nanming man

Chapter 81
In Luyi County, in the barracks, the soldiers of the logistics team were busy slaughtering pigs and sheep, so that the soldiers could have a good meal before setting off. When they marched to fight, they could only eat some pancakes and dry food.

Gao Yihuan and his subordinates judged that they were not wrong. Not long after receiving the message from Ma Yuanwai, Gao Yicheng also sent back some news from Shandong, and Gao Zurong also sent news.

As soon as the second brother gathered the news, the situation in the last three months of Chongzhen's 15th year had basically clearly emerged in his mind.

Sun Chuanting led Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu and other [-] troops out of Tongguan from the east. At the same time, he mobilized Zuo Liangyu's Chu soldiers to go north, and ordered Qin Yiming's Sichuan army and Chen Yongfu's Henan army to come to support them. Xuchang area.

At this time, Li Zicheng was defeated by Sun Chuanting's design in Jia County, and he retreated to Xiangcheng to gather troops to prepare for another battle.

From the perspective of the situation, if there is no Qing army entering the bandits, the government troops on the Nanzhi side will outflank from the southeast, and Liu Zeqing from Shandong will look for opportunities to cross the Yellow Flooded Area and attack from the east, plus Sun Chuanting in the west and Zuo Liangyu in the south It is not that the official army has no chance to defeat Li Zicheng.

It's just that the Qing soldiers made a horizontal cross, which destroyed the superiority of the official army and helped Li Zicheng hold back most of the imperial court's troops.

Right now, Li Zicheng only needs to face Sun Chuanting's Qin army, as well as Zuo Liangyu and other troops, and doesn't need to worry about the strength of Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and others.

This time Gao Yihuan and his group followed Zhao Yingyuan, and they mainly had to deal with Zuo Liangyu's group of officers who retreated from Zhuxian Town a few months ago.

At this time, in the whole world, Zhongzhou, Shandong, Beizhi, and Huguang were fighting, causing the Ming court to be in chaos. However, these battlefields seemed chaotic, but in fact there was still a center, and that was Henan.

Although the Qing army criss-crossed the north and entered Shandong, making Beijing martial law, but without the support of the people inside the pass, no matter how many cities the Qing army occupied, they would not be able to gain a firm foothold, and they had to retreat outside the pass in the end.

This was the sixth entrance battle of the Qing army, and the Ming Dynasty had almost gotten used to it. The impact of the entire entrance battle was not as great as the decisive battle between the Henan official army and the Chuang army.

If Sun Chuanting wins this time, the Ming Dynasty can still be delayed for a while, but if the army loses, the corrupt situation in the entire Northern Kingdom will be irreversible, and it will only develop in a worse direction. The world is afraid that the dynasty will change.

At this time, there are so many battlefields, but the decisive battle in Zhongzhou is the key to determine the future trend of the world, so countless people, especially the gentry in the north, are watching this battle.

The world has been in chaos for more than ten years, and the hearts of the people are private. The gentry have given great hope to the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty has not been able to calm the internal and external troubles for so long. Many gentry have reached the limit of their patience.

If Sun Chuanting is defeated this time, the attitude of the gentry should undergo a large-scale change, and the north will never appear again. Just like Kaifeng, the situation where the officials and gentry desperately resist will inevitably surrender to the thief.

On October 15th of the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Gao Yihuan was wearing armor and an iron helmet, riding a yellow horse, and leading more than a dozen officers in armor and helmet, stationed outside the west gate of Luyi County.

At this time, snowflakes were falling in the sky, and more than 2000 soldiers in cotton armor and turbans lined up in four rows, walked out of the city gate with flags and streamers, and marched westward along the official road.

On the city wall, many people and their family members saw off each other. They looked at the long queue, lined up in neat formation, and drove out of Luyi County, feeling a little worried in their hearts.

At this time, Brother Gao was riding on a yellow-haired horse, looking at the soldiers traveling far away, but his heart was very calm, and he was not afraid of the battle, because the enemy he was facing was not Sun Chuanting, but Zuo Liangyu, a scum like Zuo Liangyu.

If he was going to beat Sun Chuanting, Second Brother Gao must feel guilty and feel guilty, but he has no psychological pressure at all to beat Zuo Liangyu, a scum.

Looking at Zuo Liangyu's life, he did not accomplish enough and failed more, and finally even buried the Nanming court with his own hands, which can be said to be a heinous crime.

Second brother Gao had a plan in mind about what to do next, that is to take the lands of Runan and Nanyang first, and then capture Xiangyang and Jingzhou, take the belly of the world, and then unite with the Nanming court to block Li Zicheng in Shaanxi. He was not allowed to go south, and forced him to fight the Qing army to see if he could prevent the Qing army from driving Li Zicheng into Huguang.

If Li Zicheng can hold Shaanxi, and he can hold Nanyang and Runan, then the Qing army can only go south from Xuzhou to the south of the Yangtze River.

In this way, the situation in the world is a bit like the situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty when Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou. Wu.

According to the second brother's idea, apart from the political standpoint, in terms of the sphere of influence, it is really a bit similar. If this is true, it may be possible to keep Jiangnan from the massacre of the Qing Dynasty, preserve the vitality of Jiangnan, and complete the transformation of society.

However, there is a variable in this, that is, whether Zuo Liangyu, a scum like Zuo Liangyu, will be on the side of the Qing Dynasty like in history, causing turmoil in the Nanming court and allowing the Manchus to take advantage of it.

At this time, Second Brother Gao didn't have any trustworthy and capable counselors around him. This idea was all figured out by Second Brother himself, and I don't know if it is feasible. In addition to a relatively solid foundation, Zuo Liangyu had to be killed.

This is not only because Zuo Liangyu is a variable, but also because the second brother Gao wants to win Jingzhou, he must confront Zuo Liangyu.

Zhao Yingyuan ordered all the ministries to meet in Chenzhou before October 2000. Gao Yihuan set off early after making some preparations and led [-] troops to attack Chenzhou.

The location of Chenzhou is the land of Chen State in the Spring and Autumn Period, and later became the important town of Chu State.If this place is placed in Henan, it is just a small county on the edge, but if the north and the south are fighting, the land of Chen Cai will become one of the focuses of the competition between the north and the south.

As early as the beginning of the 15th year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng, he sent troops to the south to collect grain, breaking through Chenzhou, Shenqiu, Xiangcheng and other places. Go, and did not send troops to guard.

The corrupt situation in Henan also made it almost impossible for the imperial court to set up new officials in Henan. Therefore, these places can be said to be in a state of no ownership, and there are no officials, troops and officials, and they are all maintained by powerful local forces.

At this time, all the soldiers in front had left the city gate, and the mule carts of the logistics team had already left the city gate. Jin Xiangang rode a mule, came to Gao Erge, clasped his fists and reported: "Qi report to the captain, two thousand The 24 soldiers have all left the city, please show me the captain!"

Gao Yihuan rode on a yellow-haired horse, waved his hands proudly, and replied loudly, "Send orders, send troops to Chenzhou~"

(End of this chapter)