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Chapter 14: Making the Han with the Han

Whether it was Boluo, Duoduo or Tian Xiong, they all thought that Liu Yongxi crossed the Qiantang River and fought against the Eight Banners' powers to seek death. After all, the strength of the Eight Banners' powers is reflected in the cavalry and shooting. The Ming army fought against the water and could only seek death. However, after actually fighting with the Ming army, they realized that this was not the case at all.

Hangzhou is a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It is also a typical water network area in the east and west of the city. There are rivers and lakes everywhere. In another time and space, the Qing army spent a lot of effort to clear the Ming army on the north bank of the Qiantang River. Moreover, there are tens of thousands of elite troops with combat power that are almost as powerful as the American Eight Banners soldiers.

The Qing army imagined that the battle with his back and forth was the roar of iron cavalry and the roar of giant cannons, but now they were moving forward carefully in mud and water.

However, the Ming army was a regular army. The rebel army and the young people combined with the fighting spirit to attack the Qing army from the water. The Qing army's cavalry and shooting skills were almost useless. The imagined decisive battle of ten thousand people turned into a series of battles on water and land. Moreover, the Ming army made full use of their water advantages. Not long after the battle started, more troops were immediately transferred. The Qing army could only fight hard in the water net and the mud.

Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan's troops were particularly active. Although their combat effectiveness on land was not as good as that of the Eight Banners soldiers, they were now at home and fought whatever they wanted. Can't they deal with the Eight Banners soldiers? They could not deal with a group of new affiliated troops? And even if they encountered the Eight Banners army, they were not afraid, because Liu Yongxi had made a promise to supplement the amount regardless of the casualties. Therefore, a few Eight Banners soldiers were repeatedly besieged by the Ming army in the mud.

Although the Eight Banners soldiers had been through many battles and could still deal with such an unfavorable situation and even win, the main force of the Boluo Qing army was nailed to the north bank of Qiantang River and could not move and was constantly consumed in the battle.

Now there are 20,000 regular Ming army troops across the north bank of Qianjiang River. In addition, the various rebel armies and the righteous army continue to launch a steady stream of offensives, which makes Boro afraid that there will be any accidents on the north bank of Qianjiang River and dare not divide his troops to support the Qing army in Huzhou and Jiaxing.

Moreover, the situation in Huzhou and Jiaxing is getting worse and worse. After Zu Dabi retreated to Hangzhou, the entire Huzhou Prefecture had completely fallen into the hands of the Ming army. Zhang Boyi was recruiting troops in Huzhou and even preparing to advance eastward to support Jiaxing. The situation in Jiaxing Prefecture is also not optimistic.

For Chen Yuan, the biggest enemy was not the Three Thousand Manchu Eight Banners in front of him, but the local officials and gentry including Chen Wu and Tu Xiangmei. However, after Yu Huang, the Minister of War, went to Jiaxing to supervise the war, the situation was completely renewed.

Although he looked down on Yu Huang, the eunuch party, local gentry, including Tu Xiangmei, still took the initiative to ask to visit Jinhua to meet the empress and the princess of the regent. Chen Wu, the general of Jiaxing who had lost the support of the local gentry, was also lost and expressed his willingness to be loyal to the Duke of Yue and even handed over the command of the troops.

Of course, there are also many extremely bloody stories in it, but since everyone is so sensible, Yu Huang naturally makes it so that everyone can end it.

For Chen Yuan, who was ordered to manage Jiaxing Prefecture, this was the situation he most longed for. He directly praised Yu Huang, the Minister of War in the war report, as a flower. After all, Yu Huang not only brought a battalion of reinforcements but also helped him integrate the resources of the entire Jiaxing Prefecture.

After integrating the entire Jiaxing Prefecture, Chen Yuan's offensive became particularly fierce and even tricky, making this Eight Banners powerful force unable to deal with it and could only ask Boluo for help.

But for Boluo, he didn't know where he lost. He only knew that his more than 40,000 elite Qing army lost a lot of troops, and only 30,000 were left. Moreover, if he continued to fight, he might have less than 30,000 troops. But the real problem was that the losses were so great, Boluo didn't know where he was defeated. He really felt that he had not calculated any mistakes or even lost the battle, and inexplicably suffered such amazing losses.

As for Prince Yu Duoduo of Nanjing City, he did not expect the situation in Zhejiang to be so serious: "Why can't Boluo even defend Hangzhou? He has more than 40,000 elite troops under his command. Now the entire Nanzhili and Jiangxi are in chaos in the world. How can I have the troops to support him!"

An important reason for the chaos in the world in Nanzhili was the strong intervention of the "Jinhua thief". Although Liu Yongxi focused his main energy on Zhejiang, he was also concerned about the development of the Southern Zhili Yi Division, and invested a lot of resources and sent several small troops. After Zhang Boyi of Huzhou Prefecture gained a foothold, in addition to reinforcements from Jiaxing, he developed to Nanzhili.

For Duoduo, the general collapsed Ming army, thieves, and righteous troops were easy to deal with, but after they combined with the "Jinhua thieves" from the south, they became very difficult to deal with. Even if the Eight Banners soldiers went on an expedition in person, they felt it was difficult to deal with. In addition to these Jinhua thieves, Duoduo also had too many confidants.

The golden sound of Huizhou has made the newly appointed governor of Huining Liu Yingbin feel frustrated and repeatedly asked Duoduo for more troops and money and grain support. Moreover, Jinsheng's troops have already shown signs of merging with Duke Liu Yongxi of Yue. Although Jiangyin City is close to Nanjing City, it has defeated several sieges of the Qing army. Duoduo is determined to release Liu Liangzuo, the old fox, to deal with the Ming army in Jiangyin City.

In addition to Huizhou and Jiangyin, the entire Nanzhili was filled with people who were in rebellion and the defeated Ming army. According to the Regent's plan, the new affiliated army could have been used to deal with these unorganized righteous troops and defeated troops, but the situation was seriously deteriorated due to Liu Yongxi's strong intervention.

Duoduo knew where the problem was. He and Dorgon did not trust Li Benshen. A Ming general like Guo Hu was always worried that they would not lose their heads, so he never threw them into the main battlefield. The reason why Liu Liangzuo was attracted by Duoduo and was ready to let him join the Jiangyin battlefield was because his strength was the weakest among the four towns, with a total strength of only 10,000 people. Li Chengdong, who was weaker than Liu Liangzuo, and Zhang Tianlu and others became Duoduo's new favorites.

Of course, relying on these new affiliated troops alone is not enough. Originally, Duoduo was counting on Duoduo's 40,000 troops to return to the rescue in time, but no one expected that Duoduo was so incompetent and had no hope in the mud on the north bank of Qianjiang River. Now Duoduo puts his hopes on Li Benshen, Guo Hu, Kong Youde, and Geng Zhongming, the former Ming army generals: "I originally thought that Li Chengdong and others were enough, but they had to deal with the Han people!"
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