Liu Zeqing's fate has changed.

The fate of his nearly 30,000 Ming troops also changed.

On April 27, the first year of Yongchang, with Lu Si's efforts, 30,000 Ming soldiers were no longer the vanguards of the Qing Dynasty to pacify China, but turned into heroes who fought back against foreign invasions.

The established goals of the Little Huaihai Campaign were completed. The Huai Army greatly improved the combat effectiveness of officers and soldiers through this battle, and also directly attacked the Qing Dynasty invading group.

Because on the books, the Qing Dynasty lost 30,000 green camp soldiers and several outstanding green camp generals who commanded these 30,000 troops.

If this is not a direct attack on the Qing Dynasty, what is it?

However, this is the most optimistic statement under ideal conditions.

In fact, the situation is not optimistic.

Lu Si faced a big problem, that is, there were too many Ming troops surrendering.

In addition to the nearly 10,000 troops of Zhang Guozhu, Zhang Shiyi and Yu Shaoxun, there were also Huang Zhongse, Mao Delin, Geng Shengong and other troops in the battlefields, and in addition to the surrendered soldiers and prisoners of Ma Huabao and Wang Zuntan's troops, the Huai Army received about 27,000 Ming troops, and only 20,000 people arrived at the city of Xuzhou.

It is a good thing to accept more surrendered troops than their own soldiers.

The good thing is that the number of Huai troops under Xuzhou city increased to 50,000. In addition, Zuo Pan'an's troops who entered Haizhou east, the Huai Army's Northward Advance Group immediately had 60,000 troops, becoming the most powerful army in Xuzhou, Shandong and Henan.

You should know that a few months later, when Duoduo drove from Beijing, he had only more than 30,000 troops.

On this side of the Ming Dynasty, there were about 20,000 Liu Liangzuo's troops in the Linhuai area;

The Huang Degong army in Huaixi will have no more than 10,000 people, because the main force of the Huang Degong army is the cavalry. After becoming the four towns, Huang Degong began to expand his army to 30,000. As a result, all the eight generals under his command, except for their elder brother-in-law, rebelled and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and made Duoduo voucher.

Gao Jie's army, which was desperately fleeing from Shaanxi to Shandong, will now have about 10,000 people, or even only a few thousand people. Like Huang Degong, the expansion of Gao Jie's army was due to the fact that Nanming gave a large amount of money and grain supply.

On the Shunjun side, Dong Xueli from Xuzhou City suffered a great loss during the period of his stay in Xuzhou. At present, there may be only more than 10,000 people. The Henan Deputy Envoy Lu Bizhou is about the same number, and the two families will not exceed 30,000 people together.

The rest were Ming, Shun, the army of the Ming Dynasty and local thieves, with a unit of measurement of thousands. There were about tens of thousands of these soldiers. When the Qing army advanced south, ninety percent of them were led by landlords, gentry and former Ming bureaucrats to descend to the Qing Dynasty.

Just in terms of the current strength of the Huai Army, if Lu Si surrendered to the southern regime of the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely be the first town of the four towns in Jiangbei and the most powerful town.

Dashun was granted the title of marquis, and Nanming had no other choice except to be granted the title of Duke of the State.

This is the benefit of double the troops bringing great prestige.

The disadvantage is that the joining of a large number of surrendered troops in Liu's army will cause the Huai Army system to be disrupted again and will also put great pressure on the Huai Army's logistics.

The military pay of Liu Zeqing almost all the million taels of gold and silver fell into Lu Si's hands, which could ensure that the Huai Army needs for more than half a year.

There was no seizure of food, because Liu Zeqing relied on harvesting food to maintain his army, rather than transporting it from the base area like the Huai army.

The Huai Army will definitely not be able to harvest grain and steal the people like the Ming Army. So we must ensure that there is enough food to support the 30,000 surrendered troops. People who have food and are willing to work hard, and those who don’t eat will pay attention to you. However, the existing grain production areas of the Huai Army are Huai'an and Yangzhou.

It is undoubtedly a very difficult task to raise the 60,000 troops in the north and 20,000 troops in the south using the two prefectures or half Jiangsu.

This is also the reason why Lu Si never forgot to support King Fu. He has no food, but there is food in Jiangnan!

If food and wages cannot be guaranteed, the loyalty of the surrendered army cannot be guaranteed. Without sufficient benefits, it cannot be driven to fight with the braids with their heads.

But first of all, we must "digest" these surrendered troops first and quickly integrate into the Huai Army, otherwise there will be chaos after the great victory.

If this chaos continues until the Qing army goes south a few months later, it is hard to say whether the surrendered troops will still shave their hair.

Therefore, how to make these surrendered soldiers follow him wholeheartedly became something that Lu Si had to solve immediately and could not be delayed for a moment.

When the Huai Army headed north, Lu Si's attitude towards Liu Zeqing's army was to kill those who could kill them, and those who could not kill them would also kill them.

Because the military discipline of Liu Zeqing's troops was too bad, and they were the worst military discipline among the four towns.

He really didn't want these bad soldiers, even if they were very capable of fighting after becoming the Qing army.

This is why there were two prisoners killed in Luliang Mountain and Qi Jiamiao.

If you can't solve the problem, you can solve the problem and solve the person who creates it. This makes sense.

But as the Huai Army penetrated into the hinterland of Xuzhou and the battle of Shanhaiguan in the north started, Lu Si thought about it carefully and felt that it could not be so simple and crude.

If Liu Zeqing's troops adhere to the principle of "no one to stay", the Huai Army will encounter more resistance, and the intensity will continue to increase, and eventually its own casualties will increase. This is really not a good deal.

No fool would be killed after he knew that he would surrender, and he still raised his hands and shouted at me surrendering.

If you do not accept surrender, Liu Zeqing's troops will definitely affect the Huai Army's surrender to other troops. There is a bad reputation for killing surrenders. Who dares to deal with the Huai Army?

Furthermore, these Ming troops did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty now, and many of them participated in the "Three Feudal Rebellion" in the future to fight against the Qing Dynasty, such as Zhang Guozhu.

This shows that in the eyes of these Ming generals, as long as they have enough interests, they dare to fight to the death with the braided soldiers, rather than having to leave a small braid behind their heads to be traitors.

In this way, why kill them all?

Maybe, these people who had no idea of ​​surrendering to Qing Dynasty would be forced to surrender to Qing Dynasty instead of being forced to surrender to Qing Dynasty.

It is not impossible to make a mistake.

Reorganization has become Lu Si’s top priority.

After someone dragged Liu Zeqing's body to bury, Lu Si asked Sun Wu to go in and take in and count Liu Zeqing's belongings.

Those millions of taels of gold and silver were the confidence that Lu Si went north to compete with Aisin Gioro, so he must not lose it.

After confirming that Liu Zeqing's troops no longer existed, Dong Xueli in the city was excited and quickly asked the Xuzhou defense envoy appointed by Dashun, Wu Su, a former Ming Dynasty Jinshi, to leave the city and invite the Marquis of Huaiyin to enter the city.

It was the Marquis of Huaiyin that entered the city, not the Marquis of Huaiyin that entered the city.

Dong Xueli was sincerely grateful to the Huai Army for coming to rescue the siege. When asking for help, he also hinted that he could give up Xuzhou, but if Xuzhou could be controlled in his own hands, it would definitely be of many benefits for him, the Marquis of Dashun Ding. Without any necessity, Dong Xueli was unwilling to give up Xuzhou, a place where military strategists and soldiers competed.

Wu Su is very similar to Liu Bao, a former Ming official who was determined to believe that the new dynasty of Dashun would be in line with him. He was also very honest. After taking office, he quickly surrendered to the prefectures and counties under Xuzhou. If Liu Zeqing had not made a large move south, the Haizhou area would have been successfully surrendered by the Xuzhou defense.

Lu Si is the Marquis of Huaiyin in Dashun, so he naturally would not condescend to greet Wu Su personally, so he asked Chen Buping to contact Wu Su on his behalf.

Maybe Wu Su also felt that it was inappropriate for Dingnan Hou to invite the troops of Huaiyin Hou into the city, so he spoke in a more tactful manner. Chen Buping was such a smart person. He knew Dong Xueli's thoughts after a few words, and came back to tell Lu Si about the situation.

"Go and tell Wu Su that we are too busy with military affairs now, so we won't go to the city to meet Dingnan Hou for the time being." Lu Si didn't want to make any fake polite conspiracy with Dong Xueli at all.

Chen Buping went to talk to Wu Su. Wu Su nodded and hesitated to tell him the extreme shortage of food in the city, and asked the Marquis of Huaiyin to support some food in the city.

"I know this,"

Lu Si was silent for a moment. Xuzhou City was not extremely short of food, but had no food at all, so people were fed. The Huai Army did not bring much food, but Lu Si still asked Chen Buping to the city to send hundreds of stones of food and two hundred livestock, and sent people to the rear to urge grain.

"This little grain is dropping off the bucket. Tell Wu Su that since Liu Zeqing is dead, please ask Dingnan Hou to open the city gate and let the people go out of the city, so that the people can find a way out."

There are about twenty residents in Xuzhou City, and hundreds of stones of grain are barely enough to supply Dong Xueli's troops, so how can they supply the whole city?

There is no way to let the residents in the city leave the city, but at least they can give these people a hope of survival. No matter how much you can find food outside the city, you can still hold on if you go to the countryside.

Dong Xueli listened to Lu Si's opinion and opened the city and let the people go out of the city. Looking at the Xuzhou residents who came out of the city gates everywhere, who were hungry and hungry, Lu Si sighed deeply and asked Chen Buping to raise some more food to distribute on the road so that these residents would not starve to death on the way to resign to their relatives and friends.

There are many large livestock in the Huai Army. If they want to be slaughtered, many people will be able to eat for the time being. However, Lu Si cannot do this. It is not that he is cruel, but that these large livestock were also collected by the Huai Army. It would be a pity to kill them, and it would not be a cure for the symptoms.

If the residents of Xuzhou want to survive, they can only scatter to the countryside, and there is no other way.

"Erlang, go and treat me."

Lu Si gave Sun Wujin a task, which was to invite surrendered generals to dinner, and officers above the 1,000 General Secretary were to attend.

Just to invite a meal, the surrendered generals would definitely be happy, but all officers above the 1000 General Secretary were going to go, which inevitably made the surrendered generals feel suspicious.

However, they still gritted their teeth to attend the banquet because they had no choice.

The banquet was at Liu Zeqing's central army tent. When Lu Si came over, he found a few beautiful women. After asking Qi Bao, he realized that these were all snatched by Liu Zeqing. After shook his head, Lu Si asked Qi Bao to ask if they had any family members. If so, they would give them some money to go home.

"Governor,"

Qi Bao was hesitant.

"how?"

Lu Si wondered why this Liaodong man suddenly got up.

Qi Bao hesitated and whispered: "Don't you leave two?"

"Um?"

Lu Guo's eyes moved. Speaking of which, since he parted with Baimen, his guys have been useless for many days, and these women are indeed good-looking, not as good as...

This idea was quickly dispelled by Lu Siqiang. He was not Liu Zeqing and could not do anything to steal his wife and daughter to enjoy.

"It's all poor people, let them return to their parents and husbands. I think their families must be concerned about them. Reunion is not easy these days." Lu Si waved his hand and sat on Liu Zeqing's chair tiredly.

Qi Bao confirmed that the governor was telling the truth, and nodded in admiration, and asked someone to arrange for these poor women to go home.

It was said that it was a banquet, but it was impossible to make eight big bowls at this time. It was just two donkeys that were killed. They cooked a large pot with salt and put a large piece in front of a person.

Cut with a knife or bite it directly, as you please.

The wine is available in Huai Jun, and it is also the best Yanghe wine, which is specially used to disinfect the wounded. It is often stolen by officers and soldiers on weekdays.

There was wine and meat, and it was also a banquet for the Dashun Huaiyin Hou. The surrendered generals were considered happy, but hundreds of people were sitting there but no one dared to reach out. They looked very nervous, including Zhang Guozhu, Bai Yongfu, Zhan Shixun, Ma Sanbao and others.
Chapter completed!