The camp outside Jinan City, inside the central army's tent.

A huge cloth map was hung in the middle of the tent. Some places were depicted in detail and clearly, with mountains, rivers and ravines. Some places were depicted in simple terms, with only one place name.

There were only a dozen people in the tent, sitting in two rows at a long, slightly large table.

On the left, Zhou Xian, Li Kai, Liu Konghe, Yang Yan, Yu Baiyi, Zhang Jiayu, Sun Xuan, Yu Qi; On the right, Wan Ji, Li Dingguo, Tan Shimai, Chen Mingxia, Hou Fangyu, Ding Keze, Wu Zhiying, Tushan.

The main generals were there, but the civil servants only had ten thousand yuan, Chen Mingxia and Hou Fangyu.

Wan Ji used to serve as Yang Sichang's military aide and was one of the rare civil and military talents. However, because Zhou Xian didn't have many talents in governing the government under him, he was allowed to serve as the governor of Shandong.

Chen Mingxia went to the capital to assist Zhou Xian and Li Zicheng to reach a peace agreement and had a certain understanding of the situation of the rebel army. Therefore, he was also called here.

Hou Fangyu was a scholar, and his strategy helped Zhou Xian defeat Haoge. So, he was there too.

Listening to Wan Ji briefly introduce the current situation of the Qing army and the rebel army, Zhou Xian frowned and said, "Li Zicheng had written to me before, asking me to help him attack the Qing army's food route towards Shanhaiguan. I have agreed to him that the question now is how many soldiers to send and where to march? Everyone can speak as much as possible without being restricted."

It seemed that no one was willing to start a head, Zhou Xian glanced at the back, "Lewu, Tushan, you only returned from southern Liaoning not long ago. Let's talk about the situation of our army over there!"

Yu Qi stood up with confusion and walked to the cloth map, "At present, our army retains Jinfu Prefectures in southern Liaoning. The Qing army led by Shang Kexi confronted near the Fifty Post Office. Because the terrain there is complex and difficult to move, it is difficult to spread its troops, so it is probably impossible to advance from there."

Li Dingguo asked lightly: "How many troops do you have in southern Liaoning?"

Yu Qi looked at Zhou Xian and nodded when he saw him, and replied: "There were more than 30,000 regular soldiers, but because they were transferred back to Shandong for 5,000. Huang Qianshi led his troops to leave and took away thousands of trusted soldiers. At present, the troops there are less than 20,000, but there are nearly 3,000 cavalry and sufficient firearms. In addition, most of the young and strong people in the Jin and Fu prefectures have been trained by the local tyrants and can assist in defending the city."

Li Dingguo stretched out his hand and pointed at Tushan and said, "I heard that you are Huang Fei's distant nephew. He has gone to Nanjing, why are you still here?"

Tu Shan saw that everyone looked at him, his neck was swollen and red, and he was furious, and stood up and shouted loudly: "Li Dingguo, what do you mean?"

Li Dingguo showed a joking smile, "Huang Fei, as the commander of the southern Liaoning army, led his troops to leave at this critical moment, causing the morale of the southern Liaoning army to be scattered and the soldiers were not in a fight. He did this, although he expressed his loyalty to the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but it caused the life and death of the southern Liaoning army to be ignored. Fortunately, the Qing army was busy entering the pass and had no time to take care of the southern Liaoning army, so that you could still maintain southern Liaoning. I want to know what you were thinking, just want to know that you had more resentment towards Zhou Xian who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and independent! Or did you have more resentment towards Huang Fei who abandoned you and went to Nanjing at this time!"

Zhou Xian saw Tu Shan dead in the local area and said, "Ning Yu, does Tu Shan stay here now mean his choice? Also, when Huang Qianshi left, he handed over all the military power to Deputy General Zhao. He only took away his confidant and direct descendants in order to minimize the influence on the Liaonan Army. The standards of loyalty and righteousness were inconsistent in his heart. He should not be held accountable in such a way, so let's skip this matter!" Zhou Xian waved his hand and asked Tu Shan to sit down.

Yang Yufan had no real power in Zhou Xian's army. Although Tan Zhencai was in power, all he could control was the thousands of soldiers he brought from Mo County to Linyi. The two left Shandong and followed Zhu Cixuan south without causing much shock to Zhou Xian.

Huang Fei was different. He was the commander of the Liao army, and he was in charge of tens of thousands of troops in southern Liao. However, after the news of Zhou Xian's rebellion and independence reached southern Liao, he wrote a letter to curse Zhou Xian, completely ignoring Zhou Xian's explanation in the letter. After that, he was also preparing to announce Zhou Xian's crime to the entire army, but was blocked by Zhao Xusheng.

The two quarreled all night, but Zhao Xusheng finally failed to convince Huang Fei. He was determined to leave the Liao army. He informed the entire army of this news, and wanted to follow him to board the ship to Lushun and go to the south.

This move caused a huge shock within the Liao army.

Because Huang Fei was the commander of the Liao army and had always been very prestige, many generals were willing to follow him south for a while. And their departure would also take away many soldiers. Without these soldiers, it would be difficult to defend Fuzhou with the remaining troops.

This is something that other soldiers who were willing to stay in southern Liaoning could not accept. These generals loyal to Zhou Xian, led by Jimu, Xie Qian and Zalari, secretly gathered their soldiers and directly surrounded the Fuzhou City where Huang Fei was.

Huang Fei has been a general for many years and has long anticipated such a scene. How could he not be prepared? He ordered the arrest of the general who was in the city, closed the four doors and allowed the trusted generals to defend.

Both are tense and can start fighting at any time.

At this critical moment, Gao Yi, who received a letter from Zhao Xusheng, led his troops back from the front line. He was a general promoted by Zhou Xian, but Huang Fei had been using him.

Gao Yi angrily scolded Jimu, saying that no matter when the Liao army was defeated, he could not kill each other, and asked him to lead the army to withdraw immediately. Then he entered the city alone and persuaded Huang Fei.

He knelt on the ground, his forehead was covered with blood, and persuaded Huang Fei to stay.

Although Huang Fei still did not agree in the end, he was deeply moved. Under the persuasion of Zhao Xusheng on the side, the two sides reached an agreement.

Huang Fei could lead his confidants to leave, and others who were willing to follow Huang Fei could leave on their own, but they had to leave all the following. In fact, the reason why Huang Fei agreed in the end was that he did not want to watch the Liaonan he had worked hard to conquer and belonged to the Qing Dynasty.

Gao Yi personally led his troops to escort him, sending Huang Fei and others on board the ship in Lushun.

Huang Fei thought Gao Yi would leave with him, but Gao Yi did not agree. Since then, one of the Liao army stayed in southern Liaoning, and the other went to Nanjing, completely splitting.

Zhao Xusheng had the ability to lead troops, but he was not outstanding. He was better at governing military towns like Jinzhou and Fuzhou.

Zhou Xian's original plan was to let Li Dingguo go to southern Liao and directly command the Liao army. However, before he could make his way, he encountered such a case that the Qing army invaded the Central Plains and Wu Sangui surrendered to Dorgon.

It was indeed a bit beyond Zhou Xian's expectation that Tushan could stay. But this was also good, and he could use him to reshape the Liao army.
Chapter completed!