Chapter 67 Darkness Chencang (1)
In just nine words, the shock that Chen Kai brought to the monarch and his ministers was like a thunderstorm that shocked their ears, and they were immediately stunned.
According to the secret discussion between Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi along the way, once the reception is successful, they will immediately return to Guangxi. The emperor's trip can be located in Liuzhou Prefecture, Nanning Prefecture, or Wuzhou Prefecture. By then, Li Dingguo will command the army in Guangxi,
Cooperate with various ministries to fight against Sun Kewang and his generals while heading north to encroach on the Qing court's control area. At the same time, you can also get assistance from the Zheng Group and flank protection. It can be said to kill three birds with one stone.
Speaking of which, this was also Li Dingguo's original plan. The first two words can even be traced back to the end of the sixth year of Yongli. At that time, he was squeezed out by Sun Kewang and went south to Guangxi, and then set out to attack Zhaoqing. At the same time, he contacted Zheng Chenggong as an Austrian aid.
That's what happened.
The long-term belief and deployment have brought about the current results today. Originally, Li Dingguo thought that Chen Kai and he were on the same page. After all, the safety of the emperor of Guangxi could be more guaranteed. Even if one day he really
If he could not withstand the Qing army and the Qin vassal attack, the emperor could further retreat into Guangdong and Fujian, and continue the cause of reviving the Ming Dynasty.
This is undoubtedly beneficial to the Zheng Group. Of course, things in the world always have pros and cons, but he still firmly believes that the pros outweigh the cons. However, after this tip bag was really opened, it was revealed in
The overall situation in front of him was in another realm.
"If we retreat from Guangxi, it is natural and the most reliable strategy to get more help. However, the next situation will be a substantial confrontation between the Prince of Qin's Mansion, which occupies Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Wang Division in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian. At that time, the original West
The old brothers in the camp will also share the same hatred and regard me as a traitor, and the Yungui issue will be even more difficult to solve."
"But if we want to advance into Yunnan, it will become a behind-the-scenes family matter. It does not involve the king's division outside Xiying. The generals inside Xiying are just choosing one of the two roads of supporting Ming and self-reliance. And
Unless it involves the safety of Xiying, internal disputes will have less impact on the war situation in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. Moreover, so far, only one Shadingzhou rebellion has broken out there, and it has been operating for nearly nine years. Compared with Damu and
It's still a year too early to start running Chaozhou. One thing will go wrong, but it will make it easier to completely solve the problems of Sun Kewang and the Prince of Qin's Mansion."
The two plans began to confront each other in Li Dingguo's mind. He was not a person who could be easily persuaded. If he had not had a firm will, he would not have achieved what he has today. But this time, every confrontation and collision, the result
The latter is getting stronger and more dominant. Whether it is the general trend of resisting the Qing Dynasty or the internal struggle, Chen Kai's plan is more reasonable than they had imagined before. The only thing is,
If he really did that, Emperor Yongli might be put in an even more dangerous situation.
This is undoubtedly the issue that Li Dingguo needs to consider the most. But the biggest problem is that there is no way to have both sides, because if Emperor Yongli is not around, even if he goes deep into Yunnan, it will be difficult to seize that province. Only
Only with the blessing of the imperial power can we gain more support. If Emperor Yongli and his entourage return to Guangxi and he leads his army into Yunnan alone, if he is not careful, he will end up with a sudden attack on the city and then be attacked from two sides.
This banner can never be brought down, and he is the most determined on this point. But the reason why it cannot be brought down is actually because of the great role of this banner, which unites various forces to fight against the Qing government.
The key. Now, it takes more than two hundred years of Ming Dynasty's accumulated power to divide and disintegrate Sun Kewang's Qin Palace, even if there is not much left of this accumulated power.
The question returned to its original point. Li Dingguo raised his head and looked at the emperor in front of him. He knew that this emperor had never been a very strong king. He was weak-tempered and lacked courage. His instinct was to choose a safe place.
After much thought, Li Dingguo decided to leave the choice in the hands of the emperor. The reason was that it was his status as a subject and the rights and obligations that a king should have. Even Li Dingguo never understood the rights and obligations of a king.
Concepts like obligation, but I still vaguely feel that it should be like this.
Here, in the lobby of the Anlong Qianhu Office, where the Yongli imperial court was stationed in the Anlong Mansion, Li Dingguo explained the two plans before and after, analyzing all the pros and cons. Word by word,
As he said it, he could see that the emperor in front of him looked sometimes frightened, sometimes excited, and his complexion turned from red to white, and from white to red, and so on.
This went on for a long time, and Emperor Yongli still had not made a decision. In this regard, Li Dingguo also knew that the matter was of great importance and could not be decided in an instant. Moreover, although Yijia was Sun Kewang's cronies in preparing the work
We have already made preparations. We only need the emperor and his family to set off, but it is not necessary to set off immediately today.
However, before the words "Your Majesty can think about it again, I will prepare for the transfer first" were spoken, the emperor in front of him, who was always known for his weakness, had already figured it out. Even though there was a rare firmness in his eyes.
There was still a looming fear.
"I, believe in my beloved!"
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The emperor and his ministers in Anlong Mansion met each other, and Chen Kai, who was still far away in Guangzhou, firmly believed that this scene would definitely happen. As for the reason, even if there is no memory of the time traveler, as long as it is analyzed according to normal logic - this pair of emperor and ministers,
One has been living in the shadow of Sun Kewang's possible regicide for many years, but now he is freed from prison; and the other has been suppressed and excluded by Sun Kewang for a long time, and has the intention of supporting the bright and self-reliant, and the possibility of Lian Heng does not exist
Under the conditions, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, and there will be no other possibility. Unless someone disrupts the situation.
"I'm not a pig teammate, and I won't make trouble for others easily."
With the current strength of the Qing Dynasty and the fact that Nanming has always been a bad teammate, for Chen Kai, the current Guangdong is already very good. He can continue to do things step by step and launch a counterattack against the Qing court step by step. Even if
, in western Guangdong, there are still Liancheng Bi, Zhang Xiaoqi and those generals in western Guangdong as constraints, but it is better than these guys have the imperial power of the Yongli court as a basis.
The original history has begun to change course, and will deviate more and more from the established track. Chen Kai knows very well that inertia is still at work here, and he wants to make this history return to the old direction. In terms of purpose, he wants to rewrite it
This period of history, but the old history is the greatest advantage given to him by God. As this process proceeds, his own advantages are gradually weakened, so every step he takes must be carefully considered in advance.
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"Life is like chess. A mediocre person is a mediocre person when he takes one move and counts it as three moves. He is a wise person when he takes one move and counts ten moves." For this reason, Chen Kai vaguely remembered watching the old people playing chess in the alley when he was young.
I have heard it more than once: "But, I never have only one opponent!"
Raising his eyelids again, the wind tugged at the banner, the shouts of hundreds of people on the school field, the resonance of each step, and the pictures he had seen for a moment flashed on both sides of his sight, as if summoning a pair of big hands.
, pulled Chen Kai back to the Fubiao Camp in the east of Guangzhou City.
On the school grounds, there were about two hundred people, all of whom were tall and strong, rarely seen strong men. They had sandbags tied to their waists, abdomen, arms and calves, and they were holding wooden poles in their hands, following them.
He meticulously followed the movements of the instructor in front of him, moving forward, retreating, and waving his tools. Although it looked a bit funny, the progress and retreat were quite orderly.
"When will the goods from Chaozhou arrive?"
"When I returned to Fujun, Fei Ge sent a message saying that he had already set off. I think he was delayed at sea."
Sailing on the sea is fast, and there are always many variables. After hearing this answer, Chen Kaiyi just nodded and continued to watch the following drills.
This time's battle method was proposed by Chen Kai to Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong summarized it based on his personal martial arts attainments and the "Xinyou Sword Technique" that Chen Kai obtained from Yu Youhan.
Here are the methods of training. There are also some small methods of Chen Kai, such as those sandbags, which were tortured when they were in school, and are now used to sharpen these soldiers. They are also excellent.
As Chen Kai looked, the soldiers below were all selected from various towns, and some of them were green soldiers who had just joined the towns. Among them, Zhang Keding, a man from North Zhili, was a member of the Qing Dynasty earlier.
Transferred from the north to rebuild Huizhou Town.
At the back of the drill unit, Zhang Keding could no longer clearly see the movements of the instructor at the front. Fortunately, this was not the first drill. Their small unit was directly affiliated with Chen Kai's Guangdong Governor's Biao Battalion.
Lin Dezhong, the commander-in-chief of Fubiao, organized them into Team B of the Fubiao Direct Battalion, and the other Team A were the grenadiers who forcibly broke through the Qing army's northern line in the Battle of Jiangmen last year.
Zhang Keding has no way of knowing whether the grenadiers will continue to expand. His ancestors were Baoding guard Baihu. This guard post, like many guard posts in North Zhili, was built after the Jingnan period to defend Beijing. His
The ancestors have been serving there for more than two hundred years. With the deterioration of the guard system, they have evolved into landlords in the name of the army.
After the Jiashen surrender, like most officials and camp soldiers, the Guards also experienced the process of being demoted to the Chuang when the intruders came, and demoted to the Qing when the Qing came. However, by that time, he was already a junior officer in the camp, and then the Eight Banners
To enclose the territory, they were inevitably transferred back and forth, from the Eight Banners Army's conquests to various places, until the problems in Guangdong became more and more serious.
As a hereditary military officer's son, his family also has a foundation of two-hand martial arts, and with his height and physical fitness, even if he is an officer, he quickly joined the guard town. This time, Chen Kai planned to build the second battalion directly under Fubiao.
In the team, his physical advantage once again came into play. However, many of the soldiers here were junior officers from various towns. Even if he was an officer, he still had to serve as a soldier at the grassroots level.
The drill came to an end soon. Chen Kai had many things to do and could not stay here all the time. After checking the results of the drill, he set off back to the governor's Yamen with his entourage.
After respectfully seeing off the Shangguan, the officers returned to the school grounds. On the stage, the chief officer Lin Dezhong encouraged the officers below loudly, and then motioned to the officers below to continue training. Zhang Keding looked at the stage, which was a bit shorter than him.
The chief military officer, I have also heard people say that this person is a close confidant of Chen Kai. He has always resolutely completed the orders given by Chen Kai and cannot tolerate even the slightest slack. If the officer next to him were replaced, the drill would
After the order was issued, the people left, and it was enough to leave the work to the generals. But not only did Lin Dezhong not leave, he didn't even sit down. He stood on the ordering platform with a pair of eyes looking back and forth.
"In the direct battalion, I heard from those in Team A that when Team A was first formed in Chaozhou, they practiced hard every day. They were watched closely from the headmaster Lin down, and even the slightest slack might be punished."
"Damn it, if it weren't for the fact that Fu Biao ordered me not to go, who would be willing to do this hard work?"
On weekdays, when we are too tired to get up from training, the most common thing everyone hears while lying in the barracks is complaining. Zhang Keding knows very well that for various reasons, many people have gone to this useless place, not just to get away from it.
Chen Kai is closer so that he can pursue a better future. Of course, there are also those who are greedy for the high salary of the direct battalion, and there are many similar characters. But he is the one who truly resigns himself to his fate.
"Wherever you go, if you don't have to do this job with melon seeds stuck in your belt, you might as well work with the Ming army here, just in time to clean up those dog Tatars who have done all the immoral things in my hometown."
The drills in the Fubiao camp are still continuing, and Chen Kai's carriage has already returned to the governor's office. After the First World War in Guangzhou, the most important task of Guangdong and Fujian provinces was recovery, and all official operations were based on this.
The basic principle is that the expansion of the army is mainly based on local garrisons, and the towns of war soldiers are mainly to supplement the shortage. In Fujian, there is still talk, but in Guangdong, the only real expansion is Tieqi Town and Hsiaoqi Town.
As well as the cavalry units in each town, plus Fubiao's direct battalion, that's all.
Team B of the direct battalion is one of them. The grenadiers of Team A actually already existed in Europe in this era, and they are even the ace unit. The national bottle that Chen Kai made before was a masterpiece of Zheng Chenggong in history, and it is nothing more than
It's just a few years earlier. And the origin of this B team is also deeply related to Zheng Chenggong, but it's not just a matter of the year.
Compared to last year before the battle, Chen Kai had been preparing for a long time, and implemented the major changes in Fujian and Guangdong provinces in one go. But this time, he had to do his best to recover while continuing to prepare, which required a lot of time and energy.
He must be too nervous - not because he is so bellicose, but because of his judgment of Hong Chengchou. When Li Dingguo's army marches west to meet him, Hong Chengchou will definitely jump out. If he does nothing,
The war situation will only tilt in the favor of the Manchus and Qing Dynasties.
Chapter completed!