Just when Zhu Hongsan was having fun in Hangzhou, his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were having family, Hong Chengchou, who was far away in Nanjing, was frowning.

Hong Chengchou's current official position is "the Taibao and the Prince's Taishi, who is in charge of seven provinces in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi. He is the governor of military affairs and food and pay, and can act cheaply!" The power and status are much greater than in history. Even Prince Yu Duoduo must be controlled by him in name. From this point, we can see how much Dorgon trusted Hong Chengchou.

Absolute trust is exchanged for Hong Chengchou's ability to greatly exert its capabilities. Under Hong Chengchou's sophisticated political skills, in addition to Guangdong and Guangxi, there is half of Huguang in the hands of Nanming. Most of the other places have been pacified. Nanzhili, as the economic center, has also begun to transfusion blood to the north.

But all this ended with the fact that Jin Shengheng of Jiangxi was anyway. In the fourth year of Shunzhi, the second year of Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the first year of Shenwu (Damn it, the year name is so fucking trouble!), Jiangxi general Jin Shengheng could not stand the suppression of Qing officials and rebelled with Wang Deren. At first, Hong Chengchou did not take it seriously. He just thought this was a local phenomenon and could not shake the overall situation. However, the subsequent rebellion of Li Chengdong's army in Fujian was a bit unexpected to Hong Chengchou.

Just when Hong Chengchou wanted to mobilize troops to wipe out these two people, the Chu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who had been entrenched in Guangdong for a long time, began to take advantage of this opportunity to extend his hand. Hong Chengchou did not know much about King Zhu Hongsan, but only thought that he was no different from other princes of the king. So when Hong Chengchou heard that Prince Yu Duoduo led 80,000 Manchu and Mongolian elite troops south, he thought that the King of Chu could not resist for long. However, the scheming Hong Chengchou knew that there was no luck in the war. Although he looked down on the army of King of Chu, he still transferred all his elite troops to Duoduo.

Originally, Hong Chengchou thought that Jin Shenghuan from Jiangxi would be wiped out soon, and the military newspapers he received were also good news. At first, Duoduo took one day to occupy Jiujiang, then led his troops south to Nanchang, surrounded Nanchang and began to attack the city. It is expected that Jiangxi would be able to solve it in one month. But the next thing changed suddenly, and Duoduo's 120,000 Manchu and Mongolian elite soldiers were wiped out within two days.

Hong Chengchou couldn't believe his eyes as soon as he received the news. Hong Chengchou asked the messenger: "Is this true? Prince Yu's 120,000 troops were completely destroyed?"

The messenger had never participated in the Nanchang Battle. He heard the soldiers who fled back from Jiujiang in Anqing.

"Sir, the little guy doesn't know the details. I just heard that the pseudo-open firearm is very powerful. Prince Yu died under the firearm!"

"Do you know which Ming army is the exact one?"

"Sir Hui is the army of the King of Chu who was the pseudo-Ming of Guangdong!"

“How many people are there?”

"There are not many people, less than 50,000!"

Hong Chengchou heard that Duoduo, who had only 50,000 people, could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. He knew very well about the combat effectiveness of Duoduo's soldiers, not to mention that there were 30,000 taels of white flag elite among the 120,000 people, which was the elite of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. What Hong Chengchou didn't know was that the message of the messenger was not accurate, and the message of the messenger was also heard by the soldiers who retreated from Jiujiang. The soldiers who had actually participated in the Nanchang War were not Poyang.

The water ghosts in the lake were still around Nanchang, like lonely ghosts, and the one who recovered Jiujiang was the 30,000 people led by Wang Deren, not 50,000. The Qing Dynasty guards in Jiujiang were frightened by the combat effectiveness of the Southern Ming army and retreated to Anqing without fighting with Wang Deren, so they did not really see the Guangdong New Army. Hong Chengchou was misled by false information, and his understanding was not that high, so he began to misjudgment on military information.

It was raining. Just when Hong Chengchou was worried about the war in Jiangxi, he sent a message from Jiaxing on the third day of October that Li Zhi's troops, who had been entrenched in Zhoushan, suddenly dispatched the entire army and landed in Haiyan. At the same time, a fleet of ships headed towards Hangzhou.

After receiving this news, Hong Chengchou knew that something was wrong. Li Zhi stayed in Zhoushan for three years, but only harassed the coast of Zhejiang without attacking the inland. Now this abnormal behavior must be the action of the Ming army in Jiangxi.

Nanzhili is different from Jiangxi. Nanzhili is a blood bank in Beijing. If Nanzhili loses grain, it will be cut off. In this way, there is no need to pseudo-Ming Northern Expedition. The people of Beijing who have no food will rise up and rebel. Therefore, the Ming army must be eliminated and Hangzhou City must be defended. However, things went against their wishes. Before Hong Chengchou issued an order to Zhejiang Governor Zhang Cunren, the news of Hangzhou's loss spread to Nanjing.

Seeing this military situation, Hong Chengchou was helpless. He had no choice but to summon senior officials who were still in Nanjing to discuss matters again.

Because Duoduo led his troops to wipe out Jin Shenghuan, all the generals and officials in Nanjing were transferred. Now the only ones that could be summoned were Jiangnan Governors (the Manchu Qing occupied Nanzhili and changed Nanzhili to Jiangnan Province, which was divided into Jiangsu and Anhui provinces in the 18th year of Shunzhi. I really didn't want to explain everything here, but some people like to jump to read books and scold people if they don't understand. There is really no way!) Zhou Boda, Zhang Jingzhalafeng, the Eight Banners Anbang, Liu Chunting, the Jiangnan General Chen Jin, and the Caojiang Admiral Zhang Guocai. No one in the Qing Dynasty was familiar with the water war. After the former Caojiang Admiral Zhao Zhilong died in the battle, the former Ming Ancheng Admiral Zhang Guocai became the unlucky candidate for this unlucky position.

Seeing several officials sitting in the house, Hong Chengchou, who was the chief official, said: "My dear military newspaper yesterday, you already know that the army of the pseudo-Ming King Chu had landed in Zhejiang. This is today's military newspaper. Hangzhou City has been guarding for a day. Now the King of Chu has entered Hangzhou!"

Officials of all sizes were shocked when they heard this news. This was not a good thing. Hangzhou is only more than 500 miles away from Nanjing. It takes three days to arrive. Even if the army marched slowly, it will arrive in half a month.

As the chief leader of the Eight Banners of Jiangning, Angbang Zhangjing Zarafenga knew that when Nanjing City was broken, the first one was the foreigners. Now that he heard the Governor say this, he quickly asked in strange Chinese dialects: "Governor, what should I do? If you can't ask the Regent of Beijing for help!"

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "It's too late. Now the Jiangqian in Shanxi is rebelling. The Regent is taking a large army to suppress the rebellion. There is no time to look south! Moreover, even if the Regent sends reinforcements, it's too late. The Ming army now occupied Hangzhou and is probably rushing to Jiangning at this time. After all, this place has too much political significance to the King of Chu!"

Liu Chunting, the governor of Jiangning, was from Liaodong. He was originally just a scholar. Because the party affiliated with Fan Wencheng, he was sent to Nanjing to be the governor. He thought this was a beautiful man, but he didn't expect that he would come to the door after a month. Liu Chunting was originally a fearful devil, but now he heard this dangerous and quickly said: "My sir, my official Weibo is slight, and I don't know whether to say it or not!"

Of course it is good for someone to express his opinions, Hong Chengchou signaled him to come and listen.

"Dear sirs, because of the southern expedition of Prince Yu, the entire army south of the Yangtze River has been basically allocated. Now the pseudo-Ming is here again. How about we retreating to Yangzhou?"

When Hong Chengchou heard that Liu Chunting was about to run away, this was actually a good suggestion. There were still 10,000 troops in Nanjing now, and the 4,000 cavalry stationed in the Eight Banners were not opponents of the Ming army. It would be better to retreat to Yangzhou, Jiangbei to defend and wait for assistance.

When Zhang Guocai heard that Liu Chunting was about to run away, he was very anxious. The others were nothing, either Manchus or Han military flags, and their families were all in the north, but Zhang Guocai was different. His whole family was more than 100 people in Nanjing. These Manchus patted their butts and left, leaving behind their anger facing the King of Chu?

"Governor General, I have something to say!"

Since Zhang Guocai became the Admiral of Cao Jiang, he has nothing to say in the conference and conference. I don’t know what he has to say today!

"It's rare that Lord Zhang has any opinions, let's hear it!"

Zhang Guocai, regardless of the irony in Hong Chengchou's words, stood up and said, "Sir, Jiangxi is now lost, I have cleared out Jiangning without half a stronghold south of the Yangtze River. Millions of soldiers and civilians in Beijing have to rely on the grain transport in Nanzhili. If the grain transport is cut off, it will have a great impact on Beijing!" Zhang Guocai is worthy of being a good cadre influenced by the Ming Dynasty officialdom. He was originally considering himself, but a mouth is a great principle that benefits the country and the people.

As General Jiangning and Zhang Guocai's direct superior, Chen Jin had to support his subordinates at this time.

"Governor General, what Lord Zhao said is very true. Jiangning is too important. It is really unreasonable to give it to the pseudo-Ming without fighting. The Regent cannot explain it either!" Chen Jin, a member of the Han army's inlaid blue banner, said much heavier than Zhang Guocai.

Hong Chengchou lowered his head and pondered for a long time, saying, "Mr. Chen is right, but the pseudo-Ming army is in Hangzhou, only half a month away from Jiangning. We only have 14,000 troops. How can we fight this battle?"

Zhou Boda, the governor of Jiangnan, who was sitting under Hong Chengchou, had not spoken. Now he heard Hong Chengchou's question, and then said: "Sir, we still have 20,000 cavalry who have won the title of Ma in Yangzhou and 10,000 infantrymen in Chuzhou. These two places can be reached in Jiangning in three days. It is better to transfer them to defend the city!"

"Ma Degong's 20,000 cavalry guarded Yangzhou. What if it fails if it is transferred? We will not even have a way out!"

"Sir, do you think Jiangning can still defend Yangzhou if he loses 20,000 people with Ma Degong? It is better to concentrate his strength and fight a decisive battle with the army of the pseudo-Ming King Chu, and maybe he can still have some way to survive!"

Hong Chengchou realized after hearing Zhou Boda say this, yes! The pseudo-Ming Navy is powerful, and Jiangning can't escape even if he loses Yangzhou. It's better to fight the King of Chu in Jiangning!
Chapter completed!