The news that the heads of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming appeared in the mansions of Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou spread throughout the city of Beijing, and indeed caused a great shock among the Hanchen bureaucrats within the Qing court.

Some Han officials who surrendered to the Manchu Qing even began to resign from illness because of this, fearing that one day they would be retaliated against for being Manchu officials.

That's why Dorgon was angry.

As a careerist among the Manchu military aristocracy, the reason why he was defeated and captured in the Duoduo battle and lost 100,000 troops was still able to preside over the government and beat Zierharang and other courtiers because he still had the support of the Han bureaucrats in the government and the opposition, and he was able to continue to persuade the Manchu court to continue to prepare for the Ming Dynasty because of the support of the Han bureaucrats.

In a way, the Han officials who surrendered to the Manchus were now Dolgon's allies.

And the intimidation methods of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen are undoubtedly destroying this alliance, reducing Dolgon's power, and indirectly helping Zilharang.

It is precisely because of this that Dolgon will be furious, for the Han people in the north, he can wantonly ravage in order to win the hearts of the Manchu military aristocrats, but for the Han bureaucrats who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, that is, these Han landlords, he has to be more enthusiastic to woo, and even courtesy, he knows that if he wants to really help the Qing Dynasty win the world, he has to rely on these people.

On the one hand, Dolgon instructed Shunzhi to order the resigning Han officials, and on the other hand, he personally comforted the Han officials.

However, among the Han officials who surrendered to the Manchus, even if there were Han officials who were really not afraid of the shock of the Ming court and continued to work for the Manchus, they were quite dissatisfied with Dolgon's behavior of overriding the young lord Shunzhi, and voted for Zilharang.

After realizing that he had to build a good relationship with Han officials if he wanted to compete with Dolgon, Zilharang also began to enlist more Han officials in the name of consolidating the monarch's power and attacking the powerful ministers, and he was still able to fight against Dolgon.

Party strife began to appear within the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Shunzhi Fulin was still young, so he was naturally powerless to suppress it, and Xiaozhuang could only try his best to suppress it.

Within the Qing court, there was no time to look south because of the complicated infighting.

At this time, on the Huguang battlefield, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty had begun to gradually form a situation of a full-scale counteroffensive against the Azig Department of the Qing army.

Although the Azig Department has now occupied Chengtianfu City and is under the Wuchang Mansion City, what he does not know is that Liu Fangliang's Department of the Third Army of the Guards Army and Huang Degong's Department of the Guards Army have begun to advance north and west, with a total of nearly 300,000 troops coming to Wuchang Mansion.

At this time, the governor of Huguang, Du Yinxi, and the governor of Huguang, Li Yan, were still in the Huguang Governor's Office in Wuchang Mansion.

And Gao Yigong, Liu Tichun, Li Jin, Yuan Zongdi and other major generals of the extermination army also gathered here.

However, after losing several cities in a row, Gao Yigong and other generals of the exterminating army were inevitably a little discouraged, and they all asked whether the military advisor Li Yan should retreat to the area of Changsha in Changde, and use the complex terrain of Dongting Lake and Hunan to deal with the Qing army.

The governor of Huguang, Du Yinxi, also agreed with this, and couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty's original order was to order us to resist to the death by the exterminating army, but we don't have to care about the gains and losses of one city and one pond, but we must ensure that the Azig army will not advance into Jiangxi within two months, so as to avoid instability in the rear when the imperial court annihilates the Duoduo department; Now it is late June, the Duoduo Department has been completely annihilated, we have completed the will of the imperial court, at this time the south retreat to Changde Changsha is not a violation of the will, and if there is really a person in the court to impeach, it will be borne by Du. ”

"I don't know about the control of Taiwan, it's not that Li doesn't care about the death and injury of the brothers of the captive army, and it's not that Li is afraid of taking the responsibility for the failure of defending the city, but now that the Duoduo Department has been defeated for more than a month, please think about it, will the Qing army Azig have already learned the news of Duoduo's defeat, even if Azig doesn't know, will the Qing court have already known, if you are Dolgon, knowing that the first army is completely annihilated, will you send another army to continue to attack Ming?"

Li Yan asked, and Du Yinxi smiled: "Although this official does not understand military affairs, he also understands that the correct way is to withdraw, and then let the army go deeper, it will already be a lone army, even if it is not defeated, it will be difficult to win, and it will be a waste of money and food, Dolgon should not do it." ”

"As the system said, if the subordinate is Dolgon, after learning that Duoduo was defeated along the way, he will immediately send someone to order the Azig division to return to the court, not only because of the defeat of Duoduo, but because the Azig department has been fighting with our exterminating army since October last year, and now after a short rest, he has gone south to attack the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as an expedition of laborers, and Azig is Dolgon's henchman, Dolgon will naturally not let his own brother take risks after losing his brother, otherwise he will deal with Zilharang and others in the court."

Since Li Yan led the rest of the army to join the Ming Dynasty and accepted the reorganization into the army of extermination, Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, informed Li Yan of all the political, military, economic and cultural conditions of the Qing court at the behest of Zhu Youzhen, so the current Li Yan is also very clear about the relationship between Azig, Dolgon, Duoduo and others.

After listening to Li Yan's analysis, they also began to admit that Azig was likely to return to the court soon, but what they didn't understand was that since Azig was likely to withdraw quickly, why did he still have troops under Wuchang City, cut down wood and set up camp, and was very prepared to attack the city.

"What the military advisor said is indeed reasonable, but I don't understand why Azig hasn't withdrawn since he wants to withdraw, and now the Qing army outside Wuchang Mansion is gathering more and more, and I'm afraid that as soon as its red-coated cannon arrives, it will be the time to attack the city", Gao Yigong, the chief officer of the Huguang General Army and the General Officer of the Capture Army, couldn't help but raise this doubt for the officials present.

Li Yan smiled slightly: "It's easy to figure out, Azig is still preparing to attack the city, there are only two possibilities, one is that he hasn't learned the news yet; On the surface, more and more Qing army iron cavalry gathered under the city of Wuchang, but in fact, the artillery and Manchurian headquarters iron cavalry had been quietly withdrawn to Xiangyang. ”

"Then from Li Futai's point of view, which one is more likely?" Plug Yinxi asked.

"Returning to the platform, the lower officials think that the key for us now is not to care about what kind of possibility Azig is, we just need to make sure that he will withdraw sooner or later, and since Azig will retreat sooner or later, if he can really retreat with his whole body, it is actually not a good thing for my Daming", Li Yan said this, Liu Tichun raised the bar first: "Military advisor, why is this not a good thing, the Tartars want to retreat, don't we have to retreat, Daming can not be safe." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, now after the failure of the Duoduo army, the offensive and defensive situation between my Ming and Jiannu has been transposed, if the Qing army's Azig department continues to advance south at this time, it will be a lone army to go deeper, there is no doubt about this, then, since my Daming can concentrate his forces to eat Duoduo all the way, now I can eat the Azig all the way, as long as I eat the Azig all the way, the vitality of the Qing army will be injured at least half, which is a good thing for my Ming Dynasty, not to mention that eating Azig is equivalent to cutting off Dolgon's other arm, It is also helpful to intensify the internal struggle of the Qing court, but if the Azig department is successfully withdrawn at this moment, there is no doubt that Dolgon can still stand firm in the court, and Jiannu still has the power to go south to attack the Ming. ”

(End of chapter)