Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 432 Blocking
The battle is all about resources.

"Da Ming will not die quickly, but it is impossible to win quickly!" Zhu Yihai said to his confidantes and ministers very straightforwardly, "We must be prepared for a protracted war, accumulating small victories into big victories!"

On the battleship going north, Zhu Yihai was blowing the warm sea breeze in early summer, and he did not forget to give instructions to Sichuan and Shaanxi in the far west, "He Zhen's army was defeated, Ma Ke surrendered to the captives, Zhang Xianzhong falsely surrendered and turned back, destroying Sichuan and going north, many people suggested The imperial court sits on the mountain and watches the tigers fight, causing them both to lose, and some even propose to negotiate peace with the Tartars and join forces to kill the Western thieves!"

"Ridiculous, ridiculous!"

"These people must be the same group that Zhu Yousong proposed to unite with the captives and exterminate the bandits when he was in Nanjing. They haven't woken up to this day."

Zhu Yihai was very dissatisfied with these officials.

There are too many pig teammates in the court who can't be moved, even though he has repeatedly prohibited party and internal strife, some people still don't forget these. Before Zhu Dadian's defeat in Huguang, countless people impeached him, enumerated Zhu Dadian's crimes, and even Turn over the old account, want to liquidate him thoroughly, shout to kill him, and even put him to death early and so on.

Just like when the Beijing court killed Yuan Chonghuan.

Although Zhu Yihai felt that Yuan Chonghuan was killed, it was not all wronged, but he also believed that, given the situation at the time, Yuan Chonghuan was also the imperial supervisor no matter what, and he had seven points of merit and three points of fault in Liaodong, and the court should not have killed him at all. , Chongzhen should not have been killed.

This is the same as Yuan Chonghuan should not have killed Mao Wenlong.

Chongzhen killed Yuan Chonghuan, which did all kinds of harm but no benefit. It didn't achieve the result he wanted, but it even ruined the king's prestige and the people's hearts.

Zhu Dadian was defeated, Zhu Dahai did not punish him at all, and even sent a special envoy to comfort him. Why, because he knew very well that the situation in Huguang was very critical at that time. It's not easy anymore.

It can even be said that no matter whether it is He Tengjiao, Zhu Dadian, or Du Yinxi who presides over it, given the objective conditions at the time, the army will inevitably be defeated. This is a non-war crime.

If Zhu Yihai can't see through this point, and can't tolerate the slightest failure, and he used him as a superintendent and a bachelor in the past, and the army is defeated in a blink of an eye, he will be captured and imprisoned immediately. This will not help the overall situation, but will make the entire Huguang even worse. Chaos, who will dare to do things in the future?
In order to avoid being held accountable by the imperial court, it is very likely that like those Liao generals such as Zu Dashou who only reported good news but not bad news, and even lied about the military situation. Basically all the same.

Why?
It is because the imperial court cannot tolerate any mistakes.

Zhu Yihai is well aware of the situation in Huguang, so he can accept Huguang's defeat, and he also knows that it is not Zhu Dadian's fault. He can accept the failure and continue to use Zhu Dadian again, and also avoid greater Huguang turmoil, and prevent someone from taking the opportunity to liquidate or even re-do. Infighting.

Maintain Zhu Dadian's position as a supervisor, and Du Yinxi and others will still preside over Huguang to prevent the situation from getting worse.

Facts have proved that Zhu Yihai was right to do so. Zhu Dadian was saved, and Du Yinxi and others were more grateful for their hard work. With the reinforcements of Guangxi Qu Shixu and Jiangxi Zhang Mingzhen, they quickly quelled the rebellion of the dynasty's predecessor Liu Chengyin and Zhang Xianbi, and stabilized the situation. Live the situation south of Dongting Lake.

Even after Zhu Shengli led the Huguang camp to arrive, he took back Changsha and regained Yueyang.

Most of the chieftains who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty returned to Daming again.

At least it didn't make the situation worse, and even launched attacks on the Qing army in Xiangyang, Jingzhou and other places many times, which contained the Huguang Qing army very well, and continued to sweep the Jianghan Plain, robbing the population, cattle, food, etc., destroying the Their farming made Huguang, a large granary, completely unable to provide food for the Qing army, and even the local Qing army in Hubei was insufficiently supplied.

From Zhu Yihai's point of view, this was already very successful.

However, there are always some officials in the imperial court, who are still trying to turn over the old account of Wuchang's military collapse, and they always find trouble with Zhu Dadian. Today they say they should be killed, and tomorrow they say they wronged the country. Sagittarius, it seems that these numbers on paper are real.

Zhu Yihai could only reprimand this kind of brainless or bad-hearted officials, but there were too many of them.

The situation in Sichuan and Shaanxi is now worse than that in Huguang.

After Xi'an was defeated, a large group of people jumped out to fight and kill, and they wanted to punish the governor Gao Doushu, the governor Sun Shoufa, the admiral He Zhen, the Jinglue Wen Anzhi, the commander-in-chief Liu Tichun, Wang Guangtai, Wuhan University decided to wait for the crime.

One shouted more fiercely than the other.

After Zhang Xianzhong feigned surrender, he rebelled north again, and many people began to accuse Wen Anzhi again, saying that he mistrusted the thief.Others proposed to unite with the captives and exterminate the thieves, and first unite with the Qing army to completely strangle Zhang Xianzhong, except for this cancer.

How else can they take this opportunity to reach a peace agreement, when Sichuan Hanzhong will return to Daming, Shaanxi and Gansu will return to the Qing court, Hubei will return to the Qing and Hunan will return to the Ming, formally delineate the border, and the North and South will cease military peace talks and so on.

Literally farting.

Although some did not say that they wanted to unite with captives and exterminate the thieves, they wanted the court to sit and watch the Tartars and the Western thieves attack each other.

Some people even suggested that, in order to allow the Tatars to fight against the thieves with peace of mind, the imperial court should not send troops to fight the Tartars for the time being.

This is also farting.

Although Zhu Yihai is also very dissatisfied with Zhang Xianzhong, who was the first group to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and is also the longest-supporting group today, but under the current situation, the Tartars are the confidants, and Zhang Xianzhong is the secondary conflict, even in the face of the invasion In front of the alien Tartars, we can still find a way to let go of our prejudices and fight for a united front first.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong was selfish, Zhu Yihai couldn't sit idly by, let alone provide the Tatars with a chance to beat Zhang Xianzhong with peace of mind.

From a strategic point of view, the Tartars are now stronger than Ming Dynasty, so even if Zhang Xianzhong is rebellious now, as long as he fights the Tartars, he can be regarded as a temporary ally.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend.

They are fighting on the western front, and Zhu Yihai must seize the opportunity to open up a battlefield on the eastern front.

Thinking of watching the excitement and eating melons is either stupid or bad.

When the Tartars can destroy Zhang Xianzhong with all their strength without any worries, it may not be a loss for both sides, but the Qing army will take advantage of the situation to occupy Hanzhong, and even go straight to Sichuan.

At that time, Daming regretted it too late.

A year ago when the Qing army had just entered the pass, at that time the Shun army was crumbling like a mountain, Hong Guangchao wanted to take the opportunity to unite with the Qing army to strangle the Shun army first, but what he did not expect was that after the Shun army completely collapsed, the Qing army also Taking advantage of the trend, they took Nanjing and Hangzhou in one wave, and took away an emperor and a prison country.

Although it is said that Li Zicheng was not a good bird at that time, he invaded Beijing and forced Chongzhen to death. If the Qing army is restrained, Li Zicheng will not be defeated so quickly, and Hongguang Dynasty will not be defeated so quickly.

Both the Shun army and the Qing army are enemies, but it is necessary to unite the weak and separate the strong.

Just like the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, there are no real allies, but Wu and Shu are defeated by Wei Qiang. If they want to survive, they must unite against Wei. Not far away.

"Let Wen Anzhi pay close attention to the movements of the western thieves and the Tartars. We can open the way for them to fight in Guanzhong, but it doesn't mean we just sit on the sidelines. In the current situation, we don't have the capital to watch."

"Your Majesty's intention?" Shen Tingyang asked.

"Let Zhang Xianzhong go north to avoid fighting with them first, and let the Tartars reap the benefits of the fisherman. But we still have to remember that the main enemy is the Tartars, and only the Tartars. Now the Tartars have recruited Marko and seized Winning Hanzhong, taking the lead, Zhang Xianzhong's entire army went north, but I feel that even if Zhang Xianzhong tried his best, he might not be an opponent of the Tartars, so we are not only going to go north on the eastern front to contain part of the Qing army.

Even on the Western Front, you have to go directly to help. "

"Let the remaining soldiers and horses in Shaanxi and Gansu move closer to the Zhongnan Mountain and Longyou area, and at the same time launch an attack at the right time to cause some trouble in the rear of the Tartars.
At the same time, the Ming army in Yunyang, Chuandong and other places also looked for opportunities to launch attacks on the Qing army.
Don't let the Tartars fight Zhang Xianzhong with all their strength! "

Hanzhong was the main battlefield, the Ming army moved out of the way, and the Qing army and the Western army let go of the battle, but the Ming army could not sit idle and eat melons, and had to help from the sidelines.

From Shaanxi, Gansu to Huguang, a wave of offensive has to be launched. Take advantage of this opportunity to attack the Qing army as much as possible. It would be even better if they can harass and attack their logistics, food and supply lines.

"Your Majesty, if we help out, if the Tartars are defeated by the Western Army, wouldn't it be a threat to the tiger?" Zheng Zhilong, the Duke of Ping, felt that the emperor's idea was very bold. At this time, ordinary people must sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, wishing for these thieves It's better to fight against each other.

But the emperor wants to help.

Not only the three-way northern expedition on the eastern front, but also the defeated remnants of Shaanxi and Gansu fought guerrilla attacks against the Qing army. The Ming army in Huguang, Bashu, and Sichuan also wanted to join the war and attack the Qing army from the side.

"This time Zhang Xianzhong is facing Wu Sangui and Haoge. This is a heavy army mobilized by the Tartars. When Li Zicheng was in his prime, he was defeated by them in Shanhaiguan. Today's Zhang Xianzhong is far inferior to that of that time. Li Zicheng is even less likely to win."

"I dare to predict that Zhang Xianzhong will be defeated when he goes out to the north of Sichuan, and he may even die in Hanzhong. Once Zhang Xianzhong dies, the Western Army will also be defeated. Therefore, we must prepare in advance and not wait to watch the excitement. We not only have to To take care of the venue, you have to be prepared to receive Xiying at any time.

If Xiying was defeated and disintegrated, the imperial court would have to recruit them as soon as possible. "

"The thieves are capricious, and still recruit?"

"As long as they are willing to fight the Tartars, I am willing to give them another chance!"

Zhu Yihai sighed and said, "In this battle on the western front, I don't want to say that we can defeat the Qing army, but if we can stop the Qing army in Hanzhong and prevent them from entering Sichuan, it is already a rare victory for us. For this goal, we cannot Watch!"

This goal is difficult, but Zhu Yihai hopes that Wen'an's Qin Liangyu, Gao Doushu, He Zhen, Zeng Ying and other western civil and military can understand it!

(End of this chapter)