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When cleaning the battlefield, nearly 1,200 enemy corpses were left on the battlefield, and nearly 1,200 corpses had bullet holes on them, which means that these were all shot by muskets.

Under such an advantage, the cavalry of Zu Dabi's army still suffered four or five hundred cavalry casualties. It can be imagined that the combat power of the two cavalry was so different.

Titicacamu fled, and Chi Erhan's army was not strong enough, with only more than 4,000 troops, and could not effectively encircle the enemy. Titicacamu found that the situation was wrong and took the initiative to order to retreat to the Xixi River on the left. In the end, more than a thousand cavalry escaped.

Of course, there are also Zu Dabi's cavalry here. While the musketeers were shooting, they crashed into the enemy cavalry head-on.

Otherwise, the results of the musketeers could not be so great. After Titicacum came to its senses, it could even detour, reorganize, and launch an assault on the musketeers' positions.

The victory of this battle was hard-won and of great significance. This was the first time that the enemy cavalry of Yangzhou Prefecture suffered heavy damage. More than half of the Titicacum tribe was damaged. Although only nearly 2,000 cavalry were annihilated, this was already 20,000 cavalry.

This greatly caused the enemy cavalry to be even more exhausted when facing the attack of 20,000 reinforcements from the Northern Expedition Army.

The enemy infantry from Fengyang Prefecture could not keep up with the speed of the enemy cavalry, so they could only cooperate with the occupied city. At the same time, they were no match for the Northern Expedition Army at all.

This led to the speed of the Northern Expedition Army's advancement to the north.

Of course, this is a later story.

....

Zu Dabi, who survived death, obviously didn't know Chi Erhan.

But he knew the Northern Expedition Army's flag.

"Thank you for your help. If the general had not come in time, Zu would have... dare to ask who the general is under and why he appeared here?"

Chi Erhan looked at Zu Dabi, with a hint of alert in his eyes, and asked, "My name is Chi Erhan... Who are you? There are no cavalry in the Northern Expedition Army, so why do you set up the Northern Expedition Army flag?"

Zu Dabi choked and said with a forced smile: "It turned out to be General Chi Yidao Chi, who has long admired Daming... I am Zu Dabi, who was originally stationed in Huai'an City... His Highness Meng Wu refused to abandon him and returned to the tent of the King of Wu, and temporarily served as the commander of his own troops. This time, under the order of the King of Wu, he broke through the siege and went south and met with reinforcements. He did not want to be discovered by the enemy halfway, so this battle was caused."

"What's the basis?"

Zu Dabi took out Wu Zheng's handwriting from his chest and handed it to Chi Erhan, saying, "This is the handwritten order of the King of Wu... The King of Wu's order, if you do not support Huai'an, attack Yancheng first!"

Chi Erhan opened the warrant in surprise and looked at it, handed it back to Zu Dabi, and asked anxiously: "What is the situation of the prince?"

"General Chi, don't worry, the King of Wu has transferred Wusongwei to Huaian. Now there are nearly 30,000 defenders in Huaian. It should not be difficult to hold on for ten days and half a month..."

Chi Erhan breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zu Dabi: "Our army has only more than 4,000 people, and is located in the center of Yangzhou Prefecture. There is Xinghua in the north and Taizhou in the south, so it is difficult to attack Yancheng... Now the First Army crossing the river from the south bank is attacking Taixing. In this way, you can continue to go south and pass the prince's order to the First Army."

Zu Dabi said in surprise: "General Chi is going to go north to Huaian without orders?"

Chi Erhan nodded and said, "Compared with Yancheng, the safety of the prince is more important... I must see the prince with my own eyes to be at ease."

Zu Dabi looked back at the Northern Expedition Army that was reorganizing the army, thought for a while and said, "I have a way to achieve the best of both worlds. I wonder if General Chi is willing to listen?"

Chi Erhan nodded and said, "Tell me."

"General Chi now has more than 4,000 people, and my troops..." Zu Dabi turned around and glanced at his cavalry, "No less than 1,500 people. If General Chi is willing, you and I can join forces."

Speaking of this, Zu Dabi pointed his finger to the north, "Xinghua... The enemy has just seized Xinghua from our army for less than ten days. The city is in chaos and the people's hearts are not stable. There should not be too many enemy defenders. It is the time to recover in one fell swoop."

Chi Erhan thought for a while and said, "What about?"

Zu Dabi shook his head and said, "There is no more then, and there is no need to... General Chi just imagine that our army occupied Xinghua, Yancheng, and Huai'an in the northwest are all under the command of our army's military front. The enemy's army was afraid of weapons. If they wanted to encircle Huai'an, they had to worry about our army in Xinghua. In this way, they could solve the difficulties of Huai'an and at least support the King of Wu and the two guards to break through."

Chi Erhan nodded and said, "This plan is feasible... In this way, you send a team of people to pass the prince's hand-in-hand order to the First Army, and you and I will join forces to attack Xinghua!"

Zu Dabi was overjoyed when he heard this. Without the sudden appearance of Chi Erhan's tribe, Zu Dabi thought he would have to die in the battlefield today, but now he not only survived from death, but also had the opportunity to make a brilliant achievement. It was a surprise. How could this not make Zu Dabi happy?

I have to say that Zu Dabi has rich battlefield experience and his vision is vicious enough.

The main battlefields of this war are all in Yangzhou Prefecture. Even Huai'an Prefecture City is quite close to Baoying. Xinghua is located in the center of Yangzhou Prefecture, and it is well-connected. This strategic position determines the ownership of the battlefield initiative.

It’s not that Wu Zheng didn’t know this. It was because there were too many enemy cavalry and it came too fast. With Taizhou Guards in Huai'an and Wusong Guards in Yancheng at that time, it was very difficult to return to reinforce Xinghua to defend the city. How could two legs run better than four legs?

If you encounter an enemy cavalry and start fighting in a field, the casualties will be immeasurable.

Therefore, Wu Zheng could only choose to defend Huai'an, not only to avoid field battles with the cavalry, but also to restrain and resist the enemy army's heading south on the north bank.

....

The current battlefield situation and the deployment of troops on both sides are like a sandwich pie.

The northernmost part was Dorgon's 50,000 troops attacked south by attacking, including his direct heavy armored cavalry.

The second floor is Huai'an City on the south bank of the Yellow River, which is the Taizhou and Wusong Guards in Wuzheng.

The third floor, that is, the thickest and widest layer, is the 10,000 cavalry that were scattered in southern Yangzhou, and the former defenders transferred from Fengyang Prefecture, with about 20,000 infantry. At the same time, the Ajige tribe, which took over the defense of Fengyang Prefecture and began to march to the east, had the largest number, with the former 80,000 garrisons in Xuzhou and the Zhenglan Banner Army of Ajige.

The southernmost layer is the 20,000 Northern Expedition Army, which was ordered by Wu Zheng to go north to reinforce.

It seems that the situation is still not optimistic, and the difference in military strength between the two sides is still huge.

But Ningxiang Town, Chi Erhan and Zu Dabi's unintentional victory reversed the situation of Yangzhou Prefecture, at least on the local battlefield. The two of them hurriedly decided to regain Xinghua and directly expanded the local advantages infinitely, because Ajige's troops, except for his direct flag army, were all infantry and could not reinforce Yangzhou in a short time. At the same time, Chen Sheng's troops were stuck like a nail, which made Ajige unable to push the army to Jiangdu as he pleased.

But the most important thing is that Ajige did not want to help Dorgon, and was in Fengyang's passive and lazy battle.

Therefore, in southern Yangzhou, the local battlefield advantage began to tilt towards the Northern Expedition Army.
Chapter completed!