Li Dingguo couldn't understand this point.

Li Laiheng was Li Guo's adopted son. When the Qing army entered the Pass, Li Zicheng defeated Shaanxi. Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others entered Huguang from the south of Shaanxi. Later, the Zhongzhen Battalion moved to Huguang and Guangxi, and at most

Counting Sichuan.

Li Jianjie was the godson of Li Chengdong, and Li Chengdong was a subordinate of Gaojie, the Marquis of Xingping, one of the four towns in Jiangbei. After Li Chengdong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he followed the Qing army into Fujian from Zhejiang, and independently completed the attack on the Shaowu small court.

The Backstab also followed the route from southern Fujian to Chaohui. After that, its troops were also active in Guangdong, including Li Jianjie.

The life trajectories of these two people, one in the northwest and southwest, and the other in the southeast coast, are completely inconsistent. How can Chen Kai still speculate on "all martial arts"? This is completely unreasonable.

However, Li Jianjie is now Chen Kai's trusted general. Even Li Chengdong's generals who still insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty after the fall of Guangdong have successively joined the former Guangdong-Jiangxi Supervision Bureau and the current Zhongnan Economic Standard. Chen Kai knows that

There must be much more than him, a "Western thief".

Sure enough, seeing that Li Dingguo didn't understand why, Chen Kai directly explained: "In the past, when the commander He Tengjiao was defeated and died, blocking the army and the Zhongzhen camp from entering Guangxi, the imperial court had intended to place them in Guangdong for food. In this regard,

The commander of the Jinyi Guards, Li Yuanyin, was extremely dissatisfied, so he secretly ordered the Fengchuan pond guard Zhang Xiang to fire and sink the boat carrying Cheng Xun, the minister of war, the emissary of the imperial edict, Du Yinxi and some family members of the Zhongzhen camp..."

Li Yuanyin was the first of Li Chengdong's adopted sons. Li Jianjie and Li Yuantai were both called their eldest brother, and Li Jianjie was Li Yuanyin's little fanboy. However, Li Yuanyin did such things in order to prevent the Zhongzhen camp from entering Guangdong.

Li Laiheng's feelings towards Dongxun, represented by Li Yuanyin, are definitely not good, and Li Yuanyin and others have their own reasons for acting this way - they conquered Guangdong Province, and they only returned to the Ming Dynasty with them, so why should they be divided?

A piece of land was given to Ming armies from other systems for food. If thunderous means were not used at this time to frighten other Ming armies, especially if the court fully understood their tough attitude, then more and more Ming armies would inevitably flow into Guangdong.

, share the fruits of their victory.

There are similar things. For example, Huaihou Liu Guochang of Zhongzhen Camp was ordered to rescue Guangdong, but he was besieged by the warlords of Guangdong and Guangdong. In the end, Liu Guochang died, and his remnants still persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty in northern Guangdong. However, the warlords of Guangdong and Guangdong falsely accused Liu Guochang of treason.

, together with the civil servants in the court who hated the Zhongzhen Camp, scornfully called the remnants of the Zhongzhen Camp the White Felt Bandits.

For another example, Cao Zhijian, Marquis of Baochang, who was born in the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, was slightly instigated by the clan member Zhu Murie, and he determined that Du Yinxi, who was about to retreat from Zhenxia Pass into Guangxi, was here to act as an internal agent for the Zhongzhen Camp in order to seize his territory.

So they sent troops to attack at night and annihilated all the thousand soldiers accompanying Du Yinxi. Afterwards, they even killed He Tufu, the supervisor of the army who had hidden Du Yinxi and his son.

Another example is the Guangxi warlord Qing Guogong Chen Bangfu, who was a good-for-nothing himself. The volunteers he recruited captured the city of Nanning, so he tried to use the Zhongzhen Battalion to eliminate dissidents. After the Zhongzhen Battalion took back Nanning, he tried to use the Zhongzhen Battalion to capture Guilin.

After being sternly rejected by Li Guo and Gao Yigong, he held a grudge. Not only did he unite with other warlords to attack Zhongzhen Camp, but he also pretended to seal the Qin Dynasty and used the Xiying Clan to squeeze it out.

This kind of thing is never just for the Zhongzhenying family, and most of the interaction patterns between other Ming armies are also like this. All of these are the consequences of the military commander's transformation into a vassal town. It's like

Li Yuanyin's exact words when he decided to attack the Zhongzhen Camp were as follows: "When I was a Tatar, he did not come to Guangdong. Now, after all, he comes to fight for Guangdong? And the emperor is here, why is he here?"

"

From the international order, to countries, to companies and families, only by establishing a benign mechanism can overall improvement be better achieved.

However, the system of the Ming Dynasty has long been decayed. With the Qing army's devastation in the first few years of the Southern Ming Dynasty, its internal allocable resources also decreased sharply. When external competition is too difficult and internal resources decrease sharply, it is inevitable to intensify the internal resources.

The situation of being trapped and the corruption of the system will completely push it into an endless loop of "if you don't trap me to death, I will trap you to death", and it is also the kind of vicious cycle that uses all possible means.

Since the Southern Ming Dynasty, Huguang and Sichuan provinces have been the most representative involution concentration camps, especially Huguang. Liu Chengyin, Huang Chaoxuan, Zhang Xianbi, Cao Zhijian, Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan, Jiao Lian, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Jincai, Niu Wancai, Gao Yigong

, Li Guo, Hao Yaoqi, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, Chen Youlong, etc., today you trap me, tomorrow I will trap you, just like raising a poison.

No, to be precise, it is better to raise voodoos. If you raise voodoos to the end, you can still produce the most poisonous ones. Why is Tengjiao, a big shit-stirring stick, raising scorpions and centipedes to the end? All three have become crickets.

As soon as King Shun arrived, they all withdrew from the main stage. If it weren't for the fact that the Xiying Department, which was developed in Yunnan by Boredou, had really developed during this period, Nanming would have been finished long ago.

After listening to these words, Li Dingguo also roughly understood what Chen Kai meant. After so many years in Nanming, there have been more or less conflicts between various forces to varying degrees. Not to mention individuals, it can only cover tens of thousands of people.

The above - the Xiying Clan and the Chuangying Clan, the Xiying Clan and the former Ming Army, the Chuangying Clan and the former Ming Army, and the Jin and Qin Shu vassals within the Xiying Clan. Just coordinate these four pairs.

If so, it will take a lot of energy and resources.

It took Wen Anzhi nearly ten years to get the Kuidong generals to temporarily put aside their grudges and work together to siege Chongqing, but the second time failed. They wanted to force so many Ming armies with different systems and many conflicts with each other to work together.

It has always been impossible without a war cabinet.

Of course, it is not completely impossible, unless one of these families can kill all the others, then digest them into the nutrients needed for their own bodies, realize the ultimate evolution of the king of poisons, and finally poison me, Daqing, to death.

It's not impossible, at least the current Min Prince's Palace and Jin Prince's Palace have the possibility of achieving this "feat".

But will the Manchu Qing give this opportunity?

Will those who cannot be rolled up just sit there and wait to die?

More importantly, will Chen Kai allow them to continue raising Gu like this?

"It turns out that you said earlier that the first task of the wartime cabinet is to prevent the ministries from colliding with each other after the controlled areas border. This was already thought of at that time."

"Yes, after seeing the chaos of the Five Tigers, it is not difficult to grow from a young child to a big one."

Back then, Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong were able to gradually take over Chaozhou with just a few thousand recruits. In the final analysis, it was because the Chaozhou people themselves were not united, or it was due to the serious vicious involution after the grassroots got out of control in the late Ming Dynasty. Local tyrants everywhere attacked each other.

, the hatred is getting deeper and deeper. Some want to drive the Ming army out of Chaozhou but cannot get the support of others. Some people just ignore the existence of the Ming army when they see that the matter is not their own. Some even directly turn to the Ming army.

, follow the Ming army to deal with those old enemies.

At any rate, Chaozhou restored order thanks to the efforts of Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong, but as for China in history, it rolled around and finally sank into the bottomless abyss. How much price will future generations have to pay to climb out? I am afraid that only future generations will be able to climb out.

Only the Nth power of a person’s descendants will have a chance to know.

"Then what are you going to do?"

"This is actually not difficult, as long as you grasp a basic principle."

"What principle?"

Seeing that Li Dingguo was full of interest, Chen Kai had no intention of hiding his secrets and showed a high-spirited expression: "Malignant involutions are getting worse. Even benign involutions are just a boost at most. Development is the last word!"

Seeing Chen Kai start to get confused again, Li Dingguo was helpless. He couldn't understand it anyway, but he had eyes and could watch Chen Kai do things with his own eyes. Besides, it shouldn't be far away, right?

The warships were rapidly inserted into the northern part of Huguang along the Xiangjiang River. When Chen Kai and Li Dingguo merged and headed south, Wang Xiuqi not only captured Yuezhou Fucheng, but also pushed the controlled area northward across the land and water. Tan Ma and the Qing army were in Jiayu

You come and go on the front line, it's so lively.

During this period, Du Hui also divided his troops into two. Most of them supported Wang Xiuqi, while a small part went to Changde to support Lin Dezhong. Then he personally led his troops and settled in Changde Fucheng, and Lin Dezhong continued to expand northward.

While Lin Dezhong took control of the capital of Jingzhou, he got in touch with Xingpinghou Dang Shousu, one of the Kuidong generals who was stationed in Badong County. The latter immediately sent people back to Fengjie to inform Wen Anzhi, the governor of Sichuan and Hubei.

There is good news that the army led by Chen Kai and Li Dingguo is coming to the north of Huguang.

Soon, the news spread among the generals in Kuidong. Ta Tianbao from Pingyangba in Badong County, Jingzhou Prefecture, Ma Tengyun from Chenjiapo in Badong County, Jingzhou Prefecture, Li Laiheng from Qilianping in Xingshan County in the northwest of Jingzhou Prefecture

, Hao Yongzhong of Yangjiaozhai in Fang County in the south of Yunyang Prefecture, and Wang Guangxing of Shizhou Guard in the southwest of Jingzhou Prefecture. These Kuidong Ming troops stationed in Huguang quickly got the news and organized their troops to attack the counties abandoned by the Qing army.

Not to mention, even the generals from Kuidong in Sichuan rushed to Fengjie.

"Liu Tichun of Wushan, Yuan Zongdi of Dachang, and He Zhen of Daning are all here." Chong said.

However, Chen Kai had no time to wait for them. Just as they arrived, he and Li Dingguo also crossed Yuezhou Fucheng. When the banner of the Jin vassal appeared in Jiayu's face of the Qing army, the rangers there also quickly

To give it up.

"The Tatars have concentrated their main forces in Wuchang and Hanyang. In addition, several troops from the Henan Green Camp have gone south to assist them in controlling the Huangzhou Prefecture area."

"The Tatars are planning to use these two cities to consume as much of our army's strength as possible."

"I also want to buy some time for those in Nanzhili."

With the end of the Jiangshan and Mopanshan battles, the Manchu rule in the south of the Yangtze River was basically over. Especially on the southwest battlefield, Chen Kai and Li Dingguo's divisions had a multifold advantage in military strength.

If the Qing army did not want to be defeated individually, it would either have to give up the key points of Jingzhou and Xiangyang, which intercepted the Ming army in Kuidong, or give up Wuchang and Hanyang. Obviously, the priority of the former cannot be compared with that of the latter, whether in a political sense.

It is still a matter of military defense difficulty. But in this way, the Kuidong Ming Army will inevitably gain freedom.

Now, in addition to the internal strife in the Ming army, the total loss of Huguang is inevitable. The difference is just sooner or later. The Qing army still refuses to give up Wuhan, and its purpose is self-evident.

In addition to Wuchang and Hanyang, Huangzhou in the north is also a place that the Qing army must defend, but it is hard to say how far they can withdraw in the final stage - Wuchang is on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Hanyang is on the south bank of the Han River, and the Qing army wants to escape to Huangzhou.

To reach the boundary of the prefecture, they must first try to cross these two rivers, and then retreat to Henan or South Zhili through the boundary of Huangzhou. Chen Kai did not know how powerful the ships in the hands of the Qing army could be, but he was sure

Priority should be given to the Eight Banners Army. Most likely, Dasu already has all the ships in his hands. According to the tradition of our Qing Dynasty, those green soldiers are a group of real cannon fodder.

"Wuchang City is bounded by the Yangtze River to the west and north, and Zehu Lake to the east. Its defense focus will inevitably be on the Jinkou Town and Zhifang lines."

After crossing Jiayu, the Qing army began to resist steadily. Squeezing the Qing army's control area was the first step to capture Wuchang, but this would inevitably consume a lot of time.

Ten days later, the Ming army had arrived at the front line of Jinkou Town, which had been fortressed by the Qing army. The squeeze work was still going on. When Chen Kai looked at the intelligence sent by the Huguang Tiandi Society, he could not help but reveal

He felt a little sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died. It wasn't until a message from Lin Dezhong arrived that he put aside his thoughts for the time being, and instead pulled Li Dingguo and hurried to the riverside.

In the distance, there was an inconspicuous flat-bottomed sand boat, slowly sailing from the other side. Li Dingguo was a little strange. The generals in Kuidong were just princes, and it was not his turn for the Ming Dynasty Prince to greet him, or even just

Even Chen Kai has absolutely no need to do this - the Duke of Xiang is also a feudal official in charge of the military affairs of the four provinces. More than half of the generals in Kuidong are in Huguang. After all, it is the vassal town in Kuidong who came to pay a visit.

Li Dingguo and Chen Kai, not they are waiting here.

Unless it was Wen Anzhi, the old supervisor who had been the chief minister of the cabinet, came, they really wanted to welcome him in person. But the problem was that Chen Kai just came, and there was no ceremony or anything. Moreover, the first two

The news just came that day, saying that Wen Anzhi was raising provisions and preparing to come with Liu Tichun and the others, but it would take some time.

The sand boat slowly arrived at the small pier on the river bank. The boatman placed the pallets, and then saw a broad-shouldered, round-shouldered, fleshy-faced military commander wearing finely crafted iron armor. He took three steps and two steps at a time.

came down. However, he did not rush forward to salute Li Dingguo, His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and Chen Kai, the Manager of the Four Provinces. Instead, he turned around and respectfully greeted a middle-aged man who was white, plump and rosy.

Someone helped me out of the boat.

The middle-aged man was wearing a python robe and a Yishan crown on his head. However, the wings of the Wing Shan crown were drooping forward and diagonally toward the middle. It was neither like the one he wore that drooped forward, nor like Chen Kai's flat crown.

Next. However, upon noticing this, Li Dingguo suddenly changed his expression, and turned to Chen Kai and asked: "Jingcheng, you said earlier that it was a great good thing for the emperor to abandon his country, is this what you were talking about?"

Listening to Li Dingguo using "this" instead of "this person", it was obvious that he had figured out what he meant. At this time, Chen Kai only said that he would wait until he sent these two men away to discuss the details, which was very confusing.

He stepped forward and saluted the middle-aged man carelessly.

"Your Majesty, Chen Kai, pays homage to His Highness King Dong'an."

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