Although it cannot be compared with the 100,000 taels of silver, 1,000 taels of gold, 100,000 pieces of silk, and 100,000 stone rice harvested by Liu Yongxi, this is already the upper limit that the Hongguang small court can raise in a short time.

Now in order to deal with Zuo Liangyu's eastward army, the Hongguang small court has used all its strength to eat, and even did not hesitate to transfer most of the soldiers and horses on the Jianghuai front to guard against the southward movement of the Qing army to deal with Zuo Liangyu, but in the Guide Mansion, thousands of miles away from the Jiangdu, Prince Yu Duoduo is making the final mobilization for the battle.

If it weren't for the Battle of Huaiqing launched by Li Zicheng, Duoduo would have started his southern expedition half a year ago, but the current situation is more favorable for the Qing Kingdom.

Half a year ago, there were only 60,000 or 70,000 troops under Duoduo's command, and although he had also experienced the vicious battle of Tongguan in the past few months, the Qing army had always occupied an absolute advantage in the entire battle of Tongguan, and the main force of Li Zicheng's Dashun army had no way to finally collapse completely, so the losses were relatively limited.

Moreover, the regent Dorgon recently transferred more than 100 Mongolian cattle to Duoduo, and the result of recruiting rebellions in the past few months has brought the number of Duoduo's troops to 80,000 like Azig.

In addition to Duoduo's 80,000 field army, Azig's 80,000 army will pursue Li Zicheng and support Duoduo in Huguang, and the Qing army on the Shandong Road will also be fully mobilized, but the regent is not at ease with Haoge, so it was decided that the southern expedition along this road would be taken care of by Gushan Ezhenzhunta.

What surprised Duoduo even more was that half a year ago, the strength of Hongguang's small court not only did not increase, but became more and more weak because of the east of Zuo Liangyu: "The Ming people say that there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below, and the goal of this southern expedition is not only to take Xuzhou and Nanjing, but to get Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Nanjing, Huai'an, Suzhou, and Hangzhou!" ”

He has such self-confidence, even the main force of Li Zicheng's Dashun army is not his opponent, not to mention the defeat of these remnants of the Hongguang small court, and these Manchu and Han and Mongolian generals sitting at the bottom are all applauded, Geng Jingzhong is even more eager to try this southern expedition: "Prince Yu said very much, the last time we took the capital of the Great Shun Dynasty, Xi'an, and this time Jinling, the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty, will also be taken by us!" ”

They also knew that although this southern expedition might encounter several fierce resistance, it would definitely be easier than the Battle of Tongguan on the whole, and they didn't even have to use red-coated artillery.

Duoduo reminded Geng Jingzhong: "This time it is not only to take the capital of the Remnant Ming Dynasty, but more importantly, to collect the civil and military capital of the Remnant Ming Dynasty, as long as the Ming generals and civil officials are willing to take refuge, the Qing Dynasty can guarantee their wealth!" ”

Compared with the Hongguang Emperor and Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others in Nanjing, Duoduo knew better that the Hongguang small court was facing a situation of dispersion, and both civil officials and military generals could use their own use to become the cornerstone of the Qing Dynasty's rule.

But these civil and military officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty were only the cornerstone of the rule of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was the world of Manchuria, Manchuria still had the Mongol and Han armies, and there were many more Han people who had joined earlier under the Han army, and the regent was not prepared to let the civil and military officials of the Southern Dynasty be prosperous and prosperous from now on, but was only ready to use them, and Duoduo was also ready to use these civil and military forces of the Southern Dynasty according to Dorgon's intentions.

But his reminder still caused a lot of controversy, and someone immediately knelt down: "Weichen Xu Er'an knows that Prince Yu is giving the Southern Dynasty Wenwu a chance to serve the imperial court, but please be careful of Liu Yongxi, a repeated villain!" ”

This Xu Er'an is the eldest son of Xu Dingguo, in another time and space, Xu Dingguo led the Mongolian soldiers from Waibo to take the city of Guide, and led Duoduo's 80,000 troops all the way to the south, but now Xu Dingguo has died and has no place to be buried, and Xu Dingguo's department has also collapsed together.

Although the brothers Xu Er'an and Xu Erji had crossed the river and defected to Jianlu, there were only twenty or thirty families around them, although they recruited the rebels and found one hundred and eighty leading party to lead the Duoduo army to rush into the Guide Mansion, but their strength was too thin, so Duoduo did not take their brothers seriously.

But when he heard that Duoduo was preparing to surrender and rebel, Xu Er'an couldn't help but think of the revenge of killing his father and preparing to block Liu Yongxi's back road, and Duoduo had also heard the name Liu Yongxi in the regent's letters: "Liu Yongxi and the Xing clan are not enough trouble, if they want to resist the Qing army, they can only kill themselves!" ”

Although Duoduo's words were ruthless enough, they still left enough leeway, and Geng Jingzhong's surrender could also understand the intentions of the Manchurian nobles at the earliest: "Does King Yu want to give this little sincerity a chance to serve the court?" But I agree with General Xu's opinion, everyone else can stay, but this guy can't stay! ”

Duoduo attached great importance to Geng Jingzhong's opinion and immediately asked: "Why can others keep it, but only this sincere prince can't stay?" ”

Geng Jingzhong immediately said: "When he left Beijing last year, this Liu Yongxi only had thirty or fifty generals around him, but in a year, he already had tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and he exchanged voices with the pseudo-Empress Zhang of Zhejiang, how could such a character be subservient to others, how could he really serve the imperial court!" ”

Duoduo already understood Geng Jingzhong's thoughts, and his attention to Liu Yongxi has also risen to a higher level: "It seems that this Liu Yongxi really can't stay, but let him come and give him another wife!" ”

Xu Er'an's eyes became vicious, and the old generals of the Han army, including Geng Jingzhong, understood the true meaning of Duoduo's words, that is, although Liu Yongxi was allowed to surrender, he should be disconnected from the army as soon as possible and use Manchurian women to control him, as long as he did not have military power in his hands, how the Qing Dynasty wanted to kill Liu Yongxi was just a matter of words.

Everyone thinks that no matter how much they attach importance to Liu Yongxi, it is already the limit to pay attention to this point, and the most important thing at the moment is to take the opportunity of the civil war in the South Korea to pick up a big bargain first.

Liu Yongxi didn't know that the Qing army commanders, including Duoduo, had arranged a gorgeous ending for themselves, and after the food and salary promised by the Hongguang Small Imperial Court were in place, Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing's subordinates had already started to act as soon as possible.

Although most of the dependents have been transferred to central Zhejiang through various means, there are still more than 800 old, weak, sick and disabled people and their dependents who have finally turned to Jinhua Mansion, and Liu Yongxi had to send hundreds of heavily armed guards to escort them, after all, the story of the Qianbing case is close at hand, and Ma Shiying can only acquiesce to the fact that hundreds of Qianbing soldiers were killed but is unable to hold them accountable.

In addition, Mrs. Xing also sent a batch of food and salary to Yangzhou City as soon as possible, and sent 500 officers and soldiers to escort this batch of food and salary.