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Shou ordered to return home on a frigate.

In the capital's military port, the Majesty, the lead ship of the third class battleship, has been launched and is undergoing final outfitting.

Three new Goddess-class ships were officially put into service, and the new ships were named after the three goddesses of Meihui, the Aglaia, the Euphrosine, and the Talia.

The three old Goddess-class ships, the Crotto, Laxis and Atropos, rested at the dock, and last year Collingwood led the fleet to the Philippines with not very good results, taking Cebu but not Iloil.

The Manila garrison fleet came to reinforce them, outnumbering them, Collingwood turned around quickly, and did not suffer much damage, but lost 2 light warships.

After the launch of the new ship, the navy decided to abandon its previous tactics of harassment and engage the Spaniards in a decisive naval battle.

At the naval meeting, Archon Marmont said to Shouxu: "We think it would be better for you to lead the main fleet." ”

Shou ordered to smoke for a while, the mist covered his face, and he couldn't see any expression.

"I can accept the mission, but I demand full authority over the war in Spain."

"Of course, the fleet is all yours."

"This is not enough, what I am asking for is full authorization, including negotiations on the follow-up of the war."

The admirals looked at Marmont, and the consul was a little embarrassed, "I'm afraid this will have to be submitted to the Senate." ”

Raheem Sterling: "Then submit it to the Senate for consideration, I don't think it's a big problem." ”

Collingwood: "I agree. ”

Marmont: "At the next General Assembly, I nominate you plenipotentiary to the Senate. Now can we talk about the war? ”

Shou Zhi nodded, "Then let's continue." ”

"The Majesty still needs 3 months to get all the cannons, and Axis and the other 3 ships will be undocked in 2 months. That is, in 3 months, we will have 7 battleships. ”

Collingwood: "This will be our strongest fleet to date." ”

The admirals were a little excited, and Stirling said: "The three new goddesses are mine, don't rob them with me." ”

Order: "Collingwood continues to lead your first detachment of battleships, including the Axis, Crotto, Laxis, and Atropos. Stirling, the second detachment of the battleships, the 3 goddesses are all yours. ”

"The Majesty and the Nanhai form a flagship detachment, led by me. Philip, the Raphael is for you, assemble a patrol fleet. ”

Thomas. Merlot: "What about me?" ”

"I need a chief of staff." Shou Xiang opened the plan book, "The plan is not perfect, I will make two additions." ”

Melo immediately recorded.

"Since it is a decisive battle, Taiwan cannot be idle, and Nanfeng will send ships to Taiwan together. Tell Allemand that his two new cruisers are coming out to make their debut. ”

Sterling: "Let the Taiwan Squadron go south against the wind?" ”

"The two new ships have good headwind performance, and it is estimated that they can arrive in Houjiang from Taipei in a month and a half, let's wait for him together, so that the main fleet will have more time to prepare."

Raheem Sterling: "When?" ”

"It's February, we'll wait until July."

"Okay."

Orderly: "In the decisive battle at the gates of Manila, we have to think a little more comprehensively. The Philippines may experience a typhoon, so we need a safe haven, what do you guys suggest? ”

"Occupy the haven? Then you have to bring the Army. ”

"Of course, it is necessary to complete Carl Langemann's 1st Brigade of the Army and strengthen the heavy artillery unit."

Collingwood: "If we have a brigade of Army, I would suggest putting the base in Subic Bay, and the town of Olongapo has some ready-made dock facilities. ”

Shou Xun glanced at the map, there was no problem with Olongapo sheltering from the wind, Subic Bay was more than 30 nautical miles away from the mouth of Manila Bay, and the distance was appropriate.

"Bring more frigates and notification ships, and this time we will give them a hard blow."

Because of the Army's involvement, the Navy meeting became a base camp meeting in the following days.

For this expedition, the Ministry of Finance raised 1,500,000 taels of silver, and the treasury was once again empty enough to run mice, and then it was in debt.

The army and navy are fully mobilized, and there is still a long time before the troops are dispatched, and everyone has gone to prepare for their own work.

The orderly ordered people to make sand tables in Manila Bay and Subic Bay, collect various sea state, hydrology, and weather information, and study possible combat plans.

In April, Shou Xu received guests from Hainan in a manor outside the capital.

Zhang Shijie rushed to the Federation and met with order.

This is the first time that a senior general of the Ming army went to Nanyang to look for Shou Order, which made Shou Ling feel a little surprised.

"Shi Jie, sit down. This is not Hainan's yamen or Gao Lei's battlefield, so I went to my friend's house, feel free. ”

The entire architectural style of the federal capital Astrison is Italian, to be precise, Romanesque, and the suburbs are mostly Chinese-style towns and villages.

When Zhang Shijie got off the boat, he felt the impact of foreign culture, and only then did he recover.

Shou Xuan saw that Zhang Shijie was very excited, and poured him a glass of spirits.

The wine was supposed to be sipped slowly, but he drank it all in one gulp.

"What's going on?"

Two lines of tears dripped from Zhang Shijie's eyes.

"Da Ming is finished......"

"Impossible, right? Isn't Hainan good? ”

"It's Xiying ......"

Shou ordered and quietly listened to Zhang Shijie.

In July of the sixth year of Yongli, Jianzhou took Prince Nikan as the general of Dingyuan, and the main force of the Eight Banners, which had been dormant for 3 years, was dispatched.

In addition to the Eight Banners in Beijing, the Tatars separately dispatched the most elite Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion led by Ke Yongsheng, the governor of Shaanxi, to Hunan.

Li Dingguo did not attack Zhaoqing, in August of the sixth year of Yongli, in September 1652, Dingguo led his army to leave Guangdong, went north to Hunan, occupied the area of Hengyang, and set up a position.

Although Dingguo killed Kong Youde and incorporated a lot of green battalions to surrender the army, one of the core main forces of Kong Domain, Line Guoan and Ma Xiong and others retreated to Zhaoqing, and after the whole section brought his own military camp to join them, Kong Fan still had more than 10,000 soldiers, and most of Kong Youde's main force was still there, but he lost all his equipment and was frightened.

Shang Kexi went to Zhaoqing in person, and his prestige quickly stabilized the security army of the line country.

Beijing took the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner First Class Meler Zhangjing Arzin as the general of Jingnan, and dispatched a Eight Banners Army to the south to reinforce Guangdong.

Shang Kexi made every effort to replenish the line Guoan, and the rest of the Kong clan quickly regained its combat effectiveness, and as soon as Li Dingguo left, the line Guoan immediately began to counterattack.

On October 6, 1652, more than 20,000 troops of the line Guoan and a banner camp and the Ping Domain conquered Wuzhou.

In November, Nikan troops entered Xiangtan, the Ming army was defeated, and the Ming army such as the Zhongwu battalion withdrew to Xiangxi.

Nikan took the lead, led 3,000 elite cavalry to march forcibly, marched 230 miles day and night, and broke Li Dingguo in Hengzhou. Dingguo lost 4 war elephants and more than 1,000 war horses.

Dingguo was defeated for 20 miles, and Nikan chased for 20 miles.

Sun Kewang sent Feng Shuangli to lead the army to reinforce Dingguo, and the two armies fought a counter-charge, and Nikan was killed by the bird when he observed the battlefield. The Eight Banners Strikers suffered heavy losses, but their main force was not damaged.

The Manchurian Eight Banners and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion, with Belle Tunqi as the main commander, continued to attack southward. Dingguo couldn't stop it, lost troops and lost generals, and in December, Tunqi reoccupied Hengyang.

To the south, the line Guoan attacked with all his might under the mourning flag of Kong Youde, and the combat effectiveness of avenging the Lord exploded, and it was overwhelming. On December 23, Line Guoan conquered Pingle Province.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the eighth year, Line Guoan conquered Yangshuo, reoccupied Guilin three days later, and joined forces with the main force of the Manchurian Eight Banners on Nanling.

Dingguo was flanked by Kong Youde's mourning soldiers and the Manchu Eight Banners, and suffered heavy losses. Li Dingguo was a little jealous of Sun Kewang, and did not follow the order to lead the army to retreat to Xiangxi, but went to the base operated by Cao Zhijian in February of the eighth year, Zhenxia Pass.

Gao Lei's governor Zhang Xiaoqi and Geng Jimao confronted each other in Guangdong.

Xie Yuanbian, the governor of Qinlian, made every effort to organize the Yudian battalion, Li Yuanyin, and the Chu army to attack Guijiang, but was defeated by Ma Xiong, and could only retreat to Xunzhou.

Shang Kexi has a boat, and after occupying the Wuzhou Grand Crossroads, he has an inside advantage, and he can maneuver at will in the north and south, fighting back and forth.

Li Dingguo withdrew to southeastern Hunan, and the connection between him and Sun Kewang was severed.

Dingguo relied on the defensive line left by Qu Shiyun, where there were ready-made facilities, to lick his wounds in the mountainous areas around Hezhou and Daozhou. And his troops in Guangxi could only withdraw to Liuzhou, establish contact with Hainan, and were cut off from Li Dingguo's main force.

Although Nikan was killed, the Tatars soon reopened the Xiangjiang River, Lingqu, Guijiang River, and Xijiang River, and successfully controlled the lifeblood of Hubei-Hunan-Guizhou communications, and won a complete victory.

Just a few days before Zhang Shijie went south, Tun Qi led the Hunan Tartar army and Sun Kewang's main force to fight a decisive battle at the fork in Baoqing Mansion, and Sun Kewang was defeated and had to retreat to Guiyang.

Shou Xiang smoked with his head down, and quietly listened to Zhang Shijie finish speaking.

"Xiying has been operating in Yunnan and Guizhou for 6 years, Sun Kewang has scraped the land of the two provinces clean, and the people's taxes are as high as 70%. It's too late for Hainan to be saved. ”

"The strongest wave of attacks in the western camp was defused by the Tatars."

"Yes, sir. The core points of the battlefields of Hunan, Guizhou and Guangdong were the Xiangjiang River, Lingqu and Guijiang River, and Sun Kewang Li Dingguo occupied the main road from Wuzhou to Hengzhou during the heyday of Li Dingguo, and we all thought that the recovery was imminent......"

Li Dingguo's victory was short-lived, which lasted less than half a year, and what Shou Qin saw from Zhang Shijie's eyes was full of despair.

"Now that they have lost all the waterways again, where is Li Dingguo now?"

"Dingguo's soldiers are hanging in Hezhou, where I was once stationed, and they are still pressing on the heads of Liangguang."

Shou Xuan turned out the map, "Well, you can take the Hezhou Ancient Road to the south of the Pearl River through the Hejiang River, or you can go through Zhenxia Pass to Guanyang to smuggle across the Guijiang River and join the army in Liuzhou." Dingguo, this is helpless, and it is also the best choice. ”

"But after all, it was huddled in the mountains, surrounded by tartars, and had no future. Before I left, Dingguo sent people to Qiongzhou to attack Zhaoqing on a scheduled date. ”

Shou Order: "Go, Shi Jie." Tell the Zeng Pavilion Department that Li Yuanyin, the loyal battalion, the Chu army, the Jiangxi army, and the Yunnan army can draw as much as they can, go to the Xijiang River through the Beiliu River, and go all out to fight Wuzhou. ”

The order is a little hateful, the Liangguang battlefield, we must take Wuzhou, the core crossroads, it's too fatal. Shang Kexi has Wuzhou in hand, and the internal advantage is too great.

The main battlefield of Liangguang and Guangxi had three spiral arms, the Guijiang River, the Xunjiang River and the main stream Xijiang, Hainan held the Xunjiang River, and Li Dingguo lost the Guijiang River. Now only by defeating Wuzhou, cutting off the Guijiang River and the Xijiang River, and taking the Xunjiang River as the rear, can this battle be reversed.

"You must tell Li Dingguo that regular warfare must not be opportunistic, Wuzhou, Wuzhou, must occupy Wuzhou and cut off the connection between the two Guangzhou."

Zhang Shijie: "I will die!" But more than 10,000 soldiers have been withdrawn from western Guangdong, what should I do with my hometown? ”

"Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao have almost squeezed Guangdong dry in the past two years, and they can only give priority to resisting Li Dingguo. The more you hate to fight on the Xijiang River, the less they will be able to draw troops to western Guangdong. ”

"To whom should this army be commanded?"

"You bring it."

"I've never had so many soldiers."

"No problem, listen to Li Dingguo's command when you get to the battlefield."

"I ......"

"Alas," Shou Xuan put down his glass, "the various departments of the defense army are indeed very complicated, you send the defense army to attack in small units, the simpler the task, the better, and the more concise the order, the better." The main force of your headquarters is cautiously engaged in field battles, and you will fight in a stupid battle. ”

"I'm afraid that one person won't be able to do it."

"Let Governor Xie Yuanbian of Qinlian go with you, and bring more prison officers."

Shou Xiang poured another glass of wine for Zhang Shijie, "What is Zheng Chenggong doing, watching Li Dingguo's play?" ”

"This guy Damu is really negotiating peace with Beijing, and the Tartars have reinforced the green battalions in Zhangzhou and Chaozhou in front of him to the front line."

"If he doesn't beat us, you go back and tell Zhang Pengfei to take the sailor to Chaozhou. forced Hao Shangjiu to raise the flag immediately and mess up Chaozhou, making Shang Kexi embarrassed. ”

Zhang Shijie put down his wine glass, "The big system, I know it." ”

Shou Xuan patted Zhang Shijie on the shoulder, "Things are not desperate, cheer up." Although Li Dingguo's army was heavily damaged, its strength still existed, and Geng Jimao was still able to deal with him with all his might. ”

"Yes, I will leave immediately and report back to Hainan to the cabinet."

"Don't worry about these days, I still have a manor next door, I'll give it to you, go and stay for a few days."