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Chapter 434 Baimen Tower: There was Lu Fengxian in ancient times, and Kong Youde today

The news that Huang Degong took advantage of the victory and went northward to encircle Bozhou and Luyi was quickly sent to other governors of the Qing army in the north and the imperial court in Beijing.

After all, Luyi is already in the territory of Henan, and the distance between the battlefield and Beijing has been shortened by a full third compared to the beginning of the war this year.The delivery time of the Qing government's urgent military reports was also greatly shortened—it's a pity that the top officials of the Qing court didn't want this kind of "convenience", after all, it was all in exchange for the shrinking of the country.

Only two months ago, the military situation of the two warring parties had to be sent back from the front line in Hefei, but now it only needs to be sent back from Shangqiu!How much it shrinks!

On October [-]th, Dorgon in the city of Beijing convened a military meeting in desperation, asking the kings Baylor to discuss how to send reinforcements back to the front line, and where to deploy troops.

Jierhalang, who is only under Dorgon, of course has the right to speak first, and he pointed out without hesitation: "At present, the imperial court has sent four armies to fight against the enemy's Puppet Ming Dynasty. The one with spare energy is obviously the Prince of England.

There are still more than [-] troops under the command of the Prince of England, fighting in Huaixi, Runan and Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Henan in the puppet Ming Dynasty.Since it is necessary to deploy troops for reinforcements, of course it is necessary to draw people from the Prince of England. "

When Dorgon heard this opinion, the decree lines couldn't help twitching.Deploying troops from Azig is indeed the most stable, but it is also easy to use as a refueling tactic.

So far, Azig has maintained his offensive against Zhang Huangyan, and has successfully cut off the main roads in Tongbai Mountain for nearly two months.

Zhang Huangyan said that the road was not the main attack direction of the Ming army. The Ming side adopted delaying tactics, relying on strong fortresses to wait for Azig to attack, and wanted to bleed Azig.

The Qing army also knew very well that they could not fight to the death with the Ming army. Three years ago, they had already suffered enough losses in this area, so they could only block the dangerous roads and cut off the Ming army's supplies, so that the Ming army's ammunition was too consumed and could not be replenished. , so that the Ming army in each stronghold can be removed.

And this kind of strategy of cutting supplies, once the strength of the troops is weakened, and there are loopholes in the encirclement and blocking troops, causing the Ming army to get supplies again, and the previous efforts will be in vain.

Azig's side is already among the armies sent by Dorgon, the only remaining troops that may gain pioneering power, and can find a political fig leaf for Dorgon's restart of the Southern Expedition this year.

Dorgon knew very well that Bo Luo and Yue Le once again ruined most of his combat strength with his two white flags. The soldiers almost stopped three times and went to two, and the green battalion lost a lot.

His military strength in the court has been so weak that it cannot be increased. If his political prestige is severely damaged again, how can he hold on to this situation?

Until the last moment, Dorgon was unwilling to take this step if there was a possibility of other solutions.

After a moment of embarrassment and silence, Dorgon actually said in a kind and deliberative tone:
"It is true that Prince Ying's army is strong, but the siege of Xinyang cannot be done in vain. Zhang Huangyan's soldiers and horses in the north of Tongbai Mountain have been isolated for two months. Now that there is a loophole, the pain of the previous two months will be in vain.

Gukan Boluo Army News also said that when he withdrew his troops and returned to Boluo, more than 3 miles along the way were massacred and burned as white ground.At present, only the banner of Huang Degong is seen in Bozhou. It can be seen that the Ming army has only 2 to [-] soldiers. Even if Luyi has the banner of Cao Bianjiao, add another [-].

As long as our army withdraws 3 to [-] people, at most [-] to [-], we will be able to stabilize our position.This kind of people don't need to work for the Prince of England, just send troops from the rear that haven't participated in the battle-you can speak freely, where do you think the soldiers are available? "

A group of Manchurian Baylor who were already dissatisfied with Dorgon didn't give any advice when they heard the words, they just protested silently.
Apparently they all wanted to support Jierharang, and felt that Dorgon was "handling the hard work to outsiders, and handing over the only battlefield where he had a chance to make meritorious deeds to his brother who was born with the same mother."

Dorgon was very embarrassed, and scanned the audience with encouraging eyes. Finally, he had to scan the few Hanchens who were qualified to participate in the conference, and he scanned the Minister of the Han Ministry of War and Hong Chengchou, the right capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Hong Chengchou also saw the meaning of order in Dorgon's eyes, and he had no choice but to be the villain with a sigh: "If you want to draw troops from the rear, the nearest ones are of course Luck Dehun Baylor in Shandong, and the Manchurian troops in Xuzhou." Department of Dahai Belle.

However, although these two places are close, there are hidden dangers.After all, Luck Dehun was responsible for the suppression of chaos in the Shandong area after Prince Su and King Raoyu were transferred away.Although the Manjiadong rebellion has subsided, it is said that there are still remnants fleeing to the mountainous area of ​​eastern Shandong and the few Denglai seaport cities controlled by the Ming army.

Mandahai needs to serve as the link between Kong Youde in Haizhou and the battlefields of Gui and Bo. Although there is no war at the moment, it also shoulders the important task of supporting the left and right sides.Before that, too many soldiers and horses around Xuzhou had been transferred away.Although it shows that the army has not seen the intention and preparations to go north from Huai'an, but it cannot be completely unprepared..."

Hong Chengchou said some kind words, but in fact he didn't have to bear any responsibility.Helped Dorgon find the two quickest options, and then added some risks of shirking responsibility. To put it bluntly, if something happens in the future, the final decision-making responsibility is Dorgon himself.

Hong Chengchou did this, but it’s not a matter of hiding. The main reason is that after he entered the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji died within a year, and Dorgon has been in power for many years. Although Hong Chengchou often has to do things, his salary is not high. ——Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, and others can become kings, but Hong Chengchou's title is only a light car captain.

To put it bluntly, Hong Chengchou still has to do things often, but the treatment is poor.When he was in Daming, he was the governor of the five provinces and was fully responsible for the military affairs of suppressing thieves. This was only given after he was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

What kind of life is a few hundred dollars a month!So he also made up his mind that he could come up with an idea, but he would never take the blame.

One of the important reasons why he betrayed Chongzhen back then was that he was resentful that Chongzhen liked to let ministers take the blame!If you have to take the blame after becoming a traitor, wouldn't the traitor be in vain?

Dorgon was also helpless. He had already figured out Hong Chengchou's temper, so he didn't think much about it. He only thought that Hong Chengchou was instinctively shirking, and this matter shouldn't be too risky.

Besides, he didn't have time to slowly rectify the troops from the rear and go south. Nowadays, the Qing Dynasty is also stretched everywhere, and the mobilization is not so fast. He had to let the first-line troops help each other, and then the second-line troops slowly filled up the first-line deployment. weak.

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Under the latest decision made by Dorgon, Luke Dehun in Shandong, and Manda Haibu in the direction of Xuzhou, naturally could not resist orders.They were lured by the Ming army so obediently, and each of them prepared to raise their own troops, step by step to approach Yue Le, and went to the Bozhou battlefield to play horns and try to rescue each other.

However, when it came time to actually dispatch troops, only Man Dahai successfully dispatched troops.

Luke Dehun in Shandong had a small problem—it turned out that when he was preparing to send troops, Liu Zeqing, the Ming army who had been entrenched in the Ludong mountain area and the Denglai coast, suddenly had some changes.

And the "Manjiadong" rebel army, which had been nominally wiped out by the Qing army last year, unexpectedly revived and appeared again!Of course Luck Dehun was caught off guard, and was able to hunt down and kill the local thieves in Shandong as his top priority, so he was stumped.

All of this is actually part of Zhu Shuren's counterattack plan.

Before the main force of the Qing army was restrained in the middle, the Ming army had allocated a large sum of money, food, gold and silver, as well as some weapons and equipment, so that Zhang Mingzhen, who was in charge of the Yellow Sea Navy, would go deep into the enemy's rear by sea and contact Liu Zeqing in Denglai.

Through Liu Zeqing's underground channels, he met some remnant leaders of the "Manjiadong" rebel army who fled to Denglai after being wiped out by Haug and Abatai a few years ago.

The Ming court originally never cooperated with the "traitors" or the peasant army.

But now that these peasant armies are already acting as "rogues" on the territory of the Tartars, with the mentality that the enemy of the enemy can unite, the rulers of the Ming court still chose to follow the attitude of Zhu Shuren's foresight and disregard of previous suspicions. Rebels join forces.

Zhu Shuren asked people to provide some high-value military rations such as dried fish and dried meat, as well as some gold and silver, together with the weapons and equipment that the Ming army eliminated in the past few years, funded the old peasant army in Shandong who went underground, and promised office, land.

Gong Wencai, the leader of Manjiadong who finally fled to Denglai, chose to cooperate with the imperial court, and transformed himself into the identity of the "Luxi General Soldier" issued by the Ming court. With the weapons funded by the Ming Dynasty, he went back to mobilize the peasant army to drag Shandong The footsteps of the Qing army going south.

(Note: Historically, Gong Wencai should have been suppressed and killed by Hauge for resisting the Qing Dynasty two years ago. This is the butterfly effect. Because the Ming army still has some mountainous areas in Shandong Province, Liu Zeqing, so the remnants of the peasant army such as Gong Wencai were set to break through Fleeing to the Daming area to survive, the imperial court allocated a certain amount of food and salary.)
Gong Wencai was born as an illiterate miner, but his pursuit is not high, let alone he was driven to a dead end by the Tartars.He heard that being able to serve as the chief soldier of the orthodox Ming Dynasty, the official position is guaranteed, and he is already very satisfied.

Luck Dehun couldn't protect himself, and Man Dahai was afraid that his own army would not be strong enough to reinforce, so he had to use all Xuzhou's soldiers.As a result, the Qing army in the northern Subei area was weakened to the point where only Kong Youde's troops and some second-line green battalion soldiers remained, and all the others were transferred away.

Huang Degong on the opposite side is also considered to be alone. Of course, he will not fight with Yue Le and Man Dahai. Instead, he retreats according to the rhythm ordered by Zhu Shuren, and continues to sway westward, messing up the judgment of the Qing army and exhausting his life. .

And under such circumstances, the East Road battlefield, which had been silent since the beginning of the war, finally had a sudden movement.

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On October 24th of the third year of Longwu, Li Fuming of the East Road Ming Army led more than 4 well-equipped elite Ming troops to cross the Huaihe River from the north of Huai'an County, and finally launched a river-crossing operation against the defense area of ​​the Qing Army located in the north of Huai'an Prefecture. , trying to recover the entire territory of Huai'an Prefecture.

(Note: The jurisdiction of the Huai'an Mansion straddles the Huai River estuary. Before that, only the half south of the Huai River was recovered by the Ming army, and the half north of the Huai River was still in the hands of the Qing army.)
Faced with the Ming army's sudden northward crossing of the Huaihe River, Kong Youde, who was caught off guard, could only watch several small counties in Linhuai fall one after another.And he himself could only bring troops from Haizhou, Pizhou and other places to Suqian to plug the leak.

After a small-scale encounter between Li Fuming and Kong Youde, Kong Youde lost immediately.

Fortunately, the loss was not too great, and then Kong Youde learned his lesson, and immediately turned to the defensive, not daring to fight the Ming army again, just wanted to ask for emergency help, so that Man Dahai, who was reinforcing Yue Le, could quickly return to the defense.

Under the situation of left and right, Kong Youde even had to use part of the navy's soldiers as land troops to defend the cities everywhere.

However, Li Fuming's shot was far from the deadliest.

Because as early as five days before Li Fuming took action, Daming Jiang Ninghou and Zhenhai General Zhang Mingzhen brought 3 landing troops and supporting naval forces, a total of more than [-] people, to the sea from the mouth of the Yangtze River. On the route of about a hundred miles offshore, it made a detour to Huaibei.

Because the distance from the coastline was far enough when sailing, and before the start of the battle, the Ming army also assumed the posture of "normalizing the fight against pirates and Tartar maritime trade" in advance, and cleared the ships of the Qing army on the Yellow Sea in advance.

Therefore, the Qing army had no control over the sea in the southern part of the Yellow Sea, nor did it have timely sources of information, so it was deaf and blind.

Zhang Mingzhen just takes a long time to sail at sea, so he will "start first and arrive later".

And just two days after Li Fuming and Kong Youde started fighting on the front line in Suqian, Zhang Mingzhen's troops detoured from the sea and finally launched a surprise landing attack in Haizhou, Kong Youde's original nest.

Because Kong Youde's main force had already filled Suqian and Pizhou in the front, the port city of Haizhou was very empty at that time.In just two days of bloody battles, Zhang Mingzhen captured this only good port in northern Jiangsu in one fell swoop!
As we all know, most of the coastlines of Jiangsu in later generations have no good harbors, because the huge amount of sand brought by the Huanghuai River into the sea has already silted up the coastlines around Yancheng into shoals, which can only be used to plow into salt fields for drying. Salt, so the place name of Yancheng is called Yancheng.

The only good port in northern Jiangsu is Haizhou, where Lianyungang is located in later generations.After Zhang Mingzhen's surprise attack succeeded, it was tantamount to cutting off all the sea communication channels of the Qing army along the coast of Huaibei. On the contrary, the Ming army was able to make full use of this channel and use this deep-water port to quickly send follow-up troops and supplies in the south. Shipped to the front.

When Zhang Mingzhen launched the landing battle, the Qing army originally had another force that might hinder him, and that was the Shandong garrison of the Qing Dynasty.

However, before the Ming army was launched, it had already made full preparations, taking advantage of the information transmission advantage of the sea route in the hands of the Ming army, and brought it to the extreme.

Under the containment of Liu Zeqing and Gong Wencai, the actions of Luck Dehun's Qing army in Shandong were greatly delayed. Zhang Mingzhen succeeded in attacking Haizhou, and immediately advanced along the Shushui River. Split surrounded.

Under Kong Youde's command, there are still [-] regular troops, including the Green Battalion, whose combat power is actually not weak.However, the Ming army did not intend to fight him head-on. After outflanking and cutting off the rear, the Ming army immediately advanced quickly, and Li Fuming expanded the results of the battle along Surabaya, taking Xuzhou, which was empty because of Kong Youde's siege.

Man Dahai in the direction of Bozhou also didn't have time to come back for help.

So far, although Kong Youde still has combat power, he is already sitting in a lonely city.The Qing army was overwhelmed with other directions, and no one came to rescue him.

Even if they are willing to save them, the Ming army is eager to encircle and fight for help.With the remaining combat power of the Qing army, it is impossible to rescue them.

Just as some people are still alive, but he is dead.

Kong Youde was stationed in Pizhou City, went up to the White Gate Tower every day to inspect the defense in person, supervised the battle and repelled the offensive of the Ming army, and counted on the master of the Manchus in the Qing Dynasty to rescue him, and hoped that Man Dahai would return to the east and cooperate with the outside world.

However, Man Dahai obviously felt that he was not capable of dealing with Li Fuming and Zhang Mingzhen who had established a firm foothold, and he did not show up for a long time.

Kong Youde's heart couldn't help getting heavier and heavier, and there was a sense of sadness.

He doesn't read much, but he also knows that 500 years ago, Lu Bu supervised the battle and defended Xiapi City on the White Gate Tower, but no one came to rescue in the end.

"I, Kong Youde, possesses martial arts skills, and I will end up like Lu Bu in the end!"

(End of this chapter)