Chapter 209: Don’t Ping the King of the West, Want the King of Qin
Just when Emperor Zhu returned to Zhongdu.
Liu Zhixie, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom king who led the troops stationed in Zhaozhou Mansion, was furious.
"King Pingxi? Who does Zhu Daohua think he is?! Want me to be Wu Sangui? Bah!"
Liu Zhixie was indeed very angry.
If you say you want to be crowned king, can you do it in a nice way?
King Pingxi?
Who is disgusting?
Who are you scolding?
King Pingxi, who is that? It’s Wu Sangui!
It is the famous traitor Wu Sangui.
He, Liu Zhixie, raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty.
How can you carry the name of King Pingxi on your head?
It’s so disrespectful!
"King of Heaven, Emperor Zhu has not fought with our Taiping Army yet, yet he is so contemptuous of our army. There is a saying in the art of war that arrogant soldiers will be defeated!"
King Wen Zhang Hanchao stared at the map and said.
on the map.
The Han regiment of the Qing army led by Fukang'an had already retreated to Baoding Prefecture for training.
The only ones facing off now are Zhao Si's Northern Expedition Army and the Taiping Army advancing eastward.
But since Zhao Si entered Jinzhou, he made Jinzhou look like an iron barrel.
The Taiping Army tried to lure the enemy several times, luring Zhao Si's Northern Expeditionary Corps out of Jinzhou's iron barrel defense circle to fight in the field. However, Marshal Zhao ignored them and just followed the orders given by the General Staff to prevent the Taiping Army from moving north. .
In Marshal Zhao's mentality, he does not seek merit but seeks no faults.
The Taiping Army's strategy of luring the enemy was like Pan Jinlian seducing Xiao Guizi, there was nothing he could do.
"A arrogant soldier must be defeated?"
Liu Zhixie frowned.
Although there has not yet been a big fight with the Ming army.
But during this period, the Taiping Army often sent troops to harass the Ming army's camps and forts.
Basically there is no advantage at all.
"If he ignores Emperor Zhu's solicitations and requests, he will probably send troops to Henan this winter." Liu Zhixie said with a frown.
The equipment of the Ming Army was so luxurious that it even frightened Liu Zhixie.
Zhang Hanchao sighed: "Maybe it will be beneficial to us to fight early."
Liu Zhixie also sighed after hearing this.
With the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in full swing.
But he heard about it.
When he was leading troops in Henan.
The situation in Guanzhong is a mess.
First of all, it often happened that the fields of some soldiers were occupied by relatives of the princes.
This is digging the roots of the Kingdom of Heaven!
In addition, from Qi Lin, the king of the earth, to the following, extravagance is prevalent.
Guanzhong, where the Kingdom of Heaven is, is already poor.
But almost everyone in the upper-class princes of the Kingdom of Heaven has a darling wife and beautiful concubine, beautiful cars and mansions, and each one is more elegant than the last.
The princes, generals and ministers of this heaven are extravagant and extravagant. They compete for mansions, beautiful women, wealth and fields.
Under such circumstances.
The people below were much less focused on fighting desperately.
Moreover, many brothers in the old camp also feel that now that the Ming Dynasty has risen, it will be a good future for the Taiping Army to have a Guanzhong King.
They have worked hard before, and there should be some satisfactory reward.
Of course Liu Zhixie knew that he was not the king for nothing.
The purpose is to let the people below see hope and get tangible benefits.
Otherwise, who would be willing to follow?
In the past, when everyone had nothing, they dared to work hard.
Later, the land was allocated to the soldiers, and the soldiers dared to fight hard.
Now the princes of the Kingdom of Heaven who stayed in Guanzhong are all acting in this way, and the old brothers Fu Bing also feel that just a farm is not good enough, not to mention that there are people who put their hands in to seize the Fu Bing farm.
After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became a sitting bandit.
A series of institutional problems also began to arise.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first divided the land and replaced military pay with farms.
But this can only hold tens of thousands of old soldiers.
Where are the other soldiers and horses in the inner camp?
So Liu Zhixie began to grant officials and titles.
But only officials and titles were given, not money.
This poor official can't do a good job either.
The land of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was all divided at once.
If you want to divide it again, it will be lost unless you can defeat Zhu Ming and obtain the Central Plains.
And before that.
The backward system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the dilapidated Guanzhong could not meet the growing material needs of the numerous old brothers of the Heavenly Kingdom.
It is difficult for these old brothers who cannot be satisfied to inspire the energy to fight.
And as time goes by, the problem will become more and more serious.
Therefore, Zhang Hanchao said that "an early attack will be beneficial to the Taiping Army".
Not only did Liu Zhixie not object, King Wu Yao Zhifu and Sihou Luo Siju, who had just been made a marquis, also sighed.
"King of heaven, now it seems that we can only fight the Ming army here in Zhaozhou Mansion. If we can win," Zhang Hanchao hadn't finished speaking.
Yao Zhifu said eagerly: "If we win, can we go north and capture Beijing?"
Zhang Hanchao shook his head repeatedly: "No, if we win, we can lead the troops to threaten the two Huaihe Rivers."
"Aren't you going to attack Beijing?" Luo Si was stunned.
"If we don't fight, we can't defeat it." Zhang Hanchao said with a bitter smile, "There are hundreds of thousands of troops from the Qing court in Beijing, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Liaodong Army of the Ming army. Moreover, even if the Ming court loses this battle, it will not be broken. "
Liu Zhixie frowned.
yes.
The Ming army lost this battle without breaking a sweat, but if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lost this battle, it would be a disaster.
"Threatening the two Huaihe Rivers, is it to cross the Huaihe River to attack Anhui?" Yao Zhifu asked.
"Of course not, isn't this looking for death?" Zhang Hanchao said, "It's just to gain more bargaining chips at the negotiation table."
"Negotiation? Negotiation with Ming Ting?"
"It's okay to accept the title of Ming Dynasty, but you can't be the king of Pingxi, you have to be the king of Qin! You have to let Emperor Zhu confer Guanzhong to the king of heaven!" Zhang Hanchao said.
Liu Zhixie took a deep breath: "According to the "Ming Rites", if Emperor Zhu relents and seals this pass to me, then as long as I don't do anything indecent, Emperor Zhu cannot just remove the title and seize the land casually!"
If Emperor Zhu wants to maintain the sanctity of Mingli.
Then he can't do anything inappropriate by himself.
Therefore, what Zhang Hanchao planned was to take advantage of the fact that the old brothers in the Kingdom of Heaven are still quite good at fighting, and fight first. If they win, they will have the capital to seek a seal.
"Oh, why do you have to surrender in the end?" Yao Zhifu muttered.
"Let's work hard to win this game first. If we don't win well, we might not even be able to win the title of King Ping Xi." Luo Siju said.
Liu Zhixie was thinking.
If you fight well, you will be the King of Qin; if you fight poorly, you will be the King of Pingxi.
It seems that I have to work hard and strive to be the King of Qin. This Guanzhong is so ruined.
If he blocked King Pingxi from going to the Western Regions.
Wouldn’t that mean more poverty?
King Liu Tianwang guessed wrong again. The Western Region is now richer than Guanzhong.
Liu Tianwang, who wanted to work hard to win this battle and find a good future, quickly made a move.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Wu Wang Yao Zhifu led 30,000 old brothers to camp, 50,000 to the princes' inner camp, and more than 200,000 to the outer camp.
There are three hundred thousand soldiers.
Called a million.
They pulled it out in a mighty manner and headed south, assuming a posture of attacking Kaifeng City, which was already under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
The actions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom shocked the Central Plains immediately.
Kaifeng Mansion also immediately asked for help from the Ming Dynasty court in Yingtian Mansion and Marshal Zhao who was stationed in Jinzhou.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the Kaifeng Prefecture. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's King Yao Zhifu claims to have millions of troops and wants to attack Kaifeng eastward!"
Military advisor Tao Biquan was waiting in the imperial conference room with the latest military report.
Waiting with him were Luo Fangbo, Gu Song and others.
Seeing Zhu Daohua come in, they all came forward and bowed.
"No need to pay tribute."
Zhu Daohua strode to the throne and sat down.
"An army of one million, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has really many soldiers."
Zhu Daohua said with a slight frown.
"They are all cannon fodder, and there are not that many who can actually fight." Tao Biquan heard this and said, "Yao Zhifu is said to have a million soldiers, but Marshal Zhao only has 60,000. Why don't we also send 300,000 troops to support him?"
Zhu Daohua smiled slightly.
Three hundred thousand is definitely not available.
It would be nice to have 20,000.
Just bragging?
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can blow.
Ming Dynasty can also play.
"It seems that King Liu Tian doesn't want to be the King of Pingxi, and wants to fight first." Zhu Daohua said, "That's right, if you don't fight, how can King Liu be the King of Pingxi honestly? Then let's fight first this winter. , so that King Liu Tian knows whether the old brothers he has can beat my tiger warriors!"
(End of chapter)
