After the Ming army captured Nanjing, the internal political struggle delayed the Ming Dynasty's preparations for the Qing court.

Wang Yan wants to turn passive into active, unwilling to passively defend, but the situation is a little unallowed, although the military department and the local government are doing their best to prepare, but the time is too short, and the previous consumption of armor and equipment is too large, it is really difficult to raise for a while, and it also takes time to mobilize people and horses.

Nanjing City is fast out, mobilizing manpower, material resources, and military resources from all over the country to deal with the war, and Wang Yan's judgment is indeed not wrong.

Just a few days after Wang Yan made his decision, Hao Shaoqi's military report was sent to Nanjing in an expedited manner of 800 li, and in Xiangyang Mansion, Yunyang Mansion, De'an Mansion and Chengtian Mansion in northern Hubei Province, heavy snowfall fell three feet a day, and there was a heavy snowstorm, and people had frozen to death, and the snowflakes fell into the Han River, and the water could not be washed away for a while, and it accumulated more and more, so that there were signs of freezing, although he sent a boat to break the ice on the river, but if the weather continued to deteriorate, I am afraid that the Qing army's iron cavalry could directly cross the Han River, so he asked the imperial court to urgently send men and horses to support Huguang.

The governor of Huguang was served by Wu Jinxi, a member of the Chu Party, and when the order of the imperial court came, he sat in Wuchang and began to make arrangements.

It has been a year and a half since the government military system was implemented in Huguang, which is not as good as that in Guangnan, and it has been four years, and now it can provide more than 10,000 government soldiers who have been trained for three years every year for the town army, so that the army can quickly recover its combat strength.

Huguang's government soldiers are obviously not hot enough, but at this time, they can only bite the bullet. After all, after a year and a half of training, he is stronger than the people who have never held a knife or a gun, and have never used a firearm.

For a time, on the official road on the vast land of the lake, there was a flow of people in two completely opposite directions, and a large group of people went south along the official road, while the government soldiers from all over the country, as well as the town army in Hunan, and the Miao soldiers of the Tusi in Xiangxi, under the leadership of the generals, rushed to the north and quickly assembled to the line of the Yangtze River to prevent the Qing army from breaking through the Yangtze River.

When Huguang was mobilized, nearly 100,000 Qing soldiers in Henan, who had rested for more than a year, finally made a move.

After Haoge broke the Qinghai and Shuote Mongols, he went west to Turpan, and then fought with the Yarkand Khanate entrenched in the Western Regions, and the three wars were connected, which greatly increased Haoge's ambition, and the Qing army hit walls everywhere in the battle with the Ming Dynasty, forming a sharp contrast.

After returning from the victory, Hauge took advantage of his power and the Ming army attacked Jiangnan, and Dolgon and the Ming Dynasty did not have the energy to pay attention to him, and officially established the title of emperor.

Hauge's move was a complete break with the Qing court, and Dolgon naturally couldn't tolerate it, but he couldn't bear it, and it didn't affect Hauge, because Dolgon was full of lice at this time, and he had no ability to do anything with him, but he had to worry about whether he would attack the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the situation in Henan is still very tense, after Azig arrived in Luoyang, while waiting for the Qing army in Jiangbei to attract the attention of the Ming army, on the other hand, he began to select men and horses in Henan, and dispatched elite soldiers, preparing to kill Huguang and rubbing his hands without hurry.

The Qing army also had many spies in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, but the news that came back was that the Huguang Ming army was preparing for war and transferring the military and civilians north of the Yangtze River.

Azig got the news, and then knew that the plan to attack the east and west failed, just at this time, Henan and the northern part of Huguang, continued to cool down, heavy snowfall for several days, sent out spies to report, the Han River showed signs of freezing, Azig did not wait, decided to go south immediately, lest the Ming army transfer all the food, finances, let him return empty-handed.

In order to guard against Haoge, Azig asked Kong Youde to lead 40,000 people and continue to guard the Luoyang area, while he led all the cavalry, plus 30,000 infantry troops, with a total strength of more than 55,000 people, quickly passed through Nanyang, crossed Xinye, and drove the army directly to Xiangyang City along the frozen Baihe River.

At the beginning of the year, in order to attack Jiangnan, Wang Yan drew a large number of elite soldiers from the local town army to supplement the Wuzhong Army, and Hao Shaoqi's men and horses were also transferred thousands of people, and then supplemented with thousands of new troops.

The combat strength of the Shence Chinese army has been greatly reduced compared with the last time when the Huguang War alone resisted the attack of the Liangshun King for several months.

Hao Shaoqi did not dare to engage in the battle, and directly retreated in the two fortified cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng.

Azig's actions were exactly as expected by the Ming Dynasty, leaving Shang Kexi to lead 30,000 infantry troops to garrison in the area of Xinye and Xiangfan to ensure the safety of the back road, and he could transport the looted food and material resources to Henan through Xinye, while he personally led the cavalry and rolled south.

Because the Han water froze, Xiangfan's status as a defender of the main road was greatly reduced, and Azig ignored Hao Shaoqi, who was shrinking in Xiangfan, and directly divided into three roads and went south to rob.

At the beginning of December, the Qing army on the right that entered Yunyang broke through Fangxian and Baokang, and the Qing army on the left broke through Yicheng, and the middle route army led by Azig swept through Yiyangsuo, Xianjukou, and Jingmen Prefecture, approaching Jingzhou Prefecture.

Although the county government soldiers fought desperately, but after all, the training was lacking, it was only a reserve, and it was impossible to fight with the fierce Eight Banners, but although many counties were broken by the Qing soldiers, the Qing soldiers also paid the price, and there were almost 100 casualties in each attack, which made the Qing generals extremely shocked, and some counties, there were almost no town troops, all of them were government soldiers and people, and they actually lasted four or five days, so that the Qing cavalry had to give up the attack and go to rob the town outside the city.

On December 8, Azig led the army to enter the city of Jiangling, and Wang Guangtai, the deputy general of Houyong Town, led more than 10,000 soldiers out of the city to line up.

At this time, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, the Ming army in Hunan had already arrived at the front line of Lizhou and Shimen, preparing to cross the river.

Zhongyong Town of Anqing, after getting a batch of cotton armor and weapons transferred from Nanjing and Jiangxi, and replenishing a lot of new guns, began to move to Huguang, but the army did not rush to the south of the Han River where the Qing cavalry was ravaging, but walked in a panic for three years, and the grass was high in the north of the Han River, and the soldiers used their war knives to cut off the branches and clean up the weeds, while going to the direction of Xiangfan.

At the same time, Wang Yan, as the regent, mobilized the soldiers and horses of Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the name of the imperial court, and successively went to Zhenjiang, opposite Yangzhou, to assemble, and Liu Shun's Zhongwu Town was already ready, just a little farther away from Zheng Chenggong in Fujian, and he couldn't catch up for a while.

Unlike when attacking Nanjing this year, hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers gathered, the quality of the assembled men and horses this time is obviously lower, nearly half of the men and horses are newly surrendered this year, this is mainly the battle in the south of the Yangtze River, the losses of the Ming army are too great, like Li Guo's loyalty, Jin Shenghuan is basically miserable.

Wang Yan gathered 80,000 horses, although he was not very elite, but he was still bound to win Yangzhou.

Yangzhou has a very special meaning for Wang Yan and the Yangzhou department in the Five Loyal Army.

The 80,000 Ming troops that were hastily assembled were not all elite, but the discouraged Qing army in Yangzhou City was not able to fight much, and more importantly, when Boluo and Hong Chengchou were guarding Nanjing, Duoduo was worried that the eight banners in the city were insufficient, so most of the eight banners in Jiangbei were sent to Nanjing.

On December 15, the Ming army began to carry the first batch of more than 5,000 people, across the Yangtze River, Duoduo stood in the south of Yangzhou City, holding a clairvoyant mirror to look out, only to see a thousand sails rushing to cross, there was a slight feeling in his heart, Yangzhou is really the place where his fate is entangled.

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