"The prince is using troops like a god, and he has no choice but to do anything, and he is unparalleled in ancient and modern times! The last general is really impressed!"

"Nikan's reaction, Mandahai Shangshan and others' shirk responsibility, and Dorgon's decree time was within the prince's budget! In the planning and winning thousands of miles away, I'm afraid that I can't achieve such a high-level view!"

"Even the specific arrangements for the final attack on the Jiannu Central Army camp, the prince could look out from afar in Yangzhou City, and combined with the scout's report, he pointed out the tactical shortcomings of our army. He had been using military force for many years, and never heard of such a magical person!"

As Nikan was beaten into meat paste by shells, when the generals of the Ming army withdrew their troops to return, they naturally admired Zhu Shuren when they saw him, and almost wanted to walk forward like the princes and generals watching on the Julu Wall.

Zhu Shuren naturally helped the generals up: "This is nothing. General Huang, General Liu, this is the first time you have followed me to fight? In the future, after following me like the generals of Huguang for a long time, I will get used to winning consecutive battles."

Huang Fei and Liu Zhaoji became more and more respectful: They were originally the governor of the North, but after returning to the south, they were directly under the Ministry of War in Nanzhili, and they fought many frustrating wars in their lifetime. If they had known that they had joined the governor of Huguang a few years ago, they would have made great achievements now.

Alas, this is all fate, but fortunately it’s not too late now.

Now the heroes have been destroyed, but the Tartars still exist. There are not many enemies left to the Ming generals to make meritorious contributions! We have to hold on to the prince's thighs!

(Note: This is the psychological activity of Huang Fei and Liu Zhaoji, so of course they feel that there are not many enemies in the world, and they don’t know whether Zhu Shuren will continue to expand his territory after destroying the Tartars in the future)

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren immediately agreed to what they wanted. After some simple comfort, Zhu Shuren encouraged them to continue their efforts:

"Two generals, taking advantage of the destruction of Nikan, is a good opportunity for our army to expand the results of the war! To be honest, just before the decisive battle, I had already ordered General Huang Degong of Hefei, the western route, to lead the army to feint the northern attack on Fengyang!

The next day, the Ming army finally prepared to attack Fengyang City in the end, and then "retreated" and set fire to a pile of garbage that was inconvenient to take away from the camp.

Zheng Chenggong pointed out the details, and Huang, Liu and other generals calmed down a little, and the soldiers arose the same doubts.

After mastering Huaian, Shou County, and the hubs between Jianghuai were all included in the hands of our Ming Dynasty. The deployment of "guarding the river must guard the Huai" was basically achieved. Even if Fengyang between Shou County in Huai'an was not retracted, it would not affect the defense line.

...

"Two Masters Bei Zi, Huang Degong of Hefei suddenly headed north and rushed to Fengyang with his main force. Dingyuan County between Fengyang and Hefei has been besieged by Huang Degong. It is still unknown whether the city is broken. News inside and outside the city has been cut off!

Huaiyuan County around Fengyang and Linhuai County also issued an emergency! The Ming army also shouted the slogan of "Restore Zhongdu and Kill the Pseudo King of Traitors". The morale was very strong, and it seemed that he was determined to win! Geng Zhongming, who stayed in Fengyang, asked for help from all the Beizis in a hurry!"

Although in fact, even if Zhu Shuren attacks Fengyang with all his might, it is unlikely that Zhu Yousong will get—

On February 15th, Nurhaci's seventh son, Dorgon's seventh brother, Prince Abatai of Raoyu finally arrived in Fengyang City in a row, which stabilized the morale of the Qing army in the two Huaihuai.

With the blessing of various factors, Shang Shan also decided to go to Fengyang to stand by, and only let Li Chengdong and Kong Youde decide whether to block the Ming army in Huai'an or follow the main force to fight to Fengyang.

Zhu Shuren also gave Huang Degong very proudly:

"Let's take another feint tomorrow, and then withdraw in an orderly manner, leaving behind the rags accumulated over the past period, and those who have no time to transport them away are worthless. When you retreat, set a fire.

Of course, the general principles in Dorgon's order can still be learned from. For example, Dorgon told Nikan that since Dodo is dead, there is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices. He can "reduce his troops as appropriate and wait for the opportunity. He can help the troops from Henan to help Huainan, and return to his old troops depending on the situation."

Huang Degong, who was in Fengyang, had been pretending to advance in a deceitful way before, and took a little risk. After Huang Degong went north from Hefei, he did not break through Dingyuan County as soon as possible. After all, it took time to attack the city. He just divided his troops to siege the city, clamored for artillery, and then continued to go north with his main force, making great efforts.

The court has already obtained a lot, and it takes time to slowly digest the fruits of victory. Let's do it first."

Kong Youde and Li Chengdong didn't know how many Ming troops were heading north on the battlefield in Yangzhou, but he thought that even Nikan was so easy to destroy. If they stayed alone, they would probably have to bear the endless anger of the Ming army. At this time, it is more important to preserve the vitality.

When Shang Shan heard this, he immediately felt like he was leaving. His main force had been severely injured in Jiangnan before, and now many of the troops he led were reassigned to him after returning to Jiangbei.

The boat from the north was stuck in Huai'an and behind the two necks in Shou County, it was unable to enter the water system south of the Huai River. Most of the military farms in Huainan in the Ming Dynasty could be restored. The Huainan fields east of Hangou and west of Feishui were not worried about the enemy's robbery.

It was also at this time that Dorgon's next order came to Fengyang again. At this time, the Qing army also confirmed the news of Nikan's death. Dorgon asked Shang Shanzan to take command of the Qing army in Huainan and asked Mandahai to go back and continue to listen to Ajige's order.

"Prince Ying sent me to help Huainan in order to try to rescue Prince Yu. In fact, after Prince Yu died in his country, our troops should return west. It was only after the regent's order that he had exactly helped the third brother (Nican) fight a few more games.

Even if not everyone interprets this way, as long as a considerable number of people choose to interpret this way, even if the rest are not interpreted this way, they will be sold to their teammates and bear the anger of the Ming army alone. If they die, they may be charged with disobeying commands and help their living comrades take the blame.

However, Zheng Chenggong, who was following behind, happened to be here today. He was more cautious and familiar with Zhu Shuren, so he was very obedient. Zheng Chenggong carefully considered Zhu Shuren's words and confirmed suspiciously:

After the Ming army generals understood Prince E's ideas, everyone was excited. They each received their own tasks and deployed their own troops, without mentioning the feint attack and main attack.

The Ming army really needs this time to slowly digest the fruits of victory and deepen the reform of the military system—

...

Zhu Shuren has been named Prince E, the Grand Commander, and the general of the military affairs of China and abroad for a month and a half, but he has not had time to transform the old Ming army in Nanzhili.

Zhu Shuren's incisive analysis immediately made the generals suddenly enlightened.

As long as the land between Han and Fei is close to the fortress of Jiancheng, it should not be too remote, or can be protected by other water network branches, and the people can also farm, so the pressure on the military rations of the Huainan garrison will be much less."

Both sides had face, and the Ming army achieved significant military and logistical benefits, but the Qing army seemed to have saved political capital and did not allow the Ming army's conspiracy to "intercept and kill the pseudo-emperor of Qing Dynasty" to succeed. The battlefield between the two Huaihe Rivers then turned into a defensive confrontation.

The pseudo-Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the little Fu King Zhu Yousong, who had defected to them before, is still under house arrest in Fengyang City.

Indeed, when the main general was suddenly killed and annihilated by the Ming army again, the Monk Mandahai Shan was not in charge of each other, and there would definitely be a short-term misalignment of command. In this case, only by seeking stability can one achieve "not seeking merits, but seeking no mistakes."

The Ming army on the opposite side also quickly obtained this information and knew that Abatai, Boluo and others had arrived.

It can be said that in the later Anhui boundary, there was only one road between the Jianghuai River and Huai River, and in the later Jiangsu boundary, there was only one road between Huai and Yang in northern Jiangsu. Controlling these two roads is equivalent to controlling the north-south communication between Anhui and Jiangsu provinces respectively.

But what if this decree is delivered? First of all, the direct recipient of this decree should be Nikan. When Dorgon issued it, he only knew that Dodo was dead, but he did not know that Nikan was also dead (and when Dorgon issued an order from Beijing, Nikan was not dead yet. It was after the messenger rushed on the road for two days and Nikan died halfway through the road)

Therefore, even if delivered, the timeliness is greatly reduced and no instructions can be made on further new situations.

The specific command work will naturally be gradually handed over to Yue Le and Boluo. Yue Le and Boluo's status is just Beile, and Shang Shan, who led the troops here before, is already Beizi. It is not enough to let Beile command Beizi for a long time and have absolute authority. If a prince is pressing him, the situation will be much better.

"What the prince just said was 'I have asked General Huang to feint attack Fengyang in advance'? Why is it a feint attack? Then where are you actually going to hit?"

It can even be said that at this point in time, they only knew that Nikan's main force was mostly finished, and only a small number of troops broke through. But Nikan himself was dead or alive, and they still did not have the confidence.

In the entire Huaian Prefecture, other Huainan counties except Fengyang Prefecture were basically recovered in this wave of reverse reprieve. The total recovered land area is about one and a half.

Then Dorgon will assign the seventh brother, Prince Abatai, who is now in charge of Shandong's defense, to take his two sons Yue Le and Boluo to the south to replace the original Duoduo and Nikan's mission. As long as Shang Shan persists until the new prince's superior arrives, he can hand over the power.

After Monk Mandahai was good at making plans, he felt that Fengyang could not be misunderstood, so Mandahai took the lead in proposing:

The Tongling Copper Mine and Ma'anshan Iron Mine in Nanzhili did not have time to carry out modern industrial transformation with the Daye Iron Mine in Huguang, and there were too many things to do.

Moreover, they all suffered a loss in the tactic of adding fuel to the oil. In any case, they were unwilling to be alone and defeated by each one.

After all, the two parts of the troops that the Qing army reinforced Huainan were sent by Ajige, Henan, and the other part was the Qing army from Shandong heading south.

But since attacking Fengyang is just a feint to mobilize the enemy, it doesn't matter. Huang Degong didn't have to care about the logistics safety of the troops going to Fengyang. If it is not safe, just retreat directly? You can't act more exaggeratedly?

When the Qing army was mobilized, around the fifth day of the second month, Shouxian and Huaian, which had empty troops, were besieged by the Ming army and captured them. The main force of the Ming army concentrated more than ten times the Qing army defending the city, and focused on removing the two small counties, and also concentrated a lot of heavy artillery for attack.

Moreover, the Qing army has just been defeated, and many generals are willing to retreat and settle down a little, and reorganize. If it is because our army attacks Fengyang, they move closer to Fengyang, and eventually lead to an accident in other places, Dorgon will not blame them-

It can only be said that the generals of the Qing army died too quickly and often. They had just suffered a loss of "I don't know if Duoduo died" which led to chaos in the army dispatch, which delayed for a long time. Now it's only a few days since the news of Duoduo's death, Nikan has made such a move again.

The Qing army in Shandong was originally Abatai's army. Now the old Huainan Qing army of Duoduo's army has been almost wiped out, and the command power is returned to Abatai, just to prevent the soldiers from not knowing their generals and generals from not knowing their troops, so that he can lead his old subordinates more easily.

Now that the third brother is also defeated, Fengyang is in a hurry again. It is the capital of the Ming people. Once the Ming army is re-captured, it will greatly encourage the morale of the Southern Barbarians. Since no one has given me the military order, I will return to rescue Fengyang and wait for the next instructions from the Regent or Prince Ying in Fengyang!"

There are no details worth elaborating on the deduction of the battle situation in Huainan seven or eight days after that, because neither side had obvious bloody battles, but were mainly in the movement.

The "retractability" mentioned by Dorgon is of course intended to make the Qing army not rush to attack Yangzhou City, which is meaningless. But now the situation has changed, and Mandahai and others can certainly interpret it further, and expand the "don't attack Yangzhou" as "all Huai'an can give up as appropriate."

Zhu Shuren smiled indifferently: "We must be relaxed and relaxed when using troops. We must not be arrogant even if we win a battle. We must always calmly evaluate the strength of our enemies and us. This time, we are a lion fighting against rabbits, and we have made full use of the loopholes in panic and uneven decision-making in various Tartars divisions to destroy Nikan.

The Ming army took advantage of the situation to attack Fengyang. Whether it was true or not, they went to save it, and made sure that Fengyang was not lost, and there would be no guilt after the war. If you want to save everything, overestimate your power and make some fancy things, and finally get rid of it, then you will be guilty!

Don’t think that only the generals of the Ming army would put personal interests above national interests, and the generals of the Qing army would do the same!

However, the Qing army was originally in the rising period of national destiny, and everyone could win battles. This contradiction between personal interests, small groups and national interests was covered up. Once the frontline situation entered a period of recession, all these contradictions would be exposed!

But if you choose to be radical, greedy for many things, and want to protect both big and big, but you lose and you can't save anything, you will be held accountable and liquidated afterwards by Dorgon - if it is yours, do you choose to seek stability or radical?"

There is no need to mention the key points of Huai'an. It is the place where Hangou enters Huai, and since ancient times the canal is the key to the canal. Shou County is also almost equally important. It is the key to the Huai's entry into the Feishui River. The Feishui goes south and then injects into Chaohu Lake through Hefei. From Chaohu Lake, then through Ruxu Water, and into the Yangtze River from Ruxu mouth.

"Get the map," Zhu Shuren waved his hand, and naturally a staff member took the map. Zhu Shuren pointed at it twice, "The real goal of our army is naturally to recover Huai'an and Shou County first--

From the standpoint of Zhu Changqing and Zhu Shuren, if he can attack Fengyang and succeed, siege and kill Zhu Yousong in order to eliminate future troubles, Dorgon would definitely think that Zhu Shuren's decision was too cost-effective and had great political significance.

Zhu Shuren had just made arrangements, and the Qing army's Mandahai tribe, Shangshan tribe and Li Chengdong tribe on the opposite side had just received news of Nikan's destruction.

The Qing army came to Huainan before, and everything went too smoothly and got too easy, so they didn't cherish it. The northern cavalry nomads did not fully understand the importance of the water network nodes in Huainan.

Now that Nanjing has not been able to conquer it for a long time, the regime established by King Lu ascended the throne has stood firm, the Qing Dynasty naturally did not rush to kill King Fu, who once called him a false emperor, and wanted to keep him disgusted with Zhu Changqing and Zhu Shuren as a banner similar to the effect of Wang Jingwei in later generations.

When Huang Fei and Liu Zhaoji heard this, they immediately injected blood from the chicken and volunteered: "The last general is willing to lead his army to Huai'an first, and then support General Huang Degong along the Huai River to retake Zhongdu!"

Later, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and whenever the North and South were divided and ruled, there were repeated tug-of-war in Shouchun. In the late Five Dynasties, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong wanted to attack the fourteen prefectures of Huainan in the Southern Tang Dynasty for a total of three years. Shouzhou alone (Shouchun/Shou County, one place) fought with Liu Renzhan, the general of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Once Shouzhou changed hands, the remaining thirteen prefectures completely collapsed in a few months.

Abatai is fifty-six years old. In history, he only has two or three years of life left. Now he is not in good health and is not valued. He is just a high status and plays the role of a stabilizing sea magic needle to stabilize the hearts of the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty in the Huai River.

Seeing that the Ming army was actually retreating in an orderly manner and was well prepared, the Qing army did not dare to chase after him. But this did not prevent them from boasting about a big victory after returning to Fengyang City, and countless captures were captured, and they also blew the two major generals, Yue Le and Boluo, to the sky.

The Qing army had at least 50,000 people on the battlefield in Huainan, and it was not easy for us to succeed. Now we have to attack with force. Our army gathered at least 200,000 main forces and four times the number of people to be able to achieve the fortress attack on the Tartars.

In history, when the Qing army first reached Jiangnan, it was not in a hurry to kill the kings of the Ming Dynasty. It just wanted to keep the kings as pawns to persuade more Ming Dynasty generals to surrender and destroy their will to resist. After capturing Nanjing and then Hangzhou, it felt that it was completely for sure, so Dorgon asked the nine captured princes Zhu Ming to take to Beijing together and behead them all.

Therefore, it is still impossible to recklessly recover Huainan in full. It can only lure the enemy into disorderly defense and then focus on recovering. In the mind of the Tatars, the significance of Zhongdu Fengyang to our Ming Dynasty is definitely the most important. If Huang Degong takes the opportunity to attack, it will definitely attract the Qing army on both sides to reinforce.

At that time, the Qing army would at most stockpile ships among the tributaries on the north bank of the Huai River and could ferry north and south near Fengyang, but even if they arrived in Huainan, there would be water networks that would make it difficult for the cavalry to advance quickly.

In other words, Huang Degong left behind a nail that could not be pulled clean and could be detonated at any time, threatening his supply line. Under normal circumstances, this kind of aggressiveness does not meet the precautions of military strategists.

When Shou County, the Qing army in Huai'an got Nikan and died in battle, and its army was destroyed, and General Huang attacked Fengyang again. He would inevitably worry that Fengyang would be in trouble and collapsed across the board, thus shrinking and retreating. The army had no intention of fighting for the time being. These days are a good opportunity for us to recover the lost territory!"

Then who wants to be the sucker?

The next day after Mandahai and others made a decision and began to move the troops, Dorgon's decree was sent to Huai'an.

Hearing that Mandahai and others had left Huai'an, Nikan had no idea of ​​life and death, the messenger had to turn back and go upstream along the Huai River, and finally caught up with the generals on the way out of the field.

Wouldn't the Qing army's command in the Huaihe River be in chaos for another five or six days?

Of course, the Ming army would not give the Qing army time to respond. Almost at the same time as he learned that Nikan was defeated, Mandahai and others received an urgent report from the Qing army to Fengyang:
To be continued...