The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

At the same time, Li Dingguo also led his troops back to Mengla, and Chen Bing was on the Sino-Myanmar border, threatening Yunnan.

If a conflict breaks out between Daming and Wu Sangui, then Li Dingguo can send troops to Yunnan at any time to contain Wu Sangui from the flank.

Of course, the current situation in the world, whether it is Wu Sangui or Li Dingguo, is only marginal.

What can really determine the direction of the world situation is actually this large-scale decisive battle in Jiangnan.

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It snowed for two whole days!

The entire Taihu Lake was surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness.

The sun shines on the snow, and the crystal ice and snow reflect the dazzling light.

After the snow stopped, the war broke out again!

After two days of recuperation, the Ming army regained its physical strength and morale.

However, the Ming army was just about to attack again, but the Qing army took the initiative to kill them.

Amidst the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the Qing army rushed up like a tide.

"Kill!"

"Fire!"

"Kill the enemy!"

"..."

The fighting broke out instantly.

Facing the active attack of the Qing army, the Ming army was still prepared to adopt the original tactics.

The first is passive defense, and after the Qing army's vigor is exhausted and the offensive slows down, then the superior force will concentrate on a breakthrough.

However, Zhu Hongyu noticed the abnormality just after the battle started.

The offensive of the Qing army is abnormal!

In this attack, the Qing army used a lot of troops, and at a glance, there were black crows.

But the offensive strength is very insufficient!

Zhu Hongyu raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the battlefield. He clearly found that many of the attacking Qing troops didn't even have military uniforms.

It turned out that most of the people were wearing ordinary uniforms, and only a few soldiers wearing green battalion uniforms were sporadically mixed in.

Judging by their performance, they seem to be supervising the battle!

None of the Eight Banners soldiers showed up!

Zhu Hongyu made a very obvious judgment.

"The Qing prisoner is asking the green battalion to supervise the battle, and let the civilian husbands go to the battlefield to charge."

"I'm afraid the main force of the Qing army is going to run away?!"

It can only be said that Zhu Hongyu's judgment was very accurate. As soon as his voice fell, there was a change in the Qing army's camp.

Teams of Qing cavalry roared out, but instead of heading towards the battlefield, they headed straight north.

Behind these cavalry, groups of infantry came out of the camp and went straight north.

A raging fire ignited in the camp of the Qing army. It was the food and grass that the Qing army could not take away.

Now, the intention of the Qing army is very clear, it is to run!
The calmness on Zhu Hongyu's face disappeared.

But he didn't panic, because he knew that the Qing army couldn't escape!
Before the war, Zhu Hongyu's positioning for the decisive battle in the south of the Yangtze River was to wipe out the main force of the Qing army going south in the south of the Yangtze River.

In other words, if he could not wipe out the Qing army, but let the main force of the Qing army escape the river.

To some extent, the Ming army lost half of this decisive battle.

The reason why it is said to be half lost, not all lost!
That's because in any case, in this battle, the Ming army successfully repelled the main force of the Qing army that invaded the south, and even captured the entire Jiangnan.

It's just that the strategic goal has not been fully achieved, so naturally it cannot be regarded as a total loss.

But even so, in Zhu Hongyu's view, as long as the Ming army failed to wipe out the main force of the Qing army in this battle, it would not be considered a success.

And the reason why he is sure that the Qing army can't escape!
That's because he had already dispatched the sailors ahead of time!
If the Qing army wanted to withdraw from the south of the Yangtze River, it must cross the Yangtze River.

However, Zhu Hongyu had dispatched the navy of the Ming army ahead of time and entered the Yangtze River, preparing to block the return of the Qing army.

In other words, that is, the current Qing army has been bored in the south of the Yangtze River by Zhu Hongyu!

Even if Zhu Hongyu asked the Qing army to run for a few days first, even if the Qing army reached the edge of the Yangtze River, they would not be able to cross the river!

When the Ming army's follow-up troops arrived, those Qing troops would still be wiped out.

It's just that the battlefield has changed from the shores of Taihu Lake to the banks of the Yangtze River!
That's it!

Therefore, Zhu Hongyu was really not in a hurry when he watched the Qing army flee.

Commanded in a calm tone.

"Forget about the fleeing Qing army, the most important thing is to fight the current battle well!"

Two to three million civilian husbands is not a small number!

Eating and digesting these 30 to [-] civilians in one bite is also a very important matter for Daming, which is currently experiencing a labor shortage.

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Tuhai galloped away, and Geshha, a soldier beside him, flicked his whip, urging the horse to speed up.

Teams of Qing cavalry headed north all the way towards Suzhou.

The Qing army never rested all the way, passing through Suzhou and Wuxi, and then heading towards Jiangyin.

I want to cross the river from Jiangyin, and return from Jiangnan to Jiangbei.

During this process, the Ming army quickly took down the civilian husband who was thrown on the battlefield by the Qing army, and then launched a pursuit of the Qing army.

The pursuers of the Ming army did not attack the main force of the Qing army, but continued to harass them.

Cutting the strength of the Qing army bit by bit, let the Qing army break away from the main formation of the Qing army, continuously divide the strength of the Qing army, and eat up bit by bit.

Keep bleeding the Qing army fleeing north!

More and more Qing troops were wiped out, or simply dropped their weapons and surrendered to the Ming army.

More of the Qing army collapsed and fled, becoming wandering soldiers and scattered warriors, who could no longer pose a threat to the Ming army.

In the process of fleeing northward, the Qing army lost at least half of its weight.

When the troops originally withdrew from Jiaxing and went north, the Qing army still had about [-] to [-] troops.

But after the Qing army retreated all the way north and arrived in Jiangyin, there were only 7 to [-] people left.

Of course, among the 10 people, not many were actually wiped out and captured by the Ming army!

Most of them collapsed during the northward retreat, and became scattered soldiers, unable to concentrate.

After the decisive battle was over, the Ming army was busy in order to clear up these wandering soldiers!

Tu Hai was stationed by the Ma River, looking back at the worrisome Qing army soldiers and horses behind him, whose numbers were reduced by half, his face was full of exhaustion.

More than 50 troops, known as [-] to the outside world, marched southward.

How long is this!
Of the 20 troops, there were only 7 to [-] left, and they fled in embarrassment.

The only thing that made Tu Hai feel a little relieved was that most of the Eight Banners soldiers in the Southern Expedition Army, except those who died on the battlefield, were preserved.

During the northward retreat, those who were annihilated or dispersed by the Ming army were basically green battalion soldiers.

For Tuhai, this is also a blessing in misfortune.

Looking at the vast river that can't be seen at a glance, Tu Hai said with a sense of melancholy.

"Now the army has retreated to Jiangbei in embarrassment. I don't know when I want to counterattack Jiangnan again in the future!"

More than half of the army of more than [-] people was beaten, which is definitely a heart-wrenching thing for the Qing Dynasty today.

At the very least, within two or three years, the Qing court will no longer be able to counterattack Jiangnan!

For today's Qing court, this decisive battle in the south of the Yangtze River is similar to the battle of Sarhu in the late Ming Dynasty.

After Saarhu, the elite Ming army suffered heavy losses and lost their strategic initiative in Liaodong!
After the Battle of Jiangnan, the Qing army suffered heavy losses and lost its strategic initiative in Jiangnan.