The Ming army conquered Jiangning City, Jiangnan was originally the place where the righteous men of the anti-Qing Dynasty restored the Ming Dynasty in large numbers, many of the people in the city were nostalgic for their homeland, and did not recognize the remnants of the Ming Dynasty ruled by the Qing court, when the Ming army entered the city, the people in the city cheered, crying and weeping people everywhere, and there were many young and middle-aged people who were originally recruited by the Qing court to be the people and joined the Ming army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The women, children, old and weak in the original Jiangning City, who were originally driven out of Jiangning City and driven to Zhenjiang and other places, returned to Jiangning one after another. At the gates of the major cities in Jiangning, the people who returned to Jiangning came like a tide, and they couldn't wait to return to their hometowns.

Because Geng Jingzhong was the internal response, the Ming army captured Mancheng without much effort. The generals of the Eight Banners such as Malji, Kaqam and Marsai were eradicated by Geng Jingzhong with the Hongmen Banquet, and the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners in the city fought separately, and were soon broken by the Ming army. When Mancheng fell into the hands of the Ming army, some of the remaining Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners surrendered to the Ming army, and many Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners scattered to resist.

The women, children, old and weak bannermen in the city had also been transferred to Jiangbei long ago, so Geng Jingzhong had no pressure to slaughter the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers, Manchu and Mongolian old men and Manchu young men who were still resisting.

The Ming army invaded Mancheng, and under the leadership of the Eight Banners of the Jingnan Wangfu Han Dynasty, they began to clear the remnants of the city. As long as they refused to take the initiative to surrender, the Ming army rushed into the homes of those banner people and killed them.

The young and middle-aged people who could fight the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners in the city were basically lost in the siege of the city, and most of those Manchurian elites were killed by the rifled guns of the Nanyang Marines. Those who retreated into the inner city and resisted stubbornly were old men with old arms and legs and teenagers who had not yet grown up. With these people, how can they resist the extermination of the Ming army.

The Ming soldiers searched from house to house in the city, and from time to time old men and young men with eight banners were searched out of the house by the Ming army. For these bannermen who refused to surrender on their own initiative, Geng Jingzhong mercilessly ordered them all to be killed on the spot.

Although there were a few stubborn old men or teenagers of the Eight Banners who caused certain losses to the Jingnan Wangfu soldiers, the losses they caused to the Ming army were minimal. The Ming army rushed into the house, and some old men or teenagers hid inside and shot arrows, but the arrows they shot were weak and weak, and they could hardly pose a threat to the heavily armored Jingnan Wangfu soldiers.

The soldiers of the Jingnan palace rushed into the house and cut off the heads of the resisters with their swords.

The city was full of dead bodies, and blood stained the bluestone strips of the ground. Crowds of old men and teenagers from the Eight Banners were escorted out of the houses on both sides of the street by the Ming army. These bannermen who refused to take the initiative to come out and surrender were regarded as resisters, and Geng Jingzhong ruthlessly ordered them to be taken on the street and their heads cut off on the spot.

After the Ming army announced that it would not take the initiative to surrender and regarded it as a stubborn resistance, many banner men took the initiative to go out of the house and surrender.

After a whole day of searching, Geng Jingzhong slaughtered two-thirds of the remaining bannermen, and the remaining one-third of the bannermen surrendered, and the city was finally completely controlled by the Ming army.

Zhang Huangyan announced that the name of Jiangning City would be changed back to the original Nanjing City, which had been occupied by the Manchus for 20 years, and once again returned to the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Inside and outside the city of Nanjing, the banner of the Ming Dynasty is fluttering everywhere.

The news that the Ming army had captured the city of Nanjing reached the Huguang battlefield, and the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, while the morale of the Qing army fell to the extreme. Since Anqing, downstream of the Qing army, had received threats from the Ming army, Tuhai, Zhangtai and others proposed to send troops down the river to protect the safety of Anqing and recapture Jiangning as much as possible. However, the strength of the Huguang Qing army was not sufficient, and it was already very reluctant to resist the Ming army from Hunan's northern expedition, so how could it be possible to divide troops to save Anqing?

At present, the Huguang Qing army is facing the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy, unless the Qing army can attack with all its strength and win a big victory in the Huguang battlefield, Anqing, the grain and grass hoarding place, is threatened by the Ming army downstream, and the Huguang Qing army is unstable, and once Anqing is lost, the Huguang Qing army will be cut off from grain and grass, besieged by the Ming army on the east and west, and finally run out of ammunition and suffer a crushing defeat.

But does the Qing army have the ability to attack with all its strength and fight a quick victory on the Huguang battlefield? It is obviously impossible, it is very good that the Qing army can rely on the fortifications and barely hold Huguang, so why take the initiative to attack? Take the initiative to attack, not looking for death?

The news that Jiangning City fell into the hands of the Ming army was expedited through the 800-mile Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, and sent to the capital. Before Aobai, the commander of the Huguang Qing Army, got the news of the loss of Jiangning, Bumu Butai and Kangxi in the capital had already learned the news that Jiangning had fallen into the hands of the Ming army.

"Jiangning is lost, and the Caoyun line is cut off! Grain from the South can no longer be transported to the North! "The flag men in the capital are all passing on this bad news.

Originally, Huguang was the granary of the world, even if Hunan was lost, but with Wuchang as the center, to Xiangyang in the north, to Yiling in the west, and Jiujiang in the east, it was still a grain-producing area, and the grain produced in these places was still enough to ensure the demand for hardcore crops of the banner people in the capital. However, Jiangning fell into the hands of the Ming army, and the canal transportation was completely cut off.

Because of historical factors such as the diversion of the Yellow River and the flooding of the Huai River, the Jianghuai area has always been a low-lying swamp and saline-alkali land, and the grain output is not high.

In order to send grain from Huguang to the north, it is necessary to go down the Yangtze River route, enter the downstream, and then take the canal before it can be sent to the capital. Jiangning was lost, the Ming fleet was stuck in the Yangtze River route, and the Cao transport line was completely cut off.

Under these circumstances, the grain in the capital of the Qing court could only be transported by land.

From Xiangyang to the capital, the only way to transport the grain by land was to use mules and horses to transport the grain to the Yellow River, and then use the Yellow River boats to transport it to the canal, and then transport it to the capital. The cost of such a transportation route is extremely high, and the transportation capacity is very low, and the grain transported cannot meet the needs of the capital at all, not to mention, Wuchang, Jiujiang, Nanchang, Xiangyang and other places are already unstable, and the Ming army may conquer the entire territory of Huguang at any time and completely control the grain.

For a time, the price of grain in the capital skyrocketed, and everyone in the banner was in danger, desperately hoarding food, and some even planned to retreat outside the border. In short, stock up on food first, and then consider returning to Guanwai, so that you will not starve to death after returning to Guanwai.

The situation in the Qing court was precarious, and Bumubutai urgently summoned Sukh Saha, Sony, Kupilon, Huang Ji, Nalan Mingzhu, Marseille, Mi Sihan, Sunahai, Wang Xi, Huang Xigon and other important ministers to discuss countermeasures.

Sukh Saha played: "Lafayette, the slave thinks that our army should send the Eight Banners from outside the pass to enter the pass!" Only the elite Eight Banners can resist the Ming Dog! In addition, we can also find ways to negotiate with the Rakshasas and borrow troops from the Rakshasa country! ”