Chapter 507: Ending or Prologue?

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The road was smooth all the way, Shang Kexi sent people to cross the river to ask Wu Sangui for help, and the turtle retreated back to Luoyang City

In three days, Zuo Ruo led 20,000 Maiming troops to escort 30,000 rebel troops to the south, crossing the river into Huguang before Chinese New Year's Eve. It's not as cold as Shanxi, it's the hearts of people that are warmer. "It's a really sad story." Zhai Zhe listened to Jin Xiaoding tell that the unsightly personal soldier under his command finally came out. In troubled times, it is as common for this or that kind of person to rise as it is for this or that person to die. "There are still half of them in Taihang Mountain" The words came to his mouth, and Jin Xiaoding swallowed it back. After understanding the ins and outs of this matter, he knew that the rank of those people was the credit left to Wu Sangui, otherwise how could the King of Pingxi give up lightly. Zhai Zhe only said that he wanted Jin Xiaoding, but he didn't say that he wanted Hao Yangyou.

This is a tacit secret, and it is also a taboo that cannot be mentioned again. "Xin does not disgrace the general's order" "Let's go, let's go out and have a look" Jin Xiaoding walked out of Yicheng County with Zhai Zhe. Remnants of snow piled up in the corners of the roadside. The ironclad guards escorted him, and Zhai Zhe rarely wore the ironclad once, and the general's decoration was the most powerful

There was a commotion in the tents outside the city. The conditions here are rudimentary, but compared to Shanxi, it is almost heavenly. The torches of the "Great General Arrived" lit up the huge camp. Choked cheers were heard from all corners. Zhai Zhe's grasp of people's hearts is almost perfect, just such a glance, these people remember the face of the general, otherwise they only know Jin Xiaoding.

Zhai Zhe doesn't speak, he doesn't need to speak, everyone here knows that he is from Jin. After a round of inspection, Jin Xiaoding went along. Zhai Zhe hadn't figured out how to reward him yet. Jin Xiaoding's trip to the north can be described as an outstanding achievement. forced Jiang to rebel with death, led the righteous army in the name of the general, contained Wu Sangui in Luzhou, and then led 30,000 people south. Shanxi's biggest harvest is in Wu Sangui, and of course these 30,000 people are equally important. Zhai Zhe has always been very careful about the composition of the army.

After recovering Jiangnan, he never recruited troops in eastern Zhejiang. Gangs are the most taboo in the army, and the high proportion of Jiangnan people in the army is not a good thing for the Northern Expedition. They are too unfamiliar with the north, unlike these Shanxi people, or Shaanxi people in the loyalty camp, who dream of returning to their hometown.

After Jin Xiaoding's return, although Xiangyang City has not yet been breached, the war seems to have become a very unimportant matter. The soldiers didn't seem to care about the still standing fortified city, they talked more about rewards and family.

Zhai Zhe knew very well in his heart that the potential of the Jiangnan Ming Army had been used to an end. It's hard to go any further. And Xiangyang City is the top of the hundred.

The imperial court in Jiangnan is a freak, the General's Mansion is also a freak, and even Chen Zilong's Jiangnan Governor's Mansion is nondescript. Yiqiē was an expedient measure, he originally wanted to take Huguang and then rectify the interior, but now it seems that Xiangyang City will not let himself be happy again.

Since ancient times, it has been difficult for a general to win a battle outside the country without knowing the internal affairs. Dolgon was regent of the imperial father in the Qing court. And he, Zhai Zhe, is just a general, and the name of the government is not right. After Chen Zilong became the governor of Jiangnan, he took the opportunity to let him implement a new policy in Jiangnan, but it has to be said that everyone in the army felt that he was different from Zong Mao.

Zong Mao is like his father, and Chen Zilong is like his stepfather.

This is not to say that Chen Zilong did not do well, but that he lacked the closeness to the soldiers like Zong Mao. The environment in which the two grew up determined the difference between the two, he was a jinshi in the ten-year cold window examination, and Zong Mao was the chief who grew up with the Han cavalry at the same time.

It's not just people in the military who have ideas in their hearts.

Chen Zilong is a scholar of the Fushe, and the people used are all Jiangnan scribes, and He Fuyuan, Xia Yunyi and others from several societies are in high positions. At that time, Fang Yizhi and Zong Mao's staff recruited in the General's Mansion were gradually marginalized, which was unbearable for many people, including Zhai Zhe himself.

The Donglin Party has a strong xenophobia, and some of the children of eastern Zhejiang, such as Huang Zongxi, also belong to the Donglin Party, but another part is regarded as the Zhejiang Party, and they all belong to the eunuch party in those years. A literati like Yao Qisheng who didn't even pass the exam, let alone those people's eyes, Chen Zilong was not exempt from vulgarity.

For many years, the custom of the Ming officialdom is to re-enter the jinshi, and if you don't get into the jinshi, you will never be able to enter the inner circle

So far, the General's Mansion has returned very generously to the generals, such as Feng Qin and Zuo Ruo have been made marquis, and Li Zhi'an, Meng Kang and others have also been made earls, but the return to the scribes' staff has not been enough. Ruliu has followed Zhai Zhe with the wind for more than ten years, and it is just a long history of no grade and no official position.

In order to unite more Jiangnan squires, Zhai Zhe has always been careful not to break the customs of the old circle. After Zong Mao made an extreme move to get him the position of general, he took a step back, all for the Huguang War.

Now, it's time for this qiē to end

Chinese New Year's Eve is just around the corner, and Zhai Zhe is thinking about when to return to Nanjing.

It is a pity that he did not capture Xiangyang and return to Nanjing, but also a hidden danger. But he has never encountered the most perfect thing, even marrying the most beloved woman in the grassland has to go through a blood feast.

"I need an opportunity, an opportunity to return to Nanjing."

Because the imperial court decides the battlefield.

Ten days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the general issued an order ordering Zong Mao, who had been grounded in Ningbo for nearly a year, to leave his home and come to Huguang, accompanied by Ji Hong, the commander of the secret camp. The generals under the command of the General's Mansion seem to be gathering in Huguang for this Spring Festival. Their families are all staying in Jiangnan, which has to give people a smell of conspiracy. Especially Zong Mao, although he is in Ningbo, there have been countless people's eyes staring at him.

At the same time, Feng Qin led the Jiangbei soldiers and horses to cross the river and return, and Yan Yingyuan was ordered to defend the fortified Taixing County, leaving a nail in Jiangbei.

is in Huguang, Zhai Zhe first dealt with the affairs of Huguang.

In order to accommodate the rebels returning from Shanxi, Du Yinxi urgently mobilized food and cotton clothes from Changsha. He Tengjiao was not convicted after being escorted to Nanjing, so Du Yinxi was still only the governor of Huguang, not the governor of Huguang.

According to Zhai Zhe's keen sense of smell, this incident is very unusual. The emperor can not cooperate, but the cabinet must at least give him an explanation. Ma Shiying has courage, but he has always been a follower.

Before Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhai Zhe finally ordered Jin Xiaoding to select 20,000 people from the 30,000 righteous army to form a regular army and garrison the Suizhou capital, and at the same time to send 200 people from the pro-soldiers and guards to his army to train non-commissioned soldiers, so that those people could familiarize themselves with the orders of the Ming army and various combat methods such as spears, birds, and artillery. But he did not appoint Jin Xiaoding as the chief soldier of Suizhou.

The sergeant fought hard for a year, and in order to have a good Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhai Zhe and Block Yinxi both moved their minds. A large number of wine and meat were prepared.

There was no reaction from the imperial court in Nanjing, and the emperor and cabinet never sent people to Huguang, and the war here seemed to have nothing to do with them.