He himself is not Zuo Liangyu's eldest son, but the only seedling left in the war, so he lacks education and is pampered in every way, so he is naturally very pampered.

Zuo Liangyu naturally has the idea of supporting the army and taking advantage of the opportunity, but he himself relies on offering chrysanthemums to get to the top, that is to say, his own military strategy is very problematic, and it is very difficult to really have this thing.

Later generations have a resume, which is naturally the Nanjing government under the rule of the eternal perfect people, and its high-level government members with doctorates in Europe and the United States.

But what is education?

Learning experience doesn't mean anything in itself.

Academic qualifications will not teach you how to deal with the deception of subordinates, although the masters of Confucianism are desolate to the tragic situation of the dick who has been defeated repeatedly, and it is also appreciated to change it to repeated defeats, but what kind of person with a normal brain likes Zeng Guofan? He is your boss, then the credit is all his, the fault is all yours, he is your colleague, then sooner or later one day you will die, be your subordinate, you just wait to be hollowed out and then find a place to carry the black pot yourself.

In the same way, the reason why the elders are so smooth sailing in Jiangnan is largely because their opponents are too weak, and the biggest ability of these bureaucrats is to roll up and down, compete for merit, fight for merit, fight against differences, and murder people within the system, but once it is time to compete with each other, they will expose their incompetence, and take it for granted like child's play, and be shocked and surprised that the other party does not kneel and lick because he is a Confucian.

And what does Li Dingguo think, this is not something that the elders can control, historically, it can be directly dealt with as if the literati of Nanming did not exist, Zuo Mengeng is even more incompetent to be discriminated against and laughed at by his Manchu masters, but Li Dingguo is the last person to fight among the Han people, how can he surrender so easily?

The Yangtze River is very wide and foggy, and Li Xiangqian can only see part of the situation on the other side with a telescope, and he really doesn't know how to develop.

In the following situation, either Li Zuohuo merged, Li Dingguo saw that it was too difficult to take Nanjing, and instead chose what he said Yangzhou and Jiangyin to occupy a city to defend themselves, but it is also possible that the two sides will attack the city together, according to what Zhan Shibang said, the army in Nanjing is almost as incompetent as grass mustard.

It's like an artilleryman, correcting the coordinates, measuring the wind direction, calculating the trajectory, and firing the shell, but the next thing is no longer up to you.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo did not disappoint.

The most critical thing is that Li Xiangqian's shots directly broke a boat into the cabin at the maximum point of sight, which directly caused the people on board to abandon the ship and escape.

Li Xiangqian's shot completely shattered any illusion of Li Dingguo, at a distance of at least two miles, such a shot, it can be said that there is no chance of victory against the enemy in battle!

It's no wonder that people haven't sent soldiers over for a few years, because if you really want to take a city, you don't have to let your subordinates fight hard, just shoot from afar.

"Where is Zuo Mengeng!"

At this time, Li Dingguo still had the idea of supporting each other and withdrawing from the meat grinder of Nanjing City first, although a large amount of materials had been obtained from various warehouses outside the city, but compared with Nanjing City, it was a drop in the ocean, but this could not be compared.

But at this time, Zuo Mengeng didn't know where to hide to play with women, on the one hand, this kid was greedy for enjoyment, and on the other hand, he began to guard against his "allies".

In the evening, although the front is in a stalemate at this time, Zuo Menggeng's subordinates naturally rob more and make a fortune, so they are also very satisfied, and the demand for Li Dingguo is also greater.

But Li Dingguo didn't want to wait any longer, compared to the Zuo family who started from the Zuo Guanjun, as a guy from a rogue background, he didn't have any psychological burden for running away, and even his subordinates were proficient in this, he was just entangled in his heart, this time he didn't take Nanjing, it's a pity, it seems that it's too late to return to Sichuan, not to say, whether to choose Yangzhou or Jiangyin, this is all difficult.

Of course, at night, arrangements were made, first of all, the captured women and things that were not easy to carry were all given to Zuo Mengeng's subordinates, Zuo Mengeng's subordinates were complicated, but they were naturally willing to accept the gifts of their allies, and at night, Li Dingguo discarded cannons and other things, carried enough baggage, and quietly boarded the ship, but it did not cause Zuo Mengeng's reaction.

The reason is very simple, maybe Zuo Mengeng set up a spy to find out whether Li Dingguo suddenly became angry and killed himself to seize power, and had the idea of testing whether Li Dingguo would secretly kill people, but he did not have any precautions for Li Dingguo to leave suddenly.

This is naturally very normal, everyone has blind spots, in the face of such a mouthful of fat, and Hou Fangyu, who is engaged in internal destruction, he keeps setting fire to the city in private, and all kinds of measures are also taking effect, no one can imagine that Li Dingguo's decision is like this.

"A few of you tell me, whether to go to Yangzhou or Jiangyin, or you don't have to listen to the nonsense of the people in the imperial capital, let's go and occupy another place."

"If you want me to say, it's better to go to Yangzhou, didn't you say it a long time ago, Yangzhou is rich, there are many salt merchants, there is a lot of grain, and you are thin...... Ah, it's good to go to Yangzhou anyway. ”

"And Suzhou and Hangzhou, both are good places, not far from Nanjing, after the fight, slowly recruit soldiers, and it will be another army."

Li Dingguo slowly thought: "I want to go back to Sichuan." ”

Li Dingguo is also faintly worried that it is not his hope to be cut off from his father-in-law like this, in general, in terms of centripetal force, the Great Western Army, as a rogue coward, actually defeated the Ming Dynasty, and there is indeed this kind of father-son relationship.

But the shot was so terrible that when I looked at it from a distance on the shore afterwards, it was a clean shot, and there was almost no defense.

If it is a flat or mountain battle, it may be possible to divide and attack, suddenly ambush, and surprise the enemy, but on the Yangtze River, the ship swings like that, and there is no way for him and others to resist it.

Li Dingguo said: "Let's send someone to go first, we can't just be so biased, we don't necessarily have to take a boat to go, walk on the boat, in case we are caught up by the fast boat, but we all have to feed the fish in the river." ”

The width of the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River does not make people feel too far, it is about the distance of three miles, and the clipper can arrive in only half an hour, which is still because of the moonlight, Li Xiangqian did not rest in the cabin, but paid attention to the situation on the opposite side while napping, at most he slept for ten minutes every hour, and when he saw that the messenger came again, he was naturally the first to receive it.

"You are going to Yangzhou, for fear that I will intercept you on the road, so you have to protect it." Li Xiangqian scratched his head, this guarantee is really hard to say, this is a dark forest problem, how should I protect you, suddenly his eyes lit up, he took out a piece of paper, and hurriedly wrote on it: "Letter of guarantee." ”

The lobbyist took it and read it, and was also shocked and slightly angry: "Why are you so childish, playing with me!" ”

I saw that on the paper, first in the imperial capital style from left to right writing, written in three big characters, guarantee, and then I Li Xiangqian, promised that Li Dingguo would lead the team to leave Nanjing and never block the attack in the process of going south......

Who can this deceive, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the honest gentleman had already been killed, and the people who survived were all old oilmen who survived countless treachery and countless killings, who believes you?

Not to mention anything else, Zhang Xianzhong is one of them, the so-called fraudsters look like fraudsters, and Zhang Xianzhong is similar.

Li Xiangqian shrugged his shoulders and said: "There is no way, I am kind to you, this problem, you can only go back, you can only believe us, don't you, in the city of Nanjing, there are still many grenades, how many people are you going to die?" What's the use of taking down a city that is useless to you, other cities, as long as you don't engage in massacres and don't disrupt order, as for those useless landlords, you want to kill as many as you want. ”

In Li Xiangqian's view, since Li Dingguo has entered the market, this kind of destructive power, unless he and others directly attack, will inevitably cause huge casualties in Jiangnan, and this is what the elders don't like the most, everyone is still counting on the population of Jiangnan to carry out industrial upgrading, even the most sloppy elders, for the legendary Jiangnan women are also longing.

Therefore, with some control, Li Dingguo, who prefers to ask for money and not his life, can go, and Zuo Menggeng, who prefers to kill people after being an official and soldier for a long time, should not go.

"However, we don't have to listen to the elder's threats, can't we take Nanjing?"

"The problem is, if I fight behind your back, you won't think that I only have so many dozens of people, everyone take a step back, since you like Yangzhou, take it, and deal with those salt merchants ruthlessly, you see, I'm engaged in real estate development in Yangzhou, and those guys are making trouble behind their backs, just kill their prestige, no problem."

In the late Ming Dynasty, the salt merchant class belonged to the reactionary among the reactionaries, to the opponents of technological progress and income fairness, and it can be said that killing them could calm the people's grievances, and everyone was happy, and no one cried for them.

As for Li Dingguo's biggiving, it doesn't matter if he wants to buy his own arms in Jiangnan and take the opportunity to make a fortune.

The man was still unconvinced, and he still wanted some safety guarantee.

Li Xiangqian said: "You really don't have many options, now, since your people left Anqing, oh no, it was out of Sichuan, how long has it been since they marched and fought continuously?" Although I have been taking a boat and driving cannon fodder in Anqing, the consumption of physical strength is too great, and it is normal to reduce the number of people on a large scale if I don't repair it, and Yangzhou, although I have already taken precautions, but the city wall, the defense power ......"

Although Li Xiangqian knew, although it was claimed that the ammunition was exhausted in one day, the original so-called main forces, such as Liu Liangzuo, Li Benshen, soldier Yang Chengzu, general soldier Zhang Tianlu, Zhang Tianfu, all surrendered, only the general soldier Liu Zhaoji and He Gang led the Zhongguan battalion, so the city was quickly broken, but there is one thing, it still shows that Yangzhou's armament is insufficient, and it lacks military preparations.

Of course, I still have to knock it: "It's enough to deal with the salt merchants, I still don't like things like Anqing to happen, so I hope that you can restrain your subordinates, if you don't restrain them well, I'll be unhappy, but it won't look good." ”

After thinking for a while, Li Xiangqian thought for a while and said: "In this way, if you go, I can replenish some of your firearms on the way, not too much, grenades are enough, to help you reduce casualties, this is also my benevolence." ”

The agreement is like this, when the people go back, Li Dingguo has arranged to board the ship, fortunately, he doesn't have much heavy equipment, this time he gritted his teeth and gave up the cannon, and when the sky was bright, the first ship that was trying to leave had already gone downstream, and Zuo Mengeng, who heard about it, was furious and ordered someone to come over and ask Li Dingguo to explain.

"I looked for your major general last night, he hid to eat, drink and have fun, and now that something happened, he came to me."

"General Li, at the beginning, the two families said that they would go south, take Nanjing, and make their own fortunes, but what are you doing now."

"I said go south, but I didn't say to die, now the people in the imperial capital have intervened, how many of my brothers' lives did those grenades take, we can't gnaw down this bone, naturally we can't fill it in anymore, if your young general is willing, you can go south with me to fight Jiangyin, if you don't want to, then you can fight Nanjing yourself, anyway, the soldiers and generals in the city are also very soft."

Li Dingguo did not hesitate, and he didn't care at all in the face of Zuo Mengeng's roar, although it was troublesome for a fleet to board the ship and set sail, but after all, there was not much baggage, and many of the captured grain ships were still fully loaded, so they could be taken away directly.

"General, didn't you tell the people in the imperial capital to go to Yangzhou, why do you go to Jiangyin now."

"Thinking about it, although Yangzhou is much richer, but it is not said in Jiangbei, and the water network is too dense, we go, it is likely to be trapped there, at least Mrs. Xing is rampant in Jiangbei, and if we take Jiangyin, we will go south, and the whole of Zhejiang is under the chessboard, not where to fight."

"However, I'm afraid that those people in the imperial capital ......"

At this time, they already knew a lot about hand grenades, and a few seizures had shown that this was a new type of firearm, more powerful than ordinary firearms, so they would not regard it as something strange and confusing.

"It doesn't matter, after all, it's Nanjing, it's normal for them to secretly store firearms, but how many Zhuangzi, how many cities, I don't believe they all, now there are many people in Jiangnanliu, we will lay down a place, and we will gather more, that is just a boat, how can we help us?"

Although he got rid of his allies, Zuo Mengeng never thought of fighting with him, and now he is merging with Li Dingguo, which will inevitably be cheaper Not to mention Nanjing City, he may not be able to fight.

(End of chapter)