Tan Tai had a very bad feeling, the Ming army has now become united, at least within the Longwu court, Huguang, Jiangxi and Guangdong soldiers and horses from all walks of life, even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, this situation is very rare.

Wang Kefan has been nailed to Raozhou Mansion, but other Ming troops have taken the opportunity to attack, and if it goes on like this, Fujian and Zhejiang will be bad. In desperation, Tan Tai was forced to change his tactics, leaving a part of the defenders in Jiujiang, and he himself marched into Anqing Mansion with a support army, and he himself sat in Xiaogushan in Pengze County, and cobbled together more than 40,000 reinforcements to rush to Zhejiang and Fujian by boat to support Tian Xiong and Tong Yangjia.

The burning eyebrows looked in front of him, and he could only take one step at a time.

Dividing troops to defend and resisting is tantamount to being beaten passively and handing over the initiative to the enemy, and Tan Tai was forced to make this decision...... The current offensive of the Ming army is blooming on the whole front, except for the main force of the Chu army, all other departments are attacking in a big way, and the Qing army's thousands of miles of defense line are in an emergency, although Tan Tai's response is not clever, but it is the best choice in the current situation.

In addition to dispatching troops, he also sent people to urgently notify Tong Yangjia in Fuzhou, and did his best to send elite soldiers to reinforce Xianxialing to ensure the safety of traffic between Fujian and Zhejiang provinces...... The strategic significance of the Xianxia Ancient Road is too important, if the Ming army occupies here, the Qing army in Fujian may be dumplings, but Tan Tai is too far away to help, and Tian Xiong in Zhejiang has too few troops to count on, so he can only rely on Fujian to send reinforcements.

The battle situation in Jiangnan suddenly deteriorated, and Tan Tai wrote a detailed report on the latest battle situation. Eight hundred miles of fast horses were sent to Shunzhi in Beijing and Dolgon on the Shanxi front, and 100,000 were in a hurry and urgently asked for help. Besides. He and Kong Youde also strengthened their ties, and they exchanged letters constantly. A general of Zhengnan and a general of Pingnan, there was originally a strong relationship between the two people, and some kings did not see the meaning of the king, but under great pressure, Tan Tai could only bow his head to Kong Youde. Take the initiative to ask for help.

Comparatively speaking, Kong Youde was under less pressure, although he suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Huguang a few months ago. But he only defended half of Hubei, and it was not the main direction of attack of the Ming army, so there was no problem in self-preservation. Therefore, Tan Tai borrowed troops from him and wanted to transfer 10,000 or 20,000 horses to Jiangxi for emergency relief. Kong Youde politely declined. Only one sailor was sent to help in the battle.

Kong Youde has his own difficulties, Hubei is just less pressure, does not mean that there is no pressure, the most troublesome is the two thousand Ming cavalry that disappeared in the Funiu Mountain, Henan is even more empty than the Jiangnan region, these two thousand Ming cavalry are like a fish in the throat, which makes him very uncomfortable and worried. Fortunately, there are still some Eight Banner cavalry under him, from which 2,000 elites are drawn. Coupled with 5,000 infantry, a cobbled together army of men and horses was preparing to rush back to Henan. So there is no spare strength to reinforce Jiangxi.

But as the obedient king of the Qing Dynasty, Kong Youde still took the overall situation into account, and there were not enough infantry, so he sent a naval division to support Tan Tai. Anyway, with his current strength, he doesn't want to risk crossing the river to attack Hunan, so why do he have so many sailor warships?

Kong Youde thought very long-term, once there was a large-scale rout in Jiangnan, the Qing court would definitely mobilize his troops to participate in the war, if he went directly to Jiangnan, he was afraid of encircling Wei to save Zhao and let him send troops to attack Hunan. His troops have just experienced a fiasco, and they have not replenished enough soldiers for more than half a year, it is easy to cross the river, but it is difficult to return to Hubei, and it is difficult to break into the camp and block Yinxi on the sidelines, if they take advantage of the situation and capture several state capitals in Hubei, will it be counted as Tan Tai's, or will he be counted as Kong Youde?

After the sailors are gone, how can I cross the river without a boat?

He divided the Hubei Navy Division into two, the smaller one was left behind, and the larger one was sent to Jiangxi, which was regarded as fulfilling his obligations. Tan Tai didn't think about it so much, he was now in a hurry to transport troops to the south of Zhili, Zhejiang and Fujian, and he needed a large number of naval warships, and he was very grateful to Kong Youde for this kind of behavior in the snow.

With this naval division, Tan Tai sent another 10,000 reinforcements to Zhejiang, led by Gushan Ezhen Zhu Mala, and planned to rush to Yanzhou Mansion within ten days to launch an attack on the Ming army Chen Bangfu, Zhao Yinxuan, and Chen Zilong in Quzhou Prefecture.

Just sent Zhu Mala away, his subordinates reported that the messenger sent by Tong Yangjia in Fujian had arrived.

Tan Tai hurriedly summoned and asked about the latest battle situation in Fujian, only to know that the capital city of Tingzhou Mansion had been lost, and the capital of Zhangzhou Mansion was also surrounded by the Ming army, which was precarious, but there was also good news, Shaowu Mansion fought a small victory, and the Ming army attacked the capital of Shaowu Mansion, and was ambushed by the Qing army on the way, and retreated to the junction of Fujian and Jiangxi.

"Not bad! Well played! Who is the Shaowu Mansion guard? This general asks for credit for him! ”

"If you return to the southern general, the military affairs in the area of Shaowu Mansion and Jianning Mansion in the north of Fujian will be handled by Zhou Lianggong, the Fujian envoy."

"Zhou Lianggong ......, but Nanming Hongguang descended? He's a civil official, can he also fight? ”

Tan Tai frowned slightly, he had heard of Zhou Lianggong's name, it was said that this person was a capable official, and he was very famous in the Manchu officialdom, but he didn't expect to fight.

Civilian officials led troops, a habit left over from the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchus did not like to do this, but in the southern part of the Yangtze River, they used Han Chinese who surrendered, which was more common. Tan Tai heard that civil officials would fight, and immediately thought of Hong Chengchou who was captured by him: Han scholars have a lot of flowers, and if it wasn't for Emperor Taizong's tricks, he wouldn't have been able to capture Hong Chengchou's ......

"Listening to my Tong Junmen, Zhou Lianggong is comparable to Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms, and he is a rare Confucian general." The messenger kowtowed and said: "After receiving the letter from the general of Zhengnan, my military gate immediately transferred Zhou Lianggong to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to the north to support Xianxia Pass, and ordered the humble post to convey to the general that Xianxia Pass must be impregnable!" ”

"Well, since it is the person chosen by Tong Yangjia, it should not be wrong. Come, reward him with twenty taels of silver, and take him down to rest. ”

Tan Tai sent the messenger down, and ordered someone to find Huang Shu.

"Who is Zhou Lianggong, do you know?"

"Cool officer, this person is a cool official." Huang Shu used to be a magistrate in Fujian and was very familiar with Zhou Lianggong, so he answered without hesitation.

"Cool officer, what's the cool method?" Tan Tai was a little more interested and continued to ask.

After this person returned to the Qing Dynasty, he handled several cases in a row, and the imperial court had already made it clear that he should treat the gentry in Jiangnan with gentle treatment, but Zhou Lianggong specifically attacked the scholars and scholars, killing innocents indiscriminately, and the heads were rolling. He also led the troops to break down several earthen villages, and everywhere he went, there were no chickens and dogs, and the Fujian people called him Zhou Butcher ......" (to be continued......