Yue Le's southward movement intensified the contradictions between the Manchu court and the southeastern gentry, but this Prince An is still there, and the gentry who are well versed in the way of self-preservation will never jump out to die at this time, and someone will always stand up and break the foundation of Manchu rule in Jiangnan before they will come from the crowd and do something icing on the cake. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAnd those righteous people who really wanted to overthrow the Manchu rule at the cost of their lives were a very small number after all, and even most of them had already practiced their noble ambitions with their lives in these years of brutal suppression.

Jiangnan in the southeast battlefield is now waiting for a change, but in late November, on the southwest battlefield, after a period of fermentation, the change has taken the lead.

In the southwest of Changsha Fucheng, Huguang, the cautious attachés and staff members shouted one by one to call the officials below, and those officials took out boxes and boxes of documents and books from one official room after another, packed them and pasted seals, and instructed the people below to move outside to load the trucks.

Not only here, but also in other yamen, warehouses, and military camps in Changsha Prefecture, and even the entire Qing army in the southern part of Huguang was hurriedly packing up, waiting for the fate of the Yamen.

In the study room in the backyard, this is the only place in the entire Jingluo Xingyuan that has not yet begun to be cleaned up, Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai sit opposite each other, but on the table is an urgent edict from the Manchu court.

At the beginning of September, the Qing armies in Fujian and Guangdong changed banners one after another, and Fan Wencheng hurriedly reported to the Manchu court after receiving the news. Previously, the news that most of the Jiangxi province fell into the hands of the Ming army has reached the ears of the Qing court, and now there is such news, Yue Le's army has not been assisted by Shang Geng's two domains, and it has already suffered a big loss in terms of troops, and the attack is temporarily out of play, and the Qing court has to think about how to preserve more strength under the general trend of collapse south of the Yangtze River is the key at present.

It was impossible to abandon Jiangnan, where the opulence was an important boost to Manchu rule north of the Yangtze River. Since this is the case, then Fan Wencheng can only abandon the southern part of Huguang and withdraw to the northern part of Huguang to narrow the defensive line, and use more forces to compete with Chen Wen for the southeast.

"The court has worked so hard to obtain these lands, and it is really unwilling to give them up like this."

However, Chen Tai was unwilling and had no choice, the army in the southwest had been relying on the goods in the south of the Yangtze River during this time, and this still had to eat the rest of the Yamen of the southeast Jingluo. A few months ago, in order to annihilate the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang in one fell swoop, Hong Chengchou had already ripped the treasury in Jiangnan clean, but he was defeated and died, so that Jiangxi completely fell, Chen Wen completely expanded, and even the goods worth millions of taels of silver fell into Chen Wen's hands.

Now that Jiangnan is under increasing threat, the Eight Banners Army led by Yue Le has squeezed out the already small military supplies when it goes south, even if it can still hold on militarily, if the Manchu court does not dig out the old foundation that has been looted and hidden in the treasury over the years, it is afraid that the Qing army in Huguang will collapse on its own before the battle.

Moreover, it was also Fan Wencheng's idea to withdraw to the northern part of Huguang to narrow the defensive line, so that he could not only get rid of the dilemma of being attacked on both sides, but also let Sun Kewang and Chen Wen border each other, and sit and watch the snipe and clam fight, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds.

"It's a pity that the surname Chen is really firm-minded, Changsha Yifu, this kind of temptation can be endured, it is really a big trouble for the imperial court."

Hearing Fan Wencheng's words, Chen Tai also sighed. When this military general first appeared in the Manchu Qing Dynasty four years ago, he was only a small army leader who led more than 500 soldiers and was not valued by the civilian officials of the supervising army. It has only been four years, and it has developed into a great rival of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is really beyond everyone's expectations.

If you can do it all over again, even if you let Lu Jianguo not fight, you have to destroy Chen Wen first. But no matter what era it is, regret medicine is not sold, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty is rich in the world, it is also useless.

It was not only Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai who had such thoughts, many people in the Manchu and Qing dynasties had similar thoughts, but it was useless to think too much, and the key was that they now had to face Chen Wen's military threat.

"Now we can only hope that Sun Kewang's reaction is not fast enough, and we can withdraw all the officials and troops with all our eyes. If Sun Kewang and Chen Wenna fight again, the southwest war situation is still promising. ”

"I hope so."

Changsha was used as a bait Chen Wen was not fooled, and when they gave up the southern part of Huguang, the Qin Domain and the Huiji Domain confronted each other in the mountainous areas of western Jiangxi, and it was difficult to find a reason to fight, so it was so easy to fight.

Two peaches to kill three soldiers, the strategy was set by Fan Wencheng, but now he has become far less confident than Chen Tai. It's not that he's lost confidence in the face of setbacks, it's just that under normal circumstances, these two guys have to be stupid enough to make them do what they want so easily.

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Fan Wencheng's Changsha shogunate had already begun preparations for evacuation, and Chen Wen's side had recovered Jiangxi for less than half a year, so the speed of intelligence gathering on Huguang naturally could not be compared with the southwestern Ming army that had been fighting with the Qing army in Huguang for a long time.

Sun Kewang had been stationed in Chenzhou Prefecture in the south of Huguang for several months, and since Liu Wenxiu recovered Changde, the Ming and Qing armies once again fell into a state of confrontation. On the one hand, there are no fighters, and on the other hand, Sun Kewang no longer has the confidence he had in the military before World War I, so even if the military information about Changsha sent by Chen Wen to Liu Wenxiu finally fell into the hands of Sun Kewang, he did not make the slightest move.

Fan Wencheng's bureau was set up to let Chen Wen and Sun Kewang fight among themselves, and now Chen Wen has no plan, if Sun Kewang attacks in a big way, Fan Wencheng is likely to use internal Ying to mislead Sun Kewang, so as to put the Southwest Ming Army into the trap.

This is a simple response, Fan Wencheng will not let go of the opportunity to turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop, but Sun Kewang's cowardice has allowed him to avoid a fiasco, it can only be said that although this cowardice is shameful, it is indeed useful.

Nowadays, every move of the Qing army in the southwest is in his eyeline, although Fan Wencheng ordered the Qing army to act secretly, but with the execution of the feudal army, such a large range, there is actually not much difference between secret and not.

"The lord of the country has been determined, the Tartars in Hengyang and Yongzhou have begun to pull out their camps and go north, and the goal should be Changsha and join Na Fan Wencheng. Chenzhou is still uncertain, but there should be no exceptions. ”

"The same is true for Guilin's line, national security, and the whole festival."

"Over in Changsha, Fan Wencheng's thief has already begun to pack up."

"The Tartars of Yuezhou Mansion have been very nervous recently, and they were afraid that Wang Shi would cut off the retreat of Fan Thief."

“……”

Although Sun Kewang said that he was clearly going to usurp the throne, even his righteous brothers could not bear it anymore, but now they are still nominally based on the Son of Yongli, and the Ming restoration forces on Huguang are still looking forward to the Ming army in the southwest to attack again as it did two years ago and recover more lost territory.

In comparison, Chen Wen's side received very little support from Huguang. On the one hand, it is familiar but not raw, and on the other hand, Chen Wen's attitude towards the gentry also affects their judgment.

"King, the return of the Tartar army to the north is a good opportunity to send troops."

"In this way, if you can break the fan thief in the south of Huguang, the momentum of Wang Shi sweeping Huguang will be there; But if he was allowed to retreat to the northern part of Huguang with a large army, it would be even more difficult to continue to forge ahead. ”

"The three bureaus of Catalpa are about to be completed, and Li Jingluo and He Shilang are already waiting for the lord of the country in Nanjing. Don't miss the opportunity, and the loss will not come again. ”

“……”

The momentum of the Qing army's withdrawal has already appeared, and the anti-Qing forces in the areas occupied by the Qing army are also looking forward to it. However, although Sun Kewang was also excited, the sequelae of the fork in the road had not yet been cured, and he still made it clear that he would not move like a mountain, wait and see what happened, and it was useless for the ministers below to be anxious.

"The army is newly defeated, and it can't be fought again, if it is defeated again, I'm afraid that even Yungui won't be able to keep it. The order was sent down, and it was determined that after the Tartars were evacuated, the army would follow up and recover the provinces before Chen Wen and Li Dingguo. ”

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While Sun Kewang was still watching, Chen Wen had already returned to Jinhua Mansion and once again lived a small life of being on a normal duty, on a normal duty, and going home to accompany his daughter-in-law at night.

Regarding the anomaly in the south of Huguang, the Yuzhang division of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies was already in charge of that aspect, and he had already begun to notice it, but it would take some time before it was confirmed, and even the messenger sent by Wu Dengke because he smelled the possibility had just set off, and it was impossible for Chen Wen to get the news immediately.

In this way, Li Dingguo is still running western Guangdong, and Chen Wen is far away in Zhejiang. At first glance, it seemed that Huguang would be Sun Kewang's first moon near the water, but Chen Wen, who caused all this, did not stop, but his eyes did not look there.

"According to the report of the secret agent lurking in Hangzhou of the Military Intelligence Department, Yue Le, the prince of Tatar Zi'an, has led the army into Hangzhou, but this Eight Banners Army has not made any preparations for continuing to go south except for the local rampant expropriation, but has begun to work harder to make the people to strengthen the city defense of Hangzhou Fufu and the counties and flood lands, putting on a posture of stubbornly waiting for reinforcements."

"In accordance with the order of the commander, our company formulated a plan to attack Hangzhou, as follows: In view of the fortification of the Tartars along the Qiantang River and the first line of Xincheng and Fuyang, our army plans to use the Zhejiang inland river division to go down the river and cooperate with the Zhejiang coastal patrol water division to seize the navigation rights of the Qiantang River. In terms of land division, our army, supplemented by the Yongjia division and the Pujiang battalion, broke through the Tartars' fortress in Fuyang head-on; At the same time, the Jinhua Division was deployed along the Qiantang River and relied on the water division to cross the Qiantang River. With a dignified momentum, the two roads went hand in hand, forcibly broke through the Qiantang River natural danger, recovered Hangzhou, and then watched Taihu Lake. ”

The Qing army in Hangzhou was only divided into two parts. One is the Eight Banners Army brought by Yue Le, 12,000 troops, 4,000 Manchurian Eight Banners, 6,000 Mongolian Eight Banners, and 2,000 Han Army Eight Banners; The other is the local Qing army in Hangzhou, with two or three thousand Hangzhou garrisons of the Eight Banners, and the green battalion is the city garrison camp and the reorganized Biao, Fubiao and the Qiantang Water Division transferred from Su Song before.

Don't mention the green battalion soldiers, the proportion of veterans is too low, and they are all newly defeated divisions, it shouldn't take much effort to defeat them, the key is to look at the Eight Banners Army.

However, among the two Eight Banner Army, the Mongolian Eight Banners of seven to eight thousand were accompanied by only four thousand Manchurian Eight Banners and two thousand Han Army Eight Banners. This ratio is the most stupid that Chen Wen has seen in recent years, so many Mongolian Tartars are placed on the surface of Jiangnan, the cavalry is too limited, and it is impossible to give full play to the advantages of its own troops, and the Manchurian Eight Banners, which are the backbone of hand-to-hand combat, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, which is responsible for firearms and supplement the Manchurian Eight Banners, are not as many as cavalry, which is completely putting the cart before the horse.

But if you think about it carefully, it's normal now.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria suffered a lot of losses in the battle at the fork in the road, and they had to set aside a part of it to defend in Huguang, and in addition, Beijing and Liaodong also had to leave a large number of Eight Banners of Manchuria as the needle of the Dinghai Shen, otherwise the Mongols would have jumped out to control the chrysanthemum. And the Eight Banners of the Han Army, he had already spared a blood last year, and now he has to lick his wounds and complete the cattle records before he can put them on the battlefield again. In this case, what is still intact is only the Mongolian Eight Banners, which is no way.

Moreover, there is still a problem of checks and balances, if the loss of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners is too great, then the Mongolian Eight Banners will definitely become bigger. For the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which only had 40,000 or 50,000 dings in Zhenyi, tens of millions of Han people and those millions of Mongolian Tatars on the steppe were all to be guarded against, and now it is also necessary to let the Mongolian Eight Banners go to the south of the Yangtze River to let their blood bleed!

This point estimated by Chen Wen is precisely one of the reasons why the Manchu top brass is so decisive. They only had these tens of thousands of Ding, and the imperial envoys including Manchuria, Mongolia, the Han Army, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion had millions of troops to conquer the land of China, and there were too many trade-offs to be weighed and the restrictions were too great. If it weren't for the fact that Nanming Pig had many teammates, the civilian and military generals who were in charge of the main army would always have such and such flaws and selfishness, and it would be purely a fool's dream to conquer China with tens of thousands of dings.

Historically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty completed the miracle of conquering a large country of tens of millions of Ding with tens of thousands of Ding, and successfully maintained the national Zuo for more than 260 years. Among them, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of Manchuria did not last long before it quickly corrupted, and even the Green Battalion was only a little slower than the Eight Banners Army, but it was a series of ruling methods such as checks and balances, brainwashing, and suppression that established the orthodox status of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that the mistakes of the Mongol Yuan were not repeated.

Anyone who underestimates the Manchus and sees them as brainless barbarians is a complete spring worm. The wastes of Yang Hao, Yuan Yingtai, Wang Huazhen, Yuan Chonghuan and others have proved this with the blood of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions. But in the Southern Ming Dynasty, everyone didn't dare to despise the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but there was never a shortage of bears who were in a hurry to kill all their teammates and eat alone. This is the sorrow of Chinese and even Eastern civilization, and it is also the great luck of the Manchu Qing and Europeans.

The attack on Hangzhou is the proper meaning, the significance is not only the wealth of Hangzhou and the representatives of the provincial capital, but more importantly, only by taking Hangzhou, he can rest assured that he can boldly go north to recover Nanjing.

From the place where it was necessary to fight back then, it has become a springboard today, Hangzhou has not changed, and the pattern of becoming just Chen Wen is no longer what it used to be.

The battle plan was determined, and the next step was to mobilize the troops to the predetermined positions, and even the slogan Chen Wen had already been set, such as "Celebrate the New Year in Hangzhou" was very good. The Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is full of confidence in the reconquest of Hangzhou in the First World War, and the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang has always defeated the strong with the weak.

It's just that when the two military intelligence front feet were sent to Chen Wen one after the other, he immediately issued an order to withdraw the military transfer order. And these two military situations, one is the death of Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, and the other is that Zhu Chenggong, the Duke of Zhangguo, successfully accepted the title of King of Yanping County.

Big changes are coming!