Such a big mess made Yang Chao inseparable, and the war had begun in full swing.

As soon as Song Kun arrived in Guangdong, he couldn't wait to fight and make meritorious contributions, but he was suffocated in the Mekong River in the past two years, fighting with those cunning bandits all day long, making his head big at the same time, but also feeling very useless, those bandits never pay attention to any frontal combat, they are all fighting and running.

Therefore, Song Kun's combat experience is actually very rich, and the number of battles he has fought in the past two years is definitely not less than that of any total army in China, but the scale of the operation is too small, there are almost few battles with more than 1,000 people, most of them are encirclement and suppression, pursuit, luring the enemy and ambushing with three or five hundred people, etc., although the scale is not large, but the frequent battles have made the bandits who died in his hands at least 10,000.

This time, Song Kun had 50,000 troops in his hands, and Xie Fei had 100,000 troops in his hands, and the two of them combined had 150,000 troops, which was enough for a large-scale decisive battle with the Qing army in Guangdong.

But Xie Fei was too steady, and he was very jealous of Hong Chengchou's deployment, obviously he had suffered too many losses and increased his memory.

This made Song Kun very annoyed, and asked for war many times, but Xie Fei resolutely did not allow it, but said that he must make all preparations before attacking Guangzhou.

And Xie Fei's preparations include finding out the enemy's situation, sweeping the surrounding area, reserving military funds, and taking every step of the way, which should be regarded as an old man, but Song Kun just thinks that he is too conservative, and he is not guessed step by step in such a war, where can he win.

In addition, Song Kun's qualifications are actually much older than Xie Fei, he is in a group with Wang Pu's group, and he is one of the first dozen or so people recruited by Yang Chao. He was one of the first officers from Xiaolingwei. As a result, an argument soon broke out between the two. The lawsuit was in front of Yang Chao, and after reading the letter from the two, Yang Chao immediately sent his own soldier Li Liang to pass the order in person, and beat Song Kun with a board, so that this guy who has been dealing with bandits for two years can recall that there are rules in Yang Chao's army.

After being beaten on the board, Song Kun is much more honest, this time the master will be Xie Fei, and he must obey.

Then he pulled down his face to discuss with Xie Fei. Actively cooperate with Xie Fei, and at the same time send his scouts to actively investigate.

I have to say that Song Kun's sentry does have two brushes, and the skills he practiced in the wilderness of the Mekong River Basin are a piece of cake in Guangdong, and his sentry can go out for two or three days, and after they come back, they can clearly depict the specific situation, and even use the sand table to pinch out the important terrain.

After everything was ready, in May, Xie Fei's army began to fight, advancing step by step to Huizhou Mansion.

At this time, Song Kun's subordinates were given space to display again. Hong Chengchou's combat methods are very cunning, or full of strategy. High-density tactics such as luring the enemy, ambushing, detouring, sneak attack, etc., Xie Fei was made a big deal by this tactic before, and after being burned three times, he began to stabilize himself.

But at this time, Song Kun scattered his subordinates, more than a thousand people, less than a hundred, and most of them acted in units of three hundred and five hundred.

At this time, Xie Fei discovered that Song Kun's subordinates had a quality that his subordinates did not possess at all, that is, flexibility, after Song Kun's subordinates were divided into small units, those officers could conduct independent operations according to their own judgment, and they could accurately find out the enemy's location, combat objectives and methods, and even counter sneak attacks, anti-ambushes, and so on.

What he didn't know was that this was completely forced out by those Cambodian, Vietnamese and even bandits from the sea in the Mekong River Basin, although Song Kun's old subordinates were few, and only 4,000 people were brought back, but among these people, needless to say, officers, even many soldiers have the ability to make independent judgments and can make their own analysis and judgment according to the situation, not to mention Xie Fei's subordinates, even Yang Chao's most elite personal soldiers are beyond reach.

It was precisely because of Song Kun's assistance that Xie Fei was able to hit the city of Huizhou safely, and it had not happened in the process of attacking here before, and at this time Xie Fei had to look at Song Kun with admiration, and he was more able to accept Song Kun's opinion.

Huizhou fought down without suspense, at this time Zhang Huangyan, the supervisor of Xie Fei's department, also came back, but his face was a little bad, he went out this time to coordinate and lobby Chen Qice and other remnants of the Ming army who fought guerrillas in the south and the seaside, and even the peasant army Wang Xing and other troops have lobbied and appeased, his political activities are still very successful, but unfortunately he heard a very bad news.

Guangxi was captured by Kong Youde, and the emperor Zhu Cihuan, who was in his heart, is currently unknown.

"Lord Zhang, don't worry, Your Majesty Jiren has his own heavenly appearance, and he will definitely be able to get out of danger safely, and when our army recovers Liangguang, we will welcome Your Majesty back to the court!"

Xie Fei comforted Zhang Huangyan.

Zhang Huangyan nodded, he also knew that it was useless to be anxious, although the emperor did not know where to go, but there were several theories, some said that he fled to the Lianshan area on the border of Huguang and Guangxi, and some said that he fled to Guizhou, as long as there is no news of being captured, this is the best news.

But Zhang Huangyan was inclined to the emperor and fled into the mountains, because Yunnan had been occupied by Sun Kewang and his gang of western thieves a few years ago, blocking all borders, where to cut the land for the king, if the emperor fell into the hands of the western thieves, I am afraid that it would be even more miserable than being captured by the Qing army.

In Zhang Huangyan's eyes, he thought that Zhang Xianzhong's remaining Western Army was still a thief, and he would still catch the clan as before, kill it immediately, and even cook it.

Zhang Huangyan believed that the emperor must have known this, so he would definitely not flee in the direction of Yunnan.

Zhang Huangyan's speculation is not unreasonable, in fact, Zhu Cihuan is also worried about this, so he did not flee to Yunnan, but to Guizhou.

In the south of Guizhou, Anlong, here is a thousand-household house, the terrain is dangerous, but the population is not large, only about 100 households.

At this time, it was still under the control of the Ming army, but there were only more than 1,000 troops under his command, half of which were still old and weak soldiers put together in Anlong, and the rest were Jinyi guards in the hands of Ma Jixiang.

After escaping from Guangdong, Zhu Cihuan first fled to Nanning, and then recuperated there for a month, but Kong Youde chased after him, and he had to flee to Guilin, where Qu Shiyun, who stayed in Nanning to block him, and his subordinates Jiao Lian and Hu Qingniu were killed.

Kong Youde soon chased to Guilin, and Zhu Cihuan ran to Liuzhou again, but Kong Youde was pressing step by step, he could only flee westward, and even had the idea of fleeing to Annan for refuge on the way, but unfortunately he could not judge the political trends of the Annan people, and finally gave up.

Until now, after escaping to Anlongsuo in the southernmost part of Guizhou, Zhu Cihuan felt that he was at the end of his rope.

The whole of Guizhou is under the rule of divided warlords, and the most important thing is that the mountains here are continuous, the so-called land is not three feet flat, the sky is not three feet high, it has always been a wild land, there are many toasts, Zhu Cihuan did not dare to venture into Guizhou at all.

At this time, the Great Western Army, which suddenly ruled Yunnan, sent people to contact Zhu Cihuan, hoping that they would enter Yunnan.

"Hong Chengchou is not in Guangzhou!"

The spies sent by Song Kun to find out brought back a piece of news, it turned out that Hong Chengchou had left Guangzhou and was sitting in Zhaoqing.

Obviously, Hong Chengchou was not only concerned about the defense of Guangdong, but also about Kong Youde's offensive, and he controlled the Qing army of Liangguang in Zhaoqing.

"Chief Xie Bing, this officer thinks that our army should attack Dongguan first along the Dongjiang River, and then capture Guangzhou. At the same time, ask the Zheng family to attack from both sides of the waterway, and it will not be difficult to break Guangzhou. ”

Serious words, plain, Xie Fei nodded, feeling that there was no other good way.

Zheng Chenggong has no opinion, the Zheng family has gained a lot during this time, with the support of Yang Chao, he swept away the pirates in the Chaozhou area, and has already set his sights on the pirates who have surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the area of the Pearl River Estuary, and swept away the Guangdong pirate group, and the sea will still be the world of the Zheng family in the future.

Zhang Huang said: "This official has made an appointment with Chen Qice and other troops to attack Guangzhou. ”

Chen Qice was in Shangxiachuan Island, Wang Xing and other troops were in Enping, Xinning and other places, which were about the same distance from Guangzhou and Huizhou.

Song Kun nodded very reluctantly, which made Zhang Huangyan's face a little unbearable, obviously he saw the meaning on Song Kun's face, and looked down on the combat effectiveness of Chen Qice and others, although Zhang Huangyan knew that Yang Chao's army was invincible in the world, but he still didn't like this kind of arrogance, especially the disdain for the local army he recruited, which swept his face.

Song Kun continued: "This official thinks that General Xie led the Chinese army to attack Guangzhou, and our army responded. Mr. Zhang stayed in Huizhou. ”

Xie Fei nodded again.

But Zhang Huangyan did not agree: "As a supervisor, this official should watch the battle with the army." ”

Song Kun sneered: "Lord Zhang is weak, if the war is unfavorable, I am afraid that the protection will not be good." At that time, if the war is tight, even our general soldiers will have to charge. Who is going to protect Lord Zhang? ”

Anger had already risen in Zhang Huangyan's heart, this Song Kun had just underestimated the army he had recruited, and now he was directly sneering, and he was actually despising himself.

But Zhang Huangyan suppressed the anger in his heart, he knew that it was not the time to conflict with these martial artists, and he had to endure humiliation for the sake of the great cause.

"This official doesn't need protection, just give this official a knife!"

Song Kun smiled sinisterly, and asked Zhang Huangyan to bring a waist knife.

Zhang Huangyan straddled his waist with a cold face.

"Master Zhang, you can't fight with a knife."

The army had already been launched, and Song Kun rode a horse and inadvertently walked next to Zhang Huangyan, parallel to his two horses.

Zhang Huang said: "Then how can it be regarded as being able to fight? ”

Song Kun sneered: "Lord Zhang, look at the soldiers of our army. ”

After speaking, he pointed to the soldiers who were advancing in unison, the soldiers who had been trained in footwork, tens of thousands of people walking together, there was a silent momentum, which fully demonstrated the beauty of the collective, and of course it was a great torture for people with dense phobia.

Zhang Huangyan snorted, Yang Chao's soldiers are different from other people's soldiers, you can see it just by marching.

Song Kun said again: "Which of these soldiers is not like this after years of hard training, or the talents in the army are all trained hard, and they are the ones who can fight." ”

After saying that, the troops who chased him after him went away.

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