Shi Kefa listened to Zhu Wanchun's words, first noncommittal, and then laughed dumbly.

Even Zhou Lianggong also showed disapproval on his face, obviously feeling that Min Yuanqi and Zhu Wanchun in front of him were overconfident, even to the point of arrogance and ignorance.

Zhou Lianggong hopes that Min Yuanqi can go to Yancheng and become a guerrilla general in his standard battalion with peace of mind, so that he has an army and his voice can also increase, which is a win-win situation.

Min Yuanqi has a county in Yancheng, and it will not be too difficult to raise thousands of soldiers.

If Liukou goes south, whether Zhou Lianggong chooses to stick to the garrison or lead his troops to flee south, he will be much calmer than now, and he will not be too embarrassed.

This is the most real reason why Zhou Lianggong and Zhou Liangmin's brothers must keep Min Yuanqi, otherwise just relying on the exploits of a seaside conquest and beheading bandits, it may not be possible to make Zhou Lianggong, a Huaiyang Daogao, take a look.

In this situation, some people are obsessed with power struggles, and some people are preparing in advance, and they are not all ignorant and ignorant.

In fact, even Liu Zeqing is the same, his subordinates advised him to be careful, and Liu Zeqing's own answer is that he has the merit of supporting Emperor Hongguang and should enjoy the blessings.

If there is really a large-scale move of the enemy army to the south, when the time comes, he will lead his troops to flee across the south of the Yangtze River, and choose a large county without losing the wealth and prosperity.

In the opinion of many people, it is still inevitable that the Liukou will move southward in a big way, and the Qing army may not be able to really entrench itself in Beijing, and it is very likely that within half a year or even a year, a large number of people in the north will be coerced and robbed of enough money and food and people will still withdraw from the Guanwai.

Among the millions, there are most of Henan, half of Hebei, the whole of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and part of Huguang, and the strength is still the strongest in the world.

Although Nanming has a larger territory and a better financial foundation, people's hearts fluctuate, mainly because they feel that Li Zicheng is still the master of the world, and the fact that Jingshi was taken away by Dongyu is just a small setback.

Under this kind of psychology, the Southern Ming monarchs and ministers went north to sue for peace, hoping that the Eastern Emperor would reach a peace agreement, either retreat, or send troops to cooperate with the Southern Ming to exterminate the Liukou.

Some people also believe that the intervention of the Eastern Capture will make the north more chaotic, and perhaps the chaos of the Ming Dynasty has just begun.

Just like at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were 150 or 60 years from the independence of the feudal domains to the real demise of the Tang Dynasty, and even if there was the Huangchao Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty still survived for decades.

Now that the Jingshi has fallen, Emperor Yizong has been martyred, but Li Zicheng has been driven away again, and the people who have won the Jingshi are the despised barbarians of the Dongyu tribe, so the general situation is more chaotic and complicated, and it is very likely that it will take decades to get the final result.

At this time, mastering a certain number of soldiers and horses can not only save your life in troubled times, but also move at the right time to obtain greater benefits.

For one's own sake and for one's descendants, mastering the soldiers and horses is the most appropriate plan at this time.

Therefore, Zhou Lianggong also said unkindly to Zhu Wanchun: "General Yuan Qi is still too taken for granted, although most of Liu's army is a new army, there are still two or three thousand elites in the army, and there are more than 1,000 cavalry, this force is no longer General Yuan Qi's troops can compete, these soldiers are the division of the economic system, from Shandong Town to Huai'an, against the East Captives, fought against the rebellion, non-ordinary soldiers and horses can be compared." ”

Shi Kefa also nodded, his thoughts were obviously exactly the same as Zhou Lianggong.

In the eyes of the courtiers, although the four towns are rude, there is no need to say much about their strength.

Liu Liangzuo's military exploits were the weakest, but he also cooperated with Zuo Liangyu and Huang Degong and others to defeat the Chuang army and sacrifice the army, and his combat exploits were still quite outstanding.

Gao Jie didn't come out much, and the mountain harrier was originally a bandit among the rogues.

Liu Zeqing is also a veteran general and has experienced many major battles.

It is not unreasonable for the generals of the four towns and Zuo Liangyu to be regarded by Nanming as the Dinghai Divine Needle, more than ten years of military career, repeated defeats, and victories after setbacks, the core generals are all fierce generals, and this is indeed the case.

Later, most of the generals who destroyed Nanming were born in these four towns and the left department.

Ordinary second-line troops, such as the general soldiers from Zhejiang to Jiangnan, as well as the local officers and soldiers in Huguang, are relatively poor in strength and experience, such as Huang Fei, Liu Zhaoji and others, who are now Shi Kefa's general soldiers in Yangzhou, are all second-line or third-line general soldiers, and their strength is very weak, and they are not valued by the imperial court at all.

In Shi Kefa's eyes, Min Yuanqi is afraid that he is not even as good as the second-line general army, if it is not for the fact that he is the head snake of Yunti Pass, it is related to the defense of Huai'an, and he will not even have the existing attention.

After Zhou Lianggong finished speaking, Shi Kefa also continued: "What Zhou Dao said is good, Zhu Zanhua might as well go back and say clearly, everything should be down-to-earth, don't be ambitious and ......"

Zhu Wanchun almost laughed bitterly, he really didn't know how to continue.

After a few days of delay in Taizhou, he rushed to Yangzhou again, and it is estimated that the war at Yunti Pass is almost over.

The two civil officials in front of them were still stuck in the old experience, and they were quite worried about Min Yuanqi's decision to assemble troops for field battles, but when they heard that Qianhu Suocheng and Tucheng were both strong and guarded, and they dug long trenches to isolate the battlefield and protect hundreds of households, these two people praised each other.

Originally, Shi Kefa didn't plan to see Zhu Wanchun, after all, in his opinion, Liu Zeqing's more than 10,000 elites went to Yunti Pass, and thousands of banner troops could never be opponents, it is estimated that the battle is over at this time, Min Yuanqi may not be able to save his life, what is the use of seeing him except to embarrass him, an important minister of the court?

The imperial court will never turn his face against Liu Zeqing, one of the four towns, for the sake of a small guerrilla general, it is impossible to reprimand and restrain him, and it is impossible for Liu Zeqing to spit out the benefits of swallowing.

However, if Min Yuanqi is strong and clear, and the city of thousands of households in the earth is lengthened and carried hard, Liu Bu may have to carry out a protracted war to take Min Yuanqi, which is also not a result that Shi Kefa can accept.

Now Shi Kefa can only send a messenger to send his own handwritten letter to Liu Zeqing, and curry favor to see if it can have any effect......

Shi Kefa sighed, in comparison, the generals from the Ming dynasty are more ruthless and cruel than the other, but they are not as good as generals like Gao Jie, and there are still some remnants of loyalty and righteousness on their bodies.

At the same time, generals like Gao Jie still have a certain degree of admiration for their high-status Ming civil officials, but this kind of respect is completely absent in Zuo Liangyu and Liu Zeqing.

Of course, it is very likely that Gao Jie only had his consciousness and combat power after being commanded by Sun Chuanting for a long time, and this layer of Shi Kefa does not want to and does not want to investigate in detail.

Gao Jie was already like this under Sun Chuanting's tutelage, and Sun Chuanting was not the only one who controlled Gao Jie, but more of them were the children of Guanzhong and the generals of the Qin army.

also includes Tang Tong Bai Guangen and others, who also worked under Sun Chuanting.

Sometimes Shi Kefa himself thinks, if Sun Chuanting can live to this day, will he be much better than he will do better than himself?

Shi Kefa also didn't want to think about this question......

"Zhu Zan's painting is hard," Shi Kefa is still quite good, and he rejected what Min Yuanqi thought at the moment, but he still said to Zhu Wanchun, who was depressed: "Although it is impossible for General Min to open a town, as long as he can stick to it this time, he will still be a pillar of the imperial court, and he will be a good student, and it may not be a problem to open a town in a few years." ”

Nanming has a few thousand troops and does have the foundation to open a town, Shi Kefa refused mainly because he was not optimistic that Min Yuanqi would be able to hold on, and he would be able to keep his territory and troops under Liu Zeqing's capture.

Zhu Wanchun hugged his fists and said: "The cabinet is ......"

Shi Kefa saw that the other party was still insisting, and his face also showed displeasure.

At this moment, Shi Kefa's central officer, who was also a general surnamed Shi, walked in quickly, and after entering the house, the Chinese officer hugged his fists and said: "Cabinet Department, there is an urgent report coming from Yunti Pass." ”

Shi Kefa was slightly embarrassed, it was a big deal for the military towns in Jiangbei to attack each other, and of course he was concerned. But Shi Kefa did not reconcile first or order a truce in the name of the center, but sent people to pay attention to it outside, which was really out of the grace of the important ministers of the court, but it was not possible to pretend to be stupid at this time, and he could only ask: "What is the result?" ”

"It's a miracle." The officer's face was covered with sweat, after all, it was the height of summer, but he didn't care about wiping it, he only said: "The person who inquired about the news in front sent a letter before noon, saying that the garrison of Yunti Pass had won a great victory, and the Dongning Bo Department had returned with a heavy defeat, with most of the losses lost, and there was not much cavalry left. ”

"Huh?" Shi Kefa never expected to hear such a ridiculous result, and he was a little unhappy for a while.

The lieutenant officer was not flustered, and continued unhurriedly: "When I first heard about it, I couldn't believe it, how could it be that Dongningbo had more than 10,000 subordinates and more than 1,000 cavalry? What's more, such a fiasco? Therefore, there was no rush to report, and there were several horsemen back and forth before, all of which were the result of Liu's fiasco, and the last report was to see Yao Wenqian, Liu Kecheng and other defeated generals enter Guanyun, these generals were embarrassed, and there were less than 200 cavalry around them, and the rest said that they were all lost in the Cloud Ladder Pass, and there were only more than 2,000 foot soldiers, and most of the more foot soldiers were lost or scattered. The rest of the cavalry also saw a lot of defeated officers and soldiers on the south bank of the Huai River, these soldiers walked along the river and the official road to Huai'an, and some ran to the south, harassing and causing trouble in three or two...... Lord Cabinet, after repeated confirmation, it can be determined that Yao Wenqian, Liu Kecheng and others have indeed returned in a fiasco, and this news is absolutely correct! ”

Hearing the words of the Chinese officer, Zhu Wanchun stood up suddenly, and his face showed obvious joy.

Although he was full of trust in Min Yuanqi and the banner army, Zhu Wanchun still had all the inevitable worries when he left.

This moment the suspicion was gone, and the joy was overflowing.

Zhu Wanchun was also a little embarrassed about his trip, after all, the war had just begun, and the outcome was undecided, so he was ordered to communicate with Min Yuanqi first, and Zhu Wanchun also felt that Min Yuanqi was a little anxious.

But at this moment, he realized that in order to get the maximum benefit, it was also necessary to take the lead.

Min Yuanqi really didn't think that he would fail, and the worst result was a stalemate, and at that time, Shi Kefa could still mediate and end the war.

This is also the second result of Zhu Wanchun's trip, of course there is no need to export now, and under the great joy, Zhu Wanchun almost danced with his hands.

Zhou Lianggong, who was on the side, also showed a stunned look, this result, obviously, Huai Yangdao, who is famous for his well-known, could never have imagined it beforehand.