The Henan battle report was delivered in a hurry of 800 miles. Six days ago, Oboi led the main force of the Qing army to fight with Wu general Guo Zhuangtu in the Xuanwuwei area southwest of Kaifeng. In this battle, Guo Zhuangtu lost, general Wang Pingfan died in battle, and more than 40,000 Wu army suffered casualties.

Zhou Shixiang was a little sad when he let go of the war report. Although Wu Sangui's anti-Qing was not his original intention, but was forced to the situation and had great speculation, it is undeniable that the Guanning Army had replaced the Taiping Army and became the main force in the anti-Qing Dynasty. In the past, the generals who followed Wu Sangui as accomplices for the Qing court and became the heroes of the Qing Dynasty at this time. Their deaths in battle were somewhat like tragic heroes. Perhaps, death under the sword of the Qing army was also a manifestation of their sins for the first half of their lives.

In some aspects, the Taiping Army and the Guanning Army were extremely similar, and most of its members were the original Qing army. Therefore, on the moral level, the Taiping Army was not much higher than the Guanning Army. The difference is that since its inception, the Taiping Army has always fought on the front line of the war against the Qing Dynasty, and was the Han armed forces that came out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. However, the Guanning Army only speculated after the Qing court was already weak, and raised the banner of restoring the Ming Dynasty again.

In this alone, the Guanning Army is far inferior to the Taiping Army. But no matter what, the Taiping Army or the Guanning Army are now all Han forces against the Qing Dynasty, and the Guanning Army is on the front line of the anti-Qing war, replacing the main role played by the Taiping Army in the past. As the commander of the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang, as an anti-Qing hero who has always regarded himself as an anti-Qing hero, dragged the Guanning Army behind him and indirectly helped the Qing Dynasty. In any case, it was disgraceful and criticized.

So after learning that Wang Pingfan and other Wu generals died in battle, Zhou Shixiang felt a little guilty and sad. He felt that even if these people would be enemies with him in the future, that was the future. Now, these people are fighting against the Qing army and are members of the anti-Qing Dynasty. They are always sorry for the things they did in secret.

The detailed process of the Xuanwu Battle was also reported by the personnel of the Henan Military Information Department. The death of a large number of senior Wu army generals made Zhou Shi sigh, but two of them shocked him.

First, the "conscienceless cannon" made by the Taiping Army in the Yangzhou War somehow fell into Oboi's hands. In several battles of the Qing army, there were "conscienceless cannons", which caused heavy casualties between the Wu army. Second, Zhao Liangdong and others who surrendered to Wu Sangui in Shaanxi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty again.

The "conscienceless cannon" was developed by the Ordnance Bureau based on the drawings given by Zhou Shixiang, and was used for the first time in the Yangzhou War. It was the emergence of "conscienceless" that allowed the Taiping Army to finally win the war. Therefore, it can be ruled out that the "conscienceless" leak was before the Battle of Yangzhou. Combined with the large-scale use of "conscienceless cannon" in the battle against the Guanning Army, it can be confirmed that the Qing army built "conscienceless cannon" around the Chinese New Year, and the drawings for "conscienceless" should be obtained one or two months before.

"For information about leaking secrets without conscience, please ask the Military Information Bureau to investigate immediately. The key is the Ordnance Bureau, so that Cheng Hanbin will immediately investigate suspicious figures, and be sure to find out this leaked internal thief."

Zhou Shixiang was not annoyed that the Qing army learned the method of making "conscienceless cannons". After all, the design of the "conscienceless cannons" is extremely simple, and there is even no "technical" factor, but the lethality is extremely strong. The Qing army, which suffered a great loss, will sooner or later master the method of making "conscienceless cannons". After all, the Qing army is not the Qing army two hundred years later, and they are still very good at learning new tactics and using new weapons.

What Zhou Shixiang hated was that his subordinates had secretly colluded with the Qing court to reveal military intelligence.

The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.

Just like those gentry in the south of the Yangtze River who participated in the riots and landlords who fled north and formed a "returning home group", these people had no national justice at all, and some had only their own interests. For the so-called privilege of gentry, they could shave their hair and change their clothes. Similarly, for the privilege of gentry, they also secretly supported the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty. Now, for the lost privilege, they connected the braids that had been strangled again. Capricious and for personal gain, this is the so-called gentry's face as the basis of ruling.

After the establishment of the Ordnance Bureau, the relevant personnel were recruited by Cheng Hanbin. Because Cheng Hanbin himself was a Confucian scholar, a group of scholars who had thousands of connections with the gentry in Jiangnan would definitely come in. The Taiping Army vigorously attacked the gentry class in Jiangnan. It is hard to say whether it would affect the interests of the people in the Ordnance Bureau.

However, it is not yet certain that it was leaked by people in the Ordnance Bureau or the secret leaked by people in the Taiping Army. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang only needs the Military Information Department and the Ordnance Bureau ambassador Cheng Hanbin to investigate thoroughly in secret and not make big fuss, so as not to attract people's hearts.

Zhou Shixiang is very familiar with Zhao Liangdong. He had asked Zhang Yong specifically if Zhao Liangdong was a bearded man, but it made Zhang Yong inexplicable. After Zhao Liangdong surrendered to Wu Sangui, Zhou Shixiang was also regretful, just as he heard that Zhang Yong surrendered to the Taiping Army. However, he could not understand why Zhao Liangdong, who had already turned around and served the Manzhou Tartars again.

On that day, Zhao Liangdong and Wang Pingfan had a conversation in front of the army, but the personnel of the Henan Military Information Department had a relatively low status in the Qing army and the Wu army, and it was impossible for them to find out what these two people had said. They only knew that Zhao Liangdong led the Manzhou soldiers to surround Wang Pingfan's troops. Wang Pingfan would rather die than surrender, and finally died and became the highest general who died in the Guanning Army anyway.

In addition to Zhao Liangdong, there were many Wu army generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty again in the battle, such as Li Rubi, Wang Hui and others. Some of them were Guanning Army generals, while others were the former Daxi Army and Ming Army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the southwest.

Su Bai, who turned against him first, was originally the Xi'an general of the Qing Dynasty and an authentic bannerman. Wu Sangui might not understand his betrayal, but Zhou Shixiang could understand it.

"Wu Sangui was wrong from the beginning."

Zhou Shi said this to Xu Yingyuan. The latter was confused and did not understand why Wu Sangui was wrong from the beginning. From a strategic perspective alone, Wu Sangui went from Yunnan to Guizhou, then went out of Sichuan to Shaanxi, took Tongguan, and entered the Central Plains. Taking advantage of the Taiping Army and the main forces of the Qing Dynasty who fought to death in Jiangbei, they immediately took the northwest and entered the Central Plains. They were the first step. If it weren't for the actions of the generals, Kaifeng would have been lost long ago, so why would he be wrong?

"What I said is not that Wu Sangui's deployment was wrong, but that he used the wrong person."

Zhou Shi walked to the window with his hands behind his back. Outside there were poplar catkins like flying snow. Occasionally poplar catkins floated on his face, which made people feel very uncomfortable. Zhou Shixiang cursed Jiang Guozhu in his heart, because after Jiang Guozhu took office as the governor of Jiangning, he vigorously planted poplar trees in various parts of Jiangnan. As a result, after the poplar trees grew, poplar catkins flew everywhere every year during the flowering period, which was very annoying.

"Wu Sangui is a hero, but he is still a slave in his heart."

After gently blowing the poplar shreds that fell on his hand, Zhou Shixiang sneered and continued, "Wu Sangui raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty. His subordinates were hesitant. After taking Xi'an, if I were Wu Sangui, then the more than 20,000 Tartars in the city would be used as a letter of fame for their subordinates. Everyone was bleeding and had no way out, so they could follow him all the way forward. He was better, not only did not deal with these Tartars, but instead handed over the surrendered Manchu soldiers to Su Bai. Humph, he thought that he would be so generous and kind to treat Manchu people in such a kindness, and the Manchu people would definitely appreciate his kindness. In the future, when he fought to Beijing, the Manchu people would have less resistance.

The abacus was good, but Wu Sangui never thought that it would be fine if he could play the triumphant song all the way. If there was a slight setback, would these Manchu soldiers be willing to work for him?...Don't forget that in the eyes of these Manchu soldiers, even if Wu Sangui is the king of Pingxi, he is just a slave... Oh, by the way, I almost forgot that in the eyes of Manchu, we Han people are not even as good as slaves. If you really want to say, Wu Sangui is just an Aha in Manchu's eyes, a Aha who leads troops to fight. Why should the masters work for another Aha?"

"Wu Sangui treats Manzhou well, which is more harmful than good. Don't say that those former masters of Manzhou will not really work hard for him, even the generals under his command will have the intention of being in a vain day. It's okay if the direct descendants are not direct descendants, but they are afraid that they will all wait and see. If people like Zhao Liangdong, if Wu Sangui drove them to slaughter the city of Xi'an that day, would you think he would surrender to the Qing Dynasty again?"

Xu Yingyuan thought for a while and said, "I heard that the Manchu soldiers surrendered voluntarily that day."
Chapter completed!