Under the leadership of Azige, Pingxi King Wu Sangui, Zhishun King Shang Kexi and other large armies pursued Li Zicheng fiercely, chasing him all the way to Huguang.
What surprised Azig was that everywhere they went was a mess, the city gate was open, and there were no soldiers stationed at all.
He immediately sent out scouts to investigate.
When he learned that Li Zicheng had fled to Wuchang, Azige was overjoyed.
Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng was so frightened by him that he could only run away.
In this case, Azig is confident of defeating it in one fell swoop.
On the one hand, he left part of the Eight Banners of the Han army to garrison Jingxiang, and on the other hand, he personally sent 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 to go down the river.
Although bamboo rafts are easy to make in a hurry, they also take time.
Unexpectedly, just after the bamboo raft was built, the Qing army had already chased them outside Wuchang City.
Li Zicheng had no choice but to send generals Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu to lead the battle.
Not surprisingly, Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu lost again.
Fortunately, only the vanguard of the Qing army arrived in Wuchang, and the troops were not strong enough to besiege the city.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Zicheng led an army of 200,000 people to leave Wuchang and ride a bamboo raft down the river.
The Shun army was already marching very fast, but this time they were traveling by water.
Logically speaking, they could easily leave the Qing army behind.
However, Li Zicheng brought a large number of family members and food and baggage this time.
There were too many aspects to take into consideration, and the marching speed could not be increased.
The Qing army pursued them with light cavalry.
When they arrived at Yangxinfuchikou, the Qing army caught up with Li Zicheng again.
The two sides fought again, and Li Zicheng was defeated again.
After this series of defeats, the morale of the Shun army was completely weakened, and more and more soldiers fled.
Li Zicheng executed some fleeing soldiers with harsh military laws, but still could not stop this trend.
When the Shun army marched more than 40 miles away from Jiujiang, the main force of the Qing army and the main force of the Shun army launched a decisive battle.
The fighting started early in the morning and continued late into the night.
The Shun army suffered heavy losses.
Although Li Zichen himself was unharmed, the old camp was defeated by the Qing army.
Everyone including Liu Zongmin, Zhaohou, and Xiangnanhou were all captured.
Li Zicheng once wanted to snatch Liu Zongmin and others back, but gave up this idea under Yuan Zongdi's persuasion.
There are two paths before Li Zicheng.
One is to capture Jiujiang according to the original plan and go straight down the river to Nanjing.
The second is to enter Hunan via northern Jiangxi.
Li Zicheng thought about it for a whole day and finally decided to take the latter.
Because Yuan Jixian, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, is in charge of Jiujiang, it will be difficult to conquer it for a while.
If the Qing army were to stick to it again, it would be possible for the entire army to be annihilated under the enemy's attack from both sides.
But from the north of Jiangxi, passing through the south of Wuchang Prefecture, and passing through Yuezhou to Changsha, there will basically be no resistance.
Now Li Zicheng no longer thinks about conquering the world.
The first thing he has to do is to preserve his strength and survive first.
In the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Zhu Cixiang frowned.
In the past few days, newspapers from Huguang and Jiangxi have piled up on the imperial court, like a mountain.
Very similar to the original history, Zuo Liangyu abandoned Wuchang and raised troops along the river to the side of the Qing Dynasty.
Li Zicheng followed, while the Qing army led by Azig followed closely behind.
You could say this is a chain reaction.
What Zhu Cixiang had to do was to change the situation in front of him.
He opened Du Yinxi's memorial, picked up his ink pen and wrote in person: Du Qing should act according to the opportunity and punish He Tengjiao and Zuo Liangyu.
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No matter what, He Tengjiao is a hidden danger.
If it can be eliminated early, there must be no hesitation.
As for Zuo Liangyu, he should have died long ago.
It’s time to make a move on the hidden chess piece that Zhu Cihong planted in Huguang.
He believed that relying on the strength of Ma Jinzhong and Jin Shenghuan combined with Jiangxi's Du Yinxi would be enough to defeat Zuo Liangyu.
After writing Zhu Cixiang, he opened the memorial written by Yuan Jixian, wrote and warned him to stick to Jiujiang and cooperate with Du Yinxi to defeat the traitors.
At first glance, the situation at hand is very similar to the original history, but in fact there are many differences in the details.
For example, if Zuo Liangyu raised his troops to go south a few months earlier, would he still die of illness in the army as he did in the original history?
For example, Jin Shenghuan and Ma Jinzhong have been bribed by Du Yinxi, what role will they play?
For example, if Yuan Jixian had been warned by Zhu Cixiang in advance, he would not be easily lured into the army by Zuo Liangyu.
Of course, just doing this was not enough.
Zhu Cixiang decided to mobilize Huang Degong to go to Jiangxi to reinforce Yuan Jixian.
Not long ago, Huang Degong's trip to the state came back without success, and he was suffocating in his heart.
Zhu Cihong adopted a cold approach, which relieved the tense atmosphere very well, but he knew that in order for Huang Degong to really let go of the matter, he must make a great contribution, and Zhu Cihong would use it to reward him.
Now is the best opportunity.
In the original history, Huang Degong once defeated the army led by Zuo Mengeng, but not in Jiangxi.
Although Zuo Liangyu has not yet died of illness, there are internal cracks.
Zhu Cihong believes that Huang Degong can win more easily by cooperating with the rebellion of Ma Jinzhong, Jin Shenghuan and others.
As for Gao Jie from the Northern Expedition, Zhu Cixiang had no intention of transferring him back.
Duduo's army was already on its way back.
It would be difficult for Gao Jie to capture Beijing before then, but he still had to capture as many cities and territories as possible to consume the Qing army's effective strength.
What Zhu Cixiang had to do was to fight the Qing army as much as possible and rely on the prosperity of Jiangnan and the population advantage of the Ming Dynasty to drag the Manchus to death.
There was also an episode.
Gao Jie sent someone to escort a Qing envoy to Nanjing and handed him over to Zhu Cihong for trial.
Zhu Cixiang was directly handed this matter over to Zhao Xin.
Since entering the imperial prison, the messenger had experienced all the punishments of Jin Yiwei, and finally admitted the fact that he was ordered to alienate the relationship between Gao Jie and the Ming Emperor.
Zhu Cixi ordered the Qing army messenger's confession to be made public and published in the Huangming Morning Post.
This is equivalent to Zhu Cixiang publicly expressing his full trust and support for Gao Jie.
Gao Jie and Huang Degong are the most capable generals in the Nanming formation at the moment.
Zhu Cixiang will never destroy the Great Wall at this time.
There are still 50,000 Shence troops in Nanjing, and Zhu Cixiang thinks it is enough.
He was not prepared to transfer the Shence Army stationed in Shandong back because he felt that if Duduo really returned to aid the capital, Gao Jie would probably retreat all the way to southern Henan and Shandong.
At that time, Gao Jie should be able to defend more securely with the help of the Shence Army.
Shandong is Zhu Cixiang's bottom line.
If he wants to defend his enemies from outside the country, Shandong must be defended.
He also firmly believes that Shandong will be able to defend it.
The imperial court spared no expense in building a group of bastions in northern Shandong.
If the Qing army really wanted to go south, it would be better to let them fight and bleed
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