Dolgon transferred Kong Youde to rescue Nanjing, but there was no way.

Nanjing is on the edge of the Yangtze River, and Tan Tai can get out of danger as long as he crosses the river, and there is still a great hope of success. After the defeat of the Battle of Ningzhen, the door of Jianghuai was wide open, Hefei, Huai'an, Xuzhou and other places were very empty, and the Ming army could go north at any time, directly into Shandong and Zhili, threatening the foundation of Manchu rule, only to transfer Kong Youde to guard the door.

Eight hundred miles of fast horses traveled day and night, rushing to Hubei, and Jiangnan still knew nothing about it.

After the ceremony of paying homage to the tomb of filial piety, Wang Kefan published an article the next day -- "On Several Tactical Principles of the War to Resist the Qing Dynasty."

The article is written in vernacular throughout and can be understood by ordinary soldiers, proposing to fight the scattered and isolated enemy first, and then the concentrated and powerful enemy; Take small cities, medium-sized cities and vast villages first, and then large cities; The main goal is to annihilate the enemy's living forces, not to defend or seize cities and localities as the main goal, and to strive to annihilate the enemy in the course of movement, while paying attention to positional offensive and defensive tactics, and so on.

On the issue of siege, the enemy resolutely seized weakly fortified strongholds and cities. A qiē enemy has a medium-range garrison, and the environment allows to capture the strongholds and cities, the camera captures them. Once the enemy is defending a strong stronghold and city, wait until the conditions are ripe and then take it.

In the eyes of the officers and men of Chu, the battles in recent years have generally followed these principles, for example, Wuchang City has always been in the hands of the Qing army, and the Chu army has never launched a strong offensive. When you fight, you are more down-to-earth, and you won't be confused when there are some ambiguities. Some senior generals also noted. Following these tactical principles, the current military system of the Chu army does not meet the requirements. There is a need to adjust and change, but it is not clear how to change it.

Outsiders have a different interpretation.

Wang Kefan's tactical principles are deviant and do not conform to traditional military theories, and it is difficult for those who have not personally participated in the battles of the Chu army to understand and accept them at once, and some people even have a comprehensive negative attitude, denouncing them as nonsense and nonsense...... In their opinion. Wang Kefan's purpose in throwing out this article was to fight with Emperor Longwu's filial piety and Zhuwen, to find a reason to compete for Zhejiang and Fujian, and to find an excuse to escape the Northern Expedition.

Refute him! In any case, Wang Kefan must be refuted!

The civilian officials represented by the Donglin Party attach the greatest importance to the power of public opinion, like to fight lawsuits with pen and ink the most, and like to quarrel with people the most; although military theory is not their forte, it is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong on paper, and you say that you must first fight the enemy who is scattered and isolated. I just said that I wanted to smash the Yellow Dragon, you said that it should be easy first and then difficult, I said that the thief should be captured first and the king should be captured, and all kinds of military books since ancient times have been smashed. desperately quoted scriptures and classics, trying to refute Wang Kefan's theory.

However, it is a pity that Wang Kefan's set of military theories was born out of the advanced ideas of later generations. It has been tested countless times in another time and space, and represents the direction of future development. It is more in line with the requirements of the mixed use of hot and cold weapons, which is correct in itself. How can you refute it lightly? The civilian officials took the ancient book out of context, but they did not expect that Wang Kefan's military theory also absorbed a large amount of the essence of ancient Chinese military thought, and used classic theories such as "The Art of War" to refute it.

The more the reasoning was debated, the clearer it became, and Wang Kefan was about to take advantage of this opportunity to unify the thinking of the whole army and make preparations for the reform of the military system, but when the Donglin Party's pen and staff were almost done, he quickly published a second article -- "On the Prospects of the National Anti-Qing Struggle."

This article stands from a higher angle, characterizes the struggle against the Qing Dynasty as a confrontation between civilization and barbarism, and is a national war in which the Han nation resists foreign aggression...... There are many centrists in all strata of Jiangnan who are still waiting and seeing, and after reading this article, they all have a sense of seeing the light and finding their direction, and they are inclined to support the Chu army and Wang Kefan.

The Manchus were foreign barbarians, small countries and widows, in a state of comprehensive backwardness in politics, economy, science and technology, although arrogant for a while, but bound to be defeated, but the Manchus were also a strong country, using these years of foreign expansion to plunder a large number of resources and population, with the vitality and enterprising spirit of the founding dynasty, there was a savage and murderous, experienced professional army, after entering the customs, and colluded with the traitors, in the north has established a relatively stable rule, the illusion of defeating them immediately is unrealistic, It takes a generation of struggle and sacrifice.

After the Ming army regained Jiangnan, the Nanzhili area would become the focus of contention between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Ming army occupied the entire Nanzhili and advanced the front to Xuzhou and Shandong, which would threaten the foundation of Manchu rule...... Since ancient times, the fate of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River is closely linked, one is prosperous, one is lost, if the south is lost, Zhejiang will inevitably be lost, Fujian is also in danger, Jiangxi, Huguang, Liangguang and other southern provinces will fall one after another, on the contrary, only by uniting the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and launching the Northern Expedition with the support of the southern provinces, can we completely defeat the Manchu Qing and complete the great cause of recovering the country.

Anyone who wants to divide the three provinces south of the Yangtze River is short-sighted and doomed to failure, there are only two forms of attack and defense in the war, and the switch between attack and defense may occur at any time, if we want to hold the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, we must adopt the active strategy of attacking instead of defending, constantly launching attacks on the outer defense line of the Jianghuai region, and constantly destroying the living forces of the Qing army in a quick and decisive way, and when the equivalent change accumulates to the qualitative change, the Ming army can make a large-scale northern expedition, capture Beijing in one fell swoop, and drive the Manchus out of the Guanwai......

What is written in such a large article!

The civil officials represented by the Donglin Party are all masters of writing, but this article seems to be understood and ambiguous. Everyone's understanding is different. Wang Kefan has created a lot of new words in this article, and everyone can only hope that the text will make sense. Even guessed with Meng, although I could roughly guess what he meant. It's not so easy to catch his flaws and fight back.

For example, isn't the word "economy" just money and food? It can also be interpreted as helping the people through the world, but the meaning in this article is obviously different, and it is related to money and grain, but it is at a higher level, and Wang Kefan's meaning can be roughly understood in combination with the context, but it cannot be expressed in accurate language.

It's so nasty!

If you want to fight a lawsuit, you have to chew the words. I can't say it clearly, how can I refute Wang Kefan?

Tang Laihe and Wan Yuanji don't care about these details, what they care about is the political meaning contained in the back of this article, Wang Kefan very clearly proposed that the three provinces of Jiangnan should be united, and they clearly want to swallow the three provinces of Jiangnan in one bite...... He seems to have put forward conditions between the lines, give me all the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and I will naturally lead the Chu army to cross the river and the northern expedition.

"How is this possible? Does he want to be the governor of Jiangnan? By the way, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian also both? Wan Yuan Ji sneered and said indignantly: "Plus Huguang and Jiangxi, there are five provinces under his rule, and the imperial court will pay tribute to him in turn!" ”

"Nope. No, he didn't intend to be a governor. Tang Laihe's expression was extremely solemn, as if he had encountered a huge problem. Pointing to a certain place in that article, he said: "Look at this sentence -- 'The three provinces south of the Yangtze River should be divided into a large war zone,' Wang Kefan said it very clearly. He wanted to make the Admiral a permanent office, erected above the Governor and the Governor. Hehe, maybe he doesn't even want to set up the governor of Jiangnan, and holds Nanzhili and Zhejiang in his hands, as for you, the governor of Fujian and Jiangxi, of course, you have to hear the dispatch. ”

There are several kinds of admirals in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the admiral Caojiang, the admiral of Jinyiwei, the admiral of Jingying, etc., the really powerful is the wartime admiral set up because of the matter, such as Li Rusong who resisted Japan and aided Korea, such as Wang Kefan, the governor of the Eastern Expedition, this kind of wartime admiral's power is very large, and the military and political affairs in the theater must be under his command, such as in this Eastern Crusade, Wan Yuan Ji, as the governor of Fujian and Jiangxi, must be controlled by Wang Kefan.

Like the Manchu general system, the wartime governor of the Ming Dynasty was also a temporary position, and he must be removed from office and removed from power after the war, Wang Kefan is still the commander of the Eastern Expedition, because the war in Jiangnan has not yet ended, and Emperor Longwu and the Donglin Party are united, fighting for power after the end of the Eastern Crusade, turning the three provinces in Jiangnan into ordinary provinces directly controlled by the center of the imperial court, so as to avoid further expansion of the warlord's power and finally cause loss of control.

In this contest, the Donglin Party is just a thug in front, and the real opponent is Emperor Longwu and Wang Kefan, a contest between the imperial power and the warlords, so although Tang Laihe is not the Donglin Party, he must also stand on Yang Tinglin's side, but the original intention in his heart is that he still does not want the two sides to turn their faces into enemies, so that both sides lose...... Wang Kefan was a general in Xiaoling, boasting of military exploits, and his attitude was very tough, which made Tang Laihe a headache, and he didn't know how this matter should end.

"No! Never! Wan Yuan Ji shouted loudly: "The Admiral of the Eastern Expedition is set up for the sake of the matter, and after the matter is over, the letter and seal must be exchanged for the imperial court, and the military and political affairs of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are all presided over by the local government, how can they still be subject to Wuxun?" There has never been such a precedent in the imperial court. ”

"Hehe, he returned the seal letter of the Admiral of the Eastern Expedition, and then asked the imperial court to reassign a Northern Expedition Admiral, or it can also be called the Admiral of the Northern Expedition, what is the difficulty of changing the soup without changing the medicine?" Tang Laihe saw that Wan Yuanji had not yet understood, so he had to patiently explain: "Wang Kefan said very clearly in the article, for the sake of the Northern Expedition, the three provinces south of the Yangtze River must be divided into a large war zone, which has a precedent in the Wanli period. ”

"This, this is really unreasonable!" Wan Yuan Ji said angrily: "If the Tartars were not expelled from the customs for a day, Wang Kefan would have been the commander of the Northern Expedition?" If it is like the Southern Song Dynasty, the north and the south have confronted each other for more than 100 years, and the three provinces south of the Yangtze River have been controlled by him for more than 100 years? ”

"Well, that's what he was going to do." Wan Yuan Ji paused, and said sternly: "With the admiral as the regular system, controlling the civil and military affairs in Jiangnan, and taking all the money and grain from the three provinces, Wang Kefan did not plan to turn his face with the imperial court, but reached out to the imperial court to ask for power, if it really becomes like this, the situation in the three provinces of Jiangnan will be complicated, and all kinds of battles will be inevitable!" ”

The Longwu court and the civil official group wanted to divide the territory and grab the territory, but Wang Kefan proposed that everyone govern together, and the power to make the final decision should be given to him, there are certain compromises and concessions, but more are aggressive...... In other words, he wanted to change the political system of the Ming Dynasty, change the local power structure model, and snatch power from the hands of the governors and governors of the feudal realms.

Don't follow the rules!

Wang Kefan wants to break the rules of the game and make others obey his rules, the current shape is like shaking dice, the Longwu court and the civil official group are out of the old thousands, and it is easy to throw out three leopards of six, but Wang Kefan laughed: "This has changed the rules, the bigger the idea, the smaller the card, and the leopard with three sixes is the smallest......"

"Not in line with the ancestral system! Not in accordance with the ancestral system! Wan Yuan Ji couldn't think of any other reason to refute it, and kept muttering to himself.

"Nowadays, there are many things that are not in line with the ancestral system, it is useless to just talk about this, besides, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, was there a governor? Wang Kefan sought the position of governor of the Northern Expedition in the name of resisting the Qing Dynasty's Northern Expedition, and it was really difficult for the imperial court to shirk it, and this time it was really self-defeating. Tang Laihe said: "If you want to stop this matter, the only way to refute Wang Kefan's article is to come up with a feasible plan for the Northern Expedition, but unfortunately Tang is only shallow in his knowledge and does not have such a great ability, if the gentry and the people and all towns and clans agree with this article, the matter will be irreparable." ”

"This ......" Wan Yuan Ji stammered, he is a master of power struggle, and he also has two brushes in internal affairs, but he is a layman in war, this kind of macro strategic problem is like a book in heaven to him, he has no concept at all, what to refute Wang Kefan? As for coming up with a feasible plan for the Northern Expedition, it was even more than his ability, and apart from impassionedly shouting a few slogans and empty words, he could not put forward a single constructive opinion.

"Alas, if this article can't be refuted, the righteousness will be transferred to Wang Kefan's side, and now only by brainstorming and consulting with the veteran Daxian who knows how to fight may be able to find the flaws." Tang Laihe thought for a while, and then said: "This matter is too much to do, in addition to reporting to the Holy Lord, I must also inform Yang Tinglin as much as possible and let him come up with an idea." (To be continued......) R1292