Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 473
Just when Zhu Youjian summoned chieftains from all over Zunyi to achieve the goal of stabilizing the southwest rear before the Northern Expedition.

Zhou Ze has also received Zhu Youjian's instructions from Jin Yiwei Li Yongxing.

"Your Majesty's decree is to start the battle of entering Sichuan as soon as possible, launch an offensive against Zhang Xianzhong's troops, set the date for the attack, and the Exterminate Army will cooperate when the time comes."

Captain Jinyi Li Yongxing handed a small note to Zhou Ze, Zhou Ze immediately took it and looked at it, then threw it into the incense burner and burned it.

"I understand, please tell Your Majesty, I will definitely live up to my trust."

After Zhou Ze finished speaking, he began to calculate carefully. Since he came to Hanzhong to store grain and raise troops on the order of Dorgon, he has recruited [-] troops, and one-third of the middle and lower-level officers are Jinyiwei spies.

From a certain point of view, the Qing army green battalion new army in front of us is basically the army of Ming Dynasty, but it is only wearing the skin of the Qing army for the time being.

Even in the name of Ma Shiying, the Guards secretly funded Zhou Ze's [-] Chongzhen [-]-type flintlock guns, [-] infantry light three-pound field guns, and infantry heavy sixteen-pound field guns.

Dorgon is basically in a state of stocking for Zhou Ze. He has the mind to manage Sichuan and Shaanxi, but he has no ability to help Zhou Ze manage Sichuan and Shaanxi.

His Zhenghuang Zhengbai inlaid yellow flag has been completely damaged in several wars.

Therefore, he can only hope that Zhou Ze can create a world for himself in Sichuan and Shaanxi. It would be great if he can capture Sichuan, but if he can't occupy Sichuan, he will die as a green camp of the Han army, and he doesn't feel bad.

However, Dorgon still tried his best to help Zhou Ze, in order to allow Zhou Ze to contain the Ming army in the southwest.

Dorgon even visited Jierhalang in person, imploring Jierhalang to help Zhou Ze in Sichuan and Shanxi's business operations, not only to prevent the Ming army from going northward from Hanzhong in the future, but also to prepare for the future Ming army's northern expedition to contain the Ming army. He also fantasized that if the current situation changes, he can take advantage of this to separate himself from Sichuan without going back outside the pass.

"The Southern Army's Northern Expedition has always had these routes. It is one way to enter Hanzhong and exit Tongguan by taking the Shu Road, one is to cross the Yellow River from Xiangyang to Tongguan in the north, and one is to cross the Yellow River from Hulao Pass to the north and go to Daming Mansion. There is also a water transport through Dezhou. To occupy Baoding is one thing, and the other is to go directly to Gyeonggi by sea from Tianjin Wei."

"To the west, we can send heavy troops to defend Tongguan. To the south, we need to defend Daming Mansion and Baoding. To the east, we need to defend Tianjin Guard. We also need to deploy heavy troops from Fengrun to Shanhaiguan and Shenyang. In addition, we need to deploy heavy troops to Jizhou and Gubeikou. If Beijing is not guaranteed and can calmly withdraw from the pass, if the Ming army takes advantage of its naval superiority to occupy the pass, it may be possible to enter Wusi Tibet from Sichuan, or leave Mobei from Shaanxi.”

Dorgon had no hope that Ming would agree to the peace talks, so as soon as he saw the assistant king Jierhalang, he directly began to talk about how to defend the northern provinces.

Although the auxiliary king Jierhalang said that he was not in harmony with Dorgon, he had to admit that the defensive strategy Dorgon said was very appropriate.

Now Daming refuses to discuss peace and directly kills the envoys, making Jierhalang no hope of peace talks, and now he has to support Dorgon and Zhou Ze.

"The Regent said the day before yesterday that he hoped to send an army to support Zhou Ze's strategy in Sichuan. I thought about it, and what you said was not unreasonable. What's more, even if you plan to manage Sichuan, there is no reason to let a Han who was born as an actor be in command. In my opinion, why not let Hauge be in command? Suffering too much loss, he may be able to get twice the result with half the effort with his strategy in Sichuan!"

Jierhalang is a standard royalist.

Now that Dorgon's strength has been greatly damaged, the only one who can compete with Jierhalang and pose a threat to Emperor Shunzhi is Prince Su Hauge, who has always coveted the throne of emperor.

Therefore, Jierhalang thought about taking advantage of Dorgon's proposal to support Zhou Ze to call out Hauge and keep him away from the capital. Even if the capital falls and returns to the pass in the future, there will be fewer threats.

Although Jierhalang had a good relationship with Hauge before, time has passed, and now Dorgon is no longer his opponent, and Hauge, who is still capable, has naturally changed from an ally to his opponent.

Dorgon admitted that Jierhalang had a good plan, and now the Zhenghong Banner is controlled by Jierhalang's people, and if Hauge's Zhenglan flag is transferred away, it means that the whole Shunzhi will be surrounded by He is facing the red flag and the person with the red flag, which means that Jierhalang's power is more concentrated.

But now Dorgon has no intention of stopping Jierharang, and he and Hauge have always had a bad relationship, so naturally he doesn't want Hauge to become bigger, and now he is willing to use Anzierharang's knife to rectify Hauge's power .

"The assistant king is right. Prince Su has always been brave and good at fighting. Now that our Qing Dynasty is in crisis, we need a royal family like him to turn the tide. Why don't we play together and ask the Lord Long Live to seal Prince Su as a General Zhengxi and Zhou Ze, governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, jointly attacked Sichuan."

When Dorgon said this, Ji Erhalang also nodded and laughed: "What the regent said is absolutely true!"

People sit at home, and things come from heaven.

Hauge is very upset now. He thought that Dorgon would be able to take the opportunity to rise to take charge of the Qing Dynasty after his strength was greatly damaged, but he did not expect that many Eight Banners nobles would choose to support Jierhalang. Prince Zheng Jierhalang followed suit.

Therefore, Hauge is eager to find an opportunity to kill Jierhalang directly.

But what he didn't expect was that Dorgon and Jierhalang had jointly sold him.

When Hauge received the appointment from the Qing court as the General of Zhengxi to lead the main force of the Zhenglan Banner to conquer Sichuan, Hauge was furious on the spot, but he could not disobey the imperial court's will, so he had no choice but to leave with the army Beijing, west Sichuan.

As soon as Haoge left the capital, Jierhalang immediately stationed his own heavy troops in Tongguan, Hulaoguan, Shanhaiguan and Tianjinwei.

At the same time, Jierhalang began to order all kinds of precious cultural relics and gold and silver to be transported to Shenyang outside the customs. A large amount of food was also hoarded in Yanjiao, and even tea and salt were collected in large quantities. Governor Zhou of Shaanxi is in charge, obviously treating Hauge and others as abandoned sons.

It didn't take long for Zhou Ze to learn the news that Hauge was appointed as the General of Zhengxi.

Now he also has his own eyeliner in Beijing, and Hanran is now the second rank of the Qing court, ordered to use a lot of money to curry favor with the wives of high officials and dignitaries in the Qing court. It was passed to Zhou Ze through Jin Yiwei.

"Prince Su Hauge has no intention of conquering Sichuan in the west. He has stationed troops in Xi'an in order to preserve his strength, and he ordered you to be the vanguard to go south to capture Baoning and Kuizhou. It is clear that he wants to sacrifice your troops to complete the imperial court. The intention of attacking Sichuan, while he himself hid in Xi'an, and even asked you to give him fifty thousand shi of food and grass."

After Jinyi School Captain Li Yongxing said, Zhou Ze laughed: "Prince Su is not stupid, anyway, I still promise him, give him [-] stones of food, let him eat and drink well in Xi'an, our side is on the Mid-Autumn Festival Immediately after the festival, we should attack Baoning! Tell His Majesty to let the Kungfu Army cooperate to attack Kuizhou and Chongqing."

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