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Chapter 625 Opening up the battlefield behind enemy lines

Liu Heizi was besieged by the Qing army for nearly half a year. After the first few strong attacks failed, the Qing army changed its strategy and turned to digging trenches to besiege.

During this period of time, the Qing army drove away nearly [-] villagers, and dug trenches day and night, each two feet deep and wide, blocking the water around Shangqiu.

Although Liu Heizi's troops were still sufficient, the supplies in the city were consumed very quickly. At the beginning of 1647, various daily necessities such as food, firewood, and herbs began to become tense.

Liu Heizi has been a coal boss for several years. He sells coal to Gao Yihuan and Jiangnan. He usually robs the canal and does some side jobs. He lives quite well and saves a lot of money and food.

However, no matter how much savings there are, they cannot withstand the consumption of war, and cannot withstand more than [-] mouths to eat and drink.

Once the city was trapped for a while, the first urgent thing was that the vegetables were gone. Liu Heizi asked people to grow vegetables in the city. After the coal and firewood were burned out, they demolished the house and started cooking. .

Last year, Wei Jun rushed to the city of Shangqiu and fired a rocket at the Qing army camp, which made the soldiers in the city feel a little more at ease, and they all looked forward to the rescue of Marshal Gao.

As the main force of the Qing army went south, the soldiers and civilians in the city knew that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to protect themselves, so they pinned their hopes on Marshal Gao.

After Duoduo pulled out his camp and marched westward to the south of Henan, Liu Heizi was startled, knowing that Gao Yihuan was also in danger.

The sudden change dealt a severe blow to the defenders in the city, and instantly shattered their hopes.

This is really relying on mountains and mountains to fall, relying on everyone to run, in the end, Liu Heizi can only rely on himself.

As the Qing army expanded southward and westward, the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty was driven to the south, and Gao Yihuan may also be driven out of southern Henan.

In this way, Shangqiu became an isolated island, and holding on to it was tantamount to sitting and waiting for death. Liu Heizi did not sit in the besieged city waiting for help, but began to rescue himself, and personally led troops out of the city to launch multiple attacks on the Qing army guarding the trenches. The strategy of locking the city in trenches has been deployed. Liu Jun attacked six times before and after, but was repelled by the Qing army.

Successive breakout failures caused the pessimism in the city to spread again. Coupled with the lack of food in the city, the situation of killing people for food and defecting out of the city appeared from time to time.

After discussing with the generals, Liu Heizi decided to let the people out of the city, give them a way to survive, and at the same time reduce the consumption of food in the city.

Unexpectedly, Tun Qi, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, had already made up his mind not to allow anyone to leave the city.

After being sleepy for nearly half a year, seeing that the city was about to lose its hold, Tun Qi thought that there was no need to take any risks, and he just trapped Liu Shun to death.

Therefore, Tunqi had already made up his mind to massacre both the army and the people who surrendered out of the city, so as not to spend their time trying to distinguish whether they really surrendered or were fraudulent.

What's more, Duoduo took away the main force of the Qing army, and Tunqi didn't have many soldiers and horses, and he didn't have time to monitor the descending army.

In February, Liu Heizi sent a confidant captain to lead five hundred armored soldiers and their families, shaved their hair and put on armor, and went out of the city to join the enemy.

No, only 11 people were left in Tunqi, and the rest were killed by the Qing army.

For those who surrendered in the city, the Qing army only kept the leader and killed all the troops.

Doing so can prevent false surrenders, and at the same time, it doesn't do anything wrong. There will still be some people who don't care about the lives of soldiers and surrender to the Qing army.

As for the people thrown out of the city, all the men were killed, and the women were kept separately for the enjoyment of the bannermen.

Time has entered March, Liu Heizi has only 3 people left out of 1 horses, and Shangqiu City has reached its final moment.

Just as Liu Heizi was preparing to break through the siege for the last time, Yuan Zongdi rushed to the outside of Shangqiu City with [-] elite Wei troops.

In Gao Yihuan's plan, the Wei army will be at a disadvantage facing the Qing army for a long time to come.

How to change this disadvantage, in addition to needing him to fight the Qing army on the front, he also needs a force to contain the Qing army in the hinterland of the Qing army, and the two battlefields, the front and the enemy's rear, can slowly reverse the disadvantage.

Therefore, Gao Yihuan believes that sending an elite Wei army into the area controlled by the Qing army, using mobile guerrilla methods to contain the Qing army, attack the rule of the Qing court, and share the pressure for him, so that he can withdraw to develop Guanzhong and seek Sichuan and Shu, It is very necessary.

This strategy was actually used by the Qing army. They indirectly supported Li Zicheng by entering the bandits several times, allowing the bandits to consume the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, and they carried out the final harvest.

Gao Yihuan sent [-] elite soldiers to rescue Liu Heizi, in order to let Liu Heizi cause trouble in the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty and achieve the purpose of attrition and containment of the Qing army.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Liu Heizi has died in battle, or Shangqiu City has been broken by the Qing army.

General Yuan Zongdi led [-] elite Wei troops into the eastern part of Henan, and joined forces with the remnants of the Wei army who were still persisting there. Based on the forts in eastern Henan, he waited for an opportunity to advance into Shandong, or go south into the northern part of Nanzhili, and take the Qing army to the north. Chaos inside.

In order to cooperate with them, Gao Yihuan will also ask Xuanyiwei to subsidize the anti-Qing forces in the Qing Dynasty, buy and persuade the generals of the green battalion to rebel with a lot of money, such as Jiang Xiang from Datong, so that the Qing Dynasty is busy cleaning up the interior and has no time to fight him.

For this reason, Gao Yihuan sent his confidant, Xuan Yiwei commander Gao Yicheng, out.

Gao Yicheng will use the name of the uprising of the rebels to resist the oppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to plan rebellions in various places, instead of directly pulling the banner of the Wei army.

In this way, the Qing army will be restrained by the internal chaos, and the frontal threat of the Wei army will be greatly reduced, so that it can start to attack Sichuan and Shu and further consolidate its own territory.

Yuan Zongdi and Gao Yicheng led the troops to the vicinity of Shangqiu. They didn't have much hope for whether Shangqiu was still holding on.

But when they came to the city, they found that Liu Heizi was still alive, and Shangqiu City was still resisting. They couldn't help being surprised and admiring.

At this time, the main force of the Qing army withdrew, and the [-] Qing troops could only pass through the trenches to trap the city. The soldiers and horses mainly monitored the four gates, and the siege of the city was more than ten miles away.

Gao Yicheng chose a dead soldier from the Pioneer Battalion, took a token, and went into the city to meet Liu Heizi.

Liu Heizi was already on the verge of despair, but when he saw Gao Yihuan's letter to him, he was so excited that he cried.

That night, at five o'clock, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Heizi joined forces inside and outside, wiped out five thousand Qing troops, broke through the siege of Tunqi, and jumped out of Shangqiu City.

Liu Shun stood out from the siege, and there were only 5000 people left in Tunqi, so there was nothing he could do about it. He was worried that Liu Shun would go east and release the Xuzhou defenders, so he reported the military situation to Duoduo and Beijing, and led the army east to Xuzhou.

At this time, on the official road radiating from Beijing, three Qing army messengers took different paths and galloped towards Beijing, as if they were in a competition.

These three messengers were dispatched from Tunqi in the hope that the Qing government would deploy troops to surround Liu Shun, prevent Liu Shun from moving and fighting, and release the Xuzhou defenders.

All the way was dispatched from Huai'an, and it was Azig who reported to the Manchu Qing court that the negotiations between the Manchu Qing and Nanjing had broken down and asked Dorgon to give instructions on the next step.

On the last road, Duo Duo secretly wrote to Dorgon, Shang Kexi died in battle, and asked Dorgon to send him some more troops~

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