The next day, the heavy rain that had been falling for a day and two nights finally stopped.

Because of the tragic battle in Xuzhou City, the two sides together have more than 400,000 casualties, and the real blood flows into a river, not only the soil in Xuzhou City has become a strange dark red, but the river water of the moat outside the city is even more red and viscous, and even the water of the entire Huai River has turned red, and the smell of blood stretches for hundreds of miles along the Huai River.

Just by looking at the water of the Huai River, you can see how tragic this war was.

After a night's rest, as soon as the morning dawned, the generals scattered with their soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

Hundreds of thousands of corpses, some of which had been nearly two days and two nights, had to be buried before they could decompose, but fortunately the rain washed away ninety percent and the blood, otherwise the mere smell of the blood that gathered would have led to a plague.

At the same time, the news of Xuzhou's victory in annihilating more than 600,000 Qing troops was transmitted back to Jiangnan, like a super bomb.

The world was shocked, the people of Daming instantly burst into earth-shattering cheers, many people were so excited that tears flowed out, looking up to the sky and crying, how many years, Daming finally really won the Manchu Qing once.

The Battle of Xuzhou is not as good as the last Battle of Tai'an, although the first army of the Yinglong Army passed through the camp of the Qing army under the city of Tai'an, it was considered to have defeated the Manchu Dynasty once, but that time there were less than 10,000 Manchus, and the rest were Han Banner Army, and there were not many enemies, so it was not really defeated by the Manchu Dynasty, but this Xuzhou War was different, there were 100,000 Manchus, that is, since the birth of the Manchu Dynasty, there was no such war Manchu sent so many Manchu children, and there were 200,000 Mongols and 500,000 Han Banner troops to help.

On that day, when Zhu Cihong first went on a personal expedition, the people seemed to have a firm belief in the emperor, thinking that the emperor and Ying Long's army would definitely win, but in their hearts they had been suffering from gains and losses, after all, the strength established by the Manchu people over the decades of repeated victories was deep-rooted among the people of the Ming Dynasty, and many people could tremble their legs when they heard the Manchurians, and this concept of fear could not be reversed in a moment. This great victory in Xuzhou, the Manchu army of more than 600,000 fell, and even the Manchus died more than 70,000, and the people's concept of the Manchus was truly reversed, thinking that the Manchus were nothing more than that, as long as the emperor was there, the Manchus were local chickens and dogs.

On the other hand, the people's thoughts also made Zhu Cihong, the emperor, rise to an incomparable height in the hearts of the people, and some people even compared Zhu Cihong with the founding Emperor Taizu and the Emperor Chengzu of the Five Expeditions Desert.

After the army had been resting in Xuzhou for nearly ten days, Huang Degong and some other generals suddenly came to Zhu Cihong to ask for battle.

At present, Dolgon led the remnants of the Qing army back to Beijing, Shandong only left 30,000 or 40,000 Qing troops to garrison, and the Ming Dynasty had more than 100,000 troops in Xuzhou, Huang Degong and others believed that even if they could not take advantage of the victory to recover the lost territory in the north, they could recover Shandong first.

"No, at least not yet!" Zhu Cihong immediately objected, and sighed and said: "I also want to recover Shandong, but the army has no food and grass at all, and there is no silver money to support a big war, although the Qing army only left thirty or forty thousand people in Shandong, but Shandong is not far from Beijing, and the Manba Banner has suffered heavy casualties, but the Qing army in various places still has more than 300,000 Han Banner troops, once my army enters Shandong, it is likely to be another big war, and the Ming Dynasty needs to recuperate and recuperate, not in a hurry!" ”

Zhu Cihong is not telling a lie, Xuzhou was invited to attack, most of the grain and grass were destroyed, and the remaining grain and grass could not support a big war at all, not to mention the decisive battle of Xuzhou, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed and wounded, and the compensation for the dead and wounded was enough for Zhu Cihong to have a headache.

Although the Ming Dynasty won the victory in this war, but after all, it was a tragic victory, and it was also the end of the strong crossbow, if the recovery of Shandong was smooth, it was okay, if it didn't go well, once it dragged on for three or two months, it was enough to drag the weak Ming down at the moment, and the Ming Dynasty needed to recuperate, Zhu Cihong firmly believed that as long as it was two years, at most two years, he would complete his work in one battle, not only to recover Shandong, but also to recover all the lost land including outside the Guan, and completely destroy the Manchu Dynasty.

For the emperor's decision, Huang Degong and others were slightly silent, nodded, and did not object, after all, in their eyes, the emperor's words are the holy decree, and the emperor is also reasonable, it is impossible for the Manchus to recover within a few years, the Ming Dynasty under the emperor's governance, only one year can defeat the Manchu 800,000 army, a few years later, the Ming will inevitably go up a few floors, the Manchus are not worried, not in a hurry.

After the end of the Xuzhou War, after closing the battlefield, Zhu Cihong passed on the decree to promote the Red Lady to the general army of Henan, and returned to Henan to continue to contain Li Zicheng.

Although Li Zicheng has already lost the hearts of the people, it is not worrying that Zhu Cihong does not take Li Zicheng in his eyes at present, but Li Zicheng has developed more than 100,000 horses after all, in order to avoid unnecessary changes, Zhu Cihong feels that it is better to let the red lady still return to Henan to contain Li Zicheng.

After the Red Lady led the army to Henan, a message came from Nanjing City, so that Zhu Cihong couldn't stay anymore Queen Yi Dieyi was about to give birth after more than nine months of pregnancy, Zhu Cihong was pleasantly surprised, and immediately ordered the class to return to Beijing!

The queen is about to give birth, this is Zhu Cihong's first child, he originally thought that because of this decisive battle with the Manchu Qing, he would not see this child speak out, but to his surprise, this decisive battle ended much earlier than he expected.

Zhu Cihong was so anxious that he couldn't wait to put two wings on himself and fly back to the capital directly.

The soldiers understood the emperor's mood, and they accelerated their pace one by one, and the marching speed was very fast, and if they continued like this, they would be able to return to the capital in four days at most, but at this speed Zhu Cihong was still idle, and Zhu Cihong was so anxious that he was in a hurry, but he was the emperor's personal expedition, and he couldn't just throw down the army first.

When there were only a hundred miles away from Nanjing City, a palace guard rode a fast horse from the capital and suddenly came to Zhu Cihong to report to him.

"Your Majesty, the queen mother!" It means that it has already begun to give birth.

Zhu Cihong's hand shook.

"What! The queen has already begun to give birth! ”

The palace guards run here from Nanjing City, it takes at least two hours, and it is generally between four hours and ten hours for pregnant women to give birth, and this is not the 21st century, it is very dangerous for pregnant women to give birth, almost equivalent to stepping into the ghost gate.

"! I will take the first step, and we will continue to lead the army back to Beijing! Zhu Cihong didn't care about anything else, he hurriedly climbed on a war horse, whipped the horse's buttocks hard, and then galloped in the direction of the capital.

"The emperor should have done this a long time ago!" Ji Feng and the others looked at the back of the emperor running like a burning buttocks, looked at each other and said with a smile.

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