Chapter 230: The Butterfly Effect
After Suri Lehok announced his defection to Su Yan, and after fighting for Su Yan, it soon caused an uproar among the more than 1,000 Mongolian soldiers with red flags who surrendered.
These Mongol men were extremely dissatisfied with the betrayal of Suzhlehok and Chaganbala, and despite the tribesmen who died in the battle, they actually bowed to the Ming people, so when they returned to the garrison where the Mongols were held, they were immediately spurned and ostracized by the tribesmen.
However, after Suzhlehok and Chaganbala explained to them why they had surrendered, the Mongols fell silent.
Surrender, raw.
Don't surrender, die.
After surrendering, they can return to the grassland to see their families who have been separated for many years, but they will be slaughtered by the Ming army immediately.
After figuring this out, the Mongols were still somewhat resistant to fighting for the Ming army, but they still agreed to the decision of Suri Lehok and Chaganbala, and under the leadership of the two, they swore allegiance in the name of Changshengtian in front of Su Yan.
Su Yan did not break his promise, he immediately organized the 1,100 Mongolian soldiers into a Mongolian cavalry battalion, and returned all the Mongolian war horses captured in the city to them - because they were defending the city on foot, and the war horses were all locked in the stables, so the Qing army's war horses basically fell into the hands of the Ming army intact.
The supreme commander of the Mongolian cavalry battalion was the Dusi Chaganbala, and the deputy commander was Suzhlehok, which had ten hundred-man teams of 120 people.
After the soldiers and horses of the battalion pledged their allegiance to Su Yan, they also accepted the influence of the system, and they will continue to increase their loyalty to Su Yan without defection.
The emergence of the Mongolian cavalry battalion made up for the phenomenon of heavy infantry and light cavalry of the Ming army, so that the existing cavalry battalion was no longer alone.
The Mongols successfully subdued, and then there were only Manchurian soldiers, these Manchus were the most difficult to deal with, they were the foundation of the Qing Empire, and they were naturally very supportive of the Qing court, and if they wanted to persuade them to betray the Qing court, at least at this time it was impossible to achieve.
Since he was stubborn and difficult to fight, Su Yan could only escort the Manchurian soldiers to the south bank of the Yangtze River and make them become coolies in caves and factories.
If it was before the capture of Nanjing, Su Yan might have beheaded all of them, and the head of the capital was built as a Jingguan to deter the Qing court, but after the recovery of Nanjing, the Qing court was exhausted, and this move was meaningless except to vent anger.
After making a decision, Su Yan opened the system panel and built a barracks and artillery foundry in Huai'an City, and then decided to return to Nanjing and start the war.
Before returning to Nanjing, Su Yan appointed Zhang Huangyan as the governor of Jiangbei and the prime minister of Jiangbei military affairs, and ordered him to recover the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Huai'an, Fengyang, and Xuzhou, and prevent the Qing court from sending a large army south.
Although Su Yan didn't think that the Qing court still had the strength to organize a southern expedition after losing two princes and tens of thousands of troops in a row, it was always good to be cautious.
Subsequently, Su Yan only took the Qinglong Left Brigade and the Chinese military camp under Ma Xin, and escorted thousands of Manchu and Han prisoners of war along the Grand Canal to return to Nanjing.
At the same time as Su Yan returned to Nanjing, the results of the battles of Huai'an and Anqing quickly spread throughout the north and south of the river, and were sent to the imperial case of Emperor Shunzhi as soon as possible.
The young emperor, who had only been in power for more than half a year, saw that tens of thousands of troops were destroyed, and then folded into the two royal families one after another, his throat suddenly became sweet, and he vomited blood, and then his eyes went black, and he fainted on the spot.
After Shunzhi fainted, the entire Jingshi fell into chaos, and his uncle Zierharang could only drag his old body to stand up to stabilize the situation, but his standing up did not make much difference.
The Jiangbei fiasco made everyone see clearly the weakness of the Qing court, and although the Qing court was still huge, in the eyes of outsiders, it could collapse at any time.
When the news spread all over the world, there was a raging and violent rebellion.
Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, Gansu and other provinces all broke out fierce uprisings and rebellions, first from the Ming Dynasty squire and common people composed of the righteous army, to the former Ming Dynasty and the former Shun generals, the Qing court fell into chaos.
Under such circumstances, Wu Sangui, who was entrenched in Hanzhong, attacked and killed Li Guohan, a general of Dingxi who worked with him, and declared his independence from the Qing court, proclaiming that "the whole world is condemned."
Generalissimo of Soldiers and Horses", shouted the slogan of "Xingming and begging for capture", and stood on his own feet in Hanzhong.
It was only two years after the Jiang Jiu uprising in the sixth year of Shunzhi, which triggered a series of uprisings in the northern provinces, and the butterfly effect caused by the Jiangbei fiasco set off a wave of rebellion in the northern provinces.
Yu Yin, who broke through to Huashan after the uprising and proclaimed himself president of Shaanxi, Niu Guangtian, who proclaimed himself president of Shanxi in the Taihang Mountains, and Gao Ding, who was entrenched in Wutai Mountain, also took this opportunity to recruit troops, expand their strength, and wait for an opportunity to go out of the mountains to counterattack.
In the south, the news of the disastrous defeat in Jiangbei strengthened the idea of surrendering Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan who was entrenched in Guangzhou, and he immediately went to the king in early November and surrendered to Zhu Chenggong, the king of Yanping County, with Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, Shaozhou, and Nanxiong.
However, Zhu Chenggong was jealous and hated Geng Jimao's participation in the massacre of Guangzhou, so although he accepted Geng Jimao's surrender, after taking over the four cities, he ordered a siege and killing of the surrendered Qing army.
The two sides immediately fought in the city of Guangzhou, Geng Jimao was caught off guard and quickly gathered his troops and horses to prepare to break through, but when he was about to break through, the number one general of the Zheng army, Gan Hui, led the army to intercept and personally shot Geng Jimao.
After Geng Jimao's death, the Qing army lost its backbone and surrendered to the Ming army, so that the whole territory of Guangdong was recovered.
After the recovery of Guangdong, Liu Wuyuan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, Hu Yousheng, the chief soldier, and Zhang Fengyi, who were guarding Southern Jiangxi, became lone soldiers and fell into a dilemma.
Also in Jiangxi, after Liu Fangming, the general soldier of Ningxia, relieved the siege of Nanchang, he did not pursue the Ming army Zhang Mingyang, who was forced to retreat due to the arrival of enemy reinforcements.
After relieving the siege of Nanchang, Liu Fangming looked around in a daze, and found that after he only rushed from Ningxia to Jiangxi, the situation in the world had changed dramatically, and the powerful Qing court suddenly crumbled, which made him have to consider whether to continue to be loyal to the Qing court.
Xia Yiyi, the governor of Jiangxi, was also worried that Liu Fangming, a man with heavy troops, would betray the imperial court, but he did not dare to act rashly, for fear that he would accidentally provoke Liu Fangming to surrender to the Ming army.
Therefore, he invited Liu Fangming into the city for several days on the grounds of discussing military affairs, bribed the guards around Liu Fangming with a lot of money, and killed him on the spot as long as he showed signs of betraying the imperial court.
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On the other side, at the beginning of November, Su Yan led his army back to Nanjing.
After entering the city, he was greeted by the people of Nanjing, who ate pot pulp, welcomed him in the middle of the road, and praised Su Yan for the results of the two famous kings.
In fact, from the beginning of Su Yan to the present, there are more than these two princes of the Qing court who have been defeated in his hands, first Shang Kexi, the king of Dingnan, who was executed, Bolo, the prince of Duanzhong, who was killed in the battle of Nanjing, and then the prince Shuosai of Chengze, who was captured in the battle of Anqing, and the prince Nikan, the prince of Jingjing, who died in the battle of Huai'an.
The four kings in a row were folded in Su Yan's hands, coupled with the slaughter of Jiangning Mancheng, so that in BJ City, the children of the banner people were so frightened that they didn't dare to cry when they heard Su Yan's name, and Su Yan turned out to be a nightmare for the banner people's family.