Although this fanfare Northern Expedition did not achieve much results, at best recovering a Guide Province and obtaining a base for leaving Henan, in fact, it did not have the strength to enter Henan at all.

But Yang Chao was not very frustrated, this time it was originally an experiment with Li Wuliu's new military formation, and the real purpose was not the Northern Expedition, but to mobilize the Huguang Qing army.

Failed to mobilize the Huguang Qing army, is the most frustrating Yang Chao, he admitted Dolgon's strategic vision, even in the most critical situation, Dolgon can still insist on deploying elite troops in Huguang, using them to contain Yang Chao, in this regard, the Ming authorities should really be ashamed to death, when Zuo Liangyu went east, Ma Shiying and others advocated resisting with all their troops, preferring to abandon Jiangbei, this panicked situation of the enemy, and Dolgon's calmness under the double pressure of internal and external troubles, formed an extremely sharp contrast.

Therefore, Yang Chao quickly admitted the failure of the strategy of attacking Henan and mobilizing the enemy's troops, and at the same time immediately issued an order for Lü Mo and Xie Fei to jointly attack Hong Chengchou in Jiujiang.

In the past, Hong Chengchou had been allowed to stay in Jiujiang, the first was that Yang Chao did not want to attack Jiujiang, and the second was that Yang Chao felt that it was safer for Hong Chengchou to stay in Jiujiang than to beat him to Huguang.

Therefore, he wants to transfer the Huguangqing army to Henan through strategy, and then clean up Hong Chengchou, and now that the strategy has failed, then it is necessary to solve Hong Chengchou as soon as possible, and occupying Jiujiang is even secondary, and Hong Chengchou is more important.

But what Yang Chao didn't expect was that Xie Fei and Lu Mo attacked in two ways, and even marched in three ways, but they were still run away by Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou once again gave Xie Fei and Lu Mo a tactical lesson.

Previously, there was a lonely city in Jiujiang, so the soldiers of the Jiangxi Green Battalion in the city were demoralized and almost collapsed, and it was a common thing to escape, even if Hong Chengchou had a strategy, he could not prevent this phenomenon.

For the green battalion soldiers who escaped from Jiujiang and surrendered to the Ming army. Yang Chao asked Xie Fei to screen it, and let them go back, let them go back to spread the promise that the Ming army would not kill anyone, which shook the military heart of the green camp in the city. conAd1(); When Xie Fei and Lü Mo planned to attack Jiujiang, the number of Qing troops who fled to their army had already exceeded 50,000, which was more than the Qing army in the hands of Hong Chengchou in the city.

Moreover, Xie Fei also reached an agreement with the main Qing generals in the city, as long as Xie Fei began to attack the city, they would immediately turn their guns. Kill the Eight Banners who were monitoring them, and dedicate Jiujiang City to the Yang family's army.

With the guarantee of this relationship, Xie Fei has no fear.

On the eve of the attack, a deputy general of Jiujiang City quietly went out of the city, entered Xie Fei's camp, discussed with Xie Fei face to face, and asked Xie Fei to give him one night, he went back to greet the old department, and the next morning it would be launched, and Jiujiang City would be surrendered to Xie Fei.

Xie Fei didn't doubt it at all. I waited with peace of mind until the next morning, but it turned out that someone did sacrifice the city, but it was not the deputy general, who had already escorted Hong Chengchou to run away last night.

Obviously, this deputy general is Hong Chengchou's cronies, and the purpose of deceiving Xie Fei is just to make Xie Fei relax his vigilance and give them a whole night.

occupied Jiujiang, but lost Hong Chengchou, whom Yang Chao valued most, Xie Fei was annoyed and sent troops to chase him for hundreds of miles but did not catch up.

After learning that Hong Chengchou had successfully escaped from Jiujiang, Yang Chao had to adjust his military deployment. Dolgon in the north put a lot of pressure on Yang Chao and could not move the troops from Jiangbei, but after capturing Jiujiang, there was no need to deploy too many troops near Jiujiang.

Let Xie Fei sit in Nanchang. Only Jiang Fan's sailors and a thousand defenders were left in Jiujiang. Transferred Lu Mo to Yuanzhou Mansion and Ji'an Mansion, and many men were in Ganzhou and Nan'an Mansion, Yang Chao didn't want to see Hong Chengchou break through himself from the central government again.

After dealing with these, Yang Chao returned to Nanjing.

When he returned home, his family greeted him in front of the Dragon and Tiger General's Square, but this time there was a new person. Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cihong.

"Your Majesty!"

Yang Chao jumped off the horse from afar, and was about to kneel down when he walked to him, but was grabbed by Zhu Cihong.

"Hey, Uncle Zhongyi has worked hard!"

Zhu Cihong's eyes were full of vicissitudes and sighed. conAd2();

"Your Majesty has suffered!"

Yang Chao said politely.

Zhu Cihong shook his head: "King Gu is no longer the emperor, it is enough to be a prince of peace, and the loyal and righteous uncle must no longer be called Your Majesty." ”

Yang Chao laughed: "Your Highness! ”

Zhu Cihong nodded at this time.

In fact, Zhu Cihong didn't need to live in the Yang family, there was a palace in Nanjing, although there were two fires, one was deliberately set by Yang Chao, the purpose was to frame the scholars who gathered to make trouble, that time it was just a few piles of wood lit in the open space, but the second time was a real fire, and the second time was put by Kong Youde.

But after that, Yang Chao found someone to repair it, and the palace was still able to live in people.

Even if you don't want to live in the deserted palace, but there is still a place to go in Nanjing, the king of Dingwang Zhu Cijiong is also in Nanjing, Zhu Cihong built a garden for him when he was the emperor to make the palace, Zhu Cihong can go to his younger brother, but he still didn't go.

He lived in Yang's house.

This attitude is obvious, and it shows an attitude of supporting Yang Chao.

In fact, after Zhu Cihong was captured, he figured out many things, and he saw it through.

When he was a prisoner in Beijing, he was trembling and fearful all day long, but fortunately, with Yang Chao's military might, he was always valuable, so he was not killed by Dolgon, because Yang Chao has always been under the banner of Emperor Hongguang, if Yang Chao himself directly pulled out Zhu Cijiong to set up a new king, I am afraid that Zhu Cihong would have died a long time ago.

But this is only one aspect, it is just a small thing that makes Zhu Cihong think that Yang Chao misses the old love, the real reason is that he has seen through the group of civil servants who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and usually pretend to be loyal martyrs, but in the end there is a loyal minister. conAd3();

When he was in Beijing, whenever he was frustrated by Yang Chao, Dolgon would pull Zhu Cihong out and let him accompany various ministers and magnates to feast and drink.

"If Zhongyi Bo can invade Beijing one day, all these characters can be killed, Shandong Sun Zhiqi, Shuntian Feng Quan and others can be killed, and Chen Mingxia and others can live."

Shandong Sun Zhiqi, Feng Quan of Shuntian Mansion, both of these two have eunuch backgrounds, the Feng family is also a wealthy family, Feng Quan was admitted to the Jinshi and entered the Hanlin Academy during the Wanli period, and his father was also a big official in the dynasty, Feng Quan, who had just entered the dynasty, was impeached and dismissed together because his father was implicated.

In the year of the Apocalypse, when Wei Zhongxian went to Zhuozhou to make incense, Feng Quan seized the opportunity to kneel on the side of the road to greet him, and was appreciated by Wei Zhongxian and became an official again. After the Qing army entered the customs, in order to win the hearts of the people, Feng Quan, a wealthy official who had power in Beijing in the local area, was hired, and Feng Quan also complied with the mandate of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and worked hard for the new master.

The same is true of Sun Zhixian, who was also dismissed after the fall of Wei Zhongxian. But this person was not willing to be lonely at home, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he immediately let his wife and daughter let go of his little feet in accordance with Manchurian customs, and the man of the family shaved his hair, and used this to show that "the minister's wife is the first to put her feet alone, and the family shaves her hair to be effective", so as to please Dolgon, and he was able to enter the court as an official.

Sun Zhiqi's despicability and shamelessness do not stop there, at that time Dolgon had not yet issued an order to shave his hair, because a large number of Ming Dynasty officials surrendered, so when he went to the court, there were often two classes, one was listed as Hanchen, one was listed as Manchu, after Sun Zhiqi went to court, because of a small braid on his head, Hanchen did not allow him, Manchen also felt that he was a Han, could not tolerate him, and for a long time, Sun Zhiqi could only stand in the middle position, neither Han nor Manchu.

But Sun Zhiqi soon wrote a letter asking for shaving his hair and making it easy to wear: "Your Majesty calms China, everything is new, and the system of dressing and tying hair is the only way to preserve the old Han Dynasty, which is Your Majesty's subordinate to the old Han Dynasty, not the old Han subordinate to Your Majesty, it is difficult to say that it is calm, and it is difficult to say surrender." ”

It was precisely because of Sun Zhiqi's advice that Dolgon took the opportunity to give the order to shave his hair.

People like Sun Zhiqi and Feng Quan can treat eunuchs like Wei Zhongxian as masters, and they obviously don't have the nobility of literati and doctors, so they have no shame, so they are particularly hated.

When Zhu Cihong was in Beijing, he also had a banquet with these two people, but in front of Dolgon, these two people were extremely sarcastic and sarcastic to Zhu Cihong, the old crown prince and the new Ming Emperor, which hurt Zhu Cihong's heart, so he felt that both of them could be killed, but a real scribe like Chen Mingxia, although he also surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, but he had the ethics of a literati and gave etiquette to the old master, which made Zhu Cihong grateful and felt that he could live.

"This generation of traitors, everyone will be punished, and what His Royal Highness said should be remembered."

Yang Chao also gave Zhu Cihong face.

Zhu Cihong sighed: "The lonely king also made a big mistake, if it weren't for the words of his cronies and ministers that day, and the wrong uncle of Zhongyi, how could I have today." ”

At that time, Liu Zongzhou's group of people spoke ill of Yang Chao in Zhu Cihong's ear all day long, and Zhu Cihong and Yang Chao deviated from morality, but the Qing army went south, these literati could not protect him, he could only escape, and was finally captured and humiliated, but what about the group of civil servants, who were still high-ranking officials and Houlu, went to Fujian to fool another little emperor, and they still enjoyed a good reputation.

And he Zhu Cihong is precarious in Beijing, he is being humiliated and laughing during the day, he has experienced the general state of mind of Huiqin Erzong in the Song Dynasty, and has always been afraid that he will be killed like Huiqin Erzong, fortunately he is much better than Huiqin Erzong's life, because of Yang Chao's relationship, the Manchu Qing Dynasty actually let him go.

Yang Chao also sighed: "Literati, good name, reckless, you can't believe it, you can't believe it, you can't believe it!" ”

Zhu Cihong sighed: "It's a pity that the lonely king was ignorant at that time. ”

After speaking, he glanced at Yang Chao silently, and suddenly bowed ninety degrees: "Wangzhong Yibo does not care about the fault of the lonely king, and he will still be loyal to the country in the future, and the lonely king is grateful!" ”

Seeing Zhu Cihong bowing down, Yang Chao never expected it, and was stunned for a moment before quickly helping him up.

"Your Highness, by all means!" (To be continued.) )

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