When Hong Chengchou was dispatching troops in order to fight to the death with Zhu Hongsan, our protagonist Zhu Hongsan was unable to extricate himself from the gentle township of Hangzhou.

Zhu Hongsan initially planned to stay in Hangzhou for only three days, and then enter Nanzhili via Huzhou Prefecture. But Liu Zhengheng's wife Cui is too charming, and the black soil that Cui has dried up for 20 years has finally been moistened, and Cui's has also gone from the beginning of the resistance to the later cooperation. In this way, the two had a hot love affair, and Zhu Hongsan lived in Hangzhou for ten days in one breath.

And Cui's daughter-in-law Wang Wan'er is just the opposite, after being raped by Zhu Hongsan several times, Wang Wan'er became more and more tired of this bastard emperor. This guy is greedy for money and lustful, untrustworthy, vulgar and uneducated, and shameless, probably the last emperors in history are much stronger than this guy, let alone Zhongxing Mingjun. There is also the fact that this guy has no self-knowledge, and every time he compares himself to Emperor Qin, Han Wu, Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, it is really shameless.

Wang Wan'er's inner disdain is reflected in the appearance of coldness, she is different from Cui's, Cui's is self-defeating and satisfied with the pleasure of the flesh, while Wang Wan'er began to dislike Zhu Hongsan through physical contact. But what Wang Wan'er didn't know was that the more she was like this, the more Zhu Hongsan liked her, and finally it reached the point where she couldn't extricate herself.

In this way, Zhu Hongsan and his second daughter spent ten days of absurdity, and in the end, Tong Yangjia couldn't stand it anymore, and stood up to remind the emperor that there were more important things to do, such as returning to the old capital and so on. Zhu Hongsan returned the tired Cui family to Liu Zhengheng, and took Wang Wan'er, who hadn't had enough fun, on the road.

Zhu Hongsan led the army from Hangzhou on October 13, taking the direction of the later Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang and Nanzhili were densely populated, and the official roads were also very convenient, although they also had the impact of the war in these two years, but after all, the time was still short, and it was not as uninhabited as the northern provinces.

In October, it was already very cold in Zhejiang, and the rice in the fields had been harvested, and there was an endless stream of people on the official road. These people were deeply affected by the war in the past few years, and when they saw a large number of soldiers coming from afar, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Zhu Hongsan sat in the carriage, his hand was not honest, but reached into Wang Wan'er's collar and was light.

Looking at his own army outside, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but boast: "How is it? Lao Tzu's team is strong! ”

Wang Wan'er was touched by Zhu Hongsan, but she still sneered in a cold tone: "What's the use of being strong? If you don't cultivate virtue and politics, you won't die like the tyrannical Qin! ”

Although Zhu Hongsan didn't read, he could also hear the sarcasm in Wang Wan'er's words, and he couldn't help but increase the strength in his hands. In order not to show her cowardice in front of Zhu Hongsan, Wang Wan'er endured the pain of being scratched in her chest and did not speak.

Seeing Wang Wan'er clenching her teeth, Zhu Hongsan sneered: "Why don't you say it?" After speaking, he dragged Wang Wan'er into his arms with his backhand and forcibly had a relationship.

In this way, Zhu Hongsan's army came to Huzhou Mansion, but to Zhu Hongsan's surprise, the gate of Huzhou City was wide open, and there were more than a dozen squire-like people standing at the door. Zhu Hongsan was afraid that he had fallen into the trap of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he ordered the troops to stop five miles outside the city and sent a soldier to inquire about the news first.

The soldier came back with two pieces of news, one good news and one bad news. The good news is that the Manchurians in Huzhou have already fled, and the prefect does not know where to go, and now a few local squires are maintaining law and order. The bad news was that I heard that Hong Chengchou, the governor of the seven provinces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had ordered the manpower to be reduced and ordered the Huzhou garrison to go to Nanjing.

At this point in time, it is self-evident that Hong Chengchou transferred all his troops to Nanjing, and it was precisely to have a big battle with Zhu Hongsan in Nanjing. However, Zhu Hongsan has not been afraid of anyone in the matter of fighting, what he is afraid of is that Hong Chengchou will defend the city, so Nanjing will definitely be a sea of fire, and he is still ready to use Nanjing as the capital!

Zhu Hongsan brought Tong Qian and the others over, told them about his worries, and asked the two stinky old nine to analyze and analyze.

Tong Qian and the others were helpless, it's not all you, a faint gentleman, who coveted women, and delayed in Hangzhou for ten precious days, or if you are going to Nanjing City now, you just caught Hong Chengchou off guard. It's good now, it's easy to be relieved by others to concentrate troops, this battle is not easy to fight.

Seeing that Tong Qian and the others didn't speak, Zhu Hongsan knew that these two old guys were resentful of staying in Hangzhou for ten more days.

"Two gentlemen, I also have deep remorse, but how can there be regret medicine in this world, if there is, I will definitely use the throne in exchange for eating it!"

Tong Yangjia was amused by Zhu Hongsan's shamelessness, he sighed helplessly, and said: "Your Majesty, now it is a foregone conclusion that the Manchu Qing will concentrate their strength to fight with me, but the minister estimates that Hong Chengchou should not hold on to the city, he is likely to go out of the city to fight!" ”

Zhu Hongsan was very surprised, it stands to reason that it is right to deal with his own superior firepower with the help of a strong city wall, so there is a saying that he can use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses!

"Why did you say that, sir? According to reason, the Manchus should defend the city, and in front of our army's firepower, what eight banners are not ten thousand is a pitiful joke! ”

"Your Majesty, please listen to the minister's analysis for you. The first point is that our army's firepower is very strong, but there has been no actual contact with the Manchu Qing Dynasty before, Hong Chengchou has only seen the strength of our navy, so he must give up the city of Nanjing, which is close to the Yangtze River, and lead the team out of the city to fight with our army. The second point is that Hong Chengchou used to be the governor of Shaanxi in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he is very familiar with the fighting methods and weapons and equipment of the Ming army, so he must regard our army as a strengthened version of the former Ming army, so that we are nothing in his eyes, and the impact of the Manchu cavalry can also be exerted when going out of the city in the field. With these two points, the minister analyzed that Hong Chengchou must go out of the city, and he will definitely not defend in Nanjing City, because then there is only one way to die after being surrounded by our army! ”

Should I say that Tong Yangjia, the old guy, really has two brushes in grasping people's hearts, and these two analyses are meticulous. Thanks to the strong combat effectiveness of the Guangdong New Army, the Nanchang Campaign was a total annihilation rarely seen in ancient wars. All the sources of Hong Chengchou were from the Anqing defenders, and the source of the Anqing defenders was the Jiujiang defeated army, and these guys just saw Wang Deren's banner and fled, as for the appearance of the new army in Guangdong, they didn't know what the new army in Guangdong looked like. These false news were magnified layer by layer to Hong Chengchou, which made Hong Chengchou think that the army of the King of Chu in Guangdong was only brave and good at fighting, and had no special skills, so he made a wrong decision to concentrate his forces and fight Zhu Hongsan.

After listening to Tong Yangjia's analysis, Zhu Hongsan also felt that this was the truth: "Then Mr. thinks Hong Chengchou chose to fight us there?" ”

"This is very simple, if he wants to give full play to the specialty of cavalry charge, he can't choose a place with dense water networks, and if he wants to avoid naval fire, he must stay away from the river, but he can't be too far away from Nanjing, so as to prevent us from taking the back road. With these points, it is not difficult to find out the location of the decisive battle! But the minister only needs to analyze, the minister is not familiar with Nanzhili here, so let's ask Qian Ge Lao to talk about it! ”

Yes, I forgot that Lao Qian is the person of Nanzhili, and it is the local ground-sitting cannon, so it is appropriate to ask him about this matter!

"Mr. Qian, you heard what Mr. Tong said just now, do you want to know that there is such a suitable place around Nanjing?"

Qian Qianyi glanced at Tong Yangjia gratefully, Qian Qianyi did not have Tong Yangjia's strategic analysis ability, his strength was to play black hands and beat sticks. What Tong Yangjia said just now was simply to let Qian Qianyi mix it up so that he could earn military merits.

"Your Majesty, there is such a place outside the city of Nanjing, that is, between Lishui County and Jurong County, there are no big rivers in this place, there are no lakes, they are all rice fields, and now the rice has been harvested, the water in the rice fields has been released, and the ground is hardened and suitable for cavalry charge. And these two counties are fifty or sixty miles away from Nanjing, and they can be arrived in one day, which is very consistent with the decisive battle location that Master Tong said! ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded after listening to Tong Qian's words, their analysis was very reasonable, according to the current situation, it seems that all the Qing troops in the entire Nanzhili have probably been transferred to Nanjing, which means that they can go all the way unimpeded!

"Zhao Guodong, give the order to go down, speed up the march, don't enter the city when you encounter the city, and rush directly to Lishui!" Zhao Guodong took the order and went down to convey the order.

Ordered the whole army to open up, except for leaving a dozen officials to take over Huzhou, the army went around the city and went to Nanzhili.

The truth is similar to what the old guy Tong Yangjia said, Hong Chengchou is preparing to eliminate Zhu Hongsan's Ming army by fighting in the field outside the city.

Thanks to Zhu Hongsan's help, Hong Chengchou received the support of reinforcements from all over the country in Nanjing, in addition to the reinforcements from Yangzhou, Chuzhou, and Anqing, as well as the defenders of Luzhou, Taipingfu, and Ningguofu were mobilized, and a total of 60,000 or 70,000 horses were gathered, which was all that Hong Chengchou could mobilize. Among them, Ma Degong's 20,000 cavalry and Zalafenga's 4,000 garrison Eight Banners are the main force, and the rest are garrison troops from all over the country, but these troops were still peasants a few months ago, so it was almost the same as letting them wave their flags and shout, and they didn't know if they could really fight.

On October 18, all the soldiers who could be recruited arrived, and Hong Chengchou held the first operational meeting, at which the generals were divided into two groups for defending the city or fighting in the field. The Manchurian generals and the Han army banner generals had to fight field battles, and those new annexed generals advised Hong Chengchou to refuse the city and hold on.

Looking at the various generals who were noisy into a pot of porridge, Hong Chengchou didn't say a word, this was embarrassing for Zhou Boda, the governor of Jiangnan. It stands to reason that he is also in charge of the military, and these generals are in his charge, but he is a civilian official, and those Manchurian generals do not take him as a slave in their eyes. But Hong Chengchou is different, although Hong Chengchou is also a Han minister, but he has an edict from the regent Dorgon, "In charge of the military affairs of the seven provinces south of the Yangtze River, you can act cheaply!" "This is equivalent to having Shang Fang's sword, and those Manchurian generals are also afraid of Hong Chengchou.

Zhou Boda saw that Hong Chengchou didn't speak, and hurriedly asked in a low voice: "My lord, the generals are arguing like this, you have something to say!" ”

Being woken up by Zhou Boda, Hong Chengchou snorted, and all the generals quieted down and listened to the orders of the governor.

"This official has decided to fight in the field outside Nanjing, and the battlefield will be between Lishui and Jurong!"