Shang Zhixin was already snoring like thunder, lying there motionless like a dead pig.

Kong Sizhen looked at the man beside her, and sneered in her heart: Cheap man, do you think the old lady really likes your useless thing? Isn't it to fuel the fire of the fight between you and your second brother?

In fact, the filial piety of the monk Kong Sizhen also has a leg.

Shang Zhixiao is Shang Kexi's second son, and the relationship between him and his eldest brother Shang Zhixin can be said to be the same as water and fire. Shang Zhixiao was respectful to his eldest brother on the surface, but in his heart he wished that the eldest brother was unlucky, and it was best to die one day, so that the position of King Pingnan would be his own. In real history, Shang Zhixiao has repeatedly manipulated behind his back and betrayed Shang Zhixin. In the end, he got his wish and let his father give him the position of the son. It is precisely for this reason that in the end, Shang Zhixin will respond to Wu Sangui's opposition to the Qing Dynasty and force his father to death with his own hands. Later, Kangxi settled the account after the autumn, and Shang Zhixin was sent to the capital to be executed.

Kong Sizhen, a loyal lackey of the Qing court, what she hopes most is to see that the internal chaos between the three feudal lords is as good as possible, so that the imperial court can solve these self-respecting feudal kings without much effort.

"It's time to go back to Guangxi and let the useless husband at home send troops. On the one hand, we Dingnan Wangfu want to show loyalty to the imperial court, and on the other hand, we are forcing the king of Pingnan to send troops and take the opportunity to weaken the strength of the king of Pingnan. Kong Sizhen said secretly in her heart.

Kong Sizhen actually thought about weakening Wu Sangui's strength, and seduced Wu Yingxiong many times when he was in the capital. It's a pity that Wu Yingxiong's wife, Princess Jianning, is not a fuel-efficient lamp, Kong Sizhen failed to seduce, and targeted Wu Yingqi who went to Beijing to see his eldest brother, but Wu Yingqi was very disgusted with this Yin baby girl, and Kong Sizhen's plan to seduce the Wu family failed.

After that, Kong Sizhen also seduced the three brothers Geng Jingzhong, Geng Zhaozhong and Geng Juzhong.

Geng Jingzhong was not fooled, but his two younger brothers had a private relationship with Kong Sizhen, and there were many contradictions between the three brothers, especially the second brother who caused him trouble many times.

At present, although the "Haikou Bandits" and the "Thieves" in the southwest have not yet been pacified, the Qing court has long been displeased with the three feudatories and has been taking the opportunity to weaken their strength.

Let's talk about Geng Jimao's side. Originally, the Qing court urged him to take advantage of Zheng Chenggong's dispatch of troops to Jiangnan to eliminate Zheng Chenggong's nest Xiamen and Kinmen. It's a pity that Shi Lang, an uncompetitive dog minion, lost all the Fujian sailors that had just been formed overnight. Isn't it possible to cross the sea with a bathtub?

So the Qing court had to give up the idea of attacking Jinxia and urged Guangdong and Guangxi to send troops.

Kong Sizhen came back to the south this time to let Shang Kexi send troops to Qiongzhou Island. On the one hand, he took advantage of the great opportunity of the elite of Qiongzhou to recapture Qiongzhou Island, and on the other hand, he also weakened the strength of the Shang family with the help of the "Haikou".

Every time he recalls Shunzhi, who "died young", Kong Sizhen's heart is like a knife. Back then, Kong Sizhen escorted Kong Youde's coffin to the capital. As soon as Shunzhi saw the young and beautiful Kong Sizhen, he immediately had the idea of taking her as a concubine. But later, because of the obstruction of the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai, Shunzhi had to give up Kong Sizhen. Later, the appearance of Concubine Dong E made Shunzhi empathize with him, so he didn't think about Kong Sizhen anymore.

Whether it is the film and television works of later generations or Baidu Encyclopedia, the statements are wrong, saying that Xiaozhuang intends to let Shunzhi accept Kong Sizhen. In fact, Xiaozhuang is the one who opposes Kong Sizhen's marriage to Shunzhi the most. In order to "stabilize the Qing Empire", she forced Mongolian women to Shunzhi again and again. And Shunzhi likes a Han born Kong Sizhen, which is a taboo of filial piety. Later, Xiaozhuang took Kong Sizhen as a daughter. Cut off the idea of Shunzhi.

Because he couldn't marry Shunzhi as he wished, coupled with Sun Yanling's incompetence, Kong Sizhen simply let go of his hands and feet, and gave Sun Yanling I don't know how many green hats.

Guangxi Dingnan Palace. Sun Yanling's inside line had already told him that Kong Sizhen was coming back. Sun Yanling hated and feared this wife who had worn an unknown number of green hats for herself, knowing that he could live in Dingnan Palace. It was all because of Kong Sizhen that he was able to live in the palace. Kong Youde's family died at the hands of Li Dingguo, and Kong Sizhen was the only surviving person in Dingnan Palace. Although she is a woman, she is the real king of Dingnan.

Kong Sizhen has not returned to Guangxi, and the Dingnan Mansion and the Pingnan Mansion have not yet had time to send troops, but something big has happened in Sichuan.

At this time, the situation of the anti-Qing rebel army in Kuidong was very critical, Li Guoying dispatched the main force of the Qing army in Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces, and was encircling and suppressing the thirteen families in Kuidong, Li Laiheng, Hao Shaoqi, Liu Tichun and other anti-Qing generals were defeated and retreated, and were compressed into a narrow area at the junction of eastern Sichuan and Hubei, and were completely unable to counterattack.

The Southern Ming Dynasty had launched a campaign to attack Chongqing four years ago, but because of the rebellion of Tan Yi and Tan Hong, the Southern Ming army failed to attack Chongqing.

The Ming army failed in the Battle of Yucheng, and Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing court, then led his troops into Chengdu.

At this time, Gao Minzhan had died in office, and the governor of Sichuan was Tong Fengcai, who took office two years ago, and the general of the Qing army stationed in Chengdu was Tan Yi, the rebel general of the Southern Ming Army. However, the Qing army in Chengdu was insufficient. According to the reconnaissance of Chen Shuigen and others, the Qing army had no more than 3,000 soldiers in Chengdu, and more than 10,000 auxiliary troops were responsible for the construction of farmland reclamation.

After years of war, Chengdu is already an empty city, and the houses in the city are uninhabited. The surrendered Ming army was organized into auxiliary troops by the Qing army, and cultivated farmland in Chengdu.

After receiving the report of Chen Shuigen and others, Wang Jinzhong decided to attack Chengdu.

"My lord, we don't have enough troops, even if we take Chengdu, can we hold it?" Zhang Wei asked.

Wang Jinzhong said: "We seized Chengdu, not to occupy Chengdu!" Now is the time for the early rice to ripen, and the rice grown in Chengdu is ready to be harvested. We took Chengdu, grabbed the rice, and withdrew to western Sichuan with the captives! If Li Guoying divides his troops to attack Chengdu, he will inevitably reduce the strength of Yucheng, which will reduce the pressure on Kuidong's anti-Qing rebel army! Wang Jinzhong explained the stakes to the generals.

While discussing the attack on Chengdu, someone came to report: "Report to your lord! Our men have already contacted the Kuidong Rebels, and they have sent an emissary! ”

The messenger who arrived was actually the famous Yuan Zongdi!

"General Yuan!" Hearing that it was Yuan Zongdi, Wang Jinzhong personally went out of the camp to greet him.

Yuan Zongdi arched his hand and said: "Your envoy has worked hard to come to our Kuidong. When I learned that your troops had entered western Sichuan, I would have personally come to meet with the friendly troops! ”

The two exchanged a few words, and Wang Jinzhong asked about the current situation of the Kuidong Anti-Qing Righteous Army, only to know that Li Laiheng and their current situation was very dangerous. Li Guoying is mobilizing troops from the three provinces to attack. The main force of the Qing army was stationed in Fengjie. If the Qing army launched an attack, the Thirteen Kuidong families, who were short of food, did not know how long they could hold out.

"Where did the supply of the Tartars come from?" Wang Jinzhong asked.

The question of where the food supply lines of the Qing army are located is very important. In those years, the main thing in the war was logistics. As long as the grain supply line is cut off and the Qing army's grain hoarding base is burned, then the Qing army, which has a large number of people, will inevitably be in chaos, and when the time comes, the Kuidong righteous army will counterattack, which will definitely cause the Qing army to suffer heavy losses.

It's a pity that Yuan Zongdi's answer made Wang Jinzhong very disappointed: "The grain hoarding point of the Tartars is in Yucheng, and Yucheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack. We failed several times! Their grain supply line was from the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and Chengdu provided only a small part of the grain supply. ”

Attacking Yucheng, that is, Chongqing, is very unrealistic, and with the strength of the Nanyang Ming Army's western expeditionary army, it is not yet possible to conquer Yucheng. If you attack the upper reaches of the Jialing River and cut off the food supply line of the Qing army, how can you bypass Yucheng?

"If it is not against the Fengjie Tartars, we have captured Chengdu. Will Li Guoying have to divide his troops to return to Chengdu? Wang Jinzhong asked a question.

Yuan Zongdi replied: "It is of little significance to attack Chengdu, because losing Chengdu is not a big loss for Li Guoying. He can ignore you and wait until he destroys us, and then turn back to you. Let Li Guoying divide his troops. Only by attacking Yucheng can Li Guoying's old thief divide his troops to rescue. ”

Wang Jinzhong shook his head: "It's impossible to fight Yucheng!" Our Western Expeditionary Army is a mountain army and lacks siege weapons. Although we also have cannons, they are all small cannons. It is impossible to attack a fortified city like Yucheng. Let's take Chengdu first, and then think about the next step. ”

"It's easy to take Chengdu, but you took Chengdu. It's also a lonely city, can it be defended? And after Li Guoying wiped us out, if he goes back and fights you again, you won't be able to resist it at all! Yuan Zongdi said.

Wang Jinzhong smiled: "Who said we should stick to Chengdu? When we take Chengdu, we are just annihilating the living forces of the Tartars and seizing the freshly ripened early rice. After taking Chengdu, we will find a way. Perhaps from Chengdu to the east, there is a road into the upper reaches of the Jialing River to cut off the supply line of the Tartars? If there is a chance to infiltrate Yucheng, annihilate the defenders of Yucheng, and burn the grain and grass hoarded by the Qing army in Yucheng, then you can take the opportunity to counterattack? ”

Yuan Zongdi thought about it for a while and felt that what Wang Jinzhong said was very reasonable.

In fact, the supply and transportation line of the Qing army was the Jialing River, and the grain needed by the Qing army in Sichuan was transported to Guangyuan over the Qinling Mountains, and then went down the river from Guangyuan to Yucheng. The Hubei Green Battalion, which participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Kuidong Anti-Qing Righteous Army, needed to transport the grain through the Yangtze River and the Han River.

It's just that Wang Jinzhong hasn't learned so much about the situation yet, and he hasn't returned from the night he sent to the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and he is not clear about the transportation and supply lines of the Qing army for the time being.

At that time, the communication was backward, but in fact, the night harvest had already discovered the grain raft on the Jialing River, which was going upstream. If there had been radio at that time, based on the judgment of intelligence, Wang Jinzhong would have ordered a direct attack on Guangyuan.

Now that a plan for attacking Chengdu had been formulated, Wang Jinzhong began to arrange.

Because the Western Expeditionary Army is a mountain army, it lacks siege weapons, and it will definitely not attack Chengdu. Therefore, Wang Jinzhong decided to march at night, the main force arrived outside Chengdu and ambushed in the grass, and then sent an elite night and special combat team, disguised as the Qing army, to open the city gate, and then the army entered the city, and it was done.

Yuan Zongdi also agreed: "There are not many Tartar soldiers in Chengdu, and if they want to defend the city, they can't even defend the city." Most of the auxiliaries who farmed the land in the city were our soldiers who had surrendered to the Tartars a few years ago. As long as the army enters and kills Tan Yi, those soldiers who surrendered will come back. ”

Four years ago, it was Tan Yi who rebelled, killed Tan Wen, and surrendered to the Qing army, which caused the Ming army's plan to attack Yucheng to fall short. In that battle, Yuan Zongdi also suffered heavy losses, a large amount of grain was burned by the Qing army, a large number of soldiers died under the city of Chongqing, the vitality of the Southern Ming army was greatly damaged, and even Chengdu was lost later, and now only a little territory of Kuidong remains.

But even now, in the Kuidong Anti-Qing Righteous Army, it is not a monolith, Li Laiheng is only willing to unite with Nanming, but he refuses to be appeased by Nanming, because he believes that Li Zicheng's family and the Ming royal family have a deep hatred, it is because of Li Zicheng, Chongzhen will commit suicide in the coal mountain, he is worried that he will be appeased by Nanming, and the Ming court will settle accounts after the autumn in the future.

And Hao Shaoqi and Liu Tichun did not have such pressure, they all accepted the appeasement of the Ming Court.

At noon on July 2, the Western Expeditionary Army, which was already approaching less than 20 miles from Chengdu, approached in the direction of Chengdu City. Because at this time, the Chengdu Plain was already sparsely populated, and there was no one to see along the way, and the Qing army didn't know that under their noses, an elite unit of the Ming army appeared.

In the evening, eight miles away from Chengdu, there was a Qing army barracks that could accommodate more than 100 people under a beacon tower. It is said that there is a team of 100 people stationed here, but in fact, there are only more than 40 Qing troops stationed inside. Because the power of Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu in Sichuan, has been almost wiped out by the Qing army, there has been no war here for three years, and there are few people nearby, and only the green camp Qing army from the direction of Yunnan comes and goes, so the guard of the Qing army is not very strict.

"Come on! Drink! The Qing army took the bowl and beckoned his brothers to drink.

"Report to your lord! A team of people escorting goods came outside, and it was the banner of the Pingxi Wangfu Army! At that moment, a soldier who was on guard outside came to report.

For such news, the general is already numb, the transport team of Pingxi Wangfu often passes by here, and for several years it has been an empty convoy to go over, full of goods to go back. However, since the end of last year, the convoy of the Pingxi royal palace has been carrying truckloads of goods north, which are loaded with ivory, gold, jade, and some tobacco and a special product that is said to be very expensive and very effective, which is provided to the Eight Banners.

The Qing army stationed at the beacon tower was also the original surrendered Southern Ming army, and they did not dare to offend the people of the king of Pingxi.

When the transport team outside arrived outside the Qing army camp, the first person with the appearance of a thousand generals shouted: "Let your general come out!" The weather is so hot, Lao Tzu walked to death with thirst! Bring me some wine and water! ”

The people in Pingxi Wangfu were very arrogant, but the Qing army in Sichuan did not dare to offend them, so they always walked out honestly with people.

The head of the Pingxi Wangfu Jun Qian looked dissatisfied: "Why are you moving so slowly?" Let Lao Tzu stand here in the sun for so long? (To be continued.) )