The poor Qing army at the South Gate was fighting, which was originally fighting with great enthusiasm.

I didn't want to be suddenly disrupted by my own people.

After the defeated soldiers roared past, the Qing army, who had already attacked the city wall, was shocked to find that there were no friendly troops behind them. This huge disappointment and frustration made these Qing army students unhappy. Many Qing army chose to jump down the city wall and follow them, and were stepped into flesh mud by the Ming cavalry that followed.

Another part of the Qing army dropped their weapons and surrendered.

At this time, the Ming cavalry finally accelerated and resolutely chased the fleeing Qing army on the plains west of Baima Lake south of Yiting.

Perhaps it was because of the hatred for the Qing army in my heart that the Ming army did not accept the surrender of this Qing army.

It is said that the character of the commander determines the soul of a unit. This cavalry that Wu Zheng devoted his greatest energy and financial resources. From top to bottom, killing all the Tartars in the world became the obsession in every soldier.

Except for the hundreds of surrendered Qing troops surviving on the South Gate wall, this Qing army was almost gone.

After the war, the people of the neighboring people collected more than 5,000 Qing army corpses, and in the Baima Lake to the east, there were as many as 100 corpses. This was the Qing army's panic and wanted to jump into the lake to avoid the pursuit of the cavalry, but they did not know the nature of the water and sank into the bottom of the lake like a weight in the water.

The people around Baima Lake did not dare to drink Baima Lake water for a long time, but only used it to irrigate the farmland.

....

Ke Yongsheng can't escape after all.

Yuyao is northeast of Shangyu, which is a protruding towards Hangzhou Bay. Unless Ke Yongsheng has a boat crossing the sea, he will have to detour south and still have to escape from the east of the Yiting Pavilion.

But can Wu Zheng let him go?

Can the Ming army in the Yiting let him go easily?

Won't!

Half a day later, in a place called Qiliting about 60 miles east of the post pavilion, the Ming army intercepted the remnants of Ke Yongsheng, who had only a hundred people around him.

Facing the Ming cavalry several times that of him, Ke Yongsheng knew that he could not escape today.

He shouted loudly, "Kill"!

Ke Yongsheng led the remnants to launch a last-ditch effort against the Ming cavalry.

Wu Zheng, who was sitting on the horse, sighed lightly, then waved his right hand.

Thousands of cavalry shot out arrows like locusts, and compared to these hundreds of remaining soldiers, they were all arrow curtains.

The nearest Qing army was still twenty steps away from the head of the Ming army, and no one was missing.

Ke Yongsheng was hit by more than a dozen arrows, and it was obvious that the arrows of Ming soldiers were the ones who took care of the most.

Ke Yongsheng's death means that Shaoxing Prefecture has no longer established the Qing army, and the Shaoxing Prefecture, which has been occupied for a year, has finally recovered.

Wu Zheng was excited and whistled to the sky, which caused thousands of cavalry to burst into shouting.

This sound is earth-shaking, and lasting for a long time, like wind and thunder, invincible.

....

Within three days, Yingtian Prefecture not only sent Ma Shiying to urge Wu Zheng to mobilize troops north, but even Qian Sule arrived in Hangzhou in person this time. Mo Zhinian quickly sent someone to Shaoxing to inform Wu Zheng.

Qian Sule had arrived, and there must be a major change. This time, Wu Zheng did not delay. After entrusting the defense of Shaoxing Prefecture to Chen Sheng and others, he went to Pinggang Mountain to pick up his father and crossed the river with Zhang Guowei back to Hangzhou Prefecture.

Qian Sule brought bad news, Zhenjiang Prefecture fell, and most of the county towns were occupied by the Qing army.

This news moved Wu Zheng.

Originally, after the fall of Yingtian Prefecture, Hong Chengchou led the remnants of his troops to occupy Zhenjiang Prefecture City, and was immediately surrounded by the Ming army on three sides.

However, because Zhenjiang Prefecture City was originally a major military city with strong walls, and Wu Zheng's troops were exhausted at that time and were unable to launch an attack, they only siege and did not attack until they signed a ceasefire agreement with the Qing court.

Zhenjiang Prefecture City was occupied by the Qing army and became a nail in the land of the Ming army's nine prefectures, just like the Ming army in Lihai and Pinggang Mountain in Shaoxing Prefecture.

Wu Zheng, Wang Zhiren and others have always been on guard against Zhenjiang Prefecture City, and have 8,000 troops in Zhenjiang Prefecture.

Logically speaking, without special circumstances, the Qing army in Zhenjiang Prefecture could not attack the city.

But when the war suddenly broke out, Wu Zheng and Wang Zhiren both judged that the ultimate goal of the Qing court should be the two places of Lihai Pinggangshan, Shaoxing Prefecture.

Because Wu Zheng and Wang Zhiren both were occupied by Zhenjiang Prefecture by the Qing army, they were like a thorn in their throats. Putting their hearts in their shoes, they could naturally understand that Lihai and Pinggang Mountain were like a sharp thorn in the heart of the Qing court.

Therefore, it is reasonable to make mistakes in judgment.

When the war broke out, Wu Zheng did not expect to send heavy troops to Zhenjiang Prefecture to reinforce. This is one of the reasons why Zhenjiang Prefecture was occupied by the Qing army, and another reason is that human disasters were caused.

Perhaps it was because Chen Zilong and other literati were too worried about the combat power of the Qing army.

With two imperial guards of Liao Zhongping, the uncle and nephew of the Qian family, more than 20,000 troops, Wang Zhiren, the navy of Wang Zhiren, and Wu Zheng transferred the third battalion of the Navy (formerly Zhoushan Navy) back to the Yangtze River waters, and Wang Zhiren and others were in charge, the Ming army's defensive strength was enough to deal with the attack of the Qing army in Jiangbei.

This is also the confidence that Wu Zheng can take a break from his busy schedule and organize this regain battle.

But the problem is that Chen Zilong and the others were very worried about the Qing army's attacks corresponding to the Tianfu, and tried every means to gather more troops to resist the Qing army.

Wang Zhiren was at this time leading the navy to confront the Qing army on the Yangtze River, and he had no idea what was happening behind him.

Chen Zilong, as the chief minister of the cabinet, convened the three cabinet ministers (Ma Shiying was appointed by the cabinet and was urging Wu Zheng to return to Yingtian Prefecture at this time) and proposed to draw a powerful unit of the Ming army in Zhenjiang Prefecture to reinforce a place called Longtan along the river between Zhenjiang and Yingtian Prefecture.

In fact, this proposal cannot be wrong. Longtan is indeed a must-fight for the offensive and defensive battle of the Yangtze River.

But it is a huge mistake to draw troops from Zhenjiang Prefecture.

Zhang Huangyan opposed it. He believed that Xia Wanchun had led Jianyang Guard from Taiping Prefecture to help Yingtian Prefecture. If he waited for two or three days, he could deploy Jianyang Guard unit in Longtan, so as not to draw troops from Zhenjiang Prefecture.

But Chen Zilong insisted on dispatching troops, and although Qian Sule felt that it was a bit inappropriate, from the perspective of both sides' camps, the Qingliu lineage always had to "see each other and help each other". In addition, Qian Sule believed that Chen Zilong's original intention was good, so he agreed with Chen Zilong's proposal, and from this, the cabinet ordered the three thousand defenders of Zhenjiang Prefecture to reinforce Longtan.

In this way, Zhenjiang Prefecture had only 5,000 troops, and the siege of Zhenjiang City was useless.

Although there are only the remnants of the Qing army in Zhenjiang City and the troops are equal, for both sides' offensive and defense, at most it is considered a confrontation, and there is no question of surrounding it.

Of course, this is not the main reason for the loss of Zhenjiang Prefecture.

The main reason is that everyone in the Qingtai Dynasty misjudged Dorgon's strategic intentions.
Chapter completed!