The vastness of China's territory, the vastness of culture, the generation of talents, with the talent of a province, the army of the unified province, enough to dominate the world, regardless of the north and south regions, as long as they are good at training and application, they are all the assets of hegemony. At a certain time, a certain province has a particularly outstanding talent, and it is a supernatural masterpiece of the province, such as Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zeng Guofan, etc., who only carry out fellow villagers, which is not enough to prove that the province is gathered by the whole country Yinghua.

When it comes to the influence of geography on military strategy, although Zhu Yongxing is also a little biased in his heart, he will not carry out obvious regional discrimination.

For example, in the war to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Hunan army stood alone in the world, and half of Hunan Province was the largest member of the world, which seems to prove that Hunan is particularly talented; However, Li Hongzhang is in charge of Beiyang, and the state affairs are entrusted to the fellow villagers of the Huai Department, and the prosperity of Beiyang talents is not inferior to the Nanyang controlled by the Hunan Department; Yuan Shikai stole the Republic of China, and the senior dignitaries of the Beiyang government were all out of the old training department of Yuan's small station, and the talents were not inferior to the Hunan and Huai departments.

Going further back to history, Liu Xiang's team is all Chu people, Liu Xiu started with Nanyang scholars, Tang Wenhuang used the right team of the ridge, Zhu Hongwu used the Huaixi natives, and the king of God, Wenzhi martial arts, brilliant in the annals of history.

The aborigines of Jiangnan are not suitable for serving as soldiers, which is a typical form of regional discrimination. Jiangnan people are gentle by nature and are not good at fighting with others, which can only show that they are elegant, but not cowardly.

The troops of Qi Jiguang, the spiritual ancestor of the Hunan army, were recruited from Yiwu, Zhejiang, and the elite was the crown of the Ming army; The Qing army's eight banners entered the customs, and the Ming army in the north collapsed one after another, but Yan Yingyuan, a small classic in the south of the Yangtze River, led the people to kill tens of thousands of enemies, and the results exceeded the entire north. The combat effectiveness of a soldier mainly depends on whether the generals are properly trained, and the weaponry and morale of the army also have a great relationship, but it does not seem to have much to do with the southerners and northerners.

"Most of the infantry are recruited from Guangxi, which is indeed said by Lonely, but it must be stuck to this. How can our army grow, can it be that with the troops of one province, it can revive China? Zhu Yongxing stopped thinking about it, and then continued to write: "The strength of the army lies in the command of the generals, in the weapons and equipment, and in the morale of the army. Guangdong's population is several times that of Guangxi. In addition to the recruitment of water divisions, the army is also sufficient to replenish. In the future, our army will still have to recruit Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan, and Guizhou soldiers...... Gather the strength of the whole people, gather the soldiers of the whole country, sweep away the bloody flesh, and prosper the Ming Dynasty. ”

put down the pen and checked it, Zhu Yongxing felt that there was nothing wrong, so he put it in the envelope and inserted it into the file file on the desk. This letter and other letters are then sent to the confidential room. Encrypt before sending. Zhu Yongxing attaches more importance to secrecy than anyone else in this era, and not only his letters, but also the liaison and correspondence between the armed forces have now all been cipherized. It may be simpler, but it also has a lot to do with the level of decryption in this era.

The government in Kunming had not yet moved, and Zhu Yongxing could only make guidance arrangements through letters in the Fuzhong. There are not many troubles in government affairs, but military ones are what he is most concerned about.

Ma Bao personally led a large army to conquer Longyan, the gateway of Fujian Province. Push the front of the Eastern Crusade forward again. The Zheng army captured Zhangpu and advanced to Zhangzhou. It seems to echo the Ming army, but the uncertainty of the Zheng family makes Zhu Yongxing dare not take it lightly.

At the same time, because the opportunity did not want to be missed, the Ming army changed its original battle plan, from waiting for work to taking the initiative to meet the battle. It is not only the skewed supply of weapons and ammunition that needs to be adjusted. There is also a change in the whole strategy, which even affects the relocation of the government.

This is very likely to become a decisive battle in the Jiangnan region in advance, Zhu Yongxing judged it this way. Wu Sangui did not dare to move, Shang Kexi was defeated and died, and the most effective in Jiangnan belonged to Geng Jingzhong's feudal soldiers. and the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Mongolia to the south. To be honest, for this decisive battle that came ahead of schedule, Zhu Yongxing was a little unprepared.

According to the original strategic assumption, the Ming army should build a defensive line in Mei and Chaozhou, and then try to counterattack after consuming the Eight Banners of Manchuria. The Yangtze River Naval Division should also be cooperated and escorted by the navy before entering the Yangtze River to carry out containment operations. Then, the Yangtze River Naval Division joined up with the Thirteen Families, coordinated the operation of land and water, and made a posture threatening Cao Yun, so that the attention of the Qing army had to be diverted.

But now, the Yangtze River Naval Division has postponed its departure because of the lack of ammunition, and the troops of Mei and Chaozhou must be increased again to ensure the absolute security of Guangdong. For the Zheng family, Zhu Yongxing also had to lower his posture, so that he could maintain his strength in Fujian Province and contain the Qing army in Fujian Province as much as possible, so as to reduce the pressure on the Ming army led by Ma Bao.

If the Ming army and the Zheng army can coordinate their actions and cooperate sincerely, then the certainty of defeating Geng Fan and the Manchurian Eight Banners is very great. But the infighting of the Zheng family, or the fickleness of Zheng Jing, made this ally full of uncertainty and made the war less optimistic.

But at this point, Zhu Yongxing could no longer retreat, so he could only go all out to win. Of course, he was also prepared for defeat. The troops of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces should be strengthened to prevent Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling from counterattacking; The defense of Mei and Chaozhou should be firm, even if it was defeated in Fujian Province, the Ming army had a way to retreat, and there was a basis for rectification and counteroffensive; He also transferred the elite troops led by Wei Junzhong from the North Road Corps of Li Sixing, the son of the Jin dynasty, to reinforce the battlefield in Fujian Province.

After receiving the shells and gunpowder manufactured by the Macao Gun Factory, the naval division will soon set out, and after joining up with the Zheng Jiashui Division, it will carry out a fierce attack on the coastal ports of Fujian Province, such as Haicheng, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou, in an effort to cripple or wipe out the last naval division of the Qing army.

Judging from the combined strength of the two companies, they have greatly surpassed the Fujian naval division of the Qing army. Moreover, the Fujian Navy Division, an army with unified command, had not yet been established, and Shi Lang, the commander of Tong'an, Huang Wu, Haicheng Gong, and others, each had their own naval division units, but they were not subordinate to each other, which created the possibility of breaking through the coalition forces one by one.

Without the Fujian Navy, there would be no Commander Shi Lang. For this fierce opponent, Zhu Yongxing and the Zheng family both want to get rid of it quickly, and the changes in history will gradually compress Shi Lang's display space, making his chances of appearing on the historical stage smaller and smaller.

It is hoped that the civil strife in the Zheng family will come a little later, at least after the success of the joint operation. Zhu Yongxing was afraid that the Zheng family would not be chaotic, and wanted to use this to recruit and strengthen his own water master strength. But based on the current practical considerations, he began to hope that the Zheng family's civil strife would not break out at a critical time, so that it would lose its role in restraining it.

There is no way, it can only be temporarily pulled, not to deepen the contradictions, and to maintain the Zheng family, which is not a very reliable ally. Zhu Yongxing was very unwilling to write an edict and approved the officials in the newly occupied areas from Zhengjiabao one by one. (To be continued......)