On September 4, 1687, in Maping County, Liuzhou Prefecture, Xiaoyu. .

Hao Ping, the commander of the Yin Gun Jie Army, sat in a huge government office, looking at the information in his hand and remained silent. Outside the door was the concubine of the former prefect of Liuzhou in the Ming Dynasty. His husband defended the city and caused certain casualties to the Shun Army. Therefore, after the city was broken, he was killed by the whole family, leaving this concubine alone. Because the new conquerors fell in love with her, they took him into their back house.

To be fair, this concubine is quite beautiful and young, so she is very favored by Hao Ping. However, since last night, her new owner has been staying in this study, as if she had forgotten her, and has been discussing something with several of her confidant aides and generals, which made her very aggrieved.

However, she was just a trivial "item", a toy that could be abandoned at any time. So after looking outside, she left unhappily. Hao Ping glanced at her distant figure and said nothing. He had been in Maping County for some time. His initial complacent ambition had been disturbed by the recent series of news. He was not thinking about tea or food, and he was thinking about how to break the deadlock all day, but he felt that he had no idea how to start.

Yes, that's right! What caused great trouble to Hao Ping was the news from Wuzhou, Xunzhou, Lianzhou and other places to the east. The people of the Eastern Kingdoms, who had a good relationship with them, suddenly sent troops and captured many prefectures and counties with lightning speed. The most important thing was that they took the Wuzhou City, the first-class hub between Guangdong and Guangxi, and completely cut off the route of the Li Yuanhao regime from Guangxi to the east, which made the Shun Kingdom lose its voice for a while.

The people of the Eastern Kingdoms are undoubtedly the most important thing in terms of stability, accuracy and ruthlessness. When Cao Cao got Hanzhong, he said the famous saying "When he got Long, he looked at Shu again", because a Hanzhong could not satisfy his appetite and wanted a richer Shu area. Similarly, if Shunguo had won Guizhou, how could he not be greedy for Guangdong Province, which was close to him? Therefore, the people of the Eastern Bank had Wuzhou, which was indeed a move to remove firewood from the bottom of the pot, which made Changsha both shocked and angry.

Hao Pinggui was the commander of the Silver Gun Jie Army, and the confidant general of Emperor Dashun Li Laiheng, recently connected with two decrees of reprimands, which made him very impressed. He has followed Li Laiheng for many years and understood Li Laiheng's temper. He knew that these two so-called reprimands did not represent anything. It may be just a irritating act of Li Laiheng's anger and did not shake his trust in him. However, in the past two days, the aides reminded themselves that even if the emperor does not blame it, it is difficult to guarantee that the censor who likes to invite famous and straightforward people to take the opportunity to impeach him. One or two may not matter, but if there are too many people, it will always leave a bad impression on the emperor's heart, which is a big trouble.

Hao Ping agreed with this, but he had no safe solution. Of course, he knew that the source of everything was in the people of the Eastern Kingdoms, but he didn't know how to reverse it. As a last resort, he summoned his advisers and generals to discuss and see what to do. For this reason, he even postponed his personal journey south, allowing his number one general Wang Wanchun to lead the main army to attack Nanning Prefecture (it was basically no suspense anyway), and he stayed in Liuzhou to discuss countermeasures.

Hao Ping also carefully learned about the situation in Wuzhou, Xunzhou and other places in the past two days, and had a general understanding of the movements of the people on the east coast. He knew that the people of the East China have now controlled many prefectures and counties in Wuzhou and Xunzhou, such as Cangwu, Tengxian, Rongxian, Beiliu, Yulinzhou and Pingnan, the six cities located on the transportation line. In addition, most of the Lianzhou Prefecture has been controlled by the East** team, and its main force has gone north and entered the Hengzhou boundary of Nanning Prefecture. It is estimated that this city that has secretly turned to them will not stop the people on the east coast for a few days.

Hao Ping also found a map and found that except for Bobai, Luchuan, Guiping, Wujingzhou and Guixian, which were not enough for insufficient troops, the rest of the three prefectures and counties had all been "fallen". Although many people on the east coast of the prefectures and counties only released a little bit of troops, such as dozens of people, more than a hundred elite blue-clothed men, and the pseudo-Ming surrendered army with a weak combat power of hundreds to one thousand, it can be said that they are extremely empty, but they don't care! The entire three prefectures of Lian, Wu, and Xun have no established troops that can threaten their troops, so these people can basically conquer the place.

The current strategy adopted by the people of Dongguo seems to be to occupy the county town as much as possible, give up the countryside, control important traffic roads, and not even pursue collecting grain and taxes. Everything is to expand the territory as soon as possible. If you analyze it carefully, Hao Ping was also a little scared. This is completely for them, and he is competing for time with them!

If you think about the location of these counties controlled and the possible march routes of the East Coast people, Hao Ping felt even more upset. This was basically the idea of ​​compressing them to the west of 100,000 mountains, allowing them to occupy the underdeveloped areas of Guangxi, fighting with various local familiar and traditional Chinese and Han officials and chieftains, and their strength was restrained. They were unable to effectively utilize local resources for a while, and thus enhance the overall strength of the country, thus giving them the opportunity to consolidate the three prefectures of Lian, Wu and Xun.

From a longer-term perspective, if you occupy Guangxi, there is no outlet and the Xijiang channel is cut off, then this life is really hard. Because, with the three relatively good prefectures of Liuzhou, Guilin and Nanning alone, can support the local officials, military system, and the possible removal of local separatist forces that may exist for a period of time? If you cannot, you have to subsidize from Hunan. What is the point of taking possession? Will you carry a burden on yourself?

So, the East Coast people are so vicious that they are so arrogant!

Unfortunately, Changsha's order to strictly restrain the troops and not have head-on conflicts with the people of the East. The subtext of this sentence is that it can secretly cause trouble for the people of the East Coast to conquer cities and territories, but it is not allowed to dispatch Dashun's own army on the surface to avoid causing an uncontrollable and harsh situation.

But Hao Ping also disagreed with this. The people of the Eastern Kingdom have been trying to turn their Dashun into their own puppets for many years and prevent them from unifying China. This is a fundamental contradiction and irreconcilable. This time, he lowered his head to them and showed weakness. What should I do in the future? Will I continue to retreat? They clearly have dozens of people in a county, and they are carrying a bunch of unfair pseudo-Ming surrendered troops, and they may not even dare to leave the county town. As a result, Dashun, who has tens of thousands of dragon, elite, tiger and fierce men, fear it like a tiger and dare not step forward. Whose shame is this?

Whenever Hao Ping thinks of this, he can't sleep at night. He is a minister of Dashun, and he has always had the idea of ​​assisting the wise king in his heart to conquer the world, fight for a marquis of the founding of ten thousand households, and achieve a historical story. This time, the Dashun court made a plan and attacked Ming from both ways. He was also very excited and felt that he was one step closer to his dream. As a result, the people of the Eastern Kingdom gave them a stick. The taste was really complicated, and Hao Ping didn't know what to do for a moment.

In fact, according to his original intention, we should decisively draw elite troops this time. Ten thousand people are enough to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the East Coast people's foothold and extremely dispersed troops, and they will be killed back and taken into the three palaces of Wu, Xun and Lian. He believes that the local gentry, chieftain, and officials are also descendants of China, and they will not be able to look towards outsiders of unknown origins like East Coast people. Therefore, once they act, they will be out of control and can be captured. Unfortunately, Changsha's side did not allow him to take action, but it also warned that his poor combat caused these eastern prefectures and counties to be quickly occupied by East Coast people. Don't mention this affliction. Anyway, Hao Ping was very angry, and even the concubine who was fascinated recently had no intention of getting involved. It was really unhappy.

"The head of the country, Lianzhou has been trapped, and Wuzhou cannot be maintained for a long time. Now only Xunzhou Prefecture has a chance to take advantage of." A master said: "It is better to send smart and capable people to secretly go with a large number of blanks, and to transfer local knowledgeable people who are willing to be upright and surrender quickly. Only in this way can the ambitions of the people of the Eastern Kingdom be eliminated."

"The general is better to choose some loyal and reliable deployments, change into the pseudo-Ming soldiers' uniforms, delay, and block the speed of the Eastern people's advance. Most of their security sergeants are bandits and bandits, and a private salt dealer can also be the commander, which is ridiculous. If my Dashun Heavenly Soldier can attack it, it will have miraculous results." Another master also spoke, and in his words, he was also persuading Hao Ping to make up his mind to "do small moves."

They believe that the East Coast people should not have made any excessive reactions to this level, because these are small actions within the bottom line of both sides, which are tacit. Through these small actions, they should be able to seize some prefectures and counties before the East Coast people, making them a nail to wedge into the East Coast control area, laying a solid foundation for the future breakdown of the relationship between the two countries and a comprehensive counterattack.

After hearing the words of the two masters, Hao Ping almost agreed. Then he consulted the opinions of several generals around him and finally decided to do it like this. He could not fight with the people on the East Coast, so he could only play these things and chat. He was so depressed.

Hao Ping knew that Sichuan won consecutive victories in the Yunnan-Guizhou area recently and defeated tens of thousands of Ming troops. The situation was extremely clear. This was mainly due to the fact that Sun Kewang's followers came to the scene, which made many important passes open. Therefore, even though the remaining Ming troops (mainly Li Dingguo's troops) fought to the death, due to various reasons, they still inevitably suffered many defeats.

I heard that Li Dingguo, who had fallen ill, had no choice but to lead the last elite troops to fight the Western Route Army, mainly the left camp of Dashun. However, Liu Zhonggui was also an extremely cunning master. He had huge advantages in military strength and financial resources. He had always avoided the main battle with Li Dingguo. Instead, he took steps to prevent the Ming army from being weakened and suppressed people with his power. He planned to easily solve their last bit of embers when the Ming army fell to the bottom. However, Li Dingguo was also out of the crowd of dead people. War was his old job, and it was probably not easy to make Liu Zhonggui get what he wanted. The two sides probably would have a big war in Yunnan. The only difference is that the Shun army can afford to lose, while the Ming army can't afford to lose.

Hao Ping was very concerned about the battle situation of the Western Route Army, and the Changsha court had always sent it with special military information summary, so he was under a lot of pressure now, for fear that he would not have completely settled Guangxi when others conquered Kunming.

"The situation in Guangxi is focused on the east but not the west. This is already a consensus recognized by the government and the opposition. The small pseudo-Ming court in Yunnan and Guizhou was already the grasshopper after autumn and could not jump for a few days. The main task of our troops now is not to enter Yunnan from the flanks to help Zuoying to determine the overall situation, but to seize as much territory as possible. I don't want to have Guangxi anymore, because Wuzhou has been lost, but Nanning and Xunzhou prefectures still want to fight for it. Let's do this, Mr. Liu,

I would like to ask you to bring a letter from me, go to Gaozhou indirectly, meet General Qiu, and fight for him for me. Commander Sun, after you go back, select the elite troops of each battalion, and then take the blank to express your feelings to Xunzhou and act at the camera. Mr. Zhao, go to Hengzhou..." The plan has been decided, and Hao Ping no longer hesitated and began to issue orders. Those who were named by him also stood up one after another, intending to try this somewhat difficult task.

Wealth and honor are sought in danger, and this is how things in the world are!

Just when the Shun Army in Liuzhou was very troubled by the actions of the East Coast people, near Hengzhou, Nanning Prefecture, Li Yuanyin's general and Chaozhou Da'ao guerrilla Qian Jinbao had just returned from collecting grain from the countryside. His troops have now expanded to more than 3,000 people, more than half of which were collected locally in Guangxi. Guizhou Province is poor and the people are strong in the people in Guizhou Province, and there are many people willing to follow him to join the army to eat food. Therefore, he quickly recruited the 3,000 soldiers to him by the East Coast people, and even a few more than a few hundred. It can be seen that the people of Guizhou Province are enthusiastic about joining the army.

This time, they had something happened in the countryside. When they besieged a village that refused to pay for food, they could not capture it for a long time, and more than 300 people were killed or injured, which was shocking and then furious. Finally, they relied on cannons borrowed from the East Coast people to open the gate of the village, completely annihilated the resistance forces that brought them huge trouble. After interrogation, they found out that dozens of Shun Army officers and soldiers were hidden in the house. It is said that they came from the Silver Gun Xiaojie Army, which was that they used skillful volley guns on the wall of the village to make his subordinates unable to raise their heads, and smashed their offensive again and again.

I believe that if the yellow-clothed cannon was not used in the end and the Shunjun gunpowder was exhausted, the village would not be so easy to eat. Qian Jinbao's men also captured some prisoners after the war, including a Shunjun Yuhou, the surname of Lu, who was also from the Yinguixiaojie Army. Qian Guerrilla was also a person with some knowledge. He knew that the Shunjun Yuhou was in charge of security, military law, intelligence and other work, and was an intermediate officer. He was second only to the commander in a commander, and was ranked alongside the commander and other officials, which was of great value. For example, the Yinguixiaojie Army had twelve commanders, and the commander Hao Ping's most trusted confidant was Du Yuhou Zheng Daguan, which shows the importance of this position.

Qian Jinbao guessed that the Marquis of Lu Yu came to the countryside of Hengzhou and his purpose was not simple, so he was afraid that he would not come to contact and support the gentry of Hengzhou. Therefore, he immediately took the people firmly and flew to the east bank camp outside Hengzhou City with the stolen food, and handed the Marquis of Lu Yu to the hands of the military police on the east bank.

After being severely interrogated, the Marquis of Lu Yu was ordered by Wang Wanchun, the general of the Shun Army, to spy on the intelligence and contact the local area. He even wanted to enter Hengzhou and say that he surrendered to the defenders, but the people on the east coast came too quickly and surrounded the city of Hengzhou. He once wanted to return to Nanning, but he was unwilling to give up, so he lurked and planned to act according to the opportunity. In the end, he was not lucky and fell into Qian Jinbao's hands.

The interrogation result made the people of the East Coast a little alert. The Shun Army was indeed eating in the bowl and watching the pot. Before Nanning City was captured, they actually sent people to work in a remote place in Hengzhou. This was clearly aimed at the Great East Coast. And this was the instructing of the front-line general Wang Wanchun. I heard that Hao Ping, the general of the entire Guangxi Army, was still in Liuzhou. Is he also planning a conspiracy against the East Coast army?

Sun Wu, deputy commander of the military police who followed the Fifth Division of the Zhejiang New Army, had no doubts about this. Recently, the situation in Xunzhou Prefecture has been relatively chaotic, such as Wujingzhou's gains and losses a while ago, so that Tang Moyu had to draw troops to counterattack, which eventually affected the offensive against the city. If there is no conspiracy of the Shun Army, who would believe it if it is said!

Sun Wu felt that it was necessary to go to Xunzhou recently, and finalize some things with Major Tang Moyu, and formulate a solution for these infiltrated Shun Army. Although it seems that their troops are quite insufficient at present. However, now the Second Division of the Zhejiang New Army has almost assembled and the mobilization has been completed. By mid-October, this army and a large number of supplies can travel south to Qinzhou and Wuzhou, the two ports of Wuzhou will have much more troops at that time. However, as now, the occupied counties do not even dare to go out of the city to collect grain taxes.

By the way, finally, let’s talk about the fate of the captured Shun Army, Lu Yuhou. This lord confessed under torture, but he did not intend to surrender, but only wanted to die quickly and be punished less. He was finally secretly executed by the East Coast military police on the night of September 13, and his body was buried in the fruit forest in the back mountain. A few days later, he was dug up by local gentry and sent to the Shun Army, and then buried in the outskirts of Changsha.

The death of the Hou of Lu Yu marked that the people of the East Coast had no idea of ​​their hostility towards the Shun Army, who dared to come and grab territory. They were determined to win Wuzhou, Lianzhou and Xunzhou, and even if they started a war for this, they would do whatever they could. Even if a certain place was overturned and occupied by the Shun Army through small actions, they would not hesitate to drive these people away with bayonets and retake these places.
Chapter completed!