Chapter 6 Ripple Effect (1)

During this period, no one expressed any objection to Chen Kai's use of Xiangshan County in exchange for the return of the people of Guangzhou.

On the surface, Chen Kai is giving away people and land, and he is 100% losing money. But Chen Kai has always had a deep meaning in doing things, these generals, except for Zhou Hezhi, have worked with him for many years, and Zhou Hezhi has also heard of Chen Kai's ability, and he has seen with his own eyes how Fujian's economy collapsed, so naturally he will not talk too much to please this boring.

After discussing the matter of the next military battle, the generals dispersed. Chen Kai sat alone in the big tent, quietly recalling today's events, but he didn't feel anything that needed to be paid attention to in the future.

Speaking of which, those people of Guangzhou were rescued from the city of Guangzhou by him with all his might, and they were resettled in the strange land of Chaozhou over the years, and no one died of hunger and cold, which can be described as a deep knot of kindness and righteousness. Those people are also the family who worship the tablet of immortality to him, and the people are also the most supportive of his various policies.

To put it bluntly, these people in Guangzhou are Chen Kai's basic plate and the most staunch supporters. As far as Chen Kai is concerned, the interests of his supporters are just like his interests, and they must naturally be protected with all their might, so that they can unite more closely around him.

This is a force!

Similar handicap, he has been in power in Chaozhou for many years, bulldozing the local bandits, and protecting the safety of the people under the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, and the gentry and people there naturally strongly support Chen Kai. For example, during his years in the Zheng Group, he had excellent friendships with many generals and officials, which is undoubtedly a kind of strength. What's more, there is also the Heaven and Earth Society, even if it is just a bud.

Of course, in the process of weighing, Chen Kai did not think that if he could find a way to get Li Dingguo to leave Guangdong, then when the army withdrew, he would use public opinion to take Guangzhou City down, which would be the least likely way to cause contradictions. But he had promised a three-year period, and now the city has been recovered for three full years, but if the people cannot return to their homeland for a long time, then it will have a detrimental effect on the credibility.

In addition to this, the situation is very different now than it was in history. Fujian and Guangdong provinces were recovered, Li Dingguo on the left hand and Zheng Chenggong on the right hand, Chen Kai felt that he could coordinate the two most warlike commanders of the Southern Ming Dynasty to send troops to Jiangxi and Zhejiang respectively, and then like a pincer to achieve a pincer attack on Nanjing. As for the direction of Huguang, continue to try to let Sun Kewang and Hong Chengchou fight to the death, and just sit back and reap the profits.

Such an idea is somewhat unrealistic in practice, and at least it is extremely difficult. But Chen Kai believes that things are man-made, just like the things he has done over the years, there are a few things that are easy, and you must not easily choose to give up because it is difficult to do, if you want to succeed, this is absolutely taboo.

After the recovery of the two provinces, many things are no longer certain that they will develop according to the original history, and even Chen Kai cannot guarantee it, so it is even more necessary to operate according to the current situation.

The matter has been decided, and Chen Kai continued to write to Zheng Chenggong to explain. The reason, of course, is not good to use any basic things, just to lay a foreshadowing for the future, that's all. As for what kind of foreshadowing, just let Zheng Chenggong make up for it by himself.

The fighting, which had ceased for a few months, broke out again as the spoils were distributed. In this world, there have always been rivers and lakes where there are people, and the party strife in the court, the palace fight, the open guns and hidden arrows in the workplace, and even relatives will inevitably fight over trivial things. Today's battle is nothing more than a continuation of the dispute between the civil official group in western Guangdong and the Zheng group over the rights of Guangdong, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi were able to do their best to help during the attack on Xinhui and Guangzhou, and they were already rare good characters in Nanming.

As for the future, Dou, Chen Kai asked himself who he had never been afraid of in his life!

The army is exhausted, and the next offensive will naturally be based on political rebellion, supplemented by military offensives. After resting for a few days, Li Dingguo's cavalry took the lead in attacking, tracing up the river of the Beijiang River, and arrived at Sanshui County on the same day.

In this county seat, before the Battle of Jiangmen, Jin Tongwu led tens of thousands of troops to storm it, but it was stunned to support the arrival of Zhumala's army under the strict defense of the superintendent and the Sanshui Green Battalion. It was probably less than a month ago, and by the time Li Dingguo's general Iron Cavalry Battalion Governor Wang Hui arrived in Sanshui County with his troops and horses, the Qing army here had already escaped cleanly, in the words of the local gentry, even the Tartars of Guangzhou City were dead, and the Tartars of Sanshui dared to stay for a long time, and they fled like rabbits early.

"Why didn't you tell the Tartar if he escaped?"

Suppressing the displeasure of questioning, Wang Hui, who had already received the order, had to be appeased, and continued to take his troops and horses north to Qingyuan, still tracing the river, but from the west to the north.

Qingyuan is located north of Guangzhou, but it is not the northernmost part of Guangzhou. To the north of Qingyuan is Shaozhou Mansion and Nanxiong Mansion, Shaozhou Mansion is just west of it, and Qingyuan County is connected to Lianshan, Lianzhou, Yangshan County. However, this time, the goal is only Qingyuan for the time being, which is used as the northern gateway to defend the capital city of Guangzhou, and then to the north, with the current military situation, I am afraid that it is still out of reach.

Wang Hui went north, followed by Jin Tongwu's troops and horses. In the battle of Jiangmen, Jin Tongwu did not catch up, and when he arrived, he only had to enter the Jiangmen ruins to clear the remnants of the enemy. When he attacked Guangzhou, Chen Kai played another hand to copy Shang Kexi's tactics, and the strong crossbow battalion that took the lead encountered some resistance.

This unit can be regarded as the most intact one of the combat forces under Li Dingguo's command. This time, after following the Wanghui Department, he crossed Sanshui County, and went straight to the Zhaoqing Mansion that had made Li Dingguo return last year, and only divided a small number of soldiers and horses to seize the Sihui County in the northwest of Sanshui County, where it is said that the green battalion soldiers had also run out.

The division of troops, the progress is very rapid, first go down to the four meetings, and then go straight to Guangning in the upper reaches of the Suijiang River. As for Jin Tongwu's headquarters soldiers and horses, the military operation to capture the city of Zhaoqing was also very smooth, but they took this place, but they heard that a large number of feudal soldiers and green battalions who escaped from the first battle of Jiangmen had fled here, and then when the Ming army captured Guangzhou, they rushed to Wuzhou.

Among them, not only did the northern front not have time to clear out the green battalion soldiers, but also the elite feudal soldiers led by Shang Zhizhi who captured the hill on the left wing of the Ming army on the southern front and almost caused the collapse of the entire army. Although he was exhausted when he arrived here, he didn't leave behind his weapons or armor, and the local officials saw it with their own eyes.

"The bones in the back may not be so easy to gnaw."

Jin Tongwu said secretly, and the soldiers and horses of Wang Hui's headquarters had also rushed to Qingyuan City. The gate of Qingyuan County is closed, and the city is guarded by the Qing army, as if facing a great enemy.

Seeing this, Wang Hui recruited a general who had just cut the whip, a guerrilla general who had been transferred from the north last year and was transferred to Dongguan Town. Before the first battle of Jiangmen, Chen Kai led the army to attack Dongguan, Dongguan Town was strictly guarded, and when Guangzhou fell, they did not dare to fall to Chen Kai, so they simply sent people out of the city to contact Li Dingguo and opened the gate of Xiaoximen.

"Wang Dana, it's up to you next."

"Wang Dashuai rest assured, the villain is familiar with the Qingyuan guard, so I will persuade his people to join His Highness and join the marshal."

Nodding his head, this green battalion officer who joined the army as early as the Chongzhen Dynasty, and later was the one who broke into the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty subconsciously beat a thousand children, and then stood up, and under the eyes of the Ming army, he walked towards Qingyuan County with his head held high, as if standing behind him at this time was not Wang Hui, but the famous Xining King Li Dingguo.

Jin Tongwu and Wang Hui under Li Dingguo commanded the troops to set off, and Chen Kai's side also divided the Ming army of Ke Chenshu, Shen Ming, Xiao Gongchen, Huang Xing, Chen Yaoce, and other commanders of the six towns to the east.

Compared with the two battles of Xinhui and Jiangmen, Li Dingguo's troops and the Ming army in western Guangdong have taken advantage of the situation to occupy Xinhui, Shunde, Gaoming and other counties, and during that period, Chen Kai led the army to only occupy a Xin'an County, and even Dongguan was not taken. Chen Yaoce went north to Conghua, Xiao Gongchen, and Huangxing to attack Zengcheng, and then continued to advance along the Zengjiang waterway to capture Longmen County. These two departments were out of the northeast of Guangzhou, while Ke Chenshu and Shen Ming led the Ming army of three towns to attack the undefended Dongguan county, and then launched an attack on the capital city of Huizhou - as long as Hao Shangjiu had not taken the city.

Hao Shangjiu had already lost his sincerity to Chen Kai, so Chen Kai did not intend to consume the strength of Hao Shangjiu's troops in the process of conquering the city. In cooperation with the dispatch of troops, firstly, it was to show an equal attitude, and secondly, it was also to end the war in eastern Guangdong as soon as possible, and to re-realize the local security before the spring ploughing in the ninth year of Yongli.

When the army was dispatched, it naturally brought a lot of generals, and they always got twice the result with half the effort when they went to talk about it. At the very least, Chen Kai doesn't plan to gnaw down these cities one by one.

Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao's heads were packed into a brocade box and sent to An Longxing. The Ming army assembled under the city of Guangzhou stretched out like a blooming flower to the surrounding areas of Guangzhou. Whether it is Wuzhou Mansion or Huizhou Mansion, there may be a possibility of a battle, but the brilliant achievements of the Ming army in killing two kings and breaking Guangzhou have spread, especially in Chaozhou Mansion, with the arrival of Lubu Feijie, it turned into a sea of joy.

"Guangzhou is recovered, Guangzhou is recovered!"

In the first month, the New Year had just passed, and the festive atmosphere had not yet dispersed, and good news came from the west. For the people of Chaozhou, this is undoubtedly a great victory, Chaozhou is the Ming army operating the longest occupation area, there are many Chaozhou children in the army, the Ming army achieved a great victory, taking advantage of the situation to conquer the provincial capital, Hao Shangjiu, who was originally entrenched in the north of Chaozhou, is said to have taken over Chen Kai's appeasement, and turned to attack the Qing army in Huizhou.

In this way, from the beginning of the fourth year of Yongli, the Chaozhou Prefecture under the attack of the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong provinces first got rid of the threat from the east with the recovery of Zhangzhou, and now the recovery of Guangzhou and Huizhou is imminent, and it has been frightened for many years, and finally became a hinterland, even if the north is actually still bordering the control area of the Qing court, but the main threat direction has disappeared, and it can finally be relieved.

The people were happy to live in peace, and the local scholars hurriedly began to camp. After winning the first battle, the overall situation of Guangdong has been decided, even if it is to share the profits with other Ming troops, there are a lot of prefectures and counties that can fall into their hands. Those are all ready-made official vacancies.

Ordinary scholars are still anxious, and the praise paintings of the governor's yamen are not necessarily much easier. After a few years, Chen Kai's habits are known to them, and they prefer to use those experienced officials to do things. Like them, they have been working in the governor's yamen for many years, and there are not a few examples of outward release, such as Chaozhou Mansion, Qiongzhou Mansion, Zhangzhou Mansion and Quanzhou Mansion, and even more so in the whole of Fujian today, which government is indispensable to characters like them.

Compared with Li Dingguo's department, which lacked an independent civil bureaucratic system, the Zheng group has always developed independently, and the civil officials headed by Chen Kai, such as Ye Yiyun, Chen Ding, Feng Xifan, Pan Gengzhong, Lu Ruoteng, Shen Yanqi, Yang Ying, etc., have already been self-contained. In addition, there are also people such as Zheng Tai who are engaged in maritime trade, which can be described as a wealth of talents. For example, these praise paintings of the governor's yamen, in addition to doing things in the governor's yamen, they actually have the purpose of storing talents here, and they will be released directly when needed. This is like Zheng Chenggong's Chucai Pavilion, the difference is nothing more than that the characters inside have the rank of imperial examination merit and the fame of Shilin, as well as the official position after being released.

Another group of people will be released, and this is already a foregone conclusion. However, who goes and who doesn't, and where the appointment is, all need to be drilled in advance. Those who are in Jane's heart in Chen Fujun's heart can naturally sit and wait for a good position and have the opportunity to display their talents on a bigger stage, while those who are not very conspicuous have to work harder, at least to be familiar with the officials in charge of selection, even if they don't know who is in charge now.

For the people of Chaozhou, this is probably what it looks like, at most, it is the distribution of ripe fields after those Guangzhou Yankees leave, and they may have to work harder. As for the gentry and common people in Guangzhou who lived in Chaozhou, many of their relatives and friends disappeared during the Guangzhou Massacre, whether they were dead or missing, no one knew, and they were naturally very resentful of Shang Geng's two feudal clans who caused all this.

Now that the enemy has given the head, he is extremely happy. However, what is more important is the word "home", which has never been underestimated for the people of Guangzhou at this moment, and even for the Chinese.

"The contract period is three years, and Guangzhou will really be recovered within three years. Chen Fujun must do what he says and do what he does, this is a real hero! ”

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