Just as these civil officials in Li Dingguo's curtain were talking freely about state affairs, the general under the command of Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, had already left Guangzhou and rushed to Xinhui to assist in the defense, and Shang Kexi was ready to send Wu Jinzhong, the general of the right wing, to help ensure the safety of Xinhui. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Historically, it was the two ogres Yunlong and Wu Jinzhong who cooperated with the Xinhui defenders to withhold the grain in the treasury for reinforcements. They sent their soldiers to plunder the people in the city, and then feed on the people of Xinhui.

The culprits of the two tragedies are getting closer and closer to Xinhui, and the time is getting closer and closer to June 29, when the battle of Xinhui officially broke out, but Li Dingguo is still sick.

At the same time, the main force of the Ming army in the southwest, after a year's rest, Sun Kewang, the king of Qin, who had lost his heart in the battle of the fork in the road, also decided to appoint Liu Wenxiu as the chief recruit, leading the southwest Ming army to attack Huguang again, in order to take Wuhan in one fell swoop, so as to go down the river, and in accordance with the grand strategy of the three bureaus of the catalpa and the Ming army of Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan who are now stationed on Chongming Island.

On the battlefield in the southwest, the two Ming armies in the southwest, which had parted ways, were ready to prepare for their last major counteroffensive in history. And their opponent was replaced by Fan Wencheng, who had Kong Ming's reputation in the world, and the original opponent Hong Chengchou was making the last effort on the southeast battlefield.

On the second day of the fifth month of the eighth year of Yongli, Nanchang Mansion, Jiangxi Province, Zhaojiawei on the shore of Poyang Lake, is located between Nanchang Mansion City and Poyang Lake.

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties began to fight for Jiangxi, defense, attack, anyway, and suppression have been written full of the four words of continuous military disasters. In particular, the Qing army suppressed Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren anyway, and carried out a terrible massacre in Nanchang, more than 200,000 people were slaughtered by Tan Tai, the general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army accompanying him, which is known as the Nanchang Massacre. And Zhao Jiawei, although it is also thirty or forty miles away from Nanchang, has not avoided the butcher's knife of the Qing army.

The population plummeted, the land became barren, and the place where the Ming court once collected fishing taxes could no longer be sustained, and gradually even this large town began to become desolate.

The massacre of Nanchang occurred in the first month of the third year of Yongli, and five years later, in the eighth year of Yongli, Hong Chengchou and Cai Shiying, the governor of Jiangxi, began to recruit the people on a large scale and divide the land and fields in order to collect military resources and share the financial pressure of Jiangnan.

Half a year passed, the people hiding in the mountains, forests and lakes began to gradually return, with braids, accepted the tuntian order of the Jiangxi governor Yamen, and worked hard for survival and the well-being of future generations.

The abandoned land has been reclaimed, and the people have begun to recover, and the people at the bottom have praised Cai Shiying's good governance, but at the same time, they are worried about the harvest. However, there are always some discerning people who can see that after five years, such a large scale of tuntian reclamation is more due to the military threat of the Ming army in Zhejiang, so that they have to make all preparations to restore people's livelihood to share the financial pressure in Jiangnan.

The green seedlings in the fields are the hope of the peasants and the political achievements of the governor Cai Shiying, but Hong Chengchou, who is in charge of the military of the four southeastern provinces, has already rushed to Guangxin Fucheng.

Today's Guangxin Fucheng is not what it used to be, the city has been further strengthened in this year, plus the fortress north of the city and the Xinjiang River in the south and west of the city, it can be said that it is impregnable. However, this can only be used for defense, Hong Chengchou has experienced the war outside the Chongzhen Dynasty, and knows that there is no city to defend if there is no rescue outside. No matter how strong the defense is, there are no strong troops on the side, and the Ming army can achieve their military goals through starvation as long as they are besieged.

In the city, the generals transferred by Hong Chengchou this time had already gathered, and at the same time arrived at his Nanchang Shogunate.

In the lobby of Xingyuan, as a scripture strategy, Hong Chengchou sat on it, and on the left and right were the two internal guards assigned to him by Shunzhi, and the guards who were wearing their whole bodies were on the side. On the following seats, it follows the principle of the left and the right, the left hand is the Nanchang shogunate subordinate officials headed by Huang Zhixuan, the political envoy of Jiangxi, and the right is the generals of the five towns of Jingbiao, Jiangxi and Jiujiang town.

After a few simple greetings, Hong Chengchou said straight to the point: "Ning Shao's matter, all the gentlemen have already heard about it, right?" ”

Taking the opportunity of encircling and suppressing Dalan Mountain, he mobilized a large army to encircle one or two battalions of Chen Wen, which was a strategy set by Hong Chengchou, in order to weaken the strength in Chen Wen's hands in preparation for this year's war. For this reason, he not only gave strict orders to Dasu, Tian Xiong and other generals who participated in the war, but also sent a large group of cavalry to attack the front line of Yushan to share the pressure.

However, the outcome of the battle half a month ago was beyond everyone's expectations, Chen Wen once again defeated the Qing army with inferior forces, and even the Eight Banners Army led by Dasu was not an opponent at all, not only did not achieve the strategic goal, but also lost the limited mobile troops in Zhejiang, and even the two prefectures of Ningbo and Shaoxing were also lost, so that the whispers of Hong Chengchou's old age have been spread in the southeast officialdom today.

As soon as Hong Chengchou mentioned it here, everyone was stunned. It wasn't until a moment later that Daniel Zhang, the leader, was slightly relieved. It's just that Hong Chengchou just shook his head and continued the rest of the words.

"Dasu's defeat was indeed unexpected by the old man, but now that the two provinces of Ningshao have been captured, Chen Wen's army must have a lot of Chen soldiers in Qiantangjiang and Ningshao. Under the advantages of one another, its hinterland is empty, and even if it is hastily moved here, it is absolutely impossible to compare with the officers and soldiers. Therefore, the old man decided that Yongfeng and Yushan would attack at the same time and force Chen Wen to come to the decisive battle. ”

Yongfeng County is now in the hands of the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army, and Hong Chengchou's spies reported that although the Yang brothers have strengthened the city defense, they are limited by their own insufficient military capabilities, and the city defense is not strong. It's just that this Yongfeng is located in the south of Yushan, just east of Guangxin Fucheng, and there is a triangle between the three.

All the generals can understand this truth, and the strength of the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army is not strong, and the combat power is also very weak, and it has been able to occupy a county town so far, it is nothing more than the excessive military pressure brought by the Ming Army in Zhejiang, otherwise how can such a weak force survive here.

The plan had been set before, and the senior generals led by him were very clear. Hong Chengqian swept through one by one, Daniel Zhang, the commander of Jingbiaozhong Town, Hu Maozhen, the commander of Jingbiao Left Town, Li Benshen, the commander of Jingbiao Right Town, Bai Guangen, the governor of Jingbiao Town, Liu Fangming, the commander of Jingbiaohou Town, Yang Jie, the chief soldier of Jiujiang, and Bu Shilong, the chief soldier of Guangxin Fu, all of these military generals showed a look full of confidence.

This is perfectly normal, because their tactics are already different, and they have also fought against the spear array and the mandarin duck array copied in the Ming army in Zhejiang on the school field, and their morale has been restored by victories again and again.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou nodded, and then walked past his in-law, Huang Zhixuan, who was in charge of the front of the Jiangxi Army, and asked the staff below:

"Hao Zongfu of Poyang Zhixian County."

"The lower official is here."

"The grain that you escorted back from Jiangnan last month has been sent to the Guangxin Treasury?"

"The words of the old man will be delivered."

"Zhang Daocheng, the governor of Raozhou Prefecture."

"The lower official is here."

"Is the new batch of grain ships built by your governor in place last month?"

"The words of the old man have been completed, and he can start at any time."

"Wu Hongdao, Xing'an Zhixian County."

"The lower official is here."

"So far, the military supplies purchased from Jiangxi Province can be sent to Guangxin Fucheng?"

"The words of the old man have all been escorted to arrive."

"Guangxin prefect Huang Zhongtong."

"The lower official is here."

“……”

After inquiring a number of relevant civil officials, all the money and food needed for the army to go out were in place. Hong Chengchou actually knew these things for a long time, and even revised them in his mind every day as the data increased or decreased. In front of the public, I asked one by one, in order to let the generals under his command be able to completely settle down.

The three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first. The tent is full of veterans who are old in military affairs, so they naturally understand this. During this time, I could hear that Hong Chengchou's Nanchang Shogunate was like a few treasures, and his heart was also a lot more settled.

"The money and food are ready, and the follow-up money and food will also be shipped, and according to the plan, the troops will be dispatched tomorrow. If the generals have nothing to ask, go down and prepare. ”

"The last general and others will obey the orders of the old man."

The generals and staff of the army retreated, and soon only Hong Chengchou and Huang Zhixuan were left in the big tent.

"Heng Jiu, I'm not worried about Yongfeng, Yang Wen is just a self-defending thief, even if he doesn't care about him, he may not dare to jump out. But Chen Wen is now gaining momentum, and Yushan County is where the generals under his command are in charge, rashly attacking, if it fails, Jiangxi will be in danger at that time. ”

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but sigh.

"Oumei, you know, I originally planned to fight that Chen Wen after the autumn. However, Dasu and others did not listen to moderation, and rashly fought with Chen Wen in the Siming Mountains, the loss of the Eight Banners of Manchuria was not small, and the voice of impeachment in the DPRK and China was already overwhelming, even the Son of Heaven was quite displeased, and if he didn't do it now, he was afraid that he would never have a chance to remove this huge trouble for the imperial court. ”

In the past two years, the Tongzhejiang case, which was provoked by the former ministers of Liaodong and the Northern Party, has become more and more violent, and since Chen Mingxia and Chen Zhixuan, officials from the south have been dealt a blow and have almost been swept away at the top level. The rout of the Southern Party in the political struggle made Hong Chengchou, who was originally hostile to the former ministers of Liaodong and the Northern Party, now become the only remaining big figure of the Southern Party in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and naturally he was even more a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh.

Party struggle is like this, the Donglin Party can beat the Qi Party and the Chu Party into traitorous parties, sweep them all out of the court, and realize the grand occasion of "all the people are in the court", and the eunuch party can naturally launch rounds of party struggle, so as to completely defeat the Donglin Party.

Today's north-south party struggle is no different in nature from the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty, so much so that these generals under Hong Chengchou are also unconsciously cautious in their words and deeds. Just in terms of the scene just now, behind Dasu is Aobai, Aobai is Shunzhi's confidant, and Hong Chengchou's Southern Party, now that it is thin, they will naturally be ordered to fight, and they will have to use more brains when they speak, otherwise it is difficult to say how they will die.

During this period of time, Fu Fan Wencheng served as the southwest economic strategy, and Fan Wencheng intercepted Hu Hong Chengchou and planned to transfer to the southeast to reuse the capable ministers and generals. Now including Nan Yikui, Sun Sike, Liu Yingzhi, Wang Yongzuo and other generals, Zhou Shizhong, Xu Teng, Jiang Yingtai and other staff have been robbed by Fan Wencheng, and he also changed the 20,000 northern green battalions he originally applied for into 10,000 in two towns, and reissued another 10,000 to Fan Wencheng.

Of course, in the southwest battlefield, the losses of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were greater than those in the southeast, which is an indisputable fact, but in Hong Chengchou's view, in the southwest battlefield, the Ming army suffered a lot of losses in the battle at the fork in the road, and then Sun Li infighting, as long as the means are old enough, it can still be barely done. In the southeast, the balance has begun to reverse, Chen Wen's power is getting stronger and stronger, and once the Qing army's heavy siege on both fronts fails, then the strength that erupts is likely to lead to a rapid deterioration of the situation.

The wealth of the southeast, coupled with Chen Wen's new thinking in tactics, made it so that after the failure of last year's planning, Hong Chengchou was always thinking of ways to win the war.

Now, the solution was in place, and the army had trained accordingly in the past few months, and although the results were not enough to satisfy the Jesuit monk, they still gave Hong Chengchou hope. Because he still has an absolute superiority in troops, the results of Chen Jin's reform of the mandarin duck formation with the supervision battalion also prove that appropriate improvements can shorten the gap between the combat effectiveness of the two sides, and the absolute superiority in troops can make it possible to change the results.

Hong Chengchou had talked about these thoughts to Huang Zhixuan, and he naturally could understand them. Hong Chengchou set up the Nanchang Shogunate and the five towns of Jingbiao in the past year, in order to be able to level the Ming army in Zhejiang in one fell swoop.

"I have confidence in you Hengjiu."

Hong Chengchou started from the encirclement and suppression of the Liukou in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and in terms of military ability, it can be said that there are few civil officials in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties who can match it. Huang Zhixuan's confidence is not delusional, in history, it was Hong Chengchou who stabilized the ruling order in Jiangnan at the beginning of entering the customs, and then used all kinds of means in the southwest, and persisted until the three kings were infighting, and Sun Kewang surrendered. It can be said that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to completely subdue the Southern Ming, and Hong Chengchou made a great contribution.

Now, Hong Chengchou is changing to fight against Chen Wen on the southeast battlefield, although he lost the first battle, but in that battle, he also forced Chen Wen to danger for a while, but in the end, he only slightly overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of the Han Army. Even so, the failure of the Ming army to achieve a breakthrough in Jiangxi stemmed from his two-handed preparations.

Now, the chips in his hand are not only the fortress of Guangxin Mansion, but also the Spanish phalanx that is rampant in Taixi, and he has an absolute advantage in terms of troops. Not only Huang Zhixuan, but even Hong Chengchou is also full of confidence.

"Jingbiao Five Towns, Jiangxi Promotion, Jiujiang Town Standard, 35,000 troops drawn from the northern green battalion, cavalry is the advantage of our Qing Dynasty, and the infantry has also turned to train the Spanish phalanx, this battle can wipe out the Zhejiang thieves in one fell swoop." Nodding, Hong Chengchou then gave an order: "Pass the order to Liu Guangbi, within three days, the old man will see the head of the Nine Immortals Mountain thief Kou Yangwen!" (To be continued.) )