Zhu Jie was urgently deploying, and at the same time, the Manchurian army camp outside the city also received the will of Dolgon in Beijing.

However, this will made Tan Tai and Wu Sangui a little dumbfounded.

There is no other reason, now not only the Jianghuai battle situation has changed, the entire Ming war situation has changed, Fujian, the current Zheng Zhilong has been defeated and died, the Central Plains war situation is the same, Sun Chuanting and Xu Yifan joined forces, broke through the Mengjin ferry in one fell swoop, and wiped out Ji'erharang's army in the south of Taiyuan City, Ji'er Harang only escaped with two or three thousand people, Sun Chuanting's troops sent Zhendingfu, the entire Central Plains war situation has completely deteriorated, and a Duoduo will definitely not be able to stop Sun Chuanting, Xu Yifan plus the siege of Qin Mufeng's three famous generals.

In the end, Dolgon of Beijing City decided to take a gamble and issued a will, seven hundred miles in an expedited, ordering Azig to lead the Eastern Route Army to launch a general attack on Huai'an City, and must take Huai'an in the shortest possible time, and then besiege Nanjing City!

Before the decree was issued, Dolgon had not received the information of Azig's death, and by the time Tan Tai's recital arrived in Beijing, it was almost the time that Dolgon's decree had also arrived outside Huai'an.

Tan Tai and Wu Sangui couldn't cry or laugh, in the current state of the Manchurian elite, not to mention the capture of Huai'an City, to be able to withstand the attack of Zhu Jie and Song Jiaxing in Huai'an City, they will burn high incense, now that even Prince Ying, the commander of the three armies, is dead, how can he besiege Huai'an City? How else to besiege the city of Nanjing? The morale of the army is already in chaos......

"Lord Tan, what's going on?"

Wu Sangui sighed again and again and said in a muffled voice.

Tan Tai also had an ugly face, besieging Huai'an City? Or forget it, right? As long as he can bring these tens of thousands of troops back to Shandong safely and hold Shandong Province, it will already be a blessing in misfortune.

Tan Tai sighed: "It must be that the regent has not received our recital, if he hears our recital, he will not give such an order, wait, wait patiently for a few days, the regent's new will will definitely arrive soon, these few days, our most important task is to strictly defend and not give the Ming army a chance, once the regent's will is issued, we will retreat on all fronts, anyway, the Ming army's cavalry is too small to catch up with our retreat!" ”

Wu Sangui smiled bitterly: "Now it can only be like this, the Manchurian elite cavalry will be handed over to Master Tan, as for the Guanning iron cavalry and the green battalion soldiers, it will be handed over to the lower officials......

The plan of the two people is very good, but it depends on whether Zhu Jie gives them this opportunity.

The next day, Zhu Jie mobilized his army and began to advance in the northeast direction, more than 20,000 troops, the speed of advance is not fast, Zhu Jie's army is infantry, once the speed is accelerated, it is easy to appear disjointed or loopholes, once it is taken advantage of by the Manchurian elite cavalry, it will be troublesome.

Therefore, Zhu Jie was not in a hurry to launch a strong attack, but slowly advanced, until after noon, he came to the north of the city, and what Zhu Jie expected was that Tan Tai and Wu Sangui did not pounce and fight against the Ming army, but stubbornly defended their camp.

Yang Chengzu said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, now the Manchurian Tartars don't want to fight with us, it seems that they want to defend the camp to the death......"

Zhu Jie smiled slightly and replied, "Defend the camp? That Manchuria is self-defeating, don't forget, most of them are cavalry, only in the field to impact the speed, the advantage of the cavalry can be brought into play, if they want to defend the camp, the cavalry are nested in the camp, we have sixty or seventy artillery, and fifty rockets, it will not take long, it only takes one day, can form a fatal blow to the Manchurian army, Tan Tai and Wu Sangui this time is a miscalculation. This time, the Manchurian army will definitely be defeated! ”

What Zhu Jie said is not bad at all, Tan Tai and Wu Sangui are helpless in the face of the death of the commander, the current situation of the army's discouragement, although the two of them are a generation of generals, but the Ming army on the opposite side is not easy to deal with, if you say which one of the most powerful military strategies in the entire Ming Dynasty, second to none, of course it is Zhu Jie, this is a famous general who is even higher than Sun Chuanting, even Xu Yifan and Qin Mufeng, two rising stars, have grown up under Zhu Jie's training, The pressure Zhu Jie brought to the two of them was too great.

Now that the Ming army's army has pressed up, neither Tan Tai nor Wu Sangui dare to send troops to confront each other head-on, so they can only hold their positions.

However, the two of them just forgot that the main force in their hands is cavalry, only in the field, the role of cavalry can be reflected to the greatest extent, whether it is siege warfare, or defensive warfare, it is not the strength of cavalry, now the Beijing battalion and Tianwei army artillery together more than eighty, forty or fifty rockets, once the full force of fire, the entire Manchurian battalion is covered, without directly launching an attack, artillery and rockets alone can form a devastating blow to the Manchurian elite in the battalion.

Zhu Jie advanced his army to less than three miles from the front of the Manchurian position, and then stopped advancing, fifty rockets were placed in the front, only two miles away from the Qing army, and sixty artillery pieces were lined up in two rows, all of which were pulled to the front of the position, and the position was full of shells and rockets, waiting for Zhu Jie's order.

"Order, the artillery battalion and the rocket battalion are all thrown into battle and launch a fierce assault on the Tartars!"

Zhu Jie gave an order, the artillery and rockets fired together, and on the battlefield, there was a deafening sound of artillery and rocket firing in an instant, shaking the heavens and the earth!

A burst of shells and rockets whistling straight to the position of the Tartars, successively fell on the position, in an instant, the dust was flying, the flames were blazing, the shells hit the position is okay to say, as long as it does not hit the tent and the soldiers, it will not bring any losses, but the rocket is different, no matter where it falls, it will bring a huge threat, the tail flame even directly ignited the tent, this is not counted, the violent explosion will blow up the Qing army's position into a miasma, unrecognizable!

Wu Sangui and Tan Tai's faces changed greatly, they didn't expect that the Ming army would be such a fierce offensive as soon as they came up!

Of course, this is not the most violent, because the most violent is yet to come!

Zhu Jie commanded the army to launch an attack at the same time, the artillery above the head of Huai'an City also sounded, Song Jiaxing, who returned to Huai'an City, concentrated all the artillery on the four city walls to the north city, and also launched an attack on the position of Manchuria, condescendingly, the original range was only three or four miles of artillery, because of the city wall, it could even hit six miles away, the position of the Manchurian army was completely covered by artillery and rockets, ushering in the most brutal ravages of shells and rockets!

(End of chapter)