The day after tomorrow, the Tianzi No. 1 wharf in the south of Guangzhou.

This is not the first time Chen Kai has set out from Guangzhou, the last time was to recover Southern Jiangxi, and he also has the prestige of defeating Hong Chengchou. The gentry and people of Guangdong are full of confidence in this feudal official who has just entered middle age.

Such faith is brought about by miracles again and again, and at the same time, it is also the blossoming of the flower of profit. On the wharf, among the local people who came to see them off, the members of the Guangdong Advisory Bureau stood at the forefront, and the old gentry who acted as the speaker of the Consultative Council unscrupulously wished Chen Kai a successful start and asked Chen Kai to spread the benefits brought by the Advisory Bureau to the people of Guangdong to other provinces. In this regard, Chen Kai also responded. On the contrary, the mission of containing the Qing army to help the imperial court solve the current crisis has become a secondary purpose.

Whether it is Hong Chengchou or Chen Kai, they all regard each other as the biggest opponent at this stage of their lives. When there was a movement in Guangzhou, the Changsha shogunate's meticulous workers, who had been strictly ordered and richly rewarded, racked their brains to transmit the news as quickly as possible through the line of actual control of the Ming army - as soon as they entered the area controlled by the Qing army, there would be carrier pigeons in charge of the military intelligence in Guangdong directly delivered to the Southwest Economic Strategy Office of the Four Generals of the Ji Domain in front of Changsha City.

In the southwest and southeast, after the wave of counteroffensives set off by Chen Kai in the eighth year of Yongli, the Qing army and the Ming army have entered a state of all-out war this year. The main battlefield in the southwest was in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Changsha shogunate had to shoulder it, and even in the southeast battlefield, the Ming and Qing armies fought in Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, which was also managed by Hong Chengchou, had to support the military threat to the Ming army group in southern Jiangxi and Fujian at the same time, and also had to deal with the heavy army group of the Qing army entrenched in Jinqu.

Inside and outside the government office, they are very busy. In the room under the corridor, the fireworks are full, and even Changsha City, which has gradually turned into a cool September day, can not be counted here. Going in and out, in a trance, it seems to have shuttled to the flame mountain, even if it is borrowed from the iron fan princess's banana fan, I am afraid that it will not be able to fan the anxiety and urgency in the hearts of these officials and generals.

At present, the leading local officials of the Qing court, Southwest Jingluo Hong Chengchou, were not in the government office, but went to Yanglaobao in the southeast of Pingyue Prefecture, Guizhou for a meeting. The people who attended the meeting, Xinjun Wang Doni, Zongmu Luotuo, Gushan Ezhen Zhao Butai, plus him and Wu Sangui, the two Han ministers, except for Li Guohan, who died of illness two months ago, and the line Guoan, who was crucified in Guilin and could not be moved, the commanders of the unified army in the southwest were basically gathered. If Lei Gongdian didn't pay attention at this time, then all of a sudden, the Manchu rule in the southwest would basically be able to say goodbye.

In the final analysis, after all, it is a war to destroy the country, and we dare not ignore it. As a result, Hong Chengchou is not there, and the current Yamen of the Southwest Economic Strategy is naturally his in-law, Huang Zhixuan, the political envoy of Huguangzuo, who is temporarily in front of this family.

The entire Changsha shogunate was like an efficient machine, providing an endless supply of resources and energy for the Manchu rule in the southwest. The core chip of this machine is naturally Hong Chengchou, even if he is like Huang Zhixuan, even if he is twenty-eight years younger than the former in terms of age, he is now only thirty-seven years old, and he is at the peak of his physical state, but in the face of such a complicated situation, he still seems powerless.

In his hand, he was reading the official document for the delivery of grain and grass to Guizhou, which was his daily homework. Write down the approved text as usual, and on the side of Huangcang Bay, the family funds that the Changsha shogunate has easily accumulated over the years will be shipped to Guizhou day and night.

I was still thinking about the number of transportation, the arrival time, the wear and tear of the journey, and when the new summer and autumn taxes and various miscellaneous items would arrive to replenish the inventory, so as to achieve that endless flow as much as possible, which was not as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Military affairs, there can not be a little mistake or omission, while approving, Huang Zhixuan is still flipping through the documents, asking officials and staff, don't say that it is a noble official from Hanlin like him, even if it is an old official who has accumulated years, it must be a head or two, it is hard to imagine that Hong Chengchou is already at such an age, how did he do it.

It's just that in such a situation, it has always been more hectic and can't relax a little nerve. When Chen Kai's movements in Guangzhou were delivered to his case as quickly as possible, Huang Zhixuan hurriedly left down those official duties that needed to be solved urgently, and the irritability in his heart that was already squeezed a lot in the face of these urgent reports full of words such as "probably", "maybe", and "maybe" increased sharply, as if he was about to burst out of the blood vessels in his forehead in the next moment.

"Quick, copy a copy, and send the original to the old man of Pingyue Prefecture as quickly as possible!"

Unlike those guys who can only speculate on hearsay, Hong Chengchou attaches great importance to that Chen Kai in Guangdong, and everyone in the entire Changsha Shogunate knows it. Huang Zhixuan's irritability lies not only in the powerlessness of those meticulous works that have always been effective, but also in the difficulty of the opponent.

During this time, his order blurted out, and the most trusted staff wrote a wind, and the original was sent to Guizhou non-stop. As for the copy of the transcription, Huang Zhixuan took the ink that could vaguely see some water, and specially found a few characters that Hong Chengchou values most on weekdays to refer to one or two.

"Chen Reverse uses soldiers, and he has always been known for his cunning. Nowadays, the situation is changing rapidly, and the southeast and southwest are all major wars, and it is difficult to guess the true intention of this single word. ”

"Master Jinglu said that this traitor Chen Kai often speaks of a sharp word when he uses soldiers. According to the intelligence, Chen gave orders to Ke Chenshu in Zhaoqing and Huangshan in Southern Jiangxi, and the two thieves attacked more fiercely after receiving the order. From this point of view, if Chen Wei sent troops to Wuzhou, it would be nothing more than a place for the puppet dynasty to seize a piece of retreat, but also in response to the will of the puppet dynasty who came a few days ago to make him the governor of Guangdong and Jiangxi. However, this is not a certainty. In the final analysis, Chen Wei was still born in Haikou, and Zheng Wei has always been inseparable from Meng, and Meng is not out of focus. At present, Zheng Wei is using troops in Zhejiang, and if he storms Ji'an, it will be difficult for the officers and troops in Jiangxi to achieve effective support for Zhejiang, and they may even have to divide some soldiers and grain and grass. ”

This is reasonable, I think that in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, Chen Wei first helped Zheng Shun take Fujian, and then went to Guangdong to help the old thief. Only this time, it was the war on the eastern and western fronts at the same time, but the priorities, and the attitude of the puppet dynasty towards Chen Wei, especially his annexation of southwest Guangdong, were difficult to say. ”

"Indeed, these two places, it is difficult to say now, he gave an order to Ke Chenshu and the two thieves of Huangshan at the same time, making it clear that he wanted us to guess his intentions. In the next thought, for the time being, it is better to respond to everything without changing. The first is to let Liu Shuai in Ji'an and Ma Shuai in Wuzhou deal with it, and ask Zhang Jia in Nanchang and Guilin to do a good job in supporting; Second, it is also waiting for the order of the old man, after all, Chen Wei must be a big deal as soon as he makes a move, and we can't decide many things, and we may not be able to understand it immediately. ”

It seems helpless to respond to all changes with the same, but this is the safest way at this moment. said a thousand ways and ten thousand, the most important thing for the Manchu Qing Dynasty now is the battle of annihilation in the southwest, and Zheng Chenggong in the southeast can only be contained, and Chen Kai is even more so.

The battle to destroy the country was quite smooth. The Qing army was in a no-man's land in Guizhou, and in Sichuan, although it was once involved in the Ming army of Kuidong, it could not affect the overall situation. Next, it is nothing more than that after the Yang Laobao meeting, the army is heading south, and Hong Chengchou has planned another green battalion of more than 15,000 soldiers to enter Guizhou, to put it bluntly, as cannon fodder in the decisive battle of Yunnan Province.

The momentum in the southwest was very good for the Qing court, and the only variable was Li Dingguo's military talent. However, no matter how strong the cooking skills are, there must always be ingredients to cook delicious dishes. After Sun Kewang's defeat, Li Dingguo's operation in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, the result was the rapid fall of Guizhou, and now the situation of centrifugation and detachment within the Ming army in the southwest made the high-ranking officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty wake up with laughter, and it is only a matter of time to eliminate the Ming court in the southwest.

Under such a situation, in the southeast battlefield, the Qing army was completely passively beaten. The strength of the Zheng group has swelled too much in recent years, especially after a break in recent years, once Zheng Chenggong unleashed his power on the battlefield in Zhejiang, it was just a small test, which had already made the Qing court feel great pressure. Jidu, who sits in Jinqu, and Yird, who sits in Ningshao, are now just barely trying to make ends meet. Even, struggling to maintain it is no longer enough to describe its hardship, or to support it with hardship is more vivid!

"Zheng Wei has occupied the three prefectures of Taizhou, Wenzhou, and Chuzhou, and has taken control of Zhoushan, and the whole of Zhejiang is under his army. Inside, those potential traitors in various prefectures and counties are also active in all directions, and the Zhejiang Governor Yamen alone has received an unknown number of reports, which can be said to be almost every day. There are those who rebel, there are those who form an army, and there are those who want to sacrifice the city. Prince Zheng's sentence was killed in one go, which is also an angry sentence. How can this kind of reckless and cracked thing be done under the current situation, I am afraid that no one has been killed, and the gentry of the entire Zhejiang, as well as the green battalion generals at both ends of the rat head, have been forced to rebel, but it has helped Zheng Wei a lot. ”

In this way, Hong Chengchou talked to him alone before leaving, and Huang Zhixuan, as the person in charge of staying in Changsha, had a clearer understanding of the entire battle situation.

Now the southwest is a clear attack and a clear defense, and the southeast is a clear attack and a clear defense, and both sides are doing their best. Originally, the Qing court's plan was to let Gushan Ezhen Yierde, who assisted in the defense of Ningshao, lead his troops to move to the southwest, and transfer the Eight Banners Army from Beijing to change the defense. However, with Zheng Chenggong's sneak attack on Wenzhou and Chuzhou, this transfer had to be canceled, lest it would have an adverse impact on the situation in Zhejiang.

And all this, in the final analysis, is that Zheng Chenggong's strength has swelled to be amazing, and his military threat has even surpassed that of the Southwest Ming Army. Although the southwest battlefield was very smooth for the Qing army, it is unknown how long the southeast battlefield could last. Therefore, the one who is most likely to affect the situation of the battle, or even change the situation of the battle, is naturally the one who needs to be stared at the most, but Chen Kai, who is the weakest among the three giants of the Yongli eight-year counteroffensive.

Compared with the conservative commanders of the Qing army in the southwest and southeast who inevitably complained about Hong Chengchou in private, Huang Zhixuan knew Hong Chengchou too well. In this way, he will deeply agree with Hong Chengchou's "bad" behavior of holding the Southwest Economic Standard in his hands.

It's just that, thinking of this, Huang Zhixuan suddenly remembered Hong Chengchou's previous words, and immediately quickly copied a copy of the information, searched word by word, and turned over and over several times but never found the clues he hoped to see. On the contrary, his abnormal movement stunned the others, and when he returned in vain, he managed to figure out why.

"Jing Luo said before leaving, Chen Reverse and Zheng Reverse are one, Zheng Reverse is the main attack, it stands to reason that he will take a defensive position, and the information obtained some time ago said that several towns under Chen Reverse have been transferred back to Fujian, which is a strong proof. But Chen has always acted against the odds, and he will definitely do it, and now it seems that this is also confirmed. In Chen Hui's hands, Ke Chenshu and Huangshan have been restrained by the official army for a long time, so if you want to see what he wants, the key is to look at the movements of Guangdong Fubiao and Hongyi Artillery in Chen Hui's hands. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Zhixuan couldn't help but sigh, and when everyone heard the sigh, they immediately remembered that there was no mention of these things in the information.

The Hongyi artillery team did not mention it, Chen Kai's siege of the city has always relied on its might. According to intelligence, Chen Kai's Fubiao has been expanded in the past year or so, from 3,000 soldiers in one town to five towns and two associations, with a total of 17,000 soldiers. This scale is theoretically enough to become a force that changes the situation of local battles.

However, among the five towns and two associations, only the second town was expanded from the first town, and the rest of the departments were all reorganized from the old army, and most of them were not long, so it stands to reason that the combat effectiveness should not reach the strength of the first town during the battle of Nanjiang. But the problem is, Chen Kai has a reputation after all, and with these two towns, God knows how much trouble he can make!

The problem returned to the original point, and after analyzing the details, Huang Zhixuan summarized the things they discussed and sent them to Hong Chengchou for reference. The information in front and the analysis in the back are less than an hour apart, and Huang Zhixuan estimates that it should not be too bad when he touches the delivery of Hong Chengchou's case.

All of them were delivered as quickly as possible, and they were delivered back as quickly as possible. Soon, Huang Zhixuan, who was in charge of the Yamen, received a letter from Hong Chengchou. The letter affirmed their judgment and stated that he would return to Changsha as soon as possible. At the same time, he ordered that if Guangdong Fubiao entered Wuzhou Mansion in the west, he would first let the line Guoan take the soldiers of the Dingnan Domain and the Guangxi Green Battalion to meet the battle, and the left and right towns of the southwest Jingbiao would go south to Guilin as the stamina; But if Chen Kai is found to be going north, then he must immediately send the whole army of Southwest Jingbiao into Jiangxi without the slightest hesitation.

On two fronts, Hong Chengchou's bias is obvious. However, it stands to reason that Chen Kai's troops entering Guangxi, and then entering Guizhou or Yunnan, have a far greater impact on this war of annihilation than attacking Jiangxi, but Hong Chengchou's reaction to the two is to put the cart before the horse. Hong Chengchou did not mention it to Huang Zhixuan, and Huang Zhixuan did not understand the deep meaning. However, out of trust in Hong Chengchou, Huang Zhixuan still chose to increase the intelligence collection in Guangzhou, striving to understand Chen Kai's movements as soon as possible, so as to respond accordingly.

In Guangdong, after all, Chen Kai has been in business for many years, coupled with the courtesy of local powerful people by the Advisory Bureau, the intelligence collection of the Changsha shogunate is not too smooth.

Stepping into October, Hong Chengchou also hurriedly returned from Guizhou. The journey was tiring, and the whole body was about to fall apart. After all, his age is there, this is an objective law of life, and it cannot be violated. However, in just a few days from the busy case work, the intelligence from Guangdong was sent to Changsha one after another. After Hong Chengchou saw it, there was a trace of unexpectedness in his expression, and he was instantly drowned in boundless worry, and with the issuance of the order, it directly spread throughout the entire Changsha shogunate.

"Hurry, you must be fast, you can't let Chen Kai pierce the sky like he did four years ago!"

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