Azig was taken aback by Tong Yanghe's statement: "How long has it been since I left Huguang, why has Jingzhou become a nest of thieves?" Don't the officials and people of Jingzhou hate thieves the most? ”

Although Azig stayed in Jiangnan for a few more days in order to ensure that Duoduo and Haoge's troops could have enough time to respond, according to Azig's idea, staying a few more days would not affect the situation in Huguang, and in addition, the army was exhausted after returning to Huguang, so he rested for a few more days and sent spies to investigate the situation in Jingzhou, but he thought that resting for a few days would not affect the overall situation.

But no one expected that after only ten days, the situation in Jingzhou had reached an unimaginable point.

And Tong Yanghe, the governor of Huguang, immediately said: "The key now is that the thieves have completely merged with the Jinhua thieves, not only got the hundreds of thousands of military salaries received by the Jinhua thieves, but also openly played the banner of the governor's five provinces military affairs queen mother and the first product of Zhenyi Lady Yue Princess Yue, there are countless powerful and inferior gentry who come to join them, and most of the traitors in Jingzhou are also confused by the Ming banner played by the thieves!" ”

Now the biggest problem encountered by Tong Yanghe is actually the shaving order, and the Jingzhou thieves are now playing the banner of the princess of Daming Yue and the empress dowager of Dashun at the same time to buy people's hearts, and the empress dowager Gao and Tian Jianxiu are quite generous, many gentlemen and heroes have come to join and hold important positions in the so-called "Empress Dowager's Administration", but these gentlemen and Haoqiang generally only admit that they serve in the "Governor's Five Provinces Military Affairs and Princess Yue Administration" and insist on promising themselves as Ming officials.

But no matter what, the combination of the two has produced a huge qualitative change, and now Jingzhou is no longer a problem that Azig can solve by mobilizing 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses and a few red-coated cannons, and the main force of Azig in this Eastern Expedition has suffered considerable losses, and it has not recovered until now, and Wu Sangui on the side also had to remind Azig: "King Ying, now that the Jingzhou thieves have merged with the Jinhua thieves, we have to beware of the Wangsun Fan in Jiangxi!" ”

When it comes to Wangsun Fan in Jiangxi, Azig feels more and more headaches, although Xing Shengping and Jin Sheng did not go west to pursue Azig, but devoted their main energy to solving Duoduo and Haoge in Nanjing, but now Wang Sunfan has more than 20,000 troops in Jiangxi and is ready to launch an offensive at any time.

And as Wu Sangui said, as long as Azig launches an offensive against the rest of the Dashun army in Jingzhou, Wang Sunfan will definitely launch an offensive in Jiangxi at the same time, not only Jin Sheng and Xing Shengping will respond at the same time, but even Liu Yongxi, the king of Yue who sits in Jiangnan, will not miss such a rare opportunity.

Now Azig's enemies are not only the remnants of the Dashun army in Jingzhou, but the entire Yue Ming Dynasty and hundreds of thousands of Jinhua thieves!

After thinking about this, Azig also felt that he couldn't look at the problem from Huguang, and now the remnants of the Dashun army in Jingzhou are the great enemies of the Qing Dynasty, but if the entire Jiangxi and Huguang are sacrificed in order to take Jingzhou, in a sense, is the gain outweighing?

Azig thought far-reaching, so he unconsciously asked: "Wu Sangui, let me ask one more question, if King Yu and King Su retreat to Jiangbei, can we hold on to Huguang and Jiangxi all the time?" ”

Although Azig and the Great Qing Kingdom pinned their hopes on the internal strife of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he knew very well that the internal strife of the Southern Ming Dynasty could not solve all the problems, and after the Ming army recovered Nanjing, the upstream Qing army would inevitably bear the brunt, and the Yue Ming Dynasty would definitely launch a large-scale westward expedition along the Yangtze River.

For this western expedition launched by the Yue Ming Dynasty, Azig felt that he should be able to cope with the past, and even if he couldn't cope with it, he could withdraw in time, but the biggest problem now is whether the most valuable elite troops of the Great Qing State should be wasted in Huguang and Jiangxi.

For the Qing Dynasty, the general new annex army can be said to be more or less, but the elite Eight Banners soldiers, the Mongolian soldiers of the outer domains, and the old Liaodong people such as the King of Sanshun are very limited, at most 200,000 people, even if you add Wu Sangui, Tang Tong and other elites of the Ming army after entering the customs, it is at most 300,000.

However, since the Southern Expedition, in the battle with the Jinhua thieves, the loss of the elite of the Qing army is extremely amazing, and now the loss of a month is even more than the past year, even if the losses of Duoduo and Hauge are not counted, the total losses of Azig on all fronts of the Eastern Expedition have reached nearly 20,000 people, and the loss of troops is a force that can fight a war even if it is not an elite, and it will take a lot of effort to recover after the loss.

If the Jinhua thieves continue to be consumed in Huguang and Jiangxi, the Azig department will definitely continue to consume, but for the Azig department, the Jiangnan with the water network is not a suitable battlefield, and the cavalry and archery skills of the Eight Banners can only play seventy percent at most, and sometimes even fifty percent is not even available.

The battle of Tianmen Mountain Azig was particularly distressed, the unparalleled Eight Banners in the world could only serve as infantry and the Ming army's shotgunners continued to consume each other, but the Ming army's shotgunners were almost as many as they wanted.

And Wu Sangui also had a similar opinion, he felt that his Guanning Iron Cavalry would definitely be consumed and finally lost in the continuous battle if he stayed in Huguang and Jiangxi, but he still decided to imply a little: "Actually, the regent didn't make any big mistakes in this southern expedition, the fault was in the hair shaving order, and the regent didn't expect the Jinhua thief to suddenly rise!" ”

Azig tightened his brows: "Wu Sangui, what do you mean?" ”

Wu Sangui continued: "If the British king's army stays, at least the Qing Kingdom can keep Huguang and Jiangxi for a year or two, which is a good thing for the Qing Kingdom, but the loss of the British king's soldiers will definitely not be small, if the British king and the class are in time, the soldiers under the British king can naturally retreat north completely, but the situation is different for the Qing Kingdom!" ”

Wu Sangui really listened to what Azig said, although the princes of the imperial court and Baylor all hoped that Azig would go all out to confront the Yue Ming army through Huguang and Jiangxi for a long time, but for Azig, this was a plan to sacrifice himself to complete the Qing Dynasty.

If his tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are exhausted, these princes and Baylors in the imperial court will at most transfer thousands of defeated soldiers to Azig, and they will not even have thousands of defeated soldiers.

The early return to the north was quite unfavorable for the Qing Dynasty, so that the Qing army faced the pressure of the Northern Expedition of the Yue Ming Army for the first time, but it had a completely different meaning for Azig himself and the army under his command, so Azig immediately glanced at Tong Yanghe, the governor of Huguang beside him: "Yanghe, you are the governor of Huguang, how do you think this matter should be handled!" ”

Although Tong Yanghe is the governor of Huguang, he also can't see the long-term development of the Qing army in Huguang, so he will stop Azig from sending troops to recapture Jingzhou: "King Ying, last time you led an army of 150,000 troops to the east along the Yangtze River, and there were tens of thousands of troops of King Yu and King Su in the south of the Yangtze River, but such a favorable situation still can't contain the Jinhua thieves. However, after listening to General Wu Sangui's advice, I feel that there is a way to get the best of both worlds! ”

Azig was overjoyed: "What's the best of both worlds?" ”

Tong Yanghe immediately said: "Naturally, we have to use the Han people to deal with the Han people, and now after the thieves and the Jinhua thieves converge to capture Jingzhou, it is not us who are most worried about the thieves in Jingzhou, it is He Tengjiao in the south of Dongting Lake, but He Tengjiao's strength is limited, and he can't deal with these thieves!" ”

Azig has already understood: "There may be a possibility of peace between us and the Jinhua thieves and the thieves, but there is no room for reconciliation between the Jinhua thieves and the Fuzhou thieves!" ”

If it is said that before the Zhejiang and Fujian dynasties, due to the existence of the Great Qing Dynasty, the great enemy of destroying the country, they still maintained a hypocritical harmony, and now that the Yue Ming army has advanced to Nanjing, there is no room for relaxation between Zhejiang and Fujian.

And Tong Yanghe continued to add details: "In fact, the reason why the Jinhua thief canonized the Gao family as the princess of the military affairs of the five provinces is because He Tengjiao was canonized by the pseudo-Tang king, so he stabbed He Tengjiao in the back, and now He Tengjiao is also thinking about how to stab the thief and the Jinhua thief, but unfortunately He Tengjiao's strength is limited!" ”

Azig had already laughed out loud: "It seems that it is going to be cheap for the pseudo-Tang King and He Tengjiao, but this is indeed the best of both worlds, and when they fight to the point that both are defeated, it is not too late for Wang Shi to go south again!" ”

In the competition between the Yue Ming and Longwu dynasties, the Longwu Dynasty was obviously at a disadvantage, in the past, the Qing Dynasty was preparing to dominate the world, so both Yue Ming and Longwu were ready to wipe out, but now that the situation is reversed, it is natural to pull one faction to fight another, and use the Han people to deal with the Han people.

And Wu Sangui immediately added: "Although the Great Qing Kingdom can temporarily give up Jiangxi and Huguang, it must not be cheap Jinhua thieves, I just have a pseudo-Tang King is not enough to fight against Jinhua thieves, I still have to invite the eight kings of Sichuan out!" ”

Although Azig has thought about this problem, he really didn't think about it as thoroughly as Wu Sangui: "That's right, I want to invite Zhang Xianzhong out, who told the thieves and Jinhua thieves to occupy Jingzhou after the merger, let's just invite Zhang Xianzhong out to ensure that the thieves and Jinhua thieves are overwhelmed and unable to go on the Northern Expedition!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong is also a thief, and he is also a thief with the same name as Li Zicheng, and after Zhang Xianzhong is invited out of Shuzhong, the situation will change from the confrontation between Yue Ming and Longwu to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the Qing Kingdom will be able to get the maximum benefits in this situation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

And Tong Yanghe added: "Actually, we don't have to withdraw from Huguang, as long as Xiangyang is in our hands, it is naturally possible to attack, retreat and defend!" ”

This is from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to the Romance of the Four Kingdoms, and the more Azig thinks about it, the more he understands: "That's right, just do it, I see how the Jinhua thieves deal with these old friends of our Great Qing Kingdom!" ”

As long as the Yue Ming Dynasty could not pacify the south and fall into war for a long time, the Great Qing Kingdom would soon be able to make a comeback.