Zheng Zhilong, who was sitting firmly in Diaoyutai in Fujian, never expected that an unwarranted disaster was about to befall at this time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, he just wanted to send a fleet to find a sense of existence, but this soy sauce team forgot its original intention because of Zheng Chenggong, and directly stabbed Duoduo in Jiangyin.

It can be said that the world is impermanent, and people are not as good as heaven.

However, Zheng Zhilong's side will not show for the time being...........

Outside the Ande Gate in Nanjing, inside Li Hongfei's big tent, Qi Hongying, Wang Guoxing, Guo Sheng, Zhang Chao, Shi Dewei and other generals gathered together to discuss the next battle plan.

"According to the spies' report, the Azig army has taken camp with all its troops and begun to retreat, and it seems that they are about to flee, how do you think we should deal with it?" Li Hongfei asked.

The Qing troops have to be withdrawn, and all that remains is the question of whether to fight or not.

"If you want me to say, now that our army has a large number of generals, we will directly send naval divisions and warships to block the river, intercept the back road of the Tartars, and annihilate them in one fell swoop." Guo Sheng has the hottest temper.

"But don't forget, the Tartars are not only a way to cross the river, if the river is closed, Azig can completely go west to join Wu Sangui, do you think Huang Degong and others have the ability to block the breakthrough of the Tartars?" Zhang Chao retorted.

After the battle of Fengtai Mountain, he was a famous general, and his speech was naturally a lot harder.

As for sending warships to attack half-crossing, the Qing army is not a fool, when crossing the river, it will definitely send people to guard the surroundings, and if the Ming army sailors are found, they will definitely give up crossing the river as soon as possible.

"Let's let them go, after this battle, the Manchu Qing Dynasty suffered a lot of losses, and they will definitely not dare to go south easily, we can take the opportunity to expand our armaments, and within three years, we will be able to raise troops for the Northern Expedition and recover the Central Plains!" Qi Hongying said.

She understands that the Ming Dynasty has been fighting for many years, and the national strength has long been gone, and even the Qi family army and the Suzhou New Army, which are the main forces, have a total of less than 70,000 people, and in a short period of time, they still cannot compete with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is known as a million army.

For now, we need a relatively stable environment and sufficient time for development.

"It's certain to let them go, but you can't let them go so easily, pass the order, and when the Qing army leaves, Huang Degong, Ma Shiying and other troops will quickly enter the Yuhuatai area to defend. The Suzhou New Army, the Qi Family Army and the Shenji Battalion, the soldiers are united, and they jointly pursue the main force of Azig, maintain a formation at any time along the way, and do not rush forward with greed. Li Hongfei ordered.

With the support of the Qi family's army, Li Hongfei can be said to be full of confidence, and the three armies combined, a full 90,000 all-firearms army, against 200,000 Qing soldiers, under the steady and steady attack, there will be basically no major mistakes.

As Zhang Chao said, Azig did not directly cross the river to the north, but swaggered past Huang Degong and other air defense areas, and retreated west along the river with Zuo Menggeng's fleet, which seemed to be about to join Wu Sangui's army in the west.

Huang Degong and Ma Shiying didn't want to fight to the death with the Qing army, and Li Hongfei had an order, so they cooperated very actively, and transferred troops to Yuhuatai on the same day, and their speed was not much worse than Li Hongfei's Suzhou New Army.

At the same time, the coalition army organized by Li Hongfei began to follow the rear of the Qing army, advancing unhurriedly, and from time to time sending "guerrillas" to harass the Qing army and slow down the other side's marching speed.

As for the naval warship, it is still playing soy sauce as always, since participating in the first battle of Jiangyin, it has been stationed on the front line of Jiangyin, refusing to advance, and it is called in the beautiful name: to guard against the Qing army and the naval division, and to attack Jiangyin again.

Because Zheng Zhilong's sailors, in addition to transporting the Qi family's army across the river, did it vigorously and resolutely, the subsequent water war was completely unproductive, and the 500 sailors warships dealt with the more than 400 merchant ships of the Qing army, and they let go of more than 350 ships.

The Qing army had such a large group of sailors parked in the waterway of the Grand Canal, and Zheng Zhilong's sailors had every reason to garrison in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Originally, these sailor generals were ordered by Zheng Zhilong to sell the Qing army a favor, but after Duoduo was stabbed, even all the Qing troops did not believe Zheng Zhilong.

Azig was afraid that the other side would attack halfway, so he did not dare to cross the river by boat, so he simply led his army to continue westward, intending to pass through Wuhu, Chizhou and other places and enter Jiujiang.

Since Zuo Liangyu's death, Jiujiang has been occupied by the Qing army, as long as Azig's army arrives in Jiujiang, whether it is to cross the river or reorganize the army for battle, there is a choice.

You can go from Nanjing to Jiujiang, the journey is thousands of miles, passing through several provinces, Li Hongfei led the army to catch up all the way, and Duoduo, who was annoyed on the way, led the team to fight a few more battles with Li Hongfei's coalition army, but most of them were defeated and won less, and even the artillery team that seriously slowed down the marching speed was also eaten by Li Hongfei taking the opportunity.

200,000 troops, finally fled back to Jiujiang, only 130,000 remaining, if it weren't for Wu Sangui to solve Li Zicheng's leading troops to help, plus the battle line is too long, Li Hongfei's firearms troops are difficult to supply ammunition, it is really possible to completely eat the other party.

In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, in mid-August, Li Hongfei returned to the court, and the battle of Nanjing, which lasted for three months, ended with a complete victory for the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Including the Battle of Yangzhou, the Qing army's southern invasion lasted a total of eight months, losing a total of more than 300,000 troops, killing five Baylors, 17 vanguard generals being captured or killed, and losing 1,000 ships.

Although the Qing army claimed to be a million-strong army, in fact, most of the Central Plains had only been occupied for a long time and needed a large number of troops to defend it.

Nowadays, apart from the armies guarding various places, the Qing army actually has not many soldiers to fight.

Even the more than 30,000 defenders in Yangzhou City, after learning of Duoduo's defeat, decisively abandoned the city and left, leaving a dead city waiting for the Ming army to take over.

The number of Manchurians was originally very small, in the past, the Qing army was victorious, many Ming generals could not see the hope of victory, and they were worried about the defeat of the battle, and the court punished them, so they surrendered one after another.

In their hearts, these generals more or less had one idea: Anyway, the Ming army can't beat the Qing army, and the Ming Dynasty has exhausted its numbers, so why not join the Qing camp as soon as possible, at least on the Manchurian side, and still be able to make meritorious contributions and continue to enjoy glory and wealth.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Qing soldiers are fighting more and more, and the Ming army is fighting less and less, the Ming army generals are afraid of the Qing army, but they are not afraid of their former colleagues, especially after bearing the infamy of traitors and national thieves, these people's hearts have gradually become distorted, and they treat their former compatriots far more cruelly than the Manchu generals.

The notorious shaving order was made by Sun Zhixuan, a general of the Ming Dynasty.

After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, the courtiers consisted of two parts, one part was the Ming Dynasty's vassals, and the other was the Manchurians.

The former grew his hair and his hair was curled, while the latter shaved and combed his hair, and each time he entered the court, the officials stood in two shifts, and they were safe with each other.

One day, the Ming Dynasty's subordinate Sun Zhiqi changed his normal way to shave his hair and comb his braids and went to the court, his original intention was to join the ranks of the Manchus, but the Manchus disliked him, and the Han ministers were too disgusting because of his actions, and they were not willing to let him stand in the ranks of the Han people.

Sun Zhiqi was not flattering, and in a fit of anger, he gave a recital to the then Shunzhi Emperor, believing that the Qing Dynasty would only damage the authority of the Qing Emperor by allowing the original attire of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Shunzhi (actually Dorgon) was so impressed that he issued an edict of "keeping your head without hair, and leaving your hair without your head" - the shaving order.

These ministers of the Ming Dynasty not only enjoyed the glory and wealth, but also couldn't see others behind their backs, saying bad things about them, simply breaking the jar and breaking it, and everyone kept braids together, so that after everyone was the same, no one dared to say anything.

The Han generals are cruel, and that is only for those who can be bullied, and now the rise of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Qi family army killed the Quartet, and then the Suzhou New Army pursued for thousands of miles, which made the Ming Dynasty generals tremble.

Even the Manchu masters can't defeat the Ming army, what else can they do with these minions?

The soldiers began to evade military service, some went south to take refuge in the south of the Yangtze River, some occupied the mountains for the king and fell into the grass, and some simply joined the local rebels, making trouble in the backyard of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and even many Han people surrendered to generals, and began to secretly accumulate hair, just waiting for the Ming army to fight back one day, so as to surrender the city.

The situation north of the Yangtze River became more and more complicated, and after this great defeat, the Manchu forces even seemed to be overstretched to consolidate the rear.