On April 25, the 18th year of Chongzhen, Lufeng Admiral Huang Degong sent a telegram to report, regaining Huai'an Prefecture to govern Shanyang.

On April 28, Huang Degong sent another telegram to report, saying that he would recover Sizhou and Xuyi.

On April 30, Ainengqi sent a clutch to report to recover Andong County, Huai'an Prefecture.

Later, in Suzui, the southern bank of the Yellow River, the more than 15,000 Green Camp troops were killed, and the generals of the Green Camp troops were killed, Bai Yongfu, Ma Huabao, deputy generals Gao Jinku, Zhang Siyi, Liu Wang, and other captives of the gang general Han Yingjie, guerrilla Ai Huaiying, etc.

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After interrogation, it was learned that this green camp soldier was originally under Liu Zeqing's command. On the way to flee to the south, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

It was also learned that during the battle, Junta had led more than 3,000 Eight Banners Army and 10,000 or 20,000 troops from Maluo Township to the east of Suzui to cross the Yellow River.

There were not many cavalry in the fifth town of the Imperial Guard led by Ainengqi. He knew that he could not catch up with him, so he could only report to Zhu Mai.

After seeing the report, Zhu Mai sent someone to pass the imperial edict, but did not punish him. Instead, he asked Ainengqi to patrol the area from Andong County to the mouth of the Yellow River and not to act rashly.

After that, between April 30th and May 6th, Zeng Ying successively reported the victory with telegrams, and successively overcome the Taoyuan, Suqian, Pizhou and other cities along the canal.

On May 7th, another telegram was sent to overcome Xuzhou!

Huang Degong sent a telegram on May 6 to overcome Linhuai and Fengyang!

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May 7, Yangzhou.

"According to Zeng Ying and Huang Degong's telegram, the prefectures and counties they encountered along the way were almost all garrisoned by Ming officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. The number of people was small, only three or five hundred, and the number of people was large.

Two or three thousand.

When these surrendered soldiers saw Zeng Ying and Huang Degong's army arrived, they either opened the city gate and surrendered, or fled in sight.

Even for an important city like Xuzhou and Fengyang, the Qing army fled north with a war.

It can be seen from this that the Qing army must have decided to give up Xu Huai and Fengyang Mansion."

In the Yangzhou government office, Zhu Niu talked to Hao Guangming about the military progress in recent times through Bluetooth headphones.

Hao Guangming said: "The Qing army lost tens of thousands of troops in Yangzhou, including tens of thousands of Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners, so they must shrink their defense line.

Even if they are not scared to withdraw from the exile, they will at least temporarily give up places outside Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi."

After listening to Hao Guangming's analysis, Zhu Meiyu frowned slightly and said, "A few days ago, Du Yinxi sent a telegram saying that the Qing army had captured Xiangyang Prefecture in Hubei, and in Chengtian Prefecture, Jingzhou Prefecture, De'an Prefecture and Shun Army

Several major battles occurred, and the Shun Army seemed to be defeated.

Previously, the Shun Army tried to cross the river from Jingzhou to attack Hunan, but during the crossing of the river, it was defeated by the Fourth Town of the Yangtze River Navy led by Chang Deng."

On the other hand, Hao Guangming found the Huguang map in the late Ming Dynasty to see.

At the end of April, Huguang newly formed the border defense forces. After a month of running-in training, and equipped with a batch of armored weapons transported from Chengdu, a military operation was launched.

Under the dispatch of Du Yinxi, Li Guoying and Xu Yong each led a border guard in one town. With the cooperation of the garrison troops in the four towns, they wiped out all the Shun army entrenched south of the Yangtze River and Yuezhou prefectures.

Therefore, before the Shun Army was left in Huguang, only Xiangyang, De'an, Chengtian prefectures, and half of Jingzhou prefectures.

Now that Xiangyang Prefecture is lost, the Shun Army can move even smaller places in Hubei.

If the Qing army continued to pursue Li Zicheng relentlessly, the Shun army in Hubei would definitely be defeated.

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"If Li Zicheng insisted on Qingting and let Ajige retreat from Huguang, he might be able to survive in Hubei."

After hearing this, Zhu Mai said, "Since the Qing army captured Xiangyang and saw that Li Zicheng could be destroyed, how could he give up?"

Hao Guangming said: "As long as Dorgon does not make any fool of himself, he will let go - with the current military strength of the Qing Dynasty, even if Li Zicheng is destroyed, they will not be able to defend Hubei.

If you send troops north, if the Qing Dynasty did not transfer Ajige's army back, they would probably not have enough troops to resist.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty's forces in the capital were forced to retreat outside the pass, but Ajige's army stayed in Huguang, and they would die without life."

Zhu Mai was also looking at a map of Huguang on the side of the Ming Dynasty and said, "If Li Zichengzhen can persist until the Qing army retreated from Huguang, we will deal with him in the future."

To this day, Zhu Mai no longer cares that destroying Li Zicheng would affect the soldiers of the Shun Army who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

First, when Li Zicheng faced the Qing army, he was defeated again and again, and he probably had already lost the hearts of the people.

Second, her Zhu Meiyu is no longer the same as before. I believe that after adapting to the new army system of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the generals from the Shun Army would know exactly how to choose.

Hao Guangming didn't think Li Zicheng could cause any more storms, so he changed the topic directly.

"Since Zeng Ying has defeated Xuzhou and Huang Degong has defeated Fengyang, the strategic goals you set before have been initially achieved.

The news that you defeated more than 100,000 Qing troops in the Battle of Yangzhou has spread throughout the Yangtze River after so many days.

It is time for you to return to Nanjing to succeed to the throne as emperor - only in this way can you truly consolidate the hearts of the Ming people.

On the contrary, if you stay outside Nanjing for a long time and do not succeed to the throne, some people will misunderstand your thoughts and cause chaos."

"You're right." Zhu Mei nodded, stood up and looked south, "I'm back to Nanjing."

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May 8th.

Zhu Mai ordered Yang Zhan to lead the third town of the border defense army to station in Yangzhou. The emperor took off in Yangzhou City that day and headed south along the canal.

On May 10, under the sanitation of the Yangtze River Navy's First Town, Second Town, Second Town of the Imperial Guards, and Imperial Guards, Zhu Meiyu's Imperial Veteran arrived outside Nanjing again.

Ma Shiying and Wang Duo led hundreds of officials to the dock to greet him.

The people who visited the pier were even more crowded.

Although these people were stopped a hundred steps away by the soldiers of the First Town of the Imperial Guards who were deployed here, Zhu Mei and the officials in Nanjing who greeted her felt the enthusiasm of the people.

Because at this time, the people of Nanjing no longer knew nothing about Zhu Mai, and they no longer could only imagine through some strange stories that didn't know the truth or the false.

Zhu Ma's record of defeating the Qing army in Yangzhou has long spread throughout Nanjing, the streets and alleys, and even the story of the storyteller has been compiled into a Romance story.

In addition, in the past half month, the Imperial Guards have performed very well in Nanjing City and won unanimous recognition from the people.

The people of Nanjing are naturally very curious about Zhu Mai, the mysterious and legendary princess, and admire them.

Huang Zongxi was also wrapped in the crowd and looked at the dock where the imperial ship was parked from afar.

He is of medium height and looks very thin, as if he is about forty, but in fact he is born in the 38th year of Wanli, and he is only 35 years old this year.

Because of this, Ruan Dayue attacked the Donglin Party members in large numbers, but he was arrested and imprisoned for signing in "Liudu Prevention of Chaos".

A few days ago, Princess Kunxing was in charge of the country and controlled Nanjing. Ruan Dayue lost power. The former Minister of Justice Jie Xuelong was revived, so he was released from the Ministry of Justice.

Because he was imprisoned in the prison for two or three months, he became haggard and haggard. Fortunately, he had been raising him for more than ten days, otherwise it would be even more difficult to see anyone.

When he was first released, Huang Zongxi was preparing to return to Yuyao.

But after hearing about Princess Kunxing's deeds, he knew that he could be released from prison and had nothing to do with Princess Kunxing. When the victory in Yangzhou came, he decided to stay in Nanjing for the time being. Judging from the political situation, the national situation will be due to this person.

What changes does a princess full of mystery and legendary colors produce?

So, when he heard that Princess Kunxing was about to enter Nanjing today, he wanted to come to the dock to watch, but he didn't expect that so many people would come to watch.

"I heard that the princess is a fairy who came down to earth, but I don't know whether it is true or false."

"It must be true, otherwise how could we defeat more than 100,000 Qing troops?"

"The princess must be a fairy, otherwise why is the imperial guards under her command so powerful and kind to the people? Maybe they are all heavenly soldiers and generals who have descended to the earth?"

"That's right, even the Master Qiu Ba of the Beijing Camp was trained by the Imperial Guards to have a big change."

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Hearing the people around him buzzing about Princess Kunxing, almost all of them were talking about the princess's goodness, Huang Zongxi couldn't help but feel emotion-

Now this princess not only has extraordinary martial arts skills, but also has the hearts of the people of Nanjing, and has hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers.

Even if she really wants to be as rumored as she is, she will probably succeed as the empress as the rumor, and no one dares to stop her!
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