When Wu Zheng received the reply from the messenger, his face turned pale.

"**!" Wu Zheng scolded angrily, "It's a whole **. Play a game with me that will not be destined to be with the king? When I was playing, you were still in Yizhen and were beaten by the Tartars!"

Wu Zheng was really surprised. Isn’t this the trick he often plays?

Now he is played by Jiang Quanyi.

Ma Shiying assisted the words: "Jiang Quanyi is too ignorant of the superiors and inferiors. He is so arrogant. He must be severely punished to serve as a warning! The prince sent his subordinates to personally pass on orders, relieved his military power, and let the prince deal with it!"

After hearing this, Wu Zheng calmed down and rolled his eyes and said, "Who will lead the Taizhou Guard after he is lifted off his military power? If you Lao Ma can replace Jiang Quanyi, I will order him to bring him back."

Ma Shiying smiled bitterly and said, "Ma just speaks for the prince..."

Wu Zheng took a deep breath, "Record the account first, and settle the capital and interest in the future... However, at present, the Taizhou Guard has been exhausted and it is difficult to achieve anything. I urgently need a new force to have another direction to open up a stalemate. Otherwise, once the enemy troops in Xuzhou go south along the canal, they are afraid that the Taizhou Guard will suffer a great loss!"

Speaking of this, Wu Zheng couldn't help but become angry again, "There are more than 10,000 enemy troops in Fengyang Mansion, which is not a decoration... Jiang Quanyi, this guy, has specially asked me questions!"

Ma Shiying nodded and said, "If it is true as the prince expected, the enemy troops in Fengyang and Xuzhou will be surrounded, then the Taizhou Guard will be in danger... General Fang has only 10,000 people in his hands. Since he wants to defend Jiangdu and Gaoyou, he may not be able to dispatch many troops. Otherwise, general Chen or general Chi will lead his troops north to reinforce?"

Wu Zheng frowned and looked at the map, thought and shook his head, "These two divisions are reserve teams, and they cannot be used easily. At least they must be after the enemy troops in Fengyang and Xuzhou have taken action... Besides, Jiang Quanyi's troops are only physically intensified, not unable to attack Huai'an. There are 30,000 Taizhou Guards. It is enough to deal with the enemy troops of Huai'an Prefecture. It is not necessary to fill in the Chen and Chi divisions."

Ma Shiying agreed: "Hey...if the court could send troops to attack Chuzhou and restrain the enemy troops in Fengyang, that would be great."

Wu Zheng's eyes flashed and said, "I will write a letter in person. You will take it to Yingtian Mansion and hand it over to Your Majesty with your own hands."

Ma Shiying said anxiously: "Why not leave the letter to others? The prince cannot live without people."

Wu Zheng was stunned, then laughed and scolded: "You old horse is not a beautiful woman... I don't need anyone to serve you."

Ma Shiying smiled awkwardly, "Ma means that now the left and right governors and other ministers are not around the prince. At least there is someone who can talk around the prince..."

Wu Zheng smiled and said, "I understand what you mean... Yingtian Mansion is not far away, and this letter is related to whether the court can send troops to Chuzhou. You can go and go back quickly."

Ma Shiying responded helplessly: "Please take care of yourself!"

....

While speaking, there was another day of bloody battle.

Jiang Quanyi really couldn't figure it out. Even if Huaian Prefecture had a full membership, it would only have a membership of 20,000 people.

When the main force of Taizhou Guard arrived at the periphery of Huai'an Prefecture, Jiang Quanyi actually had 20,000 soldiers available.

In addition, there were no less than 300 artillery guns of all sizes, but several strong attacks were forced back by the defenders.

At this time, the flaws of the musketeers were also exposed...the defense ability was extremely poor!

Because they were not equipped with armor, soldiers almost faced the enemy's muskets, crossbows, stones, and rolling wood with their bodies. This was extremely fatal in the era when there were no continuous firearms.

The advantage of muskets is that they output long-distance firepower and do not have close contact with the enemy. Compared with the enemy defenders, the damage of each knife and stab is extremely different.

Jiang Quanyi has always been "supervised" in the power of firearms. Of course, this is a fact, but the problem is that it is now a siege. Unless the morale of the defenders collapses and the army surges in, hand-to-hand combat is necessary.

Even after the bombing of aircraft and cannons in later generations, infantry must rush forward to be considered a real occupation.

The lack of actual combat examples for musketeers siege cities has always lacked real guiding tactics for military academies.

The only tactical guidance is to bombard the cannon, infantry rush, infantry rush after the cannon, and infantry rush after the cannon, infantry rush after the cannon.

The walls of Huaian Prefecture are too strong, and the twelve-pound cannons cannot produce truly effective destructive power on it. Even if they are lucky, they are in the same position in a row and two shells hit directly, which is just a big pit and some gravel is dripping.

The enemy defenders obviously prevent fire attacks. Once the artillery bombarded the city with flowering bullets, they hid in wood and stone fortifications, and the casualties were very small. When the Taizhou Guard Musketeers attacked the city, they rushed out, bowed and crossbows, threw stones, and beat wood... to use everything.

Three consecutive defeats in the siege forced Jiang Quanyi to start reflecting.

He immediately ordered the siege to stop, but only used artillery to bombard the city heads intermittently to prevent the defenders from suddenly leaving the city and conduct counterattacks.

At the same time, he had to send a rescue messenger to Taizhou, hoping to get the fire support of the sixteen-pound gun.

Such a strong city wall can only have more than 16 pounds of artillery, which poses a threat to the city wall. The Northern Expedition Army surrendered the First Army and had a built-in 16 pound artillery regiment, and the maximum caliber of each guard was only 12 pound artillery. This is not that it cannot be built, but that it is considered to be convenient transportation.

Because the weight of a sixteen-pound cannon is more than 1,800 kilograms, and at this time, the standard twelve-pound direct-fired cannon equipped by the Northern Expedition Army was only more than 800 kilograms, with a weight of more than twice as much as the transportation difficulty is not a small difference, and the requirements for roads are more than twice as high.

....

And just when Jiang Quanyi was in a dilemma of being unable to advance or retreat.

Wu Zheng received a secret report from Song An, and Changlin Wei found out who the chief general of the Huai'an defender was.

This man has a very famous name, Zu Dabi, who was surrendered to the Qingming general, but even during the Chongzhen Dynasty, he was also a powerful general.

Zu Dabi has a nickname called Zu Er Madman, which is due to the joyful shouting and shouting during the war.

This is different from Chi Erhan's shouting "Eat me a knife". Chi Erhan's shouting has a prerequisite, that is, he must shout before swinging the knife. When Zu Dabi went to the battlefield, he shouted loudly and kept shouting.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, he killed the Qing Dynasty (Later Jin) Tulush in Xuanfu. In the 14th year of Chongzhen, he killed the Qing army Batulumuktan in Jinzhou.

But after the Ming army was defeated in the Battle of Songjin, he followed his younger brother Zu Dashou to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

It was also because of his bravery in fighting that he was attracted by Dorgon and was under the Han army's erected yellow flag.

In June of the second year of Shunzhi (1645), Dorgon ordered Zu Dabi to lead 8,000 people to attack Huzhou, Zhejiang. At that time, the Huzhou garrison Wei Geng led his soldiers to defend the city for more than ten days, and eventually lost to Zu Dabi.

After making military achievements, Dorgon appointed Zu Dabi as the Minister of Sanzhi.
Chapter completed!