In early April, the Ming army that swept away the various state capitals on the west bank of the Minjiang River was divided into groups, formed a ten-mile joint camp, and was stationed outside the city of Quanzhou.

The gentry of Quanzhou Mansion, seeing that the official army defeated the main force of Tan Tai and Zhang Cunren in Mulan Creek, and the floating corpses of the Qing soldiers even blocked the stream, their confidence in the imperial court increased greatly.

Guo Bichang flattered him like this, but in fact, he still wanted to return to the court from the beginning, and Wang Yan naturally accepted his overtures.

When the water is clear, there is no fish, Guo Bichang may not be so firmly supportive of Ming, but the imperial court needs officials to manage half of Fujian.

Camellia in Fujian, but it is a big project of sea trade, and the Zheng family will definitely not be able to monopolize it, and Wang Yan will not tolerate cultivating another Zheng Zhilong.

In addition to the materials obtained from Quanzhou, other prefectures also harvested, and Zheng Chenggong shared a share of about 300,000 taels, but the main harvest was to annihilate most of Tan Tai's 7,000 cavalry.

Wang Yan's supervising cavalry, after the first battle in Fujian, only 6,000 horsemen remained, and some of the war horses have been seriously senile and need to be replenished, Tan Tai's 7,000 cavalry is one person and two horses, in addition to the wounded, killed, and the war horses eaten by the Qing army, the Ming army has harvested 9,000 horses.

According to the rules of Sanqikai, Wang Yan could get more than 6,300 horses, but he gave Zheng Chenggong an extra 800 horses in exchange for 500 Japanese swords, and asked Zheng Chenggong to contact the Tian Chuan family, and then contact the shogunate to export copper ore and Japanese swords to the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Qi Dashuai fought with the Japanese Kou, after seeing the Japanese knife, combined with the characteristics of the Japanese knife, to create a Miao knife, Miao knife in the stab, the Japanese knife in the chopping, each has its own advantages, but since the Song Dynasty, after the Yuan Dynasty banned the folk casting weapons, the Central Plains smelting, forging technology declined, it is indeed an indisputable fact.

Wang Yan exchanged for a sword, not only to equip an elite infantry army, but also to want Japanese forging technology. As we all know, a good knife requires good steel, which is not only to solve the problem of swords, but also to cast guns and cannons, which has a great help.

As for the copper mine, it is because of the problem of money shortage, since the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty began to import copper ore from Japan, of course, the Ming Dynasty also has copper mines, but the copper-producing Yunnan is still in the hands of the rebels, Jiang Yueguang has organized nearly 10,000 miners to mine copper ore in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, but for the imperial court, the output is still a drop in the bucket.

In the future, the Ming army will need a large amount of copper ore to cast cannons and guns, and if it can be bought from Japan, it will also be a solution.

Of course, these problems are all for the future, and what needs to be done now is to solve the Qing army in Zhangzhou.

Zheng Chenggong wants to fight Fuzhou, which Wang Yan knows very well, but hitting Fuzhou will definitely attract Qing troops from Jiangnan again, and it is very likely that it will come to aid in a big way, which is not a situation that Wang Yan wants to see.

"If the soldiers are not stopped, they will be inferior to the enemy in terms of strength, and when the soldiers are not satisfied, how can they survive themselves?

Wang Yan thought that in terms of the current situation, the Ming army would still accept the battle on the west bank of the Minjiang River, but if the Ming army captured Fuzhou, it would threaten Jiangnan and Zhejiang, the tax centers of the Qing court.

In the Quanzhou Mansion, Wang Yan sat on the main seat, and more than a dozen generals were dressed in complete clothes, and the staff of the army sat on both sides.

"Zhangzhou has been besieged for more than a month now, but the city has sufficient supplies and abundant soldiers and horses, and I want to wait for its food to run out, but I don't know how long to wait? At present, Tan Tai and Zhang Cunren are nesting in Fuzhou, and they will not come out in a short time, although our army can rest assured that they will besiege the city, but after a long time, the cost is very huge, and it is easy to cause accidents. Wang Yan said loudly.

Zhangzhou city is not easy to fight, the city wall is high and thick, there are a lot of artillery on the city, after Li Chengdong's reinforcement and improvement, the city gate repaired Weng City, the city wall can run cars, drills, but also added a lot of arrow towers, main towers, corner towers, enemy towers, daughter walls, horse faces and other defense facilities, the whole city has become a hedgehog that has no way to speak, it can be said that it is a rare fortified city.

After listening to Wang Yan's words, everyone began to think, the land of western Fujian has been recovered, they can't be intimidated by a Zhangzhou, don't say that it is just a brick and stone city, even if it is an iron city cast by golden soup, they have to think of pulling out this nail.

After everyone pondered for a while, it was Liu Shun who stood up first and suggested: "Guogong, a city as strong as Zhangzhou, a siege on all sides will inevitably consume a huge amount, and the general thinks that he can focus on attacking a little in order to concentrate his forces. ”

Wang Yan smiled slightly and nodded, "You can say this policy, which shows that you still put your heart into it." It's a good idea, but if there is no other way, it's possible. ”

Wang Yan waved his hand to let Liu Shun take a seat, and then said, "Think about it again?" ”

Xi Hongshan got up and saluted when he heard this: "Guogong, at present, all the places in western Fujian are owned by me, and Zhangzhou is a lonely city without help." The last general thought that if he wanted to break the city, it was better to surrender, even if Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong were loyal to the Manchus, but more than 10,000 Zheng troops in the city would not be willing to be martyred with them. ”

Wang Yan nodded and motioned for Xi Hongshan to take a seat, "This method is feasible and worth trying, but if Tong and Li control it tightly, they still need to prepare more hands to ensure that nothing goes wrong." Do you have any other strategies? ”

Li Guo got up and said: "Guogong, if the Qing army does not surrender, the strong attack will inevitably consume a huge amount, and the last general thinks that he can find another way, dig tunnels to attack the city, or directly dig tunnels to bomb the city." ”

Wang Yan was on top, Li Guo's suggestion made his eyes shine, if the surrender failed, this method could avoid a large number of casualties of the Ming army, "General Li, please sit down, this method is accepted by the Pavilion, do you still have another strategy?" ”

Wang Yan is going to take a multi-pronged approach, and if he wants to quickly solve the Zhangzhou Qing Army, all the civil and military forces in the tent are bright, and they all frown and think.

At this time, among the staff who had never offered advice, Chen Bangyan got up and said: "Cabinet, there is a plan for the humble position, maybe you can give it a try." ”

Wang Yan straightened up, raised his hand and asked: "Sir, try to speak, this pavilion listens." ”

"The previous method of locking the city reminded people of the Battle of Dalinghe, so why didn't the cabinet use the pretense of aid to get Li Chengdong out of the city?" Chen Bangyan arched his hand.

Wang Yan's eyes lit up, but then he frowned again and said: "There is a lock in the city before, and if you use the strategy of false assistance, Li Chengdong may not be fooled!" ”

Chen Bangyan said with a smile: "The art of war is cloudy, virtual and real, it is precisely because I used the lock city before, so I expect that Li Chengdong will inevitably fall into the scheme, and even if he is not fooled, there will be no loss for our army~"

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