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When Zhu Hongsan set off, it was February 18, the third year of Shenwu, he did not know that at the same time as he set off, in Hanyang, thousands of miles away on the Yangtze River, the Manchu Dingyuan general, Prince Zheng Jierharang, with the 200,000 troops from the east, formally swore in Hanyang to attack the Shenwu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

The cause of the incident still has to start from November of the second year of Shenwu, when Zilharang was unlucky to be knighted by Dolgon and became the king of Dora County. However, after Xiaozhuang reached an agreement with Tong Tuchang, he felt that there was really no one available in his hands. Both Yellow Banners were Hauge's men, and after Hauge was executed by Dolgon, most of them took refuge in Dolgon. Originally, Dai Shan was still a reliable candidate to restrain Dolgon, but in October of the second year of Shenwu, Dai Shan, who had been suppressed by Dolgon for many years, also died in Beijing, and the banner owners of the two red flags were gone, and the two red flags were now in chaos (Nurhachi's sons were really powerful, but they were all short-lived).

The owner of the Blue Banner is Dordor, and now that Dordor is dead, the Blue Banner belongs to Dorgon. Now the only one who still has some ability, and is not the Dolgon group, is such a blue-flagged Zilharang. Therefore, after thinking about it, Xiaozhuang decided to meet Dolgon, explain to him, and strive to release Zilharang.

After listening to Xiaozhuang's account of the military situation in the north and south, he sensitively realized that the more than 200,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners that Duoduo lost in Jiangxi was the only mobile corps in his hands, and now it was not a question of whether he wanted to cross the Yangtze River and eliminate Zhu Hongsan, but he had to be careful to prevent Zhu Hongsan from crossing the Yangtze River and attacking him. You must know that Yangzhou is further north of Shandong, not far from Beijing.

At the same time, Dolgon agreed with Tong Tuchang's suggestion to unite with Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang to deal with Zhu Hongsan first. Zhu Hongsan has now occupied the richest and most prosperous place in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and will he still be alive if he is given a few more years of development opportunities? Therefore, without much thought, Dolgon agreed to Xiaozhuang's request, released Zilharang, and handed over the last 20,000 mobile regiments in the capital to Zilharang.

These 20,000 people are the last capital of the two yellow flags and the two red flags, and Dolgon still keeps an eye on it and does not use the last of his two white flags. However, even if Xiaozhuang knew Dolgon's little abacus, he could only pinch his nose and agree, because after all, Dolgon had already made concessions, and you two yellow flags couldn't be justified without some blood.

Now that Dai Shan has just died, Dai Shan's sons Yue Tuo, Shuo Tuo, Saha, and Wakda have not yet lived, and they have died before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Now it is Dai Shan's seventh son Man Dahai, although he has just died, but now there is no way, but can only turn grief into strength and go directly to the expedition.

There are also several generals of the Two Yellow Banners, of course, the Two Yellow Banners were strong and strong, but with the death of Hauge, the Two Yellow Banners were suppressed by Dolgon, and several who could fight were persecuted to death. Now only Turg, Turai, Sihan, Gong Adai, Aobai, and Tazhan remained, and this time they all brought them to Zilharang, and Zilharang brought his only adult son, Jidu.

In addition to the 20,000 troops made up of the two yellow flags and two red flags, there are also 20,000 people from the Han Army Banner in Shanxi to guard against Jiang Yang, as well as Xiaozhuang's maiden family, and 30,000 people from the Mongolian Horqin Department. At the same time, the armies of Shandong and Henan could not move, and these two places had to guard against the Ming army in Yangzhou, and Xiaozhuang had no choice but to transfer 20,000 troops from Murgen and Li Guohan in Shaanxi and 10,000 people from Tang Tong stationed in Hanzhong to Huguang and return to Jierharang for moderation.

Xiaozhuang couldn't do this, because Duoduo lost more than 200,000 troops in Jiangxi, and now the entire Manchu defense line is full of holes. But now, in order to quickly eliminate Zhu Hongsan and recapture the grain-producing area of Nanzhili, I can't take care of that. In addition to these, there are 5,000 taels of elite white flags in Yangzhou, 30,000 Mongolian eight banners, and 780,000 troops of Wu Sangui, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi stationed in Hanyang, which finally gathered enough 200,000 soldiers and horses, which is stronger than the Ming army in Wuchang on the other side.

Zilharang left Beijing on the fifth day of the first month of October, he only took 20,000 elites of the Zhenghuang Banner, and all the other troops went south by multiple routes to gather in Huguang and Xiangyang in order to avoid being alarmed.

Arriving in Huai'an in early November, and after handing over prisoners to the Ming army in Yangzhou, Jierharang left Huai'an with his troops, went to Xuzhou, and entered Henan from Guide Province. At that time, Duoduo's troops were infected with the plague in Henan, but Zilharang was lucky, the date chosen was winter, the virus was suppressed by the cold air, and the Manchurian Eight Banners, which was born in the bitter cold land of Liaodong, was still very adaptable to this cold weather.

In January of the following year, Jilharang finally left the uninhabited area of Henan and arrived at Xiangyang Mansion in Huguang, which was Jilharang's base camp before crossing the Yangtze River.

Luo Xiujin, the governor of Huguang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who was far away in Hanyang, learned that General Dingyuan had arrived in Xiangyang, and hurriedly took his subordinates Lin Tianqing, the governor of Huguang, Tang Guochen, Yang Wenfu, the general soldiers, as well as Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Shang Kexi, the king of Zhishun, and Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, to Xiangyang to meet the general.

Seeing that the civil and military officials of the Huguang system had come, Jilharang recited the holy decree of Emperor Shunzhi. The source of these more than 200,000 troops is complicated, there are Haoge system, Dolgon system, and Daishan department, and finally add the surrender army of the Ming Dynasty from Shaanxi and Huguang, these guys have different thoughts, but seeing that the emperor's holy decree is stamped with the regent's big seal, they all understand what Dolgon means.

Zilharang looked at the seventy or eighty officials under him, and said loudly: "Everyone, this king has won the trust of the queen mother, the emperor, and the regent this time to command the army. ”

Everyone heard that Ji'er Harang had set the tone so high, and they hurriedly bowed down one by one and said that they would live up to the court's kindness and bravely kill the enemy.

Zierharang nodded, and said to Luo Xiujin, the governor of Huguang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty beside him: "Lord Luo, how many people are still in the Ming army in Wuchang now?" How's it going? ”

Luo Xiujin has been the governor for more than a year, and has fought many battles with the Ming army on the other side of the river in the past year, but they are all small-scale contacts, and the real big war has not been fought.

"Lord Zheng, the Ming army in Wuchang Mansion has a total of 25,000 people, of which 15,000 are their musketeers, these guys are very strong in combat, and there are 5,000 people who are the sailors of the Ming army.

In fact, Luo Xiujin is still to say that the real situation is that they have been scared by the Ming navy, and now they have shrunk all the troops into Hanyang City, no matter how arrogant the Ming army and navy on the river are, they don't care about it, they become turtles with shrunken heads.

"Lord Luo, where else is there a garrison besides Wuchang?"

"Lord Zheng, although the Ming army is very strong in combat, but there are too few manpower, there were still 30,000 musketeers in the city half a year ago, I don't know why, two months ago, a large number of ships came to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and 15,000 musketeers were transferred to Jiujiang, so now there is no Ming army around Wuchang to garrison!"

"What about other places?"

"According to the detailed report, Xianning and Daye around Wuchang are occupied by the Shenwu Imperial Court, but there are no musketeers, only a few hundred local inspection divisions! After Jiayu and Puqi is the territory of the Yongli Imperial Court, in Yueyang Mansion, there are more than 400,000 troops led by He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang of the Yongli Imperial Court, but they have no intention of going north. He Tengjiao was building a sailor ship in Dongting Lake, and heard that he was going up the river into Sichuan. ”

Zilharang fought with the Ming army, and he didn't see the million-strong army of the Ming army at all. However, he was very afraid of the 15,000 musketeers in Wuchang City.

Zilharang learned from the mouths of the two White Flag captives that they were defeated in Nanchang, not because of the plague or the loss of combat effectiveness, but because they really fought head-on with the Ming army, and they were defeated after being defeated. And those musketeers have sharp firearms, and artillery accompanies the infantry attack, if it is not ten times the enemy, it is better not to fight.

Now Zilharang was very happy to hear that there were half fewer musketeers in Wuchang City, so that the difficulty of the attack could be reduced by half.

Zilharang looked at the generals standing in the big tent, said something for them to train well, and then let them out, leaving the governor Luo Xiujin and the governor Lin Tianqing alone.

Luo Xiujin is Dolgon's henchman, Lin Tianqing is Hong Chengchou's henchman, and he is also Dolgon's person, and now he sees that the royalist cadre Jilharang left them alone, and he doesn't know what is going on. The two looked at each other, and Luo Xiujin stood up and said, "Lord Zheng, I don't know what is the matter with leaving the two of us alone?" ”

Zilharang smiled, took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Luo Xiujin and said, "Both, look at this letter, the regent has written a letter to you at this time!" ”

Hearing that it was Dolgon's handwritten letter, the two did not dare to delay, and hurriedly took it out to watch it in detail.

It turned out that this letter was a sternly worded letter written by Dolgon for fear that the generals on the Huguang front line would be disobedient, explaining that no matter who was in the Huguang war, he should listen to the words of Prince Zheng Zierharang, and if he opposed Zilharang, he would be against him, and that Dolgon would personally kill him when he returned to Beijing in the future.

After reading the letter, Luo Xiujin and the others thought in their hearts: Since the regent has said so, let's listen to what this Prince Zheng should do!

Luo Xiujin handed the letter to Zilharang with both hands, and then asked, "Please rest assured that Prince Zheng will definitely follow Prince Zheng's orders!" ”

Seeing Dolgon's handwritten letter, Zilharang nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, this king's first general order is to order you to contact the Ming generals in Wuchang City, and we will negotiate peace with them!" ”