When asked what the strategy was, many people couldn't come up with any way for a while.

This time the Qing army went south, different from the past, if the goal was to attack a place in the past, then it could also find its main force to fight, now from the Qing army's tactics in Jiangbei, this time they did not think of a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army, purely to rob, to disgust people.

At the beginning in the north, the wall was blocked, and the Great Wall was blocked, and once the Qing soldiers broke into the pass, they also integrated into the no-man's land.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty still had the Ning Iron Cavalry, and the Datong Jing Cavalry still couldn't stop the Qing army from galloping on the Guannei Plain, stirring Shandong and Beizhi into a pot of porridge.

Now the Ming army can rely on a Yangtze River, but how to defend the place north of the Yangtze River?

Seeing that no one answered him, Wang Yan couldn't help but walk to the sand table, pointed to Xiangyang and said, "How is the situation in the upper reaches of the Han River now?" No icing? ”

Hou Fangyu immediately stepped forward, bowed down and said, "Hao Shaoqi's recital said that there is no sign of ice yet. The Han River flows down from the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain, and the water flow is more rapid than the Huai River, and it is unlikely to freeze. ”

The villagers north of the Han River, in the previous wars, were moved to the south of the Han River by the Huguang government for resettlement, hundreds of miles of land north of the Han River, has long been deserted, turned into the Ming army's horse farm, if you can hold the Han River line, you can ensure that Huguang is not plundered.

Wang Yan heard that the Han River had not yet frozen, and his heart was a little calmer, but at this time Chen Bangyan said: "Your Highness, according to the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", in the seventh year of King Xiao of Zhou, Jiang Hanbing, cattle and horses froze to death. It can be seen that the Han River has been frozen, and even the Yangtze River has been frozen. If the snow continues to fall and the weather continues to be cold, the possibility of freezing on the Han River cannot be ruled out. ”

Listening to Chen Bangyan's words, the surrounding generals and military officials all buzzed and whispered.

If the Han River freezes, it means that the Qing army can jump over Xiangyang and go directly south, which is definitely not good news.

Wang Yan listened to their discussions, but he didn't say anything, so he asked Chen Bangyan: "Since the military department has judged that the Qing army is attacking the west, what is the draft?" Speaking out, let's work together and take a closer look, maybe we can have a good strategy to defend against the enemy. ”

"Your Highness, if the Han River is frozen, the military department actually does not have many feasible methods, after all, the south of the Han River, the north of the Yangtze River, the place to defend is too wide, if it is a rogue, it can be implemented on all sides of the siege strategy, divided into several ways to encircle and annihilate it, but this time the opponent is indeed the Qing cavalry, if the army is scattered and encircled, I am afraid of repeating the battle of Salhu, if the army is combined, and it can't catch up, so it is very passive."

Wang Yan nodded, cavalry is the weakness of the Ming army, and Chen Bangyan is telling the truth.

"The Ministry of War judged that after the Qing army moved south from Xinye this time, if the Han River froze, it was very likely that they would leave enough men and horses near Xiangyang to monitor Hao Shaoqi and ensure the back road, and then they would ride south and directly enter the south of the Han River." Chen Bangyan paused, pointed at the killing plate with a wooden pole, and said in a deep voice: "The advice given by the Ministry of War to Huguang is to withdraw the people of Siye into the city as soon as possible, focusing on protecting Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and Wuchang, followed by protecting the capital cities of each prefecture, and finally protecting small counties. As long as the weather warms up and the ice and snow melt, the Qing soldiers do not want to be trapped south of the Han River, so they will naturally retreat. ”

This strategy is too passive, it is simply a beating, and when the Qing soldiers are tired of beating, let him go by himself.

Wang Yan understood Fang Cai, he asked if there was a strategy, why didn't Chen Bangyan say it, such a strategy is equivalent to not saying it.

"Defending so many places, this strategy, I'm afraid that except for a few big cities, other counties will be lost, and the result will be the same as Jiangbei." Wang Yan said in a deep voice.

"The big city is garrisoned by the town army, and the small county can only rely on a small part of the town army and the county government soldiers to defend itself." Chen Bangyan sighed.

Wang Yan shook his head, stretched out his hand, Chen Bangyan understood, and immediately handed over the wooden pole.

"This strategy is too passive, if the Qing army succeeds in looting, it will not only allow the Qing court to overcome the current difficulties, but also hit the prestige of the lone king and affect morale." After Wang Yan took it, he pointed to the sand table, "If the Han River is undefendable, then we have to find a way to force the Qing army not to dare to enter Hannan to plunder, or force the Qing army to withdraw to Henan in advance." ”

Wang Yan rowed the wooden pole along the Han River, and then pointed to the Nanyang Basin and said: "If the Han River freezes, then we will take the initiative to attack Nanyang, take Xinye and Dengzhou, and threaten the passage for the Qing army to retreat to Henan. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Yan snorted coldly, "If the Qing army doesn't know each other, they dare to continue to plunder, once they take Nanyang, Gu will trap all the Qing troops who have entered the Qing army in Huguang and annihilate them all." ”

Surrounded by three mountains in Nanyang, the terrain is dangerous, it is the only place to pass through from Luoyang Kaifeng to Huguang in the south, that is, the Wancheng area of the Three Kingdoms period, it was the barrier of Jingzhou, it is the place where the north and the south are fighting, and the soldiers must fight, and the Cao army has gone south from this many times.

However, Xiangyang has only 30,000 troops, and it has to defend the city, so the Qing army will inevitably send heavy troops to guard the back road. If Hao Shaoqi is allowed to divide his troops, it will be easy to be eaten by the Qing army if he goes less, and if he goes more, he is afraid that the Qing army will change its strategy to seek Xiangyang. Chen Bangyan said immediately.

Wang Yan nodded, "Let Li Guo divide his troops to garrison Anqing, transfer Anqing's Zhongyong Town to Huguang, and the Henan Qing soldiers also have to guard against the Jin soldiers in the direction of Tongguan, they may not dare to go south, there is Zhongyong Town in the past, plus the rampage horse army trained in Huguang, the Eight Banners should have no problem threatening Nanyang." ”

Wang Yan thought for a while, "In addition, some of the government soldiers in Hunan should be requisitioned to Hannan to defend the city, and Houyong Town should be transferred to Jingzhou in case of accidents." In addition, the military department must find a way to transfer another batch of cotton armor to Huguang. ”

"Your Highness, I'm afraid the time is not in a hurry!" Hou Fangyu came out and saluted.

His identity has been exposed, there is no need to continue to stay in the Heaven and Earth Society, and now he has been transferred to the military department, and according to his years of achievements, he has been promoted to the right attendant of the military department.

"If you don't come in a hurry, you can think of a way, how much can be transported." Wang Yan said in a deep voice.

"Yes, when I go back, I will find a way to immediately transfer it from the province." Hou Fangyu hurriedly bowed.

Wang Yan bowed slightly, and then looked at everyone, "Do you have anything else to add?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and there was no objection, thanks to the grain hoarded by the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as there is no problem with the grain, other problems can be overcome.

"Your Highness, what about Jiangbei?" Chen Bangyan suddenly asked.

Although Jiangbei is the territory of the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party controls the imperial court after all, and cannot ignore it.

Fang just said so much, he was planning for Huguang, and his resources and troops were invested in Huguang.

Although this is a decision made in response to the Qing court's strategy, it cannot completely ignore Jiangbei.

"Tune Jin Shenghuan, Zheng Chenggong and Zhejiang soldiers, fight Yangzhou together!" Wang Yan listened, pointed to the wooden pole, and said directly: "Jiangbei has nothing to save now." What can be defended, naturally defended, and what can't be defended is estimated to have been broken now. We can't be pinned down by the Qing army, we can directly hit Yangzhou, pull out this nail, and the threat to Jiangnan will be reduced by half, and Yangzhou is backed by the Yangtze River, there are many hills, and there are our sailors on the river, so don't worry, we will be trapped by the Qing cavalry. ”

Everyone was slightly stunned, there are still forty or fifty thousand Qing soldiers in Yangzhou City, if they attack, they have to make up seventy or eighty thousand.

Although the men and horses of the various departments have been resting for more than three months since the occupation of Nanjing in August, they can still carry out the war in the two directions of Huguang and Jiangbei at the same time, and it is a bit of a big game.

Wang Yan understands everyone's thoughts, and he doesn't want to fight in the winter, but if he doesn't fight now, he can't do it, and besides, he now has money and food, and his throat is very thick, and it is not impossible to fight for a time.

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