"Good news from Jiangnan, Li Chengdong has captured Suzhou, please surrender anyway."
In Nanhuifang City, Zhu Yihai, who was on his way to the Northern Expedition again, was having dinner when he heard the good news.
"Tu Guobao is really unlucky. This is the third time he has lost Suzhou City, right? Is he okay?" Zhu Yihai, while eating paella, did not forget to care for his old friend Tu Guobao. Tu Guobao
Although he had many faults, such as greed, cruelty, etc., he patrolled the Jiangning prefectures, and it can be said that the local people had been unlucky for eight lifetimes before they fell into such a bad situation.
Anyway, various corruption methods are emerging one after another. In terms of his ability to make money, he is much better than his ability to lead troops to fight. This man has a very strong economic mind. If nothing else, in just a few months, Zhu Yihai has learned everything from him.
I got hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
A governor only earns two to three hundred thousand taels a year, but one governor is better than several governors.
If such a governor was from the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yihai would definitely not let him go, but if he was from the Qing Dynasty, he would be reluctant to let him die.
This is simply a strategic partner.
"Tu Guobao is very capable of making money, and he is also very good at escaping. He escaped from Suzhou with more than a hundred Biaoying servants, and managed to pass through the heavily blockaded area of our army and fled to Zhenjiang."
"Well, he is quite powerful. I guess the generals along the way discovered his identity and spared his life, right?" Zhu Yihai smiled. Otherwise, he, the former governor of Jiangning, is a big fish. Who would let him go easily?
He? Now from Jiangsu to Wuxi, then to Changzhou, Jiangyin, and Yixing, Ming troops are everywhere. No matter how hard Tu Guobao can run, he has no such ability.
"Your Highness doesn't seem to be very interested in Li Chengdong anyway?"
Zhu Yihai shook his head, "Gu still welcomes people who abandon the dark side and join the bright side anyway."
"Is there something wrong with Li Chengdong?" Prince Zhan Shi and Minister of Dali Temple Chen Qianfu asked curiously.
Zhu Yihai really didn't like Li Chengdong very much, and he didn't even like Wu Shengzhao, who had also just rebelled against the Qing Dynasty. Although Li Chengdong did rebel against the Qing Dynasty in history, it couldn't change the fact that he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty as a Ming army and then created the Jiading Three Massacres.
Waiting for a big tragedy, the fact that there is blood on your hands.
In the end, it was just because what the Qing court gave him did not meet what he wanted, and he rebelled again when he was not satisfied.
We cannot say that evil people immediately become Buddhas when they put down their butcher's knives. Wouldn't this encourage people to do evil? Anyway, they can become Buddhas by putting down their butcher's knives. However, normal people practice hard, but sometimes they fail to achieve positive results due to hundreds of good deeds and one evil.
Although the Jiading Three Massacres and other historical massacres have not yet occurred, Li Chengdong also participated in the Yangzhou Ten-Day Massacre.
In this troubled world, countless literati and military generals are wavering, but truly steadfast people are rare and rare.
"Zhang Guozhu, who had captured Dinghai, and Gao Jinzhong of Chongming also followed Li Chengdong to capture Suzhou."
Zhu Yihai was not interested. He waved his hand and immersed himself in finishing the meal.
Then I sat there and drank tea for a while.
"Anyway, Wu Shengzhao and Li Chengdong are not loyal. It's just that the Qing government forced them harder. They were demoted and demoted, and their lives may even be in danger. That's why they switched to our court. Such people are actually raising money.
An unfamiliar wolf may bite the owner at any time."
"Then you don't accept it?" Chen Qianfu asked.
"That's not necessary. As long as we face the fact that they are wolves and treat them as wolves, they can still be driven."
"Your Highness, the situation in Jiangnan is very good now. The Eight Banners reinforced by the Qing army cannot go south. Now cities and rivers are being demolished everywhere in Jiangnan. Can Hangzhou be recaptured? Shaoxing does not need to be abandoned?"
Zhu Yihai replied seriously, "Abandoning Shaojing is just a worst-case scenario. Of course, although the situation seems good now, we have yet to really fight against the Eight Banners. Do our imperial camps have the ability to face them head-on?
This is difficult to say, but I think there is no need to be overconfident, the time is still too short, and our imperial camp must still be cautious and not be blindly confident, otherwise we will underestimate the enemy."
"We must continue to use our strengths and attack the enemy's weaknesses. The Eight Banners wants us to have a decisive battle, but we cannot do what he wants. War is not a simple attack, we must use all possible means."
Chen Qianfu nodded. In the final analysis, the war was about the integration of a series of resources.
The Tatars have very strong hard power, and they have the absolute strength to overthrow the Ming army. Previously, the Hongguang court's four towns in Jiangbei and one town in Hubei were considered to be quite powerful. If the navy of several towns in Jiangfang were added, they could
It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of troops.
The strategic strategy of the emperor and ministers of the Hongguang Dynasty was very traditional, which was to rely on the Yangtze River as strategic support, then defend Jingxiang, Wuchang in the upper reaches, and Huaihe River in the lower reaches.
There is indeed nothing wrong with this strategy, but Hongguang failed to divide the river and rule like the Southern Song Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The biggest problem was that he simply imitated the historical Southern Dynasty's strategy of rejecting the north, but failed to face the reality.
Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, heavy troops were always guarding Shanhaiguan, but in fact, the Qing army repeatedly broke into the pass, but never once crossed Shanhaiguan head-on.
Hongguang wanted to rely on Jingxiang and Jianghuai, but he ignored a more important fact, that is, people.
Under the situation in Chongzhen's seventeenth year, they did not have such a comprehensive defense capability.
Although Xiangyang is known as the center of gravity in the southeast, in fact, starting from Li Zicheng, Xiangyang was lost several times in the late Ming Dynasty. This important southeast town was not strong at all.
Jingzhou was still in the hands of the Shun Army when Hongguang was founded, and it was still in the hands of the Shun Army when they died.
Not to mention who are the commanders of these five major feudal towns? What kind of soldiers are they?
Anyway, even if Zhu Yihai comes to review this period of history, he will conclude that Hongguang Dynasty has no hope of coming back unless they give up this seemingly stable strategy.
But as Shi Kefa and other important ministers of Hongguang said at the time, if the Hongguang Dynasty did not defend Nanjing, Jingxiang, Jianghuai, and frontal defense with the Tatars, then the situation after the collapse of Chongzhen would have collapsed.
, can no longer be cleaned up.
The human heart will no longer exist, and there will be no great enlightenment.
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The pursuit continued step by step, and finally perished in a remote corner of the mountains and seas.
These are all correct, but the problem is that Hongguang defended Jingxiang and Jianghuai and couldn't defend it at all, so he was defeated in a wave.
Just like Chongzhen who was hesitant about going south, he also wanted to go south, but felt unable to go south, and was eventually taken away by a wave of people.
Everyone has their own position.
Zhu Yihai was not Chongzhen, and there was no Beijing that he could not give up, and he was not Hongguang, and there was no Nanjing that he must defend.
For him, the emperors from Chongzhen to Hongguang to Lu Jianguo to Longwu, Shaowu, and Yongli used their various failures to prove to him that the traditional path would not work.
It doesn't matter what kind of people's hearts or other things are, because you can't go very far if you carry these things on your back. It's better to fight without restraint.
Zhu Yihai's decision not to defend Jingxiang was actually a strategy of not defending Hubei. Because he did not have the strength to defend, he simply did not defend. He only defended Hunan south of Jingjiang and the Yunyang Mountains in Badong. Most of Hubei was occupied.
He destroyed it and used it as a strategic buffer zone.
Anyway, the Hubei region was almost destroyed by repeated wars in the late Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to feel bad about things that cannot be defended.
The Qing army has invincible strength, but its numbers are small. No matter how powerful the Qing army is, they still need logistical and food support. The longer the front they draw, the greater the supply pressure they will face.
The strength of the Qing army without sufficient food, grass and equipment support would be severely reduced.
The Qing army will look for the main force of the Ming army, just like they did when they attacked Beijing, Nanjing and Hangzhou. They will directly attack the emperor and supervise the country, capture the thieves and the king, and disintegrate the Ming Dynasty from the top.
But now they are facing Lu Jianguo. Zhu Yihai has told his subordinates and cabinet ministers more than once that Shao Jing is just a trader. Where Zhu Yihai is, the Ming court will be there.
He played different games from Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang built high walls and accumulated grain to slowly become king, but Zhu Yihai did not defend the city or establish a center.
No goals for the Tatars.
What is the disadvantage of the Tatars? There are few people.
I think back then, Mao Wenlong could only occupy an island in the sea, but it would give Hou Jin a huge headache.
No matter how many ways are used to build the Guanning defense line, it is better to take the initiative.
Chen Qianfu smiled and said, "But His Highness really wants to go to Shandong in the Northern Expedition this time?"
"Are you taking too big a step? We are going to attack Beijing directly. The situation in Jiangnan is great. Why not continue to fight the Tatars in Jiangnan?"
"Does Your Highness really want to go back to his hometown in Yanzhou?"
Zhu Yihai drank tea, but his expression was very determined, "The Tatars have sent four groups of elite troops to go south this time, with tens of thousands of people in front and behind them. How much armor do the Tatars wear in total?"
"After these elites go south, Henan, Shandong and other places will inevitably be empty. Why should we fight against the Tatars in Jiangnan? Why not jump out of Jiangnan, go around behind them, and open up a new battlefield."
"Our current strength is too weak, so we must continue to move. We cannot let the Tatars surround and capture us. As long as we continue to move, attack their weak points, and accumulate strength, we will be able to confront them head-on in the future."
Another key to the success of Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of building a high wall was to slowly proclaim himself king. It was Chen Youliang and many other anti-kings who proclaimed themselves king and emperor at that time, who attracted the main firepower of the Yuan Dynasty to Zhu Yuanzhang and gave him this opportunity.
And now Zhu Yihai, who is the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, is the only target of the Tatars. No matter he is in Shaoxing, Fuzhou or Guangzhou, the Tatars will pursue him desperately and attack him directly with heavy troops.
"I'll tell you a secret. When my brother Yipai was the King of Lu, he buried a large amount of gold, silver and jewels underground in the Prince of Lu's palace when the Qing army attacked. I'm going to take them out this time."
Chen Qianfu chuckled.
Yanzhou is located in the east of Shandong, adjacent to Jiningzhou on the Canal Huitong River, and to the south of Mount Tai, it is a neighbor of Qufu Yan Sheng Gong.
To the south are Xuzhou Prefecture, Haizhou, Yellow River, and Huai'an.
"Did His Highness go after Tan Taiheluo and King Sanshun who came from Jinan?"
