The Qing army was busy deploying troops, but the Chu army was still standing still in the mountainous area of Ningzhen.

On the third day after the Chu army captured Jurong County, 3,000 reinforcements from Zhenjiang Prefecture rushed to Nanjing.

Two days later, Liu Hongyu's 8,000 Anhui Green Battalion arrived on the opposite bank of Cihu Port in Taiping Prefecture, which was already very close to Yingtianfu and could cross the river at any time to attack the rear road of the Chu army.

(The area around Cihu Port is Ma'anshan City, in later generations, Ma'anshan City became a prefecture-level city because of its rich mineral resources, but Dangtu became a county under Ma'anshan, and in this era, Ma'anshan was just an ordinary port).

Hu Maozhen's Huizhou Green Camp went all the way north, less than 100 miles away from Lishui County, and was steadily advancing...... At the same time, other reinforcements from all walks of life are also getting closer and closer to Jiangnan Province, among which Zhumala is the fastest and has arrived in Suzhou Prefecture.

Seeing that the encirclement was gradually taking shape, Zhang Tianlu had the urge to attack several times, but in the end he held back.

If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, Wang Kefan uses soldiers to deceive, there must be some conspiracy in secret.

"Is it deliberately selling a flaw? Hmph, I'm just ignoring you and seeing what new tricks you can play. ”

The more reinforcements come, the greater the certainty of victory, since Wang Kefan does not move, Zhang Tianlu is also willing to accompany him...... But he also knows that the closer he gets to success, the more dangerous it is, and if Wang Kefan is not a fool, he will soon make a move.

Zhang Tianlu knew that Wang Kefan was certainly not a fool, and he would not sit still in the mountains of Ningzhen, but where would the Chu army choose to go next, Zhang Tianlu speculated repeatedly, but there was still no definite conclusion.

Now to attack the city of Nanjing, it is obvious that the best time has been missed.

Rushing eastward into the Jiangnan Plain, in the case of losing food and supplies, facing the heavy encirclement of the Qing army, it was clear that he was seeking his own death.

Returning to Dangtu seems to be the most reasonable choice, eat the bait and retract it, the cunning Wang Kefan may have planned so...... This is not the most ideal result for the Qing army, but it is also an acceptable result, as long as the reinforcements from all walks of life arrive, the Chu army in a long snake formation must continue to retreat south, until retreating to Jiangxi, otherwise the Qing army will cut off the Anqing corridor, they will fall into a heavy siege.

But Zhang Tianlu instinctively felt that things were not so simple......

At this time, the Chu army moved.

Wang Kefan mobilized the main force of the Chu army, divided the troops into three routes, and suddenly launched a fierce attack to the east! The Pingjiang battalion on the north road attacked Danyang County, the Dongguan battalion on the middle road attacked Jintan County, and the Gongyi battalion on the south road attacked Liyang County.

After resting and accumulating strength, the Chu army suddenly launched an offensive and was unstoppable. The Pingjiang battalion had the largest number of troops, the Gongyi battalion had the strongest combat strength, and the Qing defenders in Danyang County and Liyang County were all defeated at the first touch, and the two counties were lost one after another. After Jintan County held out for a day and two nights, the defenders of the city abandoned the city and fled as the Gongyi Battalion and the Pingjiang Battalion, which had ended the battle, attacked from the north and south.

In just two days, the Chu army captured the three county towns of Danyang, Jintan, and Liyang in one go, and the front of the army pointed to Yixing in the east and the Yangtze River in the north, which already threatened the security of Zhenjiang and Changzhou.

"The thief is really bold, it turns out that he is the idea of running east!" Zhang Tianlu was shocked and angry, hurried to Nanjing, and pleaded guilty to Ma Guozhu.

After seeing Ma Guozhu, he knelt on the ground, his face was full of shame, and he claimed guilt in his mouth, and he was embarrassed to look up. After the Chu army invaded the mountainous area of Ningzhen, Zhang Tianlu swore several times that the main force of the Chu army would never dare to go east, but now Wang Kefan is attacking eastward, which is simply a naked slap in the face.

Ma Guozhu hurriedly stepped forward to help him, with kind words to comfort and exhort, it was the current time of the great enemy, Zhang Tianlu was the most powerful general under him, of course, he couldn't blame him for this little thing.

Liu Hongyu stood next to him and persuaded with a smile: "It's not strange, Wang thief used soldiers in the past, and he liked to do tricks the most...... Sun Tzu Youyun: All the fighters, with the right combination, with the odd victory, but the thief prefers to blindly take risks, contrary to the way of the right and strange complementary, although it can be lucky to succeed in a while, sooner or later the first battle will be defeated and the whole army will be killed, in the eyes of the students, he is to bring about his own defeat this time, and he will be captured on the bank of the Yangtze River for the governor......"

After Liu Hongyu arrived on the other side of Ma'anshan, he had been on standby, and the military situation suddenly changed, and he received an order from Ma Guozhu to cross the river to attend the military meeting...... He was originally a civil official, but he claimed to be a generation of Confucian generals, and when he saw a battlefield veteran like Zhang Tianlu deflated, he couldn't help but drop his bookbag endlessly, and his mouth was full of famous sentences from the seven books of martial arts such as Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Zhang Tianlu was born in the army, and he turned out to be the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't stand the blind command of these civilian officials who pointed fingers when they were fighting and didn't know how to pretend to understand. In normal times, he would definitely not give Liu Hongyu a good face, but today is completely different...... Liu Hongyu's words just now just happened to speak to his heart!

"What Liu Futai said is extremely true!"

Zhang Tianlu gave him a little more emphasis, and said excitedly to Ma Guozhu: "To the east of Moling Pass, Wang Thief's department has a total of less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and it was originally shrunk in Jurong and Lishui counties, and it was difficult for our army to destroy it in a hurry, but he advanced lightly and divided his troops to seize Danyang, Jintan, and Liyang counties, just like a slap spread out five fingers, our army can break him one by one......"

He turned around and came to the front of the map, pointed and explained to Ma Guozhu, and put forward a sharp battle plan, the Qing army in Nanjing could be divided into two routes, the Qing army in the city attacked Zhuohua Town, and killed the hinterland of the Ningzhen Mountains, he and Liu Hongyu sent troops to Moling Pass together, cut off the supply line of the Chu army, and blocked their retreat.

After the Chu army captured the three counties of Danyang, the head in front of the bean sprout array became bigger and bigger, and now it is not like a bean sprout, but more like a balloon, dragging the supply line of five hundred miles behind, like a line tied to the balloon, which can easily be cut off by the Qing army.

Although Wang Kefan did not come to fight Nanjing, the capture of the three counties of Danyang also had a similar effect, and his formation had been completely rolled out, even if he wanted to retreat from Moling Pass to Dangtu, he could not recover it in a hurry...... Zhang Tianlu has been waiting for so many days, waiting for this opportunity, now send troops to capture Moling Pass, and the Chu army will be trapped and killed in a trap!

"If the thief continues to flee eastward, how should he deal with it?" Ma Guozhu is still not at ease.

"It doesn't matter! General Tan Tai and Wang Dufu (Wang Wenkui)'s soldiers and horses are coming, and Mulima's Eight Banners cavalry is also coming very quickly, even if the Wang thief enters the south of the Yangtze River, he will soon be surrounded and annihilated by our army......"

Liu Hongyu persuaded Ma Guozhu not to worry, this is actually the truth of "reluctant children can't catch wolves", the farther Wang Kefan runs east, the faster he dies.

"Judging from the last general, he should not continue to flee eastward, but still have to fight me in a decisive battle between Ning Town." Zhang Tianlu said cautiously: "Wang thief relies on the mountains and dangers, and stubbornly resisting may be the only way at the moment. ”r1152

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