Zhou Shixiang stood up and walked to the map. His right index finger fell into Hunan, which bordered Guangxi, and said to the generals in an unquestionable tone: "This time I am serving the king, I am not willing to enter Yunnan or Guizhou, but Hunan!"

Entering Hunan?!

All the generals were stunned by Zhou Shixiang's decision. Except for a few people, the rest did not know about entering Hunan, so they were all confused and looked at the map. Everyone had a question: How did they go to Hunan with great difficulty?

Qingfeng Bo Li Guangbo reacted and blurted out, "The Holy Lord is in Yunnan, and the General of the General summoned us to serve the king and should enter Yunnan. Why did he turn north and go to Hunan?"

What Li Guangbo actually wants to ask more is that your scholar in Guangdong agreed to take us to Yunnan to serve the king. Everyone believed you and responded to you. Now that Guangxi has taken it, you don’t take us to Yunnan to rescue the driver immediately, and you will run to Hunan, which is irrelevant, what are you thinking? Do you really want to serve the king? Did the Governor and Governor Zhang really make a fuss? You scholar have no intention of serving the king at all, and just want to use this title to win over the hearts of people to recruit us? Otherwise, why would you come up with this bad idea!

"How to serve the king when you enter Hunan? Please tell me Xingping!" Zhou Tengfeng, Haibei Province, asked politely.

The generals of the ninth town, including Zhou Jintang, and others, also had a change in expression. They were dissatisfied with the decision of Zhou Shi to join Yunnan and instead of Hunan. Even Surile, Eduo, Qi Hao, Yu Shizhong and others were also puzzled and confused about this deployment. Tieyi, Su Na and others were unhappy with the attitudes of the generals of the ninth town, but the general said nothing, and they couldn't blame anything.

"Who said that entering Hunan is not a king?"

Zhao Sihai looked at Zhou Shixiang, took a step forward, and said to the generals in a deep voice: "The food and grass in the Qing Dynasty entered Yunnan were transported from Guiyang, and the food and grass in Guiyang came from Hunan. The general decided to enter Hunan to cut off the food and grass in the Qing Dynasty." At this point, he paused and said: "You must all know that this time the Qing army entered Yunnan in large quantities, and the food and grass needed in Huguang could not be supplied at all. It all depends on the Qing court to allocate southeast grain. Therefore, if the Qing army knew that our army entered Hunan, in order to ensure that the food and grass were not lost, Doni would definitely draw troops to return north, so that the pressure in Yunnan would naturally be reduced. What is the difference between this strategy and the King of Duty to Yunnan? Can it be restrained by the large number of Qing troops?"

Zhou Tengfeng, Li Guangbo and others were speechless for a moment. Zhao Sihai said it was true that the Qing court supplied the Qing army in the southwest all the food supplied by the Qing army in the southwest came from the southeast allocation, and the food in the southeast was transported from Hunan to Guiyang, and then from Guiyang to Yunnan. If the Taiping Army suddenly went north to attack Hunan, it would inevitably cut off the Qing army's food route. In order to ensure the food route, Doni would definitely send a large army to attack the Taiping army north, which was no different from the Taiping Army entering Yunnan directly. The fundamental purpose of both was to restrain the Qing army and reduce the pressure of the King of Jin. As long as this goal could be achieved, no one could say that Zhou Shixiang did not care for the king.

However, Guo Dengdi, the Marquis of Weiyuan, raised a question, and said: "Since the Qing army's food supply route was traveling to Guiyang through Hunan, why didn't the general directly attack Guiyang, but instead went north to attack Hunan?"

"Yes, if you want to cut off his food route, why don't you go directly to Guizhou and fight Guiyang, and go around in Hunan to do something?" Li Guangbo thought of this and couldn't help but shout.

Zhao Sihai explained: "The front Guoan has led the army back, and the Qing army in Guizhou is ready for defense. If we really want to fight Guiyang, we will have tough battles. Not to mention whether we can fight the city of Guiyang, we will say that the time we have been delayed this way is probably impossible to withstand it. So we don't need to fight this kind of stupid battle. On the contrary, it is different from Hunan. Most of the main forces of the Qing army stationed in Hunan were taken to Yunnan by Hong Chengchou, and the rest are second- and third-rate battalions. Our army really rushed over, and these battalions were vulnerable at all. We can quickly achieve the goal of cutting off the Qing army's rations. Furthermore, the road to Hunan is much easier to walk than to Guizhou."

Zhao Sihai spoke, and Zhao Ziqiang smiled there: "The Zhao army's words are reasonable. I can take the fifth town of the fifth town of Hunan." Hearing this, Su Na couldn't help but look at him, his eyes obviously dissatisfied. Tieyi smiled and said, "Did Zhao Ziqiang not understand it just now? The general is going to let you feint attack Guizhou to lure Guoan down. How could he take your five towns to Hunan? Those miscellaneous soldiers in Hunan will not have to pay your fifth town. My second town can destroy them by raising your hand.

Zhou Tengfeng and Li Guangbo heard Zhao Ziqiang's bold statement to defeat the Qing army in Hunan, and they were both happy and happy. What was happy was that such a powerful army was their friendly army, and what was unhappy was that the Ninth Town did not have the strength to defeat the Qing army in Hunan.

Although they were worried about the safety of the sage in Yunnan, Zhou, Li and others also knew that what Zhao Sihai said was true. From the difficulty, fighting Hunan is definitely much easier than fighting Guizhou. The two can achieve the same effect, and the impact on the situation in Yunnan is also average, so they have no reason to oppose anything. Furthermore, this strategy was formulated by Zhou Shiying himself, and even if they oppose it, it would be useless. After all, they would only be a town of soldiers if they added one piece. If they really disagree to fight Hunan, Zhou Shixiang could get rid of them by turning around. To be honest, even though they were yelling at the fierceness of their rants, they really had to chew on this tough bone in Guizhou. Even if Zhou Shixiang treated them equally and did not treat them as cannon fodder, they thought they would not have the strength.

After Weiyuan Marquis Guo Dengdi thought about the gains and losses of going to Hunan in his mind, he asked Zhou Shixiang: "Will the general go north to attack Quanzhou and Yongzhou directly, and then advance to Changsha and take Hunan?"

"No, I don't have that big appetite."

Zhou Shixiang shook his head and pointed to the junction of Hunan and Guizhou on the map and said to the generals: "I want to go to Huaiyuan to take Jingzhou and Yuanzhou. These two prefectures are important roads to Hunan from Hunan. If they are occupied, the Qing army's food route will be cut off. Not only that, the general will also completely seal these two important roads entering and leaving Guizhou, so that the Yunnan, Guizhou and Qing troops could not go north to Hunan. The same is true in Guangxi. With Liuzhou and Guilin as the support, the border between Guizhou and Guizhou must be locked. In this way, if the Qing army wants to leave Yunnan, Guizhou, they can only go to Sichuan to Hanzhong, and in the short term they can only be trapped in Yunnan, Guizhou."

"The general wants to trap the Qing army in Yunnan and Guizhou?"

All the generals were surprised by Zhou Shixiang's deployment. This idea was really bold. Can we do it?

"If Liuzhou wants to lure Guoan down, the general will only take a few troops north to Hunan. How can he seal the Hunan-Guizhou border?"

It’s not that Guo Dengdi didn’t believe in the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army. Zhou Shiyan personally led his troops north to take over Hunan. The problem is that the Qing army in Hunan is not worth worrying, but the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Yunnan and Guizhou will watch your Taiping Army block the road to the north? The Qing army really wants to return north in a large scale. Can these 20,000 to 30,000 troops in these towns really stop them?

"Our troops are limited, and it is naturally difficult for our Taiping Army to block the borders of Hunan, Guizhou and Guizhou at the same time. But don't forget that there is still a Ming army here. If we can take them to Hunan, we naturally don't have to worry about the lack of military strength."

Zhou Shixiang's finger suddenly moved to the Shizhouwei area above the Yongshun Military and Civilian Xuanwei Office to the north of Yuanzhou.
Chapter completed!