After hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Ajige showed an unhappy expression on his face, and his sinister eyes suddenly shot at Hong Chengchou, "What did you say?"

"Although Zhao Ming started a war with the Southern Ming court, neither side was injured yet. I thought the prince sent troops too early!" Hong Chengchou said in a deep voice.

The Qing court's strategy was to take advantage of the internal struggle between Zhu Youjian and Zhu Yihai within the Southern Ming Dynasty to reap profits.

However, how to reap the profits is a problem.

Hong Chengchou's meaning was to let another fight within the Nanming. When the conflict between the two sides was too big and could not be reconciled, and the Qing army would take action again after the red eye was killed.

In this way, the possibility of the Tang and Lu factions re-entering union was eliminated.

Azig was furious, "Are you asking me to withdraw my troops now?"

Many Qing generals also looked at Hong Chengchou with glaring eyes.

After the Ming and Qing Dynasties peace talks, the Qing Dynasty got a chance to breathe, calming down and stabilizing the north, but after all, it lost a wealthy area like Huguang, Jiangxi and Jiangnan.

In the past two years, there has been no major war, and the Qing court's expenditure has decreased, but the taxes have been reduced by more than half after the loss of the south.

Therefore, the military expenditure obtained by various units of the Qing army was actually very limited.

Although the cost of raising soldiers in the north is relatively low, the Green Camp soldiers can just give them some food, so that the Qing Dynasty can maintain a green camp armed force of hundreds of thousands of people while maintaining the Eight Banners, the Qing soldiers have families after all, and it is obviously not possible to be able to just eat.

In addition, after Dorgon's death, the two white flags were suppressed and the resources allocated were far inferior to those before. The aristocrats of the two white flags were used to being too big. They robbed more and spent more, and basically had no savings. Once the Qing court imposed restrictions, it would not be easy for everyone to maintain their original luxurious life.

Therefore, the Qing army went south not only in line with the interests of the Eight Banner nobles, but also supported by the Green Camp.

Now, the Xuzhou Army, more than 100,000 Qing troops, had just occupied several counties in Jiangbei and had only gained some benefits. They were about to show their skills and snatch a lot of money, but Hong Chengchou said something, which was naturally annoying.

In Ajige's view, the two sides within the Nanming army had turned against each other.

Zhu Youjian could not tolerate the existence of a Zhejiang clan that wanted to overthrow him, and Zhao Ming and others turned against Zhu Youjian, so naturally they could not accept the leadership of the Longwu court.

Furthermore, the process of the war was full of accidents. Zhao Ming quickly captured Zhejiang and captured Zhenjiang in one day, which shocked the Longwu court and also scared Ajige.

This made Ajige worry. If Zhao Zamao had not sent troops to Nanjing, supported the new king, and gained recognition from the Nanming, the Qing army would miss the opportunity to reap profits.

Moreover, once the Zhejiang clan replaced the Tang clan, seized control of the Ming court, and established a new central government, based on Ajige's experience, it is probably more difficult for the new Zhejiang clan court to deal with than the Longwu clan court.

After all, He Tengjiao and others from the Longwu Dynasty could not compare with Zhao Ming and Zhejiang.

Therefore, after hearing that Zhao Ming captured Zhenjiang, Ajige immediately went south. Judging from his experience in conquering Hongguang's court, Ajige concluded that Zhao Ming would continue to attack Nanjing like Zuo Liangyu.

Ten years ago, Ajige drove Li Zicheng to Huguang. Li Zicheng drove Zuo Liangyu into Jiangxi. The Qing army destroyed the Hongguang court without any effort with the help of Li Zicheng and Zuo Liangyu.

This time, Ajige believed that he would be able to repeat the battle of Yiyou and obtain the greatest benefits at a very small price.

Now that the Qing army has gone south, it is impossible to withdraw its troops. Hong Chengchou hurriedly shook his head and said, "That's not what the slave means!"

"What do you mean?" Azig roared angrily.

Hong Chengchou looked up at Ajige, not afraid, and said seriously: "Since the troops have been sent, in order to prevent Zhao Zamao from reconciling with the Longwu court, the slave thought that the prince should not wait any longer and should immediately attack and annihilate Li Guo's troops!"

The 150,000 troops of Li Guo's troops were annihilated, and the power of the Southern Ming Dynasty was greatly damaged. Even if Zhao Zamao and Longwu court reconciled, the Qing Dynasty would not be afraid.

Ajige frowned and it was not easy to annihilate more than 100,000 Ming troops.

Moreover, Ajig went south with the intention of strengthening his own strength and obtained military resources from the Ming army in Jiangbei. It would be better to recruit tens of thousands of Ming troops to use it for his purposes.

Now, the defeated troops gathered at the mouth of the old river, preparing to fight for trapped beasts. If the Qing army launched a fierce attack, even if Li Guo was destroyed, Ajige would suffer a certain loss.

There were many warlords within the Southern Ming Dynasty and there were also mountains within the Qing Dynasty. Ajig went south to strengthen his strength and reap profits so as to prepare for his defeat of his political enemy Jirgalang and Mandahai, not really for the Qing Dynasty to come to fight desperately.

If his Xuzhou Corps is gone, the cheaper one will be the two red flags and two blue flags coming from behind, which will be a wedding dress for others.

This is also the reason why he did not agree to He Luohui when he saw that the Ming army was prepared for some defense and launched a strong attack, but had to wait for the heavy artillery to arrive.

Ajige looked at Hong Chengchou for a while and knew that what Hong Chengchou said was not unreasonable, but he sneered and asked everyone, "Who do you agree with Mr. Hong's words?"

In the big tent, the two white flag nobles and the green camp generals were all sneering.

When the wall fell, everyone pushed it, and when thousands of people broke the drum, Hong Chengchou was beaten by Zhao Ming, he lost a lot. He was imprisoned several times, but he had long lost his majesty as he was back then.

Although he has been revived, he has no military power. At most, he is a staff officer and has no commander. No one takes him seriously.

At this time, Li Guo had become a turtle in the jar, and many generals of the Qing army calmed down. Bahana, the chief general of the Inlaid White Banner, said: "A tiger is trapped within a radius of seven or eight miles. When the cannon arrives, the morale of the Southern Barbarians will be immediately discharged. Why bother letting the warriors bleed now!"

The generals of the Han army flag and the green camp were on the side. When they saw the two white flags speaking, they quickly agreed, claiming that Li Guo was already in the jar and that a fierce attack would only increase casualties, and there was no need to do so.

Seeing that many Qing generals refused to sacrifice, Hong Chengchou sighed and stopped talking.

Ajige looked at Hong Chengchou with disdain and said loudly: "The cannons are transported in just one or two days. A tiger is defeated and perished in just a few days. I don't believe it, and I'm all red-eyed. Zhao Zamao can change his course in such a short time."

Ajige glanced at the generals and continued, "Tong Yangjia, urge the artillery team to speed up. He Luohui, beware of Yangzhou, I will send people to the Jiujiangkou to recruit surrender. If I can get tens of thousands of surrendered troops, I will get another great help when I go south."

Thousands of people surrendered to Ajige in desperate situations, such as Donghai Town.
Chapter completed!