When Chongzhen from Nanjing learned that the rebel army surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and was adapted into the Zhongzhen Camp, he was happy. The bandits who had been rampant for 19 years finally surrendered, and this time it was a real surrender. According to the news sent back by the Jinyiwei, the Qing army asked the surrendered Ming army to shave their hair. Wang Deren, the general of the rebel army who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and both of them had their hair shaved. Because of the shaving, it caused anger in the rebel army. The soldiers of the rebel army would rather die than surrender to the Qing Dynasty. After the rebel army crossed the river south, they stationed near Wuchang. More than 100,000 rebel soldiers were highly motivated and swear to block the Qing army's way across the river to the death.

But there are two bad news. The first bad news is that He Tengjiao actually resisted the order! He said that his imperial edict was the order of the order, but refused to accept the order, which caused the soldiers of the rebel army to be furious and prepared to cross the river to attack Wuchang. The Jinyiwei was quick to make people wise and sent someone to arrest Cheng Jiubo, who killed Li Zicheng, to give it to the rebel army. Only then did the rebel army calm down and incorporate this powerful army.

The second bad news is that Hong Chengchou, the old rival of the rebel army, was named the governor of the five provinces by the Qing Dynasty, and was in charge of the five provinces of Huguang, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, and Jiangnan (Southern Zhili), and was preparing to lead the Qing army to cross the Yangtze River from Huguang to attack the Ming Dynasty.

The first bad news is fine. Chongzhen knew the bad temper of the civil servant of the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, the Jinyiwei was smart, so it did not cause a disaster. Chongzhen thought to himself: The Jinyiwei is still reliable! As for the second bad news, it made Chongzhen furious: "Hong Chengchou! If I catch you, I will definitely tear you into pieces and crush you to ashes! The five provinces' management? Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili? Jiannu's wolfish ambitions are trying to annex my Ming Dynasty!"

At the court meeting the next morning, Chongzhen first announced the news that the reorganized the rebel army into the Zhongzhen Camp at the court meeting. As a result, the Chinese officials in the court scolded him, and even some censors pointed at Chongzhen's nose and cursed.

Then Chongzhen announced the news that the Qing Dynasty appointed Hong Chengchou as the governor of the five provinces. It was said that Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Huguang were all within the jurisdiction of the governor of the five provinces. Although many civil officials felt that surrendering to the Qing Dynasty was no different from serving the Ming Dynasty, in the minds of civil officials, their biggest enemy was not the Qing Dynasty, but the rebel army. However, such words could not be mentioned in front of the emperor. Those civil officials had no moral integrity. If they were changed to be emperors, it would not matter even if they were foreign races. But this kind of thing could not be put on the surface. Now Chongzhen has strengthened the factory guards, and the Jinyiwei is staring at them. Who dares to say that they surrender to the Qing Dynasty and not be imprisoned and destroyed the nine clans?

All the civil officials scolded Hong Chengchou one after another, just as Hong Chengchou had cuckolded their grandfather and father.

At this time, no one dared to say that he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Not only Emperor Chongzhen hated the Qing Dynasty, but there were many opera troupes in the people of Jiangnan. They performed various atrocities of Jiannu atrocities every day. Even on the Qinhuai River, those brothel women began to sing operas of the atrocities of the Qing Dynasty. Who dared to say that Chongzhen was wrong to surrender to the rebels? If you dare to say that it was wrong, are you planning to surrender to the Tartars? Well, let the Jinyiwei copy your house.

Li Guodong knew about the affairs in the court. No matter how high the anti-Qing spirit is now, the most important thing is that he must win the battle in Yangzhou. If the Huai Army was defeated, no one would be able to stop the Qing army from crossing the river and moving south.

If the two Huai Rivers are lost, even if Zheng Zhilong's navy is in trouble, it will not be able to stop the Qing army from crossing the river. Because the Yangtze River is too long, Zheng Zhilong's navy will not be able to take care of all positions, and it is even more impossible to defend the Yangtze River regardless of day or night. The Qing army always has the opportunity to cross the river, so it is said that guarding the river must guard the Huai River.

"Dude, our Dashun Army has surrendered to the point of surrender?" Hao Yaoqi asked.

"Yes," Li Guodong nodded, "Actually, our officers and soldiers and your Shun Army are all Han people. In the face of a crisis, China is about to fall. All Han people should join forces to fight against the invasion of foreign races! Yongzhong, if you refused to surrender to your Duke back then, Li would not make things difficult for you and would let you go, because Li knew that sooner or later everyone would join forces to fight against the Tartars!"

"Master, when will we go to the battle?" Xiaoyun and Xiao Cui, who were sent to Li Guodong as maids by Hong Niang, asked in unison.

The twin girls can be said to be in tune with each other. If the sister wants to say anything, the sister will blurt out.

Li Guodong looked at the pair of luoli: "Two girls, Jiannu is about to arrive in Yangzhou, so you should hurry to go to Jiangnan to hide."

"We won't hide. Sister Hongniang asked us to protect the Duke of the United States!" The two women raised Xiaohe's small chest before revealing their sharp horns and said firmly.

"Hahaha, who protects whom?" Li Guodong said with a smile.

At this moment, there was a night outside that I didn’t accept the report: “Dude to the country, Jiannu has destroyed Sizhou!”

Sizhou is in the upper reaches of Hongze Lake, only a few miles away from Li Guodong’s Toutu Castle, but Zhang Shiwen, who was stationed in Douhu Castle, refused to send troops because the soldiers in his hands were engineering soldiers and artillery soldiers, and had no field combat capabilities. Their mission was to guard the Hongze Lake Dam tightly and prevent the Qing army from controlling Gaojiayan.

The Qing army captured Sizhou City, and some people in the city fled and fled from the water gate. Under the protection of the Tawau Castle, these people drove into Hongze Lake to hide. The Qing army of Green Camp chased along the river bank, but as a result, they opened guns and archers at the top of the city, and even bombarded with cannons, killing and injuring hundreds of Green Camp soldiers. The undead Green Camp soldiers turned around and ran away, and never dared to chase the people again.

"Prince, please look over there. It is the castle built by Li Laoer. The castle controls the only road to Gaojiayan, and there is also the Li Zhe Navy on the lake." Liu Liangzuo pointed to the Tawau Castle not far away and said to Duoduo.

Duoduo picked up his monocular lens and looked at Tawau Castle from a distance. Looking at the towering castle, he gasped: "How many people will it take to attack such a strange castle?"

Ma Degong, who had suffered a great loss in this castle, said: "Prince, I'm afraid all 600,000 troops will be filled in, so I can't even imagine breaking this castle."

"Can the Red Cannon be blasted away?" Duoduo asked.

"This city is extremely strong, and the shells are useless when they are fired. Moreover, the cannons on the top of the city are farther than ours. They fired condescendingly, and we couldn't even get the cannons up."

Duoduo sighed: "It seems that we can only cross the Huai River from Xuyi. But Hongze Lake is hanging high above our army's heads. It is a big concern. If our army wants to attack Huai'an, the Ming army will be wiped out as long as the Ming army releases water! Or give up Huai'an and attack Yangzhou directly! Didn't Li Laoer prepare for a decisive battle with our army in Yangzhou? I want to see what ability he has to stop our Qing Dynasty's 600,000 troops!"

Liu Liangzuo hurriedly said: "Prince, the Yangzhou city wall has been disrepair for a long time. As long as our army Wu Zhenchaoha camp arrives, it will be easy to bombard the Yangzhou city wall with red barbarian cannons."

Duoduo snorted: "Li Lao Er is the admiral of Jiangbei, so he will not repair the city? But even if the price of attacking Yangzhou is high, I will still take Yangzhou! As long as we take Yangzhou, our army can cross the river and go straight to Nanjing at any time to capture the fake emperor Chongzhen alive!"

Six hundred thousand Qing troops crossed the Huai River from Xuyi, headed south and headed straight for Yangzhou.

The Qing army crossed the Huai River to conquer several cities in succession. In fact, it was not so much that they had captured the city, but rather that they surrendered without fighting. Only Liu Zhaoji, who was stationed in Tianchang, fought to the death with a small city. After three days of fierce fighting, all five thousand Ming troops and ten thousand civil soldiers who helped defend the city were killed. After Liu Zhaoji was captured, he would rather die than surrender and were killed by the Qing army.

Duoduo, who was blocked by the small Tianchang County for three days, was furious and wanted to not seal the sword for ten days, but who knew that there was no one in Tianchang County, and all he got was an empty city.
Chapter completed!