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Now Wu Sangui is only concerned about whether the Ming army in Huguang has passed Xiangnanyang.As soon as the Ming army passes through Nanyang, he can personally lead the army out of Wuguan in three days, bypassing Xiangyang and entering Jianghan.

Because they are cavalry.

For this battle, Wu Sangui summoned all of his confidantes and most capable generals to Xi'an.Wang Pingfan, Wang Fuchen, Ma Bao, Gao Dejie, and Hu Guozhu are all in command.

To be honest, if this lineup is 20 years later, I am afraid that Daming will have to send out stronger strength to resist.However, this battle broke out more than 20 years ahead of schedule.The real generals under Wu Sangui, such as Xia Guoxiang, Ma Bao, Guo Zhuangtu and other young talents of the younger generation, have not grown up.At the same time, Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan and other original generals of the Ming army have led the army for many years, which is entirely due to their experience.

It's a bit of a bully to use a group of middle-aged uncles to hang and beat the little fresh meat.

Only monsters like Li Dingguo are exceptions. 20 years is too important for a person's experience growth.

Among the Zhou army, the most talented are Xia Guoxiang and Guo Zhuangtu, the two sons-in-law of Wu Sangui, and the most able to fight are Wang Fuchen and Ma Bao.Wang Fuchen was nicknamed the Northwest "horse kite".Originally deployed by Jiang Xiang, he dared to single-handedly break into the Eight Banners formation. He was a fierce general whose force value was no less than that of Wu Sangui.

As for Ma Bao, in the official history, he was a young general who broke into the army, and finally followed Li Dingguo and then Wu Sangui.Like countless generals of this era, a typical family slave with three surnames.

The reason why Wu Sangui valued these two people was entirely because they were the same type of people as Wu Sangui, and they were both brave generals. Wu Sangui knew the characters of these two people too well, and he claimed to be able to control them.

"Report to the Emperor, the main force of the Huguang army of the Ming army has passed Xiangyang." Wu Sangui silently calculated in his heart, the good news he had been looking forward to for many days finally arrived.

"Tell Ma Bao, take his battalion as the vanguard, and prepare to attack." Wu Sangui was radiant, standing on a high platform with Kong Wu's powerful figure, as if the world was shaking hands.

He likes to play the so-called "kingly demeanor" very much, and with his suave and suave face, he is really a good skin.

Chapter 554: The old fox is suspicious and playing tricks

Xiangyang, a purely immigrant city of the Ming Dynasty, has emerged as a transit point for large-scale immigrants from southern Shaanxi to Jianghan since six years ago, and it only has a population of about [-].

Why the development is so slow, it has to be said that Zuo Liangyu, the scourge of heaven, has harmed Hubei, and Azig's massacre in Hubei has led to a large reduction in the population of Jianghan production areas.

Although Zhu Youjian developed a number of state-owned industries in the south of the Yangtze River, agriculture was still the mainstay of Ming's economy.The fields in the Jianghan Plain naturally need a large number of agricultural population to fill, and business is like the salt in a dish, which plays a role of seasoning.

Wu Sangui walked the road out of Wuguan. When he first entered Guanzhong and was still a man with his tail between his legs, Dorgon sent him to change defense with Azig. He was stationed in Nanyang at that time.

To attack Xiangyang, Nanyang must be captured first. Nanyang and Xiangyang are too close.

But Wu Sangui ignored Nanyang at all this time, he led the army directly to the side of Nanyang City and went around.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be no one in Nanyang City." Wang Fuchen looked into the distance with some disappointment. There were no figures of defenders above Nanyang City, which was equivalent to an empty city.

Not only was there no one in Nanyang City, there were no farmers even outside the city.What Wang Fuchen meant was that he didn't see any abnormalities in the people all the way from Wuguan.

Wu Sangui didn't take it seriously: "After fighting for so many years, how many people are there? I was like this when I was stationed in Nanyang. After so many years, it hasn't changed at all."

Xiangyang is a block on the road to the south. Although it is not a pass, it is more hateful than a pass.Zhou Jun can bypass Nanyang, but he absolutely cannot bypass Xiangyang.

Nanyang is not far from Xiangyang, and the cavalry will arrive in half a day.

However, after Wu Sangui saw a brand-new Xiangyang City, his beard became crooked.

"What's going on, didn't it mean that there are only tens of thousands of people in Xiangyang?"

Staring at the defenders occupying Xiangyang City, what else could Wu Sangui say.He was a little suspicious, the news must have leaked, otherwise how could there be heavy guards in Xiangyang.

"Ma Bao, tell me, why is this so?" Wu Sangui stared at Ma Bao, because Ma Bao was a pioneer and suspected.

"Your Majesty, when I led the troops to Nanyang City, I found that there was a large army from Nanyang heading towards Xiangyang. I was in a hurry and did not catch up with the Ming army. This Xiangyang City is now concentrated in the defenders of two cities. Together, our strength will increase."

Ma Bao spoke in great detail, and Wu Sangui couldn't see any flaws.But the suspicion in Wu Sangui's heart was not eliminated.

"Siege the city for me." Wu Sangui was narrow-minded, he felt that he couldn't spend his time here to investigate some traitors and waste his time.Just start attacking the city directly, he is good at finding out the details and looking at the problem.

Xiangyang City is not easy to fight, but the difficulty of fighting Xiangyang is not the infantry but the navy.But how could there be a navy army when Zhou Jun came out of Wuguan? The so-called siege was just a round of bombardment with cannons to test and test the defenders.

"Boom..." A round of cannonballs hit, and Nuo Da's Xiangyang City was not damaged at all.It was only then that Wu Sangui remembered that this city of Xiangyang was newly built after the Ming army took back Xiangyang, and it is said that its strength is similar to that of Xuzhou.

"Your Majesty, this..." Wang Fuchen couldn't stand it any longer. Xiangyang City was obviously a tortoise shell, and it was difficult for pure cavalry to pry it open.

"Fang Aiqing, what do you think?" Wu Sangui looked at his chief counselor, Fang Guangzhang. Although this person did not have as many ideas as Hou Fangyu, he was calm and calm at critical moments and could often point out the right path.

"Your Majesty, I think that Xiangyang is not a defense that the Ming army has arranged in advance. Do you think, Your Majesty, that Zhu Youjian is not worried at all when the main force of the Ming army in Huguang goes north? It is necessary to station a garrison in Xiangyang. You see The Xiangyang garrison is reinforced by Nanyang, which shows that Zhu Youjian is already stretched in the Central Plains and has no soldiers to use."

"What Aiqing said is very true." Wu Sangui believed Fang Guangzhen more, and at the same time he carefully checked the demeanor of the defenders in Xiangyang City, and found that they did not look like the main soldiers of the Ming army, but belonged to the typical posture of the local army, crooked A crooked stand can't stand straight.

"But there is another way?" Since Xiangyang can't be attacked by force, we can only find a way to detour, even if it is a small road.

"You can go around Xinyang and go straight from Yunmeng to Hanyang." Fang Guangzhang spread out the map and pointed to a section of road in the middle of the Dabie Mountains.

Wu Sangui was not familiar with the terrain of Huguang, but he still believed in Fang Guangcheng.And this road has indeed been walked by others, at least Li Zicheng has developed in this area.

"But what should we do if we take our army's food and grass like this?" Ma Bao asked.

Wu Sangui was taken aback for a moment, when he dispatched troops, what he thought was the strategy of fighting the enemy with food.It is simply unrealistic to expect Guanzhong to supply [-] cavalry from Wuguan Mountain with food and fodder, so Wu Sangui hoped to hit Jianghan so that he could grab it on the spot.

Ma Bao's question reached a crucial point. After Wu Sangui was stunned, what he thought was not whether Ma Bao's question was right, but that this sentence basically removed the suspicion that Ma Bao was a traitor.

Since Ma Bao was not suspected, could it be that Fang Guangzhang had a ghost, why did he suggest taking the path of Xinyang?

"Your Majesty doesn't know that Zhu Youjian built a horse farm in Queshan, north of Xinyang, and hoarded tens of thousands of war horses and a large amount of grain and grass.

This place was the training ground of the former First Cavalry Army of the Ming Army. After the First Cavalry Army went north, there were not many defenders here.If God does not take it, then he will be blamed!Your Majesty, this is a great opportunity that God has given me. "

Fang Guangzhang spoke very seriously, but Wu Sangui looked very happy on his face, but he was even more suspicious in his heart.

Is there really such a good thing in the world?Wu Sangui didn't believe it.

"Mr. Ma, hurry up and lead the Qianfeng battalion to find out. I'll wait for you for three days." Wu Sangui sent out Ma Bao who had cleared his suspicions.

However, the so-called three-day time limit Wu Sangui did not wait at all.One day after Ma Bao set off, he dispatched the main force to follow and move towards Xinyang.

This old fox was very thieves, he was just pinching his fingers to count the time, how could he really wait for three days.

Luoyang.

Li Dingguo kept guarding outside Chen Jinnan's small courtyard. Every pigeon flew in and out, which made Li Dingguo full of expectations.Although he is the commander-in-chief, Tiandihui is a unit that cooperates with him in combat. He is not qualified to enter the core office of Tiandihui.

"President Li, another piece of good news: Wu Sangui has transferred to Xinyang." Chen Jinnan opened the courtyard door with a smile, and handed a piece of information to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo pushed it smoothly, expressing that he didn't read the secret of Tiandihui and said, "Then I can rest assured."

"The emperor has already made arrangements. Dozens of cars of refined salt have already been transported from Huainan to Xinyang. Moreover, the eldest prince personally escorted the transportation." Chen Jinnan handed Li Dingguo a cigarette and lit it himself.

"Elder Prince? Wu Sangui should know him, will something happen?" Li Dingguo said.

"Mr. Li is too worried. Wu Sangui was in Shanhaiguan all the year round, and he never met the eldest prince. Besides, the current eldest prince is no longer the prince of the past. Who would have thought?" do not worry.

Li Dingguo didn't know who the hidden stake of Tiandihui's wooing was, but judging from the other party's expression, it seemed that Chen Jinnan was more confident than him as the commander-in-chief.

Although Li Dingguo instinctively disliked organizations like the Tiandihui, he had to admit the importance of intelligence work to combat.If Chen Jinnan hadn't come to Luoyang, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to think of a crooked way to deal with Wu Sangui.