Liu Liangzuo went out of the city in fear, and led his troops only three miles away, when he was discovered by a sentry squatting in the shadows.

"Phew!"

A shrill brass whistle sounded in the night, and the nearby dragoons quickly arrived, followed by trumpets to summon more friendly troops.

Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry was also on standby near the camp, and was feeding the war horses night food at the moment. When he heard the trumpet, he immediately turned on his horse and galloped in the direction in which the trumpet was issued.

Liu Liangzuo wanted to flee back to the city, but he was worried that the city wall would be destroyed by artillery, and it would be better to surrender now than to surrender at that time.

However, the "warriors" of this thousand night raids were selected from various departments. Issuing abnormal military orders on an ad hoc basis, these "warriors" are difficult to follow, or at all unable to react.

Liu Liangzuo was about to surrender, but before he gave the order, the soldiers under his command began to flee - they had come to rob the camp, and since they were discovered by the enemy, they naturally subconsciously fled.

More than 200 dragoons wanted to release their guns, but when they saw the enemy fleeing, they immediately intercepted and killed them.

After a moment of fighting, Lu Xiangsheng came with Xiao cavalry, and the battle situation was settled in an instant, and the Qing soldiers began to scatter and flee.

These guys, 500 cavalry and 500 infantry, all had ignition on them. The horse's hooves were wrapped in cotton cloth, and the horse's mouth was covered with a cage to prevent the sound of the march.

Liu Liangzuo fled when he saw that the situation was not good, and he didn't even have a chance to surrender.

He was chased outside the city by several dragoons, and when he saw the gates open, he immediately rushed in.

The Datong dragoons did not dare to follow up, because there was an urn city inside, even if Lu Xiangsheng led thousands of cavalry to kill, he would be locked up in the urn city and shot from all sides.

The 1,000 soldiers were scrapped, and only Liu Liangzuo fled back on horseback, and a few cavalry took advantage of the chaos to slip away, not knowing which direction they fled.

The defenders in the city were speechless and could only continue to trap and defend the city.

The next day.

Shelling, shelling, shelling!

The cracks in the walls were getting bigger and bigger, and it was only a matter of time before they fell.

……

Dolgon was in Fugou County, and when he learned that Xiangcheng and Shenqiu had been lost, he immediately decided to plan the plan.

In the three counties of Shangshui, Chenzhou, and Xihua, Dolgon left only a small number of troops. It is nothing more than attracting Jiang Liang's Fifth Division to capture it, which can not only lengthen the supply line of the Fifth Division, but also allow the Fifth Division to divide its troops to defend the city.

When the time comes, send cavalry to cut off the grain route, and then besiege and annihilate the army!

The idea was very good, but as a result, Zhao Han's military order passed, and the Fifth Division not only continued to attack, but also spit out Xiangcheng and Shenqiu, which had already been occupied. Even as soon as he retreated, he was 200 miles away, and he withdrew directly to Yingzhou (Fuyang), and he didn't even want Taihe County, which had been divided into households for more than a year.

Just one word: steady!

Jiang Dashan's Sixth Division was similar, and it didn't move to defend Yuncheng. With the strength and grain and grass of the Sixth Division, it is no problem to hold it for half a year. If Dolgon is awesome, then lead his troops around Yuncheng and go to the hinterland of the Datong army to rob everywhere.

Zhao Han is not the Ming court, the Ming Dynasty was ravaged by the Manchus in the Gyeonggi region, and even the actual strength of the Manchus is not clear.

As long as Dolgon dares to come, Zhao Han will lose at most the population and food, and he can definitely mobilize a large army to close the door and fight the dogs.

Just when Dolgon hesitated, not knowing whether to chase after him, the messenger sent a military message: "Your Royal Highness the Regent, the main force of the enemy army is besieging Shangqiu, and there are fifty or sixty artillery pieces. There are also three giant cannons, probably seven or eight thousand catties of one! ”

"How many enemy troops are there?" Dorgon asked.

The messenger handed out the military information: "Countless, my master has asked for reinforcements. ”

There are countless of them, and they are really too many to count.

Outside Shangqiu City, although there were only Zhao Han's pro-army and two divisions, there were only more than 20,000 regular troops. But there were many peasants and soldiers, as well as a large number of hungry people and rebels, and the camp alone stretched for more than ten miles.

How does this make the defenders of the city count?

Dolgon opened the letter and read it repeatedly, but could not find a description of the enemy's strength, and the letter only said that the enemy camp was more than ten miles long.

camped for more than ten miles, but Zhao Han was afraid of being affected by the hungry people, so he threw the hungry people far away. Moreover, the plague was found among the hungry people, and Zhao Han ordered that a large number of people should not gather.

Thinking about it, Dolgon had difficulty making decisions, so he summoned his generals to discuss the matter.

The grandson of Nurhachi, the Manchu Auxiliary Prince, and the owner of the Red Flag banner, Man Dahai, said: "This is not as good as Liaodong, and the pseudo-same is not the Ming Dynasty. It is difficult to send back the news of the meticulous work we sent out, and it is not easy to buy spies. In this way, the situation of the enemy army is unknown, where can I let him come several ways, and I will only go all the way? Those southern barbarians, it's okay to call over, but it's hard to get the news if you go back! ”

"Yes, let's just say that Yingzhou City, even beggars can't be found!" It was Nurhachi's nephew, Prince Heshuo Zheng, and the owner of the blue flag, Zilharang.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs several times to plunder the Ming Dynasty, and fought in Beizhili, and the news was better than that of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to having businessmen as spies, they also like to buy beggars and homeless, and even secretly support beggar gangs.

Yingzhou and Taihe two counties are very strange, the Manchu spies wanted to buy beggars in the city, but found that there was no beggar.

It's very simple, the population in northern Anhui is scarce, and Zhao Han has to immigrate from the south.

Under such circumstances, how can beggars be idle?

The beggars in the city, as long as they are good at their hands, are all thrown into the countryside to divide the fields, and if they don't know how to farm, they will follow the immigrants to learn. Disabled people are admitted to nursing homes and learn to weave baskets and straw sandals, but they have to support themselves anyway.

As for the merchant Xizuo, since last year, he has cut off business ties with the Manchu territory.

Once you find a merchant coming from the north, you are not allowed to put them back, and you will set up checkpoints along the way. Even the merchants under Zhao Han were not allowed to go to the north to do business anymore!

It's hard to spy in the city, and it's even harder to spy in the countryside.

Town heads, village heads, and peasant associations strictly check the foreign population. Not only to guard against spies, but also to prevent the plague, under the prevention and control of the masses, the peasants of Taihe County alone seized more than ten meticulous work.

Dolgon could only obtain a small amount of information about Anhui, and although he did not say that his eyes were black, he was not far from being blind.

In this case, you want to take a large army to kill and intersperse a war of annihilation?

Dream on!

When Dolgon's plan to lure the enemy failed, Zhao Han ordered several other roads to defend it, and his plan to "go only one way" was shattered.

The owner of the Zhenghong Banner is very old, and he was suppressed by Dolgon in disguise, and now he is retiring in Beijing. His fourth son, Wakda, sneered: "If the regent wants to fight, we will fight him." You don't have to negotiate with us......"

"Fourth brother, don't talk nonsense!" Man Dahai immediately scolded.

Wakda laughed, "Huh. ”

These top-level nobles of the Eight Banners have never been of the same mind.

Wakda and Mandahai's father, Daishan, was Nurhachi's second son and was the first heir to the Later Jin regime.

After Nurhachi's death, the Houjin regime was in turmoil and was almost on the verge of collapse. Dai Shan felt that he could not control the situation, so he took the initiative to give way to Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji also respected him.

So, Dai Shan and his son Yue Tuo, father and son actually had a red flag and a red flag.

It's just that several of Dai Shan's sons, including Yue Tuo, died a little mysteriously in the army.

After Dolgon embraced Fulin, another son of Daishan, Shuoto, died even more mysteriously. It turned out that the Eight Banners agreed to succeed Shunzhi, and Shuotuo singled out to re-establish Dolgon, which was inexplicably the crime of chaos and death.

Although Shuo Tuo was dissatisfied with his father's domestic violence and tried to betray the Qing Dynasty twice before and after, this strange death method was still nonsense enough.

Now, Dai Shan has been thrown in Beijing, and the two red flags have enough reason to be dissatisfied with Dolgon.

The strange Wakda in front of him was also cleaned up by Dolgon in history. He had just made great contributions to the pacification of Shanxi, but when he came back and got involved in a small case, he was held jointly and severally responsible and dismissed from six ministries, and then he was dismissed from his political posts, and he died at home a few months later.

Dolgon was really ruthless, and after Haoge and his family were beaten by Lian Xiao, he opened his knife at Dai Shan's two red flags, and also put his hand into the two yellow flags of Emperor Shunzhi.

At this moment, it was the time when the power struggle of the Manchu Eight Banners intensified.

Dorgon is recovering power, and if he loses the battle, he doesn't know what chaos will happen.

Dolgon asked Kong Youde, "How does the King of Gongshun think he should fight?" ”

In this situation, Kong Youde dared to talk too much, and hurriedly said: "It's all up to His Royal Highness the Regent to send him." ”

Jierharang said: "Since the main force of the puppet and the Southern Barbarians is besieging Shangqiu, then lead the troops to a decisive battle. Regardless of whether he besieged the city and sent reinforcements, there were more than 60,000 Eight Banner soldiers, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers who surrendered to Chengcheng, and more than 100,000 Shangqiu defenders. What battle in the world can't be fought? ”

Man Dahai said: "That's the truth. A few Han generals can lead their troops around the puppet hinterland to plunder, forcing the enemy troops in Yuncheng and Yingzhou to return to the division to deal with it. In this way, the enemy of Shangqiu will have no reinforcements, and we will fight with more than 100,000 people, how can we still not defeat him? ”

"It should have been fought a long time ago," said Wakda, "who were the Eight Banners of Manchuria afraid of?" More than 100,000 people have been killed, and there are millions of enemies who are not afraid! ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty, the top aristocracy, although the tactics are steady and steady, strategically like to take risks, and many times it is a big gamble to win. But every time they fight with Daming, they can win the bet.

Seeing that everyone agreed to this, and he himself felt that he could fight, he said, "Then go to Shangqiu for a decisive battle!" ”

When Dolgon led the army to Shangqiu, he also ordered Wu Sangui and other generals to gather cavalry to plunder Suiping, Shangcai, Taihe and other counties, which were all Datong territories that had completed the division of households and fields. In this way, it will be possible to contain the middle Datong army in Henan, so that these Datong troops cannot go to reinforce the Shangqiu battlefield.

When Wu Sangui received the military order, he took the remaining Guanning iron cavalry, as well as Ma Ke and other border generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and the whole cavalry team went south to plunder.

After crossing the river, Wu Sangui said to the generals: "A team of 300 cavalry, only kill people and set fires, don't grab too much goods, otherwise the enemy will not be able to chase and run fast." Each person grabbed a maximum of ten catties of food and brought it, and all the food that could not be taken away was burned! ”

All the generals were a little unbearable.

It's not that they can't bear to burn and loot, but they can't bear to burn food, and these miscellaneous armies are short of food one by one.

Wu Sangui also said: "All the houses along the way will be burned down, and if you encounter the enemy, don't chase after them, and cross the river after five days, and don't be caught up by the cavalry with firearms." ”