Huang Degong and Yuan Jixian naturally had to hurriedly guarantee that they would guard Jiangxi for His Majesty Zhu Youzhen.

And Zhu Youzhen can only say that he will believe that the two can fulfill their expectations.

But in fact, Zhu Youzhen has no bottom in his heart.

Because from this moment on, he has changed the original trajectory of history, so that he has no way to control the direction of history.

Zhu Youzhen did not know whether the Qing army led by Azig would return to Beijing in July after repelling the invading army.

According to the original history, Dolgon's purpose in letting Azig and Duoduo lead their troops south was only to let the Azig troops defeat Li Zicheng's troops and let the Duoduo troops attack Nanming.

But now, Zuo Liangyu's troops have been annihilated by themselves, and the rest of Li Zicheng's troops have also been appeased by themselves, and the military purpose of the Azig department has no meaning, so Zhu Youzhen does not know whether Dolgon will let Azig change his military purpose, whether he will return to Beijing in advance, or unite with the Ming of the Duoduo Department to launch a two-way march.

Zhu Youzhen could only plan for the worst, that is, the Azig Ministry and the Duoduo Department would launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty at the same time.

The Azig road will pass through Huguang from Jiangxi or Fengyang to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Duoduo road will go from Henan to Fengyang or Shandong and then to Huaiyang.

In any case, at present, in addition to Fengyang, Huaiyang, Yingtian, and other places controlled by the 123rd Army of the Guards, Jiangxi is undoubtedly the most important fortress.

Jiangxi is different from Huguang, the north of Jiangxi is close to the river, the south is close to the mountain, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Jiangxi has always been a large number of gentry and wealthy in ancient times, many officials in the DPRK and China are from Jiangxi, so the Ming Dynasty in Jiangxi rule is not weaker than Huguang, with a certain defensive foundation.

It is not impossible for Zhu Youzhen to ask Huang Degong and Yuan Jixian to hold Jiangxi.

"The importance of Jiangxi is not only to guard the west gate of the south of the Yangtze River, but also to ensure that once Jiangxi is lost, my Ming court will have no way to retreat, if you can't enter Liangguang or Yunnan and Guizhou from Jiangxi, then you can only go to Fujian and Zhejiang, and then you will be controlled by the Zheng family!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Huang Degong and Yuan Jixian also understood the weight of the burden on their bodies, and they were not even in the mood to participate in the matter of conferring the three orphans in the feudal state.

"Jiangxi is important, but you don't think that as long as Huang Aiqing and Yuan Aiqing are under great pressure, the Fengyang, Anqing, Luzhou, Quzhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Sizhou, Yingtian, Xuzhou, Shouzhou and other prefectures controlled by the 123rd Army of your Guards Army are the top priority. Now the Duoduo Department is still in Henan, but Henan is also the place of the four wars, so it is certain that it is not difficult for the Duoduo Department to occupy the entire territory of Henan, I am afraid that it will be able to approach Jiangnan in a few days, and no one will know where the Duoduo will attack from at that time, but I don't want one of you to surrender directly, in that case, I will definitely not let anyone go! ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Li Banghua, Zhou Yuji and others were busy saying yes, and at this time they also knew how heavy their responsibilities were.

As for the specific defense, Zhu Youzhen naturally will not blindly command, after all, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, no one knows what to do next, and a king like him who has not been able to come can only stand aside and watch.

After arranging the arrangements of the army, Zhu Youzhen shifted his attention to Liu Kongzhao, a sincere uncle: "Liu Aiqing, how is your warship built, the Jiangnan region has always been a developed place by water system, and both waterways and land routes are emphasized, although the Qing army's water war is very weak, but now the Qing army has a large number of our Han soldiers, so if you can't prevent the Qing army from crossing the river, the crisis of my Ming Dynasty will be even more serious, do you know?" ”

"In addition, I don't want my Ming to be in a passive defensive state all the time, if I have a strong navy, I can also go to the hinterland of his Qing army to sneak attack, so why bother so much now!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Liu Kongzhao, a sincere uncle, replied: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Weichen has asked the Admiralty to step up the supervision and construction of hundreds of warships, although it cannot sneak attack the hinterland of the Qing army, but it can also resist the offensive of the Qing army on the Yangtze River." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, in his opinion, now as long as Huguang can hold it, there is no need to worry about the Fengyang and Jiangxi war zones, and once Huguang can't hold it, there will be two war zones in Jiangxi and Fengyang Mansion to defend the key points in Jiangnan. And once Jiangxi and Fengyang are not reported, then he can only let the Third Army of the Guards retreat to Sizhou and Quzhou, let the First Army of the Guards retreat to Huaiyang, plus the Second Army of the Guards, and make the last resistance until they retreat to Hangzhou.

Zhu Youzhen was even wondering if he needed to give up defending Jiangnan and flee west to Liangguang with the Guards when he was about to lose his life in Jiangxi.

But in the end, Zhu Youzhen felt that the places of Liangguang or Yunnan-Guizhou were still incompletely developed in this era, and their economic strength was completely inferior to that of Jiangnan.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen's final instruction to the military civil and military officials in front of the emperor is to defend Jiangnan!

The entire military meeting in front of the emperor lasted for nearly a day and a night, and several monarchs and ministers hardly slept all night, from how to defend in various places, to what the imperial court should do in the event of the loss of a certain important place, etc., almost Zhu Youzhen and the officials present thought of all the results they could think of.

Even Zhu Youzhen and the civil and military officials present at the scene even made such an assumption, that is, once the Qing army succeeded in resisting the Qing army and the Qing army's offensive was blocked, the Second Guards Army could also choose a certain place to carry out a local decisive counterattack against the Qing army because of the mobility of Gongwei Gyeonggi, and strive to annihilate the Qing army, so as to achieve the strategic effect of breaking the Qing army that might attack from two directions, and once only one arm of the Qing army was cut off, it would have the opportunity to carry out a thorough counterattack and completely annihilate the Qing army on the other side.

For this reason, Zhu Youzhen, together with the civil and military officials present, directly summed up the future war situation against the Qing army into three possible stages, that is, the three stages of defense and local counterattack and annihilation of the Qing army.

"In the first stage, you Aiqing don't have to care about the loss of one city and one pool, and let the Qing army cause the greatest damage when capturing each city as much as possible; Then, according to the changes in the current situation, concentrate superior forces to defeat the Qing army, and finally look for an opportunity to annihilate it! ”

Zhu Youzhen fainted directly to the ground as he spoke, and the overload of work in the past few days had exhausted his body to the extreme.

And in this instant, the civil and military officials, who had already made up their minds to resist the Qing army, couldn't help but panic when they saw this, and hurriedly called for the imperial doctor.

It wasn't until Zhu Youzhen woke up weakly again that the civil and military officials breathed a sigh of relief, and even with Liu Fangliang, they felt that if His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen was gone, the sky would fall.