After Dolgon reorganized his interior and re-established his absolute authority, he began to prepare for a counteroffensive against the Chu army.

After the Battle of Nanjing, the Chu army launched three Northern Expeditions in succession, beating the Jianghuai area to pieces, and even carrying Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi beacon smoke everywhere, and the anti-Qing righteous divisions rose one after another, the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was like a house on fire, if the fire was not extinguished while the fire was still small, the whole house would be burned down, not to mention pacifying the world, even Beijing could not stay, or withdraw from the customs as soon as possible.

Sun Kewang of the Western Army attacked Huguang, which was an excellent opportunity for the Qing army to counterattack, and was pressed to the ground and ravaged by the Chu army for more than half a year, and now it is time to fight back. Dolgon dispatched troops and sent generals, playing the banner of "Lianming to fight thieves", and prepared to fight to the death with the Chu army.

Lianming, of course, is the Ming Dynasty of Yongwang Zhu Cihuan, I only admit that Chongzhen is the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, Tang King Zhu Yujian and Wang Kefan, who is a tiger, of course, are all pseudo-Ming thieves, in order to maintain the Taoist system, the world should discuss it.

Sun Kewang because of the resistance is too great, has not yet openly formed an alliance with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Sun Kewang himself has promised that he will cooperate with the Qing army to crusade against the Chu army together, according to the grapevine, Sun Kewang heard the slogan of "Lianming to fight against thieves", and also shouted out the slogan of "Lian Ming to fight against thieves", Lian Ju, Lian is the Manchu Tartars, rebellious, begging for the rebellion of the Chu army, and Shi Kefa put forward the slogan of "Lian Capture and Fight for Kou" is exactly the same, and has been supported by many loyal and patriotic people.

Although he was scolded as a Tartar, Dolgon didn't care, he didn't plan to really get along with the Western Army forever, he just wanted to call a helper to fight with Wang Kefan, defeating the Chu Army is the most important thing, what does it matter if he was scolded twice, not to mention that Sun Kewang didn't point his nose and scold him in person, but he still saved some face for my Daqing.

"Lian Ming begs for thieves!"

"Capture Nanjing!"

"Fight across the Yangtze River!"

"Capture Zhu Yujian alive!"

"Slash Wang Kefan!"

The slogans of the Qing army shouted loudly, and the troops had not yet been dispatched, and the momentum had been greatly created, but in Dolgon's plan, the Qing army would only hit Yangzhou City as far as possible, and confront the Chu army across the river.

The purpose of this counteroffensive is to recover Jianghuai and restore the strategic situation before the Chu army's three northern expeditions, and at the same time sweep away Li Laiheng, Yuyuan Army and other anti-Qing forces active in the north, turn Shandong and Henan into a stable rear, and then reopen the transportation in Jiangbei and Anhui to provide enough money and food for the Beijing division.

Cao Yun has been broken for more than a year, and the children of the Eight Banners in the Beijing Division are having a hard time!

In order to make up for the necessary military expenses, Dolgon took out the last copper plate in the treasury, but the remaining holes were still too large, so he had to scrape together and fill in the hundreds of thousands of silver that had been copied from Azig's house. In the past few battles with the Chu army, the Qing army repeatedly underestimated the strength of the other side, so that after the start of the war, the strength was insufficient, and finally led to a heavy defeat, this time Dolgon learned a lesson, and when he first formulated the battle plan, he played a great fortune, and fully mobilized in the territory occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in addition to the 30,000 Manchu and Han Eight Banners, he also deliberately transferred Wu Sangui and the surrendered former Ming Qin army from the northwest, and rushed to Jianghuai for thousands of miles.

The Eight Banners of the Manchu and Han Dynasty are mainly used to sweep the anti-Qing righteous divisions in Shandong, Henan and Anhui and other places, such as Li Laiheng, who comes and goes like the wind, and the Yuyuan Army, etc., although the troops of Li Laiheng and the Yuyuan Army are uneven, but there are many people, for example, the Yuyuan Army is known as the 200,000 army, Li Laiheng also has thousands of cavalry, and using 30,000 Eight Banners to deal with them is not a killing chicken with a knife, if Li Laiheng is still wandering around as before, the Eight Banners who also have a large number of cavalry can just restrain them.

The frontal battlefield is dominated by the Han army, and Wu Sangui is the commander, which is of course the favor and trust of Wu Sangui, but also because the prestige of the Qing army is almost withered, half of which was killed by the Chu army, such as Zierharang and others, and the other half was killed by Dolgon himself, such as Azig and others, plus Daishan Duoduo is such an old man, who died, and now there are few people in the Qing army who can not only get the trust of Dolgon, but also have the qualifications to suppress Wu Sangui's generals.

Tan Tai barely counted one.

However, Tan Tai was defeated by the Chu army many times, and he already had a psychological shadow, and he was really not at ease with him as the commander, so he had to send him to destroy Li Laiheng and the Yuyuan army, and the frontal battlefield was under the unified command of Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui is an old fritter, just like the last time he was transferred to war, he found a lot of reasons to prevaricate, but Dolgon was bound to win, no matter what harsh conditions Wu Sangui proposed, he agreed, not only covered the money, food and materials needed for this expedition, but also promised him to Yongzhen Jiangnan, and could choose any province other than Nanzhili to establish a vassal state.

is also the king of Yongzhen Domain, and it is very different whether he has his own feudal kingdom or not.

In another time and space, Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi are known as the three feudal domains, but only Yunnan Wu Sangui has his own feudal state, that is to say, all the local people, property and power are in his hands, and the imperial court does not interfere at all, Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi are only in charge of military affairs, and the local government is still a set of teams sent by the imperial court.

The establishment of a vassal state in the hinterland of Jiangnan has never had a precedent for it, and many people in the Qing court expressed opposition, but Dolgon tried his best to override public opinion and shut them up with only one reason - for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was satisfactory to be able to divide the river with the Chu army, and what was there to be reluctant to let Wu Sangui establish a vassal state in Jiangnan?

Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of troops stayed in Shaanxi, which is also a place that has been destroyed by war for a long time, and the required grain and military supplies are transported from the rear by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"Go and go, if the Qing Dynasty is dead, I will hide in Shaanxi and have no good fruit to eat, so I will simply go and fight with the Chu thief, the Chu thief is not three heads and six arms, now is the time for me to serve the imperial court!"

Wu Sangui kept cheering up his generals, ordering the old Qin army to take the lead, and his descendants followed in batches, out of Tongguan, across Henan, and rushed to Xuzhou, but secretly they already had the idea of passively avoiding war. The old Qin army is brave and good at fighting, and it is not the lineage that he brought out from Shanhaiguan, so they can take the lead, first try the Chu army's catties and taels, and then see how the Western Army wins or loses, if the Chu army is defeated, he will wave his army to the south, drink the Yangtze River, if the Chu army is not easy to provoke, he will stick to Xuzhou, and even retreat to Shandong, in short, as long as he runs fast, there will not be too much risk.

In case of...... In case the Chu army is too fierce and can't resist at all, it doesn't matter, the big deal is to revolt in front of the battle, fight back, surrender to Wang Kefan, and then drive forward for the Ming Dynasty, expel the Tartars from the pass, and still keep the glory and wealth.

Aggressive!

Wu Sangui, together with the old Qin army led by Daniel Zhang, Zhao Liangdong and others, totaled more than 150,000 people, known as 300,000 troops, including more than 30,000 armor, more than 10,000 crossbow soldiers, and more than 10,000 cavalry.

On the other side of the Hunan battlefield, after two months of full preparation, Sun Kewang personally led the army from Guizhou to Hunan, Feng Shuangli, Bai Wenxuan and Wang Shangli and other troops were transferred from the southern line to his command, more than 50,000 horse infantry soldiers, and also led a unique elephant army in Yunnan, all the way to Tongrensi, all the way to Pingxiwei, all the way to Solo and Suoluo, and the troops were divided into three ways to attack Yuanzhou and Chenzhou.

The main force of the Chu army Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong was fighting with Liu Wenxiu on the southern front, and did not expect that Sun Kewang would cross the heavy mountain, and launched an attack from this area, with few defensive forces, Yuanzhou and Chenzhou were lost one after another, and Teng Shuanglin, who surrounded Wuchang, quickly came to support, and barely withstood the offensive of the Western Army in Baoqing Mansion (the battlefield in this area is mainly in the Xuefeng Mountains in southwest Hunan Province).

Liu Wenxiu on the southern front took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on Lingling, the capital city of Yongzhou Mansion, echoing Sun Kewang from afar, and launched a fierce battle with Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong......

In addition, in the Shandong, Henan, and Anhui borders of Shandong, Henan, and Anhui, Tan Tai led 30,000 elite banners to launch a sweep against the Dabie Mountain base area of the Yuyuan Army a month ago.

Although the strength of the Yuyuan army was three to five times that of the Qing army, it was easily defeated by Tan Tai, and thousands of soldiers were killed, and the remnants of the defeated army fled into the deep mountains and old forests.

According to Tan Tai's report, the thieves in Yuyuan gathered more than 100,000 people, out of the thieves, into the people, all of them were rebellious enemies of the Qing Dynasty, the accurate number of troops is difficult to count, can only determine the total number of between 100,000 and 150,000, after being defeated by the imperial court, most of the traitors have disappeared, and the remaining remnants are sitting in the deep mountains waiting to be killed, which is not enough to trouble.

Tan Tai freed his hands and made persistent efforts to launch an encirclement and suppression against Li Laiheng, but Li Laiheng was very slippery, relying on the cavalry with convenient movements, he rushed to break through the encirclement, and one fled into Dabie Mountain to join the remnants of the Yuyuan Army, and the main force retreated to southern Anhui and joined the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Chu Army.

A victorious start!

Tan Tai completed the task ahead of schedule, and it only took one month to sweep away the anti-Qing righteous divisions in the Lu, Henan, and Anhui areas, and at the same time, he reported to the imperial court, and also asked for an order to urge Wu Sangui to launch a counteroffensive as soon as possible, so as to cooperate with the Eight Banners to go south and completely wipe out the remnants of Li Laiheng and the Yuyuan army.

The good news arrived in Beijing, and the children of the Eight Banners were jubilant.

has been bullied by the Chu army for so long, and now he finally has a bad breath, that Li Laiheng is rumored to be a god, known as the "little tiger", and the cavalry under his command is said to be more powerful than the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, but after encountering the real Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, he will only flee from the wind.

The veteran general, who has experienced a hundred battles, pointed out that the Chu army is now fighting on two fronts, and it is attacked by the Qing army and the Western army on both sides, which is an out-and-out taboo for soldiers, and will inevitably lead to a crushing defeat. <