Han’s Son is Not a Slave

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After Zheng Chenggong received Xu Yingyuan, he summoned the six officials and the generals of the vassal to come to discuss the matter, and Liu Guoxuan explained to everyone in detail about the appointment of the Guangdong Taiping Army. As soon as Liu Guoxuan finished speaking, Chen Yonghua hurriedly arrived, but successfully sent someone to call him.

"Guangdong Xingpingbo means that he restrained the economic army in Huizhou, and his own vassal sent troops to attack Chaozhou via Zhangpu via Nanzhao, cut off the food route of the army, and then the two armies attacked together to save the economy. Xingping takes Huizhou, and this domain takes Chaozhou, but I don’t know if you think this is feasible?”

Successfully looked around the civil and military officials, and listened to their opinions on the Taiping Army's joint attack. The officials were surprised when they heard the news that the Taiping army had defeated the Manchu Jingnan generals in Guangzhou, the monk Ha Mu and Geng Erfan, but they didn't know much about the Taiping army, only that its commander was a scholar A young man from a family background knows nothing about it.

Some people were puzzled and wondered why the imperial court had only awarded the title of Earl of Xingping to a person who had done such great deeds against him. It must be known that among the people present, there are only three Marquis.

Before everyone could express their opinions, Chen Yonghua, who joined the army, asked, "Does the feudal lord know how many troops there are in the Taiping Army?"

Chenggong said: "According to the envoy, there are more than 30,000 soldiers in Xingping's four towns, and there are more than 10,000 soldiers under the command of Hu Qi, who has surrendered from Huizhou, totaling 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers. The envoy Yan Xingping has led the main force to expedition Wu Liuqi. These Wu Liuqi soldiers are not as many as Xingping, and I'm afraid they will retreat to Chaozhou." After a pause, he added: "The Jidu army should arrive at Chaozhou in February at the latest."

After Chen Yonghua heard it, he thought about it and didn't speak again.

Chenggong nodded lightly and looked at the rest of the people. Pan Gengzhong, the official who was the head of the six officials, got up and said, "Lord, I don't think it's okay to invite soldiers in Guangdong."

Former military admiral Huang Ting frowned and asked, "Why does Pan Shangshu think it's impossible?"

Pan Gengzhong said: "Besides the two prefectures of Zhang and Quan, the people are fighting hard, and it is difficult to call the whole world in one corner. Jiangnan. Once Jinling is broken, the cause of ZTE will be revived. There is hope, and the people of the world will surely respond. The lord has been preparing for this for two years, training his troops and horses day and night. 50,000 learn to ride and shoot, 50,000 learn to use foot strike. Also choose 10,000 light Pyu who are good at fighting. All preparations were made for the battle of the Yangtze River. Now, you suddenly want to change the strategy and join forces with Guangdong. Will this strategy of the Yangtze River be abandoned? "

After successfully listening to it, he remained silent. In order to enter the Yangtze River and break through Jinling, he had been preparing for two years. Not only did he vigorously train the soldiers to practice foot combat, but he also selected strong soldiers from the army who could lift 500 Dendrobium, and ordered them to wear iron armor. , painted by Zhu Bibiao. Only two eyeballs were left, and they were both given horse-cutting swords. Standing in front of the battle, they cut off the enemy's horses. They were called Iron Man Army, and they looked like divine soldiers. The Iron Man Army was ruled by Chen Kui, Zuo Huwei, a close confidant of Chenggong's direct line, in order to defeat the Eight Banners of Manchuria after going north. If you really want to agree to join forces with the Guangdong Taiping Army, it is bound to redeploy the deployment, which will definitely affect the northward trip in a few months.

In fact, when meeting the envoys of the Taiping Army, he did not have the intention of joining forces with the Taiping Army to fight together. When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong, he also sent people to join him several times. The two sides joined forces to attack Guangdong from the east and west, so that the Ming forces could join forces; The great cause of revival is hopeful.

In order to facilitate this, Li Dingguo even hoped that Li and Zheng could get married in order to consolidate the alliance, but due to Zheng Chenggong's repeated misfortunes in the army, it was repeatedly unsuccessful. During the second expedition, Li Dingguo had great expectations and sent an envoy to Zheng Chenggong, hoping that he would lead his troops to join forces. In order to prevent the leakage of information, the envoy would be left behind in Xiamen, and it took a while to send someone back to the letter. The letter was ambiguous about the coalition, and it was slow to move, causing Li Dingguo to withdraw from the army again with resentment.

In the final analysis, Chenggong did not want to go to Guangdong with Li Dingguo, but it was because Emperor Longwu knew too much about Chenggong, which made Chenggong believe in Emperor Longwu's early life and death for his confidants. After the death of Emperor Longwu, he refused to recognize the Yongli regime in Zhaoqing, and it was not until Shaowu was overthrown that he had to accept the canonization of Yongli under the advice of his subordinates. Li Dingguo was born in the Great Western Army, and he supported Emperor Yongli. Although the two joined forces to take Guangdong, they did not want to join Li Dingguo, but wanted to act alone. If he succeeded, he was expected to support King Tang again. , so that Emperor Longwu could enter the temple.

Such a mentality of success naturally made Li Dingguo disappointed with success, and pointed out in the letter that his Xujun was unwilling to obey the true intention of the emperor. Like Li Dingguo in Guangdong, the Taiping Army was still under the banner of Yongli, and had successfully prepared for the battle of the Yangtze River in the north for a long time. Therefore, Pan Gengzhong's words made him no longer hesitate and made up his mind.

However, Gan Hui of the Central Army had a different opinion. He said: "The northward trip to the Yangtze River will not be possible until the trade winds in July, and it is an air expedition. If it fails, the entire army will be in danger of being wiped out. This is not the case. , Jinsha is also in danger of being attacked by the Qing army again, so I think it is better to join forces with Guangdong to attack the army, take Chaozhou to resettle the army and civilians, and then attack Dasu to stabilize Central Fujian and then plan northward, so that the army will not be able to go north. The two islands are in danger.”

"General Gan, your vision is too close. The reason why the Qing court did not attack Jinxia was because it was afraid of being restrained by Yunnan and Guizhou. Now that Sun Ke is expected to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court has ordered a three-way army to attack Guizhou. Gu, how can we stop the more than 100,000 troops and horses of the Qing court? If Yunnan and Guizhou are leveled, the Qing court can attack us with all its strength. How can we be alone with only two islands? They can't help themselves, how can they still have time to attack the two islands?"

What Pan Gengzhong said is also reasonable. At present, the Qing army has already used troops in the southwest, and there are also troops in Guangdong. If the Zheng army uses the Yangtze River at this time, it is bound to cut off the Qing court's water transportation and cut off the grain and salaries in the south of the Yangtze River, so that the two Qing troops have no food and grass supply. Therefore, although he did not join forces with the Taiping Army to fight together, it also achieved the strategic intention of cutting off the Qing army's back path. That is, the southwest side will not be affected for the time being, but the economy on the Guangdong side will be directly affected. Furthermore, when the army entered the Yangtze River, which of the Qing troops in the southeast was not in danger, Dasu could not choose to attack Jinxia at this time even if he had eaten the bear's heart and leopard's gall, he could only send troops to Jinling to rescue him. Also chopped his head off. As for Jidu's side, because of the existence of the Taiping army, they could not return to help, which is beneficial to the Zheng army's battle to enter the river.

"The art of war is clear. Surround Wei to save Zhao. The lord of the vassal commanded his army to enter the Yangtze River to seize Jinling, and he wanted to relieve the siege of the southwest. This strategy must not be delayed because of things."

The engineer Feng Chengshi directly participated in the ordnance preparation of the more than 100,000 troops under the vassal. He was a firm northward faction and did not agree to join forces with Guangdong.

"The Qing court used troops in the southwest, and also in Guangdong. This is a good time to go north to capture Jinling... Dasu's troops are nothing to worry about. As long as more than 10,000 soldiers and horses are left to defend Jinsha, Dasu will not dare to attack. . Now Jinxia soldiers and horses are gathered, and the daily expense is ten thousand yuan. Everyone knows that they are about to go north, and the arrow has to be sent on the string. It must not be delayed because of things, and they will learn from their teachers."

The household official Zheng Tai is Zheng Zhilong's cousin and Zheng Chenggong's cousin. He has served as Zheng Chenggong's household official for a long time, managing the finances and foreign trade of Yanping Fan. Emperor Longwu once named Zheng Tai the Marquis of Jianping. For the sake of money and food, Zheng Tai also thought that it was not appropriate to join forces with the Taiping Army at this time, but to prepare for the northward according to the established deployment.

Only Gan Hui, one of his subordinates, agreed to join forces with the Guangdong Taiping Army to attack the army. Zheng Chenggong did not hesitate any more. Seeing that Chen Yonghua did not open his mouth to object, he said to the officials: "This domain is to resist the Qing Dynasty. The responsibility is to fight against the Qing in the south, and also in the north. Compared with Guangdong, Jinling has a greater significance and has the effect of supporting the southwest. Therefore, this domain does not intend to make an alliance with Xingping, Guangdong, but can provide some of it. Ordnance salaries to help Xingping hold on."

All the officials praised him. Although Chen Yonghua had other ideas, but seeing that the feudal lord had made up his mind and wanted to go north to the Yangtze River was what he had originally advocated, he did not open his mouth to persuade him. Gan Hui was very disappointed, but he could only obey.

Zheng Chenggong did not see Xu Yingyuan again, and only asked General Liu Guoxuan to tell him the result of the meeting. When he heard that Zheng Chenggong was unwilling to send troops to fight against the army, Xu Yingyuan was just startled, but he was not disappointed, he just took out a list and handed it to him. Liu Guoxuan asked the King of Yanping to give the Taiping army some money, grain and weapons according to this list, and the Taiping army could buy it with silver.

Liu Guoxuan handed the list to Success, and when he saw that it was mostly firearms and medicines, and there was still a lot of stock under the vassal, he asked Liu Guoxuan to follow them one by one.

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