Chapter 507: Bolo's Choice
"What did you say?" Bolo grabbed Turai by the chest and dragged him straight from the ground.
"Lord Belle, Prince Yu's army has been defeated. It's over, it's all over. The six gods of Tulai, who were known for their wisdom and bravery, had a pale face and blank eyes, and let Bolo grab his chest and mutter.
"You talk nonsense!" Bolo was furious and slammed Turai to the ground.
"Prince Yu commanded an army of 100,000, including more than 40,000 warriors of the Eight Banners, even if the Ming Dynasty gathered all his troops, it would never be possible to defeat him!
How many Ming troops are there in Yangzhou? How is it possible to defeat Prince Yu? ”
The invincibility of the Ming Dynasty over the years has made all the Manchurians have a strong self-confidence, that is, the Ming army is not the opponent of the Eight Banners at all. 100,000 Qing troops are enough to sweep the world! No matter how brave the Pingnan Army is, it is definitely not the opponent of the Eight Banners Warriors, then Pingnan Hou Chen Yue is just a young man over twenty years old, how can he be the opponent of Prince Yu Duoduo who has been fighting on the battlefield for more than ten years!
"It's the flood, the flood! The despicable Ming people dug the embankment of Hongze Lake at night, and the rolling flood rushed into the camp of the army. Turai sat on the ground and wailed.
Turai's current position is that of the commander of the Protector Army, leading the 1,000 Eight Banners and thousands of green battalions stationed in Jiangpu County on the other side of the river, with the task of defending the retreat of the Boluo army crossing the river, and collecting food and wages from Fengyang Province to provide supplies for the army.
But today, the army sent to the direction of Yizheng to collect grain suddenly flew back and said that Yizheng had sent a big water, and the boiling water came from the north and swept the whole land, and the east of Yizheng had become a Ze country, and there were countless people and the corpses of war horses in the water.
The territory of Yizheng is mostly hilly, and the altitude is much higher than that of Yangzhou in the northeast, and the flood comes from the north, and there is definitely no luck outside Yangzhou! As for such a large amount of water, it must have been the Ming army that opened Hongze Lake! And the corpses of the people and horses in the flood, except for the Duoduo army outside Yangzhou City, which one is it?
After receiving the reward, Turai was so frightened that he hurried across the river to report to Bolo.
Flood, the Ming army actually dug up Hongze Lake!
Bolo staggered to the stool, feeling dizzy.
Hongze Lake is so far away from Yangzhou City, the Ming army was able to lead the water in Hongze Lake to Yangzhou! How can people think that Ren is as wise as Prince Yu was defeated by the Ming army like this, how can this be accepted?
"What about Prince Yu? Did any troops flee back from Yangzhou? Holding on to the last glimmer of hope in his heart, Bolo muttered.
Thurai shook his head: "No, not one." The despicable Ming army dug the Hongze Lake embankment at night while the heavy rain was blowing, and the flood water reached ...... at night"
The soldiers of the Eight Banners all lived in the old forests outside the pass, and few of them were familiar with the nature of the water, and they were hit by floods at night, and the hope of escape was really slim.
"Lord Belle, what should we do!" Thurai got up and shouted at Bolo.
The Duoduo army is gone, Yangzhou's Pingnan army will definitely kill Nanjing, Yangzhou is only two hundred miles away from Nanjing, and it will take two or three days to kill, but their own side will not be able to capture Nanjing, if they wait until the arrival of the Ming army in Yangzhou, they will fall into the encirclement of the Ming army.
"It's okay, it's okay. There is also the army of Prince Ying in the west, together with hundreds of thousands of surrendered green battalion soldiers, who are storming Wuhu, as long as we hold on until Prince Ying comes, we can still defeat the Ming army and destroy the Ming Dynasty. We still have 30,000 troops, and there is no problem in holding out until the Prince of England comes. ”
Bolo turned pale and muttered.
Thurai shook his head and said pessimistically: "Lord Belle, don't be stupid. We have 30,000 people, but there are less than 5,000 soldiers in the Eight Banners, and the rest are the Green Battalion soldiers who have just surrendered. When our Qing army is victorious, the green battalion soldiers naturally listen to our orders, but our army is newly defeated, will those green battalions have other thoughts? ”
Bolo was stunned for a moment, Ma Degong Tianxiong and other green camp generals are capricious villains, which Bolo naturally knows well, when things come, whether these people will betray the Qing Dynasty again, Bolo does not dare to guarantee.
"Strictly block the news so that the news of the defeat of the army does not leak." Bolo thought for a moment and gritted his teeth.
"If it can't be blocked, let's not talk about it, the Ming army will definitely send someone to preach it, or we should withdraw the army to Jiangbei, right?" Turai persuaded.
"This ......" Bolo hesitated, seeing that he had attacked the capital of Daming, but he retreated back to Jiangbei in a gloomy manner, which made Bolo unwilling.
"Leave the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, let's retreat across the river, we can also occupy the land north of the river, and when the British prince attacks, we will send troops to attack together."
Turai patiently persuaded him, when is it, and he is still thinking about extinguishing the light!
"Report, general, the Ming army outside the Guanyin Gate has attacked!"
At this moment, one of his own soldiers, Goshha, opened the tent and walked into the tent, and said to Bolo.
"What? What a guts! Bo Luo was furious, the Zheng family army, more than 10,000 people, relying on the support of the Ming army in the city, stood outside the Guanyin Gate like a dog skin plaster, which had already made Bo Luo tired of crooked, but he didn't expect to dare to take the initiative to attack now!
"Lord Belle, Nanjing City must know the battle situation in Yangzhou, so he dares to send troops to take the initiative to attack, and it will be too late if we don't retreat."
Turai urged hurriedly.
Bolo took a heavy breath and suppressed the panic and anger in his heart, "Send the order, order Ma Degong and Tian Xiong and the rest of the army to attack, and be sure to defeat this Ming army."
Li Benshen and Gao Jinku were ordered to lead a naval army to attack the Zhengjia Naval Division in the east. Mobilize all the remaining ships at the riverside dock and get all the Eight Banners ready to board the ships. ”
A series of orders came out of Bolo's mouth, and the entire Qing army camp suddenly moved.
Ma Degong and Tian Xiong led 20,000 green battalion soldiers out of the camp and killed the attacking Zheng army. The two sides fought each other with arrows and fought together.
In the Yangtze River, Li Benshen and Gao Jinku commanded more than 100 warships and attacked the Zheng family's sailors several miles away.
Zheng Hongkui had already received a message from Zheng Sen, and more than 200 warships rose up and went up the river to kill them, trying to cut off the retreat of the Qing army.
Artillery rang out on the Yangtze River, and gunpowder smoke filled the river.
It is very terrible for the old pirate to launch Weilai, and Li Benshen and Gao Jinku, who are halfway monks and command the naval army, are not opponents at all.
Several warships were sunk in half an hour.
Of course, the reason why Zheng Hongkui became so brave was naturally because he knew the news of Yangzhou's victory.
Now that Da Ming already has the hope of winning the war, he naturally wants to seize this opportunity to beat the water dogs, so as to get some credit and become an official.
At this time, if he preserves his strength, he will definitely be liquidated by the imperial court afterwards, and he always relieves his nephew Zheng Sen of some pressure: