Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 354 The prince is besieged, you should encourage him! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Since the grandson thinks so, Shijue, come to the queen!"

Wu Guogui turned his head to look at his son, and handed over the most difficult task to him.

"What? My queen?" Wu Shijue was taken aback.

It's not easy to be a champion!

Although the opponent is his sister, nephew and old friend, the task he undertakes is related to the success or failure of the overall situation, so the opponent will definitely not hold back!
Wu Guogui nodded, and said: "Shijue, think twice for your father, and only you can take on the role of the army. The role of the army is directly related to the life and death of my great Zhou. It is difficult for non-generals to take responsibility, and it is difficult for non-clan members to take responsibility. .Shijue, you have general talent, and you are my clan of Wu and Zhou. If you don’t want to serve as the imperial army, you will delay the Ming Dynasty’s Guangdong army to go north. If you look at the army, who else can be the one?”

Wu Shijue frowned deeply, and he understood: "Father, the battle of Hunan is the decisive battle?"

Wu Guogui nodded slightly, and said: "This time, Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan entered Hunan with the prestige of the great victory in Jiangxi. Now our prince is trapped in Jiujiang, and the emperor is seriously ill in Hengyang. , the heaven-sent opportunity to join forces to attack Hunan. Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan have been lucky in the past few years, and they are proud of it! How could they miss such an opportunity?
As far as we are concerned, the three towns of Jiangxia, Hanyang, and Hankou are still there after all, and Jiujiang can still support it for a while.The Ming army was temporarily unable to advance by land and water, and their food roads were not smooth, so it was difficult for them to stay in Hunan for a long time, so they could only seek a quick solution.And Hunan is the home field of our army, and the food, grass and civilians can be replenished on the spot, so the advantage of supply is mine!
The army of the King of Qin is about to enter Hunan, and our army can at least gather tens of thousands of troops for a decisive battle. If we can temporarily block one of the two Ming armies with a powerful force, and then concentrate our forces on the other to start a battle, then the battle of Hunan will be successful. The superiority of troops is also on our side!
Shijue, do you now know how important your mission is? "

It has to be said that Wu Guogui's campaign organization ability is second to none in today's Wu Zhou army.All of a sudden, he keenly found the only chance for Wu Zhoujun to turn the situation back from the current rather unfavorable situation—that is, before Wu Sangui hanged up and Wu Yingxiong was still fighting to the death, he seized the time to concentrate on Chu Wangfu, Qin Wangfu and others. The Son of Heaven went to fight with the main force of the Ming army who invaded Hunan from Jiangxi.

In order to ensure that they can have a superior force in the battle, it is necessary to send an elite all the way to delay the Ming Guangdong Nationalist Army going north from Guangdong.

It's just that the difficulty of leading the army to delay the Guangdong Ming army is not at 01:30. Guangdong is an "old republic". Once the Guangdong National Army is mobilized, there must be a lot of people!
In order to ensure that Wu Guogui could concentrate more troops on the northern front, he could not leave too many troops to delay the Ming army on the southern front.That's why he wanted to entrust this task to Wu Shifan. If it doesn't work, let this grandson become the Western King of Ming Dynasty!
But Wu Shifan was unwilling, so he had to let Wu Shijue go out. It seemed that only the two of them could complete such a task with high risk and little benefit.

"Father," Wu Shijue knew that he couldn't refuse, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Then let's defeat the Ming army from Nanxiong first, and then scare off the Ming army from Lianshan. Then you lead the main force to quickly Going north, Hai'er led 2 people to force Qujiang south, playing your banner, bluffing, and posing as if you want to attack Guangdong again, which should delay the Ming army in Guangdong for a few days."

"Okay!" Wu Guogui nodded with a smile, "Shijue, you have a good plan. From now on, until Weifu goes north, you will be in command, and Weifu will watch from the sidelines!"

He is trying to train his son's ability to organize campaigns!It's one thing to make a plan, but it's another thing to actually organize a battle. This time, Wu Guogui's battle to the south was a battle that neither side had organized well.Wu Guogui and Wu Xiaotu were filial fathers and loving daughters, and they lied to each other for several months. In the end, Wu Guogui had to take risks because of Wu Sangui's disastrous defeat in Jiangxi, and fell into Wu Xiaotu's trap.

But because He Tianran's battle organization ability is much worse than that of Wu Guogui, he failed to organize the campaign to encircle and wipe out Wu Guogui, and a negligence made him run away.

Now it's Wu Shijue's turn to perform!

Wu Guogui's arrangement was also well-intentioned.

If Wu Shijue can organize this highly difficult and delayed battle of the Cantonese army going north, even if he takes refuge with Li Zhongshan in the future, he will be of great use. Hard to find!
Moreover, Wu Shijue himself is also a shareholder of Gonghe Daming, one of the earliest members of Tiandihui, and Li Zhongshan's uncle.If he still has handsome talent, he will definitely show his talents in the past.Not only can he be the King of the West, but he can also be the King of the West with real power!
Hengyang, the Great Zhou Emperor is here.

In Wu Sangui's palace study, there is a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine.Wu Sangui, who was already a bit old, was silently looking at his second son Wu Yingqi.The army brought by Wu Yingqi from Shaanxi is now crossing the river in Jingzhou.And he himself rushed to Hengyang to meet Wu Sangui, who was already terminally ill.Liu Xuanchu stood by the side with a sad face.

The hall was quiet, only the sound of Wu Sangui's non-stop coughing could be heard.Wu Sangui weakly picked up a bowl of black Chinese medicine, frowned and drank it, and then he felt a little better and stopped coughing.

Wu Sangui put down the medicine bowl, covered his face with a pair of hands full of age spots, and sighed deeply: "If you make a careless move, you will lose everything. I have fought all my life, but I just don't know how to fight water. The battle is so difficult. Those building ships look big and strong, so why can’t they beat those old lock ships that can’t move by themselves when the wind is against the current?”

Seeing that Wu Sangui was so entangled in this matter, Wu Yingqi was also quite speechless. He ran so far from Shaanxi to Hunan, travels and dust, day and night, not to listen to the old man say such regretful words.

"Father, don't be sad. Although our navy can't defeat the Ming army, my son has brought a lot of Ganshan cavalry this time!" Wu Yingqi patted his chest and said, "These cavalry are good at fighting with artillery, musketeers, When the pikemen cooperated with them in the Western Regions against the Yeerqiang, Heshuote, Junggar and other tribes, they were quite sharp! The Ming army had few cavalry and lacked horses, so the artillery that could be brought to Hunan must not be too much There are many, so our advantage is still huge!"

When Wu Sangui defeated Jiangxi, retreated to Hunan, and ended up in Hengyang, his fateful place, Wu Yingqi's son Wu Shicong used only [-] to [-] troops to massacre all directions in the Western Regions.Equipped with a small number of flintlock guns, the Wu Zhou army, which can coordinate the use of musketeers, pikemen, artillery, and cavalry, and can launch a large-scale cavalry charge, can constitute a crushing force for the Yeerqiang and Heshuote armies. No one can resist it.

Hearing what his son said, Wu Sangui also seemed very pleased, and said to Wu Yingqi with a smile: "The crown prince is trapped in Jiujiang, you should encourage him."

As soon as he said this, the expression of Liu Xuanchu who was standing by the side changed drastically.And Wu Yingqi even knelt down with a plop: "Father, my son dare not be Zhu Gaoxu!"

Wu Sangui waved his hand and said, "Second brother, do you think that if Zhu Di fails to win Zhu Yunwen smoothly, but plays a game between the north and the south, who will inherit the great rule? Is it the prince who can't fight, or the king of Han who is good at fighting? Although Hunan has the advantage in the First World War, Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan are not so easy to eliminate. At most, they will withdraw to Jiangxi. The third brother’s surprise attack on Guangdong has not been successful, and he is now retreating to Hunan. The Yangtze River waterway is now being cleared The army and navy are firmly in control. Jiangxia, Hanyang, and Hankou seem to be difficult to preserve. Therefore, even if we win the battle of Hunan, we are still at a disadvantage. It seems that I have no ability to hand over a good country to you. I can only Leave a mess for you and Shi Cong to clean up! This mess, your elder brother can't clean up!"

"Father, there is also the grandson!" Wu Yingqi reminded in a low voice.

Wu Sangui shook his head: "He can't wait until the battle in Hunan is over, I will arrange for him to go to Nanjing to vote for Li Zhongshan, so you don't have to worry about him."

Hearing old man Wu's weary tone, Ma Bao and Liu Xuanchu felt sour, and almost burst into tears.Both of them already felt that Wu Sangui passed away soon, and they could also feel that Wu Sangui was discouraged about Wu Zhou's future.

Maybe this is also because he feels that his days are numbered?
But having said that, Wu Sangui's death at this moment is indeed very detrimental to the overall situation!

Because within Wu Zhou, not counting Wu Sangui himself, there have always been three major factions, the prince line, the Qin king line, and the Chu king line, and these three factions are very independent.This time, Wu Sangui did not bring Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui with him in his eastern expedition to Jiangxi, but only Wu Yingxiong. In fact, it was to support the crown prince line and create favorable conditions for Wu Yingxiong to succeed him in the future.

But no one expected that Wu Zhoujun actually lost the water battle that he shouldn't have lost when he had the upper hand. He played himself as Chen Youliang's second!
So Wu Sangui had no choice but to support Wu Yingqi to succeed him, so as not to lose his foundation in the future!

Wu Sangui felt very tired at this time—he had been recuperating in Hengyang during this period of time, and he planned to move to Jingzhou or Xiangyang on the north bank of the Yangtze River when he recovered.But since he arrived in Hengyang, the disease seems to be getting worse
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui sighed, then pointed to Liu Xuanchu and said to Wu Yingqi: "The third child has already formulated a decisive battle strategy. I have let Xuanchu read it, and he thinks it is good. You should take a look too. If you think it is okay, Just follow it! But the coach of this battle is still you, fight hard, Da Zhou depends on you!"

He was already a little tired, so he waved to Wu Yingqi and Liu Xuanchu, "Go and discuss it, I'm tired!"

On the border of Hunan and Jiangxi, Chalingguan Town.

The gunfire suddenly fell silent, followed by rhythmic drums and sparse gunshots.

Accompanied by the sound of the drums, there were two whole battalions of fusiliers that formed the charging column and marched unhurriedly towards the collapse of the city wall of Chalingguan Town, where Jie Shu's remnants were guarding.These two flintlock battalions are from Mofan No. [-] Town and Momo No. [-] Town respectively. These two towns plus Momo No. [-] Town in Guangdong are the world today. Maybe they are the only three flintlock battalions in the world today. The gun is a division-level combat unit that is the main weapon of the infantry!
And those sporadic gunshots were not made by the advancing fusiliers, but by the skirmishers scattered in front of the fusiliers.These stragglers had only one task, which was to physically eliminate the Wu Zhou army under Jie Shu who dared to fill the two gaps in the city wall blasted by the cannons.

In fact, there are not many people with such strong heads. They are all subordinates of that Mang Yitu!Jieshu's soldiers didn't have that much hatred with Daming, but now because of Wu Sangui's strict order, they had to go to Lingguan to resist a little.

Moreover, Wu Sangui's envoys have already told them that as long as they can complete the construction in Chalingguan Town for five days, they will be sent north to join Kangxi - Jie Shu and his banner soldiers are also discouraged by Wu Zhou!This Wu Sangui is too dishonest, use them as cannon fodder!When they retreated to Jiangxi with Jie Shu, there were at least [-] banner troops with a full capacity.So far, the number has been less than [-].After getting through today (today is the fifth day), and then being harvested by Li Fuchen's cavalry, I don't know if there will be two thousand left?What a tragedy!
The Banner Army, who was desperately trying to block the gap, was quickly knocked down by stragglers with rifled guns, and then there was a piercing sound of suona, and the fusiliers of the two battalions and columns shouted together. The soldiers in red scarves and red robes held bayonet-mounted flintlock guns and maintained a relatively complete column, rushing towards the gap in the city wall of Chalingguan Town like two red tides.

A shell flew over and landed on the side of the charging team, then bounced up again and flew towards a direction where no one was there.During the whole process, none of the charging Red Scarf soldiers bent down to dodge, and no one slowed down.And the last shell fired by the defenders seemed to announce that this crossing point between the two provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi was about to change hands.

Li Zhongzheng was panting deeply, holding a sword in his hand, walking to one side of the column of the fusiliers of one of the battalions, pointed the sword forward, and ordered loudly: "Da Ming Wan Sheng. Come with me! "

Following his shout, the battalion of fusiliers rushed into the gap unstoppably, and a red flag flew high on the city wall of Chaling Pass.

Li Fuchen, who was watching the battle behind the Ming army's line outside the Lingguan City, put down his binoculars, grinned, and asked Li Zhongshan beside him, "How about the second child, the third child? Is he a fierce general?"

Li Zhongshan nodded and said with a smile: "It's not bad, I've learned how to command the pure team with flintlock guns, and I'll make him a commander in chief!"

Li Fuchen nodded in satisfaction. Just as he was about to finalize the matter with his son, Master Yu's voice suddenly sounded from behind the two of them: "King Nan, General. Finally found out where Wu Sangui is?"

This is where the master is responsible for finding Wu Sangui. He searched for Chaling Pass all the way from Nanchang, almost to the territory of Hunan, so he was able to find it.

Li Fuchen asked: "Where is he? Couldn't he have slipped back to Jiangxia?"

"No, he didn't go back to Jiangxia." Master Yu said, "He went to Hengyang!"

"What?" Li Zhongshan was startled, "Where did he go?"

"Hengyang. The first county of Hengzhou Prefecture." Master Yu said with a smile, "Didn't expect that?"

I really didn't expect it. It's his fate!Li Zhongshan said in his heart: Wu Sangui entered Hengyang. Is this okay?Can't specify!Now that he has such a large territory and so many big cities, he ended up going to Hengyang after going around. Is this Hengyang attractive to him?

"By the way, he went to Hengyang to supervise Wu Guogui's battle!" Li Fuchen had already guessed Wu Sangui's purpose of going to Hengyang, "He must be worried that Wu Guogui and Xiaotu's father and daughter are deeply in love, so they can't be cruel?"

Because the traffic between Jiangxi and Guangdong has been connected, Li Fuchen already knew that Wu Guogui's surprise attack on Guangdong was tricked by Wu Xiaotu.

Master Yu shook his head and said, "He may have gone to his son's place to recuperate. Wu Guogui moved his residence from Changsha to Hengyang last year. Wu Sangui seems to be seriously ill and is not recovering, so he went to his son's place to take care of him."

Wu Sangui was sick and went to Hengyang to take care of him?Li Zhongshan thought: Is this trying to turn a minor illness into a serious illness?No, I will never go to Beijing again after I add 'Shikai' to 'Zhongshan'!Let Zhongzheng go to Beijing next time, and you will definitely win!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan looked forward to looking at his good brother who was standing in the gap in the city wall commanding the battle in the distance, and then said to Li Fuchen: "Father, Wu Sangui is stranded in Hengyang. It seems that his life is not long. Let's take the opportunity to go in." Hunan, in one fell swoop, lays the foundation for the general situation of the lake.”

Li Fuchen looked back at Master Yu, who smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't miss this opportunity! We have 30 troops on hand, and Guangdong has no less than [-] troops that can be used to march north! Li Zicheng and King Li Zhong besieged Jiujiang There are more than [-] soldiers. Admiral Liu's navy is on the Yangtze River. If the three-way army will attack Huguang, there will be [-] people!"

Li Fuchen frowned slightly, the 30 people that Master Yu said, there are really a few heads!But the armies of the three routes are too scattered. The North Route is still in Jiujiang, the Middle Route is in Hunan and Jiangxi, and the South Route is still in Guangdong. It is impossible to support each other.

He was thinking whether to wait until Wu Sangui dies before advancing. Li Zhongshan had already said: "This battle can be fought! Although the three armies are scattered, it doesn't matter. Because we can defeat Wu Sangui's army all the way. The entire army in Hunan is gone. Besides, the Seventh Army in Guangdong should be able to contain Wu Guogui, and the troops Wu Sangui can mobilize are extremely limited."

Master Yu also meant the same thing, and said with a smile: "We don't need to go to Hengyang, just go to Changsha. Let's go to Changsha and bring in all the troops that Wu Sangui can mobilize from Huguang. Let's use Changsha as a boiler and give them a battle." Pot stew!"

Li Fuchen nodded, already convinced: "That's okay. The terrain of Changsha is indeed like a big pot. We can cook as many Wu Sangui's soldiers as they come! Moreover, Changsha is not far from Mubu Mountain, where Li Zhong Wang Tie's territory!"

(End of this chapter)