From the standpoint of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Dolgon was a qualified politician.

For more than a year, Dolgon's main focus was on internal affairs, not only winning a complete victory in the court struggle, but also initially setting up the political framework of the Manchu Empire, which would continue for generations to come, as long as it ruled according to this framework, until the distant future.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it suddenly changed from a slave society to a centralized feudal society, and the Manchu nobles and the emerging Han officials had contradictions...... In addition, he reformed the maladministration of the Ming Dynasty, abolished the artisan household system, severely cracked down on corruption, moderately reduced taxes, reformed the salt industry system, and restored the economic development of the north in a certain way.

It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country, Dolgon does not seek a moment, but seeks an eternal cause.

The series of rebellions that began with Hezhen in Hanzhong, and even the fiasco in the Battle of Huguang, were all local problems in Dolgon's view, and as long as the internal contradictions within the Manchu Qing were handled well and turned around, these anti-Qing forces could be brought to an end...... He is only 37 years old this year, in his prime, full of ambition, and he doesn't take Nanming in his eyes at all.

However, Datong Jiang Hao raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, but Dolgon was like a great enemy.

Shanxi was not only close to Beijing, which was a great military threat to the Manchus, but also bordered Mongolia to the north, and the Khalkha tribes of Mongolia had always been disobedient, and if they joined forces with Jiang Jiu to rebel, they would threaten the rear base camp of the Manchus. In addition, the Shanxi Jin merchants were the money bags of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Whenever the Qing army was short of military spending, they often borrowed money from the Jin merchants, and if the Jin merchants were killed. It would be a heavy blow to the Manchu economy.

The rebellion in Shanxi must be extinguished as much as possible!

But Dolgon also knew that Shanxi was not easy to fight, and it would be difficult to resolve the battle within three to five months.

The terrain of Shanxi is very complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack, for example, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan started here. In the end, he seized the world. After Jiang Huang returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, all parts of Shanxi responded one after another, such as Daizhou, Fenzhou, Ningwu, and Shuozhou...... In addition to Taiyuan, the whole province of Shanxi was still in the hands of the Qing army. The rest of the country was controlled by the anti-Qing rebel army, and it spread rapidly to the entire northwest region.

Dolgon immediately sent Nikan, the king of Jingjin County, to attack Shanxi (this Nikan is a Mongol, the guy who was killed by Li Dingguo's two famous kings in history, not Aixinjue Luo Nikan). Shun lì defeated Jiang Jianxun, the general of Jiang Xuan's department. Taiyuan relieved the siege. Immediately afterwards, Nikan and Azig attacked Datong together, but the city of Datong was strong, the Qing army was trapped under the fortified city, and the war in Shanxi fell into a stalemate.

As soon as Nikan left, Jiang Jianxun regrouped, gathered tens of thousands of horses to recapture Fenzhou and other places, and launched an attack on Taiyuan. Azig and Nikan returned to the division. He was defeated again, but Jiang Jianxun retreated to the south of Shanxi. occupied Pingyao and other places, and the local Jin merchants who supported the Manchu Qing were beheaded, and Wanguan's family wealth was used as military pay for the anti-Qing volunteers.

Dolgon soon realized that cutting leeks one by one was not the solution to the problem, and that only by capturing Datong and eliminating Jiang Jiu could the anti-Qing struggle in Shanxi be completely extinguished.

He personally led a large army to attack Shanxi, and as soon as he set up a position under the city of Datong, he received the news of Duoduo's death and immediately hurried back to Beijing.

As soon as he entered Beijing on his front foot, Azig's envoy arrived.

Azig asked himself to be crowned an assistant to his uncle and take over the position of Duoduo, and attacked Duoduo who had just been hung up, saying that his military achievements were not as good as Er'er, and he was not inferior to himself...... Dolgon had endured this brainless thing for a long time, and this time he finally couldn't bear it, and immediately convened a council of ministers of the king, and convicted Azig of several crimes, almost deposing his knighthood, and teaching him a hard lesson.

At this time, Tan Tai's envoy arrived in Beijing, and 100,000 were in a hurry to ask the Qing court for help.

Hearing that the army launched the Eastern Crusade, Fujian was in danger, and Zhejiang and Jiangnan Province (Nanzhili) were also in great danger.

Jiangnan Ming Army had some changes, he had already known that he just wanted to delay it for the time being and solve Jiang Jiu in Shanxi first. But I didn't expect the Ming army to move so quickly, and it was still attacking on the whole front, and the defense line from Henan to Fujian for thousands of miles was in an emergency.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and now there are wars everywhere, and the Ming army launched an eastward crusade at this time, like a sharp knife stabbing into the soft underbelly of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was simply powerless to parry.

But Dolgon knew that Jiangnan was too important to be ignored.

Although the geographical location of Fujian is relatively partial, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers under Tong Yangjia, and they must not be wiped out by the Ming army just like this, and more importantly, Zhejiang and Jiangnan Province are the economic bases of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the money bags and granaries must not be a big problem, especially not affect the transportation to Beijing.

Reinforcements must be sent south!

But there are no soldiers to send!

The only way is to divide the troops from Shanxi!

Well, the division of troops is the division of troops, although the division of troops is not conducive to the war in Shanxi, but in order to rescue Jiangnan, I have to bear this loss...... The question is, who to send as the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements?

This guy Azig has been disobedient lately, and he definitely can't use it.

Bolo was originally from Hauge's faction, but now he has just been subdued by Dolgon, and he belongs to the "general" on the political zhì, and he cannot be sent out to lead the army alone.

Hong Chengchou doesn't have to think about it, whoever is reused by Huang Taiji, Dolgon is always not at ease, and he is a Han Chinese, so he can't suppress a general like Tan Tai.

After much thought, Dorgon decided to put Zilharan in command.

Zilharang's military ability is no problem, from the Nurhachi era to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zilharang has been fighting horses for half his life, and has fought countless big battles and vicious battles, and he will definitely be able to block the attack of the Ming army as the commander of the reinforcements.

He is an old qualified uncle, whether it is Tan Tai or Kong Youde, Zierharang can control the scene, and he is the most suitable person to coordinate all the departments of the Qing army in the south...... A big reason for the current situation in the Jiangnan War is that there is no single commander, and all units of the Qing army are fighting their own battles.

In addition, Beijing is now in an eventful season, and driving Zilharang out to lead troops and keep him away from the center of power is also a good move to capture the old and indulge, which is similar to letting Haoge lead the troops to attack Sichuan.

In the sixth year of Shunzhi, that is, at the beginning of April of the fifth year of Longwu, the Manchu Zheng prince Jierharang was awarded the "Dingyuan General", mobilized troops and horses, raised money and food, and prepared for the southern expedition.

Before the soldiers and horses were mobilized, Dolgon received news that 2,000 Ming cavalry broke into the hinterland of the Central Plains and conquered Xinzheng, Changge, Weishi and other counties one after another, and Kaifeng, Xuchang, and Zhengzhou were in a hurry.

The Yuyuan army rose up again, invaded the Shangqiu area in eastern Henan, and threatened the provincial capital Kaifeng from the east.

Under the continuous onslaught of the Western Army, Sichuan Baoning was lost, and Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan in the Manchu Dynasty, broke through alone, retreated to Jiangyou and Jiange, and the Ming army occupied most of Sichuan, and had already attacked the foot of the Qinling Mountains and was about to step into Hanzhong.

What Dolgon didn't know was that after the Western Army conquered Baoning, Sun Kewang came to the front line, and took advantage of a small mistake in raising the flag in the martial arts arena to press Li Dingguo, who had just won the battle, to the ground and beat the board firmly...... Within the Western Army, there are also many contradictions, although Sun Kewang is the boss, he is not the leader of the people. Li Dingguo is stubborn by nature, and his military achievements are impressive, Sun Kewang beat his board, more for Liwei, and the contradiction between the two has been buried since then.

Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion, after Zhang Cunren escaped from Shangrao City, he retreated by boat from Yongfeng to Cen Yang Pass on the border of Fujian, and encountered the attack of Zhang Jiayu of Dongguan Camp in Shanxi Village, and most of the bamboo raft of the boat was burned, so he had to abandon the boat and go ashore, and fled to Cen Yang Pass by land.

After a lot of hardships, they had just stepped into the Wuyi Mountains, and they were blocked by Zhang Jiazhen head-on. Zhang Jiazhen arrived here ahead of schedule, built a strong fortification at the mountain road pass, Zhang Cunren could not break through the defense line of the Dongguan battalion several consecutive fierce attacks, Zhang Jiayu and Wang Jincai's main force chased up from behind, Zhang Cunren had to break through to the southwest, trying to go around to the water pass and withdraw into Fujian (there are several water passes in the country, this is the Chong'an water pass, which is the key point between Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, known as the first pass in Fujian).

The Dongguan battalion and the Pingjiang battalion were in hot pursuit, and Zhang Cunren must be left in Jiangxi, and after a series of forcible marches and blocking battles, they finally surrounded him at Chepanling, which was only more than 20 miles away from the Fenshui Pass. After several battles in a row, there were only more than 2,000 people left on Zhang Cunren's side, including less than 1,500 armored soldiers, and he had no ability to break through, so he had to occupy the cottage on Chepanling and wait for help.

The so-called holding on to and waiting for help, in fact, is to hold on and wait for death, he rushed all the way to the left and right in the encirclement of the Ming army, and has lost contact with Zhou Lianggong in Fujian, and the Fujian side does not know that he is trapped in Chepanling. As for the side of the Fenshui Pass, the Qing troops stationed there did not dare to take a step into Jiangxi because of the lack of troops, although it was only more than 20 miles away from Chepanling, but they did not know what was going on here.

Zhang Cunren had no food and grass in the house, no rescuers outside, and he was already in a desperate situation, but he never had the idea of surrendering, and he was stubbornly guarding the Chepanling cottage. Because the grain they brought was lost along the way, the Qing army soon began to dig wild vegetables, gnaw grass roots, and endure hard day by day.

The Dongguan battalion and the Pingjiang battalion surrounded but did not fight, blocking all the ways out of Chepanling, and then advancing little by little, three layers inside and three layers outside the wall of the trench wall, encircling the cottage of the Qing army. Although Zhang Cunren did not have many remaining troops, they were all elite Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers who were good at using firearms, and they occupied a condescending favorable terrain, in order to avoid excessive casualties, the Chu army did not rush to attack.

Zhang Cunren saw that the encirclement of the Ming army was getting smaller and thicker, and knew that there was no possibility of escape, but he was not in a hurry, and quietly stayed in the cottage waiting for the end to come, anyway, he would not surrender.

The Ming army was not in a hurry, and continued to surround but not fight.

In addition to the cottage, the Qing army now only occupies an extremely narrow territory on the top of Chepanling Mountain, and the wild vegetables have long been dug up, and they have begun to gnaw the bark to see if they can hold out for a few days. (To be continued......)