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Not to mention how the imperial court in the north moved, the imperial court and Wu Sangui's army were about to start their first large-scale confrontation in Yueyang City.

In four months, Wu Sangui's main force plus the auxiliary army totaled 200,000 Yunnan-Guizhou troops, and the army expanded to 300,000 in one go. It can be said that at this time, both the speed of advance and the speed of expansion of the Wu army have far exceeded the speed of the advance and expansion of the Manchu army after entering the customs, and the whole army of the Wu army also felt exhausted, the logistics supply has reached the limit, and the reserves of gunpowder have been completely exhausted.

The key point is that the newly occupied territory is not firmly established, and every problem needs time to adjust, deploy and correct. Therefore, the Wu army also stopped the pace of the offensive at this time, rested for a while, and prepared for the follow-up battle. In fact, in this case, even the generals of the Yungui army, who were optimistic and greedy enough, did not have the courage to shout to continue the attack. In particular, the Wu army did not form a naval army, and it could not cross the Yangtze River for a while. Moreover, their gunpowder had also run out, and dozens of artillery pieces were instantly dumbfounded, and they did not dare to attack Yueyang City, the last fortified city in Hunan, in front of them.

Wu Jun also took advantage of this time to stop and bandage his wounds, recuperate, and wait for his vitality to recover before considering the next expansion plan. As for the imperial army, General Dingyuan Pingkou and Prince Yue Le of Heshuo'an arranged the army in Wuhan, and at the same time assigned a part to garrison Yueyang, a strong city in Hunan, and sent a partial division into Jiangxi. He was responsible for leading his division to defeat Wu Sangui. But after careful analysis of the front shape shì in front of the eyes. According to his strategy. It is believed that Hunan should be attacked first. It is better to stick to the north bank of the Yangtze River first, and occupy Jiangxi at the same time, so as to stabilize the rear, and cut off the connection between Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, killing two birds with one stone!

His strategy was though. But Hunan didn't run away without a fight, Hunan also set up layers of interception against the city, but basically they were local defenders. Most of these defenders resolutely resisted, after all, Yue Le's orders were there, and the imperial army was not far from them. Another part is that when he saw that the Wu army was strong, he looked at the wind and surrendered. After a whole month of continuous operations, although Wu Sangui can be said to have taken the entire territory of Hunan, even the last Yueyang City did not dare to attack rashly.

There is no way, there is a way to steam cloud Mengze wave Yueyang Lake. This is where Dongting Lake is located, and the Yangtze River is on the side. The sailors of the imperial court gathered here. Once Yueyang City cannot be defended, the Qing army can also retreat from the waterway. Therefore, Wu Sangui did not order a fierce attack, and without artillery, they could only pile up with human lives. For them, whose strength is already inferior to that of the imperial court, it is extremely uneconomical to do so.

At this moment, the high-level of the Pingxi Royal Mansion can only turn their attention to the internal and political levels of the army, and start to solve their own internal problems, and then external problems. At present, Wu Jun has many small internal problems, and there are only two major problems. The first is how to effectively control the territory that has been suddenly expanded several times, and the second is how to quickly restore and improve the comprehensive strength of the Wu army, and think of ways to make up for the shortcomings of the navy.

The first internal affairs issue is very thorny, as we all know, Wu Sangui used family forces such as sons, nieces and sons-in-law to govern the army, and even the generals under his command, Ma Bao, also had people from the Wu family around him as supervisors. In this way, the cohesion of the army is indeed very strong, and the children and nephews of the Wu family are indeed quite competitive, so the combat effectiveness is also extremely strong. When he was still in Guizhou, Yunnan, Wu Sangui often felt a deep headache because of the shortage of civilian officials, and he did not have Geng Jingzhong's school and technical school to continuously train specialized personnel by himself, so no matter how eclectic he was in choosing to use civilian personnel, it was always insufficient.

Yunnan and Guizhou are not a place for talents, and it would be good to have a few meritorious people within a county. At present, the territory of the Wu army has suddenly expanded several times, and the problem of insufficient civilian officials is naturally becoming more and more obvious, and the strict zhòng has restrained and restricted the all-round development of the Pingxi Palace.

Fortunately, no matter what era, there will never be a shortage of reserve candidates for officials and civil servants, after occupying many prefectures and counties in Hunan, which is known as the only talent, Wu Sangui will no longer force the local officials in Yunnan and Guizhou to choose ordinary talents, but in Changsha City, the recruitment list will be pasted, the scholars in Changsha City immediately flocked to Wu Sangui's temporary line and Changsha Governor's Mansion, Mao Sui recommended himself to express his willingness to serve the Great Zhou Army, among which there are some famous literati who are quite famous, Wu Sangui has always lacked talents, At this moment, those who come do not refuse, as long as there is a little talent, scholars will be appointed to official positions and sent to the local government to govern the people.

Wu Sangui's recruitment in Hunan, the biggest harvest is the famous anti-Qing literati Qu Dajun's refuge, known as one of the three great families of Lingnan, when Qu Dajun was still in Guangdong, I heard that Wu Sangui in more than a month of continuous battles, all of a sudden took control of Yungui, and marched towards Hunan, so he felt that Wu Sangui might be the greatest hope for the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, so he immediately took his wife, children and his own Wanguan family wealth in Panyu, Guangdong, and ran to Guizhou to join Wu Sangui and expressed his willingness to serve Wu Jun. Wu Sangui was really overjoyed when he learned of Qu Dajun's refuge, and immediately gave Qu Dajun the envoy of Guangxi and directly took office with three products. The task he gave Qu Dajun was to supervise Sun Yanling's army to prevent Sun Yanling from being a snake and rat.

Qu Dajun can be said to be a typical anti-Qing righteous man, and he never stopped fighting against the Qing court from the beginning. He participated in the Qing army's attack on Guangzhou, he helped Zheng Chenggong, and assisted Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the Southern Ming Army, to capture more than 30 large and small cities. There were countless other small anti-Qing battles, so Qu Dajun's fame was no longer under Gu Yanwu, and even exceeded it at that time.

Within two months of Qu Dajun's tenure, when Wu Sangui posted a recruitment list in Changsha City, he sent an envoy to the south with a book and directly presented Qu Dadu as the governor of Guangxi. After the news spread, Lingnan celebrities were moved and began to consider their own positions and futures, and there were countless people who were eager to try. This trick is quite brilliant, and sure enough, in just one month, Wu Sangui made up for his shortcomings and prepared a strong reserve official candidate.

"Metropolitan Governor, it seems that Yue Le really has some skills, his visit not only disrupted our plan, but also gave Wu Sangui a headache! Let's still think about how to deal with Yue Le's army of 30,000! Li Guangdi pointed to Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province on the map and said.

"It's really a bit tricky, 30,000 people are sticking to the three cities, obviously in order to cut off our contact with Wu Sangui so that they can be broken one by one. However, they underestimated us, thinking that they could trap us in Fujian with only 30,000 troops. Hmph, now that our army is almost resting, it's time for us to show our fangs! Yao Qisheng coordinated the government affairs of the two provinces, and it was rare to participate in military discussions, and he also appeared at the Mawei military camp today and made a statement about his own construction. In the past two months, the Mawei Army has not continued to capture any place, as if it is just satisfied with Guangdong and Fujian, which even Wu Sangui is a little puzzled about, because he sent people several times to urge Geng Jingzhong to move his army west to the north and cooperate with him to take Jiangxi, but Geng Jingzhong has always held his troops still.

Guangdong Province alone is enough for the Mawei Army to digest it well for a few months, and before Guangdong is thoroughly digested, rashly entering the army will only make its foundation unstable. After Wu Sangui fell in history, the Qing army went south to every place where the officials who originally surrendered to Wu Sangui immediately defected again and switched to the imperial court, without any hesitation, which made the situation of the Wu army take a sharp turn for the worse, and had to completely retreat to Yunnan to hold on. At that time, Wu Sangui was dead, and his grandson Wu Shifan succeeded to the throne, and he knew very well that only Yunnan could be regarded as his own territory and could really resist the Qing army. The final result also confirmed this, relying on the last remnants of the Wu army, and holding on to Yunnan for nearly two years.

"There's no hurry!" Geng Jingzhong said slowly. "The new army is still training, and Guangdong's newly reorganized surrender army has not officially become an army, so it is not appropriate to make a big move at this time. But it is not possible not to move, we have already made a plan, which is to take Zhenzhou first, so that our Fujian and Guangdong will become a complete piece. ”

"It's easy to take Zhenzhou, there are not many Qing troops there to guard at all, only three battalions need to be sent. The key is Ji'an Mansion in central Jiangxi, where more than 10,000 Qing troops are hoarded, and I don't know what they want, they can't hold on to them these days, and they can't guess their strategic intentions at all. ”

"I think that the purpose of this part of the Qing army in Jiangxi is to attack the rear of Hunan and disrupt the position of the Wu army when the Wu army is fighting with the Qing army. Of course, at the same time, there is also the purpose of preventing us from sending troops to reinforce Wu Sangui. No matter what point we want, if we want to go north, we must pull out these nails in Jiangxi. If we don't take out the Qing army in Ji'an, we won't be able to occupy Fuzhou and Guangxinfu. Li Guangdi said.

"As for the other prefectures and counties in Jiangxi, we can all ignore it for the time being, and first take down the four prefectures and one prefecture closely related to my Fujian, and wait until the war between the imperial court and Wu Sangui begins, and then we will take advantage of the situation to take Ji'an Mansion and Nanchang Mansions! We don't need to be too conservative, it will be of great benefit to us to take these places, and we can help Wu Sangui from the side and close the gap between him and the imperial court, so that they can both lose. Otherwise, if the imperial court really succeeds, it will not be good for us in Fujian! (To be continued......)

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