September 20, 1650, Chongming Sand (today’s Chongming Island).

"Attack Nanjing?" Gu Sanmazi (Gu Rong) was stunned and looked at Luo Rucheng and other officers of the Qi navy without saying a word for a long time.

The soldiers and generals of Qi State are too courageous!

It should be noted that Nanjing was the core ruling center of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River. It was also the place where Hong Chengchou, the governor-general of the five provinces, was stationed in Ye. Nearby were Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taipingfu (today's Ma'anshan), Luzhou (today's Hefei) and other places.

Qing troops stationed

No less than 50,000 to 60,000. Even in the city of Nanjing, there are at least several thousand soldiers from the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Including some Han troops, it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 soldiers. In addition, Nanjing is a famous city in the world and does not have 100,000 soldiers.

, which may be difficult to conquer.

"General Gu, we know that the city of Nanjing is difficult to fight, so we want to invite you to go to Nanjing with us to lure the Eight Banners in the city outside the city and annihilate them." He Yunfeng said with a smile: "The Qing army attacked

The local area, sweeping the world, has always been based on the Eight Banners and attached to the Han army.

As long as we can annihilate all the thousands of Eight Banners troops in Nanjing City, the Han armies everywhere will definitely be afraid and dare not fight with me again, so that I can attack the strong city of Nanjing. As for the heavy Qing army groups in various places in Jiangbei, even if they want to

If you want to come to Nanjing to aid, you have to cross the Yangtze River first.

"You... do you dare to promise to destroy thousands of Eight Banners troops in Nanjing in one battle?" Gu San Mazi asked in disbelief.

In September 1645, the Qing army broke through Nanjing and killed Emperor Hongguang. Shen Tingyang, Huai'an Governor Tian Yang, Huaihe Town Chief Soldier Zhang Shiyi, and Huaihai Town Chief Soldier Zhang Pengyi each commanded thousands of naval forces and hundreds of ships, and successively arrived at Chongming Island and garrisoned here.

Gu Rong, the general of Tongzhou, gathered together. Everyone recommended King Yiyang (the seventh grandson of King Gou Ding of Zhou) to be the supervisor of the country.

In November, the Ming army sent troops to Liuhe and was defeated by the Qing army. Zhang Shiyi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Pengyi, Shen Tingyang and Wang Chen fled to Zhejiang, while Tian Yang defected to eastern Zhejiang, and King Yiyang also went with him. Gu Rong continued to defend Chongming with thousands of remaining soldiers.

Island and persisted in resisting the Qing army.

Relying on Qi's continuous transportation of ordnance and supplies over the past few years, coupled with the weakness of the Qing navy, Gu Rong was able to support himself on Chongming Island. Occasionally, he also used the advantage of boats to sneak attacks on nearby Tongzhou (today's Nantong, Jiangsu) and carry out attacks.

The Qing army raided counties and towns along the Yangtze River, plundering property and plundering the population, and used this to exchange grain, fodder and military equipment with the Qi State.

Although he often attacked and plundered nearby river banks, which greatly annoyed the Qing army, given Gu Rong's weak land warfare force, he had not yet occupied an important riverside port, and the Qing army only regarded him as a pirate and water bandit.

, too lazy to pay attention, and only waited to eliminate other forces in the world before annihilating them.

After all, Gu Rong was an old acquaintance of the Qi State's fleet stationed in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, during the upcoming battle to capture Nanjing, he was immediately reminded of his existence.

After more than half a month of repeated planning and deduction in Denglai, the Qi Navy fleet finally formulated a very bold counterattack plan against the Qing army - to attack Nanjing.

Attacking Nanjing has extremely important political and military significance. As Gu Rong said, Nanjing was the ruling center of the entire southern region of the Qing army and the seat of the governor-general of the five provinces. If Nanjing could be captured in one fell swoop, it would not only be a great deterrent

The Manchu Qing could also boost the anti-Qing morale in various places that had reached a low ebb.

To this end, the State of Qi organized six companies of the Marine Corps, eight squadrons of rural soldiers, four squadrons of the Loyalty Army composed of Japanese wandering warriors, a musket battalion to occupy the city, and eight battalions of the Ming Army of the Yongchu Imperial Court Li Benshen. As well as an artillery battalion, with a total strength of more than 8,500 troops and more than 50 large and small combat ships, they marched along the Yangtze River estuary, Shangshuo to the Nanjing River, and finally launched a landing operation to storm Nanjing.

Considering that there may be 3,000 to 5,000 Manchurian Eight Banners troops stationed in Nanjing, if they are engaged in a siege battle, they will inevitably be subject to a crazy counterattack by the opponent, causing a large number of losses to their own personnel. The staff suggested that Gu Rong, who was stationed in Chongmingsha, could be invited He went to Nanjing with his troops, and then led the troops and horses to Zhenjiang under his banner, luring the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han army out of Nanjing, and annihilated them with muskets and cannons. In this way, many Han troops who lost the Eight Banners' formation were In the subsequent siege of the city by the coalition forces, they will definitely not resist desperately.

After some discussion, Mingsha finally refused to follow the coalition forces to attack Nanjing. If it was really as planned by the Qi people to annihilate the Eight Banners troops first and then break through the city of Nanjing, then the capture in the city must be in time. The richness is enough for me and my brothers to enjoy for several years, which is much better than me just having a small fight along the banks of the river.

"Gu Sanmazi wants to move his family to Annan, or to our Hanzhou." Hong Chengchou came to the river and said softly to King Chengjun.

"It seems that he is also very unfavorable about the future anti-Qing situation." Hearing this, Jin Shuangbang was startled for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "In just a few years, he has been frightened by the Jiannu. It seems that everyone thinks that the Jiannu The trend of unifying the world has become unstoppable. Everyone is starting to think about their own future. A few days ago, when we passed by Rizhao, Li Benzhen also entrusted his family members to me to take them back to Hanzhou for resettlement.

"I have never understood how the Ming Dynasty, with such a large population and such a vast place, could be easily invaded by Jiannu slaves." Hong Chengchou shook his head and sighed: "What makes us even more speechless is that those who were originally a puddle of mud After surrendering the Jian slaves, the Great Gu Rong team became normal and brave and good at fighting. What a weird thing!'

"Perhaps, as the king once said, the Ming Dynasty is completely rotten." King Chengjun said with some disappointment: "No matter how hard we try these years, we just can't reverse any situation. Maybe, we can only fight hard. Trying my best, I can only delay the establishment of slaves and take over the world. However, seeing millions of innocent people die, I feel a little unbearable. Why can't the warriors of the Ming Dynasty be a little bloody and rise up to resist?'

"They are all selfish and shallow people who want to use their own force in troubled times to sell Jiannu slaves at a good price and think they will be rich and wealthy for the rest of their lives." Hong Chengchou said: "How can these people have any moral integrity at all? As a result, we in Qi State did not dare to send a large number of firearms to them, let alone support and arm them with all our strength. If we were not careful, it would strengthen the military strength of the slaves."

"Perhaps the original Daxi Army and Dashun Army in the Yunnan-Guizhou Huguang area may be different from other armed forces in the Ming Dynasty." Jin Shuangbang said: "After the attack on Nanjing, we need to send people to Guangxi to fight with them Let’s have in-depth contact.”

September 27, Nanjing.

There was a slight knock on the door, which made Duoluoshunhe Yunfeng Aixinjueluo. Leluo Rucheng opened his eyes in a daze, and roughly threw a woman's arm on his chest with his right hand, causing the woman to let out a soft cry, and then

She turned around and smiled charmingly, wanting to come over and invite her to be my pet.

"Come in!" Le Jin Shuangbang shouted toward the door, and then touched the woman Chiguo's body, "Waiting Master to change clothes.

"Prince Shuncheng, Zhenjiang was raided by Jin Shuang and the city has been captured!" An Eight Banners ginseng leader knelt on one knee at the door and said loudly, but his eyes were secretly staring at the woman on the bed, subconscious thoughts in his throat.

He swallowed some water.

"Where did Gu Rong come from? When did they attack Zhenjiang?" Le Jin Shuangbang was stunned and looked at the Eight Banners leader who reported the news in surprise.

"The Han army that fled back from Zhenjiang claimed that it seems to be the unit of Gu Sanmazi of the Chongming Army at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Gu Rong of his unit captured Zhenjiang the evening before yesterday." The Eight Banners chief raised his head and said, his eyes quickly glanced at the woman on the bed again.

.

"Gu San Mazi?" Le Luo Rucheng seemed to have some impression of this name, but he couldn't put it right for a while.

"This bandit used boats to harass and invade both sides of the river in Tongzhou several times, plundering property and people. Tongzhou's commander-in-chief Deng Wenxian led his troops to attack several times, but he took advantage of the opportunity to escape back to the Chongming army.'

"How can a group of pirates and water bandits conquer Zhenjiang?" Le Luo Rucheng stood up with his upper body naked.

"In return for the defeat, Gu Rong suddenly landed in Zhenjiang in the evening the day before yesterday. He used ship artillery to cover the water village on the riverside. At night, he used gunpowder to blow open the Zhenjiang city wall and invaded the city. The Han army stationed there was suddenly defeated and retreated.

city ​​and fled all the way to Nanjing."

"How many people are there in Gu Rong?"

About four thousand."

Neglecting to fight has ruined the reputation of our Qing Dynasty." Le Luo Rucheng was furious, "These

You bastard, you wasted the Qing Dynasty’s money and food. Now, even a group of pirates and water bandits can’t be defeated. All the defeated troops who fled back to Nanjing will be captured, and all the leading generals will be beheaded.’

"Concubine!

"Order Zhang Tianlu to assemble all the Han troops outside the east gate.

"Well!"

"Order Saishuo to assemble the soldiers with the blue flag and the red flag, and prepare to leave the city!"

“Well!’

"Order the Eight Banners Han Army Firearms Battalion to prepare artillery and accompany them!"

"Well!

As Le Jin Shuangbang walked out, he kept giving orders. Several guards behind him held his armor and swords in their hands, ready to serve him and put them on at any time.

Last year, Le Luo Rucheng led the elite troops of the Eight Banners to Huguang, marched straight in, and swept across Xiangtan. The Jinshuang and Dashun troops were invincible and did not dare to compete with them. They were defeated and retreated to Guangxi. He Tengjiao was defeated and captured. After Huguang was pacified, he sent his troops again.

Moving south, he moved into Guangxi and attacked Quanzhou, an important town in northern Guangxi (now Quanzhou County, Guilin, Guangxi).

At this time, Gu Rong, who had gathered in the north of Guangxi, launched a counterattack against the Qing army, intending to prevent the Qing army from moving further south. However, the Qing army was still very energetic, and Leluo Rucheng defeated Ming general Zhao Lian's attacks twice in succession, and then used a trick to

Earned Yong'an Pass, expelled the local armed forces led by Cao Hengzi, and captured Daozhou (Dao County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province)

In February of this year, Leluorucheng returned to the court with his troops and received Dorgon's reward, fifty taels of gold and five thousand taels of silver.

In May, Nikan sent troops to attack Shandong, Denglai, and Leluo Rucheng was ordered to station in Nanjing to assist the governor of the five provinces, the academician Ke Dehun, to stabilize the entire Jiangnan ruling order, ensure that the Qing court's most important financial area was in danger, and at the same time, he had to deal with the dangers.

Qing armies fought in Huguang and Jiangsu and Zhejiang directions.

In the five years since the capture of Nanjing, although there have been sporadic anti-Qing forces since the early days, there has never been an armed force that dared to attack near Nanjing and threaten the foundation of the Qing army's rule in Jiangnan. Even Zheng Zhilong, who dominated the sea,

They just used the power of boats to frequently attack Ningbo, Yuhang, Haiyan and other coastal areas.

Today, Gu Sanmazi, the bold water pirate stationed in Jinshuang, dared to go up the river to Zhenjiang and land to harass the place. This is really annoying.

"Congratulations to Yunfeng, Gu Rong who suddenly attacked Zhenjiang is a little weird, don't be careless." Le Jin Shuangbang, who was leading the troops to leave the city, had not yet reached the city gate, but he met Jin Shuangbang who had heard the news and ran towards him on horseback.

On the side, he warned cautiously: "Thousands of gold coins suddenly attacked Zhenjiang City. If the leader is not bold, then he must be trying to lure the enemy, tricking our Qing soldiers and horses into leaving the city, and annihilating them in a surprise attack."

"Grand Bachelor, how can such Jin Shuangxiao's tricks be hidden from my eyes?" Le Luo Rucheng said with a smile: "Since they dare to come to Zhenjiang, they naturally have some skills, and there is no way there will be an ambush in the middle. However,

If they are allowed to act recklessly in Zhenjiang, the reputation of our Qing Dynasty will be in vain. I will lead five thousand soldiers and horses out to have a look, and I will be careful not to fall into their ambush.'

"Shunhe Yunfeng has seen through everything, but I am overly worried. However, the prince is the commander-in-chief of an army, how can he easily go out of the city and risk danger? It would be better to send a brave general to lead the troops to explore the reality of those Gu Rong. I always feel that this attack

There's something a little strange about Gu Rong coming here.'

-The pirate water bandits stationed in the Chongming Army have only two to three thousand soldiers and dozens of ships. How dare they attack Zhenjiang City far away from Nanjing? Kedehunqiu was followed by a large group of soldiers from Zheng Zhilong from Fujian.

The horse breaks into the mouth of the Yangtze River and reaches the Zhenjiang River all the way. It may be that it was influenced by Yong.

The First Emperor's order was to demonstrate against the Qing Dynasty by attacking important towns along the Yangtze River, in retaliation for Nikan's army's siege of Denglai a few months ago. Zheng Zhilong may have felt that Nanjing was an important city and difficult to conquer. Therefore,

, so he chose to capture Zhenjiang, which was not far away, as a way to deal with it.

However, Jin Shuangbang was as special as Leluo Rucheng and was dismissive of the combat power of Zheng Zhilong's army. Even if the opponent came to tens of thousands of people, the more than 4,000 Eight Banners troops and more than 7,000 Han troops in the city would be enough to cope with it.

However, due to the danger of the war, Le Jin Shuangbang, as the Shun He Yunfeng of the Qing Dynasty and the general who conquered the south, could not risk going out of the city to fight. Although the Zheng army was weak in force, it still had a lot of firearms. If something happened to Le Luo Rucheng, he would not be able to

So that I can explain it to the regent.

"Grandmaester, please be worried. From Nanjing to Zhenjiang, except for Qixia and Longtan, which have many mountains, the rest of the road is full of flat plains. Even if there are some ambush, they can be seen at a glance."

Le Luo Rucheng was very inexperienced in the journey from Nanjing to Zhenjiang. Five years ago, he unexpectedly received Liu Liangzuo's contribution, broke through the Yangtze River defense line from Yangzhou, captured Zhenjiang in one fell swoop, and then followed the river all the way to Nanjing.

Having achieved the first success in annihilating the Ming Dynasty, he was granted the title of Duolo Shunhe Yunfeng.

If I want to set up an ambush on the way to Zhenjiang to intercept and kill my Qing troops, I must defeat them first and counterattack to kill Jin Shuang. In the past few years, I have made great military achievements, defeated countless generals of Jin Shuang, and swept across Huguang, Jiangnan, Le
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