Zhu Yulu, Ma Jixiang and the accompanying officials of the envoy group, most of them have not seen the real battlefield, although Xiangyang was the front line, Shen Yongzhong surrendered without a fight, the Ming army occupied this heroic city in the world without blood, and Kong Youde was in a calm confrontation, Zhu Yulu and others' trip to Xiangyang was not thrilling or dangerous, just like a relaxed and pleasant trip at public expense.

After entering Jiangxi, especially when Raozhou Mansion approached the Anqing Corridor, the atmosphere of the war became more and more intense, and the feeling of tension that was about to erupt before the start of the war was so clear and full of pressure, and it stimulated everyone's nerves every moment.

Zhu Yulu didn't know how to describe this atmosphere, nervousness was the first feeling, but in addition to nervousness, there was also excitement and busyness, as well as hatred for the Qing army, a desire for victory, and even a fanaticism for the sake of victory...... The entire vicinity of the front line is like a bow stretched to the limit, although it makes a creaking sound, but it is firmly aimed at the Ningzhen mountain area 700 miles away, and thousands of soldiers and civilians are like silk threads twisted into a bowstring, contributing their own strength to the upcoming Armageddon.

Jiangxi Governor Fu Dingquan specially rushed to greet him, and after seeing him, Zhu Yulu sighed with emotion.

"Guilin is still too comfortable! Wang Gongxun and hundreds of civil and military officials are fed all day long, and they talk about it every time after intrigue, but now they think about it, they should all be sent to Raozhou Mansion, listen to what the military and civilian people here think, and see how the military and civilian people here do! ”

Zhu Yulu was casual and didn't care about scolding himself: "King Gu has heard and witnessed in the past few days that the elders of Jiangxi have done their best to win this battle, and how many people have donated their belongings. The crops in the field were gone, and the little-footed woman followed with her to deliver the grain. The white-haired old man built a road with a stone on his back, and the lonely king couldn't help crying when he saw it a few times...... Yes! The people's hearts are turned against each other. Our army will definitely be able to capture Nanjing with one drum, and this battle will be won! ”

Fu Dingquan responded: "What His Royal Highness said is extremely true, Jiangxi is full of Tartar poison, and the fathers and villagers all hate the Qing army. ”

In the past few years, the northern part of Jiangxi has been the front line of the Ming and Qing armies, and it was most severely damaged by the war. Wherever the Qing army went, the slightest resistance would lead to a bloody massacre of the city, and it had always adopted the strategy of feeding the war with war, burning and looting everywhere, coupled with cruel national oppression policies such as shaving orders, the army and the people all hated them to the core, and longed to drive them out of Jiangxi forever and completely...... After the Ming army began its eastward crusade, good news continued to come, and the Chu army attacked Nanzhili and won consecutive battles. The enthusiasm and confidence of the military and people in Jiangxi were completely ignited, and a wave of resistance to the Qing Dynasty was set off like a volcanic eruption, which deeply shocked Zhu Yuyu.

Unlike the Guilin court in the greenhouse, the people on the front line have more pure ideas. Simpler, more passionate and dedicated, both military and civilian civilians and gentry officials. All they thought about was how to win the battle. At the beginning, some people inevitably had selfish thoughts, but after being swept up in this vigorous anti-Qing wave. Infected by the mutual infection of the group atmosphere, personal gains and losses are also temporarily put aside.

Ma Jixiang served as the deputy envoy of the mission. also came over to greet Fu Dingquan and handed over a big high hat.

"Can deploy these hundreds of thousands of people in an orderly manner, Fu'an Gong (Fu Dingquan's number Fu'an) really has Zhang Liang Kongming's talent, if this battle can recover Nanjing, Fu'an Gonggong is in Sheji, and the lower officials admire!"

"Ma Dudu praised, Fu really didn't dare to be, if it weren't for Wang Junmen to lend me a hundred and ten capable people, and with the vigorous cooperation of many parties, Fu would have been in a hurry." Fu Dingquan was polite and polite.

"That's the case......" Ma Jixiang felt Fu Dingquan's estrangement, no longer close to him, and smiled: "Fu'an is too humble." ”

Unlike Zhu Yuqi, who is easily impulsive, what Ma Jixiang has felt most in the past few days is the strong and efficient organizational ability of the Jiangxi government, which has invested all its resources, manpower and material resources into the war, which can be described as unified. To be able to achieve such a limit in logistics work, in addition to the enthusiastic cooperation of the common people and gentry, the organization from top to bottom is the most important decisive factor, he has always suspected that Fu Dingquan does not have this ability, and after listening to his own admission, he immediately understood the key point.

Fu Dingquan's Jiangxi Governor Yamen is working in front, and it is the Chu army and Chu Xun who really dispatch this big stall, which is not so strange, although it is also very surprising that the Chu army can do this step, but thinking of Wang Kefan's seemingly impossible miracles, mobilizing 100,000 people to support the army to help the war is just a trivial matter.

"In this battle of Nanjing, Wang Junmen seems to be bound to win!" Ma Jixiang was very worried and felt extremely stressed.

As the backbone of the imperial party and as Chu Xun's political ally, Ma Jixiang knew that both Emperor Longwu and Wang Kefan had pressed all their capital in the Eastern Crusade, and had exhausted their national strength, military strength, manpower, material and financial resources to win this battle, and they had reached the maximum limit without any way out...... If Wang Kefan is defeated and the main force of the Chu army is wiped out, there is a good chance that Emperor Longwu's imperial throne will not be kept. You must know that the Tang Dynasty is just an ordinary concubine of Zhu Yuanzhang, and there is no direct blood relationship with the later emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and the Longwu New Deal was boycotted by the gentry and landlords, and if he loses the support of Wang Kefan, a big warlord, he will be ousted in a blink of an eye.

In Ma Jixiang's view, Wang Kefan and Emperor Longwu were too impulsive, and they should not take a huge risk to fight the Qing army in Nanjing, but should enter Jiangnan according to the original plan and withdraw to Jiangxi in a circle...... It's a pity that it's too late to say anything now, in addition to Zilharang and Tan Tai, just a few days ago, Fu Lehe's follow-up troops also arrived in Nanjing, and the Manchu army of 85,000 people was launching a fierce attack on the mountainous area of Ningzhen, and the Chu army was already under siege.

Ma Jixiang was very worried. Although Wang Kefan had won a hundred battles before, and had defeated the Qing army countless times with fewer victories, his opponents at that time were not as good as the army of Zierharang and Fu Lehe. This large army was transferred from the Shanxi front line and Beijing, and in addition to half of the green battalion soldiers, it also included nearly 30,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and Han Army Banners, plus the Eight Banners under Tan Tai, Mulima and Zhu Mala, accounting for almost a quarter of all the strength of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and most of them were elite troops who had been on the battlefield for a long time.

(When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there were more than 100,000 soldiers in the Eight Banners, and in the following years, with the growth of the Manchu population, the strength was also slowly increasing, but in the plane, the Eight Banners were wiped out by Wang Kefan and others piecemeal, and the strength was reduced.) ）

Of course, if this battle is won, Emperor Longwu's prestige will reach an unprecedented height, the imperial power will be strengthened, all warlords from all walks of life will surrender, and the implementation of Longwu's new policy will also be invincible, and Wang Kefan will become the biggest winner...... All in all, the Battle of Nanking was a big gamble, winning one qiē and defeating all losses. This big gamble was made by Emperor Longwu and Wang Kefan to sit in the bank, and Ma Jixiang just made a bet with the bank, and he felt a little unbearable on his nerves.

The commander of the Jinyi guard sounds majestic, but in fact he is just a military general with a special identity, all relying on the identity of the emperor's guards and soldiers, if the imperial power is strong, the Jinyi guard will be strong, the imperial power is weak, and the Jinyi guard has to be a man with his tail between his legs. Emperor Longwu was very weak in front of civilian warlords in the past few years because his foundation was too shallow, and the situation has just improved in the past two years, and Ma Jixiang doesn't want to be beaten back to his original form overnight......

Accompanied by Fu Dingquan, Tang King Zhu Yulu and his entourage continued to march towards the Anqing Corridor.

Fu Dingquan has an arrogant personality, and he is a feudal official on the governor's side, and he looks down on a close military attache like Ma Jixiang from the bottom of his bones, but because of the identity of the other party's minister, he is also a celebrity around Emperor Longwu, so he still maintains basic politeness on the surface.

Ma Jixiang, such a civilian official, has seen a lot, and he doesn't care about him, he has nothing to do with as little as possible, and if he really encounters it, he will talk about the latest battle situation on the front line. Fu Dingquan's grasp of the military information is slightly delayed compared with the front line, but it is not much worse, although there is a distance of 700 miles between them, but under the fast horse exchanges, Jiangxi can receive the news of what happened on the front line two days later at the latest.

Basically...... It's all bad news.

After Zilharang launched the attack, he did not adopt the sharp central breakthrough and dividing and encircling tactics like Jumala and Mulima, but really did it step by step, advancing little by little like Yanling Town.

He first chose to attack Danyang County, the Chu army in the city resisted stubbornly, and after four days and three nights of fierce fighting, at the last moment when Jierharang completed the siege, he broke through and retreated into the mountainous area of Ningzhen. Instead of risking the pursuit, Zilharang stopped at Danyang County to rest and prepare, patiently waiting for the arrival of Tan Tai and Fu Lehe.

After the capture of Danyang County, the Qing army had already opened the gate into the mountainous area of Ningzhen, and the straight-line distance to Yanling Town was less than 100 miles, but Zierharang did not move until the last army of Fu Lehe arrived and gathered a large army of more than 85,000 men, and then ordered to attack the mountainous area of Ningzhen.

The mountainous area of Ningzhen is a low mountain and hilly, although the terrain is constantly undulating, there is no natural danger in the absolute sense. Jierharang left more than 20,000 Qing troops to guard the periphery of the Ningzhen Mountains, and then spread out the 60,000 troops in parallel, covering several valleys and peaks in front and back at the same time, covering several valleys and peaks in front and back, and each department covered each other and supported each other.

Mill Tactics!

In order to avoid the danger brought by the unfavorable terrain, he put forward a huge rolling array, the Chu army could not open such a large pocket, at most it could only ambush and harass his flank troops from one side, and the threat to the Qing army was much smaller.

Jierharang hardened the village, fought in a daze, and prepared to advance all the way to Yanling Town, first rescue Jumala and Mulima, and then think about how to exterminate the Chu army. (To be continued......)