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Chapter 198 Longkodo: This is called strategic transition
Chizhou Fucheng.

Behind the female wall, corpses and wounded were being carried down continuously. The wounded were all young men from the Ming army and the supporting city defenders.

The corpses include Ming soldiers, young and strong, and Qing soldiers attacking the city. No one even cut the ears of the corpses of these Qing soldiers.

Mottled blood stains can be seen everywhere on the city wall, as well as waist knives used to chop people until gaps appeared.

Longkodo crossed the river with [-] troops to attack. He thought it would be easy to conquer the small city of Chizhou.

Unexpectedly, they besieged the city for three days and were unable to defeat it. Instead, they suffered more and more losses.

Although the Qing army had a lot of money and heavy artillery, they were also elite soldiers trained with full pay.

But the Ming army was not fooled, especially Chizhou City, which was aroused by Fu Yunsheng's words and became the same enemy.

They were afraid that Fu Yunsheng would see that the situation was bad and would leave them and run away.Therefore, it can be said that the rich contributed money, the wealthy provided people, and those who defended the city worked extra hard.

After Longko saw more, he had to change his original plan and change the attack to a siege.

Remove the three missing ones around.

The entire Chizhou City was blocked from all sides by the Qing army, and not even a fly could fly out.

Chizhou is in such a geographical location. If you abandon Chizhou and go north to Taiping Mansion or go south to Ningguo, you will be in danger of being surrounded.

The siege was just right.

Longkodo planned to besiege the city and provide reinforcements.

Chizhou City has never been Longkodo’s goal.

……

Outside Chizhou City, the Qing army camp.

Longkodo was convening the generals in the army to discuss matters in the tent.

"Report! Commander, the military... military information is urgent!"

Suddenly a Qing soldier broke in in a panic.

Long Ke was unhappy on many faces: "What's the matter?"

The Qing soldier was full of panic and said breathlessly: "Commander... Anqing... Anqing is gone!"

"……What did you say?"

Longkodo was startled, and then his expression changed drastically.

The Qing soldiers finally calmed down a bit, and then the general reported in detail.

It was originally the Qing army crossing the river. In addition to plundering the military food supply from surrounding towns and villages, it was also transported back and forth from Anqing Prefecture by the Yangtze River Navy.

However, according to the expected time, the navy did not transport the food and baggage, and even the navy's ship did not come back.

Wu Guoyin suddenly became suspicious and asked the deputy general to personally lead people to urge him.

It was okay if he didn't push, but Wu Guoyin was instantly startled when he was pushed.

Anqing Mansion is gone.

All the ships previously sent to transport grain and grass had been left at the Anqing dock by the rebels. The deputy general and the navy did not even approach, and the Anqing Mansion's Jiang defense artillery fired.

Fortunately, the deputy general ran fast enough.

When Wu Guoyin heard the news, he hurriedly sent someone to inform Marshal Long in Chizhou.

When Longkoduo listened to this military report, everyone was dumbfounded.

He never expected that he would besiege Chizhou here and prepare to besiege the city for reinforcements.As a result, the fake reinforcements did not arrive, and Anqing was lost first.

Dai Kun was also in disbelief and asked: "Impossible, our army has only besieged the city for ten days, Anqing Mansion still has [-] troops, and there are artillery for Jiang defense. How could the puppet Ming rebels capture Anqing so quickly?" "

"Sir, it's... absolutely true!" The Qing soldier cried sadly.

After hearing this, all the generals present had ugly expressions, even Dai Kun had a gloomy expression.

This situation, to put it bluntly, is equivalent to pushing down the tower in front, but the house behind was robbed.

Longko was silent for a long time, then suddenly said: "Here comes someone!"

"exist."

Immediately two Eight Banners infantry guards came in.

Long Keduo's face was as dark as water: "Drag this lunatic who lied about the military situation and undermined the morale of our military and beheaded him!"

"Yes!"

The Qing soldier panicked and quickly explained: "Commander, I didn't lie about the military situation. What I said is absolutely true! If you don't believe me, you can send a message and ask Wu..."

Before he finished speaking, the two Eight Banners infantry soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers swarmed up and dragged him down one by one.

"Commander, I am wronged..."

The screams of the Qing soldiers who reported the news gradually faded away.

None of the generals present spoke much, and they all obviously understood what Longkodo meant.If the news really gets out, the morale of the military will be in chaos in an instant.

After all, [-] of this army were trained in Anqing.

Now that Anqing has been captured by the pseudo-Ming rebels in a surprise attack, if these Anqing training troops knew how to fight, they would still have the heart to fight.

There was silence in the tent for a moment, and Dai Kun couldn't help but say: "Commander..."

Before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Longkodo with a wave of his hand.

Longkodo ordered with a calm face: "Send me the command to have the army pack up their camp equipment."

Packing for camp?

A general asked: "Where to go?"

"Go south."

As soon as these words came out, the generals present looked at each other in confusion.

Commander Long, what kind of plan is this? Anqing has been captured by the pseudo-Ming rebels. Shouldn't we immediately withdraw our troops and return reinforcements?

Why go south and attack Ningguo Mansion?

They didn't even defeat Chizhou!
However, Dai Kun seemed to understand the tone of Longkodo's words, and quickly responded: "General, I will obey the order!"

"The end will obey orders!"

Several other people saw it, and although they still didn't quite understand it, they had no choice but to respond.

On the second day, the Qing army hurriedly packed up their tents and luggage, immediately set up camp and headed south.

At the top of Chizhou City, both the Ming army and the young and strong people helping to defend the city all burst into cheers.

"Qing Gou has retreated! Qing Gou has retreated!"

"We won! We defeated the Qinggu!"

"..."

These people were besieged for ten consecutive days. Although they had enough money and food, they were mentally and physically exhausted after being stressed for so long.

Now, can you not be happy to see that the Qing army actually retreated?
Several of them even cheered and fainted on the spot, causing a panic in the city.

Only Fu Yunsheng was not only not happy, but also frowned.

He was not a fool, and he could naturally see that except for the first few days when the Qing army was indeed attacking fiercely, the rest was purely intentional.

Encircle rather than attack.

Otherwise, with a strength difference of nearly six times, how could the Ming army have survived until now.

But now the Qing army actually retreated?
Could it be that something happened to the Qing army?
Fu Yunsheng was not sure, let alone sending troops to pursue him.

With only [-] soldiers and horses in hand, he tried his best to hold on to Chizhou City, and the battle loss ratio of his men was close to half (most of them were injured, and there were not many actual battle casualties).

There is no energy left to go out of the city to pursue. Even if there are still [-] soldiers, who knows if this is a conspiracy of the Qing army to lure the snake out of its hole.

Fu Yunsheng thought for a while and sent the messenger cavalry out of the city immediately to inform the various states that the Qing troops were heading south and were missing.

Not to mention what happened to Fu Yunsheng here in Chizhou City, Longkodo led the army all the way south and soon reached the end of Qingxi River.

Immediately, Longkodo suddenly ordered the army to change direction, abandoned most of the baggage, and rushed towards Huangshiji with light equipment.

Longkodo ran away!

Since Anqing Mansion has been captured by the pseudo-Ming rebels, based on his understanding of the walls of Anqing Mansion and the five river defense cannons he personally supervised.

With the current strength of Longkodo's hand, it is impossible to fight back Anqing Mansion. It is even a question whether the Qing Yangtze River Navy can get close to Anqing.

In this case, staying in Chizhou is tantamount to being caught in a trap by false rebels, and going south or north is seeking death.

Therefore, the best way now is to take the water route.

Huangshiji also had the Yangtze River Navy of the Qing Army, and they could send people from Wu Guoyin to deliver the message. The pseudo-Ming rebels should not have launched an encirclement yet, and it was still too late to leave now.

Without Anqing, the whole of northern Anhui is hopeless. It all depends on when the fake Ming rebels will attack.

Therefore, Longkodo not only has to leave, but also goes all the way to Hubei.

Although he is the governor of Jiangnan and the governor of the five provinces of Jiangnan, the whole of Jiangnan has already lost almost all the things that should not have been lost, and Anqing is no less important.

Running away is something that happens once and twice.

Now Longkodo has run away for the third time, and he has long since lost his psychological burden.

Moreover, as a close confidant of Yongzheng, the emperor has just ascended the throne and it is "the time to employ people." As long as he can speak more sincerely, nothing will necessarily happen.

With this idea in mind, Longkodo decisively ran away with Da Junma.

No, this is not called running, this is called strategic transition.

(End of this chapter)