He Luohui, who had been following the main force of the Qing army south to Huguang under Hong Chengchou's department, would never have thought that he would be surrounded by the Fourth Army of the Guards.

He was the weakest of the several armies of the Southern Expedition to the Ming Dynasty, and because of this, He Luohui was very cautious in entering the army.

But it was precisely because of caution that his advance was very slow, not only for fear of being too far away from the main force of the Qing army, Hong Chengchou, but also for fear of being pulled by the main force Hong Chengchou to make a funeral offering.

And this happened to give the Fourth Guards Army enough time to encircle him.

He Luohui went to Suizhou along the official road after failing to fight Xiangyang, but it happened that he also met directly in Suizhou and the Second Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards.

The First Corps also followed, and joined forces with the Second Corps to surround He Luohui in Suizhou.

As a first-class duke of the Qing court, He Luohui is naturally not a simple figure in the Qing court, not to mention his outstanding achievements, but also deeply trusted by Dorgon.

However, now he can only wait for the fate of being captured by the Guards.

The Fourth Army of the Guards is no longer what it used to be, and a large number of grassroots officers are veterans of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards Armies, and their combat effectiveness has long been extraordinary.

Now it is naturally difficult for He Luohui's 100,000 horses to break out of the hands of the Fourth Army of the Guards.

Less than five days after the launch of the general attack by the Fourth Guards Army on December 25, all 100,000 men and horses of He Luohui were annihilated.

And he himself was captured alive by the soldiers of the Fourth Army of the Guards in a cave.

In short, when the spring of the twenty-first year of Chongzhen arrived, the second battle of the Ming Dynasty launched by the Manchu Qing Dynasty was declared a complete failure.

Except for some of the 800,000 Qing troops who were captured, all the rest were completely annihilated, and a small number of people were missing, but they were negligible.

Among them, Abatai, the king of Doluo County, Tan Tai, the first-class prince, He Luohui, the first-class prince, Hong Chengchou, the scholar of the Inner Court and the secretary of the military department, Gushan Ezhen Tong Tulai, and Meler Ezhen Aobai were captured, and Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, were killed.

The entire Qing court's new force was wiped out, and even from Liaodong to Beizhili was disrupted by the Guards.

The Manchus were defeated.

Daming won again.

After Zhu Youzhen learned the news on his way back to Jiangnan, he immediately issued an order that the First Army should immediately expand one corps and combine it with one corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army to form the Seventh Army of the Guards.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen appointed Liu Zhaoji as the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army, Chen Zizhuang as the governor-in-chief, Weng Zhengchun as the deputy commander-in-chief of the First Corps of the Seventh Army, and Yan Yingyuan was exceptionally promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Corps because of his outstanding performance in the war.

According to the military order of the Generalissimo's Office, the Seventh Army of the Guards Army will immediately leave for the southwest as soon as the reorganization is completed.

The Third and First Guards Corps remained in Shandong and Henan for training and recuperation, replenishing new recruits, and undertaking the work of rehabilitating and distributing prisoners.

These affairs were naturally the responsibility of the two governors, Li Banghua and Li Mingrui.

There are many mines in the Ming Dynasty, as well as sulfuric acid plants, nitric acid plants, and caustic soda plants, which are all high-risk types of work, but they are also indispensable raw material production bases for the Ming military industry, and it is natural to let these captives do these dangerous jobs.

After all, these people owe their sins in the war, and it is only fitting that they should serve.

No matter how high his status in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was first placed to work in various places and obeyed by hard labor until he was reconvicted by the three legal divisions.

Except, of course, those who have committed the most heinous crimes will no longer be forced to work and will be beheaded or beheaded.

Most of the ordinary Qing army prisoners who had only done a job of bullying the common people and were of low rank or insignificant continued to obey the labor work and undergo reform, and generally had a period of time to undergo labor reform, with a minimum of ten years and a maximum of life.

This kind of labor work was invented by Zhu Youzhen in order to make full use of human resources.

Of course, since these people are servants, they will not be paid, and the treatment of the people engaged in related work is naturally different.

After all, one captive is the one of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The arrangements for the captives are arranged by the Governor as follows, and then reported to Kim Xuan, the director of the General Political Office, for handling.

The military in the southwest against Zhang Xianzhong was in charge of Qin Liangyu.

Zhu Youzhen is now only concentrating on rushing back to Jiangnan with the Second Corps of the Guards Army non-stop, cleaning up the group of vassal kings who don't know how to lift.

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Before Zhu Youzhen left Jiangnan, the civil officials and scholars in Jiangnan did not have much confidence that Zhu Youzhen could defeat the Qing army.

Perhaps someone deliberately fanned the wind and ignited the ghost fire, spreading the news that the Qing army's million-strong army was heading south.

Perhaps it was because some people wanted the Qing army to succeed in moving south, so that they could use it to ban the high commercial taxes.

In short, although Dongchang is severely cracking down on rumor-mongers, there are not many people who want to fish in troubled waters when the Qing army is heading south and the guards are heading north.

King Lu Zhu Changshu is the cousin of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen according to his generation, and his original fief is in Weihui Mansion, Henan.

Later, because the thieves broke into Henan Weihui, the family of Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, had to flee to the south of the Yangtze River, and finally lived in Hangzhou.

The vassal king has always been very rich, rich and has a lot of land, although Zhu Changshu's land in Henan is gone, he is not bad in Hangzhou.

However, Zhu Changshu was still dissatisfied that Zhu Youzhen did not rearrange the fief for him after moving south.

Zhu Changshu even took the initiative to ask for it, and Zhu Youzhen was naturally unwilling to let these people continue to occupy most of the land as parasites.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen rejected Zhu Changshu.

Zhu Changshu was dissatisfied and dissatisfied, and he didn't dare to do anything to Zhu Youzhen.

However, Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, was also quite dissatisfied with Zhu Youzhen's move to increase commercial taxes and kill scholars without permission, so he secretly contacted Zhu Changshu, and later Hangzhou deputy general Mu Wenshou was dissatisfied with being pressed on his head by Gao Jie, who was born a thief, and also got on the thief ship.

The governor and chief military officer of Zhejiang is Sun Yuanlun, but Sun Yuanlun is just a civil official arranged by Zhu Youzhen to govern Gao Jie in Zhejiang.

After Gao Jie left, except for Mu Wenshou's guards, Zhejiang did not have any troops, and Sun Yuanlun did not have the obligation to control Gao Jie, so he naturally relaxed and simply lived in West Lake to recuperate.

After the people of Dongchang investigated and learned about the misdeeds of Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, the first thing they found was Sun Yuanlun, but Sun Yuanlun did not believe it and ran to question Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, but was directly killed by Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang.

Then King Lu immediately announced the uprising.

After all, Sun Yuanlun is also Zhu Youzhen's person, and he is the highest official who commands the military and political power in Zhejiang.

Now that Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, killed Sun Yunlun in his mansion, he wanted to rebel or rebel.

However, what Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, did not expect was that his rebellion was so smooth, and he easily hit Liyang from Hangzhou.

There were even quite a few Jiangnan gentry along the way who responded.

Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was also ambitious for a while, and even immediately announced the exemption of commercial taxes in the occupied areas, the restoration of the sea ban, and the suspension of the Ningbo Botiju Division.

Since then, there have been more Jiangnan gentry who responded to King Lu Zhu Changshu.

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