"Prince Ying, something is wrong! Prince Yu's army of 600,000 was wiped out!" Tulai, who escaped from Yangzhou by chance, rolled and crawled into Ajige's central army tent. "What?" Ajige staggered and sat on the stool, feeling dizzy, "Where is Prince Yu?"

"I don't know. My master ran northwest under the protection of the Bayala soldiers. I don't know if my master ran out." Tu Lai wiped his cold sweat and replied tremblingly.

Ajige was concerned about his younger brother's life and death: "Send someone to find him immediately, and then send an envoy to the capital. If Prince Yu can escape, he will definitely return to the capital!"

"Zha!" The Bayala soldiers standing on both sides of the big tent fought back.

Ajige turned his head and stared at Tu Lai and asked, "Tu Lai, you are a dog slave. Prince Yu is brave and good at fighting, with many soldiers and a wide range of generals, and has an army of 600,000. How could he be defeated by Ming Gou?"

Tu Lai lay on the ground and cried, "Prince Ying, Li Lao Er is very tricky and cruel. In order to deal with our army, he actually burned Yangzhou City! The Green Camp Army attacked Yangzhou City and was burned by Li Lao Er by 80% of it. Li Lao Er sent people to disguise themselves as our army and mingled into our army's camp. He then took the opportunity to set fire everywhere and ignited the stables, resulting in the lack of horses for our army. Li Lao Er entered with cavalry again. The Green Camp Army defeated by the fire had no fighting spirit and was defeated. Li Lao Er sent cavalry all the way to chase and few of our army ran away."

"What a poisonous series of tricks, one by one!" Ajig gasped and turned around and shouted, "Tell me the order to withdraw the troops and return to the court!"

"Master, the servants still have more than 200,000 troops, why fear Minggou?" The Manchu generals around him persuaded.

Ajige shook his head and said pessimisticly: "It's useless. More than 200,000 people, most of them are Green Camp troops at both ends of the rat. Our army sang triumphantly all the way. Those fickle villains thought that the Qing Dynasty would soon rule the world, so they came to join the crowd just for glory and wealth. But now, the strongest Prince Yu's army of 600,000 has been wiped out. Will those guys at both ends of the rat have other thoughts? Can they still be reliable?"

At this moment, a scout whistleman broke into the central army's tent and reported: "Master, the 150,000 Minggou army came from Yangzhou!"

"Tell me the order and withdraw the troops quickly!" Azig shouted.

After Ajige's withdrawal order was issued, the 30,000 Eight Banners soldiers left behind nearly 200,000 Green Camp troops, all retreated, crossed the river northward, and fled back to the north. Although Zuo Menggeng was a Han Chinese, he had already been brought into naturalization, so he followed the Eight Banners soldiers. However, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, Gao Jinku and others under Zuo Menggeng were thrown in Nanchang, Jiujiang and other places.

In Nanchang City, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren and others did not know that the Eight Banners Army had withdrawn.

"Sir! Sir! It's bad, something is bad!" A servant stumbled into Jin Shenghuan's mansion, "The Eight Banners Masters ran away! Leave us all."

"What the hell is going on?" Jin Shenghuan's face changed drastically.

The Ding family said, "Sir, I heard that Prince Yu was defeated and the army of 600,000 was wiped out. Ajige was frightened when he heard this news. He was afraid of being surrounded by the Ming army, so he crossed the river and fled north overnight."

Jin Shenghuan cursed: "A dog who is unkind! He only cares about running by himself, keeping us behind to die?"

"Sir, what should we do now? Do we cross the river and head north?" asked the servant.

"Cross the river northward?" Jin Shenghuan sneered, "What are you going to do? Send them to death? Since they are unkind, don't blame us for being unrighteous! Now the Tartars have lost the possibility of unifying the world, so we might as well go back to the truth anyway!"

So Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren announced that Nanchang had returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and all the 50,000 Green Camp troops had thrown away the Qing army's robe, put on the Ming army's mandarin duck battle jacket, cut off the braids, tore off the Green Camp's green flag, and replaced it with the Ming flag.

In Nanchang and Jiujiang and other places, the local Qing court prefects and counties were arrested and executed by the Green Camp Army, who had returned to the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty flag was torn apart and threw it on the ground, becoming trampled garbage. On the city gate tower, the Ming Dynasty flag was hung high in the military camp.

Later, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren sent someone to send a surrender to Nanjing, claiming that they were forced to surrender to the enemy by Zuo Menggeng, but now they have returned to the cliff.

However, Gao Jinku, who was stationed in Ganzhou, refused to send people to Nanjing to submit a surrender form.

In the original time and space, the Qing army sent Jin Shenghuan to conquer Ganzhou in the third year of Shunzhi. However, in this time and space, due to changes in history, after Zuo Menggeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Gao Jinku went south along the Ganjiang River. Almost no defenders surrendered without fighting, and the Qing army occupied Ganzhou. But now Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren have come back to the point of enlightenment anyway. For the Qing army, Ganzhou has become an isolated city without help.

Although he was trapped in the lonely city, Gao Jinku refused to surrender.

"Master, the master has run away, and the Green Camp Army in Jiujiang, Nanchang has surrendered. Why is it that the Lord has not returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway?" asked Feng Junrui, the general of Gao Jinku.

"I dare not surrender!" Gao Jinku sighed, "It is capricious today, and it is faster to turn against you than to read books. I am afraid that if we surrender now, we will inevitably behead our heads or even Lingchi! Our property will be confiscated by the tyrant emperor, and our family will become slaves!"

Gao Jinku was indeed afraid of Chongzhen. Chongzhen originally killed civil officials like killing dogs, and he had long wanted to kill warlords such as Zuo Liangyu, Liu Liangzuo, but Chongzhen had no choice but to use the warlords with heavy troops, so he did not kill them. In fact, it was powerless, and it did not mean that Chongzhen did not want to get rid of these people.

Let’s see what Chongzhen did after he arrived in Nanjing. A large number of nobles who lived with the country were eliminated. Just because they supported Hongguang, many people surrendered and were killed. Chongzhen stared at their fields and property, and the current Chongzhen’s imperial patrol system has attracted the opposition of the vast majority of gentry in the world.

Gao Jinku did not want to surrender to Chongzhen, but he did not intend to work hard for the Qing Dynasty, which was destined to be unable to unify the world. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of land gentry from all over the country to support King Gui who was dissatisfied with Chongzhen and sell himself to King Gui, so that he could sell it at a good price. So not only did he not submit a submission form to Nanjing, but he retained the banner of the Qing army and just waited for King Gui to recruit him.

"Today, the gentry of the people is changing, violent and cruel, and the gentry in the world is deeply harmed. Gao believes that it will take less than a few days for the gentry in Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi to be overwhelmed and launch a new emperor to compete with it." Gao Jinku analyzed.

General Cui Guoxiang said worriedly: "Sir, but if the emperor sends troops to attack Ganzhou today, what should our army do?"

Gao Jinku laughed: "Ganzhou is surrounded by water on three sides, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, there is enough food for our army to use for three years in Ganzhou City. Nanjing lacks enough troops, so how can we attack our army?"

Gao Jinku, who was stationed in Ganzhou, refused to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, which made Chongzhen extremely angry.

Because the southern part of Jiangxi, centered on Ganzhou, is an important area connecting Fujian and Hunan, and a barrier to Guangdong, Ganzhou has restrained Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces in the hands of Gao Jinku. Moreover, today, Guangdong gentry seems to be unique and does not obey the orders of the court at all.

In fact, as early as the Wanli period, the gentry in Guangdong was an independent part. Guangdong could be said to be rich, but the imperial court almost never thought about how much tax revenue it received from Guangdong.

The Donglin Party in Jiangnan said that the emperor and the people compete for profit all day long is not completely unreasonable. The taxes borne by Jiangnan are actually not low. A large part of the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty came from Jiangnan and Huguang. To the south, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, the court basically did not expect to receive any taxes.

Especially in Guangdong, which is rich, the gentry of Guangdong has more control over the local area than the gentry of Jiangnan. If you are an official in Guangdong, you basically don’t think of achieving any political achievements.
Chapter completed!