Chapter 129: The Situation

Hong Chengchou also understood that King Zheng didn't say such things to make fun of him, at this time, they didn't have that mind.

The reason why King Zheng said this is that the battle of Songshan is similar to the situation of the current battle.

First of all, the Qing army has a field advantage, but it is the defensive side, while the Xia army, although it does not have a field advantage, is the offensive side, of course, it will not be the same. A canal has changed a lot of strategic forms, and it is not so simple to cut off the Xia army's rear route.

"The Battle of Matsuyama?" Dorgon said, "Brother Wang agrees to this method. ”

The Battle of Songshan was a meeting of the Manchu generals today. The Ming army poured the country's troops and almost wiped away all the soldiers who could fight in the north. The last pair of belongings. However, it was not easy for the Qing court, and it can be said that all the famous generals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had the experience of participating in the battle of Songshan.

For the Qing court, it can also be regarded as a soldier of the country.

"I listen to the regent." King Zheng said.

"Okay." Dorgon said, "In that case, let the army continue south, and let Dodor return first." In the land of Shandong, have a good fight with Xia Jun. ”

After Dorgon agreed, he arranged his troops along these lines.

The autumn of the third year of Wuxing.

When the early autumn season rises.

Duoduo crossed the Yellow River again. Dorgon was fortified along the canal. The Xia army gathered in Xuzhou. For a time, there was a flaming red flag inside and outside Xuzhou City, which had the meaning of burning the sky. Luo Yulong studied in Xuzhou for three years, and then went north and entered Shandong.

The people from all walks of life, divided into several roads, went north together. The state of the first strategic decisive battle between Xia and Qing was completely rolled out.

Although people from all walks of life are raising their voices one after another, and the battle is not lively, but what really determines the fate of this battle is nothing else, that is, the Grand Canal.

Therefore, in the battle for the canal, the two sides fought the bloodiest.

For the canal, many people feel that it is directly a river connecting the Yangtze River, but it is far from that. From Beijing to the Yangtze River, even regardless of the canals south of the Yangtze River, there are quite a lot of locks, specifically more than 80.

And where the Yangtze River is connected to the canal, there is one.

On the canal, the place with the most locks is in Shandong, and this section of the canal is called the lock river.

Locks regulate the flow of water, which can ensure the smooth flow of the Grand Canal.

At this moment, when the troops are used, the locks of the Grand Canal have become checkpoints, and Shandong has also entered the north, not only that the rivers are not as many as in the south, but the terrain is also much higher, so the canal is much narrower here.

A lot of times the boat can't go fast at all.

No, the first big battle between the main forces of the Ming and Qing dynasties broke out, not somewhere else. It's Summer Village.

Xia Village is nominally a village, but in fact it can be seen as a small town, a town that relies on canals to rise.

Because of the canal, but also because of the canal and provoked this big battle, just near a small town, the Qing army gathered tens of thousands of troops, and Gao Jie's tens of thousands of troops, because the battlefield was restricted, the Qing army's cavalry advantage could not be played for a while.

The two sides fought fiercely for several days, and almost turned Xia Village into nothing.

Only then did the Qing army slowly retreat.

It's just that when Luo Yulong entered Xia Village, he couldn't see anyone in Xia Village anymore. In the heyday of Xia Village, there were tens of thousands of people, but now those who fled and died, and the rest were only the old, weak, sick and disabled. There are still some ruins, nothing else.

But when he got here, Luo Yulong discovered a new situation.

That was the destruction of the canal by the Qing army.

All the ancillary facilities in the canal were destroyed one by one or burned to the ground.

For a few days, the Qing army did not have the kung fu to fill in the canal one by one. But even then it caused a lot of trouble for the army.

At least the eastern part of the canal must be reorganized.

The officials who used to take care of the canal, and even the people on the river, are gone. These things have to be repaired.

After Luo Yulong consulted with everyone, he decided to sit in Xia Village, and build a granary between Xia Village and Xuzhou as a place for the army. Taking advantage of the abundance of waterways here, the Qing cavalry was restricted.

And Gao Jie still led his men and horses and continued to storm along the canal. Luo Yulong separated his division and entered the mountainous area of southern Shandong.

The beacon fire in Shandong subsided in a few days, but the people's resistance to the Qing court was not completely over, and the remnants of the failed uprisings of various ministries defected to Luo Yulong from all directions.

Among them, the two largest divisions, one is the Yuyuan Army and Yu Qi's two divisions.

Luo Yulong waved his pen and granted the seal. The Yuyuan Army and Yu Qisuo became the generals under the command of Great Xia, and under the leadership of these local snakes, all parts of Shandong surrendered to Great Xia.

If anything, there is any difference from before. That is the rebel army that started before, and there are banners for whom, and now all the rebels are under one banner, and this banner is the banner of Great Xia.

At this time, the state of insufficient troops of the Qing court became more and more obvious.

The main forces of both sides on the first line of the canal are still in the top cow, there is no flower bridge here, swords and guns are fighting, artillery roars, and human lives are exchanged for human lives, the Qing army mostly uses the Han army to defend the village, and the eight banners are used as mobile forces, and the casualties on both sides are not small. It's just that in this situation, Dolgon can't distinguish many soldiers.

Facing the state of beacon fire everywhere. Dorgon had to move troops from all over the place.

The first thing to be transferred is the Shaanxi soldiers.

Shaanxi was originally a place of strong troops, and Haoge had just re-pacified the northwest, and the northwest generals of the Ming Dynasty, one of them counted one, all surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, plus there were some heavy generals of the Eight Banners stationed. It can draw more than 100,000 troops.

Although Dolgon also knew that the rebellion in the north could not be implicated in the northwest, he still asked Shaanxi to send reinforcements.

It's just that sending reinforcements doesn't have to be there.

Gao Shiheng of Xiangyang Town was in trouble.

Gao Shiheng's soldiers were divided into two routes, all the way to conquer Wuguan Road, and went straight to Guanzhong, but it looked huge, but in fact, there were not many people. However, occupying the Wuguan area is equivalent to gaining a firm foothold in Guanzhong, and Meng Qiaofang has to send troops to guard it.

The second way is to transfer from Runing to Luoyang, wanting to capture Luoyang.

But at this time, Luoyang must not be lost. Most of the Shaanxi soldiers have been pinned down here.

Gao Shiheng directly supplied grain and grass from the two lakes along the way, and all the grain and grass that was prepared for the westward expedition was transferred to this aspect. It's just that the teacher is just the teacher. It's just containment. It doesn't play a decisive role, and it is the East Road that really plays a decisive role.

Not all the bad news for Dolgon, though.

There is also good news.

It's the news of Datong.

Today's Datong City is already a dead city.

Azig is a ruthless man. After he surrounded Datong City, he summoned Mongolian soldiers, captured the people from all directions, and under the supervision of the Eight Banners, he stormed Datong City.

Day and night.

Anyone who dared to retreat, the Eight Banners soldiers rushed over and stabbed him. Kill it cleanly. Advancing is also death, retreating is also death, and naturally there are many people who resist.

It's just that under the strict waiting of the soldiers of the Eight Banners, those who want to resist can resist.

Under such a protracted attack, Datong City finally couldn't hold on. A city general offered a gate, and then a large group of men rushed in.

Under the army, for such a long time. Azig was already very angry, and naturally ordered the slaughter of the city.

For a while, in Datong City, shouts of killing were everywhere, and these Eight Banners soldiers and Mongolian soldiers were killed. I didn't care about anything, I didn't care about anything, and even the generals who sacrificed the city were killed cleanly. The whole Datong was slaughtered into a blank field.

So much so that in the end, the city was full of corpses, and there was no one to collect them.

Fortunately, some of the death row inmates in the county government were not killed, so they were released and let them collect the corpses all over the city. In this way, more than 100,000 people from Datong City went to Huangquan together.

After finishing his work here, Azig joined up with the Mongol cavalry, led a large group of men and horses, and turned south. In just a few days, they entered the territory of Shandong, and in this way, almost all the Manchu troops were in place. With Azig and the Mongol tribes present, the rebellion of the rebels in various places was suppressed in an instant. There's just one thing they can't suppress.