. "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Before Ye Yu could tell, shrill shouts rang everywhere on the city wall, and the whole city wall suddenly became commotion. (Provided with the latest chapter reading>~~. ~~.

Facts have proved that the military and civilians in Huai'an City had a false alarm this time. The person who came was not someone else, but the vanguards led by Yin Hongsheng. However, the Huai'an Mansion was worried that the Qing army would return and return, and this joke was caused by not seeing the flag clearly.

When Yin Hongsheng received a report from the scout that Huai'an was still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, he could not believe that the traces of the army could not be easily eliminated. Moreover, Duoduo and others did not expect to eliminate it at all. Yin Hongsheng could easily learn about the specific movements of the Qing army. It had been at least ten days since the Qing army arrived in Huai'an, so there was no reason why it could not be captured. Therefore, Yin Hongsheng did not contact Huai'an and rushed over.

Seeing that it was his own people, the soldiers and civilians of Huai'an Prefecture were completely relieved. Liu Zhaoji ordered the door of Huai'an Prefecture to be opened and went out to greet him himself. Yin Hongsheng and others saw that there were many uncollected corpses outside the city, and they felt distracted. They knew that Huai'an must have defended the city after a arduous battle.

"General Liu!"

"General Yin!"

The two knew each other and were polite. Yin Hongsheng couldn't wait to ask about the situation of the Qing army. When he learned that the Qing army had only retreated for two or three days, Yin Hongsheng was very calm, but Liu Zhaoji was also unaware of why the Qing army suddenly withdrew. At that time, Huai'an was about to be unable to withstand. What was the reason for the Qing army to withdraw, and not to go north and south?

Liu Zhaoji invited Yin Hongsheng to rest in the city. Yin Hongsheng refused Liu Zhaoji's kindness. He wanted to get specific news from the Qing army as soon as possible to report to Huang Degong behind. Liu Zhaoqi heard that Huang Degong was at the back. He felt very calm and did not try to keep him. Yin Hongsheng sent a small group of scouts to open the way, and he led the team to chase him hurriedly.

After breakfast, the Ming army was ready to wait for the Qing army to attack again. However, they clearly saw the Qing army going in and out of the Qing army camp on the mountain, but they did not see the Qing army attack. Many Yulin Guards were talking loudly, saying that the Tartars were afraid and the soldiers were even more high.

"Yan Aiqing, what are the Tartars' ideas?" Wang Fu was also puzzled. The Tartars only died one or two thousand people. Compared with the 50,000 troops, it is not considered a trauma. Will they be able to get rid of the drum?

Wang Fu believed that he was not a military genius. Although he formed the Yulin Guard, most of it was completed by Yan Yingyuan, whether it was recruiting or training. At most, he only mentioned it frequently and often went to the military camp to solve the actual difficulties of some officers and soldiers. It was very rare for the emperor of this era to do this. /// So he could completely grasp the morale of the army and not have to be suspicious of Yan Yingyuan.

Relying on hundreds of years of knowledge, Wang Fu can grasp the big strategic direction clearly, and can also have a flash of inspiration in tactics. It is not Director Wang Fu's strength to guess the enemy's intentions and make corresponding adjustments.

Wang Fu has always been interested in forming a staffing system similar to later generations for his own decision-making, but he has never found a suitable candidate. Most generals will only rush and attack, without knowing what the staff is. Even if there are occasionally one or two suitable candidates, if they are transferred here, they will only think that the emperor has given their military power in disguise, and the civil servants will only talk about it on paper. This is even more inappropriate. When encountering problems at the moment, Wang Fu can only ask everyone for advice temporarily.

Yan Yingyuan frowned and his face turned pale: "No, when the people were in poverty, they would probably go to the nearby area to plunder the people and participate in the attack!"

When Yan Yingyuan suddenly raised a story, many people were waiting to see him jokes. Yan Yingyuan also knew this very well and was devoted to training troops and never interacting with other officials. The Yulin Guards had several exercises with the Beijing Camp, which shocked the officials who were waiting to see the jokes. Gradually, many officials began to want to get close to Yan Yingyuan, but Yan Yingyuan was in the military camp. Those officials who wanted to get close to him were not allowed to enter.

Wang Fu also admired Yan Yingyuan very much. He was a pure soldier. When he heard Yan Yingyuan's words, Wang Fu immediately smiled bitterly. The Tartars had long been a bad record of driving the people into cannon fodder. Although Wang Fu issued an order to let Shi Kefa move the people into the city, the people were lucky. I don't know how many people would move?

Just when Wang Fu and the Yulin Guard generals were worried that the Qing army might drive away the people as cannon fodder, the various arrest teams sent by the Qing army were not going well. Their actions in Huai'an Prefecture had spread, and there were strict orders from the government. Many people who did not want to relocate were forced to hide. This was the first time that the Qing army entered Nanzhili, and the terrain was not familiar. In addition, the sequelae of the Ming army's surrendered place was also revealed. Without a guide, the Qing army often didn't know where to find people. After finally finding the village along the way, the people left first.

As a result, tens of thousands of Qing troops were dispatched. When they came back in the afternoon, there were only a thousand people from the place where they brought back, and most of them were old and weak who were unwilling to move away. There were only a few young and strong men. This made the Qing army a little crazy. Using more than a thousand people to attack, it would be useless even if the Ming army could not bear to take action.

Duoduo had to re-engage the people who were left behind from Huai'an City. After withdrawing troops from Huai'an, there were more than 20,000 people who were originally used as cannon fodder, but the Qing army did not release the more than 20,000 people.//

The Qing army's troops in various counties also retreated, but only appointed local officials. If these people were released back, the officials appointed by the county would probably be overthrown by the angry people immediately, and it would also cause great damage to the reputation of the Qing army. Originally, Duoduo wanted to order all of these people to be killed, but the Qing army had a large amount of supplies to transport, so he simply forced these people to act as Qing military and civilians to transport the materials plundered from various places in Huai'an, and walked behind with the Qing army's artillery battalion.

The Qing army plundered a lot of materials from all over the place, and it took a day to defend the defender to start the journey. The artillery was bulky and the Qing army had no ships, so they could not take advantage of the convenience of the canal. The artillery battalion had less than fifteen miles a day, and the civilians had to carry heavy objects, and the distance they could walk was about the same. The main force of the Qing army had arrived in Matouzhuang for two days. The artillery battalion and civilians were still more than thirty miles away from Matouzhuang, and there were still two days left.

With the lesson of the failure of the attack yesterday, Duoduo decided to not attack before artillery and the cannon fodder came, but sent some Qing troops to continue to expand the scope of the search and prepare to capture more Han people.

There was a team that was winding up on the river dozens of miles away. This was a team composed of the Qing army artillery battalion and civil servants. The whole team was stretched to more than ten miles away./In the middle of the team were countless livestock pulling large trucks, which were loaded with food, cloth, silk and other supplies. Next to the truck, there were many livestock carrying heavy objects directly on their backs. Some civil servants also carried heavy loads on their shoulders.

Although it was winter, the civilians carrying heavy burdens were still sweating profusely, but the Qing soldiers escorted were not sympathetic and whipped their whips from time to time. The civilians were slowing down and the whip was beaten. After they retreated from Huai'an, almost all the civilians were beaten along the way.

These civilians were originally used by the Qing army as cannon fodder. They saw their companions being forced by the Qing army to attack their city with swords and arrows. If the Qing army had not withdrawn suddenly, their fate would have been mostly dead under the city wall. Although they were able to survive now, their resentment towards the Qing army has not been reduced, but they were buried in their hearts. The Qing army's whipping made their hatred deeper.

The Qing army didn't care about the resentment of the civilians. None of them had any of them but had dozens of lives, so they were afraid of resentment. If they didn't accept it, they would just kill them. Anyway, the Han people were very weak.

The commander of the Qing army who escorted cannons and supplies was Ye Chen. Ye Chen was a veteran. In the fourth year of Tianming, he fought against Tieling from Nurhaci, and in the sixth year of Tianming, he joined Liaoyang and was appointed as the commander of the third-class light chariot. Huang Taiji ascended the throne, and Ye Chen was one of the ministers. He was a disciple of the Red Flag. In recent years, he fought south and north, and made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to Ye Chen, the commander of the artillery battalion was King Zhishun Shangkexi. Kong Youde was hiding outside Jinan City and almost wiped out the entire army. Although the Ming army finally retreated, it lost four red cannons, which made Duoduo extremely angry and assigned the cannons to Shangkexi. If it weren't for artillery, Man Ren would not be able to use it at all. Duoduo would definitely take the cannons into Man Ren's hands.

For the safety of the artillery battalion, Duoduo gave Ye Chen three thousand troops. With the strength of the artillery battalion itself, there were about 6,000 people, only a few days and a few days away from the main force. Although Huai'an has not been broken, the troops in the city have been destroyed. Duoduo did not think that the Ming army had the ability to threaten this defender, so he was relieved.

Several horses flashed out in the dense forest in the distance, and several people looked at the team with their eyes squinted. One of them said anxiously, "Master, let's do it. Only when the army rushes, the civilians will definitely get messy. At that time, a fire will burn all the things. Let's see what the Tartars eat?"

The person who spoke was He Gang's personal soldiers. Zhongguan Camp had been hiding in the dark and watching the war. Ye Chen and Shang Kexi led the defenders to the Zhongguan Camp as soon as they came out. However, Zhongguan Camp had only 4,000 people. Facing the three thousand Tartars and three thousand Shang Kexi's subordinates, He Gang was not sure, so he did not attack.

"Don't you do it?" He Gang hesitated for a moment. If he did it, even if Zhongguan Camp succeeded, he would definitely be frantically counterattacked by the Qing army. Perhaps most of the Zhongguan Camp would suffer casualties. However, if he did not take action, he would probably never have the chance to take action until tomorrow.

There were a few rustling sounds behind him. He Gang quickly turned his head and saw one of his own soldiers coming over with a smile on his face: "General, good news, we have reinforcements."

"Reinforcements, where do you come from?" He Gang was very puzzled. Could it be that it was Huai'an Prefecture and immediately denied that it would be good if Huai'an Prefecture could be saved, but who could send reinforcements?

"General Hui is a military force in Xuzhou. His vanguard General Yin Hongsheng is less than twenty miles away." The personal soldiers replied.

The following is free:

Regarding the issue of musket shooting iron armor, there is no doubt that the power of the close-range musket is far greater than that of the bow and arrow, and can tear the iron armor. However, the kinetic energy of the smoothbore gun consumes a lot. As long as the distance is a little farther, the power of the bullet will be reduced by half. Here, Laomao sets the distance between the trench and the fence to be at least half an arrow or even further. Only musketeers in the trench can avoid the bow and arrow. At such a distance, the power of the bullet will be reduced too much, and it is impossible to break the iron armor.

By the way, perhaps Lao Mao wrote about the war as too weak, and the previous chapter was not likable, and he didn't even add a monthly ticket!
Chapter completed!