After Ajige accepted Zuo Menggeng's surrender, he learned from Zuo Menggeng that the Ming army had weak military strength near Nanjing to Suzhou. If they could arrive at Nanjing with surprise troops, they could attack and break the city. The city of Nanjing was strong, and even if the Qing army could reach Nanjing, they might not be able to break the city.

Zuo Menggeng offered a strategy to ask the Qing army to take a small road and detour, suddenly arrive near Nanjing, and then disguise the Green Camp troops into the city, open the city gate, and let the Eight Banners Army enter the city. As long as the sneak attack is successful, even if the inner city of Nanjing is not broken, the Qing army can still rush around the wealthy Jiangnan. There are almost no Ming army defenders from Nanjing to Suzhou, and the Qing army can march straight in. At that time, Li Guodong will have to dispatch the Jiangbei army to return to aid, which will create an opportunity for Duoduo to break through Yangzhou.

Azige adopted Zuo Menggen's tactics, and ordered Luke Dehun to lead the 1,000 Eight Banners Army and 50,000 Green Camp to take a small path to attack Nanjing.

As for the problem of incoming the isolated army, how to solve the problem of supply? Ajige never considered this problem. Since the Jisi Incident, the Qing army invaded many times. When did they consider the problem of incoming the isolated army? In the Central Plains, there were villages full of Han people everywhere. If you rob a few villages, you can get supplies, let alone in the wealthy Jiangnan.

So will the Ming army send troops back to rescue? Ajige is not afraid of the Ming army coming back to rescue, but is afraid that the Ming army will not come back to rescue. As long as the Ming army returns to Nanjing, Yangzhou, Chizhou and other places will have empty troops. At that time, the main forces of Duoduo and Ajige take advantage of the situation and then not only conquering Yangzhou, Chizhou and other places, but also Nanjing will fall into the hands of the Qing army.

The Qing army was helpless in taking this path. Zheng Zhilong's navy was blocking the way on the Yangtze River. Zuo Menggeng's navy, who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, could not compete with the Zheng family's navy, and could only go by land. However, they had to pass through Chizhou by land. Generals such as Huang Degong and Li Chengdong were stationed in Chizhou. Luke Dehun's Qing army did not carry siege weapons, and Zheng Zhilong's navy was also on the river to help with the battle. He knew that he could not break through this city at all, so he could only go by a small road.

"My boys, hold on for a while. When we arrive in Jiangnan, there will be a lot of white silver, piles of grain and beautiful women waiting for you to grab it!" Luke Dehun cheered the Eight Banners Army, which was depressed due to the heat.

The weather was so hot, and all the Eight Banners soldiers were wearing thick cotton armor like Luke Dehun. Although there was no sun on the mountain road surrounded by woods, and there was a little river breeze, they were wearing thick cotton armor and chain mail inside. What a pain? In the hot summer of Jiangnan, even if they were wearing short-dressing, they were sweating while sitting there, let alone wearing thick cotton armor, marching.

The war horse was so tired that it could not walk anymore, and stood by the roadside and sniffed.

"Everyone rest, wait until the afternoon is cooler before marching!" Lukedehun shouted. He could only order the army to rest. If he continued, even if the person was not dying of heat, the horse would be exhausted.

When we arrived in the hot south, we mainly rely on the Green Camp to fight. If there were no Green Camp soldiers, we only rely on the Eight Banners. Not to mention the war, we would be so hot, let alone the crisscrossing rivers. How could the Eight Banners soldiers pass through? But the Eight Banners soldiers must not be able to stand behind the Green Camp soldiers. If there were no Eight Banners soldiers to suppress them, the Green Camp soldiers would probably be able to defeat them and they would all be surrendered back.

The Ming army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty suddenly increased its combat effectiveness. Although it was money, food and women's stimulation to morale, the Eight Banners soldiers who were under the throne were also key factors. Every time the Green Camp soldiers attacked the city and seized the land, the Eight Banners soldiers would be suppressed from behind. Those who were not effective in combat would immediately deal with military law.

The Qing army rested on the spot. After sitting down, Luke Dehun remembered something: the scout cavalry he sent out had not returned yet!

On the mountain road between Wanluo Mountain and Hualing, an ambush came out of the forest. The corpses of the eight-banner Qing soldiers were standing upside down on the mountain road, and each of them was shot into a hedgehog. This was the credit of the powerful crossbow. After the powerful crossbow arrows shot through the cotton armor of the Qing army's scout cavalry, they penetrated the chain mail and stabbed into the body. Each scout cavalry had at least ten crossbow arrows. This was done by two hundred crossbowmen who were ambushing it.

This ambush has ambushed three waves of Qing army scout cavalry in a row. No Qing army scout cavalry can escape from the crossbow arrows falling like rain. Most of the Qing soldiers were shot to death in the valley with their men and horses.

This army was led by Li Chengdong, a commander of Gao Jie. The reason why he was able to successfully ambush the Qing army's scouts and cavalry in succession was all due to the intelligence war in the Huai Army. Li Guodong shared the information he obtained with Gao Jie's troops and Huang Degong's troops so that friendly forces could also promptly understand the movements of the Qing army.

The hilly areas of Jiangnan water nets are no better than the terrain of the Central Plains in the north. When the Qing army scouts and cavalry arrived here, they could not exert their combat effectiveness. The reason why the original time and space were captured by the Qing army was the result of the traitor army. If there were no traitors, the Eight Banners soldiers would have seriously declined in combat effectiveness when they arrived in Jiangnan. Faced with the Ming army's navy and infantry, the Eight Banners soldiers could not play a role in Jiangnan with complex terrain.

In terms of intelligence warfare, the Qing army scout cavalry could not block the Ming army's intelligence in Jiangnan. The ships on the river and the Jinyiwei wandering in the mountains and forests were carefully disguised and did not stop at night. The Ming army used the complex terrain to protect itself and sent out the information in a timely manner.

"We have already killed three waves of Jiannu in the military gate. A total of forty-five Jiannu have not escaped." A crossbowman reported to Li Chengdong.

These three consecutive ambush battles can be said to be very happy. Li Chengdong's crossbowmen killed forty-five elite Eight Banners scouts cavalry after paying the price of losing three people. The three soldiers killed were killed with bows and arrows after the Qing army reacted. However, the Qing army's archers had to face the overwhelming crossbows. They shot only one arrow and were shot into hedgehogs by arrows.

Li Chengdong said softly, "Brothers, don't underestimate the enemy, I'm afraid that the fake slave green camp soldiers will come in a while."

Sure enough, not long after, a Green Camp Horse Team of about 300 people appeared in the valley. These knights were naturally the Green Camp Horse Team adapted from the Zuo Family cavalry. In fact, Ajige was not optimistic about Zuo Menggeng's cavalry. For him, the Green Camp Army, whether it was infantry or cavalry, was used as cannon fodder.

"Military gate, can you fight?" asked the crossbowman.

Li Chengdong shook his head: "If you don't fight, let them go, we will still be ambushed behind us. When they are defeated and retreat, we will block them and prevent a fake Tartar from escaping back to report the news!"

Five miles ahead of the mountain road, there is an ambush circle set up by the Gao family army. More than 2,000 people were ambushed on both sides of the mountain road, including one thousand archers, three hundred sword players and eight hundred spearmen. Although the archers used by the Ming army's archers were far inferior to those of the Qing soldiers of the Eight Banners, and even less than the powerful crossbows of the crossbowmen, it was still enough to deal with the Green Camp soldiers.

Li Chengdong let the Qing army's green camp horse team go, and he asked him to continue to strengthen his vigilance and pay attention to the mountain roads.

After a while, another Qing army appeared on the mountain road ahead. It was the Eight Banners Scouts and Scouts, wearing cotton armor and lightning rod helmets, with about thirty people.

"As expected, after the fake Tartars passed, there will be the real Tartars' scout whistle cavalry behind them." Li Chengdong sneered.

When the Qing army scouts and whistle cavalry entered the range, Li Chengdong shouted: "Let it go!"

Two hundred crossbowmen suddenly emerged from the grass and aimed at the Qing army's whistle cavalry in the valley. The crossbowmen pressed down the hanging knife, and the black crossbow arrows woven into a large net in the air, covering the heads of the Qing army's scout whistle cavalry.

"Enemy attack!" A Qing soldier shouted when he saw the rain of arrows shooting out.

The rain of arrows was like locusts, and countless arrows were shot from all directions. The powerful crossbow arrows pierced on the Qing soldiers. No matter how thick armor was worn on them, they could not stop these crossbow arrows with their feet on their feet. The crossbow arrows with a firing power of up to 300 kilograms were stabbed on the Qing soldiers. The cotton armor outside was shot through like paper. The crossbow arrows that penetrated the cotton armor pierced the inner chain mail, shooting the Qing soldiers from the horse's back and nailed to the ground.
Chapter completed!