After half a month of battle, the Qing army in Jiangbei has indeed been drawn.

Let me put it this way, south of Huai'an Prefecture, except for Xinghua City monitoring Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin's troops, the other ones, as Wu Zheng conquered Taixing, was equivalent to an unguarded mansion.

At least 60% of the more than 5,000 Qing troops in Taixing came from the garrisons around Taixing and Taizhou.

Therefore, Taizhou City is an unguarded city in front of Wu Zheng, which can be easily occupied.

The news of the Ming army's attack on Taizhou was quickly conveyed by the people.

The garrison in Xinghua could not sit still and dared not sit still, Taizhou City fell into the hands of the Ming army. As a last resort, he gave up surveillance of Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin's troops, and turned around to guard Taizhou.

In this way, the accident happened inadvertently.

Although Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin were persuaded by Chen Zhiyuan, they agreed to surrender.

But now when he heard that Wu Zheng led his troops to attack Taizhou, why didn’t he think about returning to the Ming army sequence?

So the two of them formed a plan, and the so-called hit-up was just like that.

As soon as the Qing army left, the two quickly gathered their troops and followed the Qing army south in half a day, which was to attack the Qing army from north to south.

In fact, the Qing army in Xinghua was still late, because when Wu Zheng arrived fifty miles outside Taizhou City, the news had already reached Taizhou City.

This is definitely an exciting thing for the Han people in Jiangbei who still have a hint of homeland.

The scene of eating a pot of slurry and opening the city gate to welcome the king's army has appeared on the land of Jiangbei for the first time in four years.

Wu Zheng led his troops to enter Taizhou City under the cheers of the people.

When the three thousand Qing troops arrived fifty miles north of Taizhou, people came to report.

Wu Zheng heard that there were only 3,000 Qing army infantry, so he planned to fight an annihilation battle in front of the people of Taizhou. On the one hand, it would boost morale and recruit some soldiers, and on the other hand, it would be considered to show off in Jiangbei.

While Wu Zheng sent scouts, he had gathered troops to go out of the north gate to set up a formation to fight.

Originally, this battle was difficult to fight.

After all, the Qing army was not a fool. They just wanted to enter Taizhou City to guard before the Ming army.

But when we learned that the Ming army had entered Taizhou City first and had tens of thousands of troops, we did not dare to hit a stone with an egg. So, as soon as we planned to return to Xinghua City, I wanted to use Xinghua City to stop the Ming army from continuing north.

But this time he turned around, he collided with Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin's troops face to face.

The two sides fought an encounter on the official road.

But the problem is that Jiang Quanyi and Wang Yilin came prepared, but the Qing army was really not guarded. In their opinion, the two main generals of this surrendered army had already gone north to Beijing to receive rewards from the court. No matter how hard the surrendered army would not cause much trouble before the main general came back or was safe.

This is indeed true. Throughout history, few army has had a general who counterattacks when trapped in an enemy camp.

But the Qing army really didn't understand that although this army had only more than 2,000 people, it was composed of two units. Chen Zhiyuan was not the real leader of these two troops at all. Although Qian Qiaogong was the deputy general of the remnants of the former Jingwei, for the Jingwei, which had only a few hundred people left, they hoped that the 20,000 comrades who died in Wu Yizhen were more likely to be worthy of the 20,000 Wu Yizhen's death.

Therefore, in this kind of encounter, the Ming army obviously took a big advantage. When the Qing army could not tell whether the army opposite was an enemy or a friend for a while, the Ming army launched an attack.

Once you attack, you will fight to the death.

The Qing army was immediately panicked, with pursuers in the south and blocking in the north, and they were attacked from both sides, and there were a lot of troops on both sides. In this case, even the elites would be panicked.

Jiang Quanyi was a brave general who came out of the crowd of Yizhen dead. He led the way and personally led his troops to charge forward.

Wang Yilin led the remnants of the Navy, and musketeers shot the opponent's wings from both sides of the official road.

I am afraid that Dorgon will not be able to break the situation if he is in charge of this kind of formation.

Therefore, when Wu Zheng led his army to arrive, the encounter was coming to an end.

On the battlefield, only more than a thousand Qing troops were still fighting against the small trees on the side of the official road in the corner. Under the full blown attack of Wu Zheng's army, they quickly collapsed.

In the end, more than 600 people surrendered, and the rest were all killed.

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Wu Zheng was delighted to see that these two meritorious troops finally returned safely.

The soldiers hugged each other so much that it was a subconscious act of soldiers advocating the strong.

But Wu Zheng was sad after all, because he didn't see the two people he wanted to see the most.

From Jiang Quanyi's mouth, he confirmed his judgment on the two of them's false surrender. Wu Zheng was particularly pleased. This was a tacit understanding that did not need to be expressed in words. I am afraid that only childhood friends like Wu Zheng and Shen Zhiyuan can establish a spiritual understanding.

But when Wu Zheng learned that Shen Zhiyuan and Qian Qiaogong had gone to Shuntian Mansion, his first reaction was that he would be in trouble now.

This army is related to the safety of the two in the Qing court. Once the Qing court learns that the army is in a rebellion, it will inevitably expose its anger to the two.

Looking at Wu Zheng's gradually solemn expression, Jiang Quanyi slowly woke up.

Before, he and Wang Yilin slapped their foreheads and decided to turn against each other, but they didn't think about it carefully. It was not that Jiang Quanyi wanted to harm Shen Zhiyuan and the others, but that he wanted to return and was too eager to think about it.

Once he woke up, he became anxious, "Duke Zhenguo is too reckless... Why don't he lead his troops back to Xinghua to win the trust of the Qing court?"

Wu Zheng shook his head silently. How could it be so simple to win the trust of the Qing court?

The Qing court could not have fully trusted these two people before. Now that the army is in a rebellion, even if the Qing court is extremely stupid, it is impossible for them to trust them anymore.

More importantly, how do you explain the annihilation of these three thousand Qing troops? It is said that the Ming army attacked Xinghua and only killed the Qing army but not this rebel?

Even if this reason is true, this rebel army saw that the Qing army was completely wiped out without reinforcement?

This is simply unreasonable.

Besides, this battle lasted for half a day, and it was almost impossible to hide it.

Therefore, Wu Zheng had to make a choice. He said in a deep voice: "The responsibility for this is not entirely up to you, and I have the responsibility. Without careful consideration, I will attack Taizhou... Since your troops have been exposed, then return to the building."

When Jiang Quanyi heard the first half of Wu Zheng's words, his face was already filled with joy.

But when he heard the five words "Then let's go back to Jian" in the end, his heart suddenly sank. He said to Wu Zheng with concern: "Dare you dare to ask the Duke of Zhenguo, the imperial court... can still tolerate our troops?"

Wu Zheng was stunned and then patted Jiang Quanyi on the shoulder and said, "You misunderstood my intentions. You can be included in the Northern Expedition Army and temporarily belong to the Hangzhou Guard. After this battle is over, our association will form a new Guard for you."

Jiang Quanyi was both happy and worried. He said, "I am naturally grateful to the humble position and the soldiers who were in charge of the Duke. However, most of the soldiers' families are in the capital. If they join the Duke's command, they are probably the court..."
Chapter completed!