As soon as Zhu Shuren heard Huang Degong's words, he immediately laughed,

It's a good thing that there are more soft-boned despicable and opportunistic villains in the enemy army, but there is no need to delve too deep, you can turn a blind eye.

Regardless of whether it can be reused in the future, you can first give this general a little money and honor, so that it can be used as a mascot for surrender there, which will help to better disintegrate the hearts of the enemy camp in the follow-up and bury a trick of idle chess.

So, Zhu Shuren did a good job of security, and asked the guards to thoroughly search the generals who claimed to have killed Abatai, and then he personally met them, and he himself judged right and wrong, and gave an explanation.

Soon, a young Han general in his twenties and thirties, who had just cut his braids, was brought up, and twenty steps away from Zhu Shuren began to kneel down and walk forward, kowtowing and pleading:

"Sin will be cleared...... The original Tartar Han Army is the Yellow Banner Geng Jimao, meet the prince of E! The sin will be lost, and the beggar prince will be contained! ”

Zhu Shuren's face sank slightly, and he completely broke off the idea of really reusing this person: "Geng Jimao? Geng Zhongming is your father? Where is he? ”

It turned out that he was still a hardcore traitor circle and a character of the Sanshun King faction!

Geng Jimao slammed his head: "Father...... Before the war, the imperial court soldiers who were originally stationed in Pizhou and were responsible for guarding Huai'an went north, but Dolgon was worried that Abatai's main attack force was insufficient, so he transferred his father and the pseudo-Beizi Shangshan from Huai'an and Xuzhou to Fengyang.

Before the decisive battle, Abatai wanted to leave troops to continue to besiege Shou County and Bagong Mountain, and most of his father's soldiers and horses were left in the siege battlefield.

This time, the general took part of the Han Army's Qizheng Yellow Banner and went south with Abatai to participate in the field battle. Seeing the prince's majesty, he couldn't help but abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and begged the prince to show him a clear way! ”

After pondering for a while, Zhu Shuren thought that the Qing army did have such a tradition of controlling Han generals, and when it came to dividing the troops, he would pull some of them out to fight in the field, leaving some relatives to lead the troops in the rear, which could be regarded as keeping hostages.

But under normal circumstances, this situation is to let the father take the troops out and leave his son in the rear as a hostage.

It's just that Geng Zhongming is already old, he has been in the Qing Dynasty for more than fifteen years, and he will die of old age and illness if he lives for two more years in history, so Abatai didn't let him go back and forth to participate in the field battle this time, so he stayed on the battlefield in Shou County, and let his young and strong son lead the field battle.

Now that he learned that Geng Zhongming, an old traitor, was still in Shou County, Zhu Shuren had a reason not to reuse Geng Jimao for the time being. After a little pondering, he pretended to be sympathetic and said:

"You're not afraid that the matter will be revealed, Qinggou killed your father? How dare you surrender? Your father killed the governors, officials and soldiers stationed in the imperial court back then, and also threw the Hongyi cannon into the tartar, which was an unforgivable crime! However, you can not only kill Abatai in battle to surrender, but you can also atone for your sins.

Now that your father is still in the enemy camp, if you immediately and openly reward and reuse you, after the news leaks, your father will definitely be liquidated by Yue Le and Bolo, and even if he is not killed, he will be imprisoned.

Therefore, for the safety of your father, and for the filial piety of the whole of you, Gu will not give you your position publicly for the time being, but only give you gold and silver rewards. After the battles of Shouxian and Fengyang are over, if you can completely expel the Tartars and annihilate the main force of the Qing army, you can also persuade your father to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

For now, you can temporarily publicize to the outside world that you have died in battle, and you died defending Abatai, so that the Tartars can relax their vigilance against your father.

However, Lone can't guarantee whether this plan will work, you were too flamboyant just now, at least thousands of prisoners of war have heard you preach that you killed Abatai, and Lone can't guarantee how long he can hide it! ”

Geng Jimao didn't know what the plan was, but when Zhu Shuren was as careful as a hair, for the safety of his father, he temporarily concealed his claim to have killed Abatai.

Hearing that Zhu Shuren also promised to make him invisible first and reward him with gold, silver and jewelry, he was happy and at ease, and if Zhu Shuren was not guilty of the past, he would give him glory and wealth.

To tell the truth, he was also entangled in today's surrender, after all, his father was equivalent to a hostage, and he remained in the Qing army.

It's just that this kind of traitor family often has very soft bones, and when it comes to life and death when I am worried about my life, where can I care if my father is not a father? As long as you can escape for your life, your father will die if he dies!

"Thank you for the reward! The king's holy candle shines, and it is clear and broken! In the end, he will have to vote for the king, like a cloud to see the sun, and a long drought will be in the rain! If my father could meet a master like the prince back then, he would not have made a mistake and hated him for eternity! Geng Jimao said excitedly, and slammed his head, Zhu Shuren asked people to pull him down, and this matter was over.

Seeing Geng Jimao leaving, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong and other Ming army generals were a little unimpressed:

"Does the prince really want to reuse such a despicable villain? This Geng Zhongming's family is despicable and shameless, but only Kong Youde can compare, far more than Shang Kexi, and even more so than Wu Sangui and others who had to temporarily stoop down to thieves.

When the Tartars first got my Daming's Hongyi cannon, it was brought by Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde! From now on, there is no end to the poison! The weight of this crime is that the first emperor once said that not killing was not enough to anger the people.

Abatai obviously didn't kill him, and in order to stabilize people's hearts, the prince reluctantly recognized it for the time being. But at most, a little money will be given, and the guilt will be spared. If the title is returned...... I'm afraid it's going to bring the wind of the world. ”

Zhu Shuren raised his hand, retreated left and right, and only whispered to Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong: "How can this king not know? There will be another district. This is just a temporary void and a snake to stabilize Geng Zhongming.

Once there is a better opportunity, it is necessary to use this Geng Jimao as an introduction to cause another civil strife in Shouxian, Fengyang and other departments of the Qing army! When the time comes, I will be able to do the full work of this Fengyang battlefield! ”

Hearing Zhu Shuren say this, it is not really to reuse and give honor to the other party, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong felt better in their hearts, and they expressed their understanding.

And Zhu Shuren is so good, seeing that the second general is angry, he struck while the iron is hot to win people's hearts: "Anyway, we know that Abatai died of illness, and we can't publicly publicize Geng Jimao's self-proclaimed exploits for the time being.

It's better to say that the two generals led their troops to attack together, and in the process of finally annihilating the enemy in the west, the chaotic army worked together to kill Abatai, as for who did it, don't be entangled, the credit will be divided equally between your two departments.

If Abatai is finally determined to be short of breath and died of illness, the total merit of the generals in our army will be inferior, and if you can give everyone more credit, why not?

With the death of Abatai, an additional reward of 10,000 taels of gold, 100,000 taels of silver, and 10,000 horses of silk and satin, and then look at the generals under your command, who have not yet been knighted, but who have accumulated merit and can serve the public, to an earl who cannot be hereditary.

Decide what to do. Whoever takes the earl will have less gold, silver, and silk, and two-thirds of those who have not received the title will be divided, and one-third of those who have received the title.

The gold and silver that Geng Jimao should have given was paid by the king out of his own pocket, and it could not be made public. ”

Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong themselves are already marquises, and they have made great contributions to the battle of killing Duoduo and later recovering Huaiyang, and of course they themselves are not uncommon to this earl.

But there are extra 10,000 taels of gold and 100,000 silver, and so many other clever names and rewards, which can win people's hearts for their subordinates, and they are also grateful, and they quickly knelt down and kowtowed, tears in their eyes:

"The prince is lenient and benevolent, unparalleled in ancient and modern times, and the last general can only serve the prince to death, and lose his will! If the descendants can still be generals, they are also willing to serve the descendants of the prince from generation to generation! ”

Zhu Shuren already knew that Abatai was actually angry and sick to death, and he was willing to pretend to be a lake, and said that it was a battle beheading.

Because of his bad luck, his subordinates failed to make further great contributions, and he turned a blind eye to treat it as if the other party had made such great contributions, and he also paid more rewards out of his own pocket......

Where to find such leaders?

This is a clever name, changing the way to give more money to his subordinates, and give more honor!

Now in the rear of the Ming Dynasty, there are still four or five distant vassal kings who have little strength and little cats and small fish, and there are also five or six families who have been deposed as concubines and seized the title, but the bloodline is still the existence of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants.

But this adds up to about ten families, but who dares to jump out and question it again in the future. Or if Zhu Shuren's son has three longs and two shorts, and he needs the princess's wife to have another one and then succeed him, the generals in the army will definitely support Zhu Shuren unconditionally and thoroughly, and whoever dares to jump will be killed.

Are those pig kings a hair? They are nothing more than the paternal lineage with Zhu Yuanzhang's bloodline, the son of the prince of E, the maternal line also has Zhu Yuanzhang's bloodline, isn't it enough!

The world's elite soldiers and strong generals, for many years, have eaten the food of the prince of E, received the salary of the prince of E, and received the reward of the prince of E, with official positions and titles, honors and descendants, of course, you must be absolutely and unconditionally loyal to the prince of E!

What does the prince say, what is the righteousness of the world, and the righteousness of the Gangchang!

Zhu Shuren waited for Cao Bianjiao Huang to vent enough, and also gently and respectfully ordered the two to get up, no need to be polite, let everyone go and prepare their own people, continue to clean up the battlefield, adjust the wounded, collect troops and return to the camp, and prepare for the follow-up counterattack.

The generals promised not to mention it.

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The words are divided into two ends.

On the eighth day of the ninth month, the battle of Weishui ended with the Qing army being annihilated by as many as 80,000 people, and the escape and collection of the routed troops naturally needed to continue to be chaotic for several days.

After learning the news that Abatai would not retreat from the death and died in battle, the Qing army in the rear Shou County battlefield and Fengyang's old nest was naturally demoralized and panicked, which further aggravated the follow-up chaos of the Qing army and the distortion of tactical deployment.

Of course, Zhu Shuren would not let go of this opportunity, so he asked Huang Fei, Lin Yangcheng and other troops leading the main force of the infantry to rest and prepare for another attack.

However, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong were screened to maintain a relatively good state of 20,000 iron cavalry, and the two armies pursued them alone.

The Ming army had a total of more than 30,000 cavalry in the Hefei Theater, but a considerable number of them were killed or wounded in the decisive battle of Weishui, and their condition was not good. So it's already very good to be able to pick out 20,000 to continue high-intensity operations.

Fortunately, there were not many cavalry of the Qing army on the opposite side, and the two white flags and the blue flag were corrected, and only 17,000 people escaped alive, and among them were wounded soldiers, so they couldn't actually put all of them into the next battle.

The state of the Ming army declined after the war, and the Qing army naturally also declined, and it was impossible to make a desperate bet to fight the Ming army.

Zhu Shuren expected that the death of Abatai would more or less lead to the confusion of the Qing army's command for a period of time, and if they continue to fight or defend, there will definitely be different opinions, and those who oppose Yue Le and Bolo will also come out, which is a rare opportunity to take advantage of.

He estimated that this chaotic period would last for three or four days at least, and at most five or six days, seven or eight days, which was just the right time to expand the results of the battle.

What's more, the Ming army in the Bagong Mountain and Shou County encirclement, there are more than 30,000 well-preserved garrison troops, once the Ming army rescue force launched a pursuit, the defenders can also attack, inside and outside, the Ming army will have a greater grasp.

Only two days after the decisive battle, on the tenth day of the ninth month, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong took 20,000 iron horsemen, and after covering up with a false shot the day before, they suddenly turned their guns and killed the Qing army's camp south of Bagong Mountain-

Before this offensive, the Ming army made some feints, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong first calmly crossed the river, and when they arrived in the east, they posed to pinch the soft persimmons, chase and kill the Qing army that crossed to the east, and chased them all the way to Fengyang.

As a result, he was only halfway chased, and suddenly turned his gun to the north, directly behind the Qing army's encircled camp south of Bagong Mountain.

In charge of the defense of Shou County and Bagong Mountain, Liu Zhaoji, the general of the Ming Army, and others had a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses, including about 20,000 in Shou County, and more than 10,000 in Bagong Mountain, Dazhai and Fort.

The total number of Qing troops in charge of the encirclement in the two places is 50,000, which is 20,000 more than the total number of Ming troops on the defending side, but in the past two days, people have been panicking.

In addition, the Ming army controlled the Weishui River, and the Qing army's garrisons in the east, west and Huaibei were difficult to help each other at the first time. If any of them were attacked by the Ming army's concentrated superior forces, the other two Qing troops could only watch.

Therefore, when Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong joined forces with Liu Zhaoji and picked the softest persimmon first, the Qing army on the south side of Bagong Mountain, which was already panicked, quickly chose to break through and retreat, and went to the Huaiyuan County garrison between Shou County and Fengyang.

The Qing army ran very fast, the advantage was that the loss of troops was relatively small, and the 20,000 troops only paid more than 1,000 casualties, and began to break through, and were pursued by the Ming army and captured one or two thousand people, and the remaining eighty percent of the troops finally fled.

It's just that the Qing army retreated so simply, and the damage it caused to the Ming army was minimal, and under the attack of Cao Bianjiao and Liu Zhaoji, the attacking Ming army only suffered a total of a few hundred casualties, in exchange for a small victory of 3,000 enemies.

Cao Bianjiao originally still had a chance to continue the pursuit, but considering that there was still a larger force of the Qing army besieging Shou County in the west waiting to outflank him, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong gave up the small to seek the big and did not pursue deeply.

Zhu Shuren and Cao Bianjiao didn't know that among the Qing army around Bagong Mountain that they let go, there was the army of the big traitor Geng Zhongming - his son had just been captured a few days ago and was afraid of death and surrendered to Daming.

After Geng Zhongming escaped, he fled directly back to Fengyang City, the old nest of the two Huai Qing Army, and the guards of the Fengyang Qing Army did not watch out for their own people, but after verifying the identity of the main generals of Geng Zhongming's army, they let them into the city.

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The news that the Qing army camp besieging Bagong Mountain in the east of the city was destroyed and most of them fled back to Huaiyuan and Fengyang of course reached the Qing army camp outside Shou County in the west of the city that night.

In Huaixi and Huaibei, there are still more than 30,000 Qing troops in total, and they all know that sooner or later they will definitely be surrounded by the Ming army, and they must not sit still.

However, the Qing army's previous move to bypass Shou County and Bagong Mountain to the south was already presumptuous, because the key nodes of the waterway were not removed, and the warships could not go hand in hand with the army.

The Qing army in the east of the river could escape back to Huaiyuan directly by land and along the south bank of the Huai River, while the Qing army in the west of the Qing army was faced with either crossing the Huai River in the north and then retreating by marching to the north of Huaiyuan. Either cross the river east first, and then retreat along Huainan.

No matter which road is chosen, the Qing army has to cross a river, and the three-way position of the Huai River is blocked by the Ming army's Bagongshan Fort! The boat can't come in!

There was no way, so the Qing army had to choose to rely on the small boats collected in Huaixi during this time, as well as the temporary rafts, and slowly crossed the troops to Huaibei in batches to assemble in preparation for a new orderly retreat.

In addition, it was found that it was still not fast enough, so he could only ask some of the Qing army ferries and warships located in the lower reaches of Shou County and on the main stream of the Huai River to sail upstream in the dark against the blockade of the Bagongshan Fort, pass through dangerous areas, and then help with the ferry.

However, the defenders of the Ming army in Shou County were not ready to let them go at all-

Shou County is the Huai River military town, the purpose of its existence, for thousands of years is to Ka Jiang Huai River traffic, so Shou County is of course close to the Huai River and the Huai River to build the city, there are water gates on both sides of the east of the city to the river, and some warships can be hidden in the water gate.

After discovering that the Qing army was moving and wanted to escape, the Ming army of course was full of firepower, not only the Hongyi cannon on the Bagongshan Fort did not hesitate to use ammunition, even if there was no vision, they covered the channel of the Huai River, and from time to time they could shoot one or two Qing ships passing by in Mengzhong.

The Ming warships that had been preserving their strength and hiding at the Watergate Wharf in Shou County were also the first to kill and wreak havoc on the Huai River, intercepting and killing the Qing troops who tried to cross the river and escape.

It's a pity that the Qing army retreated overnight, the night was very dark, and the Ming army couldn't gather too many boats to intercept it in a hurry, so as long as the Qing army was not bumped into, it was still able to cross the river safely.

But it is precisely because of the dark sky that as long as the Qing army is unlucky and is caught by the Ming warship, it is basically certain to die, either sunk, or be killed by the jumping gang to seize the ship, or surrender.

The Qing army also couldn't call friends in the dark to call friendly troops to gather and fight back together, so they could only fight separately. The natural superiority of the southern army in the combat power of the naval division and the superiority of the Ming army in the shipborne light artillery are destined to crush the Qing army as long as it is a single ship on the water.

After a night of fighting, the Qing army was killed by the Ming army at a very low price, killing thousands of people, 30,000 Qing troops encamped in Huaibei, and only 23,400 escaped in the end.

The casualties of the Ming army were also less than 1,000, and the battle was almost as wonderful as the battle of Weidong the day before. In two days, the total losses of the Ming army were only 15,600, while the Qing army on the opposite side had lost more than 10,000 troops.

The continuous weakening of one side has worsened the ratio of forces between the two sides. Not only did the Qing army suffer continuous losses, but even the soldiers who retreated alive were demoralized and panicked.

The total number of Qing troops in the Fengyang Theater was also 1780,000, and the cumulative number of Qing troops had been annihilated by more than 90,000 and nearly 100,000. The remaining nearly 80,000 people were also shocked overnight, retreated repeatedly, and finally completely shrank to Fengyang, Huaiyuan, and Linhuai counties.

To put it bluntly, it has shrunk to Fengyang as the core, plus several satellite counties along the Huai River to the upper and lower reaches of Fengyang, Gongwei Fengyang, and everything else has been lost.

The offensive and defensive momentum between the Ming and Qing dynasties was completely reversed, and the morale of the Qing army was low and the Ming army was ready to counterattack in order to recover the central capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The Battle of Weishui ended on the eighth day of September, the siege of Bagong Mountain was lifted on September 11, and the siege of Shou County was completely lifted on September 13. After a short rest, the Ming army continued to march along the Huai River, from Shou County to Huaiyuan nearly a hundred miles away, the Ming army advanced while fighting, but it was completed in three or five days.

On September 17, the vanguard of the Ming army arrived outside the city of Huaiyuan, and two days later the main force arrived one by one, ready to start camping to build equipment and attack the city.

The total strength of the Ming army's pursuit reached 140,000 - the total strength of the Ming army in the Hefei Theater was originally 180,000, and at this moment it was necessary to leave more than 20,000 people to defend the rear, and 10,000 or 20,000 were the battle losses and casualties of previous battles, so pulling out 140,000 people was indeed very extreme.

On the opposite side, the Qing army still had 80,000 people left, but it finally stabilized its position.

At the same time, the news of the fiasco ten days earlier, and the death of Abatai in battle, was also sent to Beijing after six hundred miles of expedited and four days of round-trip, and became known to Dolgon. Dorgon was given two days to digest the bad news and make adjustments.

Therefore, when the Ming army besieged Huaiyuan, the Fengyang Qing army was officially appointed by Dolgon, and Bo Luo led the remnants of the 80,000 Fengyang Qing army, followed by Yue Le, and the other generals did not hold accountable for the defeat for the time being, and asked them to keep their duties and stabilize the battle line.

Yue Le and Bolo are brothers, and they are both Abatai's sons-in-law.

In terms of age, Yue Leju is the eldest brother, but Bolo's military ability, historical record, and performance evaluation in Dolgon's heart are slightly stronger than his brother's, and it is not wrong for Dolgon to let Bolo temporarily take command to tide over the crisis in an emergency.

Although Yue Le was a little unwilling, he was not jealous of his brothers to that extent, and quickly accepted the reality, planning to work with his younger brother to avenge his father.

That kind of thing of stopping the mortuary and attacking each other with armor, Yue Le still can't do it.

After Bolo stabilized his position, he immediately convened the generals for the first time as the coach to discuss the strategy of defending and stabilizing the front.

Yue Le, Shang Shan, Geng Zhongming, Yin Erden, and Kubilong were arranged in turn to obey orders.

Previously, the other heavy generals above the rank of auxiliary generals under Abatai's command were either killed in battle or seriously injured, and could no longer participate in the follow-up military meetings and operational commands.

And even the five people in front of them may not all be stable. Zhu Shuren is still holding a time bomb over there, but unfortunately Bolo doesn't know it yet.

"My father died in battle, our army has lost nearly 100,000 soldiers, and only three counties in Huainan are in the hands of the imperial court.