"Eighty hundred thousand Jiannu, there are the cannon fodders of the Green Camp who died, and the eight Han banners equipped with well-equipped firearms, and the brave and fierce Man Eight Banners. The Yangzhou city can be defended under the bombardment of hundreds of Jiannu's cannons? Once the city wall is blasted open, can the Yangge Lao Ge, can the military and civilians of Yangzhou stop the eight hundred thousand Jiannu?" Li Guodong looked at Shi Kefa with a smile and asked. Shi Kefa was speechless when asked, so he had to say justice: "I have a righteous spirit in my heart, which can stop millions of heroic troops!"

Can righteousness block a million heroic troops? In the ten days of Yangzhou in real history, how should the 800,000 unjust souls be calculated? Li Guodong finally got angry: "Master Shi Ge, Huai and Yang are too important. If Yangzhou loses its mistake, not only will the 800,000 people in Yangzhou be troubled, but it will also lose the barrier of the Yangtze River defense line! Defending the river must guard the Huai River. Once the two Huai Rivers are lost, the Jiannu Iron Cavalry will threaten Jiangnan! At that time, millions or even tens of millions of people will be slaughtered by Jiannu! Master Shi Ge, can you afford this responsibility? Don't tell me that righteousness can stop a million heroic troops. Even if a Jiannu stands in front of you, I don't believe it. Can your righteousness block a million heroic troops?"

Chongzhen, sitting on the dragon throne, watched the three of them argue endlessly and pondered this issue. Although Shi Kefa was loyal and upright, he was too pedantic and stubborn. Li Guodong was right, and righteousness could not stop the knife. However, the position of governor can only be a civil servant. Letting a military general serve as governor is indeed not in line with the ancestral system. What should we do?

Chongzhen thought for a while and said, "Don't argue with the three dear ministers. The military generals are indeed not in line with the ancestral system. Since Qian Qing and Li Qing both disagree with the neighbors to Yangzhou, then let Guodong go to Yangzhou to supervise the military affairs of the two Huaihei; as for the position of governors and the two Huaihei, let Muzhai serve as the general. I will send Wang's partner as the eunuch in the military supervision."

Qian Muzhai is already a member of Duke of Chu. Wang Chengen is the eunuch of the military supervisor. He is not obeying Li Guodong's advice? Isn't this arrangement so that Duke of Chu will dominate the country in Jiangbei? But Shi Kefa can't argue with Chongzhen's arrangements.

At this time, the censor came forward to oppose: "Your Majesty, Qian Muzhai first rebelled. When he heard that he came to Jiangnan, he turned to Your Majesty. Seeing that the Duke of Chu was favored, he cursed the Duke of Chu. How could such a shameless person be the important task of supervising the commander of Lianghuai?"

Chongzhen was angry and asked expressionlessly: "Then do you think, who can be the important task of the Governor General of Lianghuai?"

"The Lianghuai is a key military rank, and of course the Minister of War should be the Governor of the Lianghuai."

"Old Shi Ge Lao did not know how to use troops at all, and was stubborn and could not disagree with his opinions. How could he governor the two Huaihe Rivers?" Li Guodong said. He was anxious. If he sent someone who did not know how to use troops and was stubborn and stubborn to Yangzhou, then all his plans to annihilate the Qing army that he had planned for many years would be ruined. Not to mention the defeat of Yangzhou, the Qing army could rush directly to Jiangnan.

In fact, Li Guodong's plan to annihilate the main force of the Qing army in Yangzhou is very simple. He is to evacuate all the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou City, and then lead the Qing army into Yangzhou City, imitate Zhuge Liang's fire to burn Xinye, and burn Yangzhou into a sea of ​​fire. The Qing army would naturally evacuate westward, and the Huai army would ambush the westward, driving the Qing army to Huaian northward along the canal. The Qing army could not retreat westward, so they could only flee northward. At this time, Gaojiayan opened the gate to release water, flooding the two Huai Rivers, which would cause the entire 800,000 Qing troops to be wiped out. It is estimated that Duoduo, Kong Youde and others could all be killed.

As long as he wiped out 800,000 Qing troops in one battle, Dorgon would be seriously injured, and he would have to seek peace. Then he would win at least a decade of development plan for the Ming Dynasty and wait for an opportunity to fight the Northern Expedition.

Li Guodong had already started planning this set of combination punches more than ten years ago. The Tawau Castle by Hongze Lake was used for the final water attack plan.

But this plan is too horrifying. It burns Yangzhou and floods the two Huai Rivers. If Shi Kefa is the governor of the two Huai Rivers, he will definitely not agree to this plan. He will definitely be furious and accused Li Guodong of saying that he harms the people and causes trouble to the lives of the world. Even if the people are withdrawn (of course it is impossible to withdraw them all, even if people are withdrawn, some people will stay), Shi Kefa will reject this plan, saying that they will flood the fertile land and harm the people.

If the plan that had been planned for more than ten years was destroyed by Shi Kefa, it would be difficult to fight in the future. After all, Li Guodong didn't have many troops. Even if he could block the Qing army from crossing the river in Nanjing, the Yangtze River defense line was so long and the Qing army had many soldiers and generals. If they did not destroy their vitality, they could cross the river from Jiujiang, Wuchang and other places, and the Huai Army could only set up defenses everywhere, which was very passive.

Therefore, Li Guodong must stop Shi Kefa from governoring the two Huaihe Rivers.

It doesn't matter if he changes to Qian Qianyi, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, or even Lu Zhenfei. He Yingrui has no problem. With the military supervisor Wang Chengen, he has two to one, and he has no choice but to disagree. But Shi Kefa is different. This old stubborn person, Li Guodong and Wang Chengen can't suppress him by two to one.

Shi Kefa's face changed drastically by Li Guodong. He was upright and retorted loudly: "How can Duke Chu know that Shi does not know how to use military service? Shi has been familiar with military books since he was a child, so how could he not even defend a city?"

"Zhao Kuo has also read military books since he was a child, and Ma Su has also read military books since he was a child. Isn't it just a matter of talking about military affairs?" Li Guodong said with a smile.

"You! You! You..." Shi Kefa was so angry that he trembled all over and pointed at Li Guodong, unable to speak.

Chongzhen thought for a moment and finally called Lu Zhenfei's name: "Lu Aiqing, you were originally the governor of the grain transportation yamen, so let you governor of Lianghuai."

This result was something that everyone could accept, so Li Guodong was appointed as the Duke of Chu, the Admiral of Jiangbei, Lu Zhenfei was appointed as the second assistant to the cabinet, and Wang Chengen was appointed as the eunuch of the Jiangbei Army Supervisor.

After obtaining the position of Admiral Jiangbei, Li Guodong is about to go to Yangzhou.

News from the north came, Li Zicheng retreated all the way, even Shanxi was abandoned, and fled back to Shaanxi. The Qing army was fighting fiercely with the rebel army and would not come to attack the Ming Dynasty for a while and a half years were available. However, Li Guodong knew very well that there was not much time left for himself. There was still about half a year, and the Qing army would inevitably go south. At that time, the three Qing army would go south, one by Duoduo's east army, one by Yangzhou, one by Ajige's middle army, one by Jiujiang, and one by Haoge army entering Sichuan.

But the current history has undergone major changes. Will Duoduo and Ajige still divide their troops? According to Li Guodong's judgment, the Qing army will still divide their troops, because the Qing court has listed Chongzhen as a pseudo emperor and has taken the banner of taking King Fu as orthodox. King Fu is dead, and Hong Chengchou has also taken the banner of avenging King Fu and directly called Chongzhen a bandit.

Zuo Liangyu from Jiujiang was the target that the Qing court was preparing to win over. The Qing army would likely send Ajige to recruit Zuo Menggeng's army.

Li Guodong was planning to attack Zuo Liangyu first. As long as Zuo Liangyu was dealt with, by the time the Qing army headed south, at least 300,000 Green Camp would be missing, and it would be impossible to reach the scale of an army of 800,000. Even if they pieced together, they could only piece together less than 500,000 troops.

There was still endless debate in the court, and some people proposed to discuss peace with the Qing court.

Regarding peace talks, Li Guodong actually supports peace talks. Peace talks can buy the Ming Dynasty precious time. Now Li Guodong has money in his hands and he has too much money to spend, but it takes time to turn silver into combat power.

But the call for opposing peace talks was too high. The cabinet chief led by Shi Kefa, as well as Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others, all firmly opposed peace talks. Originally, Shi Kefa, in time and space, united to defeat the enemy because Chongzhen died for his country. Now Chongzhen is living well, and the bandit army is beaten to flee by the Qing army. Moreover, the Qing army has promoted Chongzhen as a bandit. How could Shi Kefa agree to peace talks?

Supporting peace talks, only Qian Qianyi and a few officials were left. In the end, the peace talks failed, and the chief minister Shi Kefa issued a manifesto with a tough attitude.
Chapter completed!