Chapter 67: Darkness (I)

In just nine words, the shock that Chen Kai brought to these two monarchs and ministers was like a thunderstorm, and they were immediately stunned.

According to the secret discussion between Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi along the way, once the meeting was successful, they immediately returned to Guangxi. The Son of Heaven can be located in Liuzhou Mansion, Nanning Mansion, and Wuzhou Mansion. At that time, Li Dingguo commanded the army of Guangxi, cooperated with various ministries, and while confronting and united with Sun Kewang and his generals, he went north to encroach on the control area of the Qing court, and at the same time could also get the assistance of the Zheng group and the protection of the flanks, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

Speaking of which, this is also Li Dingguo's original plan. This first two words can even be traced back to the end of the sixth year of Yongli, when he was squeezed out by Sun Kewang and went south to Guangxi, and then set off to attack Zhaoqing, and at the same time contacted Zheng Chenggong to think that Austrian aid, which is exactly what happened.

Long-term belief and deployment, today, in exchange for the current results. Originally, Li Dingguo thought that Chen Kai and him had the same idea, after all, the safety of the Son of Heaven in Guangxi could be more guaranteed. Even, if one day he really can't withstand the attack of the Qing army and the Qin Domain, then the Son of Heaven can further retreat into Guangdong and Fujian, and continue to do the cause of Zhongxing Daming.

This is undoubtedly beneficial to the Zheng Group. Of course, there are always pros and cons to things in the world, but he still firmly believes that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. However, after this bag was really opened, the overall situation in front of him was another realm.

"If you retreat to Guangxi, it is natural to get more help, and it is also the safest strategy. However, the next situation will be a substantial confrontation between the Qin Wangfu occupying Yunnan and Guizhou and the Wang Shi of Liangguang and Fujian. When the time comes, the old brothers of the original Xiying will also have the same hatred and regard me as a traitor, and the matter of Yungui will be even more difficult to solve. ”

"But if you enter Yunnan, it will become a housework behind closed doors, and it will not involve the Wang Shi outside Xiying, and the generals in Xiying will just choose one of the two roads of Fuming and self-reliance, rather than involving the safety of Xiying. The internal struggle will also have less impact on the war situation between Guangxi and Fujian. Moreover, there has only been one Shadingzhou Rebellion so far, and it has been in operation for nearly nine years, which is one year earlier than Damu and Jingcheng ran Chaozhou. On the contrary, it is easier to completely solve the problem of Sun Kewang and Qin Wangfu. ”

The two plans began to confront Li Dingguo's mind, he was not a person who could easily move what he said, and if he had not had a firm will, he would not have achieved what he has today. However, this time, every confrontation and collision, the result is that the latter is becoming more and more powerful and more dominant. Whether it is the general trend of resisting the Qing Dynasty or the internal struggle, Chen Kai's plan is more reasonable than they had previously envisioned. The only thing is that if he really does that, the Yongli Emperor may be in an even more dangerous situation.

This is undoubtedly the most important issue for Li Dingguo to consider. But the biggest problem is that there is no way to have it both ways, because if there is no Yongli Emperor, even if he goes deep into Yunnan, it will be difficult to seize that province, and only the blessing of imperial power can obtain more support. If Emperor Yongli and his entourage returned to Guangxi and he led his army into Yunnan alone, he would be a soldier under the city and then suffered from two sides.

This banner can never be overthrown, and in this regard, he is the most determined. However, the reason why it could not be overturned was because of the great role of this banner, and it was really a key to uniting all forces against the Qing court. Now, it is even more necessary for the Ming Dynasty to accumulate power for more than two hundred years to divide and disintegrate Sun Kewang's Qin Palace, even if there are not too many situations left in this accumulation.

The question returned to the original point, Li Dingguo raised his head and looked at the Son of Heaven in front of him. He knew that this was never a strong king, weak in temperament and lacking in courage, and instinctively would have chosen a safe place.

After thinking about it, Li Dingguo still decided to entrust the choice to this son of heaven. There is no other reason, this is his status as a vassal, and it is also the right and duty of a king. Even if Li Dingguo has never understood concepts such as rights and obligations, he still vaguely feels that it should be so.

Here, the lobby of Anlong Qianhu is also the main hall of the Yongli Imperial Court in Anlong Mansion, and Li Dingguo told the two plans before and after, and analyzed all the pros and cons. The words, sentence by sentence, I could only see that the expression of the Son of Heaven in front of him was sometimes frightened, sometimes excited, and his face turned from red to white, from white to red, and so on.

In this way, it lasted for a long time, and Emperor Yongli still did not make a decision. In this regard, Li Dingguo also knows that the stakes are very high, and it is not something that can be decided in a moment. Moreover, although the relocation is a matter of preparation, Sun Kewang's cronies have already been prepared, and they only need the emperor's family to set off, but it does not have to be set off immediately.

However, the words "Your Majesty can think about it again, Weichen will go to prepare for the transfer of the car first" has not yet been spoken, but before the meeting, the Son of Heaven, who has always been known for his weakness, has already figured it out. Even if there is a rare firmness in his eyes, there is still a looming fear.

"I believe in Aiqing!"

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The monarchs and ministers of Anlong Mansion get along, and Chen Kai, who is still far away in Guangzhou, firmly believes that this scene will inevitably happen. As for the reason, even if there is no memory of the traverser, as long as it is analyzed according to normal logic - this pair of monarchs and ministers, one who has lived in the shadow of Sun Kewang's possibility of killing the monarch all the year round, can now be released from prison; And the other is also suppressed and excluded by Sun Kewang for a long time, and has the heart of self-efficacy, in line with the condition that Lian Heng may not exist, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and there will be no other possibility. Unless, someone stirs up the situation.

"I'm not a pig teammate, so I won't make trouble easily."

The current strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as well as the bad things of Nanming's pig teammates, for Chen Kai, the current Guangdong is already very good, he can do things step by step, and launch a counteroffensive against the Qing court step by step. Even if in western Guangdong, there are Lian Chengbi and Zhang Xiaoqi and those generals in western Guangdong as constraints, but it is better than these guys having the imperial power of the Yongli court as a support.

History has begun to divert and will drift further and further away from the established track. Chen Kai knows very well that the inertia is still at work, and he wants to make this history return to the old direction. In terms of purpose, he wanted to rewrite this history, but the old history was the greatest advantage that God had given him. As this process progresses, his own advantages are gradually weakening, so every step he takes, he must think clearly in advance.

"Life is like chess, one step at a time is a mediocre person, one step at a time is three steps is a normal person, and one step at a time is a wise person." Chen Kai vaguely remembers watching the old people in the alley play chess when he was young, and heard it more than once: "However, my opponent has never been one!" ”

Raising his eyelids again, the hunting of the flag pulled by the wind, the shouting of hundreds of people on the school field, the resonance of each step neatly, the picture of a moment flashed on both sides of the line of sight, as if a pair of big hands were summoned, and Chen Kai was pulled back into the Fubiao camp in the east of Guangzhou.

On the school field, there are about 200 people, all of whom are tall and strong, and it is rare to see strong men. I saw that they were strapped to sandbags on their waists, abdomen, arms and calves, and they were holding a wooden guy in their hands, following the movements of the instructor in front of them meticulously forward and backward, waving the guy's shi, although it seemed a little funny, but the advance and retreat were also very orderly.

"When will the goods from Chaozhou arrive?"

"When I returned to the Fu Army, the flying pigeon passed the news that it had already set off. Come to think of it, it was delayed at sea. ”

When sailing on the sea, fast is a block, and there are never fewer variables. Hearing such an answer, Chen Kai just nodded, and continued to watch the drill below.

This time, the tactics were proposed by Chen Kai to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong summarized and summarized the "Xinyou Sword Method" that Chen Kai got from Yu Youhan back then, and tossed out this method of training. In this, there are also some of Chen Kai's small methods, such as those sandbags, which were tortured when they were in school, and now they are used to sharpen these soldiers, which is also excellent.

As far as Chen Kai could see, the soldiers below were all selected from thousands of towns, and some of them were green battalion soldiers who had just been added to various towns. Among them, Zhang Keding, a man from Beizhili, was transferred from the north by the Qing court earlier to rebuild Huizhou Town.

At the back of the drill troops, Zhang Keding could no longer see the movements of the head coach at the front very clearly. Fortunately, this is not the first exercise. Their small unit was directly subordinate to Chen Kai's Guangdong Governor's Battalion, and Lin Dezhong, the chief soldier of Fubiao, organized them into the B team of the battalion directly under Fubiao, and the other A team was the grenadiers who forcibly broke through the northern line of the Qing army in the Battle of Jiangmen last year.

Whether the grenadiers will continue to expand, Zhang Keding has no way to know. His ancestors were the guards of Baoding Baihu, and this guard, like many guards in Beizhili, was established to defend Beijing after the Jingjing. His ancestors have been serving there for more than 200 years, and with the corruption of the Wei system, he evolved into a landlord in the name of the army.

After Jiashen surrendered, like most officials and battalion soldiers, the guard station also experienced the process of breaking into and surrendering, and clearing and clearing. But by that time, he was already a junior officer of the battalion, and then the Eight Banners encircled, and they were inevitably transferred back and forth, from the Eight Banners Army to various places, until the problem in Guangdong became bigger and bigger.

The identity of the child of a hereditary officer, the family also has a foundation of martial arts, and with both height and physical fitness, even the identity of the officer was quickly added to the guard Zhongzhen anyway. This time, Chen Kai prepared to build this battalion B team directly under Fubiao, and his physical advantage once again played a role. However, many of the non-commissioned officers in this area are junior officers from various towns, and even if he is also an officer, he has to act as a non-commissioned officer at the grassroots level.

The drill came to an end soon. Chen Kai had a lot of opportunities, it was impossible to stay here all the time, and after testing the results of the exercises, he set off with his attaché and returned to the governor's yamen.

Gong sent off Shangguan, and the officers returned to the school grounds. On the platform, Lin Dezhong, the chief military officer, encouraged loudly, and then motioned to the officers below to continue the drill. Zhang Keding looked at the chief military officer on the stage, who was a few points shorter than him, and had heard that this person was Chen Kai's cronies, and he had always resolutely completed the orders given by Chen Kai, and could not tolerate even the slightest slackness. If the officers on the side are changed here, the order for the drill is given, the people will leave, and it will be enough to leave the work to those generals. But this Lin Dezhong not only didn't leave, he didn't even sit down, standing on the platform, his eyes patrolling back and forth.

"Directly under the battalion, I heard those people in Team A say that when Team A was formed in Chaozhou, they practiced every day, and they were staring at it from Mr. Lin down, even if there was any slackness, they could be punished."

"Damn, if it weren't for Fu Biao's order and didn't dare not go, who would want to do this drudgery."

On weekdays, I was so tired from training that I couldn't get up, and the last thing everyone did when they lay in the barracks was complaining. Zhang Keding knows very well that for all kinds of reasons, in fact, many people sharpen their heads and drill into this Laoshzi place, not to get closer to Chen Kai and run for a future. Of course, there are also people who covet the high salaries of this direct battalion, and there are many similar figures. And he is the one who really resigns himself to fate.

"Where is it not a job to eat this bite of melon seeds pinned to the waistband of your trousers, it is good to follow the Ming army here, just to clean up those dog tartars who have done all the lack of virtue in Lao Tzu's hometown."

The drills in the Fubiao camp continued, and Chen Kai's carriage had already returned to the governor's yamen. After the First World War in Guangzhou, the main task of the two provinces of Guangdong and Fujian was to recover, and all official operations were based on this basic principle. The expansion of the army is mainly based on local garrisons, and the main purpose of the war towns is to supplement the shortage. On the Fujian side, there are still two words, and on the Guangdong side, only the cavalry of the Iron Cavalry Town, the Hussar Town, and the cavalry teams of each town have really been expanded, plus the battalions directly under Fubiao, and that's it.

The grenadiers of the battalion B are one of them, and the grenadiers of the A team actually already exist in Europe in this era, and they are even ace arms. The national surname bottle that Chen Kai made before was Zheng Chenggong's masterpiece in history, and it was nothing more than a few years earlier. And the origin of this B team is also deeply related to Zheng Chenggong, but it is not just a matter of years.

Compared with before last year's war, Chen Kai had been preparing for too long and operated the great changes in Fujian and Guangdong provinces in one go. But this time, while trying his best to recover, he had to continue to prepare, and his time and energy were too tense - not because of how belligerent he was, but because of his judgment of Hong Chengchou and his people, when Li Dingguo's army marched west to meet him, then Hong Chengchou would definitely jump out. If he did nothing, the tide of the war would only tilt in favor of the Manchus.

"This, I, Chen Kai, will never allow it!"