[In the past two days, many book friends have been spraying this, and this chapter will make a systematic explanation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn fact, the content of this chapter was supposed to be revealed little by little in the next dozens of chapters, and it was designed to fill in the big hole of the Western Expedition little by little. Now the chapter ends]

For the westward expedition of the Fu Han army, Qianlong did not make any moves, he ordered the Qing army in Haizhou to go south, and converge with the naval army south of the Yangtze River to capture Nanjing. Yin Jishan is not a piece of material for war, and he has made meritorious contributions to his crimes.

Moreover, the sticky pole of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also began to spread rumors that the Fu Han army was beaten out by the official army when it left Jiangnan; The Fu Han army robbed Jiangnan of money and grain, confusing Jiangnan, which was a rogue act; After the news that Chen Yongsheng's former army was pushed by Sichuan soldiers in Huangpi came out, the sticky pole shouted that Hubei was the place where Chen Ming's bones were buried, and the soldiers of the Fu Han army had been destroyed, and the army had no will to fight......

As for you, you said that the decisive battle in northern Jiangsu was the defeat of the official army? Did the Fu Han army withdraw from Jiangnan on its own initiative?

Hehe, why don't I know what the decisive battle between the north of Jiangsu is? Oh, you're talking about the Battle of Taizhou, where is the decisive battle, it's just an ordinary battle, and the officers and soldiers only have a small setback. Otherwise, where did the army of the general of Fengsheng come from now swept through northern Jiangsu and approached Yangzhou?

Even the government of Hubei also released big words in a timely manner, wanting to turn Chen Ming into Li Zicheng's second. Didn't the latter die in Hubei back then?

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The military dispatch power in Huguang was handed over to Ah Gui by Qianlong, and Ah Gui, who was already holding the heavy troops of the Henan battlefield, has now entered the peak of his life, from a separate commander of the Henan Military Region to a two-person leader in Henan and Huguang. Take command of an army of 200,000!

For the offensive of the Fu Han army in Hubei, Ah Gui's countermeasure was to assemble the men and horses that had been arranged in Kaifeng and Guide before and move south. This news was quickly sent to Chen Ming by the secret camp, and Chen Ming had previously asked Chen Yongsheng to capture the three passes of Yiyang, also to guard against this. But now Gui has arrived.

Ma Mingxun's Sichuan soldiers have already converged with the men and horses of Jingmen Prefecture, and their strength cannot be underestimated. However, the Sichuan soldiers fought in the guest province, and many Sichuan soldiers had been out of Sichuan for more than a year, and they were homesick and had low morale. Just like the Fu Han Army before the Battle of Northern Jiangsu, the continuous battles and foreign land in the guest province had a great impact on the Sichuan army, which was still in the nature of a traditional army ideologically.

Of course, there is also the impact of the setback in the Battle of Huangpi. Unlike the Battle of Hanyang, where the Fu Han army defeated the defenders of Hanyang, the Sichuan soldiers in the Battle of Huangpi were in a trance by the Fu Han army's various artillery bombs. This dealt an even greater blow to the morale of the Sichuan soldiers.

Shi Liang and Zhu Jue are still gathering the township brave militia in western Hubei, and they now have only three or four thousand Manchu and Han soldiers in their hands, and the main combat force on this road is the practice of Yong in western Hubei.

The 15,600 people from the Hunan Green Camp led by Fang Shijun have arrived in Changde, and Yueyang is across a Dongting Lake, and is it far from Wuchang to Yueyang? He was faithful to Aligon.

The secret battalion under the Fu Han army was also trying its best to spread the 'facts' in order to suppress the 'rumors' spread at the sticky pole, but in the Battle of Huangpi was blocked, the Battle of Hanyang was blocked by the Fu Han Army for the second time, and before Chen Ming arrived in Hanyang, the Fu Han Army was at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion. That is, after Chen Ming arrived in Hanyang, the Fu Han army immediately attacked the city of Hanyang, and then went south across the river to surround Wuchang, so as to reverse some of the situation.

In general, the Fu Han army is still at a disadvantage in public opinion. Not for anything else, just because Jiangnan is too important, and Nanjing's political significance is too great. Even if many ordinary people listen to the Three Kingdoms Commentary and watch the Three Kingdoms opera, and know Luoyang and Chang'an, they don't compare Luoyang and Xi'an with Nanjing at all in their hearts. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Dragon Court in the world only pushed the north and south of the two capitals. Nanjing is still the capital of Zhu Baba, and the Ming Dynasty is the dynasty that overthrew the first foreign dynasty to unify China, Mengyuan, and won the country. For the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was also ruled by foreign races, the city of Nanjing had an extraordinary special significance. What the Fu Han Army is doing now is giving up Nanjing little by little.

Chen Ming himself is very firm that the army will return to the west to consolidate and expand the old base areas - the base areas are now out of money, and there is still enough food to eat, but it is difficult to imagine that last year's large amount of money and grain to attract migrant workers is unsustainable, and at most it is necessary to ensure that this year, there will be a shortage of cloth, salt, and other materials. Moreover, the army can change its equipment when it returns to the base area, and the steel output of the old nest of the Fu Han army can already be compared with the total steel output of the whole country in the heyday of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and this is still under the condition that the Fu Han army has some restraint, because the production technology of the Fu Han army must be strictly kept secret, which limits the development and expansion of output to a considerable extent. So much iron, after it is produced, in addition to reserves and used to make guns, cannons, knives, guns, and living utensils. In addition to the agricultural tools, which were used to be put on a hydraulic hammer and beaten, a cuirass and iron armor were piled up in the arsenal of the General's Palace. Chen Ming's army returned to Huguang to communicate with Henan, and the officers and men of the whole army had a cuirass and iron armor, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses could soar by two grades.

In Chen Ming's view, this is more affordable and more important than 'political influence'. But in terms of momentum, the westward expedition of the Fu Han army did destroy their own prestige.

When this strategy was first formulated, some people mentioned Nanjing's political influence, and at that time Chen Ming insisted on entering Huguang. Because after occupying northern Zhejiang and most of Jiangsu, his forces simply could not muster enough military strength to launch a large-scale offensive to the north or south. Haizhou in the north of the Yellow River still has 30,000 people in Fengsheng, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places in the south, there are still remnants of the Qing army in Jiangnan, and there are also local regiments to train arms, and there are quite a few of them, and Zhejiang's sailors can also launch an offensive on the front line of Hangzhou Bay - why did Chen Ming keep Songjiang and not push? It is because Songjiang Mansion is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and that section of the river is vast, which is more suitable for the Qing army's foreign naval divisions and warships. The foreign naval divisions accumulated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty over the past hundred years are not comparable to the naval divisions of the Fuhan Army, which has just started. Even if the Fu Han army captured Songjiang from the land, it had to fortify everywhere and pinn down a large number of troops. At that time, the Fu Han army controlled such a huge territory, and was pinned down by enemy forces from all sides, Chen Ming could not see the hope of sending troops to open up a straight line with the old nest in Henan. Sweeping southern Zhejiang to the south, and pushing north to Shandong, there was also a shortage of troops. Unless you can have a large number of violent soldiers, even if it is a cold weapon force, you can only use it to defend the city. But will the people in Jiangnan and northern Zhejiang join the Han army in droves? In addition to northern Jiangsu, the land south of the Yangtze River can also produce some soldiers who dare to fight, and most of the new troops of the Fu Han army are also from northern Jiangsu, and soldiers from southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, hehe......, not to mention the number of people, not to mention the quality.

After the base areas in Henan persisted in the blockade of the Qing army for more than a year, there were various shortages of silver, grain, cloth, salt, and even medicinal materials. In particular, salt is not produced in Nanyang and Ruzhou, and how can it be maintained only by smuggling to meet the needs of millions of people in the base area? The earliest salt was obtained by Chen Ming and the Fu Han army to loot all over the country, but at that time Chen Ming paid more attention to food, and then Chen Erbao also went out of Nanyang once, at that time he had salt in his eyes, and the army did grab a batch of salt back, and it was the second time before, Chen Erbao paid more attention to salt. But Chen Erbao attacked twice, in addition to the area north of the Han River in Xiangyang Prefecture, it is Yunyang Mansion, these territories have been affected by war in the past year, and people have fled their hometowns in large numbers, how much salt can be scraped out? Salt has always been a shortcoming of the base areas. There are also medicinal materials, and the medicinal materials in the base area can only rely on the smuggling of Yuzhou and their own production, but the blockade of the Qing army is getting stricter and stricter, and the smuggling is becoming more and more difficult, and the amount is getting smaller and smaller. Therefore, Chen Ming is determined to return to Hubei, he must return to Hubei, communicate with the old nest in southwest Henan, and consolidate and expand the old base area. won the decisive battle in northern Jiangsu before, and the momentum rose sharply for a while, and the idea of 'it is not impossible to stand in the south of the Yangtze River' that rose in his heart was thrown out of the clouds. It's just that his subordinates still disagree with this, and even put forward a ridiculous proposal for Henan's army to abandon the base area and move to Jiangnan. This is simply not realistic. In addition to the soldiers, there are more military dependents in the Henan base area, how can hundreds of thousands of people be transferred thousands of miles? [There are few examples to describe, the article is not convincing enough, I don't feel in place, it's too raw]

At that time, Chen Ming used the authority of his governor to suppress all dissenting voices, so now there are more people who want to 'protect Nanjing'. They felt that it was okay to take Wuchang with their current strength.

Chen Ming was about to be moved by what they said.

He left more than 20,000 troops in Jiangnan, a large number of cannons, ammunition, gunpowder, and a part of the Gun Bureau was left in Nanjing, and Yangzhou did not say, only outside the city of Nanjing and Zhenjiang, there were a large number of ditches, earthen walls and pillboxes, the latter did not use soil and cement, but used glutinous rice and lime, when Chen Ming built the fortifications, Chen Ming did not hesitate to cost. At that time, he also had a lot of food on hand. In addition, I didn't expect that the development in Jiangnan could be so smooth, and after occupying Nanjing and Zhenjiang, the initial strategy formulation was also forced to prepare for a defensive battle in Nanjing, so the cost was not spared when building the bunker outside the city. Boatloads of glutinous rice with white flowers were boiled into pulp. This has brought great convenience to Huang Jie's garrison now, if you are determined to defend Nanjing City, 120,000 people in Jiangnan plus 1200 cannons, and a strong position, how can you withstand a year and a half, right? By next year, the Fu Han army may return to Jiangnan......

Purely for political influence, not for the will of the people, or more precisely, for the morale!

The Fu Han army killed all the way from Hubei to the south of the Yangtze River, and how many families were uprooted from their hometowns, and their wives were separated on the way to escape, they originally had a peaceful life and could maintain the food and clothing of the family, China in the middle of Qianlong, the land of wealth in the south of the Yangtze River, and the quality of life of the people was still guaranteed to a certain extent. As a result, as soon as the Fu Han army came over, everything was destroyed. It was the Fu Han Army that destroyed all this, and of course these ordinary people would not have a good impression of the Fu Han Army. Chen Ming knew this, and he didn't think that the resentment of these people could cause him much trouble. It is the gentry and squires who can cause trouble to the Han army, and the world of those who win the hearts of the people, and the people's hearts refer to the morale and the landlord class. But in addition to verbally expressing their expressions and advocating public opinion in the countryside, how many of these people dare to really stand up and do something with the Fu Han Army?

Chen Ming has long said that there is a congenital contradiction between the Fu Han army and the gentry and landlord class when they do this. He didn't want to build a traditional Chinese dynasty, and the touch of Confucianism and gentry power made the Fu Han army and the gentry and landlords inherently estranged. All the landlords, gentry, and squires were against the Han army - in their hearts, from their original intentions and interests. The contradiction between the two has never been a question of whether the landlords want to or not, but whether they dare to act after thinking about it. There are many landlords who dare to think in their hearts, and there are very few landlords who dare to give practical actions. Even if the departure of the Fu Han Army from Jiangnan will make many 'Shixin' who think that the Fu Han Army is a hidden dragon return to Da Qingguo's side again, Chen Ming feels that it doesn't matter. When fighting the world, we still rely on fists and strength, and the people's morale cannot be said to be useless, but ninety percent of it is empty.

Chen Ming didn't think about the things that could be determined. The gentry only have the share of taking the initiative to belong, and he is welcome to speculate, but there will never be a scene where Chen Ming gives up a lot of interests to win them over. Even if it makes it harder for him to fight the world!

Chen Ming said that he really wants to win the hearts of the people, and he wants to win the hearts of the people more than the morale, and it cannot be denied that this is the influence of the three views in his previous life. But the Fu Han army is a small seedling, and if they want to topple the big tree of the Manchu Dynasty, they don't go to seize the 'space' above with the big tree first, but first cut off the roots of the big tree.

Now, with the convergence of soldiers and horses from all walks of life of the Qing army, the people's 'public opinion' tends to be absolutely inferior to the Han army, including many places in Hubei, and those gentry, squires and landlords who manipulate public opinion are of course more willing to see the Qing army win. Chen Ming knew that as long as the army defeated Wuchang, many problems could be solved, so the pressure on him now was really not small.

When he was determined to return to the west, Chen Ming did not expect that the situation would develop to this point. The current battle of Wuchang has become another life-and-death decision point for other armies: there is no need to say anything if they win; After losing the battle, Chen Ming fled back to Jiujiang, Anqing, and even Jiangnan with his tail between his legs, and the momentum of the Qing army would really turn into a stormy wave sweeping down the middle reaches of the Yangtze River......

Bringing the team from a peak full of favorable situations, without any notice, into another battlefield of life and death, can only win but not worship, otherwise the good situation will be ruined, Chen Mingjun's strategic calculation is really insufficient, he thinks about all the circumstances too simply, and he despises the Qing army too much. (To be continued.) )