Lao Zhang's recital to Yanjing defended Wang Wu and interceded, in addition to selfishness, it was also a routine matter.

Since entering the customs, the Qing court has sent people to appease all the generals who surrendered and rebelled, and only when the appeasement failed to send troops to attack.

Such as the gold and king of Nanchang, and the ginger of Datong.

Hearing that the two places had rebelled, Yanjing did not immediately transfer troops to suppress it, but quickly sent people to "negotiate".

On the Datong side, Dolgon was even more frightened and wrote a personal letter to Jiang Xuan, saying that if you rebelled, there must be a traitor to bewitch you, and there is a reason for it.

In short, no matter how many Manchurians you kill and how many Eight Banner Officials you kill, as long as you are willing to surrender again, you will not be guilty of the past.

Why is it so easy to talk?

It's really because of the lack of soldiers.

Whether or not to settle accounts after the fall is another matter.

With this rule, Lao Zhang, as the governor of Huguang, must also show the signboard of "peace talks" so as to give Yanjing a channel for negotiation and settlement.

Although Wang Wu, the little brother, is cunning, he is still good at dealing with people.

As the eldest brother and the senior Lao Zhang, I don't want the little brother to go to the road.

Unless, his father-in-law also moved.

Otherwise, it is best to negotiate with Yanjing and strive for a decent situation for both parties.

Lao Zhang was sure that Yanjing would definitely talk about it.

Because the situation is not much better than it was then.

In those days, there was a shortage of soldiers, and today it is not only a shortage of soldiers, but also a shortage of Han soldiers.

As the governor of Huguang, no one knew the situation of the Qing army in Huguang better than Lao Zhang.

Judging from the current situation, although Wang Wu's little brother took an extremely stupid and risky step, and there was no reason for him, so that people couldn't figure it out at all, but he just stepped on the weakness of the Qing army.

That is, a situation where it is difficult to do both ends.

If the heavy troops from Xishan are transferred to besiege Jingzhou, the Ming army in Xishan will definitely run out, and those old thieves have been trapped in the mountains for more than ten years, and they can get it if they run out!

If the heavy troops in Xishan are not adjusted, the Ming army in Jingzhou will definitely fight desperately under the command of Wang Wu, resulting in a larger and larger rebellion territory, which in turn will affect the encirclement of Xishan.

Therefore, Jingzhou must be blocked.

In such a situation, isn't it difficult to do both ends?

If you have to look at the head and take care of the tail, this soldier is really difficult to draw and adjust.

Seeing that there were more than 100,000 Qing troops in Huguang, the strength was far greater than that of the Ming army in the east and west, but in fact, they were all "pressed" by the Ming army and could not move.

Especially the small Xishan, less than a county, with 20,000 or 30,000 people and 78,000 soldiers, can contain nearly 200,000 Qing troops in three provinces!

To be fair, it is really rare in the past generations.

The soldiers on the Shaanxi side can't be counted on, and the West Mountain is there.

The soldiers in Sichuan can fight, but the question is who dares to transfer.

Once the Sichuan army loyal to Wu Sangui enters Huguang in the bright light, I am afraid that it will be easy to invite the gods and difficult to send the gods.

If you don't get it right, the small Jingzhou can become the fuse for the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

The battalions of Henan and Hebei have already transferred a lot of soldiers to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Kuidong, and they want to cover Gyeonggi, so how can they all be transferred.

The soldiers of Jiangxi and Jiangnan in the lower reaches could not save the fire from far water.

Not to mention other places.

On the Yanjing side, the 10,000 Manchurian Eight Banners that had just been put together were all wiped out in Xishan, and the wounds had not healed yet, and there were no soldiers to adjust.

Where can that really full of soldiers still be used?

The 6,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners brought by Prince Kang Jieshu to the south this time were drawn from the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and there was not a single Manchuria.

The more Lao Zhang thought about it, the more interesting he felt, so he simply substituted himself in the room to deduce the battle situation for the little brother.

Pushing and pushing, on a whim, I began to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find a copy of the recital from more than ten years ago.

Before Huguang took office, Lao Zhang had always been a bachelor of the Inner Secretary Academy and the National History Museum, and Lao Zhang couldn't see it for the first time after he entered Beijing, but later he had to send all of them to the Third Academy for filing.

These notes are not only the first historical materials of national history, but also some of the contents of the notes are eye-catching and amazing.

Usually, the scholars of the three inner courtyards will copy this kind of music and take it home for private collection.

Lao Zhang is no exception.

What he was looking for was a transcript of the recital that Liu Wuyuan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, gave to the imperial court after the rebellion of Jin and Wang.

One thing was said above, that is, a person named Hu Tang proposed a strategy for the rebel general Wang Deren - "Take advantage of the momentum of breaking bamboo, go down the river under the banner of Qing soldiers, and threaten to ask for help in Zhangfu Hospital, Jiangnan will open the door to accept the king, and its generals can be captured immediately." Then change the banner, sow the year, sacrifice the mausoleum, Teng Shandong, the Central Plains will hear the wind in response, the north and south of the river, the west and the mountains, Shaanxi, who has to be Qing also? ”

It means that this person named Hu Tang persuaded Wang Deren to take advantage of the fact that the Qing army in the lower reaches did not know the news of Nanchang's change of banner and return to the Ming Dynasty, and immediately dispatched thousands of elite soldiers to pretend to be the Qing army to go down the east of the Yangtze River.

As long as Nanjing is occupied, the world will not be cleared.

Wang Deren agreed very much, and immediately sent people to Nanchang to inform Jin Shenghuan of this strategy, and Jin Shenghuan hurriedly convened his cronies and officials to discuss the plan of sending troops east to Nanjing on a large scale.

Most of the people who attended the meeting agreed and said that this was the best policy.

A general named Huang Renlong said that he must first take Ganzhou before he could adopt the eastward strategy, because when King Ning of the Ming Dynasty rebelled, he was captured by Wang Shouren, the governor of Ganzhou.

Ganzhou is an important place in Jiangxi, and it must be taken first.

This is typical dogmatism.

At that time, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, rebelled against the imperial court as a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty and the city of Nanchang, while Jin and Wang rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty, and the two were completely different in nature.

Ganzhou is important in Nanchang, but Nanjing is more important in the world.

Huang Renlong's bad idea made Jin Shenghuan change his mind, and the main force of the whole army went to attack Ganzhou, but he missed the opportunity and finally failed.

After reading and reading this transcript of Liu Wuyuan's recital, Lao Zhang did two things.

The first is to let his nephew Zhang Aqing bring this manuscript to the little brother in Jingzhou, hoping that the little brother can refer to it, and if he has the ability, he can do it.

The other is to let people spread the news of the Jingzhou rebellion in the city, and threaten to arrest and kill anyone in the family who joins the Jingzhou rebels.

In private, they opened two gates on the grounds that they needed a lot of grain and grass to defend the city, and the result was that the people in Wuchang who had "connections" with the rebels fled Jingzhou with their families.

The stakes are very high, Lao Zhang personally sent his nephew to the city gate, looked around, lowered his voice and instructed his nephew: "When you arrive in Jingzhou and Wang Dutong, the greater the momentum, the higher the value." ”

After a pause, he looked scheming and calculating, "After Dingnan, Pingxi, Pingnan, and Jingnan in the Qing Dynasty, there may not be no fifth domain. ”

The nephew and the second monk who heard this were puzzled, how could his uncle, as the governor of Huguang, be a rebel.

"The same can be said for your uncle and me."

Lao Zhang shook his head slightly, the truth in it was too profound, and he couldn't explain it to this nephew for a while.