In March, the eunuch Qiao went to the prime minister's two Huai salt classes, and Qian Jideng took the prime minister's two Huai salt laws and Jiang defense, and dismissed the salt imperial history.

Nan Anbo, Zheng Hongkui, the fourth brother of Zheng Zhilong, the general of Fujian Town, and Zheng Cai, the deputy general, came to help, this is the navy from Fujian, which was arranged in Zhenjiang in history, and now due to the appearance of Zhou Huchen, these sailors had to change their garrison and were placed in Taixing, which is further east.

Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng continued to concentrate their power, in order to tightly grasp Zhou Huchen's father and son, Ma Shiying once again gave Zhou Huchen a sweetness through Zhou Huchen's victory. In addition to the reward, Zhou Huchen was appointed as the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, awarded the dragon and tiger general, the second rank, and can be regarded as a handsome, although there are many handsomes in this era. This is the youngest Zhengyin general soldier of the new dynasty, and it is also a gesture made by Ma Shiying, Zhou Yuji and his son are their own people.

On the Jiannu side, Azig continued to pursue the Dashun army, and the Duoduo Department withdrew and began to drive directly to Henan.

There was a Dashun general named Liu Zhong in Henan, who later went to Beijing with Li Zicheng, and thus became the Ping Nanbo of the Dashun Army. This Liu Zhong is worthy of being a person with eyes, he is the same as Xu Dingguo, when he found that Jiannu was stronger and Jiannu appeared, he immediately defected to Jiannu. Under the guidance of Liu Zhong, who was very familiar with Henan, the Duoduo Division of Duoduo went out of the Tiger Prison Pass and entered the Guide Mansion.

At this time, Li Zicheng's troops entered the Xiangyang area of Hubei Province through Shangluo in Shaanxi Province and Dengzhou in western Henan Province under the pursuit of the Azig army.

Zuo Liangyu is located in Wuchang, Wuchang is located in the upper reaches of Nanjing, strategically strong, and Zuo Liangyu's subordinates are relatively strong - there are many people.

The warlord who rose during the Chongzhen period began to support the army for a long time after the twelfth year of Chongzhen, ravaging the place, due to the flanking attack of Li Zicheng and Jiannu, the imperial court was helpless against Zuo Liangyu, and could only blindly tolerate it.

During the Chongzhen period, Zuo Liangyu fought several big battles with Li Zicheng and won many victories, but after the defeat in Zhuxian Town, Henan, Zuo Liangyu was decadent. He never won in Li Zicheng again, from the original Li Zicheng was afraid of Zuo Liangyu to Zuo Liangyu was afraid of Li Zicheng. In fact, Zuo Liangyu has already become a rogue warlord who has the courage to abuse the people and is afraid of a big war.

Li Zicheng was defeated by Jiannu, and now he has retreated to Zuo Liangyu's territory.

When the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong first ascended the throne and the edict was issued to Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu was initially reluctant to admit it, but under the persuasion of He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, and Huang Shu, the governor of Huguang, he agreed to read it and expressed his support. However, his arrogance is more obvious than in the Chongzhen period. Because Emperor Hongguang mainly relied on Ma Shiying, together with Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing, Zuo Liangyu did not participate in the pre-arrival, and he was not a hero of the decision, which made him angry.

There are many scholars around Zuo Liangyu, and the scholars who fled there, all of these people hate Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng to the core, to put it bluntly, they are mortal enemies. Li Zicheng had more than 100,000 horses going south, and these people began to agitate Zuo Liangyu again. Zuo Liangyu was single-handedly raised by Hou Sui, a member of the Donglin Party, and had a good relationship with the Donglin Party, and his mutual trust with Ma, Ruan and Emperor Hongguang was very limited.

If you can't beat it, of course you have to run, this is Zuo Liangyu's original intention, and it is also in his own interests, not to mention that there will be more murderous Jiannu who will follow. Zuo Liangyu needs a reason, and this reason is also ready-made. The case of the "fake prince and concubine" caused a storm in the city, and the assumption of power by Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng caused strong dissatisfaction among the official gentry, which just provided Zuo Liangyu with an excuse to avoid the war and go east.

On March 23, Zuo Liangyu claimed that he had been ordered by the prince of the first emperor to go to Nanjing for rescue, and in the name of crusading against Ma Shiying, the whole army went east along the river by boat. Before leaving, Zuo Liangyu ordered the residents of Wuchang to be slaughtered. In this way, with nearly 800,000 troops, known as a million troops, Zuo Liangyu, an important barrier of the new dynasty, became a turtle with a shrunken head.

The contradictions between Zuo Liangyu and the Ma and Ruan cliques, the rivalry between Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng's peasant army, the party struggle between the Donglin Party Fushe and the Ma and Ruan clique, the military struggle between the Hongguang court and the Qing Dynasty, the contradictions within Zuo Liangyu's camp and the "fake prince case" were all displayed in this historical event.

This was a wrong war, and many so-called "people of insight" believed that Zuo Liangyu was capable of blocking Li Zicheng's attack. But in fact, Zuo Liangyu's so-called million-strong army is a complete rabble. As for combat capability, Zuo Liangyu's behavior has already shown the problem.

Sending troops needs a "name", so Zuo Liangyu circulated a document everywhere, saying that the purpose of sending troops was to "crusade" against the traitor Ma Shiying.

Before Zuo Liangyu sent troops, he exposed Ma Shiying's eight major crimes, which were very specific. The inscriptions written by his scribes are very beautiful, and can be described as a pearl of words: "Cover the fall of righteousness, shining in the stars; The rude chase is stricter than the eagle and the bird: heaven and earth have the supreme justice, and the subjects cannot be disregarded. The traitor Ma Shiying, the root plain is naked, and the type is blue-faced"

The prose is brilliant, catchy, and righteous. However, in terms of the nature of the army, Zuo Liangyu's army was an out-and-out rebellion.

When Zuo Liangyu went down the river, Zhou Huchen, who was in Yangzhou, was very busy.

He was busy stockpiling grain and evacuating the victims who had fled to Yangzhou. There are too many of these people running over. The city of Yangzhou was the foundation of Zhou Huchen, and he wanted to set Yangzhou as a battlefield, and the entry of these people would lead to disastrous consequences. History has changed, these people began to be transferred, Zhou Huchen asked Shen Tingyang again, this old man who was worried about the country and the people cooperated with Zhou Huchen, and hundreds of huge transport ships began to travel back and forth on the river.

The return boat was also loaded with a huge amount of supplies, except for Jian Chen and Zhou Huchen, who were in charge of this matter, no one knew how many weapons and equipment, ammunition, and those giant beasts covered with oilcloth were transported to Yangzhou City

Outside the city of Yangzhou, the sound of shouting and killing and explosions came and went.

This is a piece of training ground, and Zhou Huchen's recruits are being led by veterans through the most rigorous training. These recruits were nearly 50,000 recruits, plus the thousands of soldiers who were forced to participate in Yangzhou City, as well as Li Yunhe's Shandong soldiers, Zhou Huchen now had a total strength of 150,000.

The workshop in Zhenjiang provided these soldiers with all kinds of equipment, whether it was all kinds of weapons, ammunition, armor, and even clothes and shoes, which became a kind of military production. And those family members just provided the help of manpower for this military workshop, and also made these family members have a stable source of income, and under the right situation, the military workshop in Zhenjiang has become a military forbidden area that cannot be splashed by water.

Zhou Huchen is patrolling the training ground, the terrain around the west gate of the old city of Yangzhou is relatively low, there is a big high hill outside the city, this high hill is very close to Yangzhou City, just overlooking the city.

This high hill made Zhou Huchen look very uncomfortable, this seemed to be a threat, Zhou Huchen pointed to this mound: "There are too many trees and shrubs on this high slope, you can hide people, you can also set up artillery to attack Yangzhou City, go to someone to clean up all the things on the slope that can hide people." ”

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