Ma Cheng lived a happy life in the city, but Duoduo outside the city lived like the New Year.

It is now the end of June, and Jiangnan has entered the most difficult plum rainy season of the year.

Plum rain is a unique weather and climate phenomenon in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in early summer. It is the result of stagnation in the Yangtze River Basin during the northward migration of the main rain belts in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Plum rain ends and midsummer comes with it.

Although the late Ming Dynasty was the Little Ice Age and the temperature in Jiangnan was much lower than in previous years, it made the flooding of plum rain worse. The plum rain season in the first year of Hongguang came very early, but lasted for a long time, and reached its peak at the end of June.

It has rained seven or eight days here in Nanzhili, and the water levels of rivers everywhere have soared. In order to avoid floods, the Qing army camp has moved three times, and finally moved to the General Mountain fifteen miles away from Nanjing, so that it temporarily avoided the erosion of the floods.

In addition to rainy days, there is also this humid climate. Plum rain and plum rain are actually moldy rain. In this high-temperature and humid environment, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, who have lived in bitter, cold and dry places since childhood, have greatly reduced their combat effectiveness.

Even Duoduo, the commander, suffered from dysentery five days ago. If he had not followed Duoduo to be the best imperial physician in Beijing, the ten most capable kings of the Qing Dynasty who were probably dragged to death in the toilet.

Duoduo had imperial doctors to ensure safety, but the ordinary Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were different. A large number of ordinary soldiers died of dysentery, and more people were treated with strange diseases. Many people had big belly problems. Even the imperial doctors sent from Beijing were helpless.

Duoduo found out by asking the local people that this disease is a unique disease in Jiangnan and basically dies. Seeing that his subordinates suffered severe staff loss, Duoduo immediately thought of returning to the north.

If the time went back to May, Duoduo knew that the summer in Southern Zhili would be so sad, and he would definitely not besiege Nanjing, and retreat directly to Shandong to escape the summer heat. But now it is not possible. After Duoduo occupied Nan Zhili, he immediately resumed the canal transportation. The first batch of grain had arrived in Beijing half a month ago. Dorgon, who had the sweetness, ordered Duoduo to increase the canal transportation and at the same time issued a dead order to ensure the smooth canal transportation.

Now Duoduo is in a state of inability to advance and retreat. Nanjing cannot be taken away for a while. Retreat to the North is not allowed, but the climate is not allowed to stay in Southern Zhili. Even Duoduo has no good idea to solve this situation.

Duoduo looked at Li Chengdong who was kneeling in front of him to apologize, sighed and said, "Get up, it's not your fault that you have fought so much in the past few days!"

A few days ago, Li Benshen was chopped off by Duoduo due to unfavorable combat. The elite soldiers left by Gao Jie at that time became Li Chengdong's subordinates. However, if you have the right, you must be responsible, and Li Chengdong replaced Li Benshen as the front-line commander.

It has been raining heavily these days, and all the Qing army's firearms cannot be used. At the same time, the bowstrings were soaked in the rain, so they could not be used. Therefore, Li Chengdong took his life to fill the city in the past few days. Originally, Li Chengdong thought he would definitely be unlucky, but now he heard that Duoduo did not care about him, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"The last general thanked the ten kings for not killing them!"

Although Li Chengdong is not very educated, he knows gratitude very well. When Gao Jie was killed, it was the last moment of Li Chengdong's fight. Now that Duoduo spared him, Li Chengdong felt that these Beilu with braids were not so difficult to talk to.

Duoduo waved impatiently, letting Li Cheng

When Dong went out, Duoduo had eczema on his body these days. Duoduo had never seen such things before. The imperial doctor in the Yingzhong said it was caused by dampness, so Duoduo was very irritable.

Duoduo looked outside and said to deputy general Luke Dehun: "Send the order and stop siegeing from today!"

Lukedehn had no choice but to bow and agree, and then sent a commander to send orders to the camps.

On July 11, the rain that had been in Nanzhili for half a month finally stopped. Cheers came from the entire Qing army camp. No one wanted to stay in this kind of ghost weather for another day.

Good news was also received by Duoduo, and Prince Azig, whom he had been looking forward to for a long time, came.

After accepting Zuo Menggeng's surrender in May, Ajige led his army to station in Jiujiang, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and sent troops to threaten Huang Degong of Tongling.

Huang Degong defeated Zuo Menggeng's 800,000 troops in Tongling. In order to recover the lost territory, he immediately sent troops to attack Chizhou along the river, and then wanted to occupy Anqing and Jiujiang, a military city in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

However, what Huang Degong met was the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. Although Ajige may lack political wisdom, he had extremely rich combat experience. The Qing army defeated Huang Degong's elite in Li Yanghe, less than a hundred miles away from Anqing. Huang Degong had no choice but to take the remaining soldiers to fight and retreat, and retreated to Wuhu, the last line of defense upstream of Nanjing.

Here in Wuhu, Huang Degong was preparing to fight to the death with the Qing Dynasty, but the national situation was very unfavorable to the Southern Ming Dynasty. At this time, news came that the Qing army had occupied Yangzhou. Huang Degong's troops had no morale from top to bottom, and many generals were plotting to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

In this way, Huang Degong and his remaining tens of thousands of subordinates fought with Ajige in Wuhu. During the battle, Huang Degong was hit by an arrow in the neck and died of bleeding. After Huang Degong's death, his subordinates also lost their will to fight and all surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Huang Degong's stolen wife Weng also jumped into the water to sacrifice his life.

After this battle, the Qing Dynasty had occupied all the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In addition to Sichuan, which was in chaos and Nanjing, which was still resisting stubbornly, the entire Yangtze River had become the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

After defeating Huang Degong, Ajige retreated to Jiujiang, where he recruited Zuo Menggeng, the son of Zuo Liangyu, the Marquis of Nanhou of Mingning, and 100,000 horse and infantrymen from the Governor Yuan Jixian's army, and successively occupied 63 cities in Henan, Huguang, Jiangxi and Jiangnan. The prosperity in the south made Ajige confused. Unexpectedly, Jiangxi had to collect so much rice every year. Thinking that he occupied such a good place, Ajige's long-silent heart began to beat again.

Ajige is the eldest of the three Dorgon brothers, and he is exactly forty years old this year. At the same time, Ajige's biological mother is Nurhaci's favorite concubine Abahai. Abahai was born in the Ula tribe with the widest territory and the strongest power among the four tribes of the Jurchen Hulun. His grandfather's family is strong and his mother is favored, so Ajige developed an arrogant and domineering personality since he was a child.

After Nurhaci's death, Huang Taiji became a Khan through some shameless means and forced Abahai to death in the sixth year of Tianqi. At that time, Ajige was twenty-two years old and had already grown up. Seeing his mother's mother being forced to be buried with her, both younger brothers were still teenagers. Ajige vowed that year to eradicate Huang Taiji's bloodline, because the Khan's position should be his Ajige's.

However, after Huang Taiji died, his second brother Dorgon actually compromised with Daishan for his power and position and supported Fulin as a successor to the throne, which was absolutely unacceptable to Ajige.

I knew that my intelligence was not as good as Dorgon, so I listened to this younger brother's big and small things before, but now I see what it looks like? Dorgon could obviously become emperor and insisted on supporting a Huangkou Ruzi Fulin. So from then on, Ajige had the idea of ​​setting up a new stove.

However, Ajige is a man with great ambitions and talent. You can be independent, but you have to be secretive. Ajige is a general trend and tells people everywhere that Emperor Shunzhi was a child of Huangkou. This remark quickly spread to Dorgon in Beijing. Dorgon was really disappointed with his brother. At this time, Duoduo's letter of invitation for troops arrived. Dorgon took this opportunity to issue an imperial edict, asking Ajige to lead his troops to Nanjing, hand over the troops to Duoduo and then head north to Beijing immediately.

Seeing the imperial edict, Ajige had no choice but to bring 180,000 Ming troops to surrender, plus 30,000 Eight Banners troops he brought from Xi'an, and raised his troops from Jiujiang and went down to Nanjing.

Ajige's army arrived at Dasheng Pass twenty miles away from Nanjing, and sent personal soldiers to deliver letters to Duoduo, and prepared to pack up north.

When Duoduo came to Ajige's camp, all the senior generals of the Qing Dynasty stood at the door to greet Duoduo. These generals, led by the deputy general Nikan, knelt down on their knees and saluted to Duoduo: "Slaves and wait to pay homage to his master, His Highness, the Ten Kings!"

Duoduo's personality is different from the irritable Ajige. Duoduo is very good at bribing people's hearts. Seeing Nikan and others kneeling in the mud, he quickly stepped forward and personally helped everyone up and comforted everyone with kind words. These senior Qing generals were very happy to see Duoduo so easy-going.

Duoduo looked around and asked, "Where is my eldest brother?" The names of the three Dorgon brothers were not based on brother Lun, but according to their own rankings. Ajige was the eldest brother, Dorgon's second brother was the second brother, and Duoduo's youngest was the third brother.

Nikan looked at the tent and whispered: "Ten Kings and Eight Kings in the tent, saying they are sick!"

Duoduo knew why his brother was angry that his military power was cut off by his younger brother. Duoduo smiled and patted Nikan and said, "Okay, you all have separated. I will go and see my elder brother!"

After Dodo said that, he walked into the tent alone. After entering, he saw Ajig sitting on a chair and sulking.

Duoduo smiled and said, "Brother, I'm here, why don't you like to see me?"

When Abahai died, Duoduo was only twelve years old. As the eldest brother, Ajige was really a father and a mother back then. He took care of these two brothers, especially Duoduo, and had a very good relationship with this eldest brother.

After hearing what Dodo said, Ajig sighed and said, "Third brother, you are here. Don't take it to heart if your brother hasn't gone out to greet you!"

Dodo could blame his elder brother who was raising him. Dodo came to Ajig and asked, "Brother, what's the difficulty?"

When Ajige heard Dodo say this, he immediately opened up and scolded Dorgon, who was far away in Beijing. Dodo listened to Ajige quietly, and after Ajige finished speaking, Dodo broke up for Dorgon: "Big brother, it's not easy for second brother. There must be a reason to transfer the eldest brother back to Beijing this time!"
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