Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 267 There are people behind us, and there are many more! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Huaibei, Suzhou.

Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zhongshan and Li Zhongtang, the governor of Jiangbei, walked into the official office of the governor with big strides.

This supervisor's official office was originally the yamen of Suzhou Zhizhou.At this time, there were already a lot of military officers. Among them were Huai Army graduates from the Department of Martial Arts, officers from the Yingtian Regiment, and military leaders from the Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing systems. The leader of the "group army" (a group training army).

As Li Zhongshan approached, everyone stood at attention, clasped their fists and performed the standard military salute of the martial arts department.

Since the Northern Expeditionary Army landed in Jiangbei, it has been invincible all the way. So far, it has swept through Fengyang Mansion, Sizhou, Hezhou, the eastern part of Yingzhou Mansion and the northern Lujiang Mansion.Among them, Fengyang Mansion is in the best situation. All the prefectures and counties in this mansion have been captured by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and most of the "markets, towns, and villages" have been attached to the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

The situation in Sizhou is a bit worse. The Huainan area of ​​Sizhou has long been infiltrated by the Northern King Liu Jinzhong's Jiangbei Tuanlian. Therefore, after the Northern Expedition started, except for the two counties of Tianchang and Xuyi, the rest of the places were all surrendered.However, Liu Jinzhong sent Deng Guangming, a mighty general who belonged to Duke Xushun's mansion, to lead an army to storm Xuyi, and it took less than half a month to finally capture it.And Tianchang, which is close to Yangzhou, became the target of Chen Yonghua's new in-laws, Jiangdu Chang's family. Under the operation of Chang Wei, the head of the "Wei Ziying", the head of the Chang family, a "bloodless Kaicheng" came.But Sizhou Huaibei's territory is not so easy to fight. After all, Sizhou City is located in Huaibei.Moreover, Sizhou is responsible for protecting the Yellow River and the canal, so there are many defenders, and Li Zhongtang's primary goal in Huaibei still belongs to the territory of Fengyang Prefecture, so the city of Sizhou and its surroundings are still under the control of the Qing Dynasty. Down.However, Wuhe County, an important place next to the Huaihe River, was still beaten down by the hero He Tianran sent by Li Zhongshan.

The situation in Hezhou is similar to that in Sizhou. Most of the Eastern Expeditionary Army sent by the Jiangxi Daying Army of the Qing Army stationed there has now crossed the Yangtze River to the west of Nanjing City.So Liu Jinzhong took advantage of the emptiness and took down most of Hezhou, leaving only one state city that has not been defeated.

As for the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Army, the territory in Yingzhou Mansion and Lujiang Mansion is not large.

Ma Weixing was in charge of attacking Yingzhou. His main goal was to penetrate Yingzhou and enter Henan to join forces with Wu Shifan. Therefore, he was not very interested in occupying territory, and he was not very willing to fight tough battles, let alone mobilize the Huaixi people to engage in group training.I am satisfied with taking down Mengcheng County and gaining a foothold. Now I am waiting for the envoy sent to contact Wu Shifan to come back, and I am about to leave.

And Lujiang Mansion (later Hefei) is the gateway to Anqing. Once lost, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Army may attack Anqing from the north. Once Anqing is lost, half of the Jiujiang-Anqing line of defense will be broken, and the remaining half will be destroyed. It won't last long either.Therefore, Jiangxi Daying deployed heavy troops in Lujiang, and Anhui Governor Jin Fu personally took Fubiao to sit in Lujiang to preside over the defense.

Therefore, Liu Jinzhong took a lot of effort and only won the two northernmost towns of Lujiang Mansion.

Although the Ming army made little progress in Lujiang and Yingzhou, the achievements of this Northern Expedition are quite gratifying!

In addition to the great expansion of the territory, the size of the Huai Army and Jiangbei regiment training has also increased by at least two times!
Huaixi people's enthusiasm for training in the military regiment is really high!
It is often that the Ming army has not yet arrived, and the heads of this "ji" and that "ji" have dug out the ancestral official uniforms and seals, and have organized all the strong men of the same clan.As long as the representatives sent by the Ming army negotiated terms with them, they would immediately join the group.

However, when the situation in Jiangbei was good, the situation in Yingtianfu in Jiangnan seemed to be a little bit bad.It seems that Yue Le's siege of Nanjing City has been completed. Yuhuatai and Xiaolingwei fought every day. Although the Qing army suffered a lot of losses, they still insisted on attacking, gnawing at the Ming army's defense line bit by bit.

But now in Yingtianfu City, it seems that there are only more than 10,000 elite soldiers of King Geng Dong, more than [-] Yingtian regiments trained by Lu Sanhao, and [-]+ militiamen with little combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the leaders and brains in Jiangbei are all guessing. Today, the supervisor is anxious about the gathering of military attaches above the "group army" (this level is high enough), is he planning to transfer the main force to Jiangnan, and first repel the Yue Le army who besieged Nanjing?

Li Zhongshan sat down with a smile, looked at the questioning eyes of the generals under his command, and waved for everyone to sit down.

"My supervisor has received reliable information that Yue Le has dispatched heavy troops from Jinling to the north, and will arrive in Xuzhou in about half a month, and then seek a decisive battle with me! I invite you to Suzhou today because I want to listen to your suggestions and decide to destroy it together." The enemy's plan!"

A few words caused waves in the audience.

"Superintendent, isn't Yue Le's division of troops going north just an opportunity for our army to return to Yingtian to break the siege of the southern capital?"

"Master, even if I don't return to my teacher Yingtian, I can attack Yangzhou with a powerful force. As long as Yangzhou belongs to me, the Tartars will be completely divided into two parts. Yue Le will definitely return to the teacher to rescue Yingtian. The Tazi soldiers will also withdraw from the siege, this is a strategy that kills two birds with one stone."

"Superintendent, our army should switch to the main force first, defeat Jin Fu's first army in Lujiang, and then approach Anqing. Jin Fu's first army is just a group of mobs, but as long as we defeat them, we can surround Anqing. If we can defeat An Qing, we will be able to cooperate with King Nan and King Zhong to take down Jiujiang from now on!"

"If we want to respond to the sky, attack Yangzhou or fight Lujiang, what about Huaibei? There are so many people in Huaibei who follow the governor to rebel against the Qing. If Yue Le wants to bring the Tartars back, can he spare the folks in Huaibei? Teacher, we don't have to be afraid of Yue Le's elite soldiers, he is an elite soldier, but we have many people!"

"Yes! Supervisor, we have a lot of people!"

"We in Huaixi have always produced elite soldiers. As long as the supervisor is willing to fight with Yue Le in Huaibei, we Huai people will support the supervisor!"

"Yes, there are no young or old people in Huaixi, no north or south in the land, and we are all willing to follow the supervisor to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"

"It's nothing more than sending troops to fight desperately. Those Tartar soldiers are nothing special. Even Jiangnan Yingtian can support them. How could we be defeated by Huaixi strong men?"

The generals present were obviously divided into two factions. One group was the generals from outside households. They all wanted to fight mobile warfare, leaving Huaibei to the main force of Yue Le, and then went to fight Yangzhou, Lujiang, and Anqing. To fish!
One faction is the leaders of the "group army" in Huaixi, of course they want to defend their hometown!Whether it's from Huaibei or Huainan, they all advocate a decisive battle with Yue Le's main force in Huaibei!It's a good idea, to keep the enemy out of the country!

And Li Zhongshan, the supervisor of the cabinet, had to make a choice between these two opinions-the basis for the decision was not only military, but also political!

If you give up Huaibei to fight sports, there is a high probability that you can force Yue Le back.But can Yangzhou be won soon?Can Anqing seize it in one fell swoop?If Yangzhou and Anqing cannot be taken down, Huaibei will be slaughtered by Yue Le's people again.

Then Li Zhongtang's Huai army leader is not easy to be.
And the decisive battle in Huaibei was a tough battle, and it was also a tough battle for the large army!

To be honest, if the unreliable father of Li Fuchen is the one who oversees the army now, then he will definitely be in this rank to fight tough battles with Yue Le!
But Li Zhongshan, a great military strategist, has always been a small fight, and the biggest battle he commanded was to defeat Shang Zhixiao in Shunde and Xiangshan.

What is the level of filial piety?What is the standard of Yue Le or the generals sent by Yue Le?No comparison!
"Master, let's fight in Huaibei!"

While Li Zhongshan was still pondering, Luo Dawei, the leader of the "group army" in Luojiaji and the head of the "big" battalion, stood up and said solemnly: "The general is familiar with the terrain and folk customs of Huaibei, Suzhou, Ling The generals have visited all the market towns in Bi and Mengcheng, and the generals in Su, Ling, and Mengcheng also know them. Who can fight tough battles, who can fight skillfully, which fence is as solid as gold, Which fence will definitely not be able to be defended, and the final general will be very clear. The final general can also be sure that as long as the supervisor is willing to fight north of the Huaihe River, the entire Huaixi will support you, and there are people in Huaixi who are willing to go to the battlefield and die Fight for a fortune!"

This is someone behind!

And he is also a ruthless person who specializes in fighting the world!
In the past Chinese history, the only ones who were able to conquer the whole world by fighting hard, except for the people in Liaodong and Mongolia, were Guanlong and Huaisi.

Li Zhongshan thought of this, and looked at Zhou Chang again.

Zhou Chang said with a smile: "Master, General Luo Shen is familiar with the Huaibei region, and I am familiar with the generals under Yue Le's command. No matter who Yue Le sends, I know his temper, temperament, and past battles well!"

He has served as a cabinet enshrined in the Qing Dynasty for many years. In fact, he is the master of the cabinet. Of course he knows everything!
Li Zhongshan still did not make a final decision, but glanced at Shang Shuying who was "begging for loyalty from the seller".

Shang Shuying quickly stood up and said: "Don't worry, the supervisor, I will definitely find out the reality of the Tartar army going north as soon as possible."

Now it's all together, and there are people behind you who know yourself and the enemy, and this battle can be fought!
Li Zhongtang's face had already softened, and he said in a firm tone: "The headquarters of the headquarters have made up their minds, and they will resolutely use the main force of Jiangbei between Xu and Su to defeat the main force of the Tartar army going north, and then seize Xuzhou and cut off the north-south water transport!

This battle is related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty. If we win, one-third of the victory will be achieved, and all the rich and prosperous lands in the southeast will be mine!I only hope that the kings will go all out, swear to kill the captives, and live up to the country's grace! "

The room was full of awe, and then all the officers stood up and clasped their fists, shouting: "obey the order"

Li Zhongshan's prestige in the Northern Expedition Army is still quite enough. Now that he has made up his mind, the people below will not have any objections, and it is enough to implement it.As he said, if this battle is won, all the rich and prosperous land in the southeast will belong to the Ming court.

Even if the Ming court cannot be unified in the future, won't the three divisions of the world be stable?

With three points of the world, everyone will have the wealth in this life, and even the wealth of their sons and grandchildren!
In this fight, what reason is there not to go all out?

At the same time, a colorful team was marching north of the Yangtze River and on the open official road on the east bank of the Canal. Since crossing the Yangtze River, the main force of the Qing army has never stopped advancing.The route chosen by Yue Le's shogunate for this army was from the generals of Zhenjiang, through Yangzhou, Huai'an, and directly to Xuzhou.

Under normal circumstances, an [-]-mile march would take at least sixteen days, but Yue Le only had ten days for Mu Zhan, the commander of the Jiangbei Camp, and Ge Sitai, the deputy commander of the Jiangxi Camp!

And these ten days also include the time required to cross the river!
There are three reasons for this urgency.

One is to save soldiers like fire!

Once Shang Kejiao and Nian Xialing see the Ming army's soldiers pressing down on the border, but the Qing army's reinforcements don't come. Will they directly surrender Wang Datou?

Both of them are Han army bannermen!
If Yue Le has big statistics at this time, then he might not even be able to sleep.Since Wu Sangui raised his troops, the bannermen of the Han army have surrendered almost 100% when faced with the approaching anti-Qing army!
The second is to worry about the situation in Nanjing.

After drawing out [-] elite troops, the strength of the Qing army around Nanjing has been greatly emptied.In case Geng Jingzhong in Nanjing City gets mad and concentrates all his strength to go out of the city and break through the siege, there is still a high possibility of being defeated by him.

Therefore, Yue Le could only beat the slow with the fast, and pull the 3 people back after the fight.Tired is a bit tired, but he really has no choice but to suffer for the bannermen below.
And the third reason is that a large amount of food can still be provided along the Jiangbei Canal-the grains of the millions of stone piles in Huai'an have not all been transported away!

Therefore, the troops of Mu Zhan and Ge Si Tai could march lightly without carrying food, grass and supplies. The speed would naturally be faster, and traveling hundreds of miles a day would not be a problem at all.

After a few days of forced marching, the [-] vanguard troops led by the veteran Gerstai have crossed the Huaihe River and arrived in the Suqian County area under Xuzhou. In three days, you can reach the important city of Xuzhou!

"Junmen, the magistrate of Xuzhou is young, Shang Shuying, the princess of Pingnan Wangfu, see Junmen!"

When Gestai was sitting in a resting mansion in Suqian County, hammering his old waist, Geshha suddenly came to report that Nian Xialing monk Shuying had come.

Although this old man was Dorgon's guard, he had suffered enough to kill him in the early years, but after all, he has been pampered for many years, he is old, and his body is not as good as before. This long journey will almost give him all his old bones. It's broken - this is really a fight against Dorgon and Ming Dynasty when I was young, and I finally won.Now that you are old, how come you are in contact with the Ming Dynasty again?Are you going to let people pass this day?

Hearing Geshha's notification, he quickly sat up straight and ordered loudly: "Tell!"

Soon I saw Nian Yaling and Shang Shuying were led in by Geshha from the outside together.

The two of them are also travel-laden, and it seems that they have rushed together.After entering the door, Nian Xialing respectfully saluted Mr. Ge with a thousand salutes—if he, a fourth-rank magistrate, met a Han admiral or commander-in-chief, he would not have to give him old face at all, let alone salute a thousand children.But Gestai is a Manchurian military general at the commanding level, and a slave of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty would not dare to make mistakes at such a young age.

But Shang Shuying didn't pay attention to Ge Sitai, not only didn't salute, but also found a chair to sit in a grandiose - her identity is the Northern Princess, which is equivalent to the Zhengfu Jin of the Four Great Baylors in the Qing Dynasty!

What is a Manchurian general who is in command?Nothing!

Ge Sitai glanced at Shang Shuying, then raised his hand and said to Nian Xialing: "Prefect Nian, sit down and serve tea."

After ordering his subordinates to serve tea, Gestai asked, "How is the situation in Huaibei? Is Wang Ni still there?"

What he is most worried about now is actually that Li Zhongshan gave up Huaibei and transferred his troops to Lujiang and Yangzhou, and even directly returned to aid Nanjing.

"Still there!" Shang Shuying laughed, "There is a division of labor between Li Dushi and the Northern King. Our Shang family has a good relationship, and we have an enmity with King Zheng Yi. But Governor Li and Chen Zhongtang of King Yi's faction are in the same party."

"Wait," Gestai hurriedly interrupted, "Gege, what are you talking about? What are the supervisors, the North King, the East King, the Wing King, and the Zhongtang are all rebels!"

"No, no, no," Shang Shuying waved her hand, "Since ancient times, a king becomes a king and defeats a bandit, and the one who loses is a thief. King Jiang Ning'an can't defeat him at all! You and Mr. Mu can defeat Governor Li and it will be the end! So Dong Wang, The King of the North is not a thief, but a hero who kept the third prince Zhu in Nanjing as the emperor."

"You, where are you from?"

"I am the concubine of the Northern King of Yizheng in the Ming Dynasty. Where do you think I am?" Shang Shuying smiled, "I can be the master of the Northern Prince of Yizheng. The King of Nan cannot discuss politics!"

"Then you." Gestai is good at fighting, but not very good at politics.Otherwise, he would be finished with Dorgon!

"Dutong," Nian Xialing beside him said with a smile, "Gege means that we are going to be the first to cheat the king this time! If he is killed, the Northern King will be able to gather the entire Huai army and secure his seat as the king of politics! "

(End of this chapter)