Under the leadership of Ajige, the King of Pingxi Wu Sangui, King of Zhishun Shang Kexi and other troops chased Li Zicheng relentlessly and rushed to Huguang.

What surprised Azig was that everywhere they went, the city gates were open and there were no soldiers stationed at all.

He immediately sent scouts to investigate everywhere. After learning that Li Zicheng had fled far away to Wuchang, Ajige was overjoyed.

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng was already scared by him, and he was either running away or running away.

Since this is the case, Azig was confident that he would defeat him in one fell swoop.

On the one hand, he left some of the Eight Banners of the Han army to garrison Jingxiang, and on the other hand, he personally carried troops to Wuchang to pursue Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng had made up his mind to go down the river to attack Nanjing, but because Zuo Liangyu had taken away all the ships in Wuchang Prefecture, Li Zicheng had to order people to make bamboo rafts so that they could go down the river.

Although it is easy to make bamboo rafts, they also take time.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the bamboo raft was built, the Qing army had already chased outside Wuchang City.

In desperation, Li Zicheng had to send general Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu led his troops to fight.

As expected, Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu lost again.

Fortunately, the only one who arrived in Wuchang was the Qing army's vanguard, and the troops were not enough to siege the city.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Zicheng led an army of 200,000 from Wuchang and rode a bamboo raft along the river.

The marching speed of the Shunjun was very fast, but this time he was walking on a water road. Logically speaking, it could easily leave the Qing army behind.

But this time Li Zicheng brought a large number of family members and food and supplies, and there were too many aspects to consider, so the speed of the march could not be increased.

However, the Qing army pursued light cavalry.

When they arrived at the Fuchikou in Yangxin, the Qing army caught up with Li Zicheng again. The two sides fought another battle, and Li Zicheng was defeated again.

After these consecutive defeats, the morale of the Shun Army and the complete disintegration, more and more soldiers fleeing.

Li Zicheng executed some fleeing soldiers under harsh military laws, but still could not stop this momentum.

When the Shun Army reached more than forty miles from Jiujiang, the main force of the Qing army fought a decisive battle with the main force of the Shun Army.

The battle started from early morning and continued until late at night.

The Shun Army suffered heavy losses. Although Li Zicheng was fine, the old camp was captured by the Qing army. All the people including Liu Zongmin, Zhao Hou, and Xiangnan Hou were captured.

Li Zicheng had wanted to rob Liu Zongmin and others back, but under Yuan Zongdi's persuasion, he gave up this idea. There are two ways in front of Li Zicheng. One is to capture Jiujiang according to the original plan and go down the river to Nanjing.

The second is to enter Hunan through the north of Jiangxi.

Li Zicheng thought about it all day and finally decided to take the latter.

Because the Ming Governor Yuan Jixian in Jiujiang was in charge, it would be difficult to defeat him for a while. If he was stuck by the Qing army again, he would be defeated by the enemy from both sides and the army would be wiped out.

However, from the north of Jiangxi, passing through the southern part of Wuchang Prefecture, and passing through Yuezhou to Changsha, there will be basically no obstacles.

Now Li Zicheng no longer considers whether to seize the world. The first thing he needs to do is to preserve his strength and survive first.

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In the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Zhu Cilang frowned.

In the past few days, the pond newspapers sent by Huguang and Jiangxi have accumulated on the imperial case, just like a hill.

Much like the original history, Zuo Liangyu gave up Wuchang and raised troops along the river and went down to the Qing dynasty. Li Zicheng followed him, and the Qing army led by Ajige followed closely behind.

It can be said that this is a chain reaction.

What Zhu Cilang needs to do is to change the situation in front of him.

He opened Du Yinxi's memorial and raised the red pen and wrote in person: Du Qing should act according to the opportunity and kill He Tengjiao and Zuo Liangyu.

No matter what, He Tengjiao is a hidden danger. If he could get rid of it earlier, he would never hesitate. As for Zuo Liangyu, he should have died long ago.

It is time for the secret chess that Zhu Cixuan buried in Huguang to move.

He believed that relying on Ma Jinzhong and Jin Shenghuan's strength and Du Yinxi from Jiangxi were enough to defeat Zuo Liangyu.

After writing Zhu's comments, Zhu Cilang opened Yuan Jixian's memorial and wrote, reminding him to stick to Jiujiang and cooperate with Du Yinxi to do a good job of suppressing the thieves.

At first glance, the situation in front of us is very similar to the original history, but in fact there are many differences in the details.

For example, if Zuo Liangyu led his troops south a few months earlier, would he still die of illness in the army like in history?

For example, Jin Shenghuan and Ma Jinzhong have been bribed by Du Yinxi. What role will they play?

For example, Yuan Jixian had already received Zhu Cixuan's warning in advance, so he would definitely not be easily lured into the army by Zuo Liangyu.

Of course, just doing this is not enough. Zhu Cixuan decided to mobilize Huang Degong to Jiangxi to reinforce Yuan Jixian.

Not long ago, Huang Degong returned to Dengzhou in vain and felt a sense of anger.

Zhu Cixuan took a cold treatment method, which greatly alleviated the tension, but he knew that if Huang Degong wanted to truly let go of this matter, he must make a great contribution, and Zhu Cixuan used it to reward him.

Now is the best opportunity.

In the original history, Huang Degong once defeated the army led by Zuo Menggeng, but it was not in Jiangxi.

Although Zuo Liangyu has not died of illness, there are cracks inside. Zhu Cilang believes that Huang Degong can win more easily with the mutiny of Ma Jinzhong, Jin Shenghuan and others.

As for Gao Jie of the Northern Expedition, Zhu Cixuan did not plan to transfer back.

Duoduo's army was already on the way back to the army, and it was difficult for Gao Jie to conquer Beijing before this, but he had to conquer as much as possible and consume the vitality of the Qing army.

What Zhu Cilang had to do was to fight for consumption with the Qing army as much as possible, relying on the prosperity of Jiangnan and the advantage of the population of the Ming Dynasty to drag the Qing Dynasty to death.

There was also a small episode in it.

Gao Jie sent someone to take a Qing army envoy to Nanjing and handed it over to Zhu Cilang for imperial examination.

Zhu Cilang was directly handed over to Zhao Xin to handle this matter.

Since the messenger entered the imperial prison, he has experienced all the punishments of the Jinyiwei, and finally admitted that he was ordered to alienate the relationship between Gao Jie and the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cixuan ordered the confession of the Qing army messenger to be made public and published in the Imperial Ming Dynasty newspaper.

This means that Zhu Cixuan made a public statement and fully trusted and supported Gao Jie.

Gao Jie and Huang Degong are the most capable generals in the Southern Ming Formation at present, and Zhu Cixuan will never destroy the Great Wall at this time.

There are still 50,000 Shence troops in Nanjing city, and Zhu Cixuan thinks it is enough. He is not going to transfer the Shence troops stationed in Shandong, because he thinks that if Duoduo really returns to the capital, Gao Jie will probably retreat all the way and retreat to southern Henan and Shandong to defend. At that time, Gao Jie, who has the Shence troops, should be able to defend more steadily.

Shandong is Zhu Cilang's bottom line. If you want to defend against the enemy outside the country, Shandong must defend it.

He also firmly believed that Shandong would be able to defend it. The court spared no expense to build a bastion group in northeastern Shandong. If the Qing army really wanted to go south, they would be beaten to death.

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Chapter completed!