One duke, one marquis and three uncles......

In fact, it's not much, the latest version of the Ming Dynasty's knighthood system stipulates that the duke has 10,000 marquises, 5,000 earls and 2,500, which means that a total of more than 20,000 acres of tax-free land has been sent to the Li family.

And it's not a good field.

In fact, the new knights are all self-reclaimed.

And the Li family offered more.

What they offered was two entire provinces, plus Dihua and other places in the Western Regions, which originally did not belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Hami used to belong to the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Guanxi Qiwei during the Yongle period, but Dihua or the previous name Turpan never belonged to the Ming Dynasty, which was the territory of the Turpan Khanate. The Ming Dynasty has never had much interest in exploring the Western Regions, and the Han and Tang Dynasties attached great importance to the Western Regions because of the trade of the Silk Road, but the Ming Dynasty had shipping, and they couldn't look down on these two jujubes at all.

And it's not just Kansai, Li Zicheng has also expanded some territory around Qinghai Lake before.

Xining was made by Bai Wang, an old bandit who was originally doing things in Henan, moved to Xining with 3,000 subordinates, and incorporated the local old Xining guards, and even developed to more than 7,000 cavalry. When the local agriculture was not enough to feed themselves, they gave full play to the habits of the old bandits, and often went out to plunder the herdsmen, so that the herdsmen in the Qinghai Lake area had to flee away from his scourge.

In fact, Li Zicheng's Jiedu envoys have more or less expanded externally.

Li Zicheng did not give them food.

Similarly, they are not allowed to rob each other among their internal jiedu envoys, let alone rob those caravans in the pass on the trade route, and those who violate his rules will be violently beaten by the elite of the Shun army, and other jiedu envoys will also take the opportunity to grab territory, so can they have any other choice than to expand outward and rob the herdsmen on the plateau?

These old bandits are very capable of fighting.

And they have merged with the generals of the old guard.

Don't mention that the Ming Dynasty guard is a group of scum peasant soldiers, they are just restrained by the civilian system, once the seal of the civilian system is lifted, the fierceness of these guys is not lost to the past Western Xia time. A group of old bandits who had fought a hundred battles in the interior, together with a group of guards who had lived in the fierce places of the people in the northwest for generations, and relying on Li Zicheng's supply of weapons, quickly formed military groups that were half peasants, half herdsmen, half people and half bandits, causing the surrounding herdsmen unspeakably miserable.

But invisibly, they are also opening up more territories for the Ming Dynasty.

Now Yang Qing only needs to receive it.

However, things are not so simple, because Li Zicheng's plan has not really started, and the premise of Li Zicheng's raid on Beijing is that Dorgon's main force must be put into the battlefield on the southern front, that is to say, this side must really fight, and it must be fought hard, and all the troops left by Dolgon in Beijing must be transferred out as much as possible.

Of course, it was impossible for Dorgon not to leave enough troops in Beijing to garrison him.

The soldiers of the Admiral of the Nine Gates will not leave.

The Manchurian guards of the Three Banners, that is, the Baya Laqi soldiers, would not leave.

These add up to twenty or thirty thousand.

Moreover, the inner city of Beijing was already full of banner men at this time, although they were all old and weak, women and children, but they could also take up arms when necessary, at least for the time being, if Dolgon desperately searched for it, there were still 50,000 defensive troops quickly mobilized in Beijing. And although Li Zicheng is a 100,000 elite raid, he can't carry heavy artillery, at most it is a mortar cannon, a three-pounder cavalry cannon, these bombardment of the Beijing city wall is nonsense, he must have a real bloody battle to capture. And there are a lot of cannons on the city wall of Beijing, and once Li Zicheng attacks Beijing, then the surrounding Eight Banners family members will definitely not sit idly by, and Li Zicheng's 100,000 army will also divide a part to deal with them.

In short, we must spare as much time as possible in Beijing.

"The play still has to be played!"

Yang Qing said: "Your people will immediately go out of Luoyang and attack Chenzhou directly, I will give up Chenzhou and leave some of the supplies, you continue to make a gesture of going south to Fengyang along Chenzhou, and at the same time send people to Yifeng to ask the Jiannu coalition army to go south." Our army in Shandong will attack Jinan and cross the Daqing River to the north, as long as our two sides fight, Duoduo will inevitably attack Weihui, and you and Jiannu, who crossed the river, will continue to move south. Seeing the hope of his troops approaching the Huai River, Dorgon will also mobilize all the forces he can to strengthen the attack and open up the food supply route between you. ”

But these are not enough, these are the things that Li Guo is told, and if Li Zicheng wants to successfully capture the northern capital, he has to have a more ruthless move.

Li Guo naturally agreed with all of this.

However, it is still kept secret from them, and Li Guo does not dare to guarantee that there will be no one in Luoyang who will oppose Guishun at this time, and he will have to act jointly with the Qing army next, and his subordinates will easily leak secrets if they know it, and this cooperation plan is still only known to him and Yang Qing.

Immediately after that, Yang Qing left.

And Li Guo's five sons were secretly sent to Jinyi Wei Luoyang Station the next day according to Yang Qing's arrangement, they are the guarantee of mutual trust, Yang Qing can't really believe in Li Zicheng so much, these five people who can be said to be the last bloodline of their Li family are the premise for Yang Qing to believe in them. Just when Yang Qing crossed Songshan and returned to the Ming army's defense area, Li Guo's five sons were sent to Zhengzhou by Jinyi Wei Luoyang Station through their secret channels, and they were already returned to Chenzhou by Yang Qing six days later. At this time, the cavalry brigade and assault infantry brigade of the First Guards Army led by Zhang Mingyang had also arrived in Chenzhou, and the infantry brigade behind was also about to arrive.

This trip to the north really tested the speed of the march combining the national highway and the assault infantry brigade.

The latter was almost in sync with the cavalry.

Even if it was not the way of changing horses and relays like passenger carriages, the cavalry brigade and assault infantry brigade only took three days to get from Pukou to Fengyang along the national highway, and their physical strength was maintained very well, and they could basically be put into battle when they arrived.

But they don't need to fight for the time being.

Because what is needed next is for them to quickly retreat to Yingzhou and Mengcheng, in order to cooperate with Li Guo to stage this big drama, so that the Shun army and the Qing army can successfully join Chenzhou and go south, so that Dolgon can see the hope of soldiers on the Huai River and begin to increase the weight. It is conceivable that once the Ming army is defeated in Chenzhou and then retreats to Fengyang, it will be a fierce stimulus for Dolgon, and he will do his best to fight for this line of life when he sees the hope of victory. But in the middle, Zhengzhou and Wei Hui could not get food, including the Shun army, and they could not provide materials to continue southward, in this case, there was no other choice but to attack Zhengzhou and Wei Hui with all their might.

Then Dolgon's last chips will be on the line.

But that's not enough.

He also needs to transfer all the forces that can be used in Beijing out of the city, then the final and most important blow is needed.

"Send them to Nanjing, and send them directly to the palace to your majesty!"

Yang Qing looked at Li Guo's sons.

These are all his godsons, it is said that the protector has not killed his son so far, and now he has recognized five at once, and it has also made Her Majesty suddenly have five more godsons, and then they will go to their godmother, their godfather still has to do!

Li Guo's sons immediately retired and followed Jinyiwei to Nanjing.

"Protector Guogong, Li Guo is easy to say here, but Li Zicheng is not easy to say, with his current situation, it is still difficult to guarantee whether he can suppress these people!"

Zhang Mingyang reminded him.

This is also true.

Li Zicheng's current situation with these arrogant soldiers and fierce generals to raid Beijing must be fine, they will be obedient, but if they all hand over their territory and return to the imperial court, they may not listen, although according to Li Guo's plan, the imperial court will send troops into Guanzhong, but these old bandits are unruly, what if they just don't care about their wives and children? Women are casually thrown away for them, and children can be reborn in the future, these guys who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood don't attach so much importance to family affection. Especially those Jiedu envoys in Longyou, Hetao, and Hexi Corridor, as long as they run back, they will still be the emperor of the soil by relying on the distance of the emperor of the sky and the blockage of the road.

So will they be honest and obedient?

"If they don't obey, then I'll cut off their heads with my own hands!"

Yang Qing sneered.

"Lord Protector, do you want to?"

Zhang Mingyang was stunned.

"You stay here first, once Li Guo attacks over there, you make a show, play a trick like one, and then retreat to Yingzhou, establish a defensive line from Yingzhou to Mengcheng, and don't let them continue to move forward."

Yang Qing said.

"What about the supplies here?"

Zeng Ying said.

"The ammunition is taken away, the food is left, otherwise they will not be able to go south, the two armies are under your command, what you have to do is to hold this bottom line, wait for the order of the counterattack, and then encircle and annihilate the Jiannu who went south in Henan. I'll go to Dengzhou, and in half a month, Dagukou should be thawed, just in time to land at Dagukou with the Beiyang Naval Division and the Second Army of the Marine Army! ”

Yang Qing said.

That's the most important thing.

This is already February, and he will go to Dengzhou and send troops to Dagukou, which will also be in late February, and the solar calendar will also be almost April, and Dagukou will be thawed, just in time to land to attract Dolgon to evacuate Beijing. The strength of the Second Marine Army was not strong enough to storm the northern capital, but it could give Li Zicheng the defensive strength of the northern capital, and then let his army of 100,000 raid and break through the city. Since Li Zicheng is so interesting, let him have a good time before he dies, and by the way, he will also use the harvest of the looting of Beijing again to satisfy the proud soldiers and fierce generals of the Shun army. When they break through the northern capital, then Yang Qing will personally go over to take over his subordinates for Li Zicheng, and whoever dares to disobey will die.

"Lord Protector, why should we help them so much, wouldn't it be better to let them die more in the Northern Capital?"

Zeng Ying asked cautiously.

He was an authentic landlord and was the most resolute in fighting against Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan.

"I know you don't like them, think they are causing trouble in the world, but you need to understand that they are not sorry for the Ming Dynasty, it is the Ming Dynasty that is sorry for them, it is the Ming Dynasty that does not give them a way to live, so they have to rebel, if they were even given the day when they could drink porridge, they would not pick up knives and guns."

Yang Qing patted him on the shoulder and said.