Xia Guoxiang and Gao Dajie didn't have any festivals, and even when they were under Wu Sangui's command, the two still had some friendship. The reason why he made this decision was not that Xia Guoxiang wanted to harm people, there were seventy or eighty thousand reserve troops under Gao Dajie, and in his opinion, these people had experienced this big battle, and they were able to survive 30,000 soldiers.

On the other hand, Hu Guozhu suffered heavy losses in the battle of Tianshou Mountain, if he didn't have a few months to breathe a sigh of relief, I am afraid that this army will be abolished, and it is reasonable for him to go up to the top of the festival.

As for those who said that they deliberately let go of Shandong and let the Manchus hurry up, in his opinion, they were all things that did not have long brains. State affairs should be based on interests, and it is not a child's house, how to do this kind of self-cutting arm and playing a bitter trick, once this is the case, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely discount the sincerity of cooperation, and I am afraid that no one will be able to please at that time.

In this case, it can be said that there is no problem with this decision made by Xia Guoxiang, and he also believes that Gao Dajie will be able to understand his hardships and fight a beautiful battle in Shandong.

The mountains in Yunnan are far away from the emperor, and it is impossible for the reinforcements sent by the Zhou Dynasty to arrive quickly, and they can only transfer the soldiers from Guizhou and other places to help the emergency.

And at this time, there was a bad news coming, Zheng Jing, the king of Yanping of the Ming Dynasty, suddenly launched an offensive, turning the world upside down in Guangdong and Fujian, Zheng Jing's fleet alone is enough to do this, and they are more energetic than ever in this battle.

As early as eleven years ago, Shi Lang wrote a letter to ask for the conquest of Taiwan, but Ao Bai, who was in power at that time, believed that the sea was far away, unpredictable, and he could win by galloping, and it was difficult to plan everything. So he threw his twists and turns aside, and even removed his official position among the sailors, and let him stay in Beijing to guard.

Originally, at this time, Kangxi had already put down Wu Sangui's rebellion, and Shi Lang's would be reused immediately, but because Cheng Xiaolian intervened, he was still guarding in Liaodong.

Without this mortal enemy, Zheng Jing can be said to be smooth sailing, if he can fight, he will fight, and if he can't beat the ship, he will run, as long as he gets to the sea, only the sailors of the Zhou Dynasty are not his opponents at all.

The Zhou Dynasty can now be regarded as being attacked on three sides, and the taste is very uncomfortable, Xia Guoxiang has no choice but to recruit sailors from the fishermen by the sea to deal with Zheng Jing, fortunately, Wu Sangui has been running Yunnan for so many years, and his family is very rich, and he can get a lot of silver.

Gao Dajie fought hard with Yuan Zonghao in Shandong for more than ten days, but received the will that the imperial court had no soldiers to send, and asked him to focus on military training, supplemented by guarding the border, and doing errands well. He almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, if these soldiers were really vigorous recruits, he wouldn't have written any requests for help at all, but the quality of these recruits was really poor.

has grown up for so many years, but all the opportunities for good families who are willing to join the army have been collected by the major military forces, and the rest are these green-skinned scoundrels and the old and weak.

Not to mention the old and weak, most of them can't pull bows and arrows, and they can't fight with knives, so they can only do some auxiliary work.

And those green-skinned scoundrels are not as good as these old and weak, before fighting, they must judge the situation, once the situation is unfavorable and there is a risk of being completely annihilated, they will immediately turn around and run, and never hesitate. I hope to talk to them about what loyalty to the king and the country is, but it is better to talk about the truth of the silver.

In fact, it is not just the Gao Dajie, Qi Jiguang encountered this situation at the beginning, those soldiers under his command even had to practice the situation changes before the war, and they were not completely sure that they would never fight the battle that could be won, which forced Qi Jiguang to go to Yiwu to recruit new troops, and achieved the famous Qi family army in history.

Even Qi Jiguang's first rule of recruiting soldiers is to never want soldiers in the city, even if your conditions are good, it is impossible to pass, he thinks that the people in the city have more knowledge, and if they see more, they will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. It's a bit extreme, but it's true.

Now those good soldiers were recruited in the first batch, and the rest of the city soldiers looked very energetic, and some of them still had kung fu in their hands, but the recruiter really did not suffer Qi Jiguang's losses, so he sent these soldiers to the front line.

Who knows that when they get to the front line, Gao Dajie will know what these are as soon as they take over, but now the army can't bomb them all home, Gao Dajie trained them fiercely with the mentality of waste utilization, hoping that they can not be so ashamed on the battlefield, who knows that he can't help him in the fight.

In just three days, the defenders of the three county towns surrendered, which directly led to the loss of the first line of defense he had carefully constructed within three days.

But at this time, I can't care about settling accounts with them, and it's too late to even ask for help, so I can only rush up with my head, Gao Dajie knows that even if the news is sent back, if I wait for reinforcements, I estimate that these people can't hold at all, and the reinforcements will have to die on the battlefield.

So Gao Dajie decisively gave up the second line of defense prepared, but gathered everyone around him, and planned to spend it with the Ming Dynasty army, as long as he didn't fight that kind of desperate battle, there should be no large-scale rout.

However, the news that the Ming Dynasty broke through 200 miles on the third day soon reached Tu Hai's ears, and Tu Hai just sneered: "These turtle sons of Wu Sangui are really not successful, and they are still playing with us at this time." Even if they give up the whole of Shandong, I won't blink an eye, you must know that now Qianming is offensive against them, but it is only a defensive position for us, and the initiative is in our hands, if they are not sincere, they want to calculate us, I am afraid that they will be the first to be unlucky. ”

Tu Hai has led the troops for so many years, naturally knows these little tricks of the Zhou Dynasty, the current situation is that the two are weak and the other is strong, if the two families join forces, they can naturally destroy the strongest, but whoever loses more troops will suffer a big loss in the subsequent battle, and even decide who the lord of the world is, Tu Hai will definitely not sacrifice himself to complete the Zhou Dynasty, which also shows that the Qing Dynasty will never really launch an offensive before the Zhou Dynasty really starts with the Manchu Dynasty.

Of course, this move is even worse for Gao Dajie, after all, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty does not launch an offensive for a day, all eyes will be on him, and there is no chance to exploit loopholes, let alone think of any golden cicada shell or dark Chen Cang's strategy, and even if he wins by luck, Da Ming can free up his hands to send reinforcements to deal with him, this battle is simply a way for him to advance or retreat.

(End of chapter)