Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 403

The imperial court immediately sent a boat to chase Wang Pu, hoping that Wang Pu would return to surround Nanjing; It is not a problem to send a group of sailors on the large-masted ship to guard these prisoners.

These soldiers resolutely refused to allow the imperial court to move these captives. At this moment, the imperial court realized that they did not have any usable soldiers in their hands.

Of course, there are still soldiers. The Beijing camp has a total of 20 soldiers. Of course, this number is only on the military register. The real number may not even be half. After removing the old and weak among them, there are at most 5 people who can hold guns. , and none of them have actually fought a war.

At this time, Ma Shiying was also in a hurry. In an emergency, he appointed his son Ma Luan, the governor of Jinyiwei, as the admiral of the Beijing camp through the emperor of Liushen Wuzhu. With the [-] troops that Ma Shiying recruited from Guizhou when he was the governor of Fengyang as the core, the capital was captured. From the available soldiers and horses in the battalion, [-] young and strong men were selected to form the Yongwei Battalion.

But he set up the brave guard battalion not to rescue or defend the city, but to save his life.

Ma Shiying assured the emperor that once the Qing army crossed the river or attacked Nanjing from the west, he would immediately protect the emperor to leave Nanjing and drive to Hangzhou!
Azig commanded 20 troops, and unlike Duduo's 20 in Yangzhou, although most of them were descended from the Ming army, they had been completely rectified by Azig.

After the Qing army entered the customs, Azige and Duoduo divided into two groups to pursue Li Zicheng. Azige took the north route to attack westward through Shanxi, and Duoduo took the south route to attack westward through Henan. However, after capturing Shanxi, Azige Ge did not immediately enter northern Shaanxi, but went out of the Great Wall to Soma, Mongolia.

As a result, Duoduo captured Tongguan, and with the strength of all the troops, he made persistent efforts to capture Xi'an.

Azige's unauthorized actions prevented the Qing government from advancing in two directions, and the plan to attack Xi'an failed. Although relying on Duoduo's onslaught, Xi'an was still occupied, but the losses were heavy.

Therefore, the Qing court reprimanded Azige, and then Duoduo returned to Henan and was transferred to Jiangnan to attack the Ming army, while Azige was assigned a hard job, which was to continue to pursue Li Zicheng.

After Li Zicheng abandoned Xi'an, he went from Lantian to Henan, and then entered Jingzhou, Xiangyang and other places. After gathering the [-] elite soldiers of the Dashun Army who stayed here, he immediately went south across the river to attack Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu fled without occupying it, and sent troops to Nanjing under the guise of the Qing emperor's side, but was defeated by Yang Chao in Taiping Mansion, and most of his troops were captured.

The Qing army chased Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng chased Zuo Liangyu, but Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng were not lucky enough. Zuo Liangyu died of illness in Jiujiang for no reason, and the soldiers and horses were almost wiped out by Yang Chao, and Li Zicheng's life was even more miserable. , He led a large army to Tongshan County, Hubei Province, and habitually led more than [-] cavalry to make a sudden investigation. As a result, the local mountain people thought they were bandits and beat him to death.

These two people, one is the big warlord who caused the Ming Dynasty a headache, and the other is the leader of the peasant army who dragged the Ming Dynasty to death, but they all died inexplicably before the Qing army established the Central Plains. It can only be said that the Qing army was very lucky up.

Later, that Zhang Xianzhong was also easily shot to death by the Qing army. After playing with the Ming army for more than ten years, he died casually.

This is no longer good luck for Man Qing, it is simply luck against the sky.

But is history really made by luck?

If after Nurhachi's death, the Eight Banners fight each other, do they still have hope? If after Huang Taiji's death, Duduo and Haoge kill each other, do they still have hope?

The Manchu and Qing dynasties were united, and the Ming court did not stop, so they won in the end.

Yang Chao tried his best to maintain a united imperial court, but he had tried his best to let the Donglin Party gain power, and the court was still fighting openly and secretly, and even fought against himself. This can't be called destiny, but can only be said to be immortal!
The little emperor is much smarter than his father Chongzhen. When he saw the crisis coming, he didn't discuss it with civil servants at all. He knew that he couldn't find a reason to discuss it with this group of people. He only found a few cronies, Lu Jiude, Ma Shiying and others. Therefore, without the knowledge of Wen Chen, he had already decided that if the momentum was not right, he would dodge and flee to Hangzhou like Zhao Gou.

Bad news came one after another.

Azig led the army to take Jiujiang without bloodshed, and advanced downstream. Chizhou and Tongling Wangfeng returned. Huang Degong was defeated in Wuhu and retreated to Taiping Dangtu. Big win!

Dashengguan is already the last gate in Nanjing, and this gate has no soldiers to defend at this time.

July [-], night.

Under the protection of Ma Shiying, Ma Luan and Yu Jiye, the commander of the knife officer, the little emperor quietly left the city without the knowledge of all civil and military officials, otherwise he would not be able to leave.

All the way south, Ma Shiying and the little emperor got separated in Lishui.

The little emperor's boat encountered the retreating Huang Degong tribe in Shijiu Lake.

Huang Degong couldn't help being very disappointed, and told the emperor that if he sticks to Nanjing Jiancheng, there is still something to do, and if he abandons Jiancheng and leaves, the general trend is over.

At this time, the Qing army's pursuers arrived again, and Huang Degong sent a general to escort the little emperor south again. He turned back to cover, but unfortunately died in battle!
Under the city of Yangzhou.

Yang Chao had already led the army back to help, and Duoduo didn't take advantage of it.

But the strange thing is that he still did not leave, but chose to camp on Shugang in the north of Yangzhou.

There was a city built in Shugang in the Tang Dynasty, the foundation is still there, and there are buildings such as the Daming Temple on it. Duoduo defended it according to the danger, and Yang Chao would inevitably suffer heavy losses if he attacked by force.

But Yang Chao was not in a hurry, and sent troops to encircle him on all sides, besieging Duoduo on Shugang.

Everyone has heard the story of Ma Di losing the street pavilion. Ma Di camped on the mountain, and the weather was hot, so Sima Yi set fire to the foot of the mountain.

Yang Chao also intends to set fire to the mountain. Although Shugang is no better than a street pavilion, and there are springs on Shugang for drinking, but depending on the direction of the wind, if the wind blows to the north, Yang Chao will set fire to the south, and if the wind blows to the south, Yang Chao will set fire to the north. Duo Duo couldn't stand the smoke.

Soon he sent someone to negotiate.

Yang Chao has only one condition, and that is to surrender. Yang Chao promises to spare Duoduo's life, but he will not let him go back.

On the contrary, Duoduo wanted to recruit Yang Chao, and told Yang Chao that he had asked for the holy order. As long as Yang Chao was willing to surrender, he would make Yang Chao the King of Huai and join the borders.

Of course Yang Chao would not take this kind of thing seriously. He naturally thought that this was a big lie told by Tudor out of his wits. Duoduo was still a man, so he came down the mountain. Yang Chao was willing to have a real fight with him, and he was willing to fight him in the field.

As a result, Duoduo didn't intend to be a man anymore, and he didn't even dare to accept the field battle that the Qing army thought he was invincible, so he just huddled on the mountain blindly, preferring to enjoy the smoke and fire.

On October [-]th, Wang Pu led his troops to Yangzhou. Only then did Yang Chao know that Nanjing was besieged again because of Yangzhou, and people were panicked again. Some people even speculated that he died in Huai'an. Otherwise, how could the Qing soldiers fight again to Yangzhou.

No wonder others think this way, in fact, people who can think this way still have some common sense of geography. They know that if Huai'an is blocked, the Qing army will not be able to go south. Not to mention these people, even Yang Chao can't imagine that the Qing army will win a lot of troops from Huang Pass through guarded areas.

"It's good to scare that group of idiots, so that they don't act like a big enemy, but they only think about suppressing generals."

Yang Chao thought of it as a prank in his heart, so he didn't let people report the specific situation to Nanjing. Without his own accurate information, even if Guazhou reported it, Nanjing would not believe it, because the rumors were already flying all over the sky at this time, and they heard Wang Pu said that people in Guazhou were also in a state of panic. The Ming army guarding the river had already been under martial law, and news from the north and the south could not get through.

But it's not that he didn't pass the news back at all, he just didn't tell the court, and his family had to make them feel at ease.

"Wang Pu listens to the order, and you go north immediately. Zhao Kang's troops in Sizhou are weak. If the enemy attacks from Henan, it will be very disadvantageous to our army. I order you to join Zhao Kang's troops along the line of Sizhou and attack Suzhou. You must occupy Suzhou and not let it go. The army went south one by one."

As soon as Wang Pu arrived, he got a new order, which made him feel very at ease. He was only meaningful when he was fighting. After being persecuted by the imperial power in Nanjing, Wang Pu's psychology became different from before, and the pursuit also happened. some changes.

It’s not that Yang Chao doesn’t feel sympathetic to Wang Pu, and he sent him to go north again just after he arrived, but that his 1 troops are considered a new force compared to other armies, and many men, Lu Mo and other troops have fought many times, attacking From the beginning of Huai'an, they ran back and forth, and the load as an armored soldier was heavy.

But Wang Pu stopped in Xinjiangkou for a month, which can be said to have been recharging his energy for a long time.

Duoduo also seemed to think that it was not an option to stick to it. The organization broke through several times, but they were all repelled by Yang Chao's department.

And because of Duoduo's breakthrough, Yang Chao ordered the fortifications to be strengthened.

In the past, it was simply to reject horses and shield towns, but the Qing army blindfolded the horses and asked the cavalry to urge the whips behind them, so the horses rushed forward in shock, such a simple defense could not stop them.

So Yang Chao ordered another deep ditch to be dug. The ditch was one foot deep and two feet wide, with repelling horses in front and back, and shield soldiers guarding the back. It's a pity that the bird gunners were transferred to Li Wuliu to guard Xuzhou, otherwise they would ambush Thousands of bird musketeers, it would be a dead end for the attacking Qing army.

But Yang Chao had artillery, and at every critical crossing, three or five tiger squat cannons were deployed. When the Qing army rushed, they fired cannons and bombarded them. A cannon fired hundreds of shotguns, and the effect was no worse than that of bird guns.

Li Wuliu led 1 troops, Wang Pu and Zhao Kang led more than 10 troops, plus the guarding troops in other places, a total of [-] troops were divided, and [-] remained in Yangzhou. Surrounded Duoduo with [-] people. Chao this time is determined to clean up Duoduo.

A prince in the Qing army was taken away, and the news spread back, and the city of Nanjing should be stable.

On October [-]th, Duoduo had been trapped for five days, and it seemed that his patience became less and less, and more actions were taken to attack Yang Chao's defensive position, but it had no effect except for the loss of soldiers and generals.

Yang Chao originally planned to consume Duoduo to death like this, but at this time he finally received the news from Nanjing that Azig was approaching Nanjing, and the little emperor Zhu Cihuang abandoned the city and fled!
(End of this chapter)