Chapter Seventy-Nine: The West of the Yangtze River

When Su Chengyu returned to the military tent after attending the funeral of the fallen soldiers, he saw Yang Shouming and Yang Gonggong waiting for him with the holy decree.

Su Chengyu hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down.

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: Since the second year of Chongzhen, the thieves have been aggressive, the building is turbulent, the society is half destroyed, and people are afraid. Fortunately, the emperor's nephew Lin Miao studied through the history and learned martial arts. The battle of Fuzhou, more than 15,000 captives, swept away the decadence of my Ming Dynasty, inspired the hearts of my people, and I was very comforted. Prime Minister Jiangbei Military Affairs, give Shang Fang a sword, and act cheaply. On the same day, I personally conquered Jiangxi, fought with the ministers, moved the capital to Ganzhou, and died in order to show martial virtue and comfort the emperor's ancestors. Chin this. ”

"Minister, Commander." Su Chengyu carefully took the holy decree.

Then Yang Shouming respectfully took Shang Fang's sword and handed it to him, and said with a smile: "The old slave wishes His Highness a victory." ”

Su Chengyu sent Yang Gonggong away and asked Shi Lin to put away the holy decree and sword, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it seems that Longwu has staked all the treasures to Jiangxi.

However, in history, he has always had plans to move the capital to Jiangxi, and even drove west for a time. However, due to the fact that Yang Tinglin and Wan Yuan Ji were really ineffective, and the various factions within the Ming Dynasty did not cooperate with each other, not only did they not take the entire Jiangxi in the end, but even Ganzhou was lost.

Since I have come to this era, I must not let the tragedy happen again.

He remembered that in history, the Qing army invaded Fujian around June of the second year of Longwu, and Longwu immediately fled south, and was chased by Li Chengdong's cavalry in August and died.

If this point in time prevails, there are some safety factors, that is, they must recover Jiangxi before April, and at least they must be able to ensure that the Qing army does not make waves in Jiangxi.

Then welcome Longwu west out of Fujian, move the capital to Ganzhou or Nanchang.

In this way, with Longwu's talent, prestige, and Zhengshuo appeal, the imperial court should soon be able to exercise effective control over Huguang and Guangdong, which were adjacent to Jiangxi. As the former capital of the Longwu Dynasty, Fujian's unimpeded government decrees should not be a problem.

In this way, the Longwu Dynasty really owned half of the south of the Yangtze River and had the national strength to wrestle with the Qing court. The rest is to rely on the advanced technology brought by modern people to beat the "unparalleled riding and archery" of Jianyu.

And the starting point of all this is in Jiangxi!

Su Chengyu sorted out his strategy for recovering Jiangxi again.

Starting from Fuzhou, Jianchang, Guangxin, Raozhou, Nankang and Nanchang form a semi-circular arc arrangement from east to west.

According to the information currently available, only Guangxin was stationed in the Qing Army's Ke Yongsheng Department on this road, no more than 4,000 people, and the rest were small forces of less than 1,000 people.

That is to say, if Jin Shenghuan does not divide his troops in northern Jiangxi, at most one month, the Long Wei army will be able to go to Nankang, and dozens of miles to the south is the location of Jiangxi's Xuancheng political envoy, Nanchang.

At this time, if people and horses are mobilized to attack from Fuzhou in the south of Nanchang, they can form a north-south attack on Nanchang. At that time, Jin Shenghuan will face the embarrassing situation of gnawing at the soap fortress and being busy defending Nanchang.

And even if he returns to Nanchang, the Ming army can cooperate with the north and south, avoiding the real and the virtual. Not to mention the war, the Qing army ran at both ends of Nankang and Fuzhou, and they were tired and tired.

He had absolute confidence in the cement fortress, and bombarding this thing with a twelve-pound smoothbore cannon across the Gan River was undoubtedly tickling. So the soapy mouth should be safe.

So as long as he can go around from Jianchang to Nankang at the fastest speed, Jiangxi will basically be considered to have recovered Jiucheng.

He looked to the east and ordered the entire army of the Dragon Guard to pull out the camp and march into Jianchang!

When the baggage of the logistics department was being loaded, several wagons stopped next to the camp of the Dragon Guards, and Hong Si arrived with more than a dozen missionary officials.

Everyone saluted and congratulated the Dragon Guard on their victory.

Then Hong Sixi said: "Fortunately, it's been sunny recently, just in time for the army to leave." Your Highness doesn't know, now the story of the Dragon Guard's annihilation of more than 15,000 Jiannu is spreading all over the streets and alleys in southern Gansu. Recently, all the villages have been clamoring for the mission to arrange the drama of Fuzhou's great victory. ”

"Especially Long Nan, you can tell at a glance on the road who has someone in the Long Guard Army." Tian Zhuangfei continued, "Let's just say that walking with your head held high, you are beaming." ”

"Very good." Su Chengyu nodded and said, "The Mission Office should use the great victory to publicize it well, so that the people know that the Qing army is just a paper tiger!" ”

"Paper tigers? Your Highness is a very apt word! ”

"That's what I learned, too." Su Chengyu didn't dare to take credit, and instructed Hong Sidao, "Spread the mission office in Fuzhou as soon as possible, Jianchang and other places should be pacified soon, and you will be busy in the future." ”

"The subordinate obeys!"

"At present, the focus of propaganda should be on calming the hearts of the people, so that the people who have fled the war can return home as soon as possible and resume production. It is necessary for everyone to regain confidence in the imperial court and the Ming army.

"Oh, and also, the Dragon Guard Army needs a large number of craftsmen to sapper now, so let Yunrui write a recruitment notice for you." Yunrui is Ying Tianxiang's expression.

"Over there in Longnan, half of the school building of the Royal Officer Academy should be ready for use. You can publicize it, start recruiting teenagers, learn preparatory knowledge, and use the military academy to ...... your living expenses."

After Hong Si and the others were ordered to leave, the large army of the Dragon Guard Army also embarked on the journey again.

It was still the cavalry that opened the way, followed by a neat marching column of infantry with flintlocks on their backs......

The loud voice of the command and the passionate and heroic melody of the Dragon Guard Army soon attracted a large number of people in Jinxi County to watch the excitement, and some people asked how to join the Dragon Guard Army at that time.

That night, the army had already marched to the Lufang River, in order to avoid a sneak attack by the Qing army, Su Chengyu ordered to camp on the west bank and cross the river at dawn.

The registration and review of the second phase of the Daming Royal Military Academy has ended, and a total of 130 students started their first course by the campfire by the Lufang River.

Due to the lack of instructors, the Royal Officer Academy could only be "carried" by the Dragon Guards, who taught while marching.

However, the trainees of the second phase have been divided into three categories: ordinary officers, preparatory instructors, and instructors. After graduating from the preparatory lecturers, after a period of actual combat training, they returned to the site of the Royal Officer Academy in Longnan, where they taught the next batch of trainees, gradually forming a virtuous circle of officer training.

In addition, the first set of textbooks of the Military Academy has also been basically completed, of course, the biggest workload is on Su Chengyu's side. With systematic textbooks, it is still possible to carry out the preliminary teaching work even if the instructor level is limited.

Su Chengyu's goal is to have all the officers of the Ming Army at the rank of 100 and above come out of the Royal Officer Academy, or at least have formal training here.

At that time, the regularization and systematization of the Ming army will be proud of the world, even if there is no technical assistance beyond the times, no one will dare to take the lead!