Lin Dezhong and Chen Kai have known each other for more than ten years, but they are like others. Many times, he cannot understand what Chen Kai thinks. Fortunately, he has this self-knowledge. As long as he doesn't find his own discomfort and has to do such things that are clearly beyond his reach, it will not become a trouble, which is a kind of wisdom in life.

However, not long after, the wise Lin Dezhong suddenly awakened Chen Kai who was still thinking. The two looked into the distance. The existence of a warship was coming along the flow of Chenshui. On the mast of the warship, the Ming red flag was cutting the air around it rapidly.

"The King of Jin came down so quickly."

It was indeed Li Dingguo. When Chen Kai and Lin Dezhong rushed to the dock to welcome him, the warships Li Dingguo was already ready to dock. Thinking of this, Li Dingguo obviously found that he had entered Huguang and hurriedly set off for Mayang County, which had not yet been recovered, and found a ship at the dock in Mayang County, took him and his Jin Wangfu Guard, and then went downstairs to meet Chen Kai. During this period, except for determining the meeting location, the horse traveling back and forth, it was probably not delayed even an hour.

"This is a good sign."

When the warships docked, they saw that Chen Kai's governor's flag was already at the dock. When the pier was set up, the King of Jin in the Ming Dynasty, wearing a big red python robe and a jade belt, rushed to Chen Kai in three steps in two steps.

"The lower-ranking official is the Governor of Guangdong and Jiangxi and the Governor of Guangdong. I will pay homage to His Highness the King of Jin."

He bent, but his arms were already held by Li Dingguo's powerful hands: "I haven't seen each other for several years, so I'm going to have a relationship with me?"

"It is related to the laws of the court, and etiquette cannot be abolished." Having said that, Chen Kai did not insist anymore, so he accepted the etiquette like a donkey: "Then let's go back to the city to talk in detail."

He talked all the way, telling his own experiences over the past few years, which made him sigh. When he returned to the camp, Li Dingguo had already talked about the great victory in Mopanshan. He praised the grenade drawings sent by Chen Kai and the matter of sending Yu Youhan to fight against traitors. He was even more happy when talking about the results of the battle.

"Congratulations to Your Highness Wu for getting the battle."

Prince Jingjin Aisin Gioro* Nikan, King Dingnan Kong Youde, King Pingnan Shang Kexi, King Jingnan Geng Jimao, Prince Xin Aisin Gioro* Doni - the grass on the graves of the first four guys is more than two meters high, and the last one has not cut his head yet, but he is still dead. According to the mechanism, it should be two double kills and one single kill. However, Chen Kai doesn't care what the mechanism is. He said that it is a five kill, and he doesn't care what others think.

However, Li Dingguo was completely unable to understand Chen Kai's evil taste. In comparison, he paid more attention to another result, which was enough to rewrite the power comparison between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Doni is just a waste. I value the beheadings more, especially those so-called real Manchus. It is as if it were actually the one who once said that even one of the Eight Banners of Manchus was shaking the foundation of the Tartars."

The Beheading and Capture of the Great Victory of Mopanshan Due to Wu Sangui's advance, most of them were composed of the Eight Banners Army. Among them, the Eight Banners of Manchuria were beheaded at 3,625 levels and 233 people were captured. In addition, Yu Youhan also killed ten Eight Banners of Manchuria with the Yellow Banners, all of which were from Kabush Xian Chaoha, and the Super Gods turned a corner; the Eight Banners of Mongolia were beheaded at 1,817 levels and captured 2,998 people; the Eight Banners of Han Army beheaded at 3,869 levels and captured 3,687 people.

In addition to these, Sun Sike also contributed, no, to be precise, Wu Sangui also sponsored more than 100 beheadings and more than 2,800 prisoners, all of which were Green Camp soldiers. If they were not all transferred from Shaanxi to the south, Li Dingguo would have thought that he would not even bother to mention it. Conversely, the vassal soldiers snatched all the corpses back, which made the result of the reputation of the famous Hou Dou of Tai'an very ugly.

Zhao Butai and Jixiha fled from Gaoligong Mountain with more than 2,000 Qing troops composed of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia. However, in the lawsuit of Chief Shidian, he encountered Bai Wenxuan, a man with a long horse, and eliminated more than 2,000 people. The remaining 300 people only captured more than 20. According to the confessions of those meritorious ministers who "captured" Zhao Butai, the rest disappeared either in the mountains of Yunnan or in the rushing Lancang River. Anyway, they could not be found.

"You and I have been together for many years, and there is no one else here, and I have nothing to do with etiquette. You are not allowed to call him Your Highness again."

"Then, Ning Yu..."

"That's right. Otherwise, I'll call you and you'll be happy if you call me Your Highness, would you want me to change the word "六"?

When talking about the results of the battle, Li Dingguo was almost happy. Chen Kai remembered that he had seen such excitement in Zheng Chenggong. However, once he thought of Zheng Chenggong, he would have to compare these two pairs of Southern Ming Dynasty in history.

Chen Kai remembers that some people in later generations counted the number and list of officers killed by the Ming army based on historical records from both the Ming and Qing dynasties. Among them, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong were the two brightest stars in the dim night sky.

However, what is surprising is that Li Dingguo, who generally remembers that the number of officers in the Eight Banners seemed to be much smaller than Zheng Chenggong in killing the Eight Banners, but also the proportion of total kills of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia was much lower than Zheng Chenggong in terms of total kills.

There will be such a difference. The main opponents of the Eight Banners Army that Zheng Chenggong fought against, especially the late-stage "divine equipment" were mainly the Eight Banners Army of Manchuria and Mongolia. During the period of Li Dingguo's victory in Guilin and his two invasions to Guangdong, he mainly faced opponents like Sanshun King.

But from another perspective, Li Dingguo's killing record is higher than Zheng Chenggong's - Prince Jingjin Nikan and First-class Bechni of the Great Wind in Hengyang, King Kong Youde of Dingnan of Guilin, Gushan Ezhen Sharib of Gushan who fought bloody battles in Mopanshan, and Gonggan Tu and Zhakana of the Supplementary Kingdom. Zheng Chenggong's highest-level position is limited to the commander of the Forward Battalion and Melezhangjing, and the second-rank general. He is often the best-ranked and the first-ranked one is also very different.

The reason for this difference is actually very simple. Li Dingguo's Hengyang victory was ambush and annihilation, Guilin victory was siege and annihilation, and Mopanshan bloody battle changed from ambush to encounter battles under the advantage of geographical advantage. The Qing army either could not run away or was difficult to run. The probability of officers, especially senior officers being killed was much higher. Guangdong's two battles were sieges without siege, and the killing was limited. Even if it was won, the battle between the Zhayan River battle, which was head-on with the Qing army, could quickly evacuate the battlefield with the advantage of far more horses than the Ming army, not to mention that the battle ended with the Ming army's defeat.

Most of Zheng Chenggong's side were encounters. The Huguoling victory was an ambush and he killed three Melezhangjing. Not only did he kill the second-rank deputy commander to the wholesale price, but he also sent Prince Zheng Jidu back to the capital to enjoy the treatment of early retirement. There was also a naval battle and island battle, which was the Xiamen Hai victory, which created half of its killing record. Not only did he annihilate the naval troops of the coastal provinces of the Qing Dynasty, but he also broke the two white flags at once. Unfortunately, Dasu, Huang Wu and Shi Lang ran away, but even if they didn't run away, their level was actually impossible to compare with those high-ranking officials and nobles who were trapped in the carefully designed encirclement of Li Dingguo.

"One of these two guys can fight or resist in the early and mid-stage period, but if no one helps, they cannot fight for a long time, and the battery life problem is too big; the other has not such a big problem, and at least Haimao is supported. In the later stage, especially in the late stage, the damage is directly full, but it takes a lot of time to develop." Thinking of this, Chen Kai sighed shamelessly: "It's really not easy for me."

Now, the fate of the two of them has undergone a great deflection. Li Dingguo won the Battle of Xinhui and captured Guangzhou. Although the internal strife of the three kings broke out, the Battle of Mopanshan achieved a brilliant victory under his interference. Zheng Chenggong's side, he won Fujian without bloodshed, resulting in a huge improvement in its development speed. The Huguoling victory had no possibility of an outbreak, but it had achieved a great victory in the country. And according to the current momentum, the Zhenjiang victory might not have happened, because Zheng Chenggong no longer needed to float thousands of miles to attack Nanjing. As for the Xiamenhai victory, forget it, maybe the possibility of the Tanggu Port victory is higher...

After obtaining detailed data from Li Dingguo, Chen Kai did not hesitate to find the letter from Zheng Chenggong's letter recording the specific data and list of the great victory in the great victory of the Jiangshan. Then, he calculated the results of these two great victory on the manuscript paper carefully.

"After the two battles of Jiangshan and Mopanshan, the Taurus flags were damaged to varying degrees. Ning Yu, you see, among which the Han army flag lost forty-five Niulu from the two yellow flags and two red flags in Mopan Mountain, and twenty-four Niulu from the two yellow flags and two blue flags were crippled in Jiangshan. According to the eight banner system of the Taurus, these Niulu need to be replenished and then the time for re-forming combat power is included. In other words, it is difficult to use these sixty-nine Niulu for at least ten years."

In the Eight Banners system, Niulu is not damaged much, and can be supplemented by the newly grown Banners at the turn of winter and spring every year. This is also the reason why most of the large-scale expeditions of the Eight Banners Army after entering the pass are mostly at the turn of winter and spring. Exceptions are not missing. For example, in the sixth year of Yongli, the Xiying Army launched a wave of counterattacks. Nikan set off from Beijing in a hasty time in July, which disrupted the Qing court's Niulu supplement plan.

In addition, annihilation and destruction are also completely different concepts. The reason for this difference is that the Mopanshan Victory was an ambush battle, while the Jiangshan Victory was a frontal field battle. The Qing army had more horses, and if they could not win, they could run away. It was difficult for the Ming army to maximize the results of the battle.

"Sixty-nine Niulus, sixty-nine Niulus..." Reciting this number silently, Li Dingguo then asked Chen Kai: "How many Niulus are there in the Han army flag of the Tartars?"

“Six hundred.”

"So much!"

This number made Li Dingguo unable to believe his ears. After two great victories, the loss of the Han army flag was only one tenth. This is really exaggerated.

Seeing this, Chen Kai suddenly smiled and said, "Ning Yu, you asked me to finish your words."

"ah?"

He seemed to be a little excited, but who would not be so surprised by this. Fortunately, Chen Kai did not have the intention to catch his appetite, so he explained: "The Han army flag of the Tartars is different from the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolians. Among them, there are 300 Niulus with no or only a small population. These Niulus were all established after entering the pass. The purpose is to accommodate the surrendered middle and senior officers, but they cannot all the subordinates of these rebel generals as their banners, so as not to overtake the strength of the Han army flags, so that they can only create some empty Niulus."

"Three hundred..."

There were no more than three hundred, and they only lost one-fifth of their two great victories. However, this account was not calculated like this: "In order to control various places, the Tatars established a system of garrisoning the Eight Banners. For example, the Four Left-wing Banners in Jiangnan, the Four Right-wing Banners in Shaanxi, the Four Hangzhou Banners in Zhejiang, the Eight Banners in Nanchang, the Two Blue Banners in Taiyuan, the Two Yellow Banners in Dezhou, the Two Yellow Banners in Jiangnan, and the Hanzhong Banners in Jiangnan. In addition, in Shengjing, Liaodong, that is, Chenyang, and even further away, Ningguta, there are troops stationed in the Eight Banners. These are just the Eight Banners soldiers stationed outside. The Tatars also placed a large number of Eight Banners in the Jifu area near Beijing and Beijing to prevent the Mongolian troops."

"Mongolian tribes?"

"Yes, for example, the Chahar tribe held itself as the Golden Family's legacy and always looked down on Jiannu. In addition, if the capital was empty, the tribes in the south of the Mo were probably not able to suppress their greed and not robbed the border wall. Therefore, the Tartars would not use these troops unless they had no choice. Their mobile forces were greatly reduced after these two battles."

Next, Chen Kai analyzed the losses of the Mongolian and the Manchu Eight Banners in these two battles in turn. The former lost more than fifty Niulu, especially the red, white and blue. That is, the eight Mongolian Banners who attacked Yunnan, which were the army of destruction, were almost wiped out in addition to the small number of Niulu left in Beijing and the small number of Niulu stationed in various places. The latter's two blue flags were severely damaged by Zheng Chenggong, and the two white flags and two red flags also lost about ten Niulu in Mopan Mountain, Shidian Chief Si, and other places.

The Manchuria of the Yellow Banner is the most exaggerated. If he did not do it wrong, after the two battles, the only Niulu that was stationed in various places would remain intact. The others were either wiped out or beaten to take care of themselves. If the Han army of the Yellow Banner, which was also severely damaged in the two battles, would probably not be able to see the yellow flag with red edges in the next days unless the Northern Expedition was in sight.

"No, Mongolia still has the strength of the Yellow Banner Mongolia, so we must be careful."

Chen Kai was serious about it, while Li Dingguo was sore about this joke that his stomach hurt. In short, with the self-healing ability of the Eight Banners, Manchu and Han army of the Yellow Banner, Manchu and Mongolia of the Blue Banner, Mongolia of the White Banner, Mongolia of the Zhenghong Banner, Mongolia of the Zhenghong Banner, Mongolia of the Zhenghuang Banner, Mongolia of the Zhengbai Banner, Manchu of the Zhengbai Banner, Manchu of the Zhenglan Banner, Mongolia of the Zhenglan Banner, Manchu of the Zhenglan Banner, Mongolia of the Zhenglan Banner, Manchu of the Zhenglan Banner, Manchu of the Zhenglan Banner, Manchu of the Zhenglu and Han army of the Zhenghong Banner, Manchu of the Zhenghong Banner, Manchu of the Zhenghong Banner and Han army of the Red Banner, and some of these troops were difficult to revive their flags after ten or eight years.

But, do I still have so many years to go to the Qing Dynasty?

The situation was very good, and the Eight Banners Army was seriously injured. With the imminent depletion of the southern green camps and the number of green camp soldiers drawn from the north successively was annihilated by the Ming army. In addition, the actual situation of the green camps in various northern provinces was not connected, it will definitely cause the Qing court to reduce its control over local areas, which will inevitably lead to the resurgence of local anti-Qing forces and the pressure on the Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue.

Of course, the Qing court would not easily give up the wealthy land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Zheng Chenggong might have a tough battle to fight around Nanjing. But in the southwest battlefield, the Qing army had no chance of rescuing the situation. He just waited for Chen Kai and Li Dingguo to harvest the last nests in Guangxi, Wuzhou and northern Huguang, and then he could kill the Yangtze River.

"Speaking of this, Yu Zhuangshi is still running on the road now."

Li Dingguo returned to Kunming at the end of February, and Yu Youhan also set off on the same day. However, even though Li Dingguo delayed a little time in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, he still rushed into Huguang in mid-April and met with Chen Kai.

But Yu Youhan returned on the same route, which means that Yu Youhan had to go east, cross half of Yunnan from Kunming to enter Guangxi, and then run through Guangxi province, plus half of Guangdong to reach his departure point, Guangzhou. After arriving in Guangzhou, he obtained the northward pass certificate from the Governor's Office and learned about Chen Kai's specific location, so he had to travel from south to north to north to reach Nanchang. If he wanted to see Chen Kai, he still needed to run from east to west Yuanzhou Prefecture and enter Huguang, and then cross several prefectures horizontally across Changsha and other places to reach here.

In other words, Li Dingguo and Chen Kai were rushing in two directions in a straight line, while Yu Youhan followed Chen Kai's journey over the past six months and went around a whole circle to chase him. Even if the former had to lead the army and delayed the road, while the latter was quick to rush, the huge gap in the two sides' journey was completely incomparable.

"If it weren't for the action, I'm afraid the result of the Battle of Mopanshan would be completely reversed. Such deep kindness and righteousness would be difficult to repay. If you need help in the future, I, Li Dingguo, must go through fire and water."

After saying that, Li Dingguo thanked him deeply. Chen Kai also quickly returned the gift, and kept saying that "I should do this for the sake of national affairs, and the two of them are in harmony." But soon, he changed the subject: "If you say that there is a place where you need help..."

"It's okay to say that, even if I can't do it, I should do my best."

Li Dingguo was frank and did not make any false statements. However, Chen Kai paused and asked bluntly: "I heard that the emperor once gave Ning Yu a yellow axe, is there any such thing?"

"This is indeed the case."

Upon hearing this, Chen Kai smiled and said with a sigh: "What I want is this thing."

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