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"Your commander-in-chief has a big heart, can such a small person and such a grand plan be realized?"

After seeing Lin Xiao leave with the special operations team, Chu Fang, who was standing at the head of Suining City, sighed.

"What do you call commander-in-chief? Is it our commander-in-chief? Zhu Yujia turned his head to stare at her and pouted.

"Okay, okay, did I say the wrong thing?"

Chu Fang avoided his gaze and said coquettishly: "I'm a little worried, with more than 20,000 of us, can we really recover the entire Jiangnan?" This is not one city or one government, but the territory of five or six provinces. ”

She had never been to Hankou Town, the thoroughfare of nine provinces on the Yangtze River, but she had heard her father mention that it was more than a thousand miles away, not to mention fighting, and it would take ten days and half a month to arrive just by running, and the ferocity of the Manchurian cavalry was not blown out of thin air.

"What's this? To tell you the truth, I still think Mr. Lin is too cautious, according to my temper, I would have already waved my army north and directly won the Beijing Division! …… Just watch, as long as you guard my rear, don't look at my third regiment less than 10,000 soldiers, sweeping Huguang is a trivial matter, sooner or later I will be one step ahead of others and take the lead in crossing the Yangtze River! ”

Zhu Yujia straightened up and said with a proud face, he knew that from Wuhan to the north, out of Xiangyang, it was the vast Central Plains.

If you want to settle the Central Plains and drive the Manchurians out completely, you must first seize Luoyang, an important town in the Central Plains, so that you can not only go north to Shanxi and go east to Shandong, but more importantly, this is the throat of controlling the Guanzhong region and then conquering the vast northwest.

Zhu Yujia knows very well that it has always been Lin Xiao's dream to march north to the Mongolian Plateau along the old route of the Yellow River, as well as to go west out of the Hexi Corridor and reopen the Silk Road.

And his way has an advantage that the other three roads don't have, and the Hubei region that Lin Xiao wants him to seize is the closest to the Central Plains.

"Well, since you're so good, no one cares about it, then...... You Mr. Lin, will you be the emperor yourself in the future? ”

"No!"

Zhu Yujia glanced at Chu Fang and replied categorically.

Although he didn't know very well, if they finally turned against the Ming court, Lin Xiao planned to adopt a constitutional monarchy, a parliamentary cabinet system, or a political consultative conference system similar to that of later Huaxia to govern the country.

But one thing he can be sure of is that no one in their team will dare to restore the imperial system, and the farce and fate of Yuan Shikai in later generations are all clear.

"But...... Could it be that he has always been willing to send people under the fence and be a courtier of the Ming Emperor? Isn't he afraid that he will be plotted against the Lord in the future? You must know that the atmosphere of party struggle among the ministers of the Ming Dynasty and the tradition of killing people with knives have accumulated a lot of difficulties, and the country has eroded to this point, which is not just as simple as a natural disaster. ”

Chu Fang's beautiful eyes looked at Zhu Yujia and whispered.

She is not a reckless man, since she has decided to go with them, she must have a judgment on the future outcome.

Besides, she was already full of affection for the man in front of her, but reason told her that only by completely solving her inner doubts would she dare to let go of her worries, give herself to him, and accompany him all the way.

This time, at the moment of the war, she wanted to open her heart, have a good chat with him, and thoroughly explore the true thoughts of these people.

After listening to this, Zhu Yujia looked at Chu Fang fixedly, her eyes were like stars shining in the deep sky, shining with the light of wisdom, as if she could peek into the depths of other people's souls.

This woman not only knows how to fight, can manage politics, but also has a strong sense of politics, it's not simple!

After hesitating for a long time, Zhu Yu Jia slowly opened his mouth and patiently explained:

"For now, we accept the court's appeasement and resist the Qing Dynasty as an official and soldier because...... As long as Emperor Yongli did not abandon the country for a day, even if the Ming Dynasty did not die for a day, this righteousness is still there, and hope is still there, and the people of the world will not die and be willing to be enslaved by the Manchus, as long as the Ming army reappears in front of them, there will definitely be many people who are willing to stand up against the brutal Manchurians again......

As for the senders you mentioned, we Lin always think like this, borrowing all the power that can be used, borrowing all the names that can win people's hearts, borrowing all the means that can defeat the enemy, as long as it is beneficial to the anti-Qing Dynasty, we don't mind, and we don't care about sending people under the fence.

Thinking of our Chinese country, throughout the past dynasties, all because of loyalty, prosperity, treachery, and finally defeat due to internal fighting, therefore, before the Manchus are driven out of the Central Plains and the northern land where the Han people have lived for generations, we cannot repeat the mistakes of internal strife. ”

"As for the future, we really won't simply hand over the recovered rivers and mountains to them, what Mr. Lin just said, you should understand that what we really have to rely on is not those people in the court, nor the gentry and wealthy families, but hundreds of millions of Li people...... Don't look down on these mud legs, there is a saying that water can carry a boat and can capsize a boat, only by leading the poor people of the whole world to really turn over and become their own masters, this country will be strong and can stand forever.

At that time, whether the imperial court can tolerate us, and whether Emperor Yongli can be willing to be his son of peace, really depends on themselves, not on us...... I think that Mr. Lin will definitely have a countermeasure, if we really want to turn our face, we will never back down. ”

"I think this is what our President Lin really thinks."

Finally, Zhu Yujia looked directly into Chu Fang's eyes and said softly, "You...... We must protect ourselves and live well, people's lives are very short, if we can see the country prosperous and strong in our lifetime, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment and no longer be enslaved, then all our killings and all the struggles at this moment are worth it...... At that time, we will return to the field, find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and spend the rest of our lives quietly, okay? ”

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In the mountainous area of northern Qianbei, Zunyi Dongshan Road, a place called Shrimp Town.

A procession was hurrying forward, full of cavalry, many with more than one horse, and in addition to the war horse, a pack horse to carry food and ammunition.

The formation of the team was spread out, and at the front, a dozen or so cavalrymen were loaded with guns and ammunition, winding along the rugged mountain road, and it was Lin Xiao who was sitting on the horse at the head.

The Battle of Guibei had been arranged, and all the former enemy commands were entrusted to Zhu Yujia for decision-making, and Lin Xiao decided to rush to Guizhou in person to help Li Dingguo.

During the phone call with Zhang Chenfeng and Ding Shuai, they learned that the Qing army on the west road had invaded the south on a large scale, and its vanguard troops were divided into two routes, attacking Zunyi and Bijie respectively.

Because Liu Wenxiu's troops stationed in the Bijie area were thin, and Li Dingguo's main force to the north had not yet arrived due to the slow movement of the war elephants, Zhang Chenfeng volunteered to go to Bijie to help.

Li Dingguo personally led 5,000 iron horsemen to the north to resist the enemy in the starry night, and the remaining 30,000 foot soldiers followed up, and the newly incorporated Yuan Sun Kewang under Bai Wenxuan, Ma Weixing and other subordinates temporarily stayed in Guiyang for training.

After the main force of Ding Shuai's first regiment set out from Nanning, it was also because of a large number of infantry and baggage, especially dragging the 15 bulky steel cannons, and marching in the mountains, the speed could not be fast at all, and it was not easy to drive away more than 800 li in so many days, and at this moment it had just arrived in the Guiyang area, and there were still more than 250 miles away from Zunyi in northern Qianbei.

Lin Xiao was worried about the situation in northern Qianbei, so he ordered He Shouxin's guard company to break away from the large army and rush to Zunyi to meet him in the starry night, while he himself accelerated forward with the special operations team.

Thank you for the book friend's secret promise! Thank you book friends for the speedy reward!

(End of chapter)