"The Yangtze River is the throat of this seal, and Wu Chu is the first state in Xinjiang. This Anqing City is really a good place! ”

A Qing army general in his thirties stood on the city wall, looking at the Yangtze River rolling away in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this person is Yue Zhongqi, who is very valued by Kangxi, and now the new official position is the governor of Anhui, shouldering the heavy responsibility of the city defense of the entire Anqing, which can be described as a high authority.

"My lord, the wind is cold by the river, I can't stay for a long time..."Ding Yueshan, who was on the side, said cautiously, he was brought out by Yue Zhongqi from Sichuan, and he was raised in the house since he was a child, so he has been responsible for serving Yue Zhongqi's daily life.

"Well, let's go." Yue Zhongqi left the city wall without looking back, but after going down to the city wall, he couldn't help but glance at the west city wall, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

In that direction, it is the Fu Han army, it is Ningyu, and maybe the other party is also looking at the Yangtze River.

Returning to the official office in the city, Yue Zhongqi looked at a secret fold in his hand in the study, as Kangxi's cronies and ministers, he has the right to reflect some of the current situation to Emperor Kangxi, but how to write this letter made Yue Zhongqi have a headache, but it was really because the current situation was really not good, and it was not too easy to explain to Kangxi at all.

In the eyes of today's Emperor Kangxi, Fu Erdan and Yue Zhongqi are the two most powerful blades in their hands, but Fu Erdan is now broken under Wuchang City, for Yue Zhongqi, he is different from Fu Erdan's recklessness and bravery, he is somewhat cautious and self-aware in his heart, and he dare not speak out in front of Kangxi.

The Fu Han army is not easy to deal with! Ning Yu can't be taken lightly! At least in Yue Zhongqi's eyes, he thinks that he is not very sure of Ningyu's victory, especially after studying Ningyu's past war examples, Yue Zhongqi is even more firm in this idea, the problem is not mainly the command factor, but the quality of the two armies, which is really too different.

Yue Zhongqi has studied the previous examples, and in every battle, the Qing army will expose a very significant problem, that is, it cannot fight for a long time, whether it is using muskets or hand-to-hand combat, the Qing army is prone to the problem of morale collapse, the green battalion has the worst morale, followed by the Eight Banners, and the Fu Han army, whether it is the main division or the garrison division, is higher than the Qing army in morale.

On the excerpt, Yue Zhongqi is still more cautious about this issue, mainly because he also understands in his heart that this matter will be more sensitive, so the excerpt is more aimed at utensils, whether it is a bird gun or artillery, the Qing army is far inferior to the Fu Han army, which is also a major problem that the Qing army mainly reflects at present, and it is not taboo.

As for the current Anqing security problem, Yue Zhongqi did not hide the current problem, because the Yongjina army retreated too completely and the losses were too heavy, so the defeated troops in Anqing were only a few thousand, plus the green battalion that rushed from Zhejiang, adding up to only more than 20,000.

Not to mention that the 20,000 green battalions are very backward in terms of equipment and training, and even the morale is at the lowest point, and there are people who want to escape from Anqing every day, and after Yue Zhongqi decisively beheaded a group of people, this rout was stopped, but the bigger problem is that in this case, such a group of people has no way to go to the battlefield.

In the end, Yue Zhongqi also briefly reported to Kangxi his combat ideas, that is, to hold on and wait for reinforcements, and strive to wait until Kangxi's 100,000 army arrives, and then the inside and outside should be combined, and the 40,000 Fu Han army can be defeated. In Yue Zhongqi's opinion, the Fu Han army will definitely not wait for the spring of the next year to advance eastward, compared to as long as it is prepared, it will also attack Anqing in winter.

Yes, Yue Zhongqi's expectation for this battle was only to defeat the 40,000 Fu Han army that was about to advance eastward. As for the complete extermination of the Fu Han army, in Yue Zhongqi's opinion, it is not feasible in the short term, of course, he also tactfully persuaded after the twists and turns, as long as the Fu Han army is blocked in Huguang and Jiangxi, then even if it is grinding, it can completely grind the Fu Han army, and he is not in a hurry for a decisive battle.

After Yue Zhongqi finished writing the fold, he sighed in his heart, wrapped the fold in yellow silk cloth, and then sent someone to Kangxi's army, hoping that Anqing's current situation could be understood by Kangxi.

The distance from Yiyang Sanguan to Anqing was not far, so it was quickly sent to Kangxi. At this time, Kangxi had basically given up the attack on the three passes of Yiyang, mainly because the terrain was too dangerous, and there was no sufficient and practical siege artillery, and it was impossible to break through the passes that had been reinforced by cement by relying on those old-fashioned general cannons.

In addition, the strategic pressure of the Fu Han army in other aspects has become smaller, and the defense of the three passes of Yiyang has been strengthened, the original garrison of the third division has arrived at the three passes, 20,000 people plus dozens of artillery, plus a large number of grenades, has completely made Kangxi give up the idea of using flesh and blood to force the three passes of Yiyang.

In this situation, Kangxi had no choice but to withdraw his troops, and his withdrawal direction was the direction of Lu'an and Luzhou, and he planned to rectify and rest in Lu'an and Luzhou, and when the weather warmed up slightly, he began to march into Anqing, so as to achieve the goal of blocking the Fuhan army in Anqing.

This point is actually inconsistent with Ning Yu's analysis, because the current Qing army expenditure is too huge, these hundreds of thousands of people are floating outside, plus the nearly 100,000 Qing troops who died in the previous battle, they still need to pay pensions and bury silver, this huge expenditure is difficult to bear in the current Qing court's treasury.

In fact, in order to support this battle, Kangxi has reopened the donation, sold a batch of real shortage of officials, and finally got three million taels of silver, but it is difficult to want more, after all, there are so many real shortage of officials, as for those false titles, they are buying and selling on weekdays, so they are not worth a few dollars at all, but the three million taels of silver that they finally got are placed in this war, but it seems to be a drop in the bucket, which makes Kangxi can't wait for this winter to pass completely.

Therefore, after receiving Yue Zhongqi's recital, Kangxi was still very pleasantly surprised, he found that this person was indeed reusable, at least in the point that the decisive battle was coming, and also put forward certain feasible suggestions, which was also recognized by Kangxi.

"With Anhui Admiral Yue Zhongqi sticking to Anqing, when my army arrives, he will be the first to work!"

Kangxi was a little excited, but when he saw Yue Zhongqi's last words, he had some small bumps in his heart, he was absolutely unwilling to fight another battle of the three feudatories, as long as he could quell Chu Wei in a short time, even if he paid a big price, it was within Kangxi's acceptance.

Looking at the snowflakes gradually falling in the sky, Kangxi couldn't help coughing twice, and his face instantly became flushed, maybe he could survive for another year and give future generations a safe and stable Qing Dynasty.....