"Since the grandson thinks so, then Shijue, you come to the palace!"

Wu Guogui turned his head to look at his son, and by the way, he handed over the most difficult task to him.

"What? My Highness? Wu Shijue was stunned.

This palace army is not easy to be!

Although the opponent is his sister, nephew and old man, the task he undertakes is related to the overall success or failure, so the other side will definitely not leave his hand!

Wu Guogui nodded and said, "Shi Jue, think twice for your father, and only you can take on the responsibility of the palace army this time. This time the responsibility of the palace army is directly related to the life and death of my Great Zhou, and it is difficult for non-generals to be responsible for it, and it is difficult for non-clans to be responsible. Shi Jue, you have a talent, and it is my Wu Zhou clan, you don't want to serve as the palace army, and the army of the Ming Dynasty and Guangdong is delayed to go north, looking at the army, who else can be deserved? ”

Wu Shijue frowned deeply, and already understood: "Father, the battle of Hunan is a decisive battle?" ”

Wu Guogui nodded lightly and said: "This time, Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan entered Hunan with the might of Jiangxi's great victory, and now our prince is trapped in Jiujiang, and the emperor is seriously ill in Hengyang. Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan have been lucky in the past few years, and they are proud! How could they miss such an opportunity?

As far as we are concerned, now the three towns of Jiangxia, Hanyang, and Hankou are still there, and Jiujiang can still support it for a while. For the time being, the Ming army could not advance by land and water, and their grain routes were not smooth, so it was difficult to last in Hunan, so they could only seek a quick solution. And Hunan is the home of our army, and the grain, grass and people can be replenished on the spot, so the supply advantage is mine!

King Qin's army is about to enter Hunan, our army can at least concentrate tens of thousands of troops for a decisive battle, if we can temporarily block one of the two Ming armies with a strong one, and then concentrate our forces on the other road to start a battle, then the strength advantage of the first battle in Hunan is also on our side!

Shi Jue, do you now know how important your palace mission is? ”

I have to say that Wu Guogui's campaign organization ability is second to none in today's Wu Zhou army. Suddenly, he keenly found the only opportunity for Wu Zhoujun to recover the situation from the current rather unfavorable situation - that is, while Wu Sangui was still hanging up and Wu Yingxiong was still dying, he seized the time to concentrate the Chu Palace, the Qin Palace, and the Son of Heaven's pro-army to meet with the main force of the Ming army that invaded Hunan from Jiangxi.

And in order to ensure that they can have superior forces in the battle, they scored all the way to the elite to delay the Ming Guangdong National People's Army from Guangdong to the north.

It's just that the difficulty of leading the army to delay the Ming army in Guangdong is not a little bit. Guangdong is an "old republican area", and once the Guangdong National People's Army is mobilized, the number of people will definitely be very large!

In order to ensure that more troops could be concentrated on the northern front, Wu Guogui could not leave too many troops to delay the Ming army on the southern front. That's why he wanted to give this task to Wu Shifan, so he couldn't do it, so let this grandson be the king of the West of the Ming Dynasty!

But Wu Shifan is unwilling, so he can only let Wu Shijue go out, and it seems that only the two of them can complete this kind of task with extremely high risks and little benefits.

"Father," Wu Shijue knew that he couldn't refuse, so he had to grit his teeth and say, "Then let's defeat the Ming army from Nanxiong first, and then scare off the Ming army from Lianshan." Then you led the main force to the north quickly, and the child led 20,000 men to force Qujiang in the south, playing your banner, bluffing, and posing as if you were going to fight Guangdong again, which should delay the Ming army in Guangdong for some days. ”

"Okay!" Wu Guogui smiled and nodded, "Shijue, you have a good plan, then from now on, until your father goes north, you will be in charge, and your father will be watching from the side!" ”

He is trying to train his son's battle organization skills! It's one thing to make plans, it's another thing to really organize a battle - this time Wu Guogui's battle to the south was a battle that was not organized by both warring parties. Wu Guogui and Wu Xiaosuo's father and daughter were filial piety, and they deceived each other for several months, and finally Wu Guogui had to take a risk because of Wu Sangui's fiasco in Jiangxi, and fell into Wu Xiaosuo's trap.

However, because He Tianran's campaign organization ability was much worse than Wu Guogui's, he did not organize the campaign to encircle and annihilate Wu Guogui, and he was let run away with a negligence.

Now it's Wu Shijue's turn to perform!

Wu Guogui's arrangement is also well-intentioned.

If Wu Shijue can organize this difficult battle of the retarded Guangdong army to the north, even if he takes refuge in Li Yat-sen in the future, he will be of great use - the three armies are easy to obtain, one general is hard to find, and the handsome talent is even more difficult to find than the general!

Moreover, Wu Shijue himself is also a shareholder of the Republic of Daming, one of the earliest members of the Heaven and Earth Society, and the uncle of Li Zhongshan, who belongs to the kind of "Republic Daming" option! If he still has handsome talents, he will definitely be able to show his skills when he throws over. Not only can you be the king of the west, but you can also be a king of the west with real power!

Hengyang, the Great Zhou Emperor is here.

In Wu Sangui's palace study, there is a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine. Wu Sangui, who is already a little old, is silently looking at his second son Wu Yingqi. The troops brought by Wu Yingqi from Shaanxi are now crossing the river in Jingzhou. And he himself came to Hengyang quickly and met Wu Sangui, who was already terminally ill. Liu Xuanchu stood on the side, his face full of sorrow.

The hall was quiet, and only Wu Sangui's coughing sound was heard. Wu Sangui weakly picked up a bowl of black Chinese medicine, frowned and drank it, only to feel a little more comfortable, and no longer coughed.

Wu Sangui put down the medicine bowl, covered his face with a pair of hands full of old age spots, and sighed deeply: "If you are not careful, you will lose all the plates. The old man has fought all his life, but he can't fight a water war, but he didn't expect this water war to be so difficult to fight, those building ships look big and strong, how can they not beat those old lock boats that can't move themselves when they are against the wind and current? ”

Seeing Wu Sangui so entangled in this matter, Wu Yingqi was also quite speechless, he came all the way from Shaanxi to Hunan, working day and night, not to listen to the old man say such remorseful words.

"Father, don't be sad, although our sailors can't defeat the Ming army, my son has brought a lot of Ganshan cavalry this time!" Wu Yingqi patted his chest and said, "These cavalrymen are good at cooperating with artillery, musketeers, and pikemen, and they are all quite sharp when they face the Shangye Erqiang, Heshuote, Junggar and other departments in the Western Regions!" The Ming army has very few cavalry, and there is a shortage of horses, and there must not be too many artillery pieces that can pull Hunan, so our advantage is still great! ”

When Wu Sangui's army defeated Jiangxi and retreated to Hunan, in the end his fateful place of Hengyang, Wu Yingqi's son Wu Shicong used only 10,000 or 20,000 troops to kill in the Western Regions. Equipped with a small number of flintlock muskets, the Wu Zhou army, which could use musketeers, pikemen, artillery, and cavalry, and could launch a large-scale spear charge, could crush the armies of Yeerqiang and Heshuote, and even the Dzungars could not resist it.

Hearing his son say this, Wu Sangui also seemed very pleased, and said to Wu Yingqi with a smile: "The prince is trapped in Jiujiang, you should encourage him."

As soon as he said this, Liu Xuanchu, who was standing on the side, changed his face greatly. And Wu Yingqi knelt down even more: "Father, the son doesn't dare to be Zhu Gaoxu!" ”

Wu Sangui waved his hand and said, "Second brother, do you think that if Zhu Di can't win Zhu Yunwen smoothly, but plays a game between the north and the south and the Ming Dynasty, who will inherit the unification?" Is it a prince who can't fight, or a Han king who can fight well? Although Hunan had the advantage in the First World War, Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan were not so easy to eliminate, and they could at most withdraw to Jiangxi. The third child's sneak attack on Guangdong did not succeed, and he is now retreating to Hunan. And the Yangtze River waterway is now firmly controlled by the Ming army's naval divisions. The three towns of Jiangxia, Hanyang, and Hankou also seem to be difficult to preserve. Therefore, even if the battle of Hunan is won, we are still at a disadvantage, it seems that I am not capable of handing over a good country to you, and I can only leave a mess for you and Shicong to clean up! This mess can't be cleaned up by your eldest brother! ”

"Father, and grandson!" Wu Yingqi reminded in a low voice.

Wu Sangui shook his head: "If he can't wait until the battle in Hunan is over, I will arrange for him to go to Nanjing to vote for Li Zhongshan, so you don't have to worry about him." ”

Listening to Old Man Wu's tired tone, Ma Bao and Liu Xuanchu were all sour in their hearts, and they almost burst into tears. Both of them already felt that Wu Sangui would die soon, and they could also feel that Wu Sangui was already discouraged about Wu Zhou's future.

Maybe it's because he feels like his days are running out, right?

But then again, Wu Sangui's death at this time is indeed very detrimental to the overall situation!

Because Wu Zhou does not count Wu Sangui himself, there have always been three major factions, namely the prince faction, the Qin royal faction, and the Chu royal faction, and these three factions are very independent. This time, Wu Sangui did not bring Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui to Jiangxi, but only Wu Yingxiong, in fact, it was to support the prince's lineage, so as to create favorable conditions for Wu Yingxiong to succeed in the future.

But no one expected that Wu Zhoujun would actually lose the water battle that he should not lose when he had an advantage. Playing himself alive has become Chen Youliang's second!

Therefore, Wu Sangui had no choice but to support Wu Yingqi to take over, so as not to put his life's foundation into water in the future!

Wu Sangui felt very tired at this time - he had been recuperating in Hengyang during this time, and he had planned to move to Jingzhou or Xiangyang on the north bank of the Yangtze River when he was ready. But since he arrived in Hengyang, the disease seems to be getting worse and worse

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui sighed, then pointed at Liu Xuanchu and said to Wu Yingqi: "The third child has already formulated a decisive battle strategy. I have already let Xuan Chu see it, he thinks it's good, you can also take a look, if you think it's okay, just follow it! But the boss of this battle is still you, fight hard, Da Zhou depends on you! ”

He was already a little tired, and waved his hand to Wu Yingqi and Liu Xuanchu, "You guys go and discuss, I'm tired!" ”

Hunan and Jiangxi borders, plugging Lingguan Town.

The sound of the cannon fell silent suddenly, followed by the rhythmic sound of drums and the sparse sound of gunfire.

Accompanied by the sound of drums, advancing unhurriedly towards the collapse of the wall of the town of Jilingguan, where the remnants of Jieshu were guarded, were two whole battalions of flintlock muskets that formed a charging column. These two flintlock battalions are from the Model First Town and the Model Second Town, respectively, and these two towns, together with the Model Third Town on the Guangdong side, are what we are today. Perhaps they are the only three division-level combat units in the world today that use flintlock pistols as the main combat weapon of infantry!

And those bits and pieces of gunfire were not fired by the advancing flintlock pishiers, but by the stragglers scattered in front of the flintlock musketeers. These stragglers had only one task, that is, to physically eliminate Wu Zhoujun of Jieshu's department who dared to fill the gap in the two city walls that were bombarded by artillery.

In fact, there are not many people who have such a head iron. It's all that Mangyitu's men! Jieshu's soldiers and Daming didn't have that much hatred, but now it's just because of Wu Sangui's strict orders that they have to insert Lingguan to resist a little.

Moreover, Wu Sangui's envoys had already told them that as long as they could build the town of Jiling Pass for five days, they would let them go north to join Kangxi - Jieshu and his banner soldiers were also discouraged by Wu Zhou! This Wu Sangui is too unpopular, and he uses them as cannon fodder! When they followed Jieshu to retreat to Jiangxi, there were at least 20,000 banner troops with a full content. By now, the number of people has been less than 5,000. After surviving today (today is the fifth day), and then being harvested by Li Fuchen's cavalry, I don't know if there will be two thousand left? It's miserable!

The flag army who desperately tried to plug the mouth was quickly knocked down by the stragglers with rifled guns, and then there was a piercing suona, the flintlock pissiers of the two battalion columns shouted together, and the more than 1,000 soldiers in red scarves and red robes held flintlock muskets with bayonets, maintaining a fairly complete column, like two red tides, rushing towards the gap in the wall of Jilingguan Town.

A cannonball flew and landed on the side of the charger, then bounced again and flew in the direction of a deserted person. During the whole process, none of the charging Red Turban Army bent down to dodge, and no one slowed down. And this last shell of the defenders seems to announce that this pass at the turn of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces is about to change hands.

Li Zhongzheng gasped deeply, holding a sword in his hand, walked to the side of the column of flintlock musketeers of one of the battalions, pointed the sword forward, and ordered loudly: "Great Ming Wansheng. Rush with me! ”

With his shout, the battalion of flintlock pikemen rushed unstoppably into the gap, and a red flag then fluttered high on the walls of the Lingling Pass.

Li Fuchen, who was watching the battle behind the front of the Ming army outside the city of Jiling Pass, put down his binoculars, grinned, and asked Li Zhongshan beside him: "How is the second and third children?" He's a fierce general, isn't he? ”

Li Zhongshan nodded and said with a smile: "It's not bad, the pure team that has learned to command the flintlock pistol will go back and give him a general soldier!" ”

Li Fuchen nodded with satisfaction, and just wanted to finalize this matter with his son, Master Yu's voice suddenly sounded behind the two of them: "King Nan, general. Finally found out where Wu Sangui is? ”

This is located in the master who is specifically responsible for finding Wu Sangui, from Nanchang to find the Lingling Pass, and it is almost in Hunan, so it can be found.

Li Fuchen asked, "Where is he?" Wouldn't it have slipped back to Jiangxia? ”

"No, he didn't go back to Jiangxia." Master Yu said, "He went to Hengyang!" ”

"What?" Li Zhongshan was shocked, "Where did he go?" ”

"Hengyang. The capital county of Hengzhou Prefecture. Master Yu smiled, "I didn't expect it, right?" ”

I really didn't expect it. This is his life! Li Zhongshan said: Wu Sangui entered Hengyang. Is this still going to be good? Specifying can't be better! He now has such a big territory and so many big cities, but he went around and around and went to Hengyang, and this Hengyang has a suction force on him?

"By the way, he went to Hengyang to supervise Wu Guogui's war!" Li Fuchen had already guessed the purpose of Wu Sangui's trip to Hengyang, "He must be worried that Wu Guogui and Xiao Su have a deep relationship between father and daughter, and he can't be ruthless, right?" ”

Because the transportation between Jiangxi and Guangdong has been opened, Li Fuchen already knows that Wu Guogui's sneak attack on Guangdong was pitted by Wu Xiaosu.

Master Yu shook his head and said, "He may have gone to his son to recuperate, Wu Guogui moved his residence from Changsha to Hengyang last year. Wu Sangui seemed to be seriously ill and was not well, so he went to his son's territory to raise him. ”

Wu Sangui is sick and goes to Hengyang to recuperate? Li Yat-sen said: Is this to turn a minor illness into a major illness? No, I'm not going to Beijing anymore with 'Zhongshan' and 'Shikai'! The next time you play Beijing, let Zhongzheng go, you will definitely win!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan first looked forward to looking at the good brother who was standing in the distance at the gap in the city wall and commanding the battle, and then said to Li Fuchen: "Father, Wu Sangui is stranded in Hengyang, it seems that his fate will not be long in coming, so we just took the opportunity to enter Hunan and lay the foundation for the vast situation of the lake in one fell swoop." ”

Li Fuchen looked back at Master Yu, and Master Yu smiled and said, "King, don't miss the opportunity!" We have 100,000 troops on hand, and there are no less than 100,000 troops that Guangdong can use to advance northward! Li Zicheng and Li Zhongwang besieged Jiujiang with more than 70,000 soldiers. On the Yangtze River, there are also Admiral Liu's sailors. If the three-way army will attack Huguang, it will be 300,000 people! ”

Li Fuchen frowned slightly, the 300,000 people that Master Yu said, there are really a few heads! However, the armies of the three routes are too scattered, the north road is still in Jiujiang, the middle road is in Hunan and Jiangxi, and the south road is still in Guangdong, and it is impossible to support each other.

He was thinking about whether to slow down and wait for Wu Sangui to hang up before entering the army, Li Zhongshan had already spoken: "This battle can be fought!" Although the three-way army is relatively scattered, it doesn't matter. Because we are enough to defeat Wu Sangui's entire army in Hunan all the way. Moreover, the Seventh Army on the Guangdong side should be able to contain Wu Guogui, and Wu Sangui can mobilize extremely limited troops. ”

Master Yu also meant this, and said with a smile: "We don't have to go to Hengyang, just hit Changsha directly." Let's fight Changsha and transfer all the troops that Wu Sangui can mobilize in Huguang, let's use Changsha as a boiler and give them a pot of stew! ”

Li Fuchen nodded, already convinced: "This is okay. The terrain of Changsha is indeed like a cauldron, how many Wu Sangui's soldiers come, let's stew him as much as possible! And Changsha is not far from Mubu Mountain, where it is the territory of Li Zhongwang's iron fight! ”

(End of chapter)