even if a messenger had an accident, the rest could deliver the message.

The messenger set out overnight and delivered it to Ajige, on the evening of the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month two days later.

More than a day later, he was sent to Beijing in the early morning of the 21st day of the 1st day of the 12th lunar month. At about 3:00 am that morning, Dorgon got up and prepared to work, and he received news of his fifteenth brother's critical moment.
Chapter completed!