Seeing Li Yuanyin away, Yao Qisheng said, "The prefectures and counties of Huguang and Gangui provinces are all willing to obey the general. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info General, when how to reply to them! ”

Zheng Chenggong pondered for a while and said, "Our army has just occupied these places, and it is not the time to make major changes, so everything for the original officials is to appease them and allow them to continue to hold their original positions. When we have completely reorganized those green battalion soldiers and completely controlled the military affairs of various places, we will slowly select the right officials. ”

Yao Qisheng nodded and said, "What the general said is reasonable!" ”

"That's right, Xizhi. Those generals who had been sent to garrison various places before. What is the situation now. ”

"General Hui, the commanders of the Qing army, Xu Erxian and Ma Xin, and the former Wu Sangui's subordinates Li Bi and Wang Rong are all willing to join our army. Shen Yongzhong, the pseudo-Shun Duke of the Qing Dynasty who fled to Zunyi, sent a message that as long as he continued to retain his title and allowed him to continue to lead troops, he was willing to join our army. ”

Zheng Chenggong heard it and said angrily: "What kind of soldier is Shen Yongzhong's kid leading, there is no trick in the war, and running away is the best." This kind of person is not uncommon. Tell him to surrender if you want to surrender, don't talk about any conditions. If he doesn't surrender, Lao Tzu will send someone to eradicate him. ”

Now that Zheng Chenggong has almost occupied the south, there are a lot of people who want to rush to surrender, so naturally he doesn't care about one or two people.

Yao Qisheng arched his hand and said, "Yes, my subordinates will send someone to pass on the message to him." ”

Zheng Chenggong scolded fiercely, "A 'flying general' dares to talk to Lao Tzu about conditions, he has never died!" ”

Yao Qisheng smiled when he heard it and said, "Jumping clown, general, don't care." By the way, Yao Zhizhuo, the former Fengren Wubo of the Lu Jianguo Institute, Li Zhichun, the rank of Governor of the Imperial Prefecture of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zhang Zhongfu, the squire of the Ministry of War, and He Wangsheng, the director of the Ministry of War, have sent people to express their willingness to join our army! ”

Zheng Chenggong was very puzzled when he heard this, and said: "Lu Jianguo's subordinates, why did they come to Guizhou, Guangxi!" ”

Yao Qisheng explained, "At the beginning, Lu Jianguo was subject to Zheng Cai, and they saw that Zheng Cai didn't really want to oppose the Qing Dynasty, so they went to Guangdong Yongli. Not long after I went to Guangdong, some people haven't seen Yongli yet. When Li Chengdong was still a Qing general, he captured Guangdong. They had no choice but to run to Guizhou, Guangxi. In the past few years, they have been secretly engaged in the restoration of sight, and now they see that the general has recovered Huguang and other places, and the prospects for opposing the Qing Dynasty are very good, so they want to come and take refuge in you. ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said, "It's hard for them to stick to it in the past few years, Xizhi, let's see what position they are suitable for, and arrange a better one for them!" ”

Yao Qisheng said: "Yes! Great General. In addition to the soldiers of the former Great Western Army and the generals of the Qing Army, there is another force that needs our special attention! ”

Zheng Chenggong was a little puzzled and asked, "Who?" That gang of forces? ”

"Kuidong Thirteen!" Yao Qisheng replied.

Hearing Yao Qisheng talk about the Thirteen Kuidong Families, Zheng Chenggong closed his eyes and recalled the information collected by the National Bureau of Investigation about the Thirteen Kuidong Families.

In 1644, the Dashun army was defeated by the Qing army, and Li Zicheng fled to Xi'an.

When fleeing from Xi'an, the Dashun army was divided into two routes, one was led by Li Zicheng to take Daoshangluo and Henan to enter Hubei, which was the Eastern Route Army.

On the other hand, the Dashun Army was led by Li Jin and Gao Yigong, and the garrisons in Yulin and Yan'an in northern Shaanxi converged with the garrisons of Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai through Hanzhong to Sichuan, and down the river to Jingzhou. It is called the Western Route Army.

After Li Zicheng's death, the Eastern Road Dashun Army lost its unified command system, and the generals still nominally retained the titles of marquis and earl, but in fact they were a loose alliance of various ministries.

The Dashun Army of the East Road knew that it was unable to fight against the Qing army alone, so the main generals of the Dashun Army on the East Road at that time took the initiative to join forces with Longwu to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Although under pressure from the Qing army, the main officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty agreed to join forces, the Ming officials at that time were arrogant, short-sighted, and deeply hostile and suspicious of the Dashun army. It was even more squeezed out by the diehard bureaucrats of the Southern Ming Dynasty such as He Tengjiao and Zhang Kuang, who were powerful officials in Huguang at that time.

Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi and other generals saw that the Dashun army was squeezed out by officials, and heard that the Western Route army led by Li Jin and Gao Yi Power was from Sichuan to Hubei, so they decided to move the army north. In 1645, the Dashun armies of the east and west met in the Jingzhou area.

After the two Dashun armies met, the strength was strengthened, at this time Longwu was established, and He Tengjiao was promoted to the governor of Huguang, and the post of governor of Huguang was taken over by Du Yinxi.

Du Yinxi's attitude towards the Dashun Army is very different from He Tengjiao's.

He Tengjiao harbored deep hostility and suspicion towards the Dashun Army, and after the joint operation, he tried every means to squeeze them out.

However, he realized that it was more powerful to unite the Dashun army and resist the Qing Dynasty.

When he learned that the various units of the Dashun Army were gathering in Jingzhou and Lizhou, he personally rushed to the lawn in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, and Li Jin and others to negotiate the alliance.

After blocking Yinxi, Emperor Longwu decided to seal Li Jin as the Marquis of Xingguo, and the generals were poor, and changed Li Jin's name to Li Chixin, and Gao Yigong's name was Gao Bizheng, and the department was called "Loyal Battalion".

After reaching an agreement with Li Jin and other generals of the Dashun Army to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty, Du Yinxi decided to lose no time in launching a campaign to restore Hubei.

In the Battle of Hubei, He Tengjiao and Zhang Kuang did not attack Wuchang from Yuezhou north as originally planned, and held the Yangtze River channel in the Chenglingji area, causing the Qing Dynasty's Lekede Hun to go straight to Jingzhou as if it were no one; Gu Yinxi, Li Jin and others thought that the army under the command of He Tengjiao in the Yuezhou area would not have any worries about the east, and their attention was all focused on Jingzhou, but they were attacked by the main force of the Qing army and were defeated.

The Dashun army was forced to move to Guangxi, and soon Li Jin died of illness, Gao Yigong was killed in an ambush, and Liu Tichun and Hao Yongzhong led the rest of the Dashun army to the Sichuan-Hubei border area.

Liu Ti is pure and brave, has a strategy, "quite prestige to the public", so the generals of the peasant army from all walks of life jointly recommended him as the leader, and are willing to listen to his moderation, the Southern Ming general Wang Guangxing and others also came to converge, and finally established an anti-Qing base with Maolu Mountain in Xingshan County, Hubei Province as the center, occupying more than 20 counties and supporting tens of thousands of soldiers.

Zheng Chenggong asked, "Are they willing to join our army?" ”

Yao Qisheng nodded, shook his head again, and said: "In the Dashun army, Liu Tichun, Hao Shaoqi, and Yuan Zongdi, the main generals of the Dashun army, just sent letters to unite our army to fight against the Manchus. However, twenty or thirty generals such as Luo Maotong, Ma Jinyu, and Wang Zhibing, who were under their subordinates, secretly spread a message and wanted to join our army. ”

"Discord in the Dashun army?"

Yao Qisheng thought for a while and said, "According to the information sent by the National Bureau of Investigation, there is no description of this. The subordinates thought that these generals could not stand the hard life of the poor mountains and rivers, so they thought of joining our army. ”

Zheng Chenggong heard it and asked, "That Xizhi, what do you think should be done with this matter!" ”

Yao Qisheng said: "General, our army easily recovered Huguang and Gangui, and its strength has increased greatly on the surface, but these places have only been occupied for a short time, and they are not very stable, and it will take some time to digest them." Combined with the elite route taken by our army before, the number of soldiers is less than 300,000. Now to defend such a large place, there is a serious shortage of soldiers and horses. The number of soldiers would need to be expanded by two to three times to fully cover that large area of domination. ”

Yao Qisheng looked at Zheng Chenggong, saw that he didn't speak, and continued: "Xiaguan believes that the strategy against the Dashun army can be divided into two parts. Those who are willing to take refuge, we welcome them. Most of the Dashun army are veterans, and as long as they come over and have a little training, they can become an army, which can quickly make up for the lack of soldiers and horses in our army. For Liu Tichun, who is unwilling to take refuge and is only willing to ally with them, his subordinates think that they should also be united. Kuidong is the junction area of Sichuan and Hubei, if the Qing army goes south, it can only take the route of central Sichuan now, and with the assistance of the Dashun army, it can greatly reduce the pressure on our army. So that we can put more energy into renovating the southwest! ”

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while and said, "Just do as you say, but the ordinary soldiers of the Dashun Army must go to the military academy for retraining and reorganization, and more importantly, they must carry out ideological education to make them loyal to our army." As for the generals of the Dashun Army who have taken refuge in the past, those who have not had great evil in the past can be accepted and distributed according to their ability. But those who are full of evil deeds will definitely not work! ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand!" Yao Qisheng replied.

Yao Qisheng went down to deal with some government affairs, and Zheng Chenggong shouted, "Call Cai Jiuyi over!" ”

Cai Jiuyi heard the order and hurriedly ran over. "General, why summon the lower officer!"

Zheng Chenggong said with a smile, "Your National Bureau of Investigation has performed very well, especially you, in this raid on the southwest, the fifth group you led performed very well, I am very happy." ”

Cai Jiuyi said happily when she heard this: "General Xie appreciates, these are the merits of the eldest lady's leadership!" ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said, "Although the southwest region has been taken by our army, there are still many hostile forces hidden. Moreover, there are many ethnic minorities in the southwest, and there are also forces in the southwest such as the Great Western Army, the Great Shun Army, the Li Chengdong Army, and the Annan Army, all of which are hidden dangers. I want to establish a sub-bureau in the southwest to nip these hidden dangers in the bud, I don't know if you are willing to take on this important responsibility! ”

Cai Jiuyi said excitedly when she heard this, "Xia Guan is willing to serve the general and strangle all the hidden dangers that are unfavorable to the general!" ”

Zheng Chenggong said, "Okay, you go to prepare for the establishment of the Southwest Investigation Bureau, as for the appointment, I will mention it to your director Zheng Xiuyan, and those funds will also be allocated to you by the Ministry of Finance." Do a good job and don't let me down! ”

Cai Jiuyi shouted loudly: "Yes! (To be continued.) )