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After Zheng Chenggong met with Xu Yingyuan, he summoned the six officials and the generals of the domain to come to discuss the matter, and Liu Guoxuan told everyone in detail about the appointment of the Taiping Army in Guangdong. As soon as Liu Guoxuan finished speaking, Chen Yonghua hurried over, but he successfully sent someone to call him.

"Guangdong Xingping Bo means that he contained the Jidu army in Huizhou, and the domain sent troops to plunder Zhangpu and attack Chaozhou through Nanzhao, cutting off the grain route of the Jidu army, and then the two armies attacked Jidu, and after the defeat of Jidu, Xingping took Huizhou, and the domain took Chaozhou, but I don't know if you think this strategy is feasible?"

Successfully looked around the civil and military officials, and listened to their opinions on the Taiping army's appointment to attack Jidu. The officials were all surprised when they heard this, they had already learned the news of the Taiping Army's defeat of the Manchurian Jingnan generals Hahamu Monk and Geng Erfan in Guangzhou, but they did not know much about the Taiping Army, only that its commander was a young man from a talented background, and they knew nothing else.

Some people are puzzled, and they don't know why the imperial court only awarded the title of Earl of Xingping to the person who has made such a great contribution, you must know that there are three Hou Ye alone among the people present.

Before everyone could speak to express their opinions, Chen Yonghua, who joined the army, asked, "Does the feudal lord know how many soldiers and horses there are in the Taiping army?" ”

Chenggong said: "According to the envoy, there are more than 30,000 soldiers in four towns under the command of Xingping, and more than 10,000 soldiers under the command of Hu Qili, a general in Huizhou, with a total of 40,000 or 50,000 people. The envoy said that Xingping had led the main force to the east to conquer Wu Liuqi, and this Wu Liuqi did not have as many soldiers as Xingping. I'm afraid I'm going to retract back to Chaozhou. After speaking, he paused, and said: "The Jidu army should arrive in Chaozhou in February at the latest." ”

After hearing this, Chen Yonghua thought about it and did not speak again.

Success nod your head. Looking at the rest of the people, Pan Gengzhong, the official at the head of the six officials, got up and said, "Domain lord, I thought that the matter of Guangdong to make an appointment with soldiers should not be done. ”

Huang Ting, the former military commander, frowned and asked, "Why does Pan Shangshu think it's impossible?" ”

Pan Gengzhong said: "Along the border of Zhang, Quan, and Quan, the people are fighting hard, and it is difficult to call on the world in a corner. The feudal lord has repeatedly operated in order to do justice, so since the year before last, the feudal lord has intended to enter the Yangtze River. Take Jiangnan from Guazhen. As soon as Jinling is broken, there is hope for the cause of Zhongxing. The people of the world will also respond in groups. The feudal lord prepared for this for two years, training his soldiers and horses day and night. From the conscription of soldiers, 170,000 were verified, and 50,000 were used in water warfare. 50,000 Xi cavalry shooting. 50,000 Xi foot strikes. also chose 10,000 light husors who were good at fighting. All the preparations were for the battle of the Yangtze River, and now that we suddenly have to change our strategy and join forces with Guangdong, will we have to give up this Yangtze River strategy? ”

After hearing this, he was silent, in order to enter the Yangtze River and break Jinling, he really prepared for two years, not only vigorously trained the soldiers to practice foot combat, but also selected strong soldiers from the army who could lift 500 pounds, and ordered them to wear iron armor. Zhu Bibiao is painted, leaving only two eyeballs. They were all given a big knife to cut horses, standing in front of the formation, cutting the feet of the enemy's horses, called the Iron Man Army, looking like a divine soldier. The Iron Man Army was commanded by Chen Kui, a close confidant of Chenggong's descendant, Zuo Huwei, in order to be able to break the Manchurian Eight Banners after going north. If you really want to agree to join forces with the Taiping Army in Guangdong, you will inevitably have to redeploy, which will definitely affect the northward movement in a few months.

In fact, when meeting with the envoys of the Taiping Army, Chenggong did not have the intention of joining forces with the Taiping Army to attack Jidu, and when Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong several times, he also sent people to make an appointment with him several times, and the two sides attacked Guangdong from the east and west, so that the Ming forces could converge; If we go north along the Yangtze River and attack Jiangxi, Anhui, and the provinces of Nanzhi, the great cause of rejuvenation is expected to be carried out.

In order to facilitate this matter, Li Dingguo even hoped that Li and Zheng could marry in order to consolidate their friendship, but Zheng Chenggong repeatedly failed to succeed because of his repeated military periods. During the Second Eastern Crusade, Li Dingguo had great expectations and sent a messenger to Zheng Chenggong, hoping that he could lead his troops to meet the division, but Chenggong was "making peace" with the Qing side, and in order to prevent the news from leaking, he even left the envoy in Xiamen, and delayed for a while before sending someone to reply to the letter. However, the letter was ambiguous about the matter of the joint forces, and he did not move for a long time, causing Li Dingguo to withdraw from the army again with hatred.

In the final analysis, Chenggong was reluctant to join Li Ding's army in Guangdong, but it was because Emperor Longwu knew too much about success back then, which made Chenggong believe that Emperor Longwu died as a confidant. After the death of Emperor Longwu, he refused to recognize the Yongli regime in Zhaoqing, and it was not until the fall of Shaowu that he had to accept the Yongli canonization under the advice of his subordinates. Li Dingguo is born in the Great Western Army, and he supports Emperor Yongli, although the two divisions can take Guangdong, but the success is unwilling to follow Li Dingguo, but wants to act alone, if it can be done, it is expected to support the Tang King to ascend the throne again, so that Emperor Longwu can enter the temple.

Such a mentality of success naturally made Li Dingguo disappointed in success, and pointed out in the letter that his hypocrite was unwilling to serve the true intention of the Son of Heaven. The Taiping Army, like Li Dingguo in Guangdong, was still under the banner of Yongli, and successfully made preparations for the battle of the Yangtze River in the north for a long time, so Pan Gengzhong's words made him no longer hesitate and make up his mind.

However, the Chinese army Gan Hui had a different opinion, he said: "The north of the Yangtze River must wait until the July trade winds to be possible, and it is an empty country expedition, once it fails, there is a danger that the whole army will be wiped out." It is not the case, after the army goes out, Jinxia is also in danger of being attacked again by the Qing army, so I think it is better to join forces with Guangdong to attack the Jidu army, take Chaozhou to settle the army and civilians, and then attack Dasu, stabilize Fujian and then try to go north, so that the army will no longer be in danger of the two islands going north. ”

"General Gan, your vision is too close, the Qing court did not attack Jinxia, because it was afraid of the containment of Yunnan and Guizhou. Now that Sun Kewang has surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court has ordered a three-way army to attack Guizhou, and Li Ding, the king of Jin, is alone, how can he stop the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Qing court? If Yunnan and Guizhou are flattened, the Qing court can come to us with all its might, how can we be alone with just two islands? The current lord of the domain commands Pixiu, and the people are based on the Yangtze River and intercepts its grain route. They can't save themselves, where can they still have the strength to attack the two islands? ”

Pan Gengzhong's words are also reasonable, at present, the Qing army has used troops in the southwest, and there are troops in Guangdong, if the Zheng army uses troops on the Yangtze River at this time, it is bound to be able to cut off the Qing court's transportation, cut off the grain and salary in the south of the Yangtze River, so that the Qing army on these two roads has no supply of grain and grass, so although it did not make an appointment with the Taiping army to attack Jidu, but it also achieved the strategic intention of cutting off the Qing army's back road. That is, the southwest side will not be affected for the time being, but the Jidu side of Guangdong will be directly affected. Moreover, when the army entered the Yangtze River, the Qing army in the southeast was not in danger, and it was impossible for Dasu to choose to attack Jinxia at this time even if he ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, he could only transfer troops to Jinling to rescue, if he didn't go, the Qing court would also cut off his head. As for Jidu's side, on the contrary, because of the existence of the Taiping army, it was not allowed to return to help, which was conducive to the battle of Zheng's army into the river.

"The art of war is cloudy, encircling Wei to save Zhao. The army of the feudal lord entered the Yangtze River to seize Jinling, which was to relieve the siege for the southwest. ”

Feng Chengshi, an engineer officer, was directly involved in the preparation of the ordnance of more than 100,000 troops under the domain, and was a staunch northward faction, and did not agree to join forces with Guangdong.

"The Qing court used troops in the southwest, and Jidu used troops in Guangdong, which was a good time to go north to seize Jinling, and Dasu's department was not worried, as long as more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were left to guard Jinxia, Dasu did not dare to attack. Now Jinxia soldiers and horses are gathered, and the daily cost is 10,000 gold, and everyone knows that they are about to go north, and they have to send arrows on the string. ”

Zheng Tai, the household official, was Zheng Zhilong's cousin and Zheng Chenggong's cousin, who served as Zheng Chenggong's household official for a long time, managing the finances and foreign trade of the Yanping Domain. For the sake of money and food, Zheng Tai also thought that it was not appropriate to join forces with the Taiping army at this time, but to prepare to go north according to the established deployment.

Zheng Chenggong did not hesitate any longer, and saw that Chen Yonghua did not open his mouth to object, so he said to the officials: "This domain takes the resistance to the Qing as its own responsibility, the south is to resist the Qing, and the north is also to resist the Qing, compared with Guangdong, Jinling is of greater significance, and has the effect of aiding the southwest, so this domain does not intend to make an appointment with Xingping in Guangdong, but can provide some of its ordnance and silver to help Xingping hold on." ”

All the officials praised it, although Chen Yonghua had other ideas, but seeing that the feudal lord had made up his mind, and wanting to go north to the Yangtze River was what he had advocated at the beginning, he did not open his mouth to persuade him again. Gan Hui was very disappointed, but he could only obey.

Zheng Chenggong did not see Xu Yingyuan again, only asked Liu Guoxuan to inform him of the results of the general meeting, and when he heard that Zheng Chenggong was unwilling to send troops to attack the Jidu army, Xu Yingyuan was only stunned when he heard it, but he was not disappointed, he just took out a list and handed it to Liu Guoxuan, asking the king of Yanping to give the Taiping army some money, food and ordnance according to this list, and the Taiping army could buy it with silver.

Liu Guoxuan took the list to Chenggong, and Chenggong saw that there were mostly firearms and medicines on it, and there was still a lot of inventory under the domain, so he asked Liu Guoxuan to do it one by one.

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