Thirteen families in Kuidong?

Some of the generals present knew about the thirteen, and some did not. Tie Yi didn't know this, so he looked at Zhao Sihai, hoping that the other party could tell which way the Thirteen Kuidong families were referring to. I don't want Zhao Sihai to actually don't know the details of these thirteen families, but I only know that it is the remnants of the original thief Li Zicheng's Dashun army.

Zhou Tengfeng of Haibei Province had studied in Hunan in his early years, when the Qing army was going south, he was fortunate to be in the Huguang governor who advocated the unity of the rest of the Shun army to resist the Qing Dynasty under the governor of Huguang Yinxi did a few months of writing room, so when he heard that Zhou Shixiang was going to accept the thirteen families of Kuidong into Hunan, he was immediately shocked and admired: "Xingping is a good policy!" The thirteen families except for the three Tan are all loyal battalion elites, this generation has been in the ranks for a long time, moving is hard, quiet is playing, and its edge is used, if they can get out of trouble in Kuidong into Hunan, in the Ming Dynasty has great merit! ”

This is the thirteen families of Kuidong, and they are loyal to the camp, and Tie Yi was even more confused when he heard it. Qi Hao was born in the Great Western Army, and among the generals present, he knew more about Kui Dongbing, who was also from the peasant army, so he stood up and said to the unclear generals: "The thirteen Kui Dong families mentioned by the marshal are all the remnants of the Shun Army except for Santan. More than ten years ago, Li Blind was defeated at Shanhaiguan and withdrew from Beijing, and he led him to the east on one road, and his nephew Li Guo and brother-in-law Gao Yigong led him from Shaanxi to Hubei."

As he was talking, the blind man Li who was holding a hammer at the door with his eyes straight to the skin jumped out violently and shouted angrily: "When did I run to Shanhaiguan, and when did I have a brother-in-law surnamed Gao, Commander Qi should not make rumors about me!" ”

Hearing this, all the generals in the hall laughed silently, the blind man Li in Qi Hao's mouth is not the blind Li in front of him, compared to it, the blind Li is not even qualified to lift shoes for the blind Li man. Yu Shizhong, a brigade school near the door, pulled the blind man Li and told him the origin of the blind man. No matter how old he is, he always knows the name of King Li Zicheng.

Blind Li made such a fuss, and the atmosphere in the hall was a lot more lively. Qi Hao's side continued to talk about the thirteen families for everyone. He called Li Zicheng a blind man in his mouth, but it was because his old lord Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the West, and Li Zicheng were at odds, so Zhang Xianzhong called Li Zicheng a blind man on weekdays, and over time, the whole Western Army called Li Zicheng a blind man. It's been almost twenty years, and Qi Hao can't change his words, not that he really has much resentment towards Li Zicheng.

After Li Blind was ambushed and died in Jiugong Mountain, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, Wu Ruyi, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and other generals of the Dashun Army who originally followed him east refused to lose the Han people's temperament, and refused to change the clothes of their ancestors, so they refused to surrender to the Manchurians and contacted He Tengjiao, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, but He Tengjiao looked down on Tian Jianxiu and them, made things difficult everywhere, and did not give Tian Jianxiu their food supply at all, so Tian Jianxiu and others could not stand in Hunan, I heard that Li Guo and Gao Yigong went to Hubei, Then he led the army north to join Li Gao.

After that, the governor of Huguang at that time blocked Yinxi to Emperor Longwu and advocated the alliance with the Shun army, and the Longwu Emperor did not remember the old hatred, and happily issued an order to canonize Li Guo and others as the marquis, and ordered the rest of the Shun army to be changed to a loyal battalion. Later, Emperor Longwu was martyred, and Emperor Yongli ascended the throne for more than ten years, and the remnants of the Dashun Army and the Loyal Battalion have been at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Henan provinces to persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty, and the current leader is Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and others. As for the three Tans, they are talking about Fuhou Tan Wen, Renshou Hou Tan Yi, and Xinjin Hou Tan Hong, these three Tans are not the remnants of the Shun army, but the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty in Sichuan. ”

What Qi Hao said is roughly the same as what Zhou Shixiang knows, and one thing he knows more than Qi Hao is that the rest of the Dashun army is the anti-Qing force that Nanming insisted on until the end, and it was not until Kang Mazi that it was completely defeated. Therefore, the world says that the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty ended until Yongli was killed, but strictly speaking, it should be destroyed by the Kuidong Anti-Qing Base. At least, on the mainland.

Zhou Shixiang slowly glanced at the generals and said: "As Haibei Dao said, the Kuidong soldiers have been in the ranks for a long time, and they are all the elite of the Shun army back then, if we can take them out of Kuidong, it will definitely be a big help to our Taiping army." ”

Tie Yi nodded and asked, "Those thirteen families are trapped in Kuidong, how can we take them out?" ”

"Beat the Qing army in Hubei away, and the thirteen families will naturally come out."

Zhou Shixiang smiled, the reason why the thirteen families were trapped in Kuidong was that on the one hand, they occupied too small territory, too barren, and it was difficult for them to develop, resulting in weaker and weaker strength. On the other hand, the Qing army blocked their way out. And these ways out are easy to defend and difficult to attack for the Qing army, so in front of the Qing army, no matter how good the Kuidong soldiers are, it is difficult to do anything, so they can only support it. However, for the Taiping army, which wanted to enter the north and south of Hunan to rescue the thirteen families, the blockade of Kuidong by the Qing army in Hubei became a joke, because the territory they occupied was easy to defend and difficult to attack in front of the Kuidong army, but it was easy to attack and difficult to defend in front of the Taiping army, which passed behind them, not in front.

"The thirteen families have been trapped in Kuidong for several years, their strength is limited, and they only have 350,000 soldiers in the sky, so they can take them out, compared to the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Yungui and Guizhou, it is always a drop in the bucket."

Qi Hao was not so optimistic, he thought more that the thirteen soldiers and horses could go east into Hunan to join the blockade against the Qing army in Yunnan and Guizhou, but compared with the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, the strength of the Ming army was still weaker. The Yunnan-Guizhou-Qing army really wants to go north with all its might, and I am afraid that this so-called blockade will not be realized at all.

Zhou Tengfeng shook his head and said: "Commander Qi is from the Great Western Army, how did he forget what the peasant army is best at?" ”

"Huh?"

Qi Hao looked at Zhou Tengfeng puzzled, not knowing what the other party wanted to say.

"Back then, Li Zicheng rode out of Shangluo on eighteen horses, and in just a few months, he gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses." Zhou Tengfeng chuckled, "If Kui Dongbing can get out of trouble, not to mention that there are still 30,000 or 50,000 people, there are only a few hundred, and I dare to conclude that they can also roll up more than 100,000 people." ”

Hearing this, Zhangping Bo Zhou Jintang said disdainfully: "What is the use of the soldiers and horses that are coerced, and what can Kui Dong's soldiers and thieves do." ”

As soon as the words fell, he heard Zhou Shixiang cough lightly twice. Zhou Jintang was stunned, but when he saw Tie Yi and the others looking at him with ill will, he suddenly realized that this Taiping Army also started as a thief. I said that Kui Dongbing was not used, didn't I say that the Taiping Army was not used in disguise.

Weiyuan Hou Guo Dengdi stepped forward to divert this topic, and asked Zhou Shixiang rhetorically: "The purpose of the marshal to take over Kui Dongbing is to let them block Guizhou with us, but Kui Dongbing is not a fool, will they be willing to help us?" ”

"They will be willing, because Ben Shuai will give them a big piece of territory, a base that they have always dreamed of."

The conditions given by Zhou Shixiang were very simple and very tempting, he took the Taiping army to break the blockade of the Qing army in Hubei against Kuidong, but Kuidong soldiers had to help him deal with the Yunnan-Guizhou Qing army first, and the conditions given by Zhou Shixiang were the territory of the two provinces of Hubei and Hunan. As long as Kui Dongbing is willing to help him, Zhou Shixiang, the territory of the two lakes, will give up, anyway, he will not have the ability to swallow the two provinces now, so it is better to be a favor to Kui Dongbing. In this way, with a stable territory, the Kui Dong soldiers can gradually grow and become another anti-Qing force that gives the Qing court a headache, instead of being half-dead and waiting to be killed like now.

Zhou Shixiang was not worried that the generals of Kuidong would break their promises, because if they wanted to stay in Lianghu, they would have to deal with the Qing army in Yunnan and Guizhou with the Taiping army, otherwise, once the Qing army rushed out of Guizhou, it would not be the Taiping army that would bear the brunt, but his Kuidong Thirteen Families. In this world, no one wants to vomit what they eat. Suddenly from the poor place of Kuidong to the rich land of the two lakes, it is impossible for the generals of Kuidong to be willing to return to the hard life of the past.

Of course, Zhou Shixiang will never make a loss-making deal, and the most fundamental purpose of his Kuidong Thirteen Families into the Two Lakes is that he needs their support.

Zhou Shixiang wanted to support the Tang Dynasty and supervise the state, and the remnants of the Dashun army in Kuidong were actually the same as the Zheng family in Jinxia, all of whom supported the Tang faction

Author's note, about the Kuidong Thirteen Families, readers who are not clear can search for it by themselves, and the bones are not much to introduce, otherwise there is a suspicion of making up words to cheat money, because it is impossible to explain clearly without a few thousand words.

(To be continued.) )