Chapter 80 Guizhou Strategy

Yuan Zongdi gave a panoramic description of the situation in Guizhou.

After Zhang Xuan heard this, he frowned slightly. I was a little disappointed in Gao Yigong. Dare to fight for several months, and it seems that half of Guizhou is under the command of Great Xia, but in fact, it can only control a narrow passage from Hunan to Guiyang, except for this passage, the rest are not controlled at all.

Even this road, there is a little bit of a feeling of being sold.

Zhang Xuan knew that Guizhou was not easy to deal with. But I didn't expect it to be difficult to deal with it to this point. Although you want to be gentle, you don't have to regress indefinitely.

However, he did not see the topography of Guizhou with his own eyes, but Zhang Xuan had also heard of it. Although there is some unhappiness in my heart. But it was not revealed, and he said: "Now the situation in Guiyang is complicated. What support is needed? ”

Yuan Zongdi said: "Grain, salt, these two things are better than thousands of troops. ”

Both the toast and the toast soldiers could not be more demonstrated, although some people were loyal to the Ming Dynasty. But more people judge the situation and seek benefits first.

Where it's too far away, they can't see it. As long as there is enough money and food to buy them, things will be much easier.

Golden bullet tactics, what is still useful.

Before Zhang Xuan could speak, Yao Qisheng said it first. "General, Hunan paid taxes last autumn and this summer, but there is a place, Guizhou is almost a bottomless pit, and there is no way to move money and grain."

Zhang Xuan thought for a while and said, "Stop the co-payment for Chongqing, I'll go to the court and talk about it." Divert the money to Guizhou. You, no, I personally sent a letter to the household department. Let them first bring a batch of salt from Lianghuai. ”

"Yes." Yao Qisheng said.

Zhang Xuan said to Yuan Zongdi: "Money and food, I am in the rear for a while, no matter what, I will not let the front-line war have any worries." But the money and grain of Great Xia were not taken for nothing. ”

"Whoever has taken the money and grain of Daxia must send troops in the battle of Guiyang. Otherwise, it's rebellion. Punish it. Can it be done? ”

After Yuan Zongdi heard this, he immediately said: "General, this plan can't be done, and now General Gao Yigong only has 30,000 horses in his hands, even if you add the people from all over the country, it is only 50,000 people, if you want to maintain the post road, you have already consumed a lot of energy, how can you send troops to exterminate the Tusi who are resisting in various places." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "If you have to do this? ”

Yuan Zongdi said: "We need to increase our troops. ”

Zhang Xuan listened to the words "increase troops" and did not speak. But he turned his gaze to Yao Qisheng and Fu Shangrui, and the two said almost in unison: "General, don't do it." ”

Of course Zhang Xuan knew, what were the two of them talking about?

Among the three provinces of Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi, Guangxi has just arrived, exactly

When we cleaned up the remnants of the enemy and bought people's hearts, there was no money or food at all.

And Guangdong and Hunan have run out of money and grain.

Now it's just barely sustaining.

Of course, if Zhang Xuan gives up his face and scrapes the ground, he may not be able to scrape some money, and Ding Chukui is not too old to scrape the property of more than 100,000 taels of silver.

It's just that Zhang Xuan is unwilling to damage the morale of the people for just a little money.

Zhang Xuan said: "I know that there is no surplus grain in the treasury. I'm going to ask the court for food. This part of the grain was transferred from the Yangtze River to Chongqing, and after our army occupied Guiyang, grain was transported from Chongqing to Guizhou. ”

"I've already sent a letter to Nanjing, thinking that after the Spring Tax, the imperial court should have a little surplus grain."

"General, why be so aggressive." Yao Qisheng said: "Once there is a case? ”

Yao Qisheng's voice was a little cautious, and his eyes secretly peeked into Zhang Xuan's eyes to make sure that he did not anger Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan listened to Yao Qisheng's words, and felt slightly unhappy in his heart. He knew that Yao Qisheng was worried that Zhang Xuan would come back to another battle like the defeat of the Li River.

Zhang Xuan quickly adjusted it and said, "Mr. Yao, but I misunderstood. This time in Guizhou, I didn't think about how to fight, war was the last resort. ”

"The Qing army is advancing rapidly in Sichuan, Chengdu has been captured, and Haoge has waved his troops in southern Sichuan. So will he make a detour into Guizhou and flank Hunan? ”

"The means of the Mongols to destroy the Song Dynasty must be guarded against."

No matter how much they disagree with the brutality of the Mongols, they have to admit that the Mongols' roundabout tactics to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty were a genius strategy. Now the Qing court has a clear feeling of repeating old tricks in Great Xia.

Zhang Xuan, as a major general of Great Xia, had to be guarded. And he also wanted to push the line back to the west as much as possible.

I am afraid that in the future, the southwest land will also be the place where Xia and Qing will compete.

However, Zhang Xuan didn't care. If it was on flat ground, Zhang Xuan was still a little timid about the Manchu cavalry. But in the mountains. With the elite infantry of the southern expeditionary army, coupled with the power of firearms, Zhang Xuan was not afraid to confront the Qing army.

It was precisely because of this that Zhang Xuan was sure that Nanjing would definitely support Zhang Xuan's suggestion.

The reason is simple, the situation is already obvious.

The general trend of the world, either clear is summer, and non-summer is clear.

Naturally, the biggest enemy of Great Xia is the Qing court, and everything related to the confrontation with the Qing court will be ranked in the first sequence.

"General, the last general is invited to fight." Xu Du listened, and he didn't care about the entanglement of interests between the imperial court and the Southern Expeditionary Army. He just saw that the increase of troops in Guizhou had become a foregone conclusion.

He didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Xu Du was a chef in the previous battles, and in addition, he relied on the legacy left by the Zhejiang army to have a place in the Southern Expeditionary Army, and he wanted to challenge Cao

Zong Yu's status, but he didn't want to be in the blink of an eye, Cao Zongyu presided over the battle of Guangxi alone. In this way, Cao Zongyu's weight in everyone is very different.

Xu Du naturally wanted to preside over the war in Guizhou alone, in order to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Cao Zongyu.

Zhang Xuan was very clear about Xu Du's thoughts, but he couldn't let Xu Du get his wish.

It's not that Zhang Xuan is partial to Cao Zongyu, but that Xu doesn't have that kind of qualifications. If you want to lead an army alone, the first thing you need to do is to make your superiors and subordinates obey. Xu Du will not be able to do this at all.

Although Xu Du's qualifications in the Xia army are not shallow, they are by no means deep. When he and Gao Yigong are put together, it must be a situation where no one is convinced.

Xu Du is arrogant, how can he obey a general. And when Gao Yigong turned to the world, Xu Du was still chanting poems in Jiangnan. Is the high school function under Xu Du?

Many generals are fighting for the superior, because between the two words, it is not only the reputation of the two of them, but also the treatment of a group of brothers behind them.

It's like in the college entrance examination, a difference of one point is a world of difference.

The conniving general himself is not a contentious person, but he must fight for the sake of the people below, otherwise the boss who does not fight for the interests of his subordinates, not many people follow.

Therefore, when appointing the main general, when considering the ability, we must also consider the qualifications, whether the upper and lower levels can be obedient.

Cao Zongyu has deep qualifications and has this means, but Xu Du lacks a lot.

And Cao Zongyu has just conquered Guilin, and he can't leave for a while. Besides, Zhang Xuan can't use one person all the time. Zhang Xuan's heart turned slightly, and said: "This time I entered Guizhou, attacking the heart is the top, and the city is the bottom. I'll go personally. The matter of the conquest was handed over to General Gao, and I went only to appease the Guizhou Tusi and exchange seals with the Tusi in various places on behalf of His Majesty. There is also the surrender of the Great Western Army. ”

Zhang Xuanyi said, naturally no one objected.

Immediately, Zhang Xuan asked about the recent situation in Hunan. Let everyone disperse.

The military is urgent, and he doesn't know what level of development Guiyang is going to have, so Zhang Xuan wants to go over as soon as possible.

Zhang Xuan took thousands of personal soldiers and transferred 30,000 new soldiers from Hunan to let Yuan Zongdi lead him. Then he went out of Quanzhou and went west to Baoqing. Chenzhou. Just when I was about to enter Guizhou.

The news from behind arrived. It was the news from Nanjing.

Luo Yulong almost immediately agreed to all of Zhang Xuan's requests, requisitioned grain from Jiangxi, divided it into two routes, and transported it all the way to Chongqing. Even if nothing else, Chongqing is also an important city in the West, and it is necessary to stock up on some food.

The other road enters Dongting Lake, and from the Yuanjiang River all the way to the west, it is to transport along the road of Zhang Xuan's march.

This way is a little more expensive though. But it can strongly support the army.

"I don't have to worry about it." Zhang Xuan was relieved.