Before meeting Su Yan, Li Yuanyin's heart was excited and nervous, and this complicated emotion had never been felt even when he met Emperor Yongli.

Under the leadership of the attendants, Li Yuanyin finally came to Su Yan, he respectfully saluted Su Yan, and while saluting, he also secretly looked at Su Yan with his spare eyes, wanting to meet His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who was much younger than himself, but could make a name for himself in China.

Su Yan is 23 years old this year, and the two years of fighting after the crossing have carved a lot of wind and frost in his young face, and also made his body exude undoubted majesty, Su Yan's upper lip has grown a thin beard, which makes him look more mature, and with the majesty of a superior person.

His eyes were also sharp, and when he fell on Li Yuanyin, who was saluting, although the latter did not look directly at him, he still felt a faint coercion over his head, making him dare not gasp for breath or make movements that discorded with etiquette.

Su Yan is also observing Li Yuanyin, Li Yuanyin is worthy of being a Confucian background, although he joined the army after following Li Chengdong, but he still has the unique literary style of Confucian children, he is a Confucian general, and combined with his evaluation of "reading a little and knowing the great righteousness" and "scheming and scheming, and having instruments", Su Yan's evaluation of Li Yuanyin in his heart is also a few points higher.

Such a brave and resourceful loyal man, he naturally wants to be reused.

"Yuanbo." Su Yan directly addressed his cousin, and said kindly: "Your loyalty and bravery, this king has heard of it, and it is indeed worthy of its reputation when I see it today." ”

Li Yuanyin didn't expect Su Yan's attitude towards him to be so good, he suddenly felt flattered, and hurriedly said: "Your Royal Highness has such a reputation, the last general is worthy of it, and the last general is a minister, and it is really a matter of duty to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, so what face is it to be praised for loyalty?" ”

Su Yan saw that he was not only proud, but responded like this, and his evaluation of Li Yuanyin was even higher in his heart, and he said with a smile: "That's true, it's just that the imperial court is about to be overturned, and those civil and military officials who usually talk about being loyal to the monarch and serving the country have lost their integrity, and they grovel to the Tartars, which makes them even more loyal and brave." ”

Li Yuanyin nodded sympathetically, he recalled the faces of those former Ming ministers he saw after his adoptive father Li Chengdong surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and shouted that he was loyal to the monarch and served the country very fiercely on weekdays, but as soon as he went south, they were so frightened that they trembled like quails, groveled, and wanted to kneel and lick *** to show their loyalty to the new dynasty.

If that's all it takes, it's just that, and the most hated thing is that after they surrendered, they turned their knives to their former comrades, killing people and their previous weakness, all fierce as tigers, showing a hideous color.

Seeing that Li Yuanyin stopped talking, Su Yan changed his words and said: "Uncle Yuan, this king recruited you back to Nanjing, because he didn't want your talent to be wasted in Guangdong, this king now gives you two choices, are you interested in listening?" ”

"Your Highness, please speak, and the last general should listen carefully." Li Yuanyin hugged his fists.

"First, Jinyiwei has been killed with the first emperor, this king intends to reorganize Jinyiwei, you have been appointed by the first emperor as the commander of Jinyiwei, you have the corresponding experience, this king wants you to be responsible for the reorganization of Jinyiwei, the official is reinstated, and then appointed as the commander of Jinyiwei."

After Su Yan finished speaking, he paused, glanced at Li Yuanyin's reaction, and continued: "Second, Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the military department, is currently in the northern expedition to Shandong, and there is a lack of good generals in the army. ”

Let Li Yuanyin serve as the commander of Jinyiwei, the decision to reorganize Jinyiwei was not Su Yan's temporary idea, Li Yuanyin is scheming and has a resume as a commander, it is not a good candidate to let him be in charge of the reorganization, and Su Yan is not worried that this important intelligence agency will be betrayed by him after it is handed over to him - with a system, he will slowly be loyal to Su Yan.

Listening to the two choices given by Su Yan, Li Yuanyin fell into deep thought, and at the same time there was a faint feeling in his heart - this move came from Su Yan's trust in him, Su Yan only saw him for the first time, and decided to hand over such an important department as Jinyiwei to him, this trust is not important, it is impossible, even the Yongli Emperor of that year appointed him as the commander of Jinyiwei after several tests.

However, this appointment actually did not give him real power, and it was Ma Jixiang who really controlled Jinyiwei by Yongli's side.

The so-called soldier who is a confidant dies, just (this chapter is not finished!) )

Chapter 271: Reorganizing the Jinyi Guard

It was because of Su Yan's trust in him, Li Yuanyin was determined to serve Su Yan well.

He thought about it for a long time, accepted the first choice proposed by Su Yan, and expressed his willingness to reorganize Jinyiwei for Su Yan, Su Yan didn't do much nonsense after getting his choice, and immediately appointed Li Yuanyin as the new commander of Jinyiwei, and transferred Wang Yuanyong's already developed Jinyiwei organization to Li Yuanyin, asking it to carry forward - of course, Wang Yuanyong, the hard-working affairs officer Su Yan, did not treat him badly, and he granted Wang Yuanyong the command of the Beizhen Fusi with the same governor, making him the second task in Jinyiwei to assist Li Yuanyin.

……

Compared with the reuse of Li Yuanyin, Su Yan's attitude towards the three horses of the Southern Ming Dynasty is very bland, he received a report from Su Dingyuan, and learned that the three were unwilling to stay in Hunan to fight with the Qin army, so he asked about the whereabouts of the three in a brief meeting with the three, and finally ordered the three of them to lead the army north according to the wishes of the three of them, and obeyed the transfer of Zhang Mingzhen, the governor of Hubei, to fight against the Qing army in Hubei.

With the participation of the three horses of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the pressure of the Qing army in Hubei suddenly increased sharply, and the already declining war situation was even more desperate.

At the beginning of September, Zhang Mingzhen had led the army to successfully conquer Anlu Mansion, cut off the connection between Ke Yongsheng, who had retreated to Xiangyang, and Jingzhou, and spread the word to all parts of the country, demanding that the prefectures and counties of Hubei surrender, and the repercussions were quite numerous.

Among them, Zheng Siwei, the general soldier of Jingzhou, was the most prominent, he was once a rebel general of Dashun, he decided to stick to the city, he personally led the army to strengthen the city defense of Jingzhou, and beheaded the messenger sent by Zhang Mingzhen to persuade him to surrender, and hung the head of the envoy at the gate of Jingzhou to express his determination.

Zhang Mingzhen was furious when he got the news, he knew that if Zheng Siwei was not dealt with harshly, the Qing army everywhere would not take them seriously and be afraid of them.

And he was still struggling with whether to attack Xiangyang directly or pacify both sides of the Yangtze River first, Zheng Siwei's death behavior directly made Zhang Mingzhen make up his mind.

On September 8, Zhang Mingzhen ordered Wang Yi to stay in Anlu, to guard against the Qing army in Xiangyang, and he led the army of the first town to the south, and went straight to Jingzhou Mansion, Zheng Siwei learned that he hurriedly organized soldiers and horses to defend the city, and mobilized the gentry in the city to organize the people to defend the city, five days later, the army came to Jingzhou City, and then launched a fierce attack on Jingzhou.

The first town used Hongyi cannons, Franco machine guns, tiger squat cannons and other artillery to bombard the Jingzhou city wall continuously, and the defenders in the city were only 4,000 green battalion soldiers, who could only tremble under the artillery fire of the Chu army.

On September 14, the Chu army collapsed the city wall of Jingzhou, Zheng Siwei hurriedly organized troops to recapture the gap, the two sides broke out a fierce battle, the gap changed hands back and forth, and the Qing army finally suffered heavy losses on the afternoon of the 15th, the army's heart was shaken, and the Chu army rushed into the city and was completely defeated, Zheng Siwei *** died, and Jingzhou fell.

After Jingzhou was conquered by the Chu army, the Qing troops everywhere were afraid and surrendered one after another, until the end of September, only Xiangyang and Yunyang were still under the control of the Qing army in the whole of Hubei.

In late September, the three horses of the Southern Ming Dynasty also led the army into Hubei, and was officially incorporated into Zhang Mingzhen's subordinates, Zhang Mingzhen immediately ordered Ma Weixing and Ma Bao to lead the army from Guizhou to the north to capture Yunyang Mansion, and personally took command, Wang Yi and Ma Jinzhong were deputies, besieging Xiangyang Mansion.

Although the siege has not yet begun, everyone including Ke Yongsheng knows that it is only a matter of time before Huguang completely falls into the hands of the Ming army, and their resistance is only in vain, but for the sake of his family in Beijing, Ke Yongsheng still decided to stick to Xiangyang.

The Qing army in Hubei was in a desperate situation, and in the two-front war between Hunan and the Qin army, the Chu army also had the upper hand.

After a month of fighting, the Qin army in Hunan continued to retreat, losing Yongzhou, Baoqing and Lizhou one after another, Sun Zhengqi's remnants of the army stuck to Chenzhou, he only felt powerless in the face of such a desperate situation, and lived up to his father's expectations for himself, if it wasn't for Wang Shangli who had been by his side to comfort him, then he might have collapsed directly.

What about Sun Kewang?

He is still guarding against the Chu army at the junction of Guizhou and Guangxi, Li Mingzhong's direct attack on Guizhou shocked the Guiyang court, Sun Kewang in order to prevent the Guiyang court from being directly ended, can only retreat the main forces to the Yunnan-Guizhou base, and start a fierce battle with Li Mingzhong, who invaded Guizhou.

Although Li Mingzhong has 3,000 brave and good wolf soldiers under his command, he is still only facing the encirclement and suppression of Sun Kewang's army (this chapter is not finished!). )

Chapter 271: Reorganizing the Jinyi Guard

can be forced to retreat to Guangxi, and under the dispatch of Guo Zhiqi, he and Sun Kewang started a tug-of-war and stalemate.

The embarrassment of the two-front war did not give Sun Kewang too much headache, and what was more fatal was the abnormal movement of the former Nanming officials under his command, and the Nanming officials led by Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, who was lucky not to be martyred with Emperor Yongli, gradually began to become restless, and they seemed to see Sun Kewang's weakness, and the originally suppressed careful thoughts began to come alive.

Don't think that they didn't react at all to the death of Emperor Yongli and the princes, concubines and courtiers, but people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and they didn't dare to show it under Sun Kewang's ***, and now Sun Kewang fought on two fronts and almost lost Hunan, and the victory of the Nanjing court was almost only a matter of time.

Seeing this, Mu Tianbo in Yunnan began to secretly contact other officials and generals loyal to the Ming family, only a few of them still held military power, and these people were also on Sun Kewang's guard list, so Mu Tianbo did not hope to overthrow Sun Kewang by force, they collected information about the Qin army through various channels and sent it to the Chu army.

Chapter 271: Reorganizing the Jinyi Guard