"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible to give up the capital, if the Qing Dynasty has the land of Yanyun, and the imperial court is still in Beijing, then it is still orthodox in the world, the hope of the scholars, if it is to retreat north to the grassland, will it not be the Northern Yuan Dynasty?"

The first to be listed was Dong He, who was recalled from Sichuan.

Because Sun Shiyi's crisp surrender to the Ming Dynasty frightened the Qing court.

Therefore, Qianlong did not dare to set up any more Sichuan regimental training chief officers.

Sichuan is now nominally still part of the Qing Dynasty, but in fact it is already a situation where regimental training is divided and the dragons are leaderless - there is no one who can actually speak to the people, and this large and small regimental training armed pattern in Sichuan will make it more troublesome for the Ming Dynasty to collect Sichuan.

Of course, it's just trouble, because Daming has more important things to do now.

Therefore, Sichuan Province is still under the banner of the Qing Dynasty for the time being, but the Qing Dynasty is now unable to order Sichuan Province, nor can it levy grain and husbands from Sichuan.

And Dong He, who returned to the center, has actually been marginalized, although he is a military aircraft, but he has not been summoned by Qianlong for a long time to ask for advice - Sun Shiyi's surrender made the Qing court a little jealous of the use of Hanchen.

Qianlong frowned when he heard this.

What happened to Beiyuan?

What happened to Beiyuan?

The general of the Ming army, Lan Yu, led the army to fight in the fishing sea, and completely exterminated the Yuan room in the first battle. The Ming army received more than 120 people, including the second son Di Baonu and the late prince Bili, the bald concubine and the princess, 3,000 officials, more than 70,000 sergeants and men, 150,000 horses, cattle, alpacas, and seals, books, gold and silver seals, etc.

After this battle, the Northern Yuan suffered a devastating blow.

Since then, Mongolia has been mired in continuous internal strife, and although there have been several brief reunifications during this period, it has not been able to restore the momentum of the Great Mongolia in the end.

If the Qing Dynasty retreated to the grassland like the Yuan Dynasty, I am afraid that it would be worse than the Northern Yuan royal family.

The Golden Family is at least the Khan of the Mongols.

What about this Manchurian Eight Banners?

Aixin Jueluo's family has no wealth in the Central Plains, why should they order the Mongolian tribes?

"Then between you, what about the Qing Dynasty?"

Qianlong asked.

"Fight! I still have hundreds of thousands of male soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, including no less than 200,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, and there are male cities to rely on, backed by the desert grassland, crisscrossing thousands of miles, why can't we fight in Yanyun? It can be divided into Shanhaiguan, Zhengding Mansion, and Gongwei Jingshi. ”

Dong He said loudly.

When Qianlong heard this, his face showed a haze color.

Good for you.

You're a traitor.

This is to make my Eight Banners elite as much as possible, so that the Han people can dominate the world!

Many Manchurian ministers also turned gloomy when they heard this.

But they didn't dare to say anything.

Dong Huan is shouting war, everywhere is for the Qing Dynasty, what can you say? Do you dare to say that the warfighter kills?

Wouldn't this Qing Emperor become a Zhao Structure?

Dong Huan has been famous for thousands of years.

It's really bad, in order to clear his name a little bit, he doesn't care about the life and death of the children of the Eight Banners!

"Don't fight!"

Ah Gui couldn't help but say.

As the commander of the army, he knows too well that in the current situation, fighting in the north and south is looking for death.

And the Qing Dynasty can't fight anymore.

If the land of money and food is lost, how can it still fight?

You can't let a soldier go to war hungry, right?

"Why can't you fight? I have 200,000 heavenly soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, are you still afraid of going against the Ming? ”

Dong He asked rhetorically.

Since the Ming Dynasty in Guangdong.

The Hanchen in the Qing court did not dare to speak softly.

Now the Hanchen are a little open-minded.

Anyway, the world is full of you.

Let's just shout and shout and finish.

Agui Yusai.

Why can't you fight?

Isn't that obvious?

Because the Eight Banners are no longer heavenly soldiers.

Now it is not the Eight Banners that are invincible, but the Ming Army.

Even the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers not only can't beat the Ming Army, but they may be a little crotched when facing the Heavenly Mansion Soldiers.

But the Eight Banners collapsed, not the Heavenly Soldiers, this matter was like the emperor's new clothes in the Qing Dynasty.

Many people know about it, but they just can't say it.

Whoever says this will die.

But since you are all heavenly soldiers, why can't 200,000 heavenly soldiers guard Shanhaiguan and Zhengding Mansion?

Ah Gui's face was pale, and he stared at Dong He silently.

Dong He sighed in his heart.

At the beginning, Qianlong left him in Sichuan, just to let him go to Sichuan to train and the Ming army desperately.

As a result, Sun Shiyi was smart, and he surrendered directly with his backhand, and he also fished out a Ming British duke.

Just when Dong Huan was waiting for the Ming army to enter Sichuan.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came out of Tongguan, the Central Plains fought again, and the Ming army took the opportunity to open up another battlefield in Liaodong.

As a result, all forces do not pay much attention to Sichuan.

And Dong Huan also got rid of the position of Sichuan governor and chief military officer of Sichuan regimental training because of Sun Shiyi's matter, and was recalled to the capital.

The position of the Duke of the Kingdom flew like this.

There are not tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in hand.

Why did Da Ming give you the position of the Duke of the Kingdom?

It's a shame.

"Your Majesty, the current situation is a bit similar to that of the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu, but now the strongest is undoubtedly the Reverse Ming," He Shen said.

"Three Kingdoms? Are you saying that if the Ming Dynasty is the Wei State, then my Qing Dynasty is the Wu State, and the bandit will become Liu Bei instead? ”

Qianlong said with a frown.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

It used to be the military enlightenment textbook of the first and second generations of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

The Baturu of the Qing Dynasty relied on a copy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to win the world.

Of course, Qianlong has also seen it.

"It's just that now Wei and Liu Bei are joining forces to fight Sun Wu, but the slave thinks that the bandits will also find out after they come into contact with the Ming army that they can't defeat the Ming alone."

"Talk about peace with the bandits?"

"Harmony with the Ming is not necessarily inconclusive." He Shen said.

"Peace? Is Zhu Daohua willing? Qianlong looked at the others in the main hall.

If peace can be made, of course Qianlong is a hundred willing.

But peace comes at a price.

And it depends on the face of the person.

"Your Majesty, now that the Cao Yun is cut off, the millions of banner people in Beijing can only empty food, it is better to evacuate some of them to Guihua City, too far away and other places to eat, and in addition, you can also send envoys to contact the sect and bandits, and go against the Ming."

Liu Yong suggested.

"What about the bandits? How about the reverse Ming? Qianlong looked at Liu Yong and thought: This is Lao Cheng's serious opinion.

"There have been several conflicts between the bandits and the Northern Expeditionary Army against the Ming Dynasty, but they have not been able to take advantage, I think they also know the strength of the Ming Dynasty, in this case, the imperial court can send envoys and bandits to make peace, not to mention cooperation against the Ming, at least let the bandits realize that if they are bent on attacking the Qing Dynasty in the north, the one who takes advantage can only be the Ming Dynasty."

And so it is.

The previous situation was that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was riveting a force to fight northward.

And the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Army was picking peaches in the back.

Anhui, northern Jiangsu, southwestern Shandong, Jizhou and other places were included in this way one by one under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom continues to the north, I am afraid that when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers besiege Beijing City in the end, the Ming Dynasty will already occupy the entire Central Plains without blood.

If Liu Zhixie, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was not a fool, he would definitely not honestly fight in front and let the Ming army pick peaches in the back again.

The clashes and frictions between the two sides near Zhengding Mansion have already shown that the tacit understanding between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty to be hostile to the Qing Dynasty has been broken.

At present, the Central Plains has entered a complex situation in which the three forces are hostile to each other.

In this case.

It really gave the Qing court room to "combine vertical and horizontal".

"For the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it can be said that it is a joint resistance to the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court will also send people to Ning Yuan to see the great tomorrow, saying that he is willing to exchange the capital for the lives of millions of bannermen, and the Qing Dynasty will withdraw from the Central Plains, and the Ming Dynasty needs to transport two million stone grains to the Qing Dynasty!"

Liu Yong said.

"Whether the Ming Dynasty agrees or not, as long as peace talks can be opened, it will be an opportunity for the Qing Dynasty."

When Qianlong heard this, his face showed a thoughtful look.

Use the capital to exchange for a living road, is Zhu Daohua willing to give it?

If it can't be defeated, peace talks may be the best choice.

Qianlong nodded: "It's a way to make peace with Zhu Daohua, now that he has obtained Liaodong, if he has the opportunity to take the capital, he will definitely be moved." ”

Qianlong rubbed his temples: "Zhu Qing will discuss it first in the past two days. Whether it is fighting, peace, or leaving, we must come up with a way. ”

Fight, and, go.

The initiative was not entirely in the hands of the Qing court.

Qianlong was clear about this.

Two days later.

Qianlong made a decision.

On the one hand, Ah Gui led 50,000 Eight Banner soldiers, and then mobilized 50,000 Lu Yong to go to Shanhaiguan to guard the customs.

The defense system of Shanhaiguan is very complete, with 100,000 troops guarding it, even if the Ming army is powerful, it is quite difficult to completely capture Shanhaiguan.

The basis of the peace talks is to clearly show that they still have the ability to fight.

On the other hand, preparations are also made to evacuate the city of Beijing.

More than one million of the old, weak, women and children of the Eight Banners were organized into a team, and began to withdraw to the Naturalization City outside the Gang Pass in batches, and at the same time recruited the Mongolian tribes, collected cattle, sheep and horses, and when necessary, the nobles of the Eight Banners also went to the grassland to graze.

In addition, Fukangan was also appointed as the head of the southern camp to command the battle in the Guannai in a unified manner.

After preparing for evacuation and war.

The Qing court also began to prepare for peace talks with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty.

The envoy to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was Dai Quheng, the champion of the 43rd year of Qianlong.

And the one who went to Ningyuan to seek peace was Liu Yong, a scholar of Tirenge University.

All of a sudden.

Liaodi battlefield.

The Liaodi Front of the Ming army was busy completely occupying Ningjin.

Central Plains Battlefield.

Hundreds of thousands of troops from the three sides confronted each other around Zhengding Mansion and did not dare to act rashly against each other.

The Qing court also planned to negotiate and profit from the tripartite confrontation.

The entire northern battlefield has entered a period of calm.

At this time, thousands of miles away in the Indian Ocean.

Under the escort of 36 three-dimensional schooner bombardment gunboats, 12 Wei-class ironclad ships, and 60 brigs flying scissor bombardment gunboats of the Ming Indian Ocean Fleet, more than 10,000 soldiers of the British and Wu domains, and more than 100 cargo ships carrying military supplies, weapons, ammunition, and food, have quietly crossed the southern waters of the Andaman Islands and are heading towards the ebony coast in the northern part of the Paulk Strait between Sri Lanka and the South Asian subcontinent.

And on the 30th of September.

There was an exchange of fire between the fleet's patrol boats and the cruisers of the British Eastern Intervention Fleet flying the British flag!

It was in the afternoon of the same day.

A privateer fleet led by Captain Cai Lian, a British naval commander who had been sent to the southeast coast of the South Asian subcontinent to reconnoitre, brought back news.

The British Eastern Intervention Fleet has departed from the port of Calcutta under the command of the commander, Lieutenant Commander Wilson of the British Navy!!

A large-scale decisive battle that will determine maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean and control of the eastern trade routes.

It's about to kick off in the waters of the Bay of Bengal!

(End of chapter)