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"Admiral, the one surnamed Li didn't have a good heart, and he sent our tribe to Yuezhou at once, and he definitely didn't know what other plans he had. That person is full of bad water in his bones, and he must not have any good intentions! ”

However, as soon as he left Li Ziyuan's ship and came to his own ship, Sun Anming reminded the admiral softly on the side that in his opinion, there must be some conspiracy for the sailor to be sent to Yuezhou.

"Well, it's not important to be uneasy and kind, as long as we stick to the plan we came to, there will be no mistakes."

Because of his background in the Cao Gang, Pan Ziqin has always been known for his sophistication and calmness among the many generals in the Loyal and Righteous Army, so he didn't want to compete with others to attack the city, and now he went to Yuezhou, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, at least it was easier to attack than Wuchang.

Because of this, he chatted with Sun Anming and Sun Haoran idly.

"What are we doing here? It's here to help in the war, that is to say, we're just guests, just to help Shao Sima grow stronger, that's all, if we risk our lives to help Shao Sima seize the city, it will never work, not to mention that it is he Li Ziyuan who leads the troops, that is, Shao Sima is here, let our brothers take the risk of taking the city, it is not okay, the blood of the loyal army can be shed, but it can't be cheap for others! Since Li Linchuan wants to attack the city by himself, let them attack it, no matter how many casualties they have, what does it have to do with you and me. ”

Pan Ziqin, who was the commander of the Yangtze River Navy, noticed that Sun Haoran had not spoken when he said this, so he asked.

"Masaaki, you have other ideas."

Sun Haoran, who was the leader of the right wing of the Yangtze River Water Division, heard the admiral ask him, so he asked directly.

"Admiral, I don't think this Li Linchuan is necessarily a big deal, after all, now the grain depot in Wuchang City has been burned, and there is no food in the city, so naturally there will be a few days, and the military spirit will also be turbulent, so if this Wuchang wants to fight down, it is simple. He is now sending us to the Yuezhou faction, and it is estimated that he still has his plans. I'm afraid he wants to borrow our hands to help him take Yuezhou, so that the land of Wuchang can be put into his pocket, this kid is really an expert in using soldiers. ”

Sun Haoran's words made Pan Ziqin's eyebrows raised, and the terrain along the river immediately appeared in his mind, that Yuezhou is located at the mouth of Dongting Lake, and if you want to enter the Yangtze River from Dongting Lake, you have to pass through Yuezhou, if Yuezhou is occupied by it, then it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between Wuchang and Changsha, and then it can naturally slowly plot the surrounding counties of Wuchang. In this regard, Yuezhou is even more important than Wuchang. It can even be said that it is related to whether she can gain a foothold in Wuchang in the future and whether she can sit in Diaoyutai here with peace of mind.

"This Li Linchuan is really scheming, he wants to borrow us to help him take Yuezhou, so that he can easily plot against Huguang!"

Thinking that he easily got on Li Ziyuan's "dang", Pan Ziqin's heart was not annoyed, he looked at Li Ziyuan's ship, and sneered.

"However, I want to see how he can take Wuchang without us!"

In Pan Ziqin's opinion, even the grain depot in Wuchang City has been burned. If you want to conquer this city, I'm afraid it's not that simple. After all, a siege always involves losing troops. He Li Ziyuan has other intentions, but in the end, he always wants this Wuchang City to pay the price.

"Junmen, without the help of the sailors of the loyal and righteous army, when the time comes, how can we attack Wuchang?"

Almost as soon as Pan Ziqin and the others left, Sun Xingping immediately expressed his dissatisfaction. After all, everyone knows that the reason why the attack on Wuchang has been delayed until now is to wait for the sailors of the loyal army. If you want to conquer this place, you must have the help of the water master.

"Junmen, although we have set up cannons on the mountains around Wuchang, and we can bombard the city with an order, but the siege of the city depends on our artillery, and we have to rely on the heavy artillery of the Loyal Army!"

Sun Xingping's mouth of the "heavy artillery" refers to the short-barreled heavy artillery used by the Loyal and Righteous Army Naval Division, although its range is closer, but the power of the cannonball weighing 50 catties is far from being comparable to the five catties and six catties of cannons, when attacking Hanyang, the naval division only used the heavy artillery to blast more than 100 cannons at the city wall, and easily collapsed the Hanyang city wall.

In this way, without the heavy artillery of the sailor, doesn't it mean that the brothers will use their own flesh and blood to defeat this Wuchang. In this case, the gains outweigh the losses.

In the face of the puzzlement of his subordinates, Li Ziyuan just smiled and said nothing, but Li An on the side jumped up and said:

"Without the Loyal and Righteous Army Sailors, can we still attack the city? If you don't dare to attack, this Wuchang will be led by me to attack, I still don't believe it, we can take Nanchang back then, but we can't take Wuchang! Could it be that this Wuchang is still impenetrable! ”

When Sun Xingping was still fighting, Li Ziyuan waved his hand to stop it, and then, with sharp eyes, he looked around at the generals and said in a deep voice.

"You have to understand one thing first, although Wuchang is important, Yuezhou is even more important. Yuezhou is the gateway to Huguang, as long as Yuezhou is in the hands of this army, we can slowly capture the counties of Huguang, and then this Huguang can belong to my Ming! ”

Of course, there is another sentence in his subtext - Jiujiang!

Jiujiang is also under his control, as long as Yuezhou and Jiujiang are under his control, whether it is Hong Chengchou or Zhang Huangyan at that time, they are all "turtles in the urn", one of them will be blocked south of Dongting Lake, and the other will be blocked south of Poyang Lake. In this way, it will naturally not become a big climate.

When he said this, he looked at Yao Qisheng beside him, unlike others, this Yao Qisheng was the banner of the Qing Han Army, last year when the Dasu army was defeated, as a native of Zhejiang, he relied on a mouthful of Jiangsu and Zhejiang official dialect, disguised as a civilian and fled to Jiangnan, when he just crossed the Jiangnan, he was forced into the army by Li Ziyuan, who was eager to expand his strength, and Yao Qisheng, who was pulled into the army, took the initiative to serve Li Ziyuan and give advice to him in order to have a future, just like the clansmen who took the initiative to attach themselves to the banner, so as to become his staff. And "controlling Yuezhou in the west, controlling Jiujiang in the east, and basing on Wuchang" is exactly what Yao Qisheng did.

Maybe other people don't know Li Ziyuan's thoughts, but Yao Qisheng has long guessed his unwilling ambitions, so Li Ziyuan will adopt his suggestion.

Even the reason why he was introduced as a military advisor was precisely because Yao Qisheng could see the true thoughts in his heart and the irrepressible ambition in his heart.

Of course, Li Ziyuan can also see Yao Qisheng's deep ambition. The two of them just took what they needed from each other.

"What the military gate said is that if you want to gain a foothold in Wuchang, you have to take Yuezhou, if you don't go to Yuezhou, even if Wuchang is in our army, it is difficult for our army to gain a foothold here, so this Yuezhou must be taken. And the Hong thief also knew the importance of Yuezhou, so he appointed his cronie Daniel Zhang to lead more than 10,000 elite Qing troops to garrison, and if our army wanted to take down this city, it had to be helped by the sailors! If there is no water master to help, it will be difficult to get out of this city! ”

Seeing that the eyes of the military gate were on him, Yao Qisheng told everyone about the importance of Yuezhou. When everyone heard him say this, they immediately understood the meaning of the military gate, which was to borrow the help of the sailor to take Yuezhou first, and only with Yuezhou could they slowly plot against Huguang.

"Xizhi, what he said is very true, good steel should be used on the blade, everyone understands this truth. What do you think? Do you have any other questions? ”

After Yao Qisheng's explanation, Li Ziyuan looked at the generals and asked. After everyone said that they had no other opinions, he said solemnly.

"Now I order: the attack on Wuchang will begin on the same day, and the naval division will be ordered to shell Hanyang Gate, Pinghu Gate, and Wenchang Gate along the river in the northwest, the Southern Route Army will attack Wangshan Gate, Baoan Gate, and Zhonghe Gate, and the Northern Route Army will capture Wusheng Gate, requiring the whole city to be occupied within ten days. After succeeding, take the Pinghu Gate and Yueyang Gate in the city as the boundary, and search and clear the remnants and hidden enemies in the city respectively, so as to ensure that not a single fish slips through the net. At present, the Qing army defending the city is not adapted to the water and soil and is surrounded by our army, so that the morale is weakened, and there is no need for too many troops to help the battle...... As for the various government offices in the city, we must try to avoid damage so that we can use them in the future, and the above orders will be carried out immediately without delay! ”

Because of the relationship between the loyal and righteous army, Li Ziyuan's army still has a strong loyal and righteous army style, many habits may have left the loyal and righteous army, but the habits developed in the loyal and righteous army have not changed, from holding military meetings to issuing orders, it is completely the color of the loyal army, to be precise, Zhu Mingzhong's characteristics, and these characteristics are probably Zhu Mingzhong learned from the military movies of later generations, and these habits from the film and television dramas in the future market also affected Li Ziyuan and his subordinatesWhen the generals heard the order, they all stood up and obeyed.

"Yes!"

There is no superfluous nonsense, just a simple word, unlike the old times when the army needed to use words such as "obey" when obeying, military orders are like mountains, and there is no need to say more.

Then Li Ziyuan waved his hand, and the generals sat down again and asked one after another.

"Junmen, after taking Wuchang, where will you fight next?"

Everyone did not have the slightest doubt about taking Wuchang, they believed that they could take Wuchang lightly, after all, Wuchang has now become an isolated city. Moreover, there is no grain and grass in Wuchang City, and it is very simple to build such a city.

Faced with everyone's questions, Li Ziyuan said.

"No, the next step is to take down the prefectures and counties around Wuchang and consolidate the periphery of Wuchang, since then, this Wuchang is our foundation, as long as we can gain a foothold here, then in the future, the army will use this as the rear to carry out the Northern Expedition, and then we can go to Xiangyang Northern Expedition to Beijing!" At that time, you are all my merits of Ming Zhongxing, and the marquis is just around the corner! ”

A sentence of feudal marquis and worship only made the generals in this army all look excited, they originally did not have a big vision, for them, to be able to mix up to this point, it has far exceeded their imagination, this will hear Li Ziyuan say that in the future to be able to "feudal marquis and worship the prime minister", suddenly happy eyebrows and smiles, and Wang Jiaoquan's beard is even more happy shrugged, preemptively said:

"His Royal Highness the Wing King, do you have my share in Xiangyang?"

Don't be a rough man, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was Xiangyang, and his purpose couldn't be clearer, it was nothing more than to be the vanguard of the Northern Expedition in the future, and others followed suit.

"Junmen, and me!"

Seeing that the generals under his command fought for Xiangyang, Li Ziyuan, who understood their thoughts, did not break through, but all people, who do not have the dream of soaring, with such a dream, will have motivation. So he just said:

"Don't fight, let's fight in the future, after Wuchang is settled, we will not only capture Xiangyang, but also Yunyang and Jingyi, and we will decide when to send troops, after all, there are more important things at the moment. In my opinion, the most important thing at the moment is to take Wuchang first. Brothers, you are ready to solve the Qinglu of Wuchang first, and if you don't take Wuchang down, everything is empty talk! ”

As soon as Li Ziyuan's words fell, Yao Qisheng nodded again and again:

"The military gate Yingjian, Wuchang is the foundation of our westward expedition, only by capturing Wuchang, can we sweep the surrounding area with Wuchang as the center, and after Wuchang is captured by our army, Huguang can naturally be determined."

Wang Jiaoquan grinned and laughed:

"Hmph, it's not difficult to take Wuchang, as long as the city wall is blown up, the more than 20,000 sick people in Liu Fangming's Ningxia Town will be enough to deal with him with almost 30,000 people. This dog traitor, this time I'm going to send him to see Hades! ”

They are no strangers to Liu Fangming, who marched all the way to Huangzhou and almost met them in Jiujiang.

In the end, if it weren't for the news of Dasu's defeat in Jiangbei, Liu Fangming, who had already marched to Huangzhou, would probably really use troops in Jiujiang, and Li Ziyuan's troops were stationed in Jiujiang at that time. Now they have obviously forgotten the panic they had when Liu Fangming commanded the army to attack. The reason why they despise the enemy is simple, it is nothing more than their unstoppability in Jiangxi, which has made them so imposing, and naturally they look down on those sick soldiers in Ningxia Town.

So when you speak, you naturally look arrogant. didn't take Liu Fangming and the officers and soldiers of Ningxia Town under his command into account at all.

Looking at their appearance, Yao Qisheng just smiled slightly in his heart, he knew that this was how the morale was played, the Loyal and Righteous Army was like this, and the Eight Banners back then were also like this.

This kind of morale is based on one victory after another. And this morale will continue to grow with their victory.

Looking at their eager appearances, Yao Qisheng's heart couldn't help but think of the loyal and righteous army in Jiangbei, I'm afraid they were the same before the war, right? Maybe even more arrogant than these people. Even more arrogant, because for them they have long been accustomed to victory. Thinking of this, another thought popped up in Yao Qisheng's heart.

"If that's the case, then it won't be so difficult to defeat them in the future."