The imperial court sent ships to chase Wang Pu as soon as possible, hoping that Wang Pu would return to encircle Nanjing, and the second was to organize troops, and they saw those captives in Xinjiangkou, although Wang Pu was gone, but left a thousand people, plus a group of sailors on Zhang Dawei's ship, it was not a problem to guard these prisoners.

These soldiers resolutely refused to let the court move these prisoners, and the court realized at this moment that there was no usable soldier in its hands.

Of course, there are still soldiers, there are a total of 200,000 in the Beijing camp, of course, this number is only on the military register, the real number is probably not even half, in getting rid of the old and weak, the maximum number of people who can hold guns is 50,000, and there is not a single one who has really fought.

At this time, Ma Shiying was also anxious, and at his urgent moment, through the emperor of the six gods and no masters, he appointed his son Ma Luan, the governor of Jinyiwei, as the governor of the Beijing camp, and took the 3,000 troops recruited from Guizhou by Ma Shiying when he was supervising Fengyang as the core, and selected 10,000 young and strong soldiers and horses available in the Beijing camp to form the Yongwei battalion.

However, he formed the Yongwei Battalion not to rescue, nor to defend the city, but to save his life.

Ma Shiying assured the emperor that once the Qing army crossed the river or attacked Nanjing from the west, he would immediately escort the emperor out of Nanjing and take Hangzhou!

Azig commanded 200,000 troops, and unlike the more than 200,000 in Yangzhou, although most of them were also surrendered by the Ming army, they had been completely rectified by Azig.

After the Qing army entered the customs, Azig and Duoduo were divided into two roads to pursue Li Zicheng, Azig took the north road to attack west through Shanxi, and Duoduo took the south road to attack west through Henan, but after capturing Shanxi, Azig did not immediately enter northern Shaanxi, but went to Mongolia Soma from the Great Wall.

As a result, Duoduo captured Tongguan and made persistent efforts to capture Xi'an with the strength of all the soldiers.

Azig's unauthorized actions allowed the Qing court to advance on both sides, and the plan to attack Xi'an was not realized, although it relied on the onslaught of Duoduo. It still occupied Xi'an, but the losses were heavy.

Therefore, the Qing court rebuked Azig, and then Duoduo returned to Henan and was transferred to Jiangnan to attack the Ming army. Azig, on the other hand, was assigned a drudgery, which was to continue to pursue Li Zicheng.

After Li Zicheng gave up Xi'an, he went from Lantian to Henan, and then entered Jingzhou, Xiangyang and other places, and joined the 70,000 elite soldiers of the Dashun army who stayed here. Immediately went south and crossed the river to attack Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu fled without occupying it, and under the guise of the Qing Jun's side, the troops were sent to Nanjing, but they were defeated by Yang Chao in Taiping Mansion, and most of the soldiers and horses were captured.

The Qing army chased Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng chased Zuo Liangyu, but Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng's luck was not good enough, Zuo Liangyu died of illness in Jiujiang for no reason, and the soldiers and horses were almost wiped out by Yang Chao, and Li Zicheng was even more miserable. He led the army to Tongshan County, Hubei, and habitually led more than 20 cavalry to scout forward, but was thought to be a thief by the local mountain people and killed.

These two people, one is a big warlord who gave the Ming Dynasty a headache, and the other is the leader of the peasant army of the Ming Dynasty who dragged them to death, but they all died inexplicably before the Qing army settled in the Central Plains, and it can only be said that the Qing army was too lucky.

Later, Zhang Xianzhong was also easily killed by an arrow from the Qing army. After playing with the Ming army for more than ten years, he died casually.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty can no longer be regarded as good luck, it is simply against the sky.

But is history really made by chance?

If Nurhachi dies, the Eight Banners fight separately. Do they still have hope, if after Huang Taiji's death, Duoduo and Hauge kill each other, do they still have hope, this is actually not a heavenly time, but a person.

The Manchus were united. The Ming court was restless, so they won in the end.

Yang Chao tried hard to maintain a united court, but he had tried his best to let the Donglin Party gain power, and the court was still fighting openly and secretly, even to himself, which could not say anything about the Mandate of Heaven, but only said that he would not die!

The little emperor is much smarter than his father Chongzhen, seeing the crisis coming, he didn't discuss with Wenchen at all, he knew that he couldn't come up with a reason to discuss with this group of people, he only found a few cronies, Lu Jiude, Ma Shiying and others, so in the case that Wenchen didn't know it at all, he had already decided that if the momentum was not right, he would flash and learn from Zhao Gou to flee to Hangzhou.

Bad news came one after another.

Azig led the troops to take Jiujiang without blood, and advanced downstream, Chizhou and Tongling Wangfeng were attached, Huang Degong was defeated in Wuhu, and retreated to Taiping Dangtu, when Tu was defeated again, there was no news, it is reported that Azig had marched to the victory pass!

Dasheng Pass is already the last gateway to Nanjing, and this gate has no soldiers to defend at this time.

July 10th, night.

Under the protection of Ma Shiying, Ma Luan and Yu Jiye, the commander of the sword-bearing officer, the little emperor quietly went out of the city, and the civil and military officials did not know, otherwise he would not be able to leave.

All the way to the south, as a result, they were raided by rebellious soldiers in Lishui, and Ma Shiying and the little emperor were separated.

The boat of the little emperor met the defeated Huang Degong in Shijiu Lake.

Huang Degong couldn't help but be disappointed, and told the emperor that if he stuck to the fortified city of Nanjing, there was still something to do, and he abandoned the fortified city and left, and the general trend was gone.

At this time, the Qing army's pursuers arrived again, and Huang Degong sent his troops to escort the little emperor south again, and he turned back to cover, but unfortunately died in battle!

Under the city of Yangzhou.

Yang Chao had already led a large army back to help, and Duoduo did not take advantage of half of it.

But strangely, he still did not leave, but chose to camp on Shugang in the north of Yangzhou.

Shugang built a city in the Tang Dynasty, the foundation is still there, there are buildings such as Daming Temple on it, Duoduo defends according to the danger, Yang Chao will inevitably suffer heavy losses if he wants to attack it.

However, Yang Chao was not in a hurry, and sent troops to surround him on all sides and besiege Duoduo on Shugang.

Everyone has heard the story of Ma Tan's loss of the street pavilion, Ma Tan camped on the mountain, the weather was hot, and Sima Yi set fire to the bottom of the mountain.

Yang Chao also plans to set fire to the mountain, although Shugang is not as good as the street pavilion, there is spring water to drink in Shugang, but by the direction of the wind, the wind blows to the north, Yang Chao will set fire in the south, the wind will blow to the south, Yang Chao will set fire in the north, and the smoke alone will make Duoduo unbearable.

Soon he sent someone to negotiate.

Yang Chao has only one condition, that is, surrender, Yang Chao promised to spare Duoduo's life, but he would not let him go back.

Duoduo instead wanted to recruit Yang Chao and told Yang Chao that he had asked for a holy order, as long as Yang Chao was willing to surrender, he would crown Yang Chao as the king of Huai, and set up a territory to seal the territory, and the entire two Huai were Yang Chao's domain.

Of course, Yang Chao would not take this kind of thing seriously, so he naturally thought that this was a big lie under the poor skills of Tudor Qian, and ridiculed the envoy of Duoduo, saying that the Qing court was poor in donkey skills, and even used such a clumsy trick to tell the envoy that if Duoduo was still a man, he would come down the mountain, and Yang Chao was willing to fight with him in a real battle, and was willing to fight with him in the field.

As a result, Duoduo didn't plan to be a man anymore, and even the Qing army's self-righteous field battle didn't dare to accept it, so he blindly cowered on the mountain, preferring to enjoy the smoke and fire.

On October 12, Wang Pu led his troops to Yangzhou, and Yang Chao knew that Nanjing City was besieged again because of Yangzhou, and people were panicked again, and some people even speculated that they died in Huai'an, otherwise how could they let the Qing soldiers fight Yangzhou again.

Don't blame others for thinking so, in fact, people who can think like this still have some geographical common sense, knowing that if Huai'an is blocked, the Qing army will not be able to go south, let alone these people, even Yang Chao can't imagine that the Qing army will pass through the area guarded by Huang Degong's heavy troops.

"It's okay to scare those fools, they are now making a big enemy, but they only think about the stupid thing of suppressing the generals."

Yang Chao thought mischievously in his heart, so he didn't let people report the specific situation in the direction of Nanjing, without his own accurate information, even if Guazhou reported back, Nanjing would not believe it, because at this time it was already full of rumors, and listening to Wang Pu, Guazhou was also panicked, and the Ming army Jiang guards guarding here were already under martial law, and the news from the north and south could not be communicated.

But it's not that he doesn't send the news back at all, he just doesn't tell the court, and his family has to let them feel at ease.

"Wang Pu listens to the order, you go north immediately. Zhao Kang's troops in Sizhou are thin, if the enemy attacks from Henan, it will be very disadvantageous to our army, and you are ordered to join Zhao Kang's troops along the line of Sizhou, attack Suzhou, be sure to occupy Suzhou, and not let the Qing army go south. ”

As soon as Wang Pu arrived, he got a new order, which made him feel very down-to-earth, only he was meaningful to fight, after being persecuted by the imperial power in Nanjing, Wang Pu's psychology became different from before, and the pursuit also underwent some changes.

It's not that Yang Chao is inconsiderate of Wang Pu, he just arrived and asked him to set off to the north again, but compared to other armies, his 10,000 people are already considered a new force, and many men, Lu Mo and other troops have fought many times, and when the attack on Huai'an began, they rushed back and forth, and the load as a soldier was very heavy.

However, Wang Pu stopped at Xinjiangkou for a month, which can be said to have been recuperating for a long time.

Duoduo also seemed to feel that it was not a way to hold on, and organized several breakthroughs, but they were all repelled by Yang Chao's department.

And because of Duoduo's breakthrough, Yang Chao ordered the fortifications to be reinforced.

In the past, it was a simple answer to reject the horse, as well as the shield town, but the Qing army blindfolded the horse and let the cavalry urge the whipping behind, so the horse rushed into battle, and such a simple defense could not be stopped.

So Yang Chao let people dig a deep ditch, the ditch is one zhang deep, two zhang wide, the front and rear arrangements are to reject the horse, and there are shield soldiers to guard behind, but unfortunately the bird guns are transferred to Li Wuliu to guard Xuzhou, otherwise ambush thousands of bird guns, that for the attacking Qing army, it will simply become a dead place.

However, Yang Chao had artillery, and at each major crossing, three or five tiger squat cannons were arranged, and the Qing army rushed to bombard them.

Li Wuliu led 20,000 troops, Wang Pu and Zhao Kang led more than 10,000 troops, plus the town garrison troops in other places, a total of 50,000 troops, 100,000 remained in Yangzhou, and surrounded Duoduo with 100,000 people.

Pack up a prince of the Qing army, this news is back, and the city of Nanjing should be stable.

On October 15, Duoduo had been trapped for five days, and it seemed that his patience was becoming less and less, and he made more moves to attack Yang Chao's defensive position, but there was no effect except for the loss of his troops.

Yang Chao originally planned to kill Duoduo like this, but at this time, he finally received news from Nanjing, Azig was approaching Nanjing, and the little emperor Zhu Cihong abandoned the city and fled! (To be continued.) )