Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 337

Knowing that Liu Liangchen is Liu Liangzuo's younger brother, Huang Degong, Zeng Ying and others were shocked.

Because Liu Liangchen surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the fourth year of Chongzhen, and at that time he was just a guerrilla in Zu Dashou's army, which was not very eye-catching, so no one in Ming Dynasty knew about it.

After all, the original Daming couldn't even do internal intelligence work well, let alone obtain external intelligence.

Soon, Huang Degong said: "If Liu Liangzuo really surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, I would like to lead the army to attack him!"

Aunt Zhu nodded, "Then Uncle Jing thinks that if Liu Liangzuo surrenders to the Qing Dynasty, what will he do next?"

"He will definitely go south to attack Luzhou Prefecture." Huang Degong said confidently, "If you capture Luzhou and go south, you can go east along the Yangtze River from Wuwei Prefecture, and cooperate with Duoduo, the main force of the Qing army, to attack Nanjing."

"Then how does Uncle Jing Nan plan to deal with it?" Aimee Zhu asked.

Huang Degong said: "Previously, the Supervisory State sent Ma Degong and Qiu Yue to guard Hefei, and Hefei was the must-attack place for Liu Liangzuo to go south to take Luzhou Prefecture.

With Liu Liangzuo's ability, even with the help of five thousand Han Banner troops, he might not be able to capture Hefei so quickly.

Therefore, I asked Jian Guo to send Tian Xiong, who was stationed in Lu'an, to lead the army up the Yangtze River and support Hefei from the south by water.

The minister led the troops to go northward along the canal in a navy boat, first regaining Huai'an Prefecture Zhishanyang, and Qinghe River, and then entering the Huaihe River from Hongze Lake.

After that, go up along the Huaihe River to recover Sizhou, Xuyi, Linhuai, Fengyang, and Shouzhou, and thus outflank Liu Liangzuo's rear, and he will be wiped out! "

Huang Degong, as the most able to fight among the four towns in Jiangbei, and one of the famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty, naturally not only has courage, but also military strategy.

Historically, he and Huang Fei first defeated Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of troops in Digang area.

Later, Liu Liangzuo led the Qing army to the south, and Huang Degong directly wiped out another 2 of his forwards. He was killed by an arrow because of carelessness, otherwise Emperor Hongguang would not have finished so easily.

At the same time, Tian Xiong, Ma Degong and others under Huang Degong's command are not incapable of fighting-these people are quite capable of fighting whether they are under Huang Degong's command or after they were demoted to the Qing Dynasty in history.

On the other hand, even if Liu Liangzuo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he had repeatedly failed in the battle against Nanming, and he had never had a "famous general in the early Qing Dynasty" like Ma Degong under his command.

This shows the low combat effectiveness of Liu Liangzuo's troops.

That's why Huang Degong came up with such a strategy for sending troops.

Zhu Yuxi nodded after hearing this, and said: "Uncle Jingnan's military strategy is indeed good, but to be on the safe side, I can send a telegram to Huguang Governor Du Yinxi, asking him to send one or two troops from Huangzhou Mansion to Luzhou Mansion.

One can be used as support, and the other can also block Liu Liangzuo's retreat to the west.What does Bo Jingnan think? "

Huang Degong was taken aback.

He knew the existence of the radio station, but he forgot the convenience of using the radio station to send messages due to the inertia of his thinking.

Otherwise, he would naturally not leave this big loophole in the west.

When he came back to his senses, he sincerely praised: "Jianguo is wise, if Huguang can send out a partial division, it can just fill in the gaps in the minister's military strategy."

"Then let's do this for the arrangement of Liu Liangzuo's department." After making a decision, Aimee Zhu asked again: "Who wants to deal with Zhunta?"

"The minister is willing to go!"

Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan, and Ai Nengqi came out at the same time.

Liu Wenxiu was obviously not interested in this matter, but seeing this, she also stood up and asked for a fight.

Auntie Zhu smiled and said, "Then Yang Zhan will lead the border guards to the second town."

"I take orders!" Yang Zhan happily agreed.

Among the generals present, he is the oldest, but his official position is average, and he is very eager to perform meritorious service.

Zeng Ying said again: "Jianguo, I am willing to lead the army north to conquer Xuzhou!"

"Yes." Aunt Zhu nodded first, "But there is no need to be too anxious—you can let Ainengqi lead the Fifth Town of the Imperial Guard Army to go north with Uncle Jingnan to recover Huai'an.

Then the troops were divided, and Ainengqi went east along the Yellow River to conquer Anton and other places in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Zeng Ying stayed in Yangzhou for the time being, reorganized the Yangzhou defenders, Minyong and green camp prisoners, and compiled two towns of soldiers and horses.

In one town, Liu Zhaoji can be the commander-in-chief, and in the other town, Ma Yingkui can be the deputy general, temporarily acting as the commander-in-chief.

After the reorganization is completed, you will take the soldiers and horses of these two towns to the north.

Well, I will appoint you as the admiral of Xu Huai's military affairs, commanding the soldiers and horses of the four towns including the fifth town of the Imperial Guard.

For the time being, the mission is to recover the two prefectures of Huai'an and Xuzhou, and to guard against the Qing army.Can Zeng Qing do a good job? "

This is another big job.

Zeng Ying, who was just now excited because he didn't get to go to the mission of Zhunta, immediately clasped his fists and said: "I will live up to the trust of the supervisor!"

Zhu Yu said to Huang Degong again: "Uncle Jing Nan's mission is to take over the lost land of Fengyang Mansion and clear up the defeated soldiers and bandits in the area after finishing Liu Liangzuo.

In addition, it is necessary to guard against the Qing army in Henan.Of course, if the opportunity is right, I will order you to send troops to recover Henan.

This time when you go out to the army, I will also send a radio team to accompany you to facilitate your contact with me.

Well, so Uncle Jingnan will take the post of admiral of military affairs in Henan and Fengyang. "

Huang Degong was heartened when he saw that Zhu Wei's arrangement was stable and did not forget to seek to get everything, he immediately clasped his fists and said, "Your servant takes orders!"

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After this military meeting, Huang Degong selected soldiers from the Yangzhou garrison, Minyong and green battalion prisoners on the same day to supplement the troops lost in the previous two wars.

The prisoners of the Green Camp can only follow the arrangements of Auntie Zhu.

It is reasonable to say that the Yangzhou garrison originally belonged to generals such as Liu Zhaoji, Shi Dewei, and Ma Yingkui. According to the previous habits of the Ming army, basically all soldiers returned to the generals, and it was difficult for the court to re-divide the troops.

However, Liu, Shi, Ma and others are more central to Daming on the one hand; Aiminus Zhu is now very prestigious, but there are some civil and military officials who dare not disobey.

In this way, the Yangzhou defenders naturally let the generals on Zhu Yu's side be selected and reorganized.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also acted cheaply, and promoted the generals of Huang Degong's troops in Yangzhou in response to the previous two battles.

Among the main generals under his command, the commander-in-chief Huang was named plus the title of governor of the right, Xu Chong was promoted from deputy general to commander-in-chief, Chen Xiance was promoted to deputy general, and Zhang Jie was promoted to general.

And based on the original barracks led by Huang Degong, No. 13 town of border guards was established.

Based on the soldiers and horses led by Yuan Huangming and Chen Xiance, two towns of Fengyang garrison were formed.

As for Zhang Jie's department, it will temporarily exist as an independent battalion. After Huang Degong conquers Fengyang, he will form the third town of Fengyang Garrison depending on the situation.

In this way, by the time Huang Degong's three towns and one battalion have replenished their troops, there will be nearly 4 people.

Because of this, the matter was delayed until the fourth day when Zhu Yuxi entered Yangzhou, Huang Degong and Ai Nengqi led their troops and horses and went north along the canal on a Yangtze River navy boat.

As for Yang Zhan, as early as the day the military meeting was held, he led the third town of the border guards out of Yangzhou to the east, looking for Zhunta.

After sending Huang Degong and Ai Nengqi to lead the army northward, Aimee Zhu went outside the city to inspect the prisoner camps.

Four generals Zeng Ying, Liu Wenxiu, Liu Zhaoji, and Ma Yingkui accompanied him, and Ren Yumin, the prefect of Yangzhou, was also called to accompany him.

"Before we captured more than 3000 green battalion soldiers from Li Chengdong's department in Yangzijin, and nearly [-] green battalion soldiers were captured in the battle in the south of Yangzhou City.

Coupled with the more than 5000 captured by Ai Zongbing's pursuit of the enemy, the number of prisoners of the original Green Camp was as high as [-].

However, Uncle Jing Nan selected more than 5000 people from the captives of the green battalion before, and now there are only more than [-] people left. "

Before coming to the camp where the prisoners of the Green Camp were guarded, Zeng Ying introduced the current situation of the prisoners of the Green Camp to Zhu Yuxi.

After listening, Zhu Wei frowned slightly and said, "How many Yangzhou defenders and civilians are there?"

Liu Zhaoji immediately replied, "Report to Jian Guo that after Yangzhou was relieved of the siege, there were about 8000 defenders, and more than [-] Minyong, mainly in the Zhongguan Battalion.

But two days ago Uncle Jingnan took away 3000 defenders and more than [-] civilians, and now there are only [-] defenders and [-] civilians left. "

"It seems that there is still a gap of about 3000 people to form two more towns of soldiers and horses." Auntie Zhu sighed.

Zeng Yingdao: "I think there are two solutions: one is to recruit recruits from Yangzhou, and the other is to select 3000 soldiers from the captives of the Han Banner Army."

The garrison troops of the two towns to be formed are already weak in combat effectiveness. If three thousand new recruits are added, the combat effectiveness will be even weaker.

As for choosing people directly from the Han Banner Army, Zhu Wei had even more doubts.

It should be noted that many Han Banner troops joined the Qing Dynasty for many years, and they had family businesses and families in the Qing Dynasty. Without transformation, their loyalty is difficult to guarantee.

Thinking of this, Zhu Wei said: "Go to the Eight Banners Army prisoner camp first and have a look before we talk about it."

(End of this chapter)