Just as Qian Sule said when he went to Hangzhou to meet Wu Zheng, this group, they are not loyal to the country, the nation, or the king, but to their own interests and the interests of the entire class.

Just as the great men of the founding of the country commented in later generations, if it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang's timely adjustment of thinking, I am afraid that he would not be able to win the world.

Chen Zilong, Qian Sule, and even people like Zhang Huangyan actually belong to this class.

It's just that Zhang Huangyan and others wanted to struggle out and put it into action.

Qian Sule woke up to the fact that a person's life only needs to be done one thing, which is enough.

Chen Zilong, on the other hand, remained loyal to his class.

This class includes almost all the elites of scholars and countless magnates in the world.

Even if a few people of insight find out that something is wrong, they will not be able to get out of such a large and cohesive class.

Such a class almost occupies the world's wealth and talents.

It has an immortal body, and the change of dynasties is nothing more than a new dress for it.

This is that they can control the strength of the sea, but the court at the end of the Ming Dynasty could not pay the salaries of the army that fought against the Tartars.

This is the death of the Ming Dynasty, and they can still rely on this group to continue to live in the temple.

This is the real reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been sitting on the country for 300 years, but it is mostly for others to make wedding clothes.

Even in later generations, this force still exists, but it has been compressed a lot, so that it is almost unnoticed by the world.

And the power to compress it comes from the awakened people.

But right now, it's invincible.

People block, people die!

The country is blocked, the country is destroyed!

Fortunately, Zhu Cihong was only offended for the first time.

Fortunately, it also knows how to sacrifice, and it will never fight against a real spokesperson for the sake of dozens or hundreds of pseudo-spokespersons.

It also knows how to measure proportions.

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Zilharang also made a mistake.

He shouldn't have used the last 10,000 mobile troops in his hands.

You must know that at this time, the Qing army in Jiangbei claimed to be 100,000, but no more than 60,000 people could really mobilize to participate in the war.

Breaking through Wang Zhiren's water division river defense, nearly 10,000 people have been lost.

The number of troops attacking Shence and Taiping has reached 20,000.

There are also 10,000 water divisions deployed by Wang Zhiren in the direction of Zhenjiang Mansion.

Tan Tai's partial division attacking Zhongfu and Jinchuan Ermen took 8,000 people.

Once the remaining 10,000 mobile troops in their hands are mobilized, then there will be no room for maneuver, and they will either win or lose.

Didn't Zilharang know that this was a mistake?

Of course not!

How could Prince Zheng, who has been in his career for decades, not know that this was a mistake?

But he still resolutely mobilized these 10,000 people to reinforce the Shence and Taiping Ermen.

Because Zilharang had no time, the supply of food, grass, and ordnance could not keep up, and the artillery could not be transported across the river in a short time.

However, the artillery on the wall of Ying Tianfu was firing fiercely at the Qing army.

These are not the most critical, the most critical thing is that Dolgon led an army of 150,000 to the south.

Hey, isn't that a good thing?

Could it be that Zilharang would ignore the success or failure of the national war for the sake of a personal grudge with Dorgon?

Of course not!

With the surname of Aixin Jueluo, Zierharang can still distinguish the importance.

The real reason why he had to use mobile troops was not that Dolgon led 150,000 troops to the south, but that Dolgon led 150,000 troops to the north of Xuzhou (the mouth of the Yellow River was diverted in the Ming Dynasty, and in the eighth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure the smooth transportation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Huanglinggang was built to receive the water of the whole river with the Huai River. Therefore, at that time, the course of the Yellow River entered the sea near Xuzhou), and it stagnated before crossing the Yellow River.

Why?

Could it be that Dolgon wanted to use the hands of the Ming army to completely eradicate Zilharang?

Of course not!

Even Zilharang can distinguish the weight, how could the regent Dolgon let tens of thousands of Qing soldiers accompany Zilharang to the funeral?

The real reason is still in the 150,000 army.

The 150,000-strong army was newly recruited, and almost ninety and a half were Han Chinese.

Although the Han people at this time were not enough to have the national righteousness awakened by the people in later generations, at least they did not have the courage to fight to the death for the Qing court.

The soldiers who have just been recruited, plus the fact that they are fighting for foreign races, can imagine the extent to which this army's combat power can be.

Dolgon couldn't help it.

There are indeed nearly 30,000 soldiers in the capital, can they dare to move?

At the time of entering the customs, Dolgon led the 120,000 Eight Banner Army, in the past four years, has lost nearly half, especially in the battle of the Hongguang Dynasty, the Eight Banners soldiers were reduced by nearly 20,000 people, which is the real cause of the 10-day tragedy in Yangzhou under Duoduo.

Although Shi Kefa was indecisive and hesitant in the matter of the heir to the throne, and his military ability was indeed worrying, he was enough to cover up any shortcomings in his resistance to the Qing army.

The battle of Yangzhou hurt the Tartars, made Duoduo lose his rationality, and also beat the iron backbone of the Han people.

The rapid attrition of the Eight Banners led to the Qing court revering in the use of the Eight Banners.

This can't be helped, the Manchurian population is too small, and it will take more than ten years to become an adult if one dies.

Therefore, in the subsequent battles, the Eight Banners were mainly used to garrison and hoard, which is the origin of the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing and the Eight Banners of Assisting in Defense.

For example, when Wu Zheng recovered Hangzhou Prefecture, among the Qing army, there were only 4,000 soldiers under the Eight Banners under the command of the Hangzhou general, and the rest were Ming army soldiers or thieves who recruited An.

For example, when Yingtianfu was recovered, the Eight Banners under General Jiang Ning were less than 7,000 soldiers, and the rest were also surrendered by the Ming army.

Therefore, it is absolutely true that the Ming Dynasty, especially the Southern Ming Dynasty, was not in the hands of the Tartars, but in the hands of the Ming people.

Only one year after the Qing army entered the customs, it recruited more than 400,000 Ming troops from all walks of life.

These troops were mainly thrown into the northwest and southwest directions to encircle and suppress the remnants of the Dashun and Daxi rebels.

After the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, the Qing court recruited more than 200,000 Ming troops.

These troops were thrown south to Fujian and Guangzhou.

What is chilling is that these surrendered Ming troops, seven or eight times out of ten, followed the Tartars with an iron heart, killed their compatriots, and even more ruthlessly than the Tartars, and the three massacres in Jiading were done by Li Chengdong.

Wu Zheng originally had the opportunity to kill Li Chengdong, but for the purpose of letting the Longwu Dynasty exist to contain Duoduo, he did not do it.

The generals of the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty already had the rudiments of warlords.

Most of them have no loyalty in their hearts, and only think about land and money.

And the ass determines the position, and the class mentioned above is the biggest root cause of Nanming's demise.

Imagine, if this class used financial resources to support the army of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the rebel armies in various parts of the Yangtze River, then I am afraid that Fulin and Dolgon would take the initiative to negotiate peace and divide the river and rule, which is still the most ideal situation for the Qing court.

The 150,000 troops led by Dolgon were stranded on the banks of the Yellow River, refusing to take a step beyond the Thunder Pond, and Dolgon was not sure that once the river was crossed, this army would not disperse in a hurry.

This was okay when the Qing army was marching all the way, and most of these Han people who were forced by the government or forced by their livelihood may really go to the battlefield for the Tartars.