Fengcheng County is located in the south of Nanchang Prefecture, close to the east bank of the Ganjiang River, less than 200 miles away from Nanchang City. Fengcheng County because of its location, Wuhua Tianbao, is a rich place since ancient times, until modern times is also the top 100 counties in the national economy, Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, Jiangxi-Guangdong Expressway and other transportation arteries pass through its territory.

But in the face of the cruel war, prosperity is destined to be destroyed, after the Chu army entered Jiangxi, Tan Tai led a large army to garrison Fengcheng County, and built it into a solid military fortress, a depression within a radius of 100 miles, walking in broad daylight, almost not touching a common people, as far as the eye can see, in addition to the large areas of abandoned fields, there are only scattered Qing army camps, as well as criss-crossing trenches, like deep scars suddenly appeared on the earth.

In the afternoon of this day, a Qing army warship sailed into the wharf of Fengcheng County, tied the cable after docking, set up a gangplank, and got down from the boat more than a dozen people, led by the middle-aged military general, who looked dignified, quite a bit majestic, and wore the red top of a second-class military attache on his head, which was Xia Jianren, the deputy general of the Qing Army's naval division.

The Qing army sailors south of Fengcheng County are all Xia Jianren's subordinates, so he is very majestic on the dock, and when he gives an order casually, a large group of officers and soldiers of the navy division are busy with it, sincerely fearful, and serve carefully, for fear that he will find fault and find trouble...... Fortunately, Xia Jianren left the dock soon, and it seemed that there was something else important.

Leaving the wharf, Xia Jianren took a few subordinates and went straight to Fengcheng County, and came to the West Gate, only to find that the Qing troops guarding the gate had been replaced by the Eight Banners, and the entry and exit inspections were much stricter, and the atmosphere seemed very tense.

Tested the Kan Fit waist card. Shun lì entered the city gate, came to Tan Tai's camp to ask for an audience, and waited for a while. A low-ranking officer of the Eight Banners came out of it and led them to the side hall.

"You are waiting here, the general is deliberating, and he will come out soon."

The officer grimaced, as if someone owed him two pennies, gave a simple explanation, and then turned and walked away. Didn't even pour a glass of water.

is the uncle in the water division, and here is the grandson, Xia Jianren has long been accustomed to this role change. He clasped his fists at the back of the officer of the Eight Banners and shouted: "Thank you, thank you for this general, you are always slow!" ”

When the Eight Banners officer walked away, he turned around. Tilting his chin triumphantly. asked his subordinates: "How is it, are my two sentences still authentic?" - 'You have to slow down', pay attention, the tail note has to be picked up, you have to roll your tongue to say it, I have been practicing for days. ”

"Are you old? You're really old! ”

Master Deng Wu couldn't cry or laugh, frowned and said, "General Tan Tai urgently recruited you to Fengcheng County, and he still asked him in the document. Why did he leave more than 200 boats south of Fengcheng County, I don't know how the general answered? If it is pursued. This is a great crime of disobeying military orders, why don't you worry about it at all! ”

Xia Jianren accepted Li Chengdong's generous gift and left half of the water division south of Fengcheng County, Tan Tai was very strange when he found out, according to the original plan, the water division should return to Nanchang immediately, so he ordered him to come immediately and ask the reason.

"Hey! It's not a big deal, I know it. Xia Jianren looked indifferent.

When he accepted Li Chengdong's silver, he had already thought of an excuse, and then he happened to catch up with two things, both of which were good and clever things with God's help, Xia Jianren was absolutely sure that he would not be punished by Tan Tai......

At the same time, Tan Tai was also asking about it.

"Mr. Huang, you served in Zuo Liangyu's army back then, and you were not a layman in the war, you can tell me, when it is windy and snowy, the ship can't go, is there any reason for this?"

As he spoke, he pointed his finger at a letter on the table, which was Xia Jianren's reply to him, explaining that because of the snowstorm and the destruction of the ship, only half of the sailors were left.

Sitting opposite him was Huang Shu, who had disappeared for a long time.

Huang Shu was originally the Huguang Patrol Imperial History, and Zuo Liangyu belonged to the Donglin Party camp, because he fought with Ma Shiying on the Golden Palace, and became a political figure in the Hongguang Dynasty, and later followed Zuo Mengeng to surrender to the Manchu Dynasty, but since then he has faded out of people's field of vision, and he is very unsatisfactory.

Officialdom has the rules of officialdom, and the Manchu officialdom is the same, Huang Shu and the first assistant of the dynasty tore their faces and did it, they have violated the unspoken rules of officialdom, after surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, no one dared to reuse him, only gave him a four-grade magistrate, and he worked for three years. This time Tan Tai went south, Huang Shu felt that the opportunity had come, drilled camps everywhere, Mao recommended himself, and finally got the appointment of a counselor in military affairs, planning to earn some military merits and climb up again.

Counselor in military affairs, in fact, is to be a staff officer, there is always a little bit of goods in the stomach, Huang Shu during this period of time to make up for evil, memorized a few military books very well, if you ask some big strategic questions, you will definitely be able to quote the classics, the head of the analysis is the Tao, but listening to Tan Tai ask about the specific water war issues, but I feel a little stunned.

I don't understand!

The deeds of the sailors, only those vulgar generals know, who cares about this? But since the general asked, he couldn't help but answer, and he had to answer neatly and neatly, without the slightest hesitation in his tone.

"It's possible! There is little snow in the south, if the warship is negligent in maintenance, it is easy to be damaged by wind and snow, not to mention that the mast is broken, or the sail deck is somewhat damaged, it is not suitable to continue driving, and it should be avoided for a few days, and there is nothing wrong with General Xia's actions. ”

"Oh, that's what it looks like." Tan Tai paused, and then said: "I'm just a little strange, it's reasonable to say that a few boats are broken, how can there be a reason why more than 200 boats are broken together?" ”

"This ...... is not surprising." Huang Shu looked like an insider, and analyzed: "I didn't have a sailor in the Qing Dynasty, and the current sailors are all from the former Ming Dynasty. ”

"Makes sense!" Tan Tai nodded and said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, the war has been tight in the past two days, Xia Jianren left two hundred boats, which just came in handy, since he didn't have the intention to resist the order, there was no need to punish him." ”

Huang Shu was very strange, and only after asking did he know that Tun Buer was launching a fierce attack on the Yuezhou battalion, and the troops were insufficient, so he asked Tan Tai for help, but it had just snowed heavily, and the road was slippery and difficult to walk, but fortunately, with Xia Jianren's two hundred boats, Tan Tai's reinforcements could rush to the front line at the first time.

Hearing that the battle on the front line was so tortuous and thrilling, Huang Shu's face was sometimes nervous, sometimes happy, it was just worrying, and his heart was about to jump out, and when Tan Tai finished speaking, he slapped it gently.

"In this way, General Xia has no fault!"

"Well, I don't really take any credit."

Tan Tai rubbed his temples and said with a headache: "Zhu Mala and Ma Guozhu just sent someone to deliver the news yesterday that a large number of southern thieves have appeared under Nanchang City, with a total of more than 10,000 people, and they have captured Jilong Mountain, which is very troublesome!" ”

"What? This group of southern thieves captured Jilong Mountain? Needless to say, they must be heading for Nanchang City, and the general should immediately send troops back to help, so as not to break the siege of Nanchang! ”

"You're right, but I don't have any troops to send right now! Only by defeating the Chu army first can we turn around and return to Nanchang. A cold glint flashed in Tan Tai's eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The southern thief's sudden sneak attack on Nanchang is indeed a poisonous plan, but unfortunately it still misses a step, hum, Zhu Mala can fight well, and the southern thief only relies on one or two thousand people, and he wants to relieve the siege of Nanchang, is it really that the Eight Banners are all decorations?" ”

In Tan Tai's mind, there are still tens of thousands of Qing troops near Nanchang, even if they are suddenly attacked, they can hold out for a few days, as long as Tun Buer speeds up, and after the Yuezhou battalion is eliminated, he can rush back to support Nanchang.

"The general has no last resort, and the students admire ......"

Huang Shu's ass was just halfway through, when an officer suddenly rushed in, seeing that he looked flustered and untidy, Tan Tai slapped him heavily on the table and scolded him sharply.

The officer fell to his knees and said loudly: "The last general is guilty of death, please calm the general's anger, but Nanchang City has just sent the news, our army has broken the siege, Gushan Ezhen Zhu Mala fled by boat, and the whereabouts of Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan, are unknown!" ”

Suddenly, the room was terrifyingly quiet, no one spoke, Huang Shu shrank back, trying to avoid Tan Tai's gaze.

"What do you say? Say it again! When Tan Tai spoke again, his voice was hoarse and his expression was hideous, like a beast about to go berserk.

"Nanchang City has broken the siege, our army has suffered more than 10,000 casualties, so we have to retreat to Fengcheng County, and we can reach ...... tonight"

"Nonsense!" Without waiting for the officer to finish speaking, Tan Tai stood up suddenly, stepped forward and kicked him in the head: "Zhu Mala, Ma Guozhu, tens of thousands of horses, and sailors help each other, how can they be defeated lightly?" If you dare to speak presumptuously and disturb the hearts of our army, drag it out and cut it! ”

The officer was not afraid, and shouted: "General, general, what the last general said is true, the messenger sent by Nanchang is outside the tent, and the general will know it as soon as he asks." ”

……

Xia Jianren waited in the side hall until it was dark, and did not see Tan Tai, and finally Huang Shu finally came, conveying the order to him on behalf of Tan Tai, and all the ships of the sailor immediately set off to meet Tun Buer and prepare to retreat.

"Huangdaotai, this military order is so weird, could it be that something has happened?"

"Alas, it's hard to put it into words......"

Huang Shu's mood was very bad, the defeat of the Nanchang meeting was decided, the hope of reaping military merits had basically been shattered, and he was thankful that he would not be punished by the imperial court. The only thing to be thankful for is that the Qing army has the advantage of a sailor, and if it can't fight, it can run, and there is no danger to life.

Hearing that Nanchang broke the siege, Xia Jianren was also startled, the battles were all linked one by one, the siege of Nanchang City was broken, and the battle in Zhangshu Town was inevitably affected, and it was a matter of time before the Qing army retreated on the whole line.

"Li Chengdong, this guy, really has two hits." Xia Jianren suddenly remembered Li Chengdong, this person's vision is not bad, and he saw that the signs were wrong before the war. (To be continued......)