Looking at the expected gaze of everyone, Yang Feng slowly said: "This time, I and Li Yan personally led 2,000 infantrymen, baggage battalion, medical battalion and artillery battalion to help Hangzhou. Gou Xingma, Cao Yingma and Yan Dize led the remaining troops around Hangzhou City to stand by.

If the bandits continue to attack the city, they are not allowed to act without the order of our military. If the bandits retreat, you can take advantage of the opportunity to attack and drive the bandits to Songjiang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture. Remember to grasp the measure and not to wipe them out all of them, but you cannot let them escape too easily. Do you understand?"

"Here!" Everyone responded.

However, Gou Xingma asked with some concern: "Mr., this time I am not worried about whether you can rush into Hangzhou City. What I am worried about is that the officials in Hangzhou don't accept your affection, but instead take the opportunity to stumbling on you. If you don't say good intentions at that time, you will be flirting with a bad mood, which is bad luck."

"Stick." Yang Feng said contemptuously: "They must have the ability. If they really dare to do this, I will look up to them."

"Hahaha……"

When Yang Feng said something interesting, the generals of the Jiangning Army also laughed. They had been in Jiangnan for some time to suppress bandits. The virtues of the officials and gentry in Jiangnan had long been seen by them. Anyone who was a little brave and bloody in Jiangnan would not be beaten like a sieve by bandits like Li Zicheng.

Seeing Yang Feng and Jiangning Army generals talking about the arrogant look of Jiangnan officials and gentry, Li Yan was envious and realized that he was indeed defeated last time.

Whether an army can fight can be seen from the words and deeds of their generals on weekdays.

Just like when Yang Feng said he wanted to take the baggage battalion, medical battalion and two thousand soldiers to enter Hangzhou City, the first thought of the generals was not that they would not be worried that Yang Feng would not be able to enter, but that they would be afraid that if they entered Hangzhou City, they would be troubled by the officials and gentry in Hangzhou after repelling the bandits.

What does this mean? It means that they did not take the tens of thousands of bandits outside the city seriously.

This is not arrogant, but confidence in one's own victory. This confidence is not achieved through blind self-confidence or money piled up, but through victory after victory.

Since its establishment, the Jiangning Army has never been defeated by destroying the Manchu and Jiannu in the north and exterminated Zheng Zhilong, or defeating the red-haired ghost. It is this continuous victory that has forged the military spirit of the Jiangning Army. No matter what kind of enemy is blocked before buying the New Year, they are confident that they will tear the enemy to pieces...

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The battle at the head of Hangzhou continued. Layers and layers of corpses had been piled up outside the city wall of Qingbo Gate. Most of these corpses were hungry and dead soldiers of bandits, and there were also a very small number of officers and soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets.

Looking around, the bodies were stacked under the city walls, and there were bloody flesh and blood everywhere. Under the scorching sun, the bloody smell in the air could not be eliminated.

It was noon that the bandits' offensive stopped.

It’s not that Li Zicheng and the others don’t want to fight, but that both sides have to restrain their bodies.

This is not to say that Li Zicheng suddenly discovered his conscience, but it is now May, and it is midsummer. If the corpses are not restrained as soon as possible under such hot weather, and letting these corpses rot under the city walls will easily cause plague.

In China, even children know that the terrible plague is. The lethality of this thing is so amazing, and it is not different from each other. No one can stand it if they really want to sit up.

It is also because of this that during each truce, the two sides of the war will have a very tacit understanding and send a group of people to restrain their bodies and let the other party run around on the battlefield. This is safe at this time, and no one will risk his bad intentions to attack the other party.

On the city gate tower, Pan Ruzhen sat upright on a stool, looking at the ragged and pale-faced hungry soldiers under the city wall with expressionless face and numb expression, throwing one corpse after another onto the trolley. Soon the corpses were pushed to one large pit that had been dug a little more than a mile away from the city wall, and poured down the corpses like dumping garbage. After the big pit was almost filled, someone would fill the pits.

Through the Qianli Jing Pan Ruzhen can even see many people vomiting while cleaning up. After all, the deaths of those bandits are really miserable.

Not to mention the corpses that were smashed into pieces by artillery, even the bandits below who were killed by rolling wooden stones, as well as the corpses burned by fire cups and other objects, they were all extremely dead. Anyone who saw these things that were either fuzzy or black as black as coke would feel uncomfortable in his stomach.

"One general succeeds and thousands of bones are undone!" Pan Ruzhen sighed.

The deputy general on the side said, "After this battle, the governor will be famous all over the world, and Your Majesty will also know your name. It is no problem to enter the cabinet and become the prime minister in a few years."

Pan Ruzhen shook his head and said worriedly: "It's too early to say this. Let's wait until we live this time."

This is not because Pan Ruzhen is pretentious, but because he knows very well that after these days of bloody battles, the use of troops in Hangzhou City has reached its limit.

Originally, more than half of the five thousand guards had already died or injured, and the young and strong were the most casualties. So far, more than 4,000 young and strong have died in battle on the top of the city, even those

The same was true for the salt merchants and private soldiers of the maritime merchants who were forcibly pulled by him. If it weren't for the fact that he had half-coerced and half-advised this morning, he got more than a thousand servants from the hands of the merchants and gentry and joined the battlefield urgently, the Qingbo Gate would have been lost long ago.

But despite this, he still has no confidence in whether he can defend Hangzhou City.

The reason is that the troops are almost exhausted. Although he ordered the recruitment of eight thousand young men again, judging from the situation these days, there is no problem with these young men who were temporarily recruited to lift stretchers or help with some groceries. However, if they were allowed to participate in the defense at the city wall, the effect would be unsatisfactory.

Pan Ruzhen knew very well that once all the original guards and soldiers were exhausted or the private soldiers and servants he tried to get to a certain extent, the entire guards and forms of defending the city were likely to collapse.

Just when Pan Ruzhen was in a hurry, he suddenly saw the bandits who were collecting corpses in front of him vaguely shouting, and many people even put down what they were doing and fled in scattered. He could even see teams of bandit cavalry flocking around the city wall and running towards the back.

"What happened, why did these people escape?"
Chapter completed!