Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 435

In early summer, the wild mountains are brilliant.

But the Huanghuai line is sparsely populated, and the fields are barren. Early this morning, the beacon smoke was spreading to the north from station to station.

"Report, the beacon is in an emergency, and the Southern Ming army has already marched northward."

Shandong, in the city of Xuzhou, Prince Duanzhong Boluo heard the news and frowned, "It came so fast!"

In front of Bo Luo, sat a group of generals from the Qing army, and they all had worried faces when they heard the news.

"The Ming army was able to send troops to the north on a large scale in this lean season. How did this happen?" Gu Shanerzhen Tulai, the partner of the last southern expedition, asked in confusion.

Boluo made great contributions in the Southern Expedition last year, and was rewarded heavily afterwards. He was named one of the eight auxiliary princes, second only to the three regents.

Under the threat of the sudden rise of Ming Emperor Zhu Yihai, the internal factions of the Qing court finally reached a compromise and made rapid adjustments.

The assistant prince, Bo Luojia, will be the general of Nanzheng, who will succeed Tan Tai Nanzheng.

Boluo transferred Cao Cunxing, Li Yingzong, Yu Yongshou, Zhang Yingmeng, He Yinchang, Fan Shaozu, Wang Zhigang, Su Jianle, Feng Yong and other more than [-] Han troops from Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other places to accompany the southern expedition.

At the same time, Tu Lai, Du De, Zhao Butai and other Manchurian generals who had accompanied him to the south also accompanied him. Tan Tai, He Luohui, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, etc. were all under his command, and Xu Daizuo made meritorious service.

After rushing from Beijing to Shandong, he announced the decree to Tan Tai and others, and after reprimanding them, he re-adjusted the deployment, and assembled more than [-] Manchu and Han soldiers and horses, and deployed them in Denglai, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Fengyang, etc., and Boluo personally took charge Xuzhou.

Tan Tai guards Huai'an, He Luohui guards Fengyang, and Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming guard Denglai.

From last winter to this summer, the Qing army mobilized on the Eastern Front, but it has not been smooth. In the final analysis, it is still a matter of money and food. The battlefield has already been smashed.When the Qing army went south, although the four towns in Hongguang Jiangbei were vulnerable and did not fight any major battles, after the Qing army captured these places, they also looted wantonly, especially Yangzhou Shiri.

Last year, the Ming army went north to carry out demolition and relocation, which made the Qing army even worse.

Huguang’s grain, Jiangnan’s tax, and Yangzhou’s salt are all cut off. Even the canal was blocked for more than half a year last year. It is already very difficult for the local government to supply Tan Taikong Youde’s 2 horses, and they still have to undertake shipbuilding. , and even the task of supplying food to Beijing.

Because Tan Tai was defeated, he didn't dare to refute the mission sent by Beijing, so he could only order death to suppress it.

What can the people below do, they can only do all kinds of searches, first grab from the common people, and then start to grab the gentry and landlords, at this time, no one cares whether you are a scholar or an official, when you grab it, Even if you are already an incumbent official attached to my Qing Dynasty, they will not care about it, and you can grab it.

But even if it is exhausted like this, it is still not enough.

After the beginning of spring, Boluo brought in more than 2 horses to garrison Shandong and Huainan. The two dilapidated places needed to raise more than 5 horses, build ships, resume water transportation, etc., which completely forced the people to their deaths.

The result of this is naturally that now Xuhuai, Shandong and other places are full of hungry people, and there are uprisings of hungry people everywhere.

There were also people sent by Daming from the south to contact the organization, causing even more turmoil.

Brotherhoods blossomed everywhere in Jiangbei, and established societies everywhere, and there were even many new organizations, such as the Small Knife Club, the Red Spear Club, the Big Sword Club, the Ax Gang, the Boat Gang, the Bad Gang, the Horse Gang, the White Spear Club, the Bow and Arrow Club, the Loyalty Fist, Loyalty Society, Zhongxiaotang, Zhongwumen, Honghuahui, Tiandihui, etc., all kinds of names, spread all over the village.

Everyone actively joins the society, helps each other, protects each other, practices knives, guns and boxing, not only poor farmers, small handicraftsmen, urban poor, small business hawkers, water transport laborers and other lower-class people join in, even some scribes The soldiers of the Green Battalion, the gentry and the landlords also began to secretly join associations.

It can be said that the entire Huainan area of ​​Shandong Province is basically in a state of anarchy. Earlier when Hongguang was first established, there was barely an official government. However, since the Qing army went south and Hongguang died, the local officials either fled or surrendered. , has been seriously short of people.

Before the Qing army came and restored the local government, Zhu Yihai's Northern Expedition came. After a series of forced demolition and southward relocation, the captive officials were killed, captured, and many ran away as soon as they saw the opportunity.

Until now, it has not been able to recover. There is a lack of officials and officials, and it is in chaos.

Without the management and authority of the government, everyone can only seek security for themselves. Various forces have emerged to compete for this power gap. The Brotherhood appeared at this time, spreading faster than the White Lotus Sect back then.

These various clubs are actually mainly because they were organized by different intelligence departments in Nanming. They were set up by Jinyiwei, supported by Dongchang, and there were also the Ministry of War, the Imperial Editing Office, the Detective Department, and the Staff Department. Wait for the result of the involvement of intelligence agencies.

Many of them were formed after recruiting and recruiting some local forces.

So on the whole, there is a state of blooming everywhere, but it is very loose, but even so, their blooming everywhere has also exacerbated the chaos in the Huanghuai area today.

Even if the assistant prince, Bo Luo, came to Xuzhou to sit in the town, it was not bad.

Boluo has also heard about these secret societies that are appearing now, and tried to recruit them for his own use, but it is actually not realistic at all.

He was in a mess and couldn't figure it out, but the Ming army had already killed him.

There was also some information before that the Ming army was gathering the imperial camp to prepare for the Northern Expedition, and it was even heard that the soldiers would be divided into groups, and an army of more than [-] from the imperial camp would be launched for the Northern Expedition.

But Boluo, who had fought all the way to Hangzhou and stayed in Hangzhou for a few months, scoffed at the news, because he didn't believe that Zhu Yihai could integrate the Jiangnan area in just half a year, even if he captured Jiangnan very well last year, with Many despicable methods have been used, but they are not digested so quickly.

Especially right now is the season of lean and yellow, the Qing army is not able to assemble and dispatch now, how can the Ming army get this ability?
But now that the beacon is in a hurry, the Ming army has really come.

"Has the mission sent to Jiangning to negotiate a peace failed?" Boluo sighed.

Tu Lai is the seventh son of Fei Yingdong, the five founding ministers of the Later Jin Dynasty, and a fierce general of the Zhenghuang Banner. At first, he wanted to support Hauge as emperor, but later, like Boluo, he also eased the relationship with Dorgon. Now he is Boluo The lieutenant general is a first-class gentleman.

"That Zhu Yihai is extremely cunning. He killed Chen Hongfan earlier, but later he said he was willing to talk. As a result, Prince Regent Rui sent a delegation to the south, but they gave all kinds of rude conditions. It's useless for Tong Yangjia to keep reporting that the peace talks are going well and hopeful." Achieve the result of planning and ruling the river.

He was completely fooled by Zhu Yihai!
He was playing Tong Yangjia like a monkey. Yesterday Tong had an envoy passing through Xuzhou to go to Beijing, saying that the peace talks were just right, but today the beacon came to Xuzhou. Do you think this guy should be killed? "

In terms of charging forward, Boluo, Tulai, Tan Tai, Baiyintu, and Ashan are all well-known warriors in Manchuria, but now they face the terrible situation in Huanghuai, and the extremely cunning Ming Emperor Zhu Yihai. The feeling of going nowhere.

Tulai felt even more resentful towards Dorgon in his heart. They went south this time, but Dorgon insisted on repeatedly emphasizing that they must be steady, and even asked them not to start troubles first. As long as the Ming army did not invade, they would never let go. first arrow.

They are also required to cooperate with Tong Yangjia's Jiangning peace talks.

This now seems like nonsense.

Not only Tong Yangjia was played by Zhu Yihai, but also Prince Regent Rui was played around, this Prince Rui was not worthy of the word Rui at all.

Boluo readily admitted that he had misjudged, "I underestimated Zhu Yihai, and underestimated Nanming's ability to organize and recover. Our soldiers here are still hungry and full, but he has the ability to dispatch more than [-] elite troops to go north. ,"

Tulai thinks that this is because Zhu Yihai received reinforcements from the rear. "Basically, eastern Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and southern Jiangxi have not experienced wars. Unlike the northern part of the Central Plains, all places are in a pot of porridge. We suffer in this respect."

Boluo thought, "Even if he has some food in hand now, doesn't Zhu Yihai need to recuperate and reorganize the southern provinces? Why is he in such a hurry to go north, why is the morale of the army stable, why doesn't he need to worry about the rear? "

"Maybe it's because he's good at fighting!" Tulai thought.

Boluo can only think so, "Actually, I think the plan of Prince Regent Rui is not wrong. We entered the customs earlier, and it was too smooth. We thought we would be able to win the world quickly. But now we have setbacks. Our shortcomings It also showed that the population of our Manchuria is too small, and the Han army that was attached to it before is not reliable, only the Eight Banners Manchurian Han army can be trusted, but there are too few people."

"If you can't win quickly, you have to have a long-term plan. If you can negotiate with Ming and rule the river, give us time. It doesn't take much, three to five years will be enough. In three to five years, we will be able to absorb the northern part of the Central Plains. By then, whether it is The grain, grass, and military equipment in the war reserve, or the combat sergeants, can double their strength several times. At that time, they will be sure to be sure when they cross the river again.

It's really hard to fight now. "

"Having said that, we are recuperating in the north. Isn't this giving the remnant a chance to breathe? Once the war stops, how many soldiers from the Eight Banners Manchuria will still be willing to fight? It will take up half of the Huahua World in the Central Plains , The Eight Banners raced to enclose land in the north and accepted the donations of the Han people. These days there will be no more hardships outside the customs, and after a few years, they will be unbearable and unwilling to fight." Tu Lai said.

"Hey!" Bo Luo sighed, neither left nor right, in the final analysis, Zhu Yihai was too good at fighting, and this damn thing turned out to ruin the great cause of destroying the Ming Dynasty.

"Zhu Yihai caught us off guard again this time, my lord, how shall we fight?"

"Soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first, but now we have no reserves, this battle is difficult to fight," Boluo sighed again and again, "I think it's better to just separate the cities and let them come."

"Isn't this going to be a shrinking turtle?" Tulai was dissatisfied.

"Attacking and defending Yishier, the battle on the western front is going well now, and we can enter Sichuan at any time. If we can hold back Zhu Yihai's main force, it will be enough. Let Zhu Yihai be proud for a while, anyway, there is scorched earth outside, even if he has a large army Go deep, and what can you get?"

"We can't say that we can find an opportunity to take advantage of him when he is arrogant and frivolous."

Tu Lai said nothing, he is the deputy general of Nanzheng, dissatisfied with this plan, Bo Luo had no choice but to persuade him, "When we were still outside the pass, we fought with the Ming army in western Liaoning for many years. Didn't the Ming army use this kind of shrinking tactics? , just kept us out of the customs for many years? Let’s use what we have learned, what’s wrong?”

"As long as you can win in the end, it's a good plan."

Tulai said helplessly, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

(End of this chapter)