The man was of medium stature, his appearance was not good-looking, his name was Liu Guangyi, and he was a commander of the Eagle Eye Guard, another major intelligence agency in Huguang Town. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is usually directly led by Pang Yue, who is responsible for receiving and sorting out all kinds of information transmitted back from the north and contacting intelligence personnel in the north.

As soon as he heard that the situation in the north had changed, Pang Yue's heart involuntarily lifted up and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I'm afraid the Tartars are going to increase their troops." Liu Guangyi first said a simple sentence, and then gave a detailed introduction to the information sent back by the Hawkeye Guard's lurkers in the north.

Since August, the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division have begun to mobilize and assemble on a large scale, and various yamen have also raised a large amount of grain, grass and other military supplies. Judging from all indications, it is a foregone conclusion that the Qing court will send a large army to fight again, and if nothing else, it should be reinforcements from Jiangxi or Huguang battlefields. From various details, it can be inferred that the number of troops going out will be more than 10,000 people, and it will be dominated by the Eight Banners, but it is not known who will lead the troops.

Pang Yue estimated the time slightly. If the Qing army on this expedition had moved quickly, I am afraid that it would have been on the road long ago, and perhaps in a few days, the Hawkeye Guard would have more detailed information to send back. Regardless of whether its purpose was to reinforce Jiangxi or the Huguang battlefield, it was not good news for Huguang Town and the Longwu Imperial Court.

This matter is very important, Pang Yue asked Liu Guangyi to go down to rest first, and then asked someone to call Zhang Yunli and inform him of the situation.

"Are the Tartars really going to increase their troops?" Although Zhang Yunli was a little surprised, he was not unexpected. Because before this expedition to Jiangxi, Pang Yue discussed with him the possible subsequent increase in the Qing army, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yunli gave his preliminary judgment, "Originally, we would only increase our troops when the battle on the front line was in a stalemate, but now that the battle curtain has just been opened, reinforcements from the Tartars have come one after another, which is probably what they have prepared for a long time." What does the commander think, which direction will this support army of the Tartars reinforce against? Who will lead the troops? ”

"The direction of reinforcements should be Huguang. If I were Dorgon, I wouldn't go head-to-head with the other side, but would choose a place where the opponent's forces were relatively weak as the breakthrough point. As for the person who led the troops, since the expedition was mainly based on the Eight Banners, it would naturally be one of the Manchurian princes and nobles. The Two Yellow Flags have always been at odds with Dolgon, and Hauge, the core figure of the Young Zhuang faction, also killed Dolgon not long ago, so it shouldn't be in the Two Yellow Flags. The princes in the two red flags, the old qualifications, the Dolgon support is immovable, and the young ones are not talented in many aspects. In the two white flags, Dolgon's two brothers with the same mother, Azig sat in Taiyuan, and would not be easily dispatched, and Duoduo was also sick and smoking, it would not be him, and it was unlikely that Dolgon would take command of the expedition himself. As for the two blue flags, Zilharang is a practical person who recognizes the temple but does not recognize the gods, no matter who controls the court, he will bow down and obey orders, and his prestige in the army is enough, if nothing else, he should lead the troops. Pang Yue quickly gave his own judgment.

He remembered that in the original time and space, in 1648 AD, that is, in September and October this year, the commander of the Qing army's southern expedition to Huguang was Prince Zheng Jierharang. In that battle, the Ming army collapsed, almost the entire territory of Hunan fell, and He Tengjiao was also captured and killed in Xiangtan. Although it is no longer the same history, the general trend should not change.

Of course, Zhang Yunli didn't know the joint, but now he felt very reasonable when he heard Pang Yue say this: "It should be the one analyzed by the marshal." Nazir Harang was a battle-hardened veteran on the Tartar side, with a brutal and tyrannical style, and once he led his army south, the situation in the southern part of Huguang was bound to be even more severe. ”

Pang Yue, who knew the direction of history, knew that Zhang Yunli was right, although Jierharang seemed to be a good old man who didn't like to fight for power and profit in the Tartar den, but once he initiated his bestiality, he was not much better than the old slave back then. In the original time and space, when the southern expedition to Huguang was made, it was this good old man with a hidden beast nature who led the Xiangtan Massacre.

According to the records of Wang Hui, a literati who fled to the countryside at that time, the Qing army "slaughtered until the 26th and sealed the sword, and stopped on the 29th". The soul is scattered, and the heart is afraid of the cold. When the blood stains are still fresh, the smell is pressing, there is no place to stand, and you can't swallow it if you have food. But seeing the bones of the corpses, it was unspeakably miserable. …… There were more than twenty or thirty people in the city, less than 100 people in the city, and dozens of wounded but not dead. ”

There is no doubt that if Zilharang is allowed to go south to Huguang as usual in this time and space, the tragic scene will definitely be presented in front of Pang Yue's eyes in the form of bloody facts rather than words.

"If he comes to Jiangxi, it will be easy to do, we can just weigh this old beast by hand. But he is more likely to go to Hunan, and the main force of our town has no time to look west, and the soldiers and horses left in Hunan do not have much to fight, if he is allowed to calmly go south and join Kong Youde Geng Zhongming, I am afraid that the tragedy of Yangzhou and Jiading will be staged again in Hunan. Although he had expected this situation and prepared some countermeasures, Pang Yue still felt the seriousness of the problem.

At present, the troops left behind in Huguang Town to defend Hunan are two garrison battalions and one naval division battalion, with a total strength of tens of thousands of land and water. But it can't protect the people in other parts of Hunan.

"Then do we need to allocate some troops back to Huguang?" Zhang Yunli asked.

Pang Yue shook his head: "No." Our current strength is not sufficient, and it is useless to send less, and if we send more, our town's strategic goal will not be accomplished. Now it's up to Lao Xing, if he can get things done as soon as possible, the footsteps of this Tartar reinforcement army going south can be delayed. There is no need to delay it for too long, two or three months is enough, as long as this year passes, the situation will usher in a turnaround. The news of the Tartar reinforcements going south, you just need to know it, don't tell anyone else first, so as not to affect the morale of the army. ”

Lao Xing is the general person in charge of the Eagle Eye Guard, and he commands Xing Biao with the title of servant. At present, he has infiltrated the north, and personally controls the intelligence network of the Hawkeye guard in the north.

A few months ago, Pang Yue sent someone to give Xing Biao a new task, asking him to mobilize the forces at hand to organize a popular uprising in Henan, and the greater the momentum, the better. The idea at that time was to muddy the waters of the Central Plains and attract the attention of the Imperial Court, so that it would not have time to send reinforcements to the Jiangxi or Huguang battlefields. Now it seems that as long as this thing can be done as originally planned, it will be able to delay the pace of this Qing army reinforcements going south.

After all, in the original time and space, on the way to lead the army south to conquer Huguang, Zilharang also participated in the suppression of the popular uprisings along the way several times, so that it was delayed for a lot of time. Now you can take advantage of this to make a lot of articles.

This matter was something that Pang Yue had already communicated with Zhang Yunli before, but there was a more lethal killing move that even Zhang Yunli didn't know about at the moment. Pang Yue believed that as long as the Henan People's Mutiny organized by the Eagle Eye Guard dragged the pace of Qing reinforcements to the time when this killing move was used, then Ji'er Harang would probably never have a chance to go south.

Zhang Yunli didn't know the existence of this killing move at present, and only thought that what Pang Yue said about "waiting for this year will usher in a turnaround" meant that after this year, after the main force of Huguang Town defeated Tan Tai Heluo's army, he would be able to return to Huguang, so as to reverse the situation. So he nodded: "Understood." ”

Pang Yue didn't break it, and after sending Zhang Yunli away, he went out of the camp alone to look at the night sky. I saw a few sharp white lights flashing in the far north sky.