"Your Majesty, Dingxi General Lai Ta, University Scholar Batai, Suo Etu, Li Fei, Du Lide, Xiang Kana, Feng Pu, Chen Tingjing, Secretary of the Ministry of Households, Mi Sihan, Secretary of the Military Department, Xiong Cixu, Bachelor of Hanlin, Mo Luo, Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Jia Hanfu, Governor of Shaanxi, A Xixi, Governor of Gansu, and Guanyin Bao, Minister in Charge of the New Army, have all arrived."

The voice of Xiao Guizi's father-in-law sounded in Emperor Kangxi's ears again, Kangxi put down the recital in his hand, and ordered with a smile: "Announce them in." ”

"Huh."

Xiao Guizi's father-in-law answered, and bent down to exit the south study, and after a while, these Qing Dynasty ministers who had just reported to him rushed in, and knelt down on both sides of the "Longxi Battle Situation Map" spread on the ground of the south study.

Although in the past few months, the situation in the world has undergone great changes one after another, and Huguang and Liangguang are about to become a pot of porridge. But in the eyes of Kang Mazi, who is sitting in Xi'an, everything is still under control. And, as long as Broni comes, everything will be fine!

This is not blind confidence, but very reasonable confidence!

First of all, after Wu Yingxiong attacked Yunyang and Xiangyang, and Li Zicheng took Wuchang along the river, there were no two major events that were enough to subvert the Qing Dynasty.

This is of course thanks to the wise leadership and timely response of Emperor Kangxi himself!

Kangxi's strategy of transferring Yue Le into Jingzhou to organize defense and sending Jieshu to Jiujiang to hold the Yangtze River is obviously very correct.

After Yue Le Pegasus entered Jingzhou, the Qing army in Jingzhou, which was originally in chaos, was quickly straightened out.

Yue Le first used a small number of troops to hold Jingmen Prefecture, the gateway to the north of Jingzhou, and built forts and pontoon bridges in Shipai City, Neifang Mountain and Jiukou in Anlu Prefecture, blocking the waterway of the Han River, blocking Wu Yingxiong's southward waterway, and also ensuring the communication between Jingzhou and Anlu Mansion and De'an Mansion.

Subsequently, Yue Le sent troops to Haoxuekou, Shashikou, Canggang, Dongshi, Baiyang City and other ferries on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou, and collected all the ships that could be collected on the Jingjiang River and burned them, temporarily forming a situation of confrontation across the river with Wu Guogui, who lacked ships - Wu Guogui could of course collect ships from the Xiangjiang River, Yuanjiang River, and Dongting Lake, but the mouth of the Dongting water system into the Yangtze River in Yuezhou was blocked by Liu Yihu, a general under Li Zicheng. Therefore, Wu Guogui also "has no way into the river" for the time being.

At the same time, Yue Le also sent an envoy to Jiugongshan to express his willingness to live in harmony with Li Zicheng. In order to show his sincerity, Yue Le also ordered the Qing army and the Qing government to withdraw from Anlu (the capital county of De'an Province), Yunmeng, and Yingcheng in the south of Hanyang and De'an provinces.

Although Li Zicheng did not agree to anything, he also tacitly ordered Liu Yihu not to attack the Qing army in Jingzhou again.

After reaching a de facto rapprochement with Li Zicheng, the situation of the Qing army in Jingzhou changed greatly, and there was also a scene of peaceful coexistence on the southern line of Huguang - the Qing, Wu, and Shun all did not invade each other, as if there was no war at all.

And once the Qing army in Jingzhou is stabilized, Wu Yingxiong in Xiangyang will not be able to make any big waves, and his little courage has been exhausted when he attacked Yunyang and Xiangyang. Now that it is sandwiched by the Qing army in Nanyang and the Qing army in Jingzhou and Jingmen, it is good to be able to stabilize the situation.

Therefore, Huguang's side, under the wise and decisive decision of Emperor Kangxi, can be regarded as temporarily stabilized!

Secondly, the situation on the Guanlong front, where Kangxi personally sits, is quite stable.

Wu Sangui's "one out of Qishan" is a step-by-step approach to farming, ploughing and fighting. It took more than a year for this Qishan to go out before Wu Jun arrived at the foot of Qishan Fort in Xihe County.

Of course, Qishan is not a natural danger, Qishan Fort is also a small city built on the mountain, and it can't stop Wu Yingqi's army at all. What really stopped Wu Yingqi was the supply of the army!

According to Yue Le's previous deployment, when the Qing army abandoned Liangdang and Huixian in Jiezhou and Qinzhou, as well as Xihe County, which was subordinate to Gongchang Prefecture, they did as much as possible to destroy and relocate the population.

Therefore, it was difficult for Wu Yingqi's army to supply on the spot, and it was impossible to carry out the transfer from the rear because of the ruins of Sichuan.

However, Wu Yingqi still found a way to overcome the difficulties, that is, to occupy a piece of land and run a piece of land - those poor mountains and bad rivers in Longxi, and the terrain is complex, this folk customs are of course very fierce. Therefore, Yue Le can only move away from the residents who live on a small piece of flat land near the county seat, and he can't move the people in the mountains.

After Wu Yingqi occupied those territories, he tried every means to invite the people from the mountains out, and then gave them the fields on the flat land, and also incorporated the elite into the army, and promised them the fertile soil of the Sichuan Basin as a reward for their post-war merits.

Although Wu Yingqi's method is progressing very slowly, it is progressing very steadily, and it can be promoted step by step, little by little. And once enough soldiers, horses, food, and grass are saved, the progress of the Wu army can also be greatly accelerated.

And Xihe County, which was occupied by Wu Yingqi after the beginning of spring this year, is likely to become a key point for Wu Jun to speed up the progress!

Because this Xihe County, located south of Qishanbao, is also a barren place, but because it is located in a low-lying area, it is still much stronger than other places around, the terrain is not so steep, and it is easy to collect water sources. Therefore, it has always been a grain-producing county, and a large number of terraced fields and slopes have been opened, and Wu Yingqi has raided Xihe before the sowing of the twelfth year of Kangxi began. Then immediately the personnel were organized into production, sowing a large amount of spring wheat and millet.

Once these crops mature, they will be enough to support tens of thousands of troops to cross the Qishan Mountains and enter Qinzhou north!

That is to say, if the wind and rain in the Xihe area are smooth this year, after the autumn harvest, there will be a big war in Qinzhou!

"Raita, this is the reinforcement you want!"

Kangxi took the fold handed to Xi'an by Bulni, and said with a smile: "The outer domain Chahar alone has produced 5,000 Mongolian cavalry. I also intend to order the mobilization of the Eight Banners of Chahar (there are also eight Banners of Chahar) and 15,000 cavalry of Tumut, all of whom will be handed over to Bulni, the Prince of Chahar, to command!

In addition, with Prince Chahar taking the lead, those Mongolian princes in Ordos and Alxa Arut must not dare not rely on not sending troops. Even Qinghai and Shuote will send troops to help, and we estimate that soon there will be 30,000 or 40,000 Mongolian cavalry to the Shaanxi-Gansu front. Now we don't lack troops, right? ”

"No more, no more." The old man Muduru, who is already old, but still looks stout and mighty. When Laita heard Kangxi say this, she was so smiling that she couldn't close her mouth.

Kangxi nodded, and asked again: "I heard that these Mongols are not very capable of fighting, can they be used to deal with Wu Sangui's elite soldiers?" ”

Wita said with a smile: "They can't deal with the elite soldiers, but as long as they can go around to Wu Yingqi's back to burn and loot when the elite soldiers on both sides of the front line are facing each other, it is enough!"

Because Longxi lacks food and population, Wu Yingqi can only use the ancient method of integrating soldiers and farmers, and fighting and ploughing. The advantage of this method is that all the people are soldiers, and it is not wrong to farm and fight wars, and each person can use two or three again. This is the trick he can rely on five or six small mountainous counties to support tens of thousands of troops!

However, the weaknesses of this method of integrating soldiers and peasants are also very prominent, one is that the agricultural time cannot be delayed, and the other is that it is easy to ignore his elite soldiers, once they all reach the front line, the rear will be empty. In the area south of Qishan, although the terrain is dangerous and the ravines are vertical and horizontal, it has been opened up for 2,000 years, and many mountain roads and trails have been opened. Wu Yingqi's soldiers are few, and they can't be blocked at all, and after the peasant soldiers in Jiezhou, Xihe and other places are recruited, there are only some old and weak women and children left, and they can only be bullied by the Mongols!

Once these old and weak women and children and the villages they were guarding were plundered by the Mongols, it would be impossible for Wu Yingqi not to retreat! And as soon as he retreats, our chance to chase and destroy him will come! ”

Kangxi waited for Lai Ta to finish speaking, then glanced at the military generals present, and said with a smile: "Do you think General Dingxi's method is good?" ”

Of course Rita's approach is good. Just look at Kangxi's facial expressions!

Otherwise, will he be able to smile from ear to ear?

However, there were also some important ministers of the Qing Dynasty who felt that it was not very good, that is, Wang Jizhen's father-in-law Jia Hanfu and the eldest brother Guanyin Baoguan who was kicked by Wang Zhongxiao and later became a good brother.

"Your Majesty, the minions feel that there is still something for the Mongols to rob the people of Longxi. It is detrimental to Your Majesty, your Shengming, after all, the people of Longxi are also the people of the Qing Dynasty! ”

Jia Han Fu Jia is good everywhere, but there are two shortcomings, one is not filial to his father - he doesn't know how to be more corrupt for his children and grandchildren; The second is that he is not evil for officials - although he is a martial artist, but later he became stupid when he read and read, and he really believes in the set of "the king is light and the people are important".

"Your Majesty," said Guanyin Baoye, who was stupid in chanting the Buddha, "The minions are also Mongols, and they know very well the problems of these Mongolian cavalry. They were unpaid to serve as soldiers, and the profits from sending troops to fight depended on plunder. Of course, the emperor will definitely pay them. But they have become accustomed to looting, and if they are not strictly restrained, they must be encouraged to rob, for fear that they will not be able to restrain it, and the people in the jurisdiction of the court will also be harmed. ”

Kangxi listened to the words of these two people, and his face was already a little ugly.

Can the people of Longxi still be regarded as the people of the Qing Dynasty? All soldiers and peasants are united to help Wu Sangui fight the world!

Who else said that he Kangxi was going to pay the Mongols?

Thirty or forty thousand Mongol cavalry!

Just according to the standard of double salary in wartime, two portions of the horse soldiers of the green battalion will be paid, and they will get more than 100,000 taels of silver a month!

Moreover, the battle of Longxi is a protracted war, and if it is fought for another year or two, he will not have to spend millions of dollars?

The current imperial court. No money!

If it weren't for the good market of selling officials, it would have been unsustainable!

Thinking of this, Kangxi replied to Jia Han: "The art of war is cloudy, Ci is not in charge of the army. You are getting older, and you are becoming more and more soft-hearted, and you are not suitable to lead troops in Shaanxi. Mingzhu sent someone to fly 800 miles to me and sent me Wang Fuchen, Wang Jizhen, Wang Zhongxiao, Kong Jiqing, Wang Jiyong, Liu Jinzhong, and they asked for the envoy of the festival and the minister of Nanyang, as well as the minister of Tiannan Zhenfu. ”

Of course, Kangxi didn't want to seal so many knots, and when he just received the question book, he almost didn't lift the table.

But the situation is pressing!

Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao, and Wang Jizhen are already loyal ministers in what they are doing now.

If Kangxi is embarrassed, then it will be time to slap people in the face!

Moreover, Wang Fuchen and his grandfather are far away in Liangguang, and it is basically impossible to participate in the battle of the world, which is the future of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Jia Hanfu sighed, with a reluctant expression: "The slave commands." ”

He was reluctant on his face, but in his heart he was angry and his life was saved!

In the future, I will retire in Guangdong!

Kangxi swept him coldly, and thought: Wang Fuchen, this guy is short-sighted, he divided the family for his sons early, and he also gave the best Guangzhou Mansion in Liangguang to his second son Wang Zhongxiao. This is the way to get rid of chaos!

You old guy just went to assist your son-in-law Wang Jizhen, and also gave the Wang family a prince to take the heir, it is best to make it the same as Yuan Shao's family in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!

After cursing the old Wang family in his heart, Kangxi said to Guanyin Bao again: "Guanyin Bao, what you said also has some truth, then I will send you to be the minister of the Qin Mission, and lead the Mongolian troops and horses together with Bulni." ”

"Your Majesty," the scholar Suo Etu heard Kangxi say this, and quickly interjected, "You said that you want Burni and Guanyin Bao to lead the Mongolian troops and horses?" ”

"Is there something wrong?" Kangxi asked, "Isn't Brni the Prince of Chahar?" Isn't Chahar the central Mongolian household? The Qing Dynasty, which was under his command of the Mongolian ministries to serve the people, was the Qing Dynasty of the Manchurian and Mongolian communist worlds, and there were also Mongolians. Now I want to fight Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng with Burnie! When the world is calmed down, I will reward Bullny again! ”

Hearing Kangxi say this, the ministers present were speechless.

The Manchu and Mongolian families were originally one of the fundamentals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's rule of the world, and when the world was unstable, the Manchurian family would eat more and occupy more, and they had to guard against Mongolia.

And now, it's time for the Mongols to contribute!

"Minion Command!" Guanyin Bao had no choice but to receive Kangxi's will.

Kangxi smiled: "Guanyin Bao, then you hurry up and get on the road. Burney is visiting him in Beijing these days, Ama Abu Nai, you should hurry up and meet him. Tell him everything I mean! ”

The descendants of Genghis Khan, the descendants of Kublai Khan, and the head of the Golden Family. Burnny, at this time, was leading a group of Mongol cavalry, immediately outside the Anding Gate of the "Great Capital" city that haunted him and was not yet loyal to him.

He came once last year, also in the name of tribute.

He's a Mongolian dutiful son! Unlike those Dai Xiaozi who wanted to inherit the family business as soon as possible, he really wanted to take his father Abu Nai, who was under house arrest by the Qing court, back to the grassland to share power.

However, his filial piety made the heads of the Qing Dynasty who ruled the world unable to understand.

Anyway, Fuquan and the old empress dowager Bumu Butai, who stayed in Beijing, couldn't understand it. If it weren't for the Qing court's seizure of Abu Nai, when would Burni become the prince? This Abu Nai's body is very good, if you really let him go back, maybe he will live to be seventy or eighty, what kind of prince are you Burnie? I can't enjoy it anymore.

So even though Burney repeatedly said that he wanted to take back his father, Fuquan and Bumu Butai thought that he was a "pretending to be a filial son".

Aren't you just a wicked person? You know, just dismiss Burney's request!

But Burnie's idea is not like this, he is a true filial son!

When he saw the majestic and magnificent city of Beijing, he hated it!

"Lord Wang, look, that's Lord Yu! Prince Yu personally went out of the city to greet you! ”

Talking to Brni was an old man dressed as a scholar and sitting on a slide bar. It was not a civilian Confucian minister, but Daniel Zhang, the newly appointed commander of the Nine Gates and commander of the fifth battalion of patrols!

It is the leader of the four Han generals of Hexi, who are famous in history!

This old man is a bit similar to Na Jia Hanfu, and they both like the tone of a warlord pretending to be a scholar. Moreover, his leg was seriously injured in the past battles, and he was so lame that he could not ride a horse, and he had difficulty even standing, so he had always dressed up as an old scholar and marched in a sedan chair to fight. I also like to write poems while leading soldiers!

is such a person, and now he is the number one leader of Beijing's urban defense!

I can't look at it!

Burney glanced at the old man, and then at Zhao Liangdong, another military general who had been sent by Fuquan to meet Bulni. This looks dignified, as if he is a good general, but he doesn't have any serious errands, he is a military training minister, and he doesn't have a few military training, so he can only take the slaves in the palace and the public mansion in Beijing to practice so-so.

The current city of Beijing is very empty, only the five battalions of the green battalion commanded by the paralyzed general and a group of slaves commanded by Zhao Liangdong. Don't miss the opportunity, lose it again!

(End of chapter)