Wu Zheng is not blindly trying, his combat strategy is to try hot weapons first, if it doesn't work, then only ruthlessly, let the five thousand cavalry make up the sword.

But this Qing cavalry must be annihilated, which is what Wu Zheng is determined to do today.

Let Xia Wanchun lure the enemy along the way, which is also the reason why Wu Zheng has no bottom in his heart, and hopes to weaken the incoming Qing cavalry and increase the success, so he has to do it as a last resort.

At this time, Wu Zheng's heart was hanging, he understood that if Zhenjiang City was not recovered today, then there would be no such good opportunity as today for a long time in the future.

Once the Qing court mobilized heavy troops to settle in, and then wanted to attack Zhenjiang City, it would be a protracted war of attrition.

Qingtai Dynasty has a weak foundation and can't afford to consume it.

And Zhenjiang City will thus become a thorn in the heart of the Qing army deep into the heart of the Qingtai Dynasty, and it will torment the hearts of the Ming people day and night.

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Changing the handsome in battle is a taboo for soldiers.

But for Dolgon, he didn't regard the Qingtai Dynasty as an equal pair at all, and he didn't care at all.

It is true that all the troops of the entire Qingtai Dynasty add up to only 60,000, and along the Yangtze River, 100,000 Qing troops have been gathered.

The army is not the same as the army, the Qing army is a veteran who fought from outside the pass to the inside of the pass, while the Ming army is a "rabble".

Therefore, in Dolgon's view, the Ming army's breakthrough of the river defense and the occupation of Yizhen was just an occasional event, which was not representative and replicable.

Wu Sangui and Li Guohan are also battle-hardened generals, and with absolute superiority, encircling and annihilating a Ming army of 20,000 people, is that not a piece of cake?

As long as the Qing army was mobilized to encircle, Yizhen's Ming army would either withdraw or be completely annihilated.

And Wu Sangui, who was "ordered to be in danger", knew that he was making soy sauce.

In fact, Wu Sangui's experience of descending to the Qing Dynasty was not for a woman as in the legend.

Wu Sangui was also ambitious at that time, after Li Zicheng occupied Shuntianfu and ascended the throne, Li Zicheng surrendered Wu Sangui several times, and Wu Sangui was also moved.

But at that time, it was not only Chen Yuanyuan who was taken hostage by Li Zicheng, but also the relatives of the Wu family, so Wu Sangui was "angry at the crown and became a red face", which was a little biased at that time, how could a hero like this care about a woman, even if it was a beautiful woman, it would not let him exchange the country for the country.

In fact, Wu Sangui's situation at that time was very unbearable, his troops were invincible to Li Zicheng internally, and it was difficult to stop Dolgon externally.

In this case, it is definitely not possible to fight on both sides, so Wu Sangui must choose one side.

But Wu Sangui was ambitious, and he was unwilling to be subservient to others, so he thought of a plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, that is, to use the tiger of Dolgon to swallow the wolf of Li Zicheng.

But his abacus is not as good as Dolgon's, the so-called you want people to make money, people want your capital.

Dolgon, on the one hand, gave the order for a forced march and arrived at Shanhaiguan in one night.

At this time, Wu Sangui was still perfunctory with Li Zicheng, who came in person with the army.

As soon as the Qing army arrived, Li Zicheng finally understood that he had been tricked by Wu Sangui, so he led the army to attack.

Wu Sangui can't beat it, it's a matter of life and death, so he can only ask Dolgon for help.

Well, Dolgon is exactly what he wants, and this is the battle between Wu Sangui and Dolgon to defeat Li Zicheng in a stone.

Fighting this battle, just like when the yellow mud falls into the crotch of his pants, it's not but.

Under the persecution of Dolgon, Wu Sangui could only change his banner, look at the wind and change the rudder, call Emperor Chongzhen the "old master", and repeatedly confess that he was "loyal to the new dynasty".

Of course, the Qing court did not treat Wu Sangui badly on the surface, and soon crowned Wu Sangui as the king of Pingxi.

However, Wu Sangui was different from other degraded officials, he also had an army under his own independent command, and at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, he still maintained contact with the Southern Ming forces.

In response to the accession of King Fu of Tianfu to the throne, Wu Sangui even sent someone to privately send a message "I can't bear to add a single arrow".

Therefore, the Qing court showed favor to the outside world, and was suspicious of it, and did not grant it the right to do things.

In addition to taking strict precautions against him, he only used his hatred of Li Zicheng to lead his troops to attack Li Zicheng.

After Li Zicheng's main force was pacified, the Qing court also unloaded the mill and killed the donkey.

Wu Sangui was then transferred back from the front line by the Qing court and left Jinzhou.

At that time, Jinzhou needed Wu Sangui to guard a fart?

It's just that Wu Sangui's department is placed in the heart of the Qing army and strictly guarded.

Regarding this arrangement of the Qing court, the scheming Wu Sangui naturally knew it well.

From then on, he never mentioned anything about "revenge for his father", but settled down to be a subordinate of the Qing court.

Therefore, this time Dolgon asked him to go to Jiangbei to make soy sauce, Wu Sangui knew that this was Dolgon testing his loyalty to the imperial court, otherwise the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty would still have to be "assisted" by Li Guohan?

Although Wu Sangui was resentful of the Qing court, he knew that this was a good opportunity for him to gain the trust of the Qing court, and only by seizing this opportunity could he escape from the control of the Qing court and have a chance to plot for the future.

Therefore, Wu Sangui decided to use the mixed trick to annihilate the Zhenming army.

As soon as he arrived in Yangzhou, Wu Sangui immediately mobilized Qing troops from all walks of life and surrounded Yizhen.

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Wu Zheng's judgment was right, the cavalry of the Qing army that went south from Zhenjiang City to recover Danyang was indeed about 5,000 people.

Xia Wanchun confessed according to Wu Zheng and lured the enemy with 3,000 people.

But at this time, Wu Zheng misjudged, and the Qing army did not pay attention to Xia Wanchun's Ming army at all.

After only sending a partial division to drive away for a while, he went directly south.

Xia Wanchun was far away from Danyang at this time, although he had the intention to send a message to Wu Zheng, but he knew that the cavalry of the Qing army was marching very fast, and he was afraid that when his messenger arrived in Danyang, Wu Zheng had already received the enemy.

So, with a grit of his teeth, he joined the ambushed army and resolutely went north in the direction of Dantu.

……。

Wu Zheng naturally sent scouts out of the city.

Qingqi actually went south, which made Wu Zheng's already hanging heart raise an inch.

But it's come to this, what else can I do, fight!

But the tactics were modified somewhat.

The musketeers, who had already built fortifications and had come out, were quickly withdrawn to Danyang City.

The cavalry that had ambushed the two flanks also retreated accordingly and were deployed to hide outside the east and west city gates.

In other words, the field battle will definitely not be fought, so an offensive and defensive war will be fought.

But in the offensive and defensive battles, it is absolutely impossible to annihilate the cavalry of the Qing army.

It was possible to achieve this only if the walls were held up, and then the cavalry was sent to outflank and attack together.

The premise is that the front must be able to withstand and inflict heavy damage on the enemy cavalry, otherwise, it will still return to the old road of field warfare, and cavalry and cavalry will need to resist hard.

Not to mention, under the repetition of the repetition, the morale of the foreign musketeers is high.

In their opinion, how could the thin, short Orientals be able to hold back the red-hot projectiles?

These foreign soldiers and 3,000 recruits were placed on the city wall, with three lines in front and back, which was Wu Zheng's "three-stage strike" musket tactic borrowed from the Japanese state.