Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 756 Strategic Choice
"Zhang Xianzhong, dead!"

Looking at the confidential documents in his hand, Song Qingshu remained silent for a long time, finally sighed, and threw the black-covered clip onto the table.

People are nostalgic animals. In the past, they raised the flag and rebelled together. The mighty 36th Battalion, with dozens of leaders, is now almost withered and few are left. Years ago, Ma Shouying, the commander-in-chief of Lao Ge Zuo [-]th Battalion, just died of illness. Now came the sad news of the Eight Great Kings, and the only remaining lamplighters, Zhao Sheng, are either in Southeast Asia, or in India, the New World, all on different sides of the world, which really makes Song Qingshu feel a little bit sad.

In particular, the relationship between Zhang Xianzhong and him is still extraordinary. Although he is as cruel and ruthless as in history, and bloodthirsty, he is Song Qingshu's sworn brother after all, and he is in Xi'an, on Niushou Mountain, where he is most needed by Song Qingshu. Sometimes, he can always stretch out those powerful hands.

The days of fighting side by side seemed to be still yesterday, not in the past, silently clasping hands, Song Qingshu unconsciously turned his head to look at the bustling dock outside the window.

But after all, this is not the time to miss, just as Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi has always lingered before the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty these years, it is because the two people have thousands of followers behind them, this is a struggle between the two regimes, Deciding whose beliefs can rule the fate of China for hundreds of years, watching Song Qingshu in a daze, Song Yongzhong, the leader of the selection front who was in charge of delivering the information, still knocked on the table.

"Marshal, Sun Kewang is rebellious, the army is on fire!"

"Oh? Hmm..."

Only then did he come to his senses, and once again picked up the information at hand, after looking at it for a while, Song Qingshu's eyes finally showed sharp eyes again, and he stretched out his hand and turned back the information to Song Yongzhong.

"Notify the Secretariat that an emergency meeting of the Imperial Chiefs of Staff will be held in the afternoon."

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Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have always been strong without Huaihe River, and without Jingchu, they will perish, and only when they are strong to the limit, can they have Bashu. The closed Sichuan Basin is like a jewel in the crown. Without delay in using it, even Zhu Yuanzhang went north to conquer the Yuan Dynasty first, captured Shanshan, and then returned to Bashu and Yunnan to pacify the entire southwest.

However, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Sichuan also had a separatist regime in Mingxia, and it was not monolithic with the Yuan Dynasty. But now, the Qing army occupies half of the Chengdu Plain. The army went in and out of Sichuan from the east and took the Bazhou Road to harass Jingxiang, which also caused great headaches for Daming. You must know that Hitler did not fight on two fronts. If he took the opportunity to recover Bashu and push the defense line to Hanzhong, it would be a great deal for Daming. temptation.

However, at the military meeting, not everyone supported this point of view. The first voice of opposition came from Sun Chuanting, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

"Commander, the Land of Abundance is thousands of miles away. It is true that for Daming, the strategic significance there is extremely important, but what is more important is the Huaihe River! The fight lasted for a long time, Jiannu came from the northeast to attack with all their strength, and I didn't care from the beginning to the end!"

"Sun Ge, don't we want the Bashu that came to our door? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Once Sun Kewang's white-eyed wolf colludes with Jiannu to swallow all the territory of the Eight Great Kings, it will be difficult to recover here. Besides, , Jiannu in the north is afraid of being beaten by us, and there is a natural danger in the Huaihe River, does he, Dorgon, dare to come?"

Leading the rank of general, it is almost moldy in Yingtian, but such as the expedition to India and the battle of the New World, he cannot be dispatched at this level. Now in the battle of the main town, Liu Zongmin immediately shouted impatiently. However, under Song Qingshu's training, there are many warlike generals. A large group of generals also turned against the sky in response to Liu Zongmin. However, when they quarreled enough, Sun Chuanting still shook his head with a frown.

"If we move Sichuan, Dorgon will definitely attack the whole country!"

In the past few years, Jiannu has indeed made great progress. In order to alleviate the shortage of soldiers, Dorgon aggressively recruited soldiers from the ethnic minorities in the Northeast, and even more severely deployed the Mongolian army. The Eight Banners, today's slaves, have basically returned to the morale of the newly entered customs, and colluded with the Dutch, French, and even the British, the fighting power of the Eight Banners army is stronger than ever.

The year before last, according to intelligence, Jiannu also colluded with the old Maozi Cossacks who were advancing eastward, and the army's firearms were installed, which greatly improved.

Even Dorgon built a Beiyang navy with 32 double-decker gunboats of the Swedish Vasa class in the port near Laolongtou of Shanhaiguan.

But when Jiannu took a step forward, Da Ming strode forward like a meteor. Last year, the entire army had been replaced with rifled guns and rifled guns, and even some breech-loaded guns and breech-loaded guns had begun to be installed. Dorgon could mobilize three At the same time as ten battleships, Song Qingshu was able to assemble three hundred battleships along the coast of Songjiang. This is not the whole of the Ming Navy. Just like the British Empire, the history of Ming's warships has also spread from the New World to India. In the northeast corner of Oceania, a new territory has been opened up.

In terms of the staying power of the war, Ming has Bangladesh, the vast Indochina Peninsula and the Huguang agricultural area to provide food, 5000 large shipyards from north to south, plus a population of more than [-] million in the colony, countless mines and arsenals, even Song Qingshu If you lose fifty to eighty main divisions in tone, you will be able to replenish them in less than three months. Can you build slaves?One dies and one less.

Going on like this, in less than ten years, the Qing Dynasty will have no capital to challenge Daming, so once the main force of Ming Dynasty goes west, Dorgon, a hero, will definitely grasp this life-saving straw, even if Daming cannot be destroyed, in the densely populated area Massacres and looting in the Jiangnan area can last for decades. Sun Chuanting is not only a general, he is also the minister of the imperial military department and the minister of national defense. He must focus on the overall situation.

However, the real commander of the three armies is Song Qingshu, the chief minister of the cabinet. After dozens of chiefs of staff argued, the strategy conference room fell silent again, and everyone's attention was focused on Song Qingshu.

While the big guys were arguing, Song Qingshu kept staring at the map, and even if he fell silent, he didn't leave his eyes. For almost two or three minutes, he seemed to finally come to his senses, and swipe his finger along the map to the west. pointing away.

"Fighting must be fought, but I think the army should take this route! The sword is aimed at Yuzhou!"

This sentence is not only Sun Chuanting, but even the other generals have ugly faces. Where is Yuzhou?Chongqing, the mountain city of later generations, and Diaoyu City not far from there, once resisted the Mongolian army for 36 years. For a third of a century, it fought back and killed the Mongolian Khan Mengge, which indirectly stopped the third western expedition of the Mongolian army and entered Sichuan. There is more than one road, but Song Qingshu chose a tortoise shell for everyone to walk.

But frowning for a moment, his eyes followed the path Song Qingshu's fingers had drawn, and Sun Chuanting's eyes suddenly lit up. He searched for the big battle map and looked to the northeast. Immediately, the anti-war faction was the first to nod again. .

"The commander-in-chief's strategy, the subordinates support!"

"General Shi Lang!"

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The military situation is on fire. While the Ministry of War is discussing the details of dispatching troops, the borders of Huguang and Sichuan have already begun to ignite the flames of war.

On April 25th, the day of Zhang Xianzhong's funeral, on April 28th, the Daxi Kingdom Mission entered the Ming Dynasty, and on April 15th, Du Yinxi, Governor of Huguang, sent troops to Sichuan. Liu Dahuzi, an old subordinate who defected to Song Qingshu in Dai County, personally led three divisions, entered Sichuan from Sinan Mansion in the east of Guizhou, which had been taken back by Ming Dynasty, and arrived in Luzhou, the capital of Daxi Kingdom, on the eighth day of May.

It was really just one step away. On the second day after Liu Tichun entered the city, Sun Kewang, who was unwilling to lose his right of inheritance, had already colluded with Bahai, the general of Chengdu in the Qing court, and led a waterway army of 14.

Daxi Prime Minister Pan Duao, General Bai Wenxuan, and Governor of the Five Armies Feng Shuangli also supported Liu Tichun's resistance with more than [-] troops. Around the ancient city of Luzhou, the Daxi Army and the Daxi Army Central Army, which originally resisted the establishment of slaves in central Sichuan, took the lead in igniting the flames of war.

However, communication and transportation in this era are too inconvenient. It is about [-] kilometers from Chongqing to Nanjing. When Song Qingshu got the news, Liu Tichun had already been in Sichuan for three or four days. On the sixth day of the first month, Yingtian started the national mobilization order.

The most avant-garde is the newspaper, and Ying Tian, ​​regardless of whether it is the Free Pioneer or the Confucianism, is almost always marked with the largest headline.

"Recover my rivers and mountains!Give me back Jinguan! "

"Men of the Empire, take up arms and take my Heavenly Mansion!" "

The impassioned news rhetoric ignited the blood of countless men. For a time, countless young people resigned from work and joined the army. The enthusiasm filled the local armed forces of the Ministry of War, which made the officers of the armed forces who had headaches due to conscription in previous years busy. The roster filled several rooms.

However, these can only be used as reserves. The main force of the Great Ming’s western expedition this time is still the 79 divisions of the Yingtian Military Region. In order to conquer Sichuan, the Ming army deployed a full [-] divisions. The assembly was completed within.

On the ninth day of May, an even more touching scene happened. In the west of Yingtian City, Zhu Yuanzhang held the commanding platform for Xu Da to swear to the Northern Expedition. The commander-in-chief of the three armies, Song Qingshu, walked and trotted in front of the army like an ordinary soldier.

On the straight asphalt road built by the empire over the years, the 24 troops were divided into three groups. With their usual training skills, they strode forward. It was dragging tons of military supplies, followed closely behind the team, and the overwhelming army and gushing black smoke became a unique scenery in various places for a while.

However, during the westward advance with great fanfare, the defense of the south of the Yangtze River seems to have been deliberately forgotten. The frontier defense troops on the front line of the Huaihe River in Xuzhou have only 25 divisions of the He Jin Corps left, while the front line of the Yangtze River has only scars. The 26 divisions facing Xia Xueyi, from the Huaihe River to the Yangtze River, seemed a little empty.

The imperial court didn't worry much about it. Anyway, the water and land assisted defense. Back then, Scarface blocked Wu Sangui's 40-strong army from the Yangtze River to help Jiangnan with an army of [-] to [-].
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