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Chapter 802: The Monarchs of the North and the South (1)

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    The scale of the Battle of Shanghai is nothing in the history of the war between the Ming Army and the Qing Army, or even the war between the Qing Army and the Dashun Army, the Daxi Army, and the Ming Army and the Peasant Army.  The total number of troops invested by both sides was only over 200,000.  However, the impact is huge.  After Yue Le was shot and killed in Luck Dehun, he led his troops to hold down the position, gathered the defeated troops, and slowly retreated westward from Shanghai.  Jiading, Qingpu, Jinshan, Baoshan, Songjiang Prefecture and other prefectures and counties have all been abandoned. Anyway, they have been almost destroyed and ravaged by the war.  His idea was to trade space for time, and use these abandoned cities to buy time for the Qing army to retreat to Nanjing.  "As long as I can be allowed to evacuate to Nanjing and rest for a while, this place in the south of the Yangtze River will inevitably have to deal with your Li family." However, the sons of the Li family in the south of the Yangtze River are not willing to give up.  Yue Le retreated towards Nanjing at a land march speed of dozens of miles per day. Well, the pursuers of Hongwu Army followed him at a slightly faster speed.  You march forty miles every day, and I will march fifty miles.  If you march fifty miles, I will march sixty miles.  All in all, it always leaves you with no time and energy to stop and recuperate, and always leaves you with low morale in the army and making you panic.  Always cut and surround the rear troops you left before your eyes, and then eat them in front of you.  This is just a pursuit on land.  Siblings Li Huamei and Li Huabao took their advantages on the waterway to the extreme.  He ordered thousands of navy troops to be carried by light speedboats and entered Taihu Lake along the waterway. They met up with Chabaidi's troops and suddenly launched an attack on Suzhou Prefecture.  After a day and night of fierce fighting, Suzhou Mansion was captured.  And Hangzhou to the west was also surrounded by Shi Lang's land and water forces.  "These days, I have been eating the Grand Duke's military rations, wine and meat, holding the Grand Duke's swords, guns and equipment, and spending the Grand Duke's silver coins, but I have not made any achievements. How can I have the dignity to hang out in the army? No.  What do you mean, capture this city of Hangzhou as a meeting ceremony for our Lord Patriarch!" Hao Yaoqi's words revealed the thoughts of the former Dashun Army generals and soldiers.  In their view, only by fully demonstrating their combat effectiveness can they demonstrate their value in front of the Duke of the country and gain a foothold in the Hongwu Army.  The six-town troops and horses adapted from the former Dashun Army under Shi Lang's temporary command, with the cooperation of the navy, surrounded Hangzhou Prefecture on both sides of the Qiantang River.  Prepare to conquer Hangzhou in one fell swoop.  "When the time comes, our Duke will ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in Hangzhou Mansion, change the Yuan Dynasty and found the country!" After the military meeting, several generals who broke into the camp expressed their inner thoughts through drunkenness.  "However, they did not expect that, contrary to everyone's expectations, when everyone gathered all their strength and prepared to regain the victory in the southeast of Sanwu City after a hard battle, Hangzhou Business District sent someone to deliver a message.  The Qing troops in Hangzhou Prefecture withdrew.  Some of the remaining gentry officials sent people to contact the commercial area and expressed their intention to submit anyway.  The reason is actually very simple. Unlike Nanjing, Hangzhou was the capital of the Ming Dynasty. It was naturally the center of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River. It gathered heavy troops, and there were also great generals and several princes, Baylor.  But Hangzhou was no good. There was only one Angbang Zhangjing who led thousands of Eight Banners troops to garrison.  Most of these thousands of troops were Eight Banners Han troops, and the serious Eight Banners Manchurians only had a few hundred people.  But Ang Bangzhangjing, who was stationed in Hangzhou, did not dare to think about how many armed forces there were in the Hangzhou business district opposite, and how many soldiers and horses the hoarded supplies could instantly arm.  Moreover, the news coming from Beijing and Nanjing is very ambiguous. Although the Hongwu Army from various places fought against one Buddha to be reborn in heaven and two Buddhas to reach nirvana, there was no decree ordering him to seize the nearby Hangzhou Business District.  .  Therefore, the two sides maintained a very strange balance in a kind of fearful mentality.  Of course, Lord Aung Bang Zhangjing must take advantage of this opportunity to do business with the business district, filling his own pockets and coffers, and the master of this banner also shows his respect.  (At this time, there was no design for the position of Hangzhou General, so it could only be Aung Bang Zhangjing.) When Shi Lang's army entered Zhejiang from southern Jiangxi, Aung Bang Zhangjing knew that his good days were over.  However, in the past few months, Shi Jinduojin had been doing so well. Even if he was removed from his official position as an envoy, he could still save his life by returning to Beijing as his banner master.  If you don¡¯t leave now, when will you wait?  So, Shi Lang's army had just arrived in Hangzhou and the camp had not yet been set up. He collected hundreds of ships of various sizes in Jianggan, loaded all the baggage, soft soldiers and furniture on the ships, and carried a thick denomination issued by Nanzhong Bank in his arms.  Shi Shiran got on the ship and left with a money order of at least five hundred silver dollars.  An intact Hangzhou Mansion was left to Shi Lang.  Shanghai and Suzhou to the east slowly pressed toward Nanjing along the flood and drought roads in the south of the Yangtze River.  On the river, Li Huamei's naval force was even more powerful, attacking towns along the river, bit by bit reducing the Qing army's activity space in the south of the Yangtze River and near the estuary.    Haimen, Nantong, Changshu, Changzhou, Wuxi, and Jiangyin are all approaching Nanjing at a rate of almost one city a day.  In Hangzhou in the southwest, Governor Shi Lang led more than 100,000 troops, passing by Taihu Lake and heading straight for Nanjing from the mountains of southern Anhui.  Huzhou, Deqing, Huizhou, Xuancheng, Anji, Liyang, Guangde, Yixing, and the deep mountains and forests in southern Anhui were difficult for Qing troops to live in, but it was not difficult for generals from the Dashun Army such as Hao Yaoqi and Wang Si'er. They were originally  He is good at dealing with enemies in the deep mountains and dense forests with fast horses and light swords.  One after another, famous cities in the south of the Yangtze River were recaptured by Hongwu's army, with military flags flying above the city walls.  Rice paper, Hu pen, Hu silk, Hui ink, each piece of specialties representing the production area were sent to Tianxing Mansion by speedboat and placed on the desks of Zhu Yujian and Li Shouhan.  The southern half of the Yangtze River is just around the corner.  Suddenly, without any hints or arrangements from Li Shouhan and Zhu Yujian, Tianxing Mansion was already abuzz with all kinds of gongs and drums, colorful archways, lion dances, dragon lanterns, drunken literati singing "Youth is a good companion for returning home"  ¡±, while the young men walked with their arms crossed and sang, ¡°When will I ask for a tassel and a sharp brigade to cross the Qinghe River and Luoquan to come back and do a tour of Hanyang?¡±  The ministers in the cabinet did not wait for the emperor and Li Shouhan to express their interest, and they came up with a reward plan early on.  The rewards for meritorious officers in the combat troops are naturally more lenient and more lenient. Anyway, the money in the treasury is Li Shouhan's money. The emperor's reward to the three armies is actually your reward to the three armies, Li Shouhan.  Then why don't we be good people and give them a big reward, even if it's just on paper.  As for whether your father-in-law is willing to pay for it, that's not our business.  When the time comes, the soldiers will have complaints, but it has nothing to do with us.  What is even more surprising is that this plan is almost a knighthood sale.  Li Huamei, Li Huabao, and Shi Lang, as Li Shouhan's children and sons-in-law, were the most instrumental in recovering the lost territory. The cabinet was very generous and immediately awarded the proposed title of marquis!  Even Aolei Yilan, with a stroke of his pen, the cabinet planned to grant the first-class lady the title and rank.  As for whether Liang Guogong's back house would be jealous or even cause a volcanic eruption, they didn't care.  In an instant, the explosive news spread throughout Tianxing Mansion.  It is not uncommon for seven sons and eight sons-in-law to fill the bed, but I am the Duke of the country, and my sons and sons-in-law have earned a marquis based on their military exploits. Not to mention this dynasty, even the previous dynasties have never had anything like this.  thing!  Not to mention that my daughter has also changed from Princess Zhaoyang to a Marquis like Qin Liangyu!  As for the Gao Feng San official rank, it is even more necessary to pile up money.  That is to say, unlike the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not have the title of Batuluyong, and there were no rewards such as yellow mantles. Otherwise, the various titles of Batuluyong would make the scholars of the Hanlin Academy and the doctors of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Etiquette miserable.  He had his hair cut and asked the owners of the silk and satin shops in Tianxing Prefecture to make a good deal.  There are too many people who need rewards!  Even if this is the case, rewards such as royal robes and royal duties are also common.  Someone made statistics and found that during the Battle of Jiangnan, there were dozens of people knighted by the Hongwu Army, starting from the lowest baron to the three sons, daughters and sons-in-law of the Li family!  Including Liu Deni, because Aolei Yilan insisted that it was she who killed Luck Dehun and caused the Qing army to collapse.  With this incredible achievement and her record of killing Turge and several Qing army generals and officers in the past, Liu Deni suddenly became a third-grade lady.  She blinked and asked Aolei Yilan with the reward decree: "Can this thing be exchanged for something else? For example, can it be exchanged for a director's position in the Duke's arsenal?" The cabinet is packaging and wholesale of official positions and titles, but, for  Another major matter was left to Li Shouhan in an understatement.  That is the remnant of the hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops that Shi Lang collected in southern Jiangxi!  "This matter is a military matter. At a time when the military is booming, it will be handled by the shogunate and the cabinet will follow suit." With a beautiful kick, he kicked the ball to Li Shouhan.  Fortunately, they also said that this matter is a military matter, and naturally the military commander has the final say.  And when there is a war, naturally whoever fights is justified, and the one who wins the war is more justified.  After seeing the reply from the cabinet, Li Shouhan sneered twice.  "Don't they just think that one of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong forced Emperor Daxing to death, and the other dug up the Fengyang Emperor's tomb? But now that both of them are dead, you have the ability to behead all these millions of people?  "Come here! Just follow Gu's wishes and send another document to the cabinet, saying that you will give these people a way to help regain the lost land and restore the old mountains and rivers." "Qu Kui has passed away, and all the followers can leave.  "New." This was Li Shouhan's attitude. It was expressed so clearly that naturally the ministers in the cabinet could not say anything else.  What's more, since the old troops of Dashun Army surrendered, they have successively recovered dozens of prefectures and counties in southern Jiangxi, southern Anhui, western Zhejiang, Pianyuan, etc., and laid down a large area of ??territory.??If they are really pushed into a hurry, these rebels who cannot be defeated will inevitably make a noise. When the time comes, a yellow robe is draped on Li Shouhan. Will we kneel down at that time or not?  Therefore, the general and shogunate issued official documents one after another. Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Zhang Naitian, Xiuluo Tiger King, Si Hao Waiqi, and other old generals of the Dashun Army became generals of the Hongwu Army.  Of course, commander-in-chief is a position, general is an official title, and commander-in-chief is an envoy.  The most important thing here is the mission of the commander. This is the actual command power, which is the so-called military power.  Without this, everything else is just a cloud.  Moreover, Gao Yigong and Hao Yaoqi only saw that after joining the Hongwu Army, they no longer had to worry about the supply of food, wages and ammunition. The sick and injured were taken care of by the health battalion, and the supplies were distributed by military supplies at all levels.  However, they would never have imagined that after the implementation of this system, their control over the army would gradually weaken. They would never even think about pulling up the team and leaving at the slightest disagreement!  Not to mention the artillery teams, baggage and health battalions that are attached to the battalion level, which are now considered indispensable, and the furniture that has been placed in the garrison or in a more stable rear area to enjoy a peaceful life cannot be taken away with the army.  In addition to causing instability in the morale of the army, even the numerous mules and horses in the army were reluctant to leave.  These military mules and horses who followed Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi and others from northern Shaanxi to Jianghuai, from Jianghuai to Shangluo Mountain, from Henan to Shaanxi, and all the way to Beijing, walking almost half of China, are now also following the instructions of Hongwu  The army's system has specific provisions on the daily amount of fodder, bean feed, bone meal, and salt.  If they run away with the team, these mules and horses will lose weight immediately if they are out of supply, and the marching speed will be affected.  ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: A little bit of fragments, here and there, formed a huge net, which made the former Dashun Army unable to move, but they didn't want to move.  ¡°It¡¯s so comfortable here, why should I do something that I don¡¯t know the future of?¡±  So, from Pianyuan to southern Jiangxi, and from southern Jiangxi to Zhejiang, hundreds of thousands of former Dashun troops who had just surrendered opened a front of more than a thousand miles and hurriedly headed north to regain their lost ground.  "Fight! Fight! Win the battle! Only by winning the battle can we people have a place in front of the Duke of the State!" This is the common thought in the hearts of Gao Yigong, Li Guo and others.  As for Gao Yigong himself, he still had an idea hidden in his heart, which was audacious and shocking.  However, once this idea is realized, the old Chuangying tribe will be completely integrated with Li Shouhan.  "When Zheng Zhilong and the Duke met with swords and artillery fire, the eldest marshal of the Li family personally led his troops into the battle and braved the artillery fire, and then defeated Zheng Zhilong. Then they got married, and the second young lady of the Li family married the eldest son of the Zheng family.  The pirate leader Zheng Zhilong of Fujian became the in-laws of the Duke of Guo and became the naval admiral of the Hongwu Army. We Chuangying had no grudges with the Duke of Guo in the past and recently, and our business in Chuangying has always been good.  Henan's smooth development is inseparable from the help of the Li family. "What's more, his surname is Li, and our surname is Li. The person in charge of the family is gone."  Help, no one can say anything about this, right?" Gao Yigong's thoughts were turning over and over again.  Seeing that the east and west armies of Hongwu Army were about to join forces on the shore of Taihu Lake with the support of Suzhou Chabaidi troops, Yue Le, who was stationed in Nanjing to collect defeated soldiers and reorganize his troops, finally showed his fangs.  At nightfall, he mobilized 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, gathered more than 200 large and small ships, and boarded them at Shuiximen.  The people who stayed in Nanjing, including the hidden stakes of Hongwu Army, all thought that he was looking for an opportunity to escape to Jiangbei. They had seen too many scenes like this in recent days, and no one cared about it.  Not to mention the people in the city, even the nearly 10,000 horse infantry and sailors on the boat mobilized by Yue Le did not know where the destination was this time.  Just follow the lights of the ship ahead.  It was not until dawn that the sailors on the ship suddenly discovered that they were on the waterway to Suzhou!  "The southern barbarians attack me with strong navy ships and cannons, and they always bully our naval forces. Today, our king sent troops by water to surprise Suzhou, captured Suzhou, and cut off the southern bandits' idea of ??joining forces from the east and west!" He said in his seat!  On the ship, Yue Le convened a discussion with his officers and conveyed to them the purpose of the Suzhou campaign.  Everyone looked at each other, no matter how hard they thought, they didn¡¯t dare to think about it.  The young prince in front of him was so courageous. Siblings Li Huabao and Li Huamei from the east commanded tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to press towards the west. Shi Lang from the southwest commanded hundreds of thousands of old troops who broke into the camp and attacked with overwhelming force.  Attacking from the east, these two groups of troops slowly came in at an average rate of one city per day. It was clear that once one area was conquered, the other area would be consolidated.  At this time, you areHowever, he still dared to attack Suzhou Prefecture, which had been occupied by Chabai for many days. This courage was really much greater than pulling teeth out of a tiger's mouth!  "Chabaidi was expropriating money and massacring the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. In the name of collecting arrears of money and food, they often fired guns to wash away the land, ransacked homes and destroyed families. The people were already boiling with resentment. As soon as our Qing soldiers arrived, the officials and gentry in the city would definitely rise up and respond. Suzhou City  , can be destroyed with a snap of a finger! By then, I will use half of the valuables accumulated by the thieves in the city to reward you!" "In addition, I will allow you to reward those who rebel and follow the remnants of the previous Ming Dynasty, both inside and outside the city!  "This means that the accompanying soldiers and horses can kill and loot at will inside and outside Suzhou City?"  !  Under the huge material stimulation, the morale of Yue Le's troops was stimulated to the extreme.  Sure enough, when the fleet was still in Taihu Lake, Suzhou officials and gentry sent people to contact them, detailing the situation in the city and Zha Jizuo's troop deployment.  At night, with the sound of cannon fire, Yue Le ordered his troops to advance into Suzhou City.  With the support of a large number of domestic servants led by officials and gentry, the Qing army gained an overwhelming advantage over Zha Jizuo's troops as soon as they entered the city.  Row after row of guns were fired, and the Hongwu Army, which hurriedly rose up to fight, suffered heavy casualties and was defeated.  Under the protection of more than a hundred soldiers, Zha Jizuo fought his way out of the city, boarded a boat, and fled into Yangcheng Lake.  Looking at the thick smoke and flames in Suzhou City, Zha Jizuo, who was able to cure children crying at night in the south of the Yangtze River, knelt on the bow of the boat and cried.  "Several years of hard work, ruined overnight!" Suzhou City and outside it turned into a huge Shura field.  Men with shaved heads and braids led the Qing soldiers and broke open the doors of houses. Regardless of whether you worked for the Hongwu Army or not, it was a sin for you to have money and you should die!  Slash it with one knife!  In just three days, the blood on the streets of Suzhou Prefecture flowed along the river into Taihu Lake.
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