"Is there only so many five thousand cavalry left?" Looking at the scattered more than 1,000 cavalry on the north bank of the river, Chen Yue's face was full of disappointment.

"During the Northern Expedition, under the order of the Road Inspector, I allocated half of the cavalry under the command of Jin Shenghuan, and when I attacked Kaifeng, I was attacked by the Aobai cavalry, and most of the cavalry was lost. I took the other half of the cavalry to follow the Lu Inspector Division in Xingyang by the Qing army of Aobai Wu Sangui Haoge Three Roads, and after being ordered to break through the siege, I fought more than ten battles in a row, and less than 1,000 cavalry could escape. Yu Feng said with shame on his face.

"It's all the incompetence of the officials, and the three armies are exhausted......" Lu Zhenfei sighed with a gloomy expression.

"I can't blame you, Lord Lu, from the imperial court to all the enemies, even the subordinates thought that they could easily defeat the Mantars and go straight to the Jingshi." Yu Feng shook his head and said.

Although the Northern Expedition was defeated, most of the generals of the Northern Expedition did not complain too much about Lu Zhenfei, because the reason for the defeat at that time was not the reason for the command at all, but the real difference in strength.

Although their own strength was seven or eight times that of the Mantars, when the two armies really faced each other, when the Eight Banners attacked tirelessly like mad tigers, all the Ming troops were frightened.

When the two armies fought, the soldiers of the Ming army were tired and out of breath after fighting for half an hour, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners were still alive and vigorous for half a day.

The Battle of Xingyang was in a frontal battle, and the Ming army was exhausted and then dragged down by the Eight Banners, and then defeated.

Chen Yue had already known the battle of Xingyang from Lu Zhenfei in advance, and after Yu Feng told him, he felt the tragedy of the battlefield at that time, and asked himself if he personally led the Northern Expedition, he might not be able to achieve victory, and most of them would end up with the same fate as Lu Zhenfei.

Therefore, the failure of the Northern Expedition was not a disadvantage to the soldiers at all, it was purely a failure of the temple's decision-making, and with the military strength of the Ming army at that time, this war should not have been launched at all.

After the failure of the Northern Expedition, only more than 1,000 cavalry followed Yu Feng back to Anqing, and there were more than 5,000 infantry in Anqing, which was all the troops under Yu Feng. However, Yu Feng, who was born in the Pingnan Army, trained his subordinates completely in accordance with the model of the Pingnan Army, although the number of his subordinates was not large, but the combat power was not bad, which can be seen from the spiritual outlook of the assembled army.

"Guogong, the last general is willing to be the vanguard and fight to the death with the thief army!" The Northern Expedition failed, and Yu Feng had already held back the fire in his heart, just venting it on the thief army.

"Of course there's no problem with this, but I don't know if your knife is still sharp?" Chen Yue promised with a smile.

Now he only has 50,000 Beijing battalions, 3,000 descendants and guards, and Lu Tai's Dinghai soldiers, although the Beijing battalion soldiers are quite obedient after all the way to the rectification, but they can't bear to fight hard, as for these 3,000 descendants, they have to manipulate dozens of warships for a decisive victory over the Yangtze River, and they can't be sent to the shore, and Lu Tai's army is mostly a naval army, and the land combat ability is up, Jin Shenghuan's army has not arrived, and those who can really fight hard battles are Yu Feng's thousands.

"I am willing to die for the country!" Yu Feng said angrily.

Being able to return to Chen Yue's subordinates is a very happy thing for Yu Feng and his soldiers from the Pingnan Army. Only after leaving the Pingnan Army did I know how comfortable I was in the Pingnan Army.

For Yu Feng, when he was in the Pingnan Army, he didn't need to take care of too many trivial matters, he could just lead good soldiers to fight a good battle with peace of mind, and he didn't need to care about weapons, armor, logistics, and supplies. And after breaking away from Chen Yue's subordinates to lead an army alone, he didn't feel much freedom, but endless trivial matters involved his energy.

As for the imperial army, it has a completely laissez-faire attitude towards the armies in various places, only allocating a certain amount of money and food every year, and not caring about other things, so everything needs to be done by himself, which makes Yu Feng feel annoyed every day.

Not everyone has enough talent to be the commander of the army, for example, Yu Feng made him more than enough to be a general who charged into battle, and let him lead an army alone and immediately caught blind, and spent all his energy on governing the army every day, and the military discipline and combat strength of the army under his command were still not as good as when he was in the Pingnan Army. Therefore, Chen Yue's arrival really made Yu Feng overjoyed.

For the soldiers under Yu Feng, after following Yu Feng to Anqing, the food and salary treatment was far less than when he was in Yangzhou, after all, when he was in Pingnan, he had the income of the salt store of the four seas to raise the army, and in Anqing, in addition to the salary and silver allocated by the imperial court, there was only money and grain from the local government.

In general, the degeneration of Yu Feng's combat power is not too great, and the strength still exists, after all, it has only been more than half a year since he broke away from the Pingnan Army, which makes Chen Yue quite pleased.

According to Liu Nengtan's Malay report, at present, the main force of the Western Thieves is attacking the city and plundering land in Jiangxi Province, and only Zhang Wenxiu, the son of Zhang Xianzhong, is stationed in Jiujiang with 50,000 Western Thief Army. However, Jiujiang Jiancheng City is high and deep, and the moat is directly connected to the river, so it is not easy to lay it. Before Jin Shenghuan's troops arrived, Chen Yue had less than 60,000 troops under his command, which was not much different from the number of thieves in Jiujiang, and it was not so easy to capture Jiujiang City.

Thinking about the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western Thieves who are attacking the city and plundering the land in Jiangxi, and looking at the tens of thousands of troops on their side, most of them have doubts about defeating the Western Thieves.

"The strength of the Western Thieves is several times that of our army, and in the opinion of this officer, it is better to hold the city along the river and prevent them from attacking. We don't have the ability to take the initiative to attack. Lu Zhenfei sighed, a failure of the Northern Expedition made him become conservative, and after carefully comparing the strength of the two sides, Lu Zhenfei sadly thought that the difference was too big.

"Although there are many Western thieves, most of them are coerced people, but there are not too many elites who can fight, and Lord Lu does not need to raise the morale of others to destroy his own prestige." Yu Feng disagreed.

"It's not that this official destroys his own prestige, but it is really the only army that can fight under the Duke of Qi Guogong in my Ming Dynasty, if this battle fails, it will inevitably lead to the heart of the entire Ming army being shaken, and if the thief army goes down the river, Nanjing will not be able to defend, and then my Ming will be in danger!" Lu Zhenfei explained.

It's not that he is afraid of war, but this battle has a lot to do with it, Chen Yue is a god-like figure of the Ming Dynasty, and he can't fail at all, if he is also defeated, where can the Ming Dynasty still have hope, I am afraid that it will reproduce the situation when the thieves attacked Beijing when the armies from all over the country surrendered without a fight. After all, Lu Zhenfei lived at the height of the temple, and his eyes were on the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty.

When Lu Zhenfei said this, other staff and generals also agreed, even Yu Feng didn't say much.

Jiujiang is guarded by 50,000 troops of thieves from the west, and there are hundreds of thousands of thieves who can be rescued at any time, so it is so easy to defeat it? But if you don't take the initiative to attack, you will be more passive, and when Zhang Xianzhong completely occupies Jiangxi, plus Zhang Dingguo's department who attacked Huguang, there will be more troops, and how to defend at that time?