The waterway march was escorted by Chen Wanliang's Anyuan battalion in Jiangzuo, more than 1,000 boats, large and small, which were already collected civilian ships and merchant ships, and the Zhenjiang Naval Division also dispatched a section to escort along the way, although it was easy to sail by water, but because the military rations of the whole army were here, they did not dare to be careless, and they did not go as fast as Wang Lanping's land route.

In less than two days, the Dingyuan Battalion and Yulinwei, who were fully equipped with horses, had traveled more than 300 miles westward, and more than 8,000 people were also transporting heavy weapons day and night.

As soon as the land army marched to the Taiping Mansion, it received an urgent report from the capital, saying that Zheng Zhilong, the governor of Zhejiang, had written to the imperial court that he would cross the sea and take back Ryukyu Island in two months.

Another piece of military newspaper also came from the Jinyi Wei secret agent in Jiangbei, saying that the Dashun Emperor Li Laixiang attacked the Jianghuai Qing army in two ways, and all the way to the south of Dashun Anhou Hao Shaoqi commanded 40,000 troops, attacking the Qing army stationed in Xuyi City, and has now broken through Dingyuan City, Jiashan and other places with an overwhelming advantage, and the 40,000 troops are like a broken bamboo, and the troops will be under Xuyi City in less than two days.

Another road a veteran general Jinhou Yuan Zongdi as the commander, commanding 60,000 troops, raided the Qing army garrisoned Qingliu Pass, Langya Mountain and other strongholds, Chuzhou defenders retreated without a fight, at this time has entered the Great Wall.

Wang Lanping looked at the two military reports of the Shun army and also knew that Li Laixiang wanted to use the method of two-way attack to directly take the Huai'an Mansion, the old nest of the Qing army in Jianghuai, and the commander of the Qing army stationed in Huai'an was the Qing Yu Prince Duoduo who pacified Jianghuai, and the defenders were seventy or eighty thousand, and it was estimated that with the speed of the Shun army's march, the Qing troops in all parts of Jianghuai had begun to shrink their forces and gather in Huai'an, and when these two armies were killed under the city of Huai'an, they might be waiting for more than 100,000 defenders.

Wang Lanping immediately sent Pegasus back to Nanjing, sat and watched the success or failure, watched them eat dogs, and strictly guarded the river defense.

Taiping Mansion is of great significance to Wang Lanping, here stationed another relatively strong force of the Ming army, that is, the newly sealed Jiangxi General System Huang Degong Department of 50,000 people, Huang Degong is the last force of the original four towns in Jiangbei, its generals are all old subordinates who have followed him for many years, and he is also loyal, and then there are other troops have been confronting the Shun army, large and small frictions are constant, after more than a year of experience, the soldiers are also brave for a while, Wang Lanping has been weakening the local forces for more than half a year, but the Huang Degong is the use of gentle policies.

Judging from Jinyiwei's secret report, Huang Degong is brave and good at fighting, with a violent temperament, and is nicknamed 'Huang Harrier', known as loyal and righteous, with a great mind, judging from his refusal to enter Beijing to report on his work, this kid is a difficult object to pull, taking advantage of this western expedition, Wang Lanping plans to get to know him.

The brigade is still heading west, Wang Lanping only took 100 personal entourages to Huang Degong's station, he is now the rebellious general of the imperial court's westward expedition, with Huang Degong's temperament, Wang Lanping is not worried that he will do something unfavorable to the imperial court.

Sure enough, General Huang heard that the King of Han only brought a hundred and ten relatives with him, and he was surprised and did not dare to slack off, and personally went out of ten miles to greet each other, entered the camp, and set up a big banquet to treat each other.

The imperial court ordered that all the southwestern provinces should send troops to march together, but Huang Degong was not moved by a single soldier, and it was this move that moved Huang Degong greatly, and the imperial court's justifiable westward expedition was a great opportunity to weaken local forces.

Wang Lanping did not say a word about these things at the banquet, only talked about General Huang's achievements in guarding the border these days, and only praised him to the sky; on the other hand, he also allocated half of the 50,000 stone military rations produced by the 8,000 veterans who had been sent to Tuntian in Taiping Mansion to him, and rewarded him and his generals in the name of the Metropolitan Governor's Office of the Fifth Army.

Wang Lanping did this not because he was afraid that he would make trouble, but he just wanted to leave himself a stable rear, Huang Degong was not chaotic, so he could contain the Shun army and dare not cross the river calmly, and the defenders of Nanjing were also horns for each other, and agreed to wait for the day when the world was calm, and then drink with the kings.

The war was tense, Wang Lanping did not stay much in Huang Degong's army, and did not dare to spend the night casually, so he left before dark.

During this trip to the Taiping Mansion, Wang Lanping realized that the power of the local garrison should not be underestimated, don't look at himself in the imperial court with one hand to cover the sky, but there are still many local forces, and this western expedition is completely necessary.

Maybe there are many generals who don't understand why they don't take the smooth sailing waterway, but want to detour along the land route, in fact, this is just another idea of Wang Lanping, the western expedition is actually not important, the important thing is to put the name of the western expedition, the army through the state and the government, along the way all the officials are used, clean up the people's hearts, rectify the military system, and kill those who are not satisfied.

Ten days later, more than 10,000 people of Wang Lanping had already left the territory of Huizhou, which was also the best range that his real forces could control.

It is reported that the cabinet and Empress Jin get along well, and the court seems to be calmer with less of their own flying and domineering, and every three days of the discussion of politics is jointly listened to by Empress Jin and Concubine Ling, and the officials dare not obey, which Wang Lanping is very pleased with.

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The speed of the cavalry's march is extremely fast, all the way non-stop, Xiaoxing sleeps at night, travels hundreds of miles a day, and from time to time along the way also sends a small force to clear out the bandits and bandits, Wang Lanping repeatedly ordered that when the western expedition is made, military discipline must be strict, and those who dare not dare to disturb the people will be dealt with by military law.

On this day, the former army came to report, saying that it had entered the border of Jiangxi, and not far ahead was Guangxin Mansion, and thousands of officials and civilians in the city had gone out of the city to greet each other, and wanted to invite the King of Han to enter the city for a while.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Wang Lanping to enter the city, and the military department and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies had issued an order a few months earlier, and when the army marched westward, all the state capitals along the way had to raise military rations in advance, so that they could be used when the army passed by.

It's just that the northern provinces of Jiangxi have long been occupied by the Shun army, but recently with the westward expansion of Azig, these places have been abandoned by Zhang Xianzhong, and later the last stronghold of the Great Western Kingdom in the Yangtze River basin Huizhou was lost, and the Ming court also took over here, and the reappointed officials were out of the list of Anmin, so Wang Lanping did not ask these prefectures and counties to provide grain.

The army only continued to march westward along the official road outside the city, and Wang Lanping met with the local officials on the way to the march, and gave them kind words and comforted them, and ordered them to live up to the cultivation of the Han king and the imperial court, and all the officials obeyed, because these officials were all from his enke for a few months, regardless of whether these people had experience as officials or not, at least they were grateful to the king of Han.

Along the way, Wang Lanping brought more than 30 martial artists with him, in order to kill all the way and fill the vacancies, all of them were replaced by his own people, and really spread his power to all levels of administration, which is the real purpose of the Western Expedition, otherwise he would not have made more detours to march on such a long road.

In addition to this, Wang Lanping also selected thousands of strong people from the local guards every time he passed through a prefecture, and incorporated them into the army to serve, and then disbanded all the guards, and then let the newly appointed local general soldiers recruit soldiers in the name of the imperial court, for the purpose of protecting the territory and the people, each state capital according to its size, can have soldiers and horses ranging from 3,000 to 5,000, there is a fixed number, these soldiers do not need to engage in labor, only training, and are supported by the imperial court's military expenses, and the local general army only has the right to command the army, and has no right to mobilize these soldiers and horses, and any transfer must be ordered by the military department.

The march is boring and boring, every day in addition to rushing or rushing, some officials along the way in order to tie up the king of Han, taking advantage of the army to pass by, will try their best to send a few beautiful women to the king of Han to accompany him, Wang Lanping did not take in, one is to ban women in the army, and second, he has sworn that he will punish himself for the death of his mother and abstain from sex for a year, and he will never be close to women if he does not break Chengdu.

Watching the beauties carefully selected by officials from all over the country come in one by one and be returned one by one, Song Dali was so greedy that you don't want to reward us, we don't have a basis.

All the way to the march, all the way to appoint and dismiss officials, both of them are not delayed at all, strict military discipline has opened the eyes of the people, for the officers and soldiers who do not rob the people of food is the first time to see, soon, the reputation of the Han King army will spread, the common people run from generation to generation, and some people and some rich households enthusiastically donate, carrying the grain to drive herds of livestock to the army on the march, Wang Lanping ordered not to take a thing, the autumn did not commit any crime, now is the time of June when the green and yellow are not received, and the burden of the people is not clear.

There was nothing to say all the way, and it was more than a month in a blink of an eye, and the army had come to the last city in the southeast of Jiangxi, Ganzhou Mansion, which had never suffered from war, and had always been under the control of the Ming Court.

Sure enough, just outside the city of Ganzhou, I saw more than 30 officials of all sizes in the prefecture and county waiting outside the city early, but this time Wang Lanping entered the city, not only entered the city, but also checked the household registration and treasury in the city one by one, and met with officials at all levels, and summoned the local Taoist imperial history to inquire, and dismissed some officials with bad deeds, and all the evil people were beheaded and unforgiving, especially this time the military rations of the Ganzhou Mansion did not raise enough according to the number, as the first state capital to dare to disobey the military order, the severed head can be stacked in front of the prefect's yamen.

As soon as the word was killed, everyone in the prefectures and counties on the way to the west was in danger, but the people rushed to the streets to celebrate as if they were celebrating the New Year.

Kill a group and promote a group, now what Wang Lanping has to do is only to cultivate power for himself, and the employment of people is not so harsh, and the rectification of the rule of officials is also a later story.

After staying in Ganzhou City for two days, when Wang Lanping was about to open again, he reported that the 50,000 rebels in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guangzhou had stopped in the area of Nan'an Province, and they had the attitude of pulling out the frame and firing together.

Nan'an Mansion, the junction of Jiangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division and Huguang Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, is the smallest government in Jiangxi, the land is narrow and the people are few, and the yamen at all levels are concentrated in Nan'an City, which is the only way for the army to enter Huguang.

Wang Lanping did not hesitate, but still ordered the whole army to march towards Nan'an, at this time the soldiers and horses around him had increased from 18,000 when they left Nanjing to 23,000 people, although these newly added elite men had no combat experience, at least they could be used as cannon fodder, and the bluff was also good.

**

Nan'an City

Li An, the governor of Liangguang, had already reported that the army of the King of Han had left Nanjing and came to Jiangxi, and after further inquiry, he almost didn't euthanize him, and the King of Han, who was in power for a while, only brought less than 20,000 partial troops, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Governor Li actually had no intention of rebelling against Ming, he just wanted to be a local emperor in Liangguang and be a prestige, but he didn't expect that there was a king in the court, and he was even more powerful in manipulating the court and monopolizing power, and he didn't expect that now he would extend his hand to Liangguang and want to replace him, where can he endure it anymore, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, sharpened his knife and pulled up a team of 50,000 people to swear to go to Nanjing, in the name of 'Qing Jun's side', together with Guiwang Zhu Youlang and the governor of Yungui.

The governor generally hangs the title of the secretary of the military department, and in normal years can transfer a line of guards, of course, it is now a troubled time, and the guards have long existed in name only, a few years ago, the Central Plains was full of wolves, and the provinces also took the opportunity to pull up the mountain, recruit troops and buy horses, and the famous regiment practiced self-protection in the territory, but in fact they were all private soldiers and horses.

Ang Lee's team was not easy to assemble, three or four years before and after, although there had not been a real war, but the number was there.

Hearing that the army of the King of Han had entered Jiangxi and was about to enter Huguang in a few days, Governor Li did not leave and stopped at Nan'an Mansion, firstly to wait for the arrival of Zhao Zhishang, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and secondly, to wait for the arrival of the soldiers and horses of the King of Han.

At the beginning, the Seven Governors besieged Nanjing, but due to the lack of news, the matter of Nanjing had been resolved peacefully before he could act urgently.

This time he could not be more wrong, nor could he fail, and it was estimated that the new governor was already on his way to his post.

Ascending the city wall of Nan'an City, which is less than two zhang high, Li An and his subordinates, Zhao Bingzhong, the political envoy of Guangxi, Zhu Conglu, the governor of Guangdong, as well as the prefect of Nan'an and the capital of Guangxi, everyone looked at the city.

It's not that all officials want to confront the imperial court, but in recent years, Li An has relied on the power of his governor to coerce and lure, tying everyone into a boat, and different riches will perish together.

Only one of these people is truly innocent, that is Sun Jiajie, the prefect of Nan'an, as soon as Li An's army entered Nan'an City, his prefect was useless.

Li An is wearing a suit of armor today, and his slightly vicissitudes of life still show a trace of stubbornness and unruliness, and he wants him to hand over the power obediently, but there is no door.

Zhou Xian, the capital of Guangxi, is also wearing a military uniform, and he has not worn battle armor for many years, and this hard piece of iron is worn on his body so that he is sweaty, and his old face is flushed, but fortunately, the weather is hot now, and others can't tell it.

Zhou Dusi half-opened his mouth and put his hand on the canopy to look at the distance in the city where there was no half of a figure, and said angrily to Governor Li on the side: "Commander, do you really want to fight?" ”

Li An glared at him sideways, "You still say this kind of thing at this time, do you want to sit back and wait for death?"

Zhou Xian stretched out his hand and slapped it the battlement of the city wall, gritted his teeth and said: "How can it be such an uncontrollable situation, this can be a mutiny to resist the order, Commander, do you want to think about it again" (to be continued.) )