More than half of June has passed.

The shape of the Qing court in Henan was precarious. In the court hall of Beijing City, many people with weight began to call for peace with the Ming Dynasty.

Didn't they want Shaanxi and Henan? Then cede these two places to the Ming court, and the Qing Dynasty will withdraw to the north of the Yellow River, and it will be enough to defend it according to the natural danger of the Yellow River.

This statement is not nonsense, and the terrain north of the Yellow River is mostly plains, which is conducive to cavalry combat. The dangers of Shanxi's mountains and rivers are enough to defend Gyeonggi. Considering that it took Dolgon nearly a year to capture Datong, which was occupied by Jiang's rebels, one could guess how difficult it was to attack that place. The Ming army is good at tunneling cities, but Shanxi is not a plain, can digging tunnels avoid stones?

The soldiers of the Ming army outside Nanyang City could not hear such rumors. They are ready to confirm those predictions with victory.

At the end of the day, the Ming army opened fire as usual.

The cavalry of the Ming army all came out of the camp and lined up, and from the head of the city, the black and oppressive war horses looked like a ridge across the plain.

Xiao Zhiyan restlessly urged the war horse to move in front of the formation.

Xu Yiyang urged the horse to his side and lowered his voice to advise: "Father-in-law, don't forget what you said last night, you can't enter the city until the army takes Nanyang City. ”

"I know, I know" Xiao Zhiyan rebuked impatiently, he rarely looked at Xu Yiyang like this. Being a commander does not dare to manage those complicated affairs, and he cannot go into battle to kill the enemy, which is really not happy at all.

Knowing this, he would rather the regent hand over this position to Jin Shenghuan, so that a fool could not see that he coveted the position of commander

Each iron ball striking the blue masonry vibrates the entire wall. The defenders of the city leaned behind the city walls, waiting for the sound of iron cannons to stop and rushed up to meet the enemy.

Outside the east gate and the west gate, the Ming army was approaching with a cloud ladder, so they squinted their eyes and shot at the soldiers at the head of the city.

“…… Bang ......!"

The earth shakes and the mountains shake.

“…… Bang ......"

Smoke and dust are everywhere.

Xiao Zhiyan couldn't wait to swing his knife: "Kill into the city"

The sudden loud noise under the walls of the southern city made the soldiers inside and outside the city a little numb under their feet.

"The city is broken"

Before the smoke and dust cleared, the cavalry and foot soldiers of the Ming army rushed into the smoke at the same time.

The sound of the iron cannon came to an abrupt end.

Although the soldiers shouted, the whole plain and the sky seemed to suddenly become silent compared to the sound of a hundred cannons, compared to the sound of underground explosions.

Zhang Qiu stood at the gate of Nanda Camp, squinting his eyes. The sunlight was already a little dazzling, and his vision seemed to be able to pierce the dust that rose from Nazài, and a piece of the southern city wall was no longer there.

His face was stacked with satisfaction, and it was his achievement. Soon, the galloping cavalry took over his gaze, and his expression changed to envy.

Blasting is also a kind of technical work, Zhang Qiu didn't know, if he hadn't read and was proficient in arithmetic, he would never be able to serve as the chief officer of the siege army.

Dust gradually falls to the ground.

A piece of the five-foot-high wall of the southern city collapsed in the middle, becoming a veritable pile of ruins.

Che Feng commanded the cavalry to reach the gap, and the riders did not rush into the city, each took out the flint gun on his back and pulled the trigger inside.

After the scattered guns scattered the defenders gathered out of the gap, Che Feng commanded the 1,000 cavalry at the front to dismount and climb over the ruins into the city.

The siege battle continued outside the eastern and western cities. After being frightened, the defenders of the city had no intention of fighting, and fled like frightened rabbits to the center of the city.

The cavalry of the Ming army did not enter the city, and after dispersing the defenders who intended to build fortifications at the gap, Che Feng ordered the cavalry to make way for the arriving foot soldiers.

Xu Yiyang commanded the foot soldiers to enter the city.

Che Feng was looking around, and the herald holding the black flag galloped over: "Qing Yu broke through from Dongcheng, please ask the general army to pursue." ”

The commanders blew their horns, and the cavalry flowed around the city walls to the eastern city.

The Ming army covered the sky and fields, and the soldiers shouted and marched forward, using Qi knives and axes to vent the anger that had been suppressed for half a month. The gap in the city wall was too small, and someone rushed to the city gate with an axe, leaving a mark on the iron gate with a giant axe, until the Ming army entering the city opened the city gate from the inside.

On a high ground at the junction of Xicheng and Nancheng, Xiao Zhiyan held a longbow in his hand and watched as Che Feng commanded the cavalry to pursue the Qing captives.

"Damn, you should block it from the right, can't you see that the Tartars' formation is reversing" he scolded quietly. In fact, Che Feng commanded the cavalry with high combat skills, and it may not be worse than him, he just felt that it was not enjoyable to watch.

The Qing captured thousands of cavalry to break through, and the Ming army pursued for more than 40 miles, allowing only a few dozen people to escape.

The cavalry of the Ming army was stationed outside the city, and only foot soldiers entered the city to maintain order.

"Nanyang City is broken", Xiao Zhiyan raised his eyebrows and reported to Huaiyang.

The ruins and blood in the city were cleared, and three days later it was re-blooded

The captured Jurchens and Mongols beheaded the crowd outside the city as usual, and the Ming were not afraid to provoke the Eight Banners to fight to the death.

The local wealthy families who participated in the defense of the city in Nanyang Prefecture confiscated their family property, the men were beheaded, and the women were sold into slavery.

Ten days later, the Ming Dynasty spread all over Henan, and then there were Han people who assisted the Jurchens in defending the city, and after the city was broken, they were dealt with with the Jurchens. Xiao Zhiyan did not have the right to publish this kind of text, which came from Yangzhou and spread throughout the Central Plains.

The half moon broke Nanyang, and the Ming army needed to rest before they could fight again, and they had to restore the battered Nanyang City to its former solid appearance and use it as a reserve for military resources.

The foot soldiers need to rest, but the cavalry has been resting for half a month.

Xiao Zhiyan handed over Nanyang City to Xu Yiyang and Jin Shenghuan, and he led Che Feng, Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui's army, a total of 23,000 cavalry, to march to the northeast. Li Dingguo was good at riding a large number of troops, and recently allocated some war horses, so he compiled 2,000 cavalry.

The Ming army went all the way north, and along the way Nanzhao, Lushan, and Jiaxian, Xiao Zhiyan knew that after priing open the head of Nanyang, Henan was much more empty than imagined.

According to the instructions of the General's Palace, the next target of the Ming army was Luoyang.

After capturing Jiaxian, Wu Sangui's army was reluctant to continue north. Fang Xuanchu, the leading general soldier, said to Xiao Zhiyan: "Recently, our army has made rapid progress, and it is out of touch with the soldiers and horses of the headquarters. ”

Xiao Zhiyan had the intention to continue to go north, but he was separated from Wu Sangui's cavalry, and only the strength of the Ming army's cavalry was very risky against Luckdhun's cavalry.

Wu Sangui's army has always been unenthusiastic about the Ming army's battle to recover Henan, and it is far inferior to Jin Shenghuan's army. Xu Yiyang was not around, and Xiao Zhiyan didn't even have anyone to discuss.

He looked at the generals in the account, remembered that Xu Yiyang had praised a person in front of him, and asked by name: "General Li, what do you claim?"

Li Dingguo didn't want to come forward, but after being named, he took the opportunity to confide all the thoughts in his heart: "The Qing soldiers in Henan Eight Banners have only 10,000 soldiers, and the Han soldiers are comparable to me. My cavalry drove straight in, and the captives didn't know what my intentions were. In the opinion of the last general, it is better to attack Luoyang in the north, so that the Qing prisoners can not figure out the movement of our army. ”

Fang Xuanchu sneered: "20,000 cavalry are in the hinterland of Henan, how can they hide their whereabouts? ”

Li Dingguo said: "General Fang doesn't know that I was a thief back then, tens of thousands of cavalry of King Chuang wandered through the Central Plains, and the officers and soldiers couldn't stop it." Now the towns of Henan are panicked, Luoyang is guarding the road from the Central Plains to Shaanxi, and the Qing captives will inevitably be heavily guarded. Our army marched eastward, and it is not known that there are cities like Lushan and Jiaxian in all the counties of the road. ”

His Jianyì has a very good appetite for Xiao Zhiyan.

The impulse to take risks in Xiao Zhiyan's nature finally triumphed over the forcible addition of stability.

Li Dingguo continued: "Luck Dehun was newly defeated outside Nanyang City, and I realized that the Qing Dynasty was no longer the heroic army that won a hundred battles back then. Although the cavalry of our army is not as good as the Qing captives, it is better than the sharp weapons. My cavalry is mostly equipped with Qi knives and birds, and I saw that the charge of the captive soldiers under the bombardment of the birds was not formed under the bombardment of the Nanyang City, and the Qing Capture Archers could not afford to be the impact of my long knives. ”

Fang Xuanchu lowered his head and stopped talking. Li Dingguo explained that the army's sharp weapons did not include the cavalry under his command. He fought with the Ming army this time, saw the amazing strength of the Ming army, and became more and more pessimistic about the faint hope of the king of Zhenxi.

Xiao Zhiyan saw that Fang Xuanchu still did not agree, and he was unhappy in his heart, and asked: "General Fang Bing, I am determined to go east, do you come or not." ”

Fang Xuanchu said helplessly: "The last general will take the order"

At this moment, in the government office of Luoyang City, a middle-aged man was frowning.

There was a slight sound of footsteps outside the door, and the staff entered the door and said in a very low voice: "The Ming army has arrived in Jiaxian"

"Got it" Hong Chengchou felt very bored, he was not without ambition to defend Henan. But the news from the court recently made him feel powerless.

He smiled bitterly and said to himself: "Even the imperial court wants to give up Henan, what am I still doing here?"

The court's decision has not been decided for a long time, the reinforcements promised by the regent are still in Liaodong and have not been dispatched, and even Luckedhun has lost his determination to stick to the Central Plains, what can he do as a Hanchen

The staff held a military newspaper in his hand and said: "Leke Dehun Beizi has sent news that the Ming army is likely to be coming to Luoyang, and Beizi said that he is preparing to ambush the Ming army in Ruzhou."

"Ruzhou is in no danger to defend, can he ambush the Ming army there?" Hong Chengchou asked rhetorically, and said no more about the rest of the words.

More than half of the soldiers and horses of the Qing court in Henan were the defeated army of Huguang, and they had not won a battle in recent years. The Jurchens wanted to retreat to Liaodong, and the Mongols did not want to lose their lives. Otherwise, how could the dignified Eight Banners cavalry be defeated under Nanyang City. Han pawn? The Han soldiers are actually the most desperate, but the military salaries are about to be paid.

When the staff was about to retreat, Hong Chengchou suddenly asked: "Is there any news from Beijing?" ”

"No" The staff thought for a while and added: "I heard that Prince Heshuo is dying."

As soon as Dai Shan died, the two red flags lost their backbone, and at that time, the court dispute would have a result. Hong Chengchou lamented in his heart: "Regent, when are you going to let me wait." ”

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