Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 69 Passing the edict and hunting Nanjing
The navy was defeated and the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou, who fell to death, easily defended Duoduo's heavy siege by virtue of the artillery.

After a victory, the gloom of the navy's defeat was somewhat dilute, and the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou regained a glimmer of hope.

On the city, the soldiers were cleaning up the corpses and packing up the equipment, while Wang Yan led He Gang and his guards to patrol and defend.

"General, I don't understand something, please enlighten me." While walking, He Gang asked suspiciously.

"Master He is because of the matter of throwing food out of the city just now?" Wang Yan stopped, looked back at He Gang and said.

"The general is clearly aware of the details, and the subordinate officials are doing this." He Gang nodded, and said with doubts: "There is already a shortage of food and grass in the city, but the general ordered people to throw the food to the Qing soldiers outside. I think there must be some deep meaning."

Hearing this, Wang Yan walked to the wall, supported the city with one hand, looked at the camp in the distance and said: "Master He, do you know about the battle between Song, Meng and Hezhou? This general doesn't have any deep meaning, but he is just eating the wisdom of his predecessors."

"The general is talking about the Battle of Diaoyu City." He Gang followed Wang Yan to the side of the city wall and said, "I don't know much about this, so please ask the general to clarify."

"From the sixth year of Baoyou in the Southern Song Dynasty to the first year of Kaiqing, Mongolian Khan Mengge sent troops south again and besieged the Diaoyu City for several months, but failed to attack it repeatedly." Wang Yan came slowly, as if he was talking about Diaoyu City, but he seemed to be saying Right now in Yangzhou: "The Mongolian and Song dynasties saw and saw repeatedly on the city, and the casualties were quite heavy. To show their determination, the defenders of the Song army threw two fresh fish weighing [-] jin and more than a hundred steamed noodles to the Mongolian army outside the city, and wrote a letter to the Mongolian army. Army, saying that even if they defended for another ten years, the Mongolian army would not be able to capture Diaoyu City. Shortly thereafter, Meng Ge was wounded by the Song army, and finally died, and the Mongolian army returned without success."

"Today's Yangzhou City is somewhat similar to the Battle of Hezhou, but it is not the same." Wang Yan continued to explain: "The similarity is that in the face of Hu Qi's southern invasion, and they were unable to attack for a long time. The problem is that Diaoyu City has enough food and grass, but our Yangzhou is already short of supplies."

He Gang listened carefully and did not interrupt Wang Yan's narration.

"The situation is different, and the purpose of throwing food out of the city is naturally different." Wang Yan said his intention: "Ben will deliberately use the tactics of his predecessors to humiliate Duoduo, and the results are nothing more than two. First, Duoduo mistakenly thought that Yangzhou Sufficient supplies, siege is useless, attacking with anger. Second, just like Meng Yuan, who has no choice but to retreat. However, based on the general's understanding of Duoduo, this beast will definitely not retreat willingly, and there may be many more people who attack rashly. So Our army can use artillery to kill and injure the northern captives again, and when their morale slacks, it may give Yangzhou a chance."

"If the general's plan is successful, there is a great possibility for Yangzhou to turn the crisis into peace." After hearing Wang Yan's words, He Gang couldn't help but light up in his heart. Yangzhou is not hopeless.

"Okay!" Wang Yan waved his hand and said, "Let's patrol the city defense with this general!"

"No!" He Gang saluted.

The sun was slanting to the west, and the figures of the two stretched long in the afterglow. They were heading from the east city to the west city, facing the setting sun, as if they were leading to the last light.

Outside the city, in the Qing army commander's tent, there were bursts of angry roars.

"Another ten years!"

This is a naked humiliation to the besieged Qing army.

After Duoduo read the big characters written by Wang Yan on the silk, his gloomy face suddenly turned into a pig's liver color, and he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"It's unreasonable! Wang Yanpifu, you are too deceitful!" Duoduo lost control of his emotions again, and in his rage, he overturned the desk in front of him again, causing the arrow documents to scatter all over the ground.

Seeing that he was furious, all the generals of the Qing army immediately bowed down to the ground, and persuaded in unison: "Your Highness, don't want to fall for Wang Yan's tricks, and please put your body first. The Qing Dynasty cannot do without His Highness!"

Since the siege of Yangzhou, Duoduo has repeatedly failed to break through, but was humiliated by Wang Yan. He, who is proud and arrogant, has long regarded it as the biggest shame in his life, and it has become a knot in his heart that cannot be untied.

He heard what the generals said, and he also knew in his heart that Wang Yan deliberately provoked him, wanting him to attack the city again rashly and cause a lot of damage to the Qing army.

Although Duoduo knew it in his heart, he couldn't swallow the bad breath. He knew that Wang Yan intended to provoke him, but he still couldn't help but want to send troops to attack the city again.

"Yangzhou City actually threw out a hundred catties of rice, a hundred sheets of bread, and a chicken and a duck, which shows that the city has enough food and grass, and the siege is not a way to destroy the enemy." Duoduo tried to calm himself, and then said what was in his mind. : "The king's 30 troops are assembled here, and the daily consumption is not much less than that of Yangzhou. If this goes on, it will not last long. Now that the siege plan is not appropriate, the king should give up and attack Yangzhou by force." For the best policy."

Wang Yan has become Duoduo's inner demon, and if he doesn't get rid of it, his heart will be unhappy.

The generals of the Qing army were startled when they saw that Duoduo wanted to attack again tomorrow, and hurriedly tried to persuade them: "My lord, without artillery support, there will only be more casualties in a strong attack. Although the slaves are willing to fight hard and share the worries of the lord, but The morale of the soldiers is exhausted, and the servants are also powerless!"

Today's battle made all the generals of the green battalion terrified. They were unwilling to lose all their soldiers and horses under the city of Yangzhou.

"It's impossible to encircle! It's impossible to attack! You can't take down even Yangzhou. How can you face the regent if you let this king!" Seeing that the green camp was unwilling to fight, Duoduo was immediately annoyed.

Facing Duoduo's anger, the general in the tent immediately bowed his head.

When everyone in the tent fell silent, a soldier suddenly reported outside the tent: "Report to the prince, the imperial envoy has arrived outside the camp."

Hearing the sound, Doduo couldn't help but feel a chill on his face, he hadn't had time to write the report on defeating the Daming Navy, the court envoys definitely didn't come to reward him, and they would definitely reprimand him again.

Duoduo was rewarded, although he was very helpless in his heart, he did not allow people to prepare incense cases, and he led the generals to meet the imperial envoys.

The emissary was none other than Zhan Ba, a scholar of the Qing court who was pinned down by Wang Yan.

Ever since he was released by Wang Yan, he has always suffered from insomnia.

At first he was worried that Wang Yan would fall into the hands of the Qing soldiers, but after hearing that Wang Yan had fled to Henan and voted for Gao Jie, Zhan Ba ​​rested a little in his heart, but he was relieved not long after he heard the news that Wang Yan was besieged in Yangzhou.

Zhan Ba ​​was afraid that Yangzhou City would be destroyed, and Wang Yan would fall into Duoduo's hands and betray him, so he was in fear all day long, and he was suddenly thrown into prison someday, and he became thinner because of it.

Just when Zhan Ba ​​was feeling very tormented, it happened that Dorgon wanted to pass on the edict to Duoduo. Zhan Ba ​​asked for this job and went south to Yangzhou, so he could play it by ear.

Duoduo and the generals greeted Zhanba, then welcomed him into the tent, set up the incense table and received the decree.

Zhan Ba ​​unfolded the decree, and then read: "General Dingguo and Prince Shuoyu Duoduo said: You and others will start from Henan first, and General Dingguo and Prince Shuoying Azig will follow. Today The Prince of England and others went as far as Jiujiang, smashed the bandits along the way, forced Zuo Menggeng to surrender, conquered Anqing, and made a great contribution to the court, but where are your soldiers? If the moon does not break, how can you have the face to call Aixinjueluo! Now that Prince Ying is ordered to go down the river to the east, you can still follow the previous order, break through Yangzhou quickly, and hunt Nanjing!"

(End of this chapter)