When Jiangnan was panicked by the cried temple case caused by the scholars in Wuzhong, Suzhou, Shunzhi had been resting in Xishan for three days in Beijing, thousands of miles away.

On that day, Shunzhi, who escaped from Yangzhou and ran to Gaoyou, did not dare to stay for a long time. He asked Sony and Obai to protect him and return northward, so he became seriously ill. When he passed Jining, he could no longer get on a carriage, so he had to take a boat to Tianjin Wei to get off the boat.

I don’t know if it was because of the boat or the water and soil in the north to nourish people, but the more I went north, Shunzhi’s condition improved, but he still had a headache and was weak all over. Because when he was in Yangzhou, the imperial physician Wang Wanchun once said that the emperor might have smallpox, Sony was always worried, but seeing that the emperor’s symptoms did not look like smallpox, he felt much more at ease.

The other imperial physicians who accompanied him were actually worried, afraid that their diagnosis would be wrong. When they met the emperor's condition, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and concluded that the emperor would not be able to contaminate smallpox. Because if smallpox appeared, it would be very fierce. In three or five days, a rash would appear on his face and body, and herpes would turn into a few days. The emperor's current symptoms were completely wrong with smallpox disease, but it was more like a wind-cold infection.

However, even if it was only cold, Sony did not dare to hide the emperor's condition and had already sent someone to Beijing to report the news. As soon as the Shunzhi imperial ship arrived in Tianjin, Prince Kang Jieshu and Suksaha, the Minister of the Inner Guard, came to pick him up according to the order of the Empress Dowager. Three imperial physicians were accompanied by, two of whom served in the Wanli, Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, and their medical skills were very exquisite.

After diagnosing the emperor, several imperial physicians said that the emperor was not seriously injured. Not only did Sony and the others completely relieved, but Shunzhi, who had always been a little suspicious, also put his heart in his stomach. As a manzhou native, Shunzhi was extremely afraid of smallpox. A few years ago, because the third prince gave birth to flowers, Shunzhi did not even dare to leave his son in the palace and sent him out of the palace for maintenance. For two years, he did not even dare to hold the third prince until the third prince was completely cured. As a man, he dared to take his son's hand and stroll around the palace.

Because of his weakness, Shunzhi barely supported himself with the help of the guards and met Jieshu and Suksaha. The atmosphere of the conversation between the king and his subjects was naturally solemn.

The news in the south has been confirmed. After the Taiping Army occupied Yangzhou, it marched towards Huai'an Prefecture in the north. At the same time, it divided its troops to attack the prefectures and counties in the left of Jiangnan. Now, the only one place in Anqing is still insisting on it. However, the situation in Anqing is not optimistic. Jiangnan Admiral Kuenbu and Gushan Jinli jointly sent an urgent message to the court, saying that the bandits were in a great way to gather in Anqing, and they were afraid that Anqing's lonely city would be difficult to defend, so the court asked them to allow them to retreat to Henan.

"Let Kuhnbu and the others retreat."

Shunzhi looked sad. When he passed by Xuzhou, Beiletuntai led his troops to stay and wait for an opportunity to retake Yangzhou. However, Shunzhi knew that Tuntai could defend Xuzhou was the greatest blessing of the Qing Dynasty. The Anqing branch was in the south and was isolated and helpless. Kuenbu and Jin Li were both loyal and righteous people. Shunzhi couldn't bear to die in Anqing, so he simply asked them to retreat into Henan. In this way, they could form a horn with Xuzhou and temporarily block the Taiping gangs between the Jianghuai River.

There was good news in Zhejiang. Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Tong Guoqi, the governor of Zhejiang, defeated the rebellious Ma Fengzhi's troops and recovered all the prefectures and counties captured by Ma Fengzhi, and claimed that they had killed tens of thousands of people. This news made Shunzhi very happy and ordered the Grand Secretary Bahana to draft an order to commend it. All the meritorious soldiers in Zhejiang were promoted and rewarded.

This rare victory in Zhejiang also made Sony and the others feel energetic. It is not that Sony and the others think that Zhao Guozuo and the others can solve the thief scholars, but that Zhejiang's reconciliation will inevitably restrain the Taiping Army in Jiangnan, making the thief scholars unable to advance north. Not too much. In just one or two years, Sony believes that the Qing Dynasty can still breathe from the defeat in Yangzhou. With Zhejiang holding the thief scholars, the Qing Dynasty can also free up its hands to deal with Wu Sangui, so as not to fall into the dilemma of fighting on both sides.

There was no news in Fujian, because Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Huguang were occupied by the Taiping Army, there was no news in Fujian and Beijing for half a year. Even the news in Zhejiang was actually not accessible. The reason why Zhao Guozuo and others could still spread the news was that they relied on Jiangnan who were concerned about the Qing gentry, otherwise the Taiping Army would have cut off the flood road.

The two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang intersect, and it is logical that Zhejiang can spread the news, and Fujian can do it, but there is no news in Fujian. This made Shunzhi very confused and dissatisfied. He had high hopes for Dasu. Zheng Sen was defeated in Nanjing again. If Dasu could not even deal with Zheng Sen, who was defeated, it would be useless. Shunzhi asked Sony to draft an order and let Zhao Guozuo contact Dasu, and if necessary, he had to support Dasu to prevent the fall of Fujian.

What Shunzhi can do now is talk on paper. He can't give any support from Fujian and Zhejiang. Whether Zhao Guozuo, Dasu and others can persevere under the siege of pirates and Taiping gangs depends entirely on themselves.

Henan also had military information. Henan Governor Jia Han reported again that the Ming army's Zhongzhen Camp sometimes attacked Henan from Hubei. In the early days, Jia Han caught him off guard and lost two prefectures and thirteen prefectures and counties. However, later he found that Zhongzhen Camp was still fighting like the bandits in the past, so he summarized a tactic of war, namely "building a tough village and fighting a stupid war."

The so-called "building a hard village" means that the Qing army must immediately camp after arriving in a place. The camping location also depends on the terrain. It is best to carry mountains and water. Then, regardless of the cold rain, the wall must be built and dug trenches immediately, and it must be completed within one hour. The wall must be eight feet high, one foot thick, and one foot deep. The soil dug from the trenches must be moved two feet away to prevent the Ming army from filling the trenches with the soil dug out of the Qing army. There is another resisting horse outside the trenches, so that the Ming army's cavalry cannot cross it.

Through this tactic, the Qing army in Henan effectively resisted the attack of the Ming army. The Ming army that invaded Henan was a Zhongzhen camp adapted from the remaining troops of the former rebel army. They had very strong field combat capabilities and were more brave and good at fighting than the Qing army, but they had no way to defend against the Qing army's hard villages. After this tactic achieved practical results, Jia Hanfu called it "controlling people but not controlling people" in his memorial to the court. In addition, Jia Hanfu also boldly delegated power to the officials below, asking these officials to organize their disciples and relatives to join the army, and build more villages in the territory. Whenever there was any trouble, all the villages in all towns and eight miles came to participate in the war, known as the Volunteer League training.
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