"You said he didn't want to attack Phi Dao." Wang Hua looked at Xu Lang, "Then what do you think Tao Min's next move will be?" ”

"Let's break it down." Xu Lang put a few teacups and teacup lids on the table.

"Li Zicheng should be standing with Tao Min now." Xu Lang moved the lids of the two teacups to the side of the table, "Although I don't know what identity Tao Min used in front of Li Zicheng yet." ”

"We, the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong, these three Taomin should not be able to pull over." Xu Lang put three more teacups on the other side.

"Wait." Leng Tianbing interjected, "Not necessarily. Even if Tao Min doesn't move Zheng Zhilong, but if we lose Yanchang County, we will lose the power of the Pearl Tao Min will definitely let Zheng Zhilong know, and our right to speak is the Pearl. ”

"But the Pearl has two propulsion systems, even if we run out of fuel and steam." Xia Yang said.

"Combat can't rely entirely on the steam system, it's too slow." Leng Tianbing retorted, "It's okay to rely on the steam system for long-distance sailing, but it still depends on fuel for a real fight." ”

"Let's not talk about that." Xu Lang interrupted the argument between the two people, "There are two forces left now, Huang Taiji and Westerners. Tao Min will not use these two forces, think about it, if we go all out to fight Li Zicheng and recover Yanchang County, Huang Taiji breaks through again, and at the same time the Westerners attack Singapore or Vietnam with all their might, what will we do? ”

"Then you mean we give up Yanchang County?" Dong Fei asked.

Xu Lang shook his head again: "No." Tao Min is very smart, he will never use Li Zicheng to lay down Yanchang County and give up. I was thinking that Tao Min would have suggested to Li Zicheng to establish a base in Yanchang County, Yan'an Prefecture, and even Xi'an. Because only if Li Zicheng becomes bigger, can he contain the Ming Dynasty and us. ”

"Then you mean to recover Yanchang County?" Wang Hua asked again.

"I don't know, I'm in a mess right now." Xu Lang took the teacup lid representing Li Zicheng in his hand, "In the end, do you want to kill Li Zicheng first, do we have the ability to kill Li Zicheng." ”

"Everyone knows the situation, it's not early, today is Chinese New Year's Eve." Zhang Guodong said, "I think everyone should go back and rest first, and think about what we should do next." Wan Tao, do a good job of martial law prevention. Lao Xia, how about we have another time-traveling conference the day after tomorrow? ”

"Okay, let's do it first." Xia Yang agreed, "We will discuss it at a meeting the day after tomorrow." ”

Xia Yang and Xu Lang returned home and ate a few bites of food and went back to the house separately.

Cheng Yiyi and Zhao Zhiruo didn't sleep, waiting for Xu Lang in the bedroom.

"You guys go to bed first, I've got something to do." Xu Lang said a word, took out a pen and paper, lit the oil lamp and sat at the table.

Zhao Zhiruo looked at Cheng Yiyi, wanted to say something but didn't say anything, got up and poured a cup of tea for Xu Lang: "Rest early, don't be too tired." ”

Xu Lang patted Zhao Zhiruo's hand: "I know, you go to sleep first." ”

The oil lamp in the bedroom was on until dawn, and the plates on the table were full of cigarette butts, Xu Lang got up and stretched, and looked up at the rising sun outside the window.

"Xu Lang, haven't you slept all night?" Cheng Yiyi woke up.

Xu Lang walked to the side of the bed and kissed Cheng Yiyi gently: "You lie down again, I'll go get you breakfast." ”

"No, you can sleep, I'll get it." Cheng Yiyi pulled Xu Lang distressedly, "Look at you, the circles under your eyes are dark." ”

Xu Lang leaned on Cheng Yiyi's ear and laughed softly: "You're not afraid of me and Zhi?" ”

Cheng Yiyi pinched Xu Lang's arm, but didn't make any effort: "Whatever you want, just don't be tired." ”

Everyone got up and washed up and sat around the dining table, Xu Lang handed the things he had written all night to Lu Tianxiang: "Lu Lao, this is what I got overnight last night, and I am going to submit it to the crossing conference tomorrow, you can see what is wrong first." ”

Lu Tianxiang took the proposal but didn't look at it immediately, but looked at Xu Lang and said distressedly: "Xiao Xu, I've worked hard for you, I've stayed up all night." ”

Cheng Yiyi served breakfast: "Old Lu, Aunt He, let's eat first, and then watch after eating." ”

Lu Tianxiang smiled, and opened Xu Lang's proposal while picking up chopsticks.

The more Lu Tianxiang looked at the expression on his face, the heavier it became, and after reading it, he didn't say a word, and handed the proposal to Xia Yang next to him. Xia Yang's performance after reading it was the same as Lu Tianxiang, and he put down his chopsticks and thought deeply.

In this proposal, Xu Lang made a big change to the future of the entire Yulin Bay.

Abandon Singapore and Kampot. Xu Lang suggested withdrawing troops from Singapore and Kampot, shrinking the power in Southeast Asia to Pliango and Kampot, ceding Singapore and Kampot to the British, and on this condition, cooperating with the British against the Dutch, Spain, and Portugal. Zeng Guangxian led the Pearl to withdraw from Taiwan and handed over the task of besieging the city of Gelanza to Zheng Zhilong. Two 1,000-ton warships that will be launched will be stationed in Priango to strengthen Priango's defense forces. The army in the north was all assembled, the 5th Infantry Regiment was expanded and transferred to the north, and the independent division was reorganized in the north. Inform Jiang Beiming to use the relationship between Wang Chengen and Yang Sichang to persuade the Ming Dynasty government to attack Li Zicheng with all its strength and recover Yanchang County. Take control of the whole of Hainan as soon as possible, recruit troops on a large scale, and expand the army to about 30,000. Temporarily abandon the plan to attack Lushun and Japan, and make every effort to exterminate Li Zicheng.

"Brother Xu, I think it's difficult for your bill to pass through the conference." After everyone finished reading it, Sun Tianhao was the first to say, "It will be difficult to give up Singapore and Kampot, it took us so much effort to control these two places, and now we can give them to the British so easily, this will definitely not work." ”

"It's not just Singapore's problem." Liu Guannan said, "Our previous principle was to keep Li Zicheng, and now you have to work with the Ming Dynasty to exterminate Li Zicheng." Although Yanchang County was captured by Li Zicheng, in this matter, I think some people can't get over emotionally, and Li Zicheng is a peasant army after all. ”

"There is also the issue of Taiwan." Cheng Yiyi also said, "If Zeng Guangxian withdraws, it will be difficult for Zheng Zhilong to defeat Relan Sha City by himself, which will have a very bad impact on our cooperation with Zheng Zhilong." ”

"There's one more question." Xia Yang also said, "If we give up attacking Lushun and Japan, then we may give Tao Min a chance." He is likely to go to Japan first, and if we and Li Zicheng fight to the death, it is difficult to say whether Huang Taiji will take advantage of the situation again, which you also mentioned yesterday. ”

"I've thought about all the questions you guys said, let me explain." Xu Lang took a sip of porridge from the bowl, "If we don't give up Singapore and Kampot, once the Westerners unite to attack these two places, we will have to send reinforcements, otherwise these two places will not be able to hold at all." But once we reinforce Singapore, it will be too much energy, and we don't have that many troops. Now that the situation has changed, I don't think it's time to take Taiwan. Because once Zheng Zhilong controls the whole of Taiwan, the Westerners will shrink to the Philippines and Batavia, so they can really form a fist to give us a heavy punch. Keeping Taiwan can disperse the power of Westerners. As for Japan, I don't think Tao Min has the ability to defeat Japan now, so we don't have to worry too much about this. Huang Taiji may break through again, I haven't come up with any good way to deal with this, but I think it's okay to use Wu Sangui's power. As for how to do it, I need to think again. ”

"Old Lu, everyone." Xu Lang looked around at everyone, "It is indeed inconsistent with our original policy to exterminate Li Zicheng with all our might, but the current situation has indeed changed. Tao Min will definitely give Li Zicheng a suggestion to establish a base area, Li Zicheng this time to conquer Yanchang County, his number of muskets may increase to 5,000, and the artillery may be in the dozen. With these firearms, he will easily take Yan'an Mansion and even Xi'an. And Tao Min must have used some method, I guess the current Li Zicheng is obedient to Tao Min's words, if this is really the case, it is equivalent to Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing cooperating, which is the worst case. ”

Lu Tianxiang finally spoke: "Xiao Xu, your suggestion is very reasonable, but the adjustment is too big. Not to mention whether we will have the time to make these adjustments, it is difficult to say whether the crossing conference will agree. You see, I am afraid that most people are reluctant to give up the benefits that we have gained through all these years of hard work. ”

"Yes, Brother Xu." Sun Tianhao said, "If you really follow your decision, it will take several days just to discuss." Can you make this thing simpler, just set the big principles, and we can take our time to do the specifics. ”

"To be simple." Xu Lang pondered for a while, "Actually, the purpose of my motion is two, one is to completely control Hainan Island, and the second is to go all out to defeat Li Zicheng and recover Yanchang County." But Tianhao, what you said reminded me of this. ”

Xu Lang turned his head to Lu Tianxiang and Xia Yang as he spoke: "Lu Lao, Lao Xia, now that Yulin Bay is under martial law, how about we set up a joint command center." All actions in special times can be decided by this joint command, which will improve efficiency. ”

"You change it first, try to be simple and clear, don't do so much analysis, no matter how much you analyze, few people will actually read it." Xia Yang picked up the chopsticks and said with a smile, "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, no matter what, we still have to spend this year." In a while, I will go with the members of the committee to visit some people's homes, such as Song Yingxing and Descartes, who still want to go to pay New Year's greetings, and we will talk about all issues at the meeting tomorrow. ”

Xu Lang had no choice but to put the bill away: "Okay, you can do whatever you should be busy with, I won't go out today, just let Leng Tianbing do the affairs of the General Staff, I'll get this thing at home." ”[.]