Liu Neng assassinated Xu Dingguo, patted his ass and left, leaving Guide with an extremely chaotic situation.

In the name of avenging Xu Dingguo, Xu Dingguo's subordinate soldiers searched the whole city and searched for the assassins they had committed. Countless soldiers rushed into the shops on the street and into the homes of ordinary people, and in the name of searching, committed adultery and plunder.

The sudden riot in the city was completely unexpected by Yuan Shu, the governor of Yue Qijie's prefect, and when he heard that Xu Dingguo was assassinated, Yue Qijie was even more shocked and speechless.

Xu Dingguo and the Manchu Qing Dynasty hooked up with each other, Yue Qijie, as the governor of Henan, naturally would not know nothing, but he still held the illusion that Xu Dingguo was loyal to the Ming family, and appeased him more.

At present, the Qing army is about to attack, but Xu Dingguo is suddenly assassinated, and the assassin escapes after killing people in broad daylight. There are only a handful of people in Guide City who have such ability.

Naturally, the squires in the city would not do such a thing, because Xu Dingguo's killing would not do them any good. And Li Jiyu, another Ming army in the city, has the possibility of doing so, if he wants to annex Xu Dingguo's army to expand his strength. But now that the Qing army is coming, even if Li Jiyu swallows Xu Dingguo's army, he will not be able to compete with the Qing army. Not to mention that until now, Li Jiyu's army has not moved, but many soldiers have joined the ranks of robbery.

The assassin was not sent by Li Jiyu, and if you think about Liu Neng's request to see him in the Jiangbei Governor's Mansion not long ago, it is clear who the assassin is.

It must have been that Liu Neng noticed the collusion between Xu Dingguo and the Manchus, so he blatantly assassinated!

But what if you know who the Assassins are? The most important thing at the moment is to quickly stabilize the morale of the army and gather the army, after all, the Qing army is coming.

One after another, orders were issued from the governor's yamen, and the officers of the Guide Prefecture and the soldiers of the governor's battalion took to the streets in an attempt to restrain the looting army. But at this time, no one would listen.

Yue Qijie sent someone to summon the chief soldier Li Jiyu, but there was no response, and Li Jiyu refused to see him.

"Lord Zhongcheng, the general trend has gone, and Guide can't be kept." Yuan Shu said with a desperate face, "Let's quickly leave Guide and go to the south." ”

"We have the responsibility to defend the land, but we only die!" Yue Qijie's face was full of pain, and after months of operation, he wanted to reserve the land of Henan for the imperial court, but he didn't expect that it was out of control after only one day's work.

If the Eight Banners attack, it's good to break through and return to Germany, who would have thought that things would be bad in their own hands!

"Rather than die here, it is better to keep a useful body so that you can continue to do your best for the court. After all, the responsibility for returning to morality is not all our responsibility. Yuan Shu said urgently.

After listening to Yuan Shu's words, Yue Qijie hesitated, since ancient times, it has been difficult to die alone, if it is not a dead end, who is willing to die easily. But instead of fleeing to the south and being held accountable by the imperial court, it is better to die in Guide and be named loyal!

"When Beijing fell, there were many ministers who fled to the southern capital. The scholar Wang Duo is one of them, didn't His Majesty also ask him for his guilt? The Manchu Qing Dynasty came to attack, and the imperial court refused to send reinforcements, and even the reincarnation of Wuhou could not hold the Guide Mansion. Presumably the court will understand us. ”

Yuan Shu's words made Yue Qijie's heart extremely shaken, and finally sighed and decided to flee and return to Germany.

"When the official arrives in Nanjing, he must impeach Pingnanhou for not saving and sending reinforcements when he sees death, and instructs his subordinates to kill the general, so that Guide is in chaos and cannot be defended!" Yue Qijie gritted his teeth and scolded.

With the two top officials abandoning the city and fleeing, the situation in Guide was no longer out of control.

On 9 March, Dorobelenikan, Gushan Ezhen Ibaitu, and Han Dai, the Manchu military department, unified 15,000 Mongolian cavalry as the vanguard and took the lead in arriving outside the West Gate of Guide.

Xu Dingguo's subordinates surrendered Kaicheng under the leadership of the general Xu Feng, and Li Jiyu, who was guarding the two cities in the northeast, also surrendered to the Manchus.

After Duoduo led the main force of the Eight Banners to Guide, he did not stay, and immediately waved his army south, leading tens of thousands of troops to attack the south. The Ming army that surrendered to Germany and the incorporated Shun army Liu Zhong were turned into green battalions and marched south with the army.

Duoduo's subordinate army had 25,000 Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers, 15,000 Mongolian cavalry, more than 10,000 Han Eight Banners, and more than 40,000 Green Battalion soldiers, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops.

Along the way, the states and counties of Daming did not dare to resist at all, and the Eight Banners were attacked, and the counties of Xiayi and Yongcheng surrendered without a fight. As if the autumn wind swept away the leaves, most of Henan was occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

On March 12, the Manchu advance arrived in Suzhou, and Li Qifeng, the general of the Suzhou garrison, and Gao Qifeng, the deputy envoy of the supervising army, fled without a fight and fled in the direction of Yangzhou.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to explain the direction of the Manchu attack on the Ming Dynasty.

According to the deployment of the Manchu court, the Manchu army attacked Ming in two ways. All the way is Azig, the prince of the West Road, who followed the Dashun army to capture Wuchang Huguang, with the aim of annihilating the remnants of the Dashun army and occupying the Jingxiang area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

All the way, the Prince of Yu Duoduo, the target of the attack was Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, shouldering the heavy responsibility of destroying the Ming Dynasty. The nearest route to attack Nanjing is to go directly south from Guide, pass through Yongcheng, Suzhou, and Sizhou, and reach Yangzhou, annihilate the Yangzhou defenders of the Ming Dynasty to collect the important town of Yangzhou, and then cross the Yangtze River from Guazhou to Zhenjiang, and then dozens of miles west is Nanjing. This road is the closest, and there is an official road connecting Guide and Nanzhi, which is the best route to march.

According to the deployment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as long as Yangzhou was defeated and the troops north of the Ming River were eliminated, the Ming Dynasty no longer had the strength to resist, and then crossed the river to attack Nanjing. If it goes well, the armies of the east and west will join the city of Nanjing, and if the road is not smooth, the other road will be responsible for attacking Nanjing.

The two armies accounted for almost two-thirds of the Manchu Qing army, and neither of them was comparable to the weak Ming army. Compared with the thieves who had to annihilate the 200,000 troops of the Western Route Army, the task of the Qing Army on the Eastern Route was easier, after all, the weakness of the Ming Army's combat strength was obvious to all.

Sure enough, since Duoduo led his troops out of Tongguan, he had hardly fought a decent battle along the way. Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Zhongmu, Chenliu, Suizhou, Guide, all the way, the Ming army surrendered one after another. The speed of the war is almost the speed of the march, and the time of the war is also the time of the march.

There were so many prefectures and counties that Duoduo could not spare his hands to divide the troops to occupy them, and often only hastily appointed demoted officials as local officials to temporarily administer the prefectures and counties. Under the might of the Eight Banners, no one dared to resist at all.

The march along the way was extremely smooth, which made the morale of the Qing army high, and the generals of the green battalion who surrendered were even more energetic, vying to be the vanguard of the army, so as to make a meritorious contribution and earn a bright future for themselves in the new dynasty.

It wasn't until the army passed Suzhou that the pace of the march slowed down, and the resistance of the Ming army finally arrived.