Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 211 Ten Thousand Qing Army Attack Dingyuan

Zhu Youjian patted the armor on Liu Fangliang's body, nodded, and walked back alone, looking at the corpses of the Tartars lying on the ground, thinking of their atrocities, Zhu Youjian didn't feel sick at all.

"Your Majesty, this person should be Enan, the Red Banner Deputy Commander of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the third-class light vehicle captain," Yi Jinyiwei replied at this time.

Zhu Youjian nodded: "Very well, the Qing army lost one of my governors, and I killed his deputy capital commander, which can be regarded as a sigh of relief, but this is not enough. Lu Gong is the chief officer of our Daming war zone. The blood of Duo cannot be sacrificed!"

"Sir, you understand!"

Liu Fangliang and others hurriedly replied.

The defeat of Kong Youde and southern Hubei at the foot of the Mengcheng Mountain meant that the plan to prevent Duoduo from entering Luzhou from Mengcheng and then entering the south of the Yangtze River was realized.

After Jinyiwei's spies reported that Duoduo had quickly marched into Fengyang after learning of Kong Youde's defeat, the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards also began to regroup, along Guzhen, Wuhe, crossing Weizhou, and crossing the river to Xuyi. Then drive directly to Yangzhou.

It can be said that the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards went directly to Yangzhou from behind Duduo's buttocks of the Qing Army. When they realized that Dingyuan was also blocked, and when they were heading towards Yangzhou, the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards had also followed.

Zhu Youjian did not go to Yangzhou with the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, but rushed to Dingyuan City from the south first.

After all, Duoduo now has another way besides attacking Zhenjiang from Yangzhou and then fighting Nanjing, which is to go to Dingyuan, cross Chuzhou, and fight Nanjing.

So Zhu Youjian decided to go to Dingyuan first to see if Duoduo would send troops to investigate.

At the same time, he can also return to Nanjing from Dingyuan first, and then go north from Nanjing after the three guards have assembled in Yangzhou.

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Duoduo did not hesitate at all after seeing Kong Youde's defeat, and directly ordered the army to attack Fengyang immediately.

As soon as Fengyang was captured, Duoduo destroyed the tomb of the Ming Dynasty without saying a word.

Despite this, Duoduo was still furious, because he originally thought that Fengyang, the central capital of Ming Dynasty, would allow him to plunder.

After all, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang moved the wealthy family to Fengyang, making Fengyang an important town in the world.

But now Fengyang is also empty, and the [-] Qing troops will not get any benefits after the siege of the city.

He was even more annoyed when he thought that although he had broken through countless checkpoints along the way, he had also lost nearly a thousand Eight Banner cavalry and even lost a deputy commander.

Looking at Kong Youde, the obedient king who led to the defeat in the battle of Mengcheng and suffered such a heavy loss, Duoduo became even more angry. He now dislikes Kong Youde very much. If he didn't need the hundred cannons under his command, he might have already killed him. Kong Youde.

In his opinion, Kong Youde had already run away.

Kong Youde could only admit defeat, filled with resentment, but he also knew that a traitor like himself would not be able to go back, so he could only bear with it, and at the same time hoped that he would fight better in the next battle so that he could The Manchu Qing master's favor towards him has recovered.

In order to win the favor of his master, Kong Youde ordered his soldiers to hunt and arrest people in Fengyang Mansion. They almost captured all the people hiding in the deep mountains and old forests.

But Duoduo changed his arrogant attitude towards Kong Youde because of this, and he was very satisfied to order Kong Youde to continue to hunt for food (arrest people), and at the same time ordered Geng Zhongming to lead his army south to attack Dingyuan City.

Like Mengcheng, Dingyuan is just a small city between Fengyang and Chuzhou.

The Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards had been stationed in Dingyuan City for five days, practicing day and night, waiting for the arrival of the Qing cavalry.

Liu Qian, the deputy general of the Second Corps, was a former general of the frontier army. Although he was a general of the Ming Dynasty, he also came from a poor background, so he got along well with Liu Fangliang, the general of the army.

Today, Fengyang Governor Li Banghua is also here.

Fengyang, Lu'an, Dingyuan, and Chuzhou are all important grain-producing areas in Southern Zhili. The governor of Fengyang, Chen Zizhuang, transported grain from various places in Mengcheng and moved the people to Mengcheng and Luzhou. Sitting in Dingyuan personally, he supervised the transport of most of the rich households and common people in Fengyang, the central capital, as well as all the grain to Chuzhou, so as to prevent the capital of Nanjing.

Zhu Youjian came all the way from Shou County, all of them were civilians who migrated from Jiangbei. A large number of officers and soldiers from the guard station also gathered here.

After all, the main force of the Duoduo tribe is in Fengyang, and there is only Zhangbaling mountain range between Fengyang, Shouzhou and Dingyuan.

Daming has never dared to be careless.

Zhangbaling is the remnant of the Qinling Mountains, and Zhongshan in Nanjing is derived to the south. It is the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River. It is now a line of defense that hinders the Qing army from going south.

Even so, no one knows whether the sentry cavalry of the Qing army will cross Zhang Baling and find that a large amount of grain and other important supplies have gathered in central Anhui at this time, and even the emperor is in the area south of Zhang Baling with great fanfare. The officers and soldiers of the factory and the guard had to stand here in full force.

Duoduo could also guess that as long as his cavalry of the Qing army crossed Fengyang and broke through a mountain in front of them, they would be able to enter the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, where countless wealth of Ming Dynasty must have accumulated.

And now, if he wanted to go deep into the hinterland of Zhang Baling and capture Nanjing, besides going to Yangzhou, it was also a way to open Dingyuan City and the second city of Chuzhou, the gateway to the south of the Yangtze River.

Although it is shorter to go from Chuzhou to Jiangnan from Dingyuan than to attack Jiangnan from Yangzhou.

But Duoduo also understood that Zhang Baling stood in front of him, which was not conducive to his cavalry, but it would be a different matter if Geng Zhongming could capture Dingyuan City. After all, capturing Dingyuan City would be equivalent to breaking through Zhang Baling's natural defense line. Whether attacking Yangzhou or attacking Chuzhou is a shortcut.

With Duduo's ardent expectations, Geng Zhongming and Gushan Beizi Nikan led ten thousand cavalry across Zhangbaling to Dingyuan City.

Although it was also a test, the number of troops eliminated by Duduo this time was more than double that of the previous attack on Mengcheng, and the leader of the Manchu cavalry was also replaced by the clan figure Nikan.

It can also be seen from this that Duoduo still hopes to attack Chuzhou from Dingyuan.

It was already night when Zhu Youjian arrived in Dingyuan City. Early the next morning, he heard the rumble of drums, and Li Banghua had already walked in front of the imperial court: "Your Majesty, as expected, Tartars came to attack Dingyuan. This time there were ten thousand cavalry. Among them, there are no less than [-] Manchurian cavalry, and the commander is Geng Zhongming, king of Huaishun."

As soon as Zhu Youjian heard what Li Banghua said, he immediately walked up the tower. Suddenly, he saw that more than [-] people from the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards had joined the [-] Qing army led by Geng Zhongming and Nikan. Iron cavalry confronted both sides of Sangjian.

Because of Kong Youde's new defeat, Geng Zhongming and Nikan did not dare to be careless when they came to attack Dingyuan City this time. Ten thousand iron cavalry lined up on the opposite bank from the morning, and even sentry cavalry drove back and forth from time to time to test the differences between the various camps of the Second Corps. The false reality, did not easily launch an attack.

The formation of the Second Corps was basically the same as that of the First Corps. The cavalry still protected the two wings, the infantry was in the center, the artillery was between the infantry and the cavalry, and the troops directly under the Corps guarded the city.

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