When Jin Li's army pursued Zhang Huangyan's Zhejiang army to the southeast, under the city of Jiangning, the emperor's envoy and cabinet scholar Esehei entered the city from Yifengmen under the escort of a team of Manchurian generals.
Esehei brought a holy decree from the emperor to Yue Le, although there was no scolding Yue Le on the holy decree, but Yue Le knew that the emperor hated him a lot.
If he were the emperor, I am afraid that he would also be furious, because Jiangxi is too important, it is the important place to control the throat of the four provinces, but now it has fallen into the hands of the Taiping army, which not only interrupted the contact between Jiangnan and Huguang, exposed Zhejiang to the Taiping army, but also made Jiangnan finally become tense again because of the favorable situation of the bandits' defeat, and made the imperial expedition become unpredictable.
In Shunzhi's will, it was clearly required that Yue Lingsu lead the army to return to Anqing, take the opportunity to recover Jiujiang, and seize Nanchang.
Yue Le was embarrassed by this, because he didn't think that he could recover Jiangxi with the more than 30,000 green battalion soldiers under his command.
You must know that when Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren rebelled in Nanchang, the regent Dolgonke sent Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai and Yellow Banner Gushan Ezhen He Luohui to lead 40,000 troops from Beijing to the south to quell the rebellion; He also ordered Gushan Ezhen Zhu Mala and Jiangnan Governor Ma Guozhu to lead troops from Jiangning up the river; At the same time, Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, Shang Kexi, the king of Jingnan, and Geng Zhongming, the king of Jingnan, who were fighting in Hunan, were urgently ordered to lead their troops to cooperate with Tan Tai's army.
Three-way army, three-pronged, the total strength of no less than 100,000 people, more than 20,000 Manchurian and Mongolian elite soldiers, such a superior force, the Qing army also spent a lot of effort, in Nanchang City under the full army for half a year, surrounded by food in the city are exhausted, killing people for food, demolishing houses and cooking, and finally under the onslaught to seize Nanchang City, recover Jiangxi.
If there is enough food in Nanchang City, God knows when this battle will be fought.
At that time, with so many soldiers and horses, such a big advantage, it was difficult to recover Jiangxi, and Yue Le naturally did not think that he could defeat Jiujiang and capture Nanchang with his army alone.
Moreover, the Taiping army is not comparable to Jin and Wang, and there are the lessons of Prince Jian Jidu and King Pingnan Shang Kexi and Ezhen Luotuo, Yue Le thinks that it is prudent to recover Jiangxi and ask for stability, rather than letting him lead his troops to fight immediately as the emperor said.
If he misses, not only will there be no hope of regaining Jiangxi, but I am afraid that the entire Huguang and Jiangnan will be in danger of falling.
"Zhang Chaoxuan and Liu Guangbi are dead and cannot be redeemed" Yue Le gritted his teeth and cursed, when he received Zhang Chaoxuan's urgent request for help, although the Taiping army had captured Ganzhou, the main force of the Jiangxi Green Battalion was resisting the Taiping army in Ji'an under the leadership of Admiral Liu Guangbi, so Yue Le decided to lead the army to Jiangning.
In his opinion, Liu Guangbi really can't beat the Taiping army, but with the city to hold on, no matter how can it drag on for a month or two, then, he will lead the army to Jiujiang to reinforce Nanchang, even if Ji'an is lost, the Taiping army will not be able to take Nanchang, and it may even be annihilated by him in one fell swoop, then he Yue Le will really be the first of the kings.
But who would have thought that things would come to this point, Yue Le refused to admit that it was because he led the army to Jiangning and caused Nanchang to fall without help, and he only put the blame for the loss of Jiangxi on Zhang Chaoxuan and Liu Guangbi, saying that their incompetence led to the fall of Jiangxi Province.
It's not easy to argue with Prince An, but he just persuaded: "Lord, Zhang and Liu are both dead, and now is not the time to deal with the dead."
The emperor means that you will immediately lead the army to recover Jiujiang and Nanchang, and you can't delay for a moment. ” Yue Le was silent, and asked later, "Where did the emperor's car go?"
Esehei said: "I have arrived in Xuzhou." ” "So fast" Yue Le was taken aback, the last time he received the news, the imperial driver was still in Jining, and he arrived in Xuzhou in a few days Esehei explained, saying that it was only the emperor and the cavalry of the forbidden army who rushed to Xuzhou first, and the army was still behind, and the Mongolian army transferred from outside the mouth had also arrived in Henan, and the emperor meant to wait for the army to arrive in Yangzhou after arriviet, and then decide whether to go to Jiangning or go directly to Anqing and Yue Lejun to join the army.
Yue Le didn't speak after hearing this, and took out two more secret decrees, telling him that one was a secret decree for the emperor to ask Guan Allegiance to arrest Ma Fengzhi, and the other was a secret decree for Liang Huafeng to arrest Guan Allegiance.
"In addition to Ma Fengzhi and Guan Zhongzhong, the emperor means that Jiang Guozhu lost his land and abandoned the city when the pirates came, and he should also be arrested, and in addition, a Manchurian general in Jiangning City, such as Fei Yazhu and others, should also be punished."
"Is this something too hasty?"
Yue Le frowned, he didn't know why the young Son of Heaven was so eager to cure the crimes of the generals in Jiangnan, and even the Manchurian generals had to be hunted and killed.
If there is any chaos caused by the arrest of these generals, wouldn't it add fuel to the fire and add chaos to your own family, if Ma Fengzhi and Guan Xiaozhong join forces to make trouble, the situation in Jiangnan will be corroded again in an instant.
The forehead was black and smiled bitterly, what the master wants to do, where can he be stopped as a slave.
As soon as the master was in power, he purged the Manchurian Zongxun generals in the name of purging Dolgon's henchmen, and most of the generals who followed Dolgon and Duoduo to fight the world were killed, so that there were no generals available in the Manchurian Eight Banners, and Nikan, who was the Beizi when he entered the customs, also became the commander of the army.
In the following years, the Manchurian generals suffered repeated defeats on the front line and lost many Manchurian children.
If there were those generals who could fight well back then, and where would they be led by Jidu, Doni, and Roto, there would be no crisis today.
Yue Le sighed, knowing that this was not something he could stop.
He ordered Goshha to find Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang, Liang Huafeng had led his troops to Susong the day before yesterday, and he would not be in the city, and he was afraid that he would have to go to Susong in person about the secret decree.
After Lang Tingzuo came over, Yue Le told him about Jiangxi's loss and secret decree, Lang Tingzuo was stunned at the time, and he couldn't believe the emperor's decision, but he was very wise not to say that there was anything wrong with the will, but to say that the saint was wise, and he had already noticed that Ma Fengzhi and Guan were inappropriate.
"But we can't arrest Jiang Guozhu at the moment, we have to wait for Guan Allegiance to arrest Ma Fengzhi, and Liang Huafeng can only arrest Jiang Guozhu after Guan Allegiance arrests Guan Allegiance, otherwise the rumor will be leaked, and it will be easy to get into trouble."
Lang Tingzuo came out with an old and serious idea.
Yue Le and Esehei nodded in agreement, arresting Jiang Guozhu, a civilian official, was secondary, mainly Ma Fengzhi and Guan Xiaozhong, the two people who led the troops. arrested those two, and Jiang Guozhu could only be arrested.
"Then when does the prince plan to lead the army back to Anqing," Lang Tingzuo was more concerned about whether Prince An really wanted to return to Anqing to recover Jiangxi.
Yue Le was a little unhappy when he heard this, and sighed slightly: "I have to wait for Jin Li to take Zhang Huangyan, it's not too late for this king to leave, what's the matter, the governor thinks I'm in the way in Jiangning."
Lang Tingzuo hurriedly smiled and said: "Lord Wang, the lower officials have no intention of driving you away, this Jiangning, you can stay for as long as you want." ” Yue Le ignored Lang Tingzuo, he didn't want to go to Anqing, but the holy decree clearly wanted him to go, and he really couldn't rely on it, so he was very distressed.
In addition to bringing the emperor's secret decree to take people, he urged Prince An to return to Anqing to seize Jiujiang.
Seeing that Yue Le was not very active about returning to Anqing, he hurriedly persuaded a few more words, the implication is that this prince of Anqing, you have to go back if you don't go back, otherwise the emperor knows that you are still in Jiangning, and I am afraid that he will be furious again.
Yue Le knew that he couldn't help but express his position, and was about to say that he would return to Anqing tomorrow, so it could be regarded as an explanation to the emperor, as for whether he would lead the army to attack Jiujiang, he would talk about it then.
Just as he was about to speak, Zhu Guozhi, the political envoy of Jiangning Zuobu, came over in a hurry to report, saying that it was an urgent report from Lishui County, and traces of Zhang Huangyan, a thief in Zhejiang, were found in the territory.
"Isn't Zhang Thief in Wuhu, why did he run to Lishui?"
Yue Le and Lang Tingzuo were both shocked by the news, and they both got up.
Lang Tingzuo took over the report of Lishui County from Zhu Guozhi, which was full of official documents and seals, clearly saying that there were Zhejiang Kou raids in the territory, and the thief Zhang Huangyan spread rumors in Sixiang to incite the people to make trouble, and now Lishui County has closed the door, and the county magistrate asked Jiangning to send a large army to rescue, otherwise I am afraid that Lishui will fall into the hands of thieves.
Yue Le and Lang Tingzuo were stunned, extremely confused, and didn't understand how Zhang Huangyan suddenly ran from Wuhu to hundreds of miles away, right under Jiang Ning's nose.
"Could it be that Zhang Huangyan wants to fight Jiang Ning," said Sehei, with a look of surprise.
Yue Le and Lang Tingzuo cut the railway at the same time: "It is absolutely impossible" "Then what is he doing in Lishui" The black forehead is even more strange.
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Zhu Guozhi, who had just been transferred from Dali Siqing to Jiangning Zuobu Government a few months ago, patted his head and said: "Could it be that Zhang Thief was driven to Lishui by Jin Lizhen's army."
"This" Lang Tingzuo's eyes narrowed slightly, thinking that this was possible.
Yue Le didn't feel like it, because the time was not right, Zhang Huangyan didn't have the ability to predict the future, he learned in advance that Jin Li led the army to fight him, so he abandoned the city and fled, even if he fled in advance, he should flee to Jiangbei or western Zhejiang, how could he run to Lishui, which is only a few dozen miles away from Jiangning, he didn't know that Jiangning was heavily guarded, or he thought that he had lived too long When he was confused, Yue Le's Goshha came in with an emergency military report.
The military report was sent by Jin Li, saying that when he led the army to Wuhu, he found that Wuhu City was already an empty city, and the Zhejiang Kou in the city had fled to western Zhejiang under the leadership of Zhang Huangyan, and asked Jiangning to quickly send an elite army to intercept the way to the Zhejiang Kou.
"According to this, this thief may have found that he couldn't pass when he fled to western Zhejiang, and there were Jin Li chasing soldiers behind him, so he ran to Lishui in a panic."
Lang Tingzuo was a little surprised, quite a feeling that he had no place to find his iron shoes, and he felt that it was effortless.
"Since the thief Zhang is seeking death by himself, then please ask the prince to quickly send elite soldiers to hunt him down" Zhu Guozhi was also very excited, Zheng thief, Zhou thief, Li thief, and Zhang thief were not only the enemies of the Qing Dynasty, but also his enemies Zhu Guozhi did not share the sky, and he was eager to eat their flesh and sleep on their skin Lang Tingzuo turned to look at Yue Le, and wanted to say that since Zhang Huangyan bumped into him, he would ask the prince to send troops to hunt him down, but he didn't want Yue Le to slap the table and said loudly: "This king personally leads the army to go to see what three heads and six arms he can fly out of the palm of my army again" oshow7 t1706231537: