Li Xiangjun said solemnly: "Fujun deliberately handed over the Dingwu and Yongwu brigades to Uncle Wang this time, just hoping that Uncle Wang can make good use of this army of soldiers and horses, as long as there are no problems with this army and horses, Fujun can rest easy on this expedition to the west." ”

The soldiers and horses left behind by Wang Deren were reorganized into the "Zhongwu Brigade" and temporarily commanded by Madame Xing, while the old army of Jin Shenghuan was reorganized into the Dingwu and Yongwu brigades and handed over to Wang Sunfan.

Wang Sunfan knew that Jin Shenghuan's old department was originally a straggler and a brave man, but it was originally his strength to train these rabble, three sects and nine streams, after all, he could even settle the eunuchs of the inner government when he was appointed as the governor of Jining: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, since the two brigades of Dingwu and Yongwu have been handed over to me, it is guaranteed that they can be used by the country, and there will be no major problems!"

Based on the historical basis of the Dingwu and Yongwu brigades, there will definitely be no fewer small problems, but Wang Sunfan assured that there will be no major problems, and Li Xiangjun is relieved when he hears this: "My husband will definitely be able to sleep well when he hears the news." ”

Since Liu Yongxi can sleep well, it is naturally bad news for the Qing Kingdom, and Azig is now scolding Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren for being useless: "Nanchang City is a strong city, how can Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren give up Nanchang City and the entire Jiangxi to Jinhua thieves without a battle, rice buckets, they are all a group of rice buckets!"

Azig has never been so angry, he originally expected the Yue Ming army to fight with Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in Nanchang City, and in the end, both sides were defeated, but no one expected that Liu Yongxi would only stay in the city for a day or two before the situation changed drastically, which completely failed Azig's dream-like abacus.

Although Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren's troops are not elite divisions, but after the Yue Ming army incorporated Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren's troops, the momentum was shocked, and it turned out that Azig still wanted to wait for the Yue Ming army to make a flank attack when the Yue Ming army marched westward, but now he completely dispelled such thoughts and pinned all his hopes on Zhang Xianzhong.

But Wu Sangui reminded Azig: "Since Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren are not the opponents of the Jinhua thieves, we can't place too much hope on the Daxi thieves, they are just thieves after all." ”

Azig sighed before saying: "Although the Great West Thief is just a thief, Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous sons are still very good, I heard that they broke the Jingzhou thief near Yiling!"

For Azig, this is the only good news in recent months, although it is not known how much loss was caused by the series of battles between the Jingzhou thieves and the Jinhua thieves near Yiling, but both sides have lost at least a few thousand people, and the Jingzhou thieves are clearly at a disadvantage.

In this case, a big battle will inevitably break out between the Jinhua thieves and the Daxi thieves, which is exactly the outcome that Azig most wants to happen: "When the Jingzhou thieves, Jinhua thieves, Daxi thieves and Hunan thieves fight to exhaustion, it will be a godsend for our army to re-enter Huguang." ”

But Wu Sangui was obviously calmer than Azig: "If we are ready to enter Huguang again, then our army of more than 100,000 cannot be dispersed, but now that the regent wants to send a large army to the south, what should we do?" ”

Now Azig can be said to be in control of the most powerful field corps in the Qing Dynasty, when Azig crossed the Yellow River to break through the Li Guo and Gao Yigong groups in northern Shaanxi, there were 80,000 people, and after a series of huge victories, a large number of remnants of Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng were surrendered, and the total strength was no less than two or three hundred thousand at the peak.

Although he has suffered a series of setbacks in the past few months, Azig still has more than 100,000 field troops in his hands, which is all the capital he is preparing to re-enter Huguang.

However, after the devastating blows suffered by the two field corps of Duoduo and Hauge in the south of the Yangtze River, the Great Qing State faced a huge crisis of strength, and encountered a crisis of strength everywhere.

In the past, the Eight Banners Army played the role of a firefighting team, but this time, the main force rushing to Haizhou became the Han army of Zuo Mengeng, Dong Yuan, and Geng Jimao, and in order to draw out more than 10,000 mobile troops, the princes and Baylor can be said to have tried everything possible.

Although nearly 10,000 elites had been transferred away in the early stage, a new order came from the imperial court, requiring Azig to transfer another 30,000 troops to participate in the southern expedition, and named to transfer several of Azig's most elite field regiments.

And Azig was also aggrieved by the order of the regent Dorgon: "Duoduo and Hauge were beaten by Jinhua thieves in the south of the Yangtze River, but now they are still the prince of the Great Qing Kingdom, and this southern expedition is still the two of them defeated and will continue to take on the big responsibility!"

Azig became more and more angry the more he spoke: "And I finally saved more than 100,000 elites for the Qing Dynasty, and now I have become a big wrongdoer, who wants to transfer troops from me, the Southern Expedition is obviously a bottomless pit, but the court just wants to use the elites that this king has saved with all his efforts to fill this hole, anyway, there is no door for this matter!"

Wu Sangui couldn't help but be happy when he heard Azig say this: "What the King of England said is extremely true, the southern expedition is a bottomless pit, and hundreds of thousands of troops of King Yu and King Su filled it, and in the end it is said that only a few thousand people crossed north with King Yu and King Su, and the imperial court even threw another 200,000 or even 300,000 people into the bottomless pit. ”

Azig also felt the same way, it was really the failure of Duoduo and Hauge's southern expedition that left a deep impression on him, and he even felt that transferring his hundreds of thousands of people to the southern expedition battlefield would not solve the problem.

The destruction of the Hongguang Dynasty can be said to be the biggest mistake made by Dolgon, at that time, the Hongguang Dynasty only sought a situation of ruling across the river, but all the princes, including Azig, and Baylor thought that if they solved the Hongguang Dynasty, they could completely destroy the remnants of the Ming and dominate the world.

But no one thought that the destruction of the Hongguang Dynasty would provoke the Chengtian Dynasty, which was a hundred times or even a thousand times more terrible than the Hongguang Dynasty, although Dolgon's southern expedition claimed to take Xuzhou, Huai'an, Fengyang and even Nanjing, but Azig had lost all confidence in this southern expedition.

And Wu Sangui also did not have any confidence in the Southern Expedition, and was unwilling to be transferred to the battlefield of the Southern Expedition as cannon fodder, so he immediately echoed Azig: "What the King of England said is extremely true, since the Southern Expedition last year has lost troops and will not be able to end, there is no need to fill this bottomless pit this year!"

It's just that Azig sighed: "But the regent is my brother after all, and we are still from the same mother, although it is impossible to transfer 30,000 elites, but 10,000 soldiers and horses can always do it!"

For Azig, 10,000 people is already the limit of brotherhood, and he has now done his duty.

And Wu Sangui also breathed a sigh of relief, since Azig only said 10,000 soldiers and horses, he was obviously only going to send 10,000 shrimp soldiers and crabs to deal with Dolgon in the future, and Wu Sangui belonged to the most elite soldiers and horses under Azig, and he had already escaped.

For the loyal battalion in Jingzhou, it can be said that it is the most dangerous moment now, Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army continued to come out of the Three Gorges and threw itself into the Yiling battlefield, and the number of troops was so large that Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Tichun, these veterans of the loyal battalion all felt desperate.

However, the Dashun army has been defeated repeatedly in the past year, and from the Yongchang Dynasty that entered Beijing to the thieves who have no place to stand, these loyal battalion veterans are extremely impressive.

Now that the situation in the world has completely changed, they can no longer even wander around as before, but fortunately, Empress Gao made the wisest choice at a critical moment, and finally won the hard-won territory of Jingzhou Mansion with the full support of the Chengtian Dynasty.

Now Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, and Liu Tichun all attach great importance to the only piece of land in the Loyal Camp.

They knew very well that although the Chengtian Dynasty recognized the status of the "Empress Fengtian of the Ming Dynasty" and the loyal camp, they could not even keep the territory of Jingzhou Mansion, and it was absolutely worthless in the eyes of Emperor Chengtian, and their original marquis and earl were meaningless.

Therefore, although they lost many victories on the battlefield, they gritted their teeth and mobilized troops and horses from all sides to start a big battle with the Great Western Army near Yiling, and now they finally got a clear message: "Nanchang has been taken, as long as Jianyu does not want to kill himself, we will join His Majesty just around the corner!"

Although there is still a considerable distance from Nanchang to Jingzhou, after the uprising in front of the troops of Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in Nanchang, there is no longer any force on both sides of the Yangtze River that dares to block the advance of the Yue Ming army, and they are just some rabble.

In fact, the scout horse team of the Yue Ming army had already driven straight into the division with the loyal battalion for the first time, although this horse team only had a dozen horses, but it still made these veterans of the loyal battalion ecstatic.

Now what they have to do is not to defeat the Great Western Army, but to wait until Emperor Chengtian and his army come to support, and with the addition of this new force, the situation is completely different.

Now Tian Jianxiu said very clearly: "As long as we hold out for another three or five days, His Majesty Emperor Chengtian's army will be able to rush to support, and the situation will be completely different, and now the initiative is on our side." ”

But Empress Gao has already received a letter from Liu Yongxi: "Hou Zehou is a little too optimistic, His Majesty told me in the letter that Nanchang is newly determined, and he will stay in Nanchang for a little more than three or five days to deal with the aftermath, so for the time being, General Xing Shengping will lead the front army to rush to help, but please rest assured, Your Majesty's army is already on the way!"

Although Liu Yongxi's army may have arrived a few days later than expected, the generals of the loyal battalion present were optimistic.

Although they have never met Emperor Chengtian Liu Yongxi, they know that Liu Yongxi has always been as good as his words, since Liu Yongxi said that he would fully support the loyal battalion, then as long as the loyal battalion can hold Jingzhou Mansion, then everyone is the real founding hero.

It's just that when Tian Jianxiu just wanted to reply to Empress Gao, bad news suddenly came: "I've seen Empress Fengtian, I've seen all the marquis and uncles, He Tengjiao in the south suddenly began to mobilize troops to prepare for a big move, and the posture is to point to Wuchang City!"