Nanming Yiming

Chapter 193 Hauge's Death
The news of the Ming army's arrival in Wuchang surprised Bo Luo. Originally, he sent He Luohui to support Kong Youde to go south to Changsha, thinking that the final decision could be made.Unexpectedly, in less than a month, almost all the troops who went south to Changsha were wiped out, and He Luohui led only a thousand people to retreat to Wuchang.

Originally, Poyang and other places had been in the hands of the Ming army, and my east side had been exposed to the Ming army's front. Thanks to the Hukou as a barrier, the Ming army would not directly threaten Jiujiang;

Although Boluo was unwilling to divide his troops again, he still dispatched 1 Manchurian banners with yellow banners and 1 Han troops with Zhenghong banners to assist Wuchang.

If there is a loss in Wuchang, then his retreat is likely to be cut off by the Ming army.The Ming army can completely use the advantage of the navy to block the Yangtze River waterway, so that its own army of more than [-] will be besieged by the Ming army in the narrow area from Nanchang to Jiujiang.

Just like Hauge, the Ming army guarded the Yangtze River, and he was trapped in the Nanjing area, and he was at a loss, so that the latest imitation Lumi guns of the Qing army could not be transported to Nanjing.

In the end, all these 2000 imitation Lumi guns were sent to Wuchang City. After adding Boluo's 2 reinforcements, there are now 5 Qing troops in Wuchang, and their defense capabilities have been greatly improved.

Although Wuchang is good, it is a pity that the Ming army is not strong enough, so Qian Mo can only bluff and force Boluo to return to the army.In this way, Li Guo's Loyalty Camp can attack Changsha freely.

Outside Liuyang Gate, the Ming and Qing sides were fighting fiercely.The Ming army attacked fiercely for more than ten days, and once attacked the city wall, but Xu Yong, the general of the Qing army, went into battle with injuries, and forced the Ming army to be driven down from the city again.

Li Laiheng said: "Father, there are at most 3000 Qing troops in the city. My son leads the troops to attack himself. We must take Changsha."

Li Guo waved his hands and said, "It's getting late today, let's attack tomorrow."

At this time, Wang Zaixing, the commander-in-chief of the Huzhou Battalion, rushed to the foot of Changsha City. Soon, under the protection of a group of shield soldiers, the Ming army pushed the mortar up.Following an order, the mortars bombarded Liuyang Gate wildly, which directly stunned both sides.

Li Guo said to Li Laiheng: "Why are you still standing there, hurry up and attack the city!"

The morale of the Qing army was trapped in the isolated city, and the morale was not high. In addition, after fighting with the Ming army for more than ten days, it was already at the end of its strength.Now being bombarded by this mortar, how can they hold back the Ming army?
I saw Li Laiheng took the lead and led the army to the city.Soon he found Xu Yong who was injured and went into battle. Li Laiheng rushed to Xu Yong with a stride, and shouted: "You dog thief, take your life!"

Xu Yong was shot in the shoulder by Li Guo's arrow earlier, but now he is still not good enough. When he saw Li Laiheng stabbed him with a gun, he raised his knife to block it.Unexpectedly, when Li Laiheng exerted force on his wrist, he transformed into several spears, easily flipping away Xu Yong's saber; then he turned his hand and stabbed a spear, which directly passed through Xu Yong's chest!

As soon as Xu Yong died, the leaderless Qing army quickly gave up resistance!
Conquering Changsha means that the Northern Expedition of the Yongli Dynasty, which lasted for more than half a year, has won the victory and successfully recovered the entire territory of Hunan!

The Emperor Yongli and his ministers who got the news were also very excited. After Hunan was liberated, the entire south of the Yangtze River basically belonged to Daming.Now the only remaining Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River is Hauge from Nanjing, Boluo from Nanchang to Jiujiang, Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming from Wuchang, and Chen Jin from Fuzhou.

Hauge and Chen Jin are like turtles in a urn, it can be said that the situation is very good.

The next step is to discuss meritorious deeds: Du Yinxi regained Hunan and was granted the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Marquis of Xiangyin;Huang Yu killed Nikan and killed King Man for the first time. Because of his meritorious service, he was promoted to be the Boss of Xuancheng.

Now, with the expansion of the territory, the titles of the Yongli Dynasty will naturally rise, so most of these heroes are only earls.

However, there are relatively big differences in the cabinet regarding the handling of He Tengjiao.

Ma Jixiang and others believed that He Tengjiao provoked internal strife, lost his teacher and lost his land, and almost ruined Hunan again; now that he is dead, it is already a great grace of the emperor not to pursue his previous crimes.

Qu Shiqi believed that although He Tengjiao was indeed guilty before, the court had punished him by dismissal and investigation; but He Tengjiao refused the Qing army's persuasion to surrender in Xiangtan, and led the army to resist to the death.

In the end, Yongli decided to allow He Tengjiao to be buried as the governor of Huguang, with the posthumous title of "Zhongxiang".

The next reward for Qian Mo also made Yongli Jun and his ministers suffer.Qian Mo's contribution is not small. He regained Su Song and many other state capitals, and sent troops to Jiangxi and Hunan.

But now that Qian Mo has become the Duke of the state, his title must no longer be promoted; although Nanming's titles are a bit overflowing, the princes are still under strict control.

Not long ago, Sun Kewang from Yunnan sent envoys to Zhaoqing to discuss the issue of vassalization and demanded the title of prince, which was also unanimously opposed by the court.

If the title cannot be promoted, then it can only be conferred with a false title. In the end, it was decided to confer Qian Mo as the prince and grand teacher.

Successive victories made Yongli start to feel a little smug.A few months ago, Qian Mo severely injured Hauge. The Ming army was already close to Nanjing City, but there has been no progress.

Yongli, the emperor of ZTE in the Ming Dynasty, couldn't stay in the small Zhaoqing Mansion forever.So Yongli took the opportunity of sealing Qian Mo to express his desire to recover Nanjing as soon as possible.

Now that the war in Hunan is over, the Qing army in Hubei is too busy to take care of themselves. Your Majesty has this request, and the courtiers must solve your majesty's worries and problems.

The reason why Qian Mo didn't storm Nanjing immediately was because the Qing army was still relatively strong and the casualties were high, and the second was that he needed time to replenish firearms and train the new army.

In addition, I was also worried that after taking Nanjing, the stimulation to the Qing army would be too great, and Boluo might give up Nanchang and attack Nanjing with all his strength, so that he would be under too much pressure.

However, a few months have passed, and now Boluo's strength has weakened a lot, and the Qing army lost Hunan again. I believe that even if he took Nanjing, he would definitely not dare to give up Nanchang and attack him with all his strength.

After several months of rest, the strength of the Governor's Mansion has also increased a lot, and now it is time to take Nanjing.

Upstairs in Zuixian, Wu Zhilong, the magistrate of Yangzhou, said: "Prince Zheng, 30 shi of grain and grass have been raised, but the navy of the Ming army has blocked the Yangtze River very tightly, and the slaves really cannot transport the grain to the opposite city of Nanjing."

Ji Erhalang said lightly: "Understood, what's the recent move of the Ming army?"

Wu Zhilong thought that Jierhalang would be furious and scolded himself for being incompetent, but he didn't expect to get away with it like this. It seems that the master is in a good mood today.So he boldly said: "According to the spies, the navy of the Ming army has already assembled in the direction of Zhenjiang, and I'm afraid they are going to bypass Changzhou and land directly in Zhenjiang."

Hearing this, Jierhalang couldn't sit still any longer, and said sharply: "Prefect Wu, no matter what method you use, you must send me to Nanjing tonight!"

It has been a month and a half since Jierhalang came to Yangzhou. At first, when Haoge crossed the river and was hit hard by the Ming army, Dorgon wanted to replace Haoge.Thanks to Daishan and himself trying to dissuade Dorgon, Dorgon suppressed his anger and promised to give Hauge a chance to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds.Unexpectedly, Hauge was so unlucky afterwards, losing troops one after another, and even Nikan was killed by the Ming army.

When Hauge's apology was sent to Beijing, Dorgon was furious, and immediately ordered Shunzhi to order Hauge to die directly.Fortunately, Boluo also lost troops in Nanchang City after that, so Dorgon gave up the idea of ​​killing Hauge, but General Pingnan must be replaced.

Jierhalang had no choice but to volunteer to replace Hauge.If it were someone else, I'm afraid Dorgon would order him to kill Hauge secretly.At this moment, Nanjing City is already a prison. If he had a choice, Jierhalang would rather give up Nanjing City and withdraw the 10 troops to Jiangbei.

It's a pity that the navy of the Ming army will not let him get his wish. Ji Erhalang has been delayed in Yangzhou for a full month and a half on the excuse of "raising food for the army" and "not being able to cross the river". He wanted to wait for the situation to change.

Seeing that the Ming army is about to launch an attack, at this time he has to rush to Nanjing to replace Hauge no matter what!
It is naturally impossible for the Ming army to fortify the Yangtze River for thousands of miles. It is quite difficult to transport a large amount of food and military equipment to Nanjing, but it is not difficult to smuggle a few people across the river.

At this time, most of the naval warships of the Ming army were concentrated on the river near Zhenjiang, and Ji Erhalang and others successfully landed near Dasheng Pass in the west of Nanjing.

Soon Jierhalang came to Nanjing City.

It's a pity that he was still one step too late. At this time, the Ming army had already begun to attack Zhenjiang.The navy of the Ming army directly bombarded Zhenjiang City, while the Baipao Battalion landed in Gaozi Town to the west of Zhenjiang and Dantu Town to the east, forming a siege of Zhenjiang City.

Jierhalang asked: "Mr. Fan, where did Prince Su go?"

Fan Wencheng coughed twice, and said weakly: "Prince Su led the elite of Xianglan Banner to support Zhenjiang."

Jierhalang had long heard that Fan Wencheng was sick and followed Hauge on the expedition, and seeing his pale face, he was probably terminally ill at this moment.So he said to Ma Guozhu on the side: "Governor Ma, how many people are there in Nanjing?"

Ma Guozhu said: "There are still 2 green battalions, including 1 cavalry."

Jierhalang said: "Attacking Zhenjiang must be a conspiracy of the Ming army to encircle and send reinforcements. I'm afraid their goal is not Zhenjiang City, but Prince Su's reinforcements. Governor Ma, please lead 1 cavalry to meet Prince Su, I hope there is still time."

"The Ming army is good at attacking east and west. I'm afraid Zhenjiang is also a cover. Hurry up and transfer the soldiers and horses from the surrounding Taiping Mansion and Changzhou Mansion to Nanjing City, so as not to be taken advantage of by the Ming army."

Hauge's defense is still very problematic. He placed more than 2 elites in Changzhou Prefecture by the canal; the Ming army can easily bypass Changzhou whether it chooses to land from Zhenjiang or go north from Huzhou.

In addition, the Wuhu and Dangtu Qing troops in Daping Prefecture are holding on. At this time, we should abandon Wuhu, shrink the defense line, and concentrate our troops to stick to Dangtu.

After all, the Ming army could go northward from Huzhou to Lishui and go straight to Nanjing. At this time, no matter how many troops the Qing army deployed on the east and west wings, it would be useless, so it is not appropriate to deploy too many troops on the periphery.

Jierhalang glanced at Fan Wencheng, who was about to run out of fuel, and couldn't bear to blame him for not dissuading Hauge in time, after all, he was good at making plans; marching formations was not his specialty.

Nanjing is not far from Zhenjiang, and Hauge soon led the Xianglan Banner to Gaozi Town to the west of Zhenjiang.

In the past few months, the Governor's Office in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has not been idle. Qian Mo has expanded both the Baipao Battalion and the Shenji Battalion to 2 people, and the equipment has also been replaced with shotguns.

At this time, the White Robe Battalion was already in full swing. 15000 Ming troops formed a huge phalanx. At the front of the phalanx were 3000 armored soldiers holding sabers, behind them were 6000 gunners and gunners, and on both sides of 9000 infantry were 6000 well-equipped cavalry.

I saw the dust and smoke billowing in front, and tens of thousands of cavalry galloping forward. This huge momentum was simply shaking the ground, which made many recruits unavoidably nervous.

However, as the Qing army approached, they quickly focused on fighting.

The Qing army had already entered within 500 paces, and following Hong Fugui's order, 20 tiger squatting cannons roared.A shell fell on the cavalry formation of the Qing army, and the huge air wave directly overturned many cavalry, causing some confusion to them as they marched.

However, obviously these did not prevent the Qing army from charging. The Ming army used the bastions to kill the Qing army in large numbers. Now it is rare to have a chance to fight the Ming army on the plain. How could Hauge let it go!
He shouted: "Don't panic, the artillery of the Ming army is only one-off, we rushed over and directly defeated the infantry of the Ming army."

Hong Fugui sneered. Now, one-third of the 6000 guns in the Baipao Camp are rifled rifles. Both the rate of fire and the range have been greatly improved.

As soon as the Qing army entered the 120th step, the firecrackers of the Ming army opened fire.

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the cavalry of the Xianglan Banner suffered heavy losses. Soon, more than a thousand cavalry rushed to the front were shot and killed by the Ming army, which seriously affected the advancement of the subsequent cavalry.

At this time, the navy of the Ming army parked on the river also aimed its artillery at the Qing army, and soon the 12-pound cannons on several giant ships also fired at the Qing army cavalry.

The naval guns were much more powerful than the tiger squatting guns. For a while, the ground shook and the mountains shook. A large number of Qing cavalry were blown to the ground. The battlefield was filled with the sound of artillery explosions and the neighing of war horses.

Because they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, the navy of the Ming army only fired at the rear of the Qing army.

Now Hauge, who was commanding from the rear, was miserable. When the gunpowder smoke gradually dispersed, his body was lying on the ground, bloody and bloody.

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