After the Qing army's archers arrived, there was a terrible news from Chuan Ling Bing. "General, there are Wu Jun in the northeast, there are thousands of people, and it is less than two miles away from us."

This news shocked several Qing army generals. Wu Jun appeared too suddenly. It must have not departed from Bengbu, otherwise it would not have been so fast.

Is there a connection between these two things?

Qu Youjin suddenly thought of a possibility, and suddenly became even more panicked.

If Wu Jun's arrival is related to the miners' riots, it means that this is Wu Jun's strategy, and Wu Jun came prepared.

Damn, Qu You jumped into the air.

"Order the entire army to retreat, immediately, leave these mobs alone."

Qu Youjin decided to withdraw to the city first. It would be too dangerous to stay outside the city. No matter how important money is, it is not as important as life.

His decision was decisive, but he was still a step late.

When the Qing army organized its retreat, Wu Jun had already caught up with them, making them unable to advance or retreat.

Continue to retreat, Wu Jun chasing behind, the retreat will easily evolve into a rout.

When the resistance stopped, there was another gap in the strength of the two sides.

"Stop retreating, defend and counterattack on the spot, and send someone back for help."

Qu Youjin changed his mind, and it doesn't work if it doesn't change. At this time, there is no chance to retreat, so it's better to give it a go.

Moreover, they may not have no chance if they give it a go.

Because they have 8,000 troops, which is more than Wu Jun’s 5,000. As long as the reinforcements arrived in the city and fought on both sides, they might still be able to eat Wu Jun's 5,000 people.

By that time, it might be a good thing to be in the middle.

In theory, Qu Youjin's idea is fine.

However, in practice, this plan may not work.

To realize this plan requires a key factor. They must be able to support the arrival of reinforcements, and the speed of reinforcement support must be fast. This tests the overall quality of an army.

Seeing the Qing army stopped, Wu Jun immediately slowed down and kept the formation close.

At the same time, those flintlock troops, taking advantage of their range and speed, began to bully the infantry of the Qing army.

In the face of Wu Jun's rogue tactics, other armies have no good solutions for the time being.

In desperation, they could only retreat to the hillside, wanting to use the woods to offset Wu Jun's shooting advantage.

It is impossible to charge to charge. Countless battle cases have shown that unless it is a death squad that is not afraid of death at all, charging against a flintlock unit is for nothing.

Whenever it rushes in front of the enemy army, that is when the army collapses.

Retreating to the mountain, this trick seems to be effective, but in fact, he was trapped and died on the mountain.

Unless reinforcements come to rescue them, they can only stay on the mountain and wait for death.

Wu Jun ignored the army that fled to the mountain, only leaving a part of it to prevent them from rushing down or escaping.

Others concentrated their forces and dealt with the other Qing troops under the mountain first.

The other troops of the Qing army were originally at a disadvantage. After being flanked by the left and right, they lost even faster.

As soon as Wu Jun's flintlock unit approached, the Qing army collapsed and began a rout.

Next, it is a happy hunting stage.

The mountains and plains were filled with panicking Qing troops. Some even accidentally ran to the location of the miners and were arrested and beaten violently.

Seeing this situation, Qu Youjin took the lead to escape, he no longer counted on reinforcements.

According to the current situation, it is useless for reinforcements to come.

After several hours, with the help of many miners, Wu Jun cleaned the battlefield and captured most of the Qing army that had fled.

Those Qing troops who fled to the mountain, seeing no hope, all surrendered one after another.

This battle was not fierce, and Wu Jun's deaths and injuries did not even exceed two hundred. The Qing army died a little more, but only six or seven hundred.

Of the remaining people, less than one thousand successfully escaped back to Huainan City, hundreds of people scattered, and the rest were captured by Wu Jun, totaling more than five thousand five hundred people.

On average, one Wu army captured one Qing army, which was very efficient.

After this battle, the defenders of Huainan City dropped sharply from 20,000 to twelve thousand, and their defensive capabilities were greatly reduced.

The guard of Huainan, Chimu Qing, could no longer guard him. In order to preserve his strength, he took the initiative to lead the army to retreat to the north overnight, to the north of Suzhou.

As for Hefei, he gave up.

Once Huainan was lost, the defenders in Hefei had no way of retreating and became a turtle in the urn.

Chimuqing escaped, but Lu Jingyan did not escape, he was reluctant to bear the position of the prefect of Huainan.

At the same time, he also knows that Wu Jun has always been preferential treatment of surrenders.

Therefore, he planned to wait for Wu Jun to enter the city, and then directly seek refuge in Wu Jun anyway.

Xu Yuxian entered Huainan easily, but the following problems caused him a headache.

How can tens of thousands of miners be comforted?

Xu Yuxian will definitely not allow them to continue to hold weapons, which will become an unstable factor.

However, if you want them to lay down their weapons, I am afraid they will have to give some benefits.

Otherwise, if they can counter the clear, they can also counter the clear.

Although Xu Yuxian can use some means to divide it internally, but this kind of treatment does not cure the symptoms and does not eliminate the grievances in the minds of the miners. These more than 10,000 people are always a hidden danger.

It is impossible for them to garrison the army here all the time. Once the army withdrew, more than 10,000 people rioted, and the local yamen were no opponents at all.

To eliminate the grievances of the miners is actually very simple, just give them a little salary increase, not much, every one hundred catties of coal will increase by three cents, then more than ninety-nine percent of the miners will be satisfied.

However, the problem is that Xu Yuxian is a military commander and has no right to intervene in civilian affairs.

They have now recovered Huainan, so the taxes that the coal mines handed over to the government are naturally given to them. And how much to give, this is the matter of the civilian officials, their generals are forbidden to interfere.

If you are not qualified to manage, naturally you will not dare to promise miners an increase in wages.

On the one hand, Xu Yuxian wrote an excerpt and sent it to Nanjing, asking them to send civil ministers over to deal with the matter.

On the other hand, he convened several representatives of miners to discuss with them how to deal with it.

"I have already suggested to the above to lower the tax, so that the extra money can fall into your hands."

Xu Yuxian said.

"It's just a suggestion. When will the court respond. There is no definitive news. It can't calm the emotions of the miners."

Zheng Qiao vomited.

As the leader, he has made contributions to Wu Jun, but the benefits are not to worry, Wu Jun can cash in at any time.

However, in order to avoid being killed by those miners, he must strive for satisfactory benefits for those miners.

"I can't help this. I hope you can bear with me a little bit and trust the government. As far as I know, the tax rate charged by the coal mine in Nanjing is lower than here, so the tax reduction is certain. You don't have to worry about this. "

Xu Yuxian continued to persuade each other, but he refused to give a promise anyway, which made Zheng Qiao very helpless.

"Actually, there is another way. Huainan prefect Lu Jingzhen has sucked a lot of blood from the coal mine during these hours. It's better to let him spend a sum of money to appease the miners."

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