The news that Huang Degong took advantage of the victory to go north and besiege Bozhou and Luyi was quickly sent to other Qing military governors in the north, as well as to the imperial court in Beijing.

After all, Luyi is already in Henan, and the distance between the battlefield and Beijing has been shortened by a full third compared with the beginning of the war this year. The Qing court's military intelligence was urgently reported back and forth, and the delivery time required was greatly shortened - it's a pity that everyone at the top of the Qing court didn't want this kind of "convenience", after all, this was all in exchange for the shrinkage of the country.

Only two months ago, the military intelligence of the warring parties had to be sent back from the Hefei front, but now it only needs to be sent back from Shangqiu! How much has shrunk!

On October 15, Dolgon, who was in the city of Beijing, convened a military meeting to discuss with the kings Belle how to reinforce the front line and where to transfer troops.

Zilharang, whose status is only below Dolgon, of course, has the right to speak first, and he did not hesitate to point out: "At present, the imperial court has sent four armies to resist the enemy and the pseudo-Ming, and the one who is closest to Bolo and Yue Le, and has spare strength, is obviously the Prince of Ying."

There are still more than 100,000 troops under the command of Prince Ying, who are fighting with Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Henan in Huaixi and Runan. Since it is necessary to send troops and reinforcements, of course, it is necessary to draw people from the Prince of England. ”

As soon as Dorgon heard this, the nasolabial folds could not help but twitch. Transferring troops from Azig is indeed the most stable, but it is also easy to play into a refueling tactic.

So far, Azig has maintained an offensive against Zhang Huangyan, and has successfully cut off the main roads of Tongbai Mountain, which has been nearly two months.

Zhang Huangyan was not the main direction of attack of the Ming army, and the Ming side adopted delaying tactics, relying on strong fortresses to wait for Azig to attack the fortifications, and wanted to bleed Azig.

The Qing army also knew very well that it could not fight the Ming army to the death, and it had suffered enough losses in this area three years ago, so it could only block the dangerous mountain roads, cut off the supply of the Ming army, and make the Ming army's ammunition consumption too large to replenish, so as to uproot the Ming army in one stronghold after another.

And this method of cutting off supplies, once the strength is weakened, the encirclement and the blocking troops are loopholes, causing the Ming army to be re-supplied, the previous efforts will be in vain.

Azig's side is already the only remaining army among the armies sent by Dolgon, which can find a political fig leaf for Dolgon's resumption of the southern expedition this year.

Dorgon knew very well that Bolo and Yue Le had once again ruined most of their combat strength with his two white flags, and the soldiers had simply stopped three and two, and the losses of the green battalion were not small.

His military strength in the DPRK and China has been weakened to an incomprehensible level, and if his political prestige is hit hard, how can he hold on to this field?

Until the last minute, if there was any other way to solve it, Dorgon was not willing to take this step.

After the scene was awkward and cold for a while, Dorgon actually said in a kind and consultative tone:

"It is true that Prince Ying is strong and strong, but the siege of Xinyang cannot be lost. Zhang Huangyan's soldiers and horses north of Tongbai Mountain have been isolated and consumed for two months, and now there are loopholes, and the hardships of the previous two months have been in vain.

Lonely look at the Boluo military newspaper also said that when he withdrew his troops and returned, he slaughtered and burned more than 200 miles along the way to white ground, and the puppet Ming pursued him, and the logistics were inevitably poor. At present, I only see the banner of Huang Degong in Bozhou, and it can be seen that the Ming army is chasing 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, even if you count the Cao Bianjiao banner in Luyi, add another 20,000 people.

As long as our army draws 20,000 or 30,000 people, or at most 350,000, it will be able to stabilize its position. This is not needed by Prince Labor, but from the rear to send troops that have not yet entered the war - you can speak freely, where do you think the troops are available? ”

A group of Manchurian Baylor, who were already dissatisfied with Dolgon, did not suggest when they heard the words, but just fought silently,

Apparently they all had the intention of supporting Zilharan, feeling that Dorgon was "handing over the drudgery to outsiders, and handing over the only battlefield where he had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to his brother, a fellow mother."

Dolgon was very embarrassed, and scanned the audience with encouraging eyes, and finally had to sweep the few Han Chens who were qualified to participate in the meeting, and swept to the Han Soldier Department Shangshu and the right capital of the Imperial Inspectorate, Shi Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou also saw the meaning of the order in Dolgon's eyes, and had no choice but to sigh to be this wicked man: "If you want to transfer people from the rear, the nearest ones are naturally the Luck Dehun Belle Department in Shandong, and the Manda Hai Belle Department in Xuzhou.

However, although these two places are close, there are also hidden dangers. After all, Luck Dehun was responsible for the pacification of the chaos in Shandong after Prince Su and King Raoyu were transferred. Although the Manjiadong Rebellion has subsided, it is said that there are still remnants who have fled to the Ludong Mountains and a few Denglai harbor cities controlled by the Ming army.

Mandahai needs to be the link between Haizhou Kong Youde and the battlefield of Gui and Bo, although there is no war at the moment, but it also shoulders the heavy responsibility of dealing with the left and right sides. Previously, too many soldiers and horses around Xuzhou had been withdrawn. Although the army has so far failed to see the intention and preparation to go north from Huai'an, it cannot be completely unguarded......"

Hong Chengchou said something kind about the mud, but in fact, he didn't have to bear any responsibility. Helped Dolgon find the two quickest options, and then added some risks of shirking responsibility, to put it bluntly, if something happens in the future, the final decision is Dorgon's own.

Hong Chengchou did this, but he couldn't talk about hiding things, mainly after he entered the Qing Dynasty, within a year, Huang Taiji died, and Dolgon was in power for many years, although Hong Chengchou often had to do things, but Jue Lu was not high - Geng Zhongming Kong Youde and those people can be crowned kings, but Hong Chengchou's title is just a light car captain.

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To put it bluntly, Hong Chengchou still has to do things often, that is, the treatment is poor. When he was on the side of the Ming Dynasty, he became the governor of the five provinces and was fully responsible for the military affairs of the thieves, and he only gave this after the Qing Dynasty.

What a life to play for a few hundred dollars a month! So he also made up his mind that he could come out, but he would never carry the blame.

An important reason why he betrayed Chongzhen back then was that he was resentful of Chongzhen and liked to let the minister take the blame! If you have to take the blame after becoming a traitor, won't this traitor be in vain?

Dolgon was also helpless, he had already figured out Hong Chengchou's temperament, so he didn't think much about it, just if Hong Chengchou instinctively shirked it, there shouldn't be much risk in this matter.

Besides, he didn't have time to slowly reorganize the troops from the rear and move south, and now the Qing Dynasty was also stretched thin, and the mobilization was not so fast, so he had to let the first-line troops support each other, and then the second-line troops slowly filled the newly exposed weaknesses after the first-line deployment.

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Under Dolgon's anxious latest decision, Luckedhun in Shandong and Manda Haibu in the direction of Xuzhou naturally could not disobey. was so obediently seduced by the Ming army, each of them prepared to pull out the camp and raise troops, step by step for the battalion to move closer to Yue Le, and went to the Bozhou battlefield to fight each other's horns, trying to rescue.

However, when it came time to actually send troops, only Mandahai successfully dispatched troops.

Shandong's Luck Dehun, but there was a little problem - it turned out that just when he was about to send troops, Liu Zeqing's Ming army, which had been entrenched in the Ludong Mountains and Denglai Coast, suddenly had some abnormal movements.

And the "Manjiadong" rebel army, which was nominally extinguished by the Qing army last year, has actually resurrected and emerged! Luckett, of course, was caught off guard, and was able to hunt down the local thieves in Shandong as his first priority, and was tripped up.

All of this is actually part of Zhu Shuren's counteroffensive plan.

Before the main force of the Qing army was contained in the middle road, the Ming army had already allocated a large amount of money, food, gold and silver, as well as some weapons and equipment, so that Zhang Mingzhen, who was in charge of the Yellow Sea Navy, would go deep behind enemy lines by sea and contact Liu Zeqing who came on.

Through Liu Zeqing's underground channels, he also met some remnant leaders of the "Manjiadong" rebel army who fled to Dengden after being exterminated by Haoge and Abatai a few years ago.

Originally, the Ming court would never cooperate with the "thieves" or peasant armies.

But since these peasant armies are now "thieves" on the territory of the Tartars, in the spirit of the enemy's enemy can unite, the rulers of the Ming court still chose to join forces with the Shandong Righteous Army under the far-sightedness of Zhu Shuren and regardless of the previous suspicions.

Zhu Shuren asked people to provide some high-value military rations such as dried fish and dried meat, as well as some gold and silver, plus the weapons and equipment eliminated by the Ming army a few years ago, and subsidized the old peasant army in Shandong that went underground, and also promised official positions and land.

Gong Wencai, the leader of Manjiadong, who finally fled to Deng, chose to cooperate with the imperial court, and turned into a letter of "Luxi General Soldier" given by the Ming court.

(Note: Historically, Gong Wencai should have been suppressed and killed by Haoge two years ago for resisting the Qing Dynasty, and here is the butterfly effect.) Because the Ming army still had some mountainous territory of Liu Zeqing in Shandong, it was set up that the remnants of the peasant army such as Gong Wencai broke through and fled to the Ming jurisdiction to survive, and the imperial court allocated a certain amount of food. ）

Gong Wencai was born as an illiterate miner, but in fact, his pursuit is not high, not to mention that he was originally forced to a dead end by the Tartars. I heard that he could be a general soldier for the orthodox Ming court, and the gold content of his official position was very guaranteed, and he was already very satisfied.

Luck Dehun himself could not be protected, and Man Dahai was afraid that his lone army would not have enough reinforcements, so he had to do his best to raise the troops of Xuzhou. As a result, the Qing army in northern Jiangsu was weakened to the extent that only Kong Youde's department and some second-line green battalion soldiers remained, and all the others were transferred.

Huang Degong on the opposite side was also a lone army, of course, he would not play with Yue Le and Man Dahai, but just right according to the rhythm ordered by Zhu Shuren to withdraw from the siege and run, and continued to swing a shot to the west, messing up the judgment of the Qing army and exhausting it.

And in this case, the battlefield on the Eastern Road, which had been silent since the beginning of the war, finally suddenly moved.

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On October 24, the third year of Longwu, Li Fuming of the Ming Army of the East Road, led more than 40,000 fully equipped elite Ming troops to cross the Huai River from the north of Huai'an County, and finally launched a river-crossing operation against the Qing army's defense area in the north of Huai'an Province, trying to recover the entire territory of Huai'an Province.

(Note: The jurisdiction of Huai'an Province spans the mouth of the Huai River, and only the half south of the Huai River was recovered by the Ming army, and the half north of the Huai River was still in the hands of the Qing army.) ）

Faced with the sudden northward crossing of the Huai River by the Ming army, Kong Youde, who was caught off guard, could only watch several small counties in Linhuai fall one after another. And he himself could only bring troops from Haizhou, Pizhou and other places to Suqian to plug the leak.

After a skirmish between Li Fuming and Kong Youde, Kong Youde immediately lost.

Fortunately, the loss was not very large, and then Kong Youde learned to be obedient, and immediately turned to the dead defense, not daring to fight with the Ming army in the field, just wanted to ask for help urgently, and let Man Dahai, who reinforced Yue Le, hurry back to defense.

Under the clumsy left and right, Kong Youde even had to use some of the sailors as land troops to defend various cities.

However, Li Fuming's shot is far from the deadliest.

Because as early as five days before Li Fuming's move, Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Jiangning and the general of Zhenhai in the Ming Dynasty, took 20,000 landing troops and supporting sailors, a total of more than 30,000 people, from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the sea, made a slight detour, and returned to Huaibei on a route about 100 miles offshore.

Because the distance from the coastline was far enough when sailing, and before the start of the battle, the Ming army also put on a posture of "normalizing the fight against pirates and Tatar sea trade" in advance, and cleared the Qing ships on the Yellow Sea in advance.

Therefore, the Qing army had no sea control in the southern part of the Yellow Sea, and there was no timely source of information, so it was deaf and blind.

Zhang Mingzhen just takes a bit of time to sail at sea, so he will "come first and come".

And just two days after Li Fuming and Kong Youde started fighting on the Suqian frontline, Zhang Mingzhen's troops detoured from the sea and finally launched a landing surprise attack in Haizhou, Kong Youde's original nest.

Because Kong Youde's main force had already filled in Suqian and Pizhou on the front, the port city of Haizhou was very empty at that time. In just two days of bloody battles, Zhang Mingzhen captured the only good port in northern Jiangsu in the later generations!

As we all know, most of the coastlines on the boundary of Jiangsu in later generations have no good harbors, because the huge amount of sediment brought by the Huanghuai into the sea has long silted up the coastline around Yancheng into shallows, which can only be used to polder into salt pans to dry salt, so the place name of Yancheng is called Yancheng.

The only good port in northern Jiangsu is Haizhou, where Lianyungang is located in later generations. After Zhang Mingzhen's successful attack, it was equivalent to cutting off all the sea communication channels of the Qing army along the Huaibei coast, on the contrary, the Ming army was able to make full use of this waterway and use this deep-water port to quickly transport the follow-up troops and supplies from the south to the front line.

When Zhang Mingzhen launched the landing war, the Qing army still had a force that could hinder him, that is, the Shandong garrison of the Qing State.

However, before the Ming army launched, it had already made full preparations, and took the advantage of intelligence transmission in the hands of the Ming army by sea to the extreme.

Under the control of Liu Zeqing and Gong Wencai, the actions of the Qing army in Shandong were greatly delayed, and Zhang Mingzhen made a sneak attack on Haizhou, and immediately advanced along Shushui, and attacked Li Fuming from the north and south, dividing and surrounding the Kong Youde troops in Pizhou and Suqian.

Under Kong Youde, there are still regular troops with as much as 30,000 troops, including the Green Battalion, and their combat power is actually not weak. But the Ming army did not intend to fight him head-on, but after outflanking and cutting off his rear route, the Ming army immediately advanced rapidly, and Li Fuming expanded the results along Surabaya and took Xuzhou, which was empty because Kong Youde was surrounded.

Mandahai in the direction of Bozhou also did not have time to return to help.

At this point, although Kong Youde still has combat strength, he is already trapped in a lonely city. The Qing army was too busy to take care of itself in other directions, and no one came to save him.

Even if they are willing to help, the Ming army can't wait to surround the point and send reinforcements. With the remaining combat strength of the Qing army, it is impossible to save it.

Just as there are people who are still alive, but they are dead.

Kong Youde sat in Pizhou City, climbed the White Gate Tower every day to personally inspect the defense, supervised the battle to repel the offensive of the Ming army, and counted on the Manchu master of the Qing Dynasty to save him, and counted on the Mandahai to return to the east and join the outside world.

However, Man Dahai obviously felt that he was not capable of dealing with Li Fuming and Zhang Mingzhen, who had already gained a firm foothold, and did not appear for a long time.

Kong Youde's heart couldn't help but become heavier and heavier, and a sadness rose.

He didn't read much, but he also knew that 1,500 years ago, Lu Bu was on this White Gate Tower to supervise the battle and defend Xiapi City, but in the end, no one came to the rescue.

"I, Kong Youde, am full of martial arts, and in the end, I have to end up like Lu Bu!"