Chapter 136: Li Guangdi Sends Envoy to Eastern Sichuan
"Let the loyal battalion go to Shaanxi?" After opening the letter sent by Wang Shirong, the envoy of the Wu army, Wang Yu felt very surprised, "The prince and the camp are not enemies of life and death? How can you rest assured that you will leave your back road to the camp? ”
Wang Shirong bowed, stood up straight, and said with a slight smile: "It is precisely because the lord has a grudge against the camp that he asked the prince to come forward to solve this matter!" If Shaanxi is not occupied, our army will go north to the Central Plains, and the left rear flank of our army will be threatened by the Tartars, and the Ganshan Green Battalion can send troops at any time to cut off the road of our army's grain baggage. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info So we need the help of the loyal battalion to attack Shaanxi and contain the Tartars. ”
"In this case, why didn't the prince send troops to Shaanxi by himself, first seize the land of Guanzhong, and then steadily advance to capture Shanxi, and enter the capital from Shanxi? This path is the smoothest. Wang Yu knew that Wu Sangui was going to attack the capital first and welcome Yongli back to the capital, so as to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but he asked knowingly.
"My lord has the world in his heart, and I hope to recover the capital as soon as possible and welcome back the holy driver! After all, the capital is the capital of my Ming Dynasty, but now it is stolen by the Tartars. Since ancient times, it has been orthodox to enter the Central Plains! If the capital can be recovered as soon as possible, the Tartars will lose the capital, and they will lose the name of orthodoxy from now on, and the soldiers and civilians of the world will no longer be fooled by the Tartars! Wang Shirong said.
Wang Yu sneered in his heart: What will drive the Tartars out of the capital as soon as possible? It's just an excuse! Wu Sangui doesn't want to be Cao Cao yet? However, Wang Yu is not afraid of Wu Sangui's set, he has two cards in his own hands Wang Shiyuan and King Lu to play, which are the trump cards of the big and small kings! It's just that the cards won't be played yet, and the Qing court hasn't been driven out of the capital yet, so their own people will go to civil strife first? Wouldn't that give the Qing court another chance? So there's no need, just let Wu Sangui attack the capital.
Thinking of this, Wang Yu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Since we want to welcome the holy car back to Beijing as soon as possible, this domain will send someone to go!" Break into the camp and wrap it up on this domain! ”
Wang Yu thought that as long as he sent someone to come forward, there would be no problem on the camp, and he saved the people who broke into the camp, and he saved it twice, once from the Qing army, and the second time was when Wu Sangui besieged the camp.
Wang Shirong reached the ground and thanked him very respectfully: "Thank you Lord for coming forward to reconcile!" However, this time, in addition to breaking into the camp, he also hopes that the prince can provide our army with another batch of shells and a swarm of rockets. In the last decisive battle of the river, our army had a serious consumption of ammunition. ”
"That's fine!" Wang Yu said with a smile, "Shells and swarm rockets can be sold to you, according to the preferential price, we don't make you money, it's two percent cheaper than last time." ”
In fact, the shells and swarm rockets sold by Wang Yu are extremely profitable, even if Wu Sangui is given a 20% discount, this batch of ammunition can still make a lot of money.
"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Wang Shirong was overjoyed and bowed again. This time he sent an envoy to Nanjing, Wang Shirong can be said to have overfulfilled the task, not only asked Wang Yu to send an envoy to the loyal battalion to persuade the Kuidong Righteous Army to send troops to Shaanxi, but also purchased a batch of new ammunition cheaply. You must know that in the Battle of Huanshui, the cavalry of the Wu army was not superior, and the muskets and bows of the Wu army were not superior in the shooting against the archers of the Eight Banners, and the Wu army relied on artillery and rockets to achieve a decisive victory.
It's just that the consumption of shells and rockets is too large, especially a swarm of rockets, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of rockets are gone. The power is great, but the consumption is also amazing.
As for the candidate to send the envoy to Kuidong's loyal camp, Wang Yu already had a candidate in his heart, that is, to send his third military division Li Guangdi to come forward and send an envoy to Kuidong, and Li Guangdi also had to go to the Wu army camp by the way, ask Yongli for a holy decree, and ask for a reward for Li Guangdi as the governor of Sichuan.
Li Guangdi set out from Nanjing, took a fast boat upstream, and arrived in eastern Sichuan in ten days. The boat docked at the Wanxian wharf.
Since Wu Sangui reconciled with the Loyal Battalion, the transport voyage from Nanjing to Wanxian County was reopened, and almost every day, transport ships loaded with grain, ammunition and other goods went up the river and entered the eastern Sichuan region, sending their weapons, ammunition and food to the Kuidong Loyal Battalion, so that the Kuidong Righteous Army gradually recovered.
When Li Guangdi arrived at the wharf, he saw that Wanxian, which had been ravaged by war for many years, was no longer what it used to be, the dilapidated city wall had been completely demolished and replaced by a riverside avenue, the buildings in the city had been renovated, even the wharf was newly built, and many ships with the flag of the Nanyang Company were docked at the wharf, and the dock workers were busy removing goods from the ships. On the riverside, a row of houses rises from the ground, and the construction teams belonging to various companies are busy.
"It turned out that Master Li was here! Welcome, welcome! Speaking of which, we were one family 500 years ago! Li Laiheng personally led people out of the mansion to greet him.
After entering Li Laiheng's mansion, Li Laiheng welcomed Li Guangdi into the hall. After the two sat down as the guest of honor, Li Guangdi shook the paper folding fan and said with a smile: "The development momentum of Wanxian County is really gratifying!" I'm afraid it won't be long before it is worse than Jiujiang even if it is not as good as Wuchang here. ”
Li Laiheng said: "Ashamed, ashamed! Wanxian can have today, it is all the help of Nanwang! Speaking of which, this clan not only owes the king of the south a favor, but also owes a lot of silver. The food, ammunition, and construction costs of the 10,000 counties were all loaned by the Nanyang Bank, and so far more than 5 million taels of silver have been owed! I don't know when I'll be able to get it back. ”
Li Guangdi shook his fan and said with a smile: "General Li, there is a way to make General Li pay off the arrears quickly. ”
"What's the solution?" Li Laiheng hurriedly asked.
"Send troops to Shaanxi and seize Guanzhong! As long as you capture Guanzhong and capture Xi'an, are you still afraid that there will be no silver to pay? Li Guangdi shook his fan and shook his head.
"Send troops to Shaanxi?" Li Laiheng was taken aback, "The Ganshan Green Battalion is the elite division of the Tartars, and Zhao Liangdong, the commander of the Ganshan Green Battalion, has been our enemy for many years!" This person is good at training, and there are tens of thousands of elites under his command. Isn't it a risk for our army to send troops to Shaanxi? However, since it is the king of the south who wants the domain to send troops, and the king of the south is as kind to us as a mountain, the army of the domain is enough! ”
Li Guangdi laughed: "General Li is too worried! The Ganshan Green Battalion has been defeated by Wu Sangui, Zhao Liangdong fled back to Guanzhong in embarrassment, and the newly built Ganshan Green Battalion is no longer to be feared! What's more, our army can provide weapons and ammunition, as long as General Li sends troops to Shaanxi, he will definitely be able to capture Guanzhong in one fell swoop! ”
"What about after you hit Guanzhong? Northern Expedition to the capital? Li Laiheng asked.
"No!" Li Guangdi shook his head, "Go all the way to the west, recover Ningxia, and then march west along the ancient Silk Road!" At the time of the Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions were all the territory of China, and later the Song Dynasty was weak and lost the Western Regions. Now the task of recovering the Western Regions lies with the general! ”