Jiang Hao naturally knew the importance of forming a north-south attack with the main force of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible after the army was raised.

So of course he will leave time for Daming to prepare, otherwise he will suddenly make a move, Daming doesn't know yet, if he doesn't come to save him, it won't be looking for death.

He was scheduled to officially start his army on September 17, but in fact, as early as the sixth day of the first month of August, when he had just sprouted antipathy and made a preliminary plan, he had already secretly arranged for his henchmen to go south to communicate with the Ming side.

Jiang Huang's messenger walked in the southern part of Shanxi in a relatively low-key and secretive manner, and did not dare to fly and publicize, after all, Luzhou Zezhou Huaiqing was still the state capital controlled by the Manchu generals, and it was easy to be interrogated. It took seven or eight days of caution to pass through those provinces.

After entering the border of Henan, there were not so many worries, and Jiang Huang's messenger soon met Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Henan in Daming.

Zhang Huangyan also attached great importance to it, and after understanding the situation clearly, he immediately sent it to Nanjing with the official 800 li expedited delivery, and on August 18, it was sent to the Nanjing Imperial Court.

In Jiang Jiu's letter, a roughly agreed date for the start of the army, around September 15. Therefore, it will take less than a month for the rear army of the Ming Dynasty to move forward to Henan again and transfer to a wartime state, which is relatively urgent.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has enough weapons, ammunition and military rations stored on the front line in peacetime, but the troops are stationed in the rear in peacetime, so as long as they march lightly, they can directly enter the battle.

After Zhu Shuren got Jiang Liang's letter of defection, he did not waste time, and made a decision within only three days, including dispatching which resting Ming troops to immediately prepare for battle and enter the front line of Luoyang and Kaifeng. Then the first army of 100,000 people moved.

Of course, there are more than 100,000 Ming troops mobilized, and this is only the troops that went to Luoyang and Kaifeng.

It is impossible for the main forces of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops to be piled up on one front, otherwise the "logistics punishment/troop stacking punishment" is too great. The other parties can also maintain pressure and disperse and contain the Qing army's forces.

However, other secondary directions are not so urgent, and in a short period of time, of course, they will be prepared first and transferred to Henan first. If you are slow to prepare, fill in the lines in other directions.

It can be regarded as God bless Daming, after Daming made a dispatch, some ministers in the court, such as Shi Kefa, reminded Zhu Shuren that he should reply to Jiang Hao, give him confidence, and let him know that Daming will support him, so that the two sides can cooperate more tacitly. Later, even Zhu Shuren's staff Gu Yanwu persuaded him to do so

But Zhu Shuren rejected those people's suggestions and analyzed:

"You can't reply to the letter again, even those who have watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" know that when Kan Ze defended himself in front of Cao Cao, he said, 'How can you steal from the master's back'? Since ancient times, if you surrender to the enemy, you can only look at it, otherwise one side is eager to start, and the other side will come to respond, won't it be exposed?

Kan Ze's words, although they are pretentious for Huang Gai, may not be completely reasonable, but they can also be used as appropriate. Now that Jiang Hao is about to do it anyway, the more he goes, the greater the movement of his troops, and the easier it is to arouse the vigilance of the surrounding Manchurian generals to guard the state capital.

Previously, when he had no movement, he asked the messenger to Luoyang to deliver the letter, but he still had to hide in Tibet, and it took seven or eight days to pass the short distance of two and a half mansions. When I go back this time, the enemy is on stricter guard, can I pass in ten days and half a month?

If we want to ensure that the troops are delivered before the start of the army, then we must let the messenger cross the Yellow River at least half a month before the start of the army, if the messenger is caught, the Tartars will also know this information half a month in advance, and be fully prepared, and then we may set up an ambush and plan it!

Therefore, we don't need to reply to Jiang Jiu, and directly expect him to start the army directly when the date comes! Anyway, we are ready, I heard that Jiang Hao will be able to respond immediately! ”

After Shi Kefa heard this, he couldn't help but worry: "But in Jiang Hao's letter, he asked us to reply, if we don't reply, he doesn't know if Daming is willing to support him, can he support him in time, does he dare to raise troops?" ”

Zhu Shuren smiled: "Think about it, if Jiang Hao asked us to reply, but we didn't reply, what would he think?" Could it be that he thinks that Da Ming doesn't want to support him?

No! He could only think that it was his messenger who had been killed by the Tartars! His letter was also intercepted by the Tartars! If the matter has been leaked, then he has to rebel, even if there is no response from me, he can only struggle to the death, and survive in death!

Otherwise, Hauge knew that he was going to rebel, and would he still keep him alive? There is no way to stop and no turning back from this kind of thing, you can only go all the way to the dark! ”

After Zhu Shuren finished analyzing, he could only sigh that upright gentlemen like Shi Kefa and Gu Yanwu still had too little understanding of the mentality of the rebels, and at first glance, they lacked experience in rebellion.

It's like him Zhu Shuren, as soon as he heard what he said, he knew that he was a professional rebel.

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After confirming that there was no need to reply to Jiang Xuan, the progress of the matter was really less risky.

Because with Jiang Jiu's preparations, the Qing army's troops in Jinnan and Hanoi were really a little vigilant.

Hauge also originally intended to further weaken the power of the Green Camp Han General, and the two sides were already in a semi-tense state that was prone to misfire.

If the Ming side replied to the letter, although it cannot be said that the messenger would definitely be intercepted by the Qing army, the danger would definitely be huge.

But Da Ming did not reply, and the Ming army in Luoyang did not show the slightest trend of preparing for war, all of which paralyzed the Qing army, making the Qing army think that Jiang Hao did not collude with Da Ming.

There are only a thousand days to be a thief in the world, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves? Beware of not seeing the effect, it will naturally relax slowly.

In addition, some people feel that Jiang Hao sent his sister-in-law to Beijing the year before last to "learn Manchurian etiquette, so that the imperial court can use it", in essence, he was a hostage, Jiang Hao did not resist, and it seems that he will not suddenly take risks.

Otherwise, wouldn't his son, who remained in the city of Beijing, be killed on the spot?

And Jiang Huang's side, left and right, waited left and right, and before Daming replied on September 15, it was supposed to be a day to raise troops. He delayed for two more days than originally planned, and finally couldn't wait for September 17, all kinds of "things must have been leaked, maybe the people sent by Haoge to collect me are already about to enter the country", and finally forced Jiang Hao to raise troops like a nervous person.

Within two or three days, the four prefectures of Datong, Taiyuan, Fenzhou, and Qinzhou successively pulled their flags and raised incidents, announcing their return to the Ming Dynasty.

After raising the army, Jiang Huang stubbornly defended the dangerous pass of Taihang Mountain in the east of Datong and Taiyuan Erfu to prevent the Hebei Qing army from crossing Taihang Mountain. While purging the remnants of the Chungcheong forces within -

After all, Jiang Jiu's power is not monolithic, and not everyone in him is willing to follow him to abandon the Qing Dynasty and surrender to Ming. After pulling the flag, it was naturally a bunch of chaotic battles.

After the two internal lines were stabilized, Jiang Hao's third move was to try to attack Luzhou and Pingyang respectively.

If he penetrates Luzhou and Zezhou, he will be able to get in touch with the Luoyang Ming Army as soon as possible and get Zhang Huangyan's money, food, ordnance and materials.

From Taiyuan along the Fen River in Pingyang Prefecture, you can go all the way to Hejin County, from Hejin to the Yellow River, and get in touch with Guanzhong under the control of Wu Sangui of the Ming Dynasty, and get the help of the remnants of Wu Sangui's Guanning army.

If any of these two roads are opened, Jiang Huang will be revitalized this game.

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After Jiang Hao raised his troops, Haoge in Beijing was of course still shocked.

Although he had a little premonition, the main thing was that he had too many premonitions recently, and there was a possibility of accidents everywhere, and he didn't expect that Jiang Hao would have an accident first.

He got the news that it was the fourth day after Jiang Huang raised the army, and he briefly confirmed it, and in the evening of the same day, Haoge was furious and rushed to let people interrogate him briefly, and at three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, he left Jiang Huang in Beijing as a hostage's son, and escorted him to the vegetable market to behead the public!

The bannermen, young and old men in Beijing, naturally wanted to watch the enthusiastic execution scene, and the vast majority of ordinary people did not know what the prisoner had committed until they watched the execution, and whispered there.

"Lao Zhao, this prisoner looks at the thin skin and tender meat, it is estimated that he is a powerful child, what kind of crime? Although I heard that I have killed a lot of officials in the past few months, I have never seen such a public display, don't you have to save face for the Queen Mother? ”

Most of the people who eat melons still think that they are still beheaded more than two months ago, and Haoge made a series of eucalyptus that "do not give the empress dowager the emblem, which is very disrespectful", and thought that it was the henchmen of the Empress Dowager Zhaosheng who were killed, and said that Prince Su is becoming less and less decent.

Fortunately, there were people in the crowd who knew how to do it, and they quickly showed off proudly: "Brother Liu, you still don't know?" This eucalyptus has something to do with those things in the palace - it was the general soldier of the green battalion in Shanxi who rebelled! It's clear! This is his son-in-law, and there is more than one, all of whom have been pulled to behead. ”

The people who ate melons were shocked: "That Jiang Jiu? Is this guy so ruthless? Tiger poison still doesn't eat children, but there are several sons in the hands of the court, and they take the initiative to rebel? That's it! If this kind of beast is not as good, it should be cut off! ”

As a group of rebels' families were all cut down, the banner people in Beijing were also indignant for a while, and Haoge reluctantly encouraged some morale, and then immediately organized the main force of the Eight Banners and divided his troops to Shanxi to prepare for the rebellion.

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However, Haoge, who was in Beijing, was not the first external force to learn of Jiang Huang's mutiny.

Before Jiang Hao raised his troops, Da Ming had secretly prepared in advance, and even Zhu Shuren, the king of Hubei, had already secretly arrived in Luoyang in person to personally supervise and control the army.

With the current run-in and combat strength and morale of the Ming army, in fact, there is no need for Zhu Shuren to personally intervene in the battle, and he himself went to Luoyang to solve the problem of excuses before the resumption of the war in the Ming and Qing dynasties, so as to boost the morale of his own side and confuse the enemy's hearts as much as possible.

After all, the two sides have a secret agreement, and they can push the fault of tearing up the peace to others, so why not? Even if it's just "Morale -10" for the enemy and "Morale +10" for your own side, it's better than doing nothing.

Therefore, in the first two days after Jiang Huang raised his troops, the Ming side really did not use force directly, but sent an envoy to send an ultimatum to the Qing army in the Hanoi area on the other side of Luoyang - the main thing is that it is impossible to steal directly from the sneak attack, so the delay of two days does not delay the fighter.

If the sneak attack can affect whether or not to directly pull out a few mansion cities, then Zhu Shuren is not a pedantic person, and he will not care so much about face, after all, the world still depends on fists.

The messenger of the ultimatum is a rotten Confucian, Zodiac Zhou, who has been hanging in the court for many years. Huang Daozhou's status in the last years of Chongzhen was not low, and Liu Zongzhou and others were all elders in the imperial history circle, but they couldn't do just emphasizing moral.

Historically, he has also made many mistakes and forced many forces that could have been encircled to the hostile side.

For example, using morality to kidnap and destroy Chen Xinjia's peace, and Chen Xinjia was killed by Chongzhen. Later, when the Tang King succeeded to the throne as Emperor Longwu in history, Huang Daozhou also advocated that all those who were shaved should be regarded as traitors, and the high-pressure treatment forced more people to the side of the Tartars.

Therefore, Zhu Shuren naturally will not give this kind of person who doesn't know anything other than moral fart practice a chance to reuse, just make a false job and put it on the shelf.

Of course, these people's private morality must be fine, so Zhu Shuren would not harm them in the first place. This time, the messenger needs someone who is not afraid of death, and the others are less courageous, so Zhu Shuren asked Huang Daozhou to blame the Tartar in the face of waste utilization.

Huang Daozhou arrived in Hanoi County, the seat of Huaiqing Prefecture, just one day after Jiang Hao raised his troops, and almost Jiang Huang raised his troops, and he crossed the Yellow River from Luoyang Mengjin to the north.

So much so that the Qing army guards in Hanoi had just learned that Jiang Huang had rebelled through a six-hundred-mile expedited process, and a few hours later, the Ming envoy arrived, making it clear that the Ming knew the situation in advance.

But Huang Daozhou was not afraid of the enemy's annoyance, he still did not disgrace his mission, and made a strict request: "Although your country and my Ming Dynasty have not signed an armistice contract, my Great Tomorrow is merciful, and the Metropolitan Governor also thinks that the first evil of your country's invasion of the Central Plains is Dolgon.

Now that Dolgon has been ambushed, I have given your country a buffer time to slowly deal with the issue of the ownership of the Central Plains - today's truce is to be discussed, but it was given to your country by the mercy of my Ming Dynasty, otherwise with the strength of the Great Ming Army, the Northern Expedition would have recaptured Beijing!

Therefore, I hope that your country will exercise restraint and not interfere with the local governors of your country who take the initiative to abandon the darkness and turn to the light and return to our Ming Dynasty. Your army should stop operating on the border of Luzhou, and I, Daming, will also send a letter to Jiang Hao to negotiate the ownership of the land, so as not to use swords and soldiers without permission. If your country insists on launching an attack on the land that has taken refuge in my Ming Dynasty, it will be your country that provokes the war first, and my Ming Dynasty will definitely fight back! ”

The Qing army's Huaiqing Mansion guard was named Guerjia. Tourai, at this time in history, is dead because he is a member of Hauge's party. But now, because of the butterfly effect, Hauge's faction has succeeded in taking out Dolgon to power, so his situation is much better, and he is still in charge of the army.

In the face of Huang Daozhou's "shameless words", Turai was naturally angry: Do you want me to allow Jiang Liang to pull the flag and surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and then you want to posthumously recognize Datong and Taiyuan as the territory of the Ming Dynasty? Acknowledging the actual control of the Ming Dynasty? Is there such a reason in the world?

But Huang Daozhou's face did not change, and said, "Before you Qing Guo, did you rebel against my Ming governors, after the first emperor was martyred, how many governors in the north were rebelled by you?" Do you want to do the math carefully?

Now I am willing not to use the sword soldiers, see the people of the world choose independently, and serve and respect who is Zhengshuo, this is an opportunity for you to win the hearts of the people in the world peacefully! What's more, Jiang Hao came to vote voluntarily, and it was not my Daming who took the initiative to rebel, I Daming can't protect the people who come to vote, how can I save face? I hope that Qingguo will do it for himself! ”

The words are tough on this, where can a semi-literate person like Thurai say about the Zodiac Zhou? What's more, since the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Daozhou has been a well-known moral high ground in the world, and he refused to negotiate peace that year, of course, he did not save face.

Turai was speechless by Huang Daozhou, and finally drew his sword angrily: "Dog! Aren't you afraid of death? Teach you whether my Qing Dynasty knife is sharp! ”

Huang Daozhou was not afraid: "Birds and beasts, if you dare to use a knife, the prince of Eh will call you Huaiqing Mansion soldiers and horses, and chickens and dogs will not be left!" ”

"Look for death!" Turai rushed to the skull, and regardless of the consequences, he stabbed Huang Daozhou to death with a knife, chopped off the head and hung it on a pole to show the public.

Half an hour later, the Ming army crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin and entered the territory of Huaiqing Mansion from Luoyang.

Huang De led 20,000 iron horsemen to take the lead, and went straight to Hanoi County, bypassing all the small counties and rural villages and towns along the way, just to quickly encircle Hanoi.

The Qing army was stationed in the local area, because it was learned that the day after Jiang Jiu raised his troops, the Qing troops in other directions naturally did not have time to adjust their defenses in place, so they were infiltrated by the Ming army with absolute superiority.

After Hoang Duc Kung besieged Hanoi County, he spent another day or two building siege camps, siege equipment, and waiting for infantry and artillery to follow up.

The cavalry arrived at the city on September 19, the artillery arrived on September 21, and on the 22nd began to bombard the city.

Before the arrival of the infantry artillery, the Qing army also tried to use the infantry cavalry out of the city to counterattack the field, but the troops under the command of Turai were insufficient, and the soldiers who could be dispatched were only a few thousand people.

In the past two years, the Ming and Qing armies had only occasional skirmishes, low-intensity clashes, plus a few truces of several months each. The Qing army obviously did not understand the improvement of the Ming army's ability to attack fortifications.

This time, the Ming army directly used a full seventy or eighty Hongyi cannons, as well as the latest and heaviest ones. However, after a day of bombardment, a city like Hanoi was directly smashed and several city walls collapsed.

The Ming melee soldiers swarmed in, fighting with a small number of Qing army Eight Banner soldiers, and after half an hour of fierce and bloody fighting, the Qing army's troops blocking the gap completely collapsed.

The Ming army poured into the gap, and the main force of the follow-up riflemen also followed up and killed, blocking the main street with rifles, and began bloody street fighting.

Under normal circumstances, the Ming army would have accepted surrender and capture, but the situation in Hanoi was slightly special, and the Ming army ordered that if all the surrendered soldiers wanted to survive, they must defect to the line of fire and help the Ming army kill the Eight Banner soldiers, and only accept the surrender of the Han soldiers, and the Manchu soldiers would not be given a chance to surrender if they wanted to surrender - this is obviously because the Qing army committed the extremely bad crime of killing and making it, so it cannot be pardoned.

The city was full of people who were forced to jump over the wall in a hurry, and they could only fight to the last moment, but unfortunately the Ming army's massive rifles blocked the main streets, and those who stubbornly resisted and wanted to fight hand-to-hand or shoot with bows and arrows could not get a chance to change their lives.

After a whole day of bloody slaughter, the city was full of more than 4,000 soldiers, and all the family members, chickens and dogs were not left, and they all killed all the piles for the Beijing crown.

Zhu Shuren instructed Huang Degong before the war: find the body and head of Huang Daozhou, let people sew it up and bury it, and use the Manchurian Jingguan to pay tribute.

The Ming army also announced a deterrent shout by the way: If you dare to kill the Ming army's ceasefire envoy, you will kill all the full soldiers in the city where the envoy is located, and not one of them will accept surrender.

Unless it was an ordinary Tartar soldier who knew that the main general was not reasonable, took the initiative to kill the whole family of the senior Qing army general who was responsible for the killing, took the initiative to open the city and surrender before the Ming army attacked the city, and offered the head of the Qing general's whole family, then the Ming army could pardon the rest.

After all, this is a Tartar who doesn't live first, so there's nothing to say.

After the order was issued, the other small counties of Huaiqing Province were also easily advisable, and they were pacified in a day or two. Subsequently, the Ming army continued to take advantage of the time of local strength superiority, marched highly, broke through Luzhou and Zezhou, and finally opened up the land communication channel between the Ming and Jiang Jiu areas before the arrival of Haoge's main force.

The entire Shanxi Province has returned to the Ming Dynasty in just half a month, and this speed really shocked Haoge and other civil and military officials in the puppet Qing court in Beijing.

The hearts of the people in the world are scattered and collapsed, have they reached this step? The appeal and cohesion of the Qing Dynasty to the military and civilians of the world are almost non-existent? Da Ming came over and pushed it down? How can this be fought?

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PS: Tomorrow...... Take a day off. It's a bit confusing. In the past two weeks, Sanyi Qitou has made a new book with more than 10,000 words, and yesterday I chatted with the editor for four hours, and I am also grateful for the big data and hot information provided by the other party.

In short, my new book plan is to completely push the DAO to re-select the topic, and the dynasty and the identity of the protagonist itself are not hot. I'm now back in the topic selection stage overnight, and everything I've prepared for the past two weeks has been in vain.

Tomorrow, I need to hurry up and start a new topic, and try to give the editor a few spare tire options on Monday. She said that which dynasty and which protagonist's origin can be written, so I'll choose which one to write.