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In the first year of Hongguang, after the reform of the Yuan, not only failed to bring the slightest new atmosphere to the small court in Nanjing, on the contrary, the party struggle became more and more intense, and the case of the monk of Great Compassion lasted for two months, and then the case of the true and false prince and the case of the concubine Tong came to Nanjing, which made Nanjing into a miasma.

On the 11th day of the first month, before Gao Jie entered Suizhou, Qin Mu sent a night guard to warn Gao Jie that Xu Dingguo had already surrendered to the city, and Mo Qing's troops entered the city, and his subordinates also advised Gao Jie not to take risks lightly.

But after Xu Dingguo sent his two sons to be hostages, the arrogant Gao Jie still brought a small number of people into Suizhou City for a banquet.

After Xu Dingguo successfully lured Gao Jie into Suizhou, he feasted Gao Jie in the hall downstairs of the library of Yuan Keli's Mansion in Suizhou, and served courtesans and wine. Drunk Gao Jie, and killed Gao Jie in the middle of the night. Xu Dingguo then crossed the Yellow River north and surrendered to Haoge.

Inspector Shi Kefa sighed when he heard the news: "The Central Plains can't do anything, and the state affairs are all ruined by the thieves."

In fact, in the Suizhou Change, although Gao Jie was plotted by Xu Dingguo, his 200,000 army did not have any losses.

Shi Kefa should have taken advantage of the hatred and hatred of the generals of Gao Jie's troops after Xu Dingguo booby-trapped the commander and surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, changed the Jihua who had gone west to Luoyang to join forces with the Qing army to suppress Li Zicheng, and gathered Gao Jie's troops to stabilize Henan.

When the main force of the Qing army was divided into two routes, led by Duoduo and Azig, all the way to attack Li Zicheng in Tongguan, all the way to Yulin in northern Shaanxi and Gao Yigong, Li Guo battle, Henan and Shandong troops were extremely weak, only a small number of Qing troops in Haoge watched north of the Yellow River, and Shi Kefa was promising after taking over Gao Jie's department.

However, after Shi Kefa sighed that he couldn't do anything in the Central Plains, he turned around and ran.

Gao Jie's more than 200,000 troops also fled south, and in the process of fleeing south, the large branch collapsed.

Many of Gao Jie's soldiers were defeated by Li Zicheng with Sun Chuanting, and after Sun Chuanting's defeat at Tongguan, these soldiers retreated all the way to Shanxi with Gao Jie and entered Henan;

Due to Gao Jie's lax military law. Although these Shaanxi soldiers have loose military discipline, their combat effectiveness is not bad, and they have defeated Huang Degong's department when they grabbed territory in Huainan before.

Shi Kefa did not think to gather the army, and fled south with a sad cry, which caused this army to collapse, which is a pity.

There was a literati named Yan Ermei in Pei County, Jiangsu, who was Shi Kefa's aide, and he urged Shi Kefa to gather this army and "cross the river to recover Shandong." Don't listen; persuaded him to go west to regain Henan, but he did not listen; persuaded him to stay in Xuzhou for Hebei for a while, but he didn't listen."

In this way, Shi Kefa fled all the way to Yangzhou.

Gao Jie's more than 200,000 troops scattered in one fell swoop, and the north of Yangzhou became an undefended area.

Yan Ermei, who was greatly disappointed by Shi Kefa, wrote a poem satirizing him:

There are words on the left and right that make the public afraid,

Pull out the camp and retreat to Yangzhou.

The ambition of the righteous men of the two rivers is discouraged,

The crying Panyuan Gong is not stationed.

At this time, the main force of the Qing army was attacking Shaanxi in two ways, one led by Prince Azig. Wu Sangui is the striker; One route was led by Prince Yu Duoduo, with Kong Youde as the striker.

Li Zicheng led an army of more than 100,000 to meet Tongguan, and in February, the Qing army brought in red-coated artillery to bombard. Seeing that Tongguan could not be defended, and Yan'an, which was guarded by Li Guo, was captured by the Qing army along the way to Azig, Li Zicheng hurriedly retreated to Xi'an and burned down the room. With his family and dependents, he went out of Lantiankou and fled to Shangzhou and Nanyang. Guanzhong thus fell into the hands of the Qing army.

Immediately afterwards, Dolgon ordered Azig, the prince of Liuying, to continue to pursue Li Zicheng, and ordered Duoduo to lead a large army back to Henan and attack Jiangnan;

Most of the Qing troops were cavalry, and the speed of the march was extremely astonishing.

Kaifeng, Guide and other prefectures and counties looked down on the wind. Including Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo in the four towns of Jiangbei, they also lowered Duoduo together. The Qing court praised Duoduo's merits and gave him a beaded saber and a gold belt.

Azig led tens of thousands of strong troops such as Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi on the West Road, pursued Li Zicheng closely, defeated Li Zicheng in Shangzhou, Dengzhou and other places, and beheaded Liu Zongmin, the general under Li Zicheng, and many family members of the Dashun Army were pursued by the Qing army, and the end was miserable.

Li Zicheng's 200,000 army was chased like a lost dog, because he was worried that the Qing army had a red-coated cannon Xiangyang could not hold it, even Xiangyang gave up, leaving a part of the troops to block the south bank of the Han River, the army continued to flee south, all the way to Suizhou, straight to Wuchang.

The wind and rain are shaking, Nanjing Junchen is still busy quelling the true and false prince case, and at the same time, Ruan Dacheng also took advantage of these opportunities to overturn the case, and the Donglin Party was not to be outdone, and at this time it actually united with Zuo Liangyu Qingjun.

Zuo Liangyu was worried that he would not be able to resist Duoduo, so he hit it off with the Donglin Party, claiming that an army of 400,000 was forced to Nanjing, and the imperial court urgently recruited Huang Degong and King Qin Muqin.

The Qing army led by Duoduo took advantage of the situation, and a large number of troops surrendered to Kesizhou, crossing the Huai River to Yangzhou.

In the west, Zhang Xianzhong led an army of 100,000 under the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty and went north to Hanzhong, preparing to take advantage of Azig's southward march to Jingxiang to pursue Li Zicheng and the empty forces in Guanzhong to seize Guanzhong. However, it was attacked by the Qing army led by He Luohui in the area of Phoenix Mountain. During the battle, Zhang Xianzhong was killed by a stray arrow.

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The situation in the world has taken a di亮点turn, and it is dizzyingly fast. At the General Staff Headquarters of the Chu Palace, Wuchang and Chu Wangfu were flying like snowflakes, and the atmosphere was tense to the extreme, and the operational staff officers were constantly demonstrating on the sand table according to the intelligence, and the spy personnel who did not collect it at night rushed in and out, colliding with each other at the door from time to time.

Even Qin Mu was only forced to calm down on the surface, but in fact, his heart was very chaotic, and he actually only knew some major events about the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Historical books are commonly used in the Spring and Autumn Period, and only describe some major events.

For example, he knew that Li Zicheng would be defeated by the Qing army, but he didn't know when the Qing army would go south and what route it would take, and for example, he had heard of the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading, but he was very vague about the specific month and day in which these events occurred, and even in which year.

Now Li Zicheng and the four towns of Jiangbei are like an avalanche, defeated and defeated, and the news of Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's surrender has just arrived, and Duoduo has approached Yangzhou.

Because the Qing army did not encounter decent resistance at all, the speed was simply dizzying.

And it seems that some situations are different from the original history, Qin Mu vaguely remembered that Zhang Xianzhong didn't seem to die so early

Call! He pressed the edge of the table hard and exhaled a long breath, no matter whether history has changed or not, anyway, relying on the vague historical memories of his previous life, he can't cope with the current chaotic situation, it is better to put it all aside, and according to the actual information that will not be collected at night, the soldiers will block. The water comes to cover the earth.

Almost all the important members of Qin Mu's military and political classes gathered in the General Staff, He Liang pointed to the sand table and said in a hurried tone: "According to the latest news received, three days ago, Huang Degong defeated Zuo Liangyu's troops in Lai'an, Zuo Liangyu was seriously ill when he raised troops on the side of the Qing Jun, and now he has died in the army. Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Hao Xiaozhong, Jin Shenghuan, Chang Deng, Xu Yong and other generals of the left army turned to support Zuo Mengeng as the commander, and led the rest of the troops to the west, with the intention of taking Anqing directly, and Mengke's 20,000 Qinwang's division has urgently returned to Chizhou and Jiujiang. ”

"Did you send someone to recruit Zuo Mengeng?" Sima An asked quietly.

"Someone has been sent, but it's hard to know when I'll hear back."

Qin Mu then asked, "Did Li Zicheng reply to the letter?" ”

"Not yet."

Qin Mu clenched his fists. His eyes were a little cold, as early as last year, he sent someone to contact Li Zicheng, hoping to cooperate with him to contain the Qing army, especially when the Qing army attacked Tongguan, Qin Mu sent people to Tongguan several times to find Li Zicheng, hoping that the Dashun army would open the passage of Xiangyang, so that the Qin army could go north to contain the Qing army, and the two sides used Tongguan to consume a large number of Qing army's living liliang.

But at that time, Shi Kefa also ordered Gao Jie to go north into Henan, preparing to unite with the Qing army to encircle and suppress the Dashun army. Li Zicheng himself was also red-eyed, and he didn't believe Qin Mu, thinking that he wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and seize Xiangyang, so he refused to cooperate.

Now the situation has taken a turn for the worse. Li Zicheng was defeated again and again, even Xiangyang was lost, and 200,000 troops were fleeing along Suizhou to Wuchang.

What makes Qin Mu have a headache now is that he not only has to deal with the fierce Qing army. It is also necessary to prevent Li Zicheng from 200,000 horses from escaping into Huguang, and if he is allowed to sneak in, his rear will be in chaos. There is no need to talk about any anti-Qing resistance.

"Report, Li Guogao's first meritorious army arrived in Shuanghe Town, approaching Jingmen and Chengtian, and the Qing army was still happy with 20,000 partial divisions following closely behind."

Chengtianfu is Zhongxiang, the birthplace of Emperor Jiajing, and also the location of his father's tomb. Chengtian chokes the throat of Han water, and Jingmen forms horns with each other.

At present, Zhao Jian led 10,000 horses to garrison Chengtian, and Ling Zhan is also stationed in Jingmen with 10,000 horses.

After listening to the messenger and report, Qin Mu immediately asked, "Where are Azig and Wu Sangui?" ”

He Liang replied: "He is fighting fiercely with Yuan Zongdi in Yuanshui, north of Suizhou. ”

The current situation is that Li Zicheng's 200,000-strong army will go to Suizhou, Li Guo and Gao Yi's 60,000-strong army will retreat to Jingmen, Azig and Wu Sangui will lead 60,000 troops to pursue Li Zicheng to Suizhou, and Shang Kexi will lead 20,000 partial divisions to pursue Li to Jingmen.

Li Zicheng still has a total of about 250,000 people; Azig had about 30,000 Manchurian and Mongolian elites, and the rest were Wu Sangui's Guanning army and some Ming troops who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, with a total strength of between 60,000 and 70,000.

"Send someone again and tell Li Zicheng that if he is unwilling to cooperate with our army, our army will immediately attack the Qing army in the north and south and destroy him!" Qin Mu was really angry.

It's all at this time, Li Zicheng is still dreaming of being an emperor, arrogant and arrogant!

This made Qin Mu very passive, and he had to prevent his 200,000 horses from rushing into Huguang to make trouble, and he couldn't deal with the Qing army with all his might.

"Whoa!"

"Tell me, everyone, how to deal with this current mess?"

Sima An pointed his finger at Jingmen and said, "Whether Li Zicheng wants to unite with our army or not, Li Guo and Gao Yigong, who retreated to the Jingmen area, actually have no choice. They were blocked in Jingmen and Chengtian, and there was no way to escape, even if they escaped into Jingshan in the west, or Dahong Mountain in the east, their 60,000 horses fled south in a hurry, lacking food and clothing, and only starved to death in the mountains, so Li Guo could only cooperate with us. ”

He Liang also followed up and said: "Yes, it is better to cut off one of its fingers if it hurts its ten fingers." My lord, the opinion of his subordinates is that Wuchang should abandon Anlu, Yingcheng, Yunmeng, Huangling and other counties in Jiangbei, fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, retreat to Hanyang and Wuchang with all the troops, and then defend the Yangtze River defense line with Di Zhongxing's sailors. Then concentrate the superior forces, unite with Li Guo's subordinates, and strive to annihilate Shang Kexi's Qing army's partial division. ”

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PS: The matter of the Hongguang Dynasty has been explained slightly, and the next one will not be described too much, the next stage is mainly the Huguang Defense War, and the opening battle situation may be a little tight, after all, the Qing army at this time is indeed very fierce, if it is written vulnerably, it is too outrageous, but there will be a local cool point arrangement, please continue to pay attention to it, and support it more.

(To be continued......)