On the same day that the Battle of Chuzhou began, the Second Army of Jingying finally withdrew to Nanjing.

This army had already reached Liling before, because the northern army had to give up the attack on Changsha because of the south, and then withdrew to defend Nanjing at full speed, but on the way to retreat, 30,000 troops of Wang Yuncheng's troops mutinied, and Yuanzhou, which was originally recaptured, fell into the hands of Zuo Mengeng again. Immediately afterwards, King Gui was proclaimed emperor in Hengyang, and Wang Zhiren had to leave another brigade to help him defend Nanchang under the begging of Guo Duxian, the governor of Jiangxi, after all, if Nanchang was lost, the entire Jiangxi would basically belong to King Gui, and the King of Yi in Fuzhou and King Huai in Raozhou were all ready to move, and Nanchang must indeed be garrisoned.

In the end, only 13,000 men returned.

But they're all really elite.

After all, unlike the other two armies in Beijing, they came back from the battlefield, although they lost 2,000 troops due to battles and epidemics, their combat effectiveness was definitely the strongest in the Ming army at this time.

They solved Yang Qing's worries.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Qing took over the city defense of Nanjing with two brigades of the Second Army, and formed a double defense line with the tax police team guarding the palace, plus the Jinyi guard acted as the de facto gendarme in Nanjing......

Of course, theoretically there will be none.

After determining the distribution of benefits, those civil officials should not do anything for the time being, after all, there is still Li Zicheng's army outside.

Then Yang Qing led the army to cross the river and go north.

However, it was not to meet Li Zicheng, at this time Li Zicheng had actually just arrived in Dongping, and Lao Li with the new emperor Zhu Cihong and hundreds of civil and military officials must have to march along the canal, and in addition to the canal, other routes could not support his total of 200,000 horses and military supplies along the way. And Huai'an and Gaoyou are already in their hands, so they only need to break through Yangzhou to smash Nanjing, before Niu Wancai and the surrendered Bai Yongfu joined forces with 60,000 troops to Gaoyou, and Yangzhou's Huang Fei confronted each other across a hundred miles, waiting for Li Zicheng's army to arrive, and then combined 260,000 troops to attack Yangzhou to open this passage.

Next, Li Zicheng must have left Zhu Cihong in Xuzhou, and he led the army south to the Qing Palace of the new monarch.

Yang Qing was not ready to go north to counterattack Gaoyou Huai'an, and then face Yu Qingkou.

The number of troops he can use is so small, if he goes north to face the battle, at most it will be a total of 40,000 people with Huang Fei, and the others will not dare or move.

The 1st Army of Jingying and the Gaojie Department combined with 50,000 people were surrounded in Xuyi......

Gao Jie deserves recognition in this regard.

Although Yang Qing pit him and put him under house arrest in Nanjing for several months, because of the green hat he gave to Li Zicheng, he still has no regrets about Daming, he and Fang Guoan have resisted the attack of more than 100,000 people in Xuyi, and there are still his subordinates in those hundreds of thousands of miles, in short, they can be said to be immobile as a mountain, and they are still in the absence of any external supplies.

Gao Yigong surrounded Xuyi, and no one could send supplies into the city.

And Cao Youyi insisted on Hefei.

In fact, his 30,000 men were divided by Dang Shousu and Zhang Nai's 60,000 Shun army, he took 20,000 men to hold in Hefei, and the deputy general Wu Guogui led 10,000 to retreat from the Dabie Mountain defense line into Lu'an, and the Liao people in the original Tuntian District either hid in the Dabie Mountain villages or followed them to be trapped in these two cities. Cao Youyi can still have water transportation supplies on Chaohu Lake, and Wu Guogui can only fight alone, but thanks to the militarized management and training of 200,000 Liao people, there is no danger to them, after all, those 200,000 Liao people even women can use crossbows and muskets, in fact, they are real soldiers.

And it is not the main direction of attack of the Shun army.

Huang Degong in the upper reaches is also in a bad situation.

He can be regarded as one of the main directions of attack of the Shun army.

By this time, Hanyang had already been lost.

He faced the 200,000 allied troops of Tian Jianxiu and Jin Shenghuan, but his headquarters only had more than 30,000 people from Ma Degong and Tian Xiong, and the rest were all Zuo Liangyu's old troops who took over in Wuchang.

Now Huang Degong is relying on those mighty and invincible generals.

He worked hard to set up these giant cannons that can be called the collapse of the Ming Dynasty on Snake Mountain, not only the surrounding attacking Shun army artillery is covered by its firing range, and even can directly bombard the north bank across the river, causing serious losses to the Shun artillery, of course, that's all, after all, the cannon barrel has a lifespan, and can only be used at a critical time, and it is still impossible to rely on them to repel 200,000 Shun troops.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Ma Jinzhong did not surrender.

Ma Jinzhong, who retreated to Jingzhou, even took the initiative to counterattack Qianjiang to disrupt the Han River shipping line of the Shun army, but the two of them could only barely support themselves in the east and west.

Zhang Mingzhen's department had completely given up the attack on Changsha and returned to Wuchang.

His sailor is still very advantageous.

But it's hard to say, because Tian Jianxiu also has a sailor, before the Shun army built a large number of warships in Guanghua, which they controlled, originally to prepare for the future water battle on the Yangtze River, after Xiangyang arrived, these warships went south along the Han River, although the cannons of Wuchang locked off the Yangtze River and they could not cross the upstream, but from the Han River into the Yangtze River did not mean that it was necessary to go to Hankou.

There are still two Jing rivers in the east and west of Qianjiang.

The warships of the Shun army, which were not big, all went out of the Dongjing River into the Yangtze River and then locked off Jinkou, set up dozens of cannons on Dajun Mountain to block the Yangtze River, and together with the naval warships, they formed a strong defense line in Jinkou to block Zhang Mingzhen who retreated. Although the latter has an advantage on the water, it is not an absolute advantage, and it is still blocked by the opponent's shore ships to assist in the defense, and even if Zhang Mingzhen can defeat the Shunjun Naval Division, his rescue of Huang Degong is limited, in the end, he is only 50,000 horses, and he can really fight 10,000, and there are 20,000 people who have ghosts in their hearts and don't know if they will stab the sword.

He can only drop the army in Yueyang now.

And he himself took his own water division and 10,000 Guanning troops assigned to him to attack Jinkou.

In this way, in the end, Yang Qing only had one mobile force left in his hand, that is, the 20,000 sailors of Chongming's general soldier Huang Binqing.

And, of course, Zheng Zhilong.

But they can't move, because Li Zicheng also has his own navy, and Lao Li has also built a large number of warships in the previous year or so, using Dengzhou as a base to form his naval army, and this naval army is also moving south along the coastline, Zheng Zhilong and Huang Binqing can guard against them. And it is difficult for Yang Qing to guarantee Zheng Zhilong's temperance, Zheng Chenggong can guarantee it, Zheng Zhilong's is not easy to say, because of the sweet potato trade, the old pirate and Li Zicheng, the old bandit, had a hot fight.

And Zheng Zhilong only wants Fujian, and Li Zicheng has actually given it to him.

This is the battle situation that Yang Qing is facing.

It's not an exaggeration to say that it's embattled.

Even the Guiwang clique began to attack Jiangxi and Guangdong, Wang Yuncheng and Jingjiangwang's troops went out of Guangxi to kill Guangzhou, Zuo Menggeng's men and horses and Li Qiande's local officers and soldiers went out of Yuanzhou to counterattack Nanchang.

Yang Qing is now in a situation that is not as good as the bald guy in the Central Plains War, the bald guy is at least the main battlefield is still in Huaibei, his main battlefield is about to retreat to the Yangtze River, but he is the same as the bald guy, and he also has a killing move, that is, to the north, Dolgon and Xiao Tum will immediately save him when he enters the customs, but unfortunately he cut off all the messengers of the people, and finally had to be the last pillar of the Ming Dynasty in this embattled situation.

So he can only defend.

Li Zicheng did have an overwhelming superiority in the army.

However, he didn't have enough food, Yang Qing's goal was to stick to the current line of defense and block Li Zicheng's involvement in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, while Huainan and Huguang didn't have much food to grab, where they had been sawing for many years, and the people had run out of what they could run, and there was no food to grab. That is, there are still a little on both sides of the canal, but last time Gao Yigong hung up the street lamps of the chief gentry of the sky, even the gentry of Gaoyou ran out, and the entire Jiangbei has not escaped, only the headache of the water network to the east of Taizhou.

There is no food to grab in Jiangbei.

And Li Zicheng himself is difficult to obtain food from the north, his sweet potatoes have just begun to promote, and the current planting area has not exceeded Shunfu, and he may also have the factor of grabbing grain when he goes south this time, so as long as he can stop him on this line of defense for two or three months, Li Zicheng can only choose to negotiate.

This is Yang Qing's goal.

He didn't think about really defeating Li Zicheng, he was so capable of fighting an army, what could he do to defeat the latter's 500,000 army......

Well, it's 700,000 at this point.

After all, there are still a lot of new surrenders, Huai'an and Fengyang have surrendered more than 100,000, and Gao Jie's side has also surrendered tens of thousands, not counting the surrenders of Huang Degong and Ma Jinzhong's men, in fact, Li Zicheng's total strength should exceed 700,000, if you add Liu Fangliang, who is rushing to Xiangyang south to Wuchang for reinforcements, it is really not a claim to say that Li Zicheng's 800,000 army.

Not counting Jin Shenghuan, the Ming army that surrendered in this wave alone will cost 200,000.

It's so sad!

In other words, the stall that Yang Qing took over is indeed bad enough.

He originally thought that he had sufficient military pay and his own prestige, so why didn't he have a tiger body shock, so that those miscellaneous cards instantly turned into Da Ming Zhu Stone, but the latter only rewarded him with a battle on the bank of the Huai River, and then he was beaten back to his original form, but after joining the Shun army, he scrambled one by one, just like those green battalions in the original history, with the longing for the bloody Jiangnan combat effectiveness soared.

"After all, I'm still too stupid and naïve!"

He sat down on his horse and sighed.

At this time, on the endless green field in front of him, the black tide composed of countless cavalry and infantry, with the reflection of steel, slowly swallowed this green, like a black cloud that obscured the sky before a summer rainstorm, constantly closing the distance, and the faint shout seemed to be a muffled thunder that was getting closer and closer......

(In the previous chapter, Lu Xiangsheng was written as Sun Chengzong.) ）