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After Zheng Chenggong met Xu Yingyuan, he summoned six officials and generals from the vassal states to discuss matters. Liu Guoxuan told everyone about the appointment of the Guangdong Taiping Army. As soon as Liu Guoxuan finished speaking, Chen Yonghua arrived hurriedly, but successfully sent someone to call him.

"The meaning of Xingpingbo in Guangdong is that he restrained the Jidu army in Huizhou. Our vassal sent troops to plunder Zhangpu through Nanzhao to attack Chaozhou, and cut off the food route of Jidu. Then the two armies attacked Jidu together. After the defeat of Jidu, Xingping took Huizhou and our vassal took Chaozhou. But I wonder if you think this strategy is feasible?"

He successfully looked around the civil and military officials and wanted to listen to their opinions on the Taiping Army's appointment of troops to attack Jidu. All the officials were surprised after hearing this. They had already learned about the Taiping Army's defeat of General Hahamu, General Jingnan of Manzhou in Guangzhou, and Geng Erfan, but they did not know much about the Taiping Army. They only knew that the commander was a young man from a scholar, so they knew nothing except that.

Some people were confused, wondering why the court had only awarded the title of Xingping Bo to those who had made such great contributions. You should know that among the people here, there were three marquises alone.

Before everyone could express their opinions, Chen Yonghua, the military officer, asked: "Can the vassal lord know how many soldiers and horses of the Taiping Army are?"

Successfully said: "According to the envoy's words, Xingping had more than 30,000 troops under his command, and more than 10,000 troops from Hu Qili, the surrendered general of Huizhou, and a total of 40,000 to 50,000. The envoy said that Xingping had led the main force to fight Wu Liuqi in the east. This Wu Liuqi's troops were not as good as Xingping, so they were probably going to retreat back to Chaozhou." After saying that, he paused and said: "The Jidu army will arrive in Chaozhou in February at the latest."

After hearing this, Chen Yonghua thought about it and did not speak again.

Successfully nodded his head and looked at the rest of the people. Pan Gengzhong, the official who was the head of the six officials, stood up and said, "Master, I think Guangdong's military appointments should not be done."

Former Army Admiral Huang Ting frowned and asked, "Why does Shangshu Pan think it's not right?"

Pan Gengzhong said: "The two prefectures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou are fighting hard, and the people are fighting hard, and it is difficult for the vassals to call on the world in a corner. The vassal lords have been operating repeatedly. The purpose is to extend the righteousness, so since the previous year, the vassal lords have intentionally marched into the Yangtze River and took Jiangnan from Guazhen. Once Jinling was broken, they will revive their careers. There is hope that people in the world who think of the wisdom will respond in groups. The vassal lords have been preparing for this for two years, training soldiers day and night. They have been conquering soldiers, and they have been 170,000, practicing water battles, 50,000 practicing cavalry and shooting, and 50,000 practicing stairs. They also choose 10,000 to fight and support the battles. All preparations are all about the battle of the Yangtze River. Now they are suddenly going to change their strategy and join forces with Guangdong. Will the Yangtze River strategy be abandoned?"

After hearing this, Chenggong remained silent. He had been preparing for two years to enter the Yangtze River to defeat Jinling. He not only vigorously practiced soldiers to practice infantry battles, but also selected strong soldiers from the army who could lift 500 hu of weight, and ordered them to wear iron armor and paint Zhu Bibiao's text. He only left two eyeballs, and gave them big swords to cut down the enemy's horses. He stood in front of the formation and specialized in cutting the enemy's horse feet, named Iron Man Army, which looked like a divine weapon. The Iron Man Army was ruled by Chen Kui, the confidant of Chenggong's direct descendants, so that he could defeat the Eight Banners of Manchu after going north. If he really agreed to join the Guangdong Taiping Army, he would inevitably make a re-deployment, which would definitely affect his northward journey a few months later.

In fact, when he met the Taiping Army envoy, he did not have the intention of joining forces with the Taiping Army to attack Jidu. When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong, he sent people several times to make an appointment with him. Both sides fought from the east and west to attack Guangdong. In this way, the forces of Ming Dynasty could merge. If they attacked the Yangtze River northward along the Yangtze River and attacked the provinces of Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu, then there would be hope for great revival.

In order to facilitate this, Li Dingguo even hoped that Li and Zheng could marry each other in order to consolidate the alliance, but Zheng Chenggong repeatedly failed to accomplish anything because Zheng Chenggong repeatedly failed the military period. During the Second Eastern Expedition, Li Dingguo had great hope to send an envoy to write a letter to Zheng Chenggong, hoping that he could lead his troops to meet. As a result, he was "peaceful" with the Qing side. In order to prevent the news from leaking, he actually kept the envoy in Xiamen and delayed his reply. However, he was ambiguous about the joint forces and was slow to move, causing Li Dingguo to retreat again with regret.

In the final analysis, Chenggong was unwilling to join Li Dingguo in Guangdong because Emperor Longwu had a deep understanding of Chenggong, which made Chenggong believe that Emperor Longwu had a premature birth to a confidant. After Emperor Longwu's death, he refused to recognize the Yongli regime in Zhaoqing, and it was not until Shaowu was overthrown, so he had to accept the Yongli enthronement under the advice of his subordinates. Li Dingguo was born in the Western Army and supported Emperor Yongli. Although the two families could all join Guangdong, Chenggong was unwilling to follow Li Dingguo. Instead, he wanted to act alone. If he could succeed, he would hope to support the King of Tang ascend the throne again, so that Emperor Longwu could enter the temple.

Such a mentality of success naturally made Li Dingguo disappointed with success. In the letter, he pointed out that his Xu Jun was unwilling to follow the true intentions of the Emperor Yongli. Like Li Dingguo in Guangdong, the Taiping Army still under the banner of Yongli, and Chenggong had been preparing for the battle north to the Yangtze River for a long time, so Pan Gengzhong's words made him no longer hesitate and made up his mind.

But Gan Hui, the central army, had different opinions. He said: "We have to wait until July to go north to the Yangtze River to the Yangtze River. Moreover, it is an expedition of the air country. Once it fails, there will be a danger of annihilation of the entire army. Even so, it is not possible. After the army goes to the expedition, Jinxia is also at risk of being attacked by the Qing army again. Therefore, I think it is better to join forces with Guangdong to attack Jidu army, take Chaozhou to resettle the military and civilians, attack Dasu again, stabilize Fujian and then go north. In this way, the army will no longer be in danger from the two islands."

"General Gan, your vision is too close. The reason why the Qing court did not attack Jinxia was because it was afraid of the restraint of Yunnan and Guizhou. Now Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing court has ordered three armies to attack Guizhou. King Li Dingguo of Jin was alone and alone. How could it block the Qing court's more than 100,000 troops? If Yunnan and Guizhou were flattened, the Qing court could attack us with all its strength. How could it be the only two islands? The current vassal lord commanded the Pixiu, and people occupied the Yangtze River and intercepted its food route. They were too busy to save themselves, so where could they have the time to attack the two islands?"

What Pan Gengzhong said is also reasonable. At present, the Qing army has launched a large-scale military force in the southwest, and Ji Du also uses troops to Guangdong. If the Zheng army uses troops to the Yangtze River at this time, it will definitely be able to cut off the Qing court's grain transportation and cut off the food and food in the south of the Yangtze River, so that the two Qing troops have no food and grass supply. Therefore, although they have not arranged troops with the Taiping Army to attack Ji Du, they have also achieved the strategic intention of cutting off the Qing army's retreat. Even if the southwest side is not affected for the time being, Ji Du in Guangdong will be directly affected. Furthermore, if the army enters the Yangtze River, no Qing army in the southeast is dangerous. Dasu can't choose to attack Jinxia at this time, even if he eats the courage of Xiongxin and leopard, he can only transfer troops to Jinling to rescue. If he does not go, the Qing court will also chop off his head. As for Ji Du, it is not allowed to return to the rescue because of the existence of the Taiping Army. In other words, it is beneficial to the Zheng army's battle into the river.

"The military strategy is full of military tactics. The vassal lords are besieging Wei to save Zhao. The army is heading into the Yangtze River to seize Jinling, so that they can rescue the siege in the southwest. This strategy must not be delayed due to the incident."

Worker officer Feng Chengshi directly participated in the preparations for the ordnance of more than 100,000 troops under the vassal state. He was a firm northern faction and did not agree to join forces with Guangdong.

"The Qing court launched a large-scale military force in the southwest and Jidu used troops to Guangdong. This was a great opportunity to go north to seize Jinling. Dasu's troops were not worth worrying. He only needed to leave more than 10,000 troops to guard Jinxia, ​​and Dasu did not dare to attack. Now the soldiers and horses of Jinxia gathered, spending tens of thousands of dollars a day. Everyone knows that they are about to go north and have to fire the arrow on the string. They must not delay the matter and become his teacher."

The household official Zheng Tai was Zheng Zhilong's cousin and Zheng Chenggong's cousin. He served as Zheng Chenggong's household official for a long time and managed the finance and foreign trade of the Yanping vassal. During the reign of Emperor Longwu, Zheng Tai appointed Zheng Tai as the Marquis of Jianping. For the sake of money and grain, Zheng Tai also believed that it was not appropriate to join forces with the Taiping Army at this time, but should have prepared to go north according to the established deployment.

Only Gan Hui, the subordinate, agreed to invite troops to attack Jidu's army with the Guangdong Taiping Army. Zheng Chenggong did not hesitate anymore. Seeing that Chen Yonghua did not object, he said to the officials: "This vassal regards resisting the Qing Dynasty as its mission, and in the south as it is to resisting the Qing Dynasty, and in the north as it is to resisting the Qing Dynasty. Compared with Guangdong, Jinling is more meaningful and has the effect of supporting the southwest. Therefore, this vassal did not intend to arrange troops with Xingping, Guangdong, but could provide some military supplies to help Xingping and persist."

All the officials said they were good. Although Chen Yonghua had other ideas, he saw that the vassal lord had made up his mind and thought that going north to the Yangtze River was his strong decision, so he did not speak out again. Gan Hui was very disappointed, but he had to obey.

Zheng Chenggong did not see Xu Yingyuan again, but only asked General Liu Guoxuan to tell him the conclusion. When he heard that Zheng Chenggong was unwilling to send troops to attack Jidu's army, Xu Yingyuan was stunned when he heard that he was not disappointed. He just took out a list of papers and handed them to Liu Guoxuan, asking King Yanping to give the Taiping Army some money, grain and weapons according to this list, and the Taiping Army could buy it with silver.

Liu Guoxuan gave the list to Chenggong. Seeing that there were mostly firearms and medicines on it, there were still many stocks under the vassal states, he asked Liu Guoxuan to do it one by one.

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