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Her geographical location in Jiangxi does not seem to be special, but to the west of this province is Huguang, and it is Changsha, the ruling center of southern Huguang. Even from Pingxiang County, west of Yuanzhou Prefecture, down the river, you can soon enter the Xiangjiang River, and then all the way downstream, it is the only Manchu Qing Dynasty that can be slightly better than Hong Chengchou in the local area, with the "reincarnation of Kong Ming" known as the Jingluo Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, the governor's military affairs and food and salary, Shaobao and the prince Taibao, the Changsha shogunate of the Minister of Parliament Fan Wencheng!

Entering the southern part of Huguang through Yuanzhou, without passing through the mountains of western Jiangxi, and having the convenience of water conservancy, it is precisely because of this that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would station up to 2,000 green battalion soldiers in this province, led by a deputy general, which is a vision that other provinces in Jiangxi except for the three core areas of Nanchang, Jiujiang and Nanjiang.

This is a strategic place, but the main force of the Qing army in Jiangxi is gone, including Hong Chengchou in the southeast, Cai Shiying, the governor of Jiangxi, Liu Guangbi, the governor of Jiangxi, Yang Jie, the general soldier of Jiujiang, and a number of commanders in the southeast of the Jingbiao, either died or captured, when the Ming army came to the city, since the deputy general of Yuanzhou, Kang Risheng, the Jiangxi political envoy, Zhao Jinmei, the political envoy of Jiangxi, and Wu Nandai, the prefect of Yuanzhou, all surrendered by themselves, and did not dare to resist the Ming army's troops, even Fan Wencheng also learned that Yuanzhou fell into the hands of the Ming army first, and only then did he get the news of Hong Chengchou's death.

In the study room of the Yamen in the southwest of Changsha City, Fan Wencheng and a military general of the Eight Banners of Manchuria sat opposite each other in front of the map, silent.

This military general of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is called Chen Tai, and Tan Tai, not surnamed Tan, surnamed Shu Mulu, Chen Tai is not surnamed Chen, surnamed Niu Colu, which is the surname that Huan Huan, the anti-Qing heroine who ended my Qing Dynasty green hat emperor, used when she was lurking in the harem.

Chen Taiqi is the grandson of the five ministers of Nurhachi, Niu Colu*, and the third generation of the Eight Banner Officials of Genhong Miaozheng. Huang Taiji made many military exploits in the era, and after entering the customs, he also beat Li Zicheng, and followed Kong Youde to Huguang. From the first year of Yongli to the beginning of the third year of Yongli, the Lu Jianguo group made a big fuss in Fujian, almost turning the province overturned, and among the reinforcements sent by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the green battalion was mainly Tian Xiong, Zhang Guoxun's gang of Zhejiang green battalions, and the Eight Banners Army was led by this Chen Tai as a general of Jingnan at that time.

After the battle of the fork in the road, the situation in the southwest tended to be calm, the defeated southwest Ming army suffered heavy losses, returned to Yungui to lick its wounds, and Huguang could only try its best to maintain a defensive position; The defeated Qing army, in fact, was not good, the loss of a lot of generals, waited for a while to understand that the southwest Ming army was temporarily powerless, the main force returned to Beijing, Chen Tai was also at that time to replace Dorobelle Tunqi as the general of Ningnan Jingkou, responsible for the command of Huguang's Eight Banners Army.

In today's southwest battlefield, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is naturally dominated by Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai, when Hong Chengchou died, the news that the Ming army had recovered Yuanzhou without blood, the two of them seemed to have been struck by lightning at that time, and they didn't hold back a fart for a long time.

In the study room here, only these two local civil and military officials sat opposite each other for a long time, but Chen Taixian couldn't hold it back.

"Kendou, you have something to say."

Fan Wencheng was an extremely important civil servant in the early Qing Dynasty, and many rules and regulations in the early Qing Dynasty came from his hands. Unlike Hong Chengchou, who in history recruited the Manchu Qing to appease the south of the Yangtze River and pass through the southwest, and made great contributions but only got a third-class light car lieutenant after his death, Fan Wencheng had been reduced as early as Nurhachi, and he had been a traitor for decades before and after the saddle, and he was already a first-class viscount as early as the sixth year of Yongli, and he was naturally far better than Hong Chengchou as an old minister of Liaodong.

The two of them looked at each other speechlessly, Fan Wencheng is a civil official, and he has been cultivating his qi for many years, so he is not a problem. Unexpectedly, this Chen Tai did not play his cards according to common sense, and kicked the ball over when he opened his mouth, but it was not conducive to the unity of the local civil and military forces.

"Now, there is no other way but to strengthen the defense. If the enemy does not move, I will not move. ”

After waiting for a long time, the result was that he held back such a sentence, and the corners of Chen Tai's mouth couldn't help twitching twice, but he didn't say anything about this motionless initiative.

Nowadays, the Qing army in Huguang Province is mainly divided into three systems. The Eight Banners Army, headed by Ningnan Jingkou General Manchuria with the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Chen Tai, with the Blue Flag Gushan Ezhen Lanbai, Zhenghongqi Gushan Ezhen Ji Xiha, Baya Laxu Zhangjing Suke Saha and other generals as the backbone of the Qing army on the southwest battlefield; Southwest Jingbiao, three towns of 15,000 troops, led by Nan Yikui and other green battalion generals, directly under the leadership of Fan Wencheng; The local green battalions in Huguang were stationed in various prefectures and counties and flood areas, and were controlled by the first two and Zu Zeyuan, the governor of Huguang.

The Qing army had so many troops in Huguang, but the military pressure it needed to bear was not smaller than that in the southeast, and even greater.

"The lake is wide and the place is vast, the Xiangjiang River is with the lake, the mountains and rivers are dangerous, and it is a place of beauty that has never been shaped. Now that the Kou has been in turmoil for many years, the army has been used for the longest time, and everyone knows that the traitor Sun Kewang and others resisted Hunan, but they do not know that Hao Shaoqi, Yao Huang, and a tiger are wreaking havoc in Hubei. Combined with the cowards, the Miao thieves coerced, and the crowds gathered to rob, it was the key point in the belly of Huguang to the border. ”

Just like the historical Hong Chengchou's Shangshu Soyun, in the south of Huguang, the main force of the southwestern Ming army, the Great Western Army of the Qin Domain, was entrenched in Yungui, and in Huguang occupied a small part of Chenzhou, Jingzhou and Baoqing; In the north of Huguang, the remnants of the Dashun Army, Li Laiheng, Hao Shaoqi, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, He Zhen and other departments, the Thirteen Huang Families, Wanxian Santan and other departments, occupied the Kuidong area, and supervised the control of the university scholar Wen'an.

This is only the larger Ming army in Huguang, others such as the Yao people, Miao people, red-headed thieves and the gentry who resisted the Qing Dynasty, the remnants of the Ming army that have been disabled over the years, the common people who have formed villages to protect themselves, and so on, all over the province of Huguang, especially in the south of Huguang, the Qing army can only hold the prefectures and counties, and the small-scale Qing army will not come back if they go out of the city and go far.

In addition, Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai are no further than Zu Ze, who is still in Wuchang, they are Manchu officials in charge of the five southwestern provinces. In addition to Huguang and Yungui, which were all in the hands of the Ming army, most of Guangdong was in the hands of the Qing army, and Shang Kexi was in charge, but Li Dingguo's army had already entered Guangdong, and the anti-Qing rebels in Guangdong responded one after another, and it is said that Hao Jiushang, the general soldier of Chaozhou, was not very peaceful recently; Guangxi, the Qing army nominally took Guilin, but in fact, it was Lingui and the four counties of Quanzhou, Xing'an, and Lingchuan attached to Guo, and the other prefectures and counties and prefectures were in the hands of the Ming army.

In contrast, in the southeast, the small anti-Qing rebels have been cleaned up in recent years, and the recent ones that are more fierce are Chen Wen in Zhejiang and Zheng Chenggong in Fujian, and there are smaller ones such as Zhang Mingzhen in Chongming, Qian Yingkui in Su Song, and Zhang San in Taihu Lake.

"The spies over there in Guizhou reported that the thief leader Sun Kewang appointed Liu Wenxiu as the big recruit at the beginning of the year, although the direction of the attack is not clear, but if you think about it, it is nothing more than Sichuan and Huguang, especially here, it is more likely."

After hearing this, Chen Tai nodded and acquiesced to Fan Wencheng's words. Since taking office, such as Hong Chengchou has vigorously cleared out the rebels in Jiangxi, Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai have also tried their best to clean up the small rebels around, but Huguang Province, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been tugging for many years, and the people's livelihood has been extremely ruined, and many of the local gentry are anti-Qing, and with the participation of Miao Yao and other tribal armed forces, it is very laborious to clean up.

Historically, Hong Chengchou vigorously wooed the gentry of Huguang while purging them, which can be described as a variety of means, and it took several years to barely stabilize the situation. Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai have no experience in local administration, and they still believe in the invincible set of the Eight Banners Force.

The two of them know these things, and naturally there is no need to put them into words, and if they say it, they will only lose their face, which is really very human. Now, Chen Wen's thread is about to be inserted into the edge of this mess, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the Manchu rule in Huguang is about to be strangled.

"Chen Wen's side, the enemy died 1,000 and I died 800, Hong Chengchou's waste lost tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, how can I replace more than 10,000 Ming troops. Counting the fact that he has expanded a lot of territory from the eight prefectures in eastern Zhejiang, the troops must be overstretched, so if you think about it, for the time being, it should be more than enough to defend and not enough to attack, and we will not have any threat for the time being. ”

If the Qing army in the southwest marches eastward, the best route is still Yuanzhou Mansion, but Yuanzhou Mansion is also a well-known fortified city, and the wall bricks used in the Hongwu Dynasty to repair the city are all fired of white clay, which is very strong and strong. Nanjing, which was built at the same time, is the most prestigious fortified city in the world, among which the city gates such as Jubaomen, Chaoyangmen, Xuanwu Gate and other city gates were used to pay tribute bricks from Yuanzhou at that time, which was the same as that used in Yuanzhou's capital city.

This city, it's okay to take it, but if it can't be captured, the troops will be under the city. Once Liu Wenxiu advances eastward and releases the tiger of the Yunnan-Guizhou Great Western Army, or if Li Dingguo smells the smell and raises troops north, it will not be a joke.

"This matter is no longer the matter of the five provinces we are responsible for, and the situation in the southeast is unfavorable, and now it threatens us here. How to deal with it still needs to obey the decision of the imperial court! ”

"That's right, whether it's war or defense, you still have to listen to the court."

Fan Wencheng, who was holding Zhizhu, rubbed his beard, and the strategy of killing three soldiers with two peaches had gradually taken shape in his mind, but as a slave and bureaucrat, he still had to listen to his master.

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Fan Wencheng got the news very late, but the news of Hong Chengchou's defeat of Yushan was quickly sent to the Manchu court in Beijing along Poyang Lake, the Yangtze River and the canal, but the next news of the fall of Guangxin Mansion for the Ming army was delayed for several days because of the collapse of the administrative system, until Liu Fangming, who "did not rely on Pan'er", and Zhang Daocheng, who was "cowardly", went down the river by boat, and Ma Guozhu confirmed the news before he was sent to Beijing quickly.

These days, there are countless stagecoaches that have died on the official road to the north, and there are a bit of fart rumors in Jiangxi and Zhejiang, Ma Guozhu and Xiao Qiyuan, a group of people will send them to Beijing as quickly as possible, crying and shouting for help, even the same is true of Ang Bangzhang Jing Ha Ha Mu of the Four Banners of the Left Wing of Jiangning and Da Su, the general of Pingnan who garrisoned the Eight Banners of Hangzhou.

The local officials wept and wiped away their tears, but the Manchu court has not yet made a decision on the disposal of Dasu's mourning division. This is not to blame for the inefficiency of the feudal bureaucratic system, the Eight Banners were the emperor's minions, but things came down one after another, and the development was too fast - Dasu was defeated in Siming Lake in late April, Yushan started fighting in May, and at the end of May, Guangxin Mansion was also lost, and now it is only the end of June, and the power that Chen Wen broke out this year really blinded those big people in the Manchu court, and they were so shocked that they patronized and watched, and there was no time to do things.

"Hong Chengchou lost his teacher and humiliated the country, he should be beheaded all over the house!"

In the past few years, the university Shi Ning, who has been gaining power by attacking the Southern Party through the Zhejiang case, has spoken out, but the Manchu magnates present also know that Hong Chengchou's wife had passed away the year before last, and his two younger brothers, one died early, and the other is still in Fujian, and it seems that the relationship with Hong Chengchou is still very poor, and even Hong Chengchou's son Hong Shiming's family is now waiting for the township examination in Fujian. The sky is high and the road is long, and it is not easy to talk about.

Before Hong Chengchou's death, he was already the only remaining high-ranking official among the southern civil officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although the political enemy was dead and worthy of celebration, but Chen Wen, who first appeared in the sight of the Manchu court, was only a guerrilla general in charge of more than 500 soldiers and horses, but he became bigger. In the four southeastern provinces, half of the ground is about to be replaced with the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining parts, Fujian, Jiangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hangjiahu and Jiangnan, are also under threat, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the southeast is about to collapse.

"The minister seconded the proposal, Hong Chengchou is incompetent, corrupts state affairs, and needs to be severely punished, otherwise he will not be afraid of the world."

In the matter of confronting the Southern Party, the old ministers of Liaodong and the Northern Party are in the same spirit, and now the best political opponent has been killed by the Ming army outside the field, and this guy is trampled into the mud, and the Manchu court will be "all the right and prosperous dynasty".

It's just that when Feng Quan said this, Liu Zhengzong below was about to continue firing, but unexpectedly, Shunzhi swept the things on the imperial case, and shouted to them angrily: "I called you here to discuss how to exterminate the thieves in Zhejiang, not to ask you to attack each other here!" ”

In the past, I heard Hong Chengchou talk about the Donglin and the eunuchs attacking each other in the court tomorrow, and many official affairs of the court could not be done, and he couldn't understand it at first, but today, he has an illusion of empathy.

"A slave deserves death."

"The sin of the minister deserves death."

A group of Han officials who were still firing the cannon just now knelt on the ground, kowtowing vigorously, but Shunzhi seemed to have a breath in his heart, and he couldn't disperse for a long time, so that he even had some difficulty breathing.

"Get out, get out of here!"

The Han officials in the main hall retreated in a hurry, and the rest were all the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the cronies and high-ranking officials of Shunzhi.

"Han people, they just like to be in the nest."

Compared to the last time he came to this hall, Zilharang's voice seemed a little lacking. He is sick, this is something known to the relatives and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, and Shunzhi naturally knows it. However, Chen Wen has now captured Nanchang and Jiujiang, even if the news of Yuanzhou has not yet arrived, it is enough for them to take care of these anymore.

"Uncle Wang......"

Seeing that Shunzhi's eyes were on him, Prince Zheng Jierharang stood up and replied angrily: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of a minion, only the Eight Banners can exterminate the thieves in Zhejiang by moving south!" ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty no longer had a heavy army group in the four southeastern provinces, and if they wanted to encircle and suppress it, they had to have troops, which was normal. It's just that as soon as these words came out, Ao Bai took the lead in standing up.

"Lord Wang, when the Southeast Economic Strategy received the news that the anti-thief Huang Zongxi and others had gathered in Dalanshan in Hangzhou, he had already mentioned in the strategy of sending troops to encircle and suppress that he asked the army to go south to help suppress it. Later, as Dasu failed to win, the imperial court also transferred 8,000 Manmeng Eight Banners, added the king of Doroan County as the prince, and led the army south as the commander, and now it is on the way. ”

The king of Doroan in Aobai's mouth, the current Prince An is called Yue Le, and he is the son of Abatai, the king of Raoyu County. Previously, he had entered Sichuan with Haoge, killed Zhang Xianzhong, and two years ago, he also went north as the commander to attack the Khalkha Mongolian Tushetu Khan and Chechen Khan in Mobei, forcing them to pay tribute.

According to the Jesuit John Tong, before Shunzhi's death, because the prince was young, he once wanted to pass the throne to Yue Le, but was later dissuaded by him. Whether this is true or not is unknown, but when the rebellion of the three feudatories began to sweep half of the south of the Yangtze River, Kangxi still invited the noble king out, and Yue Le did not live up to his expectations, and adopted a more reasonable strategy, captured Jiangxi, cut off the connection between Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, and soon quelled the rebellion of the three feudatories.

"Yue Le, that kid, hehe, he hasn't been out of Zhili yet."

Hearing this, not only Aobai, but even Sony was embarrassed. After many years in the customs, the people of the Eight Banners of Manchuria have long been immersed in this drunken gold fan, leaving behind their comfort nest and going to the south to be born and die, and many Eight Banners soldiers have begun to avoid it. Sony is very clear about this mentality, and the intertwined network of relatives in the Eight Banners has also made many relatives and high-ranking officials, including him, begin to be ambiguous about the proposal to dispatch the Eight Banners Army as the main force of encirclement and suppression.

Hong Chengchou's dismissal was very early, and he had already received the dismissal when Dasu had not yet sent troops, but under the negation of the opposition such as Ning Wan and me and the disregard of the Manchurian nobles and high-ranking officials, he did not make a decision in time, and it was not confirmed until the news of Dasu's defeat arrived.

However, it does not mean that the troops can be dispatched immediately, and now it is not the time when the Great Western Army bombed away Shen Yongzhong, the Duke of Xushun. The wounds of the first battle at the fork in the road have not been licked yet, and the opposition within the Eight Banners is not small, and in the end, a small number of Manchurian Eight Banners and up to 6,000 Mongolian Eight Banners were selected, and they were set to go south in winter. But it didn't take long for the news of Hong Chengchou's fiasco defeat at Yushan to come, and the preparations for sending troops were forced to speed up sharply, but now, with the normal speed of marching, coupled with the fact that Hong Chengchou had already swept the treasury in the south of the Yangtze River, military supplies needed to be drawn and transported from the north, and Yue Le's army haunted Zhili, which is really not easy to say.

"When Yue Le arrived in Hangzhou after the autumn, the Zhejiang thieves also gained a firm foothold in Jiangxi. At that time, relying on the defeat of the Eight Banners Army and the remnants of Hangzhou brought by him, I am afraid that it will be difficult to win. ”

With the use of the Mandarin Duck Array of the Zhejiang Ming Army step by step to grow stronger, the memory of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River has become more and more profound, compared to those ignorant relatives and nobles in the court, he is the most afraid to despise the Zhejiang Ming Army of the Manchu prince, but because of the embarrassing identity of the regent, but he did not dare to say more. However, in the current situation, I can't take care of these anymore.

"Your Majesty, the servants thought that even if Yue Le arrived in Hangzhou, he would be alone. At that time, when Guangdong and Fujian are abandoned, the green battalions of Pingnan and Jingnan and the two provinces and the green battalions of Nanjiang and Hangzhou will be concentrated, and the two provinces of West and Zhejiang will be wiped out in one fell swoop, and there will be no future troubles! (To be continued.) )