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Volume 1: Invasion of the Capital, Chapter 919: It is forbidden to attack Nanming

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    Nothing has been done militarily, but military spending has been extremely bloated.  When the finances cannot make ends meet, the Ministry of Household Affairs¡¯ response is to impose additional taxes in disguised form.  In order to supply soldiers and horses in various towns, the people of Jiangnan were almost squeezed to the point of dryness and blood.  But even so, the monarchs and ministers of the Hongguang court still showed their greedy faces, and they tried their best to "take it from the people."  Before Zhu Yousong was enthroned, he wandered around, cut off his source of livelihood, and begged for mercy from the more prosperous vassals and officials. But as soon as he ascended the throne, he immediately wanted to live on par with the emperors of the Peace Period.  He ordered the construction of a palace for himself and the Queen Mother, bought jewelry for preparations for the wedding, and hired singers and dancers for his pleasure; some people who had helped him when he was unlucky also flocked to share the wealth.  In a word, Nan Ming has become rotten to the core.  With just a slight push, this seemingly gigantic creature would fall to the ground.  But at the beginning, Wu Shigong¡¯s Daping Dynasty did not regard the Nanming Hongguang Dynasty as its primary goal.  In order to paralyze Hongguang's monarchs and ministers, Wu Shigong even received envoys from Nanming and instructed officials to start peace talks with the envoys of Nanming.  Of course, in the end, because he refused to kneel down and salute at the founding ceremony, the envoy was sent out of the country.  But this behavior misled the emperor and ministers of Hongguang Dynasty even more.  They all thought that the breakdown of negotiations was just a matter of etiquette.  The bottom line of the Nanming peace talks is actually to surrender. In fact, this clause is not unacceptable.  Therefore, the monarchs and ministers of the Hongguang Dynasty may still have complaints in their hearts: The Daping Dynasty's behavior of driving away the envoys was also "too impatient"!  Another point is that Wu Shigong¡¯s scolding of the North Korean envoys was also spread to the Southern Ming Dynasty.  therefore.  The emperor and ministers of Hongguang Dynasty judged: Wu Shigong still treated the two groups of envoys differently, still respected Emperor Hongguang, and the door to negotiations was still not closed.  to this end.  They began to prepare for the second batch of envoys in full swing, and they must negotiate an outcome for the Northern and Southern Dynasties.  At this time, there was also a rumor among the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, saying: Wu Shigong was after the Yuan people, and the Great Ping Dynasty was also the dynasty of the Tartars. The so-called restoration of the Yuan people  In order to reduce the discord during the negotiations, Hong Guangchao went so far as to arrest the scholars who spread those rumors.  They even publicized that Wu Shigong was a disciple of the saint.  He has the reputation of being a student.  He is a "friend of Jiangnan Shilin (that is, the Donglin Party)" and so on.  Wu Shigong never thought that the personal image problem he was most worried about would be taken care of by one of his enemies, Nan Ming.  To do our best to maintain.  It really makes me laugh when I wake up from a dream!  But soon, the situation in the world suddenly changed.  The Daping Dynasty's Western Expeditionary Army swept through the northwest and Sichuan one after another. Dashun and Daxi were also swept away like a whirlwind, and even Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were awarded the heads one after another.  Seeing such a strong military force in Daping Dynasty.  Hongguang became anxious towards his emperor and ministers.  They were eager to send envoys.  I want peace talks with Daping Dynasty to succeed as soon as possible.  But even at this time, the Daping Dynasty still did not want to launch the Nanming strategy.  Because the strategy of the Daping Dynasty was very clear, which was to first Qing Dynasty and then Ming Dynasty.  However, a series of emergencies, coupled with the excellent strategic vision and bold actions of the Daping army generals, allowed the Nanming strategy to be launched without the consent of Wu Shigong and the Daping court.  The first is the 30,000 Shandong Army led by Chi Ming, who deployed troops in southern Shandong.  Starting from March of the first year of Qiongyuan, in order to cover the Marine Corps¡¯ conquest strategy, Chi Ming¡¯s troops were at the junction with the Nanming Army.  The drill began with great fanfare.  He also declared that he would attack south across the Yangtze River and capture Nanjing.  But although this action caused the Nanming Army to panic.  However, the Shandong Army still did not cross the border between the two armies, because the exercise was just a show, and the Shandong Army could not undermine the general strategy of the Daping Dynasty.  But after this kind of "wolf is coming" several times, the Nanming Army gradually stabilized.  Even when the news reached the ears of the Hongguang Dynasty's monarchs, they believed that this was the intimidation behavior of the Daping Dynasty, which wanted Nanming to make greater concessions in the peace talks.  It can also be seen that the Daping Dynasty was strong on the outside and capable on the inside.  The "Ah Q spirit" of the Hongguang Dynasty monarchs and ministers was very smooth, but the gentry in the Huaiyang area believed the claims of the Shandong Army.  Since various towns in the Southern Ming Dynasty stationed heavy troops in the Huaiyang area, the local people were miserable.  In addition, the officials and gentry in Yangzhou City had a good relationship with Wu Shigong and even cooperated in business. Therefore, they sent secret envoys to Chi Ming's army to secretly discuss that they should dedicate Yangzhou, the important city of Huaiyang.  .  Chi Ming will definitely welcome such a great thing that will bring pie to the world.  However, as a member of Wu Shigong's "Young Guards" and the former commander of Wu Shigong's personal army, Chi Ming must have extremely admired and obeyed Wu Shigong. Therefore, he rushed to report to Wu Shigong in order to obtain  The order to send troops.  "However, the urgent report from eight hundred miles only brought back a strict order.  There are only two words - no!  In military terms, the most taboo military operations areYes - fighting on two fronts.  It can be said that one of the main reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was that it fell into a two-front battle with the peasant army and the Qing army.  In the end, the Ming army was at a loss of ground and exhausted, and its effective forces were wiped out one by one.  In the end, the entire central and northern region was depleted of troops, and even the emperor was buried with him in the fallen city of Beijing.  Although the military situation of the Daping Dynasty was indeed surrounded by enemies on all sides, Wu Shigong and others would never make stupid mistakes and actively conduct two-front operations.  Therefore, the Daping Army will definitely choose a main battlefield, and the Qing Army, which poses the greatest threat, is the closest, and has the strongest troops, will undoubtedly be the first target.  Besides, the Daping Dynasty already occupied five or six provinces.  In their own territory, there is a shortage of officials, production has not yet resumed, and even public security has not been stable.  In a word, the territory you own has not been digested, so how can you still have the energy to seize other territories?  To be honest, the initial strategic goal of the New Year's Offensive launched by Xue Yong's Western Conquest Army was only to annihilate the effective forces of the Dashun Army, making it impossible for the Dashun Army to cross the Yellow River, leave Tongguan, and enter Shanxi and Henan.  I just didn't expect that the Dashun Army after the defeat was so vulnerable, and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army was even less worth mentioning. This allowed the Zhengxi Army to fly smoothly and quickly occupied several northwest provinces and half of Sichuan.  Of course, if Xue Yong, Quan Dashan and others really achieved this great victory, Wu Shigong and others would never blame them, because after all, they eliminated the two great enemies Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for the sake of the Great Ping Dynasty.  (To be continued)
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