Wang Guoxing's letter to Li Hongfei was written on two large pieces of paper, which roughly meant ........

In mid-April, Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng's allied forces entered Jiujiang, and one night, after a secret meeting with the Jinyi Wei sent by Wang Guoxing, they were suddenly attacked and killed by assassins. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Zuo Liangyu was not killed on the spot, he was also injured a lot, and coupled with his old age and frailty, he died in less than two days.

At this time, rumors spread in the left army, and some generals believed that Zuo Liangyu was killed, which was done by the minions of Jinyiwei, and had nothing to do with the imperial court.

So Zuo Liangyu's subordinates supported his son Zuo Menggeng, kept it secret, and continued to march eastward, but at this time it was no longer a joint resistance to the Qing Dynasty, but a "joint Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming".

And Li Zicheng, after finding that things were getting more and more out of control, decisively led the army to break away from the coalition army and return to Hubei, wanting to enter Sichuan to join Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, and then plan again.

Li Zicheng is Wu Sangui's mortal enemy, and his Dashun Dynasty was also destroyed by Wu Sangui and the Manchus, so Li Zicheng can't surrender no matter what, so for him, there is only a dead end.

Li Zicheng left, the 500,000 coalition army was disintegrated, and the two armies of Huang Degong and Ma Shiying were defeated at the end of April by Zuomengeng, who marched to Hukou.

The left army was defeated, and Zuo Mengeng could only lead the remaining more than 30,000 subordinates to the north to join Prince Azig.

However, the Ming army defeated the Zuo-Li coalition army, but ushered in an even greater crisis.

Just four days ago, the Qing army that pursued the remnants of Li Zicheng, after receiving Zuo Mengeng's troops, divided a part, led by Wu Sangui, to continue to pursue Li Zicheng's troops, and the other part of the army of about 150,000 did not entangle with Huang Degong, Ma Shiying and other Ming troops, but directly waved eastward and went straight to Nanjing.

Huang Degong, Ma Shiying and other troops, most of them were stationed on the front line of Hukou, even if it was a starry night, it would take ten days, but the Qing army was different, the Qing army was mostly cavalry, and it could reach Nanjing in five or six days at most.

However, Jinling City now only has the new army of Wang Guoxing and the four guards, plus more than 20,000 scattered troops from various roads, and the total strength is less than 50,000.

When Nanjing's city defense was in danger, Zhu Youzhen thought of Li Hongfei's Suzhou New Army, so he ordered Wang Guoxing to pass on the decree.

Li Hongfei was crowned as the Marquis of Zhennan, and the general army of Taizhou (there were already general soldiers in other places, so only a territory occupied by the Qing army could be allowed first), and the new army of Suzhou was transferred to Beijing to resist the Qing Dynasty on the same day.

Due to Li Hongfei's illness, Wang Guoxing was unable to mobilize the Suzhou New Army, and finally could only leave a letter and asked Guo Sheng to lead his first division of the New Army to Nanjing to deploy defenses.

For Nanming's official promotion speed, Li Hongfei is a mixture, this kind of rocket-like ascension is indeed exciting, but how many people can understand the helplessness behind it?

At this moment, Nanming is no longer available!

"Who else is in the camp today?" After reading the letter, Li Hongfei turned his head and asked Chen Yuanyuan.

"General Zhang Chao is still there, and there is another general named Stilwei, with his subordinates, who is also stranded in the barracks, as if he has something to discuss with his husband." Chen Yuanyuan said.

"Okay, I'm fine, I'm just a little hungry, you go and help me make something to eat, and by the way, help notify Zhang Chao to come." Li Hongfei said to Chen Yuanyuan.

Chen Yuanyuan naturally couldn't sit in on the deliberations in the army, so he was very knowledgeable and withdrew from the big tent.

Not long after, Zhang Chao entered the big tent, accompanied by Steven.

"Zhang Chao, commander of the Second Division of the New Army, has seen adults!" Zhang Chao flew a standard military salute towards Li Hong.

As early as ten days ago, after Li Hongfei counted the results of the battle, he fulfilled his promise and handed over the position of commander of the second division to Zhang Chao.

"The last general, Stilwell, has seen the adults." Stilwell also learned Zhang Chao's way and performed a nondescript military salute.

He was originally the deputy commander-in-chief, but since he was going to serve under Li Hongfei, he couldn't be the deputy commander-in-chief, otherwise wouldn't Li Hongfei have to salute him? (At this time, Stilwell didn't know that Li Hongfei had been promoted to the general army)

Li Hongfei was sick in bed, so he could only raise his hand to make a gesture to show that he would return the salute, and then he didn't pay attention to Steady, but said directly to Zhang Chao: "You immediately send someone to Chongming Island and inform Qi Hongying's general army, just say that I ask her to send troops to attack Tongzhou, Taizhou and other places, and be sure to attract Duoduo's army to the Yangzhou area, if Duoduo ignores it, you can wait for the opportunity to capture Yangzhou." ”

Li Hongfei learned from Wang Guoxing's letter that Azig was leading the Qing army on the west road towards Nanjing, and Duoduo in Yangzhou was not far from Nanjing, and once the two armies converged, the strength would exceed 350,000, and even if Li Hongfei's 30,000 troops entered Nanjing, with Wang Guoxing's 40,000 defenders, they would not be able to resist the Qing army five times his own.

So the best way now is to let Qi Hongying from Chongming Island cross the river and march westward to fight back against Duoduo's troops, so as to drag Duoduo's 200,000 troops.

Even if Duoduo is not fooled, if the Qi army can occupy Yangzhou, it is equivalent to cutting off the logistics and transportation lines of the Qing army, and it is not so easy for the Qing army without heavy artillery to capture Nanjing.

"What if Mr. Qi is unwilling?" Zhang Chao asked.

After all, in Zhang Chao's opinion, Li Hongfei is only a local prefect, how can he order and occupy the general army of the two towns.

"Others may not, but Qi Hongying will definitely go west." Li Hongfei said with an oath.

What kind of person is Qi Hongying, that is Qi Jiguang's descendants, he had the plan to take the opportunity to go west and rescue Yangzhou, if it wasn't for Li Hongfei who has been blocking it, and the rainy season is coming, the weapons and ammunition have not been replenished, Qi Hongying would have fought over a long time ago.

Now although the city of Yangzhou is broken, the news of Nanjing's crisis has spread, and I believe that when Zhang Chao sent people to Chongming Island, Qi Hongying had already received the news of Nanjing.

It's just that Qi Hongying's troops are stationed on Chongming Island, and the far water can't save the near fire.

At this time, if Li Hongfei proposed a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, Qi Hongying would definitely implement it without hesitation.

"Also, the order will go down, and the whole army will pull out the camp on the same day and go to Nanjing to prepare for the defense of Nanjing!" Li Hongfei explained.

Li Hongfei came to Zhenjiang in advance, only brought 10,000 soldiers, and later the defense of Chongming Island ended, the soldiers of Baoshan Town were liberated, Li Hongfei expected that the next step was either to rescue Yangzhou, or to prepare for the defense of Nanjing, so the new army of Baoshan Town was transferred to Zhenjiang in advance.

Now, because there are not enough tools to cross the river, the opportunity to rescue Yangzhou has been missed, but because of Li Hongfei's foresight, the troops have saved a lot of time, and this trip to Nanjing is only three days at most, plus he was in a coma for three days, and when the army arrived in Nanjing, Azig's troops almost just arrived, and finally did not delay the fighters.