Jirgalang heard the Queen Mother ask him and lowered his head and thought about it. In the current crisis, he could only gather troops across the country and fight to the death with the Nanming.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, this is simple! Transfer Prince Doro from Shaanxi Mandahai and Governor of the Three-Border Shaanxi Meng Qiaofang to Henan to prevent the Ming army in the Hanyang direction, and then transfer Duro from Datong Front, Wakda and Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan to Henan to protect the flanks of the capital. They still have more than 30,000 troops in their hands, so they should be able to defend the eastern front of the capital! At the same time, let Wu Sangui, the King of Pingxi stationed in Nanyang, lead troops to Daming Mansion. Yue Le is good at commanding cavalry and let Yue Le lead 50,000 Mongolian cavalry and threaten the Ming army's canal supply line with Wu Sangui! I will lead other troops to Jinan, so that the capital can be worry-free!"

Jiergalang's suggestion basically transferred all the troops in the country to guard against the Ming army. What should I do if the peasant army in Shaanxi do? What should I do if Sichuan? What should I do if the most important Jiangran in Shanxi do? Shanxi is just under the armpit of the capital. Wakda, who is guard against the Jiangran, will be transferred away. What should I do if Jiangran takes advantage of the situation to attack the capital?

Shunzhi had just taken over the government less than two years ago and could not see through Jiergalang's arrangements, so he asked in panic: "Prince Zheng, Shanxi is right under the armpit of the capital. What if Jiang Rang, which occupied Datong, rushed out?"

"Your Majesty, Jiang Rang is a capricious man. He killed the civil servant who was garrisoned in the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to Li Zicheng, and then surrendered to our Qing Dynasty. Four years ago, the banner of anti-Qing was raised because of trivial matters. This kind of snob is easy to deal with! Your Majesty can send a secret envoy to promise him to cede Shanxi to become independent. I guess Jiang Rang will definitely return to the embrace of our Qing Dynasty!"

Shunzhi thought about it and this was a good idea. Although Jiang Rang had few soldiers and only had more than 30,000 people, he was in a life-and-death battle with Nanming, and even the few soldiers were also a helper.

"Prince Zheng, now my Qing Dynasty is weak. What if Jiang Rang disagrees?" Shunzhi also thought clearly. To give people benefits, we must first look at his situation. Now that he has been beaten to Shandong by Nanming, Jiang Rang is afraid that he will agree easily!

Shunzhi had little political experience, and Xiaozhuang was a political veteran. He heard Jiergalang say this and said: "Emperor, Prince Zheng means to use peace talks to hold Jiang Rang so that Shanxi can guard against his Wakda, so that Li Guohan's troops can take their hands to deal with the Ming army in Shandong! As for the future, hey! Let's talk about it later!" Xiaozhuang knew that it was the moment of life and death of the Qing Dynasty. If Shandong failed, what else would you say in the future? I was afraid I would run back to my hometown in Liaodong.

Prince Zheng Jiergalang and Xiaozhuang both grew up in Liaodong, so they did not have much resistance to returning to their hometown, but Shunzhi was different. He ascended the throne at the age of six, and in the second year he followed the Qing army into the pass, growing up in Beijing until he was fifteen. It can be said that the young man in Shunzhi grew up in Beijing and had no big impression of Liaodong, a bitter and cold place outside the pass. In the depths of Shunzhi's memory, he only remembers that it snows every August, and then he has to hide in the house for half a year. Shengjing's life is completely incomparable to Beijing.

"Prince Zheng, I will hand over all my troops to you this time. How confident are you to the battle in Shandong?"

Jiergalang smiled bitterly when he heard the emperor's question. He had fought a war with the Ming army, and the 200,000 troops in Hanyang were defeated by 50,000 or 60,000 people. This battle in Shandong is probably going to be very difficult.

"Your Majesty, I must repel the Ming army this time to protect the safety of the capital!" Jiergalang said for a while and continued: "Your Majesty, although my Qing Dynasty has concentrated the entire country's troops this time, I still have to guarantee that if I leave, I ask Your Majesty to transfer the Prince of Ping Luo Keduo, the Prince of Duluo, who is left by Shengjing, and Huang Dufang, the Prince of Duluo, to station Shanhaiguan to prevent the war ahead from being unfavorable, and you can protect Your Majesty and the Queen Mother from worry-free!"

Jirgalang estimated that it would be a good chance to go to Shandong this time, so some words must be said. Now that the country is like this, it is basically impossible to fight against the Ming army. It is better to make plans earlier.

He knew that Shunzhi didn't think so. He had just taken power for a while and was just trying to do something big. Although Shunzhi was a Manchu, he had received Confucian education since he was a child. He admired the outstanding emperors of the Han Dynasty very much and hoped that he could become a figure like Li Shimin. So now he heard Jierharang advise him to escape back to Liaodong, and was very unhappy.

"Prince Zheng, you don't have to worry too much about the affairs of the government. The war ahead will depend on Prince Zheng!"

Seeing Shunzhi so stubborn, Jirgalang sighed and had nothing to say. Although he was a prince, he was a slave in etiquette and law. Now, there was nothing he could do when Shunzhi said this. He just got up and retreated and prepared for a battle in Shandong.

Although Shunzhi was not going to return to Liaodong, Xiaozhuang was deeply convinced of Jiergalang's suggestion. After this meeting, Xiaozhuang used his empress dowager's seal and secretly sent a confidant to inform Shengjing Luo Keduo, asking him to bring people into the pass and wait in Shanhaiguan to be on guard against the situation.

After the meeting, the Qing Dynasty immediately mobilized all the people. Except for the far away outside the pass and the troops were not enough to be transferred, the entire Great Wall was south of the Great Wall, so the Eight Banners family stationed to send all males over twelve years old to raise 36,000 people, which was the last family of the Qing Dynasty. There were also 40,000 people from the Han army flag, plus the 100,000 cavalry sent by Wu Keshan from the Korqin tribe of Mongolia, a total of 180,000 people were raised.

On April 15, Shunzhi appointed Prince Zheng Jiergalang as the general of the southern expedition and governed the world. Shunzhi handed over all the final assets to Jiergalang, and he led him to Jinan.

After Jiergalang left, Shunzhi sent Han ministers to Datong, Shanxi to negotiate with Jiang Rang. As Jiergalang said, Jiang Rang was a capricious villain. After learning that the Ming army had reached Shandong, he immediately broke the robbery of the Qing Dynasty. Jiang Rang originally only occupied the Datong line, but now he wants to keep in Shanxi forever.

Of course, Shunzhi could not agree to this condition, but was stopped by Xiaozhuang. When did you still have personal intentions? With the strong intervention of the Empress Dowager, the Qing Dynasty was forced to agree that Jiang Rang would occupy the entire Shanxi. Jiang Rang would solve the problem. Wakda and Li Guohan, who were stationed in Shanxi to guard against him, immediately led their troops south to Henan, and would join Mandahai and Meng Qiaofang, who gave up Shaanxi, to support Jiergalang in Jinan in Zhangde Prefecture, Henan.

Shandong Province had just passed the rebellion of Liu Zeqing and Li Huajing in the seventh year of Shunzhi. This rebellion swept across the northern part of Shandong. Finally, the Manchu and Qing Dynasty mobilized the capitals of three provinces to suppress the uprising. The people participating in the encirclement were Meilezhangjing Laikun, Yizhou general Tong Yangliang, Linqing general Yiyonggui, Baoding general Lu Guonan, Henan general Gaodi, Hebei general Kong Xigui and other troops. These people were also handed over to Jierharang for unified dispatch by Shunzhi. Now Jierharang's troops have 250,000 troops. Including Henan Mandahai, Wakda, Wu Sangui and other troops, the total total force reached 300,000, which can be considered as strong and strong.

The Qing Dynasty in the north was preparing for the Central Plains War in a intensive manner, but Zhu Hongsan in Huai'an was crossing the river in an uninterrupted manner.

Zhu Hongsan originally decided to take advantage of the Qing Dynasty's failure to react and then march into Northern Zhili. However, due to the lack of water in the Yellow River and the canal was disrepair, such a raid was no longer possible. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan thought carefully and decided that since the raid was impossible, he would have a general decisive battle with the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains, so that the Qing Dynasty would burst into blood at one time.

Since the strategy was changed, Zhu Hongsan was not in a hurry. After crossing the Yellow River, Zhu Hongsan stayed in Suqian for two months to mobilize troops and generals for the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, news from the north was sent to Zhu Hongsan by the Jinyiwei's hand.

When Zhu Hongsan saw that the Qing Dynasty had reached a peace talk with Jiang Rang and handed over the whole province of Shanxi to Jiang Rang in order to mobilize troops, Zhu Hongsan scolded Jiang Rang in anger. In recent years, Zhu Hongsan has not treated Jiang Rang unfairly, which is also the main reason why Jiang Rang can survive until now under the eyes of the Qing Dynasty. In order to support Jiang Rang, Zhu Hongsan ordered the Jinyiwei to do his best to support Jiang Rang. Even Zhu Hongsan's own muskets in his army were also secretly transported in 200 poles, and other weapons and armor. Now he has achieved such a result, how can he not make Zhu Hongsan angry? But you can't be angry. Zhu Hongsan is far away from Shanxi now, and it's beyond the reach! So Zhu Hongsan is ready to suppress his anger and settle the score with Jiang Rang in the future.

When the Qing Dynasty mobilized 300,000 troops and went south in two directions. The main force was led by Jiergalang to Jinan, and the partial army was led by Duolo Prince Mandahai and occupied Changde Mansion, Henan. In this way, the east and west teams formed a defense line, with Jinan and Zhangde as the two ends, and Daming Mansion and Dongchang Mansion as the middle, blocking Zhu Hongsan's Ming army in the south.

Jiergalang is worthy of being a slippery man who has been in war for many years. He knew that the Ming munitions were powerful and relied heavily on logistics supplies. Therefore, he firmly occupied these four cities, used the solid walls to offset the advantages of Ming munitions, and then used the cavalry to harass the Ming army's canal supply line in Daming and Dongchang Prefectures. This trick was really cruel. It was already June, and it would snow in three months. Zhu Hongsan's Ming army was all from the south and had no combat experience in cold weather. At that time, he would naturally retreat to the south to repair, which gave the Qing Dynasty another year of respite.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the map and the Qing Dynasty selected the decisive battle location was very ideal, which was in the eastern Henan Plain of Henan. There were endless large plains thousands of miles here, with no danger at all. There were not many cities, only a few small counties, which were very ideal locations for cavalry charges. It seemed that the Qing Dynasty wanted to use its cavalry advantage to deal with its own musketeers.
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