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

Chapter 9 Back to Guiyang
At dawn, the west gate of Guiyang is brightly lit.

Under the light of the flames, the entire city gate was like daytime, and the soldiers guarding the gate strictly followed military discipline and stayed at their posts all night without sleep.

Suddenly the ground began to shake, and more and more noises made the faces of the soldiers guarding the gate change.

"Cavalry!" The face of the guarding the front army general changed.Hastily sent someone to report to Feng Shuangli, the general guarding Guiyang.

Seeing that the enemy's situation was unclear, the gatekeeper gave an order, "Bowmen and artillerymen are ready!"

In a short while, the well-trained soldiers of the former army drew up their bows and arrows, and loaded their cannons.

In the gradually dissipating night, thousands of cavalry came to the city of Guiyang.

"Quickly open the city gate!" General Wang Dewang shouted.

Under the light of thousands of torches, the figure of the lord Sun Kewang and a group of leading army generals appeared in the eyes of the gatekeepers.

"It's the king!"

The guard general was shocked and quickly lowered the suspension bridge and opened the gate of Guiyang City.

"Drive!" Sun Kewang drove his horse forward, and thousands of cavalrymen entered Guiyang with great excitement.

"Master, we are finally home." Wang Dewang and Liang Cheng let out a long sigh of relief.

Seeing this, Sun Kewang gave an order: "Pass down the order, let the soldiers have a good meal, sleep well, gather in the school grounds in the afternoon, and open the treasury to reward the three armies!"

"The lord is wise!"

Thousands of soldiers in front of the army were overjoyed and praised Sun Kewang one after another.

Sun Kewang said again: "Liang Cheng, hurry up and call Feng Shuangli, Ma Zhaoxi, and Wan Niance to see me."

"Yes!" Regardless of the hard work, Liang Cheng changed to a better horse and continued on his way.

Feng Shuangli was the general guarding Guiyang, Ma Zhaoxi was the Minister of the Household Department among the six departments of Sun Kewang Guiyang, and Wan Nian Ce was the Minister of the Ministry of War.

Guizhou cannot be defended now, but more than 3 advanced troops have been gathered in Guiyang city. If they can transfer these [-] capital to Guangxi, they can create a new situation in the fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, it is not so easy for [-] elites to transfer thousands of miles. In addition to soldiers and horses, food, equipment, and households all need to be transferred.

Sun Kewang planned to transfer the warehouses, workshops, and population near the base camp together. Such a huge project still required the efforts of Ma Zhaoxi and Wan Niance.

Soon, Feng Shuangli and three others came in a hurry to the palace of the king in Guiyang.

Seeing that Sun Kewang and others returned to Guiyang in a hurry, the three of them also noticed something.

Sun Kewang glanced at the three of them, and said slowly: "Gujiao Shui Bing was defeated, and now he intends to lead his troops to transfer to Guangxi, what do you think?"

"What!" Not only Feng Shuangli and the other three, but also Wang Dewang and Liang Cheng were shocked.

Wang Dewang quickly said: "Master, although Jiaoshui was defeated, there are still more than [-] soldiers in Guiyang, and Zhang Sheng and Zhang Hu are returning with [-] fine cavalry. Our tens of thousands of troops can serve as backup, and we can still accomplish great things, so why abandon our foundation?"

Sun Kewang sighed, and said slowly: "Dewang, the Qing army will invade Guizhou in three ways at the beginning of next year. We now have the Qing army in the front, and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in the back. Let my former army be wiped out in this deadly place!"

"For the current plan, the only way is to imitate the old things ten years ago, lead the troops to abandon Guizhou, and transfer to Guangxi. After my former army takes Guangxi, after one or two years of operation, we can make a comeback like we did in Yunnan! At that time, Gu will lead another hundred thousand wolf soldiers out of Guangxi to fight for the world!"

Everyone had a lot of thoughts and different thoughts, but there was the old example of Sun Kewang bringing [-] remnants of troops into Yunnan, but Wang Dewang and others were not depressed. The Qing army was chasing after them. At that time, there was no food and grass in the west camp, and no reinforcements outside.

Now ten years have passed, from 1647 to 1657, Sun Kewang's troops were once again caught between the Ming army and the Qing army.

"The Lord's words are very true." Minister of the Ministry of War Wan Niance thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Now that our army is defeated and the morale of the army is unstable, Guizhou may be difficult to hold on. Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in Yunnan blocked it."

"Even if we block Li Dingguo and the Tartars, the land in Guizhou is barren and cannot support a large army. Now we can only escape this predicament by following the feat of the king's transfer to Yunnan ten years ago."

Ma Zhaoxi also said: "Your Majesty, now that our army has been defeated, the money and food in Guizhou cannot feed an army of [-] people. For this purpose, Guizhou will be left to Li Dingguo to attract the main force of the Tatars. The lord will bring [-] troops with him." The best strategy is to divert the army to Guangdong and Guangxi."

Sun Kewang has about more than [-] hectares of cultivated land in his hands, of which Yunnan alone accounts for [-] to [-] hectares of cultivated land. Guizhou, Xiangxi, and southern Sichuan, which was turned into a no-man's land, together account for less than half of Yunnan.

With this land of more than 700 hectares, Sun Ke was expected to be able to earn [-] million shi of grain per year to support more than [-] field troops and a large number of horses and mules. However, after Li Dingguo welcomed Yongli and occupied Yunnan, it was a coincidence that he relied on Guizhou. It is difficult for a woman to make a meal without rice.

Yunnan and Guizhou originally accounted for less than one-third of the country's arable land. After Sun Kewang took power, although he organized production, built water conservancy, reclaimed wasteland, and united the chieftains, the people of Yunnan and Guizhou lived a stable life and greatly increased the arable land in Yunnan and Guizhou. With the current productivity of Yunnan and Guizhou has been developed to the limit, it is not easy for these two poorest provinces to support more than [-] troops.

Now that Sun Kewang has long lost Yunnan, if he stays in Guizhou, let alone whether Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Shunzhi, and Hong Chengchou will let him, the lord of the country, live in peace. Guizhou's economy alone is enough to prevent him from reorganizing the army.

Sun Kewang asked, "Zhaoxi, how many materials are left in my Guiyang treasury?"

Ma Zhaoxi, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said respectfully: "My lord, although in the past two years, Guizhou has been running out of money to support more than 200 troops, but fortunately, I still have my previous savings. Now there are more than [-] grains in the treasury of Guiyang. Shi, more than two million taels of silver!"

After losing Yunnan, Sun Kewang relied on Guizhou to support his 20-strong army. However, Guiyang was the de facto capital of Lord Sun, and all the money and grain produced in Yunnan were escorted here.

A few years ago, in order to launch the Battle of the Yangtze River, Huguang, Zhang Mingzhen, and Zhang Huangyan joined forces in the south of the Yangtze River.Sun Kewang devoted a lot of energy to build Guizhou into a logistics base for 10,000+ Ming troops to go east to Huguang. Thanks to Liu Wenxiu's refusal to lead the world for Sun Guo, the battle of Changde was anticlimactic, and Sun Kewang accumulated money and food for the war. Didn't consume much.

It is precisely because Guizhou hoarded the money and food accumulated by Yunnan and Guizhou for many years that Sun Guozhu was able to struggle from the beginning of 1656 to July 1657.

(End of this chapter)