"Fleeing across the sea? What does the emperor mean by this? Qin Gongming was anxious when he heard this, as one of the main generals of the Shizhu Army, he was the first wave of vanguard sent by Qin Liangyu to Guangxi.

He has always been very confident, especially in the strength and bravery of Tianlang, but why did the emperor suddenly put on a scared and ready to flee?

Tianlang smiled, looked at Qianqian, Qianqian thought about it, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Although it is too specific to fight the art of war, I don't understand, but I think that since Zilharang is the attacker and the defender is us, then he should have the consciousness of being the attacker, and he should not be self-righteous and wait for us to come to the door to fight him."

If the emperor makes a posture of crossing the sea and escaping, Zierharang will definitely not be able to sit still, although the victory of this battle is the need on the battlefield, but at the political level, once the Ming Emperor escaped, he Jierharang is still sitting in Wuchang waiting for people to take the bait, the court of the Qing court will definitely criticize him, will say that it is because of his stupidity and arrogance, causing the Ming Emperor to escape, and in the future, it will need to spend heavy troops and spend a lot of money to go overseas to chase people back. ”

Everyone seemed to have some clue about Tianlang's thinking, and they all began to deduce the direction of the battle in their hearts.

"Now that I've told you the idea, I still have the next judgment," interrupting everyone's deduction in their minds, Tianlang continued:

"In my judgment, after I make a posture of escaping, Zilharang will definitely not wait any longer, he will definitely launch an attack immediately, and the starting point of the attack, whether it is Jiangxi or Wuchang, Yuezhou and Changsha in front of Wuchang, will definitely be their primary target.

And Tan Tai of Jiujiang will definitely send troops to attack Jin Shenghuan in Nanchang at the same time, our army is too busy to take care of itself, and it is difficult for Jin Shenghuan to hold Nanchang like last time without foreign aid.

If the city of Nanchang is broken, Jierharang will occupy Changsha in Huguang again, which will open up the land transportation hub of the two provinces, and also avoid the exposure of his own flanks when the main force attacks. In this way, the focus of our army's defense in the early stage of the campaign should be in Huguang. ”

Tianlang is about to start deploying, which requires someone to provide the strength data of the main forces of the Ming army, and the military department Shangshu Du Yinxi came to the map, pointed to it and said calmly:

"At present, our Ming army has 240,000 recruits in the school training camp, 5,000 school training guards responsible for training soldiers, and the newly established imperial battalion, with 180,000 troops, 10,000 Beijing Guards, 103,000 people in Li Dingguo's imperial camp front army, 21,000 people in Ma Jinzhong's left front army of the imperial camp, 35,000 people in Hao Yongzhong's right front army of the imperial camp, 17,000 people in Li Jin's loyal battalion, 13,000 people in Gao Bizheng's department who broke away from the loyal battalion and became an army on its own, 5,000 people in Wang Jincai's department, and 60,000 people in Li Chengdong's department."

After arranging and calculating all the small red flags of the Ming army on the map, Du Yinxi solemnly said to everyone: "Excluding the strength of the Ming Water Division in Fujian, the land strength of the Ming army is 689,000 people. This was also the last conscription limit for our Liangguang, Huguang, and Jiangxi, and since then, the potential of the soldiers in the four provinces has almost dried up, and it is no longer possible to recruit more soldiers. If this battle is lost, I am afraid that the next battle will not be able to be fought again. ”

"If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent, right?" Tianlang raised his eyebrows, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and had a knife in his eyes.

Gu Yinxi hesitated, but still said: "Yes, this is almost the last battle for my Ming Dynasty's life and death, and I ask the emperor to give an order!" ”

After Du Yinxi said this, everyone cast a look of hope to Tianlang, they all knew that if this battle was lost, it would be absolutely difficult for Daming to turn over, as Du Yinxi said, this will be the last battle of Daming!

It's just that Tianlang didn't set off the atmosphere to the height of my invincibility, he needed to let everyone relax, and he himself needed to relax even more, so he got up slowly and picked up many small red flags seemingly casually.

Holding the small flag and planting it, Tianlang said: "First of all, our army will deploy 100,000 people in the school training battalion, 17,000 loyal battalions, and 100 artillery pieces in Yuezhou, and the main commander will be Li Jin.

Then 100,000 horses and 100 artillery pieces were dispatched to the school training battalion, with He Tengjiao as the main general, Li Dingguo as the deputy general, and Li Dingguo's 100,000 horses in front of the imperial camp to defend Changsha.

Then 21,000 people from Hao Yongzhong's imperial left front army guarded Hengzhou, equipped with 40 artillery pieces.

With Wang Jincai's 5,000 men guarding Chenzhou and Gao Bizheng's 13,000 men guarding Shaozhou, these two troops were used to control the gateway from Huguang to Guangdong.

With 60,000 people in the hands of Li Chengdong, Guangzhou was guarded.

On the other hand, I personally led Qin Gongming's 3,000 Shizhu Army, Chen Youlong's 10,000 Beijing Guards, and the remaining 40,000 school training camps in the four provinces, as well as some foreign countries that had been stored in the Jinyi Guard's blacklist, and some dog officers who had always maintained an ambiguous relationship with the Qing army, and moved to Zhaoqing with their families.

As for the defense of Ji'an and Ganzhou, the 35,000 men of Ma Jinzhong's department were in charge.

It is equipped with 60 artillery pieces belonging to Ma Jinzhong's department to garrison Ganzhou. In addition, Wang Jincai's 1,500 men and 18 artillery pieces were stationed in Ji'an, which was controlled by Ma Jinzhong.

In addition to the above troops, the 180,000 imperial battalions of Du Yinxi and the 5,000 school training and guarding of Qin Yiming served as the general reserve of our army in this campaign. ”

Half a year before the war, the deployment of the campaign only took a cup of tea, and after everyone made preparations, they walked out of the court hand in hand and walked back on the way back, Qianqian and Tianlang were silent for a long time.

"Why did you ask me to come to such an important military meeting?" Qianqian asked suddenly, Tianlang should have known that she would ask like this, so he was not surprised.

"What else could it be? Of course, it is to let you know all my plans, but also to do a good job of cooperation in the rear, if Huguang can't hold it, and the enemy army comes to Guilin or even Liuzhou, you also know what to do next. ”

"But aren't you afraid that I will be involved in military affairs, but I will exclude most of the civilian officials in the cabinet and the military department, which will arouse the opposition of the courtiers?" Qianqian blinked and looked at him with a smile.

Tianlang said nonchalantly, "Is it the future of the Ming Dynasty, the lives of the two of us that are important, or the complaints of the ministers?" If you want to kill or chop, you have to win this battle!

He Tengjiao and Li Dingguo guarded Changsha together, Ji'er Harang is afraid that he will suffer a lot under Changsha City, and we will force him during this time, so that he will feel that if he is not happy, I will cross the sea and escape. ”

"Are you really going to Zhaoqing?"

"Of course, if you do a show, you have to do a full set, and you will leave tomorrow!"

"But the queen mother of the harem and the future queen in your mouth don't go to Zhaoqing, won't Zilharang be suspicious?"

Tianlang was a burst of hehe, "Do you know, I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, have a very bad reputation, and I lost my wife and children a year ago, and I lost all my money, I just left you behind, Zilharang will only think that I really want to escape, and I don't doubt him." ”