Wu Sangui looked at the 80,000 Jiangbei Second Town army behind him and felt high-spirited.
Eighty thousand troops filled the rugged and winding country roads, spreading from Wu Sangui's side to invisible places in the distance, as if covering the entire world.
After Guan Ning's army was defeated by Li Zhi, Wu Sangui became a neglected dog for a time. Guan Ning's army was greatly downsized, disbanded, and transferred to the eroded battlefield of Henan's suppression of bandits. At that time, Wu Sangui felt that his life was finished.
In the end, he was either beaten to death by a bandit, or was sentenced to death by the emperor for being a traitor.
Maybe one day he will be forced to surrender to the thieves and be annihilated by the new army of the imperial court.
However, when Wu Sangui was at his lowest, the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan did not forget Wu Sangui. When they were planning to build Jiangbei Second Town, they found Wu Sangui and made him the commander-in-chief of Jiangbei East Town.
Jiangbeidong Town finally had a total of 40,000 people, twice as many soldiers and horses as Wu Sangui had when he was in Liaoxi. Moreover, the soldiers in Jiangbeidong Town were well-paid and had sufficient food and grass, so Wu Sangui suddenly became prominent again.
Wu Sangui knew that the purpose of forming the Second Town of Jiangbei was to fight against Li Zhi. The Second Town of Jiangbei imitated Li Zhi's Huben Army and was equipped with firecrackers and cannons, and outnumbered the Huben Army in order to defeat Li Zhi's troops.
However, Wu Sangui is not afraid of Li Zhi. As the representative of the generals in western Liaoning, Wu Sangui has been attached to the civil servants of the imperial court for decades. He knows the power of the gentry better than anyone else. In Wu Sangui's eyes, no matter how powerful Li Zhi is, it is just a flash in the pan. And in this world, in the final analysis,
After all, it still belongs to the gentry.
The various things Li Zhi did in Tianjin and Shandong made Li Zhi much stronger and made the people much happier on the surface. However, in Wu Sangui's view, this was the suicide of a man with no political experience.
This is like a child snatching a strong man's rice to eat. After a while, the child seems to be full, but it will lead to the strong man's crazy revenge.
Li Zhi is one person, but how many gentry are there? The gentry is the whole world! Even if Li Zhi kills the gentry in Tianjin and Shandong, there will still be others in Jiangnan and Huguang, Jiangxi and Sichuan, Fujian and Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanxi!
The more gentry Li Zhi kills, the more the gentry in the world will wake up and form a joint force to kill Li Zhi. The gentry can be defeated again and again, but the power of counterattack will become stronger each time.
What's more, the Second Town of Jiangbei is different this time. Hongmao, who was driven out of Xiaoliuqiu by Li Zhi, also hated Li Zhi and sold 600 advanced cannons to the gentry in Jiangnan. With these six white cannons, 80,000 Jiangbei troops
It can overwhelm the 20,000 troops and horses left by Li Zhi in Shandong and bring the war to Tianjin.
Li Zhi has fallen into a quagmire in Liaodong and is struggling. It is a good opportunity for Jiangbei Army to attack Tianjin. It takes half a month for the news of Jiangbei Army's attack on Li Zhi to reach Liaodong from Shandong. Li Zhi will be chased and harassed by Qing cavalry if he withdraws his troops in Liaodong.
It would take at least two months to lead the troops back to Shandong for rescue. Therefore, the Jiangbei army had more than two and a half months. Maybe this time, the gentry in Jiangnan could remove Li Zhi's cancer at once.
If the Jiangbei army were allowed to attack Fanjiazhuang, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River would definitely burn this "sinful city" to scorched earth.
Zhang Shenyan, the Minister of Civil Affairs in Nanjing, was the highest civil servant to accompany the army this time. Qian Qianyi was born in the Ministry of Rites and did not understand military affairs. Shi Kefa had recently fallen out with Qian Qianyi because of the alliance with the Qing Dynasty and no longer took care of the affairs of the two towns in Jiangbei. The last civil servant to go on the expedition
He became Zhang Shenyan.
Zhang Shenyan looked at the smug Wu Sangui and said with a smile: "If Li Zhi's nest can be overthrown this time, I recommend General Wu to be the admiral of Tianjin in the future and take charge of the military affairs of a town in Tianjin."
Wu Sangui was young after all. When he heard this, he felt happy and a smile burst out on his face.
Zhang Shenyan turned to Zuo Liangyu and said, "Commander Zuo will be the admiral of Shandong in the future and will be in charge of the military affairs of Shandong province."
Zuo Liangyu was not in good health and coughed several times after hearing Zhang Shenyan's words.
He turned to look at Zhang Shenyan and said: "Master Shangshu, Zuo and Li Zhi once suppressed thieves, and I know that this son is not a person who takes risks lightly. Zuo is worried that since Li Zhi has blatantly sent troops to Liaodong, he will
He will definitely leave a back-up force in Shandong to guard against us. Li Zhi will not go to Liaodong if he is not 120% sure of withstanding our attack."
Zhang Shenyan said dissatisfied: "Oh? Commander Zuo thinks that Li Zhi is in Liaodong and can stop our 80,000 troops and 600 cannons by leaving only 20,000 guards in Shandong?"
Zhang Shenyan laughed loudly and said, "What do you mean, Commander Zuo, is this Li Zhi a god descending to earth?"
Wu Sangui also laughed when he heard Zhang Shenyan's words.
Zuo Liangyu closed his eyes when he heard Zhang Shenyan's laughter. After a long time, he opened his eyes and said, "Zuo is not trying to boost other people's ambitions, but he just thinks it's better to be careful in everything."
Zhang Shenyan smiled and said nothing.
Wu Sangui stood up to smooth things over and said: "I think Zuo Shuai's statement also has merit. When we march into the army this time, we should seize the opportunity and act cautiously, so as not to fall into Li Zhi's way."
Zhang Shenyan laughed and said, "What Mr. Wu said makes sense. Let's send more scouts out to figure out the situation."
Wu Sangui stopped talking about this topic, looked at the front and said: "Master Shangshu, Yizhou is ahead. We use 600 heavy cannons to bombard Yizhou City, and then we can break into Shandong!"
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In Yizhou City, Li Xing was dressed in a fiery red straight division commander's military uniform, with hard cowhide boots on his feet and an officer's short musket on his waist, looking at the 2,500 sharpshooters standing under the stage.
These sharpshooters were selected from 20,000 soldiers of the Tiger Army and were equipped with new rifles. The so-called new rifles are rifles with a scope mounted on a Mini rifle. This new rifle allows the shooter to hit the target easily.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the target four hundred meters away is a sniper rifle.
The 2,500 sharpshooters are all excellent warriors. After more than a year of training, the discipline of these warriors is also very good. At this time, more than 2,000 people were standing in the audience, and no one was making any noise. The entire school field was crowded.
Sensational, yet very quiet.
Li Xing waved his fist: "Soldiers, the rebels from Jiangnan took advantage of the opportunity when the Duke of Jin was fighting for the country and conquering the Dongnu, and came to Shandong."
"These shameless gentry colluded with the Tatars for their own selfish interests, and ignored the Tatars' sin of massacring millions of our Ming compatriots. They are like a den of snakes and rats with the Tatars."
"Can we let these shameless villains succeed?"
"cannot!!"
Li Xing stood on the stage, touched his belt, and said loudly: "Soldiers, you are the top ones selected by the Duke of Jin! You are the key to this Yizhou defense battle."
"The next battle requires you to fight with unyielding resilience and the courage to face death. Your performance will directly determine the outcome of the Yizhou defense battle. Your bravery will directly determine whether we can bring down the shameless gentry.
