Compared with the ease of Nanjing City after the war, Wuhu City, which is two hundred miles away from Nanjing City, the entire city is gloomy and bleak, and the air is confused with a breath of despair.

Tens of thousands of Qing troops camped outside Wuhu City, blocking the water around the city.

Wuhu City is located on the bank of the Yangtze River, stuck on the road to Beijing in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and its geographical location is extremely important.

Without pulling out Wuhu, the Qing army would not be able to safely take Nanjing down the river.

In another time and space, Jingnan Hou Huang Degong guarded Wuhu, and based on this, he first defeated Zuo Menggeng's army in the east, and then launched a fierce battle with the Qing army. After Duoduo conquered Yangzhou, the army crossed the river from Guazhou, and Emperor Hongguang fled in a hurry and fled here.

And now, Duoduo's 100,000-strong army has been wiped out, Bolo has led the last remnants of the army to retreat across the Yangtze River, and the Qing army on the eastern road has been completely defeated. However, this did not relieve the pressure on the defenders of Wuhu in any way.

Azig led the Eight Banners to defeat more than 100,000 Shun troops west of Jiujiang, and Li Zicheng led a few guards to flee in a hurry, and he was actually killed by Liu Neng. More than 100,000 Shun troops retreated to Huguang without a leader, and now Azig is sitting in Jiujiang, commanding the Qing army to encircle and suppress the Shun army.

Compared with the enterprising and knowledgeable Duoduo, Prince Azig of England is reckless and rude, and he is even more greedy and selfish. This manifested itself in the war against Shun and Ming.

When Dolgon defeated the remnants of the Shun army in Shanxi and Henan, and broke through the Tong Pass and advanced into the pass, Azig made a detour to Ordos and Tumut in Mongolia because of greed, and delayed the meeting with Duoduo, which was reprimanded by Dolgon.

Now, after Azig defeated the Shun army and subdued hundreds of thousands of Ming troops from Zuo Liangyu's department, he stopped in Jiujiang in the name of clearing the remnants of the Shun army.

The weather in the south is really hot, although it is only in May, it is already hot and unbearable, compared to the hard work of leading the army to continue the expedition to Nanjing, it is more comfortable to hide in the city of Jiujiang to enjoy the blessings, the prosperity of the south of the Ming Dynasty is not comparable to the bitter cold land of Liaodong.

As for Nanjing's contribution to the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, Azig believes that he has made enough contributions, and the contribution to the destruction of Dashun is far greater than that of Nanjing. Azig and Duoduo already had a division of labor, Azig was responsible for exterminating the Shun army, and Duoduo was responsible for dealing with Nanming.

And after defeating the Shun army, the huge wealth carried by the Shun army fell into the hands of Azig, you must know that the Shun army looted tens of millions of taels of silver when it was in Beijing, even if it lost all the way, the wealth carried by the army was innumerable.

Not to mention the wealth collected from Jiujiang City from Zuo Mengeng's hands.

The current Azig and his Eight Banners have already made a lot of money, and they don't have much desire to continue to forge ahead.

It's just that Duoduo did not quickly defeat Yangzhou and cross the Yangtze River like another time and space, but was delayed by the Ming army all the way from Guide to Nanzhi, and it was even more difficult to fight Yangzhou, so he sent Li Guoying, Xu Ensheng, Hao Xiaozhong, etc. to lead the reorganized green battalion soldiers to attack Wuhu and contain the Ming army in Nanjing.

However, don't underestimate Li Guoying and other green camp generals, these people cowered when they were under the banner of the Ming army, and only knew how to exploit and loot the people, but after surrendering to the Qing army, they became like wolves and tigers one by one, in order to please the Manchu masters, when attacking the Ming army that originally belonged to one camp, they became more ruthless than anyone else.

Seventy or eighty thousand green battalion soldiers tightly surrounded Wuhu, and Li Guoying, Xu Ensheng, Hao Xiaozhong and others led their armies to attack Wuhu City endlessly.

Wuhu City is on the verge of the Yangtze River, five miles in circumference, the city is three zhang high, there are four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and there are two water gates leading directly to the Yangtze River. There were 40,000 defenders in the city, most of whom were Beijing soldiers brought by Chen Jianghe from Nanjing.

According to the planning of the Nanjing imperial court, in the face of the Shun army and the Qing army going south, three lines of defense were arranged in Wuchang, Jiujiang and Wuhu in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which were respectively responsible for Zuo Liangyu, Yuan Jixian and Chen Jianghe, and Yuan Jixian led all the troops as the superintendent.

Wuhu is the last line of defense in Nanjing, and you can go directly to Nanjing after crossing Wuhu.

When the Qing army arrived, Chen Jianghe sent a warning document to Nanjing, and the entire city was tightly surrounded by the Qing army. Within a few days, the Qing army launched several attacks on Wuhu, and the two armies fought extremely fiercely.

Wuhu also has a naval army, led by Huang Fei, Bu Congshan and other generals, but under the onslaught of the Qing army, Huang Fei and others are not invincible, a large number of ships were sunk, Huang Fei and Bu Congshan led a small number of ships to escape from the battlefield and fled Wuhu.

When the Qing army abandoned the ship and went ashore, Chen Jianghe also tried to attack it, and his foothold was not stable, but the generals of the Beijing camp under him showed a bitter look on their faces, and they were very afraid of going out of the city to fight.

It is said that there are already a lot of troops in the city, but the combat power of these Beijing soldiers is really weak, and Chen Jianghe has seen it in these days when leading the troops.

They are all some old soldiers in Nanjing, who make a living by farming and doing small business on weekdays, and they can't train twice a year, and many of them originally only existed in the military register. When Chongzhen rebuilt the Beijing camp, these military households were hastily drafted into the army, and then they trained for so many months.

Wu Mengming, the governor of Beijing, was originally only the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he was also in the palace on weekdays, so he knew how much to train soldiers. Although the Nanjing Jingying looked bright under his tutelage, its combat power was not as good as that of the ordinary Ming army, not to mention that it was compared with the peaceful Southern Army.

The entire Beijing camp has never fought a battle from top to bottom and has never seen blood, so it is really difficult for such an army to take the initiative to attack. In desperation, Chen Jianghe could only honestly choose to defend the city.

Fortunately, hiding behind the strong city walls, these Beijing soldiers still have the courage to shoot arrows and throw stones from the top of the city. It took some time for Chen Jianghe to arrive in Wuhu, and the preparations were still very perfect, and there were a lot of various equipment for defending the city. Rolling wood, bricks and stones, ash bottles, fire oil, gold juice are all available, and if it is not possible, you can also remove the houses to defend the city and fight the enemy.

In the past few days, Chen Jianghe has personally fought on the front line of the city, and with Xu Qingtian, Shen Lian and other henchmen from Jinyiwei, he has launched a fierce battle with the Qing army.

What worries Chen Jianghe is that with the Qing army's siege of the city for several days, as more and more casualties in the battle, the morale of the Ming army in the city is extremely low, and there is not much food left.

The consumption of more than 40,000 troops is a large number, and the Wuhu local government simply cannot afford it. Originally, they were all transported from Nanjing to Wuhu by water, and the practice was to transport them once a month, so as to store enough grain for a month.

But for some reason, this month, the household department was a little late in transporting military rations, and after the Qing army besieged the city, it could no longer be transported in. The fact that there was less than ten days of rations in the city was another reason for the low morale.