Zhang Boyi on the side completely agreed with Zhou Zhisheng's judgment: "I am now worried that Zuo Mengeng, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo are all defeated by our subordinates, and I am afraid that they will not be able to deal with Jianyu!" ”

Zhou Zhisheng was very excited to discuss the details: "If it can become a climate, it must be a climate, now after such a big defeat in Jianyu, it must be a change of mind, Zuo Mengeng, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo As long as they are willing to stand up, they will definitely be able to contain Jianyu for several months, this is the most important time for us to recuperate, and I also listened to Wu'anhou's self-report to fight Caozhou!" ”

Zhang Boyi knew that Wang Zhiren was losing the battle and wanted to get face back, but he was not opposed to launching an offensive to the north while recuperating on a large scale: "It is a good thing for the country to occupy a few more states and counties, anyway, now that the outside of Xuzhou has been almost cleaned up, our next priority is how to clean up Dolgon, the regent!" ”

Zhou Zhisheng is also very concerned about Dolgon's problem, after all, Dolgon's defeat from Fengyang will definitely pass through the vicinity of Xuzhou, and there is Wang Puxiang chasing after Dolgon, if you don't take the opportunity to have a front and back attack, I'm sorry for such a favorable situation: "Yes, let's chase and kill to the ground in Shandong, the key is how to clean up this regent, Peng Chengbo, how do you think we should deal with Dolgon, whether to specifically intercept and kill this regent, or let Dolgon kill like Xuzhou, or leave all the prisoners behind!" ”

Zhou Zhisheng is now proposing three feasible plans, the first is to focus all his attention on Dolgon, the regent, as long as he kills Dolgon, the actual number one person in the Great Qing Kingdom, he can naturally create huge chaos in the north and within the Great Qing Kingdom, but although this plan can intercept and kill Dolgon as much as possible, it will definitely let go of most of the main forces of the Qing army.

The second plan is naturally like the Battle of Xuzhou to pursue lethal efficiency, put most of the energy on the Qing army's inconvenient baggage, artillery and infantry, and eat all these slow and weak self-defense troops with a tidal wave of attacks, but the disadvantage is that the most elite and capable part of the Qing army will definitely take the opportunity to escape.

The third plan is to go the opposite way, specifically seize the elite of the Qing army to fight to the death, the two sides fight to defeat both sides, but the elite of the Qing army must be completely defeated and disabled, and Zhang Boyi immediately laughed: "Your Majesty was specially given a face-to-face lecture to me before this expedition to the west, and he had already considered such a problem at that time!" ”

Zhou Zhisheng suddenly became curious: "Peng Chengbo, how do you say this?" ”

Zhang Boyi immediately said: "Your Majesty personally told me at that time that if we fight with Jianyu in Xuzhou and lose both or only win a small victory, we will naturally solve Dolgon at all costs, as long as we solve Dolgon, we will definitely not be able to support it!" ”

Zhou Zhisheng already understood what Zhang Boyi meant: "But now we are neither a loser nor a small victory in Xuzhou, but a big victory!" ”

Zhang Boyi said excitedly: "Since it is a great victory and countless victories, Dorgon is a toothless tiger, Your Majesty naturally hopes that Dolgon can help us defend the Northland for a few months in peace!" ”

Zhou Zhisheng has already understood.

In the case of Dolgon's two southern expeditions that ended in crushing defeats, a living Dolgon was more valuable than Dolgon, who was killed by the Vietnamese Ming army, and the more important thing was that neither Liu Yongxi nor the Chengtian Dynasty wanted a situation of full-scale warlord melee in the north after Dolgon's death.

For Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Zuo Mengeng and others, the Yue Ming army and the Chengtian Dynasty can be said to have an absolute psychological advantage, knowing that these defeated generals can't make many waves, if it weren't for the Qing army's two southern expeditions ended in a fiasco, these remnants of the defeated generals didn't even have the courage to rise up against the Qing.

However, if there is a situation of total warlord chaos in the north, there will definitely be a strong enemy that the Chengtian Dynasty and the Yue Ming army are completely unexpected, although the Chengtian Dynasty and the Yue Ming army feel that no matter what kind of strong enemy can deal with, but the fewer such unexpected strong enemies, the better, especially the kind of Han warlords in the north who occupy the territory of several provinces are the powerful enemies of the unification road of the Yue Ming Dynasty.

And Dolgon returned to the north alive, but as Zhang Boyi said, he was purely a "toothless tiger", which could help the Yue Ming army suppress the warlords in the north, and of course, the Yue Ming army would not let Dolgon and the Qing army calmly recuperate, so there was Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and Zuo Mengeng's Caozhou uprising.

This is the situation that Emperor Liu Yongxi hopes for the most, and Zhou Zhisheng immediately replied: "Then we will act according to the regulations of the Battle of Xuzhou, and the results will be very good-looking!" ”

As he was saying this, there was clear news from outside: "Our cavalry has discovered that Dorgon, the regent of Jianyu, is retreating from the south with a large army!" ”

Zhang Boyi couldn't help laughing: "Dolgon came very well, let him know what it is to run away with his tail between his legs today!" ”

For Dolgon, just one Wang Puxiang was afraid that he would be anxious, and now the Xuzhou defenders and the elite of the Yue Ming army suddenly came out, which made him always feel that he had more than enough strength to do so, and he found that life had never been so sad as it was now.

There were elite troops of the Yue Ming army everywhere, cavalry, infantry, artillery and countless civilian rebels, and Dolgon also confirmed that the Qing army near Xuzhou had completely collapsed: "Regent, our Great Qing Kingdom has no soldiers near Xuzhou, let's go quickly!" ”

"Yes, the Han people said that they are not afraid of no firewood to stay in the green mountains, let's withdraw quickly!"

"Regent, if we don't withdraw, we won't be able to leave!"

In fact, the reason why everyone said this was naturally to hope that Dolgon would abandon those baggage, artillery, clothing, and slaves who were slow to move and had no ability to defend themselves, and everyone felt that if it were not for the drag of these units, the Qing army would have passed Xuzhou a long time ago, and it was even possible to take most of the Qing troops near Xuzhou out.

And Dolgon also felt that if it dragged on like this, his army, which had been pursued by Wang Puxiang all the way, would definitely collapse on the whole line, so he said without hesitation: "Hurry up, you can only withdraw quickly at this time, as long as you can withdraw to Shandong, it will be a great achievement!" ”

He even felt that as long as he could withdraw to Shandong, it would be perfect, after all, he had given up the goal of taking Jianghuai, and now as long as he could hold Shandong and even north of the Yellow River, he was satisfied, and the prince and Baylor who were present cheered when they heard Dolgon say this: "The regent said, withdraw quickly!" ”

"As long as you withdraw to Shandong, it will be a great achievement!"

"We all have horses, and we will definitely run faster than the Han Chinese!"

"Let the horses run faster!"

The Qing army's movements suddenly accelerated, and although the Vietnamese Ming army continued to launch a tidal wave of offensives, they did not compete with the Qing army's most elite Manchu and Mongolian horse teams and elite infantry, but pounced on those units that were the fastest and had no ability to defend themselves, and these units naturally held back most of the energy of the Vietnamese Ming army.

Therefore, most of the elite of the Qing army still broke out of the ambush circle of the Yue Ming army under the leadership of Dolgon, and now Dolgon is even more triumphant to declare: "Although the Jinhua thief is known as the elite of the world, but today it seems that it is nothing more than that, if Liu Yongxi, the little thief, is to command today's Jinhua thief, I'm afraid none of us will be able to leave!" ”

But no matter how much the elite of the Qing army can escape, not all the elite Qing troops in the southern expedition this time are elite Qing troops, in fact, Dolgon directly lost more than half of the soldiers and horses, and although most of the elite of the Qing army broke through, they also lost a lot of men and horses in the battle, and more importantly, the elite of the Qing army who experienced such a bloody battle can no longer be called the elite of the Qing army from now on.

Although most of Niulu lost less than a third or even less, after the battle of Xuzhou, both Dolgon, the princes, and Baylor decided not to mention the issue of the southern expedition again.

Although some people demanded in front of Dolgon that the three princes Duoduo, Haoge and Daishan, who were the first to flee in Xuzhou, be strictly dealt with, Dolgon raised an objection immediately before he could speak: "The regent said just now, as long as he retreats to Shandong, it will be a great achievement!" ”

"That's right, the three princes have withdrawn their teams to Shandong!"

"Regent, you have to think clearly!"

These Manchurian relatives around Dolgon are all his most trusted people, and no matter what Dolgon says, he usually shouts loudly, how can he block Dolgon's words in person like today.

In fact, the two southern expeditions made Dolgon's prestige completely lost, and everyone even felt that changing a cat and a dog would do a better job than Dolgon, and many people even felt that the top priority now was to invite Azig back: "This time the British king decisively decided to suspend the southern expedition, which is a blessing for the country, and how to deal with the aftermath of the Qing Kingdom in the future, we have to invite the British king to come over and discuss together!" ”

"Yes, the King must be brought over! The biggest fortunate thing about this southern expedition is that the British king did not recklessly go to the end, otherwise the Qing Kingdom would be over! ”

"The King of England has preserved 100,000 elites, and he has made great contributions to the country!"

Although King Azig has been standing still in Nanyang, everyone feels that this is definitely a blessing in the fortune for the Qing Kingdom.

If the British king Azig followed Dolgon to throw 100,000 troops into the southern expedition, then the Great Qing Kingdom would definitely lose clean in this southern expedition, but the British King Azig stopped the southern expedition in time, so that the Great Qing Kingdom at least had the capital to negotiate with the Ming State, and Dolgon's face became iron-blue.

He knew that after the serious failure of the two southern expeditions, everyone had a problem of trust in him, in fact, even Dolgon himself suspected that if this continued, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji's decades-long work would be completely defeated in his own hands.

Therefore, Dolgon sighed and said, "Just do what you want, anyway, it is not my responsibility to do this to the point where the Great Qing Kingdom has come today!" ”