"He attacks and I defend!"

Li Derun replied categorically.

"My lord, please take a map and look at it."

Shi Lang's personal soldiers had been waiting for the master to finish eating and open the meeting at the back, and when he saw that the Xuanfu envoy had spoken, a group of people who were busy rushed up, and quickly removed the banquet table, turning the banquet hall into a conference hall in a blink of an eye. Melons, fruits, tea, and snacks were placed on the table, and the staff officers of several staff offices spliced together the map of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi border and set it up in front of everyone.

"Shi Xuanfu, generals, please take a look." Li Derun pointed to the mountains and rivers on the map.

"Now that we are in this Guangxin Mansion, behind which are Fujian and Biyuan, we can be regarded as worry-free, and the supply of grain, grass and equipment is not a problem. Therefore, on the surface, our army is attacking Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, and the Qing army's Boluo Department has come south to rescue Hangzhou, but in fact, they are attacking, and we are defending. It's just that we use defense instead of offense! ”

"The commander of the Qing army along the way is Bo Luo, the general of the pseudo-Qing expedition to the south, and most of his subordinates, except for thousands of soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, have crossed the Yellow River and moved south to the south. Most of them are from Jiangbei. When you arrive at this land of water network in the south of the Yangtze River, it is also a rich town, and it is rare to rape and plunder, and burn and kill. All the fanny packs are bulging. It coincided with the fact that this march was the reason for the dense water network in the south of the Yangtze River, and the battle line was long, the march time was long, and it was the autumn rainy season. The roads were muddy and slippery, it was not easy to march, and it was difficult to transport baggage. These more than 100,000 people marched to Hangzhou, and their physical exertion was huge and their morale was very low. ”

"Therefore, the first thing we need to do is to capture Quzhou Prefecture and establish a foothold in Zhejiang, and at the same time quickly build roads and bridges with Fujian and Jiangxi, and connect them with the rear roads in southern Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong, so as to facilitate the transportation of grain and grass for soldiers and horses. Then, slowly pressed the past to Hangzhou Mansion and seized Fuyang and other peripheral points. When Bolo is not firmly established, he will come out and compete with me! ”

"And the officers and men of our army, not to mention the officers and soldiers of the naval division and the garrison brigade who followed the Fufu envoy all the way to the north are all athletes from the south, who have grown up in the rain since they were children and lived in the mountains and forests. It is the generals such as Hao Tongzhi and Luo Tongzhi, who is not good at marching troops in bad weather, fighting in rain and snow, and fighting on this slippery road in the autumn rain in the south of the Yangtze River, isn't it exactly where our geographical advantage lies? ”

"Exactly! Mr. Li is right! Speaking of the deeds of the year, Hao Shaoqi was so excited that the steel needle-like beard on his face curled up one by one, "No matter how heavy the rain and snow were, how difficult the road was, as long as we gave an order, we all rushed into the rain and snow!" Why? If you don't leave, those sons of bitches might put knives and forks into your chest while you're sleeping! ”

With this sentence, he broke through the tactical core of the peasant army at the beginning and the current provisional formation of the six town soldiers, so as to control the enemy by taking action, mobile combat or mobile combat. If you don't move, you are waiting for death. Today, this kind of tactical experience accumulated by the situation has become a magic weapon for defeating the enemy.

"One more point." Shi Lang put down the pipe in his hand, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, "The Qing dogs know that our army has always been known for its sophisticated firearms and fierce artillery. However, the Qinggou are not fools, they see that in this kind of weather, the rain does not stop, and the climate is humid, so they think that the firearms of our army will inevitably be the same as their firearms, because the gunpowder is damp and cannot play a role. Therefore, according to the detailed report, the Qinggou are ready to rely on their superiority in the number of soldiers and horses, and the advantage of the high pond depth of Hangzhou's Fucheng, to drive those surrendered troops to fight against our army. After a large amount of consumption of our army, drive us back to Jiangxi and even to Fujian! ”

Shi Lang's words immediately caused an uproar in the hall. However, it was not a surprise, but a somewhat mocking and disdainful laugh.

"Greasing the Envoy! This group of dog thieves led by Li Chengdong and others was the defeated general of our soldiers who broke into the camp back then. Their master, Gao Jie, is a character who can slide out hundreds of miles overnight when he sees us breaking the word banner! This kind of cowardice has become their baby bump now. It's not a joke! The old people who broke into the camp led by Hao Shaoqi were disdainful of the Qing army.

"You can't be careless. Gao Jie's guy, who slid fast back then, did not suffer any major losses in the strength of his subordinates, but collected a lot of Sun Chuanting's subordinates to defeat the soldiers, and their strength increased instead of decreasing. They also raided houses and robbed houses on the ground of Jianghuai and swallowed small strands of poles, and the number of troops increased a lot. Compared with Zuo Liangyu at the beginning, the combat power is also comparable. Tian Jianxiu was older than Hao Shaoqi, and began to gesture to the cigarette pouch pole in his hand to share the benefits and disadvantages for everyone.

"Tian Tongzhi is right! In addition, after this group of dog thieves surrendered to the Qing army, not only did the hair on their heads be shaved, but the last taboo in their hearts was gone. After changing to a new master, it is natural to behave well in front of the new master, so that the new master can feel that it is valuable to accept them. Li Derun took over the topic of Tian Jianxiu, and at the same time, he also took the bag of cigarettes handed to him by others, and talked eloquently in the faint blue smoke while smoking.

"After the Qing army took in such a surrendered army, it was worthy of them. Not only were the official positions given, but the grain and grass were also provided according to their reported strength. This is much stronger than when he was in the Ming army sequence. You must know that at that time, the civilian officials who served as supervisors, governors, and supervisors of the army did not withhold, did not levy three or five percent of you, and did not owe you half a year and ten months of military salary, and you, the chief soldier, were embarrassed to complain in front of your comrades! However, now, according to detailed reports, except for the looting and looting of various armies and towns in various places and the extortion of large gentry and merchants, the Qing court will not be in arrears for more than three months. Moreover, from Dorgon to Duoduo, to the current Luck Dehun and Bolo, these high-ranking Qing army leaders have acquiesced and even connived at their subordinates to slaughter and loot the city to obtain military salaries. In this way, this group of soldiers is naturally full of energy! ”

"Mr. Li is absolutely right! Now, such a slogan has been circulated in the Qing army that went south to Hangzhou, and when they arrived in Hangzhou, the silver was counted casually. Lay down Ningbo Mansion, everyone changes daughters-in-law! ”

"Change daughter-in-law? Lord Shi! Let's cut off their heads first and replace them with new heads! If their heads can grow, we will promise them to change their daughters-in-law! Donkey balls! Lao Tzu has long heard that the girls in Jiangnan are beautiful, and Lao Tzu hasn't said to marry one, this group of dog thieves actually wants to rob Lao Tzu's woman! Hao Shaoqi's subordinates, a cavalry battalion commander He Guohao, shook the whole room with a loud voice.

"That's it! He Tong, let's talk about it here, if you have made great contributions in the battle of Hangzhou, then, I will come forward to protect you from the media, Hao Tong and Tian Tong will give you a marriage certificate, and marry a daughter-in-law in Hangzhou. Moreover, the money you marry your daughter-in-law and settle down will be paid by the official. However, there is one thing I am worried about. ”

"Don't worry, my lord! This is the end of the story! He Guohao puffed up his chest, proud like a little rooster. Hao Shaoqi, who was beside him, also hammered him on the chest very proudly, "Boy, fight well!" Don't embarrass our old brethren who broke into the camp! ”

"This official is not worried that you will not be able to make great achievements, but this official is worried that there are too many beauties in Hangzhou Mansion, and you kid will be dazzled when the time comes, but it will delay things!"

"It's okay! My lord! And us! Guohao, he just picks him, he picks the dazzling ones, we just want it! ”

"That's it! Don't be partial! It's all your subordinates, how can you only marry him a daughter-in-law and not us?! ”

In the midst of laughter, the meeting ended. After dawn, all towns and brigades, according to the marching plan, crossed the lead mountain, jade mountain and other places, and entered the territory of Quzhou Prefecture.

At this time, if there is a satellite and the Eye of God, you will find that in the not wide land south of the Yangtze River, it is already a big battlefield. The Qing army starting from Nanjing was divided into two marching directions, the East Road and the South Road, with more than 100,000 people each marching towards Songjiang Mansion and Suzhou Mansion. On the way to Suzhou Mansion, it is the general of Zhengnan and the first army of Bellebolo whose destination is Hangzhou. They had to cross the Taihu Lake in Wuxi, cross the Taihu Lake to Huzhou, and then reach Hangzhou.

In the direction of Quzhou Mansion, the 70,000 or 80,000 men under Shi Lang's command were slowly advancing at a speed of no more than 50 miles a day for the whole army. Occupy a city, there will be local administrators and some soldiers stationed, and then the various systems of the Nanyue army will be carried out through them. The same is true for activities such as recruiting people and buying vegetables and meat.

Don't underestimate the speed of this fifty-mile march every day, this is the speed at which tens of thousands of people in the whole army move together with heavy grain and grass! Compared with the march of the former Ming army, this speed is already rare. The greatest requirement of the former Ming army for the march was to arrive on time. In the situation, the generals and officers received the transfer card, in order not to miss the deadline, or they were unable to unify the whole army, anyway, the generals and generals ran wildly. Thousands of troops were dispatched, and a third of the horses were lost in one day, and two thirds of the horses were lost in two days, and I don't know how many men and horses were left. Finally arrived on schedule, except for two or three hundred horses, the rest of the team is sparse, it may take ten days and half a month to arrive one after another, the biggest situation, it is very likely that one-third of the people are missing, I don't know where to look. This is also what Sun Tzu mentioned in the Art of War at any length: "It is the reason why the armor is tended towards, day and night, double the road, and strive for profit for a hundred miles, then capture three generals, the strong one first, the tired one later, the law of eleven to fifty miles and fight for profit, then the general, its law half to."

In this case, it is naturally the easiest to form a refueling tactic and let the opponent fight and wait for the work to break through. Therefore, Shi Lang strictly prohibits this phenomenon from happening. At the same time, it is also in order to run in the troops, so that the former Dashun Army troops newly under the command of the Nanyue Army can adapt to the various systems of the Nanyue Army as soon as possible. The Nanyue Army will also have requirements for the date of the march, but this kind of time requirement will order you to arrive on time, and basically all the staff will arrive in full formation. Once they reach their destination, they can go into battle, and even if there are soldiers who are left behind, sick, or unaccustomed to the soil, they will not exceed one percent of the whole army, instead of sending 3,000 troops and finally arriving only 300.

Therefore, in addition to weekday training, food supply, and medical preparation, the planning of the march along the way is very important, how many miles to walk every day, where to camp, where to have water, and when to set off. It's not that the morale of the troops is good today, the soldiers are in good physical condition, the weather is good, and the road conditions are good, so we will spread our legs and feet and run for a while, tomorrow the weather is bad, everyone is not in good physical condition, the road is rugged and muddy, we will not go, stop and rest and wait for the weather to be good before leaving.

Every day's marching plan, the staff office issued a plan on time, how many men and horses, how many vehicles, how many vehicles, and how many artillery pieces of artillery should pass through a certain place and a certain place on a certain day and a certain time. In addition to this kind of text, a detailed road map of the march was issued. Moreover, law enforcement teams and some of the troops that have taken the lead have already been stationed at some critical passes, junctions, ferries, etc., and the key points will be handed over after the arrival of the follow-up troops to prevent being ambushed. On the other hand, the law enforcement team is to supervise military discipline at intersections and ferries on behalf of the commander-in-chief, so as to prevent conflicts between various units competing for roads and ferries.

Shi Lang's troops, under such circumstances, slowly but methodically crushed all the way to Hangzhou. The daily march is a process of learning and improvement for Hao Shaoqi, Tian Jianxiu, and Luo Hu.

"Good boy! This march can still be so organized! "In the face of a fifteen-mile march to arrange a small rest, about ten miles of road there is a design of a drinking place, and a march of thirty miles to arrange lunch, but these systems can ensure that the brigade of men and horses with full emotions and abundant physical strength to advance in formation! It was Hao Shaoqi, Tian Jianxiu and others who spent half their lives on horseback, such as Luo Hu and others, who could be regarded as the leaders of the new army in the Dashun Army, and they all felt that they were a turtle who knew nothing.

With the development of the troops of the Southern Guangdong Army in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, as Li Derun said, the ties between Zhejiang and southern Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong, and Guangdong and Biyuan have become closer and closer, and gradually formed a trend of unity.

At this time, it is the autumn equinox solar term, the weather is gradually getting cooler, there is still rain in the sky, the weather generally feels wet, the brigade of people and horses walk through the mountain roads, the color of the military uniform, the flag, to the rich green mountain forest to add a colorful color cluster.

Watching the soldiers carrying their own swords, guns and guns, helping each other push the wheels of the gun cart to concentrate on the road, although the sky is drifting with autumn rain, but many people's faces are still seeping rain along the hats, mixed with the sweat on their faces, and they don't care to wipe it. Because next to the official road, there are horses running back and forth, conveying military orders, urging and guiding the march.

"Attention, the back team keeps up with ......"

"Be careful, the front team avoids the baggage ......"

"Be careful, don't let the drums fall."

"Attention, the troops ahead hold the pace! You're going downhill, and the brothers in the back are climbing! ”

Under the accompaniment of drums and military music, the marching pace changed from miscellaneous to neat, and in the loud military songs, the mighty army continued to pass between the mountain roads, and the fiery red torrents meandered forward in the mountains and forests.

A steady stream of marching troops from the Zhejiang-Jiangxi border to the east, and then to the east, the mighty red torrent could not see the west from the east, and could not see the east from the west. There are only one big flag with the character of Li, let the rain beat the flag to the ground, and it is also firmly carried on the shoulders of those flag soldiers, floating in the wind and rain.

An autumn wind blew, blowing away the cumulonimbus clouds in the mountains, revealing the sun's face from behind the clouds. A few rays of sunlight sprinkled on the road through the gaps in the bamboo forest and cedars, which immediately lifted the spirits of the marching people.

On a hill beside the road, in front of a lush bamboo forest, hundreds of elite cavalry dismounted and stood in front of the forest, they were Shi Lang's Guards Horse Battalion, according to the marching plan, here for a short rest, people drank some water, and let the horses rest for a while. These cavalrymen wore ponchos made of tung tarpaulin, with a placket on the inside, and shiny cuirasses wiped with vegetable oil on the outside. Many people also have iron-inlaid cotton armor under the breastplate, and the thick copper nails on the cotton armor make people know at a glance that this is an excellent quality armor. And their eight-petaled hats, iron-tipped helmets, shimmering with the quality of metal in the sun.

These hundreds of people are all elite divisions selected from the Dashun Army, whether it is based on the standards of the old men of the Dashun Army such as Yuan Zongdi, Hao Shaoqi, Gao Yigong, or the eyes of a new generation of generals such as Luo Hu and Zhang Nai, they are all first-class soldiers. They existed as a form of expressing their hearts to Shi Lang by the soldiers of the Dashun Army. In this regard, Shi Lang accepted it very happily.

"Around my father, there is also a lack of guards with superb riding skills, and I have to ask my wife to bother more and choose some for my father." This is what Shi Lang said when he led his troops eastward and Mrs. Gao, who stayed behind to repair water and prepare to go south to Guangdong.

In the course of this back and forth, the trust between Li Shouhan and Shi Lang, who represented the highest level of the Southern Yue Army, and the old department of the Dashun Army was established through the Guards Horse Team.

Heart-to-heart. Liu Xiu used this trick, and Zhu Yuanzhang also used it. It's a bit old-fashioned, but it works really well. "You see, I have handed over all my bodyguards to you, and what do you have to worry about? Do you still think that I don't treat you as my own? For this purpose, Shi Lang also selected three thousand elites from the soldiers and horses of the eight towns adapted from the Dashun Army for his father-in-law to serve as a guard horse team.

The sunset is like blood, and people and horses are like dragons. couldn't help but feel a burst of pride in Shi Lang's chest.

"Defeat the enemy with this, why can't the enemy be broken?!"

"My lord, our march is a little too fast, and in this way, we will encounter the hundreds of thousands of people in Boluo under the city of Hangzhou. Is it tomorrow to slow down the march, or to let the towns take turns to rest? ”

Li Derun, who was on the side, once again made a suggestion to Shi Lang.