"It's done, it's done, I'll ask you to consult your opinion, it's good for you to ask me first."

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong shook his head with a smile, but he didn't refuse it, but suggested that it would be better for the two of them to write their thoughts in the palm of their hands and open them at the same time to see if the ideas were consistent.

"Okay."

Originally, Chen Kai just wanted to hear Zheng Chenggong's opinion. You must know that Zheng Chenggong has made a choice about this in history. But now is different from the past, he is in charge of the Guangdong battlefield, and even if this is not the case, Zheng Chenggong obviously wants to know his thoughts more, because he can surprise Zheng Chenggong every time.

They each took a pen, dipped it in ink, and wrote on the palm of their left hand. During this period, Chen Kai also made a gesture to see what Zheng Chenggong wrote, but he was greeted by Zheng Chenggong's vigilant gaze. It's like two children, writing down their thoughts one by one, then putting down the pen, coming to the candle, and at the same time spreading out their backhands, looking at each other and smiling.

"The king of Xining is a famous king twice, the world is shaken, and he is a famous general in the world. He was able to send troops to attack Guangdong and restore a province with great hope. However, I can't go! ”

As he said, Zheng Chenggong wrote clearly in the palm of his hand, which is the three words "can't go". However, Chen Kai noticed that Zheng Chenggong's words were that he couldn't go, not that he didn't want to go. A prisoner of Nanjing Guozijian, there is absolutely no possibility of deviation in the wording, this word clearly explains Zheng Chenggong's psychological state at the moment, and the difference is nothing more than an explanation.

"Is it because of Jin Li?"

"I actually know my heart, except for that guy, how can there be others!"

For such an answer, Chen Kai had already expected it. The reason why many people in later generations did not like Zheng Chenggong was that Li Dingguo worked hard to promote cooperation, but Zheng Chenggong did not have such a plan, and even some people decided that Zheng Chenggong was selfish and selfish, delaying Li Dingguo, a famous general who was a famous king of the world, if the two could join forces, they would definitely be able to recover Guangdong Yunyun.

As the saying goes, the authorities are obsessed with bystanders, and there is nothing wrong with this in many cases, but there are no absolutes, and Chen Kai is in the game at this moment, but he can see it much more clearly than before.

"Our army is now confronting the Tartars on the front line of Hui'an, and since the Battle of Zhongcuo, the Imperial Court has been increasing troops for Jinli. If nothing else, before June, the captives will definitely attack again, and it will be a battle of life and death, how can it be possible to mobilize a large army to cooperate with the king of Xining to recover Guangdong? ”

Zheng Chenggong said this, Chen Kai thought back to those historical records, and felt that it was taken for granted.

Historically, in October last year, Zheng Chenggong unexpectedly defeated Fengchao Mountain, after the commander Huang Shan, the chief military officer of Liwu Town Chen Feng, the chief military officer of the right pioneer town Liao Jing, the chief military officer of Qinding Town Guo Ting, and the chief military officer of the right town Hong Chengzhong were all killed in the fierce battle, and the number of Ming army losses is unknown, but after the war, Zheng Chenggong had to cancel the twenty-eight battalion heads named after the stars, and use these soldiers to supplement the towns with too huge losses and restore the strength of the towns.

With the establishment of 500 soldiers per battalion, that is a full army of 14,000 people, and it is not enough to supplement the losses of each town, which shows how huge the losses of Zheng Chenggong's troops in the battle of Fengchao Mountain were.

After the defeat, Zheng Chenggong not only gave up the siege of Zhangzhou, but also gave up the territory of Changtai, Nanjing, Zhangpu, Pinghe, Zhao'an and other five counties that he had worked hard for a year and a half to recover, leaving only one Haicheng County, which can almost be said to have returned to the pre-liberation period overnight!

After defeating Zheng Chenggong, Jin Li did not return to the division, but rested while recovering the place, making the necessary preparations for the next attack on Haicheng County and even the Zhongzuo Institute.

From the battle of Fengchao Mountain to the official onslaught of Jin Li's onslaught on Haicheng County, the period was from October of the sixth year of Yongli to April of the seventh year of Yongli. At the beginning of the seventh year of Yongli, Li Dingguo invited Zheng Chenggong, hoping that he would lead a large army to help seize Guangdong. However, the situation at that time, once Zheng Chenggong sent troops, it would be the result of his last stronghold on land, Haicheng County, and the base camp.

It's like someone is already demolishing the front tooth tower, and it's about to be detonated by the base crystal. And at this time, holding the front tooth tower in an irregular manner, fighting to the death, but running out to cooperate with others to catch orders, how self-defeating is it to do this kind of thing?

Zheng Chenggong has never been a self-defeating figure, and his fiasco after several consecutive victories in history has spit out a lot of the fruits of victory accumulated earlier, and the losses are all indispensable. But after every fiasco, Zheng Chenggong never chose to give up because of this, but worked harder to plan, accumulate, and fight the Qing army more desperately.

"With all the troops, bet that the King of Xining can take down Zhaoqing's kung fu, it is better to seize the time to strengthen Hui'an's defense."

Just as he said, if the army turns, the two prefectures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, which were recovered last year, will surely fall, and even if all the naval divisions in the center and left are guarded, the Qing army will be helpless for a while, but the control area of Chaozhou will also have to face the sinister environment of being attacked from three sides again. Once Chaozhou is not guaranteed, then it means that Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong have worked desperately for five years to recover the lost territory will be completely lost. And this is just a bet that Li Dingguo can win Zhaoqing, which is a stupid thing that no one with a normal IQ will do.

"The strategy of southern Fujian can't be changed, but it can be done, you have already blocked the fleet at Shang Kexi's doorstep, and you are as worried as I am?"

Like Zheng Chenggong's decision, Chen Kai did not plan to help Li Dingguo, the only difference was that Zheng Chenggong wrote "can't go" in the palm of his hand, while Chen Kai used "unnecessary", that's all.

Zheng Chenggong asked, Chen Kai nodded, and immediately replied: "Da Mu, do you remember the Hengyang victory I talked to you about a few days ago?" ”

Hengyang was victorious, and Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian both got the news in the first month. No different from other places, it was unbelievable at first, and then after repeated confirmation, it was inevitably ecstatic and rejoicing at this great victory that broke the myth of the invincibility of the Manchurian Eight Banners. The difference is nothing more than Chen Kai pretending to be unbelievable, while the others are really unbelievable.

The news came from Guangzhou and Fuzhou, rather than along the way, and it is clear that the local government of the Qing court was far more informed of the matter than ordinary people. However, as time went by, in addition to the more realistic statement at the beginning, it soon became more and more mysterious, starting from a Nikan, to the destruction of the Qing army's senior officer corps, to the Eight Banners Army's losses of more than 10,000 soldiers, and finally it has become an exaggeration of the annihilation of the main force of the Eight Banners Army.

Rumors stop at the wise, but the vast majority of people in this world will believe those things they are willing to believe - the Qing army is brutal and unkind, and it is natural that there are many people who hate them for not dying, and it can even be said to be a universal phenomenon. It's a pity that Chen Kai is in it, but what he sees is completely different from others.

"Between the fourth year of Yongli and the sixth year of Yongli, Kong Youde, the king of the south, swept Guangxi. According to our intelligence analysis, Kong Youde actually captured only the six prefectures of Guilin, Wuzhou, Pingle, Liuzhou, Xunzhou, and Nanning in central and eastern Guangxi, while those prefectures and counties in the west were still under the control of Wang Shi and those Tusi. ”

"After the great victory in Guilin, the king of Xining recovered the lost territory of these six prefectures. However, as the main force of the Eight Banners Army moved south, the king of Xining was called north to meet the enemy, Guangxi was empty, and the remnants of the Dingnan Domain were defeated and captured the land of Wuzhou, Pingle and Guilin. In other words, after a great victory in Guilin, the Southwest Wangshi actually regained only the territory of Liuzhou, Xunzhou and Nanning. ”

The news of Guilin came from Chen Qice just a few days ago, and Chen Qice learned about it through Lianchengbi, who still has frequent contact with Guangxi, so there should be no mistake.

"The king of Xining beheaded Nikan, which greatly boosted people's morale. This can also be seen in the Center Left Institute. However, how much the Eight Banners Army lost in timing, the Imperial Court didn't mention it, and even Chengbi didn't mention it, which was obviously pitiful. Judging from the fact that King Xining abandoned Hengzhou Mansion in the second month after the war, with his main force against the remnants of the Eight Banners Army who even killed the commander, he still couldn't resist, and the real casualty figures of that battle can be imagined. ”

Zheng Chenggong remembered very well that at that time, he didn't ask any stupid questions about why Chen Kai wanted to bother with the real casualty figures, because he knew very well that no matter how strong the Eight Banners Army was, there was one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, the number of Dingkou was too small.

Specifically, Zheng Chenggong didn't know, but Chen Kai saw it clearly in the records of later generations - after entering the customs, the number of bannermen of the Eight Banners of Manchuria immediately fell below the 50,000 mark, and after several major battles, whether it was victory or defeat, or even if it was won, the number of the Eight Banners Army lost was not a few, and the number of bannermen was always declining. As the arm of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the number of bannermen of the Eight Banners of Mongolia was very small as early as the Huang Taiji period, more than 20,000 people, which is a saturation number, and it is also declining after entering the customs.

As for the Han army flag, one hundred and forty-four cattle records at the time of entering the customs were recorded two hundred soldiers each, that is, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred soldiers. Unlike the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, the Guannai was full of Han people, and there were even Han generals and soldiers, and the Han military flag once swelled to 300 Niu Lu. However, unlike the "Chen Han Army" before entering the customs, the vast majority of the cattle records of these "New Han Army" were not compiled, and were only used to place the demoted generals, and the total number of soldiers was far from reaching the 60,000 mark.

In the first battle of Hengyang, it was mainly the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners that participated in the war, and the Han Army Banner was auxiliary. Li Dingguo beheaded a prince, plus a first-class minister, and the rest of the officers were basically only middle and lower-ranked, and there were many guards and guards. For example, the high-ranking generals who really commanded the army, such as Dorobele Tunqi, Basihan, Beizi Zakana, Muryou, Gushan Ezhen, Han Dai, Yild, and Alashan, all withdrew to Changsha with the "remnants of the defeated generals" without fear, and they did not hurt their muscles and bones at all. When Li Dingguo gave up Hengzhou Mansion and Yongzhou Mansion successively, they also followed suit and took over the territory of these two Mansions, not giving Sun Kewang any chance at all.

After defeating the Qing army, the king of Xining not only did not recover the two prefectures of Changde and Changsha, which had been abandoned earlier, but even the capital of Hengzhou was soon abandoned. This time the king of Xining advanced eastward, and it is estimated that the Yongzhou Mansion where he garrisoned will also be lost. Even if you don't count the Yongzhou Mansion, a big victory will also lose the territory of six prefectures. It must be known that at the beginning of last year's major counteroffensive, Wang Shi once recovered the area of nearly two provinces, and now only six provinces and one state have really been obtained. ”

"Six prefectures and one state, it seems to be a lot, but in last year's big counteroffensive, the Southwest Wang Division will not send less than 200,000 troops, even if it is only on the Huguang and Guangxi battlefields, there are 1890,000 troops. On such a scale, after half a year of conquest, in the areas of Huguang and Guangxi provinces alone, four great victories were successively won in Jingzhou, Guilin, Chenzhou, and Hengyang, and the number of enemies destroyed was not less than 30,000, plus two princes of the imperial court. Looking back, is there more land in six provinces and one state? ”

Ate a big bite, spit out half of it, and this is still a winning case. If it fails, the outcome can be imagined. In contrast, also last year, Zheng Chenggong swept southern Fujian with 30,000 troops and recovered the land of the two prefectures, because his plan at that time was to seize these two prefectures so that the central left office could become the hinterland. And Chen Kai's side is in a strategic defensive state, and finally occupies the territory of a county, although it is less, but the strategic goals have been achieved, at least not like the Southwest Ming Army, the initial target is Sichuan, Huguang, Guangxi three provinces, once also played an effect, the result is to lose the territory.

"The great victory of Hengyang, from a tactical point of view, the king of Xining set a trap, led the Qing army into the urn, and finally ambushed and killed the Tartar prince Nikan, which has never been a great victory since the Chengliao incident. However, from the strategic perspective of the entire southwest war situation, this battle was actually a loss, and even if it wasn't for the king of Xining killing Nikan, the loss would have been even worse! ”

When the good news came, all that could be heard was the praise of Li Dingguo, but Chen Kai was not optimistic about it, and when he analyzed it to Zheng Chenggong, he also held such a tone. Of course, it was only for Zheng Chenggong, and for others, he was not too bad at discouraged the enthusiasm of those who resisted the Qing Dynasty and the soldiers of the Ming army.

Zheng Chenggong silently recalled Chen Kai's words, trying to explore the root of Chen Kai's thoughts, but he never understood the essentials, and vaguely felt that this great victory was a little weird, but he couldn't find where the thread was, until Chen Kai continued to say those words.

"On the eve of departure, I heard two things in Chaozhou, which were about the war situation in the southwest. First, the king of Funan failed to attack Baoning in northern Sichuan, and after returning to Guizhou, he was deprived of military power by the king of Qin and sent to Kunming to live idle; And the other thing is that the king of Qin and the king of Xining are not in harmony, and the victory of Hengyang has another hidden ......"

Chen Kai couldn't explain this to Zheng Chenggong, so he had to tell the news. It's just that this rumor really brought a lot of shock, and Zheng Chenggong was stunned on the spot, and didn't say anything for a long time.

Assuming that you can choose, one is to kill Nikan, the status quo of the main retreat of the main force of the Eight Banners Army, and the other is the formation of an encirclement, the Eight Banners Army lost tens of thousands of soldiers, and Nikan broke through, but anyone who has an understanding of the actual situation of the Ming and Qing wars at that time will not hesitate to choose the latter, because with the number of bannermen in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the loss of tens of thousands in the First World War means that a fraction of the soldiers are gone, which is completely unbearable for the Qing court. Only for the sake of bragging will the former be chosen, after all, the name of the prince is louder and the blowing is more refreshing.

Li Dingguo didn't have a choice, because the choice was in Sun Kewang's hands, and Sun Kewang didn't face this choice, but acted according to Li Dingguo's plan, defeated the Eight Banners Army, and swept Huguang, but Li Dingguo's prestige was even worse, and he secretly withdrew Feng Shuangli's troops, so that Li Dingguo and the Eight Banners Army could fight to the death.

In the past, when I watched the game, there would always be people in the comments who said that so-and-so team lost in this game, but so-and-so player did not lose. Chen Kai doesn't like this kind of argument, because the most important point of team competition is cooperation. But this time, Chen Kai knew very well that the Ming army was a loss in strategy, but it was not a loss to Li Dingguo, the plan was originally good, and he ran into a pig teammate who was a cheating father, and he could also dominate the other party's boss, which could not be said to be his responsibility in any case, it was completely Sun Kewang who ruined the overall situation, resulting in a great victory that could have bled the Manmeng Eight Banners, and in the end it was just a pitiful fall to a bare-bones commander.

"If the King of Qin and the King of Xining can join forces, it will immediately be a situation where the Eight Banners Army will lose more than 10,000 troops and the Ming army will sweep the entire Huguang. However, this His Royal Highness the King of Qin is too generous, and he doesn't know how to take care of the overall situation at all. ”

If Sun Kewang had not issued a secret order in the great victory of Hengyang, or had driven the front army and the Eastern Route Army to join forces to fight the enemy afterwards, the Qing court's rule in Huguang would have completely collapsed, and the loss of the Eight Banners Army would have shaken the foundation of the Qing court's rule, leading to a wider shock. Even not only in Huguang, but also in Sichuan, Liu Wenxiu's army was defeated, and it was appropriate to punish him, but according to the situation at that time, Sun Kewang should let Liu Wenxiu make meritorious contributions, replenish his army, and continue to run Sichuan, instead of completely giving up the good situation in Sichuan and letting it develop. In the final analysis, it is still selfish and selfish, and for the sake of those authorities, they have ruined the good situation.

In this regard, the pair of righteous brothers in the southwest are far less good than Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai, the uncle and brother-in-law. Over the years, Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong have always cooperated tacitly, either inside and outside, or one defending and one attacking. This is not only Chen Kai's foresight, but more importantly, there is no struggle for power between the two of them, so there is no need to calculate each other.

"Cheng, do you mean that the king of Xining marched into Guangdong to avoid the king of Qin?"

"Exactly."

This is a fact, and Li Dingguo did this in history. In addition, Guangxi's taxes are less than one-tenth of Guangdong's, and taking Guangdong can feed more soldiers. Then there is the alliance with Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo has already felt the threat of Sun Kewang to him and the Yongli court, so he chose to go to Guangdong to unite Zheng Chenggong, and use this strength to balance Sun Kewang's ambitions!

Li Dingguo thought so and did so, but Chen Kai didn't think so. Sun and Li were at odds, and Li Dingguo refused to participate in the Jingzhou military conference, and the result would definitely be that Sun Kewang would cut off the food and salary of Li Dingguo's subordinates. Li Dingguo has great prestige, but the hungry army can't fight, as long as Shang Kexi can hold out in Zhaoqing for one to two months, Li Dingguo can only go back to Guangxi to eat.

In the past two months, even if the army is pointing westward, it is one thing whether the ship can reach or not. Even if the ship arrived, the army came by sea, south of the city of Guangzhou, and Zhaoqing was two hundred miles northwest of the city of Guangzhou. There is no way around this, Chen Kai needs to capture Guangzhou first, so that he can go to Zhaoqing and Li Dingguo's division, or resist the siege of Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao and the green battalion soldiers of the entire Guangdong after capturing Guangzhou, until Li Dingguo breaks through the Zhaoqing line and comes to join him. These two points, no matter which one is possible, are absolutely not enough to be achieved by the troops of eastern Guangdong alone.

"That's why I say it's unnecessary, it's cruel, but it's true. In this battle, the only thing King Xining can count on is himself, because he can only win quickly, otherwise he will be defeated, and we can't help anything. ”

Li Dingguo let Guilin not fight, but wanted to fight Zhaoqing, which in itself has already proved the "rumors" in Chen Kai's mouth. Zheng Chenggong thought about it and thought several times of assuming that the "rumors" that Chen Kai got were fake, but he had to shake his head and smile bitterly, because with their strength at this stage, they were not enough to recover Guangzhou, or even enough to dispatch an army that threatened Guangzhou enough. Instead of wasting time in Guangzhou, it is better to do more useful things.

"Then I'll fix a book."

"Well, it's better to tell the truth, and it never hurts to show some sincerity."

"Okay."

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