Chapter 341: Fire Virtue is still red

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Cheng Bangjun's reason cannot be said to be wrong, if the Guangdong Ming army can send troops to Guangxi to open up contact with the Yunnan court, then the situation can be restored to the situation in the eighth year of Yongli - at that time, Li Dingguo was still entrenched in Gaozhou, although the Qing army of Guangxi was not wiped out by the Ministry of State Security, and the provincial capital Guilin was also controlled by the Qing army, but Nanning, Liuzhou and other prefectures, prefectures, and counties were still in the hands of the Ming army, so the contact between Guangdong and Yunnan was not interrupted, and the communication channel with An Long was not interrupted, which made the Guangdong Ming army as a whole still know the movements of the imperial court. can also obey the dispatch and command of the imperial court in a timely manner, which can be seen from the fact that Lian Chengbi, the governor of Guangdong, and Guo Zhiqi, a scholar, mobilized all the forces of Guangdong to cooperate with Li Dingguo's second eastward advance.

The current situation is that Li Dingguo took his headquarters elite soldiers to protect the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang to Kunming, and the Guangxi line Guoan was also a hero, and immediately saw the opportunity to send troops to attack the Guangxi Prefectures controlled by the Ming army, and captured the whole province of Guangxi in a short period of time, and cut off the connection between the Ming army in Guangdong and Yunnan at once. turned the Guangdong Ming army into a lone army.

It was precisely because of the lack of land routes that Zhou Shixiang asked Chen Qice, the general of Linghai, to help, and sent Guo Shao and Liang Shuanghu from Xiangshan to Fangcheng County in Qinzhou by two boats of the water division. From here, take the route through the territory of Nanning and then turn back to Kunming. (Author's note: Qinzhou, Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty includes the territory of Guangxi in later generations)

At that time, when he decided to take this road, Zhou Shixiang did not know that Nanning had been captured by the Qing army, and as a result, Liang Shuanghu and they met a group of Qing soldiers near Nanning. The locals had to point out the path, so that they could safely pass through the Qing army-occupied area and reach Yunnan, otherwise I am afraid that this team would be intercepted by the Qing army halfway.

After Cheng Bangjun returned from Guangdong last year. He was promoted from Lang Zhong to the head of the Fang Division, because he had been to Guangdong many times, so after receiving the order, the Ministry of War asked him to go to Guangdong again to preach the decree, and at the same time cooperate with the governor of Guangdong, Lian Chengbi, to integrate the strength of the Ming army in Guangdong. In order to restore the two wides.

Cheng Bangjun knows that it is dangerous to go to Guangdong now. So he and the university scholar Guo Zhiqi came from Guangdong, they were all dressed as Taoist priests, and only then did they pass the checkpoint set up by the Qing army in Guangxi.

It was precisely because of the experience along the way that Cheng Bangjun deeply felt the threat of the Qing army in Guangxi to Yunnan and Guangdong, so after arriving in Guangdong, he first went to Qinzhou to meet the governor Lianchengbi. He strongly requested that Lianchengbi could send troops to attack the line of Guoan and open up the passage between Yunnan and Guangdong. Otherwise, the imperial court did not know the situation in Guangdong, and Guangdong did not know the movements of the imperial court, isolated from each other, and could not even exchange news.

He knew that the Ming army in Guangdong had actually become a lone army, and could not deal with the Qing army in Guangdong alone, let alone provide any support to the imperial court, and was surrounded by the Ming army in Guangdong and Guangxi.

In fact, compared with the recovery of Guangdong, even the city wall is more concerned about the safety of Emperor Yongli, when he heard that the King of Jin moved the Son of Heaven from Anlong to Kunming, he knew that Sun Kewang would not give up, and would definitely send troops to Kunming. However, he was in Guangdong and could not cross the Guangxi Qing army to lead his troops to Kunming Qinwang, so he was worried, and even did not make corresponding arrangements in time for the major changes in Xinhui.

After Guo Zhiqi went to Kunming, Lianchengbi sat in the governor's yamen every day and waited for news, praying for the blessing of the Son of Heaven every day, hoping that Li Dingguo would defeat Sun Kewang's thief, and he did not fulfill the duties of a governor at all for the affairs of Guangdong. This kind of negative behavior not only dissatisfied Chen Qice, Zhu Tong and others who were far away in Xinhui, but also disappointed a group of staff members under him.

The arrival of Cheng Bangjun let Lianchengbi know the latest movements of the imperial court, knowing that although Sun Kewang had openly sent troops to Yunnan, but at the moment he had not yet penetrated into Yunnan, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, led the elite troops of his headquarters to meet the battle, and the Son of Heaven issued an edict to let Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu who entered Sichuan, lead the army to rescue, and Lianchengbi was a little relieved.

For Cheng Bangjun's request, Lian Chengbi was not unmoved, but Governor Lian was now powerless, and the situation he faced was as complicated as Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, who was in Qujing, Yunnan, to deal with the advance of Sun Kewang's army.

The Ming army in Guangdong is scattered everywhere, the mountains are numerous, there are the original Ming official army, there are also a small number of soldiers and horses left by Li Dingguo, in addition to the rest of Li Chengdong, these people pushed his son Li Yuanyin to lead the resistance to the Qing after Li Chengdong's death, Li Yuanyin died in Yulin, they still insisted on resisting the Qing, but they were unwilling to obey the command of the city wall, so that the city wall has the name of the governor, but can not command these Ming troops with their own appeal, he can actually move is only in Qinzhou thousands of descendants of the Ming army. As for those righteous teachers, even the city wall never counted on them.

I think that at the beginning, the king of Jin marched eastward twice, and the Ming army and righteous divisions from all over Guangdong responded, but now even the city wall can only command the soldiers and horses of Qinzhou with the respect of the governor, and the difference in prestige between the two is not a point or two, but a world of difference.

It is difficult for the daughter-in-law to cook without rice, and even the city wall has the intention to open up the channel to contact the imperial court, but she is suffering from no soldiers and horses to carry it out. Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, learned of this after arriving from Gaozhou, and suggested that the Taiping army of Xiangshan should be ordered by the governor to go to Qinzhou, and then order the Taiping army to send troops to Guangxi.

Zhang Xiaoqi believed that the Taiping army had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and had defeated the Qing army several times before and after, and that such elite soldiers were placed in Xiangshan as a loss to the Ming Dynasty, and they should be placed in a more useful place, so it was undoubtedly a good choice for the Taiping army to fight Guangxi.

Even the city wall hesitated, although the new Taiping army could fight, it was not the original Ming official army, but the men and horses pulled up by Zhou Shixiang himself, and he never got any money and food supply from him, and now he suddenly asked people to obey the order to fight Guangxi, he really couldn't open this mouth. Moreover, the Son of Heaven has already appointed Zhou Shixiang as the general soldier of Guangzhou, not the general army of Guangxi, so it is unreasonable to transfer the Taiping army to fight Guangxi.

In fact, the real reason why Lianchengbi couldn't decide was that he had scolded Zhou Shixiang a few days ago, and sent Zhou Shixiang's official to Kunming to Kunming. Now that he wants people to work hard, the Governor has to consider how thick his own skin is.

Lian Chengbi said that he would wait for the scholar Guo Zhiqi to come back to discuss the matter, but Zhang Xiaoqi was helpless and stopped talking about it.

Cheng Bangjun was very impressed by Zhang Xiaoqi's proposal, he couldn't wait to rush to Xiangshan, and after announcing his will, he urged Zhou Shixiang to immediately move westward, either by land or by water, and that the whole army would arrive in Qinzhou before August, and then march to Guangxi.

In order to motivate Zhou Shixiang to lead the army westward, Cheng Bangjun even implied in front of Song Xianggong that if the Taiping army could enter Guangxi westward and take Guangxi in one fell swoop, the imperial court would definitely be crowned king according to Li Chengdong's old practice.

Cheng Bangjun even said, although the Taiping army defeated the Qing army twice near Guangzhou, but when it arrived, it still retreated to Xiangshan, and could not take Guangzhou to gain a real foothold, since the Taiping army has no ability to attack Guangzhou at present, it is better to go to Guangxi to contribute to the imperial court, and also seek a real territory for the Taiping army, how can it be better than entrenching in the small place of Xiangshan.

Song Xianggong said these words to Zhou Shixiang, but Zhou Shixiang sneered, Cheng Bangjun really thought that he was a cabinet scholar, and he dared to mention the country, open his mouth, can he be a little master of this kind of thing!

The Yongli Imperial Court really wants to enter Guangxi by itself, so it has to send a scholar to talk to him, or even the city wall to tell him, at worst, there must be a holy decree, how can there be a military department in that empty mouth and white teeth.

When he went to Guangxi, Zhou Shixiang didn't think about it at all. He finally brought the Taiping army to Xiangshan, and finally released the Qing army in Guangzhou twice, and now it is a good time to take advantage of the hot weather when the two sides strike the war to consume the fruits of victory and consolidate Xiangshan and the Taiping army.

"You go and tell Cheng Bangjun, I'm so busy now, I really can't find time to see him, if he wants to leave, we will send someone to escort him away, if he doesn't want to go, then stay in Xiangshan, what do you do." Wait until Ben Shuai is busy with the matter at hand. ”

After Song Xianggong euphemistically told Cheng Bangjun what Zhou Shixiang said, Cheng Bangjun was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time, and went to Xinhui with a flick of his sleeves. Zhou Shixiang has hit a wall here, and Chen Qice and Zhu Tong may not be unwilling to make such a miraculous contribution to the imperial court.

When Cheng Bangjun ran to Xinhui angrily, Zhou Shixiang was inspecting the 3,000 new military uniforms just made in the newly established Taiping Army Military Uniform Division in Yongle Township.

The person in charge of the division is Lin Wan'er's father, Lin Wanfu, but it is the Yang family of Teda Buxing in Luoding Prefecture who makes the military uniforms.

Because the Ming Dynasty is still red, and the place in Guangdong is already hot, if you still use the black of the past, the Taiping army will not expect to move under the sun, and the heat can heat people to death, so this time the new military uniforms are all red. In addition, considering the climate of Guangdong, these 3,000 new military uniforms are all cloth armor rather than cotton armor, but cloth as the surface, decorated with iron armor in the middle, and nail nails on the surface.

The cloth used to make military uniforms was all looted, and even most of the women who made military uniforms were taken by the Taiping army in the name of "voluntary". (To be continued.) )