Chapter 68: Fengyang Moves

The name of Beijing for being mean and unkind has long been known to the people of the world. That's not room for sand in your eyes, let alone the big sand of the lost imperial tomb.

"My lord, we need to find a way to make a great contribution as soon as possible and make up for it." Yang Longwen said: "Before the dust settles in the battle of Henan, Inspector Sun will fight against Li Chuang, and he will win one after another, and now he will be decided." After Sun Chuanting's victory, His Majesty wants to come to Dongweng's defeat, I'm afraid that the will of heaven is unpredictable. ”

Ma Shiying snorted coldly.

If it is true providence, it is indeed unpredictable. But the intentions of the one in Beijing have long been figured out by the bigwigs of the imperial court, and Ma Shiying is also wrapped in them.

Ma Shiying is sure that when the time comes, Beijing's providence will only be heavy, not light.

"We must make a great contribution before Sun Chuanting." Ma Shiying said secretly in his heart.

At this moment, he had already determined this point of view, and when he looked at Ma Luan's plan from the beginning, he suddenly felt that it was not without merit, but after thinking about it, he said: "I still can't bet on a battle with the victory or loss of a city. ”

"Since this is the case, only send wolf soldiers to fight with Liu Liangzuo." Yang Longwen said: "The city gate is narrow, and there are no 30,000 horses for a while, so it is better to select the elite from them, and if the battle is unfavorable, you can also go out of the city to respond, so that you can attack and retreat and defend." It's a surefire solution. ”

Ma Shiying said: "It's so good, just do it like this?" ”

Ma Luan secretly said in his heart: "Foolproof is certainly a foolproof strategy, but it is not easy to defeat the thief. ”

Ma Luan was born in a lifting person, and he will still think about the title of the gold list in the future, and during this period of time, he has been polished in the army, and he has also made great progress in the art of war. Where can you see it, the so-called advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended, it can also be said, advance can be attacked, and the attack is unfavorable, retreat can be defended, and the defense is not strong.

It's just that he looked at Ma Shiying's attitude, and he also knew that he couldn't let Ma Shiying change his mind.

He sighed slightly in his heart, and could only comfort himself: "Uncle is right, a city gate through thirty or forty thousand horses, it takes a long time, at that time, the thieves are afraid that all the soldiers and horses will be transferred, but there is no unexpected effect." ”

Since Ma Shiying agreed.

Ma Luan immediately went to do it.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the first day of September in the first year of Yongchang of Dashun.

Ma Luan felt that Zhang Xuan's dispersion of troops was not unaware of it.

Anyway, Zhang Xuan has also been fighting on the battlefield for so many years, and he still knows this sensitive change in the strength of the enemy and himself. There are more than 10,000 cavalry, even though the number of the two sides is not much different, but in terms of the quality of the soldiers, and the speed of troop mobilization, Zhang Xuan is above the official army.

The biggest advantage of cavalry is that it can quickly maneuver and go into battle.

But that's

A city gate engaged, and within half an hour to an hour, a large cavalry could come to help.

The infantry is holding and the cavalry is maneuvering, and this defensive system is by no means easy for the officers and troops to break.

But after all the cavalry was withdrawn, Zhang Xuan also prevented the officials and soldiers in the city from giving him a surprise attack, so he turned to the attack and sent tens of thousands of laborers to the chief, what to do. Do a long circumference.

After all, Zhang Xuan has suffered enough for Changwei.

And Zhang Xuan also prepared in advance.

The inner city of Fengyang is located in the south of Fengyang City, and Zhang Xuan decided to directly connect the long wall with the southern city wall, that is, to set a layer of city wall outside the inner city. This city wall does not need to be very high, and it is also connected to Zhang Xuan's three camps.

There are not too many places that really need to be built, most of them are operated by Zhang Su, and Zhang Xuan is just accepting it.

"Your Excellency." Zhang Su said: "Our food consumption is too large, and if we continue like this, we will not be able to support it for two months." ”

Zhang Xuan was not too surprised, and said: "Don't worry, this battle, I'm afraid it's only been a few days, and the outcome will be known, whether it's victory or defeat, we don't need to go down to this Fengyang City." ”

As soon as Huang Degong moved, Zhang Xuan knew that the layout of the war for nearly half a year would be clear in these few days, and there was no need for so many grain reserves. Two months is enough. When I arrived in Jiangnan, I had to get food. Victory or defeat is much more important than that little bit of food.

"Yes." Zhang Su said.

"There is no need to withhold the people's rations." Zhang Xuan sighed: "Let's give alms." The people here are miserable. ”

Among the Fengyang songs, there are since Emperor Zhu came out, and there have been nine years of famine. Some people say that it is slander, it is the Qing Dynasty that slanders the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xuan was in Fengyang during this period of time, carefully checked the local information, and found a problem, if you just look at the time, this sentence is not wrong.

However, it is not because Emperor Zhu is too so, but because of the Grand Canal.

During the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River seized the Huai River into the sea, and it was okay at the beginning, but there was a lot of sediment in the Yellow River, which raised the river course of the lower reaches of the Huai River. The water of the Huai River could not enter the sea, so there was Hongze Lake.

When it really started to be harmful, it was already after the Ming Dynasty.

Someone said that the Yellow River seized Huai, why did it say that it was a matter of the Grand Canal.

Because the Grand Canal has deepened the situation.

Originally, the water of the Huai River had already rushed out of a Hongze Lake, and they did not want to find a way to divert the water into the sea, but it did not work, because to protect the Grand Canal, whether it was the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, the first priority of governing the Huai River was to ensure the transportation of the Huai River. Even in the Xianfeng period, after the water transportation was insufficient, the Qing Dynasty gave up the water control strategy and decided to let the water flow freely.

It can be seen.

A section of the Yellow River is the course of the Grand Canal.

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Because the water of the Yellow River is too muddy, there is too much sediment, and it is often silted, and some people have proposed that the method of diverting Huai to Jihuang and harnessing water to attack sand is to lead to the water of Hongze Lake, which is used to wash the Yellow River, which has a problem, that is, the water level of Hongze Lake must be higher than the Yellow River.

The Yellow River is already known as a hanging river on the ground, and Hongze Lake is a hanging lake on the ground, and in some places the water surface of Hongze Lake is eight meters above the ground.

Eight meters, such a disparity in height, and not flooding, is against the natural principle.

The upper reaches of the Huai River are mountainous, and when it rains in summer, the flood comes very quickly. The downstream can not be vented, and the south of Hongze Lake is where the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty is located, so as to ensure that the ancestral tomb is a key point of water control.

As a result, it is natural that the upstream water cannot be vented, and it is natural that it overflows everywhere.

The Ming Dynasty court's efforts under Fengyang are not insignificant, and Zhu Yuanzhang moved tens of thousands of wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River to fill Fengyang City. But later, it is still far inferior to other places, for no other reason, that is, the complex water situation here, the Yellow River, the canal, the Huai River, and Hongze Lake are tangled together.

Again and again, the water rose very quickly, but it receding very slowly. It is often too receding for several months, after all, the downstream water is not well drained.

The land has been soaked in water for a long time, and after a long time, it becomes saline-alkali land and cannot be cultivated. Moreover, when a lot of cooked land is washed by water, it will be covered with a thick layer of sand, so that it is one or two meters deep, and naturally the land is barren, and such land is very suitable for the growth of locust larvae.

As long as there is a drought, locusts will be abundant.

Of course, it hasn't happened yet.

Everyone thinks that man will conquer heaven, but in fact, it is just that nature's concept of time is different from that of human beings. After the completion of the Grand Canal, by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of backlash has begun, and by the time of Kangqian, water control is the first major task of the imperial court.

You can see it.

Zhang Xuan naturally saw it so far away, but he vaguely remembered that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Taizu of this dynasty also said: "We must manage the Huai River well." Even a few years ago, he still had the impression that the Huai River estuary project was a problem left over from hundreds of years of history.

It's just that Zhang Xuan didn't know that the situation here was so miserable.

Even let Zhang Xuan change his plan, he didn't dare to attack Huai'an from Fengyang, without him, he had to pass by Hongze Lake. He was afraid that someone would give him a flood of the Seventh Army.

It's just that what to do next, Zhang Xuan still has thoughts in his heart.

"Your kindness will surely move the heavens." Zhang Su said.

Zhang Xuan only felt a little sarcasm, smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

"Report." Suddenly, a soldier broke in and said, "Report to your lordship, all four gates of Fengyang City are open, and the officials and soldiers are marching out of the city." ”

"What?" Zhang Xuan frowned and said, "What's going on?" What does Ma Shiying want to do? ”

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