After dawn, Hong Chengchou led a large army to Macheng County, but at this time, Macheng County was in chaos, with corpses everywhere, including merchant army, Qing army, but more were the people in the county.
After conquering Macheng County, the Qing army began to rob and loot in the county town. As long as they saw living people, they would kill them at once without asking any questions. In fact, it was not just Macheng County, but they were conquering Huang.
After An and Luotian County, the Qing army also carried out a massacre of the city.
Before the Qing army entered the pass, after capturing the Ming Dynasty's city land, it was common to massacre the city. However, in the early stages after entering the pass, this behavior was much reduced because of the stability of people's hearts. After the invasion of himself in the south, it was caused by merchants.
The strong resistance of the army, and the tragedy such as "Ten Days in Yangzhou, Three Massacres of Jiading" that happened in another time and space, did not appear. However, as the Qing army captured Nanjing and went deep into the south, the massacre of cities and land began.
More and more, although it has not reached the "Ten Days in Yangzhou, Three Massacres in Jiading"
With such a large scale, except for the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas occupied by the merchant army, the killings in Huguang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and other places are no less than in another time and space.
The massacre in Hubei has another purpose, which is to retaliate against the merchant army and intimidate the people who depend on the merchant army. This is also a common method used by the Qing army. Although the population in Hubei is not large,
But nearly 100,000 people were massacred by the Qing army.
Although Hong Chengchou did not agree with the Qing army's behavior of massacre of the people to intimidate and control, he also knew that he could not stop it. Moreover, Hong Chengchou also admitted that in a short period of time, this was indeed the most effective Fang Fa, so he also
I just turned a blind eye. And there are too many things to worry about now.
Although the Qing army had achieved great victory in the Hubei theater, the price paid was also not small. The total number of people killed in battle exceeded 50,000, and nearly 400 large and small fortresses were built in the past and afterwards.
It also consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. It can be said that the Qing army is exhausted now and must go through a period of renovation.
However, Hong Chengchou also knew that although the merchant army had lost all its territory, there were still many people remaining in the Dabie Mountains. The Dabie Mountains had hundreds of miles in a row, with high mountains and dense forests and rugged and complex mountain roads. The merchant army occupied the dangerous situation again.
This is the area where the merchant army likes to fight the most. Moreover, the Qing army's fortress siege tactics were much more difficult to implement in the mountainous areas. At the same time, Hong Chengchou also learned from Li Benshen that this was originally the strategy of the merchant army, which used the vast Dabie Mountains.
In the mountains, the Qing army continued to deal with the Qing army, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack, and prepared a lot of materials and ammunition in the Dabie Mountains. Therefore, the battle between the Qing army to suppress the merchant army could not be said to have achieved a comprehensive victory.
Of course, if it was just the battle situation in Hubei, Hong Chengchou was not worried, because the Qing army still had nearly 100,000 troops in Hubei. Although it could not occupy the Dabie Mountains, it was still possible to block the important way out of the mountain, so it was only used
Slowly siege can also waste the merchant army to death in the Dabie Mountains. But the problem is that the merchant army's crossing the sea to attack Shengjing was always a huge shadow pressing on Hong Chengchou's heart.
Hong Chengchou also knew that this shadow would come sooner or later. Once it happened, the Qing army in Hubei would still have the advantages of the entire south, and it would have been completely wiped out. The result of his southern commander this time was probably only It can end in failure. After all, there will always be someone who will take on this responsibility. Of course Dorgon will not take it, nor will Duoduo. Luke Dehun is not worth enough, so it is only his turn.
But although Hong Chengchou knew this result, he couldn't do anything and could only wait for the result to come. Of course, there are still many things to do now. Whether it is returning to Beijing or continuing to enter Hubei, the first thing is to rest the troops, and secondly Now that there is plenty of time, you can also learn more about the situation of the merchant army from Li Benshen. Because after this battle, Shang Yi may truly become a force that can compete with the Qing court in a head-on manner, and what is the force that is fighting for the world, so for Shang Yi , and the more you understand the situation of the merchant army, the more thoroughly it is, the more important it is to the Qing court. At the same time, this is also the capital for Hong Chengchou to have the opportunity to make a comeback in the future.
After Li Benshen surrendered, he helped Hong Chengchou persuade some of his soldiers to surrender. Now there are 27 soldiers in the merchant army who surrendered to the Qingting. Hong Chengchou also handed over all these people to Li Benshen and planned to use this group of people as the team. Merchant Army's method retrains soldiers.
However, there were not many veterans among this group of surrendered soldiers, and Li Benshen had only four people in total. The others were soldiers recruited by the merchant army after they arrived in Hubei, and there were even fewer middle and senior officers. In addition to Li Benshen, the highest official position was the only one. As a deputy company commander, Hong Chengchou felt that it was not enough. In this battle, the Qing army captured many soldiers from the merchant army, one of which was the leader. Hong Chengchou also wanted to recruit some people from this group of prisoners. Because of this, Zhao Yue and Hong Chengchou also planned to bring down the price at all costs.
So Hong Chengchou immediately found Li Benshen and said, "Benshen, are you familiar with this Zhao Yue?"
Li Benshen nodded and said, "The last general knows that Zhao Yue was originally a thousand households in the Ming Dynasty's garrison, stationed in Tianjin. In the 17th year of Chongzhen... No, it was Shunzhi... In the first year of Shunzhi (1644), when Shang Yi attacked Beijing, After defecting to Shang Yi, he has made many military achievements in recent years and is highly appreciated by Li Dingguo. After being promoted to the commander of the 22nd Brigade, Li Dingguo originally planned to entrust him as the deputy of the last general and serve as deputy of the 22nd Brigade. The brigade commander, but he would rather be a lower-level position than be the deputy commander. Therefore, Li Dingguo asked him to be the commander of the 14th Regiment, and this 14th Regiment was where Li Dingguo made his fortune."
Hong Chengchou nodded and smiled, "Ning ** head, not being a phoenix tail, it seems that this person is very interesting. So I thought it was possible to surrender Zhao Yue?"
Li Benshen's psychology is, of course, that the more soldiers of the merchant army surrender, the better. So he thought about it and said, "From the last point, it is possible. Although Zhao Yueli has made a lot of contributions, he is quite noble. Moreover, there are often complaints, and they are popular in the army. In addition, this person is quite loyal to the Ming Dynasty and is quite dissatisfied with Shang Yi and Yue and his self-reliance. Therefore, according to the last and future, starting from these aspects, it should be It is possible to say that he was surrendered."
After hearing this, Hong Chengchou was quite satisfied and said, "Okay, but he suffered a lot of injuries this time. He should relieve him for a few days. After he recovered from his injuries, he would persuade him to surrender."
As the two were talking, a guard suddenly hurried into the tent and said, "Report to the general, Zhenjiang is lost." Hong Chengchou's face changed drastically when he heard this.
It turned out that after Hong Chengchou left Nanjing, Zhenjiang's emergency sent to Nanjing one by one. Duoduo originally planned to lead the army himself to rescue Zhenjiang. But at this time, Oboi took the initiative to ask for orders and asked him to lead a team of troops to rescue him.
Zhenjiang. Because Aobai had just arrived in the south and had not yet fought. Moreover, when he was in Beijing, he heard many legends about the merchant army, saying that the merchant army was as powerful as the one. Aobai had always despised the Han people and was quite dissatisfied with him.
Therefore, I also plan to take this opportunity to fight a war with the merchant army and see what a powerful method the merchant army is.
In the Qing Dynasty, Oboi was known as the No. 1 Warrior in Manchuria. He was brave and good at fighting. He made a lot of contributions to the Qing Dynasty during the Huang Taiji era. Duoduo also felt that Oboi was good at fighting, and he first went to the south, and there was a slight slight
He asked him to lead his troops to go, so he ordered Obai to lead 20,000 troops to rescue Zhenjiang.
After Oboi received the order, he immediately led his troops to set off. He knew that the military situation in Zhenjiang was urgent and ordered to go twice and arrive in Zhenjiang as soon as possible. Although someone reminded him to be careful of the ambush of the merchant army and not to make a quick move, he was scolded by Oboi.
He said he was as timid as a mouse. Fortunately, he was a man of Manchu. If he were from the Han Banner, he would have been stabbed by Oboi long ago.
As a result, after the Qing army set off, they rushed all the way and ignored nothing else.
As soon as the Qing army attacked from Nanjing, it was discovered by the scouts of the merchant army and immediately reported it to the First Division stationed in Jurong.
The First Division was the ace unit of the First Army, but in this battle to attack Zhenjiang, the main attack mission was not obtained and was assigned to block the reinforcements of the Qing army. Although the division commander Su Jianlin did not dare to disobey the orders of the military headquarters, he also
He was so angry that the Qing army's reinforcements were coming, so Su Jianlin would certainly not miss this opportunity, so he immediately ordered an attack to attack the Qing army's reinforcements.
As a result, the merchant army had just set up a defense line, and Oboi led his troops to attack the merchant army without asking any questions. According to Oboi's idea, a charge could break up the merchant army.
Nazhi, under the fierce firepower of the merchant army, the Qing army launched three consecutive attacks, but they were all repelled by the merchant army. Not only did they suffer heavy injuries, but their morale plummeted.
Seeing this, Su Jianlin immediately ordered to take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack against the Qing army. As a result, a counterattack defeated the Qing army. Although Oboi tried his best to command the Qing army to resist, it was useless. Later, even Oboi was in trouble.
He was shot three times, but fortunately he was wearing three layers of heavy armor, so he was lucky enough not to hurt his life. However, his ribs were also broken and he was unable to continue fighting. He was carried by the defeated army and retreated back to Nanjing.
The news of the defeat of reinforcements reached Zhenjiang, which also caused the morale of the defenders in Zhenjiang City to be in chaos. At this time, the merchant army also launched a fierce attack on Zhenjiang. At the same time, the Yangtze River Fleet also rushed to the surface of Zhenjiang and blew the water gate of Zhenjiang from the river.
Under the attack of land and water, Zhenjiang finally couldn't defend it. The merchant army broke through the city wall and rushed into the city. The defenders were defeated and retreated from the city and fled back to Nanjing.
After Hong Chengchou read the battle report,
He didn't dare to neglect and immediately sent someone back to Nanjing.