Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 300 World War II Yangzhou
"My Ming Dynasty has no marriages between the Han and Tang Dynasties, and no old coins of the Song Dynasty. The emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the country. It is the most bloody dynasty."

Standing on the ruins of Yangzhou City, Zhu Yihai raised his sword and shouted to the gathered soldiers of the Second Northern Expedition, "The Tartars were originally my ministers of the Ming Dynasty, but they rebelled, took my two capitals, invaded my mausoleum, and even killed me. The people of Ming Dynasty, this enmity is irreconcilable!"

"Gu, the tenth grandson of the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, the No. 11 king of Lu, is now the regent of the state supervisor, acting as the herdsman of the sky, personally raising the Sixth Division, and conquering the Tartars in the north!"

It is of special significance to swear to the Northern Expedition under the city of Yangzhou.

This once the most prosperous capital in the south of the Yangtze River has now become an empty city of ghosts. In just one year, the city has been broken three times. The army slaughtered the city for ten days, and the city was full of corpses, and the ditches were full of blood.

The Qing army re-managed this important city of Yancao, sent troops to garrison, relocated households, and re-transported salt. However, Ruan Jin and Huang Binqing attacked it last time, destroyed the city wall and took away the salt and food, and then abandoned it.

Yan Wogong and Ma Guozhu dispatched soldiers and horses to guard the city wall, and recruited civilians to repair the city wall. The city wall was almost repaired, and Zhu Yihai led his troops to kill him again. Was caught off guard.

Under the guard of his own soldiers, he only fled back to Jiangning with his own body. The three hundred and eighth banners and three thousand green camps under his command were all captured.

Zhu Yihai ordered the three hundred and eight banners to be beheaded directly under the city of Yangzhou to sacrifice to the civilians and soldiers who died in Yangzhou, and to sacrifice to Shi Kefa and other fallen soldiers.

This is the second time that the Ming army has regained Yangzhou City, and Yangzhou has changed owners four times in just over a year.

Although Yangzhou has long been dilapidated, this is still a major blow to the Qing army.

Jiangning.

After Chen Tai fled back to Jiangning, he pleaded guilty to Mr. Jinglue Yan, and asked him to dispatch a soldier to him so that he could go back and take back Yangzhou.

"Give me 1 horses, please."

Yan Wogong helped the Tartar and comforted him with kind words.

"Last time Liu Liangzuo fled to defend Yangzhou without fighting, so that the important town of Caoyan fell into the hands of the Ming army easily, and was destroyed after they robbed the salt and grain tanker. The general was stationed in Yangzhou, and the city wall was not repaired in time. The Ming army made a large-scale raid , Losing defense is also a crime other than war.”

This Chen Tai is also called Chen Tai, a native of Manzhou Xianghuang Banner, the grandson of Yidu, the first-class founding hero of the Tartars, the son of Cherge, and the son of a general in the early Qing Dynasty.

This guy may not look like a minister of the Ministry of Rites, but by his own ability, he has repeatedly made meritorious service in the process of conquering North Korea, Li Zicheng, and the Ming Dynasty, and he just earned the position of a first-class Lazhangjing.

But he was also unlucky.

Because Liu Liangzuo abandoned Yangzhou and fled to Huai'an before, and was approached by the Ming army, Liu Liangzuo asked Jiangning and Beijing for help. Seeing this, the regent also felt a headache.

In the end, Chen Tai took the initiative to invite Ying, willing to go south to relieve the court's worries.

So Dorgon appointed Chen Tai as the first governor of water transportation in the Qing Dynasty, who also transferred the capital to Lianghuai salt transportation and the governor of Jiangbei. , and the title is also high, directly from the first grade.

Originally, after the Qing army went south, there was no governor of water transportation according to the old Ming system, but now from Hangzhou to Huai'an, the water transportation is almost paralyzed, and even Huaiyang, a major salt production and sales area, has been captured by the Ming army. Nanjing was captured and died.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the military was too smooth, which also caused their stalls to expand many times at once. They newly accepted hundreds of thousands of surrendered troops and reorganized them into green battalions. The number of officials also increased a lot. Not to mention that there is still a war in the south, and it has become more and more fierce recently.

These all cost money.

The food in the Susong area around Taihu Lake and the salt in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River are all things that the Qing court in Beijing relied on as their lifeblood, but now this lifeline is held in the hands of the Ming army, how can this be possible.

Chen Tai stepped on his horse and rushed to Huai'an with only [-] riders. Once he arrived in Huai'an, he immediately asked Liu Liangzuo to transfer [-] green camps to the south, and went straight to Yangzhou.

His trip to the south went smoothly, and the Ming army did not stop him, but who knew that he had just entered Yangzhou, and he was busy repairing the city of Yangzhou, calling salt merchants from the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, and re-discussing the distribution of Huai salt, but the Ming army came to fight .

When Chen Tai saw that the Ming army ships were directly bombarding the city with red-clothed cannons, he immediately let the green battalion defend the city, and then quietly changed clothes and fled.

Although he, the governor of water transportation, is from the first rank, he has to be controlled by Yan Wogong, the manager of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. He just lost the city and had to come to Yan Wogong to send troops to help him regain it.

"Master Chen, the situation in Jiangning is also very pessimistic. I just gave the last bit of money and food to the Manchurian adults in Bashan, and asked them to lead their troops south to rescue General Kangkala in Changzhou. Now Jiangning has neither money, food nor soldiers. Available."

Chen Tai didn't bother to explain to Mr. Yan that his surname was Niu Hulu instead of Chen. Anyway, Manchus usually call them by their first names, and it is not uncommon for Han people to take the first letter of their names as their surname.

He is now full of thoughts that he must take Yangzhou back.

"Strict Jinglue, the imperial court is still waiting for the grain and salt tax from Jiangnan to enter Beijing."

Yan Wogong sighed, "That can't be helped. It's not that I said bad things about my predecessor. Before Hong Jinglue was in Jiangning, he hollowed out the foundation here. Now I am trying to repair it as much as possible. Now I am still looking forward to the autumn harvest. Well, the Green Battalion here is unusable, and the admiral Chen Admiral Zhang Admiral Zhang and others have made a comprehensive rectification, and the war will have to wait for General Tan Tai to go south."

"You also know that Wu Shengzhao, Li Chengdong and others have just rebelled and surrendered. Suzhou fell for the third time. The Su-Song water transport was completely blocked. Now even the Yangtze River is cut off by the Ming water division. Now my strategy can't go out of Jiangning. city,"

Yan Wogong spread his hands to Chen Tai.

"Fortunately, the good news came back from Huguang, which finally opened up the situation. Now we have to wait for the harvest of the autumn grain. Only after the governments of various places collect the autumn grain can the current predicament be alleviated, otherwise nothing can be done."

"Jinglue, Minglu Jianguo personally raised the army to go north, let's just sit and watch?"

Yan Wogong said bluntly, "The emperor does not send hungry soldiers. If there is no food, how can he go out to fight? The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass go first. But Jiang Ning first returned to Beijing with the king of Yu and took away a large amount of money and food, and then Hong Jinglue Go to Huguang with Prince Shuncheng and the others, and take away the rest."

"You said we are taking over this mess now, what can we do? The food in the hands of the common people has been requisitioned. How many hungry people are gathered outside Jiangning City now."

"But just let them occupy Yangzhou, then attack Huai'an, or even fight all the way to Shandong, threatening Zhili Beijing?" Chen Tai was anxious.

"Cao Shuai, you know the situation in the south of the Yangtze River now. Don't say we have no food, money, or soldiers. Even if we have all the money, food, soldiers and horses, will we be able to cross the Yangtze River?"

"The navy of the Ming army blocked the Yangtze River. You have also experienced the advantages of the gunboats. We used water and sand boats to transport troops across the river. I am afraid that the boats will be bombarded and sink to the bottom of the river when they reach the middle of the river."

"Let's wait, wait until the governors harvest the autumn grain, wait for the admirals to straighten out the green camp, and wait for Jiangning to build a new ship, then we will go to war!" Yan I was fair.

(End of this chapter)