The Ming army in the pier was killed by the bannermen, and the blood flowed out, gathering towards the unextinguished fire in the middle, accompanied by the smell of gagging, and making a sizzling sound from time to time.

The bannermen groped for the corpses of the Ming soldiers who died in battle, but all they found were some copper coins, not even a bit of broken silver.

These coppers, heavy and worthless, are definitely a burden, if the flagmen would have disdained it before, but today they are all carrying it in their arms.

No matter how small the sesame seed is, it is also food, and the Ming army has become more and more difficult to deal with in recent years, to this pier, there are only twelve people, but four Qing soldiers died, which was unimaginable before, so they first collected the copper coins, and then lost the silver and gold before it was too late, if they didn't grab it, it was not a harvest.

The flagmen searched, not only did they search for the Ming army, but also their own people, which showed that the food shortage in Beijing gave them a deep sense of crisis.

When the bannerman touched the corpse, the leader of the bannerman carried a bloody war knife and mended the corpses of the Ming army one by one to ensure that they were all dead.

At this time, outside the pier, the main force of the flag army had already begun to pass the troops, and a member of the Jia Lae really passed by, scolded a few words loudly in Manchu, and then beat the horse and left.

The leader of the banner in the pier platform, carrying a knife, lowered his head, and waited for Jia La's forehead to pass, he glanced at his subordinates with an angry face, and then also a burst of bird talk, and scolded.

When he finished scolding, the bannermen immediately rushed out of the pier, and the corpses were not cleaned up, so they joined the army and hurried south together.

If the villagers in the south get the news and run away, then what else are they robbing? Only by robbing large households can there be money, food, and women.

The pier platform on the north side of Maluo Town is just a small scene on the defense line of the Huai River.

The Qing army's entry into the Kou this time was different from the previous battles of the Qing army after entering the customs.

After the Qing army entered the customs, all the battles fought were aimed at occupying and destroying the Ming Dynasty, but this time it was completely different.

The goal of the Qing army this time was pure plunder, and it did not require any city to be taken, nor was it required to defeat the Ming army, as long as it grabbed something, it achieved its goal.

The Qing army was divided into several roads, after crossing the Huai River, spread out in the north of the river with Niulu as a unit, avoiding the big cities, sweeping the countryside, not entering the hills, meeting the main force of the Ming army, fleeing with horsepower, meeting a small group of Ming troops, they ate it directly, and when they met an evenly matched match, they gathered other Qing troops nearby to collect grain, gathered together, and then attacked.

At the end of November, Jiangbei was full of beacons, Lu Wang's army was stronger than the water division, weaker than the land division, the cavalry was basically none, Zhang Mingzhen had no power to parry, and could only trap Huai'an, Nantong, Rugao, Taizhou and other county towns, and gave up all the countryside.

On the Yangtze River, on the river surface from Chongming to Zhenjiang, countless emergency beacon fires in the north rose to the sky, and black smoke rushed straight into the sky, from north to south, one by one the piers were lit in turn, and the news was transmitted to Nanjing.

It seems to be a race against the beacon smoke, in the hilly area near the Yangtze River in the north of the Yangtze River, the mountains are full of refugees, helping the old and the young to walk to the riverside, and behind them are the wolf smoke and burning villages.

Many people wept while moving forward, and the faces and eyes of children and old people were full of horror, helplessness and despair.

There were already military ships on the Yangtze River to pick up the first batch of refugees to cross the river, and Zhang Huangyan was also sent by the imperial court to Suzhou Mansion to appease the refugees.

At this time, he was standing by the river, and behind him he had already set up a series of tents, and built a stove, ready to boil porridge.

Nanjing, in the lobby of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, there is a huge sand table in the middle, on which are China's mountains and rivers, cities and rivers, all marked one by one, in addition, the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even the deployment of Haoge's troops, there are certain markings.

These military arrangements are the result of secret agents from the Heaven and Earth Society and the bribing of the Qing court and Haoge's subordinate officials.

At this time, around the sand table, a group of Ming army generals and soldiers stood full.

Wang Yan stood aside and listened to a Lang official of the military department pointing to the position of Jiangbei on the sand table and said: "Combined with the beacon smoke in Jiangbei and Zhang Dudu's military report, the Qing army that crossed the Huai River should have 20,000 people, and all of them are cavalry.

There are also some Mongolian Eight Banners and other people, they are divided into several units in Jiangbei, and they are scattered from time to time, Xinghua, Yancheng, Gaoning and other counties where the Zhejiang soldiers are weakly defended have been broken through, allowing the Qing army to loot them. ”

Now the weather is cold and frozen, many rivers and streams in Jiangbei are frozen, the Ming army is difficult to use the dense and staggered river network to fight the cavalry of the Qing army, the men and horses of the king of Lu, and the land combat ability is not very strong, now the Qing army is robbing in the north of the river, tens of thousands of Lu Wang troops can only hide in the city as a turtle with a shrunken head, and the Qing army generally does not attack the city heavily defended by the Lu Wang army, but only takes robbery as the first goal.

Judging from the situation in the world, Wang Yan can judge that this attack is basically a return to the light of the Qing army, as long as he does not make any mistakes, makes the wrong chess pieces, and survives this wave of attacks by the Qing army, it is time for him to take the initiative to beat Dolgon in the future and find trouble for the Qing court.

Wang Yan looked at Jiangbei, now it was erosive, his heart was a little heavy, he suddenly turned his head to look at Huguang, and asked, "How is the situation in Henan?" ”

Chen Bangyan took the stick from the hands of his subordinate Lang Guan, saluted Wang Yan, and then said: "According to the information of the Heaven and Earth Society, Azig did not appear in Jiangbei, but went to Henan. ”

The location of Guangnan is too remote, and Huguang is the ancient Jingzhou, known as the belly of the world, and is the base camp of the Chu Party, which can be described as very important.

Everyone's eyes looked at Chen Bangyan, and he continued: "Your Highness, according to the analysis of the military department, the main target of the Qing army this time should be Huguang, not Jiangbei. Jiangbei has been in constant war since Xie Qian entered the two Huai, and it is not rich, and it also needs Zhejiang to lose money and grain, and the Qing army will come with a large number of soldiers, not just for the three melons and two dates in several counties in Jiangbei. Huguang is different, the granary of the world, and has not experienced war for more than a year, the people have enough food and money, which is the goal of the Qing army. ”

Wang Yan nodded, this was also what he was worried about, "Lone also suspects that the Qing army is making such a big move in Jiangbei in order to attract the attention of the imperial court. Jiangbei is too close to Nanjing, and they want Jiangnan to feel the pressure and force us to strengthen Jiangnan's defenses and weaken Huguang's forces. ”

"His Highness's analysis coincides with the Ministry of War." Chen Bangyan said: "There is news from the north that the price of grain in Beijing has risen to 20 taels, and it is still soaring. ”

Wang Yan groaned for a while, "Now that the purpose of the Qing army has been preliminarily analyzed, do you have any countermeasures?" ”

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