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Chapter 107: Discussion on Entering Zhejiang

As soon as he talked about this topic, the originally extremely enthusiastic mood in the room suddenly cooled down. Everyone knew the true meaning of Liu Yongxi's words, and Jin'er blurted out: "Did Brother Yongxi say that Jianlu is ready to go south?"

Liu Yongxi replied very clearly: "Since the Qing army has defeated Li Zicheng to capture Xi'an, even Dashun is not the opponent of the Qing Dynasty. How could they take Ming Dynasty seriously? Going south is imperative!"

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the bandit Li Zicheng, and the soldiers of the Hongguang small court, whether it was the four towns in Jiangbei or Zuo Liangyu, who occupied the upper reaches, were all defeated generals under the bandits, and their combat effectiveness was far less than that of the bandits. Moreover, since Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne, he made all the mistakes he could make, "The court and the outside town are in harmony, the court and the court are in harmony, the outside town and the outside town are in harmony, the party is in harmony, the gates are in great success, and the matter of the enemy is disdainful." It is completely a mess of scattered sand. It would be strange if the Qing Dynasty did not take this opportunity to go south.

When it comes to the Qing army going south, whether it is Mrs. Xing, Li Xiangjun, or Jin'er or Hui'er, they all feel helpless.

Since Nurhaci raised his army with seven hatreds in the 46th year of Wanli, the court has been defeated repeatedly against Jianlu, and has almost no choice but to win several battles to defend the city. However, since the Dengzhou Incident Kong Youde and Geng Jingzhong took the red cannon to Huang Taiji, even the battle to defend the city in the Ming Dynasty has become unsuspecting to defeat.

After the red-clothed cannons, the Qing army entered the pass and entered the unmanned land. At the farthest, it even attacked Haizhou in Nanzhili. Even if there were a small number of cities that could last for three or five days under the Qing army's offensive, as long as the red-clothed cannons were transported, they would be immediately defeated. Everyone felt that the Jurchens were invincible and had no chance of winning when they met the Zhen Cap.

Although there are now 15,600 officers and soldiers and their relatives gathered near Jiangdu, and there are more than 10,000 soldiers who can fight, and there are even several red-clothed cannons, but if they really want to decide the victory with the Qing army southward, everyone thinks that although it is not an egg to touch a stone, the chance of victory is not great.

After all, Li Zicheng used all his strength to deal with the Qing army, but he has lost again and again. Except for Huaiqing's small victory, he has no results worth mentioning, and even lost all his old nests in Xi'an. The combat power of Linhuai Town is definitely not as good as that of Li Zicheng's troops in his heyday. Thinking of this, everyone feels that there is almost no way out.

Mrs. Xing was the first to see the depressed feelings of the girls. She quickly said: "Li Zicheng cannot support it, but it does not mean that our Linhuai Town cannot support it. I have long seen that Li Zicheng is a bandit person with too much habits and cannot become a climate at all. The only one who can truly achieve a career is our brother Yongxi!"

Others are not qualified to evaluate Li Zicheng's right and wrong success or failure, but after all, there was a history between Mrs. Xing and Li Zicheng, so she is qualified to evaluate Li Zicheng and take this opportunity to cheer everyone up.

But Mrs. Xing now also regards Liu Yongxi as a life-saving straw. When Li Zicheng entered the capital, Mrs. Xing was extremely desperate. However, Li Zicheng not only lost the capital, but also suffered a series of loss-making blows such as Taiyuan and Tongguan. This result made Mrs. Xing even more desperate.

Li Zicheng's millions of elite troops could not stop the fierce attack of Jiannu. She had no other way except to rely on Liu Yongxi. Liu Yongxi struck while the iron was hot: "That's why we were going to Zhejiang to meet with Zhang. Now Zhang has taken down the three prefectures and twenty-three counties in Jinqu. As long as we can bring this army to Zhejiang, the whole Zhejiang will be our territory!"

Now Queen Zhang has a territory but no army in central Zhejiang. Although there are thousands of people, the real core force is still more than a thousand people led by Zhou Zhisheng. Therefore, although the momentum is great, it does not pose much threat to the Hongguang court. Linhuai Town has a large army but no territory. Five or six thousand officers and soldiers and their relatives gathered near the small town of Jiangdu, resulting in the most basic food, clothing, housing and transportation.

After hearing what Liu Yongxi said, Jin'er was the first to react: "Brother Yongxi means to transport his family members to Zhejiang first?"

Mrs. Xing also understood: "I haven't really reached this point before. As long as my family members have a way to transfer to Zhejiang, our army will have less drag on the action!"

In addition to tens of thousands of warable soldiers gathered around Jiangdu, there are thousands of relatives. With these relatives, they encounter major problems when dragging down the army. Liu Yongxi said very clearly: "Families should be transferred to Zhejiang as soon as possible, and it is best to take several roads. As long as they arrive in central Zhejiang, Empress Zhang will definitely try her best to resettle them!"

Seeing that Liu Yongxi trusted Queen Zhang so much, Mrs. Xing suddenly became more suspicious. She always felt that there was a little unclear relationship between Liu Yongxi and Queen Zhang. She even remembered that when she first met this little brother, she had a very close ride with Queen Zhang, and the level of mutual trust between her little men and Queen Zhang was too exaggerated.

But Mrs. Xing just suspected that there was no evidence in her hands, and she also knew that Liu Yongxi's plan to enter Zhejiang was indeed very feasible. Even if Liu Yongxi and Empress Zhang had something unclear about it, she could only turn a blind eye, not to mention that she and Liu Yongxi were not married to each other.

Although she and Gao Jie had 40,000 to 50,000 troops when they were in full swing, they were boycotted by local gentry officials and civilians in Nanzhili wherever they went. Confrontation and even attacks led to their inability to gain a foothold. Therefore, there was no truly stable territory as a support and could not control one side. However, since Zhejiang had top gentry like Zhu Dadian and Zhang Guowei, even if they could not advance to the southeast, there would be at least a small situation in Wu Yue.

It was precisely because of this idea that Mrs. Xing immediately said, "Since my husband said that, then start to settle the family members as soon as possible. I think there is not much time left!"

Mrs. Xing just said casually, but Liu Yongxi said very seriously: "There is not much time left!"

It is now mid-February of the first year of Hongguang.

Everyone thinks that although the Hongguang court made many fatal mistakes and the government was in chaos, it was still a kind of singing and dancing atmosphere. But who would not have thought that the national destiny of this small court had been less than three months.

Whether it was Mrs. Xing, Li Xiangjun, Zhang Huangyan, Qian Weikun, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng in Nanjing, or Zhang Guowei and Zhu Dadian in Central Zhejiang, although they knew that the Hongguang court was going downhill, they at least thought that the Hongguang court would have one or two years of national destiny, and they never expected that the world would collapse so quickly.
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