Many things are all done by God and cannot be fought against by manpower.

Even though Wu Zheng was busy rushing to Haizhou, he was still one step slower.

As soon as Wu Zheng arrived in Hongze Lake, he received an urgent report from Song An. Boluo gathered 30,000 troops to attack Sishui City. Song An's troops and Qian Qiaogong's troops only resisted on the south bank of the Sishui River for one day. In order to preserve their strength, they had retreated toward Ziyang.

When Wu Zheng received the report, he felt hesitant whether to transfer to Xuzhou or to Haizhou as planned.

But just when Wu Zheng was in a dilemma, another bad news came from Changlin Wei messenger from Haizhou.

Yue Le was supplemented by some of the troops in Boluo, and assembled a 25,000 army, and attacked Andongwei from Rizhao. The Lu Region led his troops to stubbornly resist the enemy's attack for three days. He was exhausted and requested to retreat to Haizhou, otherwise he would be besieged by the enemy.

Wu Zheng did not hesitate anymore and ordered the messenger to return quickly, ordering the territory of Lu to defend Andong Guard and reinforcements would arrive within three days.

At the same time, he ordered Ziyang and transferred Qian Qiaogong's cavalry to urgently support Andongwei.

At this point, the direction of the Qing army's attack had been determined and divided into two routes, Boluo was the West Road, mainly attacking Ziyang, and Yuele was the East Road, mainly attacking Andongwei.

Wu Zheng’s response was to confront each other.

Immediately, Wu Zheng rushed to Huai'an City.

Wu fought to the north because the main force of the First Army was transferred from the Yangtze River to the north to Huai'an City. Now there are 20,000 troops in the city.

As soon as he arrived in Huai'an City, Wu Zheng urgently ordered Sun Jia to lead 5,000 people as the pioneer and set out overnight to help Andongwei.

On the same day, Wu Zheng issued three orders, urgently dispatching Jinhua and the two guards of Chuzhou to the north to reinforce Haizhou; ordered Li Guoguangxin Guard in Fengyang City to urgently go to Xuzhou, ready to reinforce Yanzhou at any time; ordered Zhang Guowei to gather 60,000 new soldiers in the military academy to form a corps, and gather at Wusongkou.

Finally, the Shi Lang Navy was ordered to transport the new recruits to Wusongkou, Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yilin and the second navy went north along the coastline, blocking all ships from south to north, and ready to fight the enemy naval forces at any time.

The next morning, Wu Zheng led the main force of the first army to cross the Yellow River.

....

However, Qian Qiaogong Fenglei Cavalry could no longer obey the orders of Dongshui.

As Song An retreated, Boluo's Jianrui and the new army of the Second Firearms successfully crossed Sishui and Qufu, and became the only barrier in Ziyang.

Chen Sheng made tactical arrangements, using 10,000 troops from Shen Zhiyuan to settle in Qufu City, and using Qian Qiao to Gongfenglei to cross Sishui and detour towards Ningyang, hoping to attack the enemy's retreat.

The Fenglei Cavalry is fine, but it is easier to cross the Si Shui, but the Xiaolin Cavalry is a heavy cavalry, so it took three days to cross the river.

When Wu Zheng's order was passed, Qian Qiaogong's entire team had left Sishui and headed north.

In other words, orders cannot keep up with changes.

....

The Lu Realm was indeed a disaster.

Yue Le was a rare general who was familiar with musketeers in the Qing court.

In addition, in recent years, the Qing court has really spent a lot of money to buy muskets and cannons, so the soldiers who came from Boluo at this time were all firearms and soldiers.

Although the city walls of Andongwei are strong, the city is small. It is just a small city formed by a military pass.

Often, a heavy artillery shell can span the entire city, from the north gate to the south gate.

In this way, it means there is no rear in the city at all, and all areas are within the enemy's artillery range.

Fortunately, it is a military barrier and there are no people. Otherwise, they will probably become sacrifices for this battle first.

Yue Le's combat deployment was very tight, and he continuously bombarded the city with artillery, and used musketeers to shoot close to the city to attract firepower, and then the artillery fired at the top of the city.

This tactic was implemented very smoothly by the Northern Expedition Army, but now the enemy has also used this tactic to use it on their own.

In three days, the Lu domain suffered as much as 40% of its troops. If it weren't for the addition of 8,000 soldiers before the war, the city would have been destroyed long ago.

When a cannonball hit not far away from Lu's realm like a stare, the two personal guards quickly pounced on Lu's realm.

When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated and the Lu domain was dragged out, the two guards had already died.

Lu Zhiyu didn't even look at it, spit out the sand in his mouth, and shouted angrily: "Where is our army's artillery, why don't we suppress the enemy artillery?"

The deputy general whispered: "General, our last few artillery was blown up by enemy shells yesterday..."

"Fuck!" Lu Zhiyu shouted, "It's all those new recruits who don't know how to manipulate them. Our cannons are much longer than the enemy's range..."

The deputy general said, "We have only twelve artillery pieces in total, but there are dozens of enemy artillery pieces. We can't take care of the left and right. When the enemy's artillery positions advance, the range will be useless."

Lu Zhiyu knew it in his heart, but he was almost killed by a shell, and he was unable to vent his resentment.

He glared at the deputy general fiercely, as if he was saying, "I want you to say it, don't you know?"

The deputy general was considered to have suffered a disaster in the fish. He said carefully: "General, the enemy's troops are several times more powerful than me. If you continue to defend like this, you will probably be wiped out..."

"What do you want to say?"

"We have been guarding for three days... We have tried our best. Even if we retreat, the prince will not blame us. Besides, it will be easier to retreat to Haizhou City. After all, Haizhou City is much larger than this city."

Lu Zhiyuan suddenly raised his foot and kicked the deputy general up to the sky. "I am entrusted by the prince and take the responsibility of defending the city. If you do not have an order to retreat without authorization, do you want me to be judged... I warn you, let's talk about such support for the morale of the army, be careful that I will slash you with one knife!"

Speaking of this, Lu Zhiyu shouted loudly: "Are there any living... Are there anyone who breathes? If there is one, go up to the city wall, don't look for your commander... If there is one, go up to the city wall, no matter the commander..."

The city is really too small, with a radius of only three miles, and the shouts are a little louder, so I am afraid that everyone in the city will hear it.

With this shout, countless figures emerged and rushed towards the north gate. The enemy's continuous shells bloomed in the crowd, and they fell down in pieces, but the holes exploded from the shells were instantly filled with crowds and continued.

The deputy general hugged the legs of Lu Zhiyuan and cried, "General, you can't resist like this anymore... After three days, our army suffered 40% casualties... That's your direct line, who has been in charge of nearly ten years..."

The ferocious face of the Lu Domain suddenly stiffened. There were too many new recruits and they could not be used. In the starting battle, the veterans could only push up first and lead the new recruits to familiarize themselves with the battlefield.

In this way, most of the people who filled in the first three days were veterans.

These veterans followed him for almost ten years and followed him to fight against the Qing Dynasty. When the Qing army headed south, they opposed the Qing Dynasty and then followed him to surrender to the King of Wu outside Hangzhou City. At that time, the King of Wu was still a commander.

But this battle was far more difficult than defending Haizhou at that time. Yue Le didn't have so many artillery and the shells were not as dense as they are now.

Do you really have to hold on to the death?

Lu Zhiyuan stared up at the sky in a daze.
Chapter completed!