Dominate the Country

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Liu Dezhao returned to his residence from Chen Ming and could not fall asleep for a long time. He was an authentic Confucian disciple. He had read the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, was a scholar, and was named on the gold medal list. All the glory and glory in life come from Confucianism, from Confucius. …

"Come here, prepare wine and food for me, Master!"

Liu Dezhao, who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, simply stayed up and called his attendants loudly.

As the second-in-command in the attendant's room and the cheap father-in-law of the governor, Liu Dezhao wanted to drink and eat meat, even if there were knives from the sky outside, he would not be delayed even an inch more. In just a moment, the chef quickly delivered the best daughter red, six cold dishes, two meat and four vegetables.

Liu Dezhao didn't eat a bite of the food. He picked up a small jar weighing one kilogram and poured a full bowl of wine. He was afraid that there would be more than three ounces, and poured two gulps into his stomach. For a literati, even if he drinks rice wine like Erhong, it is unbelievable to drink more than three ounces of wine in one go. Liu Dezhao's eyes were very bright. After drinking this bowl of wine, the depression in his chest seemed to dissipate a lot with the bowl of wine.

Liu Dezhao quickly drank up the small jar of daughter's red, but he didn't touch the food with chopsticks. "Bring more wine..."

"Sir, if you drink any more you will get drunk..."

"Fart. Will I get drunk, sir? Bring me some wine—"

Liu Dezhao now felt that the more he drank the wine, the happier he felt, and the more he drank, the more relaxed he became. He wants to drink, he just wants to drink now. Scholars pay attention to the relationship between the king and the master of heaven and earth. Liu Dezhao now really puts "jun" on the head of "teacher". His behavior of "helping the emperor to do evil" is absolutely "deceiving the master and destroying the ancestor"!

"Leave me alone, let me drink, drink..., drink..."

Tears fell from the corners of Liu Dezhao's eyes, and Liu Dezhao had an expression that seemed to be crying and laughing at the same time...

…

The next day, Chen Ming got up in the morning. Liu Wu watched Chen Ming make those weird moves and said with a smile: "Captain Governor, let me tell you an interesting story. Mr. Liu returned to his residence yesterday and was so excited that he drank three and a half jars in one breath. My daughter Hong is still drunk..."

Chen Ming, who was doing one-arm pull-ups, let go of his hands and landed on his feet. His face was cold, but his eyes had a hint of warmth and gentleness, "It's quite satisfying."

Liu Dezhao has performed very well these days. Chen Ming values ​​him, so he must take a look at him in all aspects. Yesterday, Chen Ming made a plan to create a pp picture for Master Kong. After all, Liu Dezhao was a scholar. If there was no reaction at all, his position in Chen Ming's heart would be that he could be used and reused, but he could not be really used.

No matter how realistic a person is, there is still a sense of shame and honor.

Chen Ming tied old Master Kong's hair in pigtails. That was a humiliation to all the scholars in the world, a humiliation to Chi Guoguo. If Liu Dezhao had no reaction at all and was so cold, how could Chen Ming dare to use him?

"It's easy to serve." Chen Ming didn't look back and looked up at the eastern sky. The red clouds in the morning had not completely faded. It was early morning. Just like the Fuhan Army at this time, the rising sun was rising over the city. No, it's just the initial stage. Liu Dezhao's drunkenness allowed him to be recognized by Chen Ming and his character. At this time, it was not too late for him to board the ship of the Fuhan Army.

"Send orders to the cavalry battalion. The soldiers marched into the city of Xuzhou and surrounded me." The army would not remain immobile for a long time, but Chen Ming only released the cavalry battalion. He did not dare to lead the large troops into Xuzhou. Although It’s a really good place there, but what if the local officials in Xuzhou pout the Yellow River themselves? This is a big killer.

There is indeed not much water in the Yellow River in August and September, not to mention that there is still a drought in northern Jiangsu this year. After entering autumn, there were only three or four rains, which alleviated the drought. But this is ultimately a big danger.

Chen Ming himself had no plans to attack Xuzhou with a large army. The main force of the Fuhan Army now needed to rest and be gentle. After the capture of Huai'an, the morale of the Fuhan Army, which was already average, fell completely below the level. It seemed that the enemy had been wiped out, and pride and war weariness generally arose in the army. The former is bred by winning battles one after another. Soldiers have become a group of arrogant soldiers, and the hearts of arrogant soldiers are very fragile and fragile. Some officers may not be able to see the latter, but Chen Ming can. Except for a few teams such as the artillery, cavalry, right guard battalion, and tank battalion, the original old troops, mainly the armored battalion and the musket battalion, were really war-weary, and the morale of the team was really low. As for those new military camps, let alone them.

Is Ziru real or fake? Just look at the data.

Without Chen Ming’s ‘intelligent eyes’, data would have to speak for itself. This kind of thing is not something that ordinary people can see with their eyes. Just by looking at it, the Fuhan Army is still a strong army with strong soldiers and horses. You have to use various detailed reports to piece together the true picture.

For example, the proportion of soldiers who use military honors to play with women is much higher than in the past. Some people climb on women's bodies every two days, whereas before many people were saving military honors and looking forward to the field of military exploits; and among the military There were people gathering to gamble, and the army stopped in Huai'an. There were not many local harassment incidents, but the number was still much higher than before. Moreover, during the night inspection of the gendarmerie battalion, it was discovered that slackness among the troops on night duty has increased greatly... When these seemingly inconspicuous phenomena are taken together, they are a direct manifestation of the military's low morale and lack of willingness to fight. .

So Chen Ming did not use a large army, but only sent out the cavalry battalion. In the battle of Desheng Lake, the Fu Han Army captured a lot of horses of the Eight Banners Cavalry, and all of them were assigned to the cavalry battalion, which not only restored the vitality of the cavalry battalion that had lost a lot of blood, but also made a step forward. The horses of the Eight Banners Cavalry were not comparable to the original horses of the Fu Han Army.

"The cavalry battalion is just harassment. This governor is preparing to fight the Qing army in Huai'an." The 30,000 Zhili Manchu and Han troops that came southward with great momentum were the target that Chen Ming valued.

The dispatch of these 30,000 troops probably made the treasury of Emperor Qianlong cleaner. The dark camp reported that the concubines and princes and nobles in Beijing had begun to donate. Didn't it feel like the emperor of the Chongzhen Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty borrowed money from the court officials? It's just that the Qing Dynasty trained its dogs to be very docile, unlike the former Ming Dynasty, where they were all ungrateful.

Among the 30,000 troops, there were 3,000 new troops of the Eight Banners, and the Qing Dynasty also announced to the outside world that there were 50,000 troops and 5,000 new troops of the Eight Banners.

The aggressive march southward was not only because Chen Ming's army was approaching Suqian, but also to show the strength of the Qing court to the whole world. I don't believe that after seeing the news of instability in Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, the Eight Banners uncles in Beijing can still sit still.

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"The pressure on the eastern line of Henan has been greatly reduced. Can father withdraw a force to attack Yunyang and contain the Qing army in Hubei and Sichuan? I want to fight the Qing army going south in Huai'an. The army went north, Jiangnan was trapped, Anqing and Jiujiang were under heavy pressure, and Jiujiang was the most important of the latter two. ..."

In September, a letter from Chen Ming arrived in Chen Hui's hands from the dark camp. In the letter, Chen Ming described in detail the fatigue of his main troops, and then said that he would fight a decisive battle with the Qing army going south in Huai'an. During this period of time, the main force of the Fu Han Army was located in Huai'an, and Jiangnan was empty, which had been under great pressure. The days in Anqing and Jiujiang were naturally not easy, especially in Jiangxi, where the situation was tense because another group of green camps in Sichuan had left Sichuan. However, the days in the base area were much easier. A large number of Qing troops on the eastern front were transferred to Guide and Kaifeng, and the pressure on the base area was reduced too much. Chen Ming therefore asked Chen Hui to send a team to attack Yunyang and contain the troops from Hubei and Sichuan moving eastward, which could be regarded as reducing the pressure on Jiujiang and stabilizing the hearts of the main force.

Chen Erbao had returned to Lushan. Since the counterattack, Chen Erbao had completely become the left deputy governor, and was left in Lushan by Chen Hui, although he was promoted to general.

Except for Chen Erbao, the people invited by Chen Hui to discuss were almost the same as when Chen Ming left Lushan. The real high-level direct line of the Fu Han Army was still the three families of Chen, Huang, and Gao, and outsiders still could not enter the threshold of the top level of the general's mansion.

"What the Grand Commander wants is not difficult. Now that the Qing army has retreated to Guide and Kaifeng, the pressure on our army on the eastern front has been greatly reduced. It is not difficult to dispatch a team to the south." Chen Cong was the first to raise the banner to express his support.

Chen Erbao followed closely and expressed his willingness to lead the troops to attack Yunyang in person. He is a little rude, but not a fool. After the Shahe counterattack, he was thrown to Lushan and almost deprived of his military power. It is obvious that Chen Hui is not satisfied with him. To be honest, Chen Erbao felt very wronged. How great was his responsibility in the Shahe battle? Half of the army's strength was in his hands, which was all the mobile forces of the general's mansion. Naturally, he had to be careful and cautious. He was afraid that one wrong step would ruin the good situation of the Fu Han Army. He was a little conservative in the war. He was just too cautious, which was very different from his previous personality, but at least he won, right?

Chen Erbao didn't dare to complain. Unlike Chen Ming, who was not afraid of his father, Chen Erbao was just a thug in the Chen family. He was in awe of Chen Hui, the head of the Chen family. It was not simply because of Chen Hui's identity, but also because of Chen Hui's methods. Chen Hui couldn't use those powerful people on his son. In Chen Ming's eyes, his father was just an ordinary person. But Chen Erbao was different.

Now Chen Erbao thought that it was an opportunity. The generals of the Fu Han Army were all suitable for leading troops to attack Yunyang. He was the left deputy governor. This was his chance to win Chen Hui's favor again, and it was also his chance to go back to the battlefield.

Fu Han General's Mansion was no longer the Fu Han General a year ago.

Last year, no one would have thought that in just one year, Chen Ming would have made the Qing Dynasty a beacon fire. Now the chaotic times have really arrived. The whole of China is no longer the Chen family that is rebelling. No matter whether the Qing Dynasty was still prosperous three or two years ago, the Qing Dynasty is now a beacon fire, which is enough.

Many people present here are already looking forward to the moment when the Fu Han Army will truly seize the country. They all see hope.

"General, Xuzhou, Xiangxian, and Yancheng only need 10,000 soldiers to guard them." Anyway, the base has never meant to open up on the eastern front. "If we mobilize troops to attack Yunyang, we can mobilize ten battalions within ten days."

Chen Hui sat at the top, and seeing that everyone below expressed their support in unison, he nodded with satisfaction. Very united, that's how it should be. "To form a containment relative to Hubei, it may not be effective to only attack Yunyang, it is best to attack Xiangyang as well."

"Ten battalions are a bit too few, I think fifteen. With an artillery battalion. Not only should we attack Yunyang, but we should also sweep Xiangyang. At least take Fancheng."

"Everyone has heard the news from the south. The whole world is in chaos. Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, these places are out of our reach now, and now they are all in chaos. This is God's will, God's will. Drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

"A bright future is waiting for us. When our army dominates the world in the future, everyone present today will have wealth, fame, and fortune, won't they have everything they want?"

"Now is the most critical moment. Cheer up, muster up all your energy, and get through this difficult time. This general believes that this world belongs to us, to my Chen family!"