Returning to virtue is Liu Heizi's hard work for many years, and he doesn't want to give up easily.

Although he was more afraid of the Tartars going south, he had 30,000 people sticking to Guide, next to him his brother Gao Jie, followed by Liu Zeqing, Xu Dingguo, and Huang Degong, with the supervisor Gao Mingheng as the town commander, and nearly 500,000 officers and troops deployed in Jiangbei as the backing, he still had some confidence in his heart.

If he escapes, he will feel distressed after many years of operation, and he is not like Gao Yihuan, there is so much power that the court can't govern him, although he has some soldiers and horses, but the court is determined to deal with him, and he has no way.

Out of various considerations, Liu Heizi decided to keep his family and return to Germany, but he was a little weak after all, and he was afraid that he would not be able to keep his return to Germany, so he decided to send his family away.

Hearing that Chen Baoping of Sui County had defected to the Qing Dynasty, Liu Heizi was a little panicked, and hurriedly urged the Deng family to go first and sent three hundred guards to escort him.

When the family left, Liu Heizi breathed a sigh of relief, but the subordinates around him looked a little unnatural.

"Chen Baoping, a brute, actually betrayed Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will twist off his dog head sooner or later!" Liu Heizi looked angry and ordered his subordinates to come down to the mansion to do righteous things.

Chen Baoping and Gao Yihuan are also acquaintances, and when he returned to Defu with Li Guo, he also had a conflict with Gao Yihuan.

During the period when Zhao Yingyuan was guarding and returning to Germany, he and Gao Yihuan, Liu Heizi and other nine people were the nine captains under Zhao Yingyuan, and each town guarded a city.

Later, Zhao Yingyuan was transferred away by Li Zicheng, Liu Heizi became a mighty general who guarded and returned to Germany, and Chen Baoping was still a captain.

Originally, Liu Heizi wanted to kill him or drive him away, but this guy became very obedient and obeyed Liu Heizi's words, so Liu Heizi left him behind.

At this time, in Liu Heizi's festival hall, the general who came back to report stood with his hands down, bowed his head and said: "Marshal, Chen Baoping invited Zeng Qianhu to a banquet, and Qianhu was not suspicious, but was killed by Chen Baoping's ambush soldiers. Of the more than 1,000 brothers in the city, only the lowly ones escaped! ”

Liu Heizi's cheeks agitated, Zeng Jiaoling was his confidant, and he was placed in Sui County to monitor Chen Baoping, he didn't want to be so careless, he was actually killed by Chen Baoping.

Now that Sui County is lost, the northwest gate of Shangqiu City is wide open, and the Qing army can directly come to the city, and there is no room for buffer.

Although Liu Heizi had already made some preparations after receiving Gao Yihuan's letter, he was still a little panicked in the face of such a situation.

Liu Heizi couldn't help pacing back and forth in the festival hall, suddenly stopped in the middle of the sound, and asked, "Has the Tartar entered Sui County?" ”

"If you enter, it's the Tartar soldiers who kill people, otherwise Chen Baoping wouldn't be so easy to kill a thousand of our brothers!"

Liu Heizi's heart tightened, and he walked back to the chair and sat down, since the Tartars had entered the city, the idea of recapturing Sui County would not work while the Tartars had not arrived.

Liu Heizi exhaled a few heavy breaths, "Pass the order, let the people in the suburbs retreat into the city, and then send a fast horse to report to Xuzhou!" ”

"Humble command!" The general immediately clenched his fists.

"Wait!" Liu Heizi stopped him, and suddenly took out a letter from his sleeve, "Find a reliable person again, send this letter to Nanyang, and give it to Brother Gao." ”

The general perked up when he heard this, took the letter, and was instantly full of confidence, "Dashuai, Gao Dashuai is the nemesis of the Tartars, if he helps, we will definitely be able to repel the Tartars!" ”

Liu Heizi was slightly stunned, a little unhappy in his heart, Lao Tzu asked you to send a letter to the second year of high school, and you will?

Liu Heizi waved his hand impatiently and asked him to go down, and after a while, the generals of Liu who rushed over came to the Shuaifu to gather and discuss the matter of defense together.

At the same time that Liu Heizi was in full swing to set up defenses, the Qing troops on both sides had been assembled.

One was led by Azig and assembled in Jinan, and the first was led by Duoduo and assembled in Zhengzhou.

After the Qing army entered the customs, in order to control the vast areas in the north, the number of troops expanded somewhat, and the number of troops that could be mobilized was about 450,000. Among them, the Eight Banner soldiers were somewhat depleted, and after replenishment, they were still not satisfied, only 160,000 people, 100,000 people in the outer domains, 60,000 people in Wu Sangui, and the rest were the green battalion soldiers who were recruited and recruited.

In order to attack Nanjing, the Qing army used 200,000 troops this time, and the strength can be said to be quite strong.

These 200,000 troops have no water, and even if they are used as cannon fodder, most of them are the border troops of the former Ming Dynasty, or the official army of the Guannei to suppress bandits.

In contrast, although the Ming army in Jiangbei had more than 500,000, it had a lot of water, and the real soldiers were only about 120,000, and their strength was actually weaker than that of the Qing army in the south.

In mid-August, after the preparation of the Qing army on the two routes was completed, Azig led 100,000 men and horses from Jinan and advanced to Xuzhou with a noisy and noisy advance.

Duoduo left Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming to spy on Gao Yihuan, and he also led the Manchurian Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Outer Domain Mongolia, and the Green Battalion, a total of 100,000 people, through the barren Kaifeng, and appeared in the northwest of Guide Mansion.

Among them, the Eight Banners and the Outer Domains are here to reap benefits, while the Green Battalion soldiers are here to do coolies.

After the Qing army entered the customs, it has been fighting in the ruined north, and has won very little, and as soon as the army enters the area controlled by the Ming army, it begins to burn, kill and loot.

However, the Qing army is not a brainless random massacre, Duoduo posted an example along the way, stating that all the cities that can be surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing soldiers do not kill, do not raid homes, do not draw Ding, do not kidnap people, only need to pay a military fee, all the cities that dare to resist the Qing soldiers, the army enters the city and does not surrender, once the army breaks the city, the chickens and dogs will not be left, and the whole city will be killed.

The Qing army's proclamation undoubtedly still has some effect, it can deter the localities, the Qing army can quickly distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, the obedient cities will be kept for tax collection and exploitation, and the national strength of the Qing Dynasty will be enhanced, and those who are disobedient will be directly sent to destroy them, and the Qing army can take the opportunity to plunder and boost the morale of the soldiers, and at the same time eliminate the disobedient, which is conducive to the Qing army's control of the localities.

At the end of August, the Qing army from the southeast of the mountain crossed the river from the Huitong Canal and came to the north of Xuzhou.

The Qing army forwards peeped at Xuzhou on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the sentry horses galloped along the river, and soon pulled their horses and retreated, and the direction had arrived at Azig in Yanzhou.

At the beginning of September, on a sunny day, the weather was already a little cool, and the soldiers of Guide City were busy carrying arrows, wood, stones, fire oil and other things on the two-zhang wide city wall.

On the edge of the wall battlement, the Franc machine, the iron sand cannon, the tiger cannon, and the bowl mouth gun are lined up, and the gunners are making the final inspection to ensure that the equipment is in good condition.

When the city was in full swing, the soldiers at the head of the city suddenly exclaimed, and a rapid alarm bell sounded, and the soldiers stood up one after another, looked to the north, and were stunned, only to see a black line suddenly appear in the distance, which was slowly thickening and moving forward.

At the head of the city, Liu Heizi leaned on the wall with a serious face, and couldn't help but curse in his heart, "There are so many people on Donkey Day, and Lao Tzu is a sophomore in high school!" ”

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