"What a moral character!"

Seeing the whistle driver coming, he looked panting with his armor and his face was not in order to be completely panting. Kong Youde frowned and felt very dissatisfied.

Ten steps away from him, two whistle riders rolled off their horses and then replied loudly: "King Gongshun, no, Haoge sent troops to attack, and our army lost more than a thousand troops..."

After hearing the trembling reports from the two of them, Kong Youde's face was so angry that his face was distorted.

Grandma’s! Haoge is so hateful!

I really didn't expect that Haoge would send troops to attack before he was ready, but caught himself off guard. Now, the logistics troops of more than 700 people and more than 300 cavalrymen died worthlessly in the wild like wild dogs.

Although the Haoge army also lost more than 100 Manchu cavalry, in comparison, the losses of its own soldiers were too heavy.

Fortunately, these Haoge troops were finally defeated by themselves, and the baggage vehicles were not lost. However, Haoge's troops were limited and more than 100 elite cavalry lost, which would probably make him feel very distressed. Then they should not harass him again before completing his own garrison.

It seems that today's sudden battle should end here. It seems that this battle is just an unpleasant episode when we come to Liaonan to settle in this time.

And I can finally officially settle in the Zhuanghe area before this night comes.

Thinking of this, Kong Youde was inexplicably moved.

Now, since I joined the Qing Dynasty, I have finally had a territory that belongs to me for more than ten years. I think that in the past ten years, although I have won a nameless king, my true status in front of those Manchus is simply a despicable wild dog, and there is no dignity at all!

But from now on, I can focus on developing, develop in this Zhuanghe area, vigorously cultivate my own private power, and become an invisible vassal state. When my strength grows to a great extent, don’t say that I fight with Haoge, even the Qing Dynasty Dorgon and Empress Dowager Bumubutai will look at me with admiration!

Although the Zhuanghe area is now plundered by the Haoge tribe, with sparse population and broken places, as long as you can isolate Haoge's harassment and plunder, you can protect the country and the people and develop again. Then the Zhuanghe area has a vast area and fertile land, and its development potential is considerable, which will be a solid capital that you can dominate the area in the future.

From this point of view, I really have to thank the rebellious Haoge for being able to do this today.

Thinking of this, Kong Youde couldn't help but smile a bitter smile on his face. His irritability was relieved by the harassment of the Haoge tribe.

So, after gradually growing the power from now on, how should we eliminate the Haoge entrenched in Fuzhou?

Kong Youde has already thought about this issue along the way.

Kong Youde thought it very clearly. If he wanted to subdue Haoge, he wanted to join forces with King Zhishun Shangkexi and King Huaishun Geng Zhongming. Before the power grew, he tried to avoid confronting the Haoge tribe head-on. Instead, he first held on to its boundaries, and then waited for the power to gradually grow, and then adopted a policy of slow advancement and gradual erosion, and gradually advanced towards Fuzhou City with a strong army and heavy fortress, so that the Haoge tribes would have no place to gain a foothold and could only leave southern Liao obediently.

Since it was a slow push strategy, this time would certainly be very long, and it could even take several years. However, such a legitimate development time was something Kong Youde couldn't get. He believed that he had absolutely patience, and that Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming would definitely cooperate so well.

Three days later, Haoge's Feige sent a message and arrived at Li Xiao's desk.

Li Xiao finished reading it quickly and couldn't help but fall into deep thoughts.

Unexpectedly, Dorgon would use such a trick to use the traitor, Sanshun King, to deal with Haoge. Haoge was hit by a blow in the first battle.

In this way, the Sanshun King, who had more than 60,000 people, was able to deal with a Haoge with only 3,000 soldiers and horses, but it was difficult to eliminate it, but it was enough to maintain a balanced situation.

In the long run, these Sanshun Kings will gradually grow and grow in their garrison, and will put more and more pressure on Haoge in the future, and may even slowly squeeze out of southern Liaoning in the future.

So, now Haoge asks for help from himself, but how should he deal with it?

Li Xiao thought for a moment and asked Chen Zilong and Jiang Yueguang to come to Ganqing Palace to meet.

Chen Zilong and Jiang Yueguang entered the palace, and Li Xiao immediately handed Haoge's letter to them to watch.

After the two of them looked at it, Chen Zilong took the lead in speaking: "King Tang, as shown below, although Haoge is eager to ask for help, we must be clear-headed and do not need to rush to give him a lot of assistance to fight against the Sanshun King."

"Oh, why did Wozi say this?"

"King Tang, look, although the Sanshun King now has 60,000 troops, the combat power of these Han troops under the Qing Dynasty is still much different from that of the original Manchu elites under Haoge's troops. The battle between the two is likely to form a long-term stalemate. At least for a long time, you can't eat me, and I can't eat you. And this state is actually the most advantageous for our army, if we look at it overall." Chen Zilong said with a smile.

"Is that true? Please tell me in detail."

"King Tang, the focus of our army's combat is in the south. We must seize Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces as soon as possible. This is the top priority of our army's operations. In contrast, in the north, we should focus on stability. Whether it is the plunder of Haoge's troops in southern Liaoning or the attack and sweep of Jintang City's troops on Xuanfu North Road, their importance is limited. They should only be branch battles, and if they can form a stalemate, they will achieve the goal."

After Chen Zilong finished speaking, Jiang Yueguang also interrupted: "Yes, now our military needs are all trying to go south and take these three provinces in one fell swoop. This is the most important goal. In contrast, Haoge's expansion in southern Liaoning, even after Jintang City swept across Xuanfu North Road, and then expanded eastward to Shanhaiguan, were only secondary tasks. It was mainly to restrain the Qing Dynasty and Dashun, so that they could not easily divide their troops to move south when our army was fully committed to the south. Therefore, when Haoge could form a stalemate with the Sanshun King, it would be a good deal to maintain such a situation for the time being."

After hearing the two of them, Li Xiao nodded slightly, but said, "What you said is very reasonable. However, when the south attacks the three provinces with all its might, if the Haoge troops were allowed to live in southern Liaoning for a long time.

Wuwei is afraid that it will also hit Haoge and his subordinates' confidence, and there is a danger of slowly squeezing the Sanshun King. Such a situation is not what I want to see."

As soon as Li Xiao finished his words, Chen Zilong smiled and said, "King Tang, you should not be in a hurry to fight with the Sanshun King. In the eyes of students, the cold winter is approaching and the Liaodong waters are about to freeze, and our Tang army navy will be in difficulty. Therefore, let the soldiers of the Haoge tribe stay in Fuzhou City for a while and should not fight rashly. When the ice and snow melt in the spring, the Haoge tribe also has a great opportunity to show its skills."

"Water, please tell me more details."

"King Tang, in the eyes of students, the Haoge tribe does not need to confront the Sanshun King, but can rely on our powerful naval forces to give them an unexpected attack. This is our army's biggest killer weapon." Chen Zilong smiled, paused for a moment, and continued: "King Tang, when the spring thaws of our army's naval ships can operate freely in the Liaodong waters, we should order the Hao tribes to secretly ride our ships and launch an unexpected attack on the Sanshun King from the sea."

"From the information of Haoge and the Security Department, the three kings of Sanshun are now stationed in Gaizhou, Xiuyan and Zhuanghe. Among them, Xiuyan is located in the inland and is still difficult to solve, while Gaizhou and Zhuanghe are both coastal, and it is easy to use our army to attack. As long as we can launch a sudden attack on these two places after the beginning of spring, we will be able to catch one of these two troops off guard and cause a major blow to them."

As soon as Chen Zilong finished speaking, Jiang Yueguang interrupted: "Wozi's plan is very good. As long as we can give Shang Kexi, who is stationed in Gaizhou and Kong Youde, a very sudden and fierce attack will definitely make them in chaos and overwhelmed. In this way, after a sudden setback, they will definitely not dare to act rashly, and our army's defence in Fuzhou City will become more and more stable."

"And during this freezing season, the Qing court had sent troops from southern Liaoning, and the country's central government was short of troops and the weather was bad, so we were powerless about our army's eastward advancement and opening up the transportation line. Then, after completing the sweeping Xuanfu North Road, our Jintang City troops took advantage of the past few months to advance eastward, open up the outer passage from Shanhaiguan to Jintang City, ship all kinds of weapons and cannons and armor to Jintang City as soon as possible, and quickly form the 12th Town troops. The students thought that if this opportunity was gone, they should be seized." Jiang Yueguang said solemnly.

Li Xiao smiled slightly and said to the two of them: "Okay! Let's act according to the plan of the two psalms. Then, the focus of our army's actions will be to attack the three southwestern provinces, and to expand the eastward expansion of Jintang City to open up the outer transportation line. As for the Haoge tribe, let them be patient for the time being. After the spring thaws, they will act together with our seaships to catch the Sanshun King off guard!"

Therefore, under Li Xiao's plan, the Haoge tribes in the north stayed in Fuzhou for the time being to accumulate strength and prepare to send troops to operate after the beginning of spring.

After spending about half a month to sweep Xuanfu North Road in Na Jintang City, the newly formed 12th Town troops stationed at Xuanfu North Road. The fourth town troops, who had been in the long term, led all the troops besides the artillery troops that were difficult to operate, and advanced eastward in the wind and snow.

They wanted to lead their troops to open the outer passage from Jintang City to Shanhaiguan, so that a large number of weapons, armor, artillery and other items temporarily placed at Shanhaiguan can be transported to Jintang City smoothly.

Because Li Xiao's plan was very meticulous, the battle of unification between the three southwestern provinces went very smoothly.

The second town troops of the Tang army that had wiped out the southern part of Huguang were led by the monk Chang'an of his town. From the southern border of Hunan, they went south from Yongzhou to Quanzhou and directly into Guangxi.

They traveled day and night and acted very quickly, in order to cut off the ties between Guangxi Province and Guangdong to Zheng Zhilong's troops as soon as possible, and strive to capture eastern Guangxi in the shortest time.

The army suddenly came and its momentum was magnificent. There were only more than 1,000 defenders in Quanzhou. The morale was low and there was no food and salary, so they surrendered quickly without any resistance. After Monk An took over Quanzhou, he began to divide his troops from here.

He ordered the three battalions of A, B and C in the town to divide the troops into three groups, and head south and attack directly at the junction of Guangxi and Guangdong.

Among them, the Jiaying went east along the Guijiang River and directly attacked Huaiji; the Yiying first attacked Pingyuefu and then took Wuzhou; the Bing Ying went south to the farthest place and directly attacked Yulinzhou.

Monk An did this, hoping to completely cut off the connection between Guangxi and Guangdong without Zheng Zhilong's troops before they could react, so that the Hongguang pseudo-dynasty in Guangxi could not get any foreign aid, and thus morale dropped to the bottom and could be destroyed in a moment.

When Monk An and his three troops rolled south and rushed straight to the junction of Guangxi and Guangdong, the Tang army's ninth town, which had completed the attack on western Hubei, also successfully entered eastern Sichuan from western Hubei under the leadership of the mayor Huang Degong.

After Huang Degong's troops arrived in eastern Sichuan, they also divided into three groups. The A camp directly attacked Sinan Prefecture in eastern Guizhou, the B camp directly attacked Pingyue Wei in central Guizhou, and the B camp directly attacked Shuixi Xuanwei in western Guizhou.

These three divisions were also as planned in advance, with three groups of troops attacking together in order to capture Guizhou as soon as possible. Huang Degong asked his subordinates to concentrate their troops and attack the main towns of Guizhou with all their might. As for the remote villages and chieftains, they would be left behind for the time being. In the end, the three battalions of the entire army were united and attacked Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou.

After entering Guizhou from Sichuan, the three armies were completely out of power. The defenders and chieftains from all over Guizhou were defeated when they heard the news. These three armies passed through the heavy mountains and ridges of Guizhou very smoothly and arrived at the city of Guiyang smoothly.

The commander of Guiyang City, Mu Tianbo, who was in charge of military affairs in Yunnan and Guizhou, saw that the Tang army was so powerful that he knew that Guiyang was difficult to defend, so he had to work with Guizhou Prefect Yang Tianzhang to quietly withdrew his troops while the Tang army had not yet besieged the city and returned directly to Yunnan.

As soon as the puppet Ming army retreated, the Tang army took Guiyang without bloodshed.

Immediately, Huang Degong worked tirelessly and ordered the entire army to be divided into three units, attacking Liping Prefecture, Duyun Prefecture, Annanwei and other places in southern Guizhou, requiring the soldiers of the ninth town to completely capture the entire Guizhou as soon as possible.

He knew that time was precious, and he would not take advantage of the fact that the enemy was not prepared to take down Yunnan and Guizhou in one fell swoop. When they recovered, it would be a problem for Yunnan's steep terrain to start defending on the spot.

Therefore, in his plan, after taking over the entire Guizhou, the entire army was not allowed to rest and enter Yunnan, striving to regain the entire territory of Yunnan within two months, but regain the entire territory of Yunnan from the Hongguang puppet dynasty.

In Yunnan, the soldiers in the ninth town can rest for a while, and then immediately head eastward toward the army and the second soldiers in the Tang army stationed at the border between Guangxi and Guangdong, and attacked together east and west, and captured the entire Guangxi in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!