Huai'an City and Yangzhou City, Suzhou City, Hangzhou City, and said that the four towns on the Grand Canal, that is, the so-called "Huayang Suhang", refers to Huai'an City, which is also the birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine.Across the city of Huai'an to the north, you can go north to eat pasta and use the Qilu language.The eating habits of Huai'an ancient city are mainly rice, which is an important city in the north and south.

At the end of the Ming, Huai'an also became the demarcation point of the Manqing and Nanming god Wu Dynasty, where many senior officials such as the governor of the six provinces of Manqing, the governor of Jiangnan Province, and the Jiangnan Army, as well as 150,000 heavy troops from Shandong and Henan.Of course, these 150,000 soldiers were all made up after Hong Chengyuan fled to Huai'an.In order to maintain the 150,000 people's flood domain in recent years, the counties around Huai'an have been scraped out, and the people have no food at all, and they are hungry everywhere.

Huai'an City was built in Zhengde for three years, rebuilt on the basis of the ancient city of the Song Dynasty, although the city wall is high and deep, but compared with Yangzhou, North and South Beijing is still not enough to see.At the same time, Huai'an here is located in the canal, just at the intersection of the Yellow River waterway and the canal waterway, the Ming Army's small gunboat can be directly close to shooting, so although there are many soldiers in the city, but the civil and military officials who guard the city are not optimistic about the prospects of the city.

Hong Chengquu originally thought that giving him a year would be the same as Yangzhou's army, but Hong Chengcao forgot to count the economic strength of both sides.The occupation of the Shenwu regime in southern Zhili and Zhejiang is not at all financially comparable, with the financial support of China's rich land, coupled with the demographic structure that the south has not lost much, and the Shenwu regime is expanding the new army at the rate of two divisions every year.

However, Hong Chengquan had wanted to scrape three feet in the past three years, and in Henan and Shandong, which was broken on the ground, it was difficult to raise 150,000 troops.Although the number is similar to the Ming Army on the other side, the quality will be much worse.The Ming army is the 18 to 30 years old on this side, and the Qing army is from the age of twelve to the old and the sick and sick.One by one, from the musket to the bayonet, from the socks to the cap, only more than 10,000 elites on the other side of the Qing army have complete military uniforms, and others do not say that the military uniforms, even the weapons are also divided into some broken knives and guns.These people do not say that the elite Ming army, can not fight the previous guards are not necessarily.

But Hong Chengcao can not do, in addition to Shaanxi and Nanzhishi some food, other provinces are like this.Hong Chengquang has been to the Manchu Dynasty court many times to ask for help, but waiting for nothing more than a central message, so that Hong Chengqun can be resolved locally.

If five years ago, when the Manchu Qing had just occupied Nanzhili, Huai'an and Shandong and other places were still relatively good, most of the two Huaihuai salt farms were in full Qing hands, although the salt produced could not be compared with Guangdong refined salt, but it was cheaper.However, after the Shenwu Dynasty occupied Yangzhou, most of the two Huaiyan Salt Fields were occupied by the Ming Army, and even the 19 salt farms under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province were also destroyed by the Ming Army Marine Division.Not to mention the food, the poor in Henan all ate human flesh, although Shandong is stronger, but it is also almost the same.

The wise woman is difficult to cook without rice, and Hong Chengcao has worked hard to scrape together these 150,000 people in the past three years, which is already all.

After learning that Emperor Shenwu had taken the oath of the Northern Expedition in Nanjing, a plenary meeting was held at the governor of Huai'an, and officials in Huai'an participated.At the meeting, these officials knew that when the south and the north were about to fall, they were silent and played their own small abacus.

Jiangning governor Zhou Boda is the largest official position except for Hong Cheng, and he saw that all the officials were depressed and stood up and said, “Colleagues!Now the army of Nanming is in front of you, and it is when you and I serve the holy, I Zhou Boda swears here that the city is in me, and the city is dead and I am dead!”

Zhou Boda is also no way, his family is in Beijing, not so that the next day the whole family will land, but other middle-level officials are not so loyal.A large number of middle-level officials in Huai'an were originally locals, many of them were local gentlemen, and these guys just care about your emperor's sitting in the mountains, as long as they guaranteed their lives.

Hong Chengcao saw that the meeting would be like this, standing up and saying: "I hope you inspire Tianliang and serve you!"The governor knows that the Ming army is big, but there is that food inside and outside, don't blame the governor for not talking about human feelings!Okay, let's meet!"

Ma Chengjun was Hong Chengjun's confidant, and when he saw the big and small officials leave, he whispered: "Taiwanese adults, these guys sigh one by one, don't you want to dedicate the city to the enemy?"

He grinned and said, “Hmow!Don't say these guys, even Zhou Boda probably has a sincere mind!"

Ma Cheng just saw Zhou Boda's impassioned appearance, I really did not expect such a big eye-witted guy also thinking about the rebellion revolution?

"No, the whole family is in Beijing, does he dare to do this?"

"What is the family, the wife is looking for again, the son can be regenerated!"Zhou Boda is a ten-year compost, and the first auxiliary Ma Mingyuan of the Shenwu Dynasty is the same subject, and this relationship can basically keep his life, perhaps he can stay in the same place!"

Ma Feng listened to Zhou Boda's relationship so hard, his heart turned quickly, and asked in a low voice: "Taiwanese adults, which of us." The meaning of horse success is obvious, now the clear sky has been blowing, it is not a good place, as the saying goes, here is not the master's own nursing, it is better to open the door and throw the Ming Army.

It is understandable that the horse has won this way, and the martial arts words at the end of tomorrow do not recognize it, and naturally they cannot restrain them with any loyal thoughts.But Hong Chengqu is not a dazzling hill, Hong adults two members of the sergeant, that is the ideal moral and bottom line of the three officials, that can be as capricious as horse success?

Hong Chengquang firmly said: "The official is not ready to surrender, in Liaodong, the official has already done a courtier, do you still want the officer to do it once?"

Ma did his best to listen to Hong Chengcao saying that there was some speechlessness, whether Mr. Hong was stupid to read or read, although he surrendered several times, as long as he could live, everything was possible.

"Master of the Taiwan." As soon as the horse had to speak, he saw Hong Chengyu shaking his hand and interrupting the horse's successful persuasion.

"Mr. Ma, in a moment, you will take the command of the governor and bring the ten thousand elites in the city to Jinan, and in recent years the governor has put half of the grain and grass in Jinan, and fight the last battle with the Shenwu Dynasty there!"

Jinan is the barrier of Beijing, Jinan is also the central city of Shandong Province, in the heart of Shandong, and only more than 200 miles away from Dongchang Province, the most important transit station on the Grand Canal.Ming weapons are powerful, the logistics supply must be heavy, it is absolutely impossible to expose their supply lines to the eyes of the enemy, so Jinan is the Ming army must compete for the main place.

Hong Chengqun had planned three years ago, he knew that Huai'an was too close to Yangzhou, and on the edge of the canal, the city wall is not heavy, so Huai'an here absolutely can not stick to.But Jinan is different, Jinan city wall built in Hongwu four years, after more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty six large-scale construction, has become no less than the north and south of the two Beijing solid defense system.

Hong Chengcao took out a letter from his body and handed it to Ma: "Chief Ma, at this time, the superintendent handed over to the empress's personal letter, the next thing to do is on top of this!"Now, while the Ming Army has not yet arrived, take some people out of the city.”

Ma Dekong saw that Hong Chengquu had decided to stay and die, and did nothing, knelt down to give Hong Chengqun a head, and then went out to organize the team to set off.

Huai'an city is so big, ten thousand people quickly spread throughout the city, and now the Ming army is in Yangzhou, Governor Hong also transferred the elite soldiers, immediately let the big and small officials panic.At this time, many people had secretly contacted the Ming army in Yangzhou, preparing to surrender to the city, but Hong Cheng's full secret agents were not vegetarians, and they caught a few officials who were eating and taking, and finally pressed down the sound of the city's discussions with their heads.

Manchu and Nanming to the canal on the Zhangjiagou as the boundary, the south of the high post state to the south, the north of the treasure should be full.Baoying County knew that the county had received the death order of Hong Chengyu, so that he could stick to the end.However, under the order, the well-known county saw the dense Ming army outside the city, and the ships that could not be seen at the edge of the canal had already forgotten the orders of Governor Hong, and immediately opened the city to surrender.

Zhu Hongsan, under the banner of expelling the Tatars, naturally under the hard hand to clean up the Manchurians, Baoying a few shaved eight flag officials in the city, whether it is regular Manchuria eight flags or Mongolian eight flags, as long as the long-looking and Han Chinese, the whole family is beheaded, and the heads are hanging on the city gate.As for the order of Baoying County, Zhu Hongsan gave him a task to send a letter to Hong Chengquu in Huai'an City, telling Hong Chengyu that he could never be guilty of the past and let him surrender.

After reading Zhu Hongsan's letter, Hong Chengcao laughed loudly: "I have won nine from the two-year battle of the Chongchen, and the battle against the Liu Qiao has not been defeated!"The defeat in Liaodong should have died, but the Emperor Taizong asked for a long time to ask for warmth, so that he could enjoy long-term gratitude.The Queen Mother and the regent did not enjoy the birth of the courtiers for a long time, appointed to enjoy the governor of the six provinces of Jiangnan, this knowledge of the grace to enjoy a long time to forget!This time, I will serve the Queen Mother and your majesty with my residue for a long time!”

Hong Chengquang finished speaking to Baoying County Order and said, "Since you came to send a letter of persuasion today, you just used the flag of your head to see how the governor broke the army!"

That Baoying County ordered Hong Chengqun to cut off his head, scared to pee his pants, and at the same time, this regret in his heart, he already knew that it was better to quit his official escape, how to say that he could save his life!

Zhu Hongsan and the second division of the forward Zhao Guodong have come to Huai'an City and are waiting for news in the city.According to Zhu Hongsan's estimate, Hong Chengqun is already a courtier anyway, and he must be able to be three, but when he thought of throwing down a thing in the half-ringed city, some soldiers came forward to take it back, and looked at the head of the Baoxing County order who entered the city.

Zhu Hongsan sneered after learning, "It seems that Hong Chengquang is ready to be loyal to the new master!"“Damn, look at you below!”