Zhou Lianggong looked thoughtful, and after a while, he said: "Min Yuanqi is full of confidence! To be honest, I heard that more than 10,000 Shandong soldiers went to Yuntiguan, so I wondered why Min Yuanqi did not destroy the salt pond quickly, and did not ask others to spy on the secrets of the salt pond, and then took the soldiers of the military camp to carry the money and grains and fled quickly? At the speed of Liu Zeqing's army, Min Yuanqi headed south from the seaside of the mudflats and detoured Yancheng into Taizhou. When I arrived in my city of Taizhou, the salt pond was destroyed and took away Xiaoshui. Can Liu Zeqing still come to attack Taizhou? Is this man really capable, or is he unwilling to give up his family's foolish villager?"

"It's not the latter." Zhou Liangmin said in a deep voice: "I have seen Min Yuanqi several times and have also talked deeply. His views are good and he never takes money and food into consideration. If he is greedy for money, he is afraid that he will not have the foundation structure in front of him. How much money and how much money is used to strengthen the army and build a workshop foundation. This is a person with great ambitions, and it cannot be seen by ordinary soldiers and villagers. I think he refuses to leave, because he really has confidence in the war."

"He is afraid he regards the serious soldiers as bandits?"

"No." Zhou Liangmin handed the letter to Zhou Lianggong and smiled and said, "Didn't he write it in the letter? The Liu army and the army are not much stronger than the bandits. The so-called elite soldiers are slightly better than the bandits. Only the elite soldiers of the inner court can be considered to be a failure, but compared with the elite soldiers of the Liao Town of the Ming Dynasty and the old bandits of the bandits, they are still inferior to those of the soldiers. The troops are much stronger than the Caojiang Camp, Jiangnan Camp, and Nanjing Jing Camp, because the latter is only a person in the city, and they are not even as powerful as bandits. The bandits have been in the battle and have seen blood. Those soldiers are nominally my imperial guards of the Ming Dynasty and the elite soldiers of the camp, but they are just a group of mobs in the name of soldiers... Brother, from his words, he is really a clear person, not an arrogant and ignorant person."

"He said something is reasonable." Zhou Lianggong looked at the letter, put it down and thought, "My brothers have recruited people and brave men, but they are really much stronger than the so-called military commanders. We have also seen Shandong soldiers, who are like wolves and tigers to the people, and fear them like tigers. Tens of thousands of Shandong soldiers, and they dare not fight against hundreds of Eastern Gangs. When Liu Zeqing invaded the last time the Eastern Gangs invaded, he was probably thousands of miles away. These so-called soldiers are really not as strong as local people and people who protect their own industries and family members."

"What's more, the local people who have been trained!" Zhou Liangmin's eyes twitched, and his expression was a little excited: "I think we gathered thousands of people and strong people in Weixian, and defended the same as the Donglu attack. It seems that Min Yuanqi also had such an idea. Relying on the Qianhu Suocheng and Beiwutucheng over there, defended the city, firmly defended the walls and cleared the fields, consumed the enemy's morale, and took the opportunity to attack and win a complete victory. With my understanding of Shandong soldiers, it may not be impossible to take advantage of it. Brother, you have never seen the flag army training at Yuntiguan. I have seen many soldiers and horses in my life. I am afraid that there are not many people in the world who can train as hard as I can."

"You have mentioned this to me many times." Zhou Lianggong pondered for a moment, and finally made up his mind to say: "I immediately opposed Liu Zeqing's advance to Yuntiguan in the name of Huaiyangdao. At the same time, I wrote a letter to the court and wrote a private message to Ma Yaocao, Shi Daolin and others to express my position and Min Yuanqi's difficulties. Of course, if he could not win, these big figures would not have forcibly offended a powerful vassal such as Liu Zeqing because of a small military officer in the garrison. If he could really resist the Wanda Army, then as he himself said, the troops in Yuntiguan could prove their own value. The court probably had its own considerations and would not tolerate Liu's continued to act rashly."

Zhou Liangmin nodded repeatedly and said with a smile: "This is a major change in the situation in Jiangbei... Gao Jie has always been rebellious, and the court is afraid that he will believe it. In other words, the Shige Department has been very considerate of him for the sake of the overall situation, and even Gao Jie's family takes good care of him. Huang Chuangzi is loyal, but he is also arrogant and domineering and not easy to control. Huama Liu and Caozhou Liu are a pair of disasters, but the troops are strong, and the court has to surrender and endure it. If Min Yuanqi can defeat Liu Zeqing's army, the court's dukes will definitely be lit up, and they will be deliberately supported in the future. After all, it is completely different to have this person in Jiangbei and if there is no such person. When the court arranges defense, there are more chess pieces and tricks available."

"It's still insufficient troops." Zhou Lianggong sighed: "It's unreasonable to ask those big men to add up their eyes to each other without 20,000 or 30,000 people."

"His more than 3,000 soldiers are all based on the equipment and training of Need Dings. More than 3,000 Need Dings are only stronger than the 30,000 battalions of soldiers."

"We went to see it, and we knew it in our hearts, so we thought this." Zhou Lianggong shook his head and said, "You asked Brother Wei to write a letter to those big names, saying that Min's more than 3,000 soldiers were all like servants, and they were afraid that they would laugh off their teeth. If they really wrote this letter, Brother Wei would be difficult to gain trust from now on."

Zhou Liangmin was also silent... He saw with his own eyes how the flag army was trained at Yuntiguan. Those hard training every day, including the rules of eating, sitting and lying down, the flag army trained walking, sitting and lying down were like an axe and a knife, as cold and sudden as a rock, making people feel a sense of respect.

In this practical exercise, the musket was blowing loudly, and the person was lined up to move forward less than half an arm under the musket. If you are not careful, you will be beaten directly by the musket.

Such training is infinitely close to actual combat, and there are also a arduous journey of hundreds, two hundred miles, and three hundred miles to train the endurance of the flag army and the ability to coordinate the group.

Zhou Liangmin saw these training with his own eyes at Yuntiguan. Some of the tricks were not very clear at the time. For example, he had to report to queue up when sitting or lying down and eating, and his clothes were neat and as new as new. The offenders were confined at the least, and the whipping at the worst seemed much more stringent than the rules of the Ming army.

According to Min Yuanqi's explanation, long-distance marching back and forth is similar to practical exercises, training endurance and perseverance, as well as the ability of generals to lead troops, which tests many abilities such as marching in a queue, camping, restoring physical fitness, and being alert to raids.

The number of rules and regulations in normal times is to make soldiers feel conscious of becoming soldiers.

The robes and boots are meant to make soldiers feel glorious. No matter what elsewhere, the soldiers of Yundiguan must always regard themselves as soldiers who defend their country, with their own pride and a sense of honor in the group.

Plus those frightening physical training, practical equipment, array and other training.

In the eyes of Zhou Liangmin, an official and gentry who participated in the fight against the Eastern Barbarians and was successful, the combat power of such trained soldiers, and fighting against the enemy in their hometowns, will definitely be far above the guest soldiers, and even not inferior to the elite servants of the generals.

Those who are missing are equipment, fighting skills and experience, generals' formation command experience, etc.

These things are not absolutely irreparable.

At least in Zhou Liangmin's opinion, the battle in front of him is probably really as Min Yuanqi said, with more victory or loss.

Once you win, it will definitely be much more sensational than the last time that the guards in Yunti Pass killed the heads of the bandits of a thousand-level last time.

Until the 17th year of Chongzhen, this dynasty was in chaos and wars continued, and there were many wars of beheadings of thousands of levels.

From thousands of people at the beginning to hundreds of thousands of people gathered together, the bandits were annihilated one after another with superior officers and soldiers attacking each other, and in the end, only tens of thousands of people were surrounded in the carriage.

Where did so many bandits go? With the help of the changes, the civil servants and generals who were in the battle were all as hard as stone. The soldiers needed their first-level military achievements. It is obvious that the outcome of those bandits was unknown.

There are countless bandits, horses, pirates, and the invasion of the Eastern Captains...

Liaodong once ushered in a massacre of the Eastern Barbarians, and Emperor Tianqi reduced his meals and his joys, and his sadness continued.

During the Chongzhen period, the world was in chaos and the people were separated from chaos and the deaths and injuries, and even the emperor reduced food and entertainment every day, it was impossible to make up for the heavy losses of the people.

After beheading a thousand levels, they were mainly ordinary bandits. In the eyes of the big men in Nanjing, it was really not worth mentioning.

If it weren't for the lack of soldiers here in Huaiyangdao, even Zhou Lianggong might not have looked down on Min Yuanqi. If it weren't for this, I'm afraid that Min Yuanqi's current guerrilla general and garrison, he might not have been able to get it with his military achievements.

In fact, when Min Qiande went to Nanjing for activities, the final bottom line was to work with the Zhu family to plan a guard commander or commander of the guards of Min Yuan, and add Yundi Pass. This was a pretty good result.

By chance, he was able to obtain his current official position. It was because Min Yuanqi had a letter to Zhou Liangmin. After this battle, Min Yuanqi still did not want to lose his reputation. If the court sold him and regarded Yundiguan as an abandoned son for Liu Zeqing, then Min Yuanqi could only bear the pain and abandon the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, in the end, that was a threat. For Zhou Lianggong, the coastal defense road and the bosses of the Nanming at this time, they had no idea that the Eastern Captain was the biggest threat at this time. Dorgon and others had defeated Li Zicheng at Shanhaiguan and pursued Beijing.

He mourned and buried Chongzhen again, and asked all officials to cry. He did much more beautiful things than Li Zicheng in these things that cost money.

But after capturing the three children of the Prince, King Ding and King Yong, they immediately beheaded secretly without any hidden dangers.

King Qin, King Jin and other kings were imprisoned. After half a year, they all followed Emperor Hongguang, King Lu and other kings to be punished and even executed by Lingchi.

From the summer to winter of the 17th year of Chongzhen, in the past six months, the Qing army fought with the Shun army in northern Zhili, Henan and Shanxi.

Li Zicheng retreated alternately and had no plans to fight the Qing army in Hebei, Henan and Shanxi.

However, the Shun Army was extremely large at this time. The Ming Dynasty's surrendered army, local armed forces, and the Shun Army headquarters were really powerful, which also caused great casualties to the Qing army.

Li Zicheng continued to shrink his troops, intending to fight the Qing army in Shaanxi and use Tongguan natural danger to block the Qing army. However, the Shun army retreated one after another, and the old battalion suffered heavy losses. He could not win the Qing army no matter how he fought against the Ming army. He did not even do anything to attract all the main forces of the Qing army. Duoduo was on the way to attack the Shun army. The Qing court felt that there was no need for Duoduo's troops to meet with Ajige, and this Qing army went south.

That was also next year. At least at this moment, although the emperor and ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty knew that the Qing army had entered the pass, the Qing army withdrew five times during the Chongzhen period, which gave people a strong illusion that many people believed that the Qing army would probably withdraw again as before, after the Ming Dynasty had gained benefits after plundering wealth.

Therefore, in the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Nanming Dynasty, bandits were still the biggest threat, and the Eastern Captains were only second, and they could use negotiations and means to solve this external trouble.

Min Yuanqi's threat is probably just enough to hit the seven inches of the monarch and ministers of Nanming.

Of course, that is also the worst result, and at least it cannot be said explicitly at this stage, so you can only touch indirectly.
Chapter completed!