Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be stunned, although he had already expected that Zhang Xianzhong was suspected of plotting against Yungui, but at this moment, he was still quite shocked when he suddenly heard that several state capitals controlled by the Ming Dynasty on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan had been lost one after another.

"Didn't I already tell Wang Yingxiong and Fan Yixuan that they should not underestimate the enemy, and ordered their guards to guard against Zhang Xianzhong's main force to move south with the intention of Yungui and other places in southern Sichuan, why did they lose so much territory so quickly?"

Zhu Youzhen asked.

Jinyi Weidu commanded Wu Mengming to pause, and he really couldn't answer the words of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen for a while.

Although Jinyiwei has developed many members under Zhu Youzhen's sufficient financial supply, there are already Jinyiwei's spies from Nanyang to southwest and even Mobei.

However, in a region like Yunnan-Guichuan, which is located in the western part of the empire, even if information is obtained, it will still take some time to transmit detailed information to Beijing.

Sometimes, it is not uncommon to learn about the war after months or even a year and a half.

And now Zhu Youzhen wants to ask Wu Mengming why he lost so much of the state capital in such a short time, although Wu Mengming is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he has not yet received more detailed information, so he doesn't know how to answer for a while.

Four or five days later, the military department also received a detailed battle report from Yunnan, and Ma Shiying, the secretary of the military department, made a report to Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Majesty, it is reported that although the officers and troops who retreated to Zunyi have already made preparations, but this thief Zhang Xianzhong's troops are very strong, especially Li Dingguo, who is the most good at fighting, and directly attacked Dongchuan Mansion by taking the mountain road, causing the defense lines of Wumeng and Dongchuan Prefectures to be defeated."

"Li Dingguo?"

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but feel a little headache, he naturally knew what kind of person Li Dingguo was in the late Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he was the most outstanding Han general, and he was also the last shining general star of the Ming Dynasty.

But now Li Dingguo is still Zhang Xianzhong's general, and because the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty suffered a heavy blow from the Ming Guards in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, today's Zhang Xianzhong's troops in Sichuan did not suffer the blow of Jiannu as in the original history.

It was not like the development of the original history, because of Zhang Xianzhong's arrow, which prompted Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and other Zhang Xianzhong remnants to join the Ming Dynasty.

"Since it's Li Dingguo, it's not surprising that this matter is not going to be used by me now!"

Zhu Youzhen sighed helplessly, and then slapped the table: "Message, the Generalissimo's Mansion is deliberating!" ”

Now that Zhang Xianzhong has arrived in Kunming City, Yunnan Prefecture, Zhu Youzhen naturally can't wait to ignore it anymore, and can only convene the officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion to discuss the matter of transferring troops to rescue Yungui.

"Zhang Xianzhong's army marched south to Yungui, has been planning for a long time, from its entry into Sichuan began to be strong, hoarding grain and grass, suddenly attacking southern Sichuan, and the momentum is also reasonable, the defeat of the official army lies in the weak soldiers and generals, and there is no order to go out of many doors, no one to govern, in order to resist the strong enemy, so Weichen suggested that the relationship between the governor Fan Yixuan and the governor Wang Yingxiong should be clarified, or choose a heavy minister to lead the soldiers and horses in the two places, coordinate grain and grass, reinforce the elite soldiers, and fortify everywhere in order to thwart the offensive of the thieves."

As soon as Qin Liangyu said this, the rest of the officials all nodded.

Li Yan also stood up and said: "Maybe you can send heavy troops to attack Chongqing, Sichuan, and force the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's troops to return to Chongqing, Sichuan." ”

"What the two Aiqing said is a solution, but what troops can be adjusted at the moment?"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen asked, Ma Shiying, the secretary of the Ministry of War, replied: "Now the elite of the Ming Dynasty who can fight with the thieves are only the Guards and the Extermination Army, but the Exterminating Army has lost a lot of personnel since the eighteenth year of Chongzhen's vicious war with Jiannu Azig, and now it seems that it can only be transferred to the Guards." ”

"If the Guards are transferred to support Yungui, how many troops do you need to transfer to defeat Zhang Xianzhong's troops in the vast mountains around Yungui, and in addition, if the Guards are transferred westward, how to deal with them once Jiannu goes south?"

Zhu Youzhen continued to ask, but Ma Shiying couldn't say anything, he was not familiar with the war in Yunnan, Guichuan and other mountains, and he didn't know how many troops needed to be deployed, so he could only look at Qin Liangyu.

Qin Liangyu participated in the pacification of the Banzhou Rebellion in his early years, and had made great contributions, so he was quite experienced in mountain warfare in Yunnan-Guichuan, so he stepped forward and replied first:

"The junction of Yunnan and Sichuan has always been high mountains and water hazards, and non-100,000 elite soldiers are not enough to hold the main roads everywhere, but as Your Majesty said, at present, Jiannu in the north is still eyeing the tiger, not to mention that the transfer of 100,000 is the transfer of 50,000 It also affects the entire Ming Dynasty's defense line for Jiannu, after all, the 600,000 soldiers and horses of the Guards have to defend the defense line from Huguang to Huaiyang, after all, no one knows where Jiannu will go south if he goes south."

Zhu Youzhen asked the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and Wu Mengming also talked about the situation of Jiannu in the recent period.

"According to our Jinyiwei's spy report, since the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, Jiannu has been conscripted several times, and each household is drawn by two men, and now there are nearly 500,000 green battalion soldiers, and the eight banners of the Han army and the eight banners of Mongolia have also increased by 300,000, and at the same time, more than 20,000 Manchurian iron cavalry have been transferred from outside the pass, plus the surrender of troops from all over the country, the total strength of Jiannu in the entire pass has reached one million."

"In addition, Henan Weihui Mansion and Beizhili Baoding Mansion have a large number of signs of grain and grass transfer, the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved grain and grass first, Weichen estimates that this is the reason why the Qing court will mobilize a large number of troops to go south, otherwise why gather so much grain and grass in the frontier of the handover with my Ming Dynasty."

After Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, said, the officials present all fell into deep thought, and He Xin, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor's palm seal, couldn't help but say:

"In this way, it is obvious that the Qing court wants to go south again to attack my Ming Dynasty, and now although Jiannu has lost two main Manchurian forces, it is not exhausted in the end, and now it has expanded so many troops, once it goes south, it is bound to move hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops, then my Ming Guards cannot be easily transferred out of Jiangnan, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be in danger!"

Zhu Youzhen nodded thoughtfully, at this time he was quite depressed in his heart, thinking that this Zhang Xianzhong would really pick the time to attack the Ming Dynasty at this juncture, so that he, Emperor Chongzhen, could not transfer the trump card to the west to support Yungui and other places.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen also had to admit that Zhang Xianzhong also had no strategic sense, as if he would have failed in the original history, and now he is the same in this era, and he did not realize that Jiannu is the common enemy of both sides today, giving up the heavy defense of key passes in northern Sichuan, and attacking the Sichuan landlord armed forces under his control.

Although Zhu Youzhen felt very worthless for Zhang Xianzhong, he had no way to stop Zhang Xianzhong, so he could only optimize the combat strength of the officers and troops in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places as much as possible, and at the same time hoped that the Ming Dynasty could make Yunnan, Guizhou and other places still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty as much as possible without the transfer of the guards.

However, reinforcements must be sent, and a top decision-maker who commands the troops and horses in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places is also needed.

But now the question is who to send and which army can be drawn.

(End of chapter)