"What? Promise to cut the land? How can this work? ”

As soon as the little emperor of Shunzhi got a way to live, he felt that his waist was straight, and he did not agree to give several state capitals in Zhongzhou to his sister Ajige as a dowry.

"Your Majesty," Sonny said with a smile as he looked at Shunji's anxious appearance, "Don't worry...... This is not a land cut. ”

"Why isn't it mowing the land?" Shunzhi said, "Zhu Cihong is a lion with a big mouth, and he wants to take away our six or seven state capitals!" ”

"Your Majesty, that's not our ......," Sonny said, "We only have Shuntian Mansion, Yongping Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Shunde Mansion, Zhangde Mansion, Weihui Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion, Lu'an Mansion, Zezhou, Qinzhou, Liaozhou, Baoan Prefecture, Yanqing Prefecture and other ten prefectures and five prefectures. It will be very difficult to get these 15 state capitals right. ”

"But we can't take the land of Zhongzhou to the enemy!" Shunji still shook his head.

"How is it an enemy?" Sonny smiled, "Shouldn't Uncle Huang have sealed Lao Qin, Geng Jimao, Fan Wencheng and other three feudal towns to guard Zhongzhou?" We can promise to cede the land, but we can't be the lord of the three feudatories, Zhu Cihong wants to get a dowry of fourteen grids, so he has to send troops to take it himself. ”

"Then what's the point of us cutting the land or not?" Shunzhi was confused.

"Of course it makes sense!" Sonny said, "If we don't agree to cut the land, it will be a life-and-death battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties." If we agree to cede the land, then the next battle will be the battle of the three feudatories...... It was a war between the Ming Dynasty and Lao Qin, Geng Jimao, Fan Wencheng and other feudatories. ”

Is this Heisan Domain?

What Shunzhi thinks in his heart, how wrong is it! Why did the three feudatories of the Qing Dynasty let the Ming Dynasty go to peace? If you want to be peaceful, you have to go to the Qing Dynasty yourself! What's the matter with letting Daming settle the calculations? The vassals of the Qing Dynasty let the Ming Dynasty clean up casually? Who will follow the Qing Dynasty in the future?

No, don't go later, no one will follow now!

"I'm afraid this won't work, right?" Shunzhi shook his head, "If we cut the land of the three feudatories, Lao Qin, Geng Jimao, and Fan Wencheng may have to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and be the forerunner of Zhu Cihong." ”

"It can't be surrendered," Sonny shook his head and said with a smile, "Lao Qin is the British prince of the Qing Dynasty, and he Ama is Azig, how can he surrender to the Ming Dynasty?"

As for Geng Jimao and Fan Wencheng, hum, the minions know best that they are traitors, and they are all insatiable, and they occupy houses and enclosures to store slaves at every opportunity, and they can't wait to move all the wealth in the world to their own homes. As long as they are given a year and a half to complete the relocation of the town, the custodian will be greedy for a fat sheep. How can you surrender when the time comes? Do you throw yourself to the slaughter? ”

Could there be such a thing?

Emperor Shunzhi was also suspicious, but the fat aunt Bumu Butai on the side already had an opinion, and interjected with a smile: "I think I'll follow Sony's method...... What else could I do? If we don't agree to cede several prefectures in Zhongzhou to Nanming as a dowry, Emperor Zhu won't send troops to fight?

We promised to cut the land, he may still have some leeway, and he will not send troops to attack Zhili by water, and we still have time to rectify the state capital of Zhili.

Otherwise, the army will come to the city, and Beijing City will be the death place of our mother! ”

Aunt is right, Shunzhi agrees to cut the land or not, Zhu Cihong will send troops. But he agreed, and it was very likely that Emperor Zhu would leave room to take Zhongzhou first, then consolidate it for a while, and then attack Beizhili and Shanxi - the current city of Beijing is no longer the real center of power in the Qing Dynasty, even if Shunzhi and Bumu Butai are killed, the Qing Dynasty will not collapse. Duoduo, the imperial uncle, is just on the throne!

Therefore, it is actually very difficult to achieve the goal of using Beijing as bait to attract the main force of the Qing army to a decisive battle.

In this case, it is better to land on Zhili steadily, first swallow Zhongzhou, and then try to land Yanzhao.

In case the battle of Zhongzhou did not go as smoothly as imagined, Emperor Zhu could also choose a truce after obtaining the "dowry", and then carry out the fourth northern expedition after digesting the land of Zhongzhou......

Bumu Butai pondered for a moment, and then asked Sony, "Zukefa is still in Beijing, right?" ”

"It's still there," Sonny said, "and Dordor isn't interested in talking to him about the marriage of Fourteen, so he'll have to wait to talk to us." ”

"Good!" Bumu Butai said, "Sony, you go talk ...... Don't agree to the land cut, you can bargain with them and drag it on for a while. ”

Sonny replied, "There are only a few minions...... The Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the servants suggested that several counties in Runing Mansion and Nanyang Mansion could be let out to deal with it. ”

Bumu Butai nodded: "Okay, that's it!" ”

Zu Kefa and Huang Dabao are really eye-opening this time!

Before the outbreak of the Battle of Jieshi Mountain, the two of them had just arrived at the Jianling camp in Azig, so they were just in time to watch the battle—when the two armies began fighting, they climbed a hill at the northern foot of Jieshi Mountain and witnessed the general process of the battle between the two armies with binoculars.

Zu Kefa also holds a notebook and reads and notes - this is valuable first-hand information! Take this record back and the credit is already not small!

Therefore, Zu Kefa and Huang Dabao were not interested in staying in Beijing, and after getting Sony's "offer", they immediately returned by sea from Dagukou. When they left Dagukou, it was already a day of autumn breeze, so they had a smooth journey, and two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, they returned to Nanjing. At this time, the first phase of the Condori cram school was almost over.

Emperor Zhu was preparing for the "graduation exams" of the cram school. Except for Wu Sangui and Zhu Cijiong, if others don't do well in the exam, there will be no good fruit to eat, and they will be demoted at the least, or they will quit the current position - that is, they will be demoted and retired, and they will take an idle job and go home to retire!

The way of the exam is to form a group and play wargame with the team of Prince Condor, simulating the actual combat of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people.

And the battlefield records brought back by Zu Kefa can be used as reference materials for the exam.

On 14 August, in the map room in the Xinuan Pavilion of the Fengtian Temple in the Forbidden City, Zu Kefa and Huang Dabao explained in great detail to Zhu Cihong, Prince Kongdai, Shi Ruien, Xu Ermo, Yan Yingyuan, and others the deployment of the "Eastern Army" and the equipment of the troops in the Battle of Jieshi Mountain.

"What do you think, Prince? Isn't the progress of the Qing army very significant? ”

After Zu Kefa and Huang Dabao finished speaking, Zhu Cihong began to ask for the opinion of Prince Kongdai.

Prince Condé is also studying the tactics of the Qing army these days, and in his opinion, the Qing army's battle is not worth mentioning, but the ability to maneuver in the campaign and the counter-maneuver in the campaign is very strong, and breaking this ability is the key to the victory of the Northern Expedition in the future.

However, the performance of the Qing army in the Battle of Jieshi Mountain still surprised him a little.

"Yes!" Prince Condé nodded, "Their progress is very great...... Progress was mainly manifested in both artillery and cavalry. The artillery of his Eastern Army was used very well, so he won the fierce battle of Shihe Village.

Plus, their cavalry is really good...... It needs to be taken seriously! ”

"What about their infantry?" Zhu Cihong asked, "What kind of level is their infantry at?" ”

"Not very good," Condé shook his head, "there are still too many spears, swords and shields, and archers, and too few musketeers, and if you encounter an enemy with strong firepower, you can easily be routed in a shootout." According to the experience of the European theater, it is very difficult for the losing side in a gun battle to organize an attack...... If you lose in the shelling, you can still attack, but if you lose in the gunfight, you can only retreat.

So the flintlock pistol, together with the sleeve bayonet and paper-shell ammunition you invented, should be the main equipment of the infantry for some time to come...... Aside from the same equipped troops, the only one who could defeat them was a powerful shock cavalry. ”

"Do we need to organize an infantry with flintlock pistols and bayonets?" Zhu Cihong then asked, "We have just reached a "South Sea Navigation Treaty" with the Netherlands, England and Portugal, and the channels for importing flintlock pistols have become smoother. And there has been some progress in imitation, and by next fall, there should be 20,000 to 30,000 flintlock muskets to equip the troops! ”