The Qing army withdrew!

This happened to Zhu Youjian and many generals and officials.

Yan Yingyuan separated the crowd and shouted, "Scout, come here!"

When he ran into the city, the scout surrounded by soldiers found Yan Yingyuan and Zhu Youjian, he quickly turned over and got off the horse, trotted over, and knelt on one knee, "Greetings to Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youjian asked anxiously: "Where is the Qing army withdrawing?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the minister led the deployment out of the city to investigate and found that there was no movement in the Qing army camp, and there was no Qing cavalry coming to drive it away. He felt that it was a little strange, so he took a risk to approach the Qing camp and found that the Qing army moved away from the horse, pushed down the fence, packed up their luggage, and evacuated northward." The scout leader replied excitedly.

Zhu Youjian showed a happy expression on his face, and turned his head and said anxiously: "What do you think?"

Everyone was happy on their faces, but they were still very cautious. Du Yinxi said in a deep voice: "Is it because there is news in Sichuan, which is considered a journey. Shouldn't it be so fast?"

The sudden withdrawal of the Qing army made everyone feel doubtful, and they were not sure whether the Qing army was truly withdrawn or false.

Zhu Yihai pondered for a moment and ordered: "The scout continued to investigate and make sure that the Qing army had indeed retreated. Before this, the defenders of all gates should be vigilant and should not go out to fight without authorization to prevent fraud."

At this moment, the horses in the city were released. By ten noon, the horses were explored and the camps in various places of the Qing army had retreated. The first people had already crossed the Laodao River, and only a small part of them were left to break the rear.

On the banks of the Laodao River in the north of Changsha, the Qing army built several floating bridges, and the Qing army with red-topped hats escorted hundreds of thousands of Hunan people, crowding across the river.

In recent years, the north has been stable and large areas of wasteland need to be cultivated by personnel. However, the Qing army abducted the people not to open up the land, but to allocate them to each flag as slaves, making them into flag slaves.

Now that the north is stable, there are large wastelands to cultivate, the people are naturally willing to farm themselves, which has led to the phenomenon of escaping the banner slaves of the Eight Banners.

In order to safeguard the interests of the Eight Banners, the Qing Dynasty formulated a harsh escape law to restrict the escape of flag slaves. Geng Zhongming, one of the Three Shun Kings in history, even committed suicide because he took in the escaped flag slaves. This shows how much effort the Qing Dynasty put in to prevent the escape of flag slaves.

However, although the Qing Dynasty had a harsh escape law, the number of flag slaves in various banners in Northern Zhili still decreased, making it impossible for many bannermen to cultivate the flag fields.

Although the Qing army withdrew, it abducted hundreds of thousands of Hunan people, and they were all taken to the north to become banner slaves of the Eight Banners.

By the side of the Luodao River, thousands of cavalry were stationed under the flag of the flag, covering the retreat of the army, ready to attack the Ming army that dared to pursue.

Under the banner of the big crow, Kong Youde frowned, looked at the team crossing the river, turned his head to look towards Changsha City, and couldn't help but sigh: "Old Geng, I feel an ominous feeling when I evacuate from Changsha this time. Maybe we will never have a chance to set foot here again!"

Geng Zhongming had a gloomy face, "Old Kong, don't talk nonsense! When we go east to deal with the thief army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the court will definitely order us to go to Hunan again."

Kong Youde said, "Then the thief army in Zhejiang is not easy to deal with! Prince Xun had suffered losses at the hands of pirates before, and this time he should learn from the lessons. In addition, the Qing Dynasty has been operating in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for five or six years. Not to mention defeating pirates, it should be no problem to defend Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but who would have thought that he was still defeated. Zhang Cunren is also an old general who has been through a long battle formation. Although he was killed by the thief army, we were ordered to go east, and the situation is probably not optimistic."

Geng Zhongming was a little confused when he said this. The Qing army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was not fewer than the Ming army, but there were tens of thousands more. However, he was defeated by the Ming army and lost Hangzhou. Geng Zhongming felt that the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was stronger than the Qing army.

"Your Majesty, most of our army has crossed the Laodao River!" At this time, a Qing general came over.

Geng Zhongming glanced at Kong Youde when he heard this, "Old Kong, cross the river!"

Kong Youde nodded slightly and shouted in a deep voice, "After the army crossed the river, each flag will separate the grain. I will loot the whole world from Changsha to Yuezhou for hundreds of miles!"

Kong Youde had a premonition that this might be his last attack on Hunan. Since that is the case, then cherish this last opportunity and severely damage Hunan, so as not to prevent the Qing Dynasty from extermining the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Ming army in Hunan was back-stolen Yuezhou and Wuchang.

When the Qing army brigade crossed the sword and returned to Hebei, the Ming army searched for horses and returned one after another. Zhu Youjian was convinced that the withdrawal of the Qing army must be true.

In the evening, countless excited voices began to shout loudly at the head of Changsha City, "Long live! Long live! Long live!"

Zhu Youjian stood at the top of the city and accepted the cheers of the military and civilians in Changsha.

At the same time, Yan Yingyuan led 10,000 soldiers out of the city and launched a pursuit amid excitement.

The Qing army took the initiative to retreat. Behind the cavalry, the Ming army just chased to the edge of the Laodao River, seized some supplies and food, and then quickly withdrew the troops back to the city.

In mid-November, the Qing army invaded Hunan gradually withdrew its troops.

In this battle, the Qing army was unable to capture Jingzhou and Changsha, but it took Yuezhou, the gateway to Hunan, and destroyed Hunan's production and people's livelihood, abducting more than 300,000 people and 100,000 livestock, which was a huge profit.

Although the Longwu court suffered a lot of losses, Jingzhou was not lost, and it blocked the attack of the Qing army. It can be said that it stabilized the people's hearts and gained a firm foothold in Hunan.

At the end of November, the Qing army retreated, but the Ming army in Huguang was exhausted and unable to fight, so it failed to take advantage of the Qing army's opportunity to retreat and launch a counterattack.

Changsha City, in the palace.

Zhu Youjian sat behind the desk, and He Tengjiao, Du Yinxi and others stood on both sides.

"Your Majesty, according to the news from Jiangxi, the Qing army suddenly retreated. It was because the Zhejiang army captured Hangzhou, annihilated 50,000 Qing troops, and beheaded the Jiannu and the Fujian-Zhejiang Governor Zhang Cunren. The Jiangnan earthquake was shaking." He Tengjiao bowed his hand and said.

Zhu Youjian was both happy and surprised, because the Ming army recovered Hangzhou and threatened Nanjing. From then on, the Qing army would inevitably divide the heavy troops against Zhu Yihai, so that the Ming army in Huguang could get a breather.

What was shocked was that Zhu Yihai actually took Hangzhou, which was a great success. If the Zhejiang Army took Nanjing again, then his throne would be uneasy.

Moreover, the Zhejiang Army's resumption of Hangzhou made great contributions, which made Zhu Youjian unable to reward him.

Now there are two dukes in the Zhejiang clan, and they are then granted the title of prince. As an emperor, he is absolutely unwilling to be granted the title of king unless he has no choice.

He Tengjiao looked up at Zhu Youjian, and suddenly saluted: "Your Majesty, this time the Zhejiang army recovered Hangzhou and threatened Nanjing, the Qing army would inevitably launch a counterattack. I think the prince may not be able to fight. The court should send a grand sir to supervise the army and guide Zhejiang to fight against the Qing Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!