If we analyze it only from the perspective of military strength, the anti-Qing forces after Hongguang reached the strongest in the eighth year of Yongli. In theory, the anti-Qing armies could bring out more than 400,000 troops, the Qin vassals had about 150,000 troops, the Jin vassals and Qiong vassals, the United States 80,000, and the Yanping vassals. In addition, the North Korean vassals had far and wide, and the anti-Qing armies in Kuidong area had only 400,000 troops. Even if they were only considered elite troops who could fight and dare to fight, the anti-Qing armies could bring together a strong army of more than 180,000 troops to launch an offensive that the Qing Dynasty could not resist. But at present, these armies were in a state of fragmentation.

Only the United States and Qiong and the two vassals of Jin were solid and powerful. In addition, the other anti-Qing armed forces fought on their own. After solving the Southeast, Li Mingxun hoped to do the most was to unify these armed forces under a banner. As long as he did it, it was only a matter of time to expel the Tartars. Obviously, the only one who could do this was the eldest brother-in-law of the head of state in Anlong Mansion, Guizhou, and the Emperor Yongli.

Before Li Mingxun returned to Hong Kong from Sijiao Mountain, he went to Taipei and picked up Princess Anhua. Li Mingxun's meaning was very simple. He hoped to welcome the Emperor Yongli Yu Zhaoqing and host the wedding for Li Mingxun and Zhu Yushu. Of course, this was just a reason. Li Mingxun's real intention was to rescue Emperor Yongli from Sun Kewang's control.

In fact, Emperor Yongli was just a puppet, but he could unite all the anti-Qing armed forces. The key lies in the person who controlled the puppet. At present, only Li Mingxun, Sun Kewang and Zheng Chenggong had this intention. Of course, Zheng Chenggong was not strong enough, so there was no need to mention him. Sun Kewang was a narrow-minded person who was not a big deal. He could not even tolerate his righteous brother Li Dingguo, let alone others. Therefore, the most suitable situation is that Emperor Yongli sat in Zhaoqing and Li Mingxun actually controlled everything. In this situation, it would take five years to expel the Tartars.

But it is obvious that this is very difficult, but Li Mingxun is willing to try it. The reason is very simple. The battle between Guangdong and Guangxi consumes too many resources. Both the Qing Dynasty and the Zhongming coalition forces need to rest and prepare to fight again. The stalemate will continue until one of the two sides obtains sufficient resources to initiate the battle. Li Mingxun believes that in the short term, the Qing Dynasty will not launch an attack on Guangdong and Guangxi, and he has enough time to operate this matter.

In this protracted war in the late Ming Dynasty, the fundamental reason why each tribe was fighting on its own was that everyone wanted to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but everyone did not want to restore the Ming Dynasty. Anti-Qing was a survival issue, because each tribe was the enemy of the Qing Dynasty, and restoring the Ming Dynasty was a matter of interest. The only one who could take into account all forces was the United States. Now Zhu Ming also had Qin, Jin, Qiong, Zheng, and Li Mingxun left a position as a veteran for each of the four tribes. At present, Qiong and Jin and Jin were already on this road, but the other two tribes were stuck. Zheng Chenggong did not want to be inferior to others, nor did he want to be inferior to Li Mingxun. Sun Kewang had the idea of ​​becoming emperor directly, and what the United States gave was not what they wanted.

If the standards are lowered, it is to implement the feudal system. After expelling the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Central Plains, it will not only give it the position of elders, but also actually enfeoffed land to these feudal lords. However, this has caused huge social problems. In order to protect interests, the feudal lords must maintain the army, and maintain the army must fight against the central power. Under the current republic system of the United States, implementing in-person feudal lords in the territory of the 18 provinces of the Han area will definitely reverse history and will also cause great division, because other veterans will also require feudal lords.

What can avoid the feudal system and achieve the great leap forward in resisting the Qing Dynasty is to avoid the country-specific regimes, and the United States fully supports the Ming Dynasty's vassal states and build a large alliance. Regardless of territory or disputes of interests, everyone will first work together to fight the Qing Dynasty, eliminate the Qing Dynasty, and at least recover the Jiangnan. After the Central Plains, the alliances will divide the interests. It can be imagined that the final outcome is to build their own countries and then fight a ten or twenty-year war of unity.

The last solution is the idea of ​​many officials and generals of the Qiong and Jin vassals, but they got one mistake, thinking that the Qing Dynasty was the ultimate enemy of the United States. In fact, it was not. The biggest enemy of the United States, a republic capitalist country, was the feudal dynasty and the group of landlords and gentry that maintained the feudal dynasty. It just happened that the Qing Dynasty was supported by the landlords and gentry in China, so the enemy of the United States was the Qing Dynasty. If there were no Qing Dynasty, the enemy of the United States would be Zhu Ming. For the United States, the best situation was to use this battlefield to eliminate the Qing Dynasty and Zhu Ming together, rather than to revive the Qing Dynasty and destroy the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of the elite class of the United States, it would be better to sit back and see the Qing Dynasty eliminate all the remaining forces of Zhu Ming, accumulate strength during this period, and then counterattack the mainland and liberate the entire nation.

The elites are very clear that anti-Qing is much easier than destroying Ming Dynasty. The contradiction between the Middle Ming Dynasty is a class contradiction. In addition to class contradictions, there are ethnic contradictions and war hatred. The latter two can set off a wave of resistance and gain the support of the mainland people. In the case of class contradictions, if you want to win a war, you must prove the superiority of the class. Not to mention that this is difficult, it will take a long time. Even if it is proved that in this era of information blocked and people's knowledge is low, who knows and who believes it?

Anti-Qing and imprisoning the enemy was a process, a means, a slogan, but it was definitely not a goal. No matter in any era, every politician would talk about justice, as if everything they had done for the whole people, for the Chinese nation, and for their own country. In fact, it was not the case. Every politician served the interest groups behind him. Therefore, any strategy must be supported by this interest group to be implemented. Idealists will always shout a series of slogans such as unity and victory, such as unity and victory. But what they did not know is that the implementation of any plan requires resources, and the people cannot provide this resource, or take it out, and the cost and efficiency of gathering resources together was also pitiful. Therefore, in ancient times with low science and technology and productivity, interest groups could only be relied on, and with them, they could gather the strength of the nation and the people.

Therefore, in the future, pursuing the southwest will be the primary goal of the Anti-Qing Allied Forces led by the United States. On this basis, it is to manage Guangdong, Guangxi and Guangxi to enhance the strength of Qiong, Jin and the United States Army, and prepare for the next war.

To be precise, the Pearl River Delta is a relatively closed geographical area. There are mountains and hills between Lingnan and Lingbei. Rugged and difficult roads and waterways with weak traffic are difficult to support large corps operations in this era. This is true for both sides, both sides now have a large army, and a small number of troops are not enough to shake the enemy's defense line. Whether it is attacking Guangdong and Guangxi from Huguang or attacking Huguang from Guangdong and Guangxi. Both sides are each backed by an economic center and densely populated area. The attackers always have to make greater efforts. The rugged mountain roads and harsh traffic not only consume a large amount of accumulated resources, but also make it difficult to effectively deliver troops. It is inevitable that whoever attacks will suffer.

The Qing Dynasty had a larger size and a more abundant army, but it also needed to accumulate more energy in the face of difficulties and obstacles. For the United States, it is more advantageous to defend strategically. After all, without the support of the Pearl River Delta, it is difficult to support an army of more than 100,000 from Huguang and Fujian to attack Guangdong and Guangxi. If there is no such number, entering Guangdong and Guangxi will be a death. The United States should defend as much as possible in places close to the Pearl River Delta, so that the Qing Dynasty's power will be consumed more on the long supply line. Of course, this is during the battle period. If the heavy army group is not launched, the more territory it controls, the deeper the enemy's territory, the better environment can be won for the operation of Guangdong and Guangxi.

When the general battle will not be launched for a while, it is the best strategy to pursue the southwest, which is far better than attacking Fujian or opening up the battlefield in Shandong. In this process, you can also subtly transform the two vassals of the Qiong and Jin from the three aspects of military, political and economic aspects. It is better to succeed in the southwest. If it fails, with these two vassals, major events can still be expected.

If the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau can be occupied, it will be forced to divide the troops into the mountain intersection on the junction of thousands of miles, forcing them to divide the troops. Using Yunnan-Guizhou as the base, you can obtain a geographically closed area, and then you can go down the river to capture Huguang and Jiangnan, and recover half of the southern countryside. If you choose to go east to Fujian, the eastward and northward, the closer you are to the core area of ​​the Qing Dynasty, the more beneficial it is to the Qing Dynasty, and the same is true for the Shandong battlefield.

Li Mingxun first issued the first round of temptations to Sun Kewang, which was to send envoys to Guizhou. Li Mingxun sent two envoys to Guiyang City and directly met Sun Kewang, and sent people to Anlong Mansion to meet the Emperor Yongli. Li Mingxun's request was still to hope that Emperor Yongli would go to Guangdong to host the wedding for Li Mingxun and Zhu Yushu, and then achieve the goal of the Emperor moving to Zhaoqing. The final outcome was to master the Emperor and to coerce Sun Kewang to join the Anti-Qing Allied Forces as the vassal lord of the Qin vassal. Li Mingxun asked the position of the leader of the alliance to Yongli, as the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, and actually master the anti-Qing forces.

The result was a pity that the envoy did not see the Emperor Yongli in Anlong Mansion. The current southwest government order was released from the King of Qin. Anlong's Ming regime was just an empty affair. The real power was controlled by Zhang Yingke, the official of Titang sent by Sun Kewang, Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Jinyiwei, and Pang Tianshou, the eunuch in charge of the seal. In Anlong Mansion, in any internal and external affairs of the court, only the deacons were the ones. If there were illegal officials, when they heard about the Rong government, they would be in charge of the two yamen in order to calm the turmoil. (Ma Jixiang was the Marquis of Wen'an in charge of Rong government affairs, and Pang Tianshou was the admiral of the Yongwei camp). Not only these three people, but also Sun Kewang arranged to monitor the court.

The mission to Anlong Mansion was sent by the officials of Titang and the prefect of Anlong, and escorted them to Guiyang and handed them over to Sun Kewang to deal with them. Sun Kewang ignored all the alliance proposed by Li Mingxun, and sent the envoy back to Hong Kong. After the envoy returned, Sun Kewang sent the Grand Secretary Wu Zhenyu as the leader and Ma Jixiang, the deputy ritual group of officials to Zhaoqing, comforted Qiong and Jin vassals, and ritually formed the wedding of the princess.

This was Sun Kewang's counterattack, forcing Li Mingxun to marry An Hua first to prevent him from continuing to move the emperor on the grounds of this matter.

The delegation arrived in Zhaoqing and rewarded the soldiers with the merits of regaining Guangdong and Guangxi, and distributed 20,000 taels of silver. According to the request of King Ding of Jin, Liu Wenxiu was appointed King of Shu, and also granted the Qiongfan Lin Shizhang as Duke of Guangdong, Yuan Shizhong as Duke of Lian, and Huang Fei as Duke of Chao. The delegation originally wanted to reward the vassal states such as Huifan and Zhongzhenying, but found that they had either entered the vassal state or left the country, so they had to give up.

After Zhaoqing's consolation, the delegation went to Guangzhou to raise the princess's wedding. This time, Li Mingxun got married was held in Guangzhou. On the one hand, he was the king of the Eastern Band and on the other hand, the princess of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally he could not be too perfunctory. As the chief grandson, Wu Zhenyu was able to handle this matter for Li Mingxun. It was also seen that Zhu Ming's court attaches great importance to this matter. Although everything was instructed by Sun Kewang, it can also be seen that Sun Kewang did not dare to make tricks on such matters and provoke the United States. Faced with various requirements from the Allied forces, Sun Kewang was in a defensive position.

The Jin Palace of Li Dingguo was the former Pingnan Palace. Wu Zhenyu followed Li Dingguo into the country, but saw that flowers, plants, rockery and other things that cultivated their bodies had long been flattened, the fish ponds and lakes had all been filled with all kinds of armor and weapons, and hundreds of soldiers were practicing firearms, and the sound of gunfire was constantly.

"Oh, I've heard that the King of Qin is good at governing the country, and the King of Jin is the chief of training troops. When I saw him today, he was indeed extraordinary." Wu Zhenyu praised the two major vassal lords of the Xiying in front of several servants.

Li Dingguo smiled and said, "I am a vulgar person. Those flowers, birds, fish and insects are all headaches. It is better to dismantle them as a training ground and practice more on weekdays. When the Tartars come again, they can kill more enemies and make contributions to the emperor."

Wu Zhenyu stroked his beard and smiled, saying, "But today is delaying His Highness King Jin."

"What you said is that although the royal family is vulgar, a cup of tea can still be given. Please ask the Grand Secretary." Li Dingguo led the way in front and headed straight to the main hall. The servants with scattered eyes also wanted to go in, but were stopped by Li Dingguo's subordinates and scolded: "The Grand Secretary drinks tea at my Prince's Mansion. Do you still need to serve you? Get away, we are here."

The servant was pushed far away, Wu Zhenyu's face changed slightly, and he said, "Your Highness is laughing. The servant in the family is cunning. After taking the benefits of that person, he has become a spy."

Li Dingguo sneered: "One Ma Jixiang is not enough, and he still needs to get these pickles. Sun Kewangte is also conspiring to do something."

Wu Zhenyu said: "Foreign vassals are tyrants, and treacherous ministers are all in the court, so the country will not be the country."

Li Dingguo's face remained the same, but he sneered in his heart, "Aren't I also a foreign vassal?"
Chapter completed!