Soon, Tong Guoqi, who was waiting eagerly in Guixi County, received a reply from Prince Zheng Jidu. In the reply, Jidu first scolded him for missing Xincheng County in the tone of a master to a slave, and then acknowledged it.

His "knowing his shame and then being brave" means that he can stay in Guangxin Mansion to serve his crimes and perform meritorious service, and at the same time, he also said that he will explain something to the court so that he can feel at ease.

"This life is saved for the time being."

After reading the letter, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. Not to mention that the psychological pressure he had endured in the past few days was gone, and he also gained a huge sense of satisfaction from success. He couldn't help but be ecstatic. However, the Ming Army

As long as Chen Kai is not wiped out, the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head may fall at any time. After the excitement, worries about the future return, forcing him to frown deeply.

………………

Just when Tong Guoqi officially launched his acting career, as Jianchang Mansion was tricked by Chen Kai, the reserve team stationed in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, also responded quickly.

Jiangxi Province was initially garrisoned at three key points to control the entire province. However, as Chen Kai regained southern Jiangxi, the Qing army's southern front retreated to Ji'an Prefecture, and not only the local green camp in Ji'an was greatly

After the expansion, the disabled troops in Southern Gansu also retreated there to replenish on the spot to avoid being raided by the Ming army in Southern Gansu when they changed defenses. In addition, Jiangxi Tibiao, who originally guarded the provincial capital, was not able to return to the letter area. The Qing government

Some green battalion troops were also transferred from Henan to reinforce the second-line position.

As a result, relying on the superiority of military strength, the Qing army finally contained the offensive of the Ming army in southern Gansu. However, the southward shift of the defense focus of Jiangxi province also led to the emptiness of the provincial capital as the core area. To this end, the Qing government established

The Eight Banners were garrisoned in Nanchang, with Zhang Jia Dasu, the famous Manchurian yellow flag general, as the general manager of Nanchang. They not only shocked the province, but also served as the reserve force of the Qing army in Ji'an.

This garrison Eight Banners is different from the 2,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners in Xi'an and Nanjing, and the 4,000 Han Army Eight Banners in Hangzhou. It consists of 1,500 Manchu Eight Banners from the Two Yellow Banners, 500 Mongolian Eight Banners and 1,000 Han Army Eight Banners.

.This kind of troop configuration is closer to the traditional military ratio of the Manchus before the formation of the Green Camp. The reason for this is the strong support from Obai, and it is also because Nanchang is not as good as the Ning Army and a large number of Han troops stationed by the Eight Banners.

Shaanxi is no better than Nanjing where a large number of Han troops and Eight Banners are stationed. His main job is not to monitor the Han troops and Eight Banners fighting against the Green Camp troops, but to form a solid reserve team. Once there is a loophole in the battle situation in Jiangxi, he needs to go up as soon as possible.

Block it up!

When the alarm came from Jianchang Prefecture, Da Su immediately mobilized his troops and attacked Jianchang Prefecture. This time, he not only brought Nanchang to garrison the Eight Banners, but also brought Jiangxi Fubiao with him.

As a result, there is only one city guardian association left there, which is equivalent to letting Zhang Chaolin, the governor of Jiangxi, carry out an empty city plan in the huge city of Nanchang.

There is nothing they can do about this, because they know very well that once Chen Kai and Huangshan in southern Jiangxi achieve a strategic encirclement of the Qing army in Ji'an, the green camp soldiers will collapse without even fighting. They must not be allowed to

This was the consensus of the imperial court and the local government. As a result, Da Su hurriedly hurried, but the useless green camp of Jianchang Prefecture still failed to defend the city. He was frightened by the scene of Chen Kai and Wang Xiuqi joining forces under the city.

He abandoned the city and fled.

Jianchang Fucheng fell into the hands of the Ming army. The Ming army's next stop must be Fuzhou Fucheng - there is a river between the two Fucheng and there is no danger to defend it. As long as the Ming army captures Fuzhou, it can threaten the north.

Nanchang and Ji'an can be encircled to the south, and the Qing army will be on the verge of collapse on the Jiangxi battlefield.

Fortunately, when Da Su arrived at Fuzhou Fucheng, the Ming army did not launch an offensive against the most important strategic location at the moment. This was very abnormal, especially when the opponent was the well-known Chen Kai of the Ming army.

Under the circumstances, Hudasu seized the time to reorganize Fuzhou's city defense, and at the same time sent a large number of scouting horses, and finally got a result that made him sneer.

According to the information brought back by the detailed work, it seems that when Chen Kai and Wang Xiuqi joined forces in Jianchang Fucheng, a prisoner riot broke out in Xincheng County behind them. As a result, after a short period of time when the city changed hands, the group of prisoners abandoned the city and left.

Chen Kai fled. Chen Kai became angry and sent a large number of troops to search for the Qing army. It was not until a few days ago that the army was reassembled.

As the saying goes, the shape of a soldier is like water, and it is constantly changing. Although Da Su cannot quote the classics, he still understands the truth. At the very least, when the Ming army has gained the strategic initiative through early operations, it should go all out.

, to seize the strategic location of Fuzhou, rather than to capture any prisoners. Chen Kai, who did the opposite, has now missed the great opportunity to seize Fuzhou. If he wants to capture Fuzhou again, he will no longer face only

Instead of the Fuzhou City Guards with more than a thousand people, there were 6,000 Qing troops with 3,08 banner troops. If you want to win, the difficulty will be increased countless times.

"The barbarian surnamed Chen has only this ability. Fortunately, that loser Suk Saha will lose to him."

The conflict between the two yellow flags and the two white flags has been around for a long time, and it started with Huang Taiji’s replacement of yellow and white flags. Huang Taiji suppressed the two white flags, Dorgon suppressed the two yellow flags, and Shunzhi retaliated against the two white flags.

The contradiction became more and more serious. Even though Suksaha had become an important figure in Shunzhi to appease the Two White Banners by revolting against Dorgon, they, the nobles of the Two Yellow Banners, were still quite hostile to the Two White Banners.

Here, Chen Kai's performance was poor, and Da Su's first reaction was that Suk Saha was incompetent. However, after ridiculing him, as a veteran, he also carefully considered Chen Kai's behavior. After thinking about it, he thought it was the incompetence of that group of people.

There were a large number of prisoners, and Xincheng County was on the supply line of the Ming army. Chen Kai had no choice but to do this in order to prevent the supply line from being cut off by the Qing army. Even further thinking, since Xincheng County could be captured by a group of rioting prisoners

, then the rear of the Ming army is obviously very empty. Maybe the Shaowu Mansion, which is the turnover center, only has one or two battalions of people...

Even thinking of this, Dasu still felt that Chen Kai was too conservative. After all, the Green Camp soldiers had been captured once. Even if the riot succeeded, it would only be a burst of energy. After seizing the city, they would immediately

Abandoning the city and leaving was clearly because they were afraid of the Ming army returning. And these did not include the food supplies and weapons and armor of the Qing army behind enemy lines, nor did they take into account the completeness of the chain of command of the officers and soldiers. Such an insignificant group.

The guys really couldn't commit the crime of going to war, let alone sacrificing the first-mover advantage they had gained for them.

From this point of view, this civil servant who claims to be on par with Hong Chengchou is just mediocre. With such an opponent in front of him, as long as he defeats the current Ming army, he can directly invade the empty hinterland of the Ming army and reverse the entire war situation. The more he thinks about it,

The temptation to attack is greater.

It's a pity that Southwest Economic Strategy Bureau, who is said to be on the same level as Chen Kai, sent an urgent order from 800 Miles. It seemed that he had predicted his thoughts in advance, ordering him to arrive in Fuzhou as quickly as possible and strengthen the city defense, and at the same time, he was absolutely not allowed to cross Fuzhou.

Launched an attack on the Ming army.

For such an order, Da Su clearly remembered that after seeing it, he carefully read twice the seal of economics that Hong Chengchou had stamped on it. If he couldn't see any flaws, he even suspected that this order was faked by Chen Kai.

. But even so, the word twilight still appeared in his mind.

"When it comes to being conservative, the slave Hong Chengchou is modeled after the barbarian named Chen. Bah, these two Han dogs."

Spitting on the ground, Dasu wanted to tear the order to pieces in front of Hong Chengchou's messenger. But the problem was that he learned from Obai that Shunzhi was quite superstitious about Hong Chengchou's ability. Even if Obai left him

Before Beijing, he had also told him not to go against Hong Chengchou's actions when he arrived in Jiangxi. Even he himself, with the memories of the Qing army's continuous defeats in the early days of the Songjin War, thought that Hong Chengchou should be stronger than ordinary Han bureaucrats.

.However, such a deep sense of twilight is undoubtedly a serious disregard and waste for the powerful combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army.

However, his master's trust made it difficult for him, a slave, to express his clear rejection of Hong Chengchou's "chaos". Seeing the Ming army regrouping, he became even more dissatisfied that Hong Chengchou had wasted the opportunity to fight.

As the notice that Hong Chengchou would lead the Southwest Economic Standard Army to march eastward to Jiangxi to prevent Chen Kai from disrupting the situation was delivered to Fuzhou City, Da Su once again deepened his understanding of his twilight, and decided to write a letter to Ao Bai.

Write a letter and give this good-for-nothing Hong Chengchou some eye drops.

Da Su quickly sent out the letter. And Hong Chengchou, who was accused by him, quickly rushed to Fuzhou City day and night under the protection of Zuo Xiying. When he saw that Da Su did not attack rashly, he finally finally

It was a sigh of relief.

"Sir Zhang Jia, I know that you are dissatisfied with the order strictly prohibiting attacks, so you rushed to Fuzhou Mansion at night. Seeing that you can take the overall situation into consideration, I finally feel relieved."

Dasu didn't remember that he and Hong Chengchou had such a heart-to-heart friendship, but for a moment, he didn't know how to answer. Then he sneered and took it as an answer.

Sure enough, Dasu was emotional. In response, Hong Chengchou sighed: "The national affairs are difficult." After a heavy pause, he turned and bowed in the direction of Beijing, which made Dasu also

I can only follow him like this: "I have received favors from two emperors of the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that the favor is as deep as the ocean. A few years ago, I went south to Huguang to explore the southwest. I tried my best to contain the offensive of the Western thieves. Today.

Being able to sweep through the southwest is all because God blessed me with the Qing Dynasty. I am really ashamed and have no place."

Hong Chengchou talked about the past. Da Su once followed Nikan to attack Hengyang and Tun Qi to attack Baoqing. He was also frightened by the fact that the Qing rule in Huguang was on the verge of collapse during that period. However, in the past few years, Hong Chengchou stabilized the situation in Huguang.

, stationed and fought, not only curbed the Ming army's offensive, but also captured some prefectures and counties, and held on until the internal strife among the three kings. Even to this day, the southwest army has all the logistical supplies, including food and grass.

, weapons, armor, civil servants, etc., were almost all provided by the Southwest Economic and Lue Yamen. It can be said that without Hong Chengchou, Huguang, and even the provinces bordering Huguang, would no longer be owned by the Qing government, and even very rarely.

Maybe the Ming army had already crossed the river with the Qing court to rule.

Opportunities are for those who are prepared. If you look at it this way, it was precisely Hong Chengchou's efforts that allowed the Qing court to survive the internal strife among the three kings and have the material capital to sweep across the southwest at the first time. Otherwise, even if

Sun Ke is still expected to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing government has mobilized tens of thousands of troops, so they can't live on their own turf all the way until the decisive battle with Li Dingguo in Kunming.

After what Hong Chengchou said, Dasu suddenly felt that he was not as dissatisfied as before. At this time, Hong Chengchou did not give him time to think, and continued: "Chen Kai, these old men have collected a lot of information about him.

, I always feel that he seems familiar.”

Deja vu?

This statement directly wiped out Dasu's interrupted thoughts. Chen Kai and Hong Chengchou knew each other, at least they had met. This was his first reaction. But after thinking about it, he felt that something was not right.

That's right. Apart from that, Hong Chengchou has been famous for decades, and Chen Kai has only risen to prominence in the past ten years. If they had seen it, how could they let Chen Kai go with Hong Chengchou's ability to recognize people when he established the Southwest Shogunate?

A person like Kai who can rival him?

His attention was lost, and Dasu's thoughts also fell into a dead end, and he couldn't get out of it. In fact, it was not his fault. In fact, Hong Chengchou didn't understand what he said.

"In the earliest days, I always felt that I saw in him what I was like when I was young - not avoiding dangers and going forward courageously." At this point, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then continued with the "later": "But

The longer time passed and the more I got to know him, the more I felt that he was different. On the contrary, I saw the shadow of two other people in him. One of these two people was named Xu Guangqi and the other was named Lu Xiangsheng. Come to think of it,

, Master Zhang Jia has also heard of it, right?"

Of these two people, Dasu had no impression of the former, but vaguely remembered that the latter was a civil servant who had served as a supervisor and had fought with the Qing army on the front line. He was a very different kind of civil servant. He could not remember the specific details.

, but Hong Chengchou remembered it very clearly.

Xu Guangqi, the Minister of Rites of the Chongzhen Dynasty, a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and the second minister of the cabinet. He devoted his life to the research and promotion of Western learning, trying to save the Ming Dynasty through Western learning. He not only advocated vigorously promoting the cultivation of high-yielding crops to facilitate the cultivation of high-yielding crops during the Little Ice Age

To feed a larger population, they also forged Western-style artillery and hired European officers to train the Ming army. Even Yuan Chonghuan's method of using red cannons to defend the city was the first to come up with it, not the original creation of Governor Yuan.

And Lu Xiangsheng, as a civil servant who leads troops to fight all year round, does not strategize from the safe rear like other civil servants. He always charges at the forefront, kills the enemy personally, and uses his courage to inspire and drive the generals and soldiers under his command.

Soldiers, in order to achieve victory.

At this moment, Hong Chengchou spoke eloquently, analyzing and comparing the similarities and differences between Xu Guangqi, Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Kai. Some of them were obvious without explanation, and some of them he learned through European missionaries in Beijing.

Dasu followed his train of thought and compared it one by one with the information about Chen Kai collected by the Qing government over the years, and suddenly realized it at that time.

yes!

Xu Guangqi was casting cannons, and Chen Kai was also casting cannons; Xu Guangqi promoted high-yield crop cultivation, and Chen Kai promoted high-yield crops and compound agriculture in Guangdong and Fujian; Xu Guangqi promoted Western learning, and Chen Kai simply taught these things directly in a school; Xu Guangqi even hired

European officers trained the Ming army, and Chen Kai directly copied the European Spanish Grand Square in his Fubiao. As for Lu Xiangsheng, Chen Kai also personally fought with the enemy and commanded operations at the forefront of the battlefield.

In this way, it is as if the two of them have merged into one. In other words, Chen Kai has gone further than them, and has been less constrained, which is why he is in today's situation!

"Not only that, I have been sending spies to infiltrate Guangdong over the years. At the beginning, the great prestige of the Eight Banners, and my temptation of high-ranking officials and generous salaries, also developed some civil servants, military generals and gentry who were eager to move towards the Qing Dynasty. However,
To be continued...