In March of the second year of Yongli, Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong successively reversed, except for the unexpected stubborn resistance of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, the rest of the state capitals were surrendered, and the situation in the south changed greatly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The **** in the northwest took advantage of the situation to capture six or seven prefectures and counties and fight against the Qing court. The remnants of Li Zicheng in Shaanxi also joined forces with tens of thousands of troops to attack Xi'an, and the momentum was huge. Jiang Xiang of Datong couldn't sit still, and appointed himself as a general, turned against Datong, and captured more than a dozen cities. Jiang Xiang did not say that he belonged to Yongli, he wanted to be a king of the northwest.

The Han army was in charge, and the Qing court was shocked. The total number of Manchurians was less than 100,000, but there was an absolute center of power, and that was the regent Dorgon. The regent knew in his heart that Jiang Xiang and the Northwest Rebellion would not be able to become a climate, and if his younger brother Azig led the troops to scare and scare, the rebellious army would not dare to make any more big moves.

The key lies in Jiangxi and Huguang, these two places have always been regarded by the Qing court as the central and important places for the southward attack on Liangguang, so when Jin Shenghuan, Li Chengdong and the Ming army repelled Kong Youde's southern expedition, the regent Dolgon immediately attached great importance to this matter.

Dolgon was also very surprised that the officials in Ganzhou did not participate anyway, and he deeply knew that the gains and losses of Ganzhou involved the current situation in the entire south. For the guard of Ganzhou, Gao Jinku is loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and the regent is also a little surprised, Gao Jinku is Gao Jie's nephew, and he is also a thief, but he didn't expect to be so loyal, and he must not let Ganzhou fall into the hands of the Ming army! Therefore, the rescue must not be delayed.

In order to regain the initiative in the southern war, this time Dolgon decided to take out his old book, and he not only ordered Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others in Yuezhou, Hubei Province to reorganize their troops and horses, and actively plot to forge ahead. He also sent his henchman general Zhenghuangqi Manchuria Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai as the general of the expedition to the south, and Shuncheng County Wang Luck Dehun, who had performed quite well on the Huguang battlefield, as his deputy, together with the Gushan Ezhen He Luohui and the general Liu Liangzuo of Manchuria with the white flag, led Manchurian, Han, and Mongolian soldiers and horses from Beijing to Jiangxi, attacked Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, who were besieging Ganzhou, and rescued friendly troops. At the same time, Dolgon also ordered Gushan Ezhen Zhu Mala and Jiangnan Governor Ma Guozhu to lead their troops from Jiangning (Nanjing) by water, and joined Tan Tai's army in Anqing Mansion to launch an offensive against Jiangxi together.

In addition to dispatching these two extremely capable generals, Dolgon also ordered Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, to move from Jinzhou to Hanzhong, to respond in the Sichuan-Shaanxi area, and led 40,000 troops from Guanning to prepare for an expedition to Huguang.

After some careful preparations, the regent ordered the ministries; Success or failure is in one move, and if you go south, you can only win, not lose. In addition to the 20,000 people who stayed in Heilongjiang, Jilin and more than 10,000 people in Beijing, the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and the Green Battalion defended the base camp, and the rest of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty went south with the 50,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, which was a battle of life and death. Manshuai Tan Tai was the general of the expedition to the south, Liu Liangzuo, Tulai, Tong Dai, He Luohui and other people joined forces and marched south. A total of 100,000 foot riders, ox carts, camels, gun carts, and countless Western firearms, the firearms battalion was dispatched. The army is 300 miles old, the golden drum shakes the sky, and the warships cover the river, and the Qing army has never had such a great momentum since it left the division.

One point to be noted here is that the main force of the Qing army sent by the Qing court to attack Jiangxi this time is no longer an ordinary traitor army, but the main force of the main force in the Qing army, the trump card of the trump card, and the Manmeng Eight Banners!

In fact, the Qing army after entering the customs was roughly composed of three parts. That is, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner Army, the Liao Army and the Surrender Army.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Army is the collective name of the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners in the Qing Army. This part of the army is mainly cavalry, and has always been the main force in the Qing army, with strong combat effectiveness, extremely fast marching speed, and more desperate in battle, it is definitely the most powerful cavalry force in China and even the world at that time. But don't look at the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mengba Banners occupy two-thirds of the 24 banners of the Qing army, in fact, the number of troops in this part is relatively small, of course, this is relative to the Han Banner.

It is because of this that the high-level of the Qing Dynasty attaches great importance to this Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner Army, and basically does "not go out without major events", unless the situation reaches the point of last resort, otherwise the Qing court will definitely not easily use this trump card army.

Under the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, followed by the Liao Army, as the name suggests, the main component of this army is the Liaodong people. Although they were Han Chinese, some Han Chinese joined the Qing army in order to eat, because the Qing court had partially changed its policy towards Han Chinese in the occupied areas since Huang Taiji came to power.

This part of the army was mainly led by Kong Youde and other Sanshun kings, and their sergeants also formed the main force of the Liao army. Although the combat effectiveness of the Liao army was far inferior to that of the cavalry of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, they were an indispensable and important component of the Qing army. This is because in addition to the firearms battalion of Kong Youde and others, there is also a separate artillery battalion in the Liao army. Among them, Meler Ezhen Zhang Cunren is the commander of the artillery battalion, and there are hundreds of Hongyi cannons in the artillery battalion.

The third part is the green battalion of the army, the composition of which is quite complex, and the combat effectiveness alone is even more uneven.

There are three main sources of the green battalion, one is the original economic army of the Ming Dynasty, most of them surrendered on the way south of the Qing army in the first year of Hongguang (1645 in the Western calendar). In addition to strong soldiers like Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry, there are also Ming troops like Zuo Mengeng's left soldiers and the former four towns represented by Li Chengdong and others. The other two major sources of the surrender army, the same is true of the remnants of the Nationalist Army and Zheng Zhilong's pirates, although there are some that can be used, but overall the combat power is still relatively low.

If you sort it according to its combat strength, the approximate result should be as follows: Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner Army (Guanning Iron Cavalry), Liao Army (Left Soldier Elite and the Ming Army of the First Four Towns, Dashun Army, Western Army), and others.

In this way, if we compare the three parts of Yongli's army with the Qing army, the Ming court spared no expense in financial resources and made every effort to train and train more than 40,000 Beijing camp forbidden army combat strength is roughly between the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and the Liao army, Li Chengdong, Jin Shenghuan, Li Guo, Gao Yigong's combat strength is about the same as the Liao army, and the army strength of the ordinary box camp is between the Liao army and the ordinary green battalion of the Qing army.

The Ming army's Beijing camp is about 45,000, the box camp is 60,000, plus Li Chengdong's 30,000, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren's 670,000, and Li Guogao's first meritorious army is more than 50,000, and the total number of troops that can be put into Huguang and Jiangxi is about 250,000, and the total number of troops that can be put into Huguang and Jiangxi is about 200,000, of which about 50,000 are the main force of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners.

According to Dolgon's arrangement, in mid-April, the Qing army marched to Dongliu County, and then divided into two routes. Tan Tai's department was responsible for attacking Jiujiang, and Lekdehun's department was responsible for attacking Raozhou. Wu Gao, a Ming general who was ordered by Jin Shenghuan to guard Jiujiang, was relatively timid, and when he heard that the main force of the Qing army's Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners was coming, he took the initiative to abandon the city and flee. His greed for life and fear of death almost led to the whole situation getting out of control.

In late April, Yang Jie, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Qing court's reinforcements, occupied the city of Jiujiang, known as the gateway to Jiangxi, with little effort. At the same time, the army of Luckedhun also conquered the capital of Raozhou on April 25, and since then Guangxin and Raozhou have fallen back to the enemy.

Tan Tai and Liu Liangzuo received the order to lead the division to rescue Ganzhou, but although the Qing army on this road is also dominated by Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, and the marching speed is relatively fast, it is not an aircraft after all, and it can advance thousands of miles in a day and night, mainly relying on horses, so Tan Tai discussed with the generals, and everyone agreed that when the army arrived in Ganzhou, it was estimated that Liu Wuyuan and Gao Jinku's heads had already moved, so they absolutely could not continue to fight in such a city and place.

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