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Li Hong Kong.

It is about forty miles away from Jiangyin County and only more than forty miles away from Changzhou Prefecture's Zhiwujin. It is also an important port on the south bank of the Yangtze River and is considered an important military location at the moment.

Qu Xiaofeng, the commander of the 6th Brigade (affiliated to the 3rd Division), led the brigade to be stationed here. He was mainly responsible for the security of the port and at the same time, he was on guard against the Ming army in Jiangyin.

As for Peng Youyi, after joining forces with the 21st Independent Brigade, he teamed up with Lin Zhanfei and sent troops westward again.

At present, Peng Youyi leads the fourth brigade to garrison in Baogang, west of Ligang.

Lin Zhanfei led the 21st Brigade Headquarters to garrison in Lucheng. Although this place was a town, it had a city wall built on the scale of a county town. It happened to be located on the waterway between Zhenjiang and Changzhou.

The two of them were preparing to cooperate with the first division to attack Zhenjiang Prefecture's Dan Tu.

Zhenjiang Prefecture was an important water transportation and military center in the Ming Dynasty. According to the information from Xunfengwei, Zuo Liangyu sent his direct deputy general Zhang Yingxiang and his subordinate deputy general Wu Xueli to guard Dantu County and Dantu Town (ten miles east of the county) respectively.

Zhang Yingxiang led 20,000 troops, and Wu Xueli also led 15,000 troops.

In addition, Zhang Yingyuan, the affiliated general of the army, led more than 10,000 troops to garrison in Danyang.

Including the troops and horses already present in Zhenjiang Prefecture, the total number of Ming troops is as high as 60,000 to 70,000!

With so many Ming troops stationed, and Dantu and Danyang being tall and fortified cities, Liu Sheng ordered the First Division, the Second Division and the 21st Independent Brigade to cooperate in attacking Zhenjiang Prefecture.

In the military tent.

Qu Xiaofeng was reading a book after finishing military affairs.

It is not a work, but a collection of battle cases compiled by various departments of the Yi army after analyzing the battles they encountered, including Liu Sheng's annotations.

Nowadays, the Yi army is fighting in all directions, and each unit encounters different battles. By learning from the battles experienced by other units, the generals can absorb experience and grow rapidly.

A guard came in, gave a military salute, and said: "Brigade, the propaganda team captured Jiangyin Dianshi Yan Yingyuan in Sujiaji. This man is very famous in Jiangyin. It is said that he is the military commander of Jiangyin County today!"

"Oh?" Qu Xiaofeng became interested upon hearing this, "How did you catch him?"

The guard immediately explained the process.

After hearing this, Qu Xiaofeng couldn't help laughing and said: "You are really a bold leader - bring him here, and then call the military and political officials to see if you can persuade this person to surrender."

"Yes!"

Not long after, the sixth brigade military and political officer Ning Wen (fourth phase of the military and political class) arrived first, and Yan Yingyuan was also brought in tied up.

Qu Xiaofeng and Ning Wen were both slightly surprised when they saw this posture.

But when I think about what I heard about Yan Yingyuan's three arrows that frightened away the pirates, and look at his tall and strong figure, I know that the guards were probably afraid that Yan Yingyuan would break free from the rope and kidnap or hurt them.

Yan Yingyuan has been observing carefully since he was caught in the Yijun military camp.

Originally, he wanted to obtain more intelligence about the Yi army, and then find an opportunity to escape, so that he could fight against the Yi army.

As a result, the more he learned about the Yi army, the more frightened he became, and the less confident he became about the Ming Dynasty.

For example, he originally thought that the two to three hundred people he met in Sujiaji were the elite of the Yi army.

While being escorted, he learned that these two or three hundred people had a temporary name, "Preaching Team."

Not only did they easily defeat the 800 Xiangyong organized by the Su family and other large families, but they also organized public trials, relief and other matters. They were so capable because almost all the soldiers in the team could write and read, and some were proficient in arithmetic!

In Yan Yingyuan's view, such a team with strong fighting ability, strict discipline, and many scholars are probably the servants of the generals of the Yi army.

But when he arrived at the Ligang Yijun Camp, he discovered that it seemed that thousands of people in the entire camp were just such "servants"!

He then came up with a terrible guess-could it be that the rumored hundreds of thousands of troops in the Yi army were all such "servants"? !

At this time, he couldn't help but look at the two people in front of him.

Through the words of the escort, he knew that one of these two people was a "brigade seat" and the other was a "military and political officer". They seemed to be the chief general and deputy general of these thousands of elite soldiers.

It's just that these two people looked ordinary, nothing surprising.

Ning Wen said: "Historian Yan Dian has a good reputation as an official. He has done a lot of practical things for the people of Jiangyin since he took office. For a good official like Yan Dianshi, our army is thirsty for talents. I wonder if Yan Dianshi is willing to surrender?"

Yan Yingyuan was a little surprised when he heard these words of persuasion to surrender.

Because high-ranking officials and generous salaries are usually used to persuade people to surrender. Although he is just a low-ranking classic, it is really strange that the other party did not even mention the promise of an official position.

'Could it be that you don't like me? '

After muttering to himself, Yan Yingyuan said calmly: "Yan will not surrender. If you want to kill or behead him, please do as he pleases."

Ning Wendao said: "Yan Dianshi's words are serious. Even if he surrenders not far away, our tribe will not harm the prisoners. But with Yan Dianshi's status, I am afraid that he will have to do hard labor for at least three months."

"Three months of hard labor?" Yan Yingyuan was surprised again, "Will you let me go after three months?"

"of course."

"Aren't you afraid that I will lead troops to fight against you again?"

Ning Wen smiled and said, "In three months, the entire southern Zhili will be captured by us, where will Yan Dianshi lead the troops?

In addition, I believe that if Yan Dianshi cares about the people of the world, he will no longer oppose our Weibei, and will even work for our Weibei. "

Yan Yingyuan secretly sighed at Lei Jun's ambition, but said in his mouth: "You are too confident."

At this time, Qu Xiaofeng said: "When our army takes Jiangyin tomorrow, you will know why we are so confident."

After hearing this, Yan Yingyuan's original indifferent expression finally changed.

Without him, Jiangyin County might really be unable to stop these thousands of troops who are as good as servants!

The next day, Qu Xiaofeng led four battalions of less than 3,000 people to Jiangyin.

Yan Yingyuan was also escorted by the army.

Arriving outside Jiangyin County, Yan Yingyuan said to Qu Xiaofeng with a dark face: "If you want to use me to threaten the city to surrender, you'd better give up as soon as possible. Yan is only a mere historian. Jiangyin City has a county magistrate in Chinese and a military garrison. , I will never surrender because of Yan!"

Qu Xiaofeng said: "Yan Dianshi is too worried. I just want you to watch us capture the city."

Immediately, Qu Xiaofeng asked the artillery battalion of the brigade to pull out twenty army cannons and lined them up outside the city.

"Test the cannon!"

Following Qu Xiaofeng's order, twenty stone bullets were shot out, landing either at the top of Jiangyin City, in the city, or outside the city.

"Send the surrender letter!"

Soon, the second round of artillery shells was fired, but it was the "surrender bomb" specially made by the Yi army.

A kind of stone bullet, but it contains a letter urging surrender.

Yan Yingyuan saw the power and rate of fire of the Yi army's artillery, and then thought about the personalities of Lin Zhiji and Gu Yuanbi, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, about two-quarters of an hour later, when the Yi army was preparing to formally attack the city, the Jiangyin city gate opened!

The county magistrate Lin Zhiji and the guard Gu Yuanbi actually offered the city to surrender together!

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Quarry Rock.

Guards camp.

"Report!——"

As the hoofbeats of the messenger's horse entered the camp, excited shouting also came.

In the general officer training class camp, He Jin, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Li Guoying and others couldn't help but look sideways when they heard the sound and looked in the direction of the king's tent.