Yue Le went south, intensifying the conflict between the Qing court and the gentry in the southeast. However, Prince An was still there and the gentry who was well versed in the way of self-protection would never jump out to die at this time. Someone would always stand up and smash the foundation of the Qing Dynasty's rule in Jiangnan before coming out of the crowd and doing some icing on the cake. Tianlai Novel | 2 And those righteous men who really wanted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty's rule were incredible after all, and most of them had even practiced their noble ambitions with their lives in the cruel suppression of these years.

Jiangnan, on the southeast battlefield, is waiting for a change now, but in late November, after a period of fermentation on the southwest battlefield, the change has already appeared first.

In the southwest management headquarters of Changsha Prefecture City in Huguang, the staff members who were cautious in their daily lives shouted and called out to the officials below, while the officials moved boxes of documents and books from one office after another, packed them with seals, and instructed the civilians below to move them to the outside room to load the truck.

Not only here, but also in other yamen, warehouses and military camps in Changsha Prefecture. Even the Qing army in southern Huguang were hurriedly packing their luggage, waiting for the future of the yamen.

The study room in the backyard is the only place where the entire strategic headquarters has not yet started to be cleaned up. Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai sat opposite each other, but the table was placed with an urgent edict from the Qing court.

In early September, various Qing troops from Fujian and Guangdong changed flags one after another. After receiving the news, Fan Wencheng quickly reported to the Qing court. The news that most of the Jiangxi provinces were trapped in the hands of the Ming army had already reached the Qing court. Now there is another news. Yue Le's army has suffered a great loss without the assistance of Shang Geng Erfan, and the troops alone have been in trouble. The attack is not possible. The Qing court has to think about how to preserve more strength under the general collapse of the south of the Yangtze River.

It is impossible to give up Jiangnan, and the prosperity there was an important help from the Qing Dynasty to rule north of the Yangtze River. Since this is the case, Fan Wencheng can only give up the southern part of Huguang and withdraw to the northern part of Huguang to narrow the defense line, and use more power to compete with Chen Wen for the southeast.

"I'm really unwilling to give up these lands that the imperial court had obtained through a lot of hardships."

However, Chen Tai was unwilling to accept it and had no choice. The army in the southwest has been relying on Jiangnan’s wealth for this period, and it still has to eat the rest of the Southeast Management Office. A few months ago, in order to annihilate the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Hong Chengchou had cleaned up the warehouse in Jiangnan, but he returned home in a defeat and died, causing Jiangxi to fall completely. Chen Wen became completely bigger, and even the wealth worth millions of taels of silver fell into Chen Wen’s hands.

Now Jiangnan is under great threats. The Eight Banners Army led by Yue Le has even squeezed out the military supplies. Even if the Qing court did not take out the old foundation that had been plundered in the warehouse over the years, it would be afraid that the Qing army in Huguang would collapse before the war could be fought.

Moreover, withdrawing back to the northern part of Huguang to narrow the defense line was Fan Wencheng's idea. This would not only get rid of the dilemma of being attacked on both sides, but also allow Sun Kewang and Chen Wen to border and watch the snipe and clam fight. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

"It's a pity that the Chen surname is really firm in mind. Changsha's entire mansion can withstand such temptations, which is a major trouble for the court."

When Chen Tai heard Fan Wencheng's words, he also sighed. When this general first appeared in the Qing Dynasty's memorial four years ago, he was just a small army leader who led more than 500 soldiers and was not valued by the civil servants of the army. It has only been four years since then, and it has become a major enemy of the Qing Dynasty, which is really beyond everyone's expectations.

If we can do it again, even if the Lu Jianguo didn't fight, we would have to destroy Chen Wen first. However, no matter what era, there was no medicine for regret, and even if the Qing Dynasty was rich, there would be no chance.

It is not only Fan Wencheng and Chen Tai who are holding this idea. Many people in the Qing Dynasty had similar ideas, but it is useless to think too much. Now they have to face Chen Wen’s military threat. The key lies in it.

"Now we can only expect Sun Kewang's reaction to not be fast enough. We can withdraw all the officials and troops with all our eyes. If Sun Kewang and Chen Wen fight, there is still a lot of potential in the war in the southwest."

"I hope so."

Chen Wen was not fooled as a bait. When they gave up the southern part of Huguang, the Qin Fan confronted the mountainous areas across the western Jiangxi area of ​​Kuaiji Fan. It was difficult to find a reason to fight. It was not so easy to fight.

Two peaches killed three soldiers, and the plan was decided by Fan Wencheng. Now he has become far less confident than Chen Tai. This is not because he has lost his confidence in the face of setbacks, but under normal circumstances, these two guys are so stupid that they can do what they want so easily.

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Fan Wencheng's Changsha Shogunate had already begun preparations for evacuation. It has been less than half a year since Chen Wen recovered Jiangxi. Naturally, the intelligence collection level of Huguang was impossible to compare with the Southwest Ming army that had been competing with the Qing army in Huguang for a long time.

Sun Kewang has been stationed here for several months in Chenzhou Prefecture in southern Huguang. Since Liu Wenxiu recovered Changde, the Ming and Qing armies have fallen into a confrontation again. On the one hand, there is no fighter opportunity, and on the other hand, Sun Kewang no longer has the confidence in the military before the fork in the road. Therefore, even if the military information about Changsha that Chen Wen gave to Liu Wenxiu finally fell into Sun Kewang's hands, he did not make any abnormal movement.

Fan Wencheng set up a plan to make Chen Wen and Sun Kewang have an internal conflict. Chen Wen has not fallen into the trap at the moment. If Sun Kewang attacks in a large scale, Fan Wencheng will probably use his internal forces to mislead Sun Kewang, thus imposing the Ming army in the Southwest into the trap.

This is a simple response. Fan Wencheng would not miss the opportunity to turn the situation around in one fell swoop, but Sun Kewang's timidity made him escape a crushing defeat. It can only be said that although this cowardice is shameful, it is indeed useful.

Nowadays, every move of the Qing army in the southwest is in his eye. Although Fan Wencheng ordered the Qing army in various places to act secretly, with the execution of the feudal army, there is actually no big difference between secrets or not in such a large range.

"The king of the country has been confirmed. The Tartars in Hengyang and Yongzhou have begun to set up camps and go north. The goal should be Changsha and meet with Fan Wencheng. Chenzhou is not yet sure, but there should be no exceptions."

"The same is true for Guilin's line national security and full festival."

"In Changsha, the thief Fan Wencheng has already started packing his clothes."

"The Tartars in Yuezhou Prefecture have been very nervous recently, and they were afraid that the royal army would cut off the retreat of Fan Zhe."

“…”

Although Sun Kewang clearly wanted to usurp the throne, even his righteous brothers could no longer bear it, but now he is still the leader of the Emperor Yongli in name, and the restoration forces in Huguang are still looking forward to the Ming army in the southwest to launch a large-scale attack like two years ago to restore more lost territory.

In contrast, Chen Wen received very little support from Huguang. On the one hand, he was familiar with his work and not as a child. On the other hand, Chen Wen's attitude towards the gentry also affected their judgment.

"King, the Tatar army is returning to the north, which is a good opportunity to send troops."

"As such, if we can defeat the Fan thief in southern Huguang, the momentum of the king's army swept Huguang; but if we let him lead the army to retreat to northern Huguang, it will be even more difficult to continue to make progress."

"The three games of the cherry blossoms are about to be completed. Li Jingluo and He Shilang have been waiting for the king in Nanjing. The opportunity must not be missed, and you will never come again."

“…”

The momentum of the Qing army's withdrawal has emerged, and the anti-Qing forces in the occupied areas of the Qing army are also looking forward to it. However, although Sun Kewang was also moved, the sequelae of the fork in the road have not been cured, and it is still obvious that it is as unmoved as a mountain. It is useless to watch the changes below if the ministers below are anxious.

"The army is defeated and cannot fight again. If it is defeated again, I am afraid that even Yunnan and Guizhou will not be able to save it. I will send an order to confirm that the Tartars evacuate and the army will follow up again, and then recover the various prefectures before Chen Wen and Li Dingguo."

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While Sun Kewang was still waiting and watching, Chen Wen had already returned to Jinhua Mansion and lived a small life of normal value and normal value again. He went home to spend the evening with his wife.

Regarding the abnormalities in southern Hubei, the Yuzhang Division of the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was responsible for that aspect and had begun to notice it, but it would take some time before confirmation. Even the messenger sent by Wu Dengke because he smelled the possibility had just come out, and it was impossible for Chen Wen to get the news immediately.

In this way, Li Dingguo is still operating in western Guangdong, while Chen Wen is far away in Zhejiang. At first glance, Huguang will be the first to get the moon near the water, but Chen Wen, who caused all this, did not stop, but his eyes did not look there.

"According to the returns of the spies lurking in Hangzhou by the Military Information Department, Prince An of the Tatars, Yue Le, has led his army into Hangzhou. However, this Eight Banners Army did not make any preparations for continuing to move south except for levying heavy taxes in the local area. Instead, it began to work harder to strengthen the city defense of Hangzhou's prefecture and counties, and put on a stance to defend and wait for assistance."

"According to the command of the commander, our company formulated a plan to attack Hangzhou, as follows: In view of the Tartars being set up along the Qiantang River and Xincheng, Fuyang line, our army planned to use the Zhejiang Inland River Naval Division to go downstream and cooperate with the Zhejiang Coastal Cruise Naval Division to seize the navigation rights of Qiantang River. On the 6th Division, our army used the Yongjia Division to supplement the Pujiang Camp to break through the Tartars' bastion in Fuyang; at the same time, the Jinhua Division deployed the Qiantang River along the coast and relied on the navy to cross the Qiantang River. With a dignified momentum, the two routes advanced side by side, forcibly breaking through the natural danger of Qiantang River, recovering Hangzhou, and then spy on Taihu Lake."

The Qing army in Hangzhou was divided into two parts. One was the Eight Banners Army brought by Yue Le, 12,000 troops, 4,000 Eight Banners of Manchus, 6,000 Mongolian Eight Banners and 2,000 Han Army Eight Banners; the other was the Qing army in Hangzhou, 2,000 Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners, and the Green Camp was the city guard and reorganized upgrade, Fubiao and Qiantang Navy who had been transferred from Susong before.

Not to mention the Green Camp soldiers, the proportion of veterans is too low, and they are all newly defeated troops. It should not take much effort to defeat them. The key is to rely on the Eight Banners Army.

However, among these two Eight Banners, there were only 4,000 to 8,000 Mongolian Eight Banners, and 2,000 Han Eight Banners. This ratio was the stupidest thing Chen Wen had seen in recent years. So many Mongolian Tartars were placed on the ground like Jiangnan, and their cavalry was too limited and they could not sway their own advantages. The Eight Banners, the backbone of hand-to-hand combat, and the Eight Banners in the Han army, which were responsible for firearms and the Eight Banners in the Han army, which were responsible for firearms and the Eight Banners in the Han army, which were also responsible for the eight Banners of Manchuria, were not as many as the cavalry. This was completely putting the cart before the horse.

But if you think about it carefully, it is normal now.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria suffered a considerable loss in the battle between the forks of the road. They had to separate some of them to defend Huguang. In addition, Beijing and Liaodong also had to keep a large number of Eight Banners of Manchuria as the Dinghai Scientific Needle, otherwise the Mongols would have jumped out to rush Shunzhi's chrysanthemums long ago. The Eight Banners of the Han army had been let go of blood last year. Now they still had to lick their wounds and fill them up before they could be put into the battlefield again. Since this is the case, the only ones that are still intact are left, and there is no way to go.

Moreover, there is a question of checks and balances. If the Manchu and Han Eight Banners suffer too much, the Mongolian Eight Banners will definitely become bigger. For the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which only had 40,000 to 50,000, the tens of millions of Han people and the millions of Mongolian Tartars on the grassland need to be wary of. It is also very necessary to let the Mongolian Eight Banners go to Jiangnan to bleed!

Chen Wen estimated that this was precisely one of the reasons why the high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty made such a decision. They only had tens of thousands of troops, including the Eight Banners of Manchu, Mongolia, Han army and the Green Camp, to conquer China. There were too many trade-offs and restrictions. If it weren't for the emergence of teammates of the Southern Ming Pig, the civil servants and generals in charge of the army would always have all kinds of flaws and selfishness. It would be a dream to conquer China with tens of thousands of troops.

In history, the Qing Dynasty completed the miracle of conquering tens of millions of countries with tens of thousands of tribes, and successfully maintained the national destiny for more than 260 years. If it weren't for the great changes that had not been seen in three thousand years, it might have been longer. Among them, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of Manchuria did not last long and quickly corrupted, and even the Green Camp was only a little slower than the Eight Banners Army. On the contrary, a series of ruling methods such as checks and balances, brainwashing, and suppression established an orthodox position for the Qing Dynasty, and did not repeat the mistakes of the Mongol Yuan.

Anyone who underestimates the Qing Dynasty and regards him as a brainless barbarian is the complete 2nd Spring Crocodile. The wastes like Yang Hao, Yuan Yingtai, Wang Huazhen, Yuan Chonghuan have proved this with the blood of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. However, in the Southern Ming Dynasty, no one dared to underestimate the Qing Dynasty, but he has never been short of bears and hastily killed all his teammates before he did anything. This is the tragedy of China and even the Eastern civilization, and it is also a great luck for the small barbarian tribe of the Qing Dynasty and the Europeans.

Attacking Hangzhou is a good idea, and the significance is not only in the prosperity of Hangzhou and the representatives of provincial capital cities. What is more important is that only by taking Hangzhou can he go north and boldly regain Nanjing.

From a must-fight place back then to a springboard today, Hangzhou has not changed, but Chen Wen's pattern has become different from the past.

After determining the combat plan, the next step is to mobilize all troops to the established location. Even Chen Wen has set up the slogan, such as "Celebrating the New Year in Hangzhou" is very good. The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were full of confidence in the recovery of Hangzhou in a battle. The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have always defeated the strong with the weak. After all this calculation, it seems that it is still to be inferior to the weak. How can it be invincible?

However, when the two military situations were sent to Chen Wen, he immediately issued an order to withdraw the order to transfer the military order. The first of these two military situations was that Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, died of illness, and the second was that Zhu Zhu, the Duke of Zhang, accepted the title of Prince of Yanping.
Chapter completed!