In the end, when no one could convince anyone, Su Yan chose to end this unnutritious conversation, and just as he stood up and was about to leave, Ma Guozhu suddenly spoke.

His calm voice sounded from in front of Su Yan: "I wonder what the Overseer is going to do with me and the soldiers who surrendered?"

Su Yan paused for a second, and then he replied, "Transferred to the punishment camp and regained his freedom with his military exploits."

"In that case, the Overseer, please put me in the punishment camp." Ma Guozhu looked at him firmly and said.

Su Yan thought for a moment, with Ma Guozhu's influence, putting him in the punishment camp was very likely to give him the opportunity to induce the surrounding soldiers to rebel together, Su Yan didn't want to take this risk.

So, he shook his head and said, "The Governor will not grant your request."

After speaking, he didn't wait for Ma Guozhu to react, got up and walked out of the tent, and after walking out, he instructed the two guards guarding it: "Be sure to take strict care and don't let Ma Guozhu have a chance to contact outsiders, but his requirements can be met as much as possible and reported to me in real time."

"Whoa!"

Returning from Ma Guozhu's side, Su Yan began to reflect on his mistake just now, although he inherited the memory of this body and has more than 300 years of knowledge, but his ability to justify people is not comparable to that of the literati in the examination of this era.

Moreover, if you compare the Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty in this era...... The Qing Dynasty is indeed outstanding, to be precise, it is not that the Qing Dynasty is very good, but that the Southern Ming Dynasty is too bad, which sets off the excellence of the Qing Dynasty.

This point cannot be justified by any shriveled words, and the choices of the people at the bottom are enough to prove everything - whether it is the defeated army on the side of the Ming Dynasty that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and immediately became brave and good at fighting, or the people from all over the country who looked at the wind before the shaving order, if it wasn't for Dolgon's shaving order, the land south of the Yangtze River would not have eroded until now.

After some reflection, Su Yan made a decision, if he is persuaded to surrender in the future, he must let the professionals do it, and he should not run to join in the fun, otherwise he will be dominated by the other party's anti-guest, wouldn't it be very embarrassing?

However, it should not be said, in terms of persuasion, the Qing Dynasty was the most professional, just like dealing with the court of the Lu Jian State entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands, the Qing court sent a person named Yan My Gong, an official of the former court of King Lu, to persuade him to lobby against the anti-Qing forces in Zhejiang, and sure enough, he persuaded a large number of people to surrender, so that the anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang suffered a serious blow.

The reason why Su Yan wanted to persuade Ma Guozhu to surrender was that he had the ability to govern the local area was one of the reasons, and the other reason was that if he could persuade the Qing court to surrender the Liangjiang governor, the political significance would be almost comparable to that of the Ming army's recovery of Nanjing.

This represents a heavyweight Han minister who had been serving the Qing Dynasty since the reign of Huang Taiji and had been the governor of Liangjiang all the way to the Ming Dynasty, and was unwilling to continue to serve in the Qing court and defected to the Ming Dynasty, which was enough to shake the hearts of many Han ministers who took the initiative or were forced to serve the Qing court, and pondered whether to continue to serve in the Qing court.

Su Yan's treatment of the nearly 8,000 Qing soldiers who surrendered was not as one-size-fits-all as he and Ma Guozhu said, considering that among the surrendered Qing generals there were also high-ranking people such as the governor of Jiangnan and the general soldiers of various prefectures, Su Yan still gave them a chance to decide whether to serve the Ming court or not.

After Su Yan gave such an opportunity, the generals led by Zhang Tianlu almost didn't think about it, so they agreed to Su Yan's surrender, and expressed their willingness to swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty with gratitude, and incarnated as a leading party to lead the Wang Shi to recover Jiangnan.

Su Yan naturally half believed in their nonsense and half did not believe it, when the Ming army had the advantage, they would definitely continue to be loyal to the Ming court, but if the Qing army came over, those who had discipline points would pretend to resist for a while, and when they really had no choice, they chose to surrender, and those who did not have discipline voted directly.

However, Su Yan still gave them a chance to perform, and he decided that after taking Jiaxing Mansion, he would directly move eastward and recover all the state capitals on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The next day, after breakfast, the Ming army uprooted the camp and drove to the city of Jiaxing, intending to raid the city before the news of the disastrous defeat of the Qing army in Jiaxing, and completely annihilate Chen Tai and his remnants of the Zhejiang army.

However, when his army came to the city of Jiaxing

, but this city has become an empty city - Chen Tai was not at ease after Ma Guozhu's expedition, and also sent scouts to follow the army, and the scouts reported to Chen Tai as soon as the army was destroyed, and the latter decided to abandon the city and retreat to Suzhou.

Chen Tai knew that the remnants of the Zhejiang army under his command would not be able to hold this floating capital city, and he was also afraid that the people in the city would rebel when the Ming army was approaching the city, so he would not hesitate to choose to retreat and surrender Jiaxing Mansion to the Ming army.

On the third day of the first month of April, the Ming army regained Jiaxing Mansion.

After the recovery of Jiaxing Mansion, only Yanzhou Mansion and Huzhou Mansion were still under the control of the Qing court in the whole of Zhejiang, and Huzhou Mansion still had the army of the Qing court, which might not be able to be taken for a while, and Yanzhou Mansion was purely because Su Yan did not have the energy to take it down.

Anyway, there were not many Qing troops in Yanzhou Mansion and could not affect the Ming army, so Su Yan let him go first and concentrated on dealing with the enemy in the north.

After taking Jiaxing Mansion, Su Yan decided to directly move eastward, bypassing Taihu Lake and cooperating with the naval division to attack Nanjing City, ordering Wang Yi's troops to withdraw to Xinshi and station, according to the actions of the Qing army in Huzhou, and ordered Zhang Mingzhen's department of Tongxiang County to go to Jiaxing Mansion to take over the defense after Su Yan set out on the expedition.

The Qing army in Jiangnan has been wiped out under the leadership of Ma Guozhu, and all the state capitals in the entire Jiangnan Province are empty.

So, on the fourth day of the first month of April, after a day of repairing in Jiaxing Mansion, Su Yan led the army to go out, and under the leadership of the general Zhang Tianlu, he went straight to Songjiang Mansion, blocking Jiashan County on the road of the army and surrendered.

In April, the army came to Songjiang Mansion, under the persuasion of Zhang Tianlu, the Songjiang garrison left behind surrendered, Su Yan also did not adjust the officials in the city after entering the city, he only asked the counties under his jurisdiction to return to the rule of the Ming court in the name of the Songjiang prefect, and then left the soldiers to maintain law and order, and continued to drive to Suzhou.

At the same time that Su Yan was like a bamboo, Huzhou City, Tan Tai also learned the bad news of the annihilation of the entire army of the Ma Guozhu Department, and he instantly understood the bad influence behind it - the Ma Guozhu Department was destroyed, and the eastern part of Jiangnan Province would be completely exposed to the Ming army, and the Ming army could bypass Taihu Lake at any time and besiege them in Huzhou City from the north and south.

In order to prevent this from happening, and at the same time fearing that the Ming army would directly attack the city of Nanjing, Tan Tai sent twelve messengers back to Nanjing in a row, reported the matter to Bolo, and ordered his subordinates to pack their luggage and prepare to withdraw to Nanjing.