Zhengzhou.

"How can this be kept?"

Fang Guoan, the commander of the First Army, looked at the small earthen city in front of him speechlessly, and the city wall without bricks collapsed in many places, looking like it had been directly bombarded by a cannon......

And that's exactly what happened.

Zhengzhou in this era is just a small state attached to Kaifeng, not as big as Dongping, the circumference of the city wall is only more than nine miles, and it is not covered with bricks, it was originally strategically meaningless, but after Kaifeng was destroyed, it became a strategic town. In fact, Kaifeng opened the opening, until the beginning of spring this year was finally blocked by Li Zicheng's organization of manpower, the original history was blocked until the four years of Shunzhi in the Tatar Qing Dynasty, but Kaifeng City no longer exists, Kaifeng together with a large area to the south is still a Ze country.

In this way, it is impossible for the Qing army to go south to take the Liuyuan Pass.

It's still a muddy pond.

Either take the garden mouth through Zhengzhou, or take Mengjin through Luoyang, the rest is to avoid the Yellow Flood area that stretches southeast from Kaifeng, and go directly south along the canal to Xuzhou or obliquely insert it into De.

But the Qing army focused on the Western Front.

Because only by going south from the western front could he form an alliance with Jin Shenghuan, who had an army of 200,000 in Xiangyang, and after Li Zicheng retreated north, he effectively controlled Xiangyang and the entire Nanyang Basin. But the problem was that the north was not his territory, and Duoduo led 100,000 Qing troops south, with the goal of crossing the Yellow River and attacking south until it merged with Jin Shenghuan.

Bai Yongfu on the east line, Jin Shenghuan on the west line.

These two petty warlords are Dolgon's main targets, and once he wins over Jin Shenghuan, even those guys in Hanzhong will become his potential allies. After all, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, and Ma Ke, the old generals of the Ming Dynasty, did not mix well under Li Zicheng, but because of the original surrender, they did not dare to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, on the contrary, their families were in the control area of Dolgon. When the time comes, they will be recruited and then awarded a title such as a prince, and they will go out of the Han East and then return to Beizhili in the north, or stay in Henan as a town general.

In other words, Dorgon is very sober, and he knows that he is actually the weakest among the current Three Kingdoms.

Yang Qing has money and food, and is the most promising.

Li Zicheng has money and lack of food, but the strength of the army is still the strongest, at least not weaker than the current Yang Qing, the latter army is indeed strong in combat, but don't forget that Li Zicheng has 300,000 who can also fight, at least after Yang Qing completes the reorganization of the various armies, it cannot be said that he surpasses Li Zicheng militarily.

And Yang Qing has too many enemies.

This mad creature is like a mad dog making enemies everywhere.

And Dorgon had no money or food.

He didn't get anything in Beijing, Li Zicheng's silver had already been transported to Xi'an, and the grain was brought south to fight, not to mention the grain in the Shuntian area, even people were taken away. The gentry in other places were caught in the middle of nowhere, and even if they didn't want to take it out, Dolgon had no money to pay the officials in Beijing, and he was studying with the officials of the Ying Dynasty whether to print money to make do.

But he is the most popular.

Of course, it is not the most popular among the common people.

He is the most popular among the gentry, warlords, aliens, etc.

That's a welcome to him!

It can be seen from the fact that he has no money to pay his salary, and those officials are still cheering for the prosperous world, in order to supply the Eight Banners and the Mongolian army that entered the customs, the gentry from all over the country personally took domestic slaves to force the common people to donate patriotic donations to our Daqing. Those who dared to resist did not need to be done by the Qing army, they cleaned up themselves, and even a few days ago, a man named Sun Zhiqi was still advocating in Beijing to shave his hair and change his clothes to show his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty......

It is said that the regent agreed.

After all, the effect of what he did in North Korea was obvious.

Those Koreans who shaved their hair and were easy to wear increased their combat effectiveness significantly after going to the battlefield again, after all, the opposite side would not distinguish between them, for the soldiers of the Korean king, it was enough to cut off the heads of the enemy soldiers, what was the big deal if it was true or false, and even they themselves faked, so that the Koreans who were shaved and easy to wear could only fight bravely in order to save their lives.

If you do it like this in Beizhili......

But this will arouse the hostility of the Jiangnan gentry!

Anyway, Dorgon was struggling with the question.

There are also officials who advocate the Han Min's eight-flag system.

That is, to restore slavery, to integrate those landlords and gentry into the banner of the Han army, and those original tenants to become the clothing of landlords everywhere, and then launch a propaganda of the idea that I am a coat and I am glorious, so that those tenants regard it as a matter of course for them to be coated. To put it bluntly, these guys think that it is too unprofitable to only exploit the grain of the tenants, so they simply turn the tenants into their serfs, just like when they followed the Mongols, so that they don't have to bully men and women.

As for the way of the sages......

Isn't that how to explain that! Even Yi Di entered Huaxia and Huaxia, they can explain that they are the best at this, and there are even civil officials who are compiling their ancestors for Dolgon, such as which ancient Chinese monarch is compiled, and doing this is also what they are best at. What happened to the Tunguska savages? Tunguska savages can also become descendants of the ancient holy lord Mingjun, anyway, the literati have a mouth, it's not that they just say and write casually, and then write like this for hundreds of years, burn and tamper with all the real ones, and the fake ones will become true.

Dorgon was equally hesitant about the question.

The main thing is that in this case, the resistance of the common people will be very fierce, and it will be troublesome if it becomes like Chongzhen.

Needless to say, the warlords welcomed him.

The aliens cheered even more.

Not to mention that the Eight Banners Divine Army suddenly became the master, even those Mongolian allies were also cheering that they could finally set foot on the land of the Central Plains again, enjoy the clean women here without the smell of sheep, and no longer have to endure the stench of not bathing for a lifetime.

Dolgon had no money or food.

But he has allies.

If he wants to defeat Yang Qing and Li Zicheng, he must rely on this advantage, try to pull all the potential allies over, and finally turn it into a big alliance of bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods to fight against these two enemies, otherwise he really has little hope for fighting.

Ask:

How did the 80,000 Eight Banners Army rule over hundreds of millions of Han Chinese?

Answer:

Look for more traitors!

In the same way, Yang Qing wanted to avoid the confluence of Dolgon and Jin Shenghuan, and to avoid facing the attack along the Han River again, and he must also block the southward movement of Duoduo's army, Zhengzhou, a small city that was not worth mentioning, has now become the most important defense line of the Ming Dynasty.

Meng Jin doesn't have to worry about it.

There was Yuan Zongdi's 50,000 Shun troops on the defensive.

He also has a fortified city of Luoyang.

There is no need to worry about that side, Li Zicheng must also keep the Yellow River, because this transportation line is related to his future in Guanzhong, without the food supply from Jiangnan, at least until the large-scale promotion of sweet potatoes is completed, the agriculture of Guanzhong alone will not be able to feed his army. Now the first batch of ships to transport grain have begun to set off from Huai'an, preparing to deliver at least one million stone of grain to the warehouse in Luoyang before the arrival of winter, and from there to Guanzhong by land.

The Shun army not only had to help the Ming army hold the Yellow River, but also had to defeat the southbound Qing army in the shortest possible time to ensure that all the grain passed through this section of the Yellow River in the next month.

Later, the Yellow River will freeze.

Yang Qingke would not transport grain to him by land.

This is also the reason why Duoduo is anxious to go south, instead of waiting for the most favorable time for the Yellow River to freeze before going south, they want to prevent Li Zicheng from obtaining grain, without this batch of grain, it will be difficult for Li Zicheng to survive this winter.

For this reason, Li Zicheng also sent Liu Fangliang and Liu Zongmin to attack Zelu in the north and south, directly targeting Jiang Jiu and the Jin merchant group who were hiding there.

The latter is also not with him.

Liu Zongmin, who was burned with hatred and his eyes were blood-red, launched a crazy killing in Shanxi, all the major families of the Jin merchants were bloodbathed, and almost none of the nine clans were spared, except for Fan Yongdou and a few men who fled to Lu'an with the merchant group, the other nine clans in the township were all lit by Liu Zongmin. Poor Eight Imperial Merchants were wiped out before they enjoyed the prosperity of our Qing Dynasty for a day, although it is a bit exaggerated to say this, after all, this kind of businessman has branches in many places, but everything in their hometown is gone, including the wealth that has not had time to be withdrawn, all of which fell into the hands of Li Zicheng.

The harvest of the bloodbathed Jin merchants also made Li Zicheng's wealth skyrocket again, because he wanted to use the Jin merchants to engage in trade, so Li Zicheng's destruction of these guys was limited, but now after tearing his face, he simply washed it clean.

As for future trade......

He has a Shaanxi businessman!

The Jin merchants and the Shaanxi merchants are not the same, the Shaanxi merchants are the main force of the ancient silk road, and the Jin merchants mainly trade with our Qing Dynasty and the Mongolian steppe, but Li Zicheng is now an enemy with them, and the two sides continue to trade. Dolgon also doesn't need trade, he who gets Beizhili, in addition to food, other things that were originally purchased from the customs can be directly obtained, such as Zunhua and the largest iron-smelting base in the north of the Ming Ministry of Industry!

In fact, Dolgon abandoned the Jin merchants, and he and Li Zicheng can be said to have reached a tacit understanding that the Taihang Mountains were the boundary of the Jin merchants to Li Zicheng.

These guys are useless.

Since it's useless, their life and death are related to Dolgon's, at most, Fan Yongdou and these people still led the merchant group to fight for the Qing Dynasty and gave them some official positions, but the era of Jin merchants is basically over, whether in the south or the north, their hundreds of years of glory have come to an end.

"Command, General Staff Battle Report!"

Wu Zhikui, the deputy general of the First Army, walked over with the battle report that had just been delivered and handed it to Fang Guoan.

Wu Zhikui was the general of Su Song's water division, originally fought against the Qing Dynasty with Xia Yunyi in history, and joined forces with Huang Fei to save Jiangyin, but was defeated and captured and then taken to Jiangyin with Huang Fei to persuade him to surrender, neither of them persuaded him, and was finally killed by the Qing army. However, this time he went north to meet him, and after returning, he accepted the reorganization in Nanjing as a general of the Yingjia army.

"The Eastern Front is over!"

Fang Guoan looked at the battle report and said: "The Fourth Army won a great victory in the Yihe River, killed Bahana, annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies, and the Cavalry Army and the Fifth Army conquered Dongping, it's time to see us next!" ”

"Under the system, Jiannu began to cross the river!"

An officer dismounted in front of them and said.

"Let's go, fight!"

Fang Guoan put away the battle report and said.