Last year, the two largest Ming armies in the southeast won victories over the local Qing army in Zhejiang and Fujian respectively, although under Hong Chengchou's strategy, the gains of the Zhejiang Ming army were lower than the momentum they caused, and the Fujian Ming army retreated to Zhangzhou and could not continue to put pressure on Quanzhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, the threat of these two Ming armies still exists and must be addressed as soon as possible.

The sudden change in the southeast war situation stemmed from Chen Wen's strong offensive in southwest Zhejiang, if there was no Chen Wen, the aid of Fujian and Zhejiang troops to the south, Zheng Chenggong would not have been able to settle down to besiege Zhangzhou, and the defenders of Zhangzhou would not have been able to surrender on their own because they could not see the hope of relieving the siege.

This is Hong Chengchou's long-standing opinion, and it has also become the consensus of the Manchu court after Chen Jin's death.

It's just that Chen Wen has been resisting the Qing Dynasty in Zhejiang for nearly three years, and his first time leading the troops was able to defeat Li Rong, the deputy general of the Zuo Battalion, who was also a fierce general who served with Tian Xiong under Huang Degong's account, not a mediocre talent. In the days that followed, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, died, Ma Jinbao, the general soldier of Jinhua, was captured and killed, and the three deputy generals of Quzhou, Chuzhou, and Fujian Jianning Prefecture, as well as Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Zhongjun of the Governor Battalion not long ago, were captured successively, and there were even tens of thousands of people in the field battle of Fubiao Battalion being completely annihilated and Shentangyuan. In this short period of more than two years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been annihilated by Chen Wen in Zhejiang with more than 20,000 soldiers, and the Eight Banners of Hangzhou, which had always been relied on by Mount Tai, were blocked by a small fortress in Anhua Town twice in a row......

Such a difficult opponent is rare since the Qing army entered the customs, and it is also a matter of great importance to make chaos in the southeast, and the decision is the first thing that needs to be eliminated.

Among the people present, Liu Guangbi and Wang Zhigang had personally participated in the battle of Shentangyuan, while Yang Jie went to Jiangshan County twice as reinforcements for the supervision battalion. Even the other people present were taken by Chen Wenhe's prestige or because of the face of Hong Chengchou and Liu Guangbi and others, but no one dared to release any wild words for a while, and they only stared at Hong Chengchou one by one, wanting to know what good strategies this old supervisor and old Jinglu came up with to deal with this Chen Wen.

"The traitor Chen Wenzuo has been in turmoil in southwest Zhejiang for many years, and the whole territory of Jinhua and most of Quzhou and Chuzhou have fallen. However, most of his subordinates were Jinhua rebels, and the traitor Chen Wen used the division of land to win over the rebels to resist our Qing Dynasty, and most of the land was in Jinhua......"

"Jinhua Mansion is the root of the traitor Chen Wen, but Yanzhou and Taizhou are not conducive to the invasion of large soldiers, Wenzhou can only threaten Chuzhou, and Shaoxing enters Jinhua with a strong fortress to defend it, so after the thieves occupy Jinhua, they have always used troops in the direction of Quzhou, which is heavily armed, and the official army is also mostly in Quzhou to resist it."

What Hong Chengchou said was the fact and reason for the struggle between Chen Wen and Chen Jin for the strategic initiative in southwest Zhejiang last year, and the use of troops on multiple fronts was a taboo for soldiers, so Chen Wen took advantage of the terrain to contain Yan and Taiwan, and defended Anhua Town with a fortress, and then he could go west and compete with Chen Jin for Quzhou, as well as access roads into Jiangxi, Fujian, and Jiangnan.

All of you here are veteran military affairs, and even a military general like Li Benshen, who has just been transferred from the north, knows some inside information, and Hong Chengchou is naturally referring to more than that.

"The art of war says: go up to the army to plan, then to fight, then to attack the army, and then attack the city. I am rich in the Qing Dynasty, and the traitor Chen Wen is based on the land of Sanfu, and the old man's many plans last year have made it impossible for Zheng Yi in southern Fujian to echo Chen Rui. However, the thieves are sharp and outnumbered, which is conducive to quick combat; The officers and men are powerful, and the advantage is slow but not urgent. Therefore, this time in the attack, the old man has agreed with Liu Shuai, the general of Pingnan, Tian Shuai, the governor of Zhejiang, and the commander of Taizhou, to advance by different routes, and the enemy will be surrounded and annihilated, and the thieves will retreat if they advance, and the thieves will retreat if they retreat. ”

Once upon a time, the same amount of Qing army was no longer able to fight with the Ming army in the field, even if it was only in Zhejiang in the southeast, which made Hong Chengchou feel extremely unimaginable. However, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners could not go south for the time being, and Jin Li was severely punished by the Qing court for proposing to improve the green battalion soldiers, and there were not many ways left for Hong Chengchou.

However, for Hong Chengchou, war is not as simple as breaking the enemy in the field. There is a way that the first is invincible, and then the enemy is invincible; You can't win against yourself, but you can win against the enemy. Strengthening one's own body, weakening the opponent, and inducing the opponent to make mistakes and then use it is the core of the strategy, since there is no certainty of complete victory in the field battle, then try to weaken the strength of the Ming army first, and then break the enemy when it is exhausted.

If Chen Wen refuses to take advantage of his wishes, the strength of the Qing army's encirclement and suppression this time is far better than in the past, even when besieging Zhoushan, it is much inferior, as long as a little bit of encroachment, after all, the territory of the Ming army is only three mansions, and it will not take long to force Chen Wen to death. As for abandoning the fundamental land and wandering around, there is only one way to ruin, and it is nothing more than delaying some time.

"The western line is divided into two roads according to the deployment of troops, passing through Biaozuo Town, Jiangxi Tibiao, Jiujiang Green Camp, Huizhou Green Camp, and Henan Fubiao from Guangxin Mansion and Yushan County to Changshan in the east; Fujian raised the standard, the left road, and the right road from Xianxia Pass to the north to the country. Before the siege of Quzhou is completed, the main force of thieves is not allowed to fight; After completing the encirclement, set up a stable camp and be sure to isolate the inside and outside. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time the imperial court dispatched the army of the four provinces to encircle and suppress, and there were 60,000 soldiers alone. Within this year, we must put down the thieves in Zhejiang. ”

"The last general will obey!"

Hong Chengchou is old, and he has been traveling day and night for the past few days, so he doesn't want to say too much. There was a loud clash of armor, and the generals stood up and saluted, and then the lower-ranking Qing generals retired, leaving only those commanders and commanders, because Hong Chengchou still had some details to explain to them.

At a glance, all the generals present were Han Chinese, although some of them were from the Han Eight Banners, but the awe of him was no less than others, and he would not be instructed by the Manchurian magnates as he was when he was the governor Jiangnan in the early years of Shunzhi.

In fact, this time through the southeast, there was no Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners to go south, Hong Chengchou can be said to be mixed, worried that the Han Army's Eight Banners and the Green Battalion and the Ming Army were afraid of being defeated in the field, and the joy was that he was able to get out of the political whirlpool of the Manchu elite dispute involved in the Tan Tai incident, and he did not have to worry about the Manchurian Eight Banners generals who were dissatisfied with him would be constrained.

In the Beijing recital, Hong Chengchou had already explained to Shunzhi that the southeast was different from the southwest, and that the southwestern Ming army had accumulated several years in Yunnan and Guizhou before marching into Huguang, Sichuan, and Guangxi, and its strength was quite strong, and it should be prepared for a protracted war.

The Southeast Ming Army, although Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong did not join forces, echoing each other had already made the Southeast Qing Army unable to move, and entered the point of dividing and encroaching on it. Among the two, there is no doubt that Chen Wen will be leveled first and then Zheng Chenggong will be destroyed, and he must be exterminated as soon as possible, so as not to threaten the wealthy lands of Hangjiahu and Susongchang Town. However, Chen Wen's soldiers were very sharp, and the southeast green battalion was repeatedly defeated, and at present, he could only avoid the field battle that the Ming army was more eager for, and encroach on the Ming army's occupied area little by little.

This is a helpless move, but although the steady use of troops is much more time-consuming, labor-intensive and resource-consuming than field warfare, it is also more prudent, and it is more appropriate to steadily use the advantage of troops and the strategy of multi-line encirclement to squeeze the Ming army into a dead end step by step, rather than directly confronting it in the field to gamble on the fortunes of the country for the Qing army in the southeast.

Moreover, his steady strategy is not without killer features that are used to accelerate the decline of the Ming army's strength and achieve the complete annihilation of the Ming army.

The level of those generals who retreated was too low, and the strength in their hands was quite limited, so Hong Chengchou was reluctant to say more to them. Among the generals who remained, Hong Chengchou still decided to take Li Benshen as the full command of the siege, and also explained the order of the generals' march and the tasks in it.

"Boss, the traitor Chen Wen is attacking Yanzhou Mansion right now, although the local defenders have rested for a year, they are bound to be unable to resist the bandits' troops, do you want to let the surrounding provinces send troops to share the pressure?"

The person who spoke was Hu Maozhen, who had been in Huizhou for a long time, and his generals had many industries in Huizhou, and Yanzhou was adjacent to Huizhou. If the lieutenant generals and colonels of the army know that their wives and children are not far from the Ming army, and there are not many Qing troops in the local area, I am afraid that it will lead to instability in the army's morale.

Looking at Hu Maozhen, Hong Chengchou knew that this general was better at charging into battle than his strategy, so he explained: "Chen Wen wants Yanzhou, then give it to him." As for Huizhou, it was not his target at all, his target was Hangzhou, which was garrisoned by the Hangzhou Eight Banners. (To be continued.) )