Zheng Jing's sudden attack caused a political earthquake in Beijing, whether to tolerate or war, the Lin Han Empire was divided into two factions, and there was a fierce debate in the court.

The young officers of the General Staff were furious, and when the military reports of Wang Dahai, the governor of Anhui, and Ma Ying, the general of the army, were made public in the form of a Tang newspaper, the General Staff immediately blew up the nest.

According to the strategic deployment of the Lin Han Empire in 1688, the steps to the south were: the Western Front Corps Ruike Division attacked Hubei, the Central Plains Corps Ma Ying Division attacked Jiangsu, and the Southern Corps Wang Dahai Division took Jiangxi, and more than 200,000 troops launched an attack at the same time in three ways, and finally crossed the Yangtze River to unify the whole country.

Now Zheng Jing's sudden attack interrupted this step. The previous targets of attack: Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang were all pseudo-Qing territories, and it was natural for the Han army to take them, but now Zheng Jing and Yang Qilong are in the east and west, and they actually take the lead, which leads to the two corps of the Han army falling into the situation of losing their offensive targets, which is really very infuriating.

And what is even more unbearable is that Jiangsu is the land of the south of the Yangtze River, with a large population and rich places, and the empire has long coveted it, as early as a few years ago, the General Staff has listed it as a must-take place, and this time in the southward war plan, the Han army intends to use the Cao Gang Niu Qianyu and others who have already contacted and accepted it before, to Fusui on the spot, collect materials, and prepare to fight to Zhejiang in one breath without stopping, crush the pseudo-Qing Jian Prince Labu and Kang Prince Jieshu, and incorporate the rich land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces into the territory. But Zheng Jing's sudden action was like a slap in the face of the Han army, and the General Staff was stunned.

At the strong request of the young officers, Zhou Peigong, chief of the general staff of the Han army, Ma Ying, the governor of the Central Plains Corps, and Shi Lang, the commander of the First Fleet of the Navy, Shi Lang, immediately wrote to Lin Feng, imploring the emperor to immediately issue an edict and declare war on Zheng Jing in Taiwan.

However, Chen Tingjing, the secretary of the household department of the Han Dynasty, and Xu Danyang, the 'waiter' of the trade industry, resolutely opposed a war with Taiwan.

They think: "Hebei has been fighting for a long time, the people's livelihood is withering, the fields are exhausted, and I have only been in the Han Dynasty for three or five years, the foundation is still shallow, and the people have not been convinced, for a long time, the country's financial resources have been to the maritime merchants as the pillar of optimism, so if the Zheng family 'fights' evil, the sea soldiers will rise, Shandong, Zhili and even the Hong Kong merchants in eastern Liaoning will inevitably be frightened and lost, trade and economy, in addition to Korea, 'Mongolia' and ancient times, Japan, Jiangnan, and Nanyang will cut off contacts, if the situation is so far, I am afraid that the three armies will have no salary, no officials, and the imperial court will not be able to rule the world!" ……”

Therefore, the method they proposed was that the Lin and Han empires should "slowly figure it out" regarding Taiwan's Zheng Jing's seizure of Jiangsu, not be impulsive, but cautious, and try their best to use foreign means to carry out repeated 'negotiations', and absolutely not "fall into a dilemma for the imperial court in a momentary mood."

This letter was written by Xu Danyang, the 'waiter' of the trade and commerce, and signed by Chen Tingjing, the secretary of the household department, Yang Mingshi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Tang Bin, the governor of Shandong, and Zhao Shenqiao, the governor of Ningjin, and other nearly 60 ministers above the fourth grade, and handed it to Lin Feng's imperial case.

The officers of the General Staff Headquarters and the Guards stood on the same line, resolutely opposing the policy of appeasement, and loudly denouncing the opposing civilian officials as "thieves who betray their lords and traitors to the country!" On the other hand, the civilian faction was furious, weeping bitterly, threatening to hit pillars and jump off buildings, while scolding the military officers for "reckless military and bringing disaster to the country and the people," and on the other hand, strongly demanding that Lin Feng punish these "soldiers and ruffians."

Lin Feng was a little hesitant at this time. Zheng Jing and Yang Qilong are different, compared to the cult leader, Zheng Jing is much stronger in terms of strength and reputation, in the past few years, the Han army and Taiwan have maintained a fairly close strategic partnership, one south and one north, echoing each other politically, cooperating with each other in intelligence, the relationship is quite good, although the two sides have had some contradictions in maritime trade in the past one or two years, but it has not yet reached the level of war, in fact, deep in Lin Feng's heart, he is also very reluctant to go to war with Taiwan's Zheng Jing, in his imagination, He hoped that after the Lin Han Empire unified the mainland, it would use the means of negotiation to surrender to resolve the Taiwan issue.

In fact, in the history known to Lin Feng, Taiwan's Zheng military group finally surrendered to Kangxi after the defeat in the naval battle, so if Zheng Jing died and lost the suppression of the strong leader, this military group transformed from a pirate gang was likely to eventually fall apart due to sharp internal contradictions, so he never regarded them as a difficult opponent.

In Lin Feng's view, Taiwan's political stance is very close to that of the Lin and Han Empires, and they are all military groups integrated with Han nationalism as the pillar of the 'spirit', and if Kangxi had not fallen, it is very likely that they would stand under the banner of nationalism to maintain a certain degree of cohesion, but if they faced the same political proposition, their banners and slogans would not necessarily stand.

Although Taiwan also supported a descendant of the Ming Dynasty clan, but the discerning people know what is going on, no one will believe that the Zheng group is still loyal to the ethereal previous court, so when the Lin Han Empire exterminated the remnants of the puppet Qing Dynasty and eliminated the Wu Sangui group, in the face of the behemoth of the Lin Han Empire, Lin Feng believed that with Wang Shirong's talent, the Taiwan issue would inevitably be bloodless.

The most important thing is that deep in Lin Feng's heart, he still maintains a lot of respect for the last armed force of the Han nation in the past, and if he can not fight a civil war, then he must not fight a civil war.

But the current situation seems to have given him a 'stick', Taiwan's Zheng Jing has obviously completed the absolute control of the Fujian area after more than two years of integration and digestion, rejecting Shang Zhixin in the south, attacking Jieshu in the north, and even being able to free up his hands to spy on Jiangsu, which is similar to the militarily conservative and politically low-key Zheng Jing that Lin Feng knows.

As for the commercial and economic crisis that the civilian faction was worried about, Lin Feng did not take it very seriously, in fact, this consideration of the civilian faction was really a bit short-sighted: Is there any country in the world that refuses war for fear of affecting short-term trade? Why did the Lin Feng Empire attack Jiangnan? In addition to unifying the obligations of the state, isn't it precisely for the sake of industrial and commercial economic and trade expansion?! Labor pains are inevitable and desirable until a new life is conceived and spewed, and this is not a reason to refuse war.

Just in Beijing when the government and the opposition 'chaos' into a mess, Hubei Yang Qilong's department finally completed the final assembly of the Hanyang siege, in the camp outside the city of Hanyang, Yang Qilong received the imperial Qincha in an unusually high-profile manner, contrary to the usual groveling, proudly did not kneel, the Han Emperor issued an edict to Qincha, Hanlin 'servant' Yuan Wenli was furious, and reprimanded sharply, but before three sentences, Yang Qilong immediately took the case, and the handsome warriors swarmed up, and beheaded the edict Qincha together with his deputy envoy and more than 20 officers and soldiers accompanying the guards. Yuan Wenli, a scholar from Hanlin, shouted "traitor" and scolded to death.

In September 1688, Yang Qilong, the leader of the peasant rebel army, raised troops again, and ascended the throne as the "Ming Emperor" outside the city of Hanyang Mansion in Hubei Province, with the year name "Zhongxing", and the third son Yang Yuanhong was the prince, and the general of the seal department was next to the big scar as the "Generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty", and after that, the army robbed the eleven counties of Hanyang Prefecture and rewarded the "officers and soldiers from the dragon".

After following Yang Qilong, the Ruike Corps has also conquered Xiangyang Prefecture, Yichang Mansion and most of the county towns of Jing'men' Prefecture, and included the entire northern and northwest Hubei into the territory of the Han Dynasty. He ordered the former Hubei warlord Luo Pangen, who had recently surrendered to the Han army, to hold on to Hanyang and Wuchang, intending to attack from the north and south and annihilate Yang Qilong's 60,000 peasant rebel army in the Hanyang area.

The main force of Yang Qilong's department was all assembled in Hanyang Mansion, Hubei, there were pseudo-Qing green battalion troops in front of the city to defend the fortified city, and there were tens of thousands of 'elite' sharp Han troops chasing all the way, the situation was critical, as a last resort, tens of thousands of peasant troops attacked the city regardless of casualties, but at this time, the defenders of Hanyang Mansion had already received a strict order from General Rick, desperately defending, Yang Qilong personally supervised the formation, and attacked for three days day and night, but because of the strong morale of the defenders, complete equipment, and strong city walls, more than 4,000 casualties were not allowed to advance.

At such a critical moment, the Northwest Corps suddenly sent a warning signal: August 19, 1688, A.D., the West' 60,000 iron cavalry of the ancient Zhungar Khanate suddenly appeared in the northwest of Gansu, continuously broke dozens of beacon towers of the Han army, at midnight on the 21st, the 20,000 iron cavalry of the Zhun Geldan King personally commanded Xining, the defenders of Xining, the two battalions of the Fifth Army of the Han Infantry were caught off guard, and the strength was weak, after losing the city defense, the siege was not successful, and the whole army was annihilated, in order to avenge the revenge of the former Lin Feng Xinzhou slaughter, Geldan personally ordered that all the wounded soldiers of the captured Han army were strangled at the head of Xining City.

In this battle, none of the 1,168 officers and soldiers of the Xining garrison under Zhao Liangdong of the Northwest Army of the Han Army survived.

When the news reached Lanzhou, Zhao Liangdong, the governor of Gansu of the Han Dynasty, drew his sword in anger and cut off two sabers in a row, vowing to take revenge. However, at this moment, his Northwest Army was the weakest of the Han field corps, and there were only two field armies under his jurisdiction, so although he was furious, he did not dare to act rashly in the face of Geerdan's tens of thousands of iron cavalry.

The Lanzhou headquarters of the Northwest Corps issued an order overnight to urgently recall the garrisons stationed in Suzhou, Liangzhou and other places, but at this time, the 'Mongolian' ancient army had already conquered Xining Province, and the return route of the garrison in the northwest of Gansu had already been cut off by the enemy, and the defenders from all walks of life had to make a detour from afar.

In addition to requesting reinforcements from the Beijing General Staff, General Zhao Liangdong went so far as to go straight beyond the formation and directly ask for help from the nearby Erbei Ruike Regiment and Daniel Zhang's Sichuan Corps.

However, at this time, the only mobile corps of the Han Dynasty in the northwest region, the headquarters of General Daniel Zhang of Anxi, was reorganized into a mountain corps according to Lin Feng's order, and more than 25,000 officers and men were scattered in various provinces, prefectures, and counties in Sichuan Province, and were now changing weapons, replenishing mules and horses, and being uniformed, and conducting mountain training in small units; after receiving Zhao Liangdong's request for help, although Daniel Zhang immediately ordered the troops to assemble, it was difficult to fight in Sichuan without one or two months of preparation.

The war was urgent, the commander of the Western Front Corps of the Han Dynasty, the lieutenant general of the army, and the general of Yulin, Rick, immediately made a decision, on the one hand, he asked His Majesty the Emperor of Beijing and the General Staff to thank him for his guilt, and on the other hand, he exercised the right of the commander of the theater of war to "change the right of opportunity", and the Western Front Corps except for leaving Wang Chengye's headquarters of the Tenth Army of the Han Corps to occupy Anlu Mansion and close to and monitor Yang Qilong's army, the remaining four corps immediately rushed westward to reinforce the Zhao Liangdong Corps in the northwest.

Geldan made a big move to the border, Lanzhou was in an emergency, the Beijing division was shocked again, at this time for the southward war, the northwestern defense of the Linhan Empire was extremely empty, almost all the "elite" sharp regiments of the empire were arranged in the initial position of the war, west of Yue Datong, except for the weak defense line of the "Meng" ancient general Zhao Guangyuan, which was a few tens of thousands of people, on the territory of Nuoda, there was no real field army, among them, Shanxi and Shaanxi Since the end of the Sichuan War, with the westward advance of Daniel Zhang's corps and the southward movement of the Ruike corps, two large provinces, There are only two brigades of local armies under the direct jurisdiction of the governor and two brigades of metropolitan guards under the control of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the combined strength of the two provinces is only 16,000 or 7,000 soldiers, and at best they can only undertake local security tasks such as suppressing bandits and patrolling.

If you want to compare it, then the northwest territory of the Lin Han Empire is like a huge 'chicken' egg, and Zhao Liangdong's Northwest Corps is that thin layer of eggshells, as long as Geldan smashes this layer of eggshells, then nearly 20 million people in Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other provinces in the northwest will immediately fall into annihilation.

The situation at this moment is more dangerous than ever.

Just when the forest was chaotic and complicated, Chen Jinnan, the general system of Taiwan's Dongning and the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, knocked on Tianjin, claiming to be ordered to send an envoy to the Han Dynasty on the orders of Zheng Jing, the king of Yanping County of the Ming Dynasty.

The emergency document of the Ministry of Rites arrived from Tianjin, and it entered Beijing at the same time as Zhao Liangdong's emergency military report in the northwest.

Things in the world are so "coincidental", don't make it worse.