Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan once again sat in the pavilion of a luxurious Suzhou garden of a wealthy gentry in the capital of Yangzhou to drink and spy on them.

Hong Chengchou was eating fried peanuts while drinking osmanthus wine, Feng Quan used chopsticks to clip a chopsticks of shallots mixed with tofu, put it in his mouth, felt the full saltiness, umami, saw Hong Chengchou holding the wine bottle and pointing at him, he picked up the wine bottle and touched Hong Chengchou's wine bottle.

"Lord Hong Zhongtang, this time to destroy the Lu State, arrest Zhu Yihai, the puppet emperor, Lord Zhongtang has made great contributions, and in the future, he will destroy the rebels and return to Beijing, he will definitely be favored by the emperor, and he will be honored and rich for generations."

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "Lord Feng, aren't you also the governor of Zhili, you have more power than me, a Beijing official, and the scenery is more unlimited, I still have to go back to Beijing to bear the pressure of those Manchu clansmen, and be their slaves, but you are far away from the emperor, but you can not be excluded and oppressed by them, and you are free." ”

Feng Quan knew that he could not have the talent and strategy of Hong Chengchou, nor could he be valued by the Qing court like him, and now the position of the governor of Zhili given to him was already very high, and the Han people could achieve this position more than ten years after the founding of the Qing army, which had reached the peak of being an official for him or the Han people, and it was impossible to take a step forward in the future.

So he changed the topic, "Lord Hong, no matter how proud we are, but we can't eliminate that the Huaxia Army is our biggest enemy, their strength is getting stronger and stronger, we annexed the Southern Ming Dynasty of the Lu State, and it is just a slight reversal of the huge gap in the strength of the enemy along the Yangtze River, the opponent is also improving, our strength is not enough to fight to the death with the Huaxia Army, I don't know what Lord Hong thinks next?" ”

"What do you think?"

"The best way is to ignore them, and then let's kill the remnants of Nanming first, now there is no problem with our troops to hold the territory, let's learn from the Huaxia army, dig trenches, build city walls, increase cannon fodder troops, and increase the strength of firearms troops.

In the past, we took swords, guns, swords, halberds, and ran from afar, and the Huaxia army could wait for work, bombarding with cannons, beating with muskets, killing and wounding with bows and arrows and javelinmen, and finally there were muskets with bayonets to fight with our people, but now we are the same as them, and we still have the advantage of troops.

We can use cannon fodder to consume the opponent's ammunition, make the opponent panic, tired for a long time, and finally we charge with cavalry, bombard with artillery, fight with muskets, and then go to the next wave of cannon fodder troops, so that their advantage has become our advantage, how they fought us before, how we fight them now.

In this way, although the casualties are huge and the losses are heavy, but we can consume it, those Manchu lords will not care about those lives, and the Huaxia army can't afford to consume, they still have to take care of the lives of the Han people, so they will inevitably tie their hands and feet and can't let go, so we will have a chance to defeat them.

If we say that we can definitely defeat the Huaxia Army, it is impossible, but we can weaken the opponent's helper first, hasn't the Huaxia Army stepped on the Nanming Kingdom in the past few years? Let's not provoke Nanmingguo, we can destroy other opponents first, so that the Huaxia army has no place to borrow.

For example, Li Guo and He Tengjiao are the first step, and the second step is to use the hands of Dajin Guohaoge and Wu Sangui to eliminate the remnants of Yongli Daming in the southwest, or to eliminate these opponents, I am afraid that they will be used by the Huaxia Army. ”

"Do you know why the Huaxia Army is not big now?" Hong Chengchou touched the beard on his chin and asked.

Feng Quan shook his head and looked at him puzzled.

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "They are afraid that there will be more dead and injured and it is difficult to explain to the people, we have strong walls and clear fields, and there are so many learning their trenches, fortifications and defense lines, they will inevitably pay huge casualties when they fight us, they can't afford to be injured, I think at this time Zhang Qiang is also hesitating, and he is also using his brains, wanting us to fight with Dajin Guo once, and then he instigated Li Dingguo to come over to fight us, or let Nanming come up, Nanming Longwu must want to recover the place in the north, or find a piece of land in the north, when the time comes, they will fight Dajin Kingdom first, Because Dajin is weak. Hauge, that guy is a fool. ”

Feng Quan nodded, anyone will see Haoge's weakness, most of the Dajin ** team under him have different intentions, after all, now that Emperor Shunzhi has stood firmly, even Dolgon had to flow Emperor Shunzhi for the sake of righteousness when he was alive, Haoge's reputation is inferior to that of Dolgon, and after a while, he brought hundreds of thousands of troops and thought that his strength was outstanding, what is it that is not looking for death?

There are many people in the hundreds of thousands of troops who are focused on the Qing army, and some people are hot-headed, and they will come to their senses later, and many are forced to join, such as Wu Sangui, you can't think of him too loyal, that is a hero, he is an ambitious person, if you treat him as loyal, then your death is not far away.

"So what do we do? How to fight? ”

Feng Quan asked.

Hong Chengchou sneered: "Wait, we can afford to wait, take advantage of this time, let's thoroughly digest the Lu Guonan Ming Army that took refuge in us, and let them transform into our Qing army, the important thing is to be controlled by us, first eliminate the spiritual pillar in the other party's heart, such as Zhang Huangyan, find him as soon as possible, or recruit him, or let him die." ”

Feng Quan nodded, as an official who was also a strategist, he agreed with Hong Chengchou's words.

Zhang Huangyan is either killed, or flees to other places to hide, or he defects to the Huaxia Army, how to say that as soon as his news is confirmed, then the remaining generals of the Southern Ming Army of Lu State who were arrested and forced to accept the change will die, and then they will be able to become their own and Hong Chengchou's troops.

Feng Quan said: "Do you still care about Li Guo? ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head, "He has developed well, I heard that he has pulled up another fifty or sixty thousand troops, but there is nothing, tomorrow I will send 10,000 troops to the Qing army plus 10,000 new troops to clean him up, the best can be killed, and it is best for him to leave Henan Mansion if he can fight, anyway, for the current general trend, he is insignificant, and getting rid of him is just to make our hinterland cleaner, fight with Dajin with peace of mind, and deal with the Huaxia army with peace of mind." ”

A small school ran over and whispered in Hong Chengchou's ear.

Feng Quan ate wine and food quietly, and did not inquire, and soon Hong Chengchou smiled and said: "Nanming Kingdom because of the demise of Yongli Daming, I feel that Li Dingguo has lost the name of righteousness, if he does not join them, then call them a chaotic army, and use the six counties occupied by Li Dingguo's Ministry in Guangxi Mansion to attack Li Dingguo, I am afraid that Nanming wants to annex Li Dingguo's sphere of influence, to the east, they estimate that they do not dare to take the initiative to fight with the Huaxia Army like us, but they dare to fight the Li Dingguo Department that has suffered heavy losses and is recovering. ”

Feng Quan shook his head, "It seems that we don't need to use our brains to instigate, they will fight by themselves, and the southwest and northwest are unstable, maybe they can also affect Wu Sangui, Chen Qiyu and others in the northwest, and the Dajin Kingdom will not need us to bother with it, it won't be long before their strength will be weakened and then fall apart." ”