Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 167 Good News and No News

"Is the war against the country going smoothly?"

After hugging and crying bitterly, Liu Dapao still asked about the business.

"The naval battle has already been won, but the worst result has already happened. Maybe the Mughal Dynasty was really fooled by the East India Company. It was really good for them, and they actually sent troops. Yes, our strength at sea has an absolute advantage, but they set up their base camp deep in the land, under the protection of the Mughal Dynasty, Governor Le has nothing to do with them."

Liu Dapao asked: "I know this, but didn't the Mughals also have navy? Their navy is at least stronger than that of the Qing court. Has their navy made a move?"

"That's not true. Maybe they have self-knowledge and know that they can't beat them. Governor Le doesn't want to do things too badly, and he doesn't want to offend the Mughal Dynasty too much."

"Well, it seems that the Mughals did not want to protect the East India Company to death. It can only be said that they are still smarter than the Qing court. We are alone."

"Yeah, now we're a little bit stuck in the war, can you send the army to support Lao Le?"

Liu Dapao smiled wryly and said, "We are fighting a life-and-death battle with the Qing court. I still think there is not enough troops. Even if I am crazy, I can't throw the precious army into the bottomless pit of the Mughal Dynasty at this juncture. Objectively speaking, the land strength of the Mughal Dynasty is not weaker than that of the Qing court, which has lost half of its country at this time."

"Hey~Governor Le has been worrying about this matter. We can't block the sea all the time. These Chinese people are all rats. If we don't uproot them, it will be difficult to really drive them out. It is said that Governor Le They are in some American place, and several strongholds have already been taken away by the Chinese."

"Ah, it's a battle of exchanging homes. If our home is taken over by others, but they can't take over theirs, it will be a big loss."

"Well, when you go back, send a letter to Lao Le, saying that I have a way to deal with the British East India Company, but there are some things that need to be discussed with him to confirm his position, but this matter is not urgent, wait You can find him when you get back."

As he said that, he couldn't help but stand on the top of the city and look at the rather dense trenches outside the city wall. There may be seventy or eighty trenches.

Just take a closer look, the trench is not deep, and many places are exposed to the firepower net, and most of them are not in the shape of a "Z" at all, and a small half of them are completely straight lines in Liu Dapao's eyes. .

That's enough to get by.

In Liu Dapao's opinion, such trenches have almost no other function except to deal with things. His soldiers will deal with Zheng Jing. It is estimated that Zheng Jing should also plan to use these trenches to deal with La Bu and the Qing court. Anyway, who will ask in the future, Staring eyes is just one sentence: I dug more than 100 trenches.

And during the long wait that followed, the news that Liu Dapao was waiting for, and even the reinforcements finally arrived one after another.

On the 16th day of the siege of the city, good news came from Nie Feng. Liu Dapao had arranged a task for him before, that is to take the letter of appointment from the Ming court and recruit everywhere in the northern land, and even the green forest heroes in the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Three mountains and five mountains, all heroes who occupy the mountains and become kings are directly given a letter of appointment, and they are transferred to become guerrilla generals of the Ming Dynasty on the spot, and even some strong troops are directly transferred to general soldiers, from the third rank, the third rank, and even the second rank. Pin's big hat was strenuously haired.

These people have the intention to fight a shot, and they don't expect these people to really play a vital role in forming an army. They just hope that they can disgust the Qing court. In fact, they directly The beneficiaries are also Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, and they really have nothing to do with Liu Dapao.

As a result, he never expected that this moment of crisis really led him to pull out a motley army, including Jiunan and Yuan Chengzhi's acquaintances: Cheng Qingzhu, the former leader of the Green Bamboo Gang, and Sha, the leader of the Ehugou Village. Tianguang.

These two people were mixed with Yuan Chengzhi at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but when Yuan Chengzhi fled overseas, many people were unwilling to be deserters together, and chose to occupy the mountain as king to continue fighting against the Qing Dynasty. Most of these people had already died. Dead and alive, there are only the two of them left. As soon as they heard that Daming was back and Jiu Nan became emperor, they immediately brought soldiers and horses down the mountain and rushed to Chaozhou to join forces. The old Jianghu generation has recruited a lot of people, and when they met Nie Feng and Chenghai City being besieged, they came here together. These two guys are also the main force of this miscellaneous army.

Lao Nie also really has a bit of strategic vision. At least he knows what it means to be outside the game. Most of his miscellaneous troops are recruited from the banks of the Huaihe River. It is indeed impossible to fly to Chaozhou to join forces with Liu Dapao, so when Liu Dapao received At the time of the news, he had already joined forces with Bai Xianzhong of Jiujiang on his own initiative, and Bai Xianzhong was fighting all the way south from Jiujiang, and he had already fought with various military towns led by Labu.

Among them, the support of Geng Jingzhong should be indispensable. In fact, Geng Jingzhong's two sided coaches, Bai Xianzhong, Zeng Yanghe and Liu Dapao, are all on the line.

In the 20th day of the siege, good news came from the front line. Zeng Yangxing and Qiu Hui's land and water forces advanced hand in hand, and Ningbo had been defeated.

Afterwards, Qiu Hui stayed in Ningbo with the navy and half of the army in Zeng Yangxing's hands. Zeng Yangxing personally led his own elite, sitting in Qiu Hui's boat, and came to Chenghai as a support army by sea.

It looks like ten thousand troops.

There must be no shortage of [-] soldiers, but Zeng Yangxing wanted to come to see himself, the prime minister, and Jiu Nan, the son of heaven, in person, the significance was really too great.

The political significance can be said to be far greater than the military significance.

If this is what Zeng Yangxing meant for himself, it means that Daming finally has a little bit of the meaning of returning to the world. It doesn't matter whether he came to Ningbo Dajian to ask for equity or support from the company, people It is the biggest happy event.

And if this is what Geng Jingzhong meant, then it would be even more remarkable. If Bai Xianzhong was added, Geng Jingzhong's right-hand man would be loyal to Daming. Does it mean that he would really want to be a loyal minister of Daming?
Even without considering Geng Jingzhong's factors, just the person Zeng Yangxing has made Liu Dapao so happy that he didn't fall asleep all night.

Again, talent is rare.

Liu Dapao has no shortage of money, weapons, or even people, but he has very few generals who can stand alone, or even none at all.

As for Zeng Yangxing, at least judging from the current real trend, it can be said that he and Wang Pingfan are the most eye-catching existences in the east and the west. With a partial division, they have won consecutive battles in less than half a year, sweeping half of the world. Zhejiang has never been defeated. Even Prince Kang and Jie Shu couldn't do anything about him, and even went back and forth. With the help of Qiu Hui, they even took down Ningbo.

This is a real talent, and it is the general talent that Liu Dapao is most in short supply at present, even handsome talent.

only……

While good news continues, there is also a lot of bad news.

That's all, the key is the soldiers that belonged to him originally, the soldiers and horses of Chaozhou Town that every soldier has options in their hands, that is, the news of the Fourth Battalion of Haifeng City, but... there is no news.

This made Liu Dapao a little angry.

the kind to kill
(End of this chapter)