Because of the defeat of a battle, the removal of the deputy commander on the front line seems too far-fetched, but in fact it is inevitable. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Not to mention that someone needs to be responsible for the defeat in the battle, it can be seen that Zheng Zhilong and Li Hongfei have been cut one after another, and Qi Hongying will not be able to sit firmly in this position sooner or later.

The generals who support the army and respect themselves are always the most feared by those in power, and in history, the "Yue Family Army" and "Yang Family General" are often not good at all the armies with family nature, so this is not accidental.

Kangxi would rather risk the destruction of the country than insist on removing it three times, which is also due to this consideration.

Therefore, Qi Hongying was dismissed, and she was not wronged at all, if she did not retreat at this time, what was waiting for her in the future may be "unnecessary..........

"This time the imperial court has gone too far, when the Ministry of National Defense was established, it was said that the ministers of the DPRK and China could not casually interfere with the decision-making of the front-line commanders, they were good, and they almost ordered and urged them every three days, didn't this seriously affect the commander's decision-making?" Zheng Chenggong didn't have a good airway.

Since the establishment of the Ministry of National Defense, Zhu Youzhen has abolished the system of supervising the army and given the military generals the greatest command authority.

However, this new system does not seem to have much binding force on China, which governs the country with Confucianism, especially after Li Hongfei "lost power", those Donglin Party members in the DPRK and China began to slowly meddle in the affairs of the Ministry of National Defense, and Zhu Youzhen was eager to quickly solve the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so much so that he listened to the suggestions of some civil servants and sent people to the front line every now and then to urge, which seriously interfered with the tactical thinking of the front-line commanders.

"Hehe, the surname of the country, don't take it for granted, it's a good thing that the army is simple, but war is never simple, the ministers of the DPRK and China are constantly urging, that is also to achieve political goals, we should be glad, at least these court officials did not deliberately drag their feet. As for General Qi's affairs........ Pulling it down isn't necessarily a bad thing. Li Hongfei said with a smile.

When he learned that the imperial court had revoked Qi Hongying's position as deputy commander-in-chief of the front, Li Hongfei had already come to Zheng Chenggong's territory in Fujian.

Zheng Chenggong knew a little bit about the purpose of Li Hongfei's trip, so he didn't shy away from Li Hongfei in front of him.

"Also, even you have been suppressed, and she still has to go to the Ministry of Defense, isn't this hitting the muzzle of the gun herself? If Qi Hongying was guarding the Second Group Army, how could she be regarded as a feudal official, and the court would have to consider the consequences if she wanted to move, right? Zheng Chenggong analyzed.

Zheng Chenggong's meaning is obvious, Qi Hongying is a little greedy, and wants to enter the Ministry of Defense to command more troops, but he doesn't want to think that these troops are not his descendants, even if they can be commanded in a short time, but as soon as the war is over, there will be nothing to gain.

"Actually, Qi Hongying is smarter than you, she knows how to make trade-offs, and she also understands what the saint is afraid of, so she would rather give up real power and enter the Ministry of Defense to be a general without military power." Li Hongfei said.

If Qi Hongying hadn't resigned from the post of commander-in-chief of the Second Army a long time ago, this time the court would have pursued it, it would have been as simple as removing the front-line post (retaining the post of the Ministry of National Defense).

"According to your meaning, if the defeat in this battle has something to do with me, then wouldn't I have to worry about my life?" Zheng Chenggong seemed to understand something.

"You are the master of the country, and your life will not be in danger, but like your father, it is not impossible to be an idle and powerful person." Li Hongfei said bluntly.

"Hey! A companion is like a tiger! Zheng Chenggong sighed.

"Find a way to join the Ministry of Defense! After the end of the Northern Expedition, there will definitely be great changes in the local troops, and the support of the troops will be self-respecting, and it is easy to be feared by the imperial court. Li Hongfei proposed.

Since the end of the Western Expedition, it is not difficult to see that Zhu Youzhen has made a series of actions to see that no matter how much he strengthens the centralization of power, in fact, Li Hongfei will do the same, but when Zhu Youzhen strengthens the centralization of power, he will be the first to take Li Hongfei, which makes him very unhappy.

Li Hongfei did not oppose dictatorship, but he always felt that Zhu Youzhen did not have this ability, and he was worried that he would be eaten to death by the Donglin Party.

This is also the main reason why Li Hongfei wants to build his own strength, rather than being finally cut off by the Donglin Party, it is better to control the real power of the Ming Dynasty himself.

It was only later that after a secret conversation with Zhu Youzhen, Li Hongfei discovered that Zhu Youzhen was not as simple as it seemed, but the political struggle was so delicate that as long as it was beneficial to him, even "enemies" could be temporarily united.

So Li Hongfei and Zhu Youzhen resumed the "honeymoon period" again, this time to persuade Zheng Chenggong, half of it was to find a way for Zheng Chenggong, and half of it was also for himself, if he could really enter the central government in the future and strengthen the centralization of power, it would also be very beneficial to himself.

"You're here to be a lobbyist for the Holy One?" Zheng Chenggong looked vigilant.

"How can it, this centralization is the trend of the times, I'm just kindly reminding you." Li Hongfei said.

"My father understands what you mean, he once told me that as long as Lord Li is willing, the Third Army will be on your side!" Zheng Chenggong took out the last hole card.

To be honest, he really doesn't want to hand over the military power, if he succeeds in supporting Li Hongfei's ascension, then their Zheng family can use this to put forward some conditions, the requirements will not be too high, as long as the status quo can be maintained.

He believed that Li Hongfei did not dare to repent, after all, Li Hongfei only had the First Group Army in his hands, and if he wanted to get the support of other armies, he also needed to pay conditions, if there was only Zheng Chenggong's family, he was worried that Li Hongfei would not admit it afterwards, but if he wanted to confront Zhu Youzhen, he needed the support of at least five group armies, and the top three group armies must all stand on Li Hongfei's side.

This is the guarantee of Zheng Chenggong's confidence.

Now five of the eight group armies of the Ming Dynasty are participating in the Northern Expedition, and only Wang Guoxing's 50,000 Janissaries are stationed around Nanjing, which can be described as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Zheng Chenggong's Fujian naval divisions were all reequipped with steam warships, and as long as Li Hongfei agreed, he could rely on the speed advantage to quickly raid Nanjing and seize power in the name of "Qing Jun's side".

Even if you are worried about affecting the Northern Expedition, you can wait for the end of the Northern Expedition and the troops have not yet returned to act, and the 100,000 elites who participated in the Taiwan War will have a 100 percent chance of winning against the 50,000 Praetorian Guards who have never seen blood.

As long as the situation can be controlled before the arrival of the Fourth Group Army of Jiangxi Huang Degong, the rest of the matter will basically be solved, because Li Hongfei not only has the support of the First and Third Group Armies, but Qi Hongying's Second Group Army will remain neutral even if it does not support it.

And Li Dingguo currently controls the other three group armies, and as long as he finds a way to keep these troops neutral, then Huang Degong's army alone will not be the opponent of Li Hongfei and Zheng Chenggong at all.

As for Mu Bin in Yunnan........ Half of his subordinates are Li Dingguo's original subordinates, and it would be good to be neutral.

If it was before the secret meeting with Zhu Youzhen, Li Hongfei would have really been tempted by this proposal, but it seems that there is no need for this now.........

Thinking of this, Li Hongfei took a deep breath, and then said: "Can you not use force, or try not to use it, the matter has not reached the point of no return, and joining the Ministry of National Defense has only nominally handed over military power, and there is not much loss, for example, me, do you think I can't mobilize the First Army now?" ”

The probability of winning by force is indeed very large, but Li Hongfei does not want to take that last step, because in this way, it means that he has to compromise with these "warlords", and once this precedent is set, other generals may not follow suit.

The warlords of Huaxia in another time and space have suffered huge losses to Huaxia.

Now Li Hongfei has even begun to follow the path of Zhu Youzhen, and this time he went to Fujian, but instead of expressing his intention of "uniting" with Zheng Chenggong, he tried his best to persuade the other party, hand over military power, and join the Ministry of National Defense.

"This ......... Let me think about it. ”

Zheng Chenggong was reluctant to answer on the spot, Li Hongfei's attitude changed, and he was also aware of it, but he didn't know what went wrong.

"Looks like I have to tell my father about this as soon as possible." Zheng Chenggong thought of Zheng Zhilong.

"By the way, I have one more important thing to tell you about this time. The battle of Taiwan has been over for three months, and the Fujian Navy Division must have finished resting, and now the main reason why the Northern Expedition has fallen into a stalemate is that Dolgon wants to withdraw outside the Guanwai. So at present, the only one who can quickly break the deadlock is the Third Army, which is surnamed Guoye. ”

Knowing that Zheng Chenggong would not give him an answer in a short time, Li Hongfei simply changed the topic.

The Ming and Qing armies were now in a stalemate, and Dolgon sent all his forces to the Hebei front, which was a time when the internal forces were empty.

Since the Qing army could use cavalry to attack the rear supply lines of the Ming army, why couldn't the Ming army directly detour through Tianjin or Shanhaiguan to cut off the opponent's rear route?

After Cangzhou is Tianjin, and after Tianjin is Beijing, as long as the Ming army can land in Tianjin, the whole of Beijing will panic.

Even Wu Sangui and others in Cangzhou will be worried that the back road will be cut off, so that they will be in chaos, and the so-called iron wall will be self-defeating.

"Master Li means to let me participate in the Northern Expedition!" Zheng Chenggong's eyes lit up.

He knew in his heart that the Northern Expedition might be the last big battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Manchus, and if he missed this opportunity, there would not be so many battles in the future.

As a soldier, once there is no war to fight, there is no channel to accumulate military merits, promotion will be very laborious, and there is no threat of war, the role of soldiers will be much smaller, if you can't use this last battle, accumulate enough military merits, and rectify the army in the future, he Zheng Chenggong will be very passive.

Although he has already taken credit for recovering Taiwan, in the eyes of those in power, Taiwan is nothing more than a small island overseas, far less than the honor brought by the recovery of the Central Plains.

Zheng Chenggong learned that he would be able to participate in the Northern Expedition, and he couldn't wait to immediately organize his troops to go north.

"Let you participate in the Northern Expedition, it's not my suggestion, but Li Dingguo's proposal, I believe that it won't be long before the imperial court will give an order, I just notify you in advance, so that your side can prepare in advance, as for whether to land in Tianjin or Shanhaiguan, it depends on Li Dingguo's intentions." Li Hongfei explained.

It was naturally Li Hongfei who came up with this strategy, but he was not the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, so interfering in front-line decision-making would inevitably lead to truth, so this kind of thing must not be admitted.

Originally, Li Hongfei wanted to hand over this task to Yan Yingyuan to complete, but since the logistics supply base was attacked, the transportation task of the Yangtze River Naval Division has become more and more arduous, and it is impossible to pull out the fleet to go north.

Moreover, Zheng Chenggong's army had just experienced the Battle of Taiwan, and in terms of landing warfare, the Fujian Naval Division already had very mature experience, and it was much easier for them to carry it out than the Yangtze River Naval Division...........

Dongguang County, Hebei, the front command of the Ming Army.

Because Qi Hongying was dismissed, the morale of the army was not high, especially the first and second armies with the best equipment, they all had a little emotion, after all, the soldiers on the front line knew the reason, and the imperial court suddenly came like this, and no one could accept it in a short time.

In order to appease everyone's emotions, Li Dingguo could only order the suspension of the attack and send a large number of spies to prepare to thoroughly investigate the movements of the enemy army.

The Ming army, which had suffered a loss once, was absolutely unwilling to suffer any more losses.

"General, the situation has been investigated clearly, in Cangzhou, there are about 100,000 Qing troops, commanded by Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Kong Youde, which is an important place with the largest number of troops. The Qing troops in Datong and Baoding were only about 50,000 people. In addition, the only place that could not be determined was the 150,000 cavalry led by Azig, Duoduo and others, whose whereabouts were erratic, and basically every place they landed would not stay for more than three days, so it was really difficult to determine the specific location. "The staff officers put together the intelligence.

"There are only 100,000 Qing troops in Cangzhou? Are you sure the intelligence is right? There were no less than 30,000 people who operated the artillery, and now you tell me that there are only 100,000 Qing troops in this area? Li Dingguo scolded.

The original artillery battle lasted for three days and three nights, and the Qing army invested nearly 3,000 artillery pieces from the information obtained from the observation balloons, and the Hongyi cannon on land required almost ten people to operate it.

In other words, there were more than 30,000 artillery members of the Qing army alone.

"Lord Qiyu, there are indeed only 100,000 people in Cangzhou, and their artillery is not professional artillery, but recruited local people to put it together, and each artillery is arranged with an experienced artilleryman." The staff officer explained.

"The Tartars are really rich and let a group of laymen operate the artillery!" Li Dingguo didn't know whether to be happy or angry.

Fortunately, most of the gunners on the other side were laymen, otherwise the Second Army would have suffered even more heavy losses.

What is angry is that the dignified elite of the Ming Dynasty was actually bluffed by a group of laymen for more than 20 days!