Huainan.
With the deaths of the Yang brothers, Runing surrendered, and the three towns north of the Yangtze River were completely captured.
The remaining forces of the Jiangnan court north of the Yangtze River were completely wiped out.
In Huainan, Li Qin was also extremely busy with various matters.
With the surrender of the troops in the three towns, he faced various problems after taking over their command.
There are also the various items and supplies needed to transfer hundreds of thousands of troops from Anqing, as well as coordination issues.
His army is currently in Huainan, and it can be said that it has suffered heavy losses.
Fortunately, with the surrender of the three towns north of the Yangtze River, he obtained a huge amount of supplies.
Because the three towns north of the Yangtze River were prepared for a long-term defense, the grain and supplies of the Huai River region were stored inside.
Afterwards, the Jiangnan court transferred a large amount of supplies from Jiangnan.
But if we're talking about the three towns north of the Yangtze River, they're absolutely rolling in money.
With the surrender of the three towns north of the Yangtze River, the enormous amount of grain and supplies that the Jiangnan court had painstakingly accumulated fell into his hands.
This greatly alleviated the problems of food and fodder supply for his army.
This is the main reason why he was able to accept a large number of surrendered soldiers from those three towns, while also being able to transfer troops from Anqing.
The main reason he wasn't worried was that he had food on hand.
Li Qin looked at the letter that his nephew, Li Xuanshang, had sent to him from Jiangnan.
The more he read the letter, the more his brow furrowed.
After reading the letter from his nephew Li Xuanshang, he placed it on the table in front of him.
However, when faced with the letter of good news from his nephew, he showed no joy whatsoever.
Instead, he stared blankly at the letter his nephew had sent him with good news.
Although his nephew mentioned in the letter that he deliberately contacted Sun Kaiyang and asked him to win over Zheng Chenggong.
This was to lull Zheng Chenggong into a false sense of security, so that he could be completely destroyed by them in the Yangtze River.
However, much of the content in this letter reflects his inner thoughts.
One fact mentioned in the article is that he did indeed contact Sun Kaiyang secretly after beating him up.
That's what he did. As for his plan to lull Zheng Chenggong into a false sense of security and then join forces to eliminate this major threat, that's another story.
These are all his inner thoughts, and these are all what he said.
Li Qin simply ignored all of these.
Because when it comes to something, you can't just look at what he says; you have to look at what he does.
This was something Li Xuanshang did completely behind his back.
He had no prior knowledge of the situation.
This is extremely dangerous.
Because that means things are out of control.
Especially his powerful nephew, Li Xuanshang, lost control.
Thinking about this, he couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.
At the same time, he was glad that he had been cautious and had transferred his troops from Jiujiang and Anqing.
This greatly weakened the power of his nephew, Li Xuanshang.
If we really gave him that much power.
Although he wrote in his letter with great righteousness, saying that he was only thinking of his uncle.
But the human heart is the most unpredictable thing.
Who knows if, after winning over Zheng Chenggong through Sun Kaiyang, he will actually follow Sun Kaiyang's lead and establish a separatist regime in Jiangnan.
However, judging from the current situation, the situation is still under their absolute control.
They still hold absolute military power.
Moreover, he was unsure of what his nephew had thought before.
But now he's writing to himself, and he's quite satisfied with that approach.
This proves that he still acknowledges himself as his uncle and still listens to him.
In that case, both sides of the Yangtze River would be in our own hands.
He has now completely resolved the problem in Jiangbei.
Both north and south of the Yangtze River are now under their control.
The only remaining force willing to resist was Zheng Chenggong's navy, which was sailing on the Yangtze River.
Once this naval force is dealt with, Jiangnan will be completely at peace.
Li Qin then wrote a letter to Li Xuanshang in Jiangnan.
They highly praised his actions, commending him for his unparalleled cunning and strategic brilliance in using Sun Kaiyang's plan to turn the tables on him.
He then told him to continue using the scheme to lull Sun Kaiyang and Zheng Chenggong into a false sense of security.
After that, the two of us worked together to destroy Zheng Chenggong's navy.
Then, he sent someone to deliver the letter to Zheng Chenggong in Jinling.
Li Qin picked up the letters in his hand again and wrote them to the two people respectively.
These were Qi Duchen, who was sent to take over Anqing, and Cai Zicai, whom he had appointed as the commander of the Shandong navy.
In one of the letters to Qi Duchen, Li Qin told him that once he arrived in Anqing, he must take over the water forces in Anqing as soon as possible.
It should be noted that the force that marched south with the Southern army group was a naval force with a large number of ships.
That naval force was specially ordered to be formed by him to deal with the navy of the Jiangnan court.
Those ships were loaded with gunpowder and oil, specifically designed to be destroyed by fire attacks and ramming other ships to ignite the gunpowder and take down the Jiangnan navy.
As a result of Jin Hufu's defection, Jiangnan's navy in Jiangxi suffered heavy losses and had to withdraw.
This rendered the naval force he had been building up to deal with the Jiangnan navy utterly useless.
Now it just floats on the water in Anqing.
If we are to deal with Zheng Chenggong's navy this time, this naval force can be put to good use.
At the same time, Li Qin also wrote a letter to Cai Zicai of the Shandong Navy.
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