Chapter 137: The Eternal Expedition

Lin Jiading led his army to enter Guangdong Province by land and water.

The division between Yongli and Shaowu is not clear, for many local officials, having two more bosses on their heads certainly makes them confused, but they will not bet easily, at most who is powerful to whom.

Therefore, Qu Shiyun decided to strike preemptively, close to all-out, and let Guangxi send troops to the east first.

So everywhere he passed, all parts of the country surrendered.

Lin Jiading is also a civil official, a former Guangdong envoy, a native of Fujian, who is in Shaowu and Yongli, and chose Yongli. Qu Shiyun needs to leave enough troops to guard against Zhang Xuan and Liu Chengyin's generation, which cannot be easily mobilized. Lin Jiading is also known as a soldier. recruited Guangxi wolf soldiers, plus some soldiers from afar, to march east with Chen Bangyan.

There are quite a few people, but there is a similar situation with the Guangdong side, there are very few regular armies of all kinds, and there are very few formed armies, most of them are temporary conscripted soldiers, bandits, pirates, and the like.

Guangxi is a poor place, and the so-called poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people.

For many people, only money is nothing, and a life is nothing.

Coupled with Qu Shiyun's connections, he borrowed a lot of soldiers from Tusi from all over Guangxi, these people are only 10,000 or 20,000, but they are the backbone of this Eastern Crusade, and they are also where Lin Jiading's headquarters are located. Guangxi wolf soldiers may have such and such a notoriety, but the reputation of being able to fight is never less.

Lin Jiading has also seen the soldiers below, although the discipline is a little poor, but he is desperate, it is simply difficult for a husband to be desperate. For the rabble of the Shaowu army, it should have an advantage.

Lin Jiading remembered Qu Shiyun's advice.

There are two main points: First, we must solve the problem quickly. Time cannot be delayed, although Zhang Xuan is attacking Chenzhou Mansion at this time. But Zhang Tongchang couldn't support it for long, Chenzhou's side was already an endgame, and he wanted to transfer troops from Guizhou, but Guizhou supported the war against Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, and if he still had to assist in fighting in the direction of Hunan, he couldn't bear it at all.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan will soon be able to free up his soldiers.

Second, it is necessary to appease the people and gentry and not allow turmoil.

The reason is very simple, that is, Guangxi is a poor place, even during the Republic of China, the situation has not changed at all. Even in peacetime, Guangxi has to pay from Guangdong. Now that the teacher is booming, the money is like flowing water. The little silver that Qu Shiyun had on hand could not support the army at all.

After one or two wars, there was no military pay or military rations.

Richer than rich, Guangdong Province, can be richer than Yun, Gui, and Guizhou provinces combined. To fight a war is to fight for silver. Without the support of Guangdong, or under the First World War, Guangdong was beaten into a mess, even if today's battle was a victory, how would he resist the Xia army in the future and move south.

Therefore, it is necessary to appease the common people and gentry, keep the civil order not chaotic, and at least allow Guangdong to continue to bear the taxes.

Lin Jiading did the same.

As soon as he entered Guangdong, he kept the marching speed not slow, and even stepped up quickly, and went straight to Guangdong. Guangdong is a province, no, the weight of the two Guangzhou, it is in the city of Guangzhou, and once Guangzhou goes, the rest of Guangdong will not be able to support it.

Therefore, Lin Jiading wants to capture the thief and capture the king first.

On the other hand, he pacified the magistrates he passed, and even sent a few soldiers to recover the prefectures and counties, and all the officials were retained. You don't even have to change the flag. The momentum immediately shook the entire city of Guangzhou.

Li Guo hurriedly cleaned up, immediately turned over his horse, and headed towards the Guangzhou Mansion, at this time, this is the palace of Shaowu.

Li didn't come too late, but it wasn't too early, when he came. A lot of people have already arrived. But a moment later, Shaowu summoned the minister.

Everyone rushed in and discussed a strategy to break the enemy in front of Shaowu.

At this time, Hu Tang also got the news.

Generally speaking, Xia Jun's intelligence network is in the territory of the enemy country, which is a beat slower than the intelligence network of the enemy country, and Hu Tang's news is actually not obtained from the front line, but from the Shaowu court, as seen before, there is no secrecy at all in the Shaowu court.

Hu Tang got up and paced, and said secretly in his heart: "Sure enough, as I expected, Qu Shiyun is so fast." He had already judged this, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, you must know that the operation of the army is completely different from the single action of a few people, and there are too many preparations to be made.

Even if Zhang Xuan was in Changsha, it would not have been possible to give the order on the same day and send troops on the same day.

It was only a dozen days before and after, and Qu Shiyun's army had already arrived in Guangdong, which was not slow, but very fast.

Such a major news, all localities must have reported to Changsha, and Hu Tang was also ready to report to Zhang Xuan, but there was a question that he had to give his opinion. That is, under the current situation, when Zhang Xuan will intervene, where to intervene, first fight Shaowu, or fight Yongli first.

After all, Zhang Xuan sent Hu Tang to say, but it was not just to deliver the news.

If it's just a message, it doesn't matter who you send. Let Hu Tang come.

It is for Hu Tang to contribute to the situation of the two tigers fighting, and also to provide Zhang Xuan with reference opinions.

Hu Tang thought about it, but he still felt that it was easy to be the first and then the difficult.

He weighed the gap between Yongli and Shaowu, and felt that between Yongli and Shaowu Xianyu, he didn't care about it for the time being, because it was useless to say it, and now the two of them are obviously subject to the minister. For a while, he couldn't grasp the real power of the imperial court.

The battle between Yongli and Shaowu was not so much a fight between the two emperors as a fight between the two ministers. It is a game between Qu Shiyun and Ding Chukui.

On this, he pressed Qu Shiyun.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally wrote down his judgment in a secret text, asking Zhang Xuan to attack Guangzhou first, and then Guangxi.

After writing it, I began to suffer from gains and losses again.

Because the opinions he wrote down were only his own opinions, whether they could be adopted by Zhang Xuan was another matter.

With a Tanma disguised as a businessman, he escaped from the city of Guangzhou, all the way to Changsha. Hu Tang's task in Guangzhou City was mostly completed. There is only one thing left for him to do, and that is to do internal response.

Zhang Xuan did not tell Hu Tang to do this thing.

However, after Hu Tang saw the Jiancheng of Guangzhou, he felt that the city of Guangzhou could not be attacked for as long as Changsha, and if Shaowu insisted on it, it might not be as long as Ganzhou. And the importance of Guangzhou is so great. Hu Tang decided to install a traitor in the city of Guangzhou.

On the one hand, the handover with the market hooligans in Guangzhou City, the local order of the two emperors fighting each other was a little chaotic, not to mention a large number of pirates and bandits entered the city and turned into officials and soldiers, so the public security of Guangzhou City was getting worse day by day, and many investigations could not be carried out, and there were even cases of murder on the street, and the people were panicked. However, under such circumstances, it is convenient for Hu Tang's activities, and it is almost important to be willing to spend money, and there is nothing that cannot be inquired about. And some cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods have also emerged.

Originally, in the cities of the late Ming Dynasty, there were some organizations with the nature of the underworld, such as fighting the industry, which generally could not be put on the stage. Under the stimulus of this situation. Whether it is the people of Guangzhou who protect themselves or these people who find an opportunity, these organizations are expanding rapidly anyway. In Hu Tang's opinion, it is already useful.

On the one hand, all the spies from all over the world gathered in the city of Guangzhou. However, no matter how useful these people are, they are not just scoundrels in the market, and they have no chance of winning when they fight with real soldiers. Therefore, Hu Tang still has to believe in his own people.

Many of the spies selected by Zhang Xuan are elite soldiers in the army. There is also a night that does not accept the body, and it is difficult to wash off the smell of soldiers on these bodies, but in these years, there are routs all over the ground, which is also a normal phenomenon. And the counter-espionage agency of the Ming Dynasty was almost blank. It doesn't seem like there's much to worry about. Yongli also has Jinyi as the commander Ma Jixiang, although he often does not do his job, but Shaowu does not even have Jinyi guards here.

These people only have to gather together, not too much, and they have considerable combat power.

Not for anything else, just to help Zhang Xuan when Zhang Xuan's soldiers came to the city.

It's just that I don't know when Zhang Xuan will be able to come to the city.