Seven days.

Counting from the day after the shelling of the military workshop.

According to Wu Zheng's deployment, the guards of the Northern Expeditionary Army crossed the river and officially entered the attack position, which took seven days.

A distance of about 800 miles, seven days.

If it weren't for the round-the-clock transportation of the warships of the Wusong Naval Division, soldiers, artillery, supplies, ammunition, etc., without half a month, I am afraid there would be no need to think about it.

This is still in the south of the Yangtze River, and the road is still smooth.

Wu Zheng was dissatisfied in his heart, he originally thought that in four days, the deployment should be completed.

But as a result, it was almost twice as long.

However, this has already blown everyone away.

The 30,000-strong army (excluding Taizhouwei, which was itself stationed in Jiangbei), in seven days, and the farthest from Shaoxing, Jinhua, and Chuzhou, landed in Jiangbei and entered the attack position in seven days, which is indeed very shocking.

This is not a thousand-strong cavalry that can set off at any time and use war horses as foot strength.

Before the first shot of the battle was fired, Wu Zheng was worried, because seven days could allow the enemy to make a lot of preparations.

The suddenness of war would be greatly reduced.

Then, Wu Zheng's original intention of fighting a surprise battle will be changed.

If it really becomes a stalemate and a war of attrition, then Wu Zheng regrets it so much that he vomits blood.

Jiangnan really can't resist such consumption now.

However, when Wu Zheng was suffering from gains and losses, when all the generals were waiting for Wu Zheng to give orders.

Song An sent Chang Lin Wei to send information, in addition to the 8,000 enemy troops in Huai'an Mansion to reinforce in the direction of Baoying, the 80,000 Qing troops in Xuzhou did not move at all.

When he saw the news, Wu Zheng was stunned.

The enemy is in the north of Yangzhou, but there are only 20,000 garrisons, not that the Qing court does not want to deploy more troops, but because during the peace talks, the Qing court demanded that the Northern Expeditionary Army should not exceed 10,000 garrisons in Yangzhou, so Wu Zheng also proposed that the Qing army should not exceed 10,000.

After the two sides argued, the upper limit of the Qing army was 20,000. Therefore, the Qing court deployed 12,000 garrisons in Huai'an Mansion to form a horn with Yangzhou Prefecture.

And the 80,000 troops in Xuzhou have been stationed, and the soldiers must fight for it, especially after half of Yangzhou Mansion "fell", it is necessary to guard against the sudden northward direction of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

But the problem is that from the first batch of Northern Expeditionary Army, that is, Wu Songwei of Lu Zhiyu and Wu Yi, it took seven days to cross the river, and even if the enemy army in Xuzhou climbed, it was time to move the nest, right?

Dare to love, is this underestimating us?

Wu Zheng thought of this, he really couldn't cry or laugh.

"According to the set goal, launch an attack on all fronts!"

"Yes!"

A storm of ploughing and sweeping holes began.

Since people don't pay attention to us, let's let it not eat and go around!

……。

In fact, Wu Zheng really blamed the Qing court or Dolgon.

Yangzhou urgent report, sent to Xuzhou, is indeed not far away, fast horse will arrive in one day.

After the successful peace talks between the Qing court and the Yixing Dynasty, although Xuzhou hoarded troops, there was no main general.

It's not that the Qing court is unwilling or reluctant to send it, it's really unavailable, the 80,000-strong general is the main general, and the Qing court can't just appoint a general with a title.

Then Dorgon won't say yes, right?

Therefore, the army is stationed in Xuzhou, but the highest promotion is missing, and the only ones who really control the army are partial generals.

If the general commands the generals, there are no more than 3,000 people at most, so that is to say, there are no less than 30 people in charge of the Qing army stationed in Xuzhou.

When there are more people, there are more ideas, and besides, they do not have the right to transfer troops.

Therefore, we have to send the information to the north of Suncheonfu.

This delivery will have to be delayed for at least two days, right?

The Qing court received an urgent report and summoned the civil and military masses, so they had to discuss it for a day or two, right?

After forming a resolution to fight or not, you have to send a fast horse to send the resolution to Xuzhou, right?

In fact, when Wu Zheng gave the order to attack, the Qing army in Xuzhou had just received an order from the Qing court to reinforce Yangzhou.

From Xuzhou to Yangzhou, it is also a distance of seven or eight hundred miles.

The Eight Banners Army is not fully equipped with war horses, these Han Eight Banners or the Ming Army that descended to the Qing Dynasty, where can there be so many war horses, and they have to rely on feet and canal ships to transport.

This creates a time gap.

And Wu Zheng is different, his power is only transferred by his own will.

With an order, the General's Mansion will be able to turn according to his wishes.

This is the difference between the systems of the two sides, and the efficiency is naturally different.

……。

Wu Zheng's deployment was that the troops were divided into three routes, with Taizhou Wei as the main direction of attack, Jiangdu to attack Gaoyouzhou, and Rugao to attack Yancheng.

The three-way horizontal push, firstly, made it impossible for the enemy to look at each other, and secondly, with the Taizhou Wei occupying Xinghua as the support point, forming a sharp protrusion, thus making it difficult for the enemy to form a defensive line that takes into account both east and west.

Wu Zheng was originally a "gambler", and he liked to fight water dogs.

Take advantage of its illness and kill it!

If the attack is really blocked, Wu Zheng has also prepared a plan these days.

That is, Taizhou Wei died in Xinghua, and then attacked Gaoyou and Yancheng and retreated southward, and finally Taizhou Wei withdrew to Taizhou and returned to before the war was launched.

Of course, this is just a precautionary plan.

……。

Shuntian Mansion, Luan Yi General's Mansion.

Shen Zhiyuan has been under house arrest these days, and he can't get out of the house, so it's really hard to sit still.

Since the news broke, this matter was posted on the same day.

Dorgon was angry, and the consequences were severe.

Not only did he put Shen Zhiyuan under house arrest and didn't let him contact anyone, but even Qian Qiaogong couldn't enter General Luanyi's mansion.

Even Donggu has eaten a lot of melons.

Outside affairs, almost all of them were isolated, and even the training of Gongji Pole City was canceled, and Qian Qiaogong was supported by himself.

Shen Zhiyuan was restless, but not because of this.

Instead, he learned from Tungor's mouth that Ching Yin had been captured by Dolgon that day.

This made Shen Zhiyuan very worried, because ...... Guilt.

Since he was looking for flowers and willows in Rouge Lane, Qingyin, who was the head of Changlinwei's stall, had been cooperating with him without complaint, and even endured his "rude" behavior.

This made Shen Zhiyuan subconsciously regard her as a family member, meeting her hometown and seeing her hometown, and her eyes were full of tears.

But she was arrested, and her life and death are unknown.

This made Shen Zhiyuan feel guilty in his heart that he had affected her.

Because, at that time, Shen Zhiyuan knew very well that Dolgon was closely monitoring him, and even Wu Zheng, who was thousands of miles away, also passed on the messenger Lin Wei to temporarily cut off contact with Shen Zhiyuan to protect himself and avoid the enemy's edge.

But he still forcibly sent the information, which made Qingyin exposed again.

If Dolgon had no evidence before, he was only suspicious of Qingyin. Well, this time, no matter how much you deny it, it won't help.

Thinking of a pink beauty, she was so burdened by herself, and she died, Shen Zhiyuan was afraid that he wanted to die at this time.

With a "bang", this is the thirteenth bowl that Shen Zhiyuan smashed.

The subordinates didn't dare to make a sound, and the slightly clever ones quickly slipped away and reported to Dongor.