In the early morning, Bellebolo woke up to the sound of firecrackers and thought the enemy was attacking.
"Today is the first day of the leap month of June. Some people in the city are used to setting off firecrackers to burn incense, which disturbed Beile. I immediately sent an order to prohibit setting off firecrackers." A Bajala guard heard the sound and rushed to explain.
"Is it the first day of the sixth lunar month?" Bolo touched his head and waved his hand again, "Forget it."
Putting on the four-clawed python Baylor robe, Bolo sighed and said, "On the first day of October last year, I followed the Dingguo general Prince Duduo of Henan on his southern expedition. He marched eastward and westward, defeated Xi'an, destroyed the puppet dynasty in Guanzhong, and then captured Nanjing.
It has been eight months since the puppet Ming regime was wiped out. Winter has passed and autumn has come."
These eight months were indeed the most glorious period for the Qing army. The Duduo and Azig armies launched their attacks together, and the entire north of the Yangtze River was gradually leveled. Even south of the Yangtze River, it had already surrendered.
But I've had some trouble lately.
Bo Luo drank tea and asked, "Does Li Yuchun have any new news?"
"Return to the master, there is none at the moment."
"Where's the Qishha?"
"There is also the letter I sent with Li Yuchun earlier."
Bo Luo drank tea and frowned. Li Yuchun was just a fallen general and deputy general. He was asked to go to Pinghaiyan, Jiaxing, where a Ming army rebelled. Instead, he went to Chongde, Tongxiang and other places to rob. Originally, this kind of
Bo Luo also turned a blind eye to the matter. After all, since they went to Jiangnan, too many Ming troops had surrendered.
Azig accepted the surrender of Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng in Jiujiang, with 120,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 40,000 large and small ships. Duduo and the others accepted as many as 250,000 surrendered troops in Jianghuai. Hongguang's
Two of the four towns in Jiangbei surrendered without a fight.
The Eight Banners soldiers that Duduo Boluo and his group went south had only 30,000 soldiers, but when they entered Nanjing, they had 300,000. Later, Duduo divided half of the troops and gave them to Bolo to go to Hangzhou to destroy Zhu Changzi who dared to call himself the supervisor of the country.
Boluo then led 15,000 Eight Banners soldiers and 120,000 Ming surrender troops and went south. He galloped south and quickly arrived in Hangzhou. In one battle, he destroyed this small imperial court that had only been established for five days.
Not to mention how many general soldiers and deputy generals surrendered among the more than 200,000 Ming troops who surrendered in the four towns of Jiangbei, after entering Nanjing, there were thirty-one bachelors, ministers and ministers who surrendered, and sixteen governors.
There is one admiral, fifty-five lieutenants, and countless others below.
When Li Yuchun surrendered in Sizhou, he was only a staff general and was not even ranked among the surrendered generals.
All the way to Hangzhou, the title of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Jiaxing, Xiezhen was actually not worth mentioning. After all, in order to appease these demoted generals, the Qing Dynasty retained their original titles and even gave them promotions.
They established new admirals in each province, and added generals, deputy generals, and staff generals below them. In fact, the current admirals in the Qing Dynasty are equivalent to the generals in the original Ming Dynasty, and the generals are at best equivalent to the past staff generals.
But they used this kind of back-and-forth method to successfully appease these demoted generals and make them very happy. After all, promotion from staff general to deputy general, deputy general to commander-in-chief, always leads to promotion.
Li Yuchun, the newly promoted deputy general, officially had only the two battalions on the left and right of Zhenbiao plus the Chinese army, a total of less than 1,500 people. However, Bolo led the troops all the way south to Hangzhou, and relied on local plunder for food and pay. The Eight Banners soldiers
Priority was given to supply, followed by the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the old traitor and puppet troops such as Kong Youde.
The surrendered troops in the four towns in the north of the Yangtze River were second to none. As for the Ming troops in the south of the Yangtze River who surrendered in anticipation of the wind, there was no hope of receiving food and pay.
Boluo was well aware of the poor discipline of these surrendered soldiers, but he did not do much to stop them. Anyway, these were the lackeys recruited by the Qing Dynasty. When they were hungry, they just went to find food. When they stabilized in the future, they could take their time to deal with it.
"How credible do you think it is that so many local heroes suddenly appeared in Jiaxing?" Bolo asked.
"There are definitely some, but they are just a bunch of idiots, so there is nothing to be afraid of."
Bo Luo nodded, thinking the same way. Since their southern expedition, they have destroyed the Dashun and Nanming imperial courts, and also destroyed the Hangzhou prison state. Whether it was the Dashun army that once broke into Beijing, or the dozens of people known as
The Hongguang Dynasty with tens of thousands of soldiers was not even vulnerable to the Eight Banners soldiers.
These Han regular armies are like this, so what's the use of the servants of the landlords and gentry guarding the courtyard.
It can only be said that Li Yuchun is a idiot. He has also forgotten who said a good word for this guy in front of him before and made him agree to let him help the town of Jiaxing.
"Jishiha reported that there were many rural warriors, and Li Yuchun suffered a big loss. But with precautions, those rural warriors should not be able to do anything to them."
"What I'm considering now is whether to send a team of troops to reinforce them."
"Maybe wait for the news?" Bolo said to himself.
The imperial court had already appointed Hong Chengchou as the governor-general of the Jiangnan provinces to recruit academicians from the Inner Academy of Military Affairs, and appointed Tu Guobao as the governor of Jiangning, Sun Zhixian as the governor of Jiangxi, and Jiang Jinyin as the governor of Huaiyang.
Zhang Cunren was the governor of Zhejiang.
Beijing is recalling the Eight Banners from the Southern Expedition in a step-by-step manner, and assigning governors and other governors to appease and guard the local areas.
Beilek Dehun was also awarded the title of Pingnan General. When he arrived in Jinling, he would become the commander-in-chief of the Eight Banners who stayed in the south of the Yangtze River.
Duduo, Bolo and others will gradually hand over the affairs in their hands, and then lead the main force of the Eight Banners back north.
After all, it has been eight months since this expedition. Now that the overall situation is settled, there are still some minor problems that do not require the army to stay in Jiangnan.
Bolo has also been packing things and busy handing over.
If it hadn't been for the sudden appearance of another King of Lu in eastern Zhejiang to supervise the country, and his actions were quite vigorous, Boluo would have already led his troops back to Jiangling, where he would join Duoduo and return north together.
"Are the troops that Li Yuchun and the others encountered were Hongguang's defeated troops who went south from Susong and other places, or were the Ming troops who went north from eastern Zhejiang and other places to stay behind?"
"It's all possible."
"Then let's wait for the news. As long as Li Yuchun is not a pig, there is no reason for thousands of troops to be eaten by those rebels. After I have handed over everything to Zhang Cunren, Tian Xiong and the others, I will lead my troops to the north. I will stop by there.
After passing through Jiaxing, we will sweep out all these ungrateful people."
"Master Baylor is talking about a group of guys who overestimate their capabilities. When the time comes, we will lead our army northward and sweep them along the way. Regardless of whether they are Lu Jianguo or Yiyang Wang Jianguo, they will all end up being wiped out in ashes."
"Hahaha, that's natural."
Sure enough, in the afternoon, a horse rode into the city and delivered the latest news from Jiaxing's deputy general Li Yuchun.
"Baylor, great victory!"
Li Yuchun defeated an army of 60,000 to 70,000 puppet Ming thieves at Zhujiazhuang in Haiyan. He beheaded Chen Wu, the general in charge of sealing, and Wang Chaoxian, the general in charge of sealing. He also beheaded three deputy generals, seven guerrillas, and Du Si.
There were dozens of defenders and more than 10,000 soldiers were killed...
With such a great victory, General Zheng and his Eight Banner generals, the Zhenguo Generals, paid tribute to Yintu and Gong Adai, the escort commanders Tulai and Nikan, the deputy escort commanders Duude, the vanguard commanders, Baiyintai and Nushan, and the supporter generals Han Dai.
Bei Zibo and Bolo, who were discussing the matter with Tuo, Commander-in-Chief Tong Yangjia and others, were all shocked.
"This damn guy is too exaggerated, falsely claiming his achievements so much!"
A group of Eight Banners generals couldn't help but scold Li Yuchun for being such a coward. Are they treating them as fools? With just a few thousand men and a few thousand and five hundred cavalry, how could he be capable of this?
Furthermore, where did tens of thousands of puppet Ming troops appear in Haiyan?
"Excessive!"
Tong Yangjia, the chief military officer of the Han Army who was born in Zhenglan Banner, said, "Zuo Liangyu from Hubei Province claimed to have 800,000 people when he came down the river, but later when his son surrendered to Prince Ying in Jiujiang, the total number of people counted was only 120,000.
, the false report is about seven times. If according to this method of reporting, Li Yuchun's so-called defeat of 60,000 or 70,000 puppet troops, the actual number is only 89,000 or 10,000 at most."
"It's impossible even if there are ten thousand people." General Zhenguo said in thanks to Yintu.
"Pull together some miscellaneous strong men. Ten thousand people is not a problem. If there are not even ten thousand people, Li Yuchun and Ji Shiha will not ask for help."
Bolo smiled and continued to read, but his face became uglier the more he looked at it.
"What's wrong?" Tong Yangjia asked, "Is this guy bragging even more?"
The smile disappeared from Bolo's face, "Qishha is gone, along with all his five hundred cavalry."
There was dead silence in the hall.
Everyone couldn't believe it.
The Qing army marched southward, marching in all directions, and basically encountered no decent resistance, let alone the situation where a unit like this was completely annihilated.
Even if there are only 500 cavalry and infantry, they are still Eight Banners soldiers.
"How can this be?"
Yes, how is this possible?
The letter was passed among the generals, and some of them did not know Chinese characters, so they asked Tong Yangjia to read it to them. This letter was written by Yan Wo Gong, and it was written very straightforwardly and smoothly, but also had ups and downs in the plot.
In his writing, the battle of Zhujiazhuang was comparable to the decisive battle of Songjin before the Qing army entered the Pass.
In short, the Ming army was attacking from all sides, and there were countless people. However, the Qing army, under the wise command of two generals, Jishiha and Li Yuchun, defeated wave after wave of enemy troops.
In particular, Lord Manzhou Jishiha led his 500 cavalry and Li Yuchun's 500 cavalry, entered and exited the enemy camp seven times, and forcibly killed the enemy's general soldier Chen Wu on his horse, and another
The emperor of the Han Dynasty, the general of the imperial army, only escaped with his own life.
But in the end, Jishiha and the others were extremely exhausted. While chasing the emperor, they had bad luck and were hit by Ming thieves' artillery. Unfortunately, they were seriously injured. Li Yuchun led his troops to rescue them, but they still died. Five hundred Manchurians died.
All the soldiers were eventually killed.
Li Yuchun and others fought back and finally defeated the Ming army that was dying to fight back. Tens of thousands of people were killed in this battle, but the Qing army also lost more than 2,000 lives.
Fortunately, these puppet Ming troops were finally defeated. Now Li Yuchun is leading troops to pursue and sweep them away, vowing to avenge the Manchu soldiers.
Li Yuchun even ordered the entire army to wear sackcloth and mourn for the Manchu soldiers.
There was silence in the hall.
After listening to the beginning just now, everyone felt that Li Yuchun was falsely reporting his achievements and bragging to the sky.
But now, facing the news of Jishiha's death in battle and the annihilation of all five hundred of his cavalry, they all looked serious. Li Yuchun would never dare to talk about such things.
"Jishiha, this little guy, has always been drunk and lustful. He may have been ambushed by a fake thief."
Tu Lai and others still did not believe that Li Yuchun and the others had encountered the so-called 70,000 to 80,000 Ming troops. Where could there be so many Ming troops in Jiangnan now? But since Jishikha died, it meant that some fighting did take place there. He guessed that the most likely possibility was that
Encountered a Ming army fleeing south. Jishiha underestimated the enemy and was accidentally ambushed and annihilated. This Ming army may not be large in number, otherwise Li Yuchun would also be annihilated, instead of Li Yuchun reporting victory with them now.
So this should be an unexpected encounter or an ambush.
"Send someone to kill this thief Li Yuchun!" General Bai Yintu said angrily.
Bolo took a few deep breaths and said, "First send a team to Jiaxing to find out the detailed situation, and then make a decision."
"We have to call Zhang Cunren, Tian Xiong and these guys to come. Li Yuchun is one of their people. Now that such a big thing has happened, they must give an explanation. If we attack Jinling and Hangzhou, we don't have all 500 troops to be wiped out. They must give an explanation."
Let’s explain!” Baiyintu shouted, slapping the table.
The last time a hundred-man bannermen crossed the sea and went south for reconnaissance, they were annihilated, which made them very angry. They didn't expect that the entire five hundred cavalry were gone now.
