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Qujing, Yunnan, the camp of the Jin Dynasty.

Although the night was dark, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, still sat alone in the big tent, and from time to time got up and paced around the tent because of anxiety, and Sun Kewang could not sleep at all because of the threat of the advance army of 100,000 troops.

The two candles lit on the table burned to the bare of the last bit, and the tears of the candles slowly accumulated into heavy beads, which slowly flowed down like someone's tears, and accumulated into an oily spread on the silver candlestick. From time to time, the wick of the candle burst out, bursting out a few sparks, and before it fell, it had turned into a small charred slag and fell onto the page, and a slight sound could be heard in this quiet night.

In order to get rid of the bad mood, Li Dingguo took out a copy of "The Art of War" from the table and studied it carefully under the lamp. But when he couldn't see two pages, he couldn't read any longer, staring at the flames on the wick in a daze.

On the table was a stack of letters, military reports from various generals and letters requesting instructions. In addition, there is a Tang newspaper sent from Kunming.

After all, he couldn't feel at ease, Li Dingguo shook his head self-deprecatingly, and threw "The Art of War" aside. He picked up the candlestick and came to the long table in the tent, on which was a map of the Yungui terrain that had just been drawn. In some places on the map, there are small strips of yellow silk, and the small strips are clearly marked with a pen: "Zhang, 15 battalions, 12 battalions of the domain, 20 battalions of Wang..."

These yellow silk strips indicate the number and strength of each ministry under Dingguo's command, and the position of the sticker indicates the location of each department's garrison. Other than that. There are also some red arrows on the map, which is the route of Sun Kewang's army to invade Yunnan.

The map was hastily drawn by the staff of King Jin's office the day before yesterday, and some of the terrain in it was not marked correctly. But now it is the most precious map in Li Dingguo's hands. If it is said that the group of people who drew the best maps were naturally the officials of the Beijing Military Department at that time, it is a pity that most of these people were surrendered to the Qing Dynasty during the Jiashen Rebellion, and very few went south, so that the Nanming regime was never able to draw a detailed map after that. I can have this map reference, which is generally correct. Li Dingguo is extremely satisfied. He carefully looked at the map by candlelight, and saw his military deployment on the map at a glance, but what worried him was the eye-catching red arrow - Sun Kewang's army would not be long before it arrived in Qujing.

This time, in order to deal with Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang used almost all of his strength, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he came from the nest, and even regardless of the threat of the Qing army in the north, he also transferred more than 20,000 troops from the Hunan defense line, which was actually 100,000 troops. The crowd of 300,000 is not ferocious. After the striker arrived in Yunnan, he broke several counties in a row, and he had an unstoppable momentum.

Compared with Sun Kewang's 100,000 driving front army, Li Dingguo only has more than 30,000 direct subordinate soldiers, and the strength is only one-third of Sun Kewang's, so Li Dingguo can no longer fight well, and he can't help but feel a little uneasy and anxious at this moment, after all, Sun Kewang's driving front army and his own soldiers are the elite soldiers and horses of the Great Western Army, and they can't be stronger than the other party in terms of combat effectiveness, and they can't beat the other party in terms of strength.

People say that they can be expected to govern the country well and make good use of soldiers, but Li Dingguo himself knows that Sun Kewang is not only good at governing the country, but also good at using soldiers, otherwise the boss Zhang Xianzhong will not regard Sun Kewang as his heir and vigorously cultivate, and when the Great Western Army enters Yunnan, Sun Kewang will not be the leader of the alliance to command the Great Western Army.

The righteous brother is good in everything, but his ambition is too big, if he supports the Yongli Emperor like me, why does my brother fight against each other, no matter who loses or wins, it is so cheap that it is a Manchurian Tartar

Li Dingguo sighed, he never wanted to have infighting with Sun Kewang, and he always hoped to have a good talk with Sun Kewang, but this righteous brother was no longer willing to say more to him.

Sun Kewang's 100,000 troops marched forward to force Li Dingguo worried, and there was another point that also worried him, that is, the Ming army under the jurisdiction of the Yongli court was too large, not only the original Ming official army, but also the soldiers and horses adapted from Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and the soldiers and horses entangled by righteous teachers and bandits from all over the country.

This time Li Dingguo went to fight against Sun Kewang, although Emperor Yongli had issued an edict to the king of special Jiajin to have a special expedition, give Shang Fang a sword, allow cheap acts, hold the seal, and take the king of Shu as the deputy to recruit, take full command of the responsibility, and order the Ming army to listen to the unified promotion of the king of Hou Jin, but the fact is that Li Dingguo can only command his own direct subordinate soldiers to fight, and the other Ming troops either do not obey the order, or the yang and the yin, or simply ignore it, which makes the battle plan against the enemy in Guizhou in the early days of the Dingguo country abandoned because of the lack of troops, In the end, he could only be forced to face Sun Kewang in Yunnan.

Thinking of this, Li Dingguo had a headache, but there was nothing he could do.

For a long time, the Ming army belonging to the Southern Ming regime is independent, the relationship between each other is complicated, the power of the original generals is also deep-rooted, plus these Ming troops are scattered in various places, from time to time by the Qing army cut off the connection with the Yongli court, has become an isolated territory, which makes Dingguo even if there is the full support of the Yongli Emperor, but still unable to command and mobilize those soldiers and horses to fight in a unified manner, and even the soldiers and horses under the command of Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, he can not directly dispatch.

Facing Sun Kewang can't mobilize those Ming troops, how can he expect to get these Ming troops when he faces the Qing army in the future?

Dingguo's eyes looked farther, he was worried about the future, although there were many Ming troops, but they were scattered, if they could not immediately integrate the Ming armies everywhere, they would inevitably be broken by the Qing army one by one in the future. In the end, this Ming Dynasty will still die.

The flame of the candle flickered, then shook and shuddered. This made Li Dingguo's heart seem to tremble slightly. He looked at the jumping candlelight, and felt that there were many things squeezing into his cold heart, was it sad? Is it melancholy? Or is it sad? Or maybe a little bit of fear?

The past career also kept flashing in Li Dingguo's mind, the bloody battles in the past made Li Dingguo breathe a little short, he didn't want to think about it, but he couldn't drive away these fragments of memories, and his spirit became more and more nervous. A layer of cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Alas!"

Li Dingguo let out a long sigh, walked to the side of the desk, put down the candlestick, and sat back in the chair. The anxiety in my heart is unbearable, but I can't tell anyone, I can only endure it alone and support it alone.

Footsteps rang out outside the tent. This sudden footstep brought Li Dingguo back to reality. He looked up and saw that it was his subordinate Liu Yong, so he asked him, "What's the matter?" ”

"Lord Wang, the King of Shu has sent a letter, he has led his troops back from Qianqiu Yao, and he will be able to join the prince in half a month at the latest."

Liu Yong said and handed the letter of Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, to Li Dingguo, who took it and opened it, and after reading it, his previous annoyance went a lot. With a smile, he said to Liu Yong: "The King of Shu still has the court in his heart, if he can arrive in time." We're a lot less stressed. ”

Liu Yong was a little worried: "Although there are tens of thousands of troops under the command of the King of Shu, most of them are scattered all over Sichuan, and the King of Shu can only bring back his headquarters, I am afraid that there will not be too many, compared with Sun Kewang's side, our soldiers and horses are still much less." ”

"Okay, as long as the King of Shu can come back, he will be better than tens of thousands of troops." Li Dingguo put down the letter and said in a deep voice: "There will not be all those who listen to my righteous brother, and there are many people who are waiting and watching. When I think about it, if we really fight, maybe there will be a lot of old brothers who don't want to help my righteous brother come and fight us. ”

"I hope so."

The haggard appearance of King Jin under the candlelight made Liu Yong's nose a little sour, King Jin is only 38 years old this year, but his sideburns have already grown gray hair.

In distress, Liu Yong persuaded: "Lord, you still have to take care of your body, it's not too late this day, there are still many things tomorrow, the King of Shu is coming back soon, is the prince relieved first, go to rest, otherwise your body will collapse, who can afford this Ming day?" ”

"This king can't sleep." Li Dingguo smiled bitterly and said to Liu Yong: "If you change you, can you sleep?" ”

"Can't sleep."

Liu Yong also smiled bitterly and shook his head, knowing that he couldn't persuade King Jin. Then there was another sound of footsteps outside the tent, and he went out and asked, "What is the matter?" ”

Outside: "General Kunmingle is in a hurry!" ”

"Kunming?"

Before Liu Yong could ask what was going on in Kunming, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin in the tent, had already walked out and said to the person from Kunming: "Take it!" ”

The person who came hurriedly stepped forward to deliver the urgent delivery, and Dingguo took it and walked inward, tearing off the sealing wax on the urgent delivery.

Walking to the case, by the candlelight, Dingguo took a closer look. This urgent delivery was full of a few pages, and Dingguo looked at it very solemnly and did not say a word.

Seeing this, Liu Yong's heart tightened, and he asked in a low voice: "Lord Wang, is it that Wang Shangli can't hold his breath and does it?" ”

Wang Shangli is Sun Kewang's general, when Li Dingguo helped Emperor Yongli to Kunming, because Liu Wenxiu advocated welcoming Emperor Yongli into the city, although Wang Shangli was unwilling, but did not dare to refuse, he could only welcome Emperor Yongli to the city. Later, in order to appease these generals of Sun Kewang in Kunming City, Emperor Yongli added Wang Shangli from Guyuan Marquis to Baoguogong, but Wang Shangli has been in contact with Sun Kewang in private, and after hearing that Sun Kewang invaded Yunnan, Wang Shangli was even more impatient and wanted to be Sun Kewang's internal response in Kunming.

Before Li Dingguo set out on the expedition, in order to prevent Wang Shangli from making trouble in Kunming, in addition to dispersing several battalions of soldiers and horses under Wang Shangli and transferring them to his army, he also ordered the generals Le Tongwu and Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, to secretly guard against him. However, Dingguo was not worried about Wang Ziqi, because Yongchang Mansion was located in a remote area and the news was not good, Wang Ziqi fled there and could not get in touch with Sun Kewang at all, nor could he pose a threat to Kunming, so Dingguo ignored him.

Now the only thing that people are worried about in Kunming City is Wang Shangli, if Le Tongwu and Mu Tianbo can't stand Wang Shangli and let him make trouble, then the King of Jin will be passive.

Liu Yong was very worried, but fortunately, Li Dingguo waved his hand and said: "It's not him, it's a good thing." ”

Liu Yong breathed a sigh of relief, Wang Shangli didn't have civil strife, and asked Li Dingguo with some curiosity: "Lord Wang, what's a good thing?" ”

"Good news from Guangdong." After Li Dingguo read the express delivery in one breath, he laughed, and took Le Tongwu's express delivery to Liu Yong, "You can see it yourself." ”

Liu Yong hurriedly took it to see, he had been in a private school for two years in his early years, and later after joining the Great Western Army, he also asked some gentlemen to teach him from time to time, so he could read the official documents and military newspapers. He moved his body slightly closer to the candlestick, looked at it carefully by the candlelight, and after reading two pages, he couldn't help but sigh, and said with some excitement: "Killed 218 Manchurian true Tartar heads, and beheaded 856 Han army banner soldiers under Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, more than 3,230 Guangdong green battalion soldiers, 3,150 Qing soldiers were captured, and 14 Manchurian soldiers surrendered, including a leader, Guangdong is really a big victory this time!" ”

"It is indeed a great victory, and this king now admires that Zhou Shixiang very much." Li Dingguo was also laughing, smiling very openly, sweeping away the depression in his heart.

Liu Yong remembered and asked, "Isn't this Zhou Shixiang the genius that Guo Zhiqi and the prince said a few days ago?" ”

"It's not him, who else?"

Li Dingguo rubbed his temples, the news of Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, returning to the army, made him most of the annoyance, and the good news of Guangdong made him worry and happy, even if the victory in Guangdong was not helpful to his side.

"This person is very powerful, I heard that he can recapture Xinhui under the nose of Shang Keyan, and successfully hold Xinhui, at that time the last general felt that he was amazing, and now he defeated the Qing army twice in a row near Guangzhou, and also defeated the Manchurian Eight Banners, which is really impressive. I heard that this Zhou Shixiang is only in his twenties, and he is a young hero just like the prince back then. Liu Yong said sincerely.

"It's a talent, and this king is not as good as him at his age." Li Dingguo's smile suddenly froze, and he sighed: "It's a pity that we know too late." ”

Liu Yong was also a little depressed, and "snorted": "This matter is in the hands of Ma Jixiang, if he hadn't suppressed the news, how could we not know that such a big change had happened in Guangdong." If the prince had led the army into Guangdong, I was afraid that the whole province of Guangdong would have been recovered. ”

"It's no wonder that Ma Jixiang is doing this, it's the king's inconsiderate consideration, the court has moved to Kunming, and the top and bottom are in chaos, whether it's the cabinet or the ministries, it's inevitable that things will be wrong, and it's not fair to blame Ma Jixiang for the blame."

"How can the prince still say good things for Ma Jixiang." Liu Yong is not at odds.

Li Dingguo shook his head and didn't say anything.

Seeing that King Jin didn't want to say more about Ma Jixiang, Liu Yong had no choice but to shut up, he then looked down, suddenly stunned, and when he looked up at Li Dingguo again, he was already confused.

"Zhou Shixiang has made such a great contribution, why did the emperor only award him a Xingping Bo? Back then, Chen Bangfu's kind of villain was able to confer the title of Duke of Qing without an inch of merit, and the gang of people under Li Chengdong only relied on the Duke of Anyway to confer the title of Duke and Hou, that is, Wang Shangli and Wang Ziqi also conferred the title of Duke of Guo, Zhang Hu and one of his guards were all awarded the title of Bo, and now Zhou Shixiang has made such a great contribution to the court, but the emperor has only awarded a Xingping Bo, what is going on, isn't this chilling? ”

After speaking, his eyes swept the last few lines of the urgent delivery, and he couldn't help but say "Huh" again: "Le Tongwu said that the emperor originally wanted to award Zhou Shixiang Xingpinghou, but Zhou Shixiang insisted on coercing the court and the emperor, and the emperor was angry but only then changed to Xingpingbo, what is going on?" (To be continued.) )