He Zhen didn't understand why Zhu Youdong was in a hurry to let the people move away, if the Restoration Army did these things first, it was likely to cause dissatisfaction among the people.

Zhu Youdong said: "We wait for the Qing army to take action against these people, and then mobilize them to move inward, of course, it is good for us." But have you ever wondered what we would do if the Qing army drove out the people to attack our defenses? ”

He Zhen didn't believe it: "This is impossible, after all, most of the Qing troops in Yungui now are surrendered troops from all over Yungui." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "You think so, but once we form an entire encirclement of the Qing army, hundreds of thousands of Qing troops will be trapped in Yungui, and then the dog will jump under the wall in a hurry." In front of our army to block the way, and after the persecution of the Qing army, these surrendered troops in order to live out of the clouds. It's hard to say that they won't do such a thing, so we need to take precautions and move the people out first. ”

He Zhen saw that Zhu Youdong was resolute, and said: "Okay, after I return to Guiyang, I will immediately mobilize people and let them preach to the Miao people in the mountains and let them move out of the mountains." Zhu Youdong said: "There is no need to be in a hurry now, we had better push the defense line in Guizhou a little further, so that the Qing army will have less room for maneuver." ”

He Zhen said: "We are now moving southwest along the water, quickly entering Pu'an Prefecture, and deploying defenses along the Huangni River, so as to block the possibility of the Qing army attacking Guizhou." ”

Zhu Youdong thought for a while and said: "But our army is all in Shuixi now, not to mention that there are Anshun Prefecture, Zhenning Prefecture, Yongning Prefecture and Annanwei in between. It didn't help that we alone rushed to occupy Pu'an Oblast. ”

At this time, Luo Anmin, who had been silent, said: "Master Hou, if that's the case, why don't you transfer the army from Sichuan to Guizhou?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "I'm afraid that far water can't quench your thirst." Now the army that can enter Qiandi is only one guard of Hao Yongzhong, and he will also attack Wusa. Once Uzza is captured, it is necessary to prevent the Qing army from attacking. ”

Luo Anmin said: "General Hao doesn't have to worry there, he already has 5,000 veterans of our Restoration Army, and he has also collected the surrendered troops of Xuzhou Mansion and Zhenxiong Mansion. There are not many troops in Xuzhou, but there are more than 6,000 troops in Zhenxiong Mansion, so now General Hao Yongzhong has more than 10,000 troops in his hands. ”

He Zhen said: "What's the use of a mere army of 10,000? The Qing army is now hundreds of thousands. Luo Anmin said: "Why don't you use it, we want to keep the troops stationed in the place, and the Qing army won't need it?" They will also use a large army to pursue the king of Jin. ”

Zhu Youdong's eyes lit up and said: "Yes, we must continue to leave the army to guard the place, and the Qing army will also want it." They also have to divide a large army to chase after the King of Jin and them, so they won't have too many troops now. ”

He Zhen said: "But we don't have a large army to mobilize now, and now there are only 30,000 troops here in Shuixi, and we still have to attack these state capitals." ”

Luo Anmin said: "Actually, our army in Sichuan is already very close, and when we are ready to attack Shuixi, they are already in Wumeng Mansion. ”

Zhu Youdong was shocked: "What? They arrived at Umeng Mansion so soon? Luo Anmin said: "Yes, originally Jiading, Meizhou and these places were the defenders of my Ming Dynasty who announced their surrender to the Qing army when they saw that the Qing army was strong, and the Qing army did not have a garrison at all, and it was too late to send officials." As soon as he saw that our army had arrived, he announced that he had returned to the Ming Dynasty. The army didn't make much effort all the way, but it also recruited more than 10,000 surrendered troops inside, and Liu Yingnan and Jiang Chao, who led the army south, complained one after another. ”

When Zhu Youdong heard this, he immediately made an arrangement: "Immediately let Li Tingming of Zunyi lead the army south to Guiyang, and then attack Weiqingwei, Pingbawei and Anshun Mansion together with Yang Dong, who defended Guiyang." Hearing Zhu Youdong's arrangement, a guard immediately turned around and was about to go out to give orders.

Zhu Youdong shouted, "Wait a minute." Then he said to Lin Asan: "You immediately write a military order, and then stamp my seal and send it to Zunyi." Lin Asan didn't dare to disobey, so he immediately wrote a military order and asked Zhu Youdong to stamp it before letting the herald take it away.

Then Zhu Youdong said to He Zhen and Luo Anmin: "You take the 6,000 people who are preparing to form the Guizhou garrison, and immediately set off through Zhijin to the south to attack Yongning Prefecture and Annanwei from the Xibao Division. ”

After speaking, Zhu Youdong said: "I myself will go directly to Pu'an Prefecture with a large army, so that we can occupy Qianxi and southwest Guizhou together as soon as possible, and form a defense, so that Yunnan can also be put under pressure as soon as possible." ”

After finalizing the marching route, he notified all the armies that night to immediately prepare for tomorrow's departure, but as soon as the notice went down, An Kun came and said to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, can you not attack Xibao Division, the Tusi there is my in-law's family." ”

Zhu Youdong stared at An Kun for a long time, and An Kun was uncomfortable. Seeing An Kun a little flustered, he said, "I said that I wanted you to calm Shuixi as soon as possible, why didn't you say it?" ”

An Kun said uneasily: "At that time, Hou Ye was talking about Shuixi, and I didn't know how fast Hou Ye would be, so he would use troops to Anshun Prefecture, so I wanted to wait for Hou Ye to use troops." Zhu Youdong snorted coldly and said: "I'm afraid I want to stay and wait for the Qing army to attack again, so you can leave a way back for the surrender of the Qing army." ”

An Kun suddenly sweated profusely and said: "Don't dare, Master Hou is too worried, An Kun is now loyal to Daming, and he doesn't dare to have two hearts." also asked Hou Ye to spare An Kun this time, and also gave the Xibao Silong family a total opportunity. ”

Zhu Youdong was puzzled: "The Long family? That Long Sheng is also a member of the Long family? An Kun said: "Yes, it's just a side branch of the Long family, because I used to have some friendships, so I rely on the An family more." ”

Zhu Youdong suddenly realized: "Okay, you can ask people to go to Xibao Division with Qi Hou tomorrow, and persuade the Long family to surrender as soon as possible and accept the imperial court to change the land and return to the river, otherwise there is only a dead end." Seeing that Zhu Youdong agreed, An Kun immediately promised: "Yes, I will definitely persuade Long'an Fan to accept the change of land and return to the river." ”

Zhu Youdong didn't care whether An Kun was sincere or not, but Zhu Youdong, who had a large number of Miao people to help, was not worried about what tricks An Kun was playing. Now that all the people in the An family are under his control, Zhu Youdong still hopes that An Kun will do something and wipe out the An family.

Looking at An Kun who walked away, Zhu Youdong said to himself: "I hope you don't make anything happen to me at this time, otherwise I really don't mind uprooting your An family." ”

The next day, each ministry went to its own direction according to Zhu Youdong's arrangement, and Zhu Youdong also set off with Yang Jiafu, Luo Ren and others and an army of 20,000. After seven days of marching, they arrived at the Mukua camp on the twentieth day of the winter month.

This is already Pu'an Prefecture, just arrived in Pu'an Prefecture Zhu Youdong received news that Na Song raised troops in Yuanjiang to resist the Qing Dynasty and was surrounded by Wu Sangui and a large army. The city has been under siege for more than a month, and it may have been destroyed and killed.

When Zhu Youdong heard the news, he was stunned. Na Song was fighting against the Qing Dynasty in Yuanjiang, why did he have no news about himself, how much help this would be to himself, and there was no exact news about the military situation in Yunnan.

Zhu Youdong immediately said to the guards who were in charge of transmitting military information: "What's the matter? "That guard was in the past, when Baoding was reorganizing the army, Lin Zhuang formed a military intelligence department and stayed by Zhu Youdong's side to be responsible for delivering news. Now when he saw Zhu Youdong coming to ask, he immediately panicked and said: "Back to Master Hou, the little one doesn't know, Lord Lin didn't send the news." ”

Zhu Youdong immediately lowered his face and said: "Immediately ask Lin Zhuang to come to Guizhou for me, what does his military intelligence department do, how important is the military situation in Yunnan now, how beneficial is it for us to raise troops in Yuanjiang to resist the Qing Dynasty?" He didn't even know it. ”

The guard didn't dare to wait any longer, and immediately went out to give Lin Zhuang an order. Zhu Youdong looked at another person, this person was Jinyiwei's person. But Jin Yiwei didn't have any information coming, and when the man saw Zhu Youdong looking at him, he immediately shook his head and said that there was no news.

Seeing that Zhu Youdong's face was wrong, Jinyiwei's people immediately went out to send a message to Zhao Shichao of Jinyiwei, asking him to rush to Guizhou immediately.

Seeing that his two major intelligence systems have no intelligence in Yunnan. Zhu Youdong had no choice but to pay attention to the Miao people again, and the Miao people, who were originally invincible in Guizhou, had no choice.

Luo Ren said: "Master Hou, it's not that the Miao people don't contribute, but on the Yunnan side, not only the Miao people, but also a large number of Heyi people, and a large number of Yi people. It is not easy for us Miao people to find out information there, but it is easier for the Han people to inquire about it. ”

Zhu Youdongqi said: "How is this possible, there are still people in the mountains who are willing to deal with the Han people?" Luo Ren said: "Of course, our Guizhou is mainly the Banzhou Rebellion, and later there is the Lu'an Rebellion. Let the officials in Sichuan and Guizhou have a grudge against the Miao, so that the Miao people are willing to deal with the Han Chinese. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "What does this have to do with the Yi people in Yunnan? Luo Ren said: "But Yunnan is different, the officials in Yunnan must be controlled by the Mu Wangfu, the Mu Wangfu has been guarding in Yunnan for hundreds of years, and the people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan are very convinced of the Mu Wangfu." Therefore, the people everywhere are willing to let Mu Wangfu administer justice, but they are willing to deal with the Han people. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "It turns out that there is such a thing, but there are also a number of Miao people in Yunnan." Luo Ren said: "It's all the same, with the pressure of Mu Wangfu, the government of Yunnan does not dare to go too far, so the Miao people in Yunnan are as convinced by Mu Wangfu as other clansmen." ”

Zhu Youdong knew that Muwangfu could not be as clean as said outside, but the Chinese people were the easiest to be satisfied, as long as they could give them a little benefit, as long as they could live, they would feel that this was a peaceful and prosperous era. Even if there are too many unsatisfactory things, as long as they are not cornered, they will not confront the government.

After Zhu Youdong listened to Luo Ren's words, he immediately found a humanitarian from the Military Intelligence Department: "You first transfer twenty people to follow Luo Ren's subordinates, first go to Yunnan to inquire about the news, see the specific situation in Yunnan, if you find my Ming army, try to guide them to Guizhou to gather, if it is too close to northern Yunnan, let them enter Sichuan." ”

The two immediately agreed, and Zhu Youdong said to Luo Ren: "You first send more people out, enter Yunnan as soon as possible to find out the news, guide the anti-Qing army in Yunnan to withdraw to Guizhou or Sichuan, and let the Qing army consume more of our anti-Qing army in Yunnan, and it will be our loss alone." ”

Luo Ren said: "Don't worry, Master Hou, I will select clever people to enter Yunnan and try to withdraw the anti-Qing troops to Guizhou." Then Luo Ren and the people from the Military Intelligence Department went to arrange it.

After Zhu Youdong arranged to inquire about the military situation in Yunnan, he took a stroll around the camp. I saw a veteran of the Restoration Army, who was telling others about the battle with the Qing soldiers in Sichuan.

A Guizhou recruit said, "Are you talking about Qing soldiers?" Why are the Qing soldiers in Guizhou so powerful? Not at all like you say. ”

This veteran of the Restoration Battalion is Zhao Xian, who has just been appointed as the deputy hundred households, and after a few days of emergency training, he is now relieving the recruits in his hands. Hearing the suspicion of this recruit, he said: "This is actually exaggerated by the previous Ming army's poor resistance in order to shirk its responsibility." ”

The recruit said, "Zhao Baihu, you said these are all fakes? Then why didn't the Ming Dynasty fight the Manchurians for many years, and later Li Zicheng was also defeated in the north, these were all done by the Manchurians. ”

Guo Liai has not been given the errand to lead the troops since he followed Zhu Youdong, and now he has to hang out in the barracks. I saw that Zhu Youdong was also patrolling the camp before, and I originally wanted to say good things to see if I could lead the army.

As a result, when I heard this veteran of the Ming Army say that the invincibility of the Qing army was because the Ming army was incompetent and exaggerated, he was immediately unconvinced. Just as I was about to refute, I heard Zhao Xian say: "You are right, at that time, the Manchurians were still outside the border, and the Manchurians were like robbers. ”

The recruit said: "Then you said that the Qing army is not powerful, aren't you contradicting yourself?" Zhao Xian said: "Feng Tianyu, do you listen to me or not." ”

Feng Tianyu hurriedly said: "Okay, Baihu, you say, I won't interrupt." Zhao Xian said: "Think about it, the Manchurians at that time were very capable of fighting, but how many years have passed now?" ”

Feng Tianyu said: "It has been sixteen years since the Manchurians entered the customs road. Zhao Xian said: "Yes, sixteen years, that is, the children who were born after entering the customs are already sixteen years old." Can the Manchurians who entered the customs back then still be young? ”

Feng Tianyu couldn't understand for a while, what did this have to do with whether the Manchurians were powerful or not, he just stared at Zhao Xian. Zhao Xian saw that none of these recruits spoke, so he had to say: "Oh, think about it, how many Manchurians are there in total, except for women and children, and the old people are disabled, it is wrong to have 100,000 strong people." Sixteen years have passed. In a few years, a whole generation will almost be old. ”

Feng Tianyu also understood at this time and said: "Baihu is saying that the people they can fight are old?" Zhao Xian said: "Of course, the most prime of life is only those years, and now the Manchurians who have entered the customs are already old, plus the war after entering the customs, some of them have died, and some of them are disabled, how many of them can go to the battlefield now?" ”

At this time, another recruit said, "But they will also have new children." ”