When Wu Sangui's troops entered Yongchang, the commander of the Qing army, Wang Doni of Xinjun, also led the Manchu and Han armies into Kunming and camped outside the city.
The State Security Department of the Qing Army Line on the left also broke through the capital city of Guangxi and was scheduled to come to Kunming on the 26th to join the division.
After arriving in Kunming, Doni felt a headache, and what made him headache was that there was a problem with the transportation of grain and grass into the various departments in Yunnan.
After the Qing army entered Yunnan, Li Dingguo ordered the Ming army to carry out the clear of the wall, so that the Qing army could not replenish grain and grass in Yunnan on the spot, and the Ming army suddenly retreated, and the Qing army drove straight into it without resistance, and as a result, although it occupied most of Yunnan, it was limited in terms of money and grain, and the logistics supply line also had problems with the Qing army's advance too quickly, and the grain and grass battalion in Guiyang could no longer regularly transfer grain and grass to the Qing army according to the original plan.
In addition, although the main force of the Ming army retreated, there were still many Ming army miscellaneous and Tusi armed rebels against the Qing army in Yunnan and Guizhou, and their existence directly threatened the grain route of the Qing army.
The fire in Kunming caught Doni off guard, and the fire not only burned millions of stone grain for Li Dingguo in the city, but also destroyed the grain storage of the people in the city, so that the Qing army could not find food from the people.
If the Yongli court was destroyed with the city of Kunming, then the problem of grain and grass of the Qing army would not be too big, but now the Yongli court ran to western Yunnan, and the main forces of the Ming army such as Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan also retreated to the southwest of Yunnan to block the Qing army.
As long as the Yongli court does not die, this war will not end.
And the war could not end in one day, the money and grain needed by the army was a bottomless pit, and relying on the transportation of grain and grass in Guiyang alone was obviously unable to support the Qing army in Yunnan to confront the Ming army for a long time.
On the one hand, Doni put the hope of a quick victory on Wu Sangui, who entered Yongchang; On the other hand, he asked Hong Chengqi to take Gushan Ezhen Yierde, Hubu Zhangjing Zhuoluo, and Admiral Daniel Zhang to inspect the occupied prefectures and counties, hoping to solve the problem of insufficient grain and grass for the army by looting grain in these places.
As a result, Doni was very disappointed, and Hong Chengchou came back to report that he had asked the officials of the prefecture and department to take a detailed inventory of the money and grain from various prefectures, prefectures, and counties, but even if all the money and grain from these places were transported to Kunming, it would not be enough for half a month's expenditure for the army.
At present, only Yiliang County, where Zhao Butai, the general of Zhengnan, is stationed in Yunnan, has a slight grain and rice, and the rest of the places are empty and empty, all relying on the transportation of grain and grass in Guizhou.
Doni is young, and it is the first time to serve as the commander of the army, and he lacks experience in dealing with it, so he asked Hong Chengchou if there was any way to alleviate the shortage of food and grass, but Hong Chengchou shook his head and said no.
Hong Chengchou actually wants to tell Doni that the current situation is actually caused by the Qing army itself, if it were not for the Qing army burning and looting in Yunnan, the people of Yunnan would not regard the Qing soldiers as enemies, and those Tusi would not still stand on the side of the Ming Dynasty and refuse to help the Qing Dynasty.
If the Qing army had implemented a strategy of both suppression and appeasement in Yunnan at the beginning, and had co-opted those local powerful factions and Tusi, it would not have fallen to the current situation.
Doni was a little disappointed, and Hong Chengchou clearly told him that if he wanted to continue to support this war, Guizhou's grain was the lifeline of the Qing army.
And the grain in Guizhou is the rice transferred from the southeast by the Qing court, so if the war in the southwest does not end for a day, the southeast rice will not be able to transfer the Beijing division for a day.
Hong Chengchou's reminder made Doni a little vigilant, six days ago, the envoy sent by the emperor not only congratulated the general on the smooth progress, but also mentioned that the emperor hoped that the general would end the war in the southwest as soon as possible, so that he could draw troops and horses to solve the Taiping army in Guangdong, and the southeast also needed to return troops, and the intelligence showed that the Zheng family of Jinxia sent troops north in August not to attack Zhejiang, but to drive directly from the Yangtze River to the city of Nanjing.
Although Zheng's fleet suffered heavy losses from a hurricane on the surface of Yangshan, Zheng's father and son had been operating for decades and were rich enough to rival the country, and the losses caused by this hurricane did not shake Zheng's foundation, so Zheng was likely to continue to attack Nanjing.
Therefore, just in case, the emperor hoped that the general could end the war in the southwest as soon as possible.
Doni didn't want to hurry up and return to Beijing, but the Yongli court hadn't fallen yet, and he couldn't think about it.
The only hope now is that Wu Sangui will live up to his expectations and be able to capture Zhu Youlang in Yongchang.
When he was depressed, there was an urgent report of 800 miles from Guiyang.
The urgent report was sent by Chen Weixin, the governor of Guangxi, through the military post in Guiyang, who told him that the Taiping army of Guangdong had entered Guangxi, and that Wuzhou, Xunzhou, Liuzhou and other important towns had been occupied by the Taiping army.
In view of the strong soldiers and horses of the Taiping army and the difficulty of defending the isolated city of Guilin, Chen Weixin led his troops to retreat to Duyun, Guizhou in order to preserve the strength of the officers and soldiers.
In the letter, Chen Weixin said that the Taiping army in Guizhou had more than 100,000 troops, not only sailors, but also cavalry, and there was an ironclad soldier under the command of Zhou Shixiang, the head of Kou, who was quite brave when he met people and horses.
Chen Weixin actually didn't want to retreat into Guizhou at the beginning, but wanted to retreat directly from Nandan to Yunnan and join the line Guoan, but the fifth town of the Taiping Army that captured Guilin has been biting him tightly, if he retreats into Yunnan and the line of Guoan rendezvous according to the original plan, Chen Weixin is worried that he may not be able to hold on, so under the persuasion of the general soldier Xu Tianyou and others, he led the remnants to retreat to Guizhou.
After the pursuing Taiping army found that Chen Weixin had retreated into Guizhou, they did not pursue him for some reason.
Chen Weixin's judgment on this was that the purpose of the Taiping army was to enter the king of Qinwang in Yunnan, so they were unwilling to enter Guizhou and delay time.
"The Guangdong barbarians are progressing too fast."
A hint of surprise appeared on Doni's young face, there was a lesson from Jidu's past, he naturally did not doubt the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in Guangdong, and he would not despise it, but the other party's advance speed was still beyond his imagination.
Half a month ago, Doni received a report from Zhao Butai that the Taiping army had entered Guangxi and occupied Wuzhou, and the governor Chen Weixin sent an urgent report of 800 miles to request the line of national security to lead troops back for help, but Zhao Butai thought that Guangxi was not as good as Yunnan, and the purpose of the Taiping army's attack on Guangxi was to go to Yunnan to save their court, so who was in charge and who was the second was obviously very clear.
Although Wuzhou has been lost in Guangxi, there are still big cities such as Liuzhou, Xunzhou, Guilin, and Nanning on the way of the Taiping army into Yunnan, which can make the defenders in these places hold on to delay the footsteps of the Taiping army, so that when they take Guangxi and open up the passage with Yunnan, the overall situation of Yunnan has already been decided.
Without the imperial court and without righteousness, the Taiping army will eventually fall apart no matter how much it can fight.
Doni took Zhao Butai's suggestion, and the result of his discussion with Hong Chengchou was that no matter how fast the Taiping army progressed, it would take at least three months to occupy Guangxi, but now, it only took a month for the Taiping army to occupy several important towns in Guangxi, and the speed was so fast that Doni felt very frightened. oshow7 t1706231537: