Win the Ding 1617

In the history of the wars between the Ming Army and the Qing Army, or even the wars between the Qing Army and the Dashun Army, the Daxi Army, and the Ming Army and the Peasant Army, the scale of the Shanghai Battle is nothing.The total number of troops invested by both sides is no more than 10,000+ people.However, the impact is huge.

After Yue Le was shot and killed in Luke Dehun, he led his troops to hold the ground, gathered the defeated soldiers, and slowly retreated westward from the direction of Shanghai.What Jiading, Qingpu, Jinshan, Baoshan, Songjiang Prefecture and other prefectures and counties have all been abandoned, anyway, they have almost been destroyed by the war.His idea was to exchange space for time, and use these abandoned cities to buy time for the Qing army to retreat to Nanjing. "As long as I can retreat to Nanjing and rest for a while, this land in the south of the Yangtze River will inevitably have to deal with your Li family."

However, the sons of the Li family in the south of the Yangtze River were not forgiving.

Yue Le retreated towards Nanjing at a land marching speed of tens of miles per day, well, the Hongwu army's pursuers would chase after them at a slightly faster speed.You march forty miles every day, and I march fifty miles.If you march fifty miles, I will march sixty miles.All in all, it always leaves you no time and energy to stop and rest, and always makes your morale low, charming and panicky.Always cut and surround the rear troops you left behind before your eyes, and then eat them in front of your eyes.

This is just a chase on land.Li Huamei and Li Huabao's sister and brother even made full use of the advantages of the waterway.He ordered people to carry thousands of sailors and land battalions in light fast boats, enter Taihu Lake along the waterway, join Chabai's troops, and suddenly attack Suzhou Mansion.After a day and night of fierce fighting, Suzhou Mansion was taken down.

And Hangzhou in the west was also surrounded by Shi Lang's water and land forces.

"Our old man has eaten the military rations, wine and meat of the Duke these days, held the knives and guns of the Duke, and spent the silver dollars of the Duke, but he has not achieved an inch. How does this make our father have the face to hang out in the army? No What are you talking about, take down this Hangzhou city, and use it as a meeting gift for our Lord Touguo!"

Hao Yaoqi's words expressed the thoughts of the former Dashun Army generals and soldiers.In their view, only by fully demonstrating their combat effectiveness can they demonstrate their worth in front of the Duke of the State and gain a foothold in the Hongwu Army.

Under Shi Lang's temporary command, the former Dashun Army reorganized the Six Towns soldiers and horses, and with the cooperation of the navy, they surrounded Hangzhou Mansion on both sides of the Qiantang River.Prepare to conquer Hangzhou in one fell swoop.

"At that time, our Duke will ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in this Hangzhou mansion, and change the Yuan and found the country!" After the military meeting, several camp generals expressed their inner thoughts through alcohol.

However, they did not expect that, contrary to everyone's expectations, when everyone gathered all their strength and prepared to regain the southeast Xingsheng of the Sanwu City after a hard fight, the Hangzhou Business District sent someone to deliver a letter.

The Qing army in Hangzhou Prefecture withdrew.Some gentry officials who stayed behind sent people to contact the business district, expressing their willingness to surrender anyway.

The reason is actually very simple. Unlike Nanjing, Hangzhou was the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, it was the center of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River. It had gathered heavy troops, and there were also generals and several princes Baylor.But Hangzhou can't do it. There is only one Angbang Zhangjing who leads thousands of Eight Banners soldiers to station.Most of these thousands of soldiers are the Eight Banners Han army, and there are only a few hundred people in the Eight Banners Manchuria.But how many armed forces are there in the Hangzhou business district opposite, and how many soldiers and horses can be armed with the hoarded materials in an instant, Ang Bangzhangjing who is stationed in Hangzhou dare not think about it.

Moreover, the news from Beijing and Nanjing is very ambiguous. Although the Hongwu army fought with the Hongwu army in various places, one Buddha was born in the sky and two Buddhas were nirvana, but there was no decree ordering him to copy the business district of Hangzhou, which is close at hand. .

As a result, the two parties maintained a very weird balance in a state of mind that was frightening at both ends.Of course, Master Angbang Zhangjing had no choice but to take this opportunity to do business with the business district wantonly, not to mention filling his pockets and treasury, but the master of the banner was also a good filial piety.

(At this time, there is no design for the position of General Hangzhou, so it can only be Ang Bangzhangjing.)

When Shi Lang's army marched all the way from southern Jiangxi to Zhejiang, Angbang Zhangjing knew that his good days were over.However, in the past few months, even if he has been withdrawn from his official position, returning to Beijing Chengben Banner can save his life.If you don't leave now, when will you stay?As a result, Shi Lang's army had just arrived in Hangzhou, and before the camp was set up, he collected hundreds of ships, large and small, from the Jianggan, loaded them with all the luggage, soft soldiers and furniture, and carried a thick denomination issued by the Nanzhong Bank in his arms. A money order of at least five hundred silver dollars, Shi Shiran boarded the ship and left.A intact Hangzhou mansion was left to Shi Lang.

Shanghai and Suzhou in the east slowly pressed towards Nanjing along the flood and drought roads in the south of the Yangtze River.On the river, Li Huamei's navy was even more powerful, attacking the towns along the river, and gradually reducing the space for the Qing army's activities in the south of the Yangtze River and near the mouth of the sea.

Haimen, Nantong, Changshu, Changzhou, Wuxi, and Jiangyin are almost attacking Nanjing at a rate of one city per day.

In Hangzhou in the southwest, Shi Langdu led 10,000+ troops, passed by the Taihu Lake, and headed straight for Nanjing from the mountainous area in southern Anhui.Huzhou, Deqing, Huizhou, Xuancheng, Anji, Liyang, Guangde, Yixing, and the deep mountains and dense forests in southern Anhui are rare for the Qing army, but they are not difficult for generals from the Dashun army such as Hao Yaoqi and Wang Si'er. He is good at dealing with the enemy with fast horses and light knives in the deep mountains and dense forests.

Famous cities in the south of the Yangtze River were recovered by the Hongwu army, and the military flag was flying above the city.

Rice paper, lake brushes, lake silk, and Hui ink, each piece of special product representing the region of origin was sent to Tianxing Mansion by clipper, and placed on the desks of Li Zhu Yujian and Li Shouhan.

Half of the south of the Yangtze River is just around the corner.

For a while, without any hints or arrangements from Li Shouhan and Zhu Yujian, Tianxing Mansion was already full of gongs and drums, colorful pagodas, lion dances, dragon lanterns, and literati sang "Youth as a companion so I can return home" after being drunk. ", the young men are walking with their arms up, singing "When will you ask for a trip to the sharp brigade and go straight to Qingheluo, but come back and then do a Hanyang tour".

The princes in the cabinet did not wait for the meaning of the emperor and Li Shouhan, and came up with a plan for rewards and rewards early on.The rewards for the meritorious soldiers of the combat troops are naturally lenient and lenient. Anyway, the money in the treasury is Li Shouhan's money, and the emperor rewarding the three armies is actually you, Li Shouhan rewarding the three armies.Then why don't we be good people and give them a big reward, even if it's only on paper.As for whether your Duke is willing to pay for it, that's none of our business.At that time, the soldiers will complain, but it has nothing to do with us.

What is even more eye-catching is that this plan is almost a knighthood sale.

Li Huamei, Li Huabao, and Shi Lang, as Li Shouhan's children and son-in-laws, were the ministers who contributed to recovering the lost land. The cabinet was very generous and rewarded the proposed Marquis at once!Even Aolei Yilan, the cabinet also swiped a pen and planned to bestow the title of Juelu on Mrs. Yipin.As for whether Liang Guogong's back house will be jealous of the sea or even a volcanic eruption, they don't care.

All of a sudden, a son-in-law and three lords, this explosive news spread throughout Tianxing Mansion in an instant.It is not uncommon for seven sons and eight sons-in-law to fill the bed, but I am the Duke of the country, and the son and son-in-law earned a marquis by their own military exploits. Not to mention this dynasty, even the previous dynasties, there has never been such a thing. thing!Not to mention that her daughter has also changed from Princess Zhaoyang to a female marquis like Qin Liangyu!

As for adding scattered officials and ranking officials, there is no need to pile up money.That is to say, the Ming court is not like the Qing Dynasty, there is no Batulu Yonghao, and there is no such thing as a yellow mandarin jacket, otherwise, all kinds of Batuluyonghao will make the scholars of the Imperial Academy and the doctors of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites feel sad Let the bosses of silk and satin villages in Tianxing Mansion do a good job.There are too many people who need to be rewarded!Even if this is the case, rewards such as Jin Yiwei's world position can be found everywhere.Someone calculated that in the First Battle of the South of the Yangtze River, there were dozens of people who were knighted by the Hongwu Army, from the lowest baron to the three sons, daughters and sons-in-law of the Li family!

Including Liu Deni, because Ao Lei Yilan insisted that it was she who killed Luc Dehun, which caused the entire Qing army to collapse.With this great contribution, as well as the record of killing Turge and several Qing army generals and officers in the past, Liu Deni became a third-class gentleman all of a sudden.She blinked her eyes and asked Ao Lei Yilan with the decree of the reward: "Can this thing be exchanged for something else? For example, change the position of the master in the arsenal of the Duke?"

The cabinet was packing and wholesale official positions and titles, but it lightly handed over another major matter to Li Shouhan for handling.

That is the hundreds of thousands of remaining troops of the Dashun Army recruited by Shi Lang in southern Jiangxi!

"This matter is a military matter. It is at a time when the army is booming. It is handled by the shogunate and the cabinet follows suit." With a beautiful kick, he kicked the ball to Li Shouhan.

Fortunately, they also said that this matter is a military matter, and naturally the chief military officer has the final say.When it is time to fight again, naturally whoever fights is justified, and those who win the war are even more justified.After seeing the reply from the cabinet, Li Shouhan sneered twice.

"Don't they just think that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong killed Emperor Daxing and dug Fengyang Emperor's tomb? But now that they are both dead, you have the ability to behead a million people alone? "

"Come here! Just according to Gu's intention, I will send another document to the cabinet, saying that I will give these people a way to go, and let them contribute to regaining the lost land and restoring the old mountains and rivers."

"Qu Kui has passed away, and all followers can start a new life." This was Li Shouhan's attitude, and it was so clear that the ministers in the cabinet naturally couldn't say anything more.What's more, since the former part of the Dashun Army surrendered, it has successively recovered dozens of counties in southern Jiangxi, southern Anhui, western Zhejiang, and Pianyuan, and laid down a large area of ​​land. Thieves, it is inevitable that there will be clamor. When a yellow robe is draped over Li Shouhan, will we kneel or not at that time?

Therefore, the general's shogunate issued a series of official documents, Gao Yigong Yuan Zongdi Zhang Naitian Jianxiu Luohu Wang Sihao Waqiqi These old generals of the Dashun Army became generals of the Hongwu Army.Of course, the commander-in-chief is a position, the general is an official title, and the command is an errand.The most important thing here is the job of the commander, which is the actual command power, which is the so-called military power.Without this, everything else is just floating clouds.

Moreover, Gao Yigong Hao Yaoqi only saw that after surrendering to the Hongwu Army, they no longer had to worry about food and ammunition supplies.However, they never imagined that once the system was implemented, their control over the army would be weakened little by little. Don't even think about pulling the team up and leaving without saying a word!

Not to mention the artillery, supplies, and health battalions assigned to the battalion level, which now seem to be indispensable, and those furniture that have been placed in the garrison or in a more stable rear area from the army to enjoy a peaceful life cannot be taken away with the army. In addition to causing instability in the morale of the army, even the large number of mules and horses in the army would not be willing to leave.

These army mules and horses who followed Gao Yigong Yuan Zongdi and others from northern Shaanxi to Jianghuai, from Jianghuai to Shangluo Mountain, from Henan to Shaanxi, and all the way to Beijing, almost traveled half of China, are now also following Hongwu The army's system, how much forage, how much soybeans, how much bone meal, and how much salt, have specific and express regulations every day.If they ran away with the team, these mules and horses would lose weight immediately without supplies, and their marching speed would be affected.

Adding up all kinds of fragments, a little bit of debris, here and there, formed a huge net, making the former Dashun army unable to move, but they didn't want to move either.

It's very comfortable here, why should I do that kind of thing with no future?

Thus, from Pianyuan to southern Jiangxi, and from southern Jiangxi to Zhejiang, the hundreds of thousands of former Dashun troops who had just surrendered opened a front that was more than a thousand miles long, and hurriedly regained lost ground northward.

"Fight! Fight! Win the battle! Only by winning the battle can we people have a place in front of the Duke!"

This is the unanimous thought of Gao Yigong, Li Guo and others.As for Gao Yigong himself, there was still an idea hidden in his heart, which could be described as bold and shocking.However, once this idea is really realized, then Chuangying Jiubu will be completely integrated with Li Shouhan.

"At the beginning, Zheng Zhilong and the Duke of the State met each other with swords and guns. The young marshal of the Li family personally led the troops to fight against the gunfire, and then defeated Zheng Zhilong. Then they got married. The second lady of the Li family married the eldest son of the Zheng family. Fujian Zheng Zhilong, the pirate leader, has become the Duke's in-law and the admiral of the Hongwu Army. We have no grievances with the Duke in the future, and the business has been doing well. We can enter the camp The smooth development of Henan is inseparable from the help of the Li family."

"What's more, his surname is Li, and our Long Live Lord is also surnamed Li. I can't write two characters of Li. The head of the family is gone, and the brothers of the same clan will help out. No one can say anything about it?"

The thoughts in Gao Yigong's mind turned over and over again.

Seeing that the East and West armies of the Hongwu Army were about to join forces on the shore of Taihu Lake under the support of the Chabai army in Suzhou, Yue Le, who was stationed in Nanjing to collect the defeated soldiers and rectify the troops, finally showed his fangs.

At nightfall that day, he mobilized [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, collected more than [-] ships of all sizes, and boarded at Shuiximen.The people who stayed in Nanjing, including Hong Wujun's hidden stake, thought that he was also looking for an opportunity to escape to Jiangbei. They had seen too many such scenes these days, and no one would take them seriously.

Not to mention the people in the city, even the nearly [-] horse infantry and sailors on the boat mobilized by Yue Le didn't know where the destination was this time.Just follow the lights of the boat ahead.

It wasn't until dawn that the sailors on board realized that they were on the waterway to Suzhou!

"The southern barbarians attacked me with strong ships and cannons, and they often deceived my sailors. Today, the king sent troops to attack Suzhou by water, captured Suzhou, and cut off the southern bandits' idea of ​​joining forces from the east and the west!" On the boat, Yue Le convened the officers of his subordinates to discuss matters, and conveyed to them the purpose of the Suzhou campaign.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no matter how hard they thought about it, they didn't dare to think about it.The young prince in front of him is so courageous, Li Huabao and Li Huamei in the east command tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to press towards the west, and Shi Lang in the southwest is commanding hundreds of thousands of troops to break into the old camp with overwhelming momentum. Attacking from the east, the two groups of troops came slowly at an average rate of one city per day, and it was clear that they would consolidate one after the other.At this time, you still dare to attack the Suzhou Mansion that has been captured by Chabai for many days. This courage is really bigger than pulling a tooth out of a tiger's mouth!

"Chabai expropriated and expropriated the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and slaughtered the gentry. In the name of recovering the money and food owed, they often used guns to clean the land and ransacked their homes. The people's grievances have already been boiling. As long as my Qing soldiers arrive, the officials and gentry in the city will surely respond. Suzhou City , It can be broken with a snap of your fingers! At that time, the king will reward you with half of the goods and goods accumulated by the thieves in the city!"

"In addition, within and outside the city, those who rebel and follow the remnants of the previous Ming Dynasty, this king allows you to rectify the law on the spot."

That is to say, the accompanying soldiers and horses can casually kill and plunder inside and outside Suzhou city? !

Under the huge material stimulation, the morale of Yue Yue's soldiers and horses was stimulated to the peak.Sure enough, when the fleet was still in Taihu Lake, Suzhou officials and gentry sent people to contact them, detailing the situation in the city and the deployment of Zha Jizuo's troops.

At nightfall, with the sound of a cannon, Yue Le mobilized his troops to enter Suzhou City.

Under the support of a large number of servants and servants led by officials and gentry, the Qing army had an overwhelming advantage over Zha Jizuo's troops as soon as they entered the city.A row of guns was fired, and the Hongwu Army, which hastily rose to fight, suffered heavy casualties and was defeated.

Zha Jizuo, under the protection of more than a hundred personal soldiers, fought his way out of the city, boarded a boat, and fled into Yangcheng Lake.

Looking at the thick smoke and fire in Suzhou City, Zha Jizuo, who can cure children's night crying in the south of the Yangtze River, knelt on the boat with a headache and wailed. "Years of hard work are ruined overnight!"

The inside and outside of Suzhou city became a huge Shura field.People with shaved hair and braids led the Qing soldiers and broke down the doors from door to door. No matter whether you worked for the Hongwu Army or not, if you have money, it is a crime and you deserve to die!Slash it with a knife!

In just three days, the blood on the streets of Suzhou Prefecture flowed into Taihu Lake along the river.