"What? And now there are still people who are facing the king? Isn't there a fraud? ”

Li Laiheng stopped, looked back at Liu Wenxiu, who reported the matter, showed a surprised expression, and said something that made the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty a little discouraged.

Song Xiance, the military division, said in the class: "Emperor Ye, the civil rebellion of the Shizhou Weijian Nansi in the territory of Zhu Thief is not a fraud, but a good man from the Trade Department of the Chaohu Government. ”

"Someone from the Department of Trade of the household government did it again?" Li Laiheng, "It won't be the same as the one in February, and there will be no follow-up at the beginning, right?" ”

"Emperor, the righteous army in the territory of Shizhou Wei Jiannan Division is the righteous army of Huya Mountain," Song Xiance said with a happy face, "The easy handling of the Huya Mountain incident was not wiped out by the Zhu thieves, they crossed the river before the Zhu thief army surrounded Huya Mountain, along Jingmen Mountain and Qingshui all the way to the west, and in mid-March it was transferred to the territory of Shizhou Wei, and on March 22, the flag was raised near the Jiannan Division, breaking the defenders of the Zhu thief, attacking more than a dozen valleys at the junction of the Jiannan Division and Wanzhou and Shizhu, and playing the banner of the king. ”

Li Laiheng frowned, with a look of disbelief: "The native soldiers of Shizhou are quite good at fighting, and there are countless watchtower fortresses in the territory, and they have not been able to break them many times, why are they so useless now?" ”

Shi Zhouwei is not an ordinary military guard, but a military and civilian command envoy who governs the people with the army, which was set up by Ming Taizu Hongwu in the 23rd year. Twenty-three years before Hongwu, Shizhou and Shizhouwei coexisted, with the former in charge of the people and the latter in charge of the army. However, because of the local Tusi rebellion, after being suppressed, Zhu Yuanzhang turned Shizhou into a military area under the jurisdiction of a military guard.

At the beginning, only 1,500 military households were relocated to settle in Tuntian, and some Tusi were also absorbed, and later some military households were moved in one after another, and began to multiply there. The terrain of Shizhouwei is a bit peculiar, it is a remote mountainous area, and the population was very small in the early Ming Dynasty. But the mountains there are not tall, and when you look down from the sky, there are dense Mantou Mountains, and between these Mantou Mountains, there are slopes or valleys that can be cultivated. In addition, there are several large valley basins that can be cultivated.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, those valleys and slopes were covered by forests, and in the following 200 years, they were continuously reclaimed and turned into terraced fields or high-yield paddy fields, raising more and more military households. It is precisely because the population of Shizhouwei in the early years was very small and there was a lot of land that could be cultivated, so until the Chongzhen period, the contradiction between man and land there was not very prominent. The military families living there were not destitute, so they maintained a certain amount of force, and they also married each other, forming many mountain clans. This group of military households who benefited from the rule of the Ming Dynasty was very loyal to the Ming Dynasty. When the troubled times came, Shizhouwei became an important stronghold of the Ming Dynasty at the junction of Huguang and Sichuan.

In the original history, the resistance of the Ming Dynasty in Shizhouwei lasted until the fourth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1665), and within a few years, Wu Sangui raised troops in Yunnan (1673), and Shizhouwei again raised troops to respond and continue to oppose the Qing. After the fall of Wu Zhou, there was not much peace there, and the descendants of the local Ming Dynasty military households continued to resist the Qing Dynasty's land reform and return to the stream, until the sixth year of Yongzheng, when Shizhou Wei and Datian were withdrawn, and the rule of the Qing Dynasty was realized.....

Under the rule of Zhu Cihong, the military households of Shizhouwei (Tusi) and the Sichuan military households (Tusi) who withdrew to Zunyi Mansion, as well as the military households (Tusi) of Guizhou, and the military households (Tusi) who ran out of Yunnan, together constituted the southern army faction in the Ming army - the Ming army has always had a contradiction between the north and the south, and Zhu Cihong's army is not all new army, and there are many armies that are slightly adapted on the basis of the traditional Ming army, among which the smallest adaptation is the Ming army in Yunnan, Guichuan and Shizhou. Therefore, the army of a family is more independent, the degree of feudalism is higher, and it is not very willing to be too far from home. But when guarding the house, he was very tenacious, so he was contemptuously called a thief by the Dashun army.

Although the terrain of Shizhouwei is not particularly steep, the Ming army that cannot stand Shizhouwei is particularly keen to build fortresses, and the terrain of Shizhouwei can also support fortress warfare - a large number of hills are all good places to build fortresses, and the valley bottoms, basins, and slopes under the mountains can provide sufficient logistical support for the fortress.

In addition, the Ming military households in that area are also rooted in the countryside like the military households in Dashun, and they have been rooted for more than 200 years, and have formed a dense military household clan.

Therefore, the attack of the Dashun army on Shizhouwei will always fall into the people's war of the Ming army - the front line cannot capture the fortress, and the rear is disturbed by the Shizhou army, and the Dashun army does not dare to fight a protracted battle in Shizhouwei, because the new army of the Ming army in Huguang will soon come to support, and finally can only retreat in embarrassment.

However, Shi Zhouwei's Ming army was also not interested in attacking Wanzhou and Shizhu, which were ruled by Dashun, so the war between the two sides became more and more weak...... Ten years after the co-rule, the two armies of Ming and Shun fought vigorously on the northern front, but the war in the area of Shizhouwei gradually extinguished, but the smuggling trade between the two sides flourished.

Song Xiance said: "The emperor doesn't know, most of the heroes in the rivers and lakes who were mobilized by the Trade Division are begging for a living on Jingmen Road (smuggling route), and they are all ...... with great shun aspirations."

"All hearts are towards Dashun? Isn't it just some private business? Li Laiheng said, "Are these people reliable?" There won't be a fraud, right? ”

Gu Junen, the secretary of the household government, came out and said: "Your lord, the private businessmen who can trade with the trade department of the household government for a long time have all paid their names, and most of them are heroes on the Jingchu rivers and lakes, and they all admire the heroes of King Chuang, and are willing to follow to do a great career!" ”

King Chuang is also a job that can be replaced, the first generation of King Chuang is Gao Yingxiang, the second generation of King Chuang is Li Zicheng, the third generation of King Chuang is Li Guo, and the fourth generation of King Chuang is Li Laiheng - since Li Zicheng, King Chuang and Emperor Dashun have been connected together.

Therefore, the king of Jing Chu Jianghu that Gu Junen said is Li Laiheng!

Hearing Gu Junen say this, Li Laiheng finally had some faith, nodded, and looked at Song Xiance again.

Song Xiance said: "It is reported that among the heroes who followed Niu Jie of the Trade Division from Huya Mountain to the west, many people are extremely familiar with the terrain around the Jiannan Division, and they have friendships with several Tusi in the area of the Jiannan Division, so they can earn the castle and occupy the valley.

Emperor, this is a rare opportunity to fight back against the remnant Zhu thief! Mo said that taking down the entire Shizhou Wei is to take down half of the Shizhou Wei, which can also publicize the prestige of Dashun, and at the same time attract the soldiers and horses of the remnants of the Ming to reinforce the Shizhou Wei and reduce the pressure on the northern front. ”

"King Han, what do you think?" Li Laiheng was a little undecided, so he asked Liu Zongmin for advice.

Liu Zongmin stroked his white beard, his eyes squinted, and he seemed to be thinking hard.

"Emperor, I think sending troops to Shizhou Wei is an opportunity to fight back, but now that the overall situation of the enemy's strength and weakness has been decided, you still have to prepare for the worst."

"What's the worst-case scenario?" Li Laiheng asked knowingly.

Although he said in his early years that he was willing to be Liu Adou, but Liu Adou was the emperor for forty-one years before he was "happy", and he was only in the first year of Dongping Daxing, why did he have to "be happy"?

Liu Zongmin said slowly: "The worst plan is, of course, for the remnants of Ming to break through Daba Mountain and enter Shu......

As soon as his words came out, there was a dead silence in the hall.

After a while, I heard Li Laiheng sigh, "King Qin, King Tang, you two should also talk about it." ”

Qin Wang Sun Kewang frowned: "Emperor, it seems that it is certain that the remnants of the Ming Dynasty will enter Shu, and now the question is how to fight and how to leave?" ”

"How to fight? How to go? Li Laiheng asked, "Is it fighting or leaving?" ”

"You have to have two hands," Liu Wenxiu said, "no, there should be three hands!" ”

"The three hands?"

Liu Wenxiu said: "The first hand is a counterattack!" The second hand is the decisive battle against Bashu; The third hand is the southward migration......"