In 1854, Xuyi County was the state capital of Sizhou, Jiangsu, and in 1696, it was the real city of Sizhou. Sizhou City is located in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, was once an important city in the lower reaches of the Huai River in history, it guards both sides of the Huai River and the southern port of the North-South Grand Canal from the Huai River to the Bianhe River, and has a prominent strategic, transportation and economic location. Sizhou City was founded in the Northern Zhou Dynasty period of the Northern Zhou Dynasty elephant two years (58o years), Qing Kangxi nineteen years (168o years) the Yellow River seized the Yellow River into the Huai, Sizhou City suffered a disaster of no roof, to the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi (1696) the whole city was completely buried by sediment.

The complete destruction of Sizhou City undoubtedly has a heavy relationship with Jiang Guangtou's previous life, Du Chong, who dug the Yellow River and guided the Yellow River southward movement. After the city of Sizhou was submerged, the city of Sizhou moved several times and is now moved to Xuyi. Wei Ze has been tossing and turning in Anhui, and this time he finally decided to make a move on Xuyi, which is located at the junction of Anhui and Jiangsu.

Xuyi is on the south bank of Hongze Lake, not far from Wuhe County. To the east, the Guò waterway can be used to enter Gaoyou Lake. The embankment in the east of Gaoyou Lake is the west embankment of the canal. If you can establish a foothold here, it will undoubtedly be a serious threat to the canal.

Moreover, after taking control of Xuyi, Wei Ze was able to completely advance his actual control area to the area south of Hongze Lake, and the king of the east proposed to Wei Ze that the grain paid this year would be half more than last year, and after adding such a large area, Wei Ze was fully confident that he would complete the task.

At the strategizing meeting, Weser took out a passage from Sun Tzu's Art of War. The staff officers looked at this passage on the blackboard and read it slowly.

Therefore, there will be five dangers: you must die, and you can also kill; will be born, but can be captured; Angry, insulting; Incorruptible, humiliating; Love the people, but it's annoying. All these five will be passed, and the disaster of using soldiers will also be used. The destruction of the army will be in five dangers, and it must not be overlooked.

After everyone finished reading, Wei Ze knocked on the blackboard, "The best goal in our strategy this time is to be able to carry out a war of annihilation against the enemy's living forces, which is the overthrow and killing of the generals mentioned here." The second goal is to pay taxes on food in such a vast new area. If there is a conflict between two targets, then the main thing is to take the target and annihilate the enemy's living forces. If the goal is not achieved, then I will only allow one situation, and that is when the enemy is hiding outside of our attack range. Then the enemy constantly sent small forces to fight with us for places. Of course, I don't think this kind of situation is actually possible, because the Qing army does not have such a strong ability to penetrate into the grassroots. ”

After Weeser finished speaking, the staff officers asked, "Chief of the General Staff, can you translate this passage into the vernacular?" ”

Weser immediately pulled out another piece of paper and nailed it to the blackboard. The commander has five Achilles' heels: if he is brave but not strategic, he may be booby-trapped by the enemy if he only knows how to fight to the death; If you are afraid of the battle, greedy for life and afraid of death, you may be captured by the enemy; Impatient and irritable, jumping at the touch of a button, you may be humiliated by the enemy and act rashly; If you are honest and love fame, and if you have too much self-esteem, you may be insulted by the enemy and lose your mind; If you dote on the people, you may be annoyed by the enemy and fall into passivity. These five points are the mistakes that generals are prone to make, and they are disasters in the use of troops. The destruction of the army and the killing of generals are all caused by these five Achilles' heels, and this is something that those who are generals must pay full attention to.

Now everyone understands it, Wei Ze said: "Now the intelligence department will start collecting intelligence to see which Qing demons dare to come up and send them to death." At that time, it was better not to be in a hurry to fight against the Qing Demon, but also to ensure that the war of annihilation could be carried out. Complete the job of Destroying the Army. ”

On May 7, 1854, Wei Ze ordered Lin Fengxiang's subordinates, who were resting in Dingyuan, to go to Xuyi and besiege Xuyi City. Lin Fengxiang had already returned to Dingyuan from Tianjing at this time, and when he returned to Dingyuan, he found that his four armies and 20,000 troops had been completed. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Lin Fengxiang really didn't believe that Wei Ze had such ability.

What surprised Lin Fengxiang even more was that these troops were generally between 16 and 4o years old, and they had even received a certain amount of queue training, and they could line up in horizontal formations and columns. Even though these soldiers looked like recruits at first glance, with the curiosity and fear unique to recruits in their eyes, these recruits who had received basic training had already met Lin Fengxiang's highest expectations. In fact, before taking over, Lin Fengxiang thought that Wei Ze would throw him a group of physically weak children, either thirteen or fourteen-year-old hairy children, or old men in their forties and fifties. Lin Fengxiang was even worried that Wei Ze might even throw it to Lin Fengxiang and a group of women.

Recruitment is very troublesome, if you don't intend to join the Taiping Army a long time ago, or have to join the Taiping Army because of natural disasters, it is difficult for the Taiping Army to recruit people in other circumstances. Not to mention that the troops are basically soldiers within the prime age group. Lin Fengxiang knew that if he did this by himself, he would definitely not be able to recruit so many troops in more than half a month, and even if he did, he might not be willing to give it to Wei Ze.

Lin Fengxiang immediately began to form troops. The Northern Expeditionary Army he brought back had more than 6,000 people, and this was the result of Lin Fengxiang's righteous anger and the distribution of a part of the elite soldiers to Li Kaifang and others. There are these elite warriors who have participated in thousands of miles of expeditions, and there are these soldiers who have been trained in the queue provided by Weese. The units of the four corps were quickly organized.

After receiving the news that Wei Ze sent troops to Xuyi, Lin Fengxiang felt that this was a good opportunity to train his troops. His troops were all dispatched and headed straight for Xuyi. Except for the attack on Nanjing from Wuchang, Lin Fengxiang rarely marched so straightforwardly. During the attack on Nanjing, Lin Fengxiang and others sailed by boat on the waterway opened by Wei Ze, and each foothold was led by Taiping troops. There is no shortage of food and other things, and it is a very bad memory.

Since then, Lin Fengxiang's troops have been caught in a series of bitter battles. Only during the Northern Expedition, under the guidance of Wei Ze, crossed the Huai River from Shouzhou and then walked through Mengcheng, with Wei Ze sitting in front of the paving, the Northern Expeditionary Army felt a kind of relaxation and refreshment.

In addition to the feeling of marching, Lin Fengxiang has always adhered to the "soft pinch of persimmons" in the selection of targets. If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army's defense was weak, or if it was determined that there were countless supplies in Xuyi City, Lin Fengxiang would not have fought so directly. This time, Lin Fengxiang attacked firstly to repay Wei Ze's support, and secondly, to see how capable Wei Ze was.

The march along the way was accompanied by a map provided by Weese, which was drawn quite accurately, and with the guidance of the locals, the degree of marching was greatly improved. When he arrived at Xuyi City, Lin Fengxiang changed his mind. The size of the county town was quite small, the walls were low, and the number of defenders looked very limited. Seeing the approach of 20,000 troops, the people outside the city had already run cleanly.

In the face of such a county, Lin Fengxiang didn't need to wait for Wei Ze to make a move. He commanded: "Herald! Prepare the ladder, set up a fire in the west of the city, smoke the city and start the siege! ”r1o58

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