In June, Guangdong is in a hot summer.

It has been two months since then. Not only did the Taiping Army not have any military operations, but the Ming army in Guangdong was also very quiet. As for the Qing army, there was no movement at all.

This strange phenomenon is like the Ming and Qing dynasties agreed to a ceasefire in Guangdong. The reason is tacit - everyone is afraid of heat.

Of course, the one who fears the most is the Qing army from the north. The Han army's flag soldiers are better and can still move in the city. However, the Eight Banners soldiers in the city dare not move. They stay in the city all day long, and they all have no appetite to eat. They don't have the appearance of the Manzhou warriors, let alone go on horseback to fight.

General Jingnan Hahamu was so anxious that he had no choice but to keep urging fruits to reduce heat from the outside city and digging water wells all over the city. He was General Jingnan of the Qing Dynasty, and was not the Dragon King of the South China Sea. He could call the wind if he could call the wind, and call the rain if he could call the rain.

You should know that when the Manzhou soldiers who went south arrived in the past few years, they returned to the capital early to escape the summer heat. Otherwise, let alone war, the heatstroke alone would be reduced by half. Besides, if this place in Guangdong is really stupid, the imperial court would have set up a city in Guangzhou a few years ago, so where will it still be today?

After the meeting of the King and Ministers on the Political Consultative Conference that day, the Eight Banners made such a fierce fight. Isn’t it because they can’t stay in Guangdong? No one wants to come to Guangdong to suffer the consequences, so that the trouble started.

The hot weather made Hahamu's intention to avenge Tayinbu was also weakened. After the defeat, he submitted a memorial to Emperor Shunzhi, but Emperor Shunzhi did not blame him for this. Instead, he issued a special order to comfort Hahamu and asked the meeting of the Ministers to discuss whether to send some Manzhou Niulu to Guangdong.

Shunzhi's consideration was that the current situation in Guangdong was a bit complicated. Not only did the two vassals fail to take advantage of the Southern Ming Sun and Li's internal strife to Guangxi and cooperate with the line to launch an offensive against the Ming army, but the troops under the vassals were all restrained by the Guangdong Ming army. They suffered consecutive defeats and suffered losses. Although Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao still claimed that the situation had not deteriorated, the Taiping robbers were just a minor trouble, but a mob. When the weather cooled down, the two vassals could take them away. However, Emperor Shunzhi was not a fool. Although he was young, he knew that Emperor Chongzhen, who could not learn from the previous dynasty, asked his subordinates to blind their ears. Although the Qing Dynasty did not have the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Emperor Shunzhi had his own eyes and ears in Guangdong, so he was still clear about the series of wars between the Qing army and the Taiping robbers in Guangdong since last year.

Li Rutai also honestly made a note and admitted that the main force of Guangzhou Green Camp was basically wiped out by the Taiping gang. It also clearly stated that the troops in Guangzhou are now empty. The troops are tight everywhere, and the situation is worse than when Li Dingguo came to attack in the past year. At that time, Xinhui, the southwest gate of Guangzhou, was firmly controlled by the Qing army, but now it is the Ming army to take it away. Without Xinhui as a barrier, the danger faced by Guangzhou is really great.

However, what made Shunzhi relieved was that although Li Lutai said that Taiping Bandits could fight, his combat method seemed to be learned from Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's bandits, and even the bandits' behavior, because they occupied one place and did not want to control it for a long time. They set up a place where the officials and the people thought it was based, but instead carried out plunder and destruction. Later, they brought all the gains back to the entrenched Xiangshan nest, which made the local people resent and very hostile to the Taiping Bandits. Moreover, the Taiping Army did not have the ability to attack Guangzhou City.

If you don’t win the hearts of the people, you can’t last long. If you can’t last long, you will die in a daze.

Shunzhi was very happy. If what Li Lutai reported was true, the Taiping gang was indeed not worth worrying. He was not afraid that Taiping gang could fight. There were more troops to fight. Li Zicheng's soldiers and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers back then, but where are they going now?

Li Ruitai also said that the Taiping gang did not have the ability to fight field battles. He fought against our Qing soldiers several times only because of the support of the city and the benefits of the terrain. In addition, the way of traversing made it impossible for the official army to encircle it.

Li Rutai reported that if the official army had enough troops, he could encircle the Taiping gang's old nest Xiangshan, and then let the elite troops reach their hearts, and then several other routes to sweep the surrounding areas. Under layers of pressure, the Taiping gang will have no way to escape, and it is inevitable to collapse. However, the Guangdong official army does not have enough military strength to encircle and suppress the Taiping gang. In addition, other Ming troops in the territory can only ensure that the elite territory of Guangdong is not lost, and it is difficult to use large forces against the Ming army and the Taiping gang, because both of them are involved and they are launched.

If the official army uses large-scale troops to fight against Taiping, it is necessary to mobilize the troops stationed in various places to come and fight, so that the Ming army can take advantage of the opportunity; if the Ming army is used in large-scale troops, the Ming army will also take advantage of the opportunity. The two are dependent on each other, which is really difficult. Therefore, Li Shutai asked the court to send additional reinforcements to Guangdong so that Guangdong has enough troops to deal with this situation.

After repeated consideration, Shunzhi decided to allow Li Rutai to send more Eight Banners troops to Guangdong. As a result, not only did the princes and ministers unanimously oppose it, but even Prince An Yuele, who had previously proposed to set up a city in Guangzhou, did not agree.

The reason why the kings opposed it was that Dingkou, Manzhou was the foundation of the country. Now the imperial court has established more than a dozen cities including Xi'an, Jiangning, Hangzhou, Yongdeng, Jingzhou, Tongguan, Taiyuan, Yinchuan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, etc. Each city has at least a thousand soldiers and at most thousands of soldiers. More than a dozen places require more than 20,000 soldiers to garrison the Eight Banners of Manzhou. In addition, the family members are no less than tens of thousands, which account for more than one-third of the population of Manzhou.

When the Eight Banners soldiers entered the pass, there were only 100,000 people. In recent years, they suffered 10,000 or 20,000 casualties in the battles with the Ming army, the Break, and the Daxi army. The remaining ones except the more than 20,000 people stationed in the city were less than 50,000.

The Eight Banners soldiers, which are less than 50,000, will leave a part of them in Shengjing outside the pass to protect the land of their ancestors’ Longxing, and the rest will be in charge of the capital. A certain number of Eight Banners soldiers will be retained to support various battlefields at any time. How can they draw troops south to reinforce Guangdong!

It was Yue Le's idea to propose that the city of Guangzhou was set up in Guangzhou. He didn't expect that the war in Guangdong would be like this, so this time he really had no confidence to fight. Yue Le didn't say anything, and the opposing princes and ministers naturally gained the upper hand. Shunzhi had no choice, so he signaled Suksaha to propose a compromise - to mobilize Mongolian troops to south to reinforce Guangdong.

This plan was approved by the princes and ministers of Manzhou and Master Beile, but was opposed by the princes and princes of the Eight Banners of Mongolia. When the two sides were in a stalemate, the old minister Ning Wan made a smooth move and said that it was not appropriate to send troops to Guangdong now. Northerners are not suitable to adapt to the hot weather in Guangdong, so they might as well wait for the autumn to discuss it.

Therefore, the matter of dispatching Mongolian troops to the south was temporarily put on hold.

Shunzhi issued an edict to waive Guangzhou Prefecture for two years of money and food, which was considered a spiritual support for Li Lutai, and at the same time it also dispelled Li Lutai's intention to go to Fujian. At this critical moment, Emperor Shunzhi would not be confused. He could do the change of generals in the previous dynasty, but he would not do it. He had to wait until the situation in Guangdong settled before considering the replacement of people.

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Not fighting does not mean that Zhou Shixiang can get idle. No matter how hot the weather is, he is also running back and forth in various villages in Xiangshan.

The Yongli court's decree of appointing Zhou Shixiang as the general of Guangzhou and Zhou Shixiang sent the team to Kunming to predict the war, so the two sides failed to meet. Therefore, after Guo Shao and Liang Shuanghu arrived in Kunming, they realized that their commander was no longer the registered Chaozhou general, but the Guangzhou general. However, Guangzhou City was still in the hands of the Qing army, so the meaning of this or not is not very important.

Zhou Shixiang has been busy in Qianshi's pastures and discussing arms deals with Folang Jiren.

What the officials in the village heard the most in the past few days was their general Zhou Shi scolding Folang Jiren.

Zhou Shixiang didn't know anything about English, Spanish, Latin, and so what he cursed back and forth most was "**temptation!". As for whether the Folang Ji people knew or not, he didn't care. He didn't care how the Han people translated the news. He just wanted to scold him anyway, because these white-skinned ghosts were really profiteers and could not be raped anymore. He even had to charge him 30 taels of silver with a broken musket, but he didn't bring any medicine! That's not all, the price of 30 taels is futures, and the things are still on the side of the ocean. If you want to buy ready-made ones, you'll double it. It's a big mother's 60 taels per pole!

As for artillery, the price is even higher. No matter how many Zhou Shixiang and his brothers robbed, they could not withstand the white-skinned Japanese extortions.

Zhou Shi was so angry that he threw these Folang Ji people in the front mountain village and took them back to Renhou Township, Xiangshan County. He kept thinking halfway through the way that there was no danger in this ghost place in Macau, so could he lead troops to steal one of them?

When he was about to arrive in Renhou Township, Duke Xiang of Song sent someone to report that the imperial envoy from the Yongli court was still in the city and refused to leave. As a result, Zhou Shixiang took people to Yongle Township without saying a word.

He really didn't want to meet the imperial envoy from the Yongli court, although this imperial envoy was the chief officer Cheng Bangjun and Cheng who ran to Daqiao Mountain to fool Boss Hu.

Last time, Cheng Bangjun came to send a seal of Luo Dingzhou General, but this time he sent a seal of the general of Guangzhou. Logically, they came to send officials and represented the Yongli court. It would be fine if Zhou Shi ignored them, but he couldn't always hide from them. But he really didn't want to see Cheng Bangjun, because the man surnamed Cheng always put on the airs of an imperial envoy as an imperial envoy, asking him to lead his troops to accept the command of Guangdong Governor Lian Chengbi to attack Guangxi.

Run from Xiangshan to fight Guangxi?

Zhou Shixiang will only do this stupid thing unless his mind is in water!

But Cheng Bangjun had his reasons and a high-sounding reason, saying that Guangxi had been occupied by the Qing army's Ministry of State Security, and that Guangdong had lost contact with Yunnan. If we want to restore the news with the court, we would inevitably take Guangxi. Even if we cannot eliminate Guoan, we would have to take down two important towns, Guilin and Nanning. Only in this way can the three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan be revitalized and it is crucial to fight the overall situation of the Qing Dynasty.

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