Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 205
Zhu Youjian's choice of Yangzhou to fight the Duoduo Department of the Qing Army was a basic strategy that had been established a long time ago.

Duoduo went from Shaanxi to Henan and then to Yangzhou. Although he attacked cities and villages all the way, it seemed that he was going nowhere. Like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, he almost seemed to have succeeded in destroying the Ming court in the south.

But in fact, once Duoduo arrives in Yangzhou, it will definitely cause logistical difficulties along the way, and the soldiers will be exhausted, making it the end of the battle.

And when the time comes, the more than [-] troops of the Ming Guards will encircle the Duoduo Department of the Qing Army under the city of Yangzhou, and it will get twice the result with half the effort.

In the original history, Duduo dared to go south quickly because even if he had difficulties in logistics supplies, he would go to the south to collect food on the spot. In addition, he surrendered Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing in the north of the Jiangbei, so that he had a chance to destroy the Southern Ming court.

Now, Zhu Youjian has already eliminated Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, and ordered the guards to carry out fortified walls and cleared the wild in Fengyang, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Xuzhou and other prefectures.

Therefore, the Qing army went to Yangzhou City to fight the Ming Guards and break through Yangzhou City to obtain the basis for capturing Nanjing and occupying the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Youjian had no plans to return to Nanjing at this time. In Nanjing City, Fan Jingwen, the chief assistant, and Ma Shiying, the minister of the Ministry of War, were in charge, so he didn't need him to make up his mind about the dispatch of money and food everywhere.

As for the border of Huguang, Du Yinxi and Li Yan led the extermination army to resist the Azig tribe's southward war, and he had no way to intervene from far away in the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Youjian intends to stay as close to Duoduo as possible so that he can control the overall situation at any time, but he will not interfere with the command of the generals below the commander in chief to fight everywhere.

Although Zhu Youjian carried out various military system reforms based on the strengths and weaknesses of the Qing army when he was training the Guards many years ago, he is not sure whether the Qing army will still be as powerful as it was in the original history after it went south.

However, the current military situation shows that the Duoduo tribe is still going south with great momentum.

Although, it was because the Guards had not yet participated in the battle against the Duoduo Department of the Qing Army.But Zhu Youjian was also worried that the momentum of the Duoduo Department of the Qing Army would frighten the officers and soldiers of the Guards to lose courage, mistakenly thinking that the Qing Army was really invincible.

Generals can be in awe of their opponents, but grassroots officers and soldiers cannot be in awe of the enemy. Once the morale of the army is dispersed, even the best weapons are useless.

The reason why the second town of Jiangbei surrendered without a fight in history was not only because of the weak strength of the second town of Jiangbei and the lack of loyalty and courage of the generals, but also because Duoduo's fierce offensive was too fierce and he was scared out of his wits.

This is also why Zhu Youjian still stays in Jiangbei now, just because he wants to stabilize the army's morale through his status as emperor. Even as the emperor himself, he is not afraid, so the people under him will naturally not be so afraid.

It is normal for the Qing army's Duduo tribe to attack violently at the beginning. First, because of its large number of cavalry, it is a smooth journey from Beijing to the south to Jianghuai, which is the current North China Plain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The large number of red-clothed cannons in the Ming Dynasty solved their weakness in the fortified battle, and they could almost break through the city within a few days, which made it impossible for ordinary officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to defend the city and fight.

But as long as the Guards annihilated the Duduo Department of the Qing Army in the Yangzhou area or defeated the Duo Department, then the Qing Army's southward march would not be so smooth.

First of all, the Qing court had just established the country, and its foothold in the north was not stable. In addition, many Han landlords in the north did not have a good impression of the Qing court.

Secondly, after years of wars in the north, soldiers are already scarce, and the Manchu Qing itself is sparsely populated. Duoduo's army has almost accounted for a large proportion of the total army strength of the Qing court. If it is wiped out in the south of the Yangtze River, the Qing court will inevitably Will be seriously injured, and go back to the road of the Kingdom of Jin.

What he fights is money and food. Duoduo went all the way south. It must be difficult for the Qing court in the north to raise enough food and grass for him, so he can only replenish it at any time during the southern journey.

Zhu Youjian is now ordering Fengyang, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou and other prefectures to fortify the walls and clear the fields, so that Duoduo will not get any food supplements on the way to Yangzhou, and there are not even people who can work as coolies.

At this time, outside Fengyang City, many officials, gentry and common people moved southward to Dingyuan, Shouzhou, Chuzhou and other places under the leadership of soldiers from various guards.

"Hurry up, don't dawdle, when the Tartars arrive here, it will be too late to run away. I heard that Jiannu only likes to eat children, especially that General Dingyuan Duoduo likes to cut people's private parts and eat wine!"

Because Zhu Youjian emphasized that the people should leave their homeland to respond to the government’s call to temporarily move them southward to various prefectures and counties in the south. On the one hand, he ordered the Ministry of War to award silver coins according to the assessment of how many people, industries, and food the officers and soldiers moved from various places. On the other hand, he also ordered Try to let the people understand the seriousness of this slavery going south.

Therefore, in order to get as many people out of Fengyang Mansion as possible, the officers and soldiers of the guard at this time wantonly talked about the crime of building slaves.

Now hearing the officers and soldiers of the guard station describe Duduo in this way, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but want to laugh, but he didn't refute it. In his opinion, even if Duoduo was not as cruel as the guards officers and soldiers said, but based on his original history The crime of massacring Yangzhou for ten days also shows how brutal this person is.

The Han people have always loved their hometown since ancient times, especially the people of the Ming Dynasty, who mainly produce agricultural production, are even more reluctant to leave their homeland.

It is not a simple project to let them leave their land and homes and temporarily move to the southern state capital. From the edict issued last year to the present, we can still see that some people left their homeland under the government's soft and hard measures.

Outside the city, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army guards were still chopping some young crops with their knives, and once all the people in a village were relocated, they would directly burn all the mountains and forests around a village, so as not to give more money. Duo went south to provide a little food and grass that could be supplied.

Naturally, some people prostrated themselves on the ground and cried bitterly, but there were also officers and soldiers who couldn't help shouting: "Why are you crying, the state government has paid you money, it's better than letting the tartars snatch it!"

Che Bibi, Ma Xiaoxiao, pedestrian bows and arrows each at his waist.

Seeing this scene reminded Zhu Youjian of Du Fu's "Soldiers and Chariots". As long as war comes, no matter what, it will affect the lives of the people and destroy the production of a society.

But the scene in front of him was caused by Zhu Youjian's own decree. He felt guilty in his heart, but he didn't regret it. If he hadn't been so strong and clear, no one would know how crazy Duduo's army did to supplement the military supplies. As a matter of fact, it is not unheard of to make up for food shortages by cannibalism in the late Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Zhu Youjian left the city, he rushed to Mengcheng accompanied by Liu Fangliang and others.

This is the garrison of the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, and it is also an important place to guard against Duoduo Luzhou's westward advance to the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Youjian didn't know if Duduo would send troops here for a tentative attack, but he had to come here before Duduo came to Mengcheng for a tentative attack to personally determine whether this possibility would happen.

Ten days later, people from Henan from the north appeared in Mengcheng one after another.

The official Zhan Shichen Zizhuang who had been transferred to the governor of Fengyang, who had moved south with Zhu Youjian, had also rushed to Mengcheng at this time, and began to accept the refugees from Henan.

The arrival of a large number of refugees from Henan also meant that the Duoduo Department of the Qing Army was getting closer to Mengcheng and Fengyang.

　Thank you book friend Mr.Lonely, Mr. Hu Zhuang Zhuang, Mr. Hu Zhuang Zhuang, where to find Ping 100 book coins to reward, the next few chapters say that I remember wrongly, the two Han kings who followed Duoduo to the south should be It is Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, thank you for reminding me, it has been revised

　　
　
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