A day later, Shi Kefa received the news of the fall of Anqing, and on the third day, Liu Zhaoji, who had retreated from Anqing to protect some of the people's women and children, also arrived in Nanjing. The news of the martyrdom of Huang Gongfu, Hu Dawei, Huang Peixuan, Pi Yingju and others made Shi Kefa grief, no matter how Lu Jiude, Wang Tingchen, Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu and others persuaded him, Shi Kefa himself knew in his heart that now was not the time to be sad. The Qing army's more than 200,000 troops will enter the city of Nanjing in the blink of an eye, and the most important question now is how to hold on to Nanjing and retain a glimmer of hope and a trace of vitality for the Ming Dynasty.

At present, there are 40,000 defenders in Nanjing, and there are only 70,000 people in the city. The project of reinforcing the city defenses presided over by Yan Yingyuan has also come to an end, and the results will be slowly tested in actual combat, and the grain from Jianghuai has been continuously transported into Nanjing by water, and now it is competing with the Qing army for time, striving to transport as much as it can before the siege of the city.

Shi Kefa had already ordered the yamen of various ministries in Nanjing to evacuate hundreds of thousands of Nanjing people, and a considerable number of courtiers who did not follow Emperor Longwu to the south took on this task. Cao Yanlun, the head of the household department, and Lang Zhong Kang Zezhi of the Ministry of Industry were also the main battle faction in the original court, and the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry joined hands to take over this matter. Jinyiwei commanded Zhou Zhifan to follow Emperor Longwu south, and the task of picketing spies and spies in the city was jointly undertaken by Jinyiwei, the Soldiers and Horses, and the Yamen of the Criminal Department.

Speaking of this Zhu Hehata, he has a lot to do with Zhu Ping'an. After the fall of Beijing, Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and his sister-in-law were killed by Li Zicheng's subordinates, and his mansion was also raided. So, after Emperor Longwu succeeded to the throne, he succeeded to the lord with his concubine Zhu and Hatata. Zhu Hehata is the youngest son of Zhu Chunchen's spoiling, because he is a concubine. Earlier, he had no chance to inherit the title, so Zhu Chunchen entrusted it to Zhu Ping'an and purchased a large number of properties for him in the trade zone, so that he could have no worries about food and clothing. Unexpectedly, after the severance of the Chengguo Gong's lineage, Zhu Hehata picked up a ready-made bargain.

Zhu Cihong, who was still the crown prince back then. once sent the eunuch Feng Da to infiltrate Shandong to plot to seize military power and financial power, and Zhu Hehata came to the door to scold Feng Da, which was from Zhu Ping'an's instructions. Although Zhu Hehata is stubborn, he is a sincere character, and Zhu Ping'an is very close to him, and he is also a close friend of Zhu Ping'an's henchman, the military governor Hong Dahai, and has eight friendships. Speaking of which, he was able to inherit the title, and there was also Zhu Ping'an's impetus behind him.

This time, the Qing army came to the city. Zhu Hehata stayed in Nanjing, and Mao recommended himself to take on the errand of internal security in the city. With a group of newly promoted nobles, such as the British Duke Zhang Shize, the Duke of Wei Xu Wenjue and other young men temporarily took charge of the Jinyi Guard, responsible for surveying the spies in the city. Zhu Hehata was particularly attentive to this errand, and deliberately tried to borrow 200 officers from Hong Dahai in Shandong Province from the Chengguan Yamen, and with these people as the backbone, he set up a joint law enforcement team with the cooperation of Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Terracotta Division, and the Yamen of the Criminal Department. In less than five days, the law and order and atmosphere in the entire city of Nanjing were completely renewed. Even Shi Kefa and Lu Jiude were amazed.

After eliminating the internal troubles, the next thing that Shi Kefa and the others wanted to see was reinforcements from all walks of life. Lu Zhenfei's soldiers and horses were only a matter of time, but Huang Degong, who was supposed to come over, was trapped by the Qing army, and the Qing army was blue flag Gushan Ezhen Dachun's army broke into Luzhou Mansion, and Huang De's power department fought with it for more than ten days, and finally died due to the defeat of the outnumbered soldiers. After Dachun occupied Luzhou, he immediately waved his troops to the east to kill. I want to meet Bolo in Nanjing.

In order to relieve the pressure on Nanzhili, Yang Tinglin of Henan began to march to Shanxi, and fought fiercely with Azig's soldiers and horses in the Tongguan area. Shandong's Lu Xiangsheng firmly held back the main force of the Qing army. In other words, it is difficult for a large number of reinforcements to arrive near Nanzhili, and Nanjing is likely to face the situation of fighting alone. Even if Lu Zhenfei's soldiers and horses arrived, they were far from the number of the Qing army.

Da Chun eliminated Huang Degong's department in Luzhou, which also made Bo Luo overjoyed. From his heart, he was extremely dissatisfied with the imperial court's reuse of the Han military flag and the green camp. The elite of the Eight Banners were trapped in He, Beijing, and Shanxi, but they let these Han troops go south to attack the city, and they made a promise to Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Hong Chengchou to cut the land and seal the king, which made the Eight Banners nobles embarrassed. So, after getting the news that Dachun was heading east, Bolo made a bold decision.

The Qing army was divided into two routes in the south, one was Hong Chengchou, who invaded Sichuan; The other way is Wu Sangui. Now Bolo has seized the command of Wu Sangui's East Route Army with great fanfare. In order to win the immortal achievement of conquering Nanjing, Bolo immediately made the decision to divide the troops.

At present, the Qing army on the East Road has a total of more than 300,000 soldiers and horses, of which there are only more than 60,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners and Mongolian soldiers and horses, and the rest are men and horses under the command of Wu Sangui. On the one hand, the division of troops was to occupy the great merit of conquering Nanjing, and on the other hand, it was to weaken the military power of Wu Sangui and others.

With a wave of his hand, Bolo transferred more than 100,000 horses under Wu Sangui's command to his command, including Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, Shi Tingzhu, including Wu Sangui's generals Qin Guanglian, Liu Zhiyuan, Wu Shoujin and other troops, and his troops expanded to 200,000 people for a while, but he ordered Wu Sangui to turn to the southeast, attack Zhejiang, and pursue Zheng Zhilong's main force.

And he himself wanted to personally lead the main force of the Qing army on the East Road and approach Nanjing.

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On the east bank of Chaohu Lake, the county seat of Chaoxian County has been replaced with the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Qing Army, Dachun did not enter the city, two hours ago, the east gate of Chaoxian County fell, and the Qing army entered the city in a big way, which was almost the same day as Boluo conquered Anqing.

Jingnan Bohuang, who was guarding the Luzhou Mansion, was killed by a cannon, and the Luzhou defenders were suddenly defeated, which surprised Da Chun inexplicably. Facts have proved that Bolo's strategy is extremely correct, and Dachun's 40,000 soldiers and horses raided Luzhou, which disrupted the established strategy of the Ming army in an instant. Huang Degong has 30,000 troops, if he is allowed to enter the city of Nanjing, it will definitely be a big help for the defenders of Nanjing, and now it is easy to annihilate it in Luzhou, and the reinforcements sent to Nanjing can be cut off; Second, it was also a great blow to the morale of the defenders of Nanjing.

Therefore, after taking Chao County, Da Chun only let the soldiers rest for two hours, and while it was still early, he couldn't wait to give the order to march into the army. From Chaoxian upstream, is Hezhou, Hezhou and Nanjing's western gateway Jiangpu is just a stone's throw away, if you can catch Jiangpu before the Boluo army enters Nanjing, Da Chun estimates, a title is captured.

Besides, Huang Degong's troops have been annihilated, and the remaining soldiers and soldiers are scattered and fled, and there will be no large number of soldiers and horses of the Ming army between Jiangpu, and it is already easy to conquer Jiangpu by taking advantage of the situation.

The soldiers and horses under the command of Da Chun were divided into three parts, including the bannermen of the Zhenglan Banner, the Mongolian light cavalry, and some of the soldiers of the Han military camp. Since entering Luzhou, he has fought several fierce battles with Huang Degong's department, the soldiers are tired, the cavalry is better, but the Han military camp is full of foot soldiers, so it is bitter. Da Chun didn't talk nonsense, and immediately cut off the heads of two thousand generals, and the army immediately ordered a ban.

rushed all the way to Luohe Town, and walking here is equivalent to entering the boundary of Hezhou. The ranks of the Qing army have been sparsely dragged for several miles, and at this time, no matter how Da Chun coerces and tempts, it is difficult for his soldiers and horses to march. Even the generals in the Zhenglan Banner began to complain, and in desperation, Da Chun could only order the army to temporarily rest in Luohe Town for the night, and wait until tomorrow morning to kill the important towns and counties of Hezhou in one go.

Luohe Zhenli has long been out of people, all that remains is the empty houses, and the horses released have also come to report one after another, and there is no trace of the Ming army within a radius of five miles.

The soldiers of the Qing army have not had a long rest these days, and as soon as Da Chun's order came, many people didn't even bother to make a fire to cook, so they lay down on the ground and fell asleep. Even the soldiers stationed at the tower began to doze off one after another.

Luohe Town is not large and cannot meet the needs of the Manchu army of 40,000, so Dachun did not enter the city, but set up camp outside the city with soldiers with the blue flag.

After nightfall, the cold wind gradually chilled, but Da Chun was excited and a little difficult to sleep, thinking about a few days later, he was going to appear under the city of Nanjing, this kind of excitement and excitement before the big war did make Da Chun's mind difficult to calm.

So, he simply put on his armor and took his relatives to patrol the camps with Goshha. But as soon as he walked out of the big tent of the Chinese army, he felt that the night sky suddenly brightened.

Da Chun subconsciously looked up, and almost lost his soul in an instant. In the clear night sky, a little bit of fire suddenly appeared, piercing the sky, as if a large group of meteors were rushing towards it, and the target was directly at the Qing army camp.

In the blink of an eye, the meteor had already plunged into the camp of the Qing army, and the wind took advantage of the fire, and in the blink of an eye, the Qing army camp was on fire.

"Enemy attack!" Da Chun was clever and pulled out the sword at his waist, and his subordinates Goshha shouted even more, but their shouts were immediately drowned out by the roar of firearms that followed.

Solid shells jumped into the camp of the Qing army, and everywhere they passed, there were severed limbs and stumps along the way, and many Qing soldiers were killed in their sleep. Da Chun hurriedly gathered to order his soldiers and horses to counterattack, but in a hurry, the Qing army was extremely tired, so Da Chun's order was sent to the soldiers without knowing why. Although the firepower of the sneak attack was not very fierce, the Qing army was the first to become chaotic.

At this time, there were already two cavalry teams from the east and south to enter the camp of the Qing army, although the number was not much, but it was to catch the Qing army off guard, the cavalry who raided were killed when they saw people, the horses' hooves passed, the Qing soldiers screamed and fell to the ground one after another, and there was no chance to fight back.

Da Chun's eyes were cracked, and he stared closely at the cavalry who came out of the darkness like ghosts, seeing that the uniforms were the Ming army, but he couldn't see their banners clearly.

Suddenly, a cannonball exploded in the camp, and the fire suddenly illuminated a large area, and Dachun could clearly see the battle flag waving in the hands of a Ming soldier.

"Daming Fengyang General Section!" (To be continued......)