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As long as Dorgon's strategic focus does not tilt to the southeast for a day, Zhu Cilang doesn't have to worry too much.

Judging from the current situation, the overall situation is very similar to the original history, but Nanming has already gained a firm foothold in Shandong.

"I will give all the right to the army to handle the food, fodder and pay. Shandong will not only fight this war, but also hurt the Donglu!"

What Zhu Cilang needs most now is time. For this reason, he must wave his fists to the Qing court and tell Dorgon that the Ming Dynasty was not easy to bully.

The biggest problem with the Southern Ming Dynasty in history was that it was too soft. The direct consequence of political weakness was the contempt of the opponent. The Qing Dynasty could put all its troops on the Western Front without any scruples, take down Guanzhong and relieve the worries before freeing up its hands to destroy the Southern Ming Dynasty.

What Zhu Cilang had to do was to nail a nail in Dorgon's heart.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will do my best to ensure the supply of food, fodder and military salaries in Shandong."

Lu Zhenfei paused for a moment and said, "There is another thing I don't know whether to talk about it."

"But it's okay."

"Report to Your Majesty, Xuzhou sent a report to Laitang, saying that the generation of Xiaoxian discovered a large number of enemy cavalry, with as many as thousands of cavalry. Xuzhou judged that these people were horse thieves."

Lu Zhenfei's face was full of worries.

Now a war in Shandong is about to break out. It is definitely not a good thing to catch a fire in the backyard at this time.

Zhu Cixuan was not very surprised, and knocked his finger and said, "Now the one who stayed in Xuzhou is Gao Qing's nephew Li Benshen?"

Lu Zhenfei was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Your Majesty is wise, it is Li Benshen who is guarding Xuzhou now."

"Although this man is average in martial arts, he has one advantage, that is, he is very cautious. Therefore, General Gao would be assured to hand over Xuzhou to him when he sent all his main force north."

The name Li Benshen is very familiar to Zhu Cilang.

In the original history, this person surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Li Chengdong after Gao Jie was killed, and served as the vanguard of the Qing Dynasty to kill his compatriots all the way, and absolutely deserved to be accomplices as a tiger.

However, in this time and space, Gao Jie has already collected Shandong, and Li Benshen seems to have no motivation to surrender to the Qing Dynasty for the time being.

So what does it mean that he suddenly went to the pond to report to the court?

"Nanzhili does not produce horses, and thousands of cavalry appeared in Xiaoxian for a while. Don't this soldier find it strange?"

Zhu Cixuan said with great fun: "In my opinion, if Li Benshen did not exaggerate it, there are only two possibilities. One of these people were Qing soldiers. The other was that the Liu tribes were dressed up and robbed as horse thieves. Which one did this soldier think it was?"

"this..."

The emperor suddenly threw the problem to Lu Zhenfei, which made him feel helpless.

Of course, he also suspected the identity of robbing Xiaoxian cavalry, but he did not come up with the reason.

If it were the Qing army, it would definitely come from Henan. But now the main forces of the Qing army in Henan are hoarding in western Henan. If they confront Li Zicheng, how could they split thousands of cavalry to rob Xiaoxian?

Besides, the Fengyang Prefecture directly borders Henan, which is the garrison of Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo. If the Qing army really sent cavalry to Xuzhou to harass and loot, it would definitely pass through Fengyang Prefecture. Didn’t the other Liu issue any warning to Xuzhou?

However, the second possibility is greater. However, the generals of the two towns sent their subordinates to dress up as horse thieves to rob important towns, which is too sensational.

"Your Majesty, if it was really done by the two Lius, I'm afraid this matter will be a bit difficult."

Lu Zhenfei sighed and said, "In the past, Liu Liangzuo was invited by Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying to enter Fengyang, and he burned, killed and robbed along the way. Liu Zeqing was defeated from Shandong and fled to Huai'an and the military discipline was also very corrupt. But at that time they were all stray dogs, and they were still robbed for the sake of eating and living. Now they have stationed in Anding, and the desire to rob is too shameless."

"That's why they put on their makeup and became horse thieves and went to rob Xiaoxian."

Zhu Cilang sneered: "They also knew that what they were doing was shameless, so they covered their faces and thought that no one would know this way."

Lu Zhenfei was shocked and said, "If it were really what the two Lius did, would they plan to Xuzhou?"

No wonder Lu Zhenfei thought so. Now Gao Jie's main force is in Shandong, and Xuzhou's troops are empty.

Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, two hungry wolves, squeezed into Fengyang Mansion, and they inevitably felt greedy.

"They dare to think but dare not do it."

Zhu Cilang shook his head and said, "Unless they want to completely break up with Gao Jie. But for the sake of safety, we should just transfer some Huang Degong's army to station in Chuzhou and Hezhou."

If he had sufficient troops in his hands, Zhu Cixuan would have transferred his personal troops to station in Chuzhou and Hezhou without hesitation. But now the Shence Army has only 8,000 people, plus the two thousand troops of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, which is only 10,000 people.

Ten thousand people stationed in Nanjing are still a little short of their ability, so how can they be transferred out?

It seems that the military expansion matter is urgent. If there is a personal army worth 50,000 or 60,000 yuan in hand, no army dares to underestimate the court.

The reason why Zhu Cixuan did not recruit too many new recruits before was because he was worried that money would be tight. After all, it is natural to eat food when he was a soldier. One person opened his mouth, ten thousand people would be ten thousand mouths, which could make him empty the treasury that was not full.

But now after several rounds of investigation, tens of millions of taels of silver are piled up in the treasury, which is impossible to spend all of them in a short period of time, so there is no scruples to expand the army.

When the maritime trade cooperation between Zhu Cixuan and the Zheng family was on track, the imperial court could earn millions of taels in a year by relying on maritime trade alone, and could fully support an army of tens of thousands of people.

Now that Huang Degong's headquarters is now transferred to Chuzhou, Hezhou's garrison is undoubtedly the best choice.

Huang Degong was born in the Yongwei Battalion and was loyal to the court. His troops were the most powerful army except Gao Jie's troops. He transferred some parts of the surveillance of the second Liu to make them dare not act rashly.

Zhu Cixuan's move also has another purpose, which is to force the second Liu to harass the enemy-occupied area as much as possible.

Henan is now in the hands of the Qing court. If the two Lius cannot go to Xuzhou, Chuzhou, and Hezhou, they can only harass Henan.

Regardless of whether they went openly or were dressed up as horse thieves, they would shake the already weak rule of the Qing court in Henan.

Perhaps Zhu Cixuan cannot recover Henan as well as Shandong, but he does not mind constantly fighting guerrilla warfare and harassing the Qing court's rear.

Even if it is a small-scale harassment, as long as they can bleed the Qing court from time to time, they will fall into the bottomless quagmire.

In the context of today's Little Ice Age, the north is full of drought and the grain harvest is very serious.

After the Qing court accepted Henan, the Jingji area would support the surrendered troops from these places.

If the soldiers are not full, they will cause trouble. Once a mutiny occurs, it will sweep like a tsunami, and the Qing court will be exhausted even if it is suppressed.

Of course, it would be even better if Er Liu could fight the Qing army, because to some extent this would also consume Er Liu's strength.

The Qing army and the two Lius were both defeated, and Zhu Cilang was definitely the most ideal result.

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