After the Jiangnan Right Army continued to march towards Guide, Tang Sanshui had been hoping that Li Laiheng would change his mind to stop him, but until the city of Guide, he did not see Li Laiheng send troops, not even a horse to explore. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn desperation, Tang Sanshui could only enter Guide City as a "savior".

The arrival of the right army in Jiangnan made Zhao Chengcheng, the prefect of Guide, almost cry with joy. He personally took the gentry out of the city to greet Tang Sanshui, and when he shouted "Lord Admiral", he almost cried on the spot.

Zhao Chengcheng is really grateful to Tang Sanshui, thanks to the Jiangnan Right Army, he sincerely hopes that the Right Admiral of Jiangnan can live a long life, and hopes that the officers and men of the Jiangnan Right Army can be promoted and make a fortune. Before that, he had been worried for more than seven months, and his whole person had lost a lot of weight, and the original wide official uniform was changed to two sizes smaller.

When it comes to the past seven months, Zhao Chengcheng is really aggrieved.

Since the loyal battalion entered the eastern Henan region last year, Zhao Chengcheng, as the prefect of Guide, asked Jia Han, the governor of Henan in Kaifeng, for help. While waiting for reinforcements, he strictly ordered the green battalions stationed in each county to immediately retreat into the capital city, and all the materials that could not be taken away were burned, in order to achieve the goal of clearing the wilderness and forcing the loyal battalions to withdraw and return to Germany. It's just that after the loyal battalion from southern Henan entered Guide, it did not retreat as Zhao Chengcheng wished, or turned to other sides, but instead circled around the territory of Guide, and from time to time launched attacks on Guide.

Zhao Chengcheng didn't know that the loyal battalion "Dakou" he regarded as a great enemy did not want to leave Guide, but that he really had nowhere to go. Although the Green Camp burned down the grain reserves in the counties, they had limited time and could not sweep away the countryside. The first government of Guide is quite good among the provinces in Henan, although the population and money and grain are not as good as those of Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other large prefectures, but it is much stronger than Nanyang, Runing and other places. Therefore, the camp was barely able to find some food outside the city. Of course, behind these grains is naturally the history of blood and tears of the villagers of Guide. Throughout the ages, the blood and tears of these villagers have never been recorded in the history books, no matter which party committed violence against them.

If the big guys don't leave, Zhao Chengcheng can only hope that Governor Jia can send troops to help return to Germany. He looked forward to reinforcements day and night, but after half a year, he didn't wait for a single soldier to come. There is no shortage of food in the city, after all, Guide is a capital city, and it has been prepared early, even if it is held for another year and a half, the soldiers and civilians in the city can also hold on. But the taste of being trapped in a lonely city is really not for people, looking forward to the stars and the moon but not seeing a little hope, even no matter how strong a person is, there will always be times when he is depressed.

Zhao Chengcheng did not complain that Governor Jia Hanfu had forgotten to return to Germany, nor did he dare to blame Lord Qincha for abandoning the soldiers and civilians of Guide, he was also a sensible person, and knew that ten cities were not as good as one Kaifeng Mansion. If the Qing Dynasty wants to defend the Central Plains, it must not give up Kaifeng. The war around Kaifeng is not only about the gains and losses of the Central Plains, but the belonging of the north and the survival of the Qing Dynasty.

Guide was an outcast from the beginning. Zhao Chengcheng knows this better than anyone else, but what does the gain and loss of the Central Plains and the survival of the Qing Dynasty have to do with him, he just wants to save his life. Speaking of integrity, Zhao Chengcheng didn't have much on him, otherwise he wouldn't have lowered first and then cleared back then. But no matter how afraid of death he was, Zhao Chengcheng didn't dare to come down to the light, because his family members were all in the north. Jing, if he descends, the family will die. He can't kill his children and grandchildren for the sake of his own life.

In the past, the Qing Dynasty had a cool order of "if you don't die from a thief, you will die from the law", and under the shock of this cool order, the officials who defended the city everywhere could treat death as home, and even die with the city. However, since the Taiping army rose to Lingnan and fought all the way to Jiangnan, there are not many officials who take this cool order seriously, and even the Qing court itself does not dare to kill the officials defending the city because of the abandonment of the land. On the contrary, he secretly promised the officials who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty that as long as they surrendered again, they would not be blamed, but when the Qing court was already weak and was about to be precarious, none of the officials who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty were stupid enough to go back. For example, Zhang Changgeng, the former governor of Huguang, Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangning, and others, who had already surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, had received guarantees from the Qing court, but they invariably handed over the secret letter of the Qing court, and arrested the meticulous work of delivering the letter to prison.

Those who know the times are handsome, and it is never a sarcasm, but the truth. The general trend is already in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and at this time, Junjie should know the current affairs.

In the current situation, if the cool law is continued to be implemented, and the city defenders are killed because of the abandonment of the land, the effect can only be reversed. At least, these officials who abandoned the land did not surrender to the Ming Dynasty, which was much better than those officials who changed banners before the Ming army arrived. Therefore, killing these abandoned officials will only make people's hearts more chilled and more disappointed in the Qing Dynasty. Unable to shock the people with a cool method, the Qing court had to resort to other methods to ensure that the officials below would not surrender en masse.

In order to solve this problem, in the month of the previous year, the old minister Ning Wan and I made a compromise to Shunzhi, proposing that in the future, all those who serve as prefects and officials above the same knowledge must move their families to the capital as hostages, so that those officials who defend the city can have concerns, and then they can stick to the city. This idea is much more tactful and effective than the cool method, after all, people have family affection, and no one wants to kill their relatives because of themselves.

Shunzhi decisively adopted Ning Wan's idea and asked the Ministry of Officials to do the specific business. As a result, Zhao Chengcheng unfortunately became the first victim of this new order, and his wife and two sons, along with his daughter-in-law and grandson, who were originally in his hometown in Shanxi, were moved to the capital. In the name of beauty, it is to relieve the worries of officials, but who does not know that it is a hostage.

The reason why as long as the prefect and officials above the same level keep their families in Beijing as a hostage, rather than even the county order level, is not that Shunzhi trusts the hundreds of Han people in the county, but because the north. Jing can't feed too many people. Behind the hundreds of county orders are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of huge family members, this number is more than the population of Manchu in Beijing. Beijing can't even pay the Manchurians' salaries, and where can they afford the extra 100,000 people. Therefore, the level of the county order is excluded, and only the same knowledge is the boundary. After all, the number of officials above is small, and their families are only 10,000 or 20,000 people, so they can always be accommodated by finding a way.

Zhao Chengcheng, who has no integrity at all, just because of the lives of his family, became a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty in the isolated city of Guide. It is also his fate, the loyal battalion lacks the strength to attack the fortification, and it can't beat Guide, so this nail will not be pulled. If the Taiping army from the south came over, I was afraid that the city wall would be blown up in an hour.

I thought that the Kaizheng War would end soon, and Kaifeng would send reinforcements at that time, but I didn't expect that the Kaizheng War would last for several months. The two sides fought dozens of battles, but they still did not distinguish the winner. Zhao Chengcheng became more and more anxious, on the one hand, he was worried that Kaifeng would be defeated, and on the other hand, he was worried that the more than 100,000 people in the loyal battalion outside the city would grit their teeth and attack Guide. During these days, he saw clearly at the head of the city, and from time to time there were soldiers with various flags passing by outside the city, and even once he saw a big flag that seemed to be a king's flag from a distance.

Because he was afraid, Zhao Chengcheng didn't dare to send a scout horse outside the city, so he didn't know what was going on outside. The people in the city were also panicked, and the generals of the green battalion who defended the city talked a lot. Zhao Chengcheng was very afraid that these green battalions would suddenly rebel and open the door to surrender, but at this time, Lord Kuenbu, the right governor of Jiangnan, arrived with tens of thousands of reinforcements, how not to surprise him!

This time, Guide to Germany is saved!

Zhao Chengcheng excitedly disregarded his identity, and in front of the gentry of the whole city and the soldiers of the Jiangnan Right Army, he kowtowed to the right governor of Jiangnan, Lord Kuenku, to thank the other party for the feat of saving tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Guide, and also to thank the local government for saving his own life and the lives of his family.

Zhao Chengcheng had hope and confidence, but Tang Sanshui was at a loss. The news has been very clear, Li Laiheng led the main force of the loyal battalion to leave Guide and move to Ningling and Minquan. However, Ningling and Minquan are the only places to pass through to the crossing of the Yellow River. In other words, Li Laiheng and the old generals took more than 100,000 men and horses desperately to the north, north, and then to the north.

If there is no action, the loyal battalion will definitely cross the Yellow River with the whole army, and at that time, Tang Sanshui can't chase it even if he wants to.

Yu Chenglong's idiot came to the camp of the Admiral again, begging Tang Sanshui to quickly send troops to attack the loyal camp, otherwise, it would be too late.

On the side of Wu Chongshan, although people did not enter the city, every day the "Manchurian soldiers" galloped outside the city, and they made people feel angry when they looked at it.

Zhao Chengcheng didn't want Master Kuenbu to go to Ningling, because he still pointed to the other party to guard Guide for him.

An urgent letter from Kaifeng still made Tang Sanshui no longer hesitate and decided to go to Ningling.

The letter was written by the Qing Dynasty's Auxiliary Minister, the Chin Cha Shao Bao Aobai, and was written in Chinese.

There is only one content of the letter, Ao Bai hopes that Tang Sanshui can immediately lead the whole army of Jiangnan to Ningling and Minquan, and no matter what, he will drag the loyal camp. And he himself will lead the main force of the Eight Banners to fight to the death with Wu Sangui's Guan army. In the letter, Ao Bai told Tang Sanshui that he had guaranteed him to the imperial court as the governor of Zhili, and if the right army of Jiangnan could successfully delay the crossing of the river by the loyal camp, then the governor of Zhili would definitely be Tang Sanshui.

The messenger had sneaked from Kaifeng at the risk of his life, and according to the messenger, the route was full of soldiers and horses of the loyal battalion, and they all had only one direction, that is, the crossing of the Yellow River.

The governor of Zhili, an important position of governor that was not originally established by the Qing court, suddenly fell from the sky and smashed on his head, which made Tang Sanshui stunned and a little happy.

What is Naoli? It's Gyeonggi!

If he had become the governor of the Qing Dynasty, wouldn't he have become the pillar of the Qing Dynasty as His Royal Highness King Qi hoped?

The demands of Ao Bai are neither excessive nor excessive. What is too much is that he does not have a single soldier to be sent to Tang Sanshui, but what is too much is that Ao Bai only asked Tang Sanshui to delay the loyal battalion crossing the river, not let him prevent the loyal battalion from crossing the river. The risks of this matter are both big and small.

After thinking about it for a hundred times, Tang Sanshui went out and went to Ningling to take a fight to see if he had the life of the governor.

After the order was issued, the units of the Jiangnan Right Army immediately set out for Ningling. Before leaving, half of Guide's grain was forcibly taken away by them, Zhao Chengcheng neither dared to be angry nor speak, but secretly prayed that the big men in the loyalty camp would cross the river quickly, so that they would not have to worry about Guide.

The Jiangnan Right Army was still a step slower, and when they arrived at Ningling, Li Laiheng had already gone to Minquan. Both sides are scrambling for time, one is in a hurry to cross the river, and the other is in a hurry not to let the other cross the river.

At this moment, an accident happened, Wang Guangxing, who was in charge of the Left Route Army, suddenly led his troops to leave under the pretext that the casualties were too large and there was no food in the army, claiming that he Wang Guangxing would not go north. Beijing has robbed a lot of wealth, and he wants to go back to Hubei. Wang Guangxing took not only his own men and horses, but also some other people in the loyal camp, totaling more than 30,000 people. Wang Guangxing's move immediately divided the Left Route Army, and the strategic purpose of seizing the Kaocheng ferry was also bankrupt. Nearly 100,000 loyal battalion men and horses fell into a dilemma.

After Tang Sanshui got the news, his instinctive reaction was to evacuate Ningling immediately, because the loyal battalion could not cross the river, and they would never wait for death by the Yellow River, so they would definitely turn back. At that time, Ningling will be a place where they must pass, and it is too dangerous for them to stay here. However, Tang Sanshui did not expect that after Li Laiheng and his gang of old generals scolded Wang Guangxing for being a traitor and a shameless villain, they actually made an extremely bold decision, that is, the whole army went west, taking advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Qing army in Kaifeng being contained by the Guanning army, and took the important town of Kaifeng in one fell swoop. Then use Kaifeng City as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Wu Sangui and obtain grain from Wu Sangui.

Tang Sanshui was stunned, because if Li Laiheng and they really went west to Kaifeng, the consequences would be more serious than crossing the Yellow River. It must be known that His Royal Highness the King of Qi was not only worried that the northward movement of the Loyal Battalion would undermine his strategic intention to deal with the Manchus, but also worried that Wu Sangui's Guanning army would break through Kaifeng and go north.

Sure enough, Wu Chongshan, who had only met Tang Sanshui once after coming to the Right Army in Jiangnan, found Tang Sanshui overnight, "hoping that the other party could immediately go west to block the road for the loyal camp to go west to Kaifeng". The next day, the envoy of Jia Hanfu, the governor of Henan, also rushed to Ningling. Jia Hanfu asked the right army of Jiangnan to rush to Yifeng east of Kaifeng immediately with the whole army in an anxious tone, and to block the loyal battalion for half a month no matter what.

Half a month is obviously the time for Ao Bai and Wu Sangui to separate the winners and losers. With this half a month, Ao Bai can fight with Wu Sangui without distraction; Without this half a month, Aobai is to win, and Kaifeng is lost.

When the time comes, a win is also a loss.

By mistake, the heavy responsibility of defending Kaifeng fell on Tang Sanshui's head.

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At the strong request of my daughter-in-law and son, I gritted my teeth and bought a smart toilet, which was installed today, and my son thought it was very cool after "trying". Well, when this time is over, bones also make readers and friends feel refreshed. As you know, my "professional slaughterer" is by no means in vain. I admit that when it comes to writing about slaughter, the online literature industry has not been stronger than mine. However, that's the bloody price, write one by one, and those who don't know think I'm writing a little yellow text.