"Shi Tingzhu is also timid. I only have more than 11,000 combat soldiers, and the total strength is only more than 24,000. He dare not fight! When will our army on the East Coast have such power?" Outside Yangzhou City, Mo Ming rode on the war horse with high spirits. His right hand, wearing white gauze gloves, pointed at Yangzhou City diagonally, and said with a laugh.

Unfortunately, the officers under him were all attracted by the tall and majestic walls of Yangzhou City at this moment. Few people agreed, which made him very bored. Therefore, he smiled and ordered the military team to start camping. At the same time, he ordered all the cavalry to dress neatly to prepare for battle, and the security team went forward to investigate the enemy situation.

Once the order is issued, there is no need for General Mo to inquire. The professional staff will naturally arrange these matters one by one. The combat staff begins to arrange the camps, the logistics staff begins to count the materials, guide the camps, the intelligence staff begins to investigate the enemy situation, the march staff begins to work on the map, and draw maps... In short, everything is well organized, showing the high professionalism of the East Coast Army.

The camping site was about three miles north of Yangzhou City. Because the northern city of Yangzhou was once bombarded by Qing army artillery, and although it was repaired, it was not as strong as before. Therefore, the artillery officers of the East Coast Army fell in love with it at a glance. After reporting Mo Ming's approval, the camp of more than 20,000 people was simply built by a small river outside the city - making it easier to get water and defend.

The camping of more than 20,000 people is naturally not that simple. It involves various military knowledge, experience and principles. The East Coast people have never organized such a large-scale military operation before. Therefore, at this time, everyone is working together to build field camps according to their own understanding. There are some considerations for where the artillery camp is located, where the elite East Coast Army is located, where the first wing of the Stand-up Team is located, and where the minion Zhai Congye's unit is located, which is all about it.

In addition, there are cavalry resettlements, military men and logistics supplies. Where to pull barbed wire, where to set up watchtowers, where to dig fire trenches, where to dig shallow trenches. This is all knowledge. There are also how to deal with various emergencies, how to respond to each department at night, how to act once the camp is broken, etc. Although there are many plans for daily life, they are still in a hurry at this time. Fortunately, it is not the first time that everyone has been on the battlefield. After expressing their opinions and fully exerting their subjective initiative, these small problems and details have been handled well. But even so, the rough completion of the entire camp still took three days for the army on the east coast.

During these three days, the Qing army in the city had attacked once, with a total of about 4,000 people. The army on the east coast that was camping was facing a great enemy. It immediately sent 2,300 soldiers of three infantry battalions of the Black Eight Banners to line up outside the camp. At the same time, the 102nd and 104th companies of the Army, a musketeer squadron of the First Brigade of the Front Team (recently replaced) and an artillery (8 artillery pieces) also stepped forward to reinforce. At the same time, the cavalry brigade also dispatched a brigade (1,000 people) of cavalry.

This Qing army seemed to be dominated by green camps and had normal combat power, but it was definitely not like the landlords that the East Coast people encountered in Shandong. On the contrary, they persisted for a while under the attack of the East Coast artillery, and they only had a little panic after being rushed by more than a thousand Polish cavalry. However, the panic at this moment was enough to determine their fate. Mo Ming threw the remaining 1,500 cavalry into the battlefield at the critical moment. At the same time, the tall black soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding spears also lined up, and coupled with the strike of the light army field artillery that was constantly moving over, the Qing army finally collapsed irreversibly.

The fate of the infantry that collapsed in front of the cavalry is tragic, especially in these Polish, which are well versed in cavalry tactics, and even more so in front of the Tatar cavalry. These brave cavalry wore fur hats, held rifles or scimitars, and wanted to divide the collapsed Qing army arrays, and then left them to the infantry that was catching up from behind. They continued to rush forward and continued to divide the enemy arrays...

Only half of the 4,000 Qing troops finally successfully slipped outside the northern gate of Yangzhou, and escaped from the heavens under the support of red-clothed cannons on the top of the city and the barrier of the moat. However, after this battle, they finally had an intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of the yellow-clothed thieves. The Han army led the troops, Niulu, Zhang Jing, Zhang Shiying, escaped by chance. After returning, he was still scared to his boss, and the Han army, the Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu, exclaimed, "This drama is a bandit!"

The loss of two thousand cannon fodder in the Green Camp was nothing to Shi Tingzhu, but the yellow-clothed thief was now very brave. When he was in Beijing, he often heard people say that the yellow-clothed thief was in Shandong, the northern Zhili and even the Jiangbei were very troubled, and they broke through the prefectures and counties, allowing the famous Manchu and Han generals such as Haoge, Luke Dehun, and Li Rutai to be led by the nose, which was very embarrassed. The Regent was extremely worried about this and ordered the governors of all provinces to strengthen their defense. The generals must not break into the mainland as if they were in a nobody.

It was in this context that Shi Tingzhu was selected by Dorgon to Yangzhou, serving as the admiral of Jiangbei and the general of Huaiyang Town, and sorted out the defenses of various places in Jiangbei and along the river water villages. He has been doing this year and was afraid that something would happen and was punished by the court. To be honest, as the Eight Banners of Han, he climbed to this position and was embarrassed. There was a glass ceiling above, so there was no way to rise. At this time, the court often found some minor mistakes to punish them and derogated them, so he was very careful now. Many times he couldn't sleep well at night, especially afraid of being suspicious of the court.

Fortunately, the yellow-clothed thief seemed to have been a lot more calm over the past year, which made Shi Tingzhu breathe a little relieved. He guessed that there might be something inside the yellow-clothed thief. But today, Meimeng finally woke up and his good luck ended. The yellow-clothed thief actually landed between Taixing County, Yangzhou Prefecture and Jingjiang County, Changzhou Prefecture, and then quickly advanced towards Yangzhou. His troops were also terrifying. Shi Tingzhu had seen it on the city tower, which was about 20,000 to 30,000 people.

This number is scary! In the past, more than 10,000 yellow-clothed thieves were already out of control in Shandong. The 10,000 people of the general Xu Dingguo, the general of Yizhou Town, was defeated (he has been questioned and imprisoned), and the continuous loss of land by Li Shutai, the general of Binzhou coastal defense, all reminded Shi Tingzhu that this was a bandit.

In the past, Shi Tingzhu might have been a little skeptical about this, but he clearly saw the 4,000-man defeat yesterday. The infantry of the yellow-clothed thief was quite strong, and he still walked freely in iron armor. The formation was not messy during the march, and he was obviously well-trained. Those musketeers were not simple, and they were completely different from the mobs of the Ming army who were randomly fired guns far away from the range. These people seemed to be old and were all veterans. The team was very skilled in playing volleys and volleys. Shi Tingzhu had never seen many tricks. Moreover, their soldiers (non-commissioned officers) seemed to be very independent, and could judge the situation and command the soldiers under their command (strong reading battlefield ability) to make various reasonable tactical behaviors. They were completely incomparable to those stupid grassroots officers in the Qing Green Camp.

But what worried him the most was the two or three thousand cavalrymen of the yellow thief. What kind of cavalry unit is this? The riders in it are so skillful that they are surprised. To put it bluntly, many of the Manchu soldiers in the Qing Dynasty were really inferior to their riding skills. The killing skills of the immediate killing were also quite clever. They didn't look like nonsense, but they looked like veterans who often fought on the battlefield.

This is troublesome! Shi Tingzhu couldn't help but frown. There were no shortage of troops in Yangzhou City. There were a lot of soldiers from all over the Green Camp selected from all over the country, including more than 10,000 soldiers from the former Yuan Jixian tribe (a total of 100,000 soldiers from Yuan Jixian tribe surrendered to the Qing Dynasty), some of Huang Degong tribes, 4,000 soldiers from Zuo Menggeng tribe, and more than 3,000 newly trained regiment training armed forces in Yangzhou, totaling about 20,000. In addition, there were 4,000 soldiers from the Han army Zhengbai Banner whom he directly under - this was his old capital.

Most of these people were war soldiers (about less than 20,000), and some miscellaneous troops (salt, tax, artillery) combined, and nearly 28,000 people. But the problem is that none of these people were cavalry, all of them were infantry! Although the four thousand Han flags he directly under had horses, they were all horse-riding infantry. They were not really good. If they really wanted to fight with the two or three thousand cavalrymen in yellow thieves, they would be timid. At that time, something unbearable would inevitably happen.

Shi Tingzhu felt a little frustrated when he thought of this. Now the yellow-clothed thieves are at the city. It seems that they are going to use yellow-clothed cannons to attack the city. Should they fight or defend and wait for assistance? This is a serious question. Go to fight? The four thousand Jiangxi guys have been defeated just now, and they have been reimbursed for two thousand, and the two thousand who escaped are still shocked and have no morale. Don’t go to fight? The yellow-clothed thieves have ways to deal with them, such as using their sharp cannons to collapse the Yangzhou city walls. This is something the Qing army did just over a year ago, and then used their fierce gunfire and skillful combat skills to conquer Yangzhou City. Although there are four precious cannons in Yangzhou City, Shi Tingzhu was completely unsure that these cannons could be compared with those of the yellow-clothed thieves.

This matter is difficult to deal with. Is it a city of sorrow? Someone under his command proposed to bribe the yellow-clad thief with a lot of money to let him "retreat and go on his own". Although Shi Tingzhu was quite moved, his remaining self-esteem and some realistic factors made him decisively reject the proposal, and he also severely scolded Ma Degong, the former Huang Degong general who made this proposal. If this person had not made a great contribution, perhaps Admiral Shi would have killed this person this time to use the military law.

Admiral Shi was struggling in Yangzhou City, but the army on the east coast outside the city would not give him time. Mo Ming and Damao were confident that he would attack Yangzhou City immediately. Although there were more enemies in the city than the army on the east coast, in his opinion, they were just a group of mobs. As long as one of his side kept his foot firm and did not make mistakes, these Qing army green camps could not do anything to them.
Chapter completed!