Under the surveillance of the army, if the Ming army invaded these towns at the same time, the farmland would most likely be destroyed.

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On June 15th, the Jiannu advance advanced outside Shangqiu City.

The Dashun army that was besieging Shangqiu City immediately turned around and attacked Jiannu.

After a fierce battle, the Dashun army was defeated and retreated straight into Kaifeng Mansion.

The cavalry and infantry of the Dashun Army are still very capable of fighting, even if they face the Eight Banners soldiers who built the slaves, they can only defeat the Eight Banners soldiers. However, the firearms unit of the Dashun Army is so bad that there is no way to compare with the Eight Banners and Han Army.

Therefore, as soon as the red barbarian artillery that established the slaves arrived, the Dashun army collapsed immediately.

However, the subsequent development of the war was different from what Dorgon and the others expected.

Dorgon and Hong Chengchou originally thought that if the Dashun Army sent troops to rescue Xuzhou or went north to make a surprise attack on Beijing, the form of fighting would be a field battle.

Dorgon is quite confident about field battles.

At least for now, the Eight Banners are invincible in field battles.@essence/bookstore·nothing wrong~~

However, what is very strange is that the Dashun Army sent troops this time. In addition to fighting a modest field battle with the Eight Banners soldiers under Shangqiu City, they actually entered the city defense mode after that.

Hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops huddled directly into Kaifeng City, acting as if they were cowering.

At this time, Dorgon felt a little uncomfortable. Should he stay and besiege the city for a long time? Or withdraw his troops?

It is definitely not possible to besiege Kaifeng for a long time, because the Eight Banners can only guarantee the siege of one city. Now that Chongzhen has been surrounded in Xuzhou City, there is no extra force to besiege Kaifeng.

Dorgon didn't want to be starved to death.

But if we withdraw our troops, what will happen if the Dashun Army comes back?

The Eight Banners soldiers can't run back and forth between Xuzhou and Guide, right?

Dorgon thought about it, but still couldn't make a decision, so he immediately summoned three dog-headed military advisors, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo, to his camp to ask for advice.

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At the same time, Huang Zongxi also returned to Xuzhou City.

Li Zicheng was quite interested in Huang Zongxi and sent a team of cavalry to escort him back to Xuzhou.

As a result, when passing through the Tuntian area of ​​​​Jiannu at night, they were chased by a group of Mongolian cavalry from outside the vassal state. In the end, all the more than 50 cavalrymen of the Dashun Army were killed in the battle.

Huang Zongxi jumped into the Yellow River, and Fu Shui was able to escape.

Fortunately, Huang Zongxi also grew up by the Yao River, so his water resistance is pretty good.

Moreover, it was already mid-June, and the weather was already extremely warm. Otherwise, Huang Zongxi would have been frozen into a popsicle by 70 to 80 miles of water.

After the border troops patrolling the night rescued Huang Zongxi, they took him to Chongzhen.

Hearing that Huang Zongxi had returned to Xuzhou, Chongzhen didn't even bother to put on his shoes and came barefoot. (This chapter is not finished yet!)

Go to the front hall.

"Huang Zongxi!" Before anyone entered the hall, Chongzhen's voice came in first, "Huang Zongxi! Where is Huang Zongxi?"

"Your Majesty, the student is here." Huang Zongxi, who was sitting on a chair and resting, quickly stood up, but as soon as he stood up, his whole body immediately tilted to one side. Fortunately, he raised his eyes and quickly helped him.

After traveling seventy or eighty miles of waterway and soaking in the water for several hours, Huang Zongxi had long since collapsed.

Even with a wooden board in his arms and multiple sheepskin bags tied to his body, it was still a bit overwhelming.

"Sit down, sit down and talk.@" Chongzhen motioned Huang Zongxi to sit back in his seat and asked again, "Did the Pseudo-Shun send out troops?"

"Back to the Holy Spirit, Pseudo-Shun has sent out troops." Huang Zongxi said with cupped hands, "However, instead of sending troops to attack Beijing, he only agreed to send troops to attack Guide Mansion, and he had to use Kaifeng Mansion as a condition."
Chapter completed!