Lord of Ming Dynasty

At the same time, Li Dingguo bought 1 second-hand matchlock guns from the Nanming Army that were used by Su Zhengqing's troops, imitation Huaxia Army's Jinkai 1 matchlock guns from the Nanming Army. The gun is now in the third hand. Zhang Qiang believes that Su Zhengqing and Su Guansheng are not so clean and honest. They will sell [-]% of the new matchlock guns they bought to the Li Dingguo Department of Yongli Daming. They must have used them.

Ten thousand such arquebuses.

At the same time, buy [-] cannons captured from the Qing army, cannons sold by the Huaxia army eliminated by the Nanming army, [-]-pounders, [-]-pounders, and [-] ten-pounders, as well as imitated [-]-pounders and [-]-pounders from the Nanming army , [-] ten-pound guns, related gunpowder, bullets, shells, etc. are not counted.

In this way, after a round of firepower strengthening, Li Dingguo's department replaced its weapons and equipment. The original broken weapons and equipment were directly thrown to the [-] young and strong troops they recruited, as well as the Yunnan-Guizhou Chieftain Capture Auxiliary Force sent up from the rear. On the basis of [-] troops, there are [-] auxiliary troops with little combat effectiveness.

Li Dingguo also hired a new army instructor from Su Zhengqing's army who had just won the battle with a high salary to strengthen training and guide tactics for his [-] new army troops, which made his army completely reborn within half a month.

In this way, Li Dingguo has [-] old battalion troops with his own cold weapons and elites, plus [-] new troops, and [-] newly recruited civilian husband auxiliary troops.

This made Kong Youde of Guilin Mansion tremble even more. He rectified the defeated troops, recruited new troops, spent money like running water, and finally reorganized his troops into a fighting force with a strength of [-].

The battle between the two sides is about to start because of Li Dingguo's revenge.

Zhang Qiang took the information and smiled helplessly. He never thought that the two courts of the Ming Dynasty, who had always been aloof, would come together because of a rash attack by Kong Youde. This is simply big news. How many scalps are scratched and how many hairs are pulled out can explain this weird cooperation clearly.

Because in history, the two have always dismantled and attacked each other, and there is no precedent for cooperation.

And Zhang Qiang also saw who Zhu Yujian learned this trick from, it was him from the Huaxia Army.

After Li Dingguo's revenge, he captured several remote counties in Guangxi Prefecture. It seemed that he didn't suffer a loss. In fact, he was used by Zhu Yujian as a gunman. He could not lose his troops and let others fight for him. Isn't this Zhang Qiang's handwriting?

4Chapter 17 Fighting Huguang

If you lag behind, you will always be beaten. The Yongli Daming can no longer keep up with the pace of development of the times, so they are naturally overtaken by the Nanming Army who is close to the Huaxia Army and learning from the Huaxia Army. Don’t look at their territory is larger than the Nanming Kingdom. There are many places, and there are many Ming generals and civil servants loyal to them, but their overall strength is not as good as that of Nanming.

Even Li Dingguo, a capable person like Li Dingguo who almost had a chance to bring Yongli Daming to the road to recovery, a person at the God of War level inevitably fell into the calculations of Longwu Zhu Yujian.

Know it with reason, move it with emotion, and use the situation to trap Li Dingguo, let him fight the Qing army for himself, and enjoy the benefits.

Turning around, Hong Chengchou felt that the courage on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier. The situation seemed to be more critical than a year ago. He suddenly found that his troops had been severely weakened. What about the initial 100 million troops?

Now there are only less than 45 troops left, abandoning the 20 soldiers of the cold weapon troops stationed in various places with thousands of kilometers of defense lines, the [-] soldiers of the Navy, and the [-] Qing troops of Obai. Sadly, I found that I only had the command of more than [-] soldiers and horses.

Taking a closer look at the situation, he suddenly found that Huguang was empty, which made him break out in a sweat. Huguang, Huguang was actually empty, and most of the troops were transferred to Guangxi Prefecture. In many places in Huguang, only the troops defending the city were left. There are no other mobile forces.

Looking at it again, the troops in Hubei Province behind him have also been withdrawn, leaving only the local braves, and even the guards of the city are only left with young men and government servants. There are no soldiers behind Huai'an Mansion. One hundred kilometers directly to the capital.

In a panic, he hastily ordered the transfer of a town's new army from the defense line, plus several thousand Qing soldiers and infantry back to Huai'an Mansion, and the new troops from two towns went to Huguang to guard, and [-] Qing troops and Han army flags were also sent to Huguang .

Looking back, only [-] towns were left to guard the Yangtze River defense line, and the troops were even weaker.

Hurriedly went to the imperial court and asked the imperial court to send back the four towns that had been transferred, but the imperial court only agreed to send one back to guard Henan Prefecture, and at the same time dispatched [-] Mongolian cavalry from Mongolia to strengthen his mobile force here.

Hong Chengchou tried his best to mobilize [-] Qing troops from Sishan, Shaanxi and Gansu again, but it will take several months for these troops to reach Yangzhou. After all, the journey is too far. It will take a long time to wait for these troops to arrive.

He was in a hurry, moved around more, and wanted to deploy more troops to defend, but the court told him that the court had lost confidence in him and asked him to attack the Huaxia Army as soon as possible, otherwise someone would be arranged to replace him.

Hong Chengchou knew that Dorgon's body was getting worse day by day, so he was in a hurry, because Emperor Shunzhi grew up day by day and wanted to take back his power. The power struggle in the court had reached a fever pitch. If he was trusted by Dorgon Those who don't make any achievements and continue to confront the Huaxia Army like this will inevitably wait for him to be sent to prison, or an imperial edict will send him back to Beijing, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover in the future.

Hong Chengchou also got the news that the grassland was not peaceful. Although Chahar Mongolian was beaten with no temper and wandered around, it seemed that he was about to die. The Qing army will solve the problem of unrest on the Mongolian grassland and can mobilize more troops to go south. The newly-rising Yarkand Mongols, however, had such high morale that they almost captured most of the land of Chahar Mongolia and developed towards Gansu Prefecture, and most of Gansu Prefecture also fell into their hands.

They are also developing towards Kangding and Turpan, where they fought hard with the Jungar Mongolian tribe. The Khalkha Mongols also confronted them in Monan and Mobei. Both sides won and lost each other. Fortunately, they are farther away Horqin Mongolia is calm and has no rivals.

But this also poses a threat to the strategy of the Qing army. Horqin Mongolia had to send troops to help Khalkha Mongolia, and the Qing army had to see tens of thousands of Qing troops stationed in Horqin Mongolia to stabilize the situation there and maintain control over the two Mongolian tribes. Suppression, and troops had to be stationed in Shengjing to guard the old nest of the Manchus. At the same time, they also fought against Goryeo. There were three kingdoms in Goryeo, and there were battles from time to time. The Mongols and the invited troops had to maintain military pressure there.

The Shaanxi-Gansu uprising army and the anyway army are like weeds, they can’t be mowed down, they rise up again, rise up and disappear again, Yongli Daming still owns territory in Huguang, Hubei Prefecture, and Henan Prefecture, and is still fighting the Qing army. It's very troublesome to make clear the army.

Li Dingguo managed to suppress the Qing army in Yunnan and Guizhou. Yunnan Prefecture was almost his old nest. The Qing army hadn't entered there for many years. A surprise attack by Monk Kong Youde only caused little harm, and he was driven out. Embarrassed.

Now Li Dingguo took advantage of the victory to pursue, and his troops approached the city. He launched an attack on Kong Youde, Mang Gurtai, and Ma Degong brothers in Guilin Mansion. They have been fighting for more than a week. Both sides suffered a lot of losses, but the Qing army was even more unbearable. The strength of the counterattack, due to his care for where, has reinforced a lot of troops, so it seems that there can be held temporarily, but it also drags down his nearly 20 troops, and there are [-] troops who are constantly going to rescue.

Hong Chengchou found that his advantage was being lost step by step, and it was already the spring of 1656.

It has been a year and a half, but he has not wiped out the Huaxia Army. On the contrary, his own strength has been continuously reduced by Nanming, Yongli Daming, and Lu Kingdom, and he feels a little uneasy.

At this moment, a staff member ran in, "Proprietor, it's not good, the Huaxia Army has moved, the Huaxia Army has moved, and they are here to kill."

"come yet?"

"Where did they cross the river?" Hong Chengchou hurriedly grabbed his staff's arm and asked.

"My lord, my lord, the Huaxia army is attacking Huguang. They headed north from the Huguang Yuezhou Mansion. They headed for Changsha all the way. Depending on the situation, they will make peace with He Tengjiao."

"Ah, how did this happen? They actually attacked from Huguang instead of crossing the river to attack us from the front?"

The staff reminded: "Proprietor, Huguang is empty. Master Feng Quan has already set off for Huguang. He asked him to quickly send troops to Huguang to intercept the Huaxia Army."

"How many soldiers and horses are there?"

"How many troops did the Huaxia Army send?"

Hong Chengchou calmed down and asked.

"According to the report from Tanmalai, I heard that one hundred thousand Huaxia Army started from Yuezhou Mansion and swept across the counties in the south of Changsha. Whether it is from Yongli Nanming or the rebel army, the territory of the army has been swept away by the Huaxia Army anyway. They killed all the way, depending on the situation, if they don't stop them, they will kill all over Huguang."

After Hong Chengchou calmed down, he snorted coldly, "That old man He Tengjiao may not be able to beat us, but if he feels that the Huaxia Army is swallowing his territory, he will definitely not give the Huaxia Army a good look."

When the staff thought about it, he was right. He Tengjiao belonged to the kind of Ming officials who did not succeed enough but failed. Maybe he only dared to avoid the Qing army, but he dared not fight. But for his own people, he never lost money and cheated many people. Li Guo's Loyalty Camp was cheated many times by him, and he fought many times with the Qing army. He Tengjiao took over the counties and sites he had recovered before, and finally he could only stay away with hatred, wandering in Henan and Hubei.

"But if the Huaxia Army doesn't attack Changsha, what if they turn to the southwest from here? At that time, they will encircle Mangurtai, Jierhalang, Kong Youde, and Ma Degong in Guangxi Prefecture." The staff also had their minds wide open and thought of a possibility.

Chapter 448 Fighting Huguang 2

Hearing the staff's words, Hong Chengchou's face changed, "Yes, if the Huaxia Army went from east to west without touching He Tengjiao to attack Mang Gurtai and the others, then there are only a few counties and hundreds of miles of Qing troops, isn't it? Where is it surrounded? Didn’t Li Dingguo of the Yongli Daming, the Nanming Army, and the Huaxia Army surround the 30 troops of the Qing Army?”

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou is not calm anymore. If he is defeated again this time, it will be another disaster in Raozhou Prefecture. He defeated the 60 Qing army that time by the Huaxia Army, and lost 40 troops. Finally, the Huaxia Army took all of them. The failure of Jiangxi Prefecture, half of Anhui Prefecture, and half of Jiangsu Prefecture to confront the Qing army across the river is collectively referred to as the disaster of Raozhou Prefecture.

That was the first loss of hundreds of thousands of troops on the land of the Ming Dynasty since the Qing army entered the pass, the first major defeat, and that defeat took him a year and a half to gradually restore the Qing army's vitality. After recovering from serious injuries, the defeat of Kong Youde more than half a month ago made the Qing army once again taste the same failure as the disaster in Raozhou Prefecture, at least half of the failure, but thinking that it was a fight with the Nanming army, it It's even more annoying.

Must send troops, but how to send troops?

He no longer has the troops he can draw out.

If we deploy more troops and the Huaxia Army comes over, no one will be able to defend the Yangtze River defense line.

"Changing clothes, come with me to see Oboi, Master Ao." Although he didn't want to see this opponent of the Shunzhi faction, this immediate superior who came to monitor him, but at this moment he could only persuade Oboi to lead troops to fight against the Huaxia Army, even if it was It's good to stop it for a while, and also kill that guy He Tengjiao by the way, so that the Qing army can completely regain Huguang.

He Tengjiao is a stabbing head. If he is not killed, the Qing army cannot completely occupy Huguang.

As long as he is there, it means that the Ming Dynasty is still there, and the influence of the Yongli Daming is still there, and the Qing army will not be able to completely regain Huguang.

As for Li Guo, it was a rogue bandit who could not make a big deal. As long as the Qing army was a little more friendly to the people, no one would follow him.

Hong Chengchou went to Oboi's mansion. After some persuasion, Oboi was also very breathless. He stayed here with Hong Chengchou to guard the Yangtze River defense line. He did nothing for a year and a half. If Dorgon was not strong, Hong Chengchou would be Dorgon's red Man, he had already killed this Han Chen, their loyal lackey and slave of the Qing Dynasty.

Now that Hong Chengchou has asked him, he is also willing to go to the battlefield to make contributions, but he still made things difficult for Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou mobilized a full battalion of soldiers here, [-] troops to join his army, and [-] soldiers from the Han army to follow. Then promise him a new army in the town, so that Oboi will have an army of one hundred thousand, and he will recruit ten thousand civilians, and then set off on the road to Huguang.