Sun Kewang's final misdecision led to the crushing defeat of the Ming army in the southwest at the fork in the road, and the Qing army captured more than 700 war horses, two war elephants, and no counting of weapons, and many casualties. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, there is an example of being ambushed by Li Dingguo last time, and the Qing army was also killed and wounded in the battle just now, including Wei Zheng and Wu Jing, two Mongolian Meler Zhangjing, and many generals and soldiers were killed in battle, and after defeating the Ming army, Tunqi did not dare to continue the pursuit, nor was it able to launch a pursuit, but after the Ming army gave up Baoqing, Hengyang and Yongzhou took over again.

The battle of the fork in the road was a turning point in the southwest battlefield, Chen Wen knew very well what this meant, and now Hong Chengchou was so passive, the only answer was that he was waiting for the results of the southwest battlefield, because Jiangxi, where he was located, was the junction of the southeast and the southwest, and it was also the province that could most reinforce Huguang.

When the battle of the fork in the road happened, Chen Wen can't remember it very clearly, but it will definitely not be true until April, because the situation at that time should be the outbreak of contradictions between Sun and Li, Li Dingguo inevitably gave up Yongzhou, and as a result, the Qing army found out about this and then occupied there, and then sent troops north to attack them, it seems that the goal is larger and the combat effectiveness may not be comparable to Li Dingguo's Sun Kewang's army, and the battle of the fork in the road broke out.

Chen Wen remembered that the battle of Zhaoqing in which Li Dingguo first entered Guangdong in history seemed to be at the end of March and the beginning of April, and the following historical events followed, so the outbreak time of the fork in the road battle could only be in March.

Once he figured these things out, Chen Wen hurriedly summoned his generals and staff officers to decide the next actions of the Ming army in Zhejiang, but these generals and staff officers were gossiping, and his thinking became more and more chaotic.

After waving off the generals, Chen Wen sat alone in the garden of Xingyuan for a while. After calming down for a moment, he realized that he had been wrong from the beginning. The staff system he designed was not originally used to decide what kind of battle to fight, but to design the details of the battle plan for the goal he decided. Now that he is in a hurry to go to the doctor, he has instead found his generals and staff officers to discuss the next goal, so that he can not be chaotic.

However, between these gossips, Chen Wenzhi also heard some useful things, and at least had a few options: the central army general was mainly inclined to attack Yushan County, so as to enter Jiangxi; The staff officers seemed to think more and disagreed, some thought that they should turn north to Ningshao, some felt that they should go south to recover Wenzhou, and some thought that Yanzhou should be taken down first.......

Several surrounding provinces have proposals, but there is no Taizhou, Chen Wen knows very well that attacking Taizhou is no longer a strategic issue, it has developed into a political issue.

Taizhou, Chen Wen really didn't plan to go, with the state capital in hand today, there is no point in attacking there, even if it is for the sake of access to the sea, Wenzhou should be attacked, after all, it can also open up the trade route from northern Fujian to Quzhou. It's just that the seizure of Wenzhou, although it can open up trade routes, have access to the sea, and roll the snowball bigger and faster through trade, but it is far from quenching the thirst of the near.

After the Battle of the Fork in the Road, the situation in the southwest calmed down, and the Qing army would definitely make a big move in the southeast, and the Battle of Haicheng in history broke out not long after that. Now the confrontation between the Fujian Ming army and the Fujian Qing army has been formed, with him in southwest Zhejiang, the Qing army does not dare to continue to increase troops to southern Fujian, and even if it can't be defeated on land, Zheng Chenggong can still withdraw to the sea, his naval division is invincible and the coast of Fujian and Guangdong is not a joke, the Qing army can only find a way to pull him out before Zheng Chenggong can be moved.

The encirclement and suppression of the Qing army is imminent, and at this time, even if the attack on Taiwan and Wen wins, it will not gain much, but it will consume its own vitality. In this case, only by trying to attack those areas that the Qing army attaches more importance to can we disrupt Hong Chengchou's plans and arrangements. For Chen Wen, there are only two such goals, one is Nanchang and the other is Hangzhou.

Nanchang is the provincial capital of Jiangxi, and the four southeastern provinces are the residence of Hong Chengchou and Jiangxi Governor Cai Shiying, which is of great political significance. With the geographical location and topography of Jiangxi, the capture of Nanchang can be used to train the water division on Poyang Lake, so as to enter the Yangtze River, and all the way south is the Yangtze River, which is also of great strategic significance. In addition, due to the existence of Poyang Lake, Jiangxi has a wide range of plains, which is quite beneficial to Chen Wen's military merit system of raising strong men with land, at least much stronger than those mountainous areas in eastern Zhejiang.

However, the core of Chen Wen's current occupation area is the Jinqu Basin, from Anhua Town in the north - Hulu Town to Quzhou in the southwest, this is originally a strip of land, once it is cut off by the Qing army, it is bound to be unable to care for each other. Nanchang, located west of Poyang Lake, Chen Wen wanted to attack there, first to enter Guangxin Mansion, and then from the south of Raozhou Mansion or the northern part of Fuzhou Mansion into the territory of Nanchang Mansion, so as to realize the siege of Nanchang.

As a result, the battle line is too long, it is not easy to collect and transport munitions, and it is too dangerous to go deep alone, and even a mistake in the past few years will be in vain.

Unless, Li Dingguo came from the west, he joined Li Dingguo in Nanchang from east to west, and only in this way could Nanchang be quickly captured. But where Li Dingguo is now, Chen Wen has no news, whether the mountainous areas of western Jiangxi have delayed Li Dingguo's pace, or whether Li Dingguo has not entered Jiangxi at all, he does not know anything. The only thing that can be confirmed is that Li Dingguo definitely did not approach Nanchang now, and did not even pose a posture to threaten Nanchang, otherwise Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie would have given up Yushan County and returned to Nanchang to defend Nanchang.

It is better to ask for others than to seek yourself, instead of fantasizing that Li Dingguo can meet him in Nanchang as promised, it is better to do what you should do first, and it is more secure for you to do the right thing without inviting Li Dingguo.

Once he thought of this, the previous anxiety and hesitation were swept away, Chen Wen also returned to his usual state, and the coercion brought by Hong Chengchou began to gradually decline.

It's just that since Nanchang can't be done, then there is only one way to go north to Hangzhou.

Since Jinhua attacked Hangzhou, there were two ways to go, one was to enter Yanzhou Mansion and go down the river to Hangzhou, while the other was to go north to Shaoxing Mansion and then force the Qiantang River to cross.

If it is richer, Ning Shao is naturally far better than Yanzhou, which is full of mountainous areas, and the birthplace of this army under his command is in Dalan Mountain between Ning Shao, and the desire to return to his hometown is also full of temptation for many generals and veterans who have followed him for many years.

However, at present, even if he can successfully capture Shaoxing Mansion and cross the Qiantang River to the west, the Zhejiang Qing army still has an army of more than 8,000 soldiers composed of the Dinghai General Battalion, the Shaoxing Green Battalion and the Zhoushan Green Battalion on the Ningbo side, and the Qiantang Naval Division can also hook up with each other, and Su Song's Green Battalion can also come to the aid by boat. The result of dividing the troops to the east is to weaken the strength of the siege of Hangzhou, but if you don't take care of it, you will always have to leave a part of the soldiers behind to ensure the safety of the back road, no matter how you look at it, it is extremely difficult.

Since this is the case, then you can only go down the river and attack Yanzhou Mansion, and don't think about how much the battle can be, as long as you can force Hong Chengchou to act in advance, it is far better than waiting for this dog traitor to prepare everything and then deal with it passively. (To be continued.) )