Wu Zheng naturally didn't know what the Qian family's uncle and nephew behind him were talking about.

I don’t know that if these two people get angry, they will cause a mutiny.

At this moment, Wu Zheng was thinking in his mind how to win this battle with more than 6,000 people with minimal casualties.

Everyone knew that according to the instructions of Tu Guobao, the chances of winning against Changzhou Prefecture were extremely high.

The key is the casualties the army will suffer.

If the casualties are serious, it is better not to attack, because one thing needs to be defended. Changzhou is not far from Yingtian Prefecture, and there is only one Zhenjiang Prefecture. Once the Qing army counterattacks, the number of troops guarding the city will be less, and they will have to withdraw in shame.

Second, the purpose of taking Changzhou is to shock Yingtian Prefecture. If the troops are fewer and the expected goal is not achieved at all, then it is a joke to make the Qing court afraid of the Ming army in Changzhou and mobilize troops from various places to support Yingtian Prefecture, thereby reducing the expectation of pressure on Shaoxing Prefecture.

Wu Zheng found that his estimate had a deviation.

I originally thought that on the way from Jiangyin to Changzhou, there would be rebels from all over the country who would come to surrender.

But in fact, except for a rebel army with more than 100 people who came to surrender in embarrassment, there were only a group of people in three or five watching the army pass by in a daze.

At this time, Wu Zheng realized that the Ming people were almost dead from the border areas along Jiangyin to Songjiang.

The Qing army marched south on the tenth day of Yangzhou, the eighty-one of Jiangyin, and the three massacres of Jiading, and how many people died in this catastrophe.

All the remaining ones, except for the women, children, the elderly, and the weak, all participated in the various rebel armies.

Qian Sudian and Xia Wanchun earned Jiaxing Prefecture in one fell swoop, attracting rebels from all directions to surrender.

Now, there are no established rebels waiting for Wu Zheng to gather them?

After thinking this clearly, Wu Zheng was a little depressed. Hong Chengchou, who was stationed in Changzhou personally. Previously, Changzhou Prefecture had surrendered to the Qing army under the leadership of the Southern Ming Censor Liu Guangdou. Even if most of the defenders in the city were surrendered by the Ming army, Hong Chengchou would have supervised the war, the possibility of rebellion was extremely small.

In the distance, Ji Conglian and Huang Desheng's singing came:

"A man from Yixing, a gun.

Wuxi people have a fragrance.

People from Jingjiang quickly knelt on the beach.

A native of Changzhou, he gave his daughter and mother.

People from Jiangyin have been fighting for more than 80 days, and would rather die than surrender!…”

Regarding Changzhou City, Wu Zheng no longer had any hope of instigating the defenders.

But attacking Changzhou is already like an arrow, and I have to fire it!

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The post pavilion is located in the east of Yuyao and the west of Shangyu. It is named after the station stationed in Hangzhou to Ningbo’s ancient post road.

Its history has a profound accumulation. Although it has a small land and few people, it is also a hometown of famous scholars.

Especially the Baima Lake not far to the south, it has abundant aquatic products and pleasant scenery. The poet Liu Yazi of the Southern Song Dynasty once left a good sentence here: "Mengtou green trees and white horse lakes, rain and smoke and building are blurred."

Since it was possible to set up a post station, it means that its geographical importance was important. During the Tang Dynasty, it built a key pass here to station troops. First, it collected commercial taxes, second, it delivered urgent reports, and third, it shocked the surrounding counties.

Its importance is self-evident.

Duoduo personally led nearly 20,000 Qing troops to attack Yiting for this reason.

When the post pavilion falls, the gate of Shangyu is open, and when the gate of Shangyu falls, the horse goes flat to Shaoxing Prefecture.

Fenghui was not on the necessary path to Shangyu and Shaoxing. Duoduo divided the partial troops to attack, for two reasons.

First, I was worried that Fenghui Ming's army would go west and cut off the rear route of his troops. Second, to the south of Yiting was Linshui (Baima Lake), and the terrain here was not enough to deploy 30,000 troops.

In Duoduo's view, a 16,000 army is enough to deal with such a small fortress!

What surprised Duoduo was that after three days of strong attack, although the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, the key pass of the Yiting was still firmly in the hands of the Ming army.

Even Fenghui, seventy or eighty miles away, could not be easily captured.

So Duoduo suspended the attack and sent someone to instruct Boro, the leader of the partial division commander who led the attack on Fenghui, and ordered Boro to win Fenghui within three days.

He himself had the brain to instigate the Ming army in Yiting and said that he would surrender.

Under Duoduo's tent, there are many Han generals.

There are three kings, King Kong Youde, King Zhishun, King Shangkexi, and King Huaishun, Geng Zhongming. These three people are called "Sanshun" because they have the character "Sun" in their titles. The character Shun is naturally the meaning of surrender.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were the ones who rebeled from the Later Jin Dynasty in their early years. The warships, artillery, craftsmen and more than 10,000 troops were brought by them. Huang Taiji, the leader of the Jianlu, excitedly went out of the city to greet them. He treated them with the most solemn "helming ceremony" of the Jurchens, and placed them in Tokyo (Liaoyang), forming a self-established army, called "Tianyou Soldiers".

After the Qing army entered the pass, this "Tianyou Army" became the Eight Banners of Han.

It can be said that one of the main reasons why the Ming army in Liaodong lost its strategic initiative to the Qing army in the later period was the artillery and craftsman that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming gave to the Tartars.

Because at that time, the Tartar artillery had completely defeated the Ming army in terms of quantity and quality.

At this time, Kong Youdezheng, one of the Sanshun kings, led his army to attack Wenzhou Prefecture.

King Zhishun Shang Kexi led his army from Changsha to attack Guangxi.

Duoduo was left with only King Huaishun Geng Zhongming. With Geng Zhongming's qualifications, this rebellion was naturally not his turn to say that he was not surrendering.

This important task was well deserved to be on Fang Guoan, who had devoted himself to the Qing court.

The next morning, Fang Guoan took Huang Degong (the former magistrate of Shangyu County who fled, and the Duke of Jingguo, the Ming Dynasty who died for his country), and walked towards the key pass of the Yiting Pavilion with fear.

Zhang Huangyan and Liao Zhongping appeared on the wall and looked at the two shameless people coldly.

Fang Guoan stood a hundred steps away from the city, but he wanted to speak but stopped.

He finally mustered up the courage to persuade: "Mr. Zhang, now all south of Shaoxing Prefecture have been pacified by the Qing Dynasty. Shaoxing Prefecture is surrounded by enemies. Everyone understands that destruction is just a matter of time. Why is it difficult for you to fight against the Qing army like this? If the people of Shaoxing Prefecture were massacred by the Qing army, it would be a great crime. How can you bear it? If you are willing to lead the army to surrender, with your talents, your title will definitely not be under our national security!"

Zhang Huangyan shouted loudly on the wall: "You are the Duke and Magistrate, holding heavy troops in your hands, and advancing cannot restore the Central Plains, and retreating cannot guarantee the eastern Zhejiang. Instead, you surrender to the enemy, recognize the thief as your father, drive forward to harm your compatriots, and what are you going to see the people of Shaoxing Prefecture!"

After scolding this, Zhang Huangyan pointed to the Huang County Magistrate and said, "Treacher, as a parent, you are not willing to serve the court, and you are not willing to protect the local people. You have secretly colluded with foreign enemies and caused harm to the other side... You have lost all the faces of your ancestors for eight generations, and you dare to come to me to make noise?"

Poor County Magistrate Huang didn't even say a word, and was scolded by Zhang Huangyan.

The two were scolded by Zhang Huangyan and blushed and speechless, so they could only retreat in shame.
Chapter completed!