Outside Jinshan Temple, a team of Guizhou soldiers

Under the Jinshan Tower, the soldiers have surrounded the tower, and idle people are not allowed to enter and exit.

The top of the tower overlooks the entire stretch of the river. Jinshan is in the northwest of Zhenjiang, Jiaoshan is in the northeast of Zhenjiang, and two islands inserted into the Yangtze River control the mouth of the North Canal of the Yangtze River, guarding Zhenjiang City like a gateway.

There was a cliff on the land opposite Jinshan, which blocked the view of the nearest city wall, so that Shou Xuan could only see a small part of Zhenjiang Mansion. On the outskirts of the west-facing lowlands and a few kilometers upstream on both sides of the canal, there are many beautiful Jiangnan gardens.

In the narrow eyepiece of the telescope, there is a series of mountains parallel to the Yangtze River to the south and west of Zhenjiang City, and another mountain range runs through the west end of this mountain range, and the view is blocked. The north-facing section of the second mountain range slopes gradually, giving the wide valley an entrance, nearly two kilometres from the southwest corner of the wall. Zhenjiang City was a very strong fortress, and later generations of the British Yi fought against the Qing Dynasty, in Zhenjiang they suffered the heaviest casualties in the war, compared with Zhenjiang, the Humen Fort and Xiamen Stone Wall that cost a lot of money to build the British casualties are not worth mentioning.

Harris and Philhoff put down their binoculars and talked softly. The order allows them to assume that they are the attackers, and the two battlefield environments, if they lead an army unit with superior cavalry and artillery, and go down the canal, how to cross the Yangtze River and conquer Zhenjiang City; If you are leading a naval fleet and coming along the Yangtze River, how should you capture Zhenjiang City? The strength of the defenders is based on the current Ming army in Zhenjiang.

"The cause of a thousand years must be my generation, and we will talk about the cause of the country." A middle-aged Confucian scholar in the tower sighed and put down the paintbrush in his hand.

He was the supreme commander of the lower reaches of the Ming army, the deputy envoy of Zhejiang, the patrol of Chang and the second government of the town, the reorganization of the army, and the supervision of Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Caijun's Yang Wencong. The Ming Dynasty's north-south direct subordination was not a local administrative region, and the sub-guards and sub-patrol roads were hung under the two divisions of the neighboring provinces.

"Ludwig, Harris, go down and discuss."

Yang Wencong couldn't understand what the orderly chief of staff of the navy and the army commander discussed, but he also knew that the Yangyi were talking about the geography of Jinshan's soldiers, which made him unwilling to continue writing.

Shou orderly walked behind him, the rolling river passed away, and the verdant peaks on both sides of the river had jumped on the paper.

It's a pity that the painting was not finished. In Yang Wencong's style of painting landscapes, he will use people to paint the scene, whether today is the Yangyi plywood gunboat outside the Jinshan Temple, or the Ming army armor standing on the head of the city? This great painter of the late Ming Dynasty couldn't put down his pen for a long time.

"Yang's paintings of landscapes are all works of whim. Now that the situation is chaotic and the state affairs are difficult, I really have no intention of painting. "Jinshan Wangjiang Tu" can't send you today. ”

"It's okay, the military constitution can be drawn again at a later date, and there is no hurry at this time."

"Qianqing, take the painting away."

"Yes, father." Yang Qianqing, who was accompanying him, put away the unfinished painting scroll and stepped down the wooden ladder downstairs.

At the top level, only Yang Wencong and Orderly are left.

Yang Wencong, the son of a family of Guizhou bureaucrats, grew up in the mountains of Guizhou, and accompanied his father to visit the famous mountains and rivers in China at the age of ten. Poetry, calligraphy, and painting can be called the world's masters, especially good at painting mountains and rivers, and there are dozens of people who can paint mountains and rivers in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty. So Shou Xiang asked him for a picture of the Yangtze River.

Since Shou Xiang went to Zhenjiang, he has met with Yang Wencong several times.

Both men were dressed in casual clothes today, dressed in captain's uniforms and wearing their favorite round hats.

Yang Wencong wore a Tang scarf robe, two white collars, and stood long, and there was still the shadow of the merry genius who moved Jiangnan back then. I have been studying books and swords for 40 years, and I also walked the world with a three-foot sword, and I have seen bandits pass by horses.

Yang Wencong was 25 years old, traveled all over the rivers and mountains of the motherland, and was drunk in the smoke and rain of Qinhuai for ten miles. With Yang Wencong's nature, his enthusiasm for official career is very general, Chongzhen came out to be an official at the age of 38 in the seventh year, and was transferred to several counties in the south of the Yangtze River, accumulating rich grassroots experience. On an informal occasion like today, Yang Wencong does not like to wear official uniforms.

If you want to grow up, Ning Yun is long. With this ambition to clear the world, Yang Wencong took the initiative to ask Ying to be stationed in Zhenjiang. Unlike other Ming Dynasty calligraphy and painting talents, this soldier is not a person who does not know soldiers. In recent years, when the human flesh in the city was worth 10,000 yuan, he was in the city, scattering his wealth to recruit soldiers. After repelling the Tusi army, he also led the recruitment of Yongyong to pursue and deeply participated in the tragic Southwest National War.

Yang Wencong put out the map, "Jinshan is the throat of the river and the important place for river defense." I have already asked the imperial court to promote Jin Shiying to command the guerrilla general with the rank of envoy, and the headquarters will be organized into the Jinshan Battalion. He doesn't have to go to Huang Fei to report, he can just listen to it under my tent. ”

Shou Xian smiled faintly, "I thanked Bingxian on behalf of Brother Jin. ”

"This is a trivial matter," Yang Wencong poured wine into the wine glass in front of the two of them, "Help me guard Jinshan Fort, what is the lord of the country thinking?" ”

Jinshan Fort is a fortress-type fortress, and the amount of work is very large, which consumes the people's financial resources of Zhenjiang and Changzhou. Yang Wencong regarded Jinshan as the core fortification of the river defense and the defense of Nanjing. There were many people in the imperial court who did not think so, and Yang Wencong strongly advocated the construction.

Ma Shiying, Tian Yang, Yue Qijie and Yang Wencong have each other's in-laws, Yue Qijie is Ma Shiying's brother-in-law, and Yang Wencong is Yue Qijie's son-in-law, except for He Tengjiao, who is slightly estranged, this is a very united faction. Yang Wencong has the lowest official position, but he is also one of the core figures of the Hongguang Dynasty's Guizhou Chongchen Group.

Since Yang Wencong wants to build Jinshan Fort, Ma Shiying naturally fully supports it. Shou Xuan doesn't know whether this soldier is a genius or blind, the four major ferries of Guazhou, Yizhen, Pukou, and Quarry, the battle line is hundreds of miles, Yang Wencong's judgment is completely correct, and Duoduo later crossed the Yangtze River from the area of Guazhou Jinshan.

Shou Xu took out a piece of paper, and there was a name listed on it, "The money silk woman is good to talk about." I need these people, and as long as Bing Xian promises to bring them to me, I will send troops to Jinshan Fort. ”

Jinshan is an island, relying on the fortress built by the Ming army, and the order does not feel that the Eight Banners can be defeated.

Yang Wencong looked at the list, his brows furrowed, except for Wu Youxing in Wu County and Bo Jue in Suzhou, he didn't know anyone. "Who are these people?"

"It's all some artisan doctor," Shou Xuan laughed.

Even Bo Jue is now only a little famous in Jiangnan, this is because he once served in the shogunate of Zhang Guowei, the governor of Anqing, and used the manufactured telescopes and other equipment to help the Ming army repel the peasant army, Zhang Guowei recommended him to be an official, but Bo Jue refused and returned to Suzhou to live in seclusion. If he wasn't good at miscellaneous studies, Yang Wencong wouldn't know him.

"Who are these people?" Yang Wencong casually pointed out a few names.

"Artisans from Jingdezhen."

"Potters can't do it." Yang Wencong refused without even thinking about it.

The Ming Dynasty also regarded Jingdezhen's ceramic craftsmanship as a core secret, and it seemed that it had to find another way.

"Huang Fuchu, who is Ji Tanran?"

"The craftsman who repairs clocks and watches in Nanjing."

Yang Wencong nodded, "Yes." ”

Shou Xiang breathed a sigh of relief. Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of skilled craftsmen in China, and after the introduction of Western chiming bells to China, craftsmen in Nanjing and Shanghai were the first to devote themselves to imitation work. For decades, the Portuguese said that Chinese craftsmen could make smaller chiming bells than European ones for the same cost. There are 4 households in Nanjing and 3 households in Shanghai, and they plan to take them all away. A clock means a gear, it means a flintlock. There is no theoretical use alone, and in this era, it is all manual operation, and it has to be played by craftsmen.

"100 tea farmers, 100 silk weavers, 100 cotton spinning households, yes." Yang Wencong and his entourage have traveled.

"Wuhu blacksmith, I can't guarantee it, now it's the defense area of the yellow dragon."

After Huang Fei's Dengliao Naval Division was transferred south, he was sent to quarry to guard the Yangtze River defense line west of Nanjing. At present, it is a powerful force second only to the four towns in Jiangbei, and Yang Wencong said that he would go back to discuss.

……

A dark cloud drifted by, and a light rain suddenly fell on the river.

The two drank and negotiated at the same time, and after half a day, they finally finalized the final price. Nanjing's finance could not get the silver, so the dignitaries and goods were selected in an orderly manner. Although Yang Wencong's official position is not high, and most of the goals of keeping order are not in the second mansion of Zhenchang, with his status in the Guizhou Party, it is not a problem to get the majority. The Hongguang court was still a central government with operational capacity, and its dominance over most of Jiangnan was not much different from that of the Chongzhen dynasty.

"Tangqing", Yang Wencong called his son over, "This is my third son, I plan to let him also guard Jinshan." ”

"Bing Xian doesn't think about it anymore? Jinshan is likely to be at the forefront. ”

Yang Wencong snorted, "It is the duty of our generation to be loyal to the country. Yang's son should do better than others. ”

Keeping the order and bowing the head, there are many scum who surrendered to the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, but there are not many like Yang Wencong. His eldest son Yang Dingqing was promoted very quickly, and now he is one of the commanders of the Yongwei Battalion with the rank of governor, and the second son Yang Yuanqing is the head of the household, and the third son is the commander. It is not a good thing that the official promotion is too fast, although several Guizhou ministers who control Nanming have all run to the front line, and they are indeed brave people who have the courage to do things, and their moral integrity has not suffered a big loss, but the promotion of the children of the relatives is too fast, which still provokes a scolding from the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Yang Wencong's troops are not many, Zheng Hongkui has hundreds of miles of Yangtze River to watch, Zheng Cai also has to defend Pukou, Jinshan Fort is built by him, but the troops that can be used for defense are insufficient. What he can directly control is 500 hometown soldiers, and this time he left 200 people and Jin Shiying's department to Yang Qianqing, but this number is not enough. In exchange, Shoshi sent all of Filhoff's army, 310 men in all, carrying 2 6-pounder field guns and 4 light mortar guns to Fort Jinshan. The titular commander was Yang Qianqing.

After arranging the war, Yang Wencong's heart relaxed slightly, he was originally an open-minded person who indulged in mountains and rivers and Qinhuai. The communication is very extensive, Tang King Zhu Yujian is now living in Zhenjiang, and it didn't take long for Yang Wencong and Tang Wang to have a good relationship.

Although Yang Wencong is a member of Ma Shiying's party, he was also a member of the Restoration Society, and he has a good relationship with Hou Fangyu and others. Hou Fangyu offended Ruan Dacheng because of "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos and Public Exposure", and it was Yang Wencong who came forward to save his life. Ruan Dacheng wanted to take revenge and come back and could only borrow something else, and he wanted to give Hou Fangyu's love under the banner of Tian Yang, and Li Xiang, a famous prostitute in Nanqu, combed it. Yang Wencong couldn't see this kind of thing the most, and came forward to persuade Tian Yang to give up.

Ququ "Peach Blossom Fan", the story of Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun, Kong Shangren's manuscript was changed three times by Kangxi, and finally the whole story was full of slanderous words against Tian Yang and Yang Longyou and others. Kangxi was still not satisfied with the revision of Kong Shangren's manuscript, and kicked the originally favored minister back to his hometown. Because unlike Ma Shiying, Tian Yang and others, Yang Longyou is really black. Kangxi himself can't do it too darkly.

Yang Wencong is the best landscape geography, and he will talk about what he saw and heard when he was at sea. The soldier temporarily forgot about the front-line war, and the two talked for a long time.

When parting, Yang Wencong suddenly had the interest of writing again.

It's too hard to paint, "I'll give you a pair of words." ”

"Okay, thank you Bingxian."

Yang Wencong walked to the table and wrote "Wenbei Police".

"A group of thieves and thieves,

and heard that the captives were trapped in a fortified city.

The drums are half dead and the frost is plugged,

The beacon fire lit up the camping overnight.

Who will judge the merits and crimes at both ends,

The five baits of the machine power are also famous.

Dijing is calm as if nothing happened,

Sit back and watch the vertical and horizontal is always not surprised. ”

Cursive with a wave. Shou Xuan applauded gently, "sit and watch the vertical and horizontal is always not surprised". The battle situation was bad, but Yang Longyou did not lose confidence.

When the ink is dry, keep the order and put away the words.

You can not care, but this time, I will not let your merits be judged by the enemy.