In the early morning of the next day, the Hangzhou garrison began to cross the river, attack Xiaoshan, and then advanced to Shaoxing Prefecture.

The Jiaxing Songjiang Garage Association headed south at Jinshanweiduhai. They were about to go to Lihai Port and met with Chen Sheng's troops. Then, with Lihai as the center, they launched a counterattack in the northwest direction.

The defense of Hangzhou Prefecture was dispatched by the new army to guard it.

In Wu Zheng's view, it should not be difficult to attack Fang Guoan with 20,000 troops, plus the Lihai Pinggangshan garrison, and more than 20,000 troops. As long as Shaoxing is recovered, it is probably time to turn north to reinforce Yingtian Prefecture.

According to Wu Zheng's estimate, the battle to regain Shaoxing should not be delayed for too long, and Wu Zheng also believed that Yingtianfu could persist until he regained Shaoxing and pacified the rear.

The cause of this war was actually caused by Duoduo's memorial.

When Dorgon got the Duoduo memorial, he was actually very embarrassed.

The Qing court seemed to be grand and attacking from multiple sources, but the military and financial resources it faced was short of strength, which was also the most troublesome thing for the Qing court at the moment.

The key is that there was a fire in the backyard of the Qing court, and the Mongolian tribes seemed to have signs of rebellion.

Dorgon is worried about the lack of soldiers to be retaliated for the offensive.

Kedodo's memorial attracted Dorgon's attention.

Originally, Dorgon disagreed with the truce with the Qingtai Dynasty. Hong Chengchou advocated the truce, and first concentrated on destroying the Longwu Dynasty in the south to avoid dispersing troops and finally forming a stalemate at both ends.

Hong Chengchou was deeply favored by the emperor, so Dorgon finally reluctantly agreed.

But now, in order to make the truce in Qingtai, the Qing Dynasty secretly sent the navy to the south, causing the Qing army to suffer such a great loss. It is obvious that it can no longer raise a tiger.

Therefore, Dorgon urgently dispatched Jirhalang Tan Tai He Luohui and others who were originally going to Sichuan to fight against the remnants of the Daxi Army, and temporarily went to Jiangbei to command the assembly of the Qing army and rushed to launch the war.

The Qing court had controversy over this.

The peace faction headed by Hong Chengchou believed that even if the Qingtai Dynasty sent a navy to Fuzhou to participate in the war, there was no evidence after all, and even if it was to retaliate, it would have to be carried out secretly. Such a large-scale attack would be equivalent to tearing apart the previous armistice agreement. Now that Duoduo and Luke Dehun's troops are dragged in Fuzhou and unable to attack Guangzhou and open up a new battlefield, it will undoubtedly increase the pressure on the national treasury and will also trigger the backlash of the Qingtai Dynasty.

This is the usual tone of the Southern Barbarians. Even though they knew that the Qingtai Dynasty had taken action, they still wanted to use the other person to fight with the truth and just fight, so why bother to hide it? Dorgon commented privately.

Dorgon and Dodo had a very shallow relationship. Faced with Dodo's request thousands of miles away, Dorgon subconsciously chose to trust Dodo's judgment.

Hong Chengchou, who could not control Dorgon's decision, went to the palace to sue Dorgon for the emperor, but the question is, how could the Qing emperor be Dorgon?

Hong Chengchou's complaint further increased Dorgon's disgust towards Hong Chengchou, and the gap between these two people had already formed since Huang Taiji.

However, although Dorgon decided to adopt Dodo's suggestion to fight this battle, he knew in his heart that it would be difficult to break through the Yangtze River defense line with just an 110,000 army without a navy controlling the river.

Therefore, his combat intention was to build a plank road openly and cross Chencang secretly.

Crossing the river is fake, attacking Lihai Pinggang Mountain is by the way, but the real goal is Zhenjiang.

Zhenjiang City was still in the hands of the Qing army, but it was just an isolated city surrounded by the Ming army, and could not achieve the role of nailing into the Qingtai Dynasty's internal constraints. Dorgon wanted to use this battle to expand the occupation of Zhenjiang Prefecture, and then make Zhenjiang Prefecture a springboard for the Qing army's future general attack. At the same time, he avenged the Qingtai Dynasty's reinforcement of Fujian, causing the Qing army to suffer a huge loss.

But even the Qingtai court officials, including Wu Zheng, did not expect these.

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Zhou Dahu, who was already a thousand households, led a member of him to attack Xiaoshan fiercely.

Zhou Dahu was born as a gangster, but he was loyal.

After Shining Town helped Wu Zheng fight in a bloody battle, he had basically identified Wu Zheng.

Wu Zheng did not disappoint him. In just over a year, he completed the gorgeous turn of a dignified fifth-rank thousand households from a gangster.

Zhou Dahu has another advantage, that is, in addition to loyalty, he also has self-knowledge.

He knew that among Wu Zheng's direct confidants, his status was far inferior to that of Li Ruhai Chi Erhan Song An and others.

With his background, his future may have stopped at the Qianhu family, and it will be difficult to move forward.

Seeing that the rest of the people who came out of Shining Town had already become the commander's deputy commander. If they were not depressed, it would be a lie. No matter how open-minded the person was, they would compare themselves with the people around them.

Therefore, it is rare to have the opportunity to lead the troops alone. Zhou Dahu naturally has to set a future for himself and his subordinates who brought out from Shining Town.

The Ming army crossed the river and attracted the main force of the Qing army's river defense in Shaoxing Prefecture.

However, the Qing army in Shaoxing Prefecture was not equipped with artillery, and all artillery was taken away by Duoduo. The armistice agreement with the Qingtai Dynasty at that time made the Qing army unaware that this battle would suddenly break out in a short period of time.

Dorgon obviously did not regard Shaoxing Prefecture as the strategic goal of this battle.

Therefore, the war preparations for Shaoxing Prefecture are not complete.

The Ming army's crossing the river landed was subjected to limited resistance, and the crossbows could not block such a long Qiantang River bank.

In just one hour, the unstoppable Qing army began to retreat in an orderly manner.

The Ming army successfully landed on the south bank of Qiantang River.

Zhou Dahu did not wait for the entire army to land, but led the vanguard to attack quickly and penetrated the southeast.

Shaoxing Prefecture, for Zhou Dahu and his men, that is his home. Is there anyone who is more familiar with the terrain and roads than him?

However, the Qing army's defense was also very accurate.

Guali is a small town located in the eastern part of Xiaoshan on the south bank of Qiantang River. It is a hub connecting the main trunk roads of Shaoxing Prefecture in the southeast.

Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that this kind of official hub connecting all directions must be a narrow and must be held.

But if you detour the three realms to the west, you can pass it, but it will take at least half a day.

In Zhou Dahu's view, our army crossed the south three times and regained Shaoxing Prefecture was basically a matter of three fingers to stop the field and snails.

If he spends half a day more, then he will have to give up his first skill. He knows the nature of people like Li Ru Hailu and others. As long as they have a breath, they will have to drink all the soup. What else does he do?

Therefore, Zhou Dahu decided to forcibly break through the Guali cliff.

This offensive and defensive battle is the most tragic battle to recapture Shaoxing Prefecture and is also a highlight.

Both sides were mentally prepared. The Qing army was stationed heavily in Guali, so as to prevent the Ming army from attacking Shaoxing Prefecture.

Zhou Dahu, who was familiar with the terrain, also knew that the Qing army would definitely be ready for battle in Guali.
Chapter completed!