"How to curb and even strangle the Manchu Qing requires an overall plan! Long-term layout and investment are required! Mo Ming, who was wearing an alpaca wool tweed coat, was in high spirits in the underground combat command room of Yantai Fort to point out the country, only to see him waving the baton in his hand, pointing around on the map, and said: "Although the main force of Duoduo's Eight Banners has troops in Nanjing and Yangzhou, some Mongolian divisions with a large number of troops from the four towns of Jiangbei have easily broken the troops of the Chang Wang of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and this was all last winter. However, with the rise of our army behind enemy lines, both Dolgon in Beijing and Dordo in Nanjing have now realized the threat of our army and have begun to mobilize the main forces from the front line to come to the rescue, intending to eat us. In addition to continuing to pursue Li Zicheng, who had already jumped into the border between Hunan and Hubei, the British king Azig, who was far away in Hubei and Jiangxi, also dispatched part of the main force of the Eight Banners to the east to enter the Taiping Mansion, while taking over Nanmingzhou County, and at the same time responding to the actions of the Duoduo Department to encircle and suppress our army. ”

"Generally speaking, the current continuous actions of our army behind enemy lines have greatly restrained the offensive of the Qing army. The rise of the anti-Qing rebel army in eastern Zhejiang, the stubborn resistance of the great homeopathic forces in the Huguang region, the repeated defeats and battles of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the situation in Shandong, which could not be completely calmed down, made the Manchu Qing Dynasty's head very big. Mo Ming's calfskin military boots trampled on the ground, the conference room was silent, and the officers of all departments were listening attentively to Mo Dashuai's guidance.

The series of offensives launched by the East Coasters in the second half of last year really surprised Dolgon. First of all, more than 2,000 people from the Gushan Ezhen Zhun Tower, who were ordered to subdue the prefectures and counties in Jiangbei, could not win in a head-on battle with five or six thousand yellow-clothed thieves on the east bank. The second was the great rout of more than 10,000 people in the general town of Yizhou, Xu Dingguo, under the city of Juzhou, and a series of small defeats in the Haizhou area later. These made Yizhou Town de facto ineffective and defeated, so that Dolgon could no longer turn a blind eye to the yellow-clothed thief. Keep going. Do you want peace on the northern coast in the future?

Therefore. The Qing court issued edicts one after another, mobilizing troops from Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan to go to Beizhili and Shandong one after another to enrich the local defense. At the same time, the Qing court also ordered that the coastal prefectures and counties that had been conquered by the people on the east coast should be abandoned, and all the residents should be relocated inward, so that the people on the east coast would not be plundered.

But these are far from indicating that the forces of the various ministries have formed a confrontation with the Manchus, on the contrary. The Manchus still had a great advantage. I think you all know this very well, the four towns of Jiangbei, Zuomengeng's department, and the Ming army in Jiangxi have a total of nearly 400,000 people, and although the combat effectiveness of these people is scum, it is not something that those weak soldiers who were hastily armed by the Nanming can resist. And the suspicion between their various departments is also very large, such as the conflict that may break out between Li Zicheng's department and He Tengjiao of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the conflict that may break out between the kings of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and even the conflict that may break out between the heads of the army, etc., these are all unstable factors, but they are extremely fatal for these anti-Qing forces at the moment. Therefore, how not to let the Manchu Qing Dynasty win quickly is still very difficult to think about, and we need to make careful arrangements. Mo Ming put her hands behind her back at this time. Tapping the baton in his hand through the air, he continued.

"Second Lieutenant Júnior. Rise up and brief the commanders on our deployment. As he spoke, Mo Ming suddenly pointed at the young officer sitting by the wall with his baton and said.

Second Lieutenant Júnior was originally the acting wing commander of the 1st Wing of the Advance Team, with the rank of temporary second lieutenant. However, after Captain Zhang Xudong, a 35-year-old officer of the Young Zhuang faction who was transferred from home, was ordered by the military department to take over the 1st Wing, Provisional Second Lieutenant Júnior returned to his duties as a staff officer. However, Mo Ming finally made some compensation to this henchman, at least the temporary word on his original military rank was removed, and he became a genuine official second lieutenant, saving many years of struggle.

At this time, I saw him "snap" and stand upright, then leaned forward slightly, and greeted the ministers, and then walked to the middle of the podium with sonorous and powerful steps, opened the folder sandwiched under his armpit, glanced at the military leaders under the stage, and said in a high-pitched and powerful voice: "Commanders, the plan formulated by Chief Mo is very simple, that is, to weave a big net that binds the Manchus, and then gradually tighten, so that the Manchus feel suffocated, so as to buy us time. There are many nodes in the network, in the north, mainly in Yantai, Jeju, and the strongholds in the Amur River Valley, which are to be stationed in an appropriate number of troops, and in the near future have the ability to attack on all fronts, constantly attacking and harassing the Manchus, plundering supplies and population, weakening the enemy's war potential, and strengthening ourselves. ”

Judging from the current situation, in the north, we can only rely on the efforts of the people on the east coast themselves, because the anti-Qing forces of all stripes have basically been wiped out by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and most of the remaining small armed forces are also out of the climate, and it is difficult to pose a threat to the enemy. In Mo Ming's plan, the stronghold of the Amur River Basin is a long-term plan, and the armed forces in Jeju, Yantai and other places are the strength that can be fought at the moment. Therefore, how to give full play to their role and try their best to contain the Manchus is the key topic that needs to be studied at this moment.

"At the same time in the south, we have to maintain close ties with the Zheng family. Zheng Hongkui is likely to have returned to Fujian, and he may not be willing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so we can finance him, sell them some new rifles and artillery, and send officers to help them train a firearms unit to strengthen them. Second Lieutenant Júnior continued to introduce in a decent manner, "The Zheng family has a large number of junk ships and many sailors, and has considerable coastal combat capabilities. Our move is equivalent to adding some land combat capabilities to them, which should be able to contain a considerable number of Qing troops and delay the decline of the Ming army. It is worth noting that after our analysis, the current leader of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong, is a political opportunist, and he is likely to surrender to the Qing court, but there should be many opponents in the family, and they should be treated differently when interacting. ”

On the occasion of the great changes in the Ding Revolution, the full-time staff officers of the General Staff Department have deduced the issue of the Zheng family's position several times, but due to the lack of a lot of information about the Zheng family, they have never been able to make an accurate judgment on it. They just think that Zheng Zhilong himself is very speculative and is likely to be cleared, and Zheng Hongkui is difficult to say. At the end of the day, Mo Dashuai waved his hand and asked the staff officers to make a plan according to the pattern of the Zheng family's partial force to reduce the Qing Dynasty and part of the anti-Qing Dynasty, and finally came to the conclusion that the Zheng family needed assistance, otherwise it was likely that it would not be able to persist for a long time.

At present, Mo Ming is considering whether to take the initiative to send someone to contact the Zheng family, or simply wait for the Zheng family to come to Yantai to discuss assistance. After thinking about it, he felt that it was better to wait, and now the people who came to the door might not be very enthusiastic. Moreover, at present, the Qing army has just broken the Changwang regime - thanks to the blessing of the people on the east coast, Changwang has survived for several months longer than in history, and was only eliminated at the end of October. At this time, the south was in chaos, and Mo Ming vaguely remembered that after the fall of King Chang's regime, two vassal regimes rose in the Southern Ming Dynasty at the same time, namely King Lu and King Tang. He was unsure of how things had evolved on this plane, and he needed to continue to inquire into how things had evolved in the South. Besides, Zheng Zhilong's house has not yet been officially cleared, and with him, Mo Ming always feels that the cooperation with the Zheng family is very unrealistic.

Another noteworthy thing is that after receiving the news of the destruction of the Southern Ming regime and the surrender of 400,000 Ming troops (the Azig tribe surrendered more than 100,000 in Jiangxi), Dolgon was so surprised that he ordered the whole world to shave his hair and wear Manchu clothes in early September. A person of insight in the Qing court advised Dolgon: "Today, the rebellion is undecided, the sea is not settled, and there is a Ming Sect in the south of the Yangtze River, so the Ming Dynasty is the same as ......the old one."

However, Dolgon was just when the spring breeze was proud, and the defeated general "One Eye" (i.e., Li Zicheng), who had already traveled far away from Hunan, the yellow-clothed Haikou who hid his head and showed his tail and did not dare to fight head-on, and the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which was still breathless and had no fighters, were not big troubles in his opinion. At present, the Qing court has more and more resources in its hands and has more and more advantages, and it is not difficult to destroy these enemies one after another after making overall plans. Therefore, even after the news of the fiasco of the green camp in Shandong and Jiangbei came repeatedly, Dolgon's determination could not be shaken, and he vowed to carry out the shaving of hair and easy clothes. Not only that, as the Manchu Qing gradually sat firmly in the world, a large number of old and weak women and children who were originally stranded in the northeast poured into the Guannei, in order to settle these people, the Qing court wantonly enclosed land in Beizhili and plundered people as slaves, which led to the turbulence of the local situation, and a large number of people fled with their families and mouths.

Under the implementation of these measures, the situation in which the Qing court could easily dominate the world suddenly added many twists and turns, and it simply postponed the time of its occupation of the whole country. And all this is extremely powerful for the people on the east coast, because it means that they have a lot more time, and they can more calmly accumulate strength, contact the anti-Qing forces in various places, and try to delay the time of the Qing court to unify the world, and even if possible, stop this process - although it is difficult. Because only in this way can we ensure that the people of the East Coast can grab enough benefits when the land of China is full of wars and turmoil - that is, population. As the strength of the people on the east coast in the Far East became stronger and stronger, Mo Ming was confident that relying on the Heishui base to contact the Zheng family and the anti-Qing forces in the interior would definitely give the Qing court an extremely profound lesson.

"Finally, I will focus on the matter of the Dashun army that has now retreated to the south of Huguang." Second Lieutenant Júnior glanced at the audience, then said quickly. (To be continued......)