After a few days of rest, the Gongyi battalion left Ji'an Province and marched by land and water to the direction of Ganzhou.

All the troops walked along the east bank of the Ganjiang River, and the Fuzhou volunteers found more than 20 boats to deliver grain and grass for Gongyi's operation.

Unlike the previous fanfare and posting articles all over the place, the Gongyi Battalion's operation was very low-key, and it did not attack the two Qing army counties passing by, but just walked by in a big way, and saw the Ming army brigade passing by, and the two county towns were closed gates, how dare they come out to provoke the Gongyi Battalion.

When they arrived at a place about 200 miles away from Ganzhou, not far from the Qing army, the Gongyi battalion stopped advancing, transported the food and supplies on the ship, and sent the Fuzhou volunteers back.

"If the Tartars come to rob the ship, don't fight with them, just put the sails and rush downstream, if you can't do it, you will go ashore, the Tartars can't care about chasing you in order to grab the boat, the most important thing is that people are okay......" Wang Kefan repeatedly instructed Liu Shu that without the escort of the Gongyi battalion, on the way back, those Qing troops might go out of the city to intercept the Fuzhou volunteers.

"Good! …… Good! Liu Shu agreed twice in a row, but only said a good word, but a strange feeling rose in her heart.

Wang Kefan is a famous general, he has won a hundred battles in Jiangxi, Liu Shu has always been full of awe for him, I didn't expect him to be so careful and patient......

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Ganzhou, since ancient times, has been an important town in South China, standing between the mountains and mountains, where the three rivers meet.

The confluence of the three rivers refers to the convergence of two tributaries here to form the Ganjiang River, forming a "human" shape, the topography is somewhat similar to Chongqing, Ganzhou is like a peninsula in the water, surrounded by water on three sides. Easy to defend and difficult to attack.

For the Nanming regime, whether it can hold Ganzhou is of great significance, with the continuous attack of the Qing army, the territory of the Nanming is getting smaller and smaller, more and more flattened, and is squeezed into the shape of a long snake, if the Fujian where Emperor Longwu is located is the head of the snake, Ganzhou is seven inches.

The Ming army had no way to retreat and had no choice but to resist, although its combat effectiveness was still very poor. But compared with the Hongguang court, which fled from the wind, there has been a great progress, and when the Qing army invaded the southern part of Jiangxi, the two sides launched a battle of life and death in Ganzhou.

Although the Ming army resisted desperately, it was both troop strength and combat effectiveness. Jin Shenghuan's green battalion soldiers were much stronger than the Ming army, and it took him more than two months. The outlying county towns and strongholds were gradually cleared. The siege of Ganzhou was completed, and a large number of camps and strongholds were built along the Ganjiang River and other rivers, cutting off the water and land connections between Ganzhou and the outside world.

Jiangxi Governor Wan Yuan Ji relied on the strong city and dangerous terrain to defend Ganzhou City, and Jin Shenghuan was not impatient. Step by step, they set up walls and fortifications, blocked the water surrounding Ganzhou, and prepared to besiege the city and send reinforcements.

Seeing that the city of Ganzhou is in danger. But there were no reinforcements from the Ming army arriving, Jin Shenghuan was very proud, if he could successfully conquer Ganzhou and pacify the whole territory of Jiangxi, the Manchu Qing Dynasty would reward him for meritorious deeds, how could he give him a commander...... Unexpectedly, the Gongyi battalion suddenly entered Jiangxi, fanned the flames everywhere, and disrupted his Jihua.

Jin Shenghuan was forced to transfer troops to encircle and suppress the Gongyi battalion, but he did not give up the encirclement of Ganzhou, he left the deputy general Wang Deren and nearly 50,000 horses, guarding the camp strongholds everywhere, and continued to besiege Ganzhou.

Wang Deren, who was originally the general of Bai Wang of the Dashun Army, nicknamed Wang Zamao, was absorbed by Jin Shenghuan after surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, and his troops were all elite of the Dashun Army, and their combat effectiveness was a few points stronger than Jin Shenghuan's troops.

(Bai Wang appeared several times in the previous article, occupying the four mansions of Xiangyang, fighting against Zuo Liangyu's army of hundreds of thousands alone, and his troops were very combative.) After Li Zicheng's death, Bai Wang was killed by his generals, and this army surrendered to the Manchu Qing and was absorbed by Jin Shenghuan. ）

The Gongyi Battalion is facing such an opponent......

How to rescue the Ming army in Ganzhou caused a heated discussion within the Gongyi battalion.

With the return of the scouts, the deployment of the Qing army's troops basically surfaced, and the enemy situation gradually became clear.

Wang Deren's advantage is that he has a large number of troops and strong combat effectiveness, and there are a large number of strong strongholds and camps that can be defended, and Jin Shenghuan's reinforcements may arrive at any time...... And his disadvantage is that he is exposed to the enemy on his back and back, and he also wants to maintain the siege of Ganzhou, and the direction of the deployment of troops is facing Ganzhou, and the flank and rear of the Gongyi battalion are relatively empty.

"According to what I said, let's go to Wan'an County, cut off Wang Deren's grain route, and lure him out to fight!" Tan Xiao was the first to speak. Wan'an County is nearby, and it is also close to the Ganjiang River, and occupying it can cut off the waterway of the Ganjiang River and cut off Wang Deren's supply line.

Seizing the key points in the attack, focusing on the enemy, and forcing the enemy to attack their own fortified camps is a tactic that all the generals of the Gongyi battalion are already familiar with.

"No!" Zhou Guodong immediately retorted: "No matter how little Wang Deren's military rations are, he can last for a month, what if he doesn't come to Wan'an County?" When Jin Shenghuan's reinforcements come, we will be attacked by the enemy on our backs, and we won't even have a place to run! ”

Cutting off the supply line is to force the other party to fight, but Wang Deren can afford to wait, Jin Shenghuan will soon be able to rush to Wan'an County along the Ganjiang River, if the Gongyi battalion stays here, it will fall into passivity.

Ti Zhaorong thought about it and came up with another idea: "It's better to go around to the back of Ganzhou and go directly into the city......"

Ganzhou is surrounded by water on three sides, only the southeast direction is connected by land, and the Qing army there is also relatively weak, the Gongyi battalion has a large-scale detour, and suddenly launched an attack from the southeast, it is possible to break through the encirclement of the Qing army and rush into Ganzhou.

Wang Sheng objected: "If you want to go around such a big circle, you have to cross two big rivers, you will definitely not be able to hide it from the Tartar sentinels, we are not familiar with the terrain, and we are alone in the depths, it is too dangerous!" ”

There are many mountains and rivers around Ganzhou, the terrain is dangerous, and there are four or five big rivers that war horses cannot wade through, and if they insist on drilling into the encirclement of the Qing army, the cavalry of the Gongyi battalion will not be able to give full play to their mobile advantages, but will become a burden.

The Qing army was distributed in a circle around Ganzhou, with 50,000 horses occupying various dangerous passes, and the defense was dozens of miles deep, and there were no obvious weaknesses in the entire formation.

How should this battle be fought?

Everyone looked at Wang Kefan together.

"There is a saying in our hometown, which is called killing pigs and butts, and each has its own way of killing. If Wang Deren is compared to a pig, I also hope to stab him in the throat and kill him directly. Wang Kefan shook his head: "But no, even if Wang Deren is a pig, he is also a fierce wild boar, it is not easy to kill him with a knife, and if you don't do it, you will hurt yourself." ”

These words immediately caused a burst of laughter, especially for a middle-level officer like Shi Ada, who felt that it was very vivid and vivid.

Wang Kefan paused for a moment, and then continued: "This is not a joke, pigs will not use their butts to arch us, and pigs have no fangs on their buttocks, so they will not hurt us, so we have to aim at the butt and kill the pigs and kill the buttocks!" (To be continued......)