Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1187 The Battle of the Three Kings ([-])

Wang Zhongqing wanted to behead Ma Guanghui and make another contribution, paving a bright road for his future career in the Ming Dynasty, but he was shot by an arrow immediately after the fight, which made the situation worse.

This is also because of his greed. He has made great achievements in opening the city gate, but he wants to make it bigger. Then Ma Guanghui has been the governor for four or five years, and his team is still there. How could he be taken down so easily.

Wang Zhongqing was hit by an indescribable arrow, and was drenched in blood. His subordinates hurriedly set him up, swung their knives to block the rain of arrows, and retreated hastily.

Ma Guanghui hated this shameless person so much, how could he allow him to escape, he swung his knife again and again, and roared, "Kill him, and give it to Ben Du! Ben Du must wring his head off."

As soon as he gave an order, the soldiers behind him immediately swarmed up, fighting with the hundreds of people brought by Wang Zhongqing on the street.

After all, Ma Guanghui was the governor, and his personal guards were much more elite than Wang Zhongqing's, and they immediately killed him and made him retreat steadily.

Just when Wang Zhongqing was unable to stop him, Li Youlong rushed to Ma Guanghui in a hurry, and shouted anxiously: "Governor, it's not good, the Ming army in the east city entered the city, and seeing that the situation in the south city was not good, they also surrendered." !"

In Dongcheng, the Ming army saw that the gate of Wengcheng had been opened, so they threw away ladders, siege cones and other equipment one after another, picked up weapons and poured into the gate, countless disc helmets crowded together, and the sound of shouting made the whole sky seem to be buzzing.

The middle army of the Ming army looked on the car. Dai Zhifan could not help showing a smile on his face when he saw the soldiers of the Ming army pouring in. Seeing this, Zhang Huangyan, the supervising army behind him, immediately shouted: "Captain, the city will be destroyed today!"

Dai Zhifan remained calm, "Send the order, the army will enter the city as soon as possible, and march into Xuzhou!"

"promise!"

The drums of the Ming army were beating, and the army swarmed into the city. The roar of "Disarm, don't kill! Surrender, don't die!" roared throughout the city!

The soldiers of the Ming army who swarmed in rushed everywhere, except for those who surrendered on the spot and abandoned their weapons and knelt on the ground, all others who dared to hold their soldiers in armor would be killed on the spot!

Hearing Chen Youlong's words, Ma Guanghui's liver and gallbladder were torn apart, and he was so frightened that he lost all his souls and six souls!If Nancheng also descends, Xuzhou will be damned!
"Governor, it's important to break through and save your life!" Li Youlong called out again.

Ma Guanghui's face was ashen, and he glanced at Wang Zhongqing who was being killed and retreated with hatred. In the end, his own life was more important.

"Let's go, break out from Beicheng!" Ma Guanghui gritted his teeth and said unwillingly.

At that moment, the guards moved the horses, he got on the horse, and galloped towards the north, Wang Zhongqing was able to escape.

At this time, the entire city of Xuzhou was in chaos. Ma Guanghui notified the various ministries to break out of the encirclement, but not many people rushed to the north city. Most of the green battalion soldiers, seeing that the situation was over, chose to surrender directly and were too lazy to run for their lives.

Only Ma Guanghui's more than 3000 supervisors rushed to Beicheng, and more than 1000 bannermen led by Man Jiang and Tuo.

Superintendent Biao is a confidant who has followed him for many years, and He Tuo's bannerman dare not stay in Xuzhou.

Back then, he suppressed the Qingzhou Rebellion, and later encircled and suppressed the Shandong Rebel Army, chasing Wang Yan like a stray dog. He had a grudge against the Ming Army, and he was afraid of falling into the hands of the Ming Army.

Seeing the Ming army marching into the city, Ma Guanghui didn't dare to wait any longer. He estimated that there would be no troops coming to meet him, so he could only pull the reins and rush out of the city.

More than 4000 remnants left the North City in a hurry. Ma Guanghui looked back at Xuzhou, and saw that the city was full of flames and 5 people had disappeared in a place that had been in business for several years. He couldn't help feeling desolate.

He looked at Xuzhou for a long time before he pulled out his horse and left. More than 4000 people fled north in a hurry. They fled for more than 20 miles in one breath. When they got out of the woods, they fired three rows of firecrackers in a row. The soldiers inserted the thorns and rushed to kill them with screams.

But Man Dazhuang lay in ambush here, and the Ming army suddenly attacked. The Qing army was already out of people, and once shot by the gunmen, it was already in chaos.

In a scuffle, Manchu and Tuo were stabbed off their horses by several Ming soldiers, and their bodies were dismembered with knives. Li Youlong knelt down and begged to surrender. Ma Guanghui was shot in the head with a bludgeon, blood flowed profusely, and he fled with a flag wrapped around his head.

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Henan Mansion, south of Luoyang City, more than seventy miles away.

The Jin-Qing Allied Forces were stationed in the south of Yishui, about five miles away from the Ming Army Company Camp at the foot of Wan'an Mountain.

With such a short distance, the other party can almost see clearly what happened in the camps of both sides.

The camp of the Jin-Qing coalition forces has four camps. The west camp is stationed with 5 gold troops commanded by Meng Qiaofang. The east camp is Kong Youde's camp with 4 Han flags. The Mongols and [-] people filled the Eight Banners, and Shang Kexi commanded the former battalion. There used to be more than [-] green battalions, but now there are less than [-] left.

Since March [-]th, after the Qingming stormed the camp, Dorgon stopped attacking the Ming army's camp.

Although Dorgon made up his mind to attack the stronghold, the firearms of the Ming army were too powerful. The Qing army's attack in just one day caused tens of thousands of casualties, and the losses were so great that the ministries could not accept it.

If he insisted on attacking, I am afraid that the green camp will turn their backs before the Ming camp is captured.

These days, Dorgon can only organize manpower at night, secretly fill up the three deep trenches in front of the Ming army camp, build more shield vehicles to withstand the Ming army's gunfire, and make preparations to attack the camp again. In order to harass the Ming army's grain road, he wanted to force the Ming army to leave the village for a decisive battle.

The Qing army's attack on the Liang Road did cause a lot of trouble for the Ming army.

The Qing army intercepted six batches of rations from the Ming army. Fortunately, there were horsemen chasing and killing them.

The cavalry harassed the Ming army's food road and achieved considerable results, which made Dole very happy, but the situation he expected did not happen.

The Ming Dynasty's policy of going south provided Ming with a huge granary in Nanyang.

Champa’s three-season rice planting, coupled with the Ming Dynasty’s inclusion of the Nanyang vassals into its own economic system, cultivated Nanyang into a single rice-growing economy, and became an important source of grain and a place for dumping commodities in the Ming Dynasty.

This made Wang Yan equivalent to having a kidney plugged in, very strong.

Even if Dorgon robbed him of six batches of grain and grass, Huguang still had grain shipped in.

From Nanyang to Guangzhou, there are grain boats everywhere on the sea. From the Pearl River to the Xiangjiang River and Dongting Lake, then to Wuchang, and then north to the Hanshui River, there are 30 million trackers pulling the grain to Ming Dynasty. The army transported grain, and the river was crowded with grain boats.

After arriving in Xiangyang, nearly [-] coolies unloaded the grain parcels from the ship. In the end, more than [-] civilian husbands confiscated by the imperial court pushed the grain parcels through Xinye, Nanyang, and Ruzhou on wheelbarrows, and transported them to the front line of Luoyang.

This is not a comparison of military strength, it is simply a pile of money and a comparison of national strength.

Of course, Dorgon did not wait until the Ming army ran out of food to go to war. Wang Yan cooked rice every day, but the food was not exhausted, and the food supply of the Qing army was indeed becoming increasingly tense.

Shanxi rebelled, and the food that was supposed to be transported to Henan fell into the hands of Jiang Xiang, and the food in Hebei was wanted by the bannermen in Beijing. Now Henan has no food supplies, and the Qing army can only sit and eat.

The remaining 18 troops are consuming astonishingly. Only [-] of the millions of cattle and sheep seized from Moxi Mongolia are left, and the rice noodles are almost exhausted. According to this consumption rate, at most ten days, the Qing army will die To run out of food, you can only live by killing horses, and once you start killing horses, will the defeat of the Qing Dynasty be far behind?
In the early morning, in the camp of the Qing army, Dorgon, Lou Qin and others shuttled around the camp, watching the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers eating and drinking in the camp.

There were many large pots in the camp, in which beef and mutton were stewed, and animal bones were scattered all over the camp.

It should be said that it is an enviable thing to eat so much meat, but Manmeng Qiding is miserable.

At this time, a Niu Lu picked up a piece of mutton from the pot, took a bite, and suddenly yelled, "Damn it, why is it so smelly and tasteless?"

The economic collapse of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not only due to a lack of food, but also strategic materials such as salt and tea were also exhausted.

Tea was mainly produced in the south, and the Qing army didn't have much reserves, so we could only get some from special channels. However, after the Ming Dynasty blocked the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, it was difficult to get it from the south.

The Qing Dynasty mainly ate salt from Lianghuai and Shandong. After losing the Lianghuai, it relied entirely on Shandong. The salt in the Manchu Qing was always managed by the eight imperial merchants. The Shanxi rebellion hit a large number of Shanxi merchants. Businesses closed down one after another, and the Qing army's salt became a problem.

Cattle and sheep lacked forage, and after a large number of deaths, the Qing army lacked salt to deal with, and a lot of meat had rotted.

What's more, eating cattle and sheep every day, without tea to drink, Manmeng Qiding can't stand it.

"Is this fucking human food?" Niu Lu kicked the cauldron angrily, and the whole shelf immediately collapsed, the soup doused the flames, and all the lamb bones in the pot fell to the ground.

After Qi Ding entered the customs, he was extravagant and licentious. Niu Lu kicked over the cauldron, but instead he scolded him more and more fiercely, "I want to eat fresh mutton sprinkled with salt, rice, and vegetables. Meat, you know!"

Dorgon was patrolling the camp, and he couldn't help being furious when he saw this. He hurried over with a distorted expression, and the bannermen around hurriedly stepped aside to salute. Niu Lu also found Dorgon. He was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly knelt on one knee On the ground, he said angrily: "Regent, these people use carrion as military rations, let us eat..."

Niu Lu didn't know the predicament Dorgon was facing now, he only thought that he was the leader of the gang, stealing, raped and slipping, and didn't work hard. He didn't expect that the Qing army's salt had been exhausted before the food.

Before that Niulu finished speaking, Dorgon suddenly pulled out his saber, slashed at Niu Lu's neck fiercely, and then kicked him to the ground.

Seeing this sudden scene, the surrounding Manmeng Qiding were stunned. Everyone stared blankly at Dorgon and Niu Lu's corpse lying on the ground.

Dorgon's face was gloomy, panting, and he suddenly shouted angrily: "Whoever dares to waste food again, this king will never forgive!"

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