On the first day of entering the Military Academy, Li Dingguo was touched by Li Hongfei's speech. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition to taking basic courses in the crash course, he even often found time to audit regular classes.

Li Dingguo was able to become a famous anti-Qing general, and his own military command ability was not weak, and his understanding of the all-firearms unit was naturally more profound than that of other generals.

This Nanjing Military Academy is the best platform for Daming today.

Infantry Section, Cavalry Section, Artillery Section........... As Li Dingguo came into contact with more subjects, he became more and more impressed by Li Hongfei's military talent, with such a commander who has such a deep understanding of all kinds of firearms and equipment, it is no wonder that today's Ming army is so strong in combat.

At the same time, through a period of observation, Li Dingguo also found that Li Hongfei continued to instill the ideas of country, honor, duty, and discipline in the academy.

These things, those soldiers have heard a lot in the past, but they are all the words of saints, although they can be memorized, but they do not have much influence on this group of big bosses, too ethereal things, it is really difficult for ordinary people to understand and accept.

Li Hongfei can often simplify the complex, integrate those big truths into the small things around him, and use ordinary life trivial things as examples, so that the officers can easily understand the true meaning of these truths.

Perhaps, from the trivial things of life, to experience the true meaning of life, this is the way of a true saint.

The righteousness of the country, Li Hongfei can talk eloquently, and even a group of soldiers who don't know a few words have also learned a lot of philosophies from it, but only for the imperial power and loyalty to the monarch, these aspects, Li Hongfei can basically avoid them, if they really can't avoid it, they will describe it lightly.

Once at a gathering between students, Li Hongfei said in the case of "drinking high": "The army, in fact, is the army of the common people, and the soldiers in the army are all from the people, and their responsibility is to protect the people of the whole world, not to become a private army and lackeys with one surname." ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Li Dingguo's heart was finally opened, didn't he hold this concept at the beginning of the Dashun Army uprising?

If Li Hongfei really wants to go against Zhu Youzhen, he, Li Dingguo, will definitely be the first to stand up and express his support.

Of course, as soon as such a "dangerous" remark came out, it was quickly learned by Jinyiwei and passed into Zhu Youzhen's ears.

Fortunately, Li Hongfei's remarks did not directly refer to the royal family, and even literally speaking, it was the duty of some generals who supported the army and respected themselves, which also made Zhu Youzhen helpless.

However, the contradiction between the two has become more and more acute, and even Wang Guoxing and Wang Chengen, the two spy leaders who were good friends with Li Hongfei in the past, have now avoided them.

Among the Ming army, many high-ranking generals also saw the problem, and the First Group Army stationed in Suzhou even vaguely spread an argument: resolutely oppose any policy decision that harms the army and runs counter to the country's stable development.

Is this unclear that it is aimed at Zhu Youzhen?

At the beginning of the dismissal of Li Hongfei, a victorious general, there was already a lot of criticism in the army, and many people believed that the Northern Expedition was imminent, and such a battle of national fortune must have a strong commander to ensure a foolproof victory.

After the battle to recover Taiwan, everyone originally thought that Li Hongfei would be sent to the field, but Zhu Youzhen would rather change the equipment of the First Group Army and control the scale of the war to less than 100,000 people, which made most of the generals feel cold.

Jealousy and jealousy, it's not such a way!

So when Li Hongfei said that "drunken remarks", most of the senior generals finally understood that Li Hongfei had secretly "declared war" on the Zhu royal family.

Since it is a "declaration of war", then these generals must take sides.

Support Zhu Youzhen, according to his consistent style, military generals will never come out, especially those generals who are dedicated to the country and are not good at drilling camps, it is likely that because of their repeated military exploits, they will suffer from suspicion, and thus inexplicably ruin their careers.

As for supporting Li Hongfei, the other party's status in the minds of the people in Jiangnan is even higher than that of the Zhu family's royal family, and most of the generals in the Ming army have been supported and guided by Li Hongfei.

But these two points alone are not enough, the Zhu family royal family has been operating for nearly 300 years, and has already established orthodoxy in the minds of the people.

And Zhu Youzhen's concept of governing the army is also taught by Li Hongfei, although Zhu Youzhen's attack is darker and has no bottom line, but the idea is Li Hongfei's idea, it is difficult to guarantee that the other party will not do the same thing after gaining power, it really comes to that point, it is estimated that no one can cure the other party.

So after thinking about it, except for some officers and generals who trusted Li Hongfei very much, most of them chose not to help each other.

After all, this is also what Zhu Youzhen and Li Hongfei both hope for, and the political struggle has not yet reached the point of using the army as a weapon of mass destruction.

In fact, although it is thrilling, but in fact it is far from being as serious as imagined, such a struggle, Zhu Youzhen does not know how many times he has experienced in the past, from Wei Zhongxian to the Donglin Party, Zhu Youzhen has always been fighting with them for power.

It's just that the object of this battle has been changed from Wenchen to military generals, and the danger of military generals seizing power is far higher than that of Wenchen.

Perhaps because he was not sure enough, or because he wanted to weaken Li Hongfei's influence among the generals again, Zhu Youzhen couldn't wait to launch the Northern Expedition after the army was reorganized.

In his opinion, only by winning the Northern Expedition could Li Hongfei's influence on the army be weakened to the greatest extent, and at the same time, he cleverly used "newcomers" to try to gain the support of those new army generals.

Zhu Youzhen's move is indeed clever, the army that was levied in the west before, including the army of Muwangfu in Yunnan, a total of four group armies, a large establishment of 400,000 people, plus hardcore supporters like Huang Degong, once he won the support of these army generals, with the power of royal orthodoxy, he basically stabilized Li Hongfei's head.

If Li Hongfei had not grasped the Military Academy and won the approval of the people at the bottom, he was really not Zhu Youjian's opponent, if the Chinese military officials of the DPRK did not speak for Li Hongfei, and he did not have a good reputation among the people, then Li Hongfei would not be far from being dismissed.

The undercurrent of forces on both sides is surging, and it seems that it may be on the verge of breaking out at any time, but both Zhu Youzhen and Li Hongfei understand that now is not the time, and the Northern Expedition is the top priority.

This Northern Expedition was a full-scale war, from Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places in the east, to Yibin and Chongqing in the west, the Southern Ming Dynasty sent five group armies at one time, totaling 500,000 people, to cross the river in two ways and pounce on the areas occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

One route was led by Qi Hongying, whose command included Stilwell's First Army, and Qi Zhifeng's Second Army, which, with the cooperation of Yan Yingyuan's Yangtze River Naval Division, went up the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and launched an attack on Xuzhou, Suzhou, Bozhou and other places.

These areas are the real hinterland of the Central Plains, which belong to the battleground of the soldiers, and are also the key defensive areas of the Qing army.

The other army, naturally led by Li Dingguo, had Sun Yanling's Sixth Army (formerly the deputy commander of the Guanning Iron Cavalry), Xue Zhongchuan's Seventh Army, and Luo Chengyi's Eighth Army, which crossed the river from Luzhou and other places and launched attacks on Yibin, Chongqing, Guang'an and other places.

Although the commanders of these group armies are not famous generals (basically they surrendered after killing the commander), fortunately, they passed the assessment of the military academy and can be regarded as having the qualifications to lead the troops.

In addition, in order to shrink the strength of the Qing army, there were not many Qing troops stranded in Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places, and the main task of the 300,000 army may be to take over the territory of the Qing army, and then march from west to east as soon as possible, and join Qi Hongying's army for the final decisive battle.

Compared with Qi Hongying's troops, Li Dingguo's army will attack faster and occupy more territory.

And these territories are military exploits, and they are also Zhu Youzhen's means to win over the commanders of these group armies.

The remaining troops remaining in Jiangnan were Zheng Chenggong's Third Army, which was still attacking Taiwan, Huang Degong's Fourth Army, which was stationed in Jiangxi, Mu Bin's Fifth Army, which was stationed in Yunnan, and a Royal Praetorian Guard with 50,000 troops in Nanjing.

When Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, the Northern Expedition had been going on for more than two months, and in two months, Qi Hongying took Suqian in one fell swoop, and concentrated superior forces to besiege Xuzhou, where Geng Jingzhong was stationed.

Xuzhou was besieged, Shang Kexi, who was stationed in Suzhou, couldn't sit still, his position was even higher than Xuzhou, although Qi Hongying did not attack Suzhou, but he cut off Suzhou's supply line, once Xuzhou was broken, he Suzhou could not be saved, and Shang Kexi did not understand the truth of his lips and teeth.

Worried about being isolated, he mobilized the only 20,000 cavalry in the city to try to support Xuzhou, after all, the cavalry did not play a big role in defending the city, and sent to Xuzhou might be able to play a surprise role at a critical moment.

However, Shang Kexi's idea was good, but less than seven days after the 20,000 cavalry left the city, they encountered Guo Sheng and Zhang Chao's army in a canyon, and the 20,000 cavalry had heavy weapons against 60,000, and they were all-firearms infantry waiting for work, with almost no resistance ability.

After only two days of fighting, Shang Kexi's troops suffered heavy losses, only more than 3,000 remnants of the defeated army fled back to Suzhou, and the rest of the soldiers were either killed or surrendered.

At the same time, the Qing army, which had gone to Xuzhou from several other directions to support, also encountered similar ambushes, and most of them suffered heavy losses.

In fact, Qi Hongying's troops besieging Xuzhou were not many, only two armies, scattered to four city gates, each of which had about 15,000 people.

If Geng Jingzhong is ruthless enough and concentrates his forces to kill from any city gate, maybe it is really possible to eat some of them, you must know that Xuzhou can be guarded by 80,000 Qing troops, and it is also the same all-firearms army.

Qi Hongying's move was a gamble, she gambled that Geng Jingzhong would not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, and at the same time scattered the vacated troops around to "encircle and send reinforcements" to the Qing army.

Facts have proved that this effect is very good, Xuzhou since ancient times is a place where soldiers must fight, Xuzhou is in an emergency, almost everywhere the Qing army has sent troops to the rescue, only half a month, the Ming army has wiped out nearly 50,000 Qing troops.

Moreover, with the help of the intelligence network of the nearby guerrillas, the Ming army was able to fight more and less every time, so that its own casualties were only less than 2,000, which was more cost-effective than going to great lengths to attack the Qing army's cities.

Although Qi Hongying's troops have not taken another city in the past two months, every time a part of the Qing army is consumed in the field, the Ming army will die many less in the siege battles in the future.

Sharpening the knife without cutting wood, and destroying the living force of the Qing army is far more cost-effective than capturing these cities.

Although the Qing army found this, but there is no way to take the other party, the Qing army used to be able to easily capture the city of the Ming army, but now in the field, it is not as good as the Ming army, and the turtle is huddled in the city waiting for reinforcements, which may be the only way for the Qing army now.

But until the war has been fought so far, does the Qing army still have reinforcements?

Qi Hongying's side is taking steps and sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, but Li Dingguo's side is like a bamboo, and the offensive is sharp and fast.

Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi and other places were occupied by the Qing army not long ago, and it was the territory of the Dashun army before, Li Dingguo was very familiar with these places, and the Qing army in order to shrink the troops, each town left a pitiful small number of troops.

Those large state capitals, such as Chongqing, Xichong, Yibin and other big cities, the defenders were less than 10,000, and most of them were temporarily conscripted civilians.

Compared to the siege, perhaps the most time-consuming thing is the march.

Sichuan and other places are mostly mountain roads, and it is difficult to transport heavy materials, which is a great difficulty for the Ming army, which is extremely dependent on logistics.

Fortunately, when Haoge occupied these places, he made the local people angry, and the image of the Ming army after Li Hongfei's strict purge of military discipline has greatly improved.

Although it is not possible to let the common people eat pot pulp to welcome Wang Shi, there are still a large number of people who are willing to join in recruiting labor to help transport logistics supplies.

"With such an army, why don't I worry!" Li Dingguo sighed.

Even the Dashun Army, which had been operating here for many years, did not have such treatment, and when it came to conscripting laborers, people basically hid as much as they could, and some people even preferred to run into the mountains to face jackals, tigers and leopards in order to avoid catching strong men.

Li Dingguo finally understands the truth of this, and only the army that really puts the people in his heart will really be recognized by these people.

With the help of the local people, the speed of Li Dingguo's army increased again, and in just two months, he recovered the entire territory of Sichuan and most of Hubei.

This speed is four times faster than the original Hauge.

Conditions for winning the war: time, place, people. This "people" is the most important thing.