The Ming army of Kuidong is distributed in eastern Sichuan and western Guangdong. These control areas held the Three Gorges defense line, but those mountains and rivers not only constituted a geographical barrier to the Qing army, but also made the various parts of the Ming army in Kuidong scattered almost independent areas. This state of fighting separately can effectively alleviate the probability of conflict of interest between various departments, but it also makes it difficult for them to clench their fingers into a fist if they want to work together.

It always takes time to cross mountains and rivers. Liu Tichun's plan to launch an offensive in June and July was already the result of a full battle. The plan was agreed, and the generals took action under Wen Anzhi's arrangement. However, it is impossible to attack the nest, otherwise the base area will be lost, so it has to be transferred elites, some of which are too inconvenient, and they must take on the task of assisting in the defense and assist in the offensive against Chongqing from the side.

Preparations are still in full swing here, and at the end of June, Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, has already been replaced with the banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. At the head of the city, in the streets and alleys, the green battalion soldiers with bright armor patrolled back and forth, and the barracks and various points in the city were mostly red, yellow, blue and white Eight Banner Army, only those people in the city who had to go out for their livelihood shaved their hair, cowered and avoided the sight of the Qing army, nodding their heads from time to time, lest they would be noticed by these real Tartars and fake Tartars and attract death.

Guiyang was captured by the Qing army in April, and Leng Meng, the governor of Anshun, was defeated and died. Historically, Hong Chengchuan provided 16,000 green battalions from Daniel Zhang and Li Benshen, as well as 11,000 officers and soldiers from Li Ruchun, Wang Ping, Nan Yikui, and Chen De, who led the Eight Banners Army to Guizhou. These two green battalions first swept the Ming army's control area in Huguang - Chenzhou Mansion, as well as Baoqing, Wugang and other places, and then cooperated with the Eight Banners Army to enter Guizhou.

However, this time, Hong Chengchou did not provide so much assistance to Luo Tuo, and more than 12,000 people were transferred before and after, including 3,000 green battalion soldiers from the Guilin Line Guoan. The only thing that has been strengthened is the number of the Eight Banners Army - after Hong Chengchou opposed it, he simply incorporated the Eight Banners Army of Zhao Butai, who originally intended to enter Guizhou through Guangxi, into Luo Tuo's army. It did make up for the decline in the strength of the Qing army on this road, but it also compressed the three ways originally planned by the Qing court into two.

The Guizhou Governor Yamen on Dusi Road has now become the general headquarters of the Qing army in Guizhou. Above the lobby, Luo Tuo, who presided over the defense of Guizhou, was a member of the clan and a representative of the Qing court and the imperial family; Wu Sangui was the vassal king of the Han people and a powerful faction in the military; That Zhao Butai, although he is a banner man, but also not surnamed Zhao, Manchurian surname Guerjia, his father Wei Qi is the ninth brother of Fei Yingdong, one of the five founding ministers of Nurhachi, when he was alive, he served as the commander of Shengjing City's defense for a long time, and was nicknamed "Admiral of Bamen", and he was the most trusted general of the Aixin Jueluo family. And this Zhao Butai also has an older brother who is even more famous, called Aobai.

The commanders of the three armies gathered, and before Doni arrived, he was responsible for coordinating the generals, and the southwest Jinglu Hong Chengchou, who was in charge of the logistics of the army and the pacification of the place, was not here. Even Li Guohan, who had been in charge of "assisting" Wu Sangui for a long time, did not come, and the meeting inevitably did not seem so formal.

"Hong Jingluo is also strange, he is so worried about the barbarian governor who is twenty or thirty years younger than him, is it true?"

"Can make Hong Chengchou suffer, that guy is also a master who is more refined than a monkey if he doesn't stick to his hair, and he should be a little precautionary. It's just this little bit of the green battalion with the army, don't you want the emperor's servants to fight to the death with the old thief, and the green battalion soldiers can't watch it on the side? ”

Luo Tuo is a clan, but he has the experience of Arzin, and he may not dare to do anything to Hong Chengchou, and that Zhao Butai is full of muscles, and his father Wei Qi, his brother Ao Bai, and Mu Lima are almost carved out of the same mold, typical of the loyal dogs of the Aixin Jueluo family.

The two sang and harmonized, obviously they had discussed it before he came, Wu Sangui listened to this complaint against Hong Chengchou on the surface, but he knew Hong Chengchou's difficulties very well.

The Han people, after all, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, were inevitably feared. Although Hong Chengchou has saved the decline of the southwest in recent years, the erosion of the southeast has already affected the situation in the southwest. Chen Kai, he hasn't seen it, let alone matched it, but if he can make Hong Chengchou deflated, it is definitely not a good character. Now Hong Chengchou seeks stability and leaves more green camps in case Chen Kai suddenly attacks, which is the practice of Lao Cheng to seek the country.

Now they accuse Hong Chengchou, even the Qing court will not approve of it. Wu Sangui has been immersed in the big dye vat of Guan Ningjun since he was a child, and his ears and eyes are all famous figures like Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan, and Hong Chengchou, and they are all some slippery generals in the world like his father Wu Xiang and his uncle Zu Dashou.

"Hong Jing has a slight difficulty with Hong Jingluo, this king and the two are both servants of the emperor, and they all have to serve the emperor wholeheartedly. Huguang and Guangxi's green camp is afraid that it is difficult to count on, but Sun Kewang's persuasion letter is still very useful, presumably those generals must be indispensable in their self-effective thoughts. ”

The minds of the two of them have basically been placed on the bright side, but Wu Sangui does not match that stubble at all. Since the Eight Banners Army entered the customs, it has rarely fought any tough battles, often the green battalion fights in the front, and the Eight Banners Army sits in the back, and the Eight Banners Army will appear when the final word is needed, just like Chen Kai's victory in Ganzhou against Suke Saha is the most standard model.

Yungui's Ming army is really quite a lot, even if it is just Li Dingguo's headquarters of soldiers and horses, there are 40,000 or 50,000 people. Now that there is not enough cannon fodder in the green camp, Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai plan to let Wu Sangui's former Guan Ning Army act as cannon fodder, and he, Wu Sangui, is not a fool, where he doesn't understand, how can he be happy.

"Just those thieves? God knows how many of them came to do it, anyway, I can't trust them! ”

His eyes converged on him again, and Wu Sangui didn't show it on his face, but he couldn't stop sneering in his heart. He knew very well that it was impossible for his feudal soldiers to enjoy the same treatment as the real Eight Banners Army, but thinking about Liu Wenxiu back then, today's opponent Li Dingguo is a famous general who is several grades stronger than Liu Wenxiu.

The battle, of course, still has to be fought, but the benefits must be finalized in advance, just relying on the red mouth and white teeth of these two guys, there is no even promise, why let him die?

In the final analysis, this matter is not up to Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai to decide, the key lies in Hong Chengchou, and even Doni's decision-making power is not as good as his old boss. And in terms of his psychological price, at least it has to be the feudalism of a province, which is in accordance with the regulations of King Sanshun, and he believes that the Qing court will be willing to do it.

Here, Wu Sangui was about to continue to perform Tai Chi methods, but he didn't know that there was an urgent messenger from outside. The urgent report was sent by Li Guohan, who stayed in Zunyi to appease the local Ming army, and was sent directly to him. After he took a closer look, it was a mixed blessing, the joy was that he could get rid of these two annoying guys, and the worry was that once there was a mistake, the corruption was likely to be the overall situation of destroying the Ming Army in the southwest in one go!

"Li Guohan came to report, saying that the thieves from Kuidong had sent troops, and now Chongqing has been surrounded by water." reported the military situation and handed over the emergency report to the two of them, Wu Sangui immediately stood up: "Chongqing must not be lost, this king will return to Zunyi immediately and order troops to fight." The situation in Guizhou is bothering the two. ”

With a salute, Wu Sangui strode out of the lobby. Only the two of them were left stunned, hovering between annoyance and helplessness.

The military situation is indeed urgent, so there is nothing wrong with Wu Sangui's decision. Hurried back to Zunyi, the soldiers and horses of the Guanning army were still sitting here, because there were still a large number of Tusi and Ming troops around, and it was necessary to use strong force as a confidence to appease them. As early as the end of April, Wu Sangui's army easily broke through the natural danger of the first line of Sanpo, Hongguan and Shitai Pass, and then occupied Zunyi. During this time, he has been busy appeasing Tusi and the Ming army, and at the same time suppressing the resistance, but he is not idle. However, the intensity was much lower than he expected, and it was almost like entering a no-man's land.

Not only him, but Roto arrived in Changde in February and immediately joined Li Benshen and Daniel Zhang to attack the Chenzhou capital. At the end of February and March, he followed Hong Chengchou to attack Yuanzhou and Jingzhou in Huguang. It was not until after the capture of these two places, which was already March, that the offensive against Guizhou was launched, and as a result, the capital of Guizhou Province was captured in a month.

Similarly, in history, Zhao Butai took the southern route, starting from Wuchang on the first day of February, arriving in Changde on February 20, and going to Guangxi on the fifth day of March. After entering Guangxi, he passed through Nandan Prefecture and Nadi Prefecture, went north into Guizhou, passed through Fengning Division, and captured Dushan and Duyun in May.

Guizhou has never fallen since the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Great Western Army has been operating in Guizhou for seven or eight years, and the solid foundation of its rule is no less than that of Yunnan, and even because of the difference in Sun Kewang's policy towards Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, Guizhou is even better.

In just one month, the Qing army not only captured Guiyang, the provincial capital geographically westerly, from east to west, but also occupied most of Guizhou's prefectures and counties. This kind of efficiency is not a nonsense such as the strength of the Qing army and the invincibility of the Eight Banners Army, it is really Sun Kewang's letter of persuasion to surrender as the vanguard of the army, constantly delivered to the generals, the county yamen and the Tusi official office, and even the lobbyists don't need to open their mouths, the drama of the city's change of the king's flag is like a popular grass, and the Qing army's attack in Guizhou is actually just a march!

This is true for Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai, and the same is true for Wu Sangui. He was in Sichuan before, as if he was in a no-man's land, especially the natural dangers on the first line of Sanpo, Hongguan, and Shitaiguan, which hardly caused any effective hindrance to him. He is a veteran of the old war, and he can see at a glance that the Ming army has a morale problem. Later, he invaded Guizhou and joined up with Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai, and the same is true of those who have seen it.

"It seems that the thieves in Kuidong are still quite combative."

On the way, Wu Sangui sighed. He was followed by his righteous son, Wang Pingfan, who was a great general in the army. On the side of Guan Ningjun, Wu Sangui always left Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu and others to sit in the army, watch the family business, and rushed to Guiyang for a meeting, so he only brought Wang Pingfan and his personal soldiers.

During this time, Wu Sangui said this, Wang Pingfan heard it, and nodded: "The child remembers that his father-in-law said that after Sun Kewang surrendered to the imperial court, Li went against the grain and transferred the main forces of Huguang and Guizhou back to Yunnan for rectification. For the rest, after a few battles, the morale we saw was obviously not very good. Coupled with Sun Kewang's letter of persuasion, the army of the imperial court was naturally devastated. And the thieves on Kuidong's side have never been restrained by Sun Kewang and Li Reverse, and they have been affected by a small amount, but now they dare to jump out of the mantis arm as a car. ”

"That's the truth, but it's not to underestimate them too much. After all, there are still a lot of thieves among those guys - a piece of stone back then, winning the thrill. ”