Chapter 55: Luo Rucai's Heart of Westward Expansion

Without him, politically inappropriate.

Based on Luo Rucai's plan, it is estimated that although the firecrackers trained in the future will be auxiliary troops, in a secondary position, they will definitely be quite a lot in number, and I am afraid that they will be used for the defense of various places, assisting the main force in attacking, escorting grain, grass and baggage, and so on.

If Zhang Xuan is allowed to train, Zhang Xuan will not be able to be placed in just one position of head of the sect, and Zhang Xuan's headquarters also has tens of thousands of horses, so let Zhang Xuan give up the men and horses of his headquarters and come to Beijing to lead 100,000 firecrackers, not to mention, in the future, most of these firecrackers will be scattered to various departments.

Just to say, Zhang Xuan was transferred, who is in charge of Zhang Xuan's subordinates.

It is impossible to send a random person over.

But He Hutou is much easier to arrange, after training, the official is promoted to several levels, and he leads a firecracker soldier alone, which is just a small army leader, plus He Yilong's relationship, Luo Rucai is also willing to cultivate He Hutou. Although He Yilong is dead, there are still many of He Yilong's old troops in the army, and there are more people who have a relationship with He Yilong.

With the support of these people, although He Hutou is small, he can also sit firmly in these positions.

After these things were finalized, Luo Ru left Zhang Xuan to speak alone in the palace. Zhang Xuan also remembered Yao Qisheng's matter, and also wanted to talk to Luo Rucai alone.

Luo Rucai exchanged some words with Zhang Xuan, talking about Jiangnan affairs, and it seemed that he didn't get into the main topic for a while, and Zhang Xuan also took the opportunity to tell Yao Qisheng about it.

After Luo Rucai heard this, he said indifferently: "This time, the champion is Yao Qisheng." ”

"More dads." Zhang Xuan said.

"What are you talking about? You are not for yourself, but also for me Cao Ying, no matter what, Wu Zhiping is also a meritorious man, he can't come to Nanjing, so naturally he has to be important to his disciples. Luo Rucai pondered for a while and said, "This alone doesn't seem to be enough. ”

"Kunisuke." Luo Rucai said.

"The slave is here." Li Guofu said.

"Give an order to Qian Qianyi, let him add a false title to Wu Zhiping, that is, the young master and the young guard, etc., if the world knows it, as long as you do things for my Cao Ying, my Cao Ying will never forget it." Luo Rucai said.

"Yes." Li Guofu said.

Luo Rucai sent Li Guofu away and ordered everyone to be a hundred steps away, and Zhang Xuan immediately knew that what Luo Rucai was talking about was very important.

"Today's year is not good, there is a big drought in the south of the Yangtze River, there has been no rain for a while, and the harvest of summer grain is not good, and I don't know what the situation is in the autumn grain." Luo Rucai said: "Qian Qianyi doesn't want to use troops on a large scale, and I know that it is right. There is not much food in the first place, and if there is another war, maybe there will be some chaos below. ”

"But I'm not reconciled." Luo Rucai said: "Zuo Liangyu was restrained by the imperial court before, but now the imperial court is gone, I am afraid of Zuo."

Liangyu will dominate one side, and it will be difficult to deal with when the time comes. ”

Zhang Xuan listened and nodded silently in his heart.

Thinking about it carefully, the imperial court and Zuo Liangyu are mutually restricted. Now that the court is gone, Zuo Liangyu has a emperor on his head, but he has let go of his hands and feet. Some civilian officials did not put Zuo Liangyu's heart at all, and once Zuo Liangyu integrated the strength of the remnants of the Ming army, a vast number of warlords across Jiangxi Lake appeared.

Maybe Zuo Liangyu can still integrate the two Guangzhous, once he succeeds. For Cao Ying, this is very bad news.

Although Zhang Xuan doesn't think that Zuo Liangyu has this ability, but history has come to this point, how can Zhang Xuan think that it must not work?

Zhang Xuan thought silently in his heart, and listened to Luo Rucai continue.

"It's good that you proposed to equip firearms on a large scale, but it also takes time, at least four or five months, and the army can't move." Luo Rucai said: "But it's not a way to miss the opportunity like this." ”

"What do you mean?" Zhang Xuan had already thought of a lot of things.

"I mean, the first strike is stronger, even if the army cannot be lightly released, nor can we let the officers and troops repair, our army on the Yangtze River does not stand on the advantage, so it is not a good note to march west along the Yangtze River, I will first favor the division as the vanguard, and open up another battlefield."

"But attack Jiangxi?" Zhang Xuan said.

"Exactly, what do you think?" Luo Rucai said.

Luo Rucai's meaning is already obvious, he wants to send Zhang Xuan to attack Zuo Liangyu before the main force of Cao Ying is launched, and the offensive route is to go west from Jinhua, enter Guangxin Mansion, and open another battlefield.

Zhang Xuan thought about it carefully.

I think it's good, although the Cao Ying army can't move now, but Zhang Xuan feels that he still has combat effectiveness after all, although he is tired, Zhang Xuan's Runing Army, Xuzhou Army, plus Yang Shenzu's one, and Jinhua Army's battalion, still have combat effectiveness.

And what made Zhang Xuan even more reluctant to give up was the weakness of the official army.

After Zhang Xuan crossed over from Chongzhen in the fourteenth year, the trend of the entire battlefield was to fight bigger and bigger.

Before, hundreds of thousands of officers and troops were large armies, but now Chuang Ying and Cao Ying are hundreds of thousands of troops, and before the Qing court entered the customs, the total strength was only 220,000. Zuo Liangyu was also in this situation, after the defeat of Zhu Xianzhen, he only had more than 10,000 soldiers left, and then expanded to 800,000.

But what kind of goods his 800,000 yuan is, Zuo Liangyu himself doesn't know.

It was not until he repaired for a while before he dared to fight Zhang Xianzhong.

And now, Cao Ying's troops are insufficient, is Zuo Liangyu's troops enough?

If it weren't for the fact that the control of the Yangtze River was in the hands of the officials and soldiers, Zuo Liangyu could threaten Nanjing at any time according to the upstream trend, and Luo Rucai had to hoard a large number of troops in Nanjing and Wuhu. Don't even dare to march

Another reason is probably that the water master is not able to catch it.

But in this case, Zuo Liangyu's troops are not too sufficient, he needs to garrison troops on the river, threaten Nanjing to confront Yang Chengzu, and also need to confront Bai Wang and Zhang Xianzhong in the west. Hundreds of thousands of troops are distributed in several directions, and the forces have long been dispersed.

Zhang Xuan's jurisdiction is adjacent to Jiangxi, and he has also explored the situation in Jiangxi.

Jiangxi is also surrounded by heavy troops in Nanchang, but I am afraid that there are not too many troops in the east of Nanchang. Zhang Xuan estimated that most of what he encountered was the resistance of the gentry, and even the resistance of the gentry would not exist, let alone ripe fruit.

But before advancing in Nanchang, I'm afraid there will be no resistance.

It's just that when you get to the vicinity of Nanchang, there will be a tough battle to be fought.

But is Zhang Xuan afraid of war?

Of course not afraid, after several years of military career, he has long regarded the conquest as instinct, and the only thing that makes him feel sorry is that I am afraid that this time will be protracted, and he will not be able to come back before the army marches westward. Back in Nanjing, maybe next year.

"Daddy, the child is willing to take on this heavy responsibility." Zhang Xuan said.

Luo Rucai said: "Okay." When it comes to attacking Jiangxi, you make your own decisions, I don't interfere, and when you feel ready, send troops. ”

"Yes." Zhang Xuan said: "The child will definitely detour from Jiangxi to Jiujiang, cut off the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and bite off Zuo Liangyu. ”

"That's fine." Luo Rucai said.

As Weng and his son-in-law were talking, they heard Li Guofu shouting loudly outside: "Emergency military situation." ”

"Bring it in." Luo Rucai frowned, and he didn't know what was going on for a while. Said in a deep voice.

Li Guofu immediately came in and presented a letter, Luo Rucai opened it, was furious, threw the letter on the table, and said, "What is Zhou Fuchen doing to eat." ”

Zhang Xuan took a look at it, and his mind sank suddenly, but he saw that it was written: "King Mingfu, King Zhou, King Chong, and King Tang are escorted by Ma Shiying, Shen Tingyang, and Ding Chukui, and they are going up the Yangtze River from the Yangtze River, and they have crossed the Jiujiang River at this moment. ”

Luo Rucai was afraid that Zuo Liangyu would be able to integrate the remnant forces, and the voice did not fall, and the opportunity to integrate the remnant forces came, but at this time, Cao Ying was overwhelmed, and for a while he had more than enough to defend and not enough to attack. The Yangtze River became an obstacle behind Cao Ying's house.

In fact, Zhou Fuchen can't be blamed entirely for this matter.

Zhou Fuchen has only a ship under his command, and he can intercept it even if he wants to.

However, this incident happened, and Zhang Xuan knew that the time when he stayed in Nanjing and did not stay in Jiangnan would enter the countdown, and the Jiangxi battlefield must be opened immediately. Once the Ming Court is allowed to clean up people's hearts, no one knows which side things will develop.

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