If there was a Han person on the other side, he would definitely think that the news delivered by Shang Kexi was almost unbelievable or that Liu Yongxi was too ridiculous, but King Azig felt that this was a very normal operation.

After all, such marriages are not uncommon in the history of the Aixin Jueluo family, and most of the marriages between Nurhachi and Huang Taiji are alliances based on interests, so it is not surprising that Liu Yongxina Gao is a side concubine.

Azig believes that the key is that Liu Yongxi let the Gao clan sit in charge of the military affairs of the five provinces of Jingzhou: "According to this, Jingzhou will definitely be besieged by thieves now?" Huguang is going to be troublesome again! ”

Originally, Azig thought that Tengjiao was not able to integrate hundreds of thousands of thieves at all, and no one expected that Liu Yongxi would pay such a big self-sacrifice to marry the Gao family, but in this way, the first to bear the brunt was the thousands of Qing troops guarding Jingzhou.

Wu Sangui immediately said: "Before, the thief A Tiger and Gao Yigong once led the nine battalions to besiege Jingzhou and finally returned in vain, but this time I am afraid the situation will be different!" ”

Although King Azig has always wanted to return to his division as soon as possible, and he didn't put too much effort into running Huguang, he was more sensitive than anyone else on the issue of the Gao clan and the remnants of the Dashun army: "If you let the thieves take Jingzhou, it will be a big trouble, the thieves are just thieves, and they are not a problem at all, but if they take Jingzhou, they will become bandits, and they also get the behind-the-scenes support of the Jinhua thieves!" ”

Li Zicheng's department does not have a stable base, although he has hundreds of thousands of armor, but he only knows how to flow all the way, which is also the reason why Azig only has an army of 80,000 but can chase after 200,000 or 300,000 Dashun troops all the way, but if the Dashun army is combined with Jinhua thieves, I am afraid that Jingzhou will become a nest of thieves, and it may take several times or even more than ten times the strength of the Great Qing Kingdom to recapture it.

The thief is not terrible, what is really terrible is that the thief will be combined with the Jinhua thief!

And Wu Sangui also pointed out this: "If Jingzhou fails, I'm afraid Wuchang will also be in danger!" ”

Azig tightened his brows and said: "How can this Empress Gao also be a beauty, how can she be so incomprehensible that she is actually in the same stream with Liu Yongxi, a Jinhua thief, to harm the world!" ”

He forgot that just a few months ago, he was still chasing and beating Empress Gao and the remnants of the Dashun army to death, and Wu Sangui immediately asked Azig the most concerned question: "King Ying, since Wuchang is in danger, do you want to send troops back to Wuchang as soon as possible?" Now the 100,000 army is blocked in front of Tianmen Mountain! ”

Azig sighed: "Just now, King Yu and King Su wrote again, saying that the Jinhua thieves used red-clothed cannons in Suzhou, although Li Shuitai can withstand it, but several prefectures and counties have fallen into the Jinhua thieves, Bolo is really harmful!" ”

He has always been very resentful of Bolo, who threw more than 30 red-clothed cannons to the Yue Ming army, but Shang Kexi opened his mouth and said: "King Ying, even if you don't send troops back to Wuchang, you must consider the upstream, I came here this time on the one hand to inform the Gao family and the thieves of the movements, and on the other hand, to ask the King of England for help!" ”

Azig didn't expect Shang Kexi to come to ask for soldiers: "Wang Sun Fan and Jin Sheng are not so terrible, right?" ”

Shang Kexi smiled bitterly: "Jin Sheng is enough, Huizhou thieves are not afraid of being attached to Zhejiang for a short time, but there are thousands of Yue Ming elites under the command of Wang Sun Fan, and it is really difficult to deal with!" ”

Azig was most afraid of hearing the words "Yue Ming elite", although he slowly gained the upper hand in the past two days, but Xing Shengping on the opposite side always kept turning into a new force, so he had to send the most elite Eight Banners Army to the front line to charge, but although the Eight Banners Army went up to suppress the scene, the casualty number was so large that Azig and all the Manchurian nobles could not accept it.

After all, for the Qing Dynasty, the soldiers of the Eight Banners are the real national capital, and losing too much will shake the national capital, but the Eight Banners Army cannot control the scene, after all, in addition to the Eight Banners Army, the ordinary Han army and the Mongolian soldiers of the outer domains are not willing to launch a strong attack against the rain of bullets and bullets of the Yue Ming Army.

And now that he heard that thousands of elite Yue Ming troops had emerged in Jiangxi, Azig felt more and more that the situation was not easy to clean up: "It seems that we have to go back to Huguang, but in this way, King Yu and King Su will be in danger, if something happens to them, then Huguang may not be able to hold it!" ”

Wu Sangui hurriedly persuaded: "King Ying, if our hundreds of thousands of troops are blocked on the river because of the grain route, then Huguang will not be able to defend it at all!" ”

Although the losses of Azig's division in the defense line of East and West Liangshan are quite large, it can still be borne by more than 100,000 troops, but if there is a problem with the rear grain road, it is not only a matter of losing troops and losing generals, but Azig is still a little hesitant: "As long as we hold on a little longer, our army will be able to surpass Tianmen Mountain and join forces with King Yu and King Su!" ”

Wu Sangui said bitterly: "Even if we can join forces with King Yu and King Su, can we still give up Huguang and Jiangxi to help King Yu and King Su take down the entire Jiangnan?" I'm afraid that the Gao clan and the Dashun thieves will have already reached the head of Wuchang City by then, and I heard that the puppet king of Yue and the tens of thousands of Jinhua thieves led by him have been standing still in Liyang! ”

This was said a little harshly, and Azig was still a little hesitant: "The reason why Liu Yongxi did not move in Liyang is because there are King Yu and King Su, if we return to the division, I am afraid that the situation in Jiangnan will be unimaginable, and the situation is not bad now, our army still controls most of Jiangxi!" ”

Shang Kexi said: "King Ying, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, even if we take down this Tianmen Mountain, I am afraid it will take another ten days and a half months, but the Jinhua thief will definitely not sit still, I heard that the reason why King Yu and King Su have the defeat of Liyang and Yixing is only because Wu Shengzhao's 2,000 people surrendered to the thief, and Wu Shengzhao only has 2,000 people!" ”

When it came to Wu Shengzhao's uprising before the battle, Wu Sangui was also heartbroken: "Yes, Wu Shengzhao only has two thousand people, but now the Jinhua thief can draw out a few thousand elites at any time!" ”

Azig shook his head and said: "For three more days, I want to give an explanation to the court to King Yu and King Su, and inform the brothers below that we must sacrifice casualties at any cost in these three days, I don't believe it, I have conquered so many famous Tianmen cities, but I can't take a single Tianmen Mountain!" ”

Although the current Nanjing City is full of soldiers, but the Qing Dynasty's shaving order is already a piece of paper here, even if someone wears Han clothes and walks in front of the Eight Banners Army, now the Eight Banners Army is also ignoring, at most let you hurry up and go farther.

Now the envoys of the Tang Dynasty have even been semi-openly active in Nanjing, in addition to many small groups under various banners, or claiming to have obtained the edict of Empress Zhang or claiming to be the representative of a certain Ming Dynasty vassal king, but few people know that the intelligence system of the Yue Ming court in Nanjing has been fully cooperating with Ruan Lizhen and Liu Ruyi's actions.

It's just that Liu Ru and Ruan Lizhen are very low-key during this time, the reason is naturally that the situation has changed after Wu Shengzhao's uprising in front of the battle, and the Qing army has turned a blind eye to the anti-Qing actions in the city on the surface, but in fact, it has adopted a strategy of loosening the outside and tightening the inside to hunt down and kill many people, and they are the key figures in the rebellion against Wu Shengzhao, so they are naturally extremely low-key.

And Liu Yongxi didn't want them to have any accidents, so he specially wrote to them to ask them to stop their actions as low-key as possible and temporarily, and now that the situation is good, everything can be borne by him Liu Yongxi, but they also heard an unexpected news: "Hedongjun, have you also heard such news?" Xiao Xi's younger brother wants to accept the pseudo Dashun queen Gao as a side concubine? ”

Liu Ru nodded: "There is indeed such a thing, it is said that the reason why His Royal Highness the King of Yue did this is to collect the remnants of the hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops in Huguang!" ”

Ruan Lizhen said with an aggrieved face: "Brother Xiaoxi is really pitiful, he did it completely for the country, I knew that it must be these thieves who used this reason to coerce Brother Xiaoxi, but what can Brother Xiaoxi do for the sake of the country!" It's so pathetic! ”

Ruan Lizhen's face was full of pity, Liu Ru originally found a bunch of excuses to convince her good sister, but when Ruan Lizhen said this, she also felt that His Majesty King Yue was indeed a little pitiful, but there was really no way for His Majesty King Yue to pay attention to state affairs.

Although many people around her looked down on these thieves and even felt that Liu Yongxi's Nagao family as a side concubine was a big failure in his life, especially the representatives of Tang Wang and several other vassal kings said that Liu Yongxi was "shameless" and "there are such shameless people in the world", but now she looks at the problem from Liu Yongxi's point of view, and she feels more and more distressed about His Royal Highness the King of Yue.

The two women were relatively speechless when they thought about the same man upstairs, and after a while, Liu Ru said: "His Royal Highness King Yue has indeed sacrificed a lot for the cause of Zhongxing, although he asked us to stand still for the time being, but I think there are some things that we are obligated to do even though we are daughters!" ”

Ruan Lizhen also knew that the Qing army had been adopting a strategy of loosening the outside and tightening the inside near Nanjing, and even killed them from time to time, but she had no fear when she thought of her childhood sweetheart: "Hedongjun, what you want to say is exactly what I want to do, and now there is only one problem, that is, how to do things most effectively!" ”

Liu Ru said with a smile: "Now many people are planning how to come up with a second Wu Shengzhao, but I think that with the precedent of Wu Shengzhao, this matter is not easy to do, so I think we can do the opposite!" ”

Wu Shengzhao's uprising before the battle not only made Duoduo and Haoge's painstaking planning to be exhausted, but also caused a very far-reaching follow-up impact, the main force that suppressed the righteous army and the righteous division in the past was the new annexed army after the pacification of Jiangnan, and now not to mention the new annexed army, even many of the "old army" that entered the customs and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the first year of Shunzhi were strictly controlled and used by the Qing army.

In this situation, the so-called "second Wu Shengzhao" is a thing that seems simple but is actually very difficult, but since Liu Ru is daughter, she has always had no sense of security, and she has always felt that she must have her own force in the troubled times.