After all the official business is handled, it is time to hit the road again.

Lin Xiao sent Wang Dong to the Tiger Harbor Shipyard to inform Sun Lei, asking him to prepare for the "Qinzhou" to set sail and come to the Baisha Island wharf early tomorrow morning to pick up the troops and board the ship.

The affairs of the family were straightened out, and he planned to set off for Qinzhou tomorrow, in addition to the military uniform, he also wanted to see the operation of several factories over there.

What's more, his heart has already flown to Lu Hua's side at this moment, and he can't wait to rush over immediately, hug her in his arms, and whisper to her all night.

After all, he is a young man in love, and as soon as he relaxes every day, the concern hidden in his heart will jump into his heart, sweet and sour, and make him intoxicated.

At this moment, sitting alone in the empty headquarters, that kind of thought is even more out of control, and in the blink of an eye, the thoughts become a river......

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The next day, in Nanjing, in the former Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces of the Qing Dynasty, was sitting paralyzed in front of the book case with a dead face......

A few days ago, when he received an emergency report from Wang Nikan of Jingjin County, who was sitting in Changsha, he was quite calm.

Although Nikan was extremely upset that the striker Belle Tunqi had died in Wugang, and the six-hundred-mile urgent Tang Bao repeatedly asked for urgent reinforcements, Hong Chengchou was not very surprised by this incident.

According to various intelligences, the terrifying mysterious team of the Ming army, although it was recruited a few years ago, but the number was still less than 20,000, since they did not attack Guangdong as he expected, but killed in the direction of the middle of the heavy army, then Guangdong's Shang Kexi was relatively safe.

If you don't even have to pay the bait of Guangdong, then, once the 100,000 troops of Wu Sangui on the West Road break through the defense line of Li Dingguo of Qiangui and take Nanning City in one fell swoop, it will inevitably achieve greater results than expected.

Although Nikan here will be under too much pressure, he believes that the middle route army, which has more than 10,000 elite cavalry and oppression formations, is not so easy to defeat in the vast Huguang battlefield.

Fighting on the Sanxiang Plain is no better than in the vast mountains of western Hunan Province, where the power of the cavalry can be brought into full play, and it only needs to be a tug-of-war; at that time, another elite cavalry force stationed in the Jingzhou area of Jiangbei can cross the river at any time to reinforce, which is much better than when the mountains and high roads in Guangdong are far too late for reinforcements.

However, the second emergency report that had just arrived yesterday startled the ambitious Hong Chengchou.

Chen Tai, a general of Jingnan stationed in Jiangxi, suddenly found that the Ming army had appeared in Ji'an and Ganzhou, and in just a few days, these two places fell to the enemy.

This, how could there be a Ming army in the hinterland of Jiangxi? Did they come from Zhuzhou or northern Guangdong? How come there is no sign beforehand?

What's even more terrifying is that it seems that this is also part of that mysterious team, otherwise how could the defense line of Ganzhou, an important town in southern Ganzhou, which is heavily garrisoned, be punctured in an instant like paper paste?

The purpose of these two Ming armies is to divide their troops in a pincer offensive, and the ultimate goal is likely to be the same place - Nanchang.

What made Hong Chengchou gasp was that once the important place of Nanchang was lost, then this Ming army could encircle Changsha in the west, threaten Zhejiang and Fujian in the east, and even directly cut off the Yangtze River channel in the north......

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou felt a chill in his back, but didn't Nikan say that he was attacked by tens of thousands of Ming troops? How can there be troops east out of Jiangxi?

Could it be that Chen Tai's puss is lying about the military situation? Or is Nikan exaggerating?

After pondering for a long time, Hong Chengchou, who had no master of the six gods, hurriedly ordered Chen Tai to defend the front line of Xinyu and Fuzhou, and at the same time Feishu Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Fujian, asked them to lead their troops to urgently drive to Quzhou and Raozhou to strictly prevent the Ming army from fleeing eastward.

What Hong Chengchou never expected was that more bad news was still on the way, and less than half a day after the herald ordered his soldiers to set off, Wu Sangui's emergency report arrived again.

This is a military situation that completely defeated Hong Chengchou - the forward of the Western Route Army was unfavorable and was almost wiped out, and only a few thousand of the more than 40,000 people fled back to Luzhou!

More serious things, the face of the Ming army actually took advantage of the victory to attack, Luzhou in the Bijia Mountain area has found traces of a small group of Ming troops, Wu Sangui asked for instructions whether to defend according to the river, or to withdraw the baggage to Chengdu first, the tone of the text seemed extremely panicked.

This, this, this, can anyone tell me, what the hell is going on?

This, the Ming army on the other side, are you sure that it is still the original recipe and the original taste?

thought that he had paid enough attention to his opponent, but at this moment, Hong Chengchou found that the strength of the opponent was far beyond his imagination.

Isn't all the price paid for the good news of the Western Route Army?

If Wu Sangui is defeated, wouldn't the strategy of attacking the west and defending the east formulated by someone with great effort become a big joke?

This is simply "the previous wave was as fierce as a tiger, and the record was 0 to 5"!

How can this battle be fought?

Hong Chengchou sat silently, not moving for a long time, and there was no trace of anger on the thin face that looked like a dry corpse......

If there is no result on the west road and the middle road is broken through, then Guangdong will become an outcast, and even the entire south of the Yangtze River, won't it be lost sooner or later?

The more Hong Chengchou thought about it, the more frightened he became, and in his eyes, he seemed to see the scene of the Qing army in Jiangnan collapsing and the wolves rushing to the front; It was as if he saw the little emperor Shunzhi's face, which was flushed with anger, and he was tearing at his plea on the ground, and his mouth kept spraying howls that wanted to break his body into pieces; seems to have seen the tragic situation of his family being beheaded all over the house and crying for his father and mother when he was escorted to the entrance of the vegetable market......

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If Lin Xiao saw Hong Chengchou's current appearance of a ghost who was worse than death, he would definitely sneer contemptuously, and then coldly make up for it: "Fortunately, Guangdong is too far away, if you receive a good distress report in time, you won't vomit blood and die on the spot?" ”

Of course, Lin Xiao naturally couldn't see Hong Chengchou's appearance at the moment, and he was not interested in thinking about this, at this moment, he was sitting happily in the high stern of the "Qinzhou", enjoying the spring colors on both sides of the Qinjiang River outside the window.

"The wind blows the willows and willows", just like his mother's hand gently caressing his face, very pleasant, the wind brings the smell of freshly turned earth, mixed with the smell of grass, and the aroma of various flowers are brewing in the slightly moist air.

Wildflowers bloomed all over the mountains and fields on both sides, with names and without names, scattered in the grass, like eyes, like stars. Peach trees, apricot trees, pear trees, you don't let me, I don't let you, are all full of flowers, red like fire, pink like xia, white like snow, sweet in the flowers, thousands of bees buzzing under the flowers, flocks of butterflies flying around, everywhere to join in the fun.

The birds nest in the midst of the flowers and leaves, and their crisp voices are in harmony with the breeze and water, and in the distance, the piccolo of the shepherd boy on the back of the ox emits a gentle and melodious tune......

(End of chapter)