The news that Wu Sangui had broken through Tongguan and waved his army to the Central Plains was transferred from Li Laiheng's department in Henan nine days ago, which shocked the Taiping army and caught Zhou Shixiang off guard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He has never underestimated Wu Sangui, but he also doesn't think that he can break through Tongguan in a short time. After all, Tongguan is a dangerous pass, when Sun Chuanting fought Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng fought Duoduo, Tongguan was never breached. It can be said that as long as the Qing army sticks to Tongguan and does not come out, even if Wu Sangui can take Tongguan, he will definitely fight hard under the pass. In other words, as long as the Qing army showed half of its former combat strength, Wu Sangui might be able to attack Henan without any damage to the whole army as it is now, causing Zhou Shixiang to lose the strategic initiative.

Combined with the hesitant impression of Wu Sangui and the three feudal clans when they raised troops in his previous life, Zhou Shixiang thought that something must have happened in Tongguan, otherwise Wu Sangui would not have been able to succeed easily, and he would not have had such a great determination to advance eastward. Sure enough, two days later, the Military Intelligence Department sent a message from Xizuo in Shaanxi, which confirmed that Tongguan was not forcibly breached by the Wu army, but was lost because Li Guoying, the governor of Qingchuan and Shaanxi, offered the pass anyway.

After figuring out the inside story of Tongguan's loss, Zhou Shixiang said with regret: "That Wang Jinbao is a fierce man, and the Jedi killed Curb Bilong, so that Li Guoying had no way back, and had to surrender to Wu, so that Wu Sangui could open up the road to the east at once, but it is a pity that such a fierce man belonged to Wu Sangui." ”

After lamenting that a series of changes in history due to his arrival made Wu Sangui like a person of great luck, Zhou Shixiang had to think about how to deal with the reality that Wu Sangui's actions were already ahead of him.

According to Li Laiheng, Jia Hanfu, the governor of the Qing Henan River, has now shrunk the Qing army in southern Henan, and he and Shi Huashan are waiting for help in Kaifeng. The vanguard of the Wu army, Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan, had already marched to Kaifeng after sweeping western Henan. On June 21, Wu Sangui sent his son-in-law Xia Guoxiang, the general Guo Zhuangtu and others to lead 70,000 troops into Henan to reinforce Hu Guozhu's department. At the same time, Wu Sangui vigorously mobilized the military strength of Shaanxi and Gansu, and all kinds of signs showed that Wu Sangui was ready for the whole army to go north. As long as Kaifeng is opened, the Wu army will inevitably cross the Yellow River and go north, so as to control the capital of the Ming Dynasty, obtain the commanding heights of legal unity and morality, and overpower the Dingwu regime in Nanjing.

According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department, Fulin has handed over the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade that he has not yet reorganized to the commander of Aobai, reinforcing Kaifeng, looking at the posture, Fulin is going to have a decisive battle with Wu Sangui in Henan, but the strength of this decisive battle seems to be a bit small, the three armies of Manchu, Mongolia and Han together are less than 50,000 people, and the Wu army is hundreds of thousands, and half of them are elite soldiers and horses who have fought for more than ten years, including not only Wu Sangui's descendant Guan Ning Army, but also Sun Kewang's front army, as well as the elite soldiers who surrendered under the original Li Dingguo. That Ma Bao, Ma Weixing, Gao Qilong and others are all very good at fighting. There was no shortage of elites in the Qing army that was incorporated by Wu Sangui, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion could be said to have fallen into the hands of Wu Sangui.

When Daniel Zhang explained the details of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp to the people of the Military Intelligence Department, he once said that there was a Zhao Liangdong with great ability, and when this name reached Zhou Shixiang's ears, he said to the left and right: "Oh, that bearded man, well, it is indeed a powerful character, and Lord Wei also admires it very much." ”

The left and right were at a loss, but Zhao Liangdong's reputation as a bearded man rose sharply. Daniel Zhang was very puzzled, although Zhao Liangdong has a beard, but he is not a big beard, is it possible that he has a long beard now?

In the world, planning is never as fast as change. After the Battle of Yangzhou, Zhou Shixiang had no intention of fighting again in the short term, because if he continued to fight, the finances would go bankrupt, and he planned to spend two to three years digesting the provinces that had been obtained, and then run them well, and then crush the troops and food and equipment, all the way. His little knowledge of history told him that Fu Lin would most likely contract smallpox this year, and then die, followed by the accession of the little emperor Xuan Ye with pockmarked faces. If you have the patience and add fuel to the fire with the state of watching the excitement, if you don't do it well, you will die for the Qing Dynasty a few years later, and Ao Shaobao, who can be said to be exhausted, will be put into the palace by Xiao Mazi, and then die.

It's just that, of course, he can't have the patience to wait, and Wu Sangui won't give him time now. Henan fell into the hands of Wu Sangui and the Wu army went north to attack Beijing, which was obviously impossible for the Taiping army to accept. All the generals were unwilling, they fought with the Tartars in Yangzhou, and the biggest fruit may fall into the hands of Wu Sangui, which is really embarrassing and depressing.

Ge Yi, who was stationed in Jiangbei, personally crossed the river to Ganlu Temple and asked Zhou Shixiang to order the Jiangbei army to immediately go north to attack Xuzhou and seize Beijing before the Wu army.

"We went north at this time, and there were only two results, one was that we and Wu Sangui competed to see who would arrive in Beijing first, and the other was that Fulin and Wu Sangui stopped at the same time and turned around to deal with us. Don't forget, in Wu Sangui's view, the Qing court is already a dying camel, but we are tigers and wolves who are accumulating strength. In other words, are you willing to fight with the dying people, or join forces to deal with the more dangerous tigers and wolves first. ”

"Tartar and Wu Sangui join forces? It can't be. Ge Yi didn't believe that Wu Sangui, who had betrayed the Tartars, could still cooperate with the Tartars again.

"What's impossible? In the past, would anyone believe that Wu Sangui would surrender to the Tartars and create a rebellion against the Tartars? Zhou Shixiang shook his head, "The times create heroes, and the times also create the times." Of course, there is also the possibility that when we move, no one moves, and the three families are consumed like this. It's just that this is not good for the three families. ”

"What do you mean by that handsome? I listen to the handsome. ”

Ge Yi still hasn't figured out what Zhou Shixiang's decision is, so let Wu Sangui and Tatar fight, or also intervene and have a three-way fight.

Zhou Shixiang didn't say what he meant directly, but asked Ge Yi: "The strength of the Qing court is far inferior to Wu Sangui, if Ao Bai can't stop Wu Sangui, what do you say Fu Lin will do?" ”

"Since he ran back to his hometown outside the gates, is it possible that he still dares to stay in Beijing and wait for death?" Ge Yi muttered, "Fulin doesn't have the backbone of our Chongzhen Lord." ”

Zhou Shixiang smiled and said, "If Fulin runs away from the gate, won't he become the Houjin of the year again?" In the future, even if we solve Wu Sangui, don't we have to go out to find him? That would be too troublesome, and he would be troublesome in the future, so he simply didn't give him a chance to get out of the customs, and left the Manchu Tartars of all ages in Beijing in Beijing. ”

Ge Yi was surprised: "Wu Sangui has hit Henan, if Aobai is defeated, Fulin will have to run if he doesn't run, how can we keep him?" ”

"Simple, we don't compete with Wu Sangui for who will get to Beijing first, we will compete with Fulin for who will get to Beijing first."