Chapter Seventy-Six: The Choice (I)

In the end, the Ming army took advantage of the loophole, and then, the one-sided battle did not break out, and the Qing army defending the city was already demoralized, and now it was killed by the Ming army into the city. Just as Li Chengdong led the elite cavalry to pretend to be the Ming army to raid the city of Guangzhou, Li Jianjie did not take much effort to take this city. When Chen Kai arrived in Nanxiong Mansion City, he even offered a gift - a really seriously injured Su Yangzhi.

"Admiral Huang of Tingzhou Mansion has arrested Dong Dayong, Jia Xiong is already dead here, and Su Yangzhi has been captured. There are not too many people left in Nangan now. ”

Chen Kai decided to immediately attack the city before receiving the urgent military information is Huangshan sent from the ancient town to send people, the Ming army of Tingzhou Mansion in Ruijin County with the cooperation of the Heaven and Earth Society to capture the city, by the way to capture Dong Dayong and a large number of Qing troops, the Qing court in the southern Jiangxi region facing Fujian defense line was completely penetrated, tens of thousands of Ming troops poured into Ruijin County, under the blessing of rumors, but also forced Hu Yousheng to withdraw to the Ganzhou capital city.

Everything is a chain reaction, even if there are no rumors, once the Tingzhou capital city falls, Hu Yousheng relies on his past experience - the experience of defending the Ganzhou capital city in front of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong, he will immediately set off to return to the Ganzhou capital city to defend it.

People are often accustomed to doing things according to the experience of success, not to mention that Hu Yousheng has succeeded three times in a row in the past few years. When the battle situation is unfavorable, inertial thinking will immediately control his brain, which is the best thing for Chen Kai to predict. And with this prediction, as long as Chen Kai determines that Hu Yousheng will withdraw his troops, then Su Yangzhi and Jia Xiong will definitely try to withdraw to the Ganzhou Mansion to defend it, as long as he is stuck at this point in time to attack him, he can reap the greatest results.

In the Southern Jiangxi region, the Qing army mainly had eight troops, including Nanjiang Biao, Nangan Fubiao, Ganzhou Town, Nan'an Town, Chenzhou Town, Tingzhou Town, Shaozhou Town, and Nanxiong Town, totaling 26,000 troops. This is without counting the figures of those city guards and city guards, these alone, in fact, are much larger than the military strength invested by the Ming army in any direction.

However, these troops need to be stationed in various places, not to mention, after Chen Kai's operation, the establishment of the three units of Tingzhou Zhenbiao, Nanxiong Zhenbiao and Shaozhou Zhenbiao was completely wiped out, and the mobile troops of the Southern Jiangxi Qing Army plummeted by 9,000 people, nearly one-third. And the bigger problem is that even if you stick to the capital city of Ganzhou, the Chenzhou town mark cannot be moved lightly, because it is the main road connecting Southern Jiangxi to Huguang, and it is absolutely impossible for the Qing army to let Chen Kai threaten Hong Chengchou's back road.

In this way, even if the Southern Ganqing army gave up Nan'an Mansion, it could only gather 14,000 troops in Ganzhou Prefecture, as well as the city garrison troops whose number was uncertain but whose combat effectiveness could not be compared with the town markers. This figure turned the Ming army's two-way army from Fujian and Guangdong into an outright inferior confrontation.

After this series of operations, the Ming army successfully achieved the encroachment on the peripheral areas of the Southern Jiangxi region, and at the same time achieved an effective weakening of the Qing army in Southern Jiangxi. This is undoubtedly a good start, especially the Heaven and Earth Society has played a tangible role in it, and it has a greater or lesser impact on the battle situation in Tingzhou Capital City and Ruijin County, which makes Chen Kai feel even more gratified.

Before leaving, Chen Kai had already repaired his books, Hao Shangjiu, who was sitting in Huizhou Mansion, and Zhang Jin, who was sitting in Chengxiang County, and asked them to reorganize their troops and horses and wait for orders. Now that the early results of the capture of Nangan have been achieved, he naturally needs more troops to go north to help in the war.

"The herald ordered the chief military officer of Huizhou Town, Xintaibo Hao Shangjiu, to command the troops and horses of the headquarters to go out of Heping County and recover the two counties of Dingnan and Longnan in the south of Ganzhou Prefecture; Guancheng Township, the counties of the local affairs, Zhong Kuangbo, Zhang Jintong, the headquarters of the soldiers, horses, Changning, Anyuan two counties; The army crossed Meiling and took the city of Nan'an! ”

The order was issued, and the army led by Admiral Ke Chenshu went north, and Chen Kai temporarily sat in the city of Nanxiong Mansion to clarify the grain transportation from Shaozhou Mansion to Nanxiong Mansion. This distance, in fact, is not far, and from Guangzhou to Shaozhou before, there is also a vein between here and Shaozhou, there is a convenient water and land transportation, and grain and grass can be continuously transported north.

In this, Chen Kai is not much to do, and the staff of the Guangdong Governor Yamen are completely competent, and even better than Chen Kai, but crossing Meiling and transporting military supplies to Nan'an Mansion has no water transportation channels, so it can only be transported by land. The only thing that is good is that Nan'an Mansion is located in the south of Nan'an Prefecture, Dayu County in the upper reaches of the Zhangjiang River, which is actually only a mountain away from Nanxiong Mansion City.

"Back then, the king of Ningxia took this road when he first entered Jiangxi, right?"

The king of Ningxia was posthumously sealed after Li Chengdong's death, and Chen Kai was naturally called so in front of Li Jianjie. When asked about this, Li Jianjie nodded solemnly, and then replied to Chen Kai: "At the beginning, my father-in-law was divided into two roads, one way to Longnan and Xinfeng, and the other way was from Nanxiong Mansion to Nan'an Mansion, down the Zhangjiang River, and to join ......forces in Ganzhou City."

The Ming army's attack on Southern Jiangxi this time was quite smooth, compared with Li Chengdong's two attacks on Southern Jiangxi, and the result ended up being a dead man, which can be said to be a sharp contrast. From the beginning of the march into Shixing County, Chen Kai felt that Li Jianjie's state was a little too excited, and when the battle of Mashi Town began, Chen Kai, who arrived later, heard Wang Qifeng talk about Li Jianjie's whim, and this feeling was even more confirmed.

During this period, Li Jianjie talked eloquently and talked about the old things of the year, which can be said to be the first to be the truth. He was a first-hand witness of those two wars, and Chen Kai basically understood Li Chengdong's strategic thinking from his mouth.

The first time he attacked Southern Jiangxi, the background was that Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren had been unable to conquer the capital of Ganzhou for a long time, but they waited for the Eight Banners Army to come, and had to return to Nanchang. With the battle situation at that time, the Eight Banners Army besieged Nanchang, and Li Chengdong went north to capture Southern Jiangxi, so he could form a north-south attack with Jin Shenghuan. Therefore, Li Chengdong's idea at that time was to take the capital city of Ganzhou along the Zhangjiang River and the Xinfeng River, and after taking this key point, he went north to join Jin Shenghuan and jointly attack the Eight Banners Army led by Tan Tai, the general of Zhengnan. As a result, with tens of thousands of troops going north, Zhibo was a city garrisoned by only five or six thousand people, but because of the light enemy, the foothold was not stable and was caught off guard by the Southern Jiangxi Qing army, "lost 10,000 soldiers, half of the armor, artillery, horses, mules, and equipment", and had to retreat to Guangdong to rest.

This is the first time, and the second time is already in February. This time, Li Chengdong decided to fight steadily, first take over the counties around Ganzhou Prefecture, and then besiege Ganzhou Mansion after completion. However, at this time, the Eight Banner Army had captured Nanchang, Tan Tai ordered the Red Flag and the Manchurian Soldiers of the White Banner under the command of Melle Zhangjing Rubber Merchants to help, although Li Chengdong's strength was still superior, but the Qing army through Nanchang and Ganzhou was in full swing, and directly took the Xinfeng County where Li Chengdong was stationed, defeated his people, and led to his final drowning in the river.

Speaking of the two northward marches of the army, Li Jianjie always seems so impassioned, but once he talks about defeat, he will inevitably lament one or two, especially when it comes to the death of Li Chengdong.

This is human nature, Chen Kai patted him on the shoulder and encouraged one or two, now Jia Xiong is the head, Su Yangzhi is seriously injured and captured, all of which are Li Jianjie's achievements in the first battle. At this point, it can be regarded as revenge for his father-in-law.

"The last general went to Hong Kong Island to defect to the Fu army, because he firmly believed that the Fu army could take the last general to avenge this great revenge. As it turned out, the last general was right! ”

This is already an old thing many years ago, do the math, the friendship between him and Li Jianjie was formed when he went to Guangzhou City to deceive Du Yonghe, and later Li Jianjie, Zhang Yue and their group went to Qiongzhou, and they went to their respective fates in Qiongzhou. is the only one who chose Chen Kai after the death of his brother Li Yuanyin, and now it seems that he is indeed the wisest choice.

At this moment, Li Jianjie seemed to recall the past of those years, and there were already some tears in his eyes. In this regard, Chen Kai just smiled, and then joked: "I haven't taken the Ganzhou Mansion yet, it's too early to say this." ”

The situation is very good, and Chen Kai is just joking about it. The matter of the grain road was quickly clarified, these two places have official roads that can be used, and the Ming army marched along the official road, and the grain and grass could naturally be sent to the front of the army along the official road. And once the city of Nan'an is taken, the next step is to use the Zhangjiang waterway in a bright and bright way, and return to the state of water transportation.

Chen Kai did a good job in the rear, on the front line, Ke Chenshu led the army to the north, Nan'an Mansion City has become an empty city, according to the description of the little officials who did not leave there, the green battalion soldiers and officials have already gone down the river, along the Zhangjiang River waterway straight to Ganzhou City. Of course, before leaving, they did not forget to take the boat away, and by the way, they also burned the dock of Fucheng, which is called a strong wall and a clear field.

However, the ship was taken away and the dock was burned, which could not stop the advance of the Ming army. Along the waterway of the Zhangjiang River, the Ming army marched northward, passing through the equally unguarded Nankang County to the periphery of Ganzhou Prefecture. At the same time, the Fujian Ming Army Group, which advanced westward from Ruijin, also quickly seized Huichang, Shicheng, Ningdu and other counties with the close cooperation of the Tiandihui in various counties of Ganzhou, and approached the capital of Ganzhou through Yandu County, and reached contact with Ke Chenshu's department.

The Qing army gathered heavy troops in the capital city of Ganzhou, and built one stronghold after another on the periphery of the capital city with the flow of mountains and rivers and existing villages and towns, so as to strengthen the defense of the capital city of Ganzhou and gain more time.

This undoubtedly blocked the passage of the Ming army to converge. Fortunately, Chen Kai did not intend to surround the city, the two armies reached a contact south of the Ganzhou capital, and soon Chen Kai rushed to the agreed place to meet Huangshan under the escort of the cavalry.

The meeting place is a small village, about Huangshan, Chen Kai is acquainted, although the two do not have much intersection, but they are both old people under the command of Zheng Chenggong, following for many years, there is always a friendship. Not to mention that Zheng Chenggong swept through Fujian before, Chen Kai also had the right to control Huangshan when he was in the rear, and at that time, he revised the grain route and strategy of the Ming army's attack on Tingzhou Mansion, and Huangshan was also conscientious as an executor.

"Those righteous men who lurked in Ganzhou on the orders of the Fu army were very busy with the last general, and along the way, they provided grain and grass, people's husbands, acted as guides, spread rumors, plotted against the officials and generals of the court, and even repaired roads and built camps, which did a good job. Starting from the capital city of Tingzhou, the last general did not make too much effort, and most of the counties fell from the wind, until the periphery of the capital city of Ganzhou, and he had not yet fought with the real sword and gun of the captive master. ”

With such a large-scale attack, the result was so successful that Huangshan was very excited. He was thanks to the assistance of the Heaven and Earth Association along the way, like a fish in water, most of those members are still assisting in government affairs in the counties, and they were not able to come, but Tao Qian, Huangshan could see that this person seemed to be a leader in the "latent righteous man" in Ganzhou, and this was specially brought over.

After a few years, Tao Qian seems to have matured a lot, and he has also experienced a lot of vicissitudes. Heaven and Earth will have contact every once in a while, especially in the Southern Jiangxi region, which is not too far away from Guangdong, and there is a written exchange between Chen Kai and Tao Qian. Even this time, Chen Kai also launched the Ganzhou Heaven and Earth Association through Tao Qian.

The Heaven and Earth Society performed very well in this attack, and Chen Kai naturally praised Tao Qian and his comrades with a good reputation. As for more words, he didn't mention them, and they just knew each other. In the final analysis, Chen Kai has no way to explain the matter of the Heaven and Earth Society to Zheng Chenggong now, so naturally it is not easy to put it in front of Huangshan so directly.

When we meet, in the final analysis, it is for military affairs. At this stage, the Qing army still has no less than 14,000 troops in the capital city of Ganzhou, and the Ming army is advancing in two ways, and its actual strength is about this number.

"Steady progress, don't rush it. Always liaison, if the captives concentrate their forces and want to break through each one, they will turn to the defensive. In the final analysis, there are only so many troops in Nanjiang, even if it is Jiangxi, what can be mobilized is the Jiangxi standard and the Jiujiang town standard, which will take time. ”

The fall of the two provinces last year greatly changed the geopolitical pattern of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Qing army was in the southeast, and it was originally a small number of strongholds occupied by the Ming army surrounded by a large control area, but after that incident, it became a confrontation pattern between the Ming and Qing armies. As the front line of the confrontation, Jiangxi has never had too many soldiers, because the province has been repeatedly damaged by military disasters in the past few years, and it is in the hinterland. But now, it has become the front line again, and the Qing court has invested a large number of troops into the key points of Southern Jiangxi, Jianning Mansion, and Guangxin Mansion to block the way for the Ming army to enter Jiangxi, which is already stretched. Now, it's even more unsustainable.

However, the Southern Jiangxi and Qing armies were originally the elite of each other, and the inferior performance earlier was, in the final analysis, the strategic and tactical level of the two sides was not at the same level. Now that they have returned to guarding the capital city of Ganzhou, which is their best job, and the two armies of the Ming army have not been able to merge for a while, the match point will inevitably begin to shift.

After a lot of talks, Huang Shan also had a clear understanding of Chen Kai's strategic intentions. Time is pressing, especially Huangshan is still the coach of the westward group, and after talking about the key points, the two sides will return separately. But when Chen Kai returned to the camp of the Beishang Group, he received a news that shocked him.

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