Southern Ming, my destiny is too abstract

Chapter 87: Four Northern Expeditions Based on the Southern Barbarian Nations

"How did you guess, Liu Qing, that I would launch a surprise attack on Kunming and disrupt eastern Yunnan?"

Zhu Cixuan asked curiously.

Liu Xuanchu stroked his beard and smiled, "I have met Jin Weixin a few times before, and I know that he likes to use unusual tactics."

"And after hearing what Guangguogong He Jiuyi said about His Highness's conduct in Hongshawadi, Jin Weixin will definitely ask His Highness to send another surprise force."

"But I never expected that Your Highness would lead the troops personally."

Liu Xuanchu guessed that Zhu Cixuan's propaganda was to ask Wu Sangui to send troops in advance.

He also knew that Wu Sangui would be stationed in western Yunnan after dealing with the Qing court.

The eight passes in western Yunnan and even Tengyue were all built to serve the outside world.

Even if the Ming army took Sanxuan, if it did not cross the passes, the Qing army could easily recapture Sanxuan and enter Hongshawadi again.

Therefore, Liu Xuan initially predicted that the Ming army would not stop until it reached Yongchang.

If the Ming army wanted to avoid the passes in western Yunnan, it could only send out a surprise attack on the heartland of eastern Yunnan, forcing Wu Sangui to return to Kunming for assistance.

My Eight Wonders Thinking Field...

Zhu Cixuan continued, "Liu Qing said Kunming is not a place to stay for long, but I have over 10,000 soldiers, strong fortresses and powerful artillery. How can I not defend Kunming?"

He originally set out from Mubang with only 500 elite soldiers. Along the way, he captured more than 2,000 local chieftains and barbarians, and also obtained 2,000 troops selected by Zhao Yinxuan.

There were more than 2,000 Han Chinese captives and nearly 3,000 former Dashi troops in Kunming City.

Originally they only harassed Wu Sangui's rear, but now they have taken control of Kunming, which is enough to recover most of Yunnan and Yunnan.

As long as we hold Kunming City, Mu Tianbo will be in Yuanjiang Prefecture, and it will not take more than a month for Li Dingguo to conquer western Yunnan and join forces.

The only worry was that the Qing army from Guizhou and Guizhou would enter Yunnan and join forces with Wu Sangui to besiege the city and attack the reinforcements.

Zhu Cixuan was afraid that Liu Xuanchu didn't know his own strength, so he quickly introduced to him the situation of the Ming Dynasty in Hongshawadi.

Liu Xuanchu pondered for a long time before slowly speaking, "Your Highness, do you intend to launch a direct northern expedition using Kunming as the front line?"

Seeing the prince nod in agreement, Liu Xuanchu shook his head slightly:

"Your Highness, do you know that Wu Sangui, like the Prince of Rumu, has been guarding Yunnan and Yunnan for generations? Why did he manage Sichuan and Guizhou?"

"Just as Your Highness prophesied, Wu Sangui was also afraid that the pseudo-Qing would reduce the power of the vassal states."

"He was in charge of Yunnan and Guizhou to prevent the Qing government from trapping him in Yunnan and Yunnan."

Liu Xuanchu leaned forward and saluted, saying seriously, "The land of Yunnan is even better than Sichuan and Shu. The northern expedition out of Yunnan is extremely difficult and arduous."

"The people of Yunnan and Yunnan have endured three years of war and heavy levies by Wu Sangui. It will take another year or two for production to recover."

"The Luchuan Plateau in the south has rugged mountain roads and is difficult to transport food and fodder. How can Hongsha and Siam transfer food to support Your Highness's northern expedition from Kunming?"

Zhu Cixuan's heart sank immediately. With just a rough estimate, he knew that what Liu Xuanchu said was true.

Grain was transported from Pegu Siam to Avambang, then from Shanghongsha to western Yunnan, and then from western Yunnan to Kunming.

At least half of the food is wasted on the road.

Whether you go north to Sichuan or west to Guizhou, it is mountainous all the way.

Liu Xuanchu looked at the hesitant face of the Crown Prince and asked, "Your Highness, are you planning to say that the Dashi Army will leave Yunnan?"

"Your Highness, you may not know that when the Dashi Army left Yunnan, they were nominally vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Sichuan and Guizhou were all vassal states of the Ming Dynasty."

"Their strength was far inferior to that of the Dashi Army. Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu had great righteousness in their hearts, which is why they were able to leave Yunnan so easily."

"However, even if Sun Kewang had reached a cooperation with Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qian, he was still a rare talent in farming."

"The Dashi Army also rested for three years before leaving Yunnan to fight against the Qing."

"Sun Kewang originally had the intention of usurping power, and he left Yunnan because he didn't want to be trapped in Yunnan."

Yunnan without Guiyang is like Western Shu without Jingzhou.

Guizhou had already been attacked by the Dashi Army, and the original warlord Pi Xiong was a weakling who was entrenched in the area and dared not resist the Qing Dynasty.

even so.

Sun Kewang also ordered Bai Wenxuan to capture Anshun Prefecture in Guiqian in advance to prevent the gap from being blocked.

When the Dashi Army recaptured Sichuan, Liu Wenxiu crossed the Jinsha River over 500 miles and took the Jianchang route, while Wang Ziqi entered Sichuan from Bijie and attacked the warlords in southern Sichuan from both sides.

And now.

Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan, had 50,000 elite troops, and Tong Yannian and Shang Kexi of Guiyang also had 50,000 to 60,000 troops.

Originally, Dai Qing wanted to stop Wu Sangui, but now he has also blocked Zhu Cixuan's way out.

There is also the province of Huguang, where the Qing Dynasty can suppress the garrison troops of the Thirteen Families of Kuidong, and can also march south at any time with the elite troops of Aixing Ajing City who have arrived in Wuchang.

Even after the two Guangdong provinces implemented a sea ban to avoid Zheng Yanping, Shang Kexi's line of defense could continue to deploy troops. Zhu Cixuan felt a headache after hearing the Qing army's deployment.

The Thirteen Families of Kuidong attacked Chongqing to protect Emperor Yongli, but they were already severely injured and unable to fight against the Qing.

Zheng Yanping suffered a defeat in the Southern Capital. Although he inflicted heavy damage on the Qing Dynasty in Kinmen and Xiamen, he was also unable to continue fighting deep into the mainland.

They even started fighting in Yizhou because of food and grass problems.

Not to mention the trouble caused by Tsarist Russia in Northeast China, the only person Dai Qing has to deal with right now is Zhu Cixuan.

If the news of his recapture of Kunming spread, the Qing court would probably use 200,000 troops to surround Yunnan and Yunnan, either in fortified cities and dangerous passes, or in uninhabited areas with no smoke for hundreds of miles.

Without 100,000 elite troops, he and Li Dingguo split up into two groups and entered Sichuan and Guizhou.

Dai Qing could invade Yunnan and Yunnan from the other side, or even follow He Jiuyi's return route and stab the Ming Dynasty from western Guangxi.

Once western and southern Yunnan are recovered, we will be able to gather 50,000 elite troops.

But you sent those Hongsha soldiers across thousands of miles to fight in Middle-earth.

This is both an overestimation of their strength and an underestimation of their laziness.

People living in the tropics just lie down and let God feed them, they can't fight hard battles.

Kunming City became a hot potato. No matter whether Zhu Cixuan or Wu Sangui took it, they would have to face several enemy forces.

Liu Xuanchu leaned forward again and replied earnestly, "I am from Shu."

"Since the Jiashen Rebellion, Sichuan and Shu were first plundered by Zhang Xianzhong and then massacred by the Qing army."

"Under the command of the King of Shu, it was recaptured for a time, but was conquered again by Wu Sangui."

"When I traveled through Sichuan and Shu, I could see that ten out of ten houses were empty, there was no one living within a thousand miles, and hundreds of tigers roamed the villages."

"I know that Your Highness and the Prince of Jin are brave and unstoppable, but without a year or two to recuperate, even if we defeat the enemy and capture the city, the Qing army will reoccupy it."

Zhu Cixuan was stunned and speechless for a moment.

The only events in Yunnan and Yunnan were the Sha Dingzhou Rebellion and Wu Sangui's invasion of Yunnan.

But the other provinces in the southwest and southeast all experienced three or five cycles of exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

Relying on the golden finger, even if he reached Nando, without enough troops to garrison the surrounding provinces, the people would be ravaged by the Qing army again.

Zhu Cixuan, who had completely extinguished the continuous fighting, asked:

"According to what you said, if we want to march north, we must rest and regroup for two years."

Liu Xuanchu nodded and then shook his head: "The enemy is strong and we are weak, the weak must fight quickly. We rest, and the pseudo-Qing is also recuperating."

"However, Your Highness used the southern barbarian nations as a base to recover western and southern Yunnan, defend Chuxiong and Lin'an Prefectures, and the pseudo-Qing Dynasty collected food and money and deployed troops, but they would suffer losses along the way."

"The False Emperor Shunzhi has allocated over 3.3 million in military pay to Wu Sangui, and has already allocated an additional three levies."

"The Qing government's finances were also extremely stretched."

"In Yunnan and Yunnan, we are strong and the enemy is weak, so we can take it slow and steady."

Liu Xuanchu continued, "Your Highness said that the expedition to northern Yunnan was difficult, but that's not the case in other places."

"The barbarian nations of the South are vassal states of our Ming Dynasty. Your Highness, if you can pass through Annan, you can conquer Guangxi and Guangdong."

"Zheng Yanping was driven overseas and lacked food and fodder to sustain his army. He was bound to target eastern Guangdong, his granary."

"With the help of Zheng Yanping, Xian Guoan Shang Kexi will definitely withdraw his troops to defend."

"This will immediately reduce the pressure on the Ming Dynasty to leave Yunnan. With Wu Sangui's wealth, we can leave Yunnan and capture Guizhou and Guizhou in less than a year."

Zhu Cixuan nodded slightly.

This is in line with his and Jin Weixin's strategy of opening up a new front.

It was difficult to transport grain to Hongsha Siam by land, but Annan, which was close to Guangdong and Guangdong, did not have this problem.

Even when Li Dingguo was in Yunnan and Yunnan, and he was in Guangdong and Guangdong, they each had Hongsha and Annan as their logistics support.

As for Zheng Yanping?
Most of them will just stand by and watch.

The only problem is that Annan's situation is a bit complicated.

Forget it, let’s see what destiny will be drawn later.

What if a meteorite like Emperor Guangwu of Han falls from the sky and directly destroys the 200,000-strong army of the Qing Dynasty?

"Mr. Liu, besides Wu Sangui's wealth, if I still have 20 million in the two treasuries, can I leave Yunnan faster?"

Liu Xuanchu was stunned for a moment: "If the national treasury really has that much money, as long as Shang Kexi and Guoan withdraw their troops, they can leave Yunnan immediately."

"In addition to the three provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong, we can even enter Sichuan and take Jianchang."

(End of this chapter)