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Chapter 359 Azig on the left and Duoduo on the right
Li Zicheng committed suicide, Zuo Liangyu was assassinated on the sickbed by his subordinates who abandoned the secret and turned to the bright, and most of the fleeing armed forces in Xiangyang and Nanyang were also collected by Zhu Shuren.

This harvest seems to be huge, and it is really a great achievement.
It not only saved tens of thousands of troops who would have turned to the Tartars as traitors in history for the civilization of the Han people, but also improved the situation of the Ming and Qing military confrontation.He also avenged the regicide for the late Emperor Chongzhen, which cannot be overstated.

It's a pity that in the final analysis, the world is still a chess game that cannot be divided. In order to realize all this, Zhu Shuren delayed at least 20 days.When he completed this step, it was already October of the 17th year of Chongzhen.

As early as 20 days ago, Fu Wang took the territory of Fengyang Mansion and Guide Mansion to surrender to Duoduo one after another. During the period since then, official documents from the imperial court asking for help on the eastern front have also been pouring in like snowflakes.

They are all discussing asking Zhu Shuren to stop the military operations between Huguang and Henan, and to send more main forces to Nanjing for reinforcements.Judging from the contents of those letters, Duoduo took only about ten days to receive and pass through the territory of the false King Fu, and then began to attack the counties of Yangzhou Prefecture.

Shi Kefa also organized troops to defend, but the counties on the outskirts of Yangzhou Prefecture were only able to hold off for a few days.The last urgent document that Zhu Shuren received showed that the offensive and defensive battle of Yangzhou City was about to start.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Shuren was His Majesty's son-in-law, and it was impossible to betray His Majesty, then Zhao Gou's intention to summon Zhu Shuren's army might be as urgent as Zhao Gou's twelve gold medals for recruiting Yue Fei's class teacher.

Zhu Shuren also knew that he would not be able to keep up with the Yangzhou defense battle anyway, because even if he sent his troops eastward along the river before Li Zicheng died, it would take at least ten days for the army to reach Nanjing without any delay.

And his understanding of the Qing army is far deeper than that of other Nanming officials - most of the other Nanming civil officials always regard the Qing people as barbarians with little military technology, but are only good at bows and horses.

Even in history, when Shi Kefa himself defended Yangzhou, he never expected that Duoduo could organize so many Hongyi cannons to bombard the city wall, which is why the Battle of Yangzhou was fought like that.

In this life, Zhu Shuren, a sharp-sighted colleague, helped to remind Shi Kefa repeatedly: Facing Duduo's Qing army, a strong city and a thick wall are not enough to rely on. The enemy, it is better to rely on the Yangtze River, Huaihe, Hanshui and other natural water systems to delay the enemy.

After all, the navy of the Qing army is really not good enough, and the Ming army can't easily cross the river to fight if it is blocked by the Ming army.

In addition, because of the butterfly effect brought by Zhu Shuren, it is impossible for Shi Kefa to sit in the center in this life, and it is impossible to go to Yangzhou to supervise the division in person, so Yangzhou's city defense naturally has another appointed general to guard it.

Shi Kefa was warned repeatedly in advance, so he was naturally mentally prepared that Yangzhou might fall temporarily, and asked the troops to organize the transfer of money, food, materials and people, and temporarily moved to Jiangnan.

In the end, without Zhu Shuren getting the news in time, Yangzhou was destroyed under the attack of Duduo for several days. Cross the river and retreat.

This kind of temporary retreat and forbearance is still acceptable.

After all, if people lose land, all people and land exist.If you lose your land, you will lose your land.Daming had already lost a lot of land, and if Yangzhou was temporarily lost for a few months, Zhu Shuren naturally vowed that Duoduo would double the repayment in the future.

Such a large-scale retreat would inevitably be mixed in by the camouflage sent by the Qing army in advance before the arrival of the army.However, across the river, it is impossible for these fine works to have an immediate effect.

Shi Kefa also knew this, and he also weighed the pros and cons, knowing that he had to endure this disadvantage for the time being, so he could only hope to continue to stabilize the Jiang defense, isolate the news, and try to be as stable as possible.

All of a sudden, Shi Kefa ordered all the city to be under martial law, and the city gates were closed. Except for the supplies escorted by the imperial army, as well as the soldiers, messengers, and scouts deployed for defense, other ordinary people were not allowed to enter or leave the city.

In the city of Nanjing, there were some who complained about this, and some were shaken. However, Shi Kefa was in charge of the military department, and with the assistance of Shen Tingyang, they could completely control the army south of the Yangtze River, and the opponents could not make waves for a while.

In addition, in the temporarily occupied city of Yangzhou, not everyone withdrew. Some of the wealthy and salt merchants with a lot of local farms and entanglements feared that if they ran away with the court, the Duduo Qing army would enter the city. Liquidate and confiscate their estates, and their lands will not be recognized in the future,

Therefore, quite a few of these people chose to secretly contact Duoduo and stay in Yangzhou, wanting to be the guides in exchange for the recognition of their legal industry by the Qing Dynasty——

But let alone, it is not surprising that these people have such thoughts.Because the Qing army had burned, killed and looted in the north during the Huangtaiji period, but this time after Dorgon came to power, in the first few months, in order to put on a posture of fighting for the world, he once asked his subordinates to restrain themselves.

It is not surprising that these wealthy Yangzhou, salt merchants, and landowners in Huaihe and Huaihe Rivers were deceived by this illusion and thought that they could save their property by surrendering to the enemy.

Of course, this kind of restraint is by no means a change of temper by the dog tartar, it is completely put on temporarily forbearance, in order to weaken the resistance and fighting spirit of the Han people.

Therefore, when the Qing army took over North China and the Central Plains in history, the resistance of the people and the local army was very weak.It wasn't until after Duo Duo fought the Yangtze River that he felt that the world was settled and that Nanming could not turn the tables, Dorgon and Duo Duo's fangs were completely and undisguisedly revealed.

The famous order of "Keep the head but not the hair, keep the hair and not the head" order, and the subsequent cleansing and massacres, were only promulgated in the Jiangnan area after Duoduo entered Nanjing in history.On the one hand, this is to completely destroy the resistance will of the Han scholar-bureaucrat class, and on the other hand, it is purely necessary to find an excuse to massacre and loot on a large scale.

Otherwise, the people would directly become the people of the Qing Dynasty, so what excuse would they have to plunder the obedient people under their rule?

The people were forced to be unwilling to shave their heads, and the massacre happened in the most affluent Jiangnan.Killing the fewest people will grab the most wealth, money and food, which is extremely efficient.

Therefore, in my conscience, after the Qing army entered the customs, the Han people in the north did not resist much, but the people in the south of the Yangtze River resisted very fiercely. Later, there were massacres in Jiangyin, Kunshan, and Jiading. If you lose your integrity, just submit obediently.The forbearance and cunning of the Qing people also played a considerable role in it.

When they fought in the north, they didn't show the side of forcing people to shave their heads and provocatively massacre the city. The people in the north didn't know their despicableness and shamelessness. Can be considered cheated.

At this moment, Doduo still doesn't feel that the overall situation is settled.Although he entered Yangzhou City, he still knew that the Yangtze River defense line in front of him was very difficult to overcome.

He needs the rich merchants, common people, sailors, and Han people from all walks of life in Jiangbei to make up for his shortcomings in the Qing Dynasty's navy, so that he can have a chance to make great achievements. Rich, he chose to keep the contract to preserve his family's small property, as long as they donate ships to help the army and help recruit sailors.

Of course, killing must be done. After all, they have arrived in a rich land. The Duduo army has come all the way. Except for ordnance, other supplies are actually very scarce. If they are not allowed to grab one, the troops will not have the morale to cross the river later. fight.

Therefore, as long as they did not follow Shi Kefa to lead the people across the river, and did not greet him in advance to lead the way, the rest of the people were still frantically killed by Duoduo, and all their properties were looted for military resources.

In history, it is said that 80 people died in the "Ten Days in Yangzhou". This life lasted only three days, and at least tens of thousands of people died.It was declared to the outside world that "these soldiers and civilians resisted the Qing army under the deployment of Shi Kefa, so they were massacred. The subsequent cities in the south of the Yangtze River, as long as they surrender without a fight and open the city without blood, they will all be exempt from massacres."

This rhetoric was quite deceptive for a while, because as early as the early 16th year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng had just established his account, he had already announced a similar policy.Duoduo this time is just picking up the wisdom of others and following the example.

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Duoduo progressed smoothly in Huaiyang, and the lone army went deep into Guazhoudu in Yangzhou. Even the other counties to the east of the main city of Yangzhou and under Yangzhou Prefecture (later Taizhou, Nantong and other places belonged to Yangzhou Prefecture at the end of Ming Dynasty), Duoduo I don't have the energy to fully grasp it for the time being.He just wanted to cut through the Nanming defense area quickly and cross the river as soon as possible.

In order to achieve his own strategic goals, Duduo would of course make full use of resources, so when he was preparing to attack the main city of Yangzhou, he sent an urgent Pegasus messenger six hundred miles away to contact Azig in the Kaifeng area.

I hope that Azig's West Route Army will leave the Guanzhong area alone and go directly south from Heluo and Kaifeng to help him contain Zhu Shuren and prevent Zhu Shuren's troops from returning to defend Nanjing too quickly.Only in this way can a time gap be created for Duoduo to storm across the river and take Nanjing.

When Azig received Duduo's request for help, he didn't dare to shirk too much.On the one hand, history has now seen a huge butterfly effect——

In the original history, Azig wanted to personally attack Xi'an with the main force, and then found an opportunity to break through the Qinling Mountains and enter Hanzhong, and finally got involved with the Zhang Xianzhong regime.

Given the difficulty of the Shu Road, the defense line of the Qinling Mountains was originally impossible to break through easily. The key to Azig's success in history is that Zhang Xianzhong and the Ming Dynasty Sichuan guards fought each other in the Shu land at that time, and Hanzhong fell alone. In Li Zicheng's hands, the land of Shu was not monolithic, and no one was on guard against entering the Sichuan mountain road, which gave Azig a chance.

Today's Sichuan was pacified by Zhu Shuren a year and a half ago. From Chengdu to Hanzhong, they were all united under one military flag. Azig naturally knew that there was no chance of entering Sichuan.

The change in Wu Sangui's status, the deal he reached with the Qing army to "abandon Guanning in exchange for the Qing army allowing him to pursue Li Zicheng's Guanzhong part" and various factors have made Azig's westward mission basically completed. There is no other direction to be busy at the moment.

In this way, the mission to the west came to an end ahead of time, and Azig, who had freed up his hands, was going to find some new troubles and provocations. The troops were stationed in Heluo and Kaifeng, and it was logical to go south to Nanyang and Xiangyang.

This is not only for Azig himself, but also for his Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, it is to give Duduo, Dorgon's mother and brother, a little face, and to ease the relationship between Azige and his highest decision-making level in the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Shuren originally thought that after killing Li Zicheng and assassinating Zuo Liangyu with great difficulty, he would be free to deal with Duoduo after recruiting most of his followers.

But this unexpected butterfly effect actually made him fall into a new quagmire - he took back the land of Nanyang Mansion from Zuo Liangyu, but this land has become a new hot potato.

Just as he occupied Nanyang, Azig's Manchu and Mongolian cavalry took advantage of the chaos to seize Yique Pass, Taigu Pass and Fangcheng Valley Pass, controlling the surrounding mountains of Nanyang Basin.

For a while, Azig could advance, attack and retreat.

However, if Zhu Shuren wants to defend Nanyang, which has been extremely poor and has been scraped three feet by Zuo Liangyu for several years, he has to invest a huge amount of troops, and even has to prepare for a decisive field battle with the main force of the West Road Qing army!

And once Zhu Shuren invested too many troops, he would have to transport a large amount of food from Xiangyang to the front line of Nanyang.Because the Nanyang area has been looted by Zuo Liangyu, the population is getting less and less every year, and there is no way to support more troops.Zuo Liangyu's tens of thousands of people have been supported by the money and grain of this mansion for the past few years, and they still have to squeeze out all the bone marrow.

(End of this chapter)