The opinions of the gentlemen, whether for or against, made me confused, and I didn't know how to write for a day.
Since Jianchang learned that the Taiping army had recovered the southern capital, Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang, sent an envoy to the southern capital secretly.
The messenger was Ai Chengye, the son of Ai Nengqi, the king of Yan'an, one of the four princes of the former Great Western Army.
Ai Nengqi brought Feng Shuangli's table to Tang Jianguo, and at the same time asked Zhou Shixiang to send his army to Kuidong to attack Chongqing, while Jianchang launched a counterattack from southern Sichuan and led the Qing army to the capital, in order to recover the whole of Sichuan.
In the above table, Jianchang will no longer regard Yongli as the Son of Heaven and respect the Tang King instead.
This is also the first military force of the Ming army in various places to take the initiative to express cooperation with the Taiping Army, except for the Loyal Battalion and the Thirteen Families of Shaohuang.
Zhou Shi was very happy with Ai Chengye's arrival, and he was also very appreciative of the attitude of Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang, and others who knew the overall situation, took care of the general situation, and were willing to serve the Tang King as the Son of Heaven, but he did not send troops to Kuidong as Feng Shuangli and Ai Chengye expected.
This is because the main force of the Taiping Army was pinned down by the Jiangbei battalion of the Qing army at that time, and at the same time opened up two battlefields in Jiangbei and Sichuan.
Although he failed to send troops into Sichuan, Zhou Shixiang gave Jianchang some assistance, but because of the inconvenient transportation, and most of Guizhou and eastern Sichuan were owned by the Qing army, Kuidong had the reason that Wen'an, the governor of Yongli, was guarded, and Zhou Shixiang could not send too many resources to Jianchang, so he could only give some sporadic help through a few small roads.
However, the Military Intelligence Department established a secret communication with Jianchang, which allowed Zhou Shixiang, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, to maintain secret contact with Jianchang, which was separated by several provinces.
Before the Guangxi Taiping army launched the battle into Guizhou, Zhou Shixiang ordered the Military Intelligence Department to send his handwritten letter to the king of Qingyang in Jianchang, the content of the letter was to ask Feng Shuangli to send troops and horses to attack Xuzhou, Luzhou, Jiading and other places in central Sichuan after the Taiping army entered Guizhou, cut off the communication between Guiyang and Chongqing, and if possible, to contain the Wu army that rescued Guizhou through Sichuan.
In this regard, there was a dispute on the Jianchang side.
The reason for the dispute is that after Wu Sangui raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, he had always had a pacifying attitude towards Jianchang, and even acquiesced in the occupation of Wumeng and Mahu by Jianchang's Ming army.
Zhu Youlang also gave Feng Shuangli two holy decrees, asking him to cooperate with Wu Jun, which made Feng Shuangli hesitate.
On that day, he sent Ai Chengye to Nandu because Yongli abandoned the country, Yungui was lost, and Jianchang was difficult to support alone, so he needed the help of the Taiping army.
Now, the Qing army of Wu Sangui's department has turned into a Ming army, and Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan, has also become the governor of Sichuan of the Yongli Dynasty, and the former enemy has become a friendly army overnight, which makes Feng Shuangli a little unsure of what to do.
Not only that, but because of Wu Sangui's concession, Jianchang also obtained the two prefectures of Wumeng and Mahu to raise troops.
Although these two provinces do not have much population and food, how can they also accommodate some military generals and family members, so compared with Zhou Shixiang, who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Sangui, who is close at hand, has greater kindness to the Jianchang Ming army.
The Son of Heaven returned to China and repeatedly issued edicts to appease, Wu Sangui also repeatedly showed goodwill, and Jianchang was divided into two factions as to whether he still wanted to serve Emperor Dingwu of the Southern Capital.
Some generals led by the Wugong Bowang Association believed that Zhu Youlang should be rerespected as emperor, while some generals led by Ai Chengye believed that they should continue to worship Zhu Youlang since they had already paid homage to the Tang Jian King, rather than reneging on the alliance with the Taiping army.
Wang Hui was the hereditary thousand households of the Ming army in Guizhou, and after the Great Western Army entered Guizhou from Sichuan under the leadership of Sun Kewang, he led the troops to surrender, so strictly speaking, Wang Hui was the establishment of the Ming army.
Ai Chengye and others were born in the Great Western Army, and they used to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, and naturally had conflicts with the Ming Army establishment.
If they didn't have a common enemy, it's hard to say if they wouldn't have drawn their swords against each other.
The strength of the two generals who supported Yongli and Fengdingwu was about the same, and no one could convince anyone, and in the end, the decision was transferred to Feng Shuangli, the head of the Jianchang Ming Army and the king of Qingyang.
Feng Shuangli couldn't make up his mind, he was also from the Great Western Army, and he was also Sun Kewang's confidant, but he was a staunch pro-Ming faction like Li Dingguo, the king of Jin.
In the first battle of Qujing, if it weren't for him, Ma Bao and others who rebelled in front of the battle, Sun Kewang would not have fled in defeat, and finally surrendered to Qing and died.
Emotionally, Feng Shuangli is actually still inclined to Zhu Youlang, after all, he has protected Zhu Youlang for so many years.
But in terms of faith, he has served the king of Tang and reached an alliance with Zhou Shixiang, and if he reneges on it, he is really sad in his heart.
Besides, Ai Chengye and they said it well, although Zhu Youlang returned to China, he was held hostage by Wu Sangui in his hands, and he was actually a puppet who asked people to carry the line, so he said that he was re-serving Zhu Youlang, and he couldn't help but say that he was listening to the orders of Wu Sangui, the slave of the three surnames.
In addition, if it weren't for Zhu Youlang's abandonment of the country, which caused the Ming army in Yunnan to be in chaos and chaos with each other, the Qing army would not have been divided and so many soldiers were killed in vain, causing King Li Jin and His Royal Highness Gong to live on the border.
This old thing can not be resolved with a few appeasement decrees The reason why the Taiping army attacked Guizhou, Zhou Shixiang had already made it clear in the letter, was to rescue King Li Jin and His Royal Highness Gong who were hanging in the border wilderness, and why King Li Jin and His Royal Highness Gong were hanging outside the border and could not be returned, Feng Shuangli could not know It's just that although Wu Sangui led the main force north to attack the Qing Dynasty, Yungui still had a lot of soldiers and horses left, so Feng Shuangli couldn't understand whether the Taiping army could capture Guiyang.
The Taiping army is far away, but the Wu army is nearby, if you really want to do what Zhou Shixiang wants, it is undoubtedly to announce that Jianchang has completely broken with the Yongli court and Wu Sangui.
If the Taiping army can take Guizhou, then there is nothing to say, in case it can't be taken, the Wu army will definitely take revenge on Jianchang, and at that time, with this barren land of Sanfu and thousands of hungry soldiers, Jianchang can hold out for a long time After thinking about it, Feng Shuangli made the decision not to move, and this decision was actually a wait-and-see.
If the Wu army in Guizhou can't stop the Taiping army, he will naturally move.
Although Feng Shuangli's decision is a bit unflattering, but it is also considered from the actual interests of the Jianchang Ming Army, Wang Hui has nothing to say, and Ai Chengye can't object to anything.
I thought that the Taiping army would take two or three months to attack Guiyang, after all, it took two months for the Qing army's three-way army to be in Guiyang, but I didn't want to, in less than a month, the Taiping army was killed in Guiyang's gateway Longli.
When the news came, Feng Shuangli was very shocked, but before he could digest the news, the information that the Wu army in Guiyang had abandoned the defense and entered Sichuan was handed to him again.
"Let me intercept Zhu Youlang" Feng Shuangli looked at the Taiping Army envoy in front of him with a calm face.
He didn't call Zhu Youlang the Son of Heaven, because although he didn't make the final decision, he gave the Tang King a table, so in front of the people of the Taiping Army, he couldn't call Zhu Youlang the Son of Heaven anymore. oshow7 t1706231537: