On this day, Mo Li was discussing the next strategy with his staff in Kaifeng Mansion, and suddenly, He Zhenbei came to report that there was a Ming army in the north of Shanxi that was moving closer to the south and broke into Pingding Prefecture when it had a fierce battle with the Jin soldiers, and the generals of the Ming army sent people to Zhangde to ask for help from the Mo army.

"But General Lu Xiangsheng of Datong?" Mo Li looked up and asked.

"Exactly."

"Order Xiao Cao to immediately send troops to pacify Dingzhou and rescue Lu Xiangsheng." Mo Li said without thinking, thought about it and said, "Where is Zhou Yuji now?" ”

"Lord Hui, General Zhou has now arrived in the Nanyang area." He Zhenbei said.

"Well, tell Zhou Yuji, let him hurry up the march and speed up to the Daimyo, Dolgon has signs of marching towards Zhangde on this dog day, and he must not be allowed to enter Henan and threaten Huguang." Mo Li looked at the map and looked up and said.

"My lord, my subordinates don't know whether to say it or not." He Zhenbei said suddenly.

"Say."

He Zhenbei plucked up the courage to ask, "Don't you really plan to return to the army to rescue Nanjing?" I heard that the Tartar has now passed Xuzhou......"

"Nanjing's affairs have their own Nanjing's Gong Gong Gong C's heart, and this official is beyond the reach of the whip here." Mo Li said lightly, "Although Zhu Dadian was defeated, there are still tens of thousands of horses, isn't there still the army of Ma Shiying and Shi Kefa?" Besides, Liu Rongsi also has some soldiers and horses under his hands, and for a while, he won't be able to stop the golden soldiers! When our army solves the Tartars in Shanxi and Shandong, then we will wave our division to the south and attack them twice, and we will definitely be able to break the golden soldiers. ”

Seeing that He Zhenbei, Li Xin, Xiao Yang and others were still looking at him with some puzzlement, Mo Li said again: "Now the general trend of the world, there is chaos, the Tartars have subdued hundreds of thousands of Mongolian horses and horses to the south, but if the official can keep the people in Huguang and Henan, Jiangxi and other places safe, it is already the blessing of the Buddha, it's not that I don't want to rush to help Nanjing, but everything needs to be done according to my ability." ”

He Zhenbei, Li Xin and the others nodded, as if they had realized. Before, they were still a little puzzled why Mo Li didn't express his support for King Fu or which vassal king succeeded to the throne, it turned out that he had his own plans and didn't want to get involved in this situation.

At the same time, Moli also ordered Li Guo, who was stationed in Wuchang, to organize troops and equipment to strengthen precautions to strictly prevent the rebels of Tartar or Wang Ziyong and Zhang Xianzhong from invading Huguang.

In addition, He Zhendong, who stayed in Changsha, was asked to train new soldiers as soon as possible, raise grain and grass, and send them to the northern front.

After receiving Moli's order, Cao Bianjiao immediately gathered 30,000 soldiers and horses, mainly cavalry, and went north through Cizhou and Wu'an, and rushed to Songziling in Heshun with light equipment, and met with Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Qiyu's troops in victory, and killed the Jin soldiers in defeat and left, and successfully met Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Qiyu's troops to the south.

In this battle, a total of more than 6,000 Jin soldiers were killed, and most of Liaozhou was recovered.

On the other hand, Ma Jinzhong also took the initiative to attack and recovered most of Lu'an Mansion and formed horns with Liaozhou.

Half a month later, the Mojia army took advantage of the victory to recover Daimyo and Dongchang, and effectively curbed the Jin soldiers from continuing to advance westward into Henan and Shanxi.

Since Dolgon put his main force on attacking Jiangnan, he did not organize too many troops to attack the Mojia army. Although Dolgon, from a personal point of view, preferred to deal with the Mojia army in Henan and Huguang first, Huang Taiji meant to eliminate Zhu Dadian and the remnant Ming regime in Jiangnan first, which was conducive to dispelling the resistance of the Ming people throughout the country.

Chongzhen is dead, and if he crushes the small court of his uncle Hongguang Emperor, who has just ascended the throne and has an unstable foundation, then it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to organize decent resistance. After all, sometimes the emperor's righteous name is still very capable of mobilizing the forces of all parties. The emperor is dead, and the rest of the people are even more scattered, and it is difficult to become a threat.

Although Jierharang of Taiyuan was fled from Datong to Henan by Lu Xiangsheng and successfully joined the Mojia army, he also allowed him to occupy the border wall of Datong and connect with the Beijing Division, at least the north was completely under the world of Houjin, and there was no longer a threat.

After capturing Datong, Zilharang began to leave Henan behind and march towards Pingyang and Shaanxi. Zierharang is also an old fox, knowing that the Mo family army is a strong opponent and can't bargain, so he will first bypass the territory of the Mo family army and find Li Zicheng, a soft persimmon to pinch.

The Dashun army was defeated and retreated, Pingyang and Yulin were lost one after another, and the Jin soldiers marched towards Yan'an*.

At this time, bad news came from Jiangnan: the Jin soldiers broke through Xuzhou, an important military town of the Southern Ming Dynasty under the leadership of Dolgon, and the Xuzhou defender Zhang Lida led 20,000 Ming troops to surrender.

After that, Dolgon waved his army south and attacked Fengyang, but Ma Shiying abandoned the city and fled.

Zhu Dadian was unfortunately killed in Fengyang, and his subordinate Xu Congzhi was also martyred. After Zhu Dadian was killed in battle, Liu Liangzuo led his troops to surrender, and Zuo Liangyu fled to Huai'an.

On the fifth day of the first month of June, the Jin soldiers broke through all the way and attacked the city of Yangzhou.

After Shi Kefa, the left attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, heard that the Jin soldiers went south, he led the army to supervise Yangzhou and defend Nanjing.

Shi Kefa held on to Yangzhou for four days, but the Jin soldiers were menacing, with the power of a great victory, and they coerced nearly 100,000 surrendered Ming troops and people who had no time to flee for their lives, and used these human cannon fodder to storm the Yangzhou city wall.

Under the city of Yangzhou, the sound of cannons shook the sky and the blood flowed like a river, but most of the dead were innocent Ming people. Under the bloody suppression of the Jin soldiers, they had to rush to Yangzhou City with a ladder, although the corpses of their companions had been paved like a hill on the way forward.

On the night of the fourth day, Shi Kefa finally couldn't bear to let his subordinates fire cannons and arrows at those innocent Ming people, which was slaughtering the people of his own country! They were all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they all used their blood and sweat to supply the Ming army, but now, the Ming army has hit them with cannonballs.

Shi Kefa could not bear this kind of mental torture, so he ordered to abandon the city and flee by boat to the opposite capital Nanjing, trying to use the Yangtze River to block the pursuit of the Jin soldiers.

However, Scofa's nightmare didn't end.

The Jin soldiers soon forcibly seized hundreds of large and small ships and crossed the river to Nanjing.

After learning that the Jin soldiers broke through Yangzhou and went straight to Nanjing, Xu Hongji and Xiong Mingyu didn't know where to go, and the other civil and military officials were also in chaos.

Hongguang was furious and wanted the hundred officials to organize troops to resist the Jin soldiers, but found that he couldn't find anyone, only Shi Kefa organized the remnants of the army to resist on the shore.

When Hongguang heard that the Jin soldiers had landed, he was shocked and hurriedly fled to Suzhou with hundreds of concubines and palace maids and eunuchs.

After all, Shi Kefa couldn't withstand the onslaught of the Jin soldiers, and committed suicide in Yanziji in defeat, jumping into the Yangtze River.

After that, Qian Qianyi and others led the civil and military officials to open the city gate and knelt down to welcome Dolgon's army into Nanjing......