Xiangyang connects the Xiangyang Basin and the Nanyang Basin, which is in a sense the dividing line between the north and the south. No matter which side takes Xiangyang, it will be able to keep building ships and harass Wuchang and Nanjing, and the south will go upstream--- province will save you, you are sending slender men on both sides, isn't this giving food to the opponent? Historically, the Northern Zhou Dynasty's capture of the Jiangling region fundamentally determined the unification of the Northern Dynasty with the Southern Dynasties, and the Yuan Dynasty's capture of Xiangyang and Jiangling through Sichuan also planted the seeds of the inevitable demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After constantly sending envoys to communicate with each other, the Kuidong Thirteen Family, who maintained distrust of external forces, finally came down the mountain and started! In the face of the fact that the Manchu Qing field corps was basically concentrated near Yangzhou and fought with the Zheng army, starting from February of the 14th year of Yongli, under the unified command of Liu Tichun, the thirteen families of Kuidong attacked from all sides, violently beating the fish belly troops with extremely poor field combat ability, and breaking through the encirclement of the Qing army. At the beginning of March, thirteen Keyunyang Mansion (now Shiyan Yunyang District), at the end of the month, Hao Shaoqi led tens of thousands of people to recover the empty Xiangyang Mansion, and then, Yiling, Xingdu (now Zhongxiang) have recovered, to the beginning of May, seven of the thirteen families have been in charge of the front until Jingzhou City. Among the three major anti-Qing forces in the Nanming Continent, the saddest and longest-lasting army was finally renewed by butterfly wings.

In the eyes of the thirteen generals of Kuidong, Jingzhou is already a treasure trove to get things, and the city has sent secret envoys to negotiate with them many times, and it may soon change its flag.

"Master." The personal servant beside him carefully served a cup of milk tea, and the cook carried by Yue Le carefully prepared it according to his favorite taste, and he drank about one liter every day.

"Hmm." Yue Le nodded and motioned for him to go. After taking a sip of milk tea, he felt that the taste was slightly different from that in Beijing, and the subtle changes in taste made his face a little unhappy. Ke Yuele also knows that this is not a deterioration in the level of the cook, but that the water here is not as good as the sweet water wells in Beijing, so he is naturally a little unaccustomed to drinking.

Due to Zhu Youlang's butterfly effect, Yue Le was pushed onto the battlefield of the Ming and Qing Wars in advance, and compared to himself fourteen years later, Yue Le is still a little immature.

"Bring me the map!" As soon as Yue Le entered Wuchang City, he began to prepare for battle non-stop. Time is money, efficiency is life, Yue Le has never heard this slogan hundreds of years later, but the meaning is always the same. Faced with this landscape painting, Yue Le asked people to point out the lost states and counties on the map.

"Humph!" Seeing that Xiangyang was lost, Yue Le threw the horsewhip to the ground. Without Xiangyang, the difficulty of this battle was directly lost by an order of magnitude, and now Yangzhou has been defeated, and the 200,000 troops of the Zheng army can at least drag out the 100,000 troops in a few months and run back to surround Wuchang and Hanyang Mansion. The time and strength that you can use are limited. The passage between the Xiangyang Basin and Henan was stuck by Xiangyang City, so he couldn't backstab the Thirteen Kuidong families......

If the situation is magnified to the whole world, it will be difficult for Jingzhou to keep if it loses Wuchang and Hankou, and when the time comes, the east and west will meet, and the north will be Dabie Mountain, which is difficult to transport troops, and the south will be Huangzhou, Jiangxi and other places with many mountains and waters... If you have to say that there can be any reinforcements, then it can only come from the direction of Biyuan!

However, there are almost only a few battalions of green battalions in the direction of Biyuan, most of them are still under the jurisdiction of the garrison, as far as he knows, the number is less than 10,000, and after a few months, Jingzhou may have broken the city, which is the life of delivering food to people!

Once this is the case, that half of the Pian Yuan Governor Area will become an undefended area, and the entire lake will be rotten, and no number of heads will be enough for the imperial court to cut off!

"Master, Chen Kaiyong, the prefect of Wuchang, and Huang Xigon, the governor of Huguang, have set up a banquet to receive the wind, please enjoy it."

Yue Le nodded in agreement, and the minions hurriedly prepared to pack.

At the banquet, Yue Le saw a little faceless characters in the city, they all saluted Yue Le one by one, and Yue Le's housekeeper received a gift list in various names, which can be said to have received a soft hand. Chamberlain. Shuntianfu is the first good place, and it is also the only big city in the north (Tianjin Wei at this time was not as large as the late Qing Dynasty, and several provincial capitals in the north also declined after overdevelopment), but compared with Wuchang, the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, Yue Le still saw a world of flowers. Of course, this is also related to the double aura of the Eight Banners and the Beijing Official.

Nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, Yue Le faced the table full of flowing water, and after eating a few bites, he left the table and asked the housekeeper, "What do these people want?" ”

"They hope that you will stay here and give the gentry of Huguang a reassurance."

"Then, what about the officials in the yamen?"

"They had similar ideas, but they said that as long as there were one or two battalions of the green battalion, they would be able to rely on the walls for a few months."

"Stupid!" Yue Le snorted from his nose, and said in his heart that these people were really stupid to read the Four Books and Five Classics! Can going down the river and going up the river be the same thing? Breaking into the camp is a strong army that can defeat Shuntian (those who are not strong have died in the past few decades), the soldiers are good enough to eat, and they can also use the Yangtze River as a grain road... Are these people tired of living? Thousands? If it was simply defensive, then Yue Led would have to leave at least forty percent of the troops--- so when the Zheng family and the camp were up, who would save him? Li Dingguo has become a famous king twice, does he want to become the third?

The minions around him understood that this was impossible. As for the gift, it was the water that was spilled out, and it couldn't be taken back, Yue Le smiled without hesitation. However, if you don't eat for nothing, you won't eat for nothing, Yue Le pretended not to know anything, and soon went back to drink and eat food. This bold style made a few people slander, while most people gave up all the dishes that Yue Le liked.

After drinking and eating, Huang Xigon's master received a large amount of silver and came to inquire about the news.

"What? My master can collect your money, because he can afford you, if you are in Zhili, the masters have to circle your land, I really think that the master does not know where your family business came from? In the face of this tried-and-true old man, the butler waved his hand disdainfully and sent them away.

After a few days of recreation, Yue Le had an idea of how to break the situation, three days later, Yue Le personally led tens of thousands of troops down the river, along the Yangtze River all the way to the territory of Nanzhili, although the Zheng army had the advantage of the navy, but it was mainly deployed near Nanjing, in the face of Yue Le's gunboats, fireships and tens of thousands of troops, these areas that had surrendered once again came back "anyway".

The first place "anyway" is Anqing Mansion. As a reformer in the Qing court, Yue Le restrained the military discipline of his subordinates, and did not do the stupid thing of creating Lin Dengwan for himself without sealing the sword for three days. Instead, he summoned the gentry from all over the palace to the city according to the dislike of the gentry, and asked people to say that "if they don't arrive within the time limit, they will be punished for rebellion."

In the face of thousands of field troops, no one wants to use their own dirt fence to touch the hard bones, the bold ones let the patriarch personally come out to check the gates, and the timid ones are taught by the patriarch face-to-face, and send the children of the clan to represent the entire family and protect the interests of their own family as much as possible.

(End of chapter)