In the first month of the tenth year of Yongli, the news of Li Dingguo's breakthrough through the Tianzhou defense line came. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Guangzhou's former Manchu Qing Pingnan Palace, now in the secret room of the Ming Dynasty Nanhai County Palace, Nanhai County Wang Shang Kexi and the prince Shang Zhixin, Guangdong according to the inspection envoy Jin Guang, the left wing general Xu Erxian, the right wing chief Ban Zhifu and other henchmen gathered here.

The performance of the Shang family's father and son during Chen Wen's recovery of Southern Jiangxi was nothing more than betting on both sides, but when the news of Chen Wen's two famous kings came, Shang Ke couldn't hold back when he was happy, so he had to repent and accept the title of Ming Ting. In this way, the entire territory of Huizhou Mansion, Shaozhou Mansion, the northern part of Chaozhou Mansion and most of Guangzhou, which were nominally controlled by the Shang family father and son, were completely connected.

"Father, the old thief left a little early."

"It's a bit early, but well, early has the advantage of being early."

The word "old thief" is a contemptuous name for Li Dingguo by the Qing army in Guangdong. When Li Dingguo was still in Guangdong, they didn't dare to do this, but now that Li Dingguo has opened his bow and has not turned back, the internal strife between Sun and Li in Xiying is about to break out again, and the tiger has left the mountain, so there is no need to be afraid of anything.

The Shang family's father and son asked and answered, and the golden light was not obvious on his face, but he already knew it in his heart. The so-called "somewhat early" must have an expected time, and this time will only appear if it is possible that they have control over it. And these possibilities, as a long-time confidant and strategist, Jin Guang knows nothing, which is really incredible.

In fact, since the beginning of last year, Shang Kexi's trust in him has been declining day by day. As for the reason, Jin Guang is very clear, that is, the patriarch of his clan asked him to send him a letter, hoping that he would return to his hometown to serve Chen Wen's banner.

Jin Guangqi is a person from Qingcun in Yiwu County, Jinhua Prefecture, the descendants of the Qi family army in Jinhua are firm supporters of Chen Wen, the old patriarch of the Jin family in Qingcun was still in Yiwu as a representative of the descendants of the Qi family army to welcome Chen Wen into the city, and now in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, the descendants of the Qi family army are also a force to be reckoned with in the middle and lower officer corps, and now Chen Wen's strength is stronger, so the old patriarch of the Jin family hopes that he can occupy a favorable position for his clan in the civil official system, so as to achieve a prosperous way of walking on two legs.

This is understandable, and the family naturally hopes to produce more officials, whether they are civil officials or military generals. But Jin Guang himself is still hesitating, after all, he has such a status in the Pingnan Palace, and he may not be able to be trusted if he changes the court in the past.

After reading this letter, he also calmly expressed his loyalty to Shang Kexi. However, another son of the Jin family fled directly from the capital after the death of Zilharang and fled directly back to Jinhua, where he was erected as a typical example by Chen Wen. And Shang Kexi also saw this from the Di Bao, and then suspected him.

On the surface, Shang Kexi treats him as much as he used to, but as shrewd as he is, it is impossible not to feel the difference, and today's dialogue between the Shang family's father and son confirms this.

Just like Jin Guang, Xu Erxian and Ban Zhifu don't know anything about it, they are military generals, and it is understandable not to participate in the conspiracy. Seeing this, Shang Kexi nodded, and Shang Zhixin explained to the three people present.

"In the winter of last year, when the news of Chen Wen's two famous kings and the capture of Nanjing came, his father sent someone to express his intention to do it anyway. Among them, there is a difference, first of all, you have to communicate with the old thief, and get the recognition of the Qin Domain, with the endorsement of the imperial court, Chen Wen's threat can be reduced. But Chen Wen's strength is too strong now, not much worse than Emperor Taizu Gao back then, and his forces will be preparing for the Northern Expedition next, and our Nanhai County Wangfu and Fujian's Geng Jimao, Zhu Chenggong, Hao Shangjiu, Ma Xiong and other departments will become the forces he will inevitably solve. ”

This is something that everyone knows, and it is almost certain that it will happen. The reason is very simple, to fight the north from the south, only Zhu Yuanzhang has succeeded since ancient times, and Zhu Yuanzhang first swept away the heroes before the Northern Expedition, and Chen Wen will definitely follow suit if he wants the Northern Expedition, so as to avoid the dilemma of multi-faceted combat during the Northern Expedition.

This is understandable, but for these weak forces, they must seek their own development as much as possible. After all, no one can be like Qian Hongjiao.

"Chen Wen is arrogant, I think you have seen it the year before last, and you must have heard of his style. There are a lot of cities that have been slaughtered by the princes of Nanhai County over the years, whether it is his style in the past or the current situation, Chen Wen will never tolerate us. Therefore, when the envoy to the court went to Guiyang, his father ordered the envoy to marry Sun Kewang. ”

"Sun Kewang, over there, has already agreed to join forces to fight against Chen Wen. But we can't count on this rogue, his style when he annexed Pi Xiong and Wang Kuang, if there is something wrong, there is a chance that he will wait for our Nanhai County Wangfu and Huiji County Wangfu to take advantage of the fisherman. Therefore, my father decided to fish in troubled waters, and contacted the people in Anlong Mansion to try to lure the old thief westward to meet him, so that the western part of Guangdong and even Guangxi will be vacated, and we will have room for development. Now it seems that it may be that An Long's side hasn't had time to move, and the old thief has decided to go by himself, which can be described as a godsend. ”

There is no way to do this, after all, these few together may not be able to compete with Chen Wen, but they are more likely to be broken by each one.

In troubled times, if you want to survive, you must be self-reliant, rather than hoping for the mercy of others. It's just that Chen Wen's momentum is too strong now, and the surrounding forces are intertwined, in case Chen Laohu is attracted, it will not be a joke.

"The king, the prince, now that the old thief is gone, those rebels don't need to be mentioned, but Geng Jimao, Zhu Chenggong, Hao Shangjiu, Ma Xiong, especially the reaction of the Huiji County Palace, we still need to pay attention."

"What Brother Xu said is very true, and the last general also thinks so."

Xu Erxian and Ban Zhifu were still a little hesitant, but Jin Guang simply made a thoughtful look, and Shang Kexi stood up from the Taishi chair after looking at it for a week.

"We must pay attention to the reaction of the forces around us, but now this is our only chance. Now, the old thief has broken through the Tianzhou defense line, there must be a battle between Sun and Li, Chen Wen's heavy troops are gathered in Nanzhili, Zhu Chenggong is still licking last year's wounds, and Geng Jimao is weak, Bacheng is also happy to see it, and Ma Xiong's side has already been moved. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it is better than waiting for Chen Wen to calmly mobilize a large army to go south and wait for death. ”

Shang Kexi has made up his mind, Chen Wen in Jinhua Ling Chi Ma Jinbao, in Shaowu Ling Chi Wang Zhigang, in Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion to kill the prisoners also represents the principle of this person, they are all murderers of the Guangzhou massacre, and they have participated in the slaughter of the city many times before, with Chen Wen's temperament, they will never tolerate them.

In other opponents, they may also be able to use the ancestral system of the same size to preserve their own strength, but what Chen Wen has done over the years, whether it is governing the army, punishing the murderers, or even the internal strife of the army going out on the outside and the civil officials on the inside, all of these have prompted them to look in the worst direction for the future.

In the first month, when Li Dingguo was still working hard to meet the driver, Chen Wen's army was on vacation, and even the edict to canonize the king of Yue had not yet arrived in Jinhua, Shang Kexi suddenly gathered a large army and launched a surprise attack on the rebel armies in western Guangdong.

When Li Dingguo left Guangdong, he distributed all parts of eastern Guangdong to the Guangdong Righteous Army, and Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi were responsible for control. Among them, the three counties of Lianshan in northern Guangdong, which were originally the defense area of Ma Bao, the general of Li Dingguo's department, were now handed over to the local Yao rebels; In Wen Village, Enping County, in the south of Zhaoqing Prefecture, the tiger general Wang Xing had been entrenched for many years, and Li Dingguo simply handed over Enping and Yangchun counties to his people; Li Changrongze of Hailing Island in Yangjiang County, Zhaoqing Prefecture was divided into Yangjiang County, Pisces Institute and Hailang Institute; The two counties of Xinhui, Xinning and Guanghaiwei in the south of Guangzhou were handed over to the Linghai general Chen Qice.

Other places were also occupied by various rebel armies, and Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi moved the Governor Xingyuan and the Governor Yamen to Zhaoqing, where they commanded the overall situation.

Once Shang Kexi launched, he had no intention of calculating or not, and Zhaoqing Jiancheng was taken by the vanguard by Yunlong before the gate was even closed. Guo and Lian, Shang Kexi did not move them, but after reprimanding them for their incompetence, they put them under house arrest, thus playing the banner of assisting the governor Guo Zhiqi and the governor of Liangguang Lian Chengbi to rectify and disturb the people's righteous army, and attacked from all sides.

On the bright side, there are a lot of Ming troops in eastern Guangdong, but in fact they are just a plate of loose sand. On Shang Kexi's side, the soldiers of the Pingnan Wangfu Domain have not suffered much losses in recent years, and their combat effectiveness is still there, and they have annexed the green battalion of Wu Liuqi's department in Huizhou, Shaozhou and northern Chaozhou and the water division of Xu Long, the deputy general of the Guangdong Water Division, which can be described as a strong army.

The difference in strength between the two sides is too large, and no one can compete with the army wherever it goes, and almost all of them will be defeated in a battle, even if they hold the city, they can't hold out for a few days.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, Xu Erxian attacked Xinhui, and Chen Qice was forced to fight, was defeated, and abandoned the city.

On the nineteenth day of the first month, Shang Zhixin Ke Zhaoqing Prefecture Guangning County, the guard general was killed.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, Wang Xing's troops were defeated by Enping, and under the pursuit of Ban Zhifu, they luckily retreated into Wencun, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month, Shang Kexi invaded Luoding Prefecture, and the defenders surrendered and accepted the adaptation of the Nanhai County Palace.

On the first day of February, Chen Qice defeated Xinning again and retreated to Guanghaiwei.

On the fourth day of the second month, Hou Maxiong, the defender of Wuzhou, responded to Shang Kexi's call and sent troops from Wuzhou to capture the counties.

On the eighth day of the first month of February, Shang Zhixin defeated the Yao people in the three counties of Lianshan, collected all their land, and reorganized and surrendered.

On 11 February, Chen Qice, under the command of Xu Erxian, was forced to abandon Guanghaiwei and retreat to his old base area on Shangchuan and Xiachuan Islands.

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Since the middle of February, Shang Kexi's soldiers have pointed out, and the rebel armies from all walks of life have been invincible, and the army has moved westward, as if it is chasing Li Dingguo's footsteps. For a while, the only thing that could delay Shang Kexi's soldiers was the journey!

Such a hearty siege of the city has not been seen for a long time in Shang Kexi. In fact, there is nothing to be done, the rebels from all walks of life originally went their own way, and there were originally Li Dingguo, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi who were responsible for control, but now Li Dingguo is driving, Guo and Lian were captured, and the rest of the Gao Lian Lei Qiong Governor Zhang Xiaoqi, Haibei Province Zhou Tengfeng and others did not have the right to control the areas of Guangzhou Prefecture, Zhaoqing Prefecture, Wuzhou Prefecture and Luoding Prefecture. In addition, the gap between the combat effectiveness of the two sides is too large, and Shang Kexi is still holding high the banner of Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi, and the advantage from the inside to the outside has led to the occurrence of such a phenomenon.

Shang Kexi's army was still advancing westward, and after driving Chen Qice into the sea, Xu Erxian stayed in the south of Guangzhou and Zhaoqing to continue to suppress the rebel army, and Ban Zhifu continued to advance westward, and joined forces with Shang Kexi to capture Gaolian Leiqiong's four mansions, so as to relieve the flank threat for the big stride into Guangxi. At this time, Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, and Deng Yao, the general of Jingxiang who was entrenched in Lianzhou, had not yet been able to recover from the chaos of the sudden changes......

On Shangchuan Island in the south of Guangzhou, this is Chen Qice's old base, where he persisted in fighting the Qing army for many years. In the Battle of Xinhui, he beheaded Gai Yipeng, the chief soldier of the Guangdong Naval Division, and achieved a great victory in Jiangmen, the opening of the Battle of Xinhui, thus realizing the actual control of the Ming army over the sea power in Guangzhou Bay.

Under Chen Wen's intervention, the tragedy of Xinhui could not happen, and Xinhui was still rich. After Li Dingguo recovered Xinhui, he also relied on Chen Qice very much, and he was biased in terms of food and salary, and when he left Guangdong, he was even willing to take Xinhui and Xinning County, which are now the richest in western Guangdong, as Chen Qice's water master's eating place.

Chen Qice's ability as a military general is not weak, but it is limited to a water master. In the face of the wolf-like soldiers of the former Pingnan Wangfu Domain, if his sailors can still fight on land, Xu Erxian, who has been leading troops to fight under Shang Kexi since the era of the Dongjiang Army, will live in vain in this life.

Losing to an opponent who can't be beaten doesn't sound like much shame, but for Chen Qice, this is a disappointment to Li Dingguo's reliance.

"The dog's day is still gratifying, Lao Tzu will hiss you sooner or later, ......"

Xinhui Street Battle and Xinning City Defense, Chen Qice was defeated in both battles, and lost a lot of troops, if it weren't for the fact that the sailor division was strong enough to provide a certain degree of cover for the defeated soldiers, I was afraid that even retreating to the base area would be delusional.

Shang Kexi had already announced that it was anyway, and Shang Zhixin was even earlier anyway. Guangzhou is not without such an example, Li Chengdong father and son have been martyred for the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court also remembers them well if there were thousands of mistakes and omissions before. But this time, the Shang family's father and son are completely immature wolf cubs, so how can he not hate.

The anger touched the wound, and the white-bearded old man couldn't even care about the work in his hands, so he hurriedly came over to see if the wound collapsed to Chen Qice, the handsome man.

Fortunately, the wound did not open, and Lao Langzhong relieved his heart and hurried back to continue to check the wounds of other injured generals. However, in this big tent, there are quite a few generals who are slightly injured, and as for the seriously injured, all of them are treated by other Lang Zhong and apprentices in the old wounded house on the island, along with the soldiers.

"Sir, anger will cause the wound to worsen. Let's call the arrogance of the surname Shang for a few days, we will be able to get this tone back sooner or later. ”

"What Brother Sun said is that the surnamed Shang dares to use a knife at us, and when the king of Xining comes back, he will be good-looking."

"That's it, we can't fight the land war, but the water war is no fun for his surname Shang. When the brothers are raised, let's follow the commander to deal with the army of the king of Xining, and sooner or later we can kill this old boy. ”

“……”

The Sun brother in the mouth of the generals is none other than Sun Yunxuan, a Huizhou pirate who joined forces to attack Xinhui. For more than a year, Sun Yunxuan has been completely integrated into Chen Qice's department, he likes firearms, and he is even more familiar with artillery, and was soon appointed by Chen Qice as the leader of the artillery team. This time in Guanghaiwei, he also organized to receive the gunboat bombardment of Xu Erxian's pursuers, so that Chen Qice's troops could safely retreat to the island.

Sun Yunxuan was still struggling to boost his morale, but Chen Qice knew better than him, and Li Dingguo's return to Guangxi was not a nominal meal at all, but a return to Anlong to greet him.

You must know that the emperor has been in the hands of Sun Kewang for several years, and Sun Kewang narrowed the emperor to order the princes, how could Li Dingguo take the emperor away. It's unlikely that you'll come back, at least for a year or two. And for them, the Guangdong Ming army, and even the Guangxi Ming army that has not yet been attacked, but it is only a matter of time, Li Dingguo cannot count on it at all.

"We must not sit idly by."

After thinking about it secretly, Chen Qice opened his eyes again, and his gaze returned to the sharpness it was before.

"Brother Sun, Ben Shuai has a letter, I need you to dare to go to Zhejiang by boat and hand it over to His Royal Highness the King of Huiji County!"

The King of Huiji?

Sun Yunxuan remembered this name, a famous handsome man in the world, and his brilliant achievements were rare in the world. Although their rebel army was very close to Li Dingguo's subordinates, they also commented in private that after a lapse of three years, Chen Wen's two famous kings were still higher than Li Dingguo's gold content. And outside Xinhui City that year, the first time he heard some inside stories from Chen Qice's mouth, it was suffocating, which made him remember it vividly.

"Dashuai, Zhejiang is too far away, I'm afraid that the far water can't save the near fire."

Shang Kexi's troops were too many, and Chen Wen was too far away from here, and it was even more impossible for them to cross Guangzhou and Shaozhou into Nangan to ask Chen Wen for help. According to Shang Kexi's current momentum, when Chen Wen reacted and mobilized a large army into Guangdong, he was afraid that both Guangzhou and Guangzhou had already been captured by Shang Kexi.

From the bottom of his heart, Sun Yunxuan also has the desire to see Chen Wen, a legendary general, but Chen Qice is the commander he follows, and all the generals here are his brothers who share the hardships.

However, hearing this, Chen Qice shook his head, and then said to Sun Yunxuan: "The king of Xining can't come back, and the king of Yanping lost his troops in Nanjing last year, and it is the weakest time, and it is impossible to go on an expedition. We can't count on the others, they can't beat Shang Kexi's dog thief. For today's plan, there is only one way to ask for help from the king of Huiji County! ”

Chen Qice's words caused the generals to think deeply, but Chen Qice did not give them time to think, but directly asked Sun Yunxuan: "This is going to Zhejiang, the sky is high and the road is far away, the evil luck is unpredictable, and there are Xu Long's thief's sailors intercepting him along the way." Ben Shuai only asks you, do you dare, or don't you dare?! ”

As soon as these words came out, Sun Yunxuan's heart stirred, and then he responded loudly: "Dare! Why don't the last generals dare, even the last generals of the Sword Mountain and the Sea of Fire will definitely invite the army of the king of Huiji County to avenge the martyrdom! ”