Speaking of which, Tong Guoqi is very well-behaved along the way. Strictly follow Chen Kai's instructions, neither fight with the Ming army, nor slaughter the people, and the face is full of harmlessness to people and animals, which makes people have the illusion that this guy is a little white rabbit wearing a Manchu official uniform.

However, such an honest relationship gradually began to be forgotten after entering the territory of Guangxin Mansion. On the one hand, there is the exhaustion of the previously "captured" food, and the lack of food in the army must be maintained by looting; On the other hand, he also returned to the area controlled by the Qing court, and his courage returned to his body little by little.

Of course, it was impossible to fight with the Ming army, but he still did it by bullying and bullying the common people. And now, living in the military camp in Guixi County, there are tiles to cover your head, there is a full meal to eat, and you don't have to continue to be frightened by Chen Kai, and your mind is gradually becoming lively. What's more, he wants to live, he doesn't want to be a victim of this Ming and Qing war!

After several revisions, after careful consideration, Tong Guoqi finally wrote the letters one by one and sent his cronies to send them out as quickly as possible.

Guixi County in Guangxin Province is 400 miles away from Quzhou Prefecture, and it will undoubtedly take a lot of time to walk. Fortunately, he has returned to the area controlled by the Qing court, and with the official position of governor, even if he is a governor who has lost a province cleanly, the post station can still be used as usual.

The cronies' family worked day and night, and Tong Guoqi's letter was quickly delivered to Jidu's case. This Prince Heshuo Zheng was born in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and in terms of generation, he can be regarded as the third generation of the Aixin Jueluo family from Nurhachi's generation. But in fact, the third-generation military commanders of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as Bolo, Nikan, Mandahai and the like, had already died in battle. According to the time of his debut, he can only be classified as a fourth-generation military commander.

Now, it is the period when the third generation has passed away and the fourth generation is gradually rising, Jidu has won the favor of Shunzhi and other relatives and nobles in the court by virtue of the legacy of his father, Prince Lao Zheng, Jierharang, and sits at the forefront of Zhejiang.

At first, Jidu's mission was to recapture Fujian. To this end, the Qing court dispatched a heavy army group to him, as well as a large number of generals who could fight well, including Beile Balchuhun, Beizi Wu Dahai, Gushan Ezhen Gadahun, and Asangge. However, the Zheng group has entered a strong period, and with Fujian's easy defense and difficult attack, he has no military advantage at all. At this time, Zheng Chenggong, who recovered Fujian, did not continue to expand, but tried his best to restore the people's livelihood, completely on the defensive, and at the same time used the sea control to start harassing Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which made it difficult for Jidu to achieve the goals set by the Qing court.

For this reason, Jidu was criticized in the court. However, with Sun Kewang's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the strategic focus of the Qing court shifted to the southwest, and his mission changed from offensive to strategic defense. The Qing court did not want to shake the front because of the change of commander, so it would tolerate the gradual fall of the coastal prefectures and counties in Zhejiang again and again without moving his position as the commander.

By now, the pressure on Jidu in the court has been greatly reduced, and at a glance, Hong Chengchou's attack is more easily than the time when he was most condemned. Among them, there are many Manchurian relatives and nobles who discriminate against the Han Chinese, the former ministers of Liaodong and the Northern Party regard them as members of the Southern Party, but the most important thing is that Hong Chengchou is at the forefront like him.

In this officialdom, it is easy to be attacked by idlers who do not do things, because if the latter neither does things nor provokes others, how should their sense of existence be reflected!

Discovering the root cause of this phenomenon, Jidu couldn't help but begin to sympathize with Hong Chengchou. However, sympathy is sympathy, and he will never say a good word for Hong Chengchou in the court, and he is even more likely to fall into the well with a group of people.

Of course, mercy on Hong Chengchou is only a recent period, Jidu is very clear that the Qing court's strategy is to solve the Ming army in the southwest first, and then transfer the Eight Banners Heavy Army Group to solve the Ming army in the southeast after annihilating the main force of the Ming army. According to the current development trend of the war situation, such good days are numbered, and soon he will become the next Hong Chengchou.

In the Dingyuan General's Mansion in Quzhou Prefecture, Ji Du looked at Tong Guoqi's letter and frowned. Speaking of which, from the beginning of his army to the south, Zheng Chenggong launched an encroachment on Zhejiang, first Zhoushan, then Taizhou, then Wenzhou and Chuzhou, and even some time ago began to harass Longyou County in the east of Quzhou, and it seems that there is an intention to cut off his supply lines.

From leading the army to the south and increasing the number of troops to the present, Jidu has more than 7,000 Manchurian Eight Banners, more than 4,000 Mongolian Eight Banners and 13,000 Han Army Eight Banners. In addition, there are more than 30,000 green battalion soldiers from the northern provinces, as well as the local green battalion in Zhejiang. The scale of its troops is not insignificant. However, compared with the more than 100,000 soldiers of the Fujian Ming Army, it is still dwarfed. The battle line has been able to maintain so far, nothing more than that he has the other two Eight Banner armies of Hangzhou and Ningshao as arm, and the Ming army is difficult to deploy from the frontal battlefield.

This balance has always been maintained, Zheng Chenggong is trying his best to break, and he is trying his best to bridge, the two sides are fighting for each other on the land of eastern Zhejiang, and large-scale battles have not been fought, but small-scale encounters have occurred almost every day. At this stage, the situation can still be barely maintained, but with the bad news that Xincheng County was seized by Chen Kai a few days ago, the ominous premonition began to swell in his heart.

Jidu clearly remembered that the last time Chen Kai made a move was to capture Nangan, and his methods were the same as this time. If so, this time it is naturally Ji'an's heavy army group that should be unlucky. But the problem is that Jidu doesn't believe that Chen Kai's appetite will be limited to this - the great counteroffensive of the Ming army in the eighth year of Yongli, Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong expanded from the territory of four prefectures to one and a half provinces in one go; Now that they have two complete provinces, plus several prefectures from Zhejiang and Jiangxi, they will definitely not stop after killing the Qing army in Ji'an. The difference is nothing more than attacking him or Hong Chengchou, that's all.

In the past few days, Ji Du can't remember how many times he scolded Tong Guoqi and Yang Minggao. He is the prince and the master, so naturally he already disdains to scold these minions, and it can be said that he has scolded them for reuse in different tricks. However, after getting Tong Guoqi's report today, after easily suppressing the urge to tear it to pieces, I really took it seriously, but I fell into a long period of contemplation.

“…… This time, taking advantage of the master's prestige, he was lucky enough to scare away the thieves, and the slave begged the master to forgive the generals for the crime of fraud, and the slave was willing to be punished by the master...... The minions secretly thought that the thieves were preparing to use the Fujian banner to attack Guangxin Mansion. When encountering an ambush, the leader of the thieves mistakenly thought it was the Eight Banners Army, but arrogantly tried to imitate the old trick of the thieves to break Sun Chuanting, luring our troops to give up the ambush and pursue the whole army...... The minions were able to lead the only remaining elite of the two thousand Fujian Green Camp to return, and they were really lucky to invite the heavens, relying on the prestige of the master, and did not dare to take credit......"

Tong Guoqi described in detail what happened these days in the report, from the discovery of the Ming army, to the death of Yang Minggao, to the capture of Xincheng County by the Ming army, and he did not shy away from the past of defeat. Then, he tried to rescue the Qing prisoners, and fled north with the prisoners, especially the final ambush, which was even more colorful. In addition to the description, there is also an analysis of the details based on the art of war and experience, which can be said to be the most detailed report of the Qing court on the battle of Xincheng.

Moreover, in these reports and analysis, Tong Guoqi attributed all the miracles of his escape with 2,000 Qing troops to Jidu and his Eight Banner Army, and insisted that it was Jidu and the prestige of the Eight Banners Army that scared the Ming army away, and even forced the Ming army to "fight wits and courage" with them.

Sycophant, Jidu has gone from the prince of the world to the prince of Heshuo, and he has seen too much over the years, and it is difficult for ordinary sycophants to touch his excitement.

However, since he led the army south, from the earliest high hopes to the later criticism of the imperial court, it is not a blow to him, a young man who is only twenty-five years old and has never experienced any setbacks in his previous life. The frustration has always existed during this time, so he will move Hong Chengchou, who helped him take away part of the pressure, to feel sympathy. It is precisely because of this that Tong Guoqi's report is like Ganlin, which makes him disdain from the beginning, to the hesitation later, and then to the current sense of approval, because this person's point of view greatly satisfies Jidu's vanity, and he also believes that Tong Guoqi's report to the Qing court will only be written like this, which can also prove his sense of existence in the southeast battlefield from the side.

"What do you two think?"

Following the death of Beyl Balchuhun and Bezi Wu Dahai last year, the two Gushan Ezhen of Kadahun and Ashang Ge have become the most valued military generals in Jidu. These two are both commanders who have survived a hundred battles, especially the former, who has served under the Manchu banner since the Nurhachi era. It can even be said that these two are the real military commanders of this army.

At this moment, the political commissar of Aixin Jueluo pushed the letter to the two chief and deputy commanders, and the two got together and read it carefully, and Jidu did not ask their opinions about the defeat and escape, but was more interested in the personal speculation put forward by Tong Guoqi about the weapons used by the Ming army when breaking through the Fujian standard.

Seeing this, Kadahun already had a number in his heart, and then cast a glance at the Ashang Ge who had muscles in his brain: "Back to the master's words, the slave feels that Tong Guoqi's minion guess is likely to be right." As far as the slave knows, Zheng Zhilong's guy used this thing to prevaricate the Ming Court back then, thinking that there should be a place to surpass the bird's gun. As for Tong Guoqi's minion, he should also have some real skills. ”

"That's what the minions think, too."

"Well, this king and you two secretly agree." nodded smugly, and Ji Du then set the tone: "Governor Tong Guoqi and Admiral Yang Minggao lost Xincheng County, and the crime cannot be punished." But after all, the two of them were invincible, and Yang Minggao had already been martyred, and Tong Guoqi was indeed talented. This king thinks that the court is in urgent need of employing people at the moment, so let's leave him with a dog life and make meritorious service for the time being. ”

Next, Jidu sent his staff to write a note for him, and then Kadahun and Asang also signed their names on it, indicating their attitude as front-line generals. This matter can be regarded as an end for the time being, and they discussed military affairs for a while, and the two of them retired together.

"Why are we talking about that shit?"

Ashang Ge didn't know much about Kadahun's disposition, but the latter did have some brains than him, a purely muscular general, and his identity, qualifications, and status were also above him, so when Kadahun made a look, although he was unhappy, he still chose a unified voice.

"Didn't you notice that the master had decided to let that waste go?"

"Just because of the master's decision?"

Hearing this, Ashang Ge was quite unhappy. In the final analysis, if Prince Zheng was in charge of the army, he wouldn't even let out a fart, even if Ji'er Harang told him to eat, he would not hesitate to do it. But this Prince Xiao Zheng had no experience in leading troops in battle in his early years, and he became the commander of the army by virtue of his status. Although the master is the master, the slave is the slave, and there is never a reason for the slave to beak the master, but it still makes him feel a certain amount of dissatisfaction with Kadahun's blind obedience.

This is irresponsible to the Great Army!

However, at this time, Kadahun shook his head helplessly, this veteran of the Eight Banners obviously thought more deeply than his junior: "It's not just because of the master. It is already a reality that Xincheng County has fallen into the hands of thieves, and we absolutely cannot let Chen Wei attack Guangxin Mansion and then release the thieves in Fujian from there. ”

This is indeed a practical problem, between Fujian Jianning Mansion and Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion there are a series of passes such as Tongmu Pass, Fujian Jiangxi Water Dividing Pass, Jiaoling Pass, Cen Yang Pass, Gukou Pass, etc. These passes were all obtained by the Ming army in the process of the Ming army sweeping through Fujian, and even earlier than the Xianxia Pass. In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking Jiangxi, the Qing court built a large number of fortresses in front of these passes, and relied on several times the number of soldiers and horses to block the way of the Ming army.

If Chen Kai really allowed him to invade Guangxin Mansion, they believed that his people would definitely try to release the Ming army in Jianning Mansion as they did in Ruijin and Xincheng. At that time, the hundreds of thousands of troops that Zheng Chenggong could not deploy could be completely deployed, and it would be very dangerous to achieve a strategic encirclement of their Manchu heavy army group from the west and south!

"But that piece of waste has been lost twice in a row."

"But he still has 2,000 Fujian green camps in his hands."

"A dog-like Fujian green camp?"

"Yes, don't forget that Hong Chengchou has now been forced out by Chen Kai to the old book of the Southwest Warp Standard. In the next few months, the barbarian surnamed Chen will definitely go crazy and launch an offensive. The goal is nothing more than a choice between Ji'an and Guangxin. At this time, even multiple dogs are better than none. ”