The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 712
Dorgon was shocked immediately, the distance between Yangzhou and Xuzhou was already thousands of miles away, how could the Ming army appear in Mengcheng? !

He ordered the cavalry to stop the warning cavalry, and asked anxiously, "How many Confederate troops are there in Xuzhou?"

"Hui, Hui His Royal Highness the Regent, the younger one is under the command of Master Han, the guard of Yongcheng, and he doesn't know the details of Mengcheng."

"waste!"

Dorgon kicked him over, before he could discuss with his subordinates, he saw a fast horse coming again, but it was Yongcheng's warning.

Not long after, there was another news of the fall of Lincheng. This time, the number of the Ming army was finally seen clearly - more than a thousand troops.

"Trash, it's all trash!"

Dorgon was furious. Although these cities in Xuzhou were guarded by only 300 to [-] people, they wouldn't be lost in an instant, right?Even if the Ming army just circled the horses for a round, there was only a little spare time.

In fact, because of his tactics of "strengthening the wall and clearing the wild", the Qing troops in the Xuzhou area all ran to Sizhou, Lingbi and other places in the west to find food, and there were not many soldiers left in the city.In addition, the guards didn't expect the Ming army to appear suddenly, and even the gates of these cities were wide open, Li Dingguo really took it down almost like a gallop.

Dorgon pointed at Oboi, "Let you lead 2000 troops to Xuzhou to stop this southern army."

"Whoo!"

Aobai was about to turn around when he heard Baiyintu say, "Wait a minute. Your Highness the Regent, the southerners are extremely cunning, and the general will think about it. If there are only more than a thousand people, it will be difficult to capture most of Xuzhou so quickly."

"You mean?"

"Thousands of southern troops may be just bait, and there will be another main brigade behind them. If our army goes lightly, we will surely fall into an ambush!"

Dorgon couldn't help nodding. It's really strange to explain that the army only sent 1000 people to raid Xuzhou.If there were thousands of people ambushed behind, wouldn't the 2000 people of Oboi be like sheep?

However, it can't be ignored. Going north from Xuzhou is Jining Mansion. The garrison here has been transferred by Duoduo.If the Ming army is allowed to continue northward, Jining is likely to fall, and even the transportation of grain and grass on the front line of Muyang will be affected.

His expression changed a few times, and finally he said helplessly to Oboi: "In addition to your troops, we will also bring along Dou Chengwu's Shaanxi army and 1 Lu troops. A total of [-] people will rush to Xuzhou. We must fight quickly!"

"Whoo!"

It was night, Dorgon checked the defense line along the river, and was about to fall asleep when he heard Baiyintu's voice outside the tent, "Quickly send a message, Shanxi urgent report!"

Before the guard could make a sound, he quickly shouted, "Let him in!"

Bai Yintu entered the account, forgot to even salute, tremblingly said: "His Royal Highness, the Taiyuan Mansion has just sent an urgent report, and Jiang Xiang has turned his back! The soldiers are pointing directly at Beijing!"

Dorgon immediately felt dizzy for a while, Jiang Xing is the general soldier of Xuanhua and Datong, and has great influence in Shanxi.What's more terrible is that after the continuous deployment of troops before, there are now no available defenders in Shanxi!
Datong is close to Gyeonggi, and the rebels head east all the way, and within a month at most, they can reach the city of Beijing.

He is well aware of the significance of Beijing to Nanming.Not to mention the loss of Beijing, even if Beijing was besieged by the Ming army, the appeal of the Qing Dynasty to the Han people would be greatly reduced.

He opened his mouth and spat out a few words with difficulty, "How many rebels are there?"

"Returning to Your Highness, according to the Taiyuan government newspaper, more than [-] people including Jiang Xiang's family and the patrol battalion rebelled." Bai Yintu glanced at Dorgon and said cautiously, "But the rebels have been coerced all the way. In Gyeonggi, there are tens of thousands of them..."

He waited for a while, but did not see the regent's instructions, so he had to ask again: "Your Highness, look at this..."

Dorgon looked up at Fangliang, and sighed, "Hey—an order, He Luohui will be the general to suppress the rebellion, and lead a total of 5000 troops from the headquarters and Wakda to go north immediately to suppress the rebellion."

"Whoo."

That night, Dorgon couldn't sleep all night.I thought that with Hauge's 5000 troops, it would be safe to stick to the Huaihe defense line, but before I saw the main force of the Ming army, I had already dispersed more than [-] people.

However, wars are raging all over the place, so he can only use troops for the urgent need first.

At this time, he only had [-] soldiers and horses left in his hands, while the Ming army on the other side had more than [-].Although there is a natural danger in the Huaihe River, judging from the combat power displayed by the Ming army before, he really has no confidence that he can occupy the enemy on the south bank.

He stared out the window, only to feel that the fate of the Qing Dynasty was also like this dark night, which was dull and made people unable to see the way forward.

Until the sky was about to dawn, he finally closed his tired eyes and sighed secretly, "It seems that this is the only way to go... I just hope that the country and society of the Qing Dynasty will not be ruined in my hands..."

After he summoned the Manchu and Han military officers to make a detailed arrangement, he wrote a letter to the Khan of the three tribes of Khalkha in Mobei and the emperor of the Raksha Kingdom.

The contents of the several letters are very similar, they all want to form an alliance and ask them to help the Qing Dynasty.As for the conditions, almost all the forces mentioned before have been agreed.

Seven days later.

North of Shanyang City.

Looking at the fort being built near the South Bank Ferry, Zhu Linmei couldn't help nodding secretly.

With the help of a large number of civilians and the rescued people in Shanyang and other places, the construction progress of these forts is extremely fast, and the height can be increased by more than seven or eight feet every day, and it will be put into use in two or three days.

He turned his head and asked Zhang Jiayu, "Yuanzi, where is the heavy artillery now?"

"Return to Your Majesty, we have crossed the Baijing River yesterday, and we are still more than thirty miles away."

"How is the boat for forced crossing going?"

"There are 6000 sand boats and more than [-] other small boats, which can carry [-] people across at a time."

"Where's the rubber ring?"

"Two thousand pieces were shipped yesterday, and another one thousand pieces will arrive within two days."

This kind of hollow rubber ring is a very rough swimming ring, but in this era, it can be regarded as a high-tech.

"Okay." Zhu Linmei nodded and said, "Then the general attack will be scheduled in three days."

Zhang Jiayu saluted immediately: "Yes!"

Not far away, Deng Shan, who was observing the enemy's formation with a telescope, suddenly said to himself: "This seems a bit wrong..."

Zhu Lin smiled and asked, "Did General Deng notice something strange?"

Deng Shan hurriedly put away his binoculars and came over, "Going back to Your Majesty, I will find that there are fewer and fewer captive soldiers on the earth wall opposite. In addition, more than [-]% of them were holding firecrackers a few days ago, but now most of them are holding guns." Armed with swords and spears, it is difficult for dozens of people to see a gun."

Zhu Linmi also looked through the binoculars after hearing the words, and saw that the soldiers of the Qing army had changed into ordinary clothes, and only a few officers looked like wearing cotton armor, and most of them held spears in their hands.

He suddenly thought of something, quickly boarded the fort that had not yet been built, carefully observed the cannons of Jianlu who were closer, frowned, handed the binoculars to Zhang Jiayu and said, "Yuanzi, look carefully!" What's so weird about those cannons?"

(End of this chapter)