Chapter 44: Reversal
Although the civil and military officials present wanted to take advantage of the east wind to conquer Hangzhou and enter the city to have a good time, they also knew that the battle of Huzhou was the decisive battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties.
If it weren't for Liu Yongxi's efforts to drag down the Duoduo reinforcements, everyone present would not have had the opportunity to leap to the West Lake, and now no matter how tired the officers and soldiers are, they must rush to the aid of Huzhou at all costs, otherwise, the sudden appearance of thousands of Qing troops who escaped from Hangzhou on the Huzhou battlefield will make Zhang Niangniang and Liu Yongxi encounter big trouble.
Therefore, Wang Zhiren was the first to stand up and support Zhang Guowei's suggestion: "What Zhang Xiangguo said is extremely true, no matter how difficult it is, we must rush to Huzhou in the shortest possible time, and we are not willing to go with His Highness in person!" ”
Wang Zhiren's statement can be said to be a response: "The villain is also willing to follow His Highness in person!" ”
"Rush to Huzhou, count me Zhang Mingzhen!"
"Since it is His Royal Highness's personal recruitment, how can I be missing!"
Xing Shengping secretly complained, before Empress Zhang and Liu Yongxi personally conquered Huzhou, they deliberately handed over the supreme command of the Hangzhou battlefield to him, and even asked the scholar Zhang Guowei to assist Xing Shengping, and he and Zhang Guowei also cooperated very well, but as soon as the battle of Hangzhou ended, Zhang Guowei crossed the river and demolished the bridge to lead the princess of the country to conquer Huzhou.
Although he is still the No. 2 military general of the small court of Yue Ming, but in the case of the princess of the prison country, the supreme command of the 40,000 army will definitely fall into the hands of the princess of the prison country, Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen The reason why they responded to Zhang Guowei's call so enthusiastically is to a large extent that they can directly contact the princess of the prison country and Zhang Guowei by bypassing Xing Shengping.
In the past, Xing Shengping was the supreme commander, and the 30,000 troops on the battlefield in Hangzhou were under his full command, but now that the princess of the prison country is personally conscripted, Xing Shengping is directly overlooked, and can only command the 10,000 old troops under his command, Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen and other armies are only parallel to him.
But in the face of the righteousness of "the princess of the prison country", Xing Shengping is not good at protesting, and everyone reacts so positively, Xing Shengping is even more difficult to be alone, so he said very awkwardly: "Xing is also willing to follow Her Royal Highness the princess to Huzhou!" ”
And for Princess Kunxing, leading the army to cross the river in person is almost the limit of all her courage, and this time she is only the nominal supreme commander of the river crossing, but it is Liu Yongxi who actually bears the command responsibility for several pro-army officers left for her, and now she needs to take on greater responsibility, and the command of the 40,000 army falls on her shoulders and almost makes her breathless.
But she knew that she must not retreat at this time, after all, in the eyes of everyone, she is the daughter of destiny, although she is only the nominal supreme commander, but one of the main reasons why the Ming army in the Battle of Hangzhou is like a bamboo is that everyone has extraordinary confidence in her, the princess of the prison country, and they all think that the princess of the prison country will definitely win a big victory, and there will be such a brilliant victory in the end.
Therefore, she couldn't help but think of Empress Zhang and Liu Yongxi, and remembered the years when she crossed south on the same boat: "Thank you generals for your love, although I also know that the soldiers are very tired now, but please tell the soldiers of the three armies that we won a great victory in the Battle of Hangzhou, but we are now going to replicate another Battle of Hangzhou in Huzhou!" ”
The biggest reason for the victory of the Ming army in the Battle of Hangzhou was that the princess of Jianguo personally led 10,000 soldiers and horses to suddenly join the battle, and now the 40,000 Ming troops on the battlefield in Hangzhou will bring an avalanche-like effect as long as they are invested in the Huzhou battlefield, no matter how many elites of the Eight Banners under Duoduo's command are still easy to solve.
At this moment, the Huzhou battlefield has entered the final stage, although Duoduo has exhausted all means to launch repeated offensives, and the Yue Ming army has carried out the last mobilization to use all its strength, it seems that as long as the Qing army launches another attack, it can win a big victory, but no matter how Duoduo tosses, Liu Yongxi's army's defense line is still standing, even if the Qing army can capture two or three villages, it can rebuild the defense line in the first time.
Although theoretically speaking, the reinforcements sent by the regent Dolgon and the British king Azig should have been on the way, but seeing the urgent letter sent by the governor and the military university scholar Hong Chengchou from Nanjing, Duoduo could only be in a hurry to get angry, urging Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's Han army to sell more strength.
He can't help but be in a hurry, the unfavorable war is only one of the reasons, the most critical reason is that although he and the regent Dolgon and the British king Azig are from the same mother, but in the past few years, they have not dismantled each other, and now Duoduo can't open the situation at all in Huzhou, I'm afraid that the British king Azig and Dolgon are watching his jokes and preparing to fall into the well while sending reinforcements, and he is the second Zhuying and Hauge.
Therefore, no matter how bitter the generals of the Han army, including Kong Youde, Duoduo said mercilessly: "I am the general of the Southern Expedition, and I am fully responsible for the affairs of the Southern Expedition, you either take Liu Yongxi's head over, or I will use your head to deal with the regent, Borobelle is waiting for our reinforcements, and now the Jinhua thieves have reached their limit, as long as we have another round of fierce attack, it will completely collapse!" ”
Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming admitted that what Duoduo said was reasonable, but yesterday Duoduo also said the same, but at the end of the day, hundreds of people were killed and injured but they didn't even catch a single hair, so Kong Youde immediately said: "King Yu, let's wait for the British king's reinforcements to arrive, and then we will find a way to clean up the Jinhua thieves, with your brotherhood with the British king, the British king's soldiers and horses should be on the way!" ”
But Dodor frowned, knowing very well that this matter was definitely not that simple.
Duoduo's idea was not wrong, hundreds of miles away in Wuchang City, Azig was laughing heartily because of Duoduo's frustration: "Didn't King Yu always say that this dynasty's military generals are the first in his military achievements, how can he not even solve a small Jinhua thief, interesting, this matter is really interesting!" ”
The reason why this matter is interesting is naturally because King Azig is happy to see his half-brother unlucky, just like last year's battle of Tongguan, where Duoduo, who was originally responsible for assisting, has taken Xi'an, but Azig, who is in charge of the main attack, is still fighting hard with Gao Yigong and Li Guo in Yan'an, and finally Gao Yigong and Li Guo retreated from northern Shaanxi almost completely, and Duoduo laughed at Azig fiercely at that time.
There are too many examples like this, at the beginning, each of their three half-brothers each had thirty Niu Lu, and Huang Taiji's two yellow flags were only more than 60 Niu Lu, which can be said to be a thorn in Huang Taiji's eyes, in order to protect themselves, the three brothers rushed to Huang Taiji to complain about their brothers' bad intentions to save their lives, but although Huang Taiji is dead, the feelings between the three half-brothers cannot go back to the past.
Now Azig heard that Duoduo suffered a heavy setback in Zhejiang, and he was naturally very happy, but the generals of the Eight Banners on the side reminded Azig: "King Ying, King Yu's setback in Zhejiang is probably not a trivial matter, I heard that Bolobel suffered a huge loss and can only be trapped in Hangzhou, and King Yu can only go all out to help, and it is said that he has suffered some setbacks in Huzhou!" ”
Azig nodded and said: "Of course I know the severity of the matter, I am the king of the Great Qing Kingdom, so I will naturally use all my strength to rescue Jiangnan, but since the regent has not given the order, then the power I can use is limited after all!" ”
Although Azig and the regent Dolgon are half-brothers, and this southern expedition also has nearly unlimited power, but in this time and space, communication is a real big problem, and it takes about twenty days to run from Nanjing to Huguang and Beijing, but Duoduo did not ask Azig for assistance for the sake of face, so it is impossible for Azig to support Duoduo with all his strength before receiving an order from the imperial court.
The generals of the Eight Banners could accept Azig's statement, but they also raised a very crucial question: "According to the British king's wishes, which army is better to send to aid Jiangnan?" ”
Azig said confidently: "Without the order of the Jingshi, the troops I can mobilize are limited, but I will send one person over, I believe that this person's strength can be comparable to fifteen Niu Lu if used well!" ”
The generals of the Eight Banners felt that Azig was exaggerating: "Who? Who can have such power? ”
Azig laughed: "Naturally, it is Huguang Patrol who is the imperial historian Huang Shu, and with him as a righteous gentleman, it is not a big problem to pacify Jiangnan!" ”
This Huguang patrol according to the imperial history Huang Shu can be said to be an out-and-out lucky star for the Qing Dynasty, his first appearance was the Kaifeng Mansion Push Official, and half of Henan was flooded into Zeguo with water instead of soldiers, so that Li Zicheng could not base himself on Henan for long-term development.
Half of the fierce infighting in the Hongguang Dynasty is due to the Huang Xunpress, and this Huang Shu and Huang Xunji not only encouraged Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops southward, causing a civil war so that the Hongguang Dynasty could withdraw from the river defense, but also led 100,000 troops to surrender to Azig as soon as Zuo Liangyu died.
However, Huang Xun's contribution to the Qing Dynasty was not limited to these two things, in another time and space, he repeatedly performed miraculous feats after the Qing Dynasty, not only betrayed Jin Sheng, Huang Daozhou and other anti-Qing generals in the name of the old man's refuge, and even attacked Xiamen and severely damaged Zheng Chenggong's department.
And now Azig can be said to have a unique vision and chose the most suitable candidate: "You now know that Huang Xun is in a hurry to be the first to shave his hair, but I deliberately let him keep his hair, right?" ”
As soon as Azig said this, these Eight Banner generals were full of praise: "The king of England is like a god!" ”
"King Ying, this is really calculated by you, and you still use this kind of villain to deal with the Han people!"
"Yes, King Ying, if this Huang Xun press is used well, it can definitely be compared to fifteen Niu Lu."
However, when Azig's support army set off, the Eight Banners and Green Battalions of the Han Army, which had been running all the way from Hangzhou, had already arrived in Huzhou.
Although they ran fast, the princess of Jianguo personally led an army of 40,000 to catch up, and the righteous army along the road also tried their best to intercept them, so the Qing army that fled into the Huzhou Mansion is now a remnant of the defeated generals, and the largest number of troops is only three or five hundred people, and they only know how to escape, and they do not cause big trouble to Liu Yongxi's department.
On the contrary, it was the decisive reversal that Yoo Yong-seok most desperately needed, and Yoo Yong-seok had been holding out to wait for such a dramatic turn.