In early September, as Jiangxi Huguang asked for reinforcements and flew like snowflakes to Emperor Shunzhi's imperial case, the young Emperor Shunzhi finally couldn't sit still.

At the court meeting, Aisin Jueluo Fulin asked where the soldiers and horses led by Prince Nikan and Prince Shuo Chengze of Heshuo Chengze were now, and the military department Shangshu Sirut Ming Andali trembled and came out, he knelt on the ground, and said:

"Returning to the emperor, General Dingyuan has led his army across the Yellow River and entered the territory of Xuzhou, and General Annan's troops and horses have returned to Defu into Bozhou, and will be able to engage the Ming army later this month."

As soon as he heard that the soldiers and horses had entered Jiangnan Province, Shunzhi's originally tense face became much more relaxed, and he asked again: "Then where are the soldiers and horses of Liu Fangming, the chief soldier of Ningxia, I don't want him to go to Jiangnan, let him change his route to Jiangxi and support Xia Yiyu, the governor of Jiangxi!"

"Back to the emperor, Liu Fangming, the commander of Ningxia, is in Henan, and will arrive in Jiangnan Province at the end of October at the latest, and if it is diverted to Jiangxi, it will be able to cross the Yangtze River and arrive in Nanchang Mansion at the earliest." Bingbu Shangshu continued.

"Then do this, let that Xia Yiyu persevere, if Nanchang falls, it will be dealt with according to the law of the country!"

"Huh." Ming Andali received the order and retreated into the courtiers.

As soon as he retreated into the courtiers, Hong Chengchou, who was standing in front of the Han Dynasty, stood in the hall and said loudly, "Your Majesty, the minister Hong Chengchou has something to do."

"Hong Qing, please speak." When Shunzhi saw that it was his own minister, his tone became much kinder, and he said.

"Your Majesty, please select and transfer the generals of the Kan War in order to suppress and appease, and select elite generals from the Jingshi, Zhili, Xuanda, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, and various garrisons to go south, the Su thieves have occupied half of the south of the Yangtze River, and they must be exterminated with the power of thunder, with all due respect, General Dingyuan may not even be able to cross the Yangtze River when he goes south this time, so the imperial court should transfer heavy troops to the south."

As soon as these words came out, the Manchurian and Mongolian ministers in the court couldn't help but shout and scold, angrily reprimanding Hong Chengchou for being alarmist, and asking the emperor to send him to prison for punishment, Hong Chengchou completely ignored the scolding of those courtiers, and looked at Emperor Shunzhi with a firm look.

The latter was silent for a long time, then suddenly stood up, grabbed the inkstone on the imperial case, and threw it at the noisy Manchurian ministers, shouting, "Give me silence!"

Bang dang!

The inkstone smashed on the ground with a loud sound, which directly shocked the chattering Manchurian ministers, who looked at the emperor who was not even a minor in fear, and closed their mouths and said no more.

Then, Shunzhi looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "Hong Qing, if it is according to what you say, how many soldiers and horses should be transferred by the imperial court?"

"Returning to the emperor, when the elite generals from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Liaodong, and Henan are mainly transferred, and a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Han are gathered, and the ministers are willing to recommend themselves and personally lead the troops to exterminate the rebels of the former Ming Dynasty, and not to break the Su thief oath not to return to the court!"

Hong Chengchou said in a firm tone.

However, Shunzhi did not promise immediately, but showed a hesitant look, and the Manmeng ministers below saw this, and one by one they jumped out boldly to admonish, trying to persuade the emperor to reject Hong Chengchou's proposal, and Ge Dahun, the head of the household, was the first to jump out and shouted:

"Your Majesty, now that the transportation has been cut off, the money and silver in the south of the Yangtze River and the grain in Huguang cannot be transported to Beijing, and all the places north of the Yellow River are facing the dilemma of lack of food.

Although Shunzhi reused Hanchen after being pro-government, he didn't fully trust Hanchen in his bones, so when those Manchurian ministers were noisy next to him, Shunzhi shook his head after thinking about it, and politely rejected Hong Chengchou's proposal and chose to postpone the discussion.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou could only reluctantly accept this result, and among the Hanchen who stood on the side and did not speak from beginning to end, there were also many people who showed resentment, but they were quickly covered up.

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The fighting in the south is still ongoing.

On the sixth day of September, the Ming army captured Jinxian County, Nanchang Prefecture after repairing Fuzhou Mansion for a few days, and then played a triumphant song, known as the 100,000 army, and besieged Nanchang Mansion City on the eighth day of September.

In order to defend Nanchang City, Xia Yiyu not only mobilized troops and horses from various cities in eastern Jiangxi, but also fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness before the arrival of the Ming army, gathered the people outside the city, and burned it

Houses, vacant shooting boundary, so when the Ming army approached the city, there were tens of thousands of defenders in the city, and the material reserves were sufficient, as if it was built into a strong city by Xia Yiju.

This is the duel between the Jiangxi governors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhang Mingyang knows that the city of Nanchang is not so easy to overcome, although the soldiers and horses under his command are known as 100,000 people, but the soldiers who can fight are only more than 30,000 people counting Cao Dahao, so the Ming army can only attack the four gates of Deshun, Yonghe, Hue and Jinxian, and only a small number of soldiers and horses are assigned to monitor the three gates of Zhangjiang, Guangrun and Wyeth in Fuhe.

After the siege of the city, the Ming army immediately cut down nearby trees, to build siege equipment, they are not in a hurry to attack the city, Nanchang Jiancheng where is so easy to be able to fight, in Nanchang Mansion is still called Hongdu Mansion, Han King Chen Youliang sent troops known as 600,000 troops to besiege the city, under the persistence of the defender Zhu Wenzheng, the Han army fought for a full 85 days and failed to take the city.

Of course, there are factors in the outstanding command ability of the guard general Zhu Wenzheng, but the more important reason is probably the solidity of Nanchang City.

At the same time that the city of Nanchang was under siege, in the northern part of Jiangnan Province, the Qing army from Beijing, under the leadership of the Dingyuan general Nikan, marched south along the Yellow River into Huai'an, and then went south along the Grand Canal to Yangzhou.

In other words, this is the main purpose of his army to the south, compared to the recovery of Jiangning City, the restoration of Caoyun is more urgent, if the fall of Jiangning only shook the rule of the Qing court in Jiangnan, Caoyun was blocked is to shake the Qing court's national capital, which is more important Nikan is still clear.

However, the Ming army has already built two tight defense lines in Jiangbei, Yangzhou Mansion is the first defense town, Fu'an Hou Su Ci personally sat in Yangzhou Mansion, he began to gather the people outside the city when the Qing army went south along the canal, and cleaned up the shooting boundary, so when the Qing army arrived, there was no one near Yangzhou Mansion.

Although Nikan did not participate in the siege and slaughter of Yangzhou in the second year of Shunzhi, when he came to Yangzhou again, he was still shocked by the defeat of Yangzhou City, and the traces left by the siege of the city can still be seen on the city wall.

Yangzhou since Yangzhou was slaughtered 800,000 people on the 10th, even now has not completely recovered, a large number of empty houses in the city, the existing population is not even half of the slaughter, and heard that the Qing army went south, the people living outside the city fled into the city in order to avoid the fate of being slaughtered, which made this city a little more popular.

At the same time, in order to avoid the tragedy of the massacre of the city, the people in the city spontaneously mobilized and walked up to the city wall to assist the Ming army in resisting the invaders.