It is a great thing to incorporate the Chuang Army and adapt it into the Zhongzhen Camp. According to the historical process, Haoge will enter Sichuan. When Zhang Xianzhong is killed, Li Guodong will be able to recruit the Daxi Army again. However, Li Guodong is not happy yet and will face the war of the main force of the Qing army invading Yangzhou.

Zuo Menggeng's troops, incorporated by Ajige, left behind Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren to stay in Nanchang. Ajige personally led his army to attack Chizhou, but was blocked by Huang Degong and Li Benshen. He detoured a small road to attack Nanjing. There was a hiding ambush from Li Chengdong on the way, and the Qing army could not bypass Chizhou to go to Nanjing.

In order to concentrate troops on the Yangzhou Battle, Ajige ordered Tan Tai to stay in Jiangxi and supervise the surrendered troops of Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren. He returned to the capital under the order of Dorgon. Zuo Menggeng led 200,000 surrendered troops to Haozhou, and joined forces with Duoduo's 300,000 troops to prepare for a major battle with Li Guodong in Yangzhou.

Zhu Youjian, the King of Tang who stayed in Fengyang, could not resist the fierce attack of the Qing army. Fengyang lost, and Zhang Tianfu, who was stationed in Fengyang, led an army of more than 20,000 to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

King Zhu Youjian of Tang was rescued by his subordinates because he was afraid of losing the land. After that, King Zhu Youjian of Tang hid in his name. He knew that Chongzhen would definitely not let him go, because this was the second time that Zhu Youjian had committed the law. The first time he sent troops without authorization to Beijing to serve the king, so he was deprived of the title of the king and sent him to Fengyang to guard the ancestral tomb. As a result, Fengyang was lost again. If Zhu Youjian fell into Chongzhen's hands at this time, the fate would be a white silk or a glass of poisonous wine.

The King of Tang did not dare to return to Nanjing or Yangzhou. Instead, he fled south and fled to Guangdong, echoing with King Gui Zhu Youlang.

When talking about Zhu Youjian, Li Guodong secretly felt sorry for him. If Zhu Youjian and Chongzhen had changed positions, he might be a lord of Zhongxing, but he had only great ambitions, but he was not an emperor. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian led his army to Beijing to serve the king, but angered Chongzhen, and was deposed as a commoner, and then escorted by the Jinyiwei to Fengyang to guard the ancestral tomb. Now, the ancestral tomb was also lost. If he dared to go to Nanjing, wouldn't he go to die?

Zhu Youjian, who was originally in history, later became Emperor Longwu, but unfortunately he was betrayed by Zheng Zhilong and later killed in Tingzhou.

No matter which time and space it is, Zhu Youjian is destined to be a tragedy.

In September of the 18th year of Chongzhen, 600,000 Qing troops invaded Yangzhou. The Qing army attacked Yangzhou more than half a year later than the original time and space time. This was because Duoduo went to Shandong and was delayed and was about to kill Yangzhou. The climate had already turned hot. The Eight Banners soldiers who had entered Jiangxi and western Nanzhili had been extremely bitter because of the hot climate. Many Eight Banners soldiers died of heat and died halfway through the Ming army before they saw the Ming army.

In the south of June, even if I sit shirtless, I will sweat all over, let alone wearing thick cotton armor, with chain mail inside, and I will march under the scorching sun.

Therefore, after Dorgon received the report from Ajige, in order to avoid Duoduo's losses in Yangzhou, he ordered the Qing army to go to war in the autumn. When the weather was cooler, he sent troops to Yangzhou to fight to the death with his mortal enemy Li Guodong.

In the Huaiyang area, after being cleaned by factories and guards, a large number of northern salt merchants were imprisoned, killed, or confiscated. The Shanxi merchants, which originally occupied a large part of the market in Huaiyang, were almost extinct, leaving only Hui merchants who had no connection with the north. Therefore, Huai'an, an important transit station on the canal, became depressed, and the business of various fireworks places was much worse, and the prices of thin horses in Yangzhou also dropped.

After all, Huaiyang is a family. Huai'an is in a depressed state, and the fireworks and wine alleys in Yangzhou are naturally in a depressed state.

Nowadays, the idle people and others have basically been driven out of Yangzhou. The rich people have gone to Jiangnan, and the poor families have been arranged by the government to go to Nantongzhou to the east.

Yangzhou City was transformed by Li Guodong into a professional military city. If he stayed in Yangzhou for eight months and waited until the weather became hot, and the Qing army retreated on its own, there would be no problem at all. However, it would be better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers. Li Guodong decided to annihilate the Qing army. His request was to wipe out all the entire Qing army in one fell swoop and completely cut off Dorgon's hope of going south to the south of the Yangtze River.

The Zhongzhen Camp was incorporated, at least in the Huguang area. At the junction of Jiangxi and Nanzhili, there would be no big problem with Huang Degong's troops and Gao Jie's old troops blocking Zuo Menggen's green camp. However, this time, Zuo Menggen also sent troops to Yangzhou under the order of Dorgon. Li Guodong planned to annihilate Zuo Menggen's green camp, and then led his army westward to capture Jiujiang and Nanchang, completely solving the threat of this green camp to Jiangnan.

To completely annihilate the enemy, you cannot just defend the city to the death. The city defense battle can make the casualties of the defenders far less than the attacking party, but it is impossible to completely annihilate the opponent and cannot hurt the opponent's main force, because the opponent can completely use cannon fodder to attack the city, and it cannot be defeated, and it can withdraw its troops. If you want to completely annihilate the enemy, you must have certain field combat capabilities.

The Ming general Zhang Tianfu and Zhang Tianlu brothers who were stationed in Fengyang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Hu Shangyou, Wang Zhigang and other generals who were stationed in Huai'an, Gaoyou and other places were not reliable. Li Guodong didn't expect that those chaotic and miscellaneous troops could defend the city. Anyway, Huai'an is now depressed, so it doesn't matter if it is thrown to the Qing army.

"Master, Jiannu may not dare to attack Huai'an," Wang Quan put forward his opinion. "With the ground of Hongze Lake hanging above Jiannu's head, they will only bypass Huai'an and go straight to Gaoyou."

Duoduo is not a fool. The Qing army also had their intelligence departments. When they learned that Li Guodong built a Tawau Castle on the edge of Hongze Lake, which could be described as abnormal. Moreover, the Ming army stored water during the peak of water. After entering the dry season, they did not open the gates and released water. The water level of Hongze Lake was fully stored, so that they could use the water of Hongze Lake to deal with the Qing army at any time. Therefore, Duoduo's marching routes were to avoid the flood areas after the Gaojiayan dam collapse as much as possible.

In the Yangzhou city, the Huai Army and auxiliary soldiers were busy building raised enemy platforms outside the city walls and creating various defense weapons.

"Arranging a fort behind the city wall, and putting the mortar cannons to guard the city, so that when the Tartars attack, we can fight cattle across the mountains and bombard Jiannu with mortar cannons." Li Guodong personally directed the auxiliary soldiers to arrange mortar cannons behind the city wall.

The auxiliary soldiers pushed down the houses behind the city wall, then used the original foundation to pile up earth on it, surrounded the outside with sandbags, and arranged them into mortars and cannons.

The carefully crafted 64-pound mortar cannon was transported to the fort. The 64-pound mortar cannon weighs only more than 500 kilograms. Due to the low chamber pressure, the shell can make thin skin and large fillings, and there is a lot of gunpowder loaded inside. A shell lands. Although it is the black gunpowder with the least power of the explosion, the explosion can reach the size of a basketball court.

"The general is not planning to give up Yangzhou and lure Jiannu into the city, and give them another fire to Xinye? Why do you need to strengthen the city defense fortifications?" Cao Bianjiao, who had just learned about Li Guodong's combat plan, asked.

Li Guodong replied: "Even if we want to lure Jiannu into Yangzhou City, we cannot let them enter the city easily. If we give up Yangzhou without fighting and give Jiannu an empty city, then if you are Duoduo, will you be fooled?"

"No." Cao Bianjiao shook his head.

"So we need to guard Yangzhou for about a month to make Jiannu believe that we really can't hold on, so we have to give up Yangzhou." Li Guodong replied.

As for how to draw fire and evacuate, Yangzhou is not as high as Jinan. The groundwater level here is very high. If you dig three feet underground, water will gush out. Therefore, it is impossible to dig tunnels at all. It is not difficult to keep people in the tunnels and set fires after the Qing army enters the city. However, not being able to dig tunnels is also beneficial to the defenders, even if the Qing army cannot attack.
Chapter completed!