September 4, 1687, Maping County, Liuzhou Prefecture, light rain.

Hao Ping, the commander of the Silver Spear Army, sat in the huge mansion, looking at the information in his hand, silent. Outside the door, is the concubine of the former Ming Dynasty Liuzhou prefect, his husband because of the city and caused certain casualties to the Shun army, so after the city was broken, he was beheaded by the whole door, leaving this concubine alone, because the new conqueror took a fancy to her and took him into his back house.

In all fairness, this concubine is still quite attractive and young, so she is very favored by Hao Ping. It's just that since last night, her new master has been staying in this study, as if he had forgotten her, and has been discussing something with several henchmen and generals, which makes her very aggrieved.

However, she was just an insignificant "object", a plaything that could be discarded at any time, so after looking outside, she left unhappy. Hao Ping glanced at her distant figure and didn't say anything. He has been here in Maping County for some time, and his initial complacency has been disturbed by the recent series of news.

Yes! What caused great trouble to Hao Ping was the news from Wuzhou, Xunzhou, Lianzhou and other places in the east, and the Dongguo people, who had a fairly good relationship with them, suddenly sent troops and won many prefectures and counties with lightning speed. The most important thing is that they took Wuzhou City, the first-class hub between Guangxi and Guangzhou, and completely cut off the route of Li Yuanhao's regime from Guangxi to the east, which made the whole country lose their voice for a while.

The move of the Dongguo people is undoubtedly worthy of the essence of stability, accuracy and ruthlessness. When Cao Cao won Hanzhong, he said the famous sentence "Gain Long, look back at Shuyan", because a Hanzhong could not satisfy his appetite, and he wanted a richer Shudi. In the same way, if Shunguo won Gui Province, how could he not covet Guangdong Province, which was close at hand? Therefore, the people of the east coast won Wuzhou, which was indeed a move to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, which made Changsha shocked and angry.

Hao Pinggui is the commander of the silver spear service army, and the confidant general of the Dashun Emperor Li Laiheng, who has recently been connected to the will of the two letters, which makes him very big. He has been with Li Laiheng for many years, understands Li Laiheng's temper, and knows that these two so-called letters of resignation do not represent anything, and may be just an act of anger by Li Laiheng under a moment of irritation, and it has not shaken his trust in him Hao Ping. However, in the past two days, the staff have reminded themselves that even if the emperor does not blame, it is difficult to ensure that there are officials who like to invite famous and straightforward officials to take the opportunity to impeach him, one or two may not matter, but if there are too many people, it will always leave a bad impression in the emperor's heart, which is a big trouble.

Hao Ping thought so, but he didn't have a safe solution. Of course, he knew that the source of everything was Dongguo, but he didn't know how to reverse it. As a last resort, he summoned the ministers and generals around him to discuss and see what to do. For this reason, he even postponed the day of going south in person, and asked his number one general, Wang Wanchun, to lead the main army to attack Nanning Mansion (there was basically no suspense anyway), and he stayed in Liuzhou to discuss countermeasures.

Hao Ping also carefully learned about the situation in Wuzhou, Xunzhou and other places in the past two days, and had a general understanding of the movements of people on the east coast. He knew that the Dongguo people had now controlled many prefectures and counties in Wuzhou and Xunzhou, such as Cangwu, Tengxian, Rongxian, Beiliu, Yulinzhou, and Pingnan, which were six cities located on the transportation line. In addition, most of Lianzhou Mansion has been controlled by the Eastern Army, and its main force has already moved north, entering the Hengzhou boundary of Nanning Prefecture, and it is estimated that this city, which has secretly fallen to them, will not be able to stop the people on the east coast for a few days.

Hao Ping also looked at the map and found that except for Bobai, Luchuan, Guiping, Wujingzhou, and Guixian, which had no time to take care of Lian, Wuzhou, and Xun, the rest of the prefectures had all "fallen". Although many people on the east coast of the state and county have only put a little bit of troops, such as dozens or more than 100 blue-clothed elites, plus hundreds to 1,000 puppet Ming troops with sparse combat strength, it can be said that they are extremely empty, but people don't care! There are no formed troops in the entire three prefectures of Lian, Wu, and Xun that can threaten them, so these people can basically still hold the field.

The current strategy adopted by the Dongguo people seems to be to occupy the county as much as possible, abandon the countryside, control the main transportation routes, and do not even pursue the collection of grain and taxes, but all to expand the territory as soon as possible. If you analyze it carefully, Hao Ping is also a little creepy, this is completely for them, and he is competing with them for time!

And if you think about the location of these counties under your control and the possible route of the people on the east coast, Hao Ping is even more irritable in his heart, this is basically the idea of compressing them to the west of the 100,000 mountains, letting them occupy the less developed areas of Guangxi, and fighting with all kinds of local acquaintances and Han officials and Tusi, and the strength is contained, and for a time it is impossible to effectively use the local resources, and then improve the overall strength of the country, so as to give them the opportunity to consolidate the three prefectures of Lian, Wu, and Xun.

From a longer-term point of view, occupying Guangxi but having no access to the sea, and the Xijiang waterway being cut off, is really a bad day. Because the three relatively good prefectures of Liuzhou, Guilin, and Nanning alone can support the local officials and military system of the Dashun court, as well as the possible purge of local separatist forces for a period of time? If you can't, you have to subsidize it from Hunan, what's the point? Do you have a burden on yourself?

Therefore, this East Coast people are really vicious, and they are so targeted at them Dashun!

It's a pity that the instructions given to Hao Ping by the Changsha side were to strictly restrain the troops and not to have a head-on conflict with the Dongguo. The subtext of this sentence is that you can secretly cause trouble for the people on the east coast to attack the city, but on the surface, you are not allowed to send Dashun's own army, so as not to cause an uncontrollable bad situation.

But Hao Ping was also a little unimpressed. The wolf-son ambition of the people of the East has been vainly trying to turn their Dashun into their puppets for many years and prevent their ambition to unify China, which is a fundamental contradiction and irreconcilable. This time I bowed my head to them and showed weakness, what will I do in the future? Continue to retreat? They obviously have dozens of people in one county, with a bunch of unsuccessful pseudo-Ming troops, I am afraid that they don't even dare to come out of the county seat, and as a result, they actually make the Dashun Shengbing soldiers with tens of thousands of dragon spirits and tigers afraid of tigers and dare not step forward, whose shame is this?

Whenever Hao Ping thought of this, he couldn't sleep at night. He is a courtier of Dashun, and he has not had the idea of assisting Ming Jun to set the world, fight for the founding of the country, and achieve a historical story. This time, the Dashun court made a plan to cut down the Ming in two ways, and he himself was very excited, and he felt that he was one step closer to his dream. As a result, now the Dongguo people have given them a slap in the face, which is really complicated, and Hao Ping doesn't know what to do for a while.

In fact, according to his original intention, this time he should decisively transfer the elite - not much, 10,000 people are enough - take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the people on the east coast have an unstable foothold and the troops are extremely scattered, and beat them back with one brain, and take Wu, Xun, and Lian into the pocket. He believed that the local gentry, Tusi, and officials were also descendants of China, and they would not be able to face outsiders of unknown origin like the East Coast people, so once they took action, they should be overwhelmed and captured. It's a pity that Changsha didn't allow him to do it, but he also complained that his ineffective combat led to the rapid occupation of these eastern states and counties by the people on the east coast, not to mention this aggrieved, anyway, Hao Ping was very angry, and even the concubine who had been fascinated recently didn't have the heart to do it, which was really embarrassing.

"The owner, Lianzhou has fallen, and Wuzhou cannot hold on for a long time, and now only Xunzhou Mansion has a chance to take advantage of." A master said: "Why don't you send shrewd and capable people to secretly go with a large number of blanks, and communicate with local people of insight who are interested in Dashun, so that they can quickly return to obedience, so as to eliminate the ambition of the Dongguo people." ”

"It's best for the marshal to choose some loyal and reliable deployments, change into the uniform of a puppet Ming sergeant, and delay and block the advance of the Dongguo. Most of the sergeants of their security regiment are bandits and bandits, and it is ridiculous that a smuggler can also be a commander. If my Great Shun Heavenly Soldiers can strike at it, it will have a miraculous effect. Another master also spoke, and he was also persuading Hao Ping to make up his mind to "make small moves".

They believe that the people on the east coast should not react too radically to something of this magnitude, because this is a small action within the bottom line of both sides, and it is tacit. Through these small actions, they should be able to occupy some states and counties before the East Coast people, making them a nail in the wedge of the East Bank control area, and laying a good foundation for the future rupture of relations between the two countries and a full-scale counteroffensive.

Hao Ping listened to the words of the two masters, and almost approved in his heart, and then he consulted the opinions of several generals around him, and finally decided to do so. You can't fight with the East Coast people, so you can only play these chats, and it's depressing to think about it.

Hao Ping knew that the Sichuan side had recently won successive victories in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, defeating tens of thousands of Ming troops, and the situation was already extremely clear. This is mainly due to the fact that Sun Kewang's henchmen have come to vote, which has opened many gates, so even if the rest of the Ming army (mainly Li Dingguo's men and horses) fought desperately, they still inevitably suffered a lot of defeats due to various reasons.

I heard that Li Dingguo, who was originally ill, had no choice, and planned to lead the last bit of elite personal expedition to fight a decisive battle with the Western Route Army, which was dominated by the left battalion of Dashun. However, Liu Zhonggui is also an extremely cunning master, who has a huge advantage in military strength and financial resources, and has always avoided the main decisive battle with Li Dingguo, but step by step, constantly weakening the spirit of the Ming army, and overwhelming people with momentum, intending to easily solve their last ember when the state of the Ming army falls to the bottom. It's just that Li Dingguo is also rolling out of the pile of dead people, fighting is his old job, and it is estimated that Liu Zhonggui will not be easily allowed to get his wish, and it is estimated that a big war will break out between the two sides in Yunnan in the end. The only difference is probably that the Shun army can afford to lose, while the Ming army can't afford to lose.

Hao Ping is very concerned about the battle situation of the Western Route Army, and the Changsha Imperial Court has always had a special military summary sent over, so his current pressure is quite large, for fear that when others take Kunming, he has not completely dealt with Guangxi here, so he will lose face.

"The situation in Guangxi is focused on the east rather than the west, and this has been the consensus of the government and the opposition. The puppet Ming court in Yungui is already a grasshopper after the autumn, and it won't be able to jump for a few days. The main task of our department at present is not to enter Yunnan from the flank and help the left battalion to stabilize the overall situation, but to seize as much territory as possible. I don't want to have Guangxi anymore, because Wuzhou has been lost, but Nanning and Xunzhou still want to fight for it. In this way, Mr. Liu, I would like to ask you to bring a letter from me to Gaozhou to meet General Qiu and win him for me. Commander Sun, after you go back, you will select the elites of each battalion, and then carry a few blanks to Xunzhou, and act with the camera. Mr. Zhao, you go to Hengzhou ......" The plan has been decided, Hao Ping no longer hesitated, and began to give orders, and those who were named by him also got up one after another, planning to try this somewhat difficult task.

Wealth and danger are sought, and the world should be like this!

And just when the Shun army in Liuzhou was worried about the actions of the people on the east coast, near Hengzhou, Nanning Prefecture, Li Yuanyin's general, Chaozhou Daao guerrilla Qian Jinbao had just returned from the countryside to collect grain. His subordinates have now grown to more than 3,000 people, more than half of whom were recruited locally in Guangxi. Gui Province is poor, the people are fierce, and there are not a few people who are willing to follow him to serve as soldiers and eat food, so he quickly recruited the posts of 3,000 soldiers given to him by the people on the east coast, and even slightly exceeded the hundreds, which shows that the people of Gui Province are enthusiastic about joining the army.

This time in the countryside, something had happened to them. That is, when besieging a stockade that refused to pay food, it was impossible to attack for a long time, and more than 300 people were killed and wounded before and after, which made people shocked, and then jumped like thunder. In the end, they relied on artillery borrowed from the people on the east coast to blast open the gates, completely annihilating the resistance that had caused them great trouble. After interrogation, it turned out that there were dozens of Shun officers and soldiers hidden in this house, and it was said that they came from some kind of silver spear army, that is, they used skillful volleys of guns on the wall to beat his subordinates unable to raise their heads, and smashed their offensive again and again.

I believe that if it weren't for the yellow-clothed cannon and the gunpowder of this guy was exhausted, this stockade would not be so easy to eat. Qian Jinbao's men also captured a number of prisoners after the war, including a Shunjun Marquis Yu, surnamed Lu, who was also from the Silver Spear Army. Qian Guerrilla is also a person with some knowledge, knowing that Yu Hou of the Shun Army is in charge of security, military law, intelligence, and other work, and is a middle-level officer, second only to the commander in a command, and is on a par with the guards and other officials, and is extremely valuable. For example, there are twelve commanders in the Silver Spear Army, and Hao Ping's most trusted henchman is Du Yu Hou Zheng Daguan, which shows the importance of this position.

Qian Jinbao guessed that this Marquis Lu Yu came to lurk in the countryside of Hengzhou, and it was not easy to come, I am afraid that he did not come to contact the gentry of Hengzhou. Therefore, he immediately put the people under firm guard, took the stolen grain, and rushed to the east bank camp outside Hengzhou City, and handed over this Lu Yuhou to the military police on the east coast.

After a severe interrogation, sure enough, this Marquis Lu Yu was ordered by Wang Wanchun, the general of the Shun army, to spy on intelligence and contact the local government. He even wanted to enter Hengzhou to surrender the defenders, but the people on the east bank came too quickly and besieged Hengzhou City at once. He once wanted to return to Nanning, but he was unwilling, so he lurked, intending to act at the opportunity, but in the end, he was unlucky and planted in the hands of Qian Jinbao.

The outcome of this interrogation was a wake-up call for the people on the East Coast. This Shunjun is indeed eating in the bowl and looking at the pot in the pot, this Nanning City has not yet been laid, and he actually sent people to Hengzhou, a remote place to do work, which is clearly aimed at the east coast. And this is also the instruction of the front-line general Wang Wanchun, I heard that Hao Ping, the general of the entire Guangxi Front, is still in Liuzhou, is he also planning some conspiracy against the army on the east coast?

Sun Wu, the deputy commander of the gendarmerie who came to Lianzhou with the Fifth Division of the Zhejiang New Army, had no doubt about this. Recently, the situation in Xunzhou Mansion has been relatively chaotic, such as the gains and losses of Wujingzhou a while ago, so that Tang Moyu had to dispatch men and horses to counterattack, and finally affected the offensive of Fucheng. If it is said that there is no conspiracy and incitement of the Shun army, who will believe it!

Sun Wu felt that it was necessary to go to Xunzhou recently, to finalize some things with Major Tang Moyu's side, and to formulate a solution for these infiltrated Shun troops, although it seems that their troops are quite insufficient at present. By mid-October at the latest, this army will be able to go south with a large number of supplies and arrive at the two ports of Qinzhou and Wuzhou.

By the way, let's finally mention the fate of the captured Shunjun Lu Yuhou. This gentleman confessed under torture, but he did not intend to surrender, but only wanted to die quickly to avoid being guilty. He was finally secretly executed by the gendarmes of the East Coast on the night of September 13, and his body was buried in the fruit grove in the back mountain. A few days later, it was dug up by the local gentry, sent to the Shun army, and buried in the suburbs of Changsha.

The death of Marquis Lu Yu indicates that the people on the east coast have not concealed their hostility to the Shun army who dare to come over to grab territory. They are determined to win Wuzhou, Lianzhou, and Xunzhou, even if they start a war for this. Even if a certain place is subverted and occupied by the Shun army through small actions, then they will not hesitate to drive these people away with bayonets and retake these places.

The Nanjiang-Xunjiang line is the termination line of the military operation on the east bank, and the goal must be achieved no matter what, and it seems that the Shun army, which has no intention of going to war, will not be able to stop this.