Chapter Seventy-Two: Support
Mrs. Xing's thoughts are similar to everyone's, and they all feel that even if Xing Shengping can't support it, the Yue Ming army is still in control, but Liu Yongxi's opinion is completely different from everyone: "Sister Xing, the reason why I specifically cut first and then went to Hangzhou is because I am worried that Shengping will not be able to withstand the pressure of King Azig!" ”
Although Liu Yongxi didn't know that Azig had brought 150,000 troops to the east this time, he was keenly aware that if Azig joined forces with Duoduo and Haoge, the situation would be unimaginable: "So the focus now is not to hold Liyang City, after experiencing the defeat of Liyang and Yixing, I estimate that Duoduo and Haoge will not dare to ask for hardship at all, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers in Liyang City who hold on, and Duoduo They come to attack to ask for hardship, and now they ......"
Speaking of this, Liu Yongxi decided to explain the situation to Mrs. Xing: "Now the key to the victory or defeat of the entire Jiangnan battle situation is two points, the first is Suzhou Mansion, when can our army solve Li Shutai's department, we can liberate Chen Yuan, Zhang Huangyan, and Yu Huang!" ”
Mrs. Xing immediately understood: "Then you have to use a red-clothed cannon, and you must have a red-clothed cannon to attack the city!" ”
Liu Yongxi nodded and said: "We have notified Hangzhou that all the red-clothed cannons left in Hangzhou will be transferred to Suzhou, even if we can't break through the Suzhou Mansion City, it will be a brilliant victory to break through several peripheral counties, but Suzhou is only the first key!" ”
Suzhou Mansion is the focus of the Vietnamese Ming army's current offensive, but the Yue Ming army does not have much siege experience, and it lacks experience in how to use red-coated artillery, Liu Yongxi does not think that the battle in Suzhou will be resolved quickly.
In this case, Xing Shengping, who insisted on the east and west Liangshan, became the top priority, even if it was a huge victory for one more day, Liu Yongxi said: "I went back to Hangzhou this time, on the one hand, for the Empress Dowager Gao and the Dashun army to persuade Zhang Niangniang and Her Royal Highness the princess, on the other hand, to see if we can piece together a number of battalions to aid Xing Shengping, now if we can block Azige to the west of Liangshan, plus the Empress Dowager Gao and the Dashun army cooperate, the Yangtze River will be for me!" ”
Mrs. Xing and Xing Shengping were originally a family, and as soon as Liu Yongxi said this, she fully understood: "I listened to my husband come over, and transferred more soldiers and horses to support Shengping, Xiao Sai kept saying that he wanted to go out to practice, and this time he will lead the troops!" ”
The real name of "Xiao Sai" in the mouth of Mrs. Xing is Xing Sai, and he is also a real tested member of the Xing clan, he has been on Mrs. Xing's side in the last few turmoils, so Mrs. Xing has always let Xing Sai be in charge of her own personal soldiers, and the most dangerous stage of the Huzhou Battle is that Xing Sai took Mrs. Xing's personal soldiers to turn the tide.
It's just that now is the fastest stage of development of the Yue Ming Army, although Mrs. Xing's personal army has also developed well, but it has always been less than two hundred people, so Xing Sai has always hoped to come out and experience it.
And Liu Yongxi also said very clearly: "Xiao Sai is a waste of talent to be in charge of personal guards by your side, Sister Xing, you should let Xiao Sai come out to practice as soon as possible, but this time it is not too late, this time you can bring 2,000 people, and next time you can hand him 5,000 people!" ”
Mrs. Xing nodded: "Husband cares so much about Shengping, I'm very happy!" ”
It's not just Liu Yongxi who cares about Xing Shengping, now the entire Yue Ming army is supporting Xing Shengping in various forms, Xing Shengping never thought that he would be the darling of the Yue Ming army before the war: "Governor Wang specially sent troops to escort the military salary, this is too polite!" ”
Jin Sheng was the closest to Xing Shengping, so he sent three battalions of soldiers to assist Xing Shengping in the original battle, and Wang Sun Fan was far away in Jiangxi, which was beyond the reach of the whip commander, but he still sent 300 officers and soldiers to escort 7,000 taels of military pay to support Xing Shengping, and the 300 soldiers responsible for escorting military salaries were also included in Xing Shengping's command after completing the mission, and Zhang Boyang of Huzhou also sent 700 reinforcements.
In addition, although the Xing Sai 1st Brigade sent by Liu Yongxi and Xing's wife was still on the way, Xing Shengping had already received clear news that the 2,000 people of the Xing Sai 1st Brigade would rush to the battlefield in the near future.
Even Chen Yuan, Zhang Huangyan, and Yu Huang, who were still fighting hard in Suzhou, were ready to send troops to support Xing Shengping, although the total number of reinforcements from Suzhou was only a few hundred, but Xing Shengping was now more and more confident, although the loss of troops was large, but the backup was coming continuously, what was the fear of the 100,000 Azig army!
Not only Xing Shengping is confident, but Xing Shengping's subordinates are also more and more confident, after all, behind them is the entire Yue Ming Dynasty, in addition to these formed reinforcements, there are thousands of recruits, massive food, supplies and all the resources they need.
And it turned out that Liu Yongxi chose the East and West Liangshan to fight a decisive battle with the Azig army very wisely, the natural danger is the natural danger, although the Azig occupied the advantage of troops, but due to the terrain restrictions, it could not be played at all, and could only fight a war of attrition with Xing Shengping.
With the support of the entire Yue Ming Dynasty, now Xing Shengping and his subordinates are not afraid of fighting a war of attrition, and they have summed up their experience in actual combat, and the loss of each battalion head on the front line will be transferred to the rear to replenish new soldiers, weapons, supplies and all resources, and then two or three days later, the battalion head can return to the front line vigorously.
As for the Qing army on the Nanjing side completely adopting a strategy of retreating after a series of defeats in Yixing, Liyang, and Suzhou, Wen Qing, who is now in charge, has asked Xing Shengping several times if he needs support, and he can send at least three battalions to support.
In this situation, Xing Shengping naturally became easier and happier the more he fought, but Xing Shengping's happiness was based on the extreme pain of Azig and Wu Sangui.
Now Azig can only scold Bolobele, who has died in Hangzhou: "How is Bolo also the Belle of my Great Qing Kingdom, why don't you even understand the reason that the red-coated cannon can't be used by Jinhua thieves, he always wants to destroy the red-coated cannon before he dies, and now these red-coated cannons have caused us a lot of trouble!"
As soon as it came to these red-coated cannons that were in the way, Azig felt that Bolo was completely innocent, and it was really these red-coated cannons that caused too much trouble for the Qing army's offensive.
Although the red-coated cannons of the Qing army have arrived at the battlefield, there is still no way to deal with the condescending red-coated cannons of the Ming army, and the red-coated cannons of the Ming army are still increasing one after another.
And Wu Sangui saw that Azig's offensive had made no progress, but he was overjoyed in his heart: "King Ying, don't worry, even if we can't take Tianmen Mountain, there are King Yu and King Su in Nanjing, as long as they go west with all their might, they can copy the back of the Jinhua thief, and these red-clothed cannons that the Jinhua thief has transported with all his might will become the spoils of our army at that time!"
Wu Sangui didn't talk about Nanjing, but when he talked about Nanjing Azig, he became more and more painful: "I have always felt that many of Nurhachi's descendants are really uncompetitive, but I really didn't expect Duoduo and Hauge to be so uncompetitive, they are really too discouraged!"
Wu Sangui was very concerned about this issue: "Why don't you fight for it, King Yu only used 80,000 people to pacify the entire Jiangnan!"
King Azig has always looked down on King Yu Duoduo, but now Duoduo's performance made him almost cry: "I knew that Duoduo was so uncompetitive, I shouldn't have sent troops to the east in the first place, hey...... King Yu, King Su and Hong Chengchou have already written me three letters, asking me to hurry up and march east to join them, otherwise Li Shutai and tens of thousands of soldiers in Suzhou Mansion will be wiped out, and I haven't figured it out until now, what kind of medicine did they take to make it look like this!"
Wu Sangui's heart became more and more happy, but his face was extremely serious and asked, "Won't it?" King Yu and King Su will not put the blame on you, King Ying!"
Azig originally didn't pay attention to the measures in the letters written by Duoduo and Hauge, but Wu Sangui reminded him that he suddenly understood: "There is such a possibility, there is a very high possibility, what they mean in their letter is that if Li Tai and the ten thousand kings of Suzhou Mansion are all gone, it is mainly because the reinforcements did not arrive in time, hum!" Bolo's 40,000 soldiers were all gone, presumably because the king's reinforcements didn't arrive in time!"
Wu Sangui was overjoyed, and hurriedly gave Duoduo and Haoge eye medicine in front of Azig: "Since King Su, King Yu, and Scholar Hong all said so, I'm afraid they won't send troops to attack the back of the Jinhua thief, and we can only count on us to fight alone!"
Azig also felt that he had met a group of pig teammates: "Wu Sangui, I told you, I really don't know what medicine King Yu and King Su took wrong, of course, the biggest responsibility for this matter is not on them, but on the person who put them in this position!"
Although Wu Sangui was bent on provoking the contradiction between Azig and the Manchurian nobles, Azig directly scolded the regent Dolgon in his words, and he also gasped: "King Ying, be cautious, you have to be cautious!"
It's just that Azig has always been reckless, and now he is even more directly named: "Bullshit, I think that the country that our father and brother fought down is about to be defeated at the hands of Dolgon!" If there are any three longs and two shortcomings in this Jiangnan battle, he Dolgon will bear the greatest responsibility!"
At this moment, Dolgon also encountered the first serious crisis since he came to power.
Although the two queen dowagers didn't say much, the princes and Baylor below were already close to glaring at Dolgon, as long as one was not handled properly, he would be the second Zhuying and Amin.
Even Prince Li, who usually lives at home and doesn't ask about political affairs, rushed over in person and asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "I heard that Wang Shi encountered another big setback in the south of the Yangtze River, and King Yu and King Su both said that they would have to transfer another 200,000 troops to the south to pacify!"
Dolgon's face was a little pale: "There is indeed such a letter, but I think King Yu and King Su are making a bit of a fuss!"