These small boats of the Qing army, when attacking, can bite the evil tiger to death by wolves, but when they escape, they are not all sailing Yang Chao's sailing army at all.

Not to mention the ten three-masted big ships, even the remaining twenty brigs of Zhang Dawei, the speed is not at the same level as the small fishing boats.

If he hadn't received the military order, Zhang Dawei really didn't want to pursue, he had 400 ships, and only 20 were beaten, to be honest, he was also extremely scared at this time, but Yang Chaojun didn't dare not carry out the order, so he immediately ordered the pursuit.

Soon they caught up with the Qing ships, bit their tails, and then bit off a piece of meat fiercely.

Some of the fishing boats chose to find the nearest river bank to land, and some soldiers simply jumped into the river and swam towards both banks.

"The whole army is on duty! Don't let a single Qing army escape! ”

Yang Chao immediately ordered, the city gate was opened, and groups of soldiers rushed out of the city gate and strangled the Qing army along the river bank.

On the Yangtze River, another pursuit continued, and soon it reached the Dasheng Pass, and then continued the pursuit.

When they caught up with the few sailing ships in the Qing army, this was already the last warship of the Qing army, and they were on the bank of the Taipingfu River, and when they were about to successfully escape back, they were ruthlessly sunk on the water.

Azig managed to escape back to the city of Dangtu in Taiping Province, where he witnessed the sinking of his last warship.

Then I saw the Ming warships, to be precise, the ten big ships, arrogantly approaching the Dangtu Waterway, and bombarded the Dangtu City for half an hour before leaving arrogantly.

Azig held his breath in his heart, and at the same time he was terrified, and an idea immediately took root, that is, Nanjing was not easy to break, and the water war would definitely not win the Ming army.

The battle is out, and the victory is complete!

Yang Chao lost more than 300 warships, but he was under the noses of the people of Nanjing. The elimination of the Qing fleet is even more of a morale-boosting thing, compared to the more than 300 warships, it is not worth mentioning.

Sailors of the Qing army who broke up. When some of them climbed up the river bank like dogs, they were greeted by the Ming army in armor, who were either killed or chosen to be taken prisoner.

In the end, tens of thousands of captives were collected and awaited the fate of these people. Just like the 200,000 captives in Xinjiangkou, they worked as coolies until they died, if they had known this outcome, I don't know if they would have chosen to surrender and live, or whether they would have chosen to surrender to the Qing army.

Yang Chao was naturally extremely satisfied with this result, and even quite surprised.

He even thinks that there is probably no water war with such a disparity in proportion in history.

In fact, what Yang Chao didn't know was that more than a hundred years ago, when the Portuguese had just opened the Eastern Shipping Route, they plundered everywhere at that time. The capture of seaports in India and the castles of the Arabs in the Persian Gulf provoked a counterattack by the Indian Ocean powers. The alliance of Arabs and Indians formed a combined fleet of more than 2,000 ships and more than 20,000 soldiers, only to be defeated by the Portuguese with 19 ships and more than 1,800 soldiers, allowing Portugal to dominate the Indian Ocean for a time.

Although Yang Chao has fewer ships, it is still much stronger than the strength comparison between Portugal and India and the Arab League, and the ships of India and the Arabs are sea ships and are defeated in a situation of one hundred to one. It's nothing short of a miracle.

The common people who also don't know the outside world are equally happy.

Seeing their army win the battle, the people of Nanjing spontaneously celebrated, and firecrackers were the most basic. Many restaurants and restaurants set up a lot of water banquets on the streets, and everyone came to eat without money.

When the rich saw the beggars, they did not hesitate to take out the white money and throw it into their broken bowls.

Countless people gathered together to exchange their views on the battle situation and their understanding of the art of war.

Yang Chao immediately made the battle situation a good news. Let the boats cross the river and immediately pass them to Yangzhou, Huai'an and other prefectures, so as to stabilize the people who were a little panicked because of the withdrawal of their own army as soon as possible.

At the same time, it was also transmitted to the south, and through the post station of the government, the news of the Qing army was transmitted to Zhejiang and Jiangxi, so as to appease Jiangxi, which was panicked because the Qing army had conquered Jiujiang, as well as Zhejiang, which was adjacent to Jiangxi and had been attacked by Jiangxi's rogues and bandits many times.

Yang Chao found that it was too laborious to write the good news, so he simply found someone to print it, but the printing of the good news made Yang Chao suddenly think, why not just print the newspaper.

Yang Chao had thought about it before, but he didn't dare to implement it, because the newspaper meant controlling public opinion, and it was impossible for Yang Chao to do this by letting the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty, especially the Donglin Party, which had always controlled public opinion, if Yang Chao had printed newspapers before, it would inevitably cause a counterattack from the civil officials and the Donglin Party.

Now Yang Chao doesn't care about this, because if he wants to dedicate Nanjing to the Qing army, the reputation of the Donglin Party will definitely be greatly affected, not to mention the outside world, even within themselves, at this time, there is also a rift, and those Donglin Party members who still have loyalty in their hearts are greatly disappointed in Qian Qianyi and others.

And the opponents have already begun to attack, Ruan Dacheng wrote more than a dozen impeachment letters within a few days, scolding Qian Qianyi, Wang Duo, Liu Zongzhou, Gao Hongtu and others, and gave a bad breath, because of the obstruction of the Donglin Party, Ruan Dacheng nested in Zhejiang for a year, Ma Shiying recommended him many times, but he gave up because of the opposition of the Donglin Party.

Of course Yang Chao will not care about Ruan Dacheng's impeachment, at this time, the imperial court is about to collapse, who will watch these twists and turns.

Yang Chao's top priority is to find the emperor, and has sent troops to search nearby, Yang Chao believes that it is impossible for the little emperor to go far, and analyzes that he may have fled to the south in the end, and asked people to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou to investigate, but there was no news for several days.

However, there was a wave of resignations of civil officials in the city, and the reason given by these civil officials was that they were ashamed of the previous emperor and had no face to be officials.

Yang Chao let go of these people and didn't ask them to blame, the first reason is that he hopes to keep them and continue to put up the shelves of the government, without these civil officials, how can Yang Chao drive the six ministries, and how can he continue to stabilize Jiangnan in the name of the imperial court.

Therefore, Yang Chao was kind enough to appease these people, saying that he would never settle accounts after the autumn, and Yang Chao thought that these people were afraid.

But these people have a big temper, and as soon as they resigned from the table, they didn't care if anyone was looking, so they packed their bags and left.

Yang Chao was annoyed in his heart, a traitor, arrogant or something.

After these people resigned, they left an empty shell for Yang Chao, which made Yang Chao very troubled.

There are also those who didn't go, Wang Duo didn't go, and Qian Qianyi didn't go.

Wang Duo probably considered the overall situation, and Qian Qianyi estimated that he was reluctant to take the official position.

Yang Chao, who wanted to find the emperor first, couldn't take care of these civil officials at this time, okay, since he didn't want to be an official, then don't be an official, and he didn't eat mixed pigs without Zhang Butcher, anyway, Yang Chao already had experience, so he simply went directly to the officials.

These officials are in Nanjing, so they can't leave too.

Soon the team was set up, and every department, from Jiangning County to the Sixth Department in Nanjing, was short of personnel anyway, and there was no civilian official to replace it, so they were immediately promoted to the highest position and the most qualified official to act as government affairs, and at the same time, one or two soldiers who had studied in their own army were stuffed to supervise.

In this way, the simple shelves of the six departments of Nanjing were erected.

After staying for ten days, Yang Chao saw that Nanjing was stable, his army was basically coming back, and his troops were sufficient, so he planned to counterattack.

Starting from Dasheng Pass, the distance from Dangtu is about 100 miles, and 60,000 troops are dispatched by land and water, vowing to take Dangtu in one fell swoop, drive the Qing army out of Taiping Mansion, and recover the Gyeonggi region step by step.

When Tu, Azig in the army.

Azig was in a good mood, even if he heard that Yang Chao had sent troops, he was still in a good mood.

Because he felt that he had won, even if he lost his army, even if his brother Dorgon was killed in battle, he felt that he had won, and that Dorgon was in a secure position.

Because he has a trump card in his hand.

"Hahahaha, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, please!"

Azig sat on the front seat, and a restrained teenager sat on the side, desperately squeezing out a smile to cater to Azig.

If Yang Chao was here, he would definitely be shocked, and he would recognize that this person was His Majesty the Hongguang Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong, the crown prince of Emperor Chongzhen, who he was looking for.

This is Azig's trump card, with this card, even if Duoduo dies in battle and loses his soldiers, Dolgon can completely win back a city, because although the Qing Dynasty lost a prince and tens of thousands of troops, it captured a Ming Emperor.

Although the military strength of the Ming Dynasty in the eyes of the Manchus, it is not as important as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, but the political significance of the Ming Dynasty emperor is much higher than Li Zicheng, and the official relationship with the Ming Dynasty has been a dream of the Manchu regime since the Nurhachi era, and in the hands of Huang Taiji, he is eager to confirm the status of the Manchu Qing Dynasty by getting the recognition of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the surrounding regimes is always to either surrender or perish, and absolutely does not accept the Manchu Qing as a regime on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty, so even if the people in the country are forced to rebel, Chongzhen still has to levy Liao pay to exterminate the Manchus.

After entering the customs, the political situation suddenly changed greatly, and the Manchus no longer cared about the recognition of the Ming Dynasty, but began to seek to destroy the imperial court, and they themselves fought for the Central Plains, but in this case, they still did not recognize Li Zicheng, and like the Ming court, Li Zicheng was called a traitor.

Now that he has the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in his hand, he is still the prince of Chongzhen, who can't pick out the thorn in his roots, and the political significance is too great, second only to the destruction of the country, and even capturing the other party's emperor is equivalent to symbolically destroying the other party's country.

So with this bargaining chip, although Dolgon can't continue to build the Qing court as hard as before, it is still no problem to continue to suppress the Hauge forces.

With this card, Azig's attack on Nanjing, even if it did not achieve a substantial victory, was symbolically a complete victory! (To be continued.) )