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Chapter 303: Mission ([-])

Due to limited military strength and the need to organize and train the hundreds of thousands of Ming army prisoners gathered in Nanjing, after the victory at Maoshan, Liu Sheng did not rush to march elsewhere, but held a steady hand.

I am going to wait for Qian Qianyi to write out the memorandum and spread it out to see the reaction from southern Zhili and even Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.

It is best to wait until the more than [-] newly surrendered prisoners have been initially trained before launching the next military operation.

At present, the former Ming Dynasty's direct subordinate Weibu has occupied the entire Jiangbei, as well as the four prefectures of Chizhou, Taiping, Yingtian, Zhenjiang, and Changzhou in the Jiangnan area. Huizhou, Ningguo, Guangzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang have not yet sent troops to occupy it.

In Jiangxi, although Huang Gan and Shi Jinhui's troops were small in number (two independent brigades and two militia regiments), they fought bravely. After entering Jiangxi for more than a month, they had captured Jiujiang, Nankang, Nanchang, Raozhou, and Ruizhou. Five mansions.

According to the latest letter from Huang Gan, they have trained ten local Jiangxi militia regiments in the past month, and the three militia regiments brought from Huguang have all been converted into security forces.

In late March, superior forces can be concentrated to capture the prefectures in central Jiangxi.

However, Pan Zenghong, governor of southern Jiangxi in the Ming Dynasty, had led Fubiao to Linjiang Mansion and sent troops to garrison the main road in central Jiangxi.

According to the information from Xunfengwei and Huang Gan's troops, the Ming army under the governor of Nangan was very elite.

Because Chongzhen in southern Jiangxi has been suppressing the local peasant army (actually an aggregation of miners, farmers, and ethnic minorities) in his early years. He has fought for many years on the borders of the four provinces of Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, and Guangdong, and has trained [-] to [-] elite troops. Ming army.

The Ming Army in Southern Gansu not only has rich experience in mountainous operations, but also has a high rate of firearms equipment.

For example, Governor Biao of Southern Jiangxi was equipped with more than 2000 bird guns (matchlock guns) - these bird guns can be used in actual combat, and most of them are not parallel imports that explode after being used a few times.

There are also many other firearms and tiger crouching cannons.

Due to the rapid expansion of the Yi army last year, a standing army regiment only had more than 1000 matchlocks, and a brigade had about 5000 matchlocks.Therefore, if we only compare the fire equipment rate and combat experience, the Yi army really does not have much advantage over the southern Gansu Ming army.

However, war competition is not limited to these two items, but also includes popular support, morale, commander's ability, etc.

Not to mention other things, according to Xunfengwei, Pan Zenghong, the governor of Southern Gansu, although he knew the military well and had good political achievements in his two or three years as governor of Southern Gansu, he was already in his sixties and was old and frail.

In addition, the original rebel army in Southern Gansu has not been completely wiped out, and it is impossible for all the elite Ming troops in Southern Gansu to come to central Jiangxi, so Huang Gan is quite confident about taking central Jiangxi...
In Huguang, many good news came one after another from Helianyue's Third Division and Li Dingguo's Fifth Division.

At the end of last year, Helianyue and Li Dingguo captured the entire territory of Chenzhou, Jingzhou, Baoqing Prefecture, and parts of Yongzhou Prefecture.

Subsequently, He Lianyue, under Liu Sheng's order, left a brigade and several garrison regiments in southwestern Hunan, switched from offense to defense, and led the remaining two brigades to garrison Jingzhou.

The first is to guard against the Sichuan Ming army going down the river, the second is to prepare for the future Yi army to attack Sichuan, and the third is to wipe out the rebels, bandits and Pingjing areas in the surrounding prefectures and counties.

Li Dingguo was ordered to conquer southeastern Hunan. In the first month of this year, he captured Yongzhou Prefecture, Hengzhou Prefecture and Chenzhou.

At that time, except for a few chieftains in western Hunan who still believed in Ming Dynasty and refused to surrender to the Yi army, all of Hunan was owned by the Yi army.

In February, Li Dingguo invaded Shaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong from Chenzhou, and even captured Shaozhou Prefecture with Ke Lechang, Qujiang (the governor of Shaozhou Prefecture), and Yingde.

As a result, because the battle line was too long and some local gentry and landowners were backstabbing, they were attacked by the Ming army under the governor of Southern Jiangxi and the Ming army of Guangdong in the Gaoshi Mountain and Gukou areas, and were almost defeated.

Although Li Dingguo reversed the situation at the critical moment and escaped from the crisis, he also lost his Yingde and had to retreat to Qujiang.

After Liu Sheng learned the news at that time, he ordered the fifth division to also switch from offense to defense.After stabilizing, then head east to attack southern Gansu.After the Jiangxi Ming army is solved and there is no worries, then we can attack Guangdong.

Calculating time, Li Dingguo's [-]th Division has been licking its wounds for nearly a month now. The rear should be much more stable, and there should be more available troops for the local people's bravery.

In addition, Pan Zenghong led Nangan Fubiao to central Jiangxi, maybe Li Dingguo will send troops to southern Jiangxi soon...
Liu Sheng also made adjustments to the troop deployment in Southern Zhili.

Peng Youyi has been ordered to lead the remnants of the Second Division back to the north of the Yangtze River and garrison Xuzhou and Huai'an. In addition to guarding against the intruders going south, he also has an additional task, which is to contact Guide Prefecture and the remnants of the Shandong Ming Army to see if they can surrender.

Moreover, Liu Sheng specially dispatched a battalion of Shengjie Guards and ordered Shandong Xunfeng Guards to cooperate and try their best to win over one person.

Zhang Guowei, Governor of Water Transport in the Ming Dynasty!
Because this man was an expert in flood control in the late Ming Dynasty and was also a good hand in internal affairs, Liu Sheng had long paid attention to him.

Zhang Guowei was a native of Dongyang, Jinhua Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi.

He was first appointed as the magistrate of Panyu County, and became the governor of the south of the Yangtze River in the seventh year of Chongzhen. During his tenure, he presided over the construction of Fanchang and Taihu cities, dredged the rivers and ditches of Songjiang and Changzhou, and repaired many bridges and roads.

You can call him an infrastructure madman in the late Ming Dynasty.

The internal affairs of the key people are fine, the projects are completed, and the people are not forced to rebel. This will benefit current and future generations.

Later, based on the experience of this large-scale water conservancy renovation in the south of the Yangtze River, the "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Complete Book" was compiled for future generations to refer to.

However, his military ability was very poor. During his tenure, he happened to encounter Zhang Xianzhong and other rogue bandits raging in Jiangbei for the first time, and went to suppress them, but failed repeatedly.

In the [-]th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Ming Dynasty simply transferred him from the position of governor and moved him to the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and the envoy of the right Qiandu to the prime minister Hedao.

That is to say, it is specifically responsible for the management of river water conservancy projects such as canals in South Zhili and Shandong.

Unexpectedly, last year, when Li Qingshan rebelled and Chongzhen had no one available, he transferred Zhang Guowei to fight again. Unfortunately, he encountered the intervention of the Chuang army, and the result was a huge defeat.

Historically, Zhang Guowei successfully suppressed Li Qingshan's uprising without the intervention of the rebel army.It happened that Chongzhen killed Chen Xinjia at that time, so he grabbed Zhang Guowei as a life-saving straw and summoned him to Beijing to serve as Minister of War.

Although Zhang Guowei was certainly stronger than those selfish people, his army was slightly inferior after all. As a result, he was invaded by the Qing Dynasty in the winter of that year.

In the environment of the 15th and 16th years of Chongzhen, let alone Zhang Guowei's military strategy score failing, even if he had [-] or [-] points, he might not be able to stop the Qing captives.

When a large number of Qing rebels looted and retreated outside the pass, Chongzhen was so angry that he almost killed Zhang Guowei.

Fortunately, many people in the court interceded, and Chongzhen thought that Zhang Guowei was a rare water conservancy minister and internal affairs talent, so he spared his life and let him go to the south of the Yangtze River to control rivers, train troops, and supervise food and pay.

On the contrary, it allowed Zhang Guowei to escape the difficulty of Jiashen.

Later, Zhang Guowei first assisted King Lu to supervise the country to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but failed and drowned in his hometown of Dongyang.

At this time and space, because Li Zicheng was halfway through his attack on Shandong and suddenly wanted to pull out the nail in Kaifeng, Zhang Guowei and the Shandong Ming Army got a chance to breathe.

At present, Zhang Guowei still leads his subordinates Liu Zeqing, Yang Yufan and other Ming troops to guard the Yishui line.

For example, Yizhou, Tancheng, and Yixian in the southeasternmost part of Yanzhou, Haizhou and Ganyu in Huai'an Prefecture, most of Qingzhou, Denglai Prefecture, and a small part of Jinan are still in the hands of the Ming army.

The Yi army, Chuang army, and Ming army formed a subtle balance at the junction of Sulu and Henan in later generations.

But no one can say for sure whether Li Zicheng, after taking Kaifeng, will take advantage of the empty troops in Jiangbei to move south.

Therefore, it is necessary to transfer Peng Youyi's second division back to Jiangbei.

As for Zhang Guowei, Liu Sheng's order to Shengjie Guard and Xunfeng Guard was: If they cannot be persuaded to surrender, they must be kidnapped!
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A good message can be worth tens of thousands of troops.

Therefore, Liu Sheng gave Qian Qianyi three days to draft this important letter.

Qian Qianyi was very smart. He was worried that the slogan he wrote would not meet Liu Sheng's requirements, so he spent a day making a draft and asked Liu Sheng for advice.

Liu Sheng's own level of classical Chinese is only at the level of high school students of later generations. At most, he has read a lot of historical online novels, so his understanding ability is slightly higher.

The draft of Qian Qianyi's appeal uses both parallel and prose, which makes it read very powerfully. Since ancient times, most appeals have been written in parallel, mainly because parallel prose is powerful.

But Liu Sheng frowned.

Qian Qianyi had been secretly paying attention to Liu Sheng's expression, and when he saw Liu Sheng frowning, his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

Soon, Liu Sheng finished reading and said: "This article seems acceptable at first glance, but there are three things that make me very unsatisfied.

First, there are too many uncommon words and allusions. Although the poem is well-organized, it is not easy to understand.

Mr. Muzhai needs to know that this message is not only meant for the officials and gentlemen, but also for the common people, so it must be easy to understand.

Secondly, in your article, it is too one-sided to blame most of the corruption of the Ming Dynasty and the people's dire livelihood on the Zhu Ming clan and those incompetent and corrupt officials?
The corruption of the Ming Dynasty has reached this point. First of all, there is a problem with the system. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and all the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty all have a certain responsibility for this.

In addition, those who corrupted the Ming Dynasty system and eroded the foundation of the Ming Dynasty were not only the Zhu Ming clan and corrupt officials, but also the vast number of gentry and landlords! "

Hearing this, Qian Qianyi was shocked and fell to the ground with a plop.

Liu Sheng was speechless when he saw it, and asked: "Why are you kneeling? Is it possible that Mr. Mu Zhai of the Ministry of Etiquette still doesn't understand?"

Thinking of what Liu Sheng had just said, Qian Qianyi had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, if you criticize the majority of gentry and landlords in your memorandum, I am afraid that this article will not only fail to make the message spread throughout the country, but will actually arouse resistance. Your Majesty, please think again!" "

Liu Sheng was slightly silent.

He is not afraid of resistance from the gentry and landlord class. The key point of this memorandum is to reduce resistance. If it is issued but provokes resistance, it is better not to issue it.

He also listened to the advice, thought for a while and said: "We can write less about the harm caused by the gentry and landlords, but we must mention it - this involves the foundation of our country's founding. Does Mr. Mu Zhai understand?"

Qian Qianyi had already exhausted his courage by admonishing him once. Seeing Liu Sheng take a step back, he naturally did not dare to say more and responded: "I understand."

Liu Sheng added: "In fact, the Ming Dynasty declined so quickly. Chongzhen's incompetence, irresponsibility, suspicion and murderousness also accounted for a large part of the reason. This should also be stated clearly.

The last point of dissatisfaction is that your statement is not powerful enough.

Mr. Mu Zhai should understand that our reform of the Weibu Tripod is an act of obeying the will of the people and benefiting the world. We should be confident and confident, like huge waves, rolling wheels, and towering mountains, which make people feel unstoppable!Can you remember it? "

Qian Qianyi's heart trembled when he heard this, and he quickly bowed and said, "I will bear this in mind."

　First more.

　　I was so stupid - I searched for the name of the governor of Southern Jiangxi in the 15th year of Chongzhen. After more than an hour, I could only find one person who was not sure whether it was correct.Probably due to the war in the late Ming Dynasty, there are too few relevant records.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)