"People, the king can be released together, but the price of redemption for each captive needs to be set by the king."

Su Yan slowly opened his mouth and said.

Zhang Duan's heart sank, he knew that Su Yan would not agree so easily, in fact, the imperial court also expected this situation.

Before he set out, his boss Wang Chongjian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, had specifically instructed him that although the imperial court would pay any price for ransom the prisoners, if it exceeded the scope of the imperial court's acceptance, then he would die when he returned.

After settling down, Zhang Duan asked calmly: "I don't know what the conditions of His Royal Highness the County King are?" ”

Su Yan didn't answer immediately, his mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about how to decide on a new ransom, he wanted to lower the ransom in the order of Manchu and Menghan, but he remembered the Manchu people's sense of superiority over the other two races, and suddenly had an idea in his heart.

However, he didn't tell the other party directly, but asked Zhang Duan and the others to return to the post house first, and then ordered someone to send the ransom price list he wrote down to Zhang Duan.

After Zhang Duan and the deputy envoy left, the people below began to talk about it, Zhang Mingyang stood up and asked Su Yan puzzledly: "Your Highness, the Eight Banners are the foundation of the puppet dynasty, just let him redeem the captives, isn't it a tiger to return to the mountain?" ”

The rest of the people also chimed in, and none of them could understand Su Yan's decision to agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.

In the face of their doubts, Su Yan smiled slightly, and explained his thoughts and thoughts, after listening to Su Yan's thoughts, although they still couldn't fully understand, their doubts about Su Yan finally disappeared.

After resolving their doubts, Su Yan did not disband them, but took this opportunity to convene a brief military meeting.

The news of the recovery of Ganzhou City has been spread to Nanchang, and after the recovery of Ganzhou, the entire territory of Jiangxi has been recovered by the Ming army, and there is no Qing court force involved.

It is worth mentioning that after learning of the recovery of Ganzhou, the system that had been idle for a long time actually gave Su Yan a reward for the recovery of a province as usual without releasing a mission - but this reward was not rich, except for a primary light weapons arsenal, it was a new system reward and a battalion (6 teams) of Rogers Commando.

The Rogers Commando is a product of the Anglo-French and North American Wars, in which both Britain and France abandoned the traditional European-style line infantry and turned to a large number of commandos, and the most outstanding commando in the British army was the "Rogers Commando" formed by Colonel Robert Rogers.

Commandos are generally responsible for carrying out reconnaissance and surprise attacks that ordinary soldiers are not capable of, and they are more like special infantry such as night and night - in fact, they are also cavalry infantry who are good at knights, as long as Su Yan supplies them with war horses, they can fight in the form of cavalry.

Considering their abilities, Su Yan decided to integrate them into the Night Harvest and perform tasks as scouts in the army.

The gaze is retracted into the living room.

Before starting the military meeting, Su Yan first introduced the new generals rewarded by the system to everyone.

The name of the new general is Su Fu, the word Wei Chu, and the identity assigned to him by the system is Su Yan's cousin, with cavalry and artillery expertise, marksmanship like a god, even a front-loading smoothbore gun with poor accuracy can hit 100 shots.

After introducing him to the officials and generals, without giving them a chance to be curious about Su Fu's identity, Su Yan once again put forward the decision to go west to Huguang, he ordered someone to get the military map, personally bypassed the table, stood in front of the unfolded military map, and said to everyone:

"Since April of the fifth year of the Yongli calendar, the king of Qin can look forward to the northern expedition to Huguang, and has recovered Jingzhou, Chenzhou, Baoqing, Changde three prefectures and one state, the front of the army is directed at Changsha Mansion, the puppet Qing Huguang Governor Ke Yongsheng personally led the troops to the Dongting Lake to the Xiangjiang line to deploy defenses, although the soldiers and horses are gathered to defend Jiangxi, but now our army has completely recovered the entire territory of Jiangxi, and the Qing army will be defeated like a devastating state."

"However, ......" Su Yan changed his words and said: "The enemy of our army is not only the Huguang Qing army, but also needs to guard against the soldiers and horses of the Qin King Sun Kewang after attacking the territory of Huguang. ”

"Sun Kewang? Although he claims to be the lord of the country and temporarily regents the country, he has nothing to do with our army, will he still have trouble with our army? Jie Chongxi asked puzzled.

"It's possible." Without waiting for Su Yan to answer, Fu Dingquan said: "The following officials know Sun Kewang, this person is ambitious, unwilling to be subordinate, and has been with his siblings Li Dingguo and Liu (this chapter is not finished!) )

Chapter 245: Deployment of the Western Expedition

Wen Xiu had a conflict, so his siblings, not to mention His Royal Highness the County King who would threaten his position. ”

Su Yan nodded and said: "What Fu Shilang said is extremely true, Sun Kewang is arrogant and domineering, has no king and no father, and will do anything for the sake of power, if he fights side by side with him, he must be vigilant and always take precautions." ”

After that, Su Yan pointed to the Qing army garrison at the junction of the two provinces that had been explored on the map, and said: "To get back to the point, Ke Yongsheng, the pseudo-governor of Huguang, has deployed soldiers and horses in all counties at the junction of the two provinces to take precautions, and at the same time block the main roads and check pedestrians, once our army is assembled, Ke Yongsheng will be able to learn the news as quickly as possible." ”

"Therefore, this king believes that it is not necessary to divide troops to attack the border counties, concentrate forces to take important capital cities, and defeat them before the Qing army mobilizes forces to counterattack."

Everyone nodded yes, the Qing army stationed in the border counties did not have many soldiers and horses, and it was a waste of troops to attack one after another, and at present, the Qing court was in decline, and the army's heart was shaken, and it was more convenient to directly attack the capital city and then spread the message to the counties.

Considering that Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi in Jiangbei had already begun to attack Huangzhou Mansion, Su Yan decided to personally lead the army to attack the heavily guarded Wuchang Mansion, and he could command Jiangbei's soldiers and horses more quickly.

Cao Dahao's troops attacked Yuezhou Mansion, and after conquering it, Shun Shun Dongting Lake went south to assist Su Dingyuan, who was responsible for attacking Changsha Mansion, to besiege the city.

Zhang Mingyang...... As the governor of Jiangxi, Su Yan did not intend to let him participate in the war against Huguang, and Zhang Mingyang's current task was to quickly restore stability and production in Jiangxi, and to assist the officials transferred by An Daoyuan to implement the policy of apportioning the land to the mu in Jiangxi, and to open up departments and recruit people to fill the vacancies of officials in various places.

Not only that, Lai Xun and Lin Zhongbu, who were stationed in Jianchang Province, were also ordered to march, and they were asked to cross the entire Jiangxi Province and attack the Chaling Prefecture and the southern Hunan region.

Although Zhang Mingyang was not on the list of expeditions, he did not feel frustrated, as a scholar, he knew very well the importance of having a stable rear, so he was determined to manage Jiangxi into a stable rear.

After the military meeting ended, Su Yan called Su Fu to him again, he looked at this cousin who suddenly appeared and was only one year younger than himself, although he felt ridiculous in his heart, but he still encouraged:

"This expedition is your first time on the battlefield, I will hand over the Xiaocai battalion to your command, I hope you don't lose the face of my Meiling Su clan."

"I won't, Brother Yan." Su Fu said with his fists clenched, his eyes flashing with a bright light.

Chapter 245: Deployment of the Western Expedition