Who can defend Jiangnan and fight Li Chuang?

Hearing this question, several scholars and scholars present couldn't help but sigh.

Because there were too many people in the Qing Dynasty who could defend Jiangnan and fight Li Chuang!

Duoduo, Hauge, Azig, Aobai, Tan Tai, Ho Lo Hui, Mu Lima, and Wu Sangui!

But now, these famous kings and generals who can resist Li Zicheng are dead, rebellious, and rebellious, and no one in the great Qing Dynasty can resist Li Zicheng!

There was a dead silence in the south study, and the atmosphere was so depressing that it was breathless, and I don't know how long it took before I heard the voice of Chen Tingjing, a scholar from Hanlin: "Your Majesty, the minister knows one person, and he will definitely be able to block Li Zicheng from Jiangnan for me!" ”

"Who is this man?" Kangxi hurriedly looked at his Confucian teacher.

Chen Tingjing took a breath, and then said a name that surprised everyone: "Wu Sangui!" ”

"What?" Kangxi was shocked, "Master Chen, what did you say?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister said that today only Wu Sangui can help me prevent Li Zicheng from going down to the south of the Yangtze River."

Kangxi's eyes were burning, staring at his teacher, this Chen Tingjing looks quite normal, it should be, perhaps, most of the time he is not crazy, right?

Chen Tingjing said word by word: "Because in the past, Emperor Hongwu was the first to have Jiangnan, and then to win the world!" And today's Jiangnan, if you talk about population, taxes, and output, I am afraid it is more important than the end of the Yuan Dynasty. If Li Zicheng can go east along the river and Dingding Nandu, there are two rivers and three provinces, plus Wuchang, Hanyang, Huangzhou and other prefectures, although the territory is not one-third of the world, but the population and wealth in his hands are probably much more than half of the world, right? If Li Chuang can own half of the world's population and goods, learn the lessons of Jiashennian, and work hard for a few years, he may not be able to dominate the world.

Your Majesty, think about it, if Li Chuang rules the world, wouldn't Wu Sangui be busy in vain? Wu Sangui's one, can there still be a way to live? ”

"Definitely not!" Kangxi gritted his teeth and said, "If it weren't for Wu Sangui's anger at the crown and opening the Shanhai Pass to lure Dolgon's army in and take Li Zicheng by surprise, Li Zicheng might have been the emperor for more than 20 years!" How could Li Zicheng not take revenge for this revenge? ”

Speaking of which, Kangxi suddenly felt that his eyes were bright!

It should be a good fight between Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng, and the Three Kingdoms War will be interesting!

Thinking of the "Three Kingdoms", he smiled coldly and said: "It seems that it is not us who is most afraid of Li Zicheng Jiangnan now, but Wu Sangui!" Speaking of which, Wu Sangui will really tie up Li Zicheng, an old thief, for us! ”

"Your Majesty," Chen Tingjing said, "Although Wu Sangui will stumble Li Zicheng for us, we can't sit back and wait for Wu Sangui to make a move, after all, Wu Sangui is now far away in Hanzhong, in case he can't make a move, Jiangnan has already fallen into the hands of Li Zicheng, then it will be a big trouble." ”

"Yes, yes," Kangxi said, "I still have to send generals who can fight and dare to fight to resist Li Zicheng!" Master Chen, what advice do you have in this regard? ”

"Your Majesty," Chen Tingjing said, "the minions don't know who has the ability to defend Jiangdong. However, the minister knew that the imperial court should not waste troops in order to inevitably fail to defend it, and there was no need to defend the territory! Now that the imperial court has insufficient troops, it can't be wasted. ”

"What do you mean," Kangxi frowned, "I'm going to give up Wuchang?" ”

"Wuchang Mansion will definitely give up!" Chen Tingjing said, "According to the report of Zhang Chaozhen, the governor of Hubei who has just returned to Wuchang, there are only 1,000 pacesetters left in Wuchang City and 1,500 governors of Hubei, a total of only 2,500 people, and the people are panicked, they will have no fighting spirit, and they will have no fighting spirit. It is better to let Zhang Chaozhen withdraw to Jiujiang Mansion with these 2,500 people, and give up Wuchang, Huangzhou, and Hanyang to Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng will only make Wu Sangui feel dangerous if he gets these three mansions! ”

Kangxi nodded slightly, and seemed to agree with Chen Tingjing's suggestion, the three prefectures of Wuchang, Huangzhou, and Hanyang could not be defended by relying on two or three thousand people. But he still didn't let go.

Three mansions!

Do you give up when you say you give up?

Chen Tingjing then said: "In addition, the minister feels that there is no need to defend Changsha anymore."

"Changsha doesn't guard it either?" Kangxi frowned, "Changsha still has Shi Huashan's more than 10,000 new troops, and thousands of Hunan green battalion soldiers, why do you have to give up?" ”

"Your Majesty, the more than 10,000 new troops of the Green Battalion at hand were left in Changsha, and they were only surrounded and annihilated by Wu Guogui. It is better to let him and Governor Lu Zhen take the new army of the Green Battalion and the Hunan Green Battalion that retreated to Changsha to take a step back and retreat to Jiangxi. With the troops withdrawn from Hunan and Hubei, it is possible for Jiangxi to hold on, and as long as Jiangxi can be held, Jiangnan and Jiangbei can naturally be ensured.

Moreover, if Wu Guogui doesn't take Changsha, it will be impossible for him to go north to Yuezhou to drag Li Zicheng's hind legs! If we can't withdraw with Jingzhou in the north, and Changsha in the south and are reluctant to withdraw, isn't it equivalent to using our forces to cover Li Zicheng to go down to the south of the Yangtze River? ”

Seems to make sense!

Kangxi pondered it again, but he was still reluctant.

Kangxi asked again: "If Jiangxi relies on Shi Huashan, Zhang Chaozhen, and Lu Zhen to bring less than 20,000 people, plus the local green battalion soldiers, can it be defended?" Who can dominate the overall situation of the southeast? ”

"Your Majesty," the scholar Suo Etu took over the question, "the slave thinks that it is difficult to keep Jiangxi from being lost by relying on the few men and horses of Shi Eyu, Zhang Chaozhen, and Lu Zhen." After all, Jiangxi's gains and losses are not in the city, but in the Yangtze River. And the Linjiang water war, the water war relied on the water division, and most of the 20,000 people were land divisions. Therefore, the slave suggested that the elite sailors of the two rivers and three provinces should be transferred to form the Yangtze River Naval Division, and Shi Lang, the former Fujian Naval Division, should be appointed as the Commander of the Yangtze River Naval Division. ”

"That's right," Kangxi nodded, "If you want to protect Jiangdong, you must rely on the water division, I dropped Shi Lang to Beijing before I wanted him to take the Yangtze River water division." It's just that in the past two years, Dayuan Island has been very quiet, so I forgot about it. ”

Of course, Zheng Jing on Dayuan Island has stopped, and through the two agents of Chen Yonghua and Zhu Tiangui, his business can go from Guangdong to the Korean Peninsula, and he is still unstable for a few years to make a little more money back and forth?

Kangxi said: "Just recruit Shi Lang to do it. I appointed him to be the Admiral of the Yangtze River Navy Division in person! ”

Suo Etu sighed, now he can finally explain to Shi Lang After Shi Lang arrived in Beijing, he took refuge in Yuwang Fuquan, and got very close to Yang Qilong, and made a lot of money from the sea trade in Tianjin Pass, so he paid a lot of filial piety to Suo Etu, and wanted to buy a sailor to do it!

Suo Etu then said: "As for the commander of the two rivers and three provinces in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the slave recommends Prince Kang Jieshu. ”

Jieshu is a young prince who is close to Kangxi!

If Yue Le, Leerjin, and Ezha were bad before the bad things of the princes, Kangxi would definitely agree to this candidate without hesitation. But for now. It seems that there is no better candidate.

Thinking of this, Kangxi sighed: "Then transfer a few more battle-hardened generals to assist Jieshu, even if it is a party of Aobai, it doesn't matter, anyway, it is Jieshu who is in charge of the army!" ”

"Your Majesty," said the scholar Jin Batai, "the servants recommended Mu Zhan, the deputy capital of Manchuria under the Zhenghuang Banner, and Prince Kang, the former governor of Shaanxi, A Xixi. ”

Kangxi nodded: "Okay, let them go to assist Jieshu!" ”

After Emperor Kangxi finished speaking, it was natural to draft the decree, but the two Hanlin scholars did not move, and they were still lying on their stomachs.

"Master Chen, Xiong Cixu, you. What else is there to ask? Kangxi looked at the two Hanlin and asked.

"Your Majesty," Chen Jingting asked in a low voice, "Are you going to give up Wuchang and Changsha?" ”

"Your Majesty," Xiong Cixu added, "there are also Huangzhou Prefecture, Hanyang Prefecture, De'an Prefecture, Anlu Prefecture, Jingmen Prefecture, Hengzhou Prefecture, Chenzhou, Guiyang Prefecture."

There are so many places to give up!

Kangxi sighed: "Hanyang County and Jiangxia County can give up first, and the governor's yamen, admiral yamen, political envoy secretary yamen, inspection envoy yamen, Xuedao yamen, etc., can be withdrawn to Huangzhou first, and then decided according to the situation." As for the territory of Hanyang Mansion other than Hanyang County, whether Anlu Mansion and Jingmen Prefecture should be given up or not is determined by Jingzhou Daying.

And those yamen in Hunan Province, the territory of Hunan, went to Chenzhou first!

Then I gave Wang Fuchen and Shang Zhixin an order that all the territory in Hunan that they could recover and defend would be under their control!

Let them stop fighting in Guangdong, come to Hunan to help me fight Wu Sangui!

In addition, he also gave Geng Jingzhong and Fan Chengmo a decree, telling them to immediately mobilize and recruit 10,000 Fujian soldiers and send them to Jiangxi to listen to Jieshu's command! ”

On the tenth day of March in the 28th year of Yongchang in Dashun, on the surface of the Wuchang section of the Yangtze River, the fleet composed of countless "temporary warships" covered almost the entire river, and all of them hung up the sails with the words "Fengtian" written on them, and sailed to the hopeful Wuchang City by taking advantage of the southwest wind that had just blown yesterday!

It is not only the "five battalions" under Li Zicheng who are on these sailing ships, but also how many of his "five battalions" are there? Even if there was another wave of troops after the defeat and retreat of Oza, the total strength was only more than 23,000, and there were not so many ships needed at all.

And this time, the population that followed Li Zicheng from Lizhou, Changde, and Jingnan can be as many as 70,000 or 80,000! In addition to the battalion soldiers, there are also the families of the battalion soldiers - these battalion soldiers and their families have divided their fields in Lizhou, Changde, and Jingnan, and they have only received a rent once, and they have to be transferred.

Fortunately, the Fengtian army is in a good situation at the moment, and it seems that it can take Wuchang and Hanyang, and there is still a Yuezhou Mansion in hand, so there is no need to give up for the time being, and some land can be distributed. Therefore, there is no one in the Mukden army who is unwilling. In fact, everyone doesn't care much about the land in Wuchang and Hanyang, what everyone really wants is the land around Beijing!

Li Ziyuan himself sat on a large boat with 2,000 materials, still wearing the iconic white hat and green robe, and a red cloak, and a big man standing behind him, holding a red flag embroidered with the word "Chuang" in his hand.

This banner of "Chuang" has disappeared for more than 20 years, and today it can finally see the light of day!

And its appearance also means that Li Zicheng has "gone ashore" Just yesterday, Li Laishun and Liu Yihu, who marched by land, sent people to report that the Qing army in Jiangxia and Hanyang had run away, and the gentry and people in the two big cities and the nearby town of Hanyang are now learning to sing "Yingchuang Wang"!

Thinking that he would soon be able to return to Wuchang City, which was loyal to King Chuang, Li Zicheng was extremely emotional!

More than 20 years ago, when he ran away from Wuchang City, he was really embarrassed and miserable. At that time, everyone in the Dashun army was really pessimistic and desperate, and no one could accept the reality that the Dashun Dynasty fell from the clouds in such a short time.

And he, Li Zicheng, was completely desperate for the future at that time, and he didn't even have the confidence to continue to fight under the banner of breaking the king, all he thought about all day long was to find a place to hide, but he didn't expect this to hide, it was more than 20 years!

What I didn't expect was that he, Li Zicheng, would have the day to turn around and become the king again!

This time you must do it well, and you can't be a smash again. If you don't do it for yourself, just for the sake of Laishun, a tiger, and a shot, you have to work hard for the orphans who broke into the camp, and you can't let them end up!

Li Zicheng squinted his eyes and was thinking about how to run his Wuchang base in the future, when a familiar singing voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Eat his mother, eat his mother, eat not enough to break the king. Equal fields, as government soldiers, everyone chases the Tartars together."

This is the 28th year version of Dashun Yongchang's "Yingchuang King", and the lyrics are of course different from the Yongchang first year version. The content of not paying grain and being unduly bad is gone, and everyone is not paying grain and is not bad, how can his Yongchang regime be maintained? Won't you have to be tortured? And instead of "not paying grain, not bad", it is "equal land, as a government soldier" - this is actually two supporting policies, if you want to have more land than others, then you have to be a government soldier! After becoming a government soldier, if you make meritorious contributions, you will be able to get more fields. If you don't serve as a soldier, you can only divide the land a little bit, and it is very difficult to have food and clothing, so you can only rent the field of the government soldiers.

As for the torture in Lizhou, Li Zicheng also carried out some policies of confiscating property on a small scale, otherwise he would not be able to make up the expenses for arming more than 10,000 troops. But now he is about to take over Hanyang Town, one of the "four major commercial centers in the world", and of course he has to change his policy.

Therefore, before he entered Wuchang, he sent Huang Zhisheng, Lu Yijia and Xue Dingguo, the prefect of Changde who was persuaded by Huang Zhisheng to surrender, to Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou to announce the new policy of breaking into the king.

King Chuang is now progressing, not robbing money, but collecting taxes instead!

However, Tian still has to be even, if the field is not even, there will be no government soldiers, and without government soldiers, it will not be able to maintain the current good situation!

"King, you see that the Hanyang Wharf outside Wuchang City is full of people welcoming you!"

Huang Wanlin's crying voice rang in Li Zicheng's ears.

Li Zicheng opened his eyes, turned his head to look at the tall city wall not far away and the Hanyang Wharf full of people, laughed a few times, turned back to his three major guards and Huang Wanlin, who had just been crowned the political envoy of Hubei, and said: "After more than 20 years, I have finally returned!" When you come back, you can't go any further. Lao Huang, this time you have to put a little more effort into managing the territory of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Huangzhou. This is our home! ”

"King," Huang Wanlin asked with a smile on his face, "Aren't we going down to Jiangnan immediately?" Jiangnan is the real rich land in the world! ”

"Down to Jiangnan?" Li Zicheng sneered, "Of course I want to, but some people don't want to be smug when they look at it. So it's one thing to think about it, it's one thing to really get Jiangnan, but it's another thing!

But it won't make him proud! If you are not the emperor, it doesn't matter, you have already been the emperor, and you are not very happy. What I am asking for now is two things, one is to overturn the world of Tartars, and Tartars have this world, although it was Wu Sangui who led the wolf into the room, but the forehead did not play well, this is wrong, and the forehead can be changed.

The second is to let the old guys and young guys at the bottom have a wealth and wealth. They are all two generations of people who have followed the forehead to fight the world, worked hard for so many years, and died so many people, there must be a good result, right?

Lao Huang, you write three letters to the forehead, one to Xiangyang to Wu Yingxiong, and tell him that he will be satisfied with the four prefectures of Hankou, Hanyang, Huangzhou, and Yuezhou, and tell him not to come to the forehead, and he will not fight with him! As for Lizhou, Changde, and Jingnan, they were all handed over to him. I told him again that he is not in good health now, and he is old again, and he will be satisfied if he can have a place to provide for the elderly, and he will not go to Jiangnan, let alone Beijing, but will retire in Hankou, Hanyang, Huangzhou, and Yuezhou!

The second letter is for Wang Fuchen, who is also a good man from the camp, and he is willing to form an alliance with him, everyone will deal with the Tartars together, and guard against Wu Sangui's treacherous villain together!

The third letter told them that E and Wu Sangui were not in the same group, and they would not go to Jingzhou, so he should not come to fight Hanyang and Yuezhou! The amount can be clearly written with their well water and not the river water, this they only refer to the tartars of Jingzhou, and other places are not included. ”

Hanzhong, Xiwangfu.

When Wu Sangui saw his triumphant grandson Wu Shifan, his mouth was about to smile crookedly. He originally thought that his eldest son Wu Yingxiong and grandson Wu Shifan were holding Li Jiancheng's script, while Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong were a pair of Li Shimin.

I didn't expect Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan to be quite capable of fighting. The two battles of crossing Daba Mountain and raiding Yunyang and Xiangyang were fought beautifully!

Wu Sangui has already reviewed the map a few times, and there are not many such rushes and neat street battles that can be fought.

Now Wu Yingxiong is the real epicenter of the bear!

The situation is really good!

Now Wu Yingxiong is according to Xiangyang, Li Zicheng is the scourge according to Wuchang, Emperor Kangxi is facing the three major crises of losing Jiangnan, losing the Central Plains, and losing the pass, he has three heads and six arms, and he can't deal with it, right?

If Kangxi has to choose to give up, then he must give up Guanzhong.

And once the Wu family gets Guanzhong, then the next step will be to learn from Li Zicheng and enter Beijing. As long as Beijing is taken, the old Wu family will be able to become the emperor and sit in the world!

When the time comes, Wu Yingxiong will be the prince, and Wu Shifan will be the grandson!

(End of chapter)