I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 56 Xiaozhuang
Yanjing Qianqing Palace, the atmosphere was dull and depressing. On the Longshu case were several copies of military newspapers urgently delivered from eight hundred miles away. Shunzhi stared at the military newspapers on the Longshu case without focus, feeling restless, uneasy, and a little flustered. .

The fall of Yunnan, the fall of Guangxi, the fall of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangdong, the loss of Suksaha in Zhaoqing; the loss of Zhao Butai, the general who conquered the South, and Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, the loss of the elite army of the [-] Banners, and the entire five southwestern provinces fell to the Ming army hand.

Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan joined forces with more than 1 troops to attack Jiangning. Among them, Zhang Huangyan had [-] troops and a hundred warships appeared on the river outside the Guanyin Gate in Jiangning. Jiangning was in danger.

how so?Why did the situation deteriorate so much in just a few months, Shunzhi was extremely irritable and panicked at this time.Should we send troops to reinforce Jiangning or withdraw to the outside to preserve our strength?In Shunzhi's mind, heaven and man were constantly fighting.

He looked up and saw Sonny, Ye Bilong, and Aobai standing in the hall like clay statues, his brows were slightly frowned, and he said:

"My lords, the five southwestern provinces are now in the hands of hypocrisy. Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan have gathered more than [-] troops to attack Jiangning. Should we send troops to reinforce Jiangning or withdraw to the outside of the pass? Discuss."

"Ding dong, ding dong." There was a ringing sound, a woman in her 40s walked slowly with the support of two palace maids, wearing a green velvet court crown, wearing an imperial yellow robe, and wearing flower pot shoes with ingot soles. come.

When Shunzhi saw the person coming, he hurriedly got up, saluted respectfully and said: "Fulin has seen the Queen Mother."

Sony, E Bilong, and Aobai, who were like clay sculptures just now, hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Slave Sony, Ye Bilong, and Aobai see Empress Xiaozhuang Wen."

Xiao Zhuang waved the handkerchief in his hand, "Masters, don't kneel down, get up!"

An eunuch moved a chair and stood beside the Longshu case. Empress Xiaozhuang Wen moved lightly, sat down firmly, looked at Emperor Shunzhi and said, "Just now I heard the emperor say whether to send troops to reinforce Jiangning or withdraw to the outside of the pass. Preserve strength? Can you tell Aijia what happened?"

Shunzhi handed the military report to Xiaozhuang with a low eyebrow, "Queen Mother, the five southwestern provinces have fallen, and Jiangning is in danger."

Xiaozhuang raised his eyebrows, took the military newspaper handed over by Shunzhi, and read it carefully one by one.

The entire Qianqing Palace was terribly quiet, only the sound of Xiaozhuang flipping the military newspaper lightly, leaning slightly, Xiaozhuang put down the military newspaper in his hand, and looked at Emperor Shunzhi calmly, "Just this, let the emperor mess up?"

"Pa" Xiaozhuang slapped the Long Shuan suddenly, stood up, stared into the eyes of Emperor Shunzhi, and shouted angrily: "Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Huangyan is a clown, Zhu Youlang only knows what to do if he runs away? Does the emperor also want to learn from that?" The Pseudo-Ming Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang? Fleeing outside the pass?

Confused, I think that my ancestor Nurhachi in the Qing Dynasty raised troops in Baishan Heishui with his grandfather and father's thirteenth deputy. After more than [-] years of conquests, he unified the Jurchen ministries and established our Eight Banners elite.

After decades of fighting, it seems that the country will be unified and the puppet regime will be completely wiped out.It is nothing but the resurgence of the hypocrisy. The emperor should immediately mobilize the army to wipe out Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Huangyan and his ilk under the city of Jiangning.Then he went south to wipe out Zhu Youlang, the puppet emperor of Ming Dynasty, instead of thinking about avoiding outside the pass. "

"The empress mother taught me that it was the child who lost his position for a while." Shunzhi said in fear.

"Hum..." Xiao Zhuang snorted softly, turned his eyes to Sony, E Bilong, and Aobai, and said, "You three are all the ministers of my Qing Dynasty, helping the emperor to come up with the regulations to reinforce Jiangning."

Sony, E Bilong and Aobai knelt on their knees, kowtowed and said: "Yes, Empress Dowager."

"Okay, Aijia is exhausted, let's discuss things!" After finishing speaking, Xiaozhuang walked out of Qianqing Palace with a wave.

Sony, Ye Bilong, and Aobai wiped the cold sweat off their brows, without him, Xiaozhuang's aura is really too great.After getting up, the three discussed with Shunzhi and finally decided.

Annan General Dasu, Gushan Ezhen Suohong, Guard Commander Laita and others were sent to lead the Eight Banners Army southward from Beijing to Jiangning for reinforcements.

Yang Jie, the governor of Jiangxi, was also appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan Left Route, and Liu Fang, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, was named the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan Right Route. They each led their troops to Jiangning from Jiangxi and Ningxia.

On the third day of July, Zhu Cixuan, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Cao Xing, Chen Gong, Cai Jiuyi, and Mu Zhongliang led [-] cavalry out of Zhaoqing North Gate to support Yanping Wang Zheng Chenggong.

Li Dingguo led a group of civil and military personnel to see him off. At the gate of the city, Li Dingguo said, "Your Highness will take the first step. Two days later, Dingguo will attack Jiangxi with 5000 troops to support His Highness."

"Okay" Zhu Cixuan said goodbye to Li Dingguo and the others one by one.

That night the army arrived at Sihui and rested overnight in Sihui. The next day the army continued to set off, passing through Qingyuan, Shaozhou, and Nanxiong along the way, leaving Meiguan and entering Dingnan in Jiangxi.

The Tartars in Dingnan received a military order two days ago and went to Ganzhou to assemble and prepare to reinforce Jiangning.Therefore, Dingnan has no Tatars stationed there, and only a county magistrate leads three classes of yamen servants to maintain law and order.

As soon as Zhu Cixuan's [-] troops arrived, the county magistrate immediately opened the city and surrendered. Zhu Cixuan appeased the county magistrate and ordered him to put on the flag of Ming Dynasty to maintain stability in the city. After replenishing enough food for the army for three days, the army continued to set off. Go to Dingyuan.

Zhu Cixuan's army only carried a small amount of dry food when they set off, but they carried a lot of fodder for the horses, enough for half a month.

At that time, Chen Gong, Zhang Liao and others were puzzled as to why they carried so little dry food and so much fodder for their horses. They all persuaded Zhu Cixuan, hoping to bring enough food and grass. Zhu Cixuan smiled slightly, "Don't worry about Gongtai and Wenyuan. We will never be short of food on the road.”

Zhu Cixuan knows the importance of food when going abroad, but we have a system mall!There is refined salt and first-class japonica rice in it, so how can there be a shortage of food.However, before departure, Zhu Cixuan increased the balance of the system from less than 30 gold coins to 50 gold coins.

Who knows, will there be a lottery that requires consumption of 100000 gold coins? If so, it would be a pity if there are not enough gold coins.

From Zhaoqing to Jiangning is more than a thousand miles, and the normal marching speed of the cavalry is [-] miles a day. Zhu Cixuan considered that the dense water network in the south of the Yangtze River seriously affected the speed of the cavalry, so he decided to march a hundred miles a day, and even a thousand miles. It takes only ten days to reach Jiangning.

The Manchu Qing Tartars went out of the city on the night of July 22 to launch a surprise attack on Zheng Chenggong's troops. Zhu Cixuan's army would arrive at the battlefield around the [-]th or [-]th, and there was still plenty of time.

After leaving Dingnan, Zhu Cixuan asked Zhang Liao to send a large number of scouts to scout around the army.Each team had ten scouts, and ten teams were dispatched.

After all, Jiangxi was still under the control of the Tartars, and Zhu Cixuan didn't want to be ambushed by the Tartars. Although Jiangxi didn't have a large number of Tartars, there was nothing wrong with being careful when marching and fighting.

(End of this chapter)