Liu Heizi was besieged by the Qing army for nearly half a year, and after the Qing army failed to succeed in the first few strong attacks, it changed its strategy and turned to digging trenches to besiege it.

During this time, the Qing army drove nearly 100,000 villagers, digging trenches day and night, two zhang deep and wide, and the water around Shangqiu could not be drained.

Although Liu Heizi's army was still sufficient, the materials in the city were consumed very quickly, and at the beginning of 1647, various necessities such as food, firewood, and herbs began to become nervous.

Liu Heizi has been a coal boss for several years, relying on selling coal to Gao Yihuan and Jiangnan, and usually robbing the canal and engaging in some side jobs, living a very good life and saving a lot of money and food.

However, even if you have a lot of savings, you can't withstand the consumption of the war, and you can't stand more than 100,000 mouths to eat and drink.

Once the city was trapped in the city, the first thing to worry about was that the vegetables were gone, so Liu Heizi asked people to plant vegetables in the city, and then the coal and firewood were burned out, so the house was demolished and cooked.

When he was old last year, the Wei army rushed to the city of Shangqiu and sent a rocket to the Qing army camp, so that the soldiers in the city were a little calm, and they were all looking forward to Gao Dashuai coming to the rescue.

As the main force of the Qing army moved south, the soldiers and civilians in the city knew that the Ming Dynasty could not protect itself, so they pinned their hopes on Gao Dashuai.

After Duoduo's camp went west to southern Henan, Liu Heizi was shocked, knowing that Gao Yihuan was also unable to protect himself.

The sudden change dealt a great blow to the defenders of the city, and their hopes were dashed in an instant.

This is really a backer, everyone will run, and in the end, Liu Heizi can only rely on himself.

As the Qing army expanded in both the south and west, the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence was driven to the south, and Gao Yihuan could also be driven out of southern Henan.

In this way, Shangqiu has become an isolated island, holding on to it is equivalent to sitting and waiting for death, Liu Heizi is not trapped in the city waiting for help, began to save himself, and personally led the troops out of the city, to the Qing army guarding the trench launched many attacks, but the Qing army's deep trench lock city strategy, has been deployed, Liu army before and after six attacks, were repelled by the Qing army.

The continuous failure of the breakthrough made the pessimism in the city begin to spread again, coupled with the lack of food in the city, there was a situation of killing people and eating, and the situation of defecting out of the city appeared at the right time.

After discussing with the generals, Liu Heizi decided to let the people out of the city, give them a way to live, and at the same time reduce the consumption of food in the city.

Unexpectedly, Tunqi, the commander of the Qing army, had already made up his mind and did not allow anyone to leave the city.

has been trapped for nearly half a year, and seeing that the city is about to be unable to hold on, Tun Qi thought that there was no need to take any risks, and directly trapped Liu Shun to death.

Therefore, Tunqi had already made up his mind that whether it was the army that surrendered out of the city or the people, they would be slaughtered, so as not to bother to distinguish whether they really surrendered or were fraudulent.

Moreover, Duoduo took away the main force of the Qing army, and Tun Qi did not have many soldiers and horses, and he did not have the time to monitor the surrendered army.

In February, Liu Heizi sent one of his henchmen to lead 500 soldiers and their families to shave their hair and armor, and go out of the city to join the enemy.

No, Tunqi only left eleven people as the leader, and the rest of the people were killed by the Qing army.

For those who surrendered in the city, the Qing army only left the leader, and all the troops were killed.

Doing so, not only can prevent fraudulent surrender, but at the same time, it will not do anything in the end, and there will still be some people who do not care about the life and death of the soldiers and surrender to the Qing army.

For the people who voted out of the city, all the men were killed, and the women were kept for the pleasure of the bannermen.

The time entered March, and there were only more than 10,000 people left of Liu Heizi's 30,000 horses, and Shangqiu City had reached its final moment.

Just as Liu Heizi was preparing to make the last breakthrough and launch a decisive charge, Yuan Zongdi led three thousand elite Wei troops and rushed to the outside of Shangqiu City.

In Gao Yihuan's plan, for a long time in the future, the Wei army would be at a disadvantage in the face of the Qing army.

How to change this disadvantage, in addition to fighting the Qing army in the front, he also needs a force to contain the Qing army in the hinterland of the Qing army, and the two battlefields in front and behind the enemy line can be coordinated in order to slowly reverse the disadvantage.

Therefore, Gao Yihuan believed that it was necessary to send an elite Wei army into the area controlled by the Qing army, use mobile guerrilla means to contain the Qing army, fight against the rule of the Qing court, and share the pressure for him, so that he could withdraw from the development of Guanzhong and seek to conquer Sichuan and Shu.

This strategy, the Qing army actually used, they indirectly supported Li Zicheng through several invasions, let the Liukou consume the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, and they carried out the final harvest.

Gao Yihuan sent 3,000 elite soldiers to rescue Liu Heizi, just to let Liu Heizi make trouble in the hinterland of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and achieve the purpose of consuming and containing the Qing army.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Liu Heizi has been killed in battle, or if Shangqiu City has been broken by the Qing army.

General Yuan Zongdi led 3,000 elite Wei troops into the eastern Henan region, joined forces with the remnants of the Wei army that were still holding out there, based on the forts in eastern Henan, and waited for an opportunity to advance into Shandong, or go south into the north of Nanzhili, and disrupt the Qing army internally.

In order to cooperate with them, Gao Yihuan would also let Xuan Yiwei fund the anti-Qing forces in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and bribe and persuade the Green Camp generals to rebel with heavy money, such as Jiang Xiang in Datong, so that the Manchus were too busy to clean up the interior and have no time to fight him.

For this reason, Gao Yihuan sent his henchman, Xuan Yiwei, to command Gao Yicheng to Chengdu.

Gao Yicheng will plan rebellions in various places in the name of the uprising of the righteous army and the oppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, rather than directly pulling the banner of the Wei army.

In this way, the Qing army will be pinned down by internal chaos, and the frontal threat of the Wei army will be greatly reduced, and it will be able to start attacking Sichuan and Shu to further consolidate its own territory.

Yuan Zongdi and Gao Yicheng led the troops to the vicinity of Shangqiu, and the two did not have much hope for whether Shangqiu was still holding out.

However, when they came to the city, they found that Liu Heizi was still alive, and Shangqiu City was still resisting, and they couldn't help but feel a burst of surprise and some admiration.

At this time, the main force of the Qing army withdrew, and the 20,000 Qing troops could only be trapped through the trenches.

Gao Yicheng selected a dead soldier from the pioneer battalion, took the token, and touched it into the city to meet Liu Heizi.

Liu Heizi was already about to despair, but when he saw Gao Yihuan's letter to him, he was so excited that he cried.

That night, on the fifth watch, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Heizi joined forces to annihilate 5,000 Qing troops, break through the encirclement of Tunqi, and jump out of Shangqiu City.

Liu Shun broke out of the encirclement, and there were only 15,000 people left in Tunqi, so he had no way to take him, he was worried that Liu Shun would enter the east and release the defenders of Xuzhou, so he reported the military situation to Duoduo and Beijing on the one hand, and led the army east into Xuzhou on the other.

At this time, on the official road radiating from Beijing, three messengers of the Qing army walked different roads and galloped towards Beijing, as if they were in a game.

These three messengers, all the way were sent by Tunqi, hoping that the Qing court would allocate troops to encircle Liu Shun, prevent Liu Shun from mobile battles, and release the defenders of Xuzhou.

All the way from Huai'an, it was Azig who reported to the Manchu court, stating that the Manchu negotiations with Nanjing had broken down, and asking Dolgon to give instructions on the next step.

The last way, it is Dordo to play a secret to Dolgon, Shang Kexi died, and asked Dolgon to allocate some troops to him~

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