Saying that Jia Liu did not move his troops obviously wronged him, because in fact, after entering the lunar month, he carried out a new military deployment.

Compared with the relatively conservative deployment at the beginning, the new military deployment is undoubtedly positive and full of enterprising spirit.

First of all, the Minister of the Interior, Niu Lunbao, proposed that the thief army might attack Wusheng Pass and enter Xinyang.

If this happens, then the main forces of the Qing army gathered in Xiangyang will face the danger of being cut off from the grain route.

If most of Henan falls, the main force of the Qing army in Xiangyang will become a lone army, and there is a possibility that the whole army will be annihilated.

After carefully examining the map, listening to the detailed secret reports, and comprehensively listening to the opinions of the generals, Jia Liu did not rule out that there were radicals in the Xinghan army who wanted to do a big job, that is, the terrible idea of putting an end to him, the great general Wang.

In order to prevent himself from being the pioneer of the king and ending up as a villain, Jia Liu immediately issued a general Wang order, ordering the newly appointed Huguang Governor Zu Yingyuan to lead his troops to Suizhou in De'an Mansion to take command, and at the same time strengthen the military garrison of Wushengguan.

In order to strengthen the strength of the ancestral department, more than 1,000 flintlock torches brought from Beijing were distributed, and another 20 cannons were transferred to the Huguang Green Battalion.

At the same time, in order to make Zu Yingyuan realize the importance of Wushengguan to the entire battle situation, Jia Liu wrote a letter to him personally.

The gist of the threat was that if Zu Yingyuan dared to lose Wusheng Pass, let the Han army run into Henan and copy the back road of the army, the general Wang had to change his gun and declare the republic for the sake of the lives of all the soldiers.

In that way, your ancestor Yingyuan is not only a sinner of the Qing Dynasty, but also a sinner of the Communist Association, and also a sinner of the Eight Banners of the entire Han Army.

He also ordered Wang Deyong, the governor of Shaanxi, to lead the main force of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion from Tianbaozhai in Xiangyang to Nanxiangbao in Jingmen Prefecture, thus forming a threatening posture against the Xinghan army in Jingmen and Yichang.

The name of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion is still relatively loud, and the Xinghan Army in person obviously knew that the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion had entered the Hubei battlefield, so after Wang Deyong led the troops to set off, the Xinghan Army in front of him began to shrink its strength and abandon some irrelevant towns.

Jia Liu also asked his second cousin Urshi Balan to lead his troops to Anlu Mansion to spread rumors that the Qing army was about to organize a second offensive against Wuchang.

These measures have alleviated the pressure on Xiangyang to a certain extent, and they can be regarded as an explanation to the main battle faction.

But the imperial court obviously did not accept this explanation.

First of all, the military department kept sending letters to ask when the offensive could be launched, and then Lao Fu successively sent holy decrees in the name of Qianlong to urge the troops, asking the six sons and virtuous brothers to complete the general siege of Wuchang before the Spring Festival.

If possible, it is best to have a Chinese New Year's Eve meal in Wuchang City.

This made Jia Liu very angry, because this kind of talk was very unlucky.

Some superstitious people privately ordered this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner not to wait until the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to eat, but to advance to the twentieth day of the lunar month.

"Urge, urge, don't they know the lesson of Ming Death!"

In order to let the civil and military forces of Xiangyang City know the consequences of urging troops, Jia Liu simply let them read the official document sent by Jingli to urge troops.

And take history as a mirror, and require the civil and military officials to maintain a united front with themselves, and must not mess up their positions because the imperial court is too hasty, so as to give the thief army an opportunity to take advantage of.

Because the consequences of urging troops are extremely bad, at least the whole army will be wiped out, and at worst the dynasty will be changed.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou led the Ming army out to fight against the Qing army in Songshan, because Chongzhen was anxious to let Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, pass on the book of Pegasus to urge the war, and sent two civilian officials Zhang Ruolin and Ma Shaoyu to the front line to constantly make things difficult for Hong Chengchou and urge the war fiercely, so there was a fiasco in Songshan.

Sun Chuanting of the Guannei Front was also urged to fight by Chongzhen repeatedly, and the result was "Chuanting died, and the Ming Dynasty died." ”

Jia Liu didn't want future generations to come up with an answer of "Dongge died, and the Qing Dynasty died" when they looked at this history.

So he didn't pay attention to the urging of the Beijing division at all, but continued to give the court all kinds of excerpts.

is that the more urgent the court urges, the more ruthless he wants.

In this regard, the Minister of the Interior, Niu Lunbao, and the Governor of Hubei, Zheng Dajin, were deeply worried, on the one hand, they felt that the imperial court was very urgent, and it was easy for the general Wang to make wrong judgments;

On the other hand, he felt that the general Wang seemed to be passively slacking off the war.

However, compared with these ministers who were eager to suppress the thief army, the children of the Eight Banners who went out on the expedition wished that there had been no war on the Western Front.

The arrival of these Eight Banners disciples has made Xiangyang more prosperous than before, and many people in Xiangyang can taste the snacks of distant Jingshi without leaving home, which has to be said to be an unexpected benefit.

As time went on, the sound of the decisive battle became quieter and quieter.

The traditional Chinese New Year festival of the Chinese is coming.

War cannot affect the New Year.

This is almost an unspoken rule on both sides of the world.

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, Wan Chaoxing, who was promoted from the governor of Zhili to the general of Jingzhou, rushed to Xiangyang, he was the same as Jia Liu, and he was the banner man of the Han army, and this appointment as the general of Jingzhou was undoubtedly the most colorful chapter in his life resume.

The 3,000 Zhili Green Battalion soldiers brought by Wan Chaoxing were all trained by Jia Liu, and their loyalty and combat effectiveness were reliable.

On the other hand, the imperial court approved the change of Boqing from the governor of Sichuan to the governor of Huguang, and he had already left for Hubei, and he would arrive in Xiangyang in about seven days.

After Wan Chaoxing understood the situation of the great general Wang, he proposed whether he could lead the troops to fight a dozen, win one or two victories first, and cut one hundred and eighty levels, which could not only give an explanation to the imperial court, but also improve the morale of the army, and it was also a powerful response to the outside world's doubts about the prince's passive slackness.

At the same time, it is also a guarantee for peace talks, after all, Ji Shilang has not negotiated a result for so long.

To fight to promote talks?

Jia Liu felt that it was not impossible, and finally discussed and decided to launch a medium-scale offensive against Zhong Xiangcheng, the capital of Anlu Mansion.

Staring at the map, looking left and right, and asking who Ding Qingshou Zhongxiang was on the side.

Ding Qing checked it and said that it was Qiu Ba, a member of the Hubei civil society organization, who had helped the Xinghan Army defeat the Jingzhou Navy Division and enter Jingzhou City, and was now the commander of the Third Army of the Xinghan Army, with more than 13,000 horse infantry under his command, and the members were basically local anti-Qing elements in Hubei, many of whom were miners and fishermen.

"Miners and fishermen?"

Jia Liu's brows furrowed suddenly, these two groups of people are not easy to deal with.

After thinking for a moment, he instructed Ding Qing: "You send someone to talk to Qiu Ba, can I pay them to let Zhong Xiang go." ”

"Huh?"

Ding Qing and Wan Chaoxing were stunned: Is this okay?

"Let's talk, if it doesn't work, it's not too late for us to fight,"

Jia Liu didn't miss any opportunity to avoid bloodshed, and was about to ask Ding Qing to send someone over to talk, but Ji Yun came back.

came back quietly, and he was very embarrassed, because not only did not accept the conditions for peace talks proposed by the prince, but also put forward a condition that the prince could not accept.

"On what terms?"

Jia Liu was a little anxious, as long as he wasn't asked to be a hostage.

"Lord Wang, they ask us to hand over the emperor!"

Ji Yun smiled bitterly, "Lord Wang, listen to the advice of the lower officials, give up your illusions, and prepare to fight, only a gun can come out of power, how can Jiangshan Sheji talk about it!" ”