The Dashun army and the Qing army passed through Chongyang one after the other and went to the direction of Tongshan one after another, but the shock they left was deeply rooted in the hearts of the soldiers of the Gongyi battalion.

Yuan Zongdi's troops had just lost the battle and were in a very embarrassing situation, but they still maintained strict military discipline, and they were all clean and neat when they stopped and walked under Chongyang City. There is no doubt that this army is an elite veteran of the rest of the battle, and it is also the old foundation of Yuan Zongdi, with excellent quality and tenacious will.

And the performance of the Qing army can only be described as amazing, no matter how much everyone hates the Tartars, they have to admit that the Eight Banners are indeed the best soldiers in the world. Not to mention the marching formation, the most terrifying thing is that the Tartar soldiers all have a sharp spirit of victory in a hundred battles, and the fifty white-armored soldiers roared back and forth under the city, as if they were fifty extremely dangerous beasts, and they didn't look at the hundreds of Ming soldiers on the city wall at all.

Wang Sheng and others discussed privately, and also thought that the Gongyi battalion was not their opponent, those Tartar soldiers had grown up on horseback since childhood, and were trained as warriors since childhood, and the soldiers of the Dashun army were also rolled over by a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the peasants of the Gongyi battalion who had just put down their hoes, no matter how hard they trained, were still obviously a lot worse than them.

In addition, the Gongyi battalion also has a natural shortcoming, because of the difference in water, soil and dietary habits, the northerners are stronger than the southerners, even if those Tartar soldiers who have been riding horses since childhood are all circle-legged, they still look taller than the soldiers of the Gongyi battalion.

The body is strong, and the wars of this era are mainly hand-to-hand combat, and the height is half a head lower than the other party, and half of the losses are lost before they fight.

These are objective difficulties that cannot be avoided, and instead of deliberately covering them up, it is better to break them up and crush them, unify their thinking as soon as possible, and Wang Kefan put all the issues on the table and launched a big discussion and training within the Gongyi Battalion......

In addition, Wang Kefan also worked with Xu Bingzhong to contact various townships in Chongyang, and in the name of wartime military management, they implemented the clearing of the wilderness and the self-protection of the armor.

For the gentry and heroes of the township, most of their property is fields and houses, and they can't move or take them away, so they can't pat their butts and flee like ordinary people. Therefore, they did not hesitate to strengthen the liliang of self-preservation, recruited regimental training, and built villages, not seeking to resist the attack of the large army, but at least to prevent a small group of rogue routs.

In the years of war and chaos, as long as it was a slightly larger village, several groups of people and horses came to borrow grain every day, and the banners were bigger than the other, Li Zicheng, Zuo Liangyu, He Tengjiao...... Even the Tartar Marshal Azig was sending people full of Shijie to borrow grain, and some of them claimed to be Hao Shaoqi's subordinates, who sounded like nothing more than a nobody, and were directly bombarded out by the gentry and heroes.

Hao Shaoqi arrived in Puqi a few days ago, Puqi is located north of Chongyang, closer to Wuchang Mansion, the military and civilian officials have long escaped, he occupied it without much effort, and then sent people to fetch food.

But this kind of thing also requires a cost, if the other party has been prepared and resists desperately, breaking a village will cost dozens of casualties, or even hundreds of brothers, but Zuihou can't get much food, just stealing chickens and rice.

Therefore, the most haode way is to borrow food, as long as the other party knows each other, there is no need to tear your face desperately.

At first, the grain team was active around Puqi, although there were fewer villages that could borrow grain, and in general it was quite smooth, but after entering Chongyang, they touched a few hard nails one after another, and they didn't borrow a bucket of grain. As soon as Hao Shaoqi inquired, it turned out that there was still a Ming army in Chongyang County, supporting those villages behind their backs......

In the Yahou Hall of Chongyang County, Wang Kefan was discussing with Xu Bingzhong, and Lu Chuan hurriedly walked in.

"Honorable, Yuntai, I'm in trouble! Hao Shaoqi sent someone to borrow grain, and kept saying that he wanted 500 stone ......"

"So much!" Xu Bingzhong was shocked, since Hao Shaoqi's troops entered Puqi, he had been very worried, and sure enough, people were now coming to the door.

"That messenger also seems to be a thief, arrogant and rude, full of threatening words, how to deal with it, please ask the hall to show me." Lu Chuanying said: "According to the humble position, it is better to put together two or three hundred stone rice grain for him, and send him away to buy a safe ......."

"This ......" Xu Bingzhong felt that something was wrong, hesitated, turned his head to Wang Kefan and said, "Virtuous nephew, you have to come up with an idea for this matter." ”

Although there is a lot of grain stored in Chongyang County, most of it is bought by Wang Kefan out of his own pocket and stored in the Gongyi camp, without his permission, no one wants to use it, but last time Yuan Zongdi crossed the border, Wang Kefan actually gave him fifty stone of grain, and he would agree to come this time.

"No, not a single stone." Wang Kefan's answer was beyond his expectations.

"Not a single stone?" Xu Bingzhong was stunned for a moment, and then persuaded: "If 200 stones is too much, then 100 stones, ah, even if it is 50 stones, how much can I deal with this gang of thieves." ”

The scouts had already inquired and understood that after Hao Shaoqi arrived in Puqi, he continued to contain the rout, and his men and horses were at least 278,000, if he didn't give any food, if he was provoked to attack Chongyang, it would be because of a small loss.

Wang Kefan shook his head: "People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, you gave him fifty stones today, and tomorrow he will come again to ask for one hundred stones, even if you give five hundred stones at a time, he will ask for one thousand stones next time......

Last time Yuan Zongdi crossed the border, the left and right were a hammer deal, it didn't matter if he gave him some food, but Hao Shaoqi was guarding next to Chongyang, when he wanted to borrow food, he sent a messenger to come by boat. He has nearly 30,000 horses under his command, that is, 30,000 mouths, 30,000 big-bellied men who can eat and pull, although Chongyang has a lot of grain, it can't afford such an army.

Sooner or later, Hao Shaoqi will still turn his face, Chongyang raised him to be strong and strong, but he ran out of food and grass, so he didn't have to fight anymore, just surrendered.

Under his explanation, Xu Bingzhong finally gave up his plan to borrow grain.

"Send that messenger away, don't talk to death, you can drag it out for a day......

Although he knew that it was impossible, Xu Bingzhong still had a trace of luck and hoped that Hao Shaoqi would have some accident and not attack Chongyang.

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The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and Hao Shaoqi's soldiers soon came.

The Dashun army was ten miles away from the city and went down to the village.

This is a very cautious choice, for an attacker who is not firmly established, having such a long distance as a buffer can calmly deal with the attacks of the defenders in the city.

But at the same time, this also means that the Dashun army has no intention of besieging Chongyang, and Hao Shaoqi brought 15,000 men and horses, and it is impossible to form a complete encirclement in such a large radius. If he wanted to completely annihilate the Gongyi battalion, he should be closer to the city wall and reduce the encirclement a little more.

He plans to force Wang Kefan away!

Attacking this county town, like attacking those villages, must consider the costs and benefits, if the defenders desperately resist, too many casualties will not be cost-effective, the most Haode result is to force the Ming army out of Chongyang. According to the information of the scouts, there is enough grain and grass in Chongyang City, and if it can be successfully taken down, there is no need to worry about food in a short time.

Of course, this required that the defenders of the city were beaten so hard that they had to run.

After Hao Shaoqi inspected the defense of Chongyang City, he also realized that this was a difficult bone to gnaw, and he did not rush to attack the city, but built a camp, built equipment, and patiently carried out various preparations.

Up and down the city, the Ming army and the Shun army faced each other from afar, and they did not disturb each other for more than ten days, but everyone knew that the war was about to break out......

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At the same time, the Dashun army and the Qing army were approaching Jiujiang, Zuo Liangyu in order to avoid the edge, ready to lead the troops to continue to march eastward, but before leaving, he found that He Tengjiao was gone, and asked his generals, only to know that he jumped the Yangtze River unprepared, and he did not know whether he was alive or dead.

Zuo Liangyu didn't care about tracking down He Tengjiao's whereabouts, so he picked up his soldiers and horses and left Jiujiang, but unexpectedly fell ill suddenly that night, coughing up three liters of blood and dying.

After his death, the generals elected Zuo Mengeng as the main and continued to march eastward along the Yangtze River, and the Hongguang Imperial Court hurriedly dispatched the main forces of the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River to intercept it, and fought fiercely with the left, Zuo Mengeng's army was unstable and was defeated......

At the beginning of the establishment of the Hongguang Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the government and the opposition thought that they could follow the example of the Southern Song Dynasty and rule by dividing the river, which could support at least one hundred and eighty years, but in fact, it was destroyed in just one year.

The reasons for this are very complicated, but Zuo Liangyu's "Qingjun side" is an important military inducement, at this time Duoduo's army has entered the north of Jiangsu, the soldiers are directed at Nanjing, Shi Kefa is trapped in the lonely city of Yangzhou, and there is a lack of soldiers and major generals in his hands, but the main force of the four towns in the south of the Nanming River has been drained out, and Zuo Mengeng has fought a civil war to the death, resulting in the door of the Jiangbei defense line being opened, Duoduo broke through Yangzhou, and slaughtered the soldiers and civilians in the city (this massacre is the famous "Yangzhou Ten Days"), and then drove straight into ......

On the Jiangxi side, Azig sailed down the river, and finally caught up with Li Zicheng forty miles west of the Jiujiang River, and with a thunderous blow, he defeated the Dashun army of nearly 100,000 horses.

Li Zicheng Rong half a life, ups and downs, the battle of Jiujiang was a fiasco for him, almost lost all his family, the old camp of the Dashun army was broken by the Qing army, the general Liu Zongmin, the military adviser Song Xiance, and a large number of family members of the army were captured.

Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng's two uncles were directly killed, but Song Xiance was worthy of his background in the rivers and lakes, and after playing a few small spells, he bluffed a group of Manchurian buns who had never seen the world, and was treated as a talented person and received courtesy.

Li Zi himself led the remnants to break through the siege, and finally got rid of the pursuit of the Qing army, and retreated to the Tongshan area by small road, intending to cross the Jiugong Mountain and re-enter Huguang and join Hao Shaoqi in the Puqi area......