Guangzhou General Yamen, as the core of the Qing court in Guangzhou, has always been a busy traffic, gathering people from all walks of life, but now it is full of patrolling soldiers, and it seems to be a little withered in the slaughter.

At this time, the yamen has gathered the dignitaries of the two Guangzhou, sitting in the first place is naturally the Guangzhou general Guan Yuanzhong, on the left and right are Kong Yuxun, the governor of the two Guangzhou, and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Man Bao, respectively, and the next is the governor of Guangdong, Nian Xiyao, and the governor of Guangxi, Gan Rulai, as for the left and right envoys and general soldiers of the provinces, they are sitting at the bottom, and all the officers of the two provinces have almost arrived.

Speaking of the people present, there is no simple, Guan Yuanzhong has been a general of Guangzhou for more than 20 years, and his right to speak in Liangguang can be called one and the same, even the former governor of Liangguang Yang Lin did not dare to be presumptuous in front of him, and later Yang Lin was dismissed by Kangxi, and the replacement of Kong Yuxun, the governor of Liangguang, is not simple, he is a descendant of the Confucian family in Shandong, the sixty-seventh grandson of Confucius, and was promoted to the governor of Guangxi in the 61st year of Kangxi, and added the title of governor of Liangguang in the first year of Yongzheng.

In addition to these two bigwigs on the surface, Nian Xiyao, the governor of Guangdong, is not simple, his younger brother is Nian Qianyao, the general of Fuyuan, and his sister is the Dunsu Imperial Concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, after Yongzheng ascended the throne, he was promoted to the governor of Guangdong, so even Guan Yuanzhong and Kong Yuxun were quite polite to him, and they must discuss with him whenever there is an important matter.

As for the governor of Guangxi, Gan Rulai is the most ordinary person in the background, but he is also quite remarkable, he is a famous minister all over the world, since the official to eliminate evil, eliminate treachery and punish evil, and enforce the law impartially, even in the 58th year of Kangxi, the imperial guard Bi Lik once led dozens of worshippers to Laishui, unauthorized occupation of people's houses, ravaging the villagers, and even led the crowd into the county office, roaring, disturbing the court, insulting the county order, and later Gan Rulai learned that Bi Rick and his party were imprisoned in prison.

Later, Gan Rulai was dismissed and escorted to Beijing because of this matter, and handed over to the officials, criminals, and soldiers for interrogation, and in the court, Gan Rulai was upright and unyielding, and told the crimes of Bi Li Ke and others one by one, so that Kangxi personally tried the case and investigated Bi Lik's dismissal, so that Gan Rulai was restored to his original position, and became famous all over the world.

Now these people with backgrounds and abilities have gathered in the Guangzhou Yamen, naturally not to listen to the Guangzhou general Guan Yuanzhong's bragging, but they are all facing the problem of life and death - the three divisions of the Fu Han Army have entered Guangdong, and the distance from Guangzhou is not too far, and at this time, the Qing army in Guangzhou, even if the remnants of the Qing army in Fujian and Zhejiang, are only more than 60,000 people.

Everyone knew that using 60,000 Qing troops to deal with 30,000 Fu Han troops seemed to have the advantage of troops, but the previous results had already told everyone present that this would be a doomed fiasco, and now it had to be fought. Of course, there are many reasons for today's situation, including the annihilation of the elite of Liangguang led by Yang Lin in Hunan, and the fiasco of the Qing army in Fujian, Zhejiang and Manchuria, which are one of the reasons.

Guan Yuanzhong looked at everyone present, and couldn't help but sigh deeply, for him, life seems to be divided into two completely different parts, in the first twenty years, as a general in Guangzhou, he can be called the top wealth in the world, but since the Fu Han army started, his good days are gone.

Since Yang Lin took the elite of the green battalion of Liangguang to attack Hunan, Guan Yuanzhong received the news that was worse than the other, first Yang Lin's entire army was annihilated, he himself lost his official position and resigned, and then Yang Zongren died in Jiangnan, all of which are telling Guan Yuanzhong a fact, that is, the Fu Han army is getting closer and closer to him.

Especially now that the decision-making of the Qing court has been completely transparent, Guan Yuanzhong and the others all know in their hearts that Liangguang has become a Jedi, at least the imperial court has absolutely no other way to interfere, and when facing the attack of the Fu Han army, they can only choose to deal with it themselves, but how to deal with it has become a great difficulty.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Chu Reyi's three divisions have arrived in Guangdong, and they will soon besiege our Guangzhou Mansion, how should we decide?"

Guan Yuanzhong's eyes are mainly on Man Bao, it is obvious that among the people at the moment, Kong Yuxun, Nian Xiyao and Gan Rulai are all civil officials, and there is no way to interfere at all, only Man Bao, who has fought with Ning Chu in Fujian, has also experienced the battlefield, and must have some experience.

When everyone heard this, they looked at Man Bao together, but a wry smile appeared on Man Bao's face, although he had fought head-on with the Fu Han Army, but he was beaten from beginning to end, especially in Fujian, even Zhu Yigui was no match, and Zhu Yigui was defeated by the Fu Han Army, how can he fight against the Fu Han Army now?

Speaking of today's Manbao is really angry, he is Kangxi 33 years in the examination of Jinshi, selected Shu Jishi, scattered the museum to give review, along the way is also smooth sailing, at the age of 38 became the governor of Fujian, Kangxi 54 years to be the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, at that time he was only in his early forties, the first half of his life was really smooth sailing.

However, since the uprising of the Fu Han Army, even Taiwan has been in chaos, and when the Manchurian Bao led the troops to fight the rebellion, they found that the whole situation had collapsed....... Even he was defeated by Zhu Yigui's army, and he was lost along with Fujian, and now he fled all the way to Guangdong with thousands of remnants, which is really embarrassing.

Man Bao looked at everyone's expectant expressions, and couldn't help but sigh softly, "For today's plan, it is not a good strategy to stick to it, you should retreat to preserve your strength, and wait for the future to slowly figure out." ”

This answer did not quite meet Guan Yuanzhong's expectations, but he also knew in his heart that the Qing army had no better choice at the moment, and if it could win the battle head-on, why should it run away? It's not like there's really no way around it.

Kong Yuxun, the governor of Liangguang, was a literati after all, but he had an unrealistic fantasy about the war, he glanced at Man Bao, stroked his beard and smiled, "Lord Man Bao lost his previous defeat, after all, his spirit has been lost...... Hehe, General Guan, there are more than 10,000 Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners in Guangzhou City, plus tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers, and Chu is only 30,000, even if it is not easy to win, it should still be possible to hold Guangzhou. ”

Although Nian Xiyao, the governor of Guangdong, is the elder brother of Nian Qianyao, the general of Fuyuan, he has not actually experienced the war, and he also nodded at the moment, expressing his agreement with Kong Yuxun's idea and taking stubbornness as the best policy. Only Gan Rulai, the governor of Guangxi, had a worried look on his face.

Seeing these civil officials making a big fuss, Man Bao also snorted coldly at the moment, "If you adults think that you can deal with Chu Wei just by relying on a large number of people, it is impossible for them to fight Liangguang!" What Master Kong thinks is too simple! ”

"You........ Hum! ”

Kong Yuxun snorted coldly, and said without yin or yang: "Lord Man, although this governor does not understand war, he also understands what it is to abandon Zhejiang and Fujian provinces one after another within half a year!" Naturally, Lord Man doesn't need to tell Bendu, it's better to think about it, how to explain to the emperor when you go back! ”

Man Bao's face turned red, and he wanted to make an accusation, but he seemed to suddenly think of something, and quickly calmed down the anger in his heart, and bowed to Guan Yuanzhong expressionlessly.

"Lord Guan, there are still important matters in this overseer's army, so I will not accompany you."

Guan Yuanzhong was a little dumbfounded, just watched Man Bao leave the mansion, and then looked back at Kong Yuxun, who was complacent, and the whole person was a little helpless, and couldn't help but let a low sigh.

Relying on this gang of people to block Chu Shun, how difficult it is!

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, the people in the Qing court are not united, and there are actually differences on the side of the Fu Han army, which are mainly manifested in the three main division commanders of the attack on Liangguang this time, in the plan of the Privy Council, the three main divisions of the attack on Liangguang this time, respectively, are the first division of Ning Tieshan, the third division of Cheng Ming and the sixth division of Qian Ying, which themselves belong to different mountains.

Strictly speaking, the earliest backbone force is Ning Zhongyuan's Hanyang battalion veterans plus Ning Yu's young eagle battalion young strong, and later after many battles, they joined the descendants of Cheng and Zheng Erjia, as well as a large number of Huguang disciples, which constituted two factions, namely the young eagle faction and the Xunchen faction.

After the Fu Han army walked out of Huguang, many green battalion soldiers were reorganized from the captured army and joined the Fu Han army, so at this time, there were still some people in the Fu Han army who were surrendered to the Qing court, although these people were a little taboo in their identity, but they were also a force to be reckoned with, like Yue Lingfeng, Xu Mingyuan and Qian Ying were among the representatives.

Ning Tieshan, the commander of the first division, is considered a royal family, and on the surface, he is a young Zhuang faction of the royal family with Ning Zhongyi, Ning Zuyi and others, but in fact, Ning Tieshan himself was also born in the Young Eagle Battalion, so he is actually closer to the Young Eagle faction represented by Dong Ce, Xu Chengliang, and Li Shihu.

According to the original plan, the three divisions of the Fuhan Army were divided into two routes, one was the first division along the direction of Chaozhou and Huizhou, all the way to Guangzhou, while the third and sixth divisions continued to divide their troops after taking Huizhou, and assisted the first division to besiege Guangzhou, and the other was to attack Shaozhou Mansion and block the Qing army on the outer line.

Strictly speaking, there was no problem with this plan, but after Ning Tieshan and Li Shihu's in-depth study, they put forward another line of thought, that is, the Third Division continued to go to Huizhou and attack Guangzhou, while the First and Sixth Divisions were carried directly to Yahai by the naval division, captured Xinhui and Zhaoqingfu, and completely ate the tens of thousands of Qing troops east of Guangzhou.

The biggest advantage of this plan is that once Zhaoqing can be taken, the Qing army in Guangzhou will become a turtle in the urn, and will be wiped out by Ning Chu, and they will not be allowed to flee to Guangxi to continue to be the enemy of Ning Chu, Guangxi is empty and has no soldiers, so it will naturally not be attacked, but the problem is that it is difficult to transport too many troops in front of it by boat, and it may be one to two regiments, and it is really risky to hold the attack of tens of thousands of troops, so this is a very ambitious plan.

Under this concern, Cheng Ming also raised objections, and he looked at Ning Tieshan with very sincere eyes.

"General Ning, the Privy Council's request for our army is only to take Guangdong before the year, as for Guangxi, it will not be far away at that time, and there will be no risk under the steady attack, and this plan you put forward, if there is a defeat, the follow-up impact will affect the entire battle situation!"

Ning Tieshan pinched his eyebrows, traced on the map with the charcoal pen in his hand, and said in a low voice: "I naturally understand what General Cheng means, but did Senior Commander Cheng ever know that the soldiers are fast?" Do you know that things will change? Now our army seems to have an advantage, but if we wait until the day when Guangzhou Mansion is encircled, how many more soldiers and horses will the Qing army have? ”

"If that's it, it's fine, but the problem is that the Qing army on the other side is not stupid, they can escape from Fujian and Zhejiang to Liangguang, and they may not continue to flee west to Yungui, is it possible that we have to keep playing hide and seek with them in the ravine?"

Ning Tieshan's words are actually quite marketable in the army, and even in the cabinet, they are very popular, the reason is very simple, a quick war is conducive to a long-term war, in all respects, and the geographical advantages of Liangguang and Yungui are also there, if the Qing army really escapes, and it is not acceptable to the Fu Han army to play hide and seek with the Fu Han army for a long time.

Cheng Ming naturally understands this truth, but for him, this kind of overly risky behavior really does not take the lives of soldiers to heart, after all, an expedition across the sea is not as simple as on land, and a slight carelessness is a fiasco.

The two couldn't help but look at Qian Ying at the same time, but Qian Ying has always been cautious in her words and deeds, and she didn't dare to boast about such a major matter, so she had to neutralize the mud.

"What the two generals said is very reasonable, but I would have thought that it would be better to leave the decision on this matter to Your Majesty and the Privy Council......"

Ning Tieshan was naturally a little dissatisfied with Qian Ying's words, and when he was about to speak, there was a hearty laugh from outside, and everyone was surprised and delighted, it turned out that it was Ning Zhongyi, the king of Changshan, who was now the privy envoy.

"Meet His Royal Highness King Changshan!"

Seeing Ning Zhongyi wearing a suit of armor and striding in, Ning Tieshan, Cheng Ming and Qian Ying hurriedly bowed and saluted, this Changshan King's temper was a little cold.

Ning Zhongyi looked like a dusty man, and when he arrived at the main hall, he took out a box from his arms, took out a letter of Shengyu wrapped in yellow silk from it, and looked at everyone and read it aloud.

"The king of Changshan is the general manager of the march of the two Guangzhou, coordinates the divisions, coordinates all directions, takes the determination of the two Guangxi as his own responsibility, and takes the pacification of the southwest as the long-term map."

"Thanksgiving!"

Looking at Ning Zhongyi's sturdy figure, a smile appeared on Ning Tieshan's face, he knew that his distant uncle was really suffocated in Beijing, and he asked the emperor many times to lead the army in person, but he was not allowed to do so before, and now he finally looked forward to such a good opportunity.

After all, Ning Zhongyi has been a privy envoy for a long time, and now it is naturally not a problem to take care of the general manager of the Liangguang march, so his mood is not too turbulent, but he seems to be extremely calm, "I heard you arguing before I arrived at the big tent, can you let me hear what is going on?" ”

Ning Tieshan glanced at Cheng Ming and Qian Ying, and then arched his hand and said: "Since the king of Changshan has arrived, all the plans of the ministers and others, please let the king of Changshan be the master!" ”