The scout reported the military situation, and heard that the Manchu army was tens of thousands of people, and it was still Dorobelle Lekdehun who led the troops, and the three generals Lu, Wang, and Ma were all discolored and panicked.

"The Jurchen is less than 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible."

The Manchu population is not large, after the Qing army entered the customs, the real Eight Banners soldiers were more than 100,000 people, but the Eight Banners soldiers were brave in the world, according to the general force deduction, everyone is used to one as ten, or even as twenty as thirty algorithm...... Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners are enough to sweep the north and south of the river, and the hundreds of thousands of officers and troops in Huguang may not be their opponents.

(When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the core strength was about 200,000, including in addition to the Manchu Eight Banners, including the Meng Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, Kong Youde and other Sanshun Wang Xushun Gong, as well as Wu Sangui's men and horses, and the Han army that surrendered one after another after entering the customs was organized into the Green Battalion, which belonged to the peripheral local troops.) ）

Azig and Duoduo soldiers and horses are less than 200,000, so Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops are defeated, and Zuo Liangyu, who is once again first-class, has an army of 800,000, but he does not dare to fight with Azig's 100,000 horses.

But there is no doubt about it, since it was the Manchu Baylor who personally led the troops, this support soldier was by no means an ordinary green battalion soldier, but the main force of the Qing army, and it was a strong force of the Eight Banners that was brave in the world!

(In those joke-type pigtail scenes, Baylor is an NPC who receives a boxed lunch, which is specially used by the protagonist to slap his face, but in fact Baylor is still very valuable.) Especially in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Baylor not only had a noble status, but also had a lot of power in his hands, often serving as the banner owner of each banner, and grasping the military and politics. Even the emperor was afraid of three points. ）

Lu Dingmu was stunned, and it took a long time to come back to his senses. Finally got an idea.

"Retire!"

His idea was immediately approved by the second general Wang Ma.

"Retire the troops, hurry up and return to Yuezhou! The city of Puqi is broken. You can't stay here and die! ”

"Well, it's too dangerous for us to be alone, we have to join He Junmen's army as soon as possible......"

Afraid, the Ming army was afraid of the Eight Banners from the bones. When Duoduo went down to the south of the Yangtze River, it was a few troops such as Shi Kefa who dared to resist, and most of the Ming troops fled in despair, or directly knelt down and surrendered...... The third general of King Lu and Ma can still think of escaping, and he is already a great loyal minister.

Wang Kefan really couldn't look at it, and shouted: "What are you afraid of? Puqi is still 200 miles away from the Yangtze River. Will the Manchu Tartars fly over? ”

"That's not easy to say, the Tartars are all cavalry horses, just get there!" Wang Jincai looked like he had palpitations, he followed Li Zicheng to withdraw from Shaanxi, ran all the way for two or three thousand miles, and was never able to get rid of the pursuit of the Eight Banners Cavalry.

"Hey, Lucke has come from afar, the terrain is unfamiliar, and the military situation is unknown. No matter how fierce he is, he will not easily venture into more than 200 miles to fight a small Puqi. Wang Kefan was so angry that he couldn't help it, Wang Jincai was also a veteran general in the army who had been in battle for a long time. But after encountering the elite of the Eight Banners, the courage and intelligence values dropped sharply in an instant, and even the basic battlefield judgment ability was gone.

"The Manchu Tartars were also people. To fight a war, it is also necessary to replenish food and grass and gather intelligence. Before attacking, it is also necessary to reorganize the army and horses and formulate a combat strategy. Luckedhun traveled a long way to help Huguang, and he will definitely go to Wuchang Mansion for a little rest, and he will not come to fight Puqi's ......"

Luckedhun's men and horses dangled on the boat for more than 20 days, and as soon as he arrived in Huguang, his eyes were black, and he was dizzy to attack a small county town.

After Wang Kefan's reassuring explanation, Lu Ding and the others calmed down, but still insisted on retiring from the army.

"Even if the Tartars don't come for the time being, they can't tease them anymore, and Xianning and Jiayu don't fight." Lu Ding announced that because of the change in the situation, the battle plan for going north to Yuezhou this time was completely ruined: "The current plan is to return to Yuezhou for a safer ......"

Ma Jinzhong and Wang Jincai were also in favor of withdrawing from the army, since they had given up the original battle plan, there was no point in staying in Puqi.

"Okay, since the generals insist on leaving, let's return to Yuezhou to rectify and prepare for war." Wang Kefan said: "But I remind you that in addition to strengthening the city defense of Yuezhou, we must also guard the city and Lingji, and we must not give up the Yangtze River waterway!" ”

Chenglingji, located in the north of Yuezhou Mansion in Hunan Province, is a famous port in the middle of the Yangtze River, which can dock more than 1,000 giant boats and transfer the ferry army.

The Yangtze River flows from west to east, turns south at Jingzhou Mansion, and turns north to Yuezhou Mansion on the north shore of Dongting Lake, forming a triangle with Wuchang Mansion, that is to say, as long as you control Chenglingji north of Yuezhou Mansion, it is equivalent to cutting off the waterway from Wuchang Mansion to Jingzhou Mansion, so as to prevent Luckard from going up the river and attacking the flank of the loyal camp......

Looking at the appearance of Lu Ding and the others, can they complete this task?

Since everyone is leaving, Wang Kefan also plans to withdraw to Chongyang, and the army is pressing, and there is still a lot of preparation to be done.

Lu Ding made another request to him.

"Yuntai, can you give us some of the captives in your hands?"

Unlike Wang Kefan's Gongyi battalion, the other Ming army departments did not have professional auxiliaries, and all soldiers could be transformed into soldiers as long as they had armor and weapons...... Since Wang Kefan took the lead in breaking the city, most of the prisoners of the Qing army were in his hands, and everyone was in a hurry to withdraw to Yuezhou, so they wanted some prisoners to help carry the baggage.

"Yes, but not all of you." Wang Kefan is a professional auxiliary soldier, and he never uses prisoners to transport baggage.

"Ah, of course, I have to keep some of the PTZ myself." Wang Jincai and others misunderstood.

"No, I don't keep any of them." Wang Kefan paused: "I'm going to kill all the officers!" ”

Hey, Lu Ding and the others were stunned, and they looked at each other, all of which were inexplicable.

"Gimbal, it's not right to do this!" Ma Jinzhong persuaded: "You are young, you still have a long way to go, if you have a reputation for cruelty and killing, it will not do you any good!" ”

"No way, it has to be like this." Wang Kefan said coldly: "Before our army attacked the city, we had already surrendered to the Qing army in the city, and since they dared to resist to the end. You have to bear the consequences of doing so......"

Murder!

Wang Kefan is not to establish authority for himself, but to establish authority for Gongyi -- to lay down his arms. Lenient treatment, stubborn resistance to the end. Resolutely exterminate!

At the beginning, this will cause the enemy to resist more resolutely, but as long as this principle is adhered to, as long as "leniency" and "resolute elimination" can be implemented, the enemy will gradually accept this principle, needless to say the stubborn Eight Banners, some green battalion soldiers may give up resistance and raise their hands to surrender.

This trick was learned from the Manchus, compared to the Manchus' brutal policy of slaughtering cities. Wang Kefan has been so merciful that he only kills officers, not soldiers, and even more innocent people, women and children......

"Well, there is no way to fight violence with violence." Lu Ding nodded: "Then even if I give a military order, kill all the officers above the general ......."

He was just halfway through his speech, but Wang Kefan interrupted him.

"No, I'm talking - all the officers!"

"What do you mean?"

"Anything more than that. Beheaded! ”

Senior officers are very important, but grassroots officers are the backbone of a force, and the grassroots officers who can serve as the green battalion are all very loyal diehards. If you don't kill them, you will definitely take refuge in the green camp again. Take up arms again and fight the Ming army.

Unlike later generations, Wang Kefan has no advanced theoretical ideas to brainwash. There is also no strong contingent of political workers, that is. He did not have the conditions to reform the captives.

For ordinary prisoners, there can be basic humanitarianism, but in general, after the Gongyi battalion has dealt with the Shangqing army, it will no longer implement the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners!

When the generals broke up, Wang Kefan specially reminded Ma Jinzhong that he must be careful to beware of Hei Yunchang......

Wang Kefan returned to the Gongyi camp, reorganized the soldiers and horses, and prepared to evacuate Puqi, when he was busy, a group of people in the camp suddenly made a fuss!

When I came to see it, it turned out to be the volunteer soldier in Puqi, led by the old school teacher Su Boming, after this volunteer followed Gongyi to recover Puqi, he was happy for two days, and suddenly heard that the army was going to leave, so they were reluctant to leave their hometown.

"General Wang, if you want to leave, we are all Puqi disciples, and we really don't want to escape again, so we will stay here and fight with Tartar!" Su Boming's beard was open, he was very excited, his cloudy eyes were full of bloodshots, and there were faint tears flashing.

"Fight, fight!"

"Since Master Su died generously, we are all willing to follow!"

Among the Puqi volunteers, many of the backbones are Su Boming's disciples, although the combat effectiveness is still not high, the morale is very high, and they are all shouting to stay in Puqi.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I understand your feelings, no one wants to give up their hometown and let the Tartars ravage it!"

He paused, his gaze slowly swept over everyone's faces, and said sincerely: "But today, I still have to take you away, and you must also go with me, and you must not stay in Puqi to make senseless sacrifices...... However, I, Wang Kefan, swear to heaven that I will definitely take you back Puqi again! ”

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Wuchang Mansion, the Yamen of the Governor of Huguang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"Lord Belle, the old slave has given you a greeting!" As soon as Tong Yanghe saw Luck Dehun, he threw his sleeves and bowed down to kneel and kowtow.

"Uncle and grandfather, please get up, I can't afford your old man's gift." Luckedhun hurriedly helped him.

The reason why he called Tong Yanghe his uncle and grandfather was because the two of them were indeed related, Tong Yanghe's cousin was Nurhachi's original wife, and she was Dai Shan's biological mother, that is, Lekdehun's own grandmother.

Before Nurhachi's career, he was the son-in-law of the Tong family, in the historical materials of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhachi was surnamed Tong, and he himself did not shy away from it, and when he interacted with the Ming Dynasty, he called himself - Tong Nurhachi, but later the Qing Dynasty was influenced by the customs of the Han nationality, thinking that it was a disgraceful thing for the founding emperor to have been rich, so the Qing history was vague about it, and avoided it.

Nurhachi's original surname is "Jueluo", and after his career, he no longer used the surname Tong, so he changed it to Aixin Jueluo, "Aixin" is Manchu, and when translated into Chinese, it means gold, implying that he is a descendant of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta, and the regime established also calls himself Houjin. (To be continued......)