Chapter 112 Wu Zhaosheng
This is Mrs. Xing’s decision. Although Liu Yongxi agreed to Mrs. Xing’s decision, he reminded Mrs. Xing privately: “Although we have excess food and salary, we cannot waste it like this. What’s the point of sending food and salary to Yangzhou now?”
Liu Yongxi knew very well that under the siege of 80,000 troops and red-clothed cannons, Yangzhou would definitely not be able to defend it. It seemed that it was suspected that the transfer of this batch of food and wages to Yangzhou would be suspected of raising the enemy.
But Mrs. Xing had her own thoughts: "Husband, I also know that Yangzhou cannot be defended, and the court made a mistake in asking Prime Minister Shi to come to Jiangbei to supervise the army. But we must turn to Zhejiang without a battle. Not to mention how the history books in later generations will view us, I am afraid that the result of the training in more than two months will be completely lost!"
Over the past two months, Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing, an army of tens of thousands of people, have been staying near Jiangdu for a long period of training. Not only have they broken the boundaries between the teams and integrated, but it is also the first time to realize why they are fighting. The repeated mobilization of the propaganda department led by Li Xiangjun finally made the officers and soldiers understand that the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are the real enemy of life and death, and they must not take a step back when dealing with Jianlu.
However, after establishing such a consensus, when the Qing army was heading south in a large-scale southward situation, Linhuai Town directly retreated into Zhejiang without a battle, the morale of the troops would definitely be devastating. After Liu Yongxi understood this, he couldn't help but praise Mrs. Xing: "Sister Xing was still considerate. If the troops were to fall apart before they arrived in Zhejiang, then this matter would be done according to Sister Xing's wishes!"
Speaking of this, Liu Yongxi couldn't help but look at Mrs. Xing twice, or if she had been with Liu Yongxi, Liu Yongxi always felt that Mrs. Xing was getting younger and more beautiful now.
Mrs. Xing also had a similar feeling. Although she once suspected that this was an illusion, after Liu Yongxi spent her honeymoon together, she could confirm that she was indeed several years younger, which made her think of Li Xiangjun around her and Queen Zhang who was the first.
But she just had such a guess now, and now there are more important things to deal with: "And we cannot rush to enter Zhejiang. Xingpingbo's force was brought out by me. If I have no choice but to defect to Jianlu, I must find a way out for them and not let them have no way to use it for Jianlu!"
Liu Yongxi had to secretly admire Mrs. Xing. Until this moment, she was still considering the future of this Qin army, but she had to admit that what Mrs. Xing said was true. Although the Xingping Yu tribe was defeated and ran wildly under the attack of the Qing army, they still chose to run south of Yangzhou to seek refuge with Shi Kefa. Unfortunately, Shi Kefa had neither the ability nor the resources to accommodate these Xingping Yu tribes, resulting in the Xingping Yu tribes being used by Duoduo.
But now Mrs. Xing climbed the high and called out the situation differently. Liu Yongxi said without hesitation: "Sister Xing, since you are going to stay in Yangzhou and circle with Jianlu, then I will be with you too!"
Mrs. Xing said something extra: "Why the court deals with it? The court asks you to deal with Zuo Liangyu!"
"It's okay, just compile a few more battle reports about the victory!" Liu Yongxi had already had a solution to how to deal with Hongguang's small court: "And I will send elite soldiers of the fifth battalion to Taiping, so my father must be very happy!"
However, Liu Yongxi found that things were not that simple. Although he had been mobilizing in Jiangdu for two months, when he heard that he was going to fight with Jianlu, both officers, veterans and new recruits in Linhuai Town were generally afraid of difficulties, and many people even said strange words.
"There are more than 100,000 Jianlu who went south this time, and there are only more than 10,000 people in Linhuai Town. How can we fight with them?"
"Yes, many governors and generals were defeated by the Qing army. With the strength of our Linhuai Town, we may be able to fight all the battle after a fierce battle!"
"Yes, let's change the place and fight with Jianlu!"
"Jianlu are all three heads and six arms. If we fight with them, what is the chance of winning!"
However, although the troops were afraid of difficulties, Liu Yongxi had always given enough food and salary, and the development momentum of Linhuai Town was always very good, so everyone said a few strange words at most. At this time, Mrs. Xing took the initiative to stand up: "We are not decisive with Jianlu, but we are taking over the old subordinates of Xingping who were defeated in Xuzhou. They are all their own old brothers. No wonder we sit by and watch them at the end of the way. Moreover, even if we encounter enemies, we are mostly just new Han troops, and at most we will encounter 180 Eight Banners soldiers!"
Mrs. Xing's statement has achieved very good results after Li Xiangjun's preaching. Although everyone thinks that it is very risky to stay in Yangzhou, she still thinks that Gao Jie's remaining troops must find a way to contain them, and also fight to try the quality of Jianlu.
On the Hongguang court, Liu Kongzhao, the admiral of the Caojiang Shui Shi Chengyibo, naturally there was no big problem. Although Liu Yongxi only sent the fifth battalion of infantry to Taiping to assist in the war, Liu Kongzhao was missing the land athletes, and his memorials to the court praised Liu Yongxi countless times.
Moreover, although Huang Degong and Liu Kongzhao and other Southern Ming generals did not deal with the Qing army, nor could they deal with elite thieves like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, they had a lot of strength to deal with "official thieves" like Zuo Liangyu, and they had the upper hand in several encounters. Liu Kongzhao secretly told Liu Yongxi a secret in the letter.
The life and death of the Ningnan Hou Zuo Liangyu, who was in trouble, was unknown, so he and Huang Degong were able to take advantage of the battlefield!
Liu Yongxi knew what was going on, and he was more concerned about the 80,000 main force of the Qing army heading south from Xuzhou.
Regarding Wu Zhaosheng, the Qing army vanguard, he felt that this southern expedition was no different from armed marching. No matter Kaifeng, Guide, Xuzhou or other large and small cities, he did not encounter any meaningful resistance.
Although Gao Jie's remaining troops were defeated by the wind, they were already the most combat-effective existence of the Southern Dynasties. After all, most of the Southern Ming troops surrendered. Duoduo's southern expedition army had only about 80,000 people when they set off, but now they have nearly 100,000 people. And judging from the current situation, there are more surrendered troops joining the army of the Southern expedition army.
Wu Zhaosheng couldn't help but feel proud. Compared to these newly surrendered troops who rushed to surrender during the southern expedition, he, the old man who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the first year of Shunzhi, was naturally qualified to be proud: "Tell me brothers, speed up the speed, and after taking Yangzhou, we can go straight to Suzhou and Hangzhou. By the way, the Ming troops who had just surrendered have kept a close eye on me!"
Chapter completed!