The situation is great!

Dolgon made another decree, ordering Wu Sangui to go south on the same day, Tan Tai's 30,000 Eight Banner soldiers as a partial division, can cooperate with him to fight, the holy decree arrived in Xuzhou, Wu Sangui opened the incense case and respectfully accepted the order, and returned to his handsome tent, but slapped the table and scolded.

"Shit! The Eight Banners are finished, and the killing of good and risky skills is more powerful than our Guanning Iron Cavalry, I think this Great Qing Kingdom will not last! On Wu Sangui's desk, there was a completely different piece of information.

According to the scouts, Tan Tai's troops did not catch the main force of the Yuyuan Army at all, the other party saw that the Qing army was menacing, and took the initiative to retreat into the depths of Dabie Mountain without waiting for the engagement, Tan Tai's Yuyuan Army was a small group of sporadic troops, with a total of only two or three hundred people at most, so he moved the idea of killing Liang and risking his merits, but the nearby people had either joined the Yuyuan Army or fled, Tan Tai could not find enough heads, so he simply slaughtered a few villages that knelt down to welcome Wang Shi, and cut off the heads of all these good people loyal to the Qing Dynasty. This is the brilliant record of killing thousands of people.

"It's too much, I haven't done anything like this back then! As the saying goes, don't stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, the township father and old man with good wine and good food come to reward the king, but you cut people down as thieves, isn't this forcing the people to rebel? ”

Wu Sangui was filled with indignation, and he didn't blush at all when he scolded Tan Tai, although he was known for escaping from the battle, and he had done things to kill good people and take risks, but at least he had not slaughtered the village that took the initiative to donate money and food, even if he later became a traitor, he also paid great attention to maintaining a good reputation, packaging himself as a traitor with hardships, and only surrendered to the Qing army when Jiashen changed for various unavoidable reasons.

Emperor Chongzhen is dead, Li Zicheng, a thief, occupies Beijing, I want to avenge my father, but I can't speak alone, so I have to borrow the thief......

Li Zicheng killed my father and robbed my woman, and under the hatred of the country and family, I surrendered to the Manchus on impulse......

All in all, Wu Sangui's image was still very positive in the minds of the gentry and the common people at this time, and in another time and space, it was not until he strangled Emperor Yongli with a bowstring that he became a notorious traitor.

"I didn't expect it, just a few years after entering the customs, the Eight Banners have become like this, the world of flowers in Beijing City, it is really a gentle township, a hero's mound!" Wu Sangui scolded bitterly, but was embarrassed.

If it was left ten years ago, it would certainly not have happened like this, at that time the military discipline of the Eight Banners was very strict, which army dared to lie about military exploits, up and down to cut off countless heads, but now the Eight Banners soldiers are not only accustomed to killing good and risking merits, exaggerating the results of the war, and other aspects are also very unbearable, the quality of the soldiers is low, the military aircraft is lax, the troops are slow, after the 30,000 Eight Banners soldiers set out in a mighty way, all kinds of problems continue one after another, just like an old cow pulling a broken car, stop and go, and lie down at every turn. That's why they were easily broken through by the grass robbers of the Yuyuan Army and fled into Dabie Mountain.

"The children of the Eight Banners of this generation have never suffered since they were children, and they ride horses and shoot arrows on weekdays, just to play and show off, and they are useless on the battlefield." Xia Guoxiang recently went to Beijing and saw with his own eyes what kind of life the children of Eight Banners are living now, and he was most deeply touched by this.

Manchu people rise between the white mountains and black waters, the environment is harsh, it is not easy to survive, in order to live one by one are as fierce as hungry wolves and tigers, but this generation of Eight Banners since the time of the memory, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has risen, living conditions have been greatly improved, and then followed their parents to Beijing City, living a rich life that never thought of it, in a blink of an eye ten years have passed, the older generation of Eight Banners soldiers are killed and injured and retired, this generation of Eight Banners children are about twenty years old, just to take over the enlistment, but they are like wolves and tigers growing up in the zoo, Although it is still the gene of a beast, it no longer knows how to hunt.

The ten generation generation, this generation of Eight Banners, has been abolished!

"Even if these recruits are useless, Tan Tai has a lot of veterans under him on this expedition, how can they be so unbearable?" Many of Wu Sangui's generals had fought with the Eight Banners, and under the prestige of those years, they still couldn't believe that the invincible Eight Banners had become a fish-belly army.

Wu Sangui shook his head and replied: "If the veterans lose a lot of battles, they will become a group of veterans, and they are not as good as the new soldiers, alas, I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place......"

Defeated by the Chu army several times, the older generation of Eight Banners has also been abolished!

Wu Sangui regretted it very much, he knew the current result, he should not have surrendered to the Manchu Qing in the first place, he wanted to be strong and powerful, to be famous and famous, if he retreated to the south and insisted on resisting, he might not have Wang Kefan anything now, but unfortunately, how many predecessors of heroes fell into the sand, but in the end they were made into the climate by this posterior boy.

Wu Sangui suddenly found that he was full of envy and jealousy for Wang Kefan, this son was from a mediocre background, but he seized the opportunity in the troubled times and took advantage of the situation. His starting point is far higher than Wang Kefan, and he did not hesitate to betray his ancestors to become a traitor, and now he is only mixed with a king of Pingxi.

"The holy decree asked this king to send troops south, okay, then let's go south, but a few of you have remembered, the Eight Banners are unreliable, so you have to pay attention at all times." Wu Sangui thought about it and decided to march to Fengyang Mansion, where Jiao Lian's Third Army of the Northern Expedition was nominally an army, but in fact there was only one division of troops, and there were 10,000 horses sent by Jin Shenghuan.

Taking Jiao Lian's Third Army of the Northern Expedition to open the knife, you can not only have an explanation to the Qing court, but also avoid the main force of the Chu army, and the troops used do not need to be too much, only send Daniel Zhang, Zhao Liangdong and other "Hexi four generals" of the old Qin army to fight, Wu Sangui's troops follow far behind, once they find that the signs are wrong, they can retract to Xuzhou at any time.

"The imperial court ordered our army to counterattack Jianghuai, and now only one partial division is sent to Fengyang, I'm afraid it can't be said." Xia Guoxiang expressed concern.

"Afraid of what? Tan Tai dared to kill Liang and take the risk, our army took the initiative to attack, and was it wrong to relieve the siege of Fengyang? Be of good cheer, for if Dorgon asks, the king will explain it to him. "Wu Sangui is confident, when it comes to the ability to shirk and avoid war, Guan Ning Tieqi dares to admit the second, and no one in the world dares to admit the first, with the rich experience of the general Wu at that time, just find a reason, you can make Dolgon speechless.

As expected, Wu Sangui's recital was sent to Beijing, and Dolgon happily approved his battle plan, and returned to Xuzhou with no accusations against Wu Sangui, but also many exhortations and encouragements. What kind of ghost idea Wu Sangui played, Dolgon actually saw through it at a glance, but what the Eight Banners soldiers were rotting into, he knew better than Wu Sangui, if he didn't have enough strength, he wouldn't have the confidence to say tough things, so he could only coax and deceive Wu Sangui to sell his life.

Wait, wait until this generation of Eight Banners is trained, when the next generation of Eight Banners grows up, and when the population of the Manchu Qing Dynasty can casually pull out an army of 100,000, it will be easy to sweep Wu Sangui, even if he sets up the vassal state in northern Jiangsu or Anhui north of the Yangtze River, Dolgon dares to agree.

First sending Daniel Zhang and Zhao Liangdong to attack Anhui was a good move from a strategic point of view, so that although they went around in circles and did not directly push the Chu army back to the Yangtze River, they first cleared the threat from the flanks, and at the same time could echo Tunbul, who was still holding Anqing, and Kong Youde, who was holding Wuchang. In fact, Kong Youde and Tun Bu'er are trapped in the lonely city, and they are about to be unable to hold on, Wuchang and Anqing are both big cities with thick walls, and there are a lot of grain and grass reserves in the city, but they have been surrounded by the Chu army for a year, and the morale of the army in the city is crumbling, and if they are ignored, sooner or later they will fall like Jiujiang.

In addition to Nanjing, Wuchang and Anqing are the largest cities along the Yangtze River, even Chongqing upstream is slightly inferior to them, like two nails stuck in the territory of the Chu army, Dolgon is a little hesitant, whether to take the opportunity of this counteroffensive to withdraw Kong Youde and Tun Buer - if you want to achieve the goal of dividing the river and ruling it, you must firmly control these two cities on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the hands of the Qing army, otherwise it is impossible to talk about dividing the river and ruling it, but seeing the performance of Tan Tai and Wu Sangui, Nor was Dorgon's faith so strong.

Tan Tai and his subordinate generals made those small moves, Dolgon also heard some rumors, he just didn't want to pick out, and he didn't dare to pick out, he could easily kill Azig, but he couldn't be the enemy of all the Manchus, before this expedition, the Eight Banners recruited their children and urgently expanded the army, almost all of the young generation of Eight Banners were in Tan Tai's army, behind the 30,000 army, there were 30,000 Manchu families, and how many people did the Manchu family have now? Everyone felt that it was not a big mistake to cut off the heads of some Han people to earn a good future for their children, and even Dorgon's henchmen advised him not to pursue the matter.

Let's look at the big picture.

Dolgon finally had to give in, just like the parents learned that their son had been skipping school and going to an Internet café for a week, and wanted to slap him to death, but look at the head, his son has grown taller than himself, and he really can't fight when he is so old, so he has to silently recite in his heart that I gave birth to me, and then squeeze out a smiling face, pretend to be a reasonable and good mother, and trick my son home first.

Dolgon issued a decree to reward Tan Tai and other meritorious soldiers.

In another decree, Dolgon once again urged Wu Sangui to send troops as soon as possible to rescue Fengyang and open up contact with Anqing.

Bargaining? And let me break the siege for Anqing, which is too risky. Wu Sangui soon wrote another letter, claiming that Fengyang was too far away from Anqing, and Anqing was too close to Nanjing, if he rushed to Anqing, in case the Chu army crossed the river to attack, there was no success in this battle.

After such a little back and forth, half a month has passed, and Dolgon hastened eight hundred miles to give Wu Sangui another order, and there is only one sentence in the will: It's all up to you, send troops quickly! <