This murder method is very cumbersome, and it also makes Tong Yangjia feel bad.

Tong Yangjia was on a boat when he escaped, and after Li Yuanyin killed him, he drank a meal on his boat, and let Tong Yangjia's entourage wait to pour him wine and add food.

When he had enough to eat and drink, he killed the waiters as well, probably because he didn't want to tip.

Then Li Yuanyin abandoned the corpses of Tong Yangjia and all his entourages on the ship and continued to expose them to the sun, and also covered the body of Tong Yangjia like a fig leaf in the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty governor, and let Tong Yangjia and the thief ship he prepared for Tong Yangjia go down the river, warning all the ministers at both ends of the head rat along the downstream coast.

Since then, the Ming army in Jiangnan has formed a good situation headed by the main force of Tianlang, the Ming army, Li Chengdong, Jin Shenghuan, and Zheng Chenggong.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and when Tianlang and Li Chengdong were about to send troops to recover Huguang, the battle report from Jiangxi came.

After receiving Jin Shenghuan's distress letter, Tianlang pushed away the chair and stood up, his thin lips were pursed, and a layer of fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

It can be said that Tianlang can be moody and invisible, born in a family like him, even if he paints a tiger according to cats, he will practice a calm and moody Qi cultivation kung fu.

But the contents of the letter were so unexpected that they threatened the lives of the military and civilians of a province.

Tianlang hurriedly summoned all the generals, and when Hao Yongzhong, Li Chengdong and Li Yuanyin walked in, Tianlang didn't even greet a few people, but directly took the letter to everyone to circulate.

"Let's take a look, we're in big trouble."

Several people were also shocked after reading the letter, and Deng Kai suddenly raised his head and asked:

"Hooray, is it possible to say in this letter?"

"Here's the problem, it seems that Jinyiwei's intelligence work needs to be strengthened," Tianlang looked at Deng Kai with a sullen look, and Deng Kai lowered his head with some shame.

"Well, the minister will definitely strengthen it in the future, and promise that he will not ignore such a large-scale operation of the enemy army again."

"Well, this is the best, war, it is difficult to leave a second chance for the defeated side."

"Hooray, why did the enemy make such a big disturbance in Jiangxi alone?" Li Chengdong is still a little puzzled.

"The rebel army in Huaiyou is just a small fight, and almost all uprisings of this scale in various provinces such as Huaiyou exist, and Dolgon doesn't pay much attention to it."

Tianlang analyzed it for everyone, "But Jiangxi is different, the Qing army attaches importance to it because Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren made too much noise, they not only raised the whole province of Jiangxi to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but also killed almost all the officials sent by Jiannu to Jiangxi, how could Dolgon not be angry?" ”

"Dolgon and Duoduo smashed their heavy punches this time, not only to quell the rebellion, but also to use this blow to deter all those in the world who want to oppose the Qing."

Tianlang paced, frowning more and more.

"But the ministers know what is going on over there in the Tartars!" Li Chengdong's voice was a little loud.

"At this time, the Tartars had nearly 300,000 troops in the south, among which Haoge dealt with the rest of the Dashun army in Sichuan, Duoduo concentrated his forces against Zheng Chenggong in Fujian, and Azig was retained by Duoduo on the way back to Beijing, so that he could clear the rebel army in Huaiyou."

Li Chengdong folded his fingers and calculated, "How can they actually invest another 200,000 troops in Jiangxi Province alone?" The war in other parts of their country is not over yet, where did so many troops come from to Jiangxi? ”

Tianlang stood by the window with his hands in his hands, looked at the scenery outside the window, and said in a difficult tone:

"The Qing army attacking Jin Shenghuan has a total of eight Gushan Ezhen, all of which are drawn from the north and south capitals, will there be water for the 200,000 troops? Moreover, in order to really fight, Dolgon sent 200,000 troops to Jiangxi, and also let Kong Youde from Huguang join in. ”

The soldiers of Bagu Mountain led by Tan Tai are said to have nearly 200,000 horses, half of which are Manchurian elites, and half of them are members of Liu Liangzuo, Gushan, the Han army with yellow flags.

Liu Liangzuo's name is not known, but in the first bloody battle after the Qing army entered the customs, the Battle of Jiangyin, this person was deadly, and his strength should not be underestimated.

On the Huguang side, with the strength of Li Jin and Liu Tichun, the Qing army had Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi enough to deal with it.

It was Dolgon who felt that Jiangxi's troops were less than 200,000 and that the guarantee of victory was not enough, so he ordered Kong Youde of Huguang to bring his headquarters to Jiangxi to help in the war, and this made up 200,000 people.

In Jiangxi, there are Jin Shenghuan's headquarters and the rebel army temporarily organized in response to him, with a total of 200,000 people.

Although the two sides seem to be equal in number, these rebel armies are just some civilians who have just taken up arms, and they are fundamentally different from the Qing army in terms of equipment and combat strength.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Jin Shenghuan immediately wrote a letter to the Ming court for help, and the letter was also sent directly to Tianlang by Jinyiwei.

So Tianlang's plan to recover Huguang will be shelved again, and he can only lead a total of 70,000 horses of Jinyiwei and Hao Yongzhong and Li Chengdong to rush to Jiangxi to help Jin Shenghuan, and a big war is about to begin.

Before sending troops to Jiangxi, Tianlang issued the last few orders, the first was to make Zheng Chenggong of Fujian Zhongxiao Marquis and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and appointed Zheng Chenggong's uncle Zheng Hongkui as the commander of the navy.

When he came to Guangzhou two months ago, Tianlang even named Li Chengdong, a general, the Duke of Huiguo, so of course he couldn't forget Zheng Chenggong, who was fighting alone in the southeast.

and Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were also named county marquis and county uncle, Tianlang wanted to raise troops to Jiangxi, of course, he had to give Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren a meeting gift.

Then it was the last thing to do before leaving, to welcome the queen mother of the two palaces to move to Liuzhou, the war is approaching, although the queen mother of the two palaces has never seen Tianlang, but it is reasonable, Tianlang has to send them to the rear to ensure safety.

Before the heavy rain, the more silent and windless, the more depressing the breath is.

Reinforcements were soon drawn out, and the waves of heaven hurriedly walked on the march.

But the cavalry needs to be with the infantry, and this kind of march makes Tianlang very uneasy, and he is always worried that Jin Shenghuan will not be able to withstand it.

The Qing army's southern expedition was huge, which Tianlang did not expect, so when Tianlang had arranged the Juntian affairs in Guangdong before, he also prepared to advance Huguang.

When the Qing army really started, Tianlang found that his preparation was still not sufficient.

Maybe it's because the previous battles went too smoothly that caused me to feel a little underestimated, right?

Tianlang had time to arrange the affairs of Guangdong, first, like Li Chengdong's judgment, he thought that Dolgon could not come up with more troops.

The second is to know that the flag people do not dare to go south in summer, they are used to the terroir of the northeast, and they will easily get chickenpox when they come to the south in the hot summer.

If it were one or two people, they would have died, but once there was a smallpox epidemic in the hundreds of thousands of troops, the outcome would be catastrophic.

(End of chapter)