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Within a few days of Du Yinxi following Liu Sheng, good news came frequently from various departments of the Yi army.

First, the 9th and 18th Brigades of the Standing Army defeated Jiayu, Linxiang, and Baling, and then Helianyue defeated Jingzhou Prefecture and controlled Jiangling.

At the same time, the First Division led by Yang Heqing also successively attacked Luotian, Huanggang, Wuchang, Qishui, and Daye.

During this period, the personal guards led by Li Dingguo and Huang Jie also successively sent in good news about the capture of Xianning, Puqi, Tongshan, and Chongyang.

It felt to Du Yinxi as if these cities in the Ming Dynasty were undefended and were waiting for the Yi army to take over.

When he read the detailed battle report, he realized that the facts were similar to what he felt!

Ming troops and even officials in some counties fled; a few officials wanted to defend the city, but with only hundreds or thousands of rural soldiers, they couldn't even stop a wave of attacks from the Yi army, or they were directly defeated by a cannon blast.

Originally, when Du Yinxi learned that Liu Sheng planned to capture Huguang this year, he secretly thought that "the thieves chief is so arrogant and arrogant, he will suffer a heavy setback."

But now he feels that it is really possible for the Yi army to take over Huguang this year - at most, the Southwest chieftains will not be able to solve it for the time being.

October twenty-seven.

Du Yinxi was in Chengyun Hall, handling military and political affairs with Ma Shimin and several secretariat clerks accompanying Liu Sheng.

Suddenly, a familiar shout came from outside.

"Great victory!"

"The Third Division defeated the 30,000 land and sea army led by Ming Pianyuan Governor Chen Ruimo at the Public Security Bureau!"

As the news of victory approached quickly, the guards guarding outside the palace soon delivered a report of victory.

Du Yinxi's face turned ugly when he heard the content of the victory report, and he was stunned for a moment.

Now that almost all of Hubei has been captured by the Wei tribe, if the Ming Dynasty wants to defend Hunan, it depends on Chen Ruimo, the partial governor, to coordinate and unite people's hearts.

Who would have thought that before the Yi army officially attacked Hunan, the governor would give him a hearty defeat!

Thirty thousand land and water troops... I guess most of the Ming Dynasty's troops in Hunan are inside, right?

"Hahaha," Liu Sheng looked at the battle report and laughed happily, "The Third Division captured thirty-seven warships in this battle, and more than two thousand other ships - this Chen Ruimo is such a good man, he actually gave us a gift So many boats!"

After hearing this, Du Yinxi was even more speechless.

He estimated that Chen Ruimo probably didn't even understand the power of the Yi army, so he led his army to confront the Yi army in a confused manner.

A huge defeat ruined most of Ming's hopes of holding on to Hunan!

After Liu Sheng handed down the victory report, he said: "I am ordering the third division to gradually attack the Jiangnan area of ​​Jingzhou, as well as Yuezhou, Changde, and Chenzhou after crossing the river.

There are many chieftains in the various capitals of Hunan, so it is not necessary to take all the land. Important cities can be captured first. The chieftain should focus on appeasement. If it fails, we will talk about it later. "

Although Liu Sheng said he wanted to capture all of Huguang this year, he knew very well that with the large number of toasts in Hunan, it was almost impossible to capture them all this year.

Therefore, he only planned to capture some important cities first.

The chieftains are just helpless people. When they see that the Wei tribe is unstoppable and the Ming army is defeated one after another and loses the city and territory, some people who are aware of current affairs will naturally turn to the Wei tribe.

Even if they don't fall to the Wei tribe, they will probably defend their territory and be their local emperor. Even if there are chieftains who are willing to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they are only a handful.

However, if the Wei tribe wants to conquer Hunan, it needs to send more troops.

Just after the Third Division captured Huanggang, Wuchang, and Dazhi, it entered the defensive stage. Although the Ming army downstream was large, according to Fengwei's intelligence, it currently had no intention of counterattack and was only thinking about defense.

In this case, it may be possible to transfer a brigade from the First Division to increase the strength of the Wei troops in Hunan.

Just when he thought this, he saw Li Weiqi entering the main hall.

"Commander, Jiujiang spies have sent important information!"

Jiujiang?

Du Yinxi and Ma Shimin below couldn't help but look over after hearing this.

Currently, the greatest threat to Huguang's army is Zuo Liangyu's army of more than 100,000 men gathered in Jiujiang.

If Zuo Liangyu makes any moves, Weibu will also have to respond and may change his previous plan.

Liu Sheng took the translated information and read it. He couldn't help but shake his head and chuckle, "It seems that Chongzhen was really anxious. He actually directly knighted Zuo Liangyu - Ning Nanbo, haha."

After saying that, he asked his personal guards to pass the information to Ma Shimin and Du Yinxi.

Du Yinxi couldn't wait any longer, so he ran to Ma Shimin to watch together. Only then did he realize that the imperial court had not only promoted Zuo Liangyu to higher ranks, but also promoted many of his generals.

In particular, Fang Guo'an, who had the largest number of soldiers and horses among the subordinate generals, was awarded the title of Zuo Dudu, Prince Shaobao, and was awarded the title of general who defeated thieves.

'broken! '

Du Yinxi thought.

He could see clearly that the imperial court's move to increase officials and titles was not only to mobilize Zuo Liangyu to resist the Yi army, but also to promote the subordinate generals under his command in an attempt to divide the troops on the left.

For example, the title of General Ping Thief, which previously belonged to Zuo Liangyu, was now given to Fang Guoan.

What does this make Zuo Liangyu think?

In addition, the imperial court required Zuo Liangyu to block the Wei army in the north of the Yangtze River before granting him the title of marquis.

But this imperial edict came too late - the Yi army had already captured Wuchang Prefecture and was in the process of attacking Hunan. Zuo Liangyu had no chance even if he wanted to block the Yi army in Jiangbei.

"Do you think Zuo Liangyu's tribe will move westward after the Ming court's actions?"

Du Yinxi still said nothing.

Ma Shimin said with a smile: "Not only Zuo Liangyu has been knighted this time, but many of his generals have also been promoted, but they are all generals who are affiliated with him.

Obviously, the Ming court intended to divide the troops on the left.

Therefore, his subordinates thought that some subordinate generals from the left might be ordered to fight against our army, but most of Zuo Liangyu's troops stayed behind to watch the show and preserve their strength. "

"Bo Yu's analysis is good." Liu Sheng smiled and looked at Du Yinxi randomly, "What do you think Mr. Du?"

"My subordinates don't understand military strategy."

Liu Sheng pretended to be unhappy after hearing this, "If Mr. Du wants to imitate Xu Shu, don't blame me for not keeping my promise."

Du Yinxi showed a look of helplessness and said: "Based on my subordinates' understanding of the imperial court, even if Zuo Liangyu's headquarters does not move, the imperial court is likely to force other Ming armies to march westward."

Liu Sheng smiled again, "For example, Xu Wenqi and Fang Guo'an are stationed in Qizhou?"

Du Yinxi acquiesced.

When he came to Wuchang before, he passed through Qizhou and visited Xu Wenqi, so he knew something about him.

Xu Wenqi, a Renhe man, was a Jinshi in the seventh year of Chongzhen.

He successively served as a pedestrian, county magistrate, and chief of the Nanjing Military Department.

When Zhang Xianzhong was wreaking havoc in Jiangbei for the first time, Xu Wenqi went to Jiangbei with Fan Jingwen, who was the Minister of War in Nanjing, to fight against the thieves and began to show his military talents.

Later, he became the magistrate of Huangzhou. He once shot a tiger in the vanguard of the bandits and snatched the bandit's banner before returning it.

At the beginning of last year, when he was appointed deputy envoy to defend Xiajiang, it happened that the five troops of Gezuo came out to invade Qizhou, Huangmei and other places. At that time, Xu Wenqi's soldiers were insufficient and lacked training, so he made a clever plan to burn down the bandits' boats and force the bandits to retreat to the mountains.

After that, Xu Wenqi actively trained troops in Qizhou. His deputy general Zhang Yilong and guerrilla Yang Fu were both good at fighting.

Zuo Liangyu's army retreated eastward from Huangzhou, Hanyang, and Wuchang. The commander-in-chief Fang Guo An had more than 10,000 troops and horses, which was the largest among the subordinate generals of the left. Xu Wenqi personally went to his camp to persuade Fang. Guo An was stationed in Qizhou.

As far as he knew, Xu Wenqi and Fang Guo'an now had more than 30,000 troops combined.

If Xu Wenqi took advantage of the promotion opportunities provided by the imperial court to the subordinate generals on the left, and persuaded a few more to come, it would really be possible to assemble tens of thousands of troops to counterattack Huanggang and Wuchang.

Liu Sheng saw that Du Yinxi was silent and did not ask any further questions.

Instead, he ordered: "Pass my military order to have the First Division strengthen the defenses in Huanggang, Wuchang, Qishui, Dazhi and other places."

Du Yinxi sighed secretly after hearing this.

He now only hopes that the court will not push Xu Wenqi, or that Xu Wenqi can recognize the strength of both the enemy and ourselves, withstand the pressure, and not easily send troops to the west.

Based on the current situation, it would be good if the Ming Dynasty can hold Qizhou and prevent the Yi army from advancing eastward.

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Du Yinxi was named Military Counselor, but because he stayed with Liu Sheng, he learned more and more about the government affairs of the Ministry of Finance.

On October 29, Li Dingguo and Mao Chengguo defeated Xiangyin.

On October 30, the Xinghua Grand Marshal's Office issued a yellow-headed decree for all currently ruled areas.

At the beginning of November, the Hubei Province was officially established in Hubei Province, with Li Changwen as the first governor of Huguang. In addition to the original eight Hubei prefectures, the three prefectures of Runing, Yiyang, and Nanyang in Henan were also temporarily placed under the jurisdiction of the Hubei Province.

In addition, Zhao Deyou, the prefect of Yiyang, and Wang Yangji, the prefect of Jingmen, also served as the left and right envoys of Hubei Province, and Liu Huan, the prefect of Nanyang, and Yan Ermei, the prefect of Yunyang (taking office in late September), also served as the left and right councilors.

Du Yinxi found that the provincial system of Guibu had many changes in the governor and chief secretary system of the Ming Dynasty, which almost overwhelmed him.

There are four major departments in the province, namely: Provincial Government Office, Supervisory Office, Trial and Punishment Office, and Provincial Military Office.

Among them, the provincial government’s full name is “the governor’s government office of a certain province”.

It seems to be a new structure that reintegrated the functions of the Ming Dynasty's Chief Envoy Department, part of the Imperial Envoy Department, and part of the Imperial Envoy functions into it.

First update.