The already crumbling Yongli ****** is really full of disasters and difficulties, and every time the situation improves slightly, it will be crushed by a ruthless blow, which makes many people with lofty ideals sigh. It is most appropriate to use "the house leaks to coincide with continuous rain" to describe the current situation of the Southern Ming regime, and it is also appropriate to describe the Ming army in Guangdong.

The possible deterioration of the situation made the generals of the Navy Division emotional again, these people were all generals who had been following Chen Qice to resist the Qing Dynasty, and many of them had a hatred for destroying their families and destroying the Qing army. In the past few years, they have followed Chen Qice to stay on the island, but they have been looking forward to recovering their homeland all the time, but their hopes have gradually dissipated with repeated failures. This time it was hard to get Xinhui City, originally looking forward to Li Dingguo's army could march east again to take Guangzhou in one fell swoop, but there was a major event that the Son of Heaven moved to Kunming, and the situation has evolved repeatedly, they are likely to really become a lone army in a desperate situation, there is no hope for revival, and there is no hope for revenge, how can this not make them lose and aggrieved. Some people even thought of the consequences of the Qing army taking advantage of Sun and Li's internal strife to advance south at the same time, and they couldn't help but feel bitter water in their hearts, and this Ming Dynasty really seemed to be dying.

Looking at his subordinates who were pessimistic and confused about the future, the white-haired veteran also sighed, if the situation was really as Hu Deyu thought, the Qing army in Guangxi took advantage of Li Dingguo's troops to lead his troops to Yunnan and captured Guangxi, and the Qing army in Guangdong formed a flanking attack, then it would undoubtedly be a disaster for the Ming army in Guangdong.

The national affairs are difficult, why can't I unite the people and unite with the outside world? Why did Sun Kewang already be the king of Qin of the Ming Dynasty who didn't want to repay me, but wanted to do that reckless thing! This is really a disaster for Xiao Qiang, and it is going to be cheaper for the Northland Hu people.

Emperor Xian, why did you hang yourself in the coal mountain, you can know under the nine springs that the current Ming Dynasty is really going to die!

Chen Qice wiped away the old tears in his eyes without being noticed, he had already made up his mind to die for the country, so no matter how difficult the situation was, the old general would not be afraid of half a point. Let him be Hong Chengchou or Shang Kexi. Or Wu Sangui, the real Tartar of Manchuria, came, and he also had to use the treasure knife in his hand to go and talk to them for a while.

Seeing that the generals were not clamoring, and the old man was silent, Wu Yuan hurriedly got up to stop the generals from shouting, and he shouted: "The Qing army hasn't come over yet, what are you doing so noisy!" Can you keep the court and defeat the Qing army by arguing with the sky? ”

"The imperial court has asked Li Dingguo to move to Kunming, we just want to protect it, and Li Dingguo is willing to let us protect it! … If he really wants to protect the emperor, he shouldn't move the court to Kunming, which is good. The court is thousands of miles away, but we are surrounded by enemies on both sides, it's impossible to say a damn word to the court, and what can you say! ”

It was Lu Zhen, the deputy commander-in-chief, who was born as a hereditary military attache of his ancestors, so he looked down on the Great Western Army, and directly called Li Dingguo's name. Although he was heading towards Li Dingguo, he also expressed everyone's thoughts, Kunming is certainly a safe rear. However, it was unable to effectively command the Ming army scattered in various places. In the case of Guangdong alone, the Holy Driver was able to maintain communication between the imperial court and the Cantonese authorities while he was in Anlong, and the imperial court moved to Kunming, once Guangxi was occupied by the Qing army. The Cantonese authorities could no longer have direct contact with the imperial court. The court doesn't know the situation here, and there is no way to know the movement of the court here, how can this battle be fought?

"The imperial court moved to Kunming, and the king of Xining also had a last resort. You should know this point that if the king of Xining really left the Son of Heaven in the army, in case something goes wrong in the sky. Who can bear this responsibility? ”

Hu Deyu couldn't help but explain to Li Dingguo, in other words, if he was Li Dingguo, he would definitely move the imperial court to Kunming, instead of staying in a place where Sun Kewang's soldiers and horses could threaten, that would be too dangerous, and the Ming could not afford to lose another emperor.

"Kunming is safe?"

Lu Zhen couldn't listen to Hu Deyu's words, he retorted: "Why can't Li Dingguo move the holy car to our Guangdong, and can't go to Guangzhou, Leizhou, Lianzhou, or Gaozhou." The holy car is in our Guangdong, and we are desperate to protect the safety of the holy car, and we will never let the Son of Heaven make any mistakes. But why didn't Li Dingguo move the holy car to our Guangdong, he made it clear that he couldn't trust us! Hmph, according to me, Li Dingguo is selfish, he wants to be the second Sun Kewang, he just wants to control the Son of Heaven and the court in his own hands! ”

This is very damning, half of the sailor generals present are hereditary military attachés like Lu Zhen, and when they heard Lu Zhen say this kind of thing, many people actually nodded in approval. The others were frightened by these words, and one Sun Kewang made the situation worse, and another one would pay it back.

"Shut up!"

Chen Qice couldn't sit still anymore when he heard this, he was even more angry than when he angrily scolded Zheng Chengkui before, and pointed at Lu Zhen and roared angrily: "The king of Xining is the prince of heaven, how dare you slander the prince of the dynasty like this!" ”

"What a prince, but a thief..."

Lu Zhen said casually, but suddenly stopped talking and didn't dare to continue, because he saw that Chen Qice was already trembling with anger.

"The general is not angry, General Lu is just worried about the court and worried about the Son of Heaven, so he doesn't choose to say anything, but he didn't mean it, please don't blame the general."

Seeing that the old general was about to start a real fire, Hu Deyu hurriedly stepped forward to block in front of Lu Cheng, and signaled him to retreat quickly. Lu Zhen didn't really want to anger Chen Qice, so he immediately got off the slope and stopped squeaking.

Chen Qice stomped his feet violently, there was no way to take Lu Zhen, and he sat down and sulked with his beard.

When Zhou Shixiang saw this scene, he could only shake his head secretly, thinking that Li Dingguo's background in the Great Western Army was still criticized by many Ming Dynasty officials, and he could not be completely relieved in a while. At the same time, he also understood that Emperor Yongli was still hundreds of miles away from the Qing army, so he was so frightened that he fled all the way west from Zhaoqing to Guangxi, and then fled from Guangxi to Guizhou under the rule of Sun Kewang. Knowing that the Son of Heaven had run away, the Ming army in Guangdong suddenly collapsed, and Guangdong Province was lost in an instant.

This incident has not passed a few years, and it is difficult for people not to connect this move to Kunming with the last Zhaoqing escape. Although Lu Zhen's words are ugly, they are not unreasonable, at least when the news of Yongli's move to Kunming reaches Xinhui, people will not only think of the impact of Sun Kewang and Li Ding's internal strife on the situation in Nanming, but also think that this time the Son of Heaven is even farther away. If Li Dingguo did not move Yongli to Kunming, but sent it to Guangdong, it would definitely improve the morale of the military and civilians of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it would also be of great benefit to the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

But things have already happened, and it's useless to think too much. Zhou Shixiang couldn't let the military spirit of the sailors be shaken because of this incident, nor could he let Chen Qice and the generals be pessimistic and negative because they were worried that the Ming army in Guangdong would fall into a desperate situation, and lose the courage to resist, so he stepped forward. He said to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, the move of the Son of Heaven to Kunming will have a great impact on us, but the current situation is far from the worst, so you don't need to be so pessimistic. Take 10,000 steps back, what can you do if Guangxi is really lost? What if all the Qing troops were killed? As long as we are here, no one dares to say that Da Ming is dead! ”

Wu Yuan admired Zhou Shixiang very much, but it didn't mean that he would be impressed by the strong words in his mouth, he shook his head and said: "Brother Zhou, I admire your feat of leading the Taiping Army to hold on to Xinhui. But now it is not a matter of whether the righteousness is not on our side, but whether we can block the attack of the Qing army on both sides. ”

Zhou Shixiang nodded and said: "Yes, the current situation is not conducive to the Ming Dynasty, Sun Kewang and the King of Xining are infighting, Sun Kewang will definitely transfer the main force of the Hunan battlefield to the south into Yunnan, which will give the Qing army an opportunity." However, Hong Lao'er in Hunan did not wait for Sun Kewang to separate the high and low from the king of Xining, he was afraid that he would not dare to raise troops rashly. The so-called two tigers must be injured when they fight, Hong Lao'er will not know this truth, I expect that Hong Chengchou will only sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight at the moment. Sun Kewang and the King of Xining will not make a move until they are separated, so there is no need to worry about the collapse of the Hunan battlefield in the short term. ”

As for the Qing troops in Shaanxi and Sichuan, the same is true, Wu Sangui wants to go south from Sichuan, he must first solve his food problem. Don't forget, since the Qing army entered Sichuan, it has massacred the people of Sichuan, and many places have been left without people, and it is impossible for the Qing army to raise grain from Sichuan. It can only transport grain from Hanzhong, how much food supply is needed for this, and how much manpower is needed to support it? Wait for Wu Sangui to solve this problem, and then talk about the southward expansion. However, at that time, I am afraid that the scholars of the University of Literature will not let Wu Sangui go south so easily. ”

Zhou Shixiang's scholar of literature is naturally Wen Anzhi, the Sichuan governor appointed by the Yongli Imperial Court, and he didn't know Wen Anzhi and the situation in Sichuan, but he told Chen Qice when he talked to him in the past few days.

Wen Anzhi is a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and in the fifth year of Yongli he invited himself to Sichuan to supervise the soldiers of the towns in Sichuan, and Yongli added him as the prince and the Taibao and the second secretary of the army, and the governor of the military affairs of Sichuan and Hu. After he arrived in eastern Sichuan, he contacted the thirteen families in Kuidong on the Sichuan-Hubei border to resist the Qing Dynasty, attracting and containing the Qing army in Sichuan and Hubei.

"Hunan Hong Chengchou can't go south in the short term, and Sichuan Wu Sangui can't go south right away, so what are we worried about? On the Guangdong side, Xinhui is in our hands, this situation is not conducive to the Qing army, but to us, as long as the old general nails Xinhui, Shang Kexi he dares to go westward with all his might? If he really dares to leave Xinhui alone and lead his troops westward from Zhaoqing, the old general will lead the sailors to copy his back road, and I will lead the Taiping army to cross the river to Xiangshan for activities, right under his nose, if necessary, I will fully cooperate with the old general's actions. ”

"So the most important thing now is not to passively wait for Sun Kewang and the king of Xining to decide the victory, nor to wait for the Qing army to fight us, let alone worry about when Guangxi will fall, but to take the initiative to attack, relying on Xinhui as a support, to turn the vicinity of Guangzhou upside down, so that he Shang Kexi does not dare to take advantage of my internal strife to go west, and there is nothing to do with us. At the same time, we should contact the Ming army in various places and invite them to join forces in Xinhui to strengthen our momentum. If it is possible, I think it is better to fight Guangzhou, even if it can't beat the city of Guangzhou, it is still gratifying to scare him, so that he will never dare to go out of the city again. ”

Zhou Shixiang kept talking about it, and everyone in the hall was dumbfounded. Just now, I was obviously worried about falling into a Jedi, but now I can revitalize it with one son, from a disadvantage to an advantage, not only can I contain Shang Kexi, but I can also attack Guangzhou, this difference is really too big, and everyone can't digest this information for a while.

Hu Deyu listened carefully, and after listening, he said the biggest flaw in Zhou Shixiang's plan, he said: "Shang Kexi doesn't dare to move, but what about the Guangxi line of national security in the back?" ”

Zhou Shixiang smiled disdainfully, and asked him rhetorically: "The soldiers will block, the water will flood, and the line Guoan can compare to the king of Xining?" ”

Hu Deyu shook his head: "I can't compare." ”

Zhou Shixiang asked again: "Is it gratifying to compare?" ”

Hu Deyu shook his head again: "It can't be compared." ”

Zhou Shixiang laughed: "Since they can't be compared, what are you afraid of, the king of Xining and the monk Kexi have no way to take the Xinhui, and he has a way to line the national security!" After speaking, he turned around and hugged his fist at Chen Qice, and said loudly: "Old general, the book says that people will eventually die, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hongmao, today's younger generation is to do the death that is heavier than Mount Tai, and please send a ship to send our department to the other side immediately!" (To be continued.) )