The new recruits recruited by Li Guodong were mainly organized into the team of auxiliary soldiers, crossbow soldiers and bird gunmen. These troops did not require much training. With only three months of training, they could turn from farmers to soldiers. In the autumn of the clear and cool autumn, the rainfall decreased. Zhang Shiwen, who was stationed in Hongze Lake, simply cut off the water use of the canal, causing the canal south of Xuzhou to basically fall into a state of dead navigation. The water level of the canal dropped seriously, and large ships could not pass through small sampans.

Although the canal transport to the capital has been cut off, the shipping in the two Huaihe Rivers is still prosperous. Salt merchants and grain merchants rely on this canal to make money. Now the shipping of the canal has been cut off, and the interests of salt merchants and grain merchants have been seriously affected. Li Guodong was fiercely impeached by the censors in the court for this matter, but Chongzhen could not see these impeachment memorials. The memorials that were unfavorable to Li Guodong were all detained and could not be sent to Chongzhen.

The water in Hongze Lake is full of water. A big lake is hanging high above the heads of Lianghuai and may pour down at any time.

Although the Qing Dynasty and Li Zicheng in the north were still in fierce battles, the atmosphere of war could already be smelled in the air in the Huaihe River.

In the north, Li Zicheng was defeated in the Battle of Yipianshi, and nearly half of the elite old camp soldiers were lost, and then evacuated the capital.

However, this time Li Zicheng was a little different from the original historical practices. Chongzhen's prince and two other princes were taken away by Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng used it as a bargaining chip to threaten Chongzhen. In the original time and space, when Li Zicheng evacuated the capital, he threw all the three princes of Chongzhen because it was useless to keep it in his hands. Chongzhen committed suicide in Coal Mountain, and who did the three princes threaten? It's different now. Chongzhen is still alive. The prince is in Li Zicheng's hands. He has to consider what action Chongzhen wants to do.

Although Li Zicheng was defeated and lost the capital, Shanxi and Central Plains, there were still hundreds of thousands of troops in Xiangyang and Shaanxi.

Jiang Xiang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which made the gates of northern Shaanxi open to the Qing army. In order to get out of the predicament, Li Zicheng hurried in Shaanxi to accumulate strength and prepared to find another opportunity to fight the Qing army to the death.

However, the continuous wars in Guanzhong and Henan have exhausted their potential. Avoiding wars has made the people unable to grow grain. In addition, the drought has caused the autumn harvest to plummet this year, and the crusing army cannot raise enough food and money. Although relying on fighting large households can obtain a large amount of wealth and food in a short period of time, in the past few years, the crusing army has already completed the battle. Where can the crusing army go to grab food?

The Qing Dynasty did not give the Shun Army time to regroup. On October 19, 17th year of Chongzhen, Ajige, Wu Sangui, and Shang Kexi led 80,000 Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners from Beijing to the west and detoured Mongolia to attack northern Shaanxi. On the way, they all transferred all the surrendered troops from Xuanfu and Datong. The original Ming army, which was used by the Qing army as cannon fodder, reached more than 100,000.

Ajige, led by Jiang Xiang and other surrendered generals, put the Green Camp Army in front to take the lead, acted as cannon fodder, and attacked the rebel army fiercely. The Gaoyi Mercedes group stationed in northern Shaanxi could not stop it and was attacked by the Qing army.

The Qing army invaded northern Shaanxi, and the two Qing troops formed a clamp-shaped offensive against the rebel army.

The Qing army in the south was led by Duoduo, and the generals under him, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, etc., had more than 50,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han, as well as more than 60,000 soldiers from Tang Tong, Liu Liangzuo and other green camps, totaling 110,000 soldiers from Qing army. They headed south from Beijing and rushed straight to Tongguan.

The Qing army heading south passed along the way, and the gentry who were in trouble in northern Zhili, Henan and other places were welcomed by the rioters who were in trouble. Various landlord armed forces and militias joined the Qing army one after another, causing the strength of the Green Camp Army to rapidly expand to the scale of more than ten people.

Li Zicheng's army was stationed in Tongguan and could not stand out, but Tongguan, which was once easy to defend and difficult to attack, was vulnerable in front of the Qing army's cannons.

The Qing army bombed Tongguan with red barbarian cannons, general cannons, field cannons and heavy Folang aircraft. The shells fell on Guancheng like rain, and the rebel army suffered heavy casualties. Then the Qing army placed the Green Camp in front as cannon fodder, followed by Han Eight Banners musketeers, and then the Manchu Eight Banners archers pressed the formation and launched a fierce attack on Guancheng.

Li Zicheng couldn't resist it, so he threw Tongguan and returned to Guanzhong.

The Qing army captured Li Zicheng's hometown Mizhi, and then carried out an inhumane massacre in Mizhi. Li Zicheng's hometown, all the Changqing army slaughtered him, regardless of gender, age and age.

Li Zicheng was defeated, gave up Guanzhong and retreated to Xiangyang.

After Duoduo captured Tongguan, he immediately took the opportunity to recruit various surrendered troops. The generals of the Ming army surrendered to Dashun, Chen Zhilong, Niu Chenghu, Li Yutian, Gao Jinku, Ma Ke and others surrendered to the Qing army one after another. The generals of Dashun army Liu Zhong and others also surrendered to the Qing army. In addition to the 110,000 green camps originally led by Duoduo, Duoduo's troops have reached 250,000 troops.

The continuous victory made the Qing Dynasty extremely arrogant and believed that there would be no opponent in the whole world. Whether it was the rebel army fleeing to Xiangyang, Nanyang or the Ming army in Nanjing, Yangzhou, they could not withstand the attacks of the Qing army. They wiped out Dashun and Daxi, destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and unified the world in one fell swoop.

Today, Shandong is not completely in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Many gentry have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. However, the Huai Army’s households in Shandong are everywhere, with bunker groups, mobile and flexible light cavalry and mule firearm soldiers using the scattered bunker groups as a support to flexibly and maneuverable attacks on the Qing army.

The Ming army generals stationed in Shandong are Li Yan and Hong Niangzi who defected to Li Guodong not long ago. The former governor of Shandong Wang Gongbi first surrendered to Dashun and then to the Qing Dynasty. They were already included in the list of traitors that must be eliminated by the factory guards, so naturally they are not qualified to represent Shandong. Therefore, Li Guodong asked Chongzhen for an imperial edict to designate Li Yan as the governor of Shandong.

Chongzhen made Li Yan the governor of Shandong with a stroke of his pen.

At this time, Li Yan and Hong Niangzi and his wife were both in the Duke's Mansion in Li Guodong, Yangzhou.

"I will leave it to you in the important land of Shandong. The five thousand old battalions of cavalry you brought will move among the bastion groups, relying on the bastion to attack Jiannu in a mobile and flexible manner. I will allocate you three thousand Lumi gunners, plus six thousand mules." Li Guodong said to Li Yan.

The Lumi gun has a long range and high accuracy, with a range that exceeds the Qing army's bows and arrows and bird guns. However, the loading speed of the Lumi gun is too slow and is not suitable for array combat.

The mule was not slow to run, and its endurance was good, but the mule's sprint was too slow to compare with a war horse, and the mule was far less than a horse. The soldiers wearing heavy armor rode on the mule, so the mule could not run. Li Guodong asked the firearm soldiers to replace camels with mules, which was also helpless. A group of camels brought back from outside the pass were already dead, and the old ones were almost the same. If the camels lost their camels, they would replace them with mules.

Because the Lumi gunman has a long range and runs away after shooting, he does not need to wear thick armor, so he will not be too heavy to carry the weight. If he encounters an opponent's cavalry, he will have cavalry to protect the mule firearms.

Li Yan thanked repeatedly: "This Lumi gun is very sharp. The Duke of the State gave it to the officials, and the officials were very grateful."

Li Guodong quickly corrected and said, "Young Master Li, you can't say it was given to you. It's all for my Ming Dynasty and for us Han people to fight against the barbarians. Why bother with you and me?"

Li Yan was solemnly respected: "The Duke of the State puts justice first and does not care about personal gains and losses. This is really a pleasing to the students!"

"Mr. Li, hurry up and go back with Hong Niangzi, bring these three thousand Lumi gunmen and attack the gentry who have defected to Jiannu and their team training!"

"Duke Xie, since Duke Guo handed over Shandong to the students, the students will definitely not disappoint Duke Guo!"

Li Yan brought the three thousand Lumi gunmen and six thousand mules equipped by Li Guodong to return to Shandong. Although the canal cannot pass through large ships, Li Yan and the others can take a small sampan back to Shandong.

Back in Shandong, the old cavalry of the rebel army opened by Li Yan and the Lumi gunmen of the Huai army launched a joint attack, sending troops to transport logistics supplies and materials for the Qing army in western Shandong.
Chapter completed!