Yang Xu only stayed in Pengze for two days. When the Yangtze River Navy's fleet returned to Nanjing, he left with the ship.

When he returned to Nanjing, Yang Xu did not go back to his residence in Nanjing first, but went directly to the General Staff. After learning that he was here, Zhuang Yan specially discussed him in detail.

"Zhu Yigui did a good job in Peng Ze. It seems that this duck king did a good job before you, and he has already experienced it." As soon as he met, Yang Xu quipped with a smile.

Zhuang Yan laughed at the same time. Although Zhu Yigui was not from a regular background, he was extremely smart and was a natural general. There were not many people in the court who could get Yang Xu's praise. Zhu Yigui was able to make Yang Xu praise him so much.

"It is no problem to capture Jiujiang with Anqing's troops. After capturing Jiujiang, you can go straight to Nanchang, build new buildings, or go north along the river to attack Jiangxia and go straight to Hubei." Yang Xu held a teacup in his hand and said intently: "In this way, the pressure of the rebel army in the north will be greatly reduced, and the Qing army will inevitably mobilize troops to Hubei to defend it, and Longkodo's main force will also go from Henan to Hubei. Therefore, in the next few months, the battlefield in Hubei will be changing, and no one knows what it will be like."

Zhuang Yan nodded silently. In fact, the General Staff Department mentioned by Yang Xu had already made a deduction. It is basically a sure win to fight Jiujiang. However, after defeating Jiujiang, two issues must be ordered. One is to go south to Nanchang and build a new territory to directly capture Jiangxi. The second is to go north to Hubei to rescue the rebel army.

The court's strategy was to go west to Jiangxi and at the same time to reduce the pressure on the rebels in Hubei and Henan. But in this way, the main attack direction of the Ming army after entering Jiujiang was to go north rather than south. This would inevitably lead to the uncontrollable situation in Jiangxi, and the changes in Hubei could not be predicted. Therefore, the General Staff proposed another plan for this, and the real proposer and executor of this plan was actually Yang Xu.

"It is precisely because of this that this is why you are unwilling to call for the north to go north in Guangdong." Zhuang Yan said with a smile, and then said: "But don't forget that the recent movements in Guangxi are quite a lot. Once Guangdong's troops are mobilized, Guangxi will have a change of words, how do you think about it?"

"It's okay." Yang Xu said confidently: "I have discussed with Dong Shuai and Ma Shuai in the Battle of Jiangxi. Guangdong's troops are only transferred to the garrison in Shaoguan, and there is also one Fujian department. The two departments have a total of 50,000 troops. Besides, don't forget that once Jiangxi starts fighting, Anqing will move first. Our troops are just icing on the cake in the south."

Yang Xu's words made Zhuang Yan laugh. He smiled and shook his head to scold Yang Xu for the icing on the cake, but his actual appetite was so big.

Yang Xu proposed a very simple plan, that is, to attack Jiangxi, mainly Anqing, and directly take Jiujiang, but once Jiujiang takes it, the main attack will be changed from north to south. Yang Xu will lead two units in Guangdong and Fujian, with a total of 50,000 people heading north from Shaoguan and directly into southern Jiangxi, from south to north to capture the entire Jiangxi.

His plan was equivalent to taking Jiangxi into two steps. The troops in the north took Jiujiang as the goal, and then went directly to Hubei after taking Jiujiang to achieve the strategic policy set before. Yang Xu was responsible for the task of truly taking the entire Jiangxi area. This could not only pacify the entire province of Jiangxi at the minimum cost, but also ensure changes in Hubei and concentrate the use of northern troops.

Judging from the current military strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is not difficult to divide troops into two groups to capture Jiangxi. Now, among the two provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, there are nearly 100,000 troops stationed in Guangdong. As for the 6th Army in Fujian, there are a little less, but there are more than 60,000 people. It is feasible to draw one of these forces from each and form a 50,000 army under the command of Yang Xu.

In this regard, the General Staff also expressed its recognition. On the one hand, Yang Xu entered Beijing to face the saint Zhu Yicheng and discussed the deployment of troops from Guangdong with Dong Dashan, Zhuang Yan and others. On the other hand, he also planned to go to the Pengze front line to see the situation in person to ensure that Guangdong's troops were foolproof.

This is crucial to grasp the time to start the war. If Yang Xu takes action first in Guangdong, it will inevitably cause shock in Jiangxi. Although it can make Jiujiang's extraordinary move easier, part of the Southern Army will face great pressure.

Zhuang Yan also said earlier that Zhao Hongcan in Guangxi has been very disturbing recently. Although Zhao Hongcan is now a Qing minister, he is actually in the same position. Who can guarantee whether he will send troops under such circumstances? Once Guangxi takes this opportunity to send troops to Guangdong or even directly rescue Jiangxi, it will be a very bad situation for the entire plan. In this way, it will not be so easy to win the entire Jiangxi area at a small price.

In this era, communication is a major factor restricting military operations, especially for joint operations such as thousands of miles, the grasp and control of time are extremely important. This is also the main reason why Yang Xu went to Pengze personally after he arrived in Nanjing. Yang Xu would not be relieved if he didn't go to the Pengze front line to take a look.

As the end of the year approached, Nanjing was planning the Battle of Jiangxi in a intensive manner, and in the north, the core of the Qing court, Kangxi, was also planning the battlefield in Henan.

The battle in Henan lasted for a year. Although Longkodo had an advantage in Henan, he still had not taken Runan under the joint resistance of Zhu Jiancai and Wang Zhiqing. Moreover, as the weather was cold and the Mongolian cavalry were already clamoring to go back to the grassland. Once the Mongolian cavalry left, the Qing army's mobility advantage in Henan would no longer exist.

For this reason, Kangxi had no choice but to pay some price, and gave the insatiable Mongolian princes and princes some benefits, and kept the Mongolian cavalry in his hands. In addition, Kangxi also mobilized a unit of Fengtai Camp to reinforce the Henan battlefield. As long as the weather improved, Longkodo would set up a final offensive against Runan to completely solve the rebel army in Henan.

In any case, the Henan battlefield will soon be decided. After pacifying Henan, the Qing army will be able to concentrate its efforts against the Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan. This made Kangxi feel much more relaxed, and he, who has not seen a smile for many days, has rarely shown his face.

But these good moods lasted for a few days, and when a news suddenly came, Kangxi's mood became extremely bad.

Prince Jian (Zheng) Yaer Jiang A, Prince Kang (Li) Chong'an, Prince Xian (Su) Yanhuang, Prince Zhuang Boguoduo, Prince Anjie Huagui and others have frequent exchanges recently, and several old palaces from Manzhou come to Beijing to walk around them. Logically speaking, it is normal for these Qing nobles, princes and princes to interact with each other. After all, they are descendants of Aisin Gioro, but Kangxi keenly felt a sign of unstableness, because these people have two common points, one is ****, and the other is that they are the owners of the lower five banners of the Eight Banners.

Since Nurhaci established the Eight Banners, the reason why the Qing Dynasty was able to enter the Pass and seize the world was due to the Eight Banners system. However, before entering the Pass, Huang Taiji considered that the Eight Banners had signs that the Eight Banners could not be lost, so he began to weaken the Eight Banners to strengthen the imperial power.

When Shunzhi ascended the throne, the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, Dorgon adjusted the Eight Banners again. This time, he simply changed the flag again in Huang Daji's flag change system to ensure that he could master the government affairs of the Qing Dynasty.

After Dorgon's death, Shunzhi once again adjusted the Eight Banners system against the Eight Banners. Since the establishment of the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners have undergone four times before and after the adjustment and weakening of the Eight Banners. After these four times, the emperor has fully mastered the power of the upper three banners, and at the same time has also restricted and controlled the lower five banners.

After Kangxi ascended the throne, he did not relax his eight banners, especially over the years, he used the emperor's power to entrust his sons to the lower Five Banners as commanders, and at the same time he won over the small banners among the Eight Banners to resist the big banners, trying to further outsole the original banner owners, thus achieving the purpose of splitting and controlling the Eight Banners.

If history remains unchanged, in a few years, after the death of Prince Zhuang Bo Guoduo, Kangxi will directly take away Prince Zhuang's title, so that his sixteenth son Yinlu will succeed him. This is enough to prove that Kangxi has been using this method to weaken the influence of the banner masters and thus increase the control of imperial power.

It has been more than half a century since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass. In fact, the Eight Banners system at that time has become an empty space, and the control of each banner owner has long been worse than before. But no matter what, these ****s are still in their status. If they are just one person, Kangxi is not afraid at all, but if these people unite, they will be an extremely huge force.

"What do these slaves want to do?" Kangxi looked extremely ugly, especially when he learned that these people were in Prince Zhuang Boguoduo's mansion today, he even had the idea of ​​sending people to question him. But as soon as this idea arose, Kangxi forced himself to press it. As an emperor, he could not act voluntarily.

rebel?

This idea only flashed slightly in Kangxi's mind, but was immediately dispelled by Kangxi. The Eight Banners were the pillars of the Qing Dynasty, but what would it be without the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty? Kangxi was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. These slaves could not rebel, but what would they do besides rebelling?

At the same time, another possibility immediately emerged in Kangxi's mind, and as speculated that the possibility became greater and greater. Thinking of this, Kangxi was so angry that he gritted his teeth and wanted to capture all these slaves immediately. But when he moved his whole body, these people were not ordinary people, so what if Kangxi was the emperor? Before these people united, Kangxi must be extremely cautious.

But Kangxi never expected that before he could make plans and start solving the problem, at the court meeting the next day, these ****s that Prince Zhuang Bo Guoduo, who were the ones who were the ones in trouble were directly towards him, and their memorials seemed reasonable. Prince Zhuang Bo Guoduo first wrote a letter to Kangxi, saying that since the former crown prince was deposed, the position of crown prince was vacant, and today it was in chaos. Kangxi was old and had no energy to work day and night, so for the sake of the foundation of his ancestors and the Qing Dynasty, he begged Kangxi to establish the position of crown prince as soon as possible to stabilize the hearts of the people.
Chapter completed!