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After being disturbed by Wang Ying, Zhu Hongsan lost all his interest. After being safe in the city, he brought the Jinyiwei into the city. Of course, that night, Li Chengen went to Wang Shutang's house to pick up his second daughter and accompanied Zhu Hongsan for a spring night. Naturally, Wang Shutang, who had dedicated his daughter, escaped and was re-activated as a magistrate two years later.

After entering the city, Zhu Hongsan ordered people to carefully search for Hong Chengchou's whereabouts. At first, Zhu Hongsan thought that Hong Chengchou had run away again, but when cleaning the battlefield, he found Hong Chengchou's body in the Governor's Office. After Zhu Hongsan knew about it, he sighed: "Hong Chengchou is also a storm in this troubled world. Without him, the Manchu Qing Dynasty would definitely not occupy the north so easily. Alas! Build Hong Chengchou's body and transport it to his hometown in Fujian and hand it over to his family!"

After entering the city, he learned about the actual situation of the Yellow River. Zhu Hongsan scolded himself for his bad luck. Zhu Hongsan chose the Northern Expedition in March at that time to avoid the flood season of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty did not have the Yangtze River Bridge in later generations, and the water volume was more than ten times that of later generations. During the flood season, both sides of the Yangtze River were completely marinas. The widest sections of Zhenjiang and Jiangyin could reach a width of more than 40 miles. It was impossible to cross the Yangtze River in large numbers at that time.

However, it is easy to choose to cross the Yangtze River during the dry season, but it is a problem to have no water in the northern canal. Originally, Zhu Hongsan thought that the Yellow River should be fine. Although the water volume is not as rich as the Yangtze River, the Yellow River is also China's two major water systems, and basic navigation can still be guaranteed. But when he arrived in Huai'an, he was stunned.

Zhu Hongsan's original plan was to enter the Yellow River from Huai'an, then follow the Yellow River to Xuzhou, and enter the Grand Canal again from here to north. However, here in Huai'an, Zhu Hongsan learned that the water volume of the Yellow River this year is very small, and small boats can still pass, but large transport ships are not able to do it. At the same time, the Shandong section of the canal has no maintenance, and the sluices in many places have been damaged, so it is no longer realistic to go north along the canal.

One reason for the insufficient water volume of the Yellow River is that it has not reached the flood season, and another important reason is that in September of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng for more than a year without success, he was so angry that he dug the Yellow River embankment in anger. Although Kaifeng City was broken, most of Henan and the lower reaches of the Yellow River were in trouble. Only 27,000 people died in Kaifeng. There were only one hundred thousand victims who died of floods and floods in the surrounding prefectures and counties.

Because Henan was harmed by bandits, local governments had lost their basic operating capabilities. Therefore, the Kaifeng Yellow River Dike was not repaired for more than 20 years in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty. Both sides of the Yellow River were hundreds of miles away from flood seasons. This situation lasted until the tenth year of the Kangxi reign, when Henan Governor Zhang Zide and governor Xu Huachengcai began to rebuild Kaifeng City, and the Yellow River Dike was also rebuilt.

In the end, Zhu Hongsan had no choice. After discussing with several strategists, he decided not to go to Xuzhou to meet the cavalry. The large army crossed the Yellow River directly from Qinghe and then passed Muyang to Shandong. Zhu Hongsan left two divisions to protect the logistics troops. They had too much baggage and could only walk through the canal. They walked from Qinghe to Suqian and used the old canal path of the Yuan Dynasty to head north. Although the Yuan Dynasty canal had not been renovated for hundreds of years, there were several sections that were still relatively complete, so they could only go there and count it!

As for the cavalry led by Li Yuanyin, Zhu Hongsan ordered them to cross the river from Xuzhou and then go to Yixian County in Shandong to meet him. After all, crossing the Yellow River is a hilly area in Shandong, and this terrain is most suitable for cavalry combat. Zhu Hongsan himself led the army, so there is no problem in fighting defensive wars, but mobile warfare is not the strength of musketeers.

In this way, Zhu Hongsan delayed the total number of seven or eight days in Huai'an and left Huai'an on the first day of April. Originally, Zhu Hongsan's strategy was to take advantage of the convenience of the canal and the rapid attack of the cavalry. He took advantage of the Qing Dynasty's failure to react and occupied the entire territory of Jinan and Shandong. However, Huai'an has been delayed for half a month, and there are factors such as the breakdown of the Yellow River and the disrepair of the canal. It is impossible to attack the surprise attack.

Zhu Hongsan's delay in Huai'an gave the Qing regime in the northern region time to prepare.

On March 27, the young emperor of Shunzhi in Beijing received a last letter from Hong Chengchou. After reading the letter, Shunzhi was furious and kicked the desk of the book, smashed the paperweight, and then collapsed weakly onto the dragon throne.

No wonder Shunzhi was furious. His life in the north has been very difficult in recent years. He left several prefectures and counties around the capital, and other provinces were full of war. The Jiangran rebellion in Shanxi has not been eliminated until now. There is also Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, and the entire north under the Qing Dynasty.

When Dorgon was still alive, he knew that the biggest enemy of the Qing Dynasty was the Southern Ming regime, so he would always respond to Hong Chengchou, who was guarding Huai'an. He would rather the emperor and Manchu nobles than eat, and to ensure the supply of the Huai'an front line. After Dorgon's death, Hong Chengchou, who was Dorgon's confidant, did not reduce his power at all. In order to calm his heart, Shunzhi also assigned Henan and Shandong to Hong Chengchou for management.

The Huai'an defense line, which he knew that he would be in the absolute hope of Emperor Shunzhi, could not even be blocked by the Ming army for a day. Hong Chengchou, who was called the god of Huang Taiji, also hung himself after the city was broken.

Shunzhi pointed at the eunuch beside him and said, "I sent an order to imprison Hong Chengchou's family, and all the families of all civil and military officials in Huai'an were executed!"

The eunuch was about to go out to deliver the order, and he listened to someone outside the door singing, "The Queen Mother is here!"

It turned out that it was Xiaozhuang's latecomer. After Dorgon's death the year before, Emperor Shunzhi took charge of the rule, and the mother and son had a very unhappy relationship with Dorgon. Shunzhi originally planned to settle Dorgon and his followers, but Xiaozhuang, an old politician, knew that Dorgon's brothers had long been in charge of the two white flags and were full of talents. At the same time, they had to deal with the Southern Ming regime in the south. Can these people be beaten to death with one stick? Therefore, Xiaozhuang advocated not to deal with Dorgon's remnants.

Shunzhi was suspicious and impatient. When he heard that his mother was not going to deal with Dorgon, he thought that Xiaozhuang still had old feelings for Dorgon, so he forced Xiaozhuang to imprison all of Dorgon's remaining parties, and many people were tortured to death in prison.

When Xiaozhuang saw that his son was too old and disobedient, he was angry and ignored the affairs of the court and hid in the harem to support his old age. He would do whatever he liked to do in the court.

Today, Xiaozhuang was watching a show with several concubines in Huang Taiji in the harem. Sony came to see the queen mother. Only then did Xiaozhuang realize that something big happened on the front line, Hong Chengchou was dead, and the million-strong Northern Expedition army of the Southern Ming Dynasty had already reached Huai'an (the million-strong was swearing by Zhu Hongsan, but in fact there were only more than 200,000).

Xiaozhuang was very anxious when he heard this news. After Huai'an crossed the Yellow River, it was Shandong. Shandong went to the capital with a flat horse without any danger. Xiaozhuang stopped watching the show and hurried to his son's Qianqing Palace to ask what was going on.

Shunzhi felt a little angry when he heard that my mother was coming. Is it easy for me? I ascended the throne at the age of six and lived in the shadow of Dorgon a few years ago. In recent years, I finally hoped to die. I originally wanted to show my strength and carry forward the family business left by my father, but I didn't expect that it would rain all night long. Now I met the gangster Emperor Shenwu in the south again in the north.

Shunzhi is still a fifteen-year-old child this year. When he saw his mother coming, he couldn't control his feelings for a while and lay down in Xiaozhuang's arms and cried bitterly.

When Xiaozhuang saw his son's true feelings reveal, he sighed in his heart: No matter how bad things are, he is still his son!

Xiaozhuang patted Shunzhi's back and asked in a low voice: "Emperor, what's wrong?"

"Mother, why is my life so miserable? I have just taken power for a few years, and that bastard emperor of the Southern Ming came to the Northern Expedition. He is so bullying!"

Xiaozhuang sighed and said, "Emperor, do you know why the Emperor Shenwu did not make a northern expedition a few years ago? It was Dorgon, who was afraid of your fourteenth uncle!"

Shunzhi was still crying bitterly, but when he heard this, he immediately stopped crying, pushed Xiaozhuang away and said, "No! If Dorgon hadn't made a rash move and had to send Dodo to the southern expedition without knowing the military situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty, would I have no soldiers available now? All this is blamed by Dorgon!"

Dorgon sent Duoduo to lead the two white flag elites of the Qing Dynasty to attack the Nanming, which was indeed a bit Menglang. However, under the circumstances at that time, if Zhu Hongsan had not yet gained a foothold in Nanjing and had not yet firmly captured the Jiangxi grain production area, it would be even more difficult for Zhu Hongsan to take advantage of Zhu Hongsan's actions.

However, after analyzing later, the 30,000 elite white flags who died at the city of Nanchang were the main force of the Eight Banners. If these 30,000 people were still there, they would rely on the city wall to deal with the artillery of the Ming army in Jinan, and use the Qing Dynasty cavalry and shooting kung fu to harass the supply line of the Ming army, which really made Zhu Hongsan scratch his head.

Xiaozhuang heard that the emperor was still resenting Dorgon, but there was nothing he could do. Now that Dorgon is dead, of course, you, Emperor Shunzhi, are you right to say anything.

"Emperor, the Ming army is about to enter Shandong now. What are you going to do?"

"Mother, it's easy to deal with soldiers. Now, males over twelve years old can still be transferred to collect 30,000 people, but it's hard to choose a general in charge of the troops!"

The Qing Dynasty is now in a time when the young and old are not in the face of the young. The older generation can basically die. The younger generation is like Yue Le, Shuose and others are still young and it is okay to lead a unit to charge. However, there is not enough combat experience in such large corps.

Xiaozhuang also knew that military generals were available now. In fact, before the end of last year, there was another person who was very suitable for this general who commanded the army, that is Dorgon's brother, Nurhaci's twelve sons, and Prince Ying Ajige.

Ajige was brave in fighting and loved by soldiers. He was originally a good candidate, but Ajige was not very smart. When he was conquering the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he killed General Liu Zongmin, the general of the Dashun regime, and the military advisor Song Xiance. He surrendered Zuo Menggeng, the son of Zuo Liangyu, the governor of the Ming Ning Nanhou, and the 100,000 horse and infantry soldiers of the governor Yuan Jixian's troops. He then successively occupied 63 cities in Henan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Jiangnan and other places.
Chapter completed!