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was disturbed by Wang Yuan, Zhu Hongsan had no interest, and after being safe in the city, he entered the city with Jinyiwei. Of course, that night, Li Chengen went to Wang Shutang's house to pick up his second daughter and accompany Zhu Hongsan for the Spring Festival, and Wang Shutang, who naturally dedicated his daughter, escaped, and was newly activated as a county magistrate two years later.

After entering the city, Zhu Hongsan ordered people to carefully search for Hong Chengchou's whereabouts, at first Zhu Hongsan thought that Hong Chengchou had run away again, but when cleaning the battlefield, Hong Chengchou's body was found in the governor's yamen. Zhu Hongsan sighed after knowing this: "Hong Chengchou is also a man of the year in this troubled era, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely not be able to occupy the north so easily without him." Ay! Bury Hong Chengchou's body, transport it to his hometown in Fujian, and hand it over to his family! ”

After entering the city, he learned about the actual situation of the Yellow River, and Zhu Hongsan scolded himself for his bad luck, and Zhu Hongsan's Northern Expedition in March was to avoid the flood season of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty was not as passable as the Yangtze River Bridge in later generations, and the water volume was more than ten times that of later generations. During the flood season, both sides of the Yangtze River are completely Zeguo, and the width of the Zhenjiang and Jiangyin sections can reach more than 40 miles at the widest, and it is impossible to cross the Yangtze River in large batches at that time.

But it is easier to cross the Yangtze River in the dry season, but the lack of water in the northern canals is a problem. Originally, Zhu Hongsan thought that the Yellow River should be fine, although the water volume is not as abundant as the Yangtze River, but after all, the Yellow River is also China's two major water systems, and basic navigation can still be guaranteed. But when I arrived in Huai'an, I was dumbfounded.

Zhu Hongsan's original plan was to enter the Yellow River from Huai'an, then follow the Yellow River to Xuzhou, and from there enter the Grand Canal again to the north. But here in Huai'an, Zhu Hongsan learned that the water volume of the Yellow River this year is very small, and small boats can still pass through, but large transport ships cannot. At the same time, because the eastern section of the canal is not maintained, the sluices in many places have been damaged, and it is no longer practical to go north along the canal.

One of the reasons for the lack of water in the Yellow River is that it has not reached the flood season, and another important reason is that in September of the 15th year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng for more than a year without results, he was angry and dug up the embankment of the Yellow River. Although the city of Kaifeng was breached, most of Henan and the lower reaches of the Yellow River were unlucky, only 27,000 people died of 300,000 people in Kaifeng, and millions of people died in the surrounding prefectures and counties.

Henan's local government has lost its basic operational capacity because of the scourge of the rogues. Therefore, in the chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River embankment in Kaifeng has not been repaired for more than 20 years. Both sides of the Yellow River are hundreds of miles of Zeguo during the flood season. This situation was not until the tenth year of Kangxi, when Zhang Zide, the governor of Henan, and Xu Huacheng, the political envoy of Bu, began to rebuild Kaifeng City, and the Yellow River embankment was also rebuilt.

In the end, Zhu Hongsan had no choice, and after discussing with a few strategists, he decided not to go to Xuzhou to meet with the cavalry, and the large army crossed the Yellow River directly from the Qinghe River, and then entered Shandong through Muyang. Zhu Hongsan left two divisions to protect the logistics troops, they had too much baggage, so they could only take the canal, they went to Suqian from the Qing River, and used the old canal of the Yuan Dynasty to go north. Although the canal of the Yuan Dynasty has not been renovated for hundreds of years, there are a few sections that are still relatively intact, and you can only go there and that!

As for the cavalry led by Li Yuanyin, Zhu Hongsan ordered them to cross the river from Xuzhou, and then go to Yixian County in Shandong to make peace with him, after all, after crossing the Yellow River, it is the hilly area of Shandong, and this kind of terrain is most suitable for cavalry combat. Zhu Hongsan himself led the army, and of course it was no problem to fight defensive battles, but sports warfare was not the strength of musketeers.

In this way, Zhu Hongsan was delayed here in Huai'an for a total of seven or eight days, and only left Huai'an on the first day of the fourth month to go north. Originally, Zhu Hongsan's strategy was to take advantage of the convenience of the canal and the swiftness of the cavalry assault to occupy the entire territory of Jinan and Shandong while the Manchus did not react. But now Huai'an has been delayed for half a month, and there are factors such as the Yellow River being cut off and the canal being in disrepair, so a surprise attack is no longer possible.

Zhu Hongsan's delay in Huai'an gave the Manchu regime in the north time time to prepare.

The little emperor of Shunzhi in Beijing received a letter from Hong Chengchou on March 27, and after reading the letter, Shunzhi was furious, kicked the bookcase, smashed the paperweight, and then collapsed weakly to the dragon chair.

It is no wonder that Shunzhi was furious, in the past few years, the northern life has been very difficult, out of the capital around several prefectures and counties, other provinces are full of beacons, Shanxi's ginger soil rebellion has not been eliminated until now, as well as Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, the entire north under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not a peaceful place.

When Dolgon was still alive, he knew that the biggest enemy of the Manchu Qing was the Nanming regime, so he responded to the needs of Hong Chengchou of Huai'an, who was guarding, and would rather not eat for the Jingshi Emperor and the Manchurian nobles, but also ensure the supply of the Huai'an front. It was after Dolgon's death that Hong Chengchou, who was a close confidant of Dolgon, did not reduce the power in his hands at all, and Shunzhi instead assigned Henan and Shandong to Hong Chengchou for management in order to calm his heart.

The Huai'an defense line, which knew that Emperor Shunzhi's absolute hope, was not even blocked by the Ming army for a day, and Hong Chengchou, who was called a god by Huang Taiji, also hanged himself after the city was broken.

Shunzhi pointed at the eunuch beside him with a trembling finger and said: "Pass the decree, send Hong Chengchou's family to prison, and behead all the family members of all civil and military officials in Huai'an!" ”

The eunuch was just about to go out to deliver the decree, when he heard someone outside the door singing and saying, "The Queen Mother has arrived!" ”

It turned out that the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang came, and after the death of Dolgon the year before last, the Shunzhi Emperor was in power, and the mother and son were very unhappy about Dolgon. Shunzhi originally planned to liquidate Dolgon and his henchmen, but Xiaozhuang, as an old politician, knew that the Dolgon brothers had been in charge of the two white flags for a long time, and they had a lot of talents. At the same time, now they have to deal with the Nanming regime in the south, can they beat these people to death with a stick? Therefore, Hyozhuang advocated that the remnants of Dolgon should not be dealt with.

Shunzhi was suspicious and impatient, and when he heard that his wife was not going to clean up Dolgon, he thought that Xiaozhuang still had old feelings for Dolgon, so he forced all the remnants of Dolgon to be imprisoned against Xiaozhuang's opposition, and many people were tortured to death in prison.

Xiaozhuang saw that his son was disobedient when he was older, so he didn't care about the affairs of the court and the middle of the country in a fit of anger, and hid in the harem to retire.

Today, Xiaozhuang is watching a play with several concubines of Huang Taiji in the harem, Sony came to see the Queen Mother, Xiaozhuang only then knew that something big had happened on the front line, Hong Chengchou was dead, and Nanming's million Northern Expeditionary army had reached Huai'an (one million was blown by Zhu Hongsan, in fact, there were only more than 200,000).

Xiaozhuang was in a hurry when he heard the news, Huai'an crossed the Yellow River is Shandong, and Shandong went to Beijing to Pingchuan without danger. Xiaozhuang didn't watch the play at this time, and hurried to his son's Qianqing Palace to ask what was going on.

Shunzhi heard that the old lady was coming, and he was angry for a while, is it easy for him? He ascended the throne at the age of six, and lived in the shadow of Dolgon in the past few years, and it was easy to hope that Dolgon would die in recent years.

Shunzhi is still a fifteen-year-old child this year, and when he saw his mother coming, he couldn't control his feelings for a while, and cried bitterly in Xiaozhuang's arms.

Xiaozhuang saw his son's true feelings, and sighed in his heart: No matter how discordant he is, he is also his son!

Xiaozhuang patted Shunzhi on the back and asked in a low voice, "Emperor, what's wrong?" ”

"Queen Mother, why is my life so bitter! A few years after I became in power, that bastard emperor of Nanming came to the Northern Expedition, which was too bullying! ”

Xiaozhuang sighed and said, "Emperor, do you know why that Emperor Shenwu didn't go on a Northern Expedition a few years ago? It is Dorgon, the fourteenth uncle who is afraid of you! ”

Shunzhi was still crying bitterly, but when he heard this, he immediately stopped crying, pushed Xiaozhuang away and said, "That's not right! If it weren't for Dorgon's rash advance, he would have sent Duoduo to the south when he didn't know about the Nanming army, would I have no troops available now? It's all Dorgon! ”

Dolgon sent Duoduo to lead the elite of the Manchu two white flags to attack the Southern Ming Dynasty, and there were indeed some Meng Lang, but under the circumstances at that time, if Zhu Hongsan had not taken advantage of Zhu Hongsan's unstable foothold in Nanjing to take the Jiangxi grain-producing area, Zhu Hongsan's life would have been even more difficult for the Manchu Dynasty.

However, in later analysis, the elite of the 30,000 taels of white flags who died under Nanchang City that year were the main force that the Eight Banners could fight the most. If these 30,000 people are still there now, relying on the city wall to deal with the artillery of the Ming army in Jinan, and using the Manchu cavalry to harass the supply lines of the Ming army, it really makes Zhu Hongsan scratch his head.

Xiaozhuang heard that the emperor was still resentful of Dolgon, and he couldn't help it. Now that Dorgon is dead, of course you are right about what Emperor Shunzhi says.

"Emperor, now that the Ming army is about to enter Shandong, what are you going to do?"

"Queen Mother, soldiers are easy to do, and now you can make up 30,000 men over the age of twelve, but it's not easy to choose a general!"

The Manchu Qing Dynasty is now in a period of scarcity, the older generation can fight basically dead, the younger generation such as Yue Le, Shuo Sai and others are still young, leading a force to charge, this kind of large corps combat experience is not enough.

Xiaozhuang also understands that military generals are available now, in fact, before the end of last year, there was another person who was very suitable for the role of this commander general, that is, Dolgon's elder brother, Nurhachi's twelfth son, Prince Azig of England.

Azig was brave in battle, deeply loved by the soldiers, and was originally a good candidate, but Azig did not have a long brain, and killed Liu Zongmin, the general of the Dashun regime, and Song Xiance, the military advisor, during the southern expedition to the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Recruit 100,000 horse infantry of Zuo Mengeng, the son of Zuo Liangyu, the marquis of Nanhou Zuo Liangyu of Mingning, and Yuan Jixian, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, and then occupy 63 cities in Henan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Jiangnan and other places.

At this time, Azig began to swell, and even wrote a book to become regent. What do you want Dolgon, who has become regent, to do? So Azig was immediately placed under house arrest by Dolgon after being transferred back to Beijing, where he remained until Dolgon's death.