Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 399
At this time, the situation in the Daming Jiangbei War is very good.

With Yang Chao here, Yangzhou Mansion is as stable as Mount Tai. Even if Duoduo attacks with the same force as last time, Yang Chao can easily deal with it. Although it is impossible to achieve the same results as last time, there is no risk. The night attack was obtained entirely through hard work and adventure, and the element of luck was too heavy. Yang Chao himself could not guarantee winning or losing if he came again.

Now that we are fighting, it's time for a decisive battle head-on. Li Wuliu has already made a good start in Haizhou, which can be regarded as Yang Chao's experiment, which proves that his army has the tactical ability to fight a decisive battle with the Manchus. It is still at a disadvantage, after all, the size of the army is not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty.

In other places, the Anhui area is all Huang Degong's territory. His army has expanded to 15, and Jiangbei has 30 reliable troops. Out of Jiangnan.

"Send [-] horses to Huang Degong, tell him that the Lord will return to Huai'an in a few days, and ask him if he would like a share."

At the military meeting, the first thing Yang Chao planned to do was to join forces with his allies.

In Yangzhou, Yang Chao wiped out [-] banners and captured [-] war horses. Yang Chao did not expect this number, not too many, but too few.

In the past, when encountering the Qing army, they had at least two horses, or even three horses, but this time the [-] cavalry had only [-] horses. Obviously, the Qing army's war horses were too worn out.

There was also news from Beijing that when Azig pursued Li Zicheng, he was part of the Northern Route Army and marched westward from Shanxi. In the picture, he even traveled to Mongolia to ask for war horses. As a result, he missed the opportunity and was reprimanded by the Qing court.

Apparently, the continuous battles have exhausted the horses of the Eight Banners, not necessarily all of them were killed, most of them died of exhaustion, but this is enough to prove that the Eight Banners' combat power is in a weak state at this time.

Yang Chao didn't believe that since the first half of last year, he had been chasing Li Zicheng until now, and the Qing army was not tired.

You must know that Li Zicheng dragged a dynasty of [-] million people to death.

This was also one of the factors why Yang Chao decided to counterattack.

"Send someone to notify Li Wuliu and ask him to dispatch 3000 men to attack south and capture Yancheng!"

Haizhou goes south along the coast, and it is next to Yancheng. If the Qing army comes to rescue, he will go north to Huai'an. become an isolated city.

With a nail like Haizhou, Yang Chao took the initiative in the war.

"Zheng Yongwang, you set off with [-] soldiers and horses, and went to Haizhou by sea. After meeting Li Wuliu, you can march towards Muyang and make a move to attack Muyang and Suqian to cut off the Huai'an retreat route."

If the Qing army in Yancheng next to them doesn't care, then how dare they not care about Suqian behind Huai'an?

Yang Chao is going to see, Duoduo divides his troops regardless!

"Order Lu Mo to use the camera to test the reaction of the captive soldiers!"

Northeast and south, Yang Chao attacked from three sides. Let's see how Duoduo reacted. If Huang Degong also attacked from the west, Duduo would be overwhelmed. Maybe he would retreat without hitting him.

If Huai'an can go down without a fight, Yang Chao is naturally very happy, because he is too familiar with that city, and knows that the defense structure of that city is very reasonable, and the defense side takes advantage of it.

At the beginning of June, Lu Mo sent back news three times. He attacked three times and defeated the Qing army three times. The last time he approached the school field near Huai'an city.

Lu Mo said that the Qing army was extremely weak, and would collapse at the first touch, flee when it was defeated, and vulnerable. Lu Mo heard some news that the main force of the Qing army was no longer in Huai'an, and asked if it was possible to send troops to attack the city.

Yang Chao was puzzled. He judged that the Qing army was indeed exhausted, and its combat effectiveness must have declined, but he didn't believe it was so vulnerable. His first reaction was that the Qing army was trying to lure the enemy.

However, it was impossible for Lu Mo not to see such an obvious lure to the enemy. Yang Chao still chose to trust the generals at the front and still let Lu Mo take action.

But the defeat soon came. Lu Mo claimed that when he attacked the city, the Qing army was extremely strong, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers. Lu Mo fought steadily, and finally half of the soldiers fled back to Baoying. Tide punishment.

Victory and defeat are commonplace. If it is true that the Qing army has already retreated as the news said, then it would be a great achievement to easily regain Huai'an, but it was obviously fooled. The Qing army taught Lu Mo a good lesson.

So Yang Chao didn't really punish him, he just fined him half a year's military salary, and then sent an official letter asking him to stay in Baoying, and at the same time let Gaoyou send reinforcements.

……

"Zhunta, this king is giving you one last chance. You stay in Huai'an, and I want you to stick to it until July at the latest. If you miss one day, I'll cut off your head."

In Huai'an City, Duoduo had just won a battle. Almost the whole army attacked and defeated the Ming army's ten thousand people, but they made five thousand of them run back.

"You should be so suspicious. I believe that after this defeat, the Ming army will never attack again within three to five days."

What else can Zhunta say? After Haizhou was defeated, he surrounded the Ming army for several days but could not find the weakness of the Ming army. He was defeated in the field battle. Can he still hope to attack the city? After staying outside the city for three days, he was killed by Duoduo Called back to Huai'an.

Then soon encountered the actions of the Ming army. Doduo asked Zhunta to lead the defeated generals to fight. After three defeats and three defeats, he retreated to Huai'an. Out of the city to attack, the result defeated the Ming army.

Zhunta didn't think Duduo was strong enough, but Duduo had many soldiers. If he led the main force of the [-] Banners, he could defeat the [-] troops of the Ming army, but he didn't dare to oppose Duduo, so he could only agree. Be trapped in an isolated city.

Then that night, Duoduo's main force quietly left Huai'an.

……

Yangzhou, Tianzhai.

Under Yang Chao's loan, the people of Yangzhou City slowly rebuilt their homes. In order to give the people a job, Yang Chao even spent millions of silver to restore some ownerless houses in Yangzhou City.

This farmhouse is one of them.

The area of ​​the field house should be regarded as the largest house in Yangzhou City.

This is not someone else's house, it is the house of Tian Wan who has a grudge against Yang Chao.

Tianjiazhaizi starts from Lijin Gate (East Gate) in the north of Yangzhou Dongcheng, and goes vertically and horizontally to the south until Tongji Gate in the south. Up and down, the length is almost half of Yangzhou City.

Among them, there are gardens and rockeries, which can be regarded as the first garden in Yangzhou. Moreover, Tian Wan likes antiques. He built a Qulou with calligraphy and painting works at home. His collection is rich, but it is a pity that they were lost in the robbery.

"My lord, this Tianwan has no heirs, and has died of illness. This garden has no owner. If your lord accepts this house, it is also the hearts of the people of Yangzhou!"

Cui Sihu, who was promoted by Yang Chao to act as an agent of Yangzhou government affairs, wanted to let Yang Chao take advantage of this. By the way, he flattered Yang Chao. Because of Yang Chao's promotion, he was very prestigious in Yangzhou City for a while, but the new magistrate and governor sent by the court Teacher, but they don't like him very much. He has been excluded very much recently. Obviously, he has been beaten into the Yang Party. There is really no other way except to join Yang Chao and go all the way to the underworld.

But what he said also made sense.

Although Tian Wan was greedy for money and lustful, it was strange that he only gave birth to one daughter in his life, that is Concubine Tian Gui.

The family wealth he accumulated in Beijing has already fallen into the hands of Li Zicheng, and the real estate in his hometown in Yangzhou has no owner.

But Yang Chao smiled, shook his head and said, "Although Tian Wan has no children, he still has a second nephew."

Concubine Tian Gui gave birth to several sons for Emperor Chongzhen. Two of them survived and were brought to the south of the Yangtze River by Yang Chao. Now they are both Prince Taiping in Nanjing. According to the inheritance law, these two people have the right to inherit.

After watching the Tianjiazhai, Yang Chao also had to sigh, these people really know how to play, unlike the local tyrants of later generations, they all like to live in Western-style villas, the stone shells in the West, how can they compare with the taste of Jiangnan gardens.

Waiting until mid-June, under Chen Jin's inspection, there were more than 100 cannons in Yangzhou City that passed the test. Yang Chao directly took away [-] of them and put them on the cannon carts. It was very convenient to use boats for water and horses for land. .

These ninety cannons, fifty general cannons, forty Francine cannons, plus the thirty red cannons seized from Duoduo, a total of 120.

"Notify many men and Zheng Yongwang that the two armies will all go north, and immediately rush to Baoying to join Lu Mo. Don't wait for our army, and immediately march to Huai'an!"

Apart from preparing the cannons for the siege, there are two other reasons why Yang Chao set off now.

The first is because we have received news from Li Wuliu that Yancheng and Muyang have already been captured and are marching towards Suqian. If the Huai'an Qing army rescues Suqian, then Huai'an City will be empty of troops. At this time, Yang Chao's army will attack. It is impossible for them to rescue calmly. If they don't accept that the way back is cut off, they can only give up Huai'an, try their best to protect Muyang, or go back to Shandong directly.

The second is because the troops of Tongzhou, Taizhou and other counties have already assembled in Yangzhou, so that Yang Chao's troops reached 10, leaving [-] in Yangzhou. Take Huai'an in one fell swoop.

These conditions made Yang Chao think that the fighter plane had arrived, so he set off immediately and wanted to take down Huai'an within three days.

Along the way, the horses were frequently visited, and messages and orders were passed on one after another.

Lu Mo hit the city of Huai'an again, this time he was more cautious, and found that there were not many soldiers and horses in the city, and he waited patiently and honestly for the cannons to arrive before attacking the city.

Many men's troops also rushed to Huai'an. Together with Zheng Yongwang and Lu Mo, they divided their troops into three groups and surrounded Huai'an City from east to west, south and west, leaving only the north side.

On June [-], Yang Chao's army arrived in Huai'an city one after another.

"Siege? No hurry!"

As soon as the army arrived, many men and others came to ask for instructions. At this time, they were encircled on three sides, and Yang Chao had the upper hand in terms of military strength and combat effectiveness.

So many men who arrived earlier asked for a fight, thinking that they could climb up the city wall in one go, especially Lu Mo, who would be ashamed.

But Yang Chao did not agree.

"It is reported that there are [-] elite soldiers from the Eight Banners in the city, and Liu Zeqing's surrendered troops are not less than this number. The casualties in the siege of Yifu are too great. Duoduo attacked Yangzhou and knew how to use artillery. Are we not as good as them?"

The more than 100 cannons that Yang Chao brought were not decorations, especially the [-] cannons in red clothes, which were given by Duoduo. Yang Chao thought it would be a good idea to keep the cannons and return the cannonballs to him.

The cannon rang out very quickly, and Yang Chao was watching from outside the city. Because there were cannons in Huai’an City, the camp was still some distance away from Huai’an. From a distance, there was a banner with red, yellow, blue and white colors. This is the flag of the Eight Banners Soldiers .

Let the red-clothed cannon aim at the southeast corner and continuously bombard. Only a small part of the shells hit the city wall, and most of them either missed or entered the city. I don’t know how many houses in Huai’an have been left in ruins after this battle.

After fighting for a day, Huai'an City was not even blasted away. Obviously, Huai'an is much stronger than Yangzhou.

The bombardment continued the next day and the third day, and it was not until the third night that a gap was opened in the city wall.

Immediately let the army rush up with shields, and at the same time, Yang Chao let the artillery follow, and soon entered the attack range of the cannons on Huai'an City.

However, under the cover of shields, Yang Chao's first batch of soldiers had already rushed up and fought with the Qing army at the gap, and then the cannon suddenly rushed forward and bombarded the gap at close range, immediately smashing the Qing army who was trying to block the gap. After being defeated, the infantry went up to hide and kill them, and stormed into the city in one go.

so easy!

Yang Chao copied Duoduo's method of attacking Yangzhou. Although he had the idea of ​​doing it deliberately, he had to admit that the Qing army's artillery and cavalry tactics were still worth learning.

The army that invaded the city immediately stabilized the gap, and then more troops entered the city, and then began to clear the enemy troops on the south wall, and finally occupied the south gate. The whole army began to enter the city, and the overall situation was settled!

In the middle of the night, the sound of cannons also stopped, the sound of fighting also stopped, and the entire Huai'an city fell silent.

The Qing army fled from the reserved north gate, and Yang Chao did not chase after it at night. If it was daytime, he could try his own cavalry, but at night, forget it. Huaian is surrounded by rivers and canals, and many rivers lead to canals. Chase, or you may fall into the water.

"Send someone to inform Huang Degong that the Lord has gone to Huai'an and is willing to attack Xuzhou with him!"

Standing on the city wall, looking at the pitch-black countryside, Yang Chao said vigorously.

(End of this chapter)