When Susong was fighting fiercely, the main force of Susong Town, far away in Chizhou, finally arrived in Huzhou. At this time, the army was only one Taihu Lake from Suzhou, but it would take three days to reach Suzhou whether it was east or north.

"The town, the urgent letter sent by the Nian Gong."

"Mr. Nian Gengyao?" General Susong Ouyang Kai was stunned. How could Nian Gengyao send him a letter at this time? Although Susong Town had been controlled by Yin Hua before, it was because of the encirclement and suppression of Yuan Qi and Zhu Jiancai's troops. Now western Zhejiang has been pacified, Susong Town has returned to Governor Gali and Admiral Shi Yide's control. What's more, Susong is now in a row, Shi Yide underestimated the enemy and was defeated. How did Nian Gengyao write to himself as the governor of Zhejiang in the crisis?

I asked someone to take the letter, Ouyang Kai opened the letter and looked carefully. I saw that there was an official article on it first. After saying a few words, the pen changed. Nian Gengyao talked about the battle situation of Susong in the letter. In his opinion, although Susong's battle was fierce, the Qing army still had the upper hand. Although Shi Yide's troops could not be able to fight in the field, it would be no problem to rely on each city to defend well.

Although Shi Yide has suffered losses, Jiangbei still has more troops. Jiangning has already moved troops across the river to remove the siege of Suzhou. At this time, Susong Town is at most icing on the cake. Once Ningbo rebels retreat northward and retreat to the Yangtze River, due to the strong naval naval forces of Ningbo rebels and fierce warships and artillery fire, Jiangsu's current troops are at most, which is a stalemate. Moreover, Ningbo rebels can board the ship from the landing point to go directly to Chongming or even withdraw to Ningbo. Although Susong can be saved at that time, it will not be able to cause a decisive blow to Ningbo rebels.

Nian Gengyao believed that it was better to go south to Hangzhou than to reach Susong Town to Suzhou. After the troops from Hangzhou gathered together, they attacked Ningbo directly eastward. From a tactical point of view, this is a strategy to surround Wei and save Zhao. More importantly, now taking advantage of the Ningbo Navy's far away in Jiangsu to directly attack Ningbo's nest, the effect is far better than simply rescuing Suzhou...

"All nonsense! What do scholars know?" Ouyang Kai sneered after reading this letter. Nian Gengyao seemed to be talking very well in the letter, but in Ouyang Kai's opinion, he was just talking about military affairs on paper. What surrounded Wei and saved Zhao? What was rushing to attack the old lair is purely nonsense. If the Ningbo rebels could be so easy to fight, Shi Yide would not be defeated. Besides, you, a governor of Zhejiang, actually directed Su Song's troops, and even pointed at the military decision-making in Jiangsu. It was really bold and arbitrary.

Ouyang Kai was General Susong, and was controlled by the Admiral of Jiangnan and the Governor of Liangjiang. Moreover, he also had an emergency document sent by Governor Gali and Admiral Shi Yide. The document was written very clearly, so that the main force of Susong Town could quickly reinforce Suzhou. Jiangning had also mobilized Jiangbei troops to prepare to go south. At that time, with Suzhou as the center, Susong Town will go from east to north, and Jiangning's troops will attack the rebels in Suzhou from north to south, and on both sides, to completely resolve the war in Jiangsu.

With military order in hand, can Ouyang Kai do his own thing as the general? What's more, Susong Town is the army guarding Susong. If Yin Huaxing had not transferred him to western Zhejiang, what would have happened now? Nian Gengyao was young and did not know the importance of the matter, and tried to take the opportunity of Susong to form a group of troops to make contributions to him with Susong's troops? It was simply fantasy.

Besides, Ningbo belongs to Zhejiang, and attacking Ningbo is his own business. Now Yin Huaxing has taken office as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang? Why didn’t he use the troops from Fujian and Zhejiang to attack Ningbo? Instead, he had the idea of ​​returning to the army to rescue Susong Town. Thinking of this, Ouyang Kai even disdained Nian Gengyao and immediately threw the letter aside.

Ouyang Kai continued to march towards Suzhou as scheduled. On the second day, the army arrived in Qingyun Town. On the same day, he sent a scout to inquire about the situation in Suzhou. When he learned that the rebels outside Suzhou were still besieging the city and there was no other movement, Ouyang Kai felt relieved and was preparing to arrive in Tongli area tomorrow and then make plans.

Coming from western Zhejiang, the main force of Susong Town has been marching for half a month. If we add to the previous battle in western Zhejiang, Susong Town is exhausted from Ouyang Kai. However, now it has entered the boundary of Susong. As a local garrison, Susong Town is holding its breath and trying to lift the siege of Suzhou as soon as possible. In terms of morale, it is quite good.

It was already evening when the troops arrived in Tongli. As Ningbo rebels swept around Suzhou many times, the people in Tongli had basically escaped. Nine out of ten households in Tongli Town were empty, which was just the place for Susong Town to be the garrison. Ouyang Kai ordered the entire army to rest in Tongli for a temporary rest. As the general, Ouyang Kai did not relax his vigilance during the rest and recuperation process, and sent many scouts to the north to prevent the sneak attack of Ningbo rebels.

"Master General Town, our army is only one day away from Suzhou. Will we continue to march towards Suzhou tomorrow?" asked the guerrilla general Luo Wancang.

"No hurry, I don't know how the military army is going. The scouts can still defend Suzhou for the time being. It's not too late for our troops to wait for the news from the military army to send troops." Speaking of this, Ouyang Kai paused and said, "Tell your brothers to pay attention at night to prevent the thieves from stealing the camp. Now our troops are close to Suzhou, so everything needs to be careful."

"Please rest assured, the general town master, and make arrangements for me personally." Luo Wancang replied with a bow. Luo Wancang is Ouyang Kai's old subordinate and has always been experienced in his work. Ouyang Kai is still very relieved about this.

That night, Tongli was safe and sound, and the soldiers of Susong Town had a rare time to rest for a day. When the day just lighted up the next day, Ouyang Kai got up to wash up, and then left the temporary residence where he lived. When he was about to call on his own soldiers to speak, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the south of the town.

He couldn't help frowning, and Ouyang Kai immediately ordered: "Go and see! What's going on there?"

The personal soldiers responded quickly and turned around and ran out of the house, but after a while the personal soldiers ran back with horror: "General Town! General Town is not good!"

"What's the matter panic?"

"Zhennan...there are thieves in Zhennan!"

"What? Rebel?" Ouyang Kai was shocked. How could there be a rebel in Zhennan? He just came from the south yesterday, and the scouts did not notice any movement of the rebels along the way. Moreover, the scouts scattered outside have not found any abnormal movements in Suzhou. Where did the rebels come from?

Also, even if this thief appears, it is still in Zhenbei. Why did he come to Zhennan? Could it be that a small group of thieves be? Ouyang Kai felt confused for a moment and hurried out of the house and rushed to Zhennan.

The area of ​​Tongli is not large, and the entire town can only be moved from beginning to end for ten minutes. When Ouyang Kai came to the south of Zhen, the soldiers stationed in Zhennan were already in chaos. Just outside the south of Zhennan, about a few miles away from the town, there were a group of people quietly setting up their formation. Judging from the formation queue, the other party was well-trained, wearing a red battle jacket and swords, and the queue was neat and silent, but it puts great pressure on people. Judging from the number of people, it is impossible to estimate for a while, but initially it is expected that at least tens of thousands of people would be held high. Several flags swayed in the air with the wind, and the largest flag in the middle had the word "Hong" written on it.

"This... this is..." Ouyang Kai's face turned pale. The thieves in front of him were definitely not ordinary thieves. Whether in terms of their formation or equipment, they were definitely the elite among the thieves. You should know that Ouyang Kai followed Yin Huaxing to encircle and suppress Yuan Qi, Zhu Jiancai and other troops in western Zhejiang. If compared with these thieves in front of him, Yuan Qi and Zhu Jiancai's troops were simply a mob.

That's not all, especially the huge Hong-shaped flag. Ouyang Kai, who was able to cast this flag among the thieves, had only one person after thinking about it, that is Hong Qiang (Zhu Yicheng) in Ningbo. But wasn't Zhu Yicheng in Ningbo? I have never heard of him coming to Su Song, what's going on?

Before Ouyang Kai could react, the army opposite took action. The artillery that had been arranged had already begun to attack at a command. The overwhelming shells flew towards Tongli with the rumbling cannons.

"Retreat! Retreat quickly!" Ouyang Kai was immediately frightened and hurriedly led his people to retreat to the town, but no matter how fast these two legs ran, they could not escape the shells. During the retreat, the shells had already flown to the heads of the officers and soldiers of Susong Town. As the lifting force disappeared, the shells began to descend after reaching the highest point, and then pierced into the ground...

"Grandmaster, I have never understood why I didn't attack Tongli last night?" In the central army of Ningbo, Liao Huanzhi, who was standing beside Zhu Yicheng, looked at the scene of bombarding Tongli, and seemed to be very good, but at the same time, he couldn't help asking.

"Although night battles are good, they cannot exert their advantage in the water towns in Jiangnan. The casualties of our army will inevitably be large. Moreover, once the enemy breaks through with all his might, it will not be conducive to our army's pursuit at night. Look, isn't it better now? The enemy is trapped in Tongli, the terrain in the town is small, and the troops cannot gather at all, and they cannot fight. If it were you, what would you do?" Zhu Yicheng pointed to Tongli in front of him and asked with a smile.

"Well..." Liao Huanzhi thought for a while and said, "If I were Ouyang Kai, I would definitely break north, which would be better than being trapped in Tongli. However, if he ran north, this road would be difficult to walk." Speaking of this, Liao Huanzhi also laughed.

After receiving the report of Dong Dashan in Sangjiazhuang, Zhu Yicheng decided to send troops. This time he sent troops, he did not go to the front line of Zhejiang, but went north from Hangzhou Bay like Dong Dashan landed in Jiangsu, and went directly to the south of Jiaxing. In order to ensure the secret and speed, not only did the Ningbo Navy mobilize all the troops, but even borrowed the power of Luo Sect's boss Pan. Since the Ningbo rebel army gradually grew, coupled with the defeat of the Fujian Navy and the establishment of the Sihai Commercial Bank, Luo Sect began to gradually move closer to Zhu Yicheng, and the cooperation between the two sides has increased.

This battle, the Luo Sect can be said to have a lot of strength. If it were not for the Luo Sect's water power, Ningbo would have to transport so many troops in such a short time. In addition, when Boss Pan was interested in surrendering, Zhu Yicheng had promised that after this battle, if Boss Pan was willing, the Luo Sect could directly build a naval army, and the commander would be directly taken over by Boss Pan.
Chapter completed!