Chapter 12 Suppression
On the tenth day of July, Hong Chengchou, who had been sick for more than a month, had returned to the Southeast Jingliu Office in Nanchang from the front line of Guangxin Mansion.
After more than a month, I was indeed sick when I got up. The battle report that shocked the world was also demonstrated by the strong combat power of the Ming army in Zhejiang that broke out of the cocoon, and even more for his fate after this disastrous defeat. However, later, the illness was cured, but I still had to do it. At least I had to wait until the Qing court took the action. A few days ago, the Qing court also took the action, and he left and returned to Nanchang.
Compared with the powerful people in the Qing court, Shunzhi did not make things difficult for Hong Chengchou, and he didn't even say a word of reprimand. Instead, he handed over the plan to suppress and pacify Chen Wen, Zhejiang and Zheng Chenggong, Fujian to Hong Chengchou.
Thanks to the great grace of the emperor, Hong Chengchou is also
At this point, Hong Chengchou is actually lucky. Even if the opponents he faces are so difficult, he is always like Chen Mingxia, Chen Zhilin and others in the Southern Party who are plagued by an inexplicable crime.
After this month, although Hong Chengchou was sick in bed, his plan to suppress and relieve the pacification never stopped.
On the other side of Guangxin Mansion, he relied on a bastion to block the Ming army's troops in Zhejiang. But after hearing the words of the Jesuit priest, the bastion could not be conquered head-on in Taisie. After all, the method of asking Tian Xiong to test seemed more effective.
With the geographical environment of Jiangxi, the Ming army could not threaten the Poyang Lake area if they were not allowed to Guangxin Prefecture, and if they were not allowed to Poyang Lake, they could not threaten the Hukou or even the Yangtze River. Therefore, Hong Chengchou planned to build a bastion in Guangxin Prefecture, thereby locking this area and blocking the road for the Ming army in Zhejiang to advance westward.
This is the only thing here. Yang Minggao and others in Fujian did not disappoint the generals and successfully defended the natural danger of Xianxia Pass, making it impossible for the Ming army in Zhejiang to go south to Fujian. In Qingtian, Chuzhou, Hong Chengchou also planned to build a bastion to seal the possibility of the Ming army obtaining an outlet from Wenzhou. As for Taizhou, the terrain there was not conducive to the army's attack, and Ma Xin was also a general. The Ming army could not make any mistakes in attacking rashly.
This is the only way to go for the time being, Hong Chengchou, the direction of Hangzhou, is still preparing to use the bastion and Qiantang River to cooperate with the current increase in troops to curb the possibility of the Ming army going north. Even Ning Shao was planning to use the bastion to limit the attack of the Ming army.
Sun Tzu said: Those who were good at fighting in the past had to do the invincible first, so that the enemy could win. The invincible lies in oneself, and the invincible lies in the enemy. Therefore, those who were good at fighting could do the invincible lies in their own way, and they could not make the enemy win. Therefore, they said: Victory can be known, but they cannot be done.
Although the Qing army in the southeast is still strong, reinforcements from the Green Camp in the north are already on the way, the Ming army in Zhejiang has become famous in tactical terms, and it is indeed not something that ordinary green camps can face. If the Qing army does not innovate, it will be difficult for it to completely annihilate this Ming army from Zhejiang.
Now, relying on the newly learned bastion, Hong Chengchou blocked the army of the Ming army of Zhejiang, so he was ready to use this defensive system from Thailand to limit the Ming army of Zhejiang and seal the army in Jinquyan, southwestern Zhejiang. However, Hong Chengchou knew very well that this was just a delay. What should come will always come. If you are stubborn and do nothing, you will not think about it.
However, the powerful and nobles in the Qing court, especially those who participated in the bloody battle of Hunhe, led by Prince Zheng, Jirhalang, strongly opposed the transformation of the mandarin duck formation in the green camp.
Jin Li's fate was already in front of him. In this report of the imperial edict, Chen Jin's case had already fallen into the ground. Chen Jin's defeat, and the responsibility for losing land was against the merits and demerits of the country after defending Quzhou for a month. However, the crime of arbitrarily changing the military system was inevitable. The whole family sent Ningguta to the armored people as slaves, and the contributions over the years were only exempted from death. Li Zhifang, who assisted Chen Jin in reorganizing the three aides in the Supervisory Camp, was imprisoned, and Ji Zhenyi was exempted from fame and fortune and returned to his hometown to think about his mistakes behind closed doors. Only Zhu Zhixi was said to be exempted from being liable because Shunzhi had a good impression of him.
Such thunderous means can be seen in the Qing Dynasty. Now some people in the court have begun to lead Chen Mingxia to other Han officials who have affair with Chen Wen. Today it is Chen Zhilin, and it may be him Hong Chengchou. Even if this is not the case, he does not intend to commit this taboo again.
Fortunately, when Jin Li wrote to the book, he had already realized some bad habits and made corresponding countermeasures. Now, it is just right to use it, so there are always more Zhejiang Ming Army, especially Chen Wen, the leader of this army, and the details of the tactics they used, so as to prescribe the right medicine.
"Wang Dusi, have you figured out some of the leisure time these days?"
Standing in front of Hong Chengchou was Wang Sheng. Before, Hong Chengchou sent someone to imprison him, but instead allowed him to escape the storm. Now that he saw Hong Chengchou, Wang Sheng quickly knelt down on the ground and kept thanking him.
"Wang Dusi, I protect you for a while because you know much more about Chen Wen than other civil and military officials. I have remembered these days. I have just recovered from a serious illness and cannot sit for a long time, but you have to tell the matter in detail and you must not miss any details about Chen Wen."
Hong Chengchou was unwilling to talk nonsense to him, so naturally he would not have been the traitor who once betrayed his benefactor to be loyal to his death. Seeing this, Wang Sheng had to put away his "nonsense" and explained clearly to Hong Chengchou the details of his first encounter with Chen Wen on Siming Mountain. Even how Chen Wen escaped and how he exchanged the body of Chen Wen's subordinates for that "treasure" did not dare to hide it.
"First, he designed to escape, and then he dared to fight to the death when facing everyone without a weapon, and even tried to ask for help in the end. Wangdushi, if you forced Chen Wenru to escape that day, it was the most embarrassing time for Chen Wen to this day. Now that he has heavy troops, the Eight Banners of Manchuria that the court can rely on cannot go south for the time being. He can only rely on money, food, military strength, and geographical advantages to restrict it. With your understanding of Chen Wen, what law should you control it?"
Hong Chengchou is definitely not a good person, even a ignorant little person like Wang Sheng. If you don’t have an answer now, I’m afraid that the big guard standing beside him would pull him out and chop him up. Because it’s useless, Hong Chengchou will not be in a way.
But he was best at the Mandarin Duck Formation, or the replication of the Zhejiang Ming Army's tactics, and he couldn't say anything about this. Wang Sheng, who was so anxious that he was sweating, knelt on the ground and thought for a long time. Even Wang 1, the minister standing next to Hong Chengchou, was a little impatient, and then heard Wang Sheng's not confident answer.
"The treasure that the villain exchanged from Chen Wen is said to be from Taixi. When the villain captured Wang Jiang in Taizhou, he also heard that the fake Xinchang Bo Yu Guowang used Chen Wen's tactics from Taixi to compile a square formation of teeth.
It is well known that Yu Guowang's troops were weak in eastern Zhejiang. His ability to stand on Tiantai Mountain was because of its great bird guns, but he never won the battle in the wild and waves. However, he used that square formation, Taizhou official army and former Jinhua general Ma Jinbao were unable to fight. In the end, he moved all the artillery of the navy and bombed the formation. However, the southern official army led by Ma Jinbao went north to encircle Zhoushan but could not start, so he fled to Fujian.
The villain thought that Chen Wenjiao must be retained by Yu Guowang's method. If the official army invites the Thai military officers to teach and use this method to train troops, they may compete with the Yuanyang Formation."
There was no more solution, so Wang Sheng had to come up with a solution that was not a solution. At least in his opinion, if Hong Chengchou really had this intention, he would be the officer who was most familiar with the Ming army in Zhejiang now. Assisting in training can save his life, and even hope to go further. Even without this plan, at least he did not do it. It would be better to use that treasure to bring out the weapon to introduce Taixi, which is better than being discredited by Hong Chengchou and abandoned it.
Quoting the tactics of Taixi, this is not without precedent. Hong Chengchou remembers it very clearly that Sun Yuanhua of the Chongzhen Dynasty asked the Florida officers from Macau to teach the red artillery artillery. It is still a bit different to say whether the infantry tactics are useful, but it is always easier to pass than the Mandarin Duck Formation, which was regarded as a major disaster by the Manchus. If it is said only that it will be impossible to beat the cavalry and shooting, but it is effective for the Mandarin Duck Formation, it may be a path, at least it is better than not doing it.
Thinking of this, although Hong Chengchou was still calm, he had already put off his thoughts of bringing Wang Sheng to Dali Temple. However, at this time, Wang Sheng and others could not mention the front row, so it would be better to let him go back to prison and stay safer.
After someone took Wang Sheng away, Hong Chengchou sent someone to invite the Jesuit priest to see him. In addition to the current Li Benshen army, he also planned to draw a few more elite green camp troops to set up the frame of the Jingbiao camp. If this method is successful, it would be better to be the first to practice it.
"Li Benshen, Hu Maozhen, well, Zhang Yong and Nan Yikui are also good generals. If there are four towns, each town of 3,000, the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia and the Green Camp should be able to compete with Chen Niyi."
After weighing the trade-offs, Hong Chengchou began to modify the comments for expanding the green camps in Guangxin Prefecture, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Taizhou, Wenzhou and Fujian Jianning and Funing. In addition to the long-standing supplementary vacancies for General Su Song to transfer Zhejiang, Huizhou Green Camp also needs to draw the northern green camp to supplement.
However, the memorial was not finished yet, and the Jesuit priest had not arrived. The first one came was a notice sent to Hong Chengchou.
After glanced at it, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. "It's indeed Liu Qingtai. It seems that the court has figured it out."
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"Liu Qingtai?"
"It's Liu Qingtai."
After the guest and host took the seat, Huang Zongxi first represented Qian Qianyi and he congratulated Chen Wen on his great martial arts in killing the rebel Shi Tingzhu and defeating the Eight Banners of the Han army. Then he mentioned the news that Qian Qianyi had inquired. The first thing was that the Qing Dynasty appointed the Han army's Zhenghong Banners. Liu Qingtai, deputy examiner of the imperial examination last year, served as the governor of Fujian, Zhejiang, who has become a hot potato, and assisted Hong Chengchou, the governor of the four Southeast provinces, to preside over the plan to suppress and pacify him and Zheng Chenggong.
Chen Wen had previously recalled that Chen Jin's successor, as if he was a student from Liaodong, but his reputation was not obvious among civil servants in the early Qing Dynasty. In his impression, it seemed that the most famous thing Liu Qingtai had ever done was the seventh and eighth years of Yongli, the two years when Li Dingguo fought against Guangdong, and finally he was tricked by Zheng Chenggong.
However, if we look at the overall situation, Zheng Chenggong's appointment has not arrived, which seems to be related to this matter. Did Liu Qingtai, a manchu court specially sent to delay?
"It seems that the plan for the southeast suppression and pacification of the Tartars has been decided. It's so strange. They won't recruit me. Otherwise, I can use Zheng Chenggong's technique to get more cheap, which is easier than fighting one mansion at a time."
Chen Wen would not say this to Huang Zongxi. Even if Huang Zongxi has always been rude to him, Chen Wen would not be happy if he scared Wang Yi's friend to death. After all, Huang Zongxi has helped him a lot so far and risked his life to send a lot of information. He should be kinder.
"Lizhou, can Mu Weng say that this person has the same attitude towards the war situation in the Southeast in the Tartar court?"
Chen Wen thought he was pretty stupid in front of Huang Zongxi, but Huang Zongxi did not think about this, but he just answered truthfully, saying that Qian Qianyi did not inquire too much, and that a major incident happened in the Qing court recently, so Qian Qianyi planned to take a break for a while, and he might not be able to help Chen Wen very much in the near future.
"Chen Mingxia?"
"That's right, he is from Baiyang County, Changzhou Prefecture. He was a native of Tanhua in the 16th year of Chongzhen. He was a Shujishi. His articles are still very good, but he will surrender when he comes, and when he comes, he will surrender when he comes, he will surrender when he comes. He has no character and is a villain."
As far as Chen Wen knows, this villain mentioned by Huang Zongxi seems to be a protagonist of the party struggle between the north and the south in the early Qing Dynasty. The party struggle between the north and the south in the early Qing Dynasty was actually a continuation of the party struggle between the late Ming Dynasty. In addition to being a villain, Chen Mingxia was also a famous official in the Donglin Party restoration society. He was very close to the three Jiangzuo people, Qian Qianyi, Wu Weiye and Gong Dingni. Among them, Chen Zhilin, another representative of the party struggle between the north and the south, seems to be a relative of Wu Weiye. Chen Mingxia introduced Chen Zhilin to the cabinet because of Wu Weiye.
As for Wu Weiye, it was Wu Meicun, the literati who wrote "Yuanyuanqu" to correct Chen Yuanyuan's name, and later wrote a poem saying that Kong Sizhen had an affair with Shunzhi and gave Sun Yanling a cuckold.
In Qian Qianyi's words, Chen Mingxia had already lost power because of the murder case of Ren Zhen, the general general of Xing'an, Shaanxi. He also said that "just keep your hair and wear clothes and the world will be peaceful." He violated the taboo of the Qing court and was bound to die. As a result, who was involved in the case of the Qing Dynasty's previous investigation of Chen Wen's life experience, and it would be very involved. This trend may soon blow to Jiangnan, so Qian Qianyi felt that it needed to lurk for a while to avoid unnecessary losses.
Chen Wen felt that this political sense was really undecided, but he did not have much confidence in this old man. With that courage, it was too difficult to be able to do this today. Let him take a break and talk about this story.
Chapter completed!