During this southern expedition, the Qing army was mainly divided into three groups of troops.

The Western Route Army was led by Ajige, responsible for chasing Li Zicheng who fled into Huguang.

It is said that there are more than 70,000 soldiers and horses under its command, but most of them are the Green Camp Army, followed by the Han Banner Army, and then the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Based on the distribution of troops in the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the Ajige army is estimated to be only about one banner, with no more than ten thousand people at most.

The Eastern Route Army was led by Zhangjing, Anbang and Batulu Junta of Zhengbai Banner. In fact, there were only less than one flag of troops, and there were only four or five thousand people.

Therefore, the Former Qing Court was not very clear about the facts of the Hongguang court, so it regarded it as its biggest enemy, which gave nearly 20,000 Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers to Duoduo who led the Central Army.

Including the total number of Eight Banners soldiers in the Han, Mongolian Eight Banners and Duoduo army should be more than 70,000.

Now only four or five thousand Mongolian cavalry are left to survive.

Hao Guangming asked himself that if he was Dorgon, he would probably not have the confidence to continue staying in the pass.

Zhu Mai felt the same way and couldn't help but say: "It seems that we may need to consider the situation of the Qing army's retreat outside the pass."

Hao Guangming said: "If the Qing army really retreats outside the pass, you must not refuse to recover Beijing."

Zhu Moe nodded, "I know."

She is now the governor of the Ming Dynasty and will be the Empress of the Ming Dynasty in the future, not some founding emperor who rose to power through rebellion.

Therefore, even if we know that the north of the Yellow River is mostly ruined due to natural disasters and wars, it will become a heavy burden for the court after taking over, and she must recover it in time.

Otherwise, how can we be worthy of the Ming people in these places?

How can we be worthy of the Ming Dynasty’s governor and emperor’s identity?

However, when thinking about the difficult situations that might be faced in the future, Zhu Mai felt quite heavy.

Hao Guangming guessed what Zhu Ma thought and felt at this moment, so he comforted him: "In fact, it's nothing to conquer Hebei as soon as possible. You can come to the modern era, so I can help you?

With such a big golden finger, I believe we can do things well.”

"Um!"

Hearing Hao Guangming's encouragement, Zhu Ma was focused on the key points.

Then, the two analyzed the components of the Qing army currently fleeing north.

One of them is the four or five thousand Mongolian cavalry led by Boluo.

The second is the navy led by Geng Zhongming, which is the eight or nine thousand Han army under his command, the Huangqi army.

Previously, after receiving the order from Zhu Mai, Li Zhanchun immediately led the first town of the Yangtze River Navy to the north of the Nigu Canal and attack Geng Zhongming's troops.

Unexpectedly, Geng Zhongming's troops saw the sharp artillery in the first town of the Yangtze River Navy. After a defeat, they directly cut off their tails to survive, abandoning some of the boats and their troops and their horses.

Because the ancient canal was relatively narrow, the boats and ships of Geng Zhongming's troops blocked the river channel, and Li Zhanchun could not pursue it in time, which made Geng Zhongming run away.

This is also because Kong Youde rushed to the ancient canal but only saw the tail of Geng Zhongming's navy.

As for Geng Zhongming, he did not dare to send a ship back to pick up Kong Youde, but he was beaten to death by the First Town of the Yangtze River Navy, for fear that he would be caught up with him after a moment of pause.

Later facts proved that even if Geng Zhongming sent a ship back to pick up Kong Youde, he would probably have intercepted the light boat sent by Li Zhanchun to head north, and he would still not be able to escape...

The third one of the Qing troops fled north was the Green Camp Army.

According to the information revealed by some Green Camp prisoners, nearly 80,000 Green Camp soldiers who came to attack Yangzhou this time, plus Gao Fengqi, who later surrendered from the city, Li Qifeng's troops had more than 80,000.

Later, Li Chengdong was defeated in the small town of Yangzijin, and his troops were lost to more than 20,000, and the Green Camp Army had 50,000 or 60,000.

When the Qing army formally attacked Yangzhou, more than 3,000 people from Gao Fengqi and Li Qifeng were placed in the north; more than 3,000 people from Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu were placed in the west.

That is, there were about 50,000 Green Camp troops setting up a large camp in the south of Yangzhou.

During the siege and attack by Huang Degong, these Green Camp soldiers were either killed, injured or captured, totaling 10,000 or 20,000.

Therefore, there were approximately 30,000 Green Camp troops who fled from the northwest corner of Yangzhou City at that time.

In addition to the troops of Gao, Li and Zhang brothers, the Green Camp Army fled north may have as many as 40,000!

After learning about this situation, Zhu Ma and Hao Guangming couldn't help but worry about Ainengqi and the Knight Camp.

After all, Ainengqi led less than 3,000 cavalrymen, even if they were elite, if there were 10,000 or 20,000 Green Camp troops ambushed or forced to counterattack, the Cavalry Camp may not be able to get benefits.

So, Zhu Mai immediately contacted Huang Degong with the walkie-talkie.

"Jingnanbo, according to the information obtained by our palace, there were nearly 40,000 Green Camp troops running away.

Although they did not run together, I am still worried about the safety of Ainengqi and the Knight Camp."

Speaking of this, Zhu Mei stopped.

She felt that famous generals like Huang Degong could know better about dealing with this situation than her.

Sure enough, Huang Degong immediately said: "I will send all the whistle cavalry under my command to search for the whereabouts of General Ai and the others.

At the same time, I will lead three thousand cavalry northward to see if I can support General Ai in time."

Huang Degong paused at this point before continuing: "In fact, I think there is no need to worry about the regent. The escaped Qing army has lost its courage and most of them will not get together.

Even if they get together, they may not have the courage to fight against the Knight Camp.

Yang Chengzu, Xu Dingguo and others are all incompetent and cowardly rats, so General Ai will definitely not be able to do anything."

After hearing Huang Degong's words, Zhu Ma was relieved a lot.

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Before dark, Ainengqi led the cavalry camp back to Yangzhou City and came to report to Zhu Mei.

This time, he led the Cavalry Camp to pursue the Green Camp Army and headed northwest, and finally defeated more than 20,000 Green Camp Army, beheaded more than 1,000, and captured more than 5,000!

However, after Huang Degong set out in the afternoon, he did not find any traces of the Green Camp defeated soldiers, but only encountered several scattered defeated soldiers and bandits, and he solved it easily.

The next day, the generals of the military came to the government office to participate in the military meeting.

“There are two issues this time.”

It was still Dong Qiongying who acted as the conference tour guide, pointed at a magnified map of Nanzhili with a teaching stick, and explained the current military situation in Jiangbei to Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan and others.

"The first topic: According to the Jinyiwei interrogation of the Qing army prisoners, the Qing army divided the five thousand Manchus in Huai'an Prefecture, the Han flag army was led by the Zhengbai Banner Zhangjing Junta, and pursued Liu Zeqing's troops to the southeast and captured Yancheng.

Seashore areas such as Xinghua and Tongzhou.

In addition, five thousand Han flag troops were divided into Sizhou, led by Zu Zehong and Liu Liangchen, and attacked Fengyang and Shouzhou to the west, and went south to take Luzhou Prefecture.

Therefore, we still need to dispatch troops to solve the quasi-ta in eastern Yangzhou, and to attack the Han army flags in Fengyang Prefecture and Luzhou Prefecture."

After hearing this, Ai Nengqi, who participated in this level of military meeting for the first time, couldn't help but wonder: "I see that this map is not marked. Is Liu Zeqing's troops, one of the four towns in Jiangbei, stationed in Shouzhou?

Since Liu Zeqing can become one of the four towns in Jiangbei, he should have 20,000 or 30,000 troops in his hands? Could it be that he can't even resist the 5,000 Han flag troops?"

Huang Degong heard this and said, "Huama Liu is known to have 100,000 soldiers, but most of them are the young and strong refugees he has carried over the past year, which is simply useless.

There are only about 30,000 people under his command who can barely pull out the war.

If Huama Liu was willing to sacrifice his life to fight, he would probably be able to block it based on the city. But based on my understanding of him, he would only be afraid of running away in sight."

Seeing Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan also showed a confused look, Zhu Ma said: "There is something you may not know. Liu Liangchen, the deputy general of this Han Banner Army, is Liu Zeqing's younger brother.

As early as the Battle of Daling River in the fourth year of Chongzhen, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Zu Dashou.

Since Duoduo sent this person as his deputy general, he wanted to easily capture Fengyang with such a small number of troops and horses, and probably Liu Liangzuo had decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty."
Chapter completed!