Mongolia is a Tartar, and Manchuria is a captive (slave).

Dong Changqing's words were obviously to persuade Zhou Shixiang to send people to persuade them to surrender when the Qing army was short of food and the army's morale was unstable, and the condition for allowing these Mongol soldiers to surrender was to help their heads. If the persuasion is successful, it will not only immediately solve the war that has lasted for more than a month, but also allow the Taiping army to increase thousands of Mongol soldiers at once, so that the Taiping cavalry will rapidly expand and grow in size and strength.

The cavalry and the sailor have always been Zhou Shixiang's heart disease, although the sailor has built a water battalion, but it cannot form combat effectiveness in a short period of time, if it is not for Zheng Chengkui's help, even this large-scale shipping can not be successful. And Zheng Chengkui is Chen Qice's general, not his Zhou Shixiang's general, so if Zheng Chengkui's army leaves the Taiping Army one day, the Taiping Army's water camp will still be impossible to use on its own and become a water force that can decide the war.

The development and construction of sailors is by no means something that can be established overnight, nor is it something that can be sent out to fight just by building ships and recruiting sailors to fly flags. If this is okay, the Qing army does not have to recruit the Ming army sailors on a large scale, and it is even impossible to even win over the thieves at sea, such as the former Guangdong Navy division chief Liang Biaoxiang is a sea thief, Shang Kexi in order to win him over to deal with the Ming army's sailors, the conditions promised are very generous, and even in its successive Ming army sailors were heavily injured and entrusted with heavy tasks, what to give, just for the other party to be able to fight against the Ming army's sailors. But in the end, Liang Biaoxiang patted his ass and led the remnants out to sea after the sailor camp was burned down by the Taiping army, and he still doesn't know where to be happy, and the king of Pingnan was so angry that he almost fainted. There was really no way at all, because he didn't even have the soldiers sent to arrest Liang Biaoxiang.

Shang Kexi is not ignorant that there is only profit and no righteousness in the eyes of a sea tyrant like Liang Biaoxiang. When he started a war, he was unwilling to exert all his strength at all, and he was unreliable with fear, but Shang Kexi still wanted to win over this kind of thief, just because it was impossible for him to create his own sailor. The same thing should be done to Zhou Shixiang now, but Zhou Shixiang is better than Shang Kexi, and the powerful Ming army sailors are his allies, not enemies. So he had time to slowly develop the sailor, instead of recruiting uncheckable and unpredictable pirates to form a sailor like Shang Kexi.

In the area of the water master, Zhou Shixiang has time to wait. There is no hurry, at least for ten years, it is foreseeable that the main battlefield of the Taiping army will still be land. A strong navy is certainly what Zhou Shixiang is looking forward to, but he also knows that he can't have both fish and bear's paws.

Cavalry. It's also a shortcoming. When a cavalry brigade was formed. It was only with the remnants of the original cavalry battalion of more than 100 soldiers plus the Manchurian soldiers under Suna as the backbone, and some soldiers transferred to Pingnan and Jingnan Domains and the Green Battalion that reluctantly established a brigade, and there were no more than 500 people who could really be called cavalry. Since the formation of the army, although the cavalry brigade has increased the amount of training, it is obviously impossible to make those soldiers who do not know how to ride horses become elite soldiers in a short period of time. In several battles against the Qing cavalry, the cavalry of the Taiping army was clearly outnumbered.

In the first battle of Suna in Huanggangling, he fought with more than 800 cavalry against more than 400 Mongolian soldiers. but more than 100 soldiers were forced to retreat; In the first battle of Beishan Village, the whole cavalry brigade was dispatched. Although the Mongol soldiers were repulsed, they could kill no more than 200 people, but their own casualties were more than 400; When Shao Chengguo led his troops to cooperate with Yu Shizhong's department in the second town to expel and monitor Lu Feng's four Niu Lu Mongol soldiers, the performance of the cavalry was also not good, if it were not for the heroic performance of the brigade trained by Yu Shizhong according to the tactics of the Qi family's army, I am afraid that the Mongol soldiers would not be able to drive away; When the Jidu army attacked Lufeng, Shao Chengguo led his troops to attack the Jidu army in order to contain the Qing army, but was stopped by the Mongolian cavalry who divided the troops.

Now the three battalions of the cavalry brigade are all disabled, there are still more than 300 people under Suna on the northern front, and there are only more than 500 people left under Shao Chengguo on the southern front. According to Liu Zhong, the commander-in-chief of Guide, and Zhang Chao, the commander-in-chief of Nanyang, there were between 3,000 and 3,500 Mongolian cavalry in Jieshiwei, more than 100 remnants of the front battalion in Manchuria, plus the guards of Jidu and the Goshha soldiers under the Manchurian general, there were about 1,000 people. Even if the Manchu soldiers are not counted, these more than 3,000 Mongolian cavalry alone can inflict heavy losses on the Taiping army, not to mention those Manchu soldiers.

In this battle, Zhou Shixiang was sleepy, trapped the Qing army alive, starved the Qing army to death, and before the Qing army still had a breath, he would never risk attacking Jieshiwei. He gave strict orders to his subordinates that not a single soldier should be sent out, and he also made up his mind to trap and starve the thousands of Manchu and Mongol soldiers to death, and not to take them prisoner.

Now that the southern front has successfully persuaded a Mongolian leader and a few hundred Mongolian soldiers to touch Zhou Shixiang, he carefully considered Dong Changqing's opinion, and felt that this strategy was very good, if those Mongolian soldiers could surrender collectively, it would be of considerable help to the Taiping army.

After solving Jidu, Zhou Shixiang had two choices, one was to go west to Guangxi to solve the crisis in the southwest, and rescue Yongli from Yunnan to Guangdong, so that he could replace Li Dingguo as the leader of supporting the Ming Dynasty and continue to fight the Ming banner; Second, regardless of the war in the southwest or Yongli, he went straight north from Chaozhou to attack Fujian and Zhejiang, and cooperated with Zheng Chenggong's battle of Nanjing.

The two choices can't say who is better, the north attack on Fujian and Zhejiang can certainly take advantage of the emptiness of the Qing army's strength to drive straight in, if everything goes well, it should be able to join Zheng Jun under the city of Nanjing, if possible, can also pick up Zheng Jun's leaks. Zhou Shixiang didn't know that the man surnamed Guo he remembered actually entered the Yangtze River twice, this year was the first time, but he was forced to withdraw his troops after suffering heavy losses in a typhoon in Zhoushan, and next year is the time when the surname of the country really entered the Yangtze River and almost captured Nanjing.

From the perspective of personal interests, Zhou Shixiang of course hopes to go to Nanjing to pick up Zheng Chenggong's leaks, if Nanjing is restored from the Taiping Army, his Zhou Shixiang's famous generals far surpass Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, and become the pillar of the Optimus of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which is looked upon, supported and supported by people who have restored their sight all over the world. But what is equal to it is the fall of the southwestern provinces, the flight of the great emperor, the loneliness of Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, and the despair of countless soldiers of the Great Western Army.

If that's all, Zhou Shixiang is not worried, without Zhu Youlang, he still has Tang Wang. Yongli refused to die with the Ming Dynasty, but the Tang King could! Longwu was martyred, Shaowu was martyred, and the last Tang king also insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty in Taishan, he didn't go anywhere, he always stayed in Guangdong, and the original time and space persisted until the end, committing suicide and martyrdom. Zhou Shixiang believed that he really wanted to push the Tang Dynasty to supervise the country, and under the premise of Yongli abandoning the country, it was impossible for the forces in the world to oppose it. He was worried about how to turn to the southeast in the face of the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops who had pacified the southwest

rushed out urgently, and now I am going to send 30 boxes of wine to the wedding banquet site, and I am very busy in the afternoon. (To be continued.) )