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When Tong Yangjia heard Qian Lide say that the emperor had found the army, he couldn't help but feel anxious, and hurriedly asked, "Has your army dealt with it cleanly?" ”

Qian Lide hurriedly nodded and said: "This is natural, please rest assured that the father-in-law has already dealt with that side, and the herald has also died on the battlefield, and the wounds and witnesses are complete!" ”

"What about the herald's family?"

"The son-in-law selected at that time were all orphans, and there were no families at all, and if he died, he would die!"

Tong Yangjia listened to Qian Lide say this, and relieved himself: "Since you have cleaned up, what are you afraid of?" ”

Qian Lide said with a bitter face: "Father-in-law, the son-in-law is not afraid of this matter!" The son-in-law is afraid that the secret agent team will be exposed, if the emperor knows that the son-in-law is hiding from him and reaching out to the army, the son-in-law... "Qian Lide acted to Zhu Hongsan, who was cruel, and trembled with fright, and the childhood shadow left by Zhu Hongsan when he was in Wuchang was too serious.

Seeing Qian Lide like this, Tong Yangjia not only secretly scolded the waste in his heart, but also wanted to do something big without responsibility!

However, the only thing that Tong Yangjia can trust in his hands is this Qian Lide, and he can't speak to stimulate him, so he can only persuade him with good words.

"Virtuous son-in-law, don't worry, the old man has a way to make the emperor's investigation unable to continue!"

As soon as Qian Lide heard that Tong Yangjia had a way, he quickly raised his head and asked, "Really?" What is the best way for my father-in-law? ”

"Virtuous son-in-law, now that Chen Zizhuang is unlucky, Ma Mingyuan is the first assistant, it seems that the emperor must have peace talks with the Manchus! Together with the peace talks, the rights in the hands of you and me will definitely be reduced, so in order to ensure the rights in the hands of you and me, and let the emperor not investigate the Nanchang case, the only way to make the peace talks yellow! ”

Qian Lide looked at Tong Yangjia with goldfish eyes, he didn't know what else he could do with disharmony! Tong Yangjia couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw Qian Lide's idiotic appearance, this Qian Lide is really incompetent, but now he has no manpower around him, although Gong Dacheng is close to him, but this kind of thing is not something that the timid and fearful Gong Dacheng can participate in, and he only trusts his own nephew Tong Tuchang, but Tong Tuchang is still a political envoy in Fujian, and he has just been promoted for less than half a year, so he can't be transferred to his side in Nanjing.

Tong Yangjia saw Qian Lide's ignorance, so he had to slowly explain to him: "Virtuous son-in-law, I am in charge of the military, you are in charge of intelligence, do you say that the emperor will definitely reduce the allocation of military and intelligence when the peace talks open?" ”

Qian Lide still knows this, isn't it just for money to mingle in the court yesterday, but that is Tong Yangjia's matter, and Jinyiwei's appropriation is not from the treasury, but directly from the emperor's inner treasury, so Qian Lide is not afraid that Ma Mingyuan will take the opportunity to get stuck in his neck.

"Father-in-law, that's the case, but the son-in-law's appropriation comes from the inner treasury, and it has nothing to do with the treasury!"

Tong Yangjia was really speechless by Qian Lide's ignorance, Tong Yangjia stood up and said, "Virtuous son-in-law, why can't you see clearly!" Now your cronies in Jinyi Weizhong can only grasp the North Town Fu Division, and the South Town Fu Division is Zhao Mengguan's person, does Zhao Mengguan listen to you? As soon as the war stopped, the emperor received a secret report from Dongchang about the Nanchang incident, can you not investigate your Jinyiwei? But the resumption of the war is different, as long as the war with the Manchu Qing is started, you Jinyiwei are in charge of intelligence, and the emperor will not investigate the bad things of your Jinyiwei in order to ensure the smooth progress of the war, and I can also get the allocation of the cabinet, isn't it the best of both worlds? ”

Qian Lide reacted when he heard Tong Yangjia say this, yes! As long as the war continues, Emperor Zhu Hongsan is a person who understands the overall situation, and he will definitely not continue to investigate Jinyiwei for the sake of that little matter in Nanchang, and at the same time give himself time to clean up his hands.

Thinking of this, Qian Lide happily asked, "I see! I wonder if my father-in-law has any good plan to resume the war? ”

This is a difficult problem, Tong Yangjia sat down and twisted his goatee and said: "Now the imperial army is very beautiful to attack in many ways, but it is already the end of the strong crossbow, and there are holes everywhere on the front, but only a few key points make the emperor suffer, so that the emperor can make up his mind to fight again." One is Yangzhou, but the emperor has stationed heavy troops in this place, plus Boss Ma is stationed there, although Boss Ma is pedantic, but he is extremely shrewd, so it's not easy for us to start. There is also Wuchang, where the army is weak, only 18,000 people from Ma Liang plus less than 5,000 recruits, and Hanyang on the opposite side is stationed with more than 100,000 horses and horses of Wu Sangui of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this place can be done! There is also Anqing, this place is north of the Yangtze River, Anqing has always been a place where soldiers must fight, occupy Anqing down the river and go down the river in less than two days to Nanjing, this place can also be done! ”

Qian Lide listened to Tong Yangjia's analysis, and suddenly he also thought of a good solution, and said: "Father-in-law, son-in-law also has an idea!" ”

Tong Yangjia was stunned, you can have this brain?

"What did the virtuous son-in-law think? Speak up! ”

"Father-in-law, have you forgotten King Gui Zhu Youlang? King Gui has hundreds of thousands of troops there, and if he enters Guangdong in Guangxi, I believe that His Majesty the Emperor will definitely not be able to give up! ”

Tong Yangjia was stunned on the spot when he heard Qian Lide's poisonous plan, but he didn't expect that Qian Lide, this guy, had no benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, and would do whatever it took to complete his goal, and he actually wanted to unite with King Gui to enter Guangdong?

Tong Yangjia was in charge of the military, and he knew that there was a ninth division in Guangdong to watch his family, which was to guard against King Gui in Guangxi. Guangdong is too important here, for Zhu Hongsan is the rear, all the factories, most of the military factories are in Guangzhou, if this is destroyed, it will cost Zhu Hongsan half of his life. However, Guangdong is precisely because it is Zhu Hongsan's dead end, so when Zhu Hongsan is attacked, he must fight back, and there is no hope for peace talks.

Tong Yangjia knew that Qian Lide's strategy was very vicious, and it could be said that attacking him would save him. But Tong Yangjia is a scholar after all, he knows that according to the wealth of Guangdong, as long as King Gui's army enters Guangdong, it will be burned and killed, and he doesn't know how many people will die at that time, Tong Yangjia wants to divert the attention of Emperor Zhu Hongsan, so that he does not focus on Jinyiwei, instead of directly killing Zhu Hongsan, so Tong Yangjia is still very hesitant when he hears the idea of Qian Lide.

Qian Lide saw Tong Yangjia hesitating, and couldn't help but scold in his heart: These stinky old Jiu are really not enough to succeed and more than to lose, how good is the plan that Lao Tzu came up with, if he has to think about some people or something, if he is replaced by Zhu Hongsan, he must directly agree to do so.

Qian Lide slandered Tong Yangjia in this belly, but he couldn't help it, and it was Tong Yangjia who finally decided the matter.

Tong Yangjia thought about it for a long time and decided to do it along the Yangtze River, after all, Guangdong is the foundation of Zhu Hongsan, and what he wants is to distract the emperor's attention, not to kill the emperor directly.

"Let go of the Guangdong side first, mainly concentrated in Anqing and Hanyang, you send people to contact the Manchu side and see what they think!"

Listening to Tong Yangjia set the tone, Qian Lide had no choice but to prepare to implement it, but he didn't think so in his heart, Tong Yangjia was not allowed to do it in Guangdong, so it was good to do some preliminary preparations by himself, should he take precautions! Clidell thought of this and was complacent about his ability to use an idiom.

Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and for the people of southern China, they can finally have a stable year, but north of the Yangtze River, under the city of Yangzhou, there is no breath of the New Year at all.

Zhao Guodong stood on a dirt slope in the camp ten miles away from Yangzhou City, looking at the dark and dreary Yangzhou City opposite. As the governor of Yangzhou Station District, Zhao Guodong was deeply ashamed of his incompetence, and he attacked Yangzhou City for a month and a half, and he is still trapped under Yangzhou City.

Zhao Guodong originally thought that he was leading tens of thousands of troops, and they were all newly victorious divisions, and he didn't take the defeated soldiers against Hong Chengchou? Therefore, in mid-November, after coming to the city of Yangzhou, he immediately launched an attack. Hundreds of artillery pieces of the whole army bombarded Yangzhou City, and then immediately began to attack the city. But who would have thought that Hong Chengchou used tens of thousands of stragglers to block his attack, and also caused a lot of casualties to himself, so far, Zhao Guodong's side has suffered more than 5,000 casualties, you must know that he has less than 40,000 people in total, and these 5,000 casualties have already broken their muscles and bones.

Zhao Guodong followed the emperor Zhu Hongsan to fight for more than ten years, from the beginning of the bandits, to the bloody battle of Xinyang, and finally exiled most of China to Guangdong, coupled with the later Jiading offensive and defensive war, Zhao Guodong has a lot of experience in war, and he knows that Yangzhou is really not the fault of his subordinates. The main reason is just as His Majesty the Emperor said in his class that when fighting a war, you must use your own strengths to attack the enemy's shortcomings, and the smooth sailing of your own fighting back then was precisely to make use of the advantages of the new weapons and the shortcomings of the cold weapons of the Qing army, so that there was no disadvantage.

But now it was different, the Manchu army, under the leadership of the cunning Hong Chengchou, learned to be obedient and knew how not to fight with the new army in the field, but to use the strong city walls to fight offensive and defensive battles with the new army. On the side of the new army, because of the lack of artillery power and the lack of soldiers, the Qing army took advantage of Yangzhou City.

Zhao Guodong stood on the dirt slope and looked at the dark canal outside Yangzhou City, and said to Zhao Guoliang beside him: "Guoliang, when do you think the navy's artillery will arrive?" ”

Zhao Guodong and Zhao Guoliang have now received the news of the holy decree, and know that the emperor has sent Ma Ji to Yangzhou to take charge of the overall situation, and has loaded the navy's heavy artillery at the Guazhou ferry, and will arrive soon. But it was very unbearable to wait like this, and Zhao Guodong had to go to the canal almost every day to see if the artillery had arrived.

Zhao Guoliang also knew that Zhao Guodong was waiting anxiously, and just as he was about to speak, he saw a large number of lights gradually lit up on the dark canal, and a large number of ships slowly came from the south of the canal.

When Zhao Guodong saw the fleet coming, he was overjoyed and said: "Guoliang, the cannon is coming!" Go down and organize the laborers to carry the cannons, Lao Tzu will start bombarding Yangzhou City tonight! ”