Hearing the words of the staff, Hong Chengchou's face changed, "Yes, if the Huaxia Army goes from east to west and doesn't touch He Tengjiao to fight Mang Gurtai and them, then now there are only a few county seats, and the Qing army of hundreds of miles is not surrounded where?" Didn't Li Dingguo, the Southern Ming Army, and the Huaxia Army of the Yongli Ming Dynasty surround the 300,000 troops of the Qing army somewhere? ”

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou is not calm, if he is defeated again this time, it will be another disaster in Raozhou, he will be defeated by the Huaxia army 600,000 Qing troops that time, and the loss of 400,000 troops finally caused the Huaxia army to take Jiangxi Prefecture, half of Anhui Prefecture, half of Jiangsu Prefecture, and the Qing army across the river The failure of the confrontation is collectively known as the Raozhou Mansion disaster.

That was the Qing army in the customs since the entry, the first loss of hundreds of thousands of troops in the land of the Ming Dynasty, the first defeat, that defeat, so that it took him a year and a half to gradually make the Qing army recover from the great injury, the result of the defeat of Kong Youde more than half a month ago, so that the Qing army once again tasted a failure similar to the disaster of Raozhou Mansion, at least half of the defeat, but thinking that it was fought with the Southern Ming army, it was even more annoying.

Troops must be sent, but how?

He doesn't have any troops left to draw up.

If the troops are transferred again, and the Huaxia army fights, there will be no one to defend the Yangtze River defense line.

"Change your clothes, go with me to see Aobai, Lord Ao." Although he didn't want to see the opponent of the Shunzhi forces, the top boss who came to spy on him, but at this moment he could only persuade Ao Bai to lead his troops to fight the Huaxia army, even if it was to stop it, and by the way, he Tengjiao would destroy that guy, so that the Qing army could completely recover Huguang.

He Tengjiao is a thorn, and if he is not killed, the Qing army will not be able to completely occupy Huguang.

As long as he is there, it is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty is still there, and the influence of the Yongli Ming Dynasty is still there, and the Qing army will not be able to completely recover Huguang.

As for Li Guo, it is a rogue who can't become a big climate, as long as the Qing army is a little more harmonious with the people, no one follows him, after all, he is no longer popular, and Dashun is unpopular, which is obvious to all.

Hong Chengchou went to Aobai's mansion, after some persuasion, Aobai was also very breathless, here with Hong Chengchou to guard the Yangtze River defense line, a year and a half without action, if it weren't for Dolgon's strength, Hong Chengchou is Dolgon's red, he would have killed this Hanchen, their loyal lackeys and minions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Since Hong Chengchou begged him, he was also willing to go to the battlefield to make contributions, but he still made things difficult for Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou transferred the full battalion of soldiers here, 30,000 troops to join his army, and 10,000 Han army banner soldiers to follow, and then promised him a new army in a town, so that Aobai had an army of 100,000, and he recruited 10,000 people, and went on the road to Huguang.

The purpose of the 100,000 army is to reinforce Kong Youde, Mang Gurtai, Jierharang and others, these people except Kong Youde, both of them are Qing Dynasty clans, princes, and loyal supporters of the Shunzhi Emperor.

And after Hong Chengchou came out, he snorted coldly and asked Ao Bai to die, he didn't have to send a large army to fight the Huaxia army, that was the best.

Sending the Manchurians in the team away, more than a dozen new military towns are directly controlled by him Hong Chengchou, although there are still some Manchu soldiers and generals left, but that can no longer threaten his rule.

He is ready to increase investment, the new army of ten new towns, the source of soldiers will be drawn from Henan Mansion and Shandong Mansion behind him, and some green battalions and Han army flags, as well as Xiangyong will be drawn up, there are many weapons here, Huai'an Mansion has been learning the division of labor and cooperation of the Huaxia Army for more than a year, assembly line operations, has accumulated a lot, and soon he will have a new army of twenty-five towns again, the cavalry of five towns, plus some Mongolian cavalry, Han Army flag cavalry, his strength will be even stronger, reaching a real strength of 350,000 to 380,000 troops, If you add the other county garrisons, there are another 500,000 troops.

The Han people are not good at anything, but there is a little good, there are many people.

When he was calculating and worshipping, Zhang Qiang had already arrived at Yuezhou Mansion to sit in person, Xiao Fei's headquarters had moved forward, half of the state south of Huguang had been owned by the Huaxia Army, and the troops led by Merlinyu and Zhu Ge were divided into two roads along the way, no more than a hundred miles away from each other, sweeping the east and west roads, and Merlinyu had already made peace with Wang Yuqun's troops on the west road.

The strength has increased greatly, along the way to wipe the territory of the Qing army in Guangxi Prefecture to attack, the troops have exceeded Changsha Mansion, did not enter Changsha Mansion, directly hit other places, Huguang's rebel army and the anyway army have responded, the north is in chaos, the Qing army's defending troops have retreated into the city, the rebel army and the anyway army have assisted in a row, and won several cities, Merlin Fish stopped here, Wang Yuqun continued to attack with his troops.

Brother Zhu of the East Road stopped in Changsha Mansion, and He Tengjiao's Yongli Daming confronted them.

After Xiao Fei arrived, Brother Zhu led his army to bypass them, swept several county towns of Yongli Daming, opened the road to the north, and continued to attack upward.

Zhang Qiang reversed Liu Liangzuo, who had nothing to do, with Tang Dianfeng, Tang Dianfeng went to Nanchang Mansion, and Liu Liangzuo went to Guangzhou Mansion.

However, Liu Liangzuo's Seventh Field Brigade was left to Tang Dianfeng.

Tang Dianfeng continued to garrison Nanchang Mansion with the Seventh Field Brigade, and at the same time protected Jiujiang Mansion, put pressure on the Qing army on the other side, and sent a small force of 1,000 people to cross the river to harass the enemy, so that Hong Chengchou could not transfer troops to rescue Huguang.

Xiao Fei's troops continued to advance, Zhang Qiang arrived at Changsha Mansion to lead troops to confront He Tengjiao, He Tengjiao was very tough, but in the face of Zhang Qiang's Huaxia army, but a few days, he fled to a farther place with his troops, Zhang Qiang took advantage of the situation to take Changsha Mansion, Yongli Daming's power in Huguang collapsed instantly, He Tengjiao fled to Hubei with the name of Yongli.

At this point, Zhang Qiang didn't leave, he sat here, watching Xiao Fei and his troops continue to attack Huguang like a bamboo, and he arranged for Tang Dianfeng to send the militia and garrison troops behind, as well as the captive soldiers who performed well, to gather the garrison troops to guard the place, open mountains and build roads, and pacify the people.

Implement his usual policy of occupation, assimilation.

Soon he received the news that Ao Bai led an army of 100,000 into Huguang, and immediately asked Xiao Fei to stop with his troops, shrink back, and prepare to meet Ao Bai's army.

Over there, Li Dingguo had been fighting with the Qing army for half a month, occupying most of the places originally occupied by the Qing army from the periphery to Guangxi Prefecture, and encircling the Qing army in a small territory of three county towns and one prefecture.

The losses of troops on both sides, the Qing army lost more than 50,000 people, and Li Dingguo lost more than 20,000 people, but Li Dingguo surrounded the Qing army.

With a force of one to three, but surrounded the Qing army that was stronger than himself, Li Dingguo can be described as a capable person.

A few days later, Zhang Qiang received news that Li Dingguo's subordinates had conquered a county town guarded by the Ma Degong brothers, and the Ma Degong brothers were cunning, leaving behind a guy named Direckert, but he escaped with hundreds of cronies, and they fled into the mountains and fled to the Yunnan-Guizhou mountains.

The guy defending the city was shattered by the artillery, the army collapsed, more than 40,000 people were taken prisoner, more than 10,000 were killed in battle, and more than 10,000 escaped.

At this time, the Qing army left two county seats, one was a prefecture city, one was the county seat garrisoned by Zierharang, and the other was the county seat garrisoned by Gao Zhixiang, and the capital city was the Kong Youde brothers plus Mang Gurtai.

Two days later, Gao Zhixiang surrendered, Jierharang committed suicide, Yongli Daming captured more than 10,000 Manchu Jurchens, more than 10,000 Han soldiers and Qing soldiers, and the rest were killed in battle.

In the two battles, Li Dingguo lost 20,000 troops, and the elite 5,000 firearms new army in the training department turned back to surround Guilin Mansion, and the Qing army still had 100,000 Qing troops of Mang Gurtai and 50,000 Qing troops of Kong Youde left.

The army is still very strong.

However, Li Dingguo lost 40,000 newly recruited recruits and 10,000 elite old battalions, with only 70,000 troops.

Thanks to the help of the Southern Ming Army, Li Dingguo quickly armed 20,000 cannon fodder from the captured weapons, and then used the captured Qing army cannons, muskets, and new army soldiers he trained to sell him from the Southern Ming army, armed a 10,000-strong New Army unit, and used these 30,000 people to continue to attack Guilin Mansion and play with the Qing army.

Mang Gurtai organized the young and strong people in the city, and used them to resist Li Dingguo's attack, Li Dingguo saw it, and immediately pulled the prisoners over, or the Jurchens who surrendered, forcing them to attack the city, copying the Qing army's previous tricks against the Ming Dynasty.

Shamelessness to shamelessness.

After three days of fighting, the Manchurians were exhausted, and the Qing army also lost 40,000 troops, but Li Dingguo consumed 40,000 prisoners who ate food, but he still had 40,000 prisoners, and he was consumed.

With the new army to suppress the formation, continue to drive the captives to attack the city, three days later, Kong Youde couldn't bear it, he also consumed 20,000 troops during this time, Mang Gurtai continued to consume the people in the city, but the people in the city also need to be watched, his soldiers also need to fight, the strength is stretched, and soon his troops are only 40,000 soldiers and horses, and Kong Youde's troops are only 70,000 soldiers and horses.

Li Dingguo's ruthless offensive and war of attrition not only did not greatly damage his strength, but instead trained the former veterans and recruits, and 10,000 elite soldiers with cold weapons stood out from the deaths of 50,000 captives and marching soldiers and became his new elite troops.

Another 10,000 soldiers of the New Army have been trained, all of whom have rich experience in cold weapon combat, experience in firearm operation, and have improved their strength and combat effectiveness.

The 60,000 troops still seem to be asymmetrical with the strength of the Qing army, but his soldiers have all experienced the war and are quite elite, 45,000 elite soldiers who followed him before, and 15,000 newly promoted soldiers.

At this time, he continued to buy gunpowder and bullets, shells, and cannons from the Southern Ming army, and pulled them directly to the city wall to bombard the city wall of Guilin Mansion.

The situation of the Qing army is getting worse day by day.

At this time, Aobai's army finally chased the retreating troops commanded by Xiao Fei to Changsha Mansion, and the 60,000 elite soldiers of the Huaxia Army, plus 20,000 guard troops, confronted Aobai's army in the counties around Changsha Mansion, and the war was about to break out.

(End of chapter)