Wait for the two to leave with the generals.

Wu Zheng held Qian Qiaogong's elbow bend and asked, "Will your spear cavalry battalion fight our army to the death?"

Qian Qiaogong said without hesitation: "If it were the command of other people, it would never be. These more than a thousand people have experienced several wars, quelling the rebellion in Dengzhou and suppressing the rebellion in Mobei. They have been following me for more than two years. They are all good children from Han families. If they were not in the capital, I could even take them to surrender at a command... I still have this confidence."

Wu Zheng asked, "What do you mean, if Chen Zhiyuan commands them, he will obey all the orders of Chen Zhiyuan?"

Qian Qiaogong said annoyedly: "In the past two years, I have been in and out with Chen Zhiyuan and have a banquet. The soldiers have long regarded me as one... Alas, if I had known this, I would have regretted it before!"

Wu Zheng suddenly laughed, "So, Chen Zhiyuan's musket camp should be like yours?"

Qian Qiaogong was stunned and replied, "It should be the case."

"That's good!" Wu Zheng said leisurely, "He has a yellow tuozi around him. Qingyin. No matter how stupid he is, he will not be much..."

"What you mean is... Huang Tuozi, Qingyin was arranged by him...uh." Qian Qiaogong looked at Wu Zheng in shock.

Wu Zheng looked at Qian Qiaogong quietly and said, "What do you think?"

....

During this day, the situation of the battle took a huge turn.

Liao Zhongping had about 6,000 vanguards in the left camp. After crossing the river, he quickly occupied Liuhe, which had only 300 defenders.

Then, the follow-up main force who had just landed, quickly interspersed with Jiangpu, Yizhen.

Chen Sheng, who was struggling to stand firm in Yizhen, finally waited for reinforcements.

The Ming army in the Zuoying camp came to encircle the enemy troops attacking Yizhen. Seeing the opportunity, the enemy saw that the Ming army was coming to help and immediately retreated to the north Tianchang direction. Since then, the siege of Yizhen has been lifted.

When he saw Liao Zhongping, Chen Sheng forced himself to endure the mixed feelings in his heart and punched Liao Zhongping twice in the chest.

"I thought you wouldn't come." A little light flashed in Chen Sheng's eyes. In fact, Chen Sheng had already made up his mind to die in battle.

Liao Zhongping did not hide, and he said calmly: "You should be relieved. Even if you died in Yizhen in battle, Yizhen would not be able to lose it... because there is me on the south bank!"

At this time, Shi Kun, behind Chen Sheng, suddenly walked forward and said: "It's not a humble offense. General Liao was indeed late. Our army went from Jiangdu to Yizhen in a bloody battle. There were only more than 2,000 people left, with more than half of the casualties. If General Liao could come a few days earlier, no, even one day, the brothers wouldn't... so miserable!"

Liao Zhongping was moved, "Where is General Fang?"

Shi Kun said sadly: "General Fang was unfortunately shot in the abdomen when he was fighting fiercely yesterday. Fortunately, he did not hurt the vital points and is being treated."

Chen Sheng hurriedly said, "General Liao doesn't have to care. He is just a Lu Han. He has always been rude to me because he has a teacher and student with the prince. He has always been rude to me, and the same is true for me... However, if he hadn't led his troops to return to Yizhen yesterday, the general today would have been afraid that he would have to see Chen's body."

Liao Zhongping was moved and asked, "Is it so unbearable?"

Chen Sheng sighed: "Yesterday, the enemy was besieged Yizhen and at least 10,000 people were transferred, and no less than fifty red cannons were bombarded, and the city gates were bombarded. If it weren't for the morning report of the scout, I ordered the city gates to be blocked with earth and stone, I would be really unable to stop them... But even so, if it were the case, more than a thousand casualties would be killed in one day."

Speaking of this, Chen Sheng pointed at Shi Kun and said to Liao Zhongping: "I originally thought that I would let him take some people out of the city and leave some bones and blood for reconstruction, but this guy actually returned after hearing the sound of cannons behind him... If he hadn't been caught off guard by attacking the enemy from the flank, Yizhen City would still be difficult to defend."

Liao Zhongping turned to Shi Kun and nodded slowly, "You... are not bad!"

Shi Kun felt a little embarrassed, raised his hand and scratched the back of his neck, and laughed.

Liao Zhongping turned to Chen Sheng again, "I'm here, but you still defend this city... Jiangpu, Liuhe is already in my hands, and 10,000 people are enough to guard it. When I crossed the river, I already learned that the Duke of Wei had led Jianyang Wei to attack Hezhou, so my next goal is... Jiangdu!"

Chen Sheng knew that Liao Zhongping was kind, and his remnants needed rest, but he still shook his head and said, "Jiangdu is afraid that General Liao no longer needs to attack. The First Army of the Northern Expedition has occupied Taixing and is heading north to reinforce. Jiangdu has not many enemy troops, so our troops can recover... General Liao has strong troops. It is better to take this opportunity to quickly attack north, recover Tianchang, and break into Fengyang. In this way, it will definitely attract and restrain the enemy Xuzhou army and reduce the pressure for the prince to defend Huai'an City."

Liao Zhongping was silent for a while, looked at Chen Sheng, and asked, "Can your troops still fight?"

Chen Sheng grinned and turned to ask Shi Kun, "Can you still fight?"

Shi Kun shouted: "Just wait for the commander to give the order."

When Liao Zhongping heard this, he nodded decisively and said, "Okay. Jiangdu you attack, I will attack Tianchang."

....

Compared to Yizhen, Hezhou is really an unprepared place.

There are only a thousand enemies in the entire Hezhou.

Not to mention resistance, I heard that Xia Wanchun led Jianyangwei to cross the river to attack, and the thousand people stationed at the garrison simply opened the city gate and surrendered.

Xia Wanchun was almost invincible and recovered Hezhou on the same day.

What’s funny is that the three thousand Qing troops stationed in Chao County, which borders the west side of Hezhou, learned that the Ming army crossed the river to attack, fled to Hefei, the Luzhou Prefecture City without saying a word. This was to remain unchanged and defend the city to the death.

So, the main force of Jianyangwei quickly headed north and pointed directly at Chuzhou.

....

Wu Zheng would never have thought that this war had gone from a small-scale revenge to a real national war and a decisive battle.

What was even more unexpected was that it was precisely because of his persistence that a series of chain reactions were triggered.

The subsequent national war edict of the Yixing court, for Xia Wanchun and Liao Zhongping's private troops, smoothed out the blame and cleared the obstacles.

Although the Yixing court did not really send reinforcements from the Right Battalion, this edict left the soldiers participating in the battle of Zuoying and Jianyangwei without any worries, because in this way, they did not have to worry about their families being implicated by themselves, and they were no longer "rebels", but instead fought for the country under the edict.

It is precisely because of this that Liao Zhongping agreed to attack Tianchang in the north, but Xia Wanchun rushed to Chuzhou without thinking.

At this point, the forces of the two sides on the Jiangbei battlefield reached a balance overnight, and the Ming army even had some advantage in force.

But the war situation changed this night, and the Yellow River had not been spread yet. Wu Zheng didn't know it, let alone Dorgon, Pei County, learned about the battle situation.

But at this time, Dorgon had already learned something, and bad news, Xinghua was lost.

Chi Erhan and Zu Dabi met near Ningxiang Town, and quickly joined forces to attack Xinghua in the north.
Chapter completed!