Beijing, tossed for half a month, held two meetings of the king and ministers, Shunzhi decided to go south to Guangdong army composition. Counting more than 1,100 soldiers in 4 Yellow Banners in Manzhou, more than 4,900 soldiers in 9 Niulu of the Mongolian Two Red Banners, more than 5,800 soldiers in 14 Niulu of the Han Army, and more than 4,000 soldiers in the Green Battalion of Zhili and more than 3,000 soldiers in the Green Battalion of Henan, a total of more than 20,000 people formed the army under the command of General Jidu of Pingyuan.

After the army arrived in Guangdong, the Qing troops of Wu Liuqi and Tang Sanshui in Guangdong were all returned to Jidu to control them. In addition to the need for grain and grass in Guangdong, another part was allocated by Zhejiang and Nanzhili, for which Shunzhi ordered that the southeast batch of grain did not need to be released from Beijing, and was left for the army to take directly after arriving in Jiangning. After the army left Beijing, the supply of grain and grass was handled by the localities along the way, and officials at all levels were not allowed to slack off.

The southward army was composed of the Mengbaqi and the Han army banner as the main force, and the Manchurian soldiers only drew more than 1,000 troops from the forward battalion to the south. The forward battalion was founded in the Tiancong period, and was originally named Ge Bush Xianchao Ha Battalion. In the third year of Shunzhi, the battalion system was established, and the battalion soldiers were drawn from the leaders of Manchuria and Mongolia under the Eight Banners, all of whom were the guards under the leaders of each army, and raised soldiers and other strong people with high martial arts and strong bodies. The forward battalion has commanders, staff leaders, guards and other officers. The commander is concurrently led by the princes and ministers, and the commanders at all levels below are the commanders, and the Manchus and Mongolians serve as the commanders. The three Niu Lu transferred this time are the Manchurian soldiers with the yellow flag, and they are also the forbidden army directly under the emperor, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than the rest of their Niu Lu.

The transfer of the forward battalion to participate in the war was the request of Jidu and the banner owners to Shunzhi, and the Zhengbai Flag and the Blue Banner that went to Guangzhou with Jidu were unwilling to publish the Niulu again, among which the Zhengbai Flag was the most fiercely opposed. The white flag was originally led by the regent Dorgon. Its Niu Lu is the strongest, and after Dolgon's death, Shunzhi wantonly stripped Niu Lu of the white flag. Youxing Prison implicated countless officials from the Zhengbai Banner, which greatly damaged the strength of the Zhengbai Banner, resulting in the fact that although the Zhengbai Banner was on the three banners, the support for the emperor was the weakest. (Author's note: In the official history, there were generals of the White Banner who wanted to suppress Yongli from Wu Sangui, and planned to protect Yongli to Shaanxi to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but the incident was leaked, and dozens of generals were killed. There were more than 2,000 soldiers. ）

The Zhengbai Banner soldiers sent to Guangdong, along with their families, were all killed, which made the Zhengbai Banner, who was already dissatisfied with the emperor, strongly oppose sending troops, although the emperor was their banner owner. But for the sake of their own interests, the officials also hugged together to confront the emperor. In order to gain more support, the officials of the White Flag asked to meet with the Lord of the White Flag, King Doni.

The two white flags were originally connected, and Emperor Taizu was too fond of his young son Duoduo, and gave all the cattle records he directly led to Duoduo. The inlaid white flag that leads to many posts is both before and after entering the customs. It is the flag with the most and the greatest strength of the Eight Banners. Before the two white flags entered the customs, there were 98 cattle records, and later Dolgon transferred the cattle records with yellow flags led by Hauge into the positive white flags, making the cattle records of the two white flags reach more than 120. Even if Shunzhi re-weakened the two white flags after that, plus the attrition caused by the continuous battles after entering the customs, there are still more than 80 cattle records of the two white flags. At present, there are 25 positive white flags stationed in Beijing, 33 inlaid white flags, and the rest are all over the city. Either stay outside the customs and garrison Shengjing.

There were more than 1,000 flags lost at once, plus a few thousand family members who went south together. It is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the white flag. There are many discussions, if the emperor wants to draw troops from the white flag, it is to make the white flag extinct. Some people even wondered if the emperor's hatred for Dolgon had not disappeared, so he wanted to use the war to attack the white flag.

When the king of Xinjun Doni Shunzhi attacked Prince Feng Xin in the sixth year, but as soon as Shunzhi ascended the throne, he was demoted to the king of the county, although when he was in the Dongnuan Pavilion, Doni and Yue Le opposed the absurd proposal of Jidu and others to remove the Han officials, but it does not mean that he did not have suspicion and dissatisfaction with Shunzhi in his heart. In addition, he also opposed sending a large army to Guangdong again to extinguish the Taiping army, and believed that the local Han army and Han officials should be reused to achieve Han control by Han, reduce the casualties of Manchurian children as much as possible, and then use troops in Guangdong after solving the Yongli court in Yunnan, but the angry emperor directly changed his will to lead the army to Guangdong, and no one who was present at the time dared to persuade him, and Doni naturally did not dare to say much.

This matter could not be dissuaded, but Doni and the Manchurian princes and ministers had a long mind, the emperor could send a large army to Guangdong, but he could not send Manchurian Eight Banners to go. The man with the white flag begged him to support him for the sake of the two white flags, and Doni agreed without hesitation, decisively supporting the white flag and opposing the transfer of troops from the Manchurian Eight Banners.

The two white flags refused to send troops, and the blue flag was also a victim of the Guangdong incident, so naturally they would not support the transfer of troops from the banner, and the blue flag and the two red flags were cold, plus the excuse that the army had not been formed, and Ji Du and others in Beijing instigated behind their backs, of course, they also made trouble together.

Six of the Eight Banners oppose sending troops, and Shunzhi can't ignore the fierce opposition of its subordinates no matter how insistent it is, without the support of the princes and ministers, just relying on the ministers and servants of the Two Yellow Banners, Shunzhi can't make arbitrary decisions. After the Queen Mother heard about the Guangdong Incident, she also asked Su Ma to pass the word, saying that Manchu was the foundation of the country and should not be compromised.

The princes and ministers objected together, and the queen mother also objected, which made Shunzhi's mind of wanting to transfer the army south again, anyway, he also changed his will once, and it was not impossible to change it again, but it was a big deal not to lose the emperor's face. However, when he saw Tomafa's sad face, he still gritted his teeth and held a meeting of ministers again, demanding that a large army be sent south, and that there must be Manchurian children with the army.

The reason why Shunzhi insisted on sending Manchurian Erlang south to Guangdong was because he kept a copy of Tang Sanshui, the hero of Shaozhou and the deputy general of Zhaoqing.

Tang Sanshui made it clear that the Taiping army did not have more than 10,000 soldiers, the army was short, and most of them were foot soldiers, and they all relied on geographical advantages to fight, and there was no courage to fight in close quarters from top to bottom, and once there was a small setback, the whole army would retreat. Every battle must be several times the enemy dare to fight, its leader thief Xiucai is cunning, but the act is more rogue means, and the subordinates are all bandits and green forest thieves, after seizing Guangzhou, burning, killing and looting, all evil, and learn from Li Chuang to torture the local gentry, the beautiful name is "persuasion of grain", as a result, the people of Guangzhou, whether the people or the gentry are suffering from the Taiping army, people are clear-minded, no one is willing to serve the Taiping army.

Tang Sanshui reported to Shunzhi in more detail the defeat of the Jingnan general Hahamu, and he said that Hahamu was lured into the mud by the Taiping army, causing the war horse to fall into the quagmire and unable to give full play to the cavalry advantage, which was encircled and annihilated by the Taiping army with several times the force, even so, the Taiping army also paid huge casualties. According to the ascertaining of his spies who infiltrated Guangzhou, although the Taiping army has now collected some of the green battalions and recruited a large number of bandits, there are tens of thousands of soldiers on the surface, but there are only a few thousand soldiers who can fight.

Tang Sanshui described to Emperor Shunzhi how he held Shaozhou and how he inflicted heavy losses on the Taiping army. According to him, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Taiping army came to attack Shaozhou that day, and the soldiers in the city were all feared by the thieves, and no one dared to fight. At a critical time, he Tang Sanshui shot a blind thief with an arrow at the head of the city, and then shouted at the head of the city, "The court provides you with food and drink, in order to repay the country's kindness. After finishing speaking, he opened the city gate and led his own soldiers to attack the thieves to the death, but the thieves were vulnerable, and they were chased by him for more than ten miles, leaving thousands of corpses. Since then, the Taiping thief Kou no longer dared to peep at Shaozhou, but when he saw his Tang deputy general's banner, he also made a detour from afar, and he didn't dare to come to the battle at all. In order to prove that what he said was true, Tang Sanshui even said conclusively that the thief who was blinded by him in one eye was the thief Xiucai's general Li Fengming, and now he changed his nickname, and the thief called him "Blind Li".

In the end, Tang Sanshui almost patted his chest and said to the emperor, he said that as long as the court gave him money and grain, he would be able to hold Shaozhou, and give him three or five months, he would be able to rectify the department and recover Guangzhou for the imperial court, and put the thief Xiucai in a car cage and send him to Beijing, and take him to the vegetable market to be cut with a thousand knives!

Tang Sanshui's letter is too detailed, and it is corroborated by the Shaozhou prefect, so he can't believe it. Chaozhou Wu Liuqi also came urgently, but the description was limited, only saying that the Taiping army was taken in Chaozhou and did not dare to attack, but he also moved because of Huizhou. The chaos could not divide the troops to recover Guangzhou.

One can send troops to recover Guangzhou as long as the imperial court gives money and food, but the other cannot be separated, and compared with the two, Tang Sanshui's image suddenly became extremely tall in Shunzhi's mind. He imitated Emperor Chongzhen of the previous dynasty and wrote Tang Sanshui's name on the back of the screen of the Dongnuan Pavilion, meaning that this person must be entrusted with reuse in the future.

After writing Tang Sanshui's name, Shunzhi did two things, one was to immediately appoint Tang Sanshui as the commander-in-chief of Shaozhou, and the other was to convene a meeting of princes and ministers again, no matter how the princes and ministers objected, no matter whether the queen mother was satisfied or not, he must also send a large army to Guangdong, and even more so to send Manchurian children to Guangdong.

The soldiers of the Han people can beat the Taiping Kou so badly, the generals of the Han people can make great contributions, and the Han people all know that they will work for the Qing Dynasty, can't the Manchurian children work for the Qing Dynasty and the emperor?

Zhou Shixiang knew that it was Tang Sanshui's letter that made Shunzhi determined to send a large army to Guangdong to fight him, but he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

At this meeting of the princes and ministers, Ji Du and others no longer argued about whether to send a large army to Guangdong to fight with Shunzhi, but proposed that it was okay to transfer Manchurian troops to the south, but they had to be transferred from the emperor's own pro-army, whether it was a forward battalion, a guard battalion, a cavalry battalion, or a foot battalion, as long as it was a pro-army.

Jidu's abacus is very simple, although Shunzhi is the emperor, but the major national affairs are still decided by the Council of Princes and Ministers, the emperor is the owner of the flag, and they are also the owner of the flag. Sending Manchurian children to fight in the war can't just be fought by other flags, and the emperor, the banner owner, should also express it. The soldiers of the two yellow flags can't just be raised in Beijing to enjoy happiness.

Shunzhi gritted his teeth and agreed, and ordered to transfer troops from the forward battalion, but he was only willing to transfer 4 Niu Lu. Under the mediation of Yue Le and others, the princes and ministers of the banners finally approved this plan, and transferred troops from the Mongolian army banner and the Han army flag to form a large army.

Jidu is the Beijing division that led the army out on October 2, and the Zhili Green Battalion and the Henan Green Battalion have gone south in advance, and they were originally mobilized by the Qing court to go to Pinghaikou in Fujian with Jidu, so no matter how loud the quarrel between the DPRK and China is, it is impossible for them to express their turn to express whether they want to go or not, so the DPRK and China have not completely decided how many troops to send to Guangdong, and the Zhili Green Battalion and the Henan Green Battalion have already arrived in Shandong, and after arriving in Jiangning, they will wait for the Manchu and Mongolian troops from Beijing to go to Guangdong together.

Accompanying Jidu was also Belle Dueryou, Dutong Nahai, Ezhen Ji Dali, and Yiertu and other Eight Banner Generals. When Jidu went out of Beijing, only Yue Le saw him off on behalf of the emperor, which made Jidu very unhappy. (To be continued.) )