Cheng Hanbin went to Guangdong more than ten days ago to serve as the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau, presiding over the self-generation of firearms and the production of saltpeter, before leaving he proposed to Zhou Shixiang that when the division marched north to seize Wuchang, and then went down the river east to attack the southern capital, this policy coincided with Zhou Shixiang's desire to take the fruits of Zheng Chenggong's battle of Nanjing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, the implementation of this policy faced a problem, that is, Zhou Shixiang did not have a sailor who could run rampant on the Yangtze River, while the Qing army had a sailor, and it was not one, but many.

In terms of Huguang, the Qing army not only had the Dongting Lake Water Division, but also the Wuchang Water Battalion, and there were Qing Army Water Battalions along the Yangtze River, such as Jiujiang and Anqing, so it was difficult for the Taiping Army to go down the river from Wuchang without the assistance of the Water Division. There are sailors in eastern Sichuan, but if they don't go to Wuchang for a day, they can't come out.

Along the east of Wuchang to smash Jinling, the Taiping army led by Hong Yang in later generations was really done, and now Zhou Shixiang wants to repeat the road that Hong Yang walked, it is not difficult to implement, after all, the Qing soldiers in Huguang are not the main force of the Qing army, most of them are the second- and third-rate soldiers and horses of the green battalion regiment, and Huguang in addition to Wuchang, Changsha and other important towns, the rest are occupied by the Ming army, Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang in Wuchang, is surviving, living like a year. Therefore, if the Taiping army really wants to attack Wuchang on a large scale, Zhang Changgeng will either die with the city, or he can only abandon the city and run away, but Zhou Shixiang cannot use troops against Wuchang at the moment.

The key reason for not being able to use troops against Wuchang is not that he is controlled by the water division, but that he is too late in time. The Military Intelligence Department's rebellion against the Dongting Lake Water Division has achieved some results, but it cannot let the Dongting Lake Water Division return anyway. If there was no Yongli abandoning the country and Tang Wangjian state affairs, Zhou Shixiang could have led his troops to besiege Wuchang with the forces of the Loyal Battalion and the Thirteen Families of Shaohuang, and then forced the Qing army to go to Dongting Lake anyway after taking Wuchang, and then united with Kuidong's subordinate water division to go east along the river, but now it cannot be implemented, because he is in a hurry to rush back to Guangdong to persuade Tang Wang to supervise the country.

If the king of Tang does not supervise the country for a day, the Ming Dynasty will be ownerless for a day.

In the history of no Zhou Shixiang, Yongli's abandonment of the country ruined the last hope of the anti-Qing army and people, resulting in a large number of Ming troops who had persisted for more than ten years to surrender to the Qing army. A large number of civil and military generals either abandoned their officials and absconded to their hometowns, or shaved their hair and braided to the Qing court, or hid in the mountains to claim to be the remnants, and some important ministers such as Wen Anzhi of Sichuan died of illness. In desperation, Guo Zhiqi, a scholar, and some anti-Qing generals in Guangdong led their troops to retreat to Annam, but they were detained by the Annamite people, who then drowned thousands of Ming troops in Guangdong. Guo Zhiqi was also sent to the Qing court by the Annamite to be killed.

In Yunnan, when Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, was not dead, there were a large number of Ming generals who descended to the Qing Dynasty, such as Ma Bao, Ma Weixing, Feng Shuangli, Qi Sansheng, etc., and Bai Wenxuan, the king of Gongchang, also descended to the Qing Dynasty soon after. After the death of the King of Jin, his son Li Siye and others could not see the slightest chance of recovery, and finally violated the last words of the King of Jin "I would rather die in the wilderness than surrender". In the entire Chinese mainland, only the loyal battalion composed of the remnants of the Chuang army held out until the third year of Kangxi, and finally most of them died heroically.

Zheng Chenggong was also disheartened after the defeat of the Battle of Nanjing, and instead led his troops to open up Dongfan, and from then on, Zheng's army was isolated on Dongfan Island until more than 20 years later. After that, the land of China finally disappeared from Hanguan Hanfu, and it sank for more than 200 years.

There is an old saying in the Han family, a snake can't have a head, and no matter how bad an official mansion is, it is better than no official mansion. This is the most appropriate thing to say after the abandonment of the country by Yongli. If Zhou Shixiang did not support the Tang Dynasty, the Ming and Qing resistance forces would collapse and collapse immediately because they had no allegiance and no backbone, and the good situation laid down by the Taiping army was likely to be lost.

Zhou Shixiang couldn't accept this outcome, so he had to support the Tang Dynasty and supervise the country. Even if the Tang King is worse than Yongli, as long as this flag is there, the people's hearts can be restored.

It was not that no one among his subordinates persuaded Zhou Shixiang to stand on his own, but Zhou Shixiang categorically refused. It is true that Yongli abandoned the country, but it is impossible for the people of the world to immediately accept an emperor with his surname to come out. At this critical juncture of national crisis, only the surname Zhu can call on the world, and only the surname Zhu can unite the forces of all parties.

Self-reliance, Zhou Shixiang didn't think about it.

In the middle of the night in Xinhui, when he learned what happened to him in this life and how his parents, wife and children died, he knew that the meaning of his life in this world was revenge - revenge for himself, and even more so for the hundreds of millions of Han people who died at the hands of Manchuria.

In his previous life, he didn't have a chance, because Manchu became his compatriot; In this life, either you don't succeed and die, or you live or die.

The revenge of the sea of blood is justified, even if the sea of blood is surging, it is beyond reproach.

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Zhou Shixiang clearly told Cheng Hanbin the importance of supporting the Tang Dynasty and the prison state, and told the other party that the Taiping army could not go north to attack Wuchang at present, and he would have to go back to Guangdong to persuade him to advance.

Cheng Hanbin thought about it for a while, but put forward another strategy. He said that the strategy adopted by the Taiping army against the Qing army in the southwest was to trap it, but this trapping only blocked the Qing army in the southwest in Yungui, but it could not make the Qing army in the southwest break its muscles and bones. If the Qing court can break the wrists of the strong men and order the Doni army to return from Sichuan and Shaanxi, then these hundreds of thousands of Qing troops can return to the north overnight and become the great enemy of the Taiping army again. No matter which direction the Qing army attacked, the Taiping army, which had lost its geographical advantage, could only be beaten passively, and the best case scenario was that the two armies held each other, and the worst case scenario was that the Taiping army might be driven back to Guangdong by the Qing army and be surrounded and annihilated.

Bi Yi, the Taiping army actually owned the territory of the two Guangzhou, but the number of people is not more than one million, and the southwest Yunnan and Guizhou provinces have withered after this war, Zhou Shixiang has no time, and the Qing army will never allow him to govern Yungui like Sun Kewang, so as to integrate the territory and obtain a stable base to resist the Qing. At that time, the Taiping army looked at more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but it was facing the Qing army that had the essence of wealth and wealth and came to fight for it with the soldiers of the whole country. At that time, how to fight, how to fight for a long time, how to fight.

Cheng Hanbin's hypothesis made Zhou Shixiang also panic, yes, he has been thinking about blocking Doni's hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Yungui, but what if Shunzhi makes Doni give up Yungui and return to the north from Sichuan. Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were locked in Yungui, where transportation was inconvenient and the terrain was complicated, and the role they could play was very limited, but if they were placed elsewhere, it would definitely be enough for the Taiping army.

Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case. In case Shunzhi launched a ruthless attack and didn't want Yungui, Zhou Shixiang really had nothing to do with it. He asked Cheng Hanbin what strategy he could cope, and Cheng Hanbin suggested that when several towns of troops and horses were mobilized from Shaozhou to the north to attack Jiangxi, seize the important town of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and then advance eastward, causing the Taiping army and the Zheng army to jointly seize Jiangnan. In this way, in order to ensure that Jiangnan, a land rich in money, food, and wealth, was not lost, it was bound to urge Doni to lead the army to break out of the blockade of the Taiping army and return to the southeast.

The land south of the Yangtze River was no less important to the Qing court than Guangdong was to the Taiping army. It is certain that once Shunzhi knew that the Taiping army had entered Jiangxi and entered Jiangnan in the east, he would definitely make Doni rush out to the rescue. The more urgent the Qing army, the more advantageous the Taiping army was, and the flesh-and-blood defense line on the Hunan and Guizhou borders made Luo Keduo, the king of Qingping County, sigh with admiration. Although Guangxi has let the line Guoan break in, and now there are Luo Tuo's reinforcements occupying the Hechi area, as long as these two troops and horses are eliminated before the arrival of the Doni army, they can completely block the Guizhou-Guizhou border in time, and then rely on the geographical advantage to consume the strength of the Qing army in the southwest little by little.

This is a conspiracy, if the Qing court wants to protect Jiangnan, Doni's army must come out of Yungui, and not from Sichuan and Shaanxi, but from Hunan or Guangxi, otherwise it will be too late.

After repeated weighing, Zhou Shixiang adopted Cheng Hanbin's advice and decided to form a Northern Expeditionary Army to seize Jiangxi from Shaozhou to the north. In this way, not only can you force Doni to crash into the Taiping army's defense line without his life, but he can also go to Nanjing to pick up the fruit of the country's surname.

To go on the Northern Expedition, the towns had to be mobilized.

Zhou Shixiang ordered the eastward detachment, which had been harassing the four prefectures of Baoqing to loot money and grain, to be rebuilt into the fifteenth town, with Qi Hao as the town general. In addition, the six towns of the new Xiangxi Bandit Army were also transferred out of two towns and returned to Guangdong together with the 15 towns and the sixth town of Suna. After that, the Northern Expeditionary Army was formed with the first town of Geyi in Guangdong and the third town of Jiang Balzi. The Northern Expeditionary Army has a total of six towns and 54,200 soldiers, and will be personally commanded by Zhou Shixiang.

The Hunan side imitated Guangxi's example to set up the Hunan Field Army, which was commanded by Zhao Sihai, and its jurisdiction was the ninth town of Weiyuan Hou Guo Dengdi, the second town of Tie Yi, and the four towns of the Xiangxi Bandit Army. A total of six town soldiers, with 51,200 soldiers, the legion is stationed in Yuanzhou. There is no governor in Hunan for the time being, and military and civilian affairs are all in charge of the corps.

The beginning of the Tang Dynasty's imprisonment was the time of the Northern Expedition. (To be continued.) )