Hong Chengchou was an opportunist, so Zhang Qiang expected that Hong Chengchou would not take the initiative to attack the Huaxia Army.

The strength of the army is superior, at least in terms of quantity, the strength of the Qing army is definitely much more than that of the Huaxia army, the Huaxia army can be used for defense is only about 200,000 troops, and the number that can be used for attack is only about 200,000 troops, the Yangtze River defense line is too long, and there may be more than 100,000 Qing troops rushing in that place, which is nothing for the defending Huaxia army, and it will not be too good for the Huaxia army in the offensive stage.

Based on this foundation, Zhang Qiang thought about mobilizing the strength of the Qing army as much as possible, so that the Qing army would defend as few troops as possible, and when their forces were also stretched, the Huaxia army would strike again.

The two armies of the Southern Ming Kingdom were mobilized within half a month, and they were ready to attack the Qing army of Kong Youde on the opposite side, of course, such a large transfer could not hide the fine work of the Qing army, and perhaps the transfer of the Chinese army The fine work of the Qing army is becoming more and more difficult to penetrate, because it is two worlds, no household registration, no villagers as a guarantee, no identity certificate, and they are arrested by the government in minutes.

On the territory of the Huaxia Army, the militia and the village guards, the patrol density of the government servants has almost reached the point of stubble every ten minutes at night, and if you see a suspicious person, you have to go up to check it, once you find that you have no strong means to prove your identity, first detain you, and then interrogate, no one guarantees you, prepare to go to the garrison to report, the garrison will first send you to the nearby prisoner camp when you don't know who you are, and hand it over to the prisoner camp to take care of, you have to be reformed through labor.

The territory of the Southern Ming Kingdom is worried, and the lotus root is broken, because there are many squires and heroes, you can't figure out whether they are anti-Ming or anti-Qing, neither end is offended, and both ends are desperate.

By the time Nanming Guo mobilized enough troops and was ready to move, who led the army in Nanmingguo, how many troops, and where to attack had already been placed on Kong Youde's table.

Patting this information, Kong Youde said angrily: "Is this still Emperor Ming?" How to listen to the orders of the Huaxia Army, people let you fight, and you will fight over, what a group of pigs. ”

As a separatist warlord, as a vassal king, and in fact with the Qing army to form a separatist situation Kong Youde is very angry, he is confident that his soldiers and horses can defeat the Southern Ming army, the Southern Ming army has some he also has, Tong Dawei sold to those anti-rebel army, the rebel army's Jin Gai 1 arquebus, he received at least eighty percent, two percent of the people under his control bought, these arquebuses at least eight thousand rods, he equipped his own direct army.

He had more than 30,000 imitation arquebuses sent by the Qing army, and he also bought more than 10,000 of them with his own money, and more than 40,000 of his 70,000 new troops were equipped with these arquebuses, and he also paid for more than 5,000 Portuguese arquebuses, and the remaining 25,000 troops were equipped with the Qing army's shotguns and arquebuses captured from the Southern Ming Army, and those of better quality were imitated by the Southern Ming Kingdom Jingai-1 arquebus.

He also had a cavalry force of 10,000 people, and some of them also organized horseback arquebus infantry and lancers like the Huaxia Army.

An artillery brigade of 15,000 people, equipped with the Qing army, the Huaxia army, the Nanming country, captured from the Yongli Ming Dynasty, nearly 800 artillery, since the battle with the Huaxia army in Raozhou Mansion, he deeply felt the power of the artillery, desperately collected, desperately equipped and expanded.

This is a firearms unit, and he also has tens of thousands of cold weapons troops of the Qing army, as well as tens of thousands of cold weapons troops adapted from other Qing army units, as well as many recruited young and strong and rebel troops, and the army troops, with a total strength of more than 300,000 people.

Feng Quan, who was sitting opposite him and listening to him, drank tea quietly.

He has been in Kong Youde's army since the defeat of the entrenchment realm, while pleading guilty, while observing various things in Kong Youde's army, he knows that it is just a small matter for him, the court will at most punish him and demote, and will not do anything to him, and it is not the Qing army that lost the battle, how many Taixi people died, what does it have to do with him, most of the Qing troops who died in the battle with the Huaxia army are Kong Youde's troops, not his troops, not Hong Chengchou's troops, Hong Chengchou will not feel distressed.

Less than a month later, the imperial court appointed him governor of Guangxi and asked him to monitor Kong Youde, the vassal king.

"Lord Feng, you are talking, how is this good?" Kong Youde saw Feng Quan drinking tea quietly, cursed the old fox in his heart, and asked his opinion at the same time.

Kong Youde means that Nanming Kingdom beats me, how can the court have to mean it, give some benefits, otherwise who will work for the court, take the opportunity to ask for things, money, and soldiers, which is the usual trick of these cunning vassal kings, how can he not do it?

As for the 10,000 Manchurian soldiers in the army, he had long ignored them, and he used to worship them as gods and serve them carefully, but at the time of the decisive battle, the Qing army troops that were attacked before and after 600,000 were actually broken up by the 200,000 Chinese army, which made him see the weakness of the Qing army.

Especially now, the land of the Ming Dynasty has appeared Yongli Daming, Longwu Nanming, Huaxia Army, Lu State, Qing State, and now the dying Chahar Mongolian State, if you add the recent emergence of a continuous eastward invasion of the Yarkand Western Regions, then most of the people who used to see the unstoppable Qing army and have a great domination of the world know that the Qing army has become weak and has become a local power, rather than a ruler with the mandate of heaven to dominate the world.

In the land of the Ming Dynasty today, there was the kind of war between the Three Kingdoms and the scene of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and people with a bit of brains know that this situation will last at least for a long time, and he Kong Youde may become a hegemon, and he can also be called the emperor, without how many years, as long as it lasts for twenty years, his life will be very exciting.

Possessing firearms troops made him see that this possibility increased greatly, and now he is not afraid of 10,000 Qing troops at all, and he will transfer 30,000 new troops to surround the garrison of the Manchurian soldiers, set up artillery, and the one who dares not to surrender will bombard him.

Therefore, 10,000 Manchurian soldiers no longer pose a threat to him, his attitude has become more and more arrogant, more and more unreasonable, for the governor appointed by the Manchus to monitor him, the people below are still respectful, and there is no respect in his eyes at all.

I'm so powerful, it's a big deal to surrender to the Southern Ming Kingdom, there is still a Wen'an in Sichuan, I surrender to Wen'an, I think Yongli Daming will also accept me.

How could Feng Quan, who had a delicate mind, not know what Kong Youde meant at this time, and said cautiously: "Lord Wang, you also know where Hong Taibao is at this moment, and he will definitely not be able to give you much help here for a while, but 300,000 taels of silver and 5,000 arquebuses are still okay, and the lower officials will help you write to ask for it." ”

Kong Youde sneered, "Lord Feng, I have the Southern Ming Kingdom in the southeast, He Tengjiao of the Yongli Ming Dynasty in the northeast, and Chen Hanhui from Guangzhou Mansion in the middle, Xuanyuan Longfei is such a powerful Huaxia army, how can this thing be enough?" I heard that there is a newly produced artillery in Huai'an Prefecture, which can already be pulled by a cart like the Huaxia Army, and when fighting on the battlefield, it can be unloaded in a quarter of an hour, turned into a cannon, and can be pulled away in a quarter of an hour. ”

(End of chapter)