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Chapter 757 Lord, prepare to fight
It is obviously wronged to say that Jia Liu stood still, because in fact, after entering the twelfth lunar month, he made new military deployments.

Compared with the relatively conservative deployment at the beginning, the new military deployment is undoubtedly positive and full of enterprising spirit.

First of all, Niu Lunbao, the Minister of Internal Affairs, raised the possibility that the bandit army might attack Wushengguan and enter Xinyang.

If this happens, the main force of the Qing army gathered in Xiangyang will face the danger of cutting off the food road.

If most of Henan falls, the main force of the Qing army in Xiangyang will become a lone army, and the entire army may be wiped out.

After carefully inspecting the map, listening to the secret reports, and comprehensively listening to the opinions of the generals, Jia Liu does not rule out that there are radicals in the Xinghan Army who want to do something big, and it is the terrible idea of ​​​​giving him, the general king .

In order to prevent himself from being a pioneer of the king and falling into the villain's end, Jia Liu immediately issued a general order, ordering the newly appointed Huguang admiral Zu Yingyuan to lead his troops to Suizhou, De'an Prefecture, to take command, and at the same time strengthen the military equipment at Wushengguan.

In order to strengthen the strength of the ancestors, more than 1000 flintlock guns brought from Beijing were distributed, and another 20 cannons were transferred to the Huguang Green Camp.

At the same time, in order to let Zu Yingyuan realize the importance of Wusheng Pass to the whole battle situation, Jia Liu even wrote a letter to him.

The main idea is to threaten Zu Yingyuan if he dares to lose Wusheng Pass and let the Xinghan army rush into Henan to copy the army's rear. The general Wang had to change his flag and declare a republic for the sake of the lives of all the soldiers.

Then your ancestor Yingyuan is not only a sinner of the Qing Dynasty, but also a sinner of the Gongjinhui, and also a sinner of the entire Han Army and Eight Banners.

He also ordered Shaanxi Admiral Wang Deyong to lead the main force of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion from Tianbaozhai in Xiangyang to Nanxiang Fort in Jingmen Prefecture, thus forming a threat to the Xinghan Army in Jingmen and Yichang.

The name of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion is relatively resounding, and the Xinghan Army obviously knew that the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion had entered the Hubei battlefield, so after Wang Deyong led the troops to set off, the Xinghan Army in person began to shrink their troops and gave up some irrelevant troops. important town.

Jia Liu also asked his second cousin Urshibalan to lead his troops to move to Anlu Mansion, spreading rumors that the Qing army was about to organize a second offensive against Wuchang.

These measures have relieved the pressure on Xiangyang to a certain extent, which can be regarded as an explanation to the main combatants.

But the imperial court obviously did not accept this explanation.

First, the Ministry of War kept sending letters asking when the offensive could be launched, and then the old rich sent imperial decrees to urge the troops in the name of Qianlong, asking the six sons and virtuous brothers to complete the general siege of Wuchang before the Spring Festival.

If possible, it is best to have the New Year's Eve dinner in Wuchang City.

This made Jia Liu very angry, because such words were very unlucky.

A little superstitious, he privately ordered this year's New Year's Eve dinner not to wait until the [-]th of the new year, but to advance to the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month.

"Hurry up, don't they know the lesson of death!"

In order to let the civil and military personnel in Xiangyang City know the consequences of urging troops, Jia Liu simply let them read the official urging documents sent from Beijing.

And taking history as a mirror, he asked all civil and military officials to maintain a united front with himself, and must not mess up their positions because the imperial court urged them too quickly, so as to give the bandit army an opportunity.

Because the consequences of urging troops are extremely bad, ranging from annihilation of the entire army to changing the dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou led the Ming army to fight against the Qing army in Songshan. It was because of Chongzhen's impatience that he kept sending the Minister of War Chen Xinjia a flying horse to send letters to urge the battle, and sent two civil servants Zhang Ruolin and Ma Shaoyu to the front to continue to make things difficult for Hong Chengchou. The fiasco of Matsuyama.

Sun Chuanting on the Guanyin front was also urged to fight by Chongzhen repeatedly, and the result was "Chuanting died, and the Ming Dynasty died."

Jia Liu doesn't want future generations to come up with the answer of "the death of the East Pavilion and the death of the Qing Dynasty" when looking at this period of history.

So he ignored the capital's urging troops at all, but continued to give the court all kinds of papers for what he wanted.

That is, the more urgent the imperial court urged, the more ruthless he wanted.

Niu Lunbao, the Minister of the Interior, and Zheng Dajin, the Governor of Hubei, were deeply worried about this. On the one hand, they felt that the imperial court was pressing them so urgently that it was easy for the General Wang to make a wrong judgment;
On the other hand, I feel that the general Wang seems to be passive and idle.

However, compared to these ministers who were eager to suppress the bandit army, the Eight Banners who went to the expedition hoped that there would be no war on the western front.

The arrival of these Eight Banners disciples actually made Xiangyang's market more prosperous than before. Many people in Xiangyang can taste the snacks of the distant capital without leaving their homes. It has to be said that it is also an unexpected benefit.

As time passed, the voice of the decisive battle before the year became smaller and smaller.

The traditional Chinese New Year is coming.

War cannot affect the New Year celebration of human beings.

This is almost the unspoken rule of both the enemy and us.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wan Chaoxing, who was promoted from Zhili admiral to general of Jingzhou, rushed to Xiangyang. Like Jia Liu, he was a bannerman of the Han army. This time as general of Jingzhou is undoubtedly the most colorful chapter in his life history.

The 3000 Zhili Green Battalion soldiers brought by Wan Chaoxing all followed Jia Liu and fought against the religious bandits, and their loyalty and combat effectiveness are reliable.

On the other hand, the imperial court approved Bo Qing's change from the governor of Sichuan to the governor of Huguang. He has already left for Hubei and will arrive in Xiangyang in about seven days.

After Wan Chaoxing learned about the situation of the Great General Wang, he asked if he could lead the troops to fight, win one or two victories first, and cut one hundred and eighty ranks. This would not only give the court an explanation, but also improve The morale of the army is a powerful response to the outside world's suspicion of the prince's passivity and idleness.

At the same time, it is also a guarantee for the peace talks. After all, Ji Shilang has not reached a conclusion after so long.

To promote talks?

Jia Liu felt that it was not impossible, and finally discussed and decided that he could launch a medium-scale offensive to Zhongxiang City, the capital of Anlu Prefecture.

Staring at the map, looking left and right, he asked Ding Qing who was guarding Zhongxiang.

Ding Qing checked it out and said that it was Qiu Ba, a member of the civil society organization in Hubei. This person had helped the Xinghan Army defeat the Jingzhou Navy and invaded Jingzhou City. He is now the commander of the Xinghan Army's third army. The remaining members are basically local anti-Qing elements in Hubei, and many of them are miners and fishermen.

"Miners and fishermen?"

Jia Liu frowned suddenly, these two kinds of people were hard to deal with.

After thinking for a while, he told Ding Qing: "Send someone to talk to Qiu Ba, can I pay them to let Zhong Xiang go."

"what?"

Ding Qing and Wan Chaoxing were all stunned: Is this okay?
"Let's talk about it. If it doesn't work, it's not too late for us to fight again,"

Jia Liu didn't miss any chance to avoid bloodshed, and was about to ask Ding Qing to send someone over to talk, when Ji Yun came back.

He came back quietly, very embarrassed, because not only did not accept the terms of the peace talks proposed by the prince, but he proposed a condition that the prince could not accept.

"What conditions?"

Jia Liu is a little anxious, as long as he is not asked to be a hostage.

"My lord, they demand that we hand over the emperor!"

Ji Yun smiled wryly, "My lord, listen to the advice of the officials, give up your illusions, and prepare to fight. Only guns can give power. How could Jiangshan Sheji be negotiated!"

(End of this chapter)