Thirteen families in Kuidong?

Some of the generals present knew about the Thirteen families, and some didn't know about it. Tieyi didn't know about it, so he looked at Zhao Sihai, hoping that the other party could tell which troops the Thirteen families in Kuidong were referring to. Unexpectedly, Zhao Sihai was not very clear about the background of the Thirteen families, and only knew that it was the remaining troops of the Dashun Army of the original trespass Li Zicheng.

Zhou Tengfeng from Haibei Province had studied in Hunan in his early years. At that time, when the Qing army was heading south, he was fortunate to work in a record room under Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang who was strongly advocated the joint efforts of the remaining troops of the Shun Army to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, when he heard that Zhou Shixiang was going to pick up the thirteen families in Kuidong to Hunan, he was shocked and admired, "Xingping's plan is great! Except for Santan, the thirteen families are all elites in the Zhongzhen Camp. These people have been in the army for a long time. They are active when they move, play when they are quiet, and use them with their strength. If they can escape from Kuidong and enter Hunan, they will make great contributions to the Ming Dynasty!"

These are the Thirteen Kuidong families and the Zhongzhen Camp, and Tieyi was even more confused when he heard this. Qi Hao was born in the Daxi Army. Among the generals present, he knew more about the Kuidong soldiers who were also from the peasant army. So he stood up and said to the unclear generals: "What the General Secretary said about the Thirteen Kuidong families except Santan are all the remaining troops of the Shun Army. More than ten years ago, Li Xiaozi was defeated at Shanhaiguan and retreated from the capital. He led the eastward one by one, and his nephew Li Guo and his brother-in-law Gao Yigong led them from Shaanxi to Hubei."

As he was saying this, the blind Li, who was nestled at the door with a hammer in his arms, suddenly jumped out and shouted angrily: "When did I run to Shanhaiguan, and when will there be a brother-in-law named Gao? Command together, don't make my rumors!"

After hearing this, all the generals in the hall laughed out loud. The blind man Li mentioned in Qi Hao was not the blind man Li in front of him. Compared with that, the blind man Li was not qualified to carry shoes to the blind man Li. Yu Shizhong, a voyage school near the door, pulled the blind man Li and told him the origin of the blind man Li. After hearing this, the blind man Li immediately stuck out his tongue and went back in shame. No matter how bad he was, he always knew the name of the King of Breaking Li Zicheng.

The atmosphere in the hall became much more active when the blind Li made a fuss. Qi Hao continued to talk about the Thirteen families to everyone. He kept calling Li Zicheng one by one, but because his old master, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng, were not in harmony, so Zhang Xianzhong usually called Li Zicheng blind. Over time, the Western Army called Li Zicheng blind. After almost twenty years, Qi Hao could not change his words. It was not that he really had much resentment towards Li Zicheng.

"After Li was buried in Jiugong Mountain, the generals of the Dashun Army who had followed him eastwards, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, Wu Ruyi, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and others refused to lose their integrity in the Han people and refused to change their ancestors' clothes. Therefore, they refused to surrender the people of Manzhou and contacted the Ming Dynasty's governor He Tengjiao, but He Tengjiao looked down on Tian Jianxiu and others, making things difficult for him everywhere, and did not provide food and salary for Tian Jianxiu and others at all, so Tian Jianxiu and others could not stand in Hunan. I heard that Li Guo and Gao Yigong and others arrived in Hubei, so they led the army north to meet with Li Gao.

Later, the governor of Huguang Du Yinxi at that time advocated the alliance with the Shun Army with Emperor Longwu. Emperor Longwu did not miss the old revenge and happily issued an order to sign Li Guo and others as marquis, and ordered the remaining troops of the Shun Army to be changed to Zhongzhen Camp. Later, Emperor Longwu died for the country and Emperor Yongli ascended the throne for more than ten years. The remaining troops of the Dashun Army and Zhongzhen Camp were always insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Henan. The current leaders heard that they were Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and others. As for those three Tan, they were talking about Fu Hou Tan Wen, Renshou Hou Tan Yi, and Xinjin Hou Tan Hong. These three Tan were not the remaining troops of the Shun Army, but the Ming army of the original Sichuan."

What Qi Hao said was roughly what Zhou Shixiang knew. One thing he knew more than Qi Hao was that the remaining troops of the Dashun Army were the forces that the Southern Ming persisted until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was not completely defeated until Kang Mazi. Therefore, people all said that the Southern Ming Dynasty was killed until the end of Yongli, but strictly speaking, it should be destroyed by the Kuidong Anti-Qing base. At least, this is true on the mainland.

Zhou Shixiang slowly glanced at the generals and spoke, "As Haibei Dao said, the Kuidong soldiers were among the troops for a long time, and they were all elite troops of the Shun Army back then. If we could take them out of Kuidong, it would definitely be a big help to our Taiping Army."

Tieyi nodded and asked, "The Thirteen families are trapped in Kuidong, how can we pick them up?"

"Win the Qing army in Hubei to get rid of it, and the thirteen families will naturally come out."

Zhou Shixiang smiled. The reason why the Thirteen Families were trapped in Kuidong was that their territory was too small and too barren, and they were difficult to develop themselves, resulting in weakening strength. On the other hand, they were blocked by the Qing army. These ways of departure were easy to defend and difficult to attack for the Qing army, so in front of the Qing army with a good geographical location, the Kuidong soldiers could not achieve any battle, and could only struggle to support them. However, for the Taiping Army who wanted to enter north and south to rescue the Thirteen Families, the blockade of Kuidong by the Qing army in Hubei became a joke, because the territory they occupied was easy to defend and difficult to attack in front of the Kuidong army, but it was easy to attack and difficult to defend in front of the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army passed behind them, not in front.

"The Thirteen families have been trapped in Kuidong in recent years. Their strength is limited, and they can only be able to handle them if they are only 30,000 or 50,000 soldiers. Compared with hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Yunnan and Guizhou, they are always a drop in the bucket."

Qi Hao was not that optimistic. He thought more about the thirteen soldiers who could go out of Kuidong to Hunan to join the blockade against the Yunnan-Guizhou Qing army. However, compared with hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, the Ming army's strength was still a little weak. The Yunnan-Guizhou Qing army really had to go north with all their strength, and I am afraid that the so-called blockade would not be realized at all.

Zhou Tengfeng shook his head and said, "Commander Qi is from the Daxi Army, why did he forget what the peasant army is best at?"

"Um?"

Qi Hao looked at Zhou Tengfeng in confusion, not understanding what the other party wanted to say.

"When Li Zicheng went out of Shangluo for eighteen cavalry, hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered in just a few months." Zhou Tengfeng chuckled, "If the Kuidong soldiers can escape the trap, not to mention that there are still 30,000 or 50,000 people, there are only a few hundred people. I dare to conclude that they can also bring up the momentum of more than 100,000 people."

Upon hearing this, Zhangping Bo Zhou Jintang said disdainfully: "What is the purpose of the troops and horses that are brought in? What kind of benefits can the Kuidong soldiers and bandits help?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Zhou Shixiang coughing twice. Zhou Jintang was stunned, but saw Tie Yi and others looking at him with malicious intentions, and suddenly realized that the Taiping Army also started out as a bandit? He said that the Kuidong Army was not useful, but he said in disguise that the Taiping Army was not useful.

Weiyuan Marquis Guo Dengdi stepped forward to change the topic and asked Zhou Shixiang: "The purpose of the general to receive the Kuidong soldiers is to let them block Guizhou with us, but the Kuidong soldiers are not fools. Will they be willing to help us?"

"They will be willing, because I will give them a large piece of territory, a base they dream of having."

The conditions given by Zhou Shixiang were very simple and tempting. He took the Taiping Army to break the blockade of the Qing army in Hubei against Kuidong, but the Kuidong soldiers had to help him deal with the Qing army in Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan. As long as the Kuidong soldiers were willing to help him with the territory of Hubei and Hunan, Zhou Shixiang gave up on the territory of the two lakes. Anyway, he did not have the ability to swallow the two provinces now, so it would be better to give it to the Kuidong soldiers with a favor. In this way, the Kuidong soldiers with a stable territory could gradually grow stronger and become another anti-Qing force that would cause trouble to the Qing court, but were as stagnant as it is now.

Zhou Shixiang was not worried that Kuidong would break his promise, because if they wanted to stay in the two lakes, they had to deal with the Qing army in Yunnan and Guizhou. Otherwise, once the Qing army rushed out of Guizhou, the Taiping army would be the first to be affected, but the Thirteen Kuidong families. In this world, no one would be willing to spit out the food that had been eaten. Suddenly, from the poor place in Kuidong to the rich land of the two lakes, the generals of Kuidong would not be willing to return to the hard life they used to live.

Of course, Zhou Shixiang would never do a loser. The most fundamental purpose of his thirteen Kuidong families entering the two lakes was that he needed their support.

Zhou Shixiang wanted to support the king of Tang, and the remaining troops of the Dashun Army, such as the Zheng family in Jinxia, ​​actually supported the Tang faction.

Author's note: If you are not clear about the affairs of the Thirteen Schools in Kuidong, readers can search for it by themselves, and don't introduce it much, otherwise it will be suspected of making up words and cheating money, because it is impossible to explain clearly without thousands of words.

(To be continued.)
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