In Xuyi City, the war has lasted for nearly half a month.

From the beginning of the Northern Expeditionary Army's offensive to the current Northern Expeditionary Army defending the city.

The host-guest are transposed, and the intensity of the battle can be imagined.

Outside the city, the Qing army rushed from Linhuai and Fengyang City was as high as 20,000 people, but in the city, Chi Erhan, Shi Kun, and Huang Dahong added up, and there were less than 6,000 people at this time.

Outside the city, the Qing army gathered no less than ten 3,000-pound Hongyi cannons, and bombarded the west gate of Xuyi day and night.

Fortunately, Huang Dahong saw the opportunity quickly and ordered the city gate to be blocked with civil engineering.

The Qing army's Hongyi cannon was a direct-fire cannon, and even if the muzzle of the cannon was raised, it could not shoot accurately into the city like a curved cannon.

This makes the artillery outside the city only bombard the towers, gates, and city walls, and cannot kill the living forces of the defenders in the city, and more importantly, it is a deterrent to the defenders in the city.

The West City Gate has long been scarred and dilapidated under the poison of continuous war.

But 6,000 against 20,000, for nearly half a month, the enemy army was not allowed to enter the city, which has to talk about the comparison between the two armies.

Needless to say, on the defender's side, Chi Erhan and Shi Kun led the first army, which is known as the most elite of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

This army has always been regarded as a "forbidden force" by Wu Zheng, and it has never been easy to show people.

If the Qing court wanted to understand it, it could often only knock on the side, guessing and predicting from the subtleties.

For example, the composition of the soldiers, the amount of food, the popularity of firearms, and so on.

But this time, the First Army tried a small knife in Xuyi City, and easily took the city defended by 2,000 Qing soldiers in only half a day.

After more than ten days of fighting, the Qing army outside the city became less and less confident, and it was easy to capture this small city that was not big or strong.

So, did the Qing army outside the city really dare to ignore Azig's order and fight passively?

This has to start with the chief general of this Qing army.

As we all know, the largest component of the 100,000 army that Azig had at this time was the original 80,000 garrison in Xuzhou.

These 80,000 garrisons were uneven, but they were actually a hodgepodge of the Qingming army at that time.

Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, as well as Huguang, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as there were no accidents, the Qing court would send these troops to Xuzhou to hoard.

Since ancient times, Xuzhou has been a battleground for soldiers.

The reason why the Qing court did this was that Xuzhou was not far from Gyeonggi, and in case something happened, it was convenient to suppress it.

Second, the Qing court already had plans to encroach on the whole of China at that time, and hoarded these troops in Xuzhou to facilitate the dispatch of troops in all directions.

And among these 80,000 people, it does not include the surrendered army like Jiang Jiu, who has followed Azig for many years.

For example, among the 80,000 people, the largest number of troops was none other than Zuo Menggeng's department of the Qing court's first-class Jingqi Nihafan.

Zuo Mengeng, the son of Zuo Liangyu, the former famous general of the Ming Dynasty.

After the death of his father Zuo Liangyu, he was stunned to lead his father's 200,000 old troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

From the extent to which he is evil, he is no less than the notorious "big traitor" Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, how much because he was in a very embarrassing position at the time, Chongzhen had hanged himself, he was sandwiched between Li Zicheng and the Qing army, although he was also a Han Chinese, but after all, the Dashun army forced Emperor Chongzhen to death, and he was Wu Sangui's enemy.

In Wu Sangui's view, the Dashun army was far inferior to the Qing army, and it was better to surrender to the Qing army than to merge with the "enemy".

As for what "rushing to the crown and being angry for a red face", that's a joke, just listen to it, and you can't take it too seriously.

But Zuo Mengeng is different, Chongzhen hanged himself, his father Zuo Liangyu was still a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, Zuo Liangyu of Ning Nanbo at the time, and he also guarded Wuchang for the Hongguang Dynasty.

The 200,000 army is not an exaggeration to say that it was the most powerful army of the Hongguang Dynasty at that time.

But why does Zuo Liangyu want to be "opposed"?

In fact, it is very simple to say, Zuo Liangyu's fame was not to fight with the Qing army outside the pass, but to suppress the uprising of the peasant army.

As soon as I said this, the context became clear.

When Zuo Liangyu defended Wuchang for the Hongguang Dynasty, it was when Li Zicheng was driven out of Shuntianfu by the Qing army and retreated all the way south.

The Dashun army did not retreat, but retreated to the jurisdiction of Zuo Liangyu.

You must know that the hatred between these two parties is huge, and as I said just now, Zuo Liangyu's development was completely based on killing the peasant army.

But the problem is that in the last few years of Chongzhen, the strength of the Dashun army continued to grow, and Zuo Liangyu, who originally killed the "thief" and killed the hand, had already lost more than won when facing the Dashun army.

In other words, he was beaten out of the psychological shadow by the Dashun army.

At that time, although the Dashun army was retreating to the south, after all, there were 300,000 horses, and the strength was far superior to Zuo Liangyu.

Coupled with the fact that Li Zicheng was still alive at that time, Zuo Liangyu was indeed afraid.

He was in a hurry, taking advantage of the fact that the "fake prince" case was happening in the Hongguang Dynasty at that time, so he pretended to be in accordance with the will of the "Chongzhen Prince", under the banner of "Qingjun side", led his entire army, and marched to Yingtianfu, the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty at that time.

The thing is obvious, Zuo Liangyu doesn't want to be really "anti", he just wants to change places and avoid Li Zicheng's limelight.

But this strongest army of the Hongguang Dynasty poured in, which really frightened the Hongguang Emperor and the ministers at that time, and thought to themselves, this has not died in the hands of the Tartars, but in the hands of their own courtiers.

If Zuo Liangyu really led his troops into Yingtianfu at that time, maybe Hongming might not have finished the game so quickly.

Because these 200,000 troops are not paper paste after all.

It's a pity that God didn't agree, as soon as the army arrived in Jiujiang, Zuo Liangyu fell ill and died.

Although the tree did not disperse, the hearts of the people and the army were scattered.

After that, Hongguang Chao transferred Yasukuni Gonghuang from Jiangxi to take credit, and the two armies fought fiercely, and the left was defeated.

Then the problem is even more serious, these 200,000 troops are faced with a choice between the Hongguang Dynasty and the Qing army.

It is a pity that Zuo Liangyu claims to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but his son Zuo Mengeng is a bad seed.

Zuo Mengeng hesitated again and again, and without looking back, he led the army to surrender, and the object of his surrender at that time was Prince Azig of England.

In this way, the Hongguang Dynasty, which claimed to have an army of one million, lost the original strongest army in one day.

This is not the loss of fighting the enemy on the battlefield, it is the surrender of the enemy in a systematic way.

One goes and the other goes up!

This directly triggered the rapid defeat of the Hongguang Dynasty in a period of more than a year.

Thus confirms the saying that a strong fortress is always breached from the inside.

Zuo Mengeng, his crime, should be punished!

In fact, Zuo Liangyu's "Qing Jun Side" action, although it was jealous of the imperial power, was not an unforgivable crime, especially in such troubled times, even the people's army, the righteous army, and Emperor Longwu could be contacted, not to mention that they were his own courtiers?

And Zuo Mengeng is at most an accomplice, his father is dead, whether he is attached or "recruited" by the imperial court, there is no merit, at least it is offset by merit and demerit.

It's a pity that Zuo Mengeng was stunned and went all the way to the dark, which caused the rapid collapse of the defense of the Hongguang Dynasty, and even more so that countless Han people in the south of the Yangtze River were slaughtered by the Tartars.