After the Jiangnan Right Army continued to march towards Guide, Tang Sanshui was looking forward to Li Laiheng changing his mind to stop him, but until the city of Guide, he did not see Li Laiheng sending troops, and he didn't even see a horse probing. In desperation, Tang Sanshui could only enter Guide City as a "savior".

The arrival of the Jiangnan Right Army made the governor Zhao Chengxin so happy that he almost cried with joy. He personally took the gentry from the city out of the city to welcome Tang Sanshui and shouted "Admiral", and almost burst into tears on the spot.

Zhao Chengxin is really grateful to Tang Sanshui and thanks to Jiangnan Right Army. He hopes that the Admiral Jiangnan Right will live a long life and that all the soldiers of Jiangnan Right Army can be promoted and wealthy. Before that, he was worried for more than seven months and lost a lot of weight. The originally generous official uniforms have been reduced by two.

Zhao Chengxin felt really wronged when he mentioned these seven months.

Since Zhongzhen Camp entered the eastern Henan region last year, Zhao Chengxin, as the prefect of Guide, asked Kaifeng for help from Jia Han, the governor of Henan. While waiting for reinforcements, he ordered the green camps in various counties to retreat into the prefecture immediately, and burned all the materials that could not be taken away in order to achieve the goal of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields and forcing Zhongzhen Camp to withdraw from Guide. However, after Zhongzhen Camp, which came from southern Henan, entered Guide, did not retreat as Zhao Chengxin wished or turned to other places. Instead, he wandered around Guide and attacked Guide from time to time.

Zhao Chengxin didn't know that the "big bandits" of Zhongzhen Camp, which he regarded as the enemy, did not want to leave Guide, but there was no place to go. Although the Guide Green Camp burned down grain storage in various counties, their time was limited and they could not wipe out the countryside. Guide's mansion was quite good among the Henan prefectures. Although the population and money and grain were not as strong as those of Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other major prefectures, it was much stronger than Nanyang, Runing and other places. Therefore, Zhongzhen Camp could barely find some food outside the city. Of course, behind these foods was naturally the blood and tears of the villagers of Guide. Throughout history, the blood and tears of these villagers have never been recorded in history books, no matter which side they abused them.

If the bandits did not leave, Zhao Chengxin could only hope that Governor Jia could come to help Guide. He looked forward to reinforcements day and night, but after half a year, he did not wait for a soldier to come. There was no shortage of food in the city. Guide was a mansion after all, and he had prepared early. Even if he had been guarding for another year and a half, the soldiers and civilians in the city could hold on. But the feeling of being trapped in the lonely city was not something that people could bear. He looked forward to the stars and the moon but could not see any hope. Even the strongest person would always be depressed.

Zhao Chengxin did not blame the governor Jia Hanfu forgot Guide, and he dared not blame the imperial envoy Oboi for abandoning Guide's military and civilians. He was also a wise man and knew that ten Guide cities could not reach one Kaifeng Prefecture. If the Qing Dynasty wanted to defend the Central Plains, it would never give up Kaifeng. The war around Kaifeng was not only related to the gains and losses of the Central Plains, but the belonging of the north, and the survival of the Qing Dynasty.

Guide has abandoned his son from the beginning. Zhao Chengxin knows this more than anyone else, but what does the gains and losses of the Central Plains and the survival of the Qing Dynasty have to do with him? He just wants to save his life. In terms of integrity, Zhao Chengxin doesn’t have much, otherwise he would not have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. But no matter how afraid of death, Zhao Chengxin dared not surrender to Ming, because his family is in Beijing. If he surrendered, the family would die. He could not kill his children and grandchildren for his own life.

In the past, the Qing Dynasty had a cool order that "if you die if you don't die, you will die by the law." Under the shock of this cool order, all the officials guarding the city were able to treat death as if they were home, and even died with the city. However, since the Taiping Army rose to Lingnan and continued to fight to Jiangnan, few officials of this cool order took it seriously. Even the Qing court did not dare to kill the city guarding officials because of abandoning the land. Instead, they secretly promised the officials who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty that they would be fine if they surrendered again. However, when the Qing court was already weak and was about to lose their fortunes, no one of the officials who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty was so stupid that they would go back. For example, Zhang Changgeng, the former governor of Huguang, Jiangning Governor Jiang Guozhu and others who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, had all received the guarantee from the Qing court, but they all handed over the secret letter of the Qing court and arrested the detailed work of the letter to the prison.

Those who know the current affairs are heroes, which is never a sarcasm, but the truth. The general trend is already in the Ming Dynasty, not in the Qing Dynasty. At this time, heroes should know the current affairs.

In the current situation, if the cool law continues to be implemented, the effect of killing the city guardian officials because of abandoning the land will only be the opposite. At least, these abandoned officials did not surrender to the Ming Dynasty, which is much better than those officials who changed their banners before the Ming army arrived. Therefore, killing these abandoned officials will only make people feel even more heartbroken and more disappointed with the Qing Dynasty. If the cool law cannot be used, the Qing court can only take other measures to ensure that the officials below will not surrender on a large scale.

In order to solve this problem, in the twelfth lunar month of the previous year, the old minister Ning Wan, I submitted a memorial to Shunzhi, proposing that in the future, any officials who serve as magistrates and above must move their families to the capital and use them as hostages, so that those officials who defend the city can have concerns and then stick to the city. This idea is much more tactful and more effective than cool methods. After all, people have family affection, and no one is willing to kill their relatives because of themselves.

Shunzhi decisively adopted Ning Wan's idea and asked the Ministry of Personnel to conduct specific business operations. As a result, Zhao Chengxin unfortunately became the first victim of this new order. His wife, two sons, daughter-in-law and grandson, who were originally in his hometown in Shanxi, were moved to the capital. The name was to relieve the worries of officials, but who didn't know that it was a hostage.

The reason why only the prefect and the officials above the Tongzhi were kept in Beijing as a qualifier, rather than the county magistrates, was not that Shunzhi trusted the hundreds of Han magistrates very much, but because Beijing could not support too many people. Behind the hundreds of county magistrates were the family members of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands. This number was more than the population of Manzhou in Beijing, and even the people of Manzhou could not even afford the extra 100,000 people. Therefore, the county magistrate was excluded and only the Tongzhi was the boundary. After all, the number of officials above the Tongzhi was small, and their families were only 10,000 or 20,000 families could be settled.

Zhao Chengxin, who had no integrity, became a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty in the lonely city of Guide because of the lives of his family. He was also lucky. The Zhongzhen Camp lacked the strength to attack and could not defeat Guide, so he put this nail on his back. If the Taiping Army came further south, he would be afraid that the city wall would be blown up in an hour.

I thought the Kaizheng war meeting would end soon, and Kaifeng would send reinforcements to him. Unexpectedly, Kaizheng war would last for several months. Both sides fought dozens of battles, but they still did not decide the outcome. Zhao Chengxin was even more anxious. On the one hand, he was worried that Kaifeng would be defeated, and on the other hand, he was worried that more than 100,000 troops from the Zhongzhen Camp outside the city would grit their teeth to defeat Guide. During these days, he could see clearly at the top of the city that there were often bandits carrying various flags passing by outside the city. Once he even saw a big banner that seemed to be a royal flag from afar.

Because of fear, Zhao Chengxin did not dare to send horses out of the city to explore, so he didn't know what happened outside. The city was also panic, and the green camp generals guarding the city were talking about it. Zhao Chengxin was afraid that these green camps would suddenly rebel and open the door to surrender. At this time, Jiangnan Right Admiral Lord Kuenbu arrived with tens of thousands of reinforcements, so how could he not be surprised!

This time, Guide is saved!

Zhao Chengxin was excitedly disregarding his identity and kowtowed to Jiangnan You Admiral Kuenku in front of the gentry in the city and the soldiers of Jiangnan You’s army, in order to thank the other party for saving the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and also thank the local government for saving himself and his family’s lives.

Zhao Chengxin had hope and confidence, but Tang Sanshui was confused. The news was clear. Li Laiheng led the main force of Zhongzhen Camp to leave Guide and transfer to Ningling and Minquan areas. Ningling and Minquan are the only places to pass to the Yellow River Ferry. In other words, Li Laiheng and the old generals led more than 100,000 troops to the north, north, and then north.

If there is no action, the entire Zhongzhen Camp will definitely cross the Yellow River. At that time, Tang Sanshui could not even pursue it.

Yu Chenglong's idiot came to the admiral's camp again and begged Tang Sanshui to quickly attack Zhongzhen Camp, otherwise it would be too late.

Although there were no people on Wu Chongshan, the "Manchu and Mongolian soldiers" galloped outside the city every day, and they looked like they were called Shu.

Zhao Chengxin didn't want Lord Kuenbu to go to Ningling because he pointed at the other party to protect Guide for him.

A letter sent from Kaifeng made Tang Sanshui no longer hesitate and decided to go to Ningling.

The letter was written by the regent minister of the Qing Dynasty, and was written in Chinese by the imperial envoy, Shao Bao Aobai.

There is only one content in the letter. Oboi hopes that Tang Sanshui can immediately lead the entire Jiangnan Right Army to Ningling and the advance of the civil rights, and he will hold the Zhongzhen Camp no matter what. He will lead the main force of the Eight Banners to fight to the death with Wu Sangui's Guan Army. In the letter, Oboi told Tang Sanshui that he had recommended him to the court as the governor of Zhili. If the right army in Jiangnan could successfully delay the crossing of the Zhongzhen Camp, then the governor of Zhili would definitely be him Tang Sanshui.

The messenger came from Kaifeng at the risk of death. According to the messenger, there were soldiers and horses from Zhongzhen Camp along the way, and there was only one direction, that was the Yellow River Ferry.

The Governor of Zhili, the important position of governor who had not been established by the Qing court, suddenly fell from the sky and hit his head, which made Tang Sanshui stunned and a little happy.

Where is Zhili? It is Gyeonggi!

If he became the governor of Zhili of the Qing court, wouldn’t he have become the important pillar of the Qing Dynasty just as His Highness the King of Qi hoped?

Oboi's request was both too much and too much. What was too much was that he did not have a soldier and a soldier to send more troops to Tang Sanshui, but Oboi only asked Tang Sanshui to delay the crossing of the Zhongzhen Camp, not to prevent him from crossing the Zhongzhen Camp. The risk of this matter was great.

After thinking about it, Tang Sanshui took the initiative to go to Ningling and try it out to see if he had the life of the Governor.

After the order was issued, the troops of the Jiangnan Right Army immediately came out to Ningling. Before leaving, half of Guide's food was forcibly taken away by them. Zhao Chengxin did not dare to be angry or speak out, but just secretly prayed that the big bandits in the Zhongzhen Camp would quickly cross the river so that there would be no need to worry about Guide.

The Jiangnan Right Army was still a step slower. When they arrived at Ningling, Li Laiheng had already gone to Minquan. Both sides were fighting for time, one was in a hurry to cross the river, and the other was in a hurry to prevent the other from crossing the river.

At this moment, an accident occurred. Wang Guangxing, who was in charge of the Left Route Army, took too much casualties and had no food in the army. He suddenly led his troops to leave, claiming that Wang Guangxing would not go to Beijing to grab the wealthy people and he wanted to return to Hubei. Wang Guangxing took not only his own troops, but also some other troops from Zhongzhen Camp, totaling more than 30,000. Wang Guangxing's move immediately caused the left army to split, and the strategic purpose of snatching Kaocheng Ferry Crossing also went bankrupt. Nearly 100,000 Zhongzhen Camp personnel were in a dilemma.

After Tang Sanshui received this news, his instinctive reaction was to evacuate Ningling immediately. Because Zhongzhen Camp could not cross the river, they would never wait to die by the Yellow River, so they would definitely turn back. Ningling was their must-pass place at that time, and it was too dangerous to stay here. However, Tang Sanshui did not expect that Li Laiheng and his old generals under him scolded Wang Guangxing as traitors and shameless villains, they actually made an extremely bold decision, which was to advance westward and take advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the Qing army in Kaifeng was restrained by the Guanning army to take down the important town of Kaifeng. Then, using Kaifeng City as a bargaining chip, negotiated with Wu Sangui to obtain food from Wu Sangui.

Tang Sanshui was stunned because if Li Laiheng and his friends really entered Kaifeng west, the consequences would be even more serious than crossing the Yellow River. It should be not only worried that the Zhongzhen Camp would destroy his strategic intention to deal with the Qing Dynasty, but also worried that Wu Sangui's Guanning army would break through Kaifeng and go north.

Sure enough, Wu Chongshan, who had only met Tang Sanshui after coming to Jiangnan Right Army, found Tang Sanshui overnight, "hopefully" the other party could immediately block the road to Zhongzhen Camp to Kaifeng westward. The next day, the urgent envoy of Henan Governor Jia Hanfu also arrived in Ningling. Jia Hanfu asked Jiangnan Right Army to immediately arrive at Yifeng east of Kaifeng in an urgent tone, and to block Zhongzhen Camp for half a month no matter what.

Half a month, it was obviously time for Oboi and Wu Sangui to decide the outcome. With this half month, Oboi could fight Wu Sangui without hesitation; without this half month, Oboi won and Kaifeng was lost.

By then, winning is also losing.

By chance, the important task of defending Kaifeng fell on Tang Sanshui's head.
Chapter completed!