At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 139
"This..." Luotuo said carefully.

"General, there is internal strife between Sun and Li in the Southwest. This is a God-given opportunity for our dynasty to unify the world and wipe out the remnants of the previous Ming Dynasty."

Hong Chengchou said earnestly: "You have also seen the terrain of Yunnan and Guizhou. In the past, Sun Kewang was in the southwest, commanding from a high position. If not for this internal provocation, how could our army easily enter Guizhou?"

"King Xin's main Manchu and Mongolian force has not yet entered Guizhou, and the Green Camp soldiers under my command are all wandering people."

"If we withdraw from Guiyang easily, under the general trend, I am afraid that Tongren and others will not be able to hold on to the Guizhou Passage."

"If this is the case, it will be extremely difficult for our army to enter Guizhou again!"

"We only have one chance, so we have to seize it no matter what."

"Otherwise, we will fail the court and the people below. In the future, you and I will be the sinners of the Qing Dynasty if we neglect Guizhou in the history books!"

Luo Tuo frowned when he heard this. He had personally experienced this place and this road in Guizhou.

It is not an empty statement that the earth is not three feet flat.

If a place like this is given away, it will be difficult to get back in!
"Superintendent, having said that, your plan of pretending to surrender is really difficult to succeed!"

"How can you know if you don't try?" Hong Chengchou encouraged.

"All in all, you and I have to fight for every opportunity for the court."

"Although the false surrender plan is clumsy, we still have to give it a try. If it succeeds, my name will be remembered in history. If it fails, there will be no loss."

"As for being laughed at by the people in the world, hum! People in the world will only follow the wind and the clouds."

"What is the reputation of my court? What is the reputation of Hong Hengjiu?"

"As long as I, the Qing Dynasty, can dominate the world, a hundred years! No! A thousand years later! The world will only praise my dynasty, and they will only praise me, Hong Chengchou!"

"Everyone in the world is just ignorant, so what do they think? When I rule the Qing Dynasty, all I will hear is the praises of all the people!"

Luo Tuo was shocked when he heard what Hong Chengchou said. In his opinion, what Hong Chengchou said was indeed reasonable.

"Supervisor, there is no harm in using the tactic of false surrender. Is it inappropriate to let King Pingxi lead his troops north to Chongqing?"

Luo Tuo said in a deep voice: "In the past, Prince Jingjin was arrogant and led his soldiers to leave the group and died. Now Li Ding's country is powerful. If King Pingxi leads his troops north, wouldn't it be a repeat of the past?"

"If Li Dingguo led the main force to attack Guiyang while King Pingxi was marching north, wouldn't our army be cut into two by his troops just like during the Battle of Hengyang?"

"General, this moment is not the other moment. I was careless in the past, and now I fell into Li Dingguo's way."

Hong Chengchou said slowly: "Now, we have already been on alert. Our army's sentries have already passed Anshun and arrived in the Beipanjiang area."

"If Li Dingguo sends troops, it will take several days for 20 people to travel hundreds of miles a day to reach Anshun."

"While the sentinels are riding several horses in a hurry, you and I will get the news in Guiyang in the blink of an eye."

"At that time, let King Wu raise horses and mules in Chongqing, and it will be too late to retreat to Tongren."

"This..." Luo Tuo pondered again.

Although Hong Chengchou's words made sense, the risks the Qing army had to take were huge.

Although the Qing army was equipped with many horses and mules, they were very mobile when they had enough food and grass.

But Li Dingguo also had some cavalry in his hands.

If you don't react in time and get entangled by the vanguard of the Ming army, it will be bad.

As for Wu Sangui, by the time he received the news, the Ming army was probably approaching Anshun.

Although Anshun, Tongren, and Chongqing form a triangle.

The distance from Chongqing to Tongren is about the same as the distance from Anshun to Tongren.

But the Ming army took the official route. If Wu Sangui took the high road, he would have to go south to Guiyang and then to Tongren in the east.

In this way, although he has many horses and mules under his command, it is very likely that he will be intercepted by the Ming army.

If you don't follow the official road, take the small road.

The mobility of horses and mules is greatly reduced, but they are still very dangerous.

What's more, if Wu Sangui's troops are still fighting fiercely with Kuidong's troops, or have just finished fighting, the situation will be even worse.

At that time, for the sake of his own safety, Wu Sangui would probably just go back to Baoning.

"Supervisor, it is too dangerous to divide the troops like this. If the Pingxi King's troops are isolated by the Ming army, our army will be in a bad situation." Luo Tuo said solemnly.

"General, the matter has come to this, and there is nothing our army can do."

Hong Chengchou sighed and said: "Now, our army has two food routes. One is from Shaanxi and Gansu to Shu, and the other is from Liangjiang to Chu."

"If we abandon Chongqing and enter the Chu Liang Road to supply three armies and horses as well as King Xin's main force, our army will not be able to penetrate deep into Yunnan and Guizhou!"

Luo Tuo frowned again when he heard this. Once the war started, food and supplies were difficult.

It is extremely difficult for our Qing Dynasty to travel thousands of miles to supply the southwestern army.

If we give up the vital Sichuan grain road.

Relying on only one supply line to support an army of 10,000+, although it can be managed in Huguang, it will be difficult to go deep into Yunnan and Guizhou again!
Hong Chengchou felt uncomfortable when he saw this. In fact, at this time, the pressure he was under was extremely huge.

Sichuan is deserted, Huguang is in ruins, and even Shaanxi and Gansu are almost completely white.

The Qing army went on an expedition to the southwest, and its supply lines were tearfully long.

It turns out that there is still food and salary from Guangdong to support the soldiers and horses on the South Road.

But Sun Kewang transferred to Guangxi and caused harm to Guangdong and Guangxi. His old man was using the money and food from Guangxi to train new soldiers!
Therefore, it is even more difficult for Hong Chengchou and our Qing Dynasty to have two supply lines at this time.

The Qing army, which had three supply lines in history, learned that Kuidong's troops had counterattacked Chongqing.

They all had to divide their troops and go north, letting Wu Sangui go back to protect the North Road grain road.

The Qing army now has only two supply lines left. If it still wants Yunnan and Guizhou, Wu Sangui will have to go north!
"General, if Chongqing is not defended and the food supply to the north is cut off, even if our four armies join forces in Huguang and Guizhou is like this, we will not be able to attack Yunnan and Guizhou again." Hong Chengchou continued.

"The supervisor is right." Luo Tuo also sighed: "Guizhou is barren and lacks food. Almost all the food and grass needed by our king's division are transferred from the rear. If the food in the north is cut off, the food and grass alone will be enough to defeat our army. Stopped."

In this era of large-scale military expeditions, the required food and grass are transported from the rear on the one hand, and on the other hand, the food is naturally obtained on the spot.

Moving the rear far away is naturally very costly. Based on the length of the Qing army's supply line, even with the support of water transportation and horses and mules, it is estimated that transporting one stone of grain to Guizhou will consume nine stones of grain on the way.

Therefore, the most cost-effective way for the Qing army was to eat locally.

It's a pity that Guizhou is already a barren place.

Although it has been managed by Lord Sun, there is still a lot of food in stock.

But the problem is that the current Lord Sun has transferred to Guangxi with [-] people and more than [-] people.

With so many mouths open, Lord Sun naturally had to find food for them.

So not only the hundreds of thousands of grains and wages in Guiyang's treasury were emptied out.

Even other prefectures and counties in Guizhou have done some harm to him.As a result, they were confused when the Qing army entered Guizhou.

Guizhou was already poor, but Sun Guozhu scrapped the land again.

How can Governor Hong prepare food and grass?
The current treasury in Guiyang is so poor that even a mouse would cry.

The Qing army only seized a batch of grain and grass in Chongqing, Wugang and other places.

Originally, in another time and space, Lord Sun abandoned Guizhou.

As for Li Dingguo, he was naturally a brother, and Guizhou was handed over to others. As a result, the Qing army captured a lot of things in Guizhou, and later made a fortune in Kunming.

Now that the Qing army was missing a supply line, the money and food gap caused by Lord Sun's scrapping of land had to be filled from the rear.

This one stone of grain in Guizhou is not the same concept as the one stone of grain transported from Jiangnan to Guizhou!

Before Sun Guozhu took any action in Guangdong and Guangxi, he caused great harm to Governor Hong and our Qing Dynasty.

In this case, if the Qing army, which was already in a difficult situation, still had a strategic plan to pacify Yunnan.

Chongqing and Guiyang are targets that they are even less likely to give up!
"If we want to pacify Yunnan and wipe out the remnants of the previous Ming Dynasty, we must not give up the more than ten thousand hectares of fertile land in Guizhou. No matter what happens, we must keep Chongqing, the throat of the food road!" Hong Chengchou said slowly.

He has done so much work in Guizhou, and even turned a blind eye to the people of Guizhou without shaving their hair in order to stabilize the place. One of the important and even critical reasons is for the autumn harvest of Guizhou.

Although the autumn harvest of more than 1 hectares of cultivated land in Guizhou is not much, it is an extremely rare supplement for the Qing army, which has difficulty in getting rice.

If there is chaos in Guizhou, the fight will turn into a pot of porridge, or we will simply give up.

These autumn harvest grains need to be transported from the rear thousands of miles away by the Qing Dynasty.

As the old saying goes, if you transport food thousands of miles, you won’t be able to save even one out of ten.

These more than 1 hectares of cultivated land, based on the income of seven or eight dou per acre, are 100 million dan!

How much was lost when transporting these 100 million stones from the north or south of the Yangtze River to Guizhou?
According to the urine characteristics of the Qing Dynasty, how much more do we have to collect from the people in these places?
Although Hong Chengchou was never merciless in killing ordinary people, he also knew that if the ordinary people were cornered, they would fight hard!

In another time and space, [-] Qing troops besieged and killed the remaining Shun troops. Even with the advantage of a much shorter logistical supply line than now, and with the Yangtze River waterway and the Hanjiang waterway nearby, Huguang, Shaanxi-Gansu, and Henan were still mobilized in large numbers. civil unrest.

Although Hong Chengchou did not know about this, he still keenly felt that if Guiyang did not defend, there would be no hope for Guizhou's food, Chongqing would not be protected, and the food from the north would be blocked.

When the Qing army tried to penetrate Yunnan and Guizhou again, the people in Liangjiang were driven crazy!
Therefore, if you want to wipe out the remnants of the previous Ming Dynasty, Guiyang and Chongqing are crucial!It can even be said that both are indispensable!

"What the Superintendent said is that if Guiyang is lost, there will be no food for the autumn harvest. If Chongqing is lost, there will be no food from the north. But if Li Dingguo goes eastward, our army... is really helpless." Luo Tuo said with a low expression. .

At this moment, looking at various situations, he felt at a loss and had no confidence in pacifying Yunnan.

"Do your best and obey fate. For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, this is all you and I can do."

Hong Chengchou also let out a long sigh.

In another time and space, he was in Guizhou, terrified and restless all day long.

Now he felt even more desperate.

Just for the sake of his long-cherished wish, Governor Hong still gritted his teeth and persisted.

It was really hard for him to close his eyes while Nan Ming was immortal.

"Tomorrow my staff Jia Ziming will go to Yunnan. I hope my letter and his tricks can stabilize Li Dingguo."

"If this is possible, when autumn comes, our four armies will gather in Guizhou. With sufficient food and pay, and high morale, we will be able to break through the Beipanjiang defense line and pacify Yunnan in one fell swoop."

"If we can't..." Hong Chengchou said melancholy: "Everything is over."

June of the 13th year of Yongli.

Kuidong's troops gathered together, preparing to attack Chongqing in the west and Huguang in the east, holding back the incoming Qianqing army and coordinating Li Dingguo's main force in the battle.

As for the Qing army, Hong Chengchou and Luo Tuo released some chieftains and sent Jia Ziming as an envoy to Yunnan to feign surrender.

At the same time, we reorganized our troops and raised enough horses and mules.

On the one hand, he ordered Wu Sangui's troops to go north to fight against the troops in eastern Kuizhou; on the other hand, he abandoned Guiyang and retreated to Guizhou Passage just waiting for Li Dingguo to send troops.

In addition to these, Hong Chengchou was also trying his best to contact Sun Kewang, hoping that he could provide food and salary and lead troops into Guizhou.

As for Nanming.

The main force of the 20-strong Western Army is still gathered in Yunnan, motionless as a mountain.

As for Sun Guozhu, who wears the Yongli card, he keeps a low profile and concentrates on training his [-] new troops.

In addition to these forces, Zheng Chenggong, the overlord of the southeastern coast, is very high-spirited.

After realizing that the main force of the Qing army had gathered in the southwest, Zheng Chenggong led a large number of rested troops to prepare to attack Nanjing.

In May and June, more than [-] Zheng troops marched as far south as Chaozhou, Guangdong, and as far north as Wenzhou, Zhejiang, to collect grain and pay.

The entire southeastern coast was disturbed by Zheng Jun.

After the Qing court learned of the news, they knew that Zheng Chenggong would take advantage of the fact that the main force of the Qing army gathered in the southwest to make a big move.

Therefore, various places along the southeast coast were strictly ordered to strengthen their defenses to prevent important towns such as Fujian from falling into the hands of Zheng's army, causing the situation in the southeast to collapse.

Then, when the Qing army's southeastern coastal authorities were in turmoil, Zheng Chenggong completed the grain collection, and his plan was finalized, and he quickly moved north toward the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Ten years have passed since Zheng Chenggong raised his army.

Zheng Jun's military power reached its peak.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong had 72 towns in the land division and 3000 towns in the naval division, each with a population of [-] to [-] people.

In addition, after negotiating peace with the Qing court, Zheng Chenggong strengthened the 72nd Zhenlu Division under his command, with the number of armored soldiers in each town reaching about 500 to 2000.

In addition to these [-] armored elites and tens of thousands of navy troops, Zheng Chenggong also had Zhang Huangyan's department as support.

For a time, Zheng and Zhang allied forces, with more than [-] ships and more than [-] troops, with banners covering the sun and boats hundreds of miles away, heading towards the mouth of the Yangtze River in a mighty manner.

Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened.

When driving away from Zhoushan, passing by Yangshan.

The storm breaks through, strong winds blow up, dark clouds gather, and heavy rain falls.

The originally calm sea suddenly became rough.

In the violent storm, Zheng Jun's fleet suffered a devastating blow.

Countless battleships overturned, collided, and sank to the bottom of the sea.

Zheng Chenggong's six concubines, the second, third, and fifth sons all drowned.

When the strong wind stopped, Zheng's army suffered huge losses in soldiers, ships, and ordnance. More than [-] people were swept away by the hurricane.

The ships that did not capsize were also seriously damaged in the hurricane. Many of the recruited northern soldiers were even frightened by the hurricane and fled one after another.

(End of this chapter)