Wu Zheng can't stubbornly order the three-way army to go north, if he really wants to attack the bank of the Yellow River, then the logistics supply line will be too long, and the general's palace has not even recruited enough civilian service to ensure the transportation of this battle.

And the available troops in Wu Zheng's hands are 50,000 people from Taizhou Wei and Wu Songwei, plus 10,000 people from Fang Guoan and 5,000 from Chen Sheng and Chi Erhan as reserves, so that with 60,000 or 70,000 troops, it is okay to capture Yangzhou, and it is also possible to get involved in Huai'an Mansion, but if you go further north, it will definitely not work.

Wu Zheng had to be on guard.

At that time, Azig, as long as 30,000 people are mobilized to the east to attack the front line of Baoying and Yancheng, the guards of the Northern Expeditionary Army will be cut off.

Therefore, regardless of the recovery of Yangzhou or Huai'an, if the Qing army in Xuzhou does not move, then all the victories will be short-lived.

The 80,000 Qing troops can move south and east at any time, and it is impossible for them to garrison 50,000 or 60,000 northern expeditionary troops in Jiangbei all the time.

Only by luring out the Qing army in Xuzhou and taking the opportunity to destroy half of it in this battle, at least more than thirty percent, then Taizhou Wei will be able to deal with it, or at most let the Fang Guoan Army assist in the defense of Jiangbei.

In this way, the guards could return to their original stations and continue to garrison the provinces without any major impact on the situation.

But the problem is that there are 80,000 Qing troops in Xuzhou, and if the Qing court is really forced to rush and transfer the Eight Banners of Gyeonggi to garrison the Eight Banners or the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to the south to help, then it will be self-defeating and will not be able to eat and go around.

The most critical part of this battle is to hurt it, but not to force it to jump off the wall.

You have to eat meat, but you can't get bogged down in a decisive battle.

How to grasp this degree?

Wu Zheng frowned and thought deeply.

……。

The great victory of Xinghua is an accident, but it is also inevitable.

By chance, it is said that Bashan, the chief general of the Qing army in Xinghua City, is indeed not a person who can take charge alone, a person with this kind of character is only suitable for being commanded, not a commander, and it is very suitable to be a deputy general or a pioneer, brave, and the only candidate for a breakthrough.

But a person with this kind of personality will lose his mind when he encounters a sudden change and is ridiculed and abused by the enemy.

In fact, Bashan had the most basic experience in using firearms and dealing with firearms, after all, the Qing army had artillery and firearms for some years.

But Bashan prefers war horses, thinking that the war horses under the crotch are more controllable, and the people are the ones who will win the world immediately.

This deep-rooted concept is not only Bashan, but also the generals above the middle level of the Qing court.

Because they knew that if the imperial court changed the direction of armaments, they would be inevitably eliminated.

Unable to wake up people who pretended to be asleep, this was the biggest resistance that the Qing court encountered from the middle and upper class generals when forming a new army of muskets and sailors.

Bashan hopes that this battle will prove to the imperial court that the Manchu cavalry can still be a barrier to the Manchu world and is irreplaceable.

This is by chance, if Azig had gone south earlier, or as soon as he arrived in Xuzhou, he had sent troops to reinforce Xinghua, then Jiang Quanyi would have faced a difficult siege battle.

inevitably, because this is the debut of Wu Zheng's accumulation of strength for five years.

The Northern Expeditionary Army showed its existing fangs, but they were far sharper than the enemy thought.

Quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit, not chiseling, a blockbuster.

Jiang Quanyi's department was not the top part of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The real main force was the First Army of the Northern Expedition formed by the expansion of Hangzhou Wei, and Wu Zheng firmly controlled the five battalions in his hands (different from the battalions of later generations, the battalion here is equivalent to Wei).

These five battalions have been garrisoned around Hangzhou, and they are not allowed to move without permission unless it is critical.

Even if Wu Zheng insisted on fighting this counter-war this time, he did not have the idea of mobilizing the First Army.

Of course, Wu Zheng did not treat the First Army as a forbidden army, let it become a forbidden army, rusty and moldy.

Wu Zheng's intention was that this army was not an official Northern Expedition, and it would never show its sword!

This is different from the previous Zhang Mingzhen led the naval division to attack Dagukou, which was a deceptive strategy, Wu Zheng wanted to lead the Qing court into the arms race of firearms and naval divisions, so as to delay the financial recovery of the Qing court. In fact, the effect was good, and the Qing court expanded the 30,000 musket army and began to form a naval division at the same time.

Dolgon's biggest intention in recruiting Wang Chaoxian was not to disturb Jiangnan, but to divide the sailors in Wang Xian's hands.

However, although Wang Chaoxian agreed, he was not loyal to the Manchus, he was not loyal to anyone, only to interests.

That is, if you have milk, you are a mother.

As a result, Dolgon's calculations fell through.

……。

Later generations often said that a small soldier swayed a war.

In fact, this is not true, small soldiers can never control a war, at best, they can only control a battle, or the relatively small one.

But the generals of an army can indeed influence a war.

Especially the army that was deployed by the commander at the key point, that is, the bottom of the furnace in the "Heavenly Furnace Tactics" in later generations.

If the bottom of the furnace is broken for a while, then the whole plate is lost.

Its role is to be a nail, nailed there, regardless of the stormy waves, standing still, steady as a rock, in this way, the battle situation is alive, whether it is flanking or encircling reinforcements, you can let the coach sway to his heart's content.

The bottom of this battle is Xinghua, which is Jiang Quanyi's Taizhou Guard.

Wu Zheng chose Jiang Quanyi, not because there were 30,000 people in Taizhou Wei, but because Jiang Quanyi was a person.

In terms of bravery, Jiang Quanyi is not as good as Chi Erhan.

In terms of urgency, Jiang Quanyi is not as good as Lu Zhiyu.

In terms of calmness, Jiang Quanyi is not as good as Chen Sheng.

Why choose Jiang Quanyi, because Jiang Quanyi is tenacious!

In the past four years, he has lost the most battles among the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the most recently, he even became a prisoner of the Qing army, and was exchanged for Shang Shan and Karchuhun by Wu Zheng.

He is a real man who has been defeated and defeated repeatedly.

His troops also suffered the heaviest casualties in each battle.

It stands to reason that Jiang Quanyi has the most experience in combat, at least, he has the most experience in defeating battles, and this point is probably no longer disputed.

Such generals and soldiers can be sensitively aware of the hidden dangers that other generals on the battlefield cannot perceive.

Why, then, does he keep losing battles?

Is it unbearable, and the mud can't support the wall?

Or is it an ulterior motive?

Wu Zheng never thought that Jiang Quanyi could be contaminated with these two points.

Wu Zheng knows best why Jiang Quanyi lost the battle and why the one with the most casualties is always the one.

Because, from beginning to end, Jiang Quanyi did not have his descendant troops, and almost every battle before was a "mixed army" that was reorganized, whether it was a surrender or a recruitment of recruits, none of which allowed Jiang Quanyi to train well for more than half a year.

And Jiang Quanyi fought and was very sensitive to the direction of the war, which was directly related to his countless escapes from death over the years. His troops are often pointed at the most critical points on the battlefield.

As a result, the battles encountered by Jiang Quanyi are often the fiercest and most brutal.