From the end of last year, Xie Qian took advantage of the Qing army's lack of food, called himself Gao Yuanhou, and fought against the general, and conquered Yancheng, Xinghua, Taizhou, Jianhu and other places in one go, seized a large amount of grain and equipment, and his strength skyrocketed.

However, in this situation, after Hong Chengchou opened up the Cao Yun, the situation began to change.

After the continuous supply of military rations from the south of the Yangtze River was transported into Lianghuai, and Duoduo had soldiers and food, he took advantage of the cavalry advantage to gradually control Xie Qian's range of activities in the eastern part of Yangzhou and the southern part of Huai'an Prefecture.

The Qing army's food was solved, but Xie Qian's food had a problem, and the people who were coerced by him were also reduced to 200,000 by him, but the food was still in short supply.

Xie Qian originally relied on raiding to maintain men and horses, and the places were all destroyed by him, although he still occupies several county towns and has some grain reserves, but it can be imagined that if he does not exert his strength to recover, the spring planting and summer harvest in these places will definitely be finished, and it will not be long before there will be a famine, if he can't break through the blockade of Duoduo, it can only be a dead end.

Beginning in December of last year, the Qing soldiers began to organize the capitals of Henan, Shandong, and Jiangnan to suppress the three provincial capitals of Henan, Shandong, and Jiangnan.

Hong Chengchou suggested that Duoduo should first make it easier and then more difficult, to prevent the displaced people from flowing to other areas, engulfing more people, and getting bigger and bigger, and after restricting Xie Qian to a fixed area, he should first mobilize a large amount of grain to resettle the displaced people and avoid the situation of fires everywhere.

Hong Chengchou had many years of experience in suppressing bandits, and with his advice, hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the two Huai were repatriated and resettled, temporarily resolving the crisis in the two Huai.

After dealing with several groups of displaced people, Duoduo's army pressed on Xie Qian, and Xie Qian's life became sad, and he successively sent several troops to jump to the periphery to develop, but without exception, they were all wiped out by the Qing soldiers one by one.

At this time, there were not many roads left for Xie Qian, the first was to break through the Huai River and return to Shandong, the second was to cross the Grand Canal and move west to Jin Shenghuan or Hengyang Domain, and the third was to take refuge in King Lu, change the way of fighting, and take root in this ancient Han country.

The first two were because of the 30,000 cavalry in the hands of Duoduo, so Xie Qian did not dare to leave the hilly area, and finally had to choose the third one, take refuge in King Lu, and stubbornly defend the current territory.

In February of this year, in order to strengthen the connection with the king of Lu, Xie Qian divided the men and horses into three parts, ordered the general Ding Keze to lead 50,000 horses to defend Taixian, Xinghua to prevent Duoduo from Yangzhou to the east, and ordered Pei Shouzheng, the head of the White Lotus Society, and others to lead 50,000 people to guard Yancheng and Jianhu in Huai'an Mansion to prevent the Qing soldiers from going south, and prepare to Tuntian and salt to resume production, and he himself led 100,000 horses to guard Rugao, and the troops were guided, and the territory was connected with the king of Lu.

Rugao east by the Salt River, the location is just on the peninsula of Yangzhou Mansion stretching into the sea, although it is a dead place, but the sea is the territory of King Lu, in case of defeat, he can choose to retreat into the sea.

Jin Shenghuan and Hengyang Domain in the west were too far away from him, and only King Lu could help him, so he could only take refuge in King Lu, and in order to merge with the old gentry of the Ming Dynasty, he deliberately separated himself from the internal White Lotus Sect, and sent Pei Shouzheng and the Holy Maiden to the Huai'an area in exchange for the acceptance of King Lu's regime.

In fact, if he doesn't do this, King Lu will happily accept him, King Lu has few people and few people, and his strength has not been able to develop, and now he can get such a team of people and horses, and he can get a few counties in Jiangbei, and he will wake up laughing when he sleeps.

This time, Xie Qian attacked Nantong, and King Lu also sent sailors to echo each other on Chongming Island.

Nantong is an important stronghold of the Qing army in Jiangbei, mainly to prevent Chongming's Lu Wang army from attacking and harassing the interior, so the garrison of 10,000 troops, commanded by the Qing general Liu Qingtai, the red flag of the Qing Dynasty, the city of grain and grass, equipment, silver money are quite sufficient, Xie Qian has been coveted for a long time.

Xie Qian's 100,000 army is stationed in the wilderness in the south of Rugao County, the simple camp tent stretches for more than ten miles, the momentum is huge, a high banner, a huge "Ming" character in the middle, and a small character book on the left "Gao Yuan Hou Xie", which is Xie Qian's banner.

King Lu has won so many people for nothing, and he is willing to take the title or something, not to mention the marquis, even if Xie Qian asks for the title of duke, it is not a problem. The Golden Seal of Pardon had already been delivered, without the slightest delay.

In a large tent covering an area of half an acre in the middle of the camp, Xie Qian stood in front of a map and was a little distracted, and next to him stood the military advisor Zhao Shuxiang.

Like all the rogues and bandits, Xie Qian's biggest problem is that the team expands too fast, and there is no stable logistics supply, resulting in only grabbing people's food, loose military discipline, low combat effectiveness, and being hostile to local tyrants and ordinary people, so Zhao Shuxiang has been planning his transformation, taking advantage of the line with King Lu, after laying down Nantong, he will converge on military discipline and change from a rogue to an official army.

Xie Qian also accepted Zhao Shuxiang's persuasion, for the sake of long-term planning, he really needed to change, otherwise it would be difficult to achieve great things, but change would take time, and the Manchu Qing might not give him this opportunity.

"Ben Shuai got the news, the Qing troops cleared several troops on the periphery, Duoduo has gathered 40,000 troops in Yangzhou, forced to Taixian from the east, Ma Guanghui and Heluohui also prepared 30,000 troops in Huai'an, swept over from the north, it seems that they are preparing to drive us into the sea!"

Xie Qian looked a little anxious, he came step by step to the present, from the ideal of his wife and children to the hot kang head, to being named Gao Yuanhou by Lu Jianguo, it was not easy.

He knew very well in his heart that the reason why King Lu was so generous was entirely because he occupied five counties on land and had more than 100,000 horses.

Although the marquis of King Lu was not as valuable as the Longwu Dynasty, he still wanted to sit longer.

Zhao Shuxiang was in Dongtai and other coastal areas before, organized the displaced people to dry salt, prepared seeds for the displaced people, so that the seeds were sown in the spring, so that the entire righteous army had a foundation for transformation, he just arrived in Rugao yesterday, for the Qing army attack, he had already anticipated, and he had some thoughts in his heart: "The Qing soldiers have wiped out the Waiwei Righteous Army, and they will definitely do something to us, this is an inevitable thing, and Hou Ye does not have to be anxious." ”

How can it be possible not to be anxious, Xie Qian is very self-aware, "Although Ben Shuai claims to be 200,000, what is the actual situation, and the military advisor does not know, how can he not be in a hurry?" ”

Zhao Shuxiang thought for a while, "Right now, the only way for the Hou Ye to lay down Nantong first, pull out this nail, get some grain and grass, and then rely on Chongming Island with his back, rely on the support of His Royal Highness King Lu, fortify layer by layer, guard city by city, and insist on attacking Jiangnan until the imperial court." If Hou Ye persists, it will be a great credit, and if he can't keep it, then he will have to retreat to Chongming. ”

Xie Qian listened with doubts on his face, "Isn't the imperial court going to negotiate peace with the Qing court?" ”

Zhao Shuxiang sneered, "If peace can really be negotiated, Duoduo would have collected his troops and returned to Huaibei, how could he work so hard for the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the rebel army on the periphery, as for those displaced people who drove directly across the river, would they need Hong Chengchou to send grain to resettle?" ”

Xie Qian reacted instantly, "Didn't the imperial court fall for the Qing court's strategy!" ”

Zhao Shuxiang sighed and said: "It should be that the Qing court wants to delay the time of the decisive battle and stabilize the interior first, but I don't think this matter will be out of it for long, and it will be exposed in the near future. At that time, it was Hou Ye's opportunity! ”

Xie Qian nodded, he had no other choice, he couldn't run to the island now, he groaned slightly, "Okay!" That Ben Shuai pulled out Nantong first, and turned around and fought hard with Duoduo to see if he drove Ben Shuai into the sea first, or if Ben Shuai was stiff and broke his front teeth! ”

Zhao Shuxiang thought for a moment and added: "In addition, it is best for the Hou Ye to send people to the west to ask for support from Jindu Town and Hengyang Domain!" ”

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