Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 294 The Second Northern Expedition
"Guardian."

"Jiangnan good news, Li Chengdong won Suzhou anyway, please surrender."

In Nanhui Fangcheng, Zhu Yihai, who was on his way to the Northern Expedition again, was having dinner when he heard the good news.

"Tu Guobao is really unlucky. This is the third time he has lost Suzhou City, right? Is he okay?" Zhu Yihai didn't forget to care for his old friend Tu Guobao while eating paella.Although Tu Guobao has a lot of problems, such as greed, cruelty, etc., he is the governor of the Jiangning prefectures. It can be said that the local people have had eight lifetimes of bad luck to suffer such a dog.

Anyway, all kinds of corruption methods emerge in endlessly, and his ability to make money is much better than his ability to lead troops to fight. This man has a very strong economic mind. Not to mention anything else, in just a few short months, Zhu Yihai has learned everything from him. I got several 10 taels of silver.

A governor can earn 30 million taels a year, and one governor is better than several governors.

If such a governor belonged to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yihai would definitely not let him go, but if it belonged to the Qing Dynasty, he would not want him to die.

This is simply a strategic partner.

"Tu Guobao is very good at making money, and he is also very good at escaping. He escaped from Suzhou with more than a hundred Biaoying servants, and fled to Zhenjiang through the heavily blocked areas of our army."

"Well, it's quite powerful. It is estimated that the generals along the way also discovered his identity, so they spared his life on purpose?" Zhu Yihai smiled, otherwise, he, the former Jiangning governor, is a big fish, who would easily let him go he?Now from Jiangsu to Wuxi, and then to Changzhou, Jiangyin, and Yixing, there are Ming troops everywhere, and even if Tu Guobao can run, he can't do it.

"Your Highness doesn't seem to be very interested in Li Chengdong anyway?"

Zhu Yihai shook his head, "Gu still very much welcomes someone to vote anyway."

"Is there a problem with this Li Chengdong?" Prince Zhan Shi and Dali Temple Minister Chen Qianfu asked curiously.

Zhu Yihai really doesn’t like Li Chengdong very much, even Wu Shengzhao, who is just as upright, he doesn’t like it either. Although Li Chengdong did turn against the Qing Dynasty in the end, this can’t change him as a Ming army but surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and then created the Jiading Three Tus Waiting for the big tragedy, the fact that the hands are covered with blood.

In the end, anyway, it was just because what the Qing court gave him did not meet what he wanted, and he rebelled again after he was not satisfied.

It cannot be said that a wicked person will immediately become a Buddha when he puts down his butcher's knife. If so, isn't that encouraging people to do evil?Anyway, laying down the butcher's knife can become a Buddha, but normal people practice hard, sometimes because of all kinds of good and one evil, they can't get the right result.

Although the Jiading Three Massacres in history have not yet happened, but Li Chengdong also participated in the Yangzhou Ten-Day Massacre.

In this troubled world, countless literati and military generals are vacillating, and there are very few people who are truly steadfast.

"Zhang Guozhu, who once captured Dinghai, and Gao Jinzhong from Chongming, also followed Li Chengdong to take Suzhou anyway."

Zhu Yihai wasn't interested, he waved his hand and buried himself in the meal.

Then sat there drinking tea for a while.

"Anyway, Wu Shengzhao and Li Chengdong didn't have loyalty in their hearts. It was just that the Qing court forced them to be harsher, they were demoted, and they might even face danger to their lives. That's why they switched to our dynasty. Unfamiliar wolves may devour the master at any time."

"That's not acceptable?" Chen Qianfu asked.

"That's not necessary, as long as we face up to the fact that they are wolves, and treat him as wolves, then they can still be driven."

"Your Highness, the situation in Jiangnan is very good now. The Eight Banners reinforced by the Qing army cannot go south. Now Jiangnan is demolishing cities and blocking rivers everywhere. Can Hangzhou be regained? Shaoxing doesn't need to abandon its defense?"

Zhu Yihai replied earnestly, "Abandoning Shaojing is just planning for the worst. Of course, although the current situation seems to be good, we have not really fought against the Eight Banners. Is our imperial camp capable of confronting them head-on now? It’s hard to say, but I don’t think it’s necessary to be overconfident, the time is still too short, and we in the imperial camp still have to be cautious, don’t be blindly confident, otherwise we will underestimate the enemy.”

"We have to continue to make use of our strengths and attack the enemy's weaknesses. The Eight Banners want to find us in a decisive battle, but we can't do what he wants. War is not a simple fight, we must use all means."

Chen Qianfu nodded. After all, the war is still a series of resource integration.

The hard power of the Tartars is very strong, and they have the absolute power to flatten the Ming army. Before the Hongguang court, the four towns in Jiangbei and one town in Hubei can be considered to be not weak. It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of troops.

The strategic countermeasures of the Hongguang dynasty's monarchs and ministers are very traditional, that is, relying on the Yangtze River as a strategic support, and then guarding Jingxiang Wuchang upstream and Huaihe downstream.

There is indeed no problem with this strategy, but Hongguang failed to rule the river like the Southern Song and Eastern Jin. The biggest problem is that it simply imitated the historical Southern Dynasty's strategy of rejecting the North, but failed to face the truth.

Just like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Shanhaiguan was guarded by heavy troops, but in fact, the Qing army repeatedly entered the pass, but never crossed Shanhaiguan head-on.

Hongguang wanted to lean on Jingxiang and lean on Jianghuai, but he ignored a more important fact, that is, people.

Under the situation of Chongzhen for 17 years, they did not have such comprehensive defense capabilities.

Although Xiangyang is known as the center of gravity in the southeast, in fact, starting from Li Zicheng, Xiangyang fell several times in the late Ming Dynasty. This important town in the southeast was not strong at all.

Jingzhou was still in the hands of the Shun Army when Hongguang was established, and it was still in the hands of the Shun Army when they died.

Not to mention who are the commanders-in-chief of these five feudal towns?What are the soldiers?

Anyway, even if Zhu Yihai came to revisit this period of history, he believed that Hong Guangchao had no hope of making a comeback unless they gave up this seemingly stable strategy.

But as Shi Kefa and other Hongguang ministers said at the time, if the Hongguang Dynasty did not guard Nanjing, Jingxiang, Jianghuai, and frontal defense with the Tartars, then the situation after the collapse of Chongzhen would collapse thousands of miles , can no longer clean up.

There will be no more human hearts, and there will be no great enlightenment.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty can go south to Hangzhou, or even to Guangzhou, but that is not the Ming Dynasty anymore, and it may last for decades, but he will completely lose the chance to turn the tables, and will only linger on in the pursuit of the Qing army, and eventually perish in a corner of the mountains and seas .

These are all correct, but the problem is that Hongguang defends Jingxiang and Jianghuai, but he can't defend it at all, so he was flattened in one wave.

Just as Chongzhen was hesitant about going south, he also wanted to go south, but felt unable to go south, and was eventually taken away by a wave.

Everyone has their own position.

Zhu Yihai is not Chongzhen, there is no Beijing that cannot be let go, and he is not Hongguang, there is no Nanjing that must be defended.

For him, from Chongzhen to Hongguang to Lu Jianguo to Longwu, Shaowu, and Yongli emperors, they used their various failures to prove to him that the traditional path will not work.

It doesn't matter what people's hearts or other things are, because you can't go far with these things on your back, it's better to fight without restraint.

Zhu Yihai didn't defend Jingxiang, in fact he didn't defend Hubei's strategy, because he didn't have the strength to defend it, so he didn't defend it at all. He only guarded Hunan to the south of Jingjiang River, and guarded the Yunyang mountainous area in Badong, most of the Hubei area, and was He destroyed it and used it as a strategic buffer zone.

Anyway, the Hubei area was almost destroyed by repeated wars at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to feel bad about things that cannot be kept.

The Qing army has all-conquering strength, but they are not many in number. No matter how strong the Qing army is, they also need logistical food support. The longer they pull the front line, the greater the pressure on their supplies.

Without the support of sufficient food, grass and equipment, the strength of the Qing army will seriously decline.

The Qing army will look for the main force of the Ming army, just like when they attacked Beijing and Nanjing and Hangzhou, they will directly attack the emperor and the state supervisor, capture the thief and the king, and disintegrate Ming from the top.

But now they are facing Lu Jianguo, Zhu Yihai has said to his subordinates and cabinet ministers more than once that Shao Jing is just a walker, where Zhu Yihai is, the Ming court is there.

He played differently from Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang built high walls and accumulated grain to slowly become king, but Zhu Yihai did not guard the city or establish a center.

Do not target Tartars.

What are the disadvantages of Tartar?There are few people.

Thinking back then, Mao Wenlong was only based on a skin island in the sea, which would have caused Houjin a lot of headaches.

No matter how many ways to build the Guanning line of defense, it is better to take the initiative to attack.

Chen Qianfu smiled, "But Your Highness really wants to attack Shandong this time?"

"Could it be too big a step? This is going to directly hit the city of Beijing. The situation in the south of the Yangtze River is very good. Why not continue to fight the Tartars in the south of the Yangtze River?"

"Does Your Highness really want to call back to his hometown in Yanzhou?"

Zhu Yihai drank tea, but his expression was very firm, "This time the Tatars have dispatched four elites to go southward, with tens of thousands of horses and horses in front and behind. How many armors are there in total for the Tartars?"

"After these elites go south, Henan, Shandong and other places will inevitably be empty. Why should we fight head-on with the Tartars in Jiangnan? Why don't we jump out of Jiangnan and go behind them to open up a new battlefield."

"Our current strength is too weak, so we have to keep moving, and we can't let the Tartars surround and catch them. As long as we keep moving, attacking their weak spots, and accumulating strength, we will be able to confront them head-on in the future."

Another key to the success of Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of building high walls was slowing down his claim to the king. It was Chen Youliang and many other anti-kings who claimed to be kings and emperors at that time who attracted Zhu Yuanzhang's firepower from the main firepower of the Yuan Dynasty and gave him this opportunity.

And now Zhu Yihai, the supervisor of the Great Ming Dynasty, is the only target of the Tartars. No matter he is in Shaoxing, Fuzhou or Guangzhou, the Tartars will recklessly pursue him and attack him directly with heavy troops.

"I'll tell you a secret. When my elder brother Yipai was the King of Lu, when the Qing army attacked, he buried a large amount of gold, silver and jewels in the underground of the King Lu's mansion. I'm going to take it out this time."

Chen Qianfu chuckled.

Yanzhou is in the east and west of Shanxi, adjacent to Jining Prefecture on the Canal Huitong River, south of Mount Tai, and neighbors with Qufu Yanshenggong.

To the south are Xuzhou Mansion, Haizhou, the Yellow River, and Huai'an.

"Did your Highness rush to Tan Taihe Luo and King Sanshun who came from Jinan?"

(End of this chapter)