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The matter of Wu Sangui's change of flag has far-reaching impact in the long run, but the impact on the current situation of the main battlefield between the Ming and Qing Dynasties is actually not so intuitive.

Whether it is diplomatic posture or righteousness, these things are subtle. The most important thing at hand is that whoever has a strong fist on the battlefield has the last word.

If Daming could carry the Qing army on the front lines of Xinyang and Hefei, everything would be easy to say, but if he couldn’t, it would be useless to have a righteous reputation, and he could only watch the Tartars lead the beasts to eat people.

Fortunately, after two and a half years of farming and recuperation, Daming's combat power has risen by more than one level compared to before the truce!
The Qing army thought it was ready, and looked at the Ming army with the old eyes before the truce, and felt that it was fully prepared this time, so it must pay the price.

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Among the three-way battlefields where the north and the south confronted each other, the first to resume fighting was naturally the old rivals Azig, Prince of Qingying, and Zhang Huangyan, governor of Henan Province in the Ming Dynasty.

Azig suffered from Zhang Huangyan's hand three years ago. At that time, he stormed Nanyang City for half a year, and it dragged on for a whole winter.

The attacking party suffered terribly, but in the end they failed to break through the city, nor could they cross the Tangbai River waterway and let the Qing army's warships enter the Han River.There were also countless casualties, and the exchange ratio of troops' battle losses was far worse than that of the Ming army.Zhang Huangyan was also promoted from Huguang Bingbeidao to Henan governor, and now he is even promoted to governor by virtue of repelling Azig.

So this time when the war started again, the two of them could be regarded as enemies on the line.

The identities of the two are also very suitable to be opponents——

Since Duduo's death, Azige has been Dorgon's only brother. Dorgon is the regent of the Qing court. The court, government, military and government are all in charge, and his brother is outside to supervise the entire front. The internal and external cooperation complements each other.

And in the Ming court in Nanjing, how similar is Zhu Shuren's current status to Dorgon's status in the Qing court?

You, Dorgon, have a brother?When I have no brother?Zhu Shuren really doesn't have a brother, but it's the same to pull his cousin Zhang Huangyan out!

Fortunately, after Azig suffered a loss, he also learned a lot of wisdom, and this time the war was resumed, and he did not act recklessly.

He first made a small-scale tentative attack and defense with the Ming army in Ye County, Fangcheng, and Bowang. Sure enough, he soon discovered that the Ming army in Nanyang was much stronger than it was three years ago.

It is estimated that the size of Zhang Huangyan's new musketeers is between [-] and [-]!If you count the original early-type "Made in Wuchang" and the Lumi blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss, I am afraid that [-] musketeers can easily make it together!

The two armies saw off one or two small-scale field battles between Nanyang and Ye County. Azig found that the enemy army was not easy to fight, so he quickly gave up his illusions and switched to the relatively safe second plan that he had thought about before the war. plan.

Azig stationed heavy troops in Yexian County and Fangcheng, the key points of Tongbai Mountain Pass, allowing the Qing army to focus on defense here, with high fortifications and deep ditches to cut off the Ming army's road from Nanyang Basin to cross Tongbai Mountain, and let the Nanyang Ming army It is impossible to communicate directly with the Ming army in Xinyang Prefecture north of Tongbai Mountain.

Then, Azig moved the main force to the east, preparing to take Xinyang Mansion with all his strength first, capture and digest the area occupied by the Ming army north of Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and then slowly consider breaking through the Dabie Mountains and going south in the future.

Immediately after Azig switched from defense to offense, Zhang Huangyan didn't dare to make a mistake. He couldn't judge whether Azig had really shifted his strategic focus, or whether he was just a feint.

So to be on the safe side, Zhang Huangyan would of course have to observe for ten days and a half months, and only after confirmation can he change his tactics.

Azig began to attack on the tenth day of August. On August 24, he discovered that the production of the Nanyang Basin was unreliable and changed his strategy. Zhang Huangyan observed until the eighth day of September that he confirmed that Azig had really shifted his strategic focus.

Then began to shrink part of the Ming army in Nanyang to Xiangyang later, and at the same time pulled part of the troops originally stationed in Xiangyang through Suizhou, from Xinyang Valley to Xinyang, and reinforced Xinyang defender Liu Guoneng.

After Azige cut off Fangcheng Pass, the main traffic route that crossed Tongbai Mountain, the Ming army was not completely unable to communicate with the Xinyang defenders.

As we all know, there are still several other small roads in Tongbai Mountain, but they are not as smooth and easy as Fangcheng Road, and the transportation cost is much higher.

Seven years ago, when Zhu Shuren wiped out the He Jin and He Yilong tribes of Ge Zuo Wuying, which occupied Xinyang and Suizhou, they walked through the Xinyang Valley of Tongbai Mountain.

Going forward, the Battle of Baiju, which led Sun Wu to write "Sun Tzu's Art of War", was also in this valley. The enemy, eat the enemy for one minute, and be my enemy for twenty minutes."

Sun Wu can calculate that one bell counts for twenty, so the transportation loss is not big. Even if the road engineering technology of the Ming Dynasty is much more advanced than that of the Spring and Autumn Period, there must still be several bells for one bell.

Therefore, Azig on the opposite side also understands this point. He is betting that after the Fangcheng pass is blocked, the Ming army will have to go to Xinyang Valley and cross Tongbai Mountain to supply Xinyang.

However, the Qing army can go south directly from the Huaihe River and Ruying to supply supplies. One side has to cross the Dabie Mountains and the other side does not need it. many!

It's a pity that people who have the same idea as Azig have actually appeared a few years ago-the last person who thought this way was named Li Zicheng, who thought so in the 15th year of Chongzhen.

The final outcome was a tug-of-war between Xinyang, Chen, and Cai, and was finally defeated by Zhu Shuren in the decisive battle in Chen County. Li Zicheng defeated a full 20 peasant army!

Azig also has no other choice. He failed the old path three years ago, and he must not repeat it. Then he will walk the path Li Zicheng walked six years ago.

Azig firmly believed that it was not that the strategy of this route was bad, but that Li Zicheng was bad.

His Azige's brilliance and martial arts beat Li Zicheng by more than several times?Let him make a move, and use the same move, it is very likely to turn decay into magic!

It's just that Azig's strategy is destined to take a long time to see the effect-since it is a logistical attrition war, it can't be attacked as soon as it comes up, but slowly consumes the supplies of the defenders of Xinyang Mansion, and so on. The defenders' stocks were almost used up and needed to be transported from the rear so that the Qing army could seize the opportunity.

Therefore, Azig first divided his troops to try to encircle Shangcai and Chen counties, and then advanced to Xinyang to divide and encircle the main strongholds of the Ming army.

The Ming army actually chose a temporary strategic contraction. After resisting for more than ten days in Chen County, they retreated and retracted the remaining defenders in Chen County to Shangcai. The two cores of Shangcai and Xinyang maintain the Huaixi line of defense.

Facing Governor Zhang Huangyan's order to shrink the troops, Liu Guoneng, who had guarded the Xinyang Mansion for many years, felt very aggrieved at first, and wanted to call for a fight several times, so he pushed back directly.

But Zhang Huang said that the supervisory order was very strict, and he had a secret conversation with him personally: "Our army has temporarily abandoned Chen County. After the frontier materials are assembled, even if Shangcai is surrounded to death, it will be no problem to stick to it for two months.

The Qing army attacked on multiple fronts, attempting to swallow up the Huainan land north of the Dabie Mountains, but the imperial court's counterattack strategy was different.It is difficult for our army to supply supplies in Xinyang, which is not conducive to large-scale advances. It cannot be used as the focus of the first stage of defensive counterattack. It is just like three years ago to hold Azig back.

The lord is in charge of the overall situation, and his vision is much higher than ours. In the first stage, he will focus on dealing with Abatai, Boluo, Yue Le and his son on the front line of Fengyang-Hefei.

Hefei is on the eastern edge of the Dabie Mountains, and the terrain is already flat. The Feishui River is convenient for transporting a large amount of troops, horses, money, food and armaments, and can make a much larger situation.Once a decisive breakthrough has been made in the direction of Fengyang in Hefei, and the hearts of the Tatars are unstable, we in Xinyang will use fewer troops to expand the battle northward, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort. "

Liu Guoneng still trusted Zhang Huangyan's statement, so he had to bear it for the time being.

Zhang Huangyan and Liu Guoneng played support once three years ago, and now they can only play the second battle. Why did they have bad traffic conditions here?

With the resumption of war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than half a month, the confrontation line of the war situation has been sorted out a little. People of insight from both the North and the South have all realized by coincidence:
This year's main decisive battle will probably take place in the northern Anhui Plain between Fengyang and Hefei.

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The words are divided into three parts.

On August [-]th in the third year of Longwu, Nanjing.

Azig launched the attack on the [-]th day of August, while Abatai, Boluo and others in Fengyang launched the attack on the [-]th day of August. There was only five days between the two armies.

So on August [-]th, it was only two or three days before the news of the complete resumption of the frontline war came back to Nanjing.

As for Wu Sangui from Shaanxi officially raised the flag to help the Ming fight against the Qing, although it happened on the first day of August, it was ten days earlier.

However, considering the areas under the control of Shaanxi and Nanming, there is no way to communicate through Tongguan Road and Heluo Road. All news needs to be conveyed from Fang Kongzhang in Sichuan through the Qinling Mountains.

Therefore, the news that Wu Sangui officially raised the flag anyway, was not obviously delivered earlier than the news of the Huaixi battlefield, and it was almost front and rear.

In the past three days, the emergency documents received in Nanjing City can be said to be as dense as snowflakes.

"The tartars are attacking again! I heard that Shangcai and Shou counties have been surrounded! The tartars here in Huai'an are also making a lot of noise!"

"There are so many roads attacking at the same time? After enjoying peace for several years, after all, they can't hide!"

Even though Daming finally succeeded in winning the defensive battle in the last war and counterattacked to regain Huainan, the psychological shadow left by the Qing army's raging for decades still made many civil servants in the court feel timid.

Many civil servants who don't know how to fight may have almost panicked when they heard that Kublai Khan invaded the south again after repelling Kublai Khan in the Ezhou Battle of the Southern Song Dynasty and after a 13-year truce.

However, even if Kublai Khan committed the crime after 13 years of truce, the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty had a backbone at the beginning, and that was to count on Jia Sidao, who repelled Kublai Khan in the Ezhou Battle, to be able to turn the tide and play the savior again.

At this moment, those wastes in the Nanming court who don't know soldiers also wrote letters one after another, requesting Zhu Shuren, Prince E, to personally supervise the division and repel the Tartars.

Zhu Shuren bears the title of the Great Governor and the temperance of Chinese and foreign military forces, and he is indeed obliged to take charge of the overall situation.

Seeing the earnest request of the ministers, Emperor Longwu Zhu Changhao had no choice but to ask his son-in-law to discuss it.

In Zhu Changhao's impression, other civil servants have hardly criticized Zhu Shuren in the past one or two years, nor asked Zhu Shuren to do anything. He originally thought that Zhu Shuren had completely controlled the government.

Now knowing that there are still so many civil servants who dare to point fingers at his son-in-law, Zhu Changhao's mood is really complicated.

On the one hand, he also hopes that his daughter, son-in-law and grandson can firmly grasp the power and make a good transition.On the other hand, he himself is the emperor after all, and if his son-in-law is too strong and gets everything he says, he is also worried that he will be completely ostracized.

After Zhu Shuren was recruited, Zhu Changhao asked him his opinion a little nervously: "All the ministers strongly advise you to personally supervise the teachers, what do you think?"

Zhu Shuren glanced at it quickly, and promised with great energy: "The reward of eating the king is a matter of loyalty. I have received the kindness of my father and the emperor, and the people of the world look forward to it. I will do my best to protect my Ming Dynasty.

This time the Tartars dared to come, not only to take advantage of the opportunity to attack, maybe they could take advantage of the situation to make a northern expedition and recover the Central Plains!The minister is willing to personally lead the heavy troops in Gyeonggi, cross the river to Hefei to supervise the division, and adapt to the situation. "

Zhu Changhao looked into his son-in-law's eyes, observed for a long time, and sighed: "Your said so, I feel at ease. In the palace, you don't have to worry, I will take care of you, you just need to do your best."

After leaving Qianqing Palace, Zhu Shuren was just about to go to Chunhe Palace to meet his wife and son, but at the gate of the palace, he saw Gu Yanwu, the chief secretary of the Governor's Mansion, waiting there.Zhu Shuren stopped temporarily, and ordered casually:

"Brother Tinglin, help Gu to write a copy of "Teacher's List". You don't want to have the literary talent of Marquis Wu, but you must also be worthy of being uploaded in the historical annals and passed down to future generations. I am sorry for the exhaustion and bluntness. All!"

"I would like to obey Jun's order." Gu Yanwu took the order with a bow, and went to dance without mentioning it.

Zhu Shuren turned around a few pools and pavilions, and walked into the Chunhe Palace, and the eunuchs and maids at the door were not stopped by anyone——

Although the little emperor's grandson living in the Chunhe Palace is now Zhu Shuren's "nephew" (wife's nephew) in name, theoretically, uncles should go through the procedure to ask for instructions when visiting their nephew.But in fact, no one cares about it at all.

As soon as Zhu Shuren entered the door, he saw his wife Zhu Yuchan running around with a one-year-old and seven-month-old Zhu Ciyu.Children less than two years old are at their most naughty. After learning to run, they want to run around and cannot be stopped at all.

As for learning to speak, I started to learn to call my parents when I was about seven or eight months old. When I was one year old, I was able to call most of my relatives and know some things. Now I am one year old, seven or eight months old, and I can barely speak short sentences.

Zhu Shuren stopped in front of Zhu Ciyu who was running without looking at the road. Zhu Ciyu didn't stop until he hit him, and then stumbled backwards.

The maid who was running next to him jumped and rolled quickly, and rolled behind the emperor's grandson as a cushion.Sure enough, Zhu Ciyu fell backwards and sat down on the maid's body, fully cushioned and unharmed.

Zhu Shuren couldn't help but shook his head, for fear that the child would die young, he had overprotected him since birth, so that he was so arrogant.In the future, I will gradually become sensible, and if I continue to act recklessly like this, I am afraid that I will be raised as a waste. Daming Jiangshan will be handed over to a waste, and I have worked hard to build it all my life. I am afraid that it will also be wasted.

When the child is a little older, it will not be easy to die, and the lesson should be taught.

"Get up! From now on, if you run around and fall, don't let others put you on your back! You'll know it hurts when you fall a few times!"

Zhu Shuren had a straight face, but he didn't say anything about the polite "don't do to others what you don't want to do to others". The two-year-old kid can't understand a word, so of course he can only tell him "I know it hurts when I fall." This most superficial common sense of survival.

Zhu Ciyu was also afraid of him, so he obediently admitted: "Yes, father."

Zhu Shuren's decree pattern twitched, and said softly without expression: "Call uncle."

Zhu Ciyu was very puzzled and didn't know how to shout.And this delay, Zhu Yuchan has already rushed over.

She hurriedly whispered: "The child is still too young to turn around. When he was just learning to speak, he was taught to call him father, queen, mother and concubine in private. Now he can't change his mind. I will change it slowly when I become sensible. , this kind of thing is not urgent, and no outsider has heard it."

A year ago, when Zhu Ciyu was just learning how to call his parents, Zhu Yuchan would not pay attention to court etiquette and red tape to his son, of course he taught him to call according to natural blood.

It takes a long time for babies to learn things, and because of nature, it is easier to pronounce the sounds of parents and mothers in natural pronunciation, which is the same regardless of race or ethnicity.

Once the initial knowledge is consolidated, it is very troublesome to forcibly reverse it.According to modern medicine, it is basically only after the age of three that complex narratives of this level can be understood.

Zhu Shuren had no choice but to give up for the time being, patted Zhu Ciyu's head, gave him a few simple lectures, and asked him to play beside him.Today he mainly came to see Zhu Yuchan.

"Father has already received countless memorials from the officials. In three days, Gu will leave Beijing to lead the army to supervise Hefei. Brother Cangshui and Liu Guoneng are supporting Azig, and Li Fuming is in Huaiyang.

Sitting alone in Hefei, as long as Abatai, Boluo, and Yue Le are repelled, the hearts of Nanjing will be stable again. It will not take long for the follow-up to pursue, and naturally they will assign generals, and they will not do it themselves. "

Zhu Shuren promised casually, regardless of whether he could do it or not, these words were just to reassure his wife, don't think too much about it.

Sure enough, Zhu Yuchan was still a little bit reluctant, her big eyes were watery, and she held her husband's arm and shook it: "Are you going to conscript yourself again? Why do you have to do it yourself when you become a prince? I have seen all the officials in the court for the past two years. , why did they make a fuss again when things came to an end?"

Zhu Shuren said awe-inspiringly: "What's there to blame the officials for? Isn't this what they should do alone! Speaking of power, did Jia Sidao have little power in the Southern Song Dynasty? When Kublai Khan came again, he had to personally supervise the teachers.

The power and power of the country was originally established by resisting foreign aggression. Whoever can protect our Ming Dynasty is worthy of the gratitude of the people of the world and the support of the soldiers.What's more, I just went to Hefei, which was not much more dangerous than the last battle before the truce three years ago. Didn't I also go to Yangzhou to supervise the division in that battle? "

Zhu Yuchan pouted for a while, then asked in a low voice: "If you win the battle, do you have to personally lead the troops to pursue it? The child is still so young, you are still willing to stay away."

Zhu Shuren: "If the counterattack can take Fengyang City, it must be entered after the war. At least the central capital will be recovered. In other places, even if we want to counterattack, we will not cross the Huaihe River, so we will stay in Hefei. This is the head office. right?"

Zhu Yuchan got her husband's guarantee, so she turned back into anger and reluctantly agreed.

But she thought about it, and explained a few more questions, which were nothing more than food and daily life, so that Zhu Shuren would not have to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers even if they were leading the army. After all, they are all princes, so they should be specialized.

Regarding these clichés, Zhu Shuren of course reassured her that she would not deliberately put on a show.

Zhu Yuchan asked again: "Sister Ziling and her husband are also considered newlyweds. They have only been married for four or five months. You should think carefully about how to pass her - go to Hefei, won't you still bring a concubine? If you can, It's good to take it with you, at least I have someone to take care of me, I won't be jealous."

Zhu Shuren was taken aback by this question, and then said after deliberation: "My wife said so... I can take two of them to Hefei, and I have a caretaker. Of course, I will only bring them to Hefei city, and will not bring them to the barracks.

Gu is not lustful, and he doesn't decide who to take based on his looks, so let's just take Ziling and Yujing. After all, they are good at writing, and they have also made meritorious service for the court, and have made achievements in publicizing and disturbing the enemy's army.Stay with you, maybe you can do some publicity work.

In the past few years, the political affairs of the court and the Central Committee have been reformed and reformed, which can be regarded as a lot of enlightenment. Since Mi's brother sent Ziling to work in the Jiangning Research Institute, the subsequent ladies who are educated are gradually allowed to participate in these closed-door research and academic discussions.In the future, there will definitely be more and more female officials that I, Ming, can open up to. It is good to set an example for the world. "

Of course, Zhu Shuren also knew how strict and cruel Ming's ethics are now, so he didn't expect to take too many steps to talk about it. Although there were such things as female officials in the early Ming Dynasty, it would be extremely difficult to restore them now.

Therefore, in the past few years when the war ceased and farming, and the internal affairs were gradually rectified, Zhu Shuren only used some transactional female officials in some academic and naturalist research positions, as well as in some cultural propaganda positions.

The general principle is to prevent women from coordinating things and managing others, and only let them do things without caring about people.

It was difficult for male officials in the Ming Dynasty to tolerate women directing them above their heads, but if they were allowed to direct women and women to do specific things, the resistance would be less.

Of course, if there are more and more women on certain front lines in the future, or if they are mainly women, then we can still select management posts from among women, and then ensure that their subordinates are also women.If women control women, not so many people will object.

Any reform must start from a soft persimmon.

Zhu Yuchan also knew about these recent developments, so she didn't think too much about it, and let her husband take Fang Ziling and Bian Yujing to Hefei.

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After three days of emergency rectification, Zhu Shuren mobilized [-] central troops stationed around Nanjing and various places in the south of the Yangtze River to march north from Caishiji to reinforce Hefei.

Of course, there were more than 10 troops participating in the war.Daming had always had heavy troops stationed on the Huainan front all year round, and the total number of troops deployed on the entire defense line totaled 30.

There are tens of thousands stationed on the front lines of Hanzhong and Baoji in Sichuan.

Nearly 10 people are stationed on the Xiangyang-Nanyang-Xinyang side of the middle road all the year round.

More than 8 people are stationed in Hefei and its surrounding areas, including Shouxian County, Chaohu Lake and other important military areas.

There are also [-] to [-] in Yangzhou and Huai'an in the east.

So Zhu Shuren pushed the 18 strategic reserve team from Jiangnan to the front line of Hefei. Together with the original [-] army in the Hefei theater, [-] people can deal with Abatai, Yue Le, and Boluo.

If it is not enough, we can continue to draw reinforcements from Huguang and Jiangnan in the rear.When Zhu Shuren was in Huguang and Sichuan, he could have 30 soldiers.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has been developing farming for several years, the imperial army originally belonging to Nanzhili, as well as soldiers and horses from Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian have all been reorganized and retrained by Zhu Shuren to make up for the vacant salary. The total regular army he can mobilize has also been at least Doubled, the total number of no less than 60.

This mobilization ratio is still very low. To a certain extent, it has followed the route of elite soldiers, and it has also taken into account the follow-up speed of military production.If it was mobilized like the Qing court in the north, it would not be difficult for Zhu Shuren to mobilize 100 million cannon fodder.

After all, there are new types of weapons that can be used, but it is not in line with Zhu Shuren's style to insist on following the tactical route of crowds and get a lot of soldiers to fight with inferior weapons.When there are too many people, it is easy to lose heart and morale, and it is not easy to worry about inequality.

Just imagine if the imperial court can produce rifles and water-forged steel armor in large quantities, but let more soldiers go to war without rifles and steel armor, what will those soldiers who cannot allocate good weapons think.