Everyone immediately began to talk about Qianqian's words, and Tianlang was quite proud of Qianqian's remarks, if you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for? He took over the topic and said: "In my opinion, although the queen's words are only half said, there is one sentence that is very right, we should not care too much about the main direction of the Qing army, but should find a way to manipulate their main direction." ”

As soon as the discussion of what the Empress had said began, it ceased again, and everyone's attention was focused on the young Emperor, and Tianlang continued:

"Things may not be as complicated as we think, Zilharang is not in Jiujiang, but chose Hankou and Wuchang as garrison bases, there should be three considerations, but these three points should not be what you imagined."

Tianlang said, while he also asked the Quan Weiguo who was serving by his side to plant small flags on the map according to his words, the red chess pieces were the Ming army, and the blue chess pieces were the Qing army.

"First of all, Wuchang is an important force in the hands of Zierharang - the sudden appearance of Wu Sangui, who was transferred from Sichuan and Shaanxi, forced us to terminate the plan to attack Wuchang, and although our army retreated, he did not dare to retreat, after all, Kong Youde and other Sanshun kings have fought with us for more than a year, and there are not many troops in their hands to hold Wuchang City.

Wu Sangui's army had tens of thousands of infantry, and according to intelligence, he brought cavalry from Beijing because of the speed of his march, so they needed to cooperate with Wu Sangui's infantry, while Tan Tai and Liugushan in Jiujiang were mainly infantry because they fought in the Jianghuai region all year round, so they had no worries about this.

Therefore, the actual location of the Guanning Army and the location of Tan Tai, because I was pinned down by our army and could not be mobilized at will, contributed to the launch point of Jierharang's attack, and it was most likely that Wuchang and Jiujiang would advance at the same time. ”

After hearing this, Du Yinxi sighed with emotion: "With Zilharang personally in charge, it seems that this battle is a hard battle." ”

"Yes, this will certainly be an unprecedentedly bitter battle," said Tianlang, "although Zilharang is the uncle of Xinyi, he is at odds with Dorgon. According to the information from Sichuan's Jinyiwei, after Haoge beat Sun Kewang in Sichuan, he was immediately transferred back to Beijing, and Dolgon asked Zilharang to send troops to the south, nominally for the shame of the Qing army, but in fact he should have been deceived by Dolgon, that is to say, Dolgon chose to send Zilharang to the south, which was aimed at Haoge. ”

Obviously, all the generals had never thought about this brand-new vision and statement of Tianlang, and their eyes suddenly showed incomprehension, and Tianlang continued:

"Why, don't you believe me? Think about it, after the Qing army went south, Zilharang was not in the court, and Hauge returned to the court, didn't Dolgon just take the opportunity to attack Hauge?

Compared to us, who were called pseudo-Ming by the Qing court, Haoge was the biggest threat to Dolgon, and our Ming army Rao won one or two small battles, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

Everyone thinks that we are now strong and strong, and even a few days ago, some people suggested that we restore the southern capital and enter the Central Plains in the north, but compared to the Qing army, we are still too weak. ”

Tianlang looked around at the crowd, "In my opinion, there is another very credible reason why he must do this.

As you all know, Dolgon's confidant Tan Tai has become a general in Zilharang's army this time, but Zilharang and Dolgon are at odds with each other, how can he let Dolgon's confidant, Tan Tai, make contributions in his southward army?

After all, on this expedition, Zilharang is accompanied by Nikan and many other princes of the Aixin Jueluo family as deputies, and after the victory, he will not be able to take the turn of a mere Tan Tai, right? ”

Seeing people's suddenly realized looks, the emperor actually analyzed the enemy's psychology to such a delicate degree when analyzing the enemy, which was simply elaborate and smacked.

Tianlang smiled lightly, "Based on the above conditions I just gave, let's re-analyze them together."

Zilharang repaired in Hankow, but did not cross the river for a long time, why is this? After figuring this out, his main direction of attack can be judged. ”

"That's right," Gao Bizheng patted his head, "why didn't Zilharang cross the river?" Hongling hurriedly brought the message from Huguang to Liuzhou, during which it would take at least a few days, even if he had to make repairs to the long-distance march, he should have rested for a few days, but we have no information to prove that he had crossed the river, why is this? ”

Qianqian also frowned at her good-looking eyebrows, looked sideways at Tianlang and said, "You have already guessed why?" Let's talk about it, I'd like to know it too. ”

"Okay, since the queen wants to hear it, let's tell me what I think, first of all, I will imagine myself as Zilharang, what strategy will I adopt when dealing with the Ming army?

First of all, he led the army to the south of the Yangtze River for the third time, and if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty could be killed, it would definitely become the first result of the southern expedition.

And the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also likes to drive the expedition in person, so if I am Zilharang, first of all, I will not take too strong methods, deliberately show weakness, in order to make the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can take the initiative to send to the door under the light enemy, then he can solve the biggest problem in a war, achieve the greatest results, and then wave the army south, the Ming army can be defeated without a fight. ”

Du Yinxi pondered for a moment, his face full of melancholy, "Does the emperor mean that the goal of Jierharang's battle this time is not to destroy the main force of our Ming army at all?" ”

"If I were him, I would definitely want to get such a result, once I can be tempted to go to Wuchang or Yuezhou to confront him again, everything will be easy and very easy to solve, so whether it is a two-fist attack or a slow refusal to act, what he wants most is to behead me."

"What, decapitation?" Everyone was in an uproar, and Tianlang continued with a smile: "In fact, as early as after the victory in Ganzhou, I and Ma Jinzhong of the Eguo State have already begun to arrange for the Qing army to go south again.

It's just that at that time, neither I nor Eguogong could estimate the foothold of the Qing army when it went south again, and of course it was impossible to judge their next campaign goal, which was the passivity of the enemy attacking and defending, and we would always need to watch many defensive areas and watch them closely, but our troops were not enough to do this. ”

Speaking of this, Tianlang motioned for everyone to look at the map with him, and then continued: "The intelligence network of the Qing army will not be clear until now, the two battles of Ji'an and Ganzhou have my figure, as well as the battle of Huguang and the surprise attack of the Western Route Army led by Shangzhuguo, so they will definitely imagine that this time I will still fight in person."

Then as long as Zilharang takes me as the first goal of the campaign, after capturing me, there will be no need to fight the battle, no matter how fast and easy it is, anyone will think so. However, this time I don't plan to go to the expedition in person, I will appear in Guangdong, appear in Zhaoqing, and make a posture of crossing the sea and escaping. ”