Han’s Son is Not a Slave: Chapter 1002 Wu Sangui wants Beijing, we want to close the border

The news of Wu Sangui's attack on Tongguan and his division into the Central Plains was transferred from Li Laiheng's department in Henan nine days ago. This news shocked the Taiping army and caught Zhou Shixiang by surprise. He never underestimated Wu Sangui, but he didn't think he could break through Tongguan in a short time. After all, Tongguan is a natural danger. When Sun Chuanting fought against Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng fought against Duoduo, Tongguan was never broken. It can be said that as long as the Qing army can't stand at Tongguan, even if Wu Sangui can win Tongguan, he will definitely lose his vitality in the fight. In other words, as long as the Qing army showed half of its previous combat strength, Wu Sangui might be able to invade Henan without any damage as it is now, causing Zhou Shixiang to lose his strategic initiative.

Combining the impression of Wu Sangui's indecision when the three feudal vassals raised troops in his previous life, Zhou Shixiang believed that something must have happened in Tongguan, otherwise Wu Sangui would not have been able to easily succeed, and he would not have such a great determination to advance eastward. Sure enough, two days later, the Ministry of Military Intelligence sent a message in Shaanxi, which confirmed that Tongguan was not forcibly broken by Wu Jun, but was lost because Li Guoying, the governor of Qingchuan and Shaanxi, offered the pass anyway.

After figuring out the inside story of Tongguan's loss, Zhou Shixiang said with regret: "That Wang Jinbao was a fierce man. The Jedi assassinated Ebilong, leaving Li Guoying with no way out, so he had to surrender to Wu, and let Wu Sangui get through the Dongjin all at once. It's a pity that such a fierce person belongs to Wu Sangui."

After lamenting that the series of changes in history due to his arrival made Wu Sangui like a person with great luck, Zhou Shixiang had to think about how to deal with the reality that Wu Sangui's actions were already ahead of him.

According to Li Laiheng, Jia Hanfu, the governor of Henan Province of Qing Dynasty, has now shrunk the Qing army in southern Henan, and he and his concubine Shi Huashan are standing in Kaifeng waiting for help. Wu Jun's forward Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan had already marched towards Kaifeng after they had swept the west of Henan. On June 21, Wu Sangui sent his son-in-law Xia Guoxiang, general Guo Zhuangtu and others to lead 70,000 troops into Henan to reinforce Hu Guozhu's troops. At the same time, Wu Sangui aggressively mobilized Shaanxi-Gansu military forces, and various signs showed that Wu Sangui was ready for the entire army to go north. Just waiting for Kaifeng, the Wu army is bound to cross the upper Yellow River, thus controlling the capital of Ming Dynasty, gaining the commanding heights of legality and morality, and suppressing the Dingwu regime in Nanjing.

The intelligence of the Ministry of Military Intelligence shows that Fulin has handed over the Eight Banners of the forbidden brigade he has not yet reorganized to the commander of Ao Bai, and reinforces Kaifeng. Looking at the posture, Fulin is going to fight Wu Sangui in Henan, but the strength of this decisive battle looks a little bit. There are less than 50,000 troops of the Manchu, Mongolian and Han armies together, while the Wu army is more than 100,000, and half of them are elite soldiers and horses who have fought for more than ten years. , Sun Kewang's front army, and the surrendered soldiers of the original Li Dingguo. That Ma Bao, Ma Weixing, Gao Qilong and others are all very good at fighting. The Qing army surrendered to Wu Sangui also included elites, and the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion fell into the hands of Wu Sangui.

When Zhang Yong explained the details of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp to the MISI, he once said that there was a Zhao Liangdong who was very capable. When the name came to Zhou Shixiang's ears, he said to the left and right: "Oh, that bearded man, um. , is indeed a powerful character, and Lord Wei admires it very much."

Who the commander said about Lord Wei was at a loss, but Zhao Liangdong, the bearded man, had a great reputation for it. Zhang Yong was very puzzled. Although Zhao Liangdong has a beard, he is not a big beard. Could it be that he has a long beard now?

In the world, plans are always better than changes. After the Battle of Yangzhou, Zhou Shixiang had no intention of fighting another war in the short term, because if he continued to fight, the finances would go bankrupt. He planned to use two to three years to digest the provinces he had already acquired, manage it well, and then storm the army and food supply. Equipment, rolling down all the way. His little historical knowledge tells him that Fulin is likely to contract smallpox this year, and then die, and then the little emperor Xuan Ye with a pockmarked face will take the throne. If he had the patience to add fuel to the flames in the state of watching the excitement, if he didn't do well, he would fight to death for the Qing Dynasty a few years later, and Ao Shaobao, who could be said to have done his best, would be deceived by Xiao Mazi into the palace, and then he died.

However, of course he couldn't have the patience to wait, Wu Sangui wouldn't give him time now. Henan fell into the hands of Wu Sangui and the Wu army went north to attack Beijing, which was obviously impossible for the Taiping Army to accept. All the generals were unwilling. They fought to death with Tartars in Yangzhou. As a result, the biggest fruit might fall into the hands of Wu Sangui. This is really frustrating and depressing.

Ge Yi, who was stationed in Jiangbei, personally crossed the river to Ganlu Temple and asked Zhou Shixiang to order the Jiangbei Army to immediately attack Xuzhou and seize Beijing in front of the Wu army.

"We went north at this time, but there were only two results. One was that we competed with Wu Sangui who came to Beijing first, and the other was that Fulin and Wu Sangui stopped at the same time and turned to deal with us. UU reading www.uukanshu.com Don't forget , In Wu Sangui's view, the Qing court is already a dying camel, but we are tigers and wolves that are accumulating strength. If it is you, are you willing to fight with the dying, or join forces to deal with the more dangerous threat? tiger wolf."

"Tatar and Wu Sangui join forces? That's impossible." Ge Yi didn't believe that Wu Sangui, who betrayed Tatar, could still cooperate with Tatar again.

"What's impossible? In the past, would some people believe that Wu Sangui would surrender to the Tartars and create a rebel against the Tartars?" Zhou Shixiang shook his head, "The times create heroes, and the times also create the times. Of course, there is another possibility that As soon as we move, no one moves, and the three families are consumed like this. Just like this, it is not good for the three families. "

"What does the handsome man mean? I listened to the handsome man."

Ge Yi still hasn't figured out what Zhou Shixiang's decision was. He asked Wu Sangui and Tartar to fight, or he also stepped in and started a three-way fight.

Zhou Shixiang didn't say what he meant directly, but asked Ge Yi: "The Qing court is far less powerful than Wu Sangui. If Ao Bai can't stop Wu Sangui, what do you think Fulin will do?"

"If he ran back to his hometown outside the customs, could it be that he dared to stay in Beijing and wait for his death?" Ge Yi muttered, "Fulin doesn't have the backbone of our Lord Chongzhen."

Zhou Shixiang smiled and said, "If Fulin ran outside the customs, wouldn't he become the back gold of the year? Even if we solve Wu Sangui in the future, wouldn't we have to go out to find him? That would be too troublesome and troublesome for him in the future. , it is better not to give him a chance to leave the customs, and to keep all the Manchus, young and old, in Beijing."

Ge Yi was surprised: "Wu Sangui has already hit Henan. If Ao Bai is defeated, Fulin will have to run if he doesn't run. How can we keep him?"

"It's simple, we don't fight Wu Sangui who will go to Beijing first, we and Fulin will fight whoever will get out of the customs first."

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