Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Because he had fought against the Qing army, Wang Guangxing knew very well how powerful the Qing army was.

Among them, the Green Battalion soldiers are more powerful than the previous Ming army, and the Eight Banners soldiers are even more fierce and unstoppable. Often only a few dozen people can overwhelm their team of hundreds or thousands of people.

Almost every Eight Banners soldier has the triple identity of swordsman, archer, and rider. Among them, vests and a very small number of red and white armored soldiers can even ride and shoot.

It's also fortunate that Yunyang is all mountains and dense forests, so there is no place for cavalry to play, otherwise they would have suffered even worse defeats.

However, the Fourth Town of the Border Guard Army not only has a large number of guns, but also fights very quickly and far, even in close combat, it is not much inferior to the Eight Banners soldiers.

Not only because the armor and weapons of the border guards are excellent, but also because the soldiers of the border guards are also elite soldiers!
On the other side, Xu Qiyuan repeatedly checked the imprints on the edicts, military orders and other documents given by Li Dingguo, and after confirming that the parts he knew were correct, he couldn't help asking: "Is it true that Jian Guo defeated and incorporated the troops offering thieves?"

Li Dingguo was a little embarrassed, and some soldiers beside him also showed displeasure.

Because many of them were originally members of the Daxi Army, even though they are now loyal to Daming and even made a lot of contributions, it is still somewhat uncomfortable to hear others call Zhang Xianzhong like that.

Seeing that Li Dingguo and the others looked unhappy, Xu Qiyuan realized that he had said the wrong thing.

As a civil servant who can win over the brothers of the Wang family, he didn't take it too seriously, and immediately cupped his hands and said: "I have offended with my words, Li Junmen, please forgive me—it's because there are too many surprises in my heart."

Naturally, Li Dingguo didn't really care about anything.

It is impossible for Daming to not call Zhang Xianzhong a thief just because they are the former generals of the Great West Army, so he has heard this kind of address a lot before, but it is only because he is the main one in the current situation that he feels a little uncomfortable.

He said: "It doesn't matter... I was originally adopted by my adoptive father, and most of my subordinates were soldiers who surrendered after the First World War in Chengdu and became officers and soldiers.

Now we not only wear the robes of the officers and soldiers, but also have many guns and excellent armor, which are not available to the rogues.

What's more, there are decrees and documents as evidence. What else can Xu Shoudao doubt? "

The Wang family brothers also surrendered to the imperial court after the uprising of the peasant army, so Xu Qiyuan doesn't discriminate against soldiers from the peasant army much now, even if there is, he will not show it stupidly here.

So he smiled and said, "I'm suspicious. How about we go to Li Junmen's camp to talk?"

Li Dingguo knew that since the two of them were willing to go to his camp, it meant that they probably trusted him.

He also smiled and said, "Please."

After the three sat down in Li Dingguo's big tent, Li Dingguo told some things he knew.

It is mainly the recovery of Chongqing and Guizhou by the forces led by Aimee Zhu's supervisory government, as well as the progress of the current recovery of Shaanxi and Gansu, and the fact that Aimee Zhu led the army to go east to south Zhili.

At the end, he said: "According to the time, Jian Guo should have arrived in Nanzhili by now, and most of them have fought against the Qing army who went south from the east, but I don't know what the result will be."

Although Li Dingguo didn't think that a person with magical powers like Zhu Yuxi would be in danger, but after seeing the ferocity of the Eight Banners soldiers yesterday, he was unavoidably worried about the battle in Nanzhili.

He knew that if Auntie Zhu just won miserably, things would be much more difficult in the future, and the Qing army might go south again in autumn.

Xu Qiyuan and Wang Guangxing were dumbfounded.

They didn't expect that Auntie Zhu would recruit Zuo Liangyu's army and defeat Li Zicheng who was going to cross the river to the south of the Yangtze River.

Even though the outcome of the great battle between Auntie Zhu and the Qing army in Nanzhili is still unknown, her martial arts such as defeating Zhang Xianzhong, Zuo Liangyu, and Li Zicheng successively have already amazed the two of them.

Who would have imagined that when Daming was about to be destroyed, it was a princess who stepped forward and made such a feat?

Li Dingguo said again: "In fact, Jian Guo has always been concerned about the safety of everyone in the Yunyang Mansion, but Xing'an Prefecture and Hubei were successively occupied by Shun rebels and Qing captives, and the roads were blocked, so they couldn't send people over.

When Xing'an Prefecture was recovered, I was able to send a messenger to Yunyang to contact you.

After knowing the specific situation of Yunyang Mansion, Jian Guo immediately ordered the governor to lead the troops to help.

Of course, thanks to your persistence under the siege of the Qing captives, the governor had the opportunity to solve the predicament of Yunyang. "

Xu Qiyuan said: "It's also thanks to Li Junmen who came in time, otherwise we really don't know how many days we can last."

Just as a few people were talking, Zhou Shangqi, a member of the army's Beizhen Fusi Jinyiwei hundred households, entered the big tent.

"Li Junmen, I have interrogated important information from Qinglu." When he said this, Zhou Shangqi looked at Xu Qiyuan and Wang Guangxing deliberately.

Xu Qiyuan understood at a glance, got up tactfully and said: "Since Li Junmen has military affairs to deal with, let's take our leave first."

Li Guo said: "You two might as well sit in another tent for a while, the governor has something to discuss with you later."

"Alright."

Immediately, Xu Qiyuan and Wang Guangxing were led to another camp by Li Dingguo's personal soldiers.

Only then did Zhou Shangqi say: "I have interrogated several Qing generals, and I have confirmed one piece of news - the Qing are withdrawing from Hubei!

However, they had defeated the Puppet Shun army one after another in Hubei before, so that the Puppet Shun could only shrink to the west of Jingxi and the east of De'an Prefecture in Hubei.

The entire Xiangyang Mansion and most of Chengtian Mansion have been captured by the Qing captives.Its southward vanguard army also fought against the Huguang government army in Qianjiang, Chengtianfu.

But about ten days ago, the Qing prisoners were suddenly ordered by the Qing court to withdraw from Huguang.

Only because the Qing army seized too much along the way and split up many partial divisions, the retreat has continued until now. "

Having said this, Zhou Shangqi stopped.

The main task of their Beizhen Fusi is to obtain local military intelligence and provide intelligence support to the main general on the one hand.

As for how the generals judged after receiving the information, it was not the business of Beizhen Fusi.

Of course, he can also put forward his own ideas, but he wants to hear Li Dingguo's judgment first.

After listening to Li Dingguo, he got up and paced around, and quickly stopped, saying: "Since the Qing captives have won consecutive victories against the puppet Shun army, it is indeed abnormal to withdraw from Huguang in such a hurry. Unless...their army going south on the eastern front was killed Jian Guo was defeated, and suffered heavy losses!"

Zhou Shangqi nodded after listening, "This may indeed be the reason, but it's a pity that we failed to capture the senior generals of the Qing Dynasty this time, otherwise we should be able to obtain more accurate information."

"It doesn't matter." Li Dingguo smiled, "Since it is a fact that the Qing captives withdrew from Huguang, we should take this opportunity to leave Yunyang and strive to occupy Xiangyang as early as possible.

Xiangyang is an important military area in Hubei. As long as we have it in our hands, whether we go north to Henan or go south to cooperate with the Huguang government and army to encircle and suppress the remnants of the Puppet Shun army, there is a lot to do! "

Zhou Shangqi said: "But the army currently only has one town of frontier guards, will the strength be less? Even counting Yunyang's army, there will not be five or six thousand more troops, right?"

Li Dingguo said: "It is true that there are not many soldiers in Yunyang, but Xu Qiyuan and the Wang family brothers can recruit troops on the spot.

With the bravery they recruited and the captives they recruited to defend the city, our fourth town is responsible for recovering the city, and we can try to recover Xiangyang. "

Although Zhou Shangqi still felt that this military operation was a bit risky, he didn't say anything more, because Auntie Zhu had a strict order that Jin Yiwei should not interfere with the command of the generals.

But Li Dingguo seemed to see Zhou Shangqi's worry, and said: "Zhou Baihu don't need to worry, the governor will send a troop from Xing'an Prefecture to help, and then send someone to contact Huguang governor Du Yinxi, let him come from the south Sending troops to respond, there is still a lot of confidence in recovering Xiangyang."