In June, the heat in Guangdong was unbearable.

For two months, not only did the Taiping army have no more military operations during this period, but the Ming army in Guangdong was also very quiet, and as for the Qing army, there was no movement at all.

This strange phenomenon seems to be that the Ming and Qing dynasties agreed on an armistice in Guangdong, and the reason for this is tacit understanding -- everyone is afraid of heat.

Of course, the most afraid of the heat is the Qing army from the north, the Han army flag soldiers are better, they can still move in the city, but the eight banner soldiers in the city dare not move, they nest in the city all day long, and they have no appetite to eat a listless meal, how can there be any appearance of Manchurian warriors, let alone go to fight on horseback.

General Hahamu of Jingnan was so anxious that he couldn't do anything, but he couldn't do anything except keep urging the outer city to ask for fruits to cool down the heat and dig more wells in the city. He is the general of Jingnan in the Qing Dynasty, and he is not the dragon king of the South China Sea.

You must know that the Manchurian soldiers who went south a few years ago returned to Beijing early to escape the summer when they arrived in this season, otherwise let alone fighting, heat stroke alone would reduce a small half of the troops. Besides, if this place in Guangdong is really good to stay, the imperial court will set up a city in Guangzhou a few years ago, where will it be now?

After the meeting of ministers of the king of parliament that day, the Eight Banners made such a fierce fuss, and it was not because Guangdong was really not a place they could stay in, so no one wanted to come to Guangdong to suffer the crime, so it made a fuss.

The scorching hot weather made Hahamu's desire to avenge Tayinbu also fade, and after the defeat, he asked Emperor Shunzhi for his guilt, but Emperor Shunzhi did not blame him for this. On the contrary, he deliberately issued an order to comfort Hahamu, and asked the Council of Ministers of the King of Politics to discuss whether to send some more Manchurian cattle to Guangdong.

Shunzhi's consideration is that the current situation in Guangdong is somewhat complicated. Not only did the two feudal clans fail to take advantage of the Southern Ming Sun and Li Nei strife to march west into Guangxi to cooperate with the Ministry of State Security to launch an offensive against the Ming army, but the troops under the domain were all contained by the Ming army in Guangdong. Although Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao still claimed that the situation had not deteriorated, the Taiping Kou was just a small trouble, but a rabble, and waited until the weather cooled down. The two feudatories can clean them up. However, Emperor Shunzhi is not a fool, although he is young, he also knows that he can't learn from Emperor Chongzhen of the previous dynasty to ask his subordinates to blindfold his eyes. Although the Qing Dynasty did not have Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Emperor Shunzhi had his own eyes and ears in Guangdong, so it was still clear about a series of wars between the Qing army and the Taiping Kou in Guangdong since last year.

Li Shutai also honestly folded and admitted the fact that the main force of the Guangzhou Green Camp was basically wiped out by the Taiping Kou. It is also clear that the current army in Guangzhou is empty. The number of troops in various places was tight, and the situation was even worse than when Li Dingguo came to attack the year before -- Xinhui, the southwest gate of Guangzhou, had been firmly controlled by the Qing army, but now it was taken by the Ming army. Without Xinhui as a barrier, the danger facing Guangzhou is really great.

However, what relieved Shunzhi was that although Li Shutai said that the Taiping Kou could fight, his combat method seemed to be the rogue methods of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong that he had learned, and even the bandits, because they did not want to control this place for a long time every time they occupied a place. Set up officials to secure the places where the people thought they were based, but instead they carried out plundering and destruction. Later, he brought all the gains back to the old nest of Xiangshan, which made the local people resentful and very hostile to the Taipingkou. Moreover, the Taiping army did not have the ability to attack the city of Guangzhou.

If it is not popular with the people, it will not last, and if it cannot last, it will perish.

Shunzhi is very happy, if what Li Shuitai played is true, this Taiping Kou is indeed not to worry, he is not afraid that Taiping Kou can fight, there are more troops that can fight, Li Zicheng's soldiers and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers can fight back then, but where is it now?

Li Shutai also said that the Taiping Kou did not seem to have the ability to fight in the field, and they fought against our Qing troops on several occasions, but they relied only on the strength of the fortified city and the advantages of the terrain, and in addition to the way they flowed, the officers and troops could not encircle them.

Li Shuotai said that if the official army had enough troops, he could encircle the old nest of the Taiping Kou on all sides, and then make one of the elite soldiers reach the heart of the country, and the other way to sweep the surrounding areas, under the pressure of the layers, the Taiping Kou will have no way to escape, and the fall is inevitable. However, at present, the Guangdong official army does not have enough military strength to encircle and suppress the Taiping Kou, coupled with the attacks and harassment of other Ming troops in the territory, it can barely ensure that the essence of Guangdong is not lost, and it is difficult to use troops against the Ming army and the Taiping Kou on a large scale, because the two lead one to move and launch the whole body.

If the official army uses troops on a large scale, it is inevitable to transfer garrison troops from all over the country to come to suppress it, so that the Ming army can take advantage of it; If the Ming army is used on a large scale, the Taiping Kou will also take advantage of the opportunity. The two are interdependent, which is really tricky. Therefore, Li Shutai asked the imperial court to send more reinforcements to Guangdong, so that Guangdong would have enough troops to deal with the situation.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Shunzhi decided to allow Li Shutai to send additional Manchurian Eight Banners to Guangdong, but this time not only the princes and ministers unanimously opposed it, but also Yue Le, the prince of An, who had previously proposed to set up a Manchurian city in Guangzhou, did not approve of it.

The reason for the king's opposition is that Manchurian Dingkou is the foundation of the country, and now the imperial court has set up more than a dozen Manchurian cities such as Xi'an, Jiangning, Hangzhou, Yongdeng, Jingzhou, Tongguan, Taiyuan, Yinchuan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, etc., each city has a minimum of more than 1,000 soldiers, and a large number of more than 20,000 Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers are required to garrison, plus their families, that is, no less than 100,000 people, which has accounted for more than one-third of the population of Manchuria.

The Eight Banners were only 100,000 people when they entered the customs, and over the years they had suffered casualties of 10,000 or 20,000 in the battles with the Ming Army, the Chuang Army, and the Great Western Army, and the rest of the more than 20,000 people stationed in the city, there were less than 50,000 left.

The less than 50,000 Eight Banner soldiers still have to leave a part in Shengjing outside the gate to protect the land of their ancestors Longxing, and the rest will sit in Beijing, and they must retain a certain number of Eight Banner soldiers to support various battlefields at any time, where can they still draw troops south to reinforce Guangdong!

It was Yue Le's idea to propose to set up a city in Guangzhou, but he didn't expect the war in Guangdong to be like this, so he really didn't have the confidence to fight this time. Yue Le was silent, and the opposing princes and ministers naturally had the upper hand. Shunzhi had no choice, so he signaled Suke Saha to propose a compromise plan - to transfer Mongolian troops south to reinforce Guangdong.

This plan was agreed by the prince and minister of Manchu and Lord Baylor, but it was opposed by Baylor, the prince of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and when the two sides were deadlocked, Lao Chen Ning finished me and made a round, saying that it is not appropriate to send troops to Guangdong now, and the northerners are not suitable for the hot weather in Guangdong, so they might as well wait until the autumn to discuss it.

As a result, the matter of transferring Mongol troops south was temporarily shelved.

Shunzhi issued an edict to exempt the Guangzhou government from money and food for two years, which was regarded as a spiritual support for Li Shuitai, and at the same time dispelled Li Shuitai's intention to go to Fujian. At this juncture, Emperor Shunzhi will not be confused, and the matter of changing generals in battle, Emperor Chongzhen of the previous dynasty can do, but he will not do it. In any case, we have to wait for the situation in Guangdong to settle down before considering the matter of replacing people

Not fighting does not mean that Zhou Shixiang can be idle, no matter how hot the weather is, he is also constantly running back and forth in various townships in Xiangshan.

The Yongli Imperial Court's will to appoint Zhou Shixiang as the commander-in-chief of Guangzhou and the team sent by Zhou Shixiang to Kunming to report the victory came and went, so the two sides failed to meet, so Guo Shao and Liang Shuanghu arrived in Kunming before they knew that their marshal was no longer a registered Chaozhou commander-in-chief, but a real-name Guangzhou commander-in-chief. However, the city of Guangzhou is still in the hands of the Qing army, and it is not of much significance to give it to him.

Zhou Shixiang has been in the former cottage these days, busy negotiating arms deals with the Francois people.

In the past few days, the officials of the cottage heard the most about their handsome Zhou Shixiang's words of scolding the Francophile.

Zhou Shixiang didn't know anything English, nor did he know anything Spanish, Latin, so the most he scolded back and forth was "fuckyou!", as for whether those Franc machine people understood it or not, he didn't care. He didn't care how to translate that Han man's affairs, anyway, he wanted to scold, because these white-skinned devils are really profiteers, so they can't be raped anymore, and a broken fire gun actually charges him 30 taels of silver, and he doesn't bring medicine! This is not counting, the price of 30 taels is futures, and things are still on the other side of the ocean. Damn it for 60 taels a shot!

As for the artillery, the price is even higher, and no matter how much Zhou Shixiang grabs with his brothers, he can't afford to blackmail these white-skinned devils like this.

Zhou Shi was angry, so he threw these Franc machine people in the front cottage, and took people back to Zhirenhou Township, Xiangshan County. Halfway through, I kept thinking that there was no danger to defend in this ghost place of Macau, so I could lead troops to rob them.

When he was about to arrive at Renhou Township, Song Xianggong sent someone to report that the Qincha of the Yongli Imperial Court was still in the city and refused to leave, but Zhou Shixiang took people to Yongle Township without saying a word.

He really didn't want to see the Qincha of the Yongli Imperial Court, although this Qincha was the Cheng Bangjun Cheng who ran Daqiao Mountain to fool Boss Hu.

Last time, Cheng Bangjun came to send an official seal of the general of Luodingzhou, but this time it was a big seal sent to the general army of Guangzhou. But he really didn't want to see this Cheng Bangjun, because every time the surnamed Cheng put on a ghost show, he asked him to lead his troops to accept the command of Lian Chengbi, the governor of Guangdong, to fight Guangxi.

Running from Xiangshan to fight Guangxi?

Zhou Shixiang will not do this stupid thing unless his brain is in the water!

But Cheng Bangjun has his reasoning, and he also has a high-sounding reason, saying that Guangxi has been occupied by the Qing Army Line and the Ministry of State Security, Guangdong and Yunnan have lost contact, and if they want to restore the news with the imperial court, they must take Guangxi, even if they can't eliminate the line of national security, they must also take down the two important towns of Guilin and Nanning, so that Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces can be revitalized, and it is very important to fight against the overall situation of the Qing Dynasty

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