Huai'an Mansion City, the big tomorrow is here.

"Emperor, the minister has been on Dongyu's side for many years, and he knows the inside story of Donglu well. The military system of the Dongyu is the way of the integration of the soldiers and the people, and its cultivation of fields, conscription and armor, and service are all based on Niu Lu. Roughly set up a bull record with 300 positive ding, set up a Jiala with five ox records, and set up a solid mountain with five Jiala, and the solid mountain is the meaning of the flag. At the beginning, there were only four flags, and then expanded to eight, and after entering the customs, the Han soldiers who took refuge in the vassals were organized into two green flags, which were nominally ten flags. However, only the Nine Banners were really in the hands of the Dongyu Imperial Court, because Wu Sangui's inlaid green flag was only an empty name.

Due to the reason that the Mongols and Han people threw their flags, the Dongyu Imperial Court compiled a lot of Niu Lu composed of Mongols and Han people, and also set up the Eight Banners Mongolian Gushan Ezhen which was in charge of the Mongolian Niu Lu and the Eight Banners Han Army Gushan Ezhen who was in charge of the Han Army Niu Lu under the old Eight Banners. However, the number of Jialas under the jurisdiction of the Mongol Gushan and the Han army Gushan is different.

Therefore, the old eight banners have twenty-four solid mountain ezhen, and one flag has three solid mountain ezhen. And Gushan Ezhen and the banner lord Wang Ye were the same thing at the beginning, but later they became two different things. The banner owner is hereditary, and it is usually the prince who owns the most cattle under his banner as the flag owner. Gushan Ezhen, on the other hand, was appointed by the imperial court, and was usually not a prince who entered the eighth or ninth points.

As for the relationship between Gushan Ezhen and the banner owner, it is not necessarily, when Huang Taiji was in power, it was Gushan Ezhen who pressed the flag owner. But now Dolgon is in power as the lord of the banner, and the lord of the banner and the princes who have the bull record are in great power, as if they have become the masters of Gushan Ezhen.

At the end of last year, at the beginning of this year, Dolgon thought about reclaiming his hometown outside the customs as a way out. Therefore, a Gushan outside the Guanwai was added to each banner, and a Niu Lu was drawn from each Jiala to go to the Guanwai, all of which were led by the Gushan outside the Guanwai of each banner. And the Jiala who remained in Guanning only had four Niu Lu left.

By the way, the newly established Zhenglu Banner only has the Han Army, not Mongolia and Manchuria, but there are three banner owners, namely Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi. Under the Three Banners, there are also four solid mountains.

Therefore, the power that the Dongyu Imperial Court can control now is the Nine Banners and Thirty-six Solid Mountains, about one hundred and twenty or thirty Jiala, and more than five hundred Niulu.

As for the current number of cattle records belonging to the Nine Banners and the number of people in each cattle record, they have been messed up. After all, Niu Lu is a combination of soldiers and people, and there is no fixed number of birth, old age, sickness and death of each Niu Lu, and Niu Lu is the private property of the flag owner Wang Ye and the prince of Jiufen (now Jiuqi), and there is no way to cut the peak and fill the valley. Therefore, the minister can only say an approximate number, which is roughly between 200 and 500 people. And the people of the Nine Banners, that is, 1780,000 soldiers. Of these, 30,000 are now outside the pass, and the remaining 140,000 are inside the pass, which is the maximum force that Dorgon can use.

Of these 145,000 people, at least 40,000 or 50,000 are not available as a last resort. They have to guard Beijing, look at Shanxi, and control southern Mongolia - the Khalkha Mongolia in northern Moxi has always been thieves, and the Wara Mongolia in western Moxi is getting stronger and stronger day by day, and there are still Wu Sangui in Ganshan. Therefore, Monan Mongolia cannot but defend it.

And to deal with the hundreds of thousands of troops of us and Zhang Xianzhong with only 100,000 people, can Dolgon's heart be worthwhile? It is reasonable to beg us for mercy...... Your Majesty, look at it, can we spare him now? ”

The one who was talking was the fourth minister, Zu Kefa, who had now arrived at Huai'an Mansion where Zhu Cihong was stationed with a handwritten letter from Dolgon begging for mercy.

When he arrived in Huai'an, the situation known as the "Second Northern Expedition of the Southern Ming Dynasty" was really quite optimistic!

On the battlefield of Liaodong, the landing of Gao Jie's headquarters on the Jinzhou Peninsula was progressing smoothly. The convoy carrying the first batch of landing troops with a total number of more than 2,000 arrived at a bay facing the Bohai Sea ten miles northwest of Laotieshan on the evening of August 13, the twentieth year of Chongzhen. The landing operation was immediately launched, and under the cover of fire from three Centipede ships each armed with two 12-pounder Hongyi cannons, the landing went exceptionally smoothly and met with little resistance.

After the successful landing, the four battalions of Gao's army rushed straight to Tieshan Town. After occupying the town of Iron Mountain, he occupied Jiguan Mountain and Tiger Tail (the peninsula at the entrance to Lushun) with two battalions. Subsequently, under the cover of three centipede boats, the two battalions used small wooden boats to cross the sea from Tiger Tail and occupy the Golden Mountain across the water from Tiger Tail, thus completely controlling the entrance to Lushun Pass.

After the Golden Mountain, Tiger Tail, and Iron Mountain Town were successively obtained. Gao Jie transferred two more battalions of troops, and under the cover of the centipede ship that entered the Lushunkou, he launched an attack on Baiyushan in the east of the city of Jinzhou Zhongzuo. Without much effort, the attacking troops relied on sharp firearms to repel Cao Mutan's subordinates who had gone out of the city to meet the battle, and also captured hundreds of "Tartar heads".

After seizing Baiyu Mountain, the city of Jinzhou Zhongzuo became a turtle in an urn, and only waited for the Beiyang Naval Division to transport large-caliber mortar cannons and follow-up troops to break the city in one fell swoop.

And when the more than 2,000 people under Gao Jie's department besieged the green flag soldiers of the Qing army in the left center of Jinzhou, Kong Tingxun on the small black mountain did not dare to attack at all, but concentrated the soldiers and horses of the four Niu Lu subordinates of Xiao Heishan who could still move to the small black mountain, and put on a posture of defending the mountain, in fact, he gave up a Niu Lu who stuck to the left of the center of Jinzhou.

On the Shandong battlefield, the situation was also unexpectedly good.

After they captured Ziyang County without bloodshed, Huang Degong, who had already driven to Xuzhou in advance, also began to attack, and more than 10,000 people from the department went out of Pei County and attacked the city of Jining along the Grand Canal. And the Qufu regiment training army also poured out of the nest, approaching Jining Prefecture City from the east. On the afternoon of 11 August, the two armies completed their rendezvous under the city of Jining Prefecture.

The Qing army defending the city was a Jiala (under the jurisdiction of four Niulu) of the Zhenglu Banner, which was a gratifying team, and they were originally scattered in Jining Prefecture, Ziyang County, Yutai County, and Jiaxiang County. When the six towns in the north of the Ming army began to prepare for war on a large scale, they knew that something was wrong, and they also began to abandon the strongholds in Ziyang County, Yutai County, Jiaxiang County and other places, and retreated into Jining Prefecture, where the Jialazhangjing Yamen was located, and did their best to hoard grain and grass materials and repair the city wall. After the Qufu training army was dispatched, he sent his family members to Liaocheng, the most important stronghold of the Qing army in Shandong Province - Liaocheng was the location of the Shandong governor yamen of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the location of the palace of Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and the location of the Yamen of Gushan Ezhen, the left wing of the green banner.

After sending out his family, the soldiers of the Zhenglu Banner in Jining Prefecture could only defend it.

However, under the onslaught of 24,500 people from the two armies of Huang Degong and Shi Kefa, the defenders of the Zhenglu Banner in Jining Prefecture were less than 2,000 (the four Zhenglu Banner Niulu were 2,000, but some of them escorted their families to Liaocheng) The Zhenglu Banner was the foundation of the Green Battalion, and the combat effectiveness was much worse than that of the Old Eight Banners, and the city of Jining Prefecture had undergone "anti-artillery transformation", cut down the city wall, and sandbags were piled up on an inclined plane. It can withstand the Hongyi cannon, but it is not conducive to resisting the attack of the sea of people. If the Green Banner soldiers were equipped with a large number of birds, turtledoves, and artillery, they would make up for the fact that the walls were easy to climb.

However, the Zhenglu Flag guarding Jining Prefecture did not have many guns and artillery, and as a result, they were shouting "Confucius bless...... Under the attack of the Qufu iron soldiers with the slogan of "invulnerable", Jining Prefecture was broken after five days of defense, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the green flag in the city became loyal martyrs of the Qing Dynasty!

Just a few days after the news of Jining's victory and more than 1,000 "Tartar heads" were sent to Huai'an, Zukefa arrived with Dolgon's "letter begging for mercy".

In the letter, in addition to agreeing to confess his guilt, Dolgon also proposed that the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the northern state boundary of Xuzhou, plus the Surabaya River in Yanzhou Prefecture, and the boundary between Yanzhou and Qingzhou Prefecture, plus the boundary between Haizhou and Qingzhou Prefecture, together constitute the dividing line between the Northern Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Dolgon also proposed in a letter begging for mercy that the Qing army withdraw from Shaanxi and Gansu in exchange for the Ming army to withdraw from Luliang Mountain. In other words, Dolgon will let Wu Sangui of Shaanxi and Gansu fall to the Ming Dynasty!