Yuanzhou Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi Chengxuan Government Envoy Department was divided into Yi County. A county had been established here as early as the Song Dynasty, but it was not until the Zhengde Period of the Ming Dynasty that bandits caused chaos in the nearby Ruizhou Prefecture, and the city was not built until Jiajing.

During the 1980s, the Japanese invaders harassed the southeast and even plundered Ganzhou, which shocked the entire Jiangxi province. In the end, it was with the help of Yan Song, a powerful traitor in his hometown, that he built the masonry building that is as high as one foot and eight feet today.

The city. But one year after the construction of the city was completed, Yan Song fell. I wonder if this can be regarded as the establishment and the destruction?

On the fifth day of April in the thirteenth year of Yongli's reign, at the gate of the county government office in Fenyi County, Hong Chengchou, who was about to return to Changsha, and Dasu, who was staying in Yuanzhou Prefecture, saw a fast horse galloping towards them.

That is the direction of Changxia Gate, which is the west gate of Fenyi County. Theoretically, anyone who comes from that direction and can ride a horse in the city can only be a messenger. Because military affairs matter every second, and wars often involve conflicts with the country.

Safety and danger are closely related. Even if someone is killed, that person deserves it. This has been true in any dynasty since ancient times.

The messenger obviously came from a far away place. Judging from the posture of the horse, both Hong Chengchou and Da Su could easily see the fatigue of the messenger. However, as the war horse came galloping, its hooves stepped on the green bricks of the street,

But it seems brisk and rapid, making people feel a little nervous but still feeling a little relaxed.

"Lord Zhang Jia, it seems that the situation in Yunnan and Guizhou has been decided!"

Hong Chengchou was confident, and so was Da Su - the Qing army invaded Guizhou with overwhelming force, and later won the battle of Zheyan River. Even the eldest son of the King of Jin was captured and killed, and Li Dingguo, the father, was

But they only dared to follow him as they evacuated Kunming. The frightened appearance was perfectly presented to them and the Manchu court in front of them through the wonderful penmanship of the staff of Prince Xinjun's Mansion, as if they were actually there.

The last military report was when Bai Erhetu defeated Bai Wenxuan at Yulong Pass, and Doni led the army deep into the barren area. Reading that military report, it seems to have the flavor of Zhuge Wuhou's "Departure List". In this regard,

Naturally, Dasu couldn't understand it, and Hong Chengchou, who could see it clearly, just smiled and said nothing. He just thought it was the excitement of his staff after the successive victories. He had no intention of thinking about the words, and he was very proud of it.

The morale is like a rainbow and I am deeply grateful.

A long time passed in a blink of an eye, during which the war situation in Jiangxi took a turn for the worse. Hong Chengchou had to devote more energy to maintaining the battlefield in Jiangxi. However, the gap in strength was too great, and the Ming army in Jiangxi took advantage of the great victory.

Dongfeng quickly controlled most of the counties in Jiangxi. They had been forced to the door by Chen Kai, and Huguang behind them was extremely empty. As long as Chen Kai kicked them to the ground, Huguang would surely fall.

It's under control. Also

Now, both sides are accumulating strength. The difference is that Chen Kai is waiting for the army to arrive one after another, while the Qing army can only continue to strengthen the city while waiting for good news from Yunnan and Guizhou.

This is completely unequal, and it is also very, very painful for them. But fortunately, at this moment, the military information from the southwest country-destroying army finally arrived, and it can be regarded as a defense.

The moon is bright.

The messenger came quickly, and the guards of Zuo Xia camp rushed forward to stop him, but were immediately repelled by Hong Chengchou. They had been waiting for this military information for too long, so long that they had already lost the dignity of maintaining dignitaries. And the messenger

, seeing the flag of the Zuo Xiang camp, and especially the old manager among the crowd, he quickly reined in his horse. The horse stood up in pain. If it weren't for the messenger's superb riding skills, I'm afraid that

If you lose your balance, you will fall to the ground.

"Mr. Manager, this is an urgent letter from the general."

With the help of several guards around him, the messenger quickly controlled the horse, then quickly dismounted and presented the urgent message he had kept close to him in front of Hong Chengchou.

The word "general soldier" made Hong Chengchou have some ominous premonitions, because according to the convention, it was Doni who should send the military intelligence report to him and the Qing court. Even if it was not Doni, it should be Wu Sangui or Zhao Bu who were the commanders of the partial divisions.

When Tai Fa came, Wang Fuchen's turn was nowhere to be found. At first, they thought it was Wang Fuchen who had made military exploits, and several generals wanted to praise him, so they asked his cronies to come and deliver the message. But now it seems that it may not be that simple.

After taking the letter, Hong Chengchou eagerly tore open the envelope. When the text of the letter appeared in front of him, he scanned it quickly, but he only felt that the sky was dim and the earth was dark, as if the whole world was spinning. Again.

"Old Manager!"

Seeing that Hong Chengchou was about to faint in front of him, Da Su quickly stepped forward to help him. But before he could steady Hong Chengchou, he felt as if his arms were being cuffed by a pair of cold, cold iron shackles. Looking closely, he saw that

Hong Chengchou's hands that looked like ghost claws tightly clasped his wrists with such force that even a warrior known for his bravery felt a little suffocated.

"Yuanzhou doesn't want it anymore, hurry up, gather everyone and retreat to Wuhan, we must hurry!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Dasu, but also the surrounding generals were extremely shocked. Ever since the Qing court won the first prize of Sun Kewang through shit luck, Hong Chengchou had been instilling in them the need to defend Jiangxi and prevent the battlefield in the southeast.

The disadvantages spread to Huguang, so much so that it will affect the concept of a war of annihilation that concerns who belongs to the world. After talking about it for a long time, an unshakable truth formed in their brains, that is, as long as they can hold Jiangxi

, the country-destroying army can wipe out the Southwest Ming Army, and all their combat intentions are based on this truth.

For this reason, they asked the Green Battalion to defend Ji'an Prefecture. After Chen Kai inserted himself into Jianchang Prefecture, they rushed to Fuzhou Prefecture to intercept it. They would also throw some of their elite troops to the Ming army when the war situation worsened, and a large number of Fuzhou Prefecture troops would be thrown away.

The county abandoned it like worn out shoes, and rushed to Yuanzhou Mansion as quickly as possible to build a defense line, in order to prevent the Ming army from threatening Huguang, which was actually controlled by the Changsha shogunate, and thus threatening the Qing army's destruction of the country in the southwest.

war.

However, Hong Chengchou, who had repeatedly reiterated the importance of Yuanzhou's defense to them half an hour ago, at this moment forcefully asked them to immediately abandon Yuanzhou Mansion, abandon Changsha, where the Southwest Economic Strategy Office is located, and even abandon most of Huguang.

, withdrew all the troops to Wuhan on the bank of the Yangtze River. It would be difficult for anyone to understand such a contradiction.

"Old manager, Prince Xin is still leading the army to fight in Yunnan. Wouldn't withdrawing to Wuhan at this time put the army to death?" Again

Hearing this, Da Su's first reaction was that Hong Chengchou was mad at Chen Kai today, but as soon as he had such an idea, he immediately denied it. Because it had been more than an hour since Hong Chengchou returned to Fenyi County, so long.

It's completely unreasonable for me to suddenly become ill when I have nothing to do for a long time.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked at the letter that had been distorted by Hong Chengchou. But just when his eyes touched the distortion, Hong Chengchou's violent shouting was already in his ears.

rang nearby.

"There is not much of an army left. If we don't leave now, are we waiting for our old thief and Chen Kai to attack us?"

As soon as these words fell into Dasu's ears, he immediately felt Hong Chengchou's body soften, and he fainted directly in his arms. Looking at it again, Hong Chengchou's lower lip was actually missing a large piece.

Son, it turns out that he was able to hold on and not fall down just now by stimulating his senses through self-mutilation.

He quickly called someone to help Hong Chengchou inside. He also grabbed the letter under the gaze of the generals who had been stunned by Hong Chengchou's astonishing move. However, Hong Chengchou's hand was so tight.

, so much so that he almost had to break off Hong Chengchou's fingers before he could get the letter in his hand. But even so, part of the letter still remained in Hong Chengchou's hand, but there were no words on it.

Unlike Hong Chengchou, who could understand Chinese in one glance and ten lines in one glance, he could only read it word by word. But the more he read, the faster his heart fell. He fell into the trap before he even finished reading half of it.

into the endless abyss.

After finally regaining some strength, Dasu read it again without missing a word. This urgent letter was written by Wang Fuchen and asked by his staff. The text was not polished at all and was so white that even an illiterate old woman could understand it.

In the letter, he described the whole process of their pursuit of the Ming army after defeating Bai Wenxuan and even the whole process he had seen since their defeat, including Dorni's temporary change of marching sequence, including the ambush of the rear army, including Sun Sike, who was the vanguard of the rear army, in Doni.

When the Ni were besieged by the Ming army, they refused to fight and had ulterior motives, including how they fled hastily after discovering that Li Dingguo had changed direction, and even the unbelievable things they heard about the Ming army on the way to escape.

Believable number of beheadings. Also

In addition, it also mentioned that Wu Sangui was full of resentment towards Hong Chengchou, believing that Hong Chengchou lured them to trust bad elements like Sun Sike because he sincerely wanted to avenge the defeat of his people with Wang Pu and Tang Tong during the Battle of Songshan.

It was a public avenging of private hatred. Moreover, Wu Sangui was still full of distrust of Hong Chengchou when he evacuated Guizhou. Not only did the army refuse to retreat to Huguang to help fortify, but they also passed the Southwest Economic Strategy Yamen and could not inform him, and sent the memorial directly to Beijing.

.

He was grateful for Hong Chengchou's kindness, so he secretly wrote a letter to Hong Chengchou. As for Hong Chengchou's subsequent plans, he couldn't care less about it, because the responsibility for this defeat was too great, enough to destroy the southwest.

The Jinglue Yamen and the remnants of the annihilating army were all slaughtered. He was afraid of death, so he had decided to go to Sichuan with Wu Sangui.

After reading several pieces of letter paper, there were many characters that Da Su didn't understand at all, but fortunately Wang Fuchen's writing was clear enough, and he could figure out what it meant by comparing the words before and after. But this article was written eloquently, but it was full of words.

It was shocking - they had indeed been able to see the moonlight when the clouds cleared, but when the clouds cleared, what they saw was not the bright moonlight in the darkness, but the light of the Ming Empire!

Hong Chengchou had completely passed out, and the famous doctor who had been responsible for regulating Hong Chengchou's body for a long time did not know whether the old manager was still awake. All the burden fell on Da Su, but when he hurried back to Yuanzhou

When the core of the defense line - Yuanzhou Fucheng, they were surprised to find that Li Benzhen, Hu Maozhen and others had already known about Hong Chengchou's decision before he fainted, and urged him to take action immediately, otherwise not to mention Li Dingguo's invasion of Huguang, even if Chen

Kai's army arrived in full force, but they could only end up in a dead end.

"Since Hong Jingluo has issued an order, we should withdraw to Wuhan. Inform the officials and green camps in southern Huguang to destroy the warehouses and documents, abandon the city, and withdraw all of them to Wuhan."

The first half of this more clear order was addressed to Yuan Zhou's army, and the second half was issued to the Southwest Economic Strategy Office in Changsha. Dasu watched silently as the generals accepted the order as if they had got what they wanted.

As I left, I couldn't help but recall the devil's whisper that sounded in my ears when I was in Fuzhou.

"Here comes someone." Again

When a copywriter with a bachelor's background and a most trusted minion came to him, Da Su ordered the former to write a letter and the latter to send it back to the capital. However, the letter was not sent to the official of the Manchu Qing court.

Political envoy Si Yamen, but his old brother who was Huang Taiji's bodyguard with him in the past. Today, "the first warrior in Manchuria", he is the chief bodyguard and minister of political affairs. He is also his recommender Guarjia* who serves as the garrison of Eight Banners Angbang Zhangjing in Nanchang.
Chapter completed!