The place where the dust is washed, Chen Wen chose the Tengwang Pavilion, which is one of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, and the other two are all in Huguang, so I don't consider it for the time being, but it is a rare and good place. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the Tengwang Pavilion, Jiangxi's famous dishes took turns on the table, and many Chen Wen had never eaten them, and this time it was Zhang Huangyan's light to make up for what he forgot in Jiangxi last year. During the banquet, there was no shortage of performances by the female musicians of the teaching workshop, but Chen Wen and others were mostly absent-minded, but they were not as impressive as those dishes.

After enjoying the scenery of the Ganjiang River on the Tengwang Pavilion, Chen Wen and his entourage returned to Xingyuan. During the banquet, Zhang Huangyan wanted to know those answers, but he always followed the etiquette of the guest and the host, since Chen Wen said that he would continue to talk about the topic just now after receiving the wind, Zhang Huangyan also pressed this curiosity.

Returning to Xingyuan, the accommodation and other things had already been arranged, drinking the tea soup of the wine, Chen Wen waved back left and right, and the three of them continued to talk about the topic of the afternoon.

"Fu Ren talked about the reason for the land march at noon, and after thinking about it again and again, it was indeed more in line with the situation at that time. So, what's going on next? ”

Before Zheng Chenggong arrived at the city of Nanjing, Zhang Huangyan had already set off to Fuxian in the upper reaches of Nanjing, and he only knew what was going on in the specific situation, and why it was so, with Zheng Chenggong's temperament, he probably wouldn't explain it to him, and now he could only answer his questions by turning to Chen Wen for help.

"Arriving at the city of Nanjing, did Damu prepare for the siege?"

"Yes, as far as I know, Da Mu originally planned to attack the city, but later Guan Xiaozhong sent a letter, saying that the Tartars have a law, and they can't afford to be guilty of holding the city for thirty days, so Da Mu didn't attack."

"That's right."

Zhang Huangyan's personal experience is no different from what Chen Wen saw in later history books, and the rest is easy to explain.

"This is also a rumor in the city, but the matter is very simple, the Tartars in the city claim to take care of their family in Beijing, so they hope that Damu will show mercy, and it is because of Damu's kindness that they can achieve a plan to delay the army. But why did Damu choose this way, I think there are two reasons for this. ”

"From a political point of view, Da Mu is for other Tartar officials and generals, just like he wrote in the text, whether it is the Han officials, the Green Camp generals, or even the Chen Hanjun in Liaodong, the Mongolian Eight Banners, or even the Manchurian Eight Banners, as long as they are willing to submit, they can be blamed for the past. This is to politically isolate the opponent and achieve the goal of focusing on the Tatar ruling clique. ”

"From a military point of view, Damu's army is congenitally insufficient, the combination of arms is unbalanced, and there are too few cavalry. This not only leads to the fact that the army's early warning range is too small, but many normal tactics cannot be used. What's more, on the battlefield, it is impossible for Da Mu to count on the Tartars to use cavalry to hit his Iron Man Army every time, so after the Battle of Zhenjiang, he can not fight without a fight, so as to prevent this fatal flaw from being exposed in the eyes of more people. ”

Zheng Chenggong was in Fujian, and he fought with the Qing army for many years, always fighting a tug-of-war in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong. But these places do not produce war horses, and his record is not bad, but after every successive battles, there will always be a fiasco of returning to the pre-liberation period overnight, and the capture cannot keep up, so the size of his cavalry unit can never get up, which directly leads to the imbalance of the troop matching.

Zheng Chenggong used infantry in the victory of Zhenjiang to almost annihilate tens of thousands of elite Qing troops, and it was more because of his talent in the tactical design and use of infantry, especially the Iron Man Army, that achieved this achievement. But next time, the Qing army knew that the Iron Man Army was not easy to fight, and the cavalry had strong mobility, so they went around to fight those weak fronts, could the scarce Iron Man Army still chase the cavalry butt and cut it?

"Political, military, ......"

Chen Wenyang said these things clearly, but the listener still needs more time to digest them, Wang Jiang does not mention that technocrats, financial management and administration are good hands, and it is good not to lag behind in the military. Even Zhang Huangyan's actual experience and scale of leading troops are very small, and he is more of a supervisor of the army, what Chen Wen said, he can be said to be thorough at all politically, but the military content must take time to understand.

"Furen, I remember that when you attacked Hangzhou last month, Xiao Qiyuan's gang also used a similar method, don't you care that those Tartars will fight to the death in the future?"

Wang Jiang's thinking was as far away as ever, but this time it was exactly the next issue that Chen Wen wanted to mention.

"It's the same old question, it's different. I'm not saying that the Zhenjiang victory was inferior to the victory of Qiaosi Town, and the effect on the Tartars was actually the same, but the problem was that the composition of the army was different between me and Damu. ”

"Composition?"

"Exactly." After saying a lot, Chen Wen took a sip of tea before he said: "My Jiangsu-Zhejiang Wang Division started in Dalan Mountain, and now there are 100,000 iron armor, basically recruited from the people's good families, although there are some generals, such as Ma Xin, Hu Laijin and Zhang Hongde, Kang Risheng and others who are about to enter the camp to serve in this army expansion, but the overall proportion of generals is very low, and the vast majority of generals and colonels are from soldiers in our army step by step. ”

This is the truth, the internal cohesion of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is extremely strong, and the army has a faint hostility towards the gentry and other Ming troops, all of which stem from the development process of this army. In comparison, Zheng Chenggong's Fujian Ming Army is completely different.

"Since Da Mu raised his army, he has accepted too many generals, even if many of these people had served in his father's generals, but there were too many generals, which led to Da Mu's subjective tendency to be more inclined to appease and adapt to achieve rapid expansion of the army, so that there was hesitation under the city of Nanjing. In the eyes of the soldiers, the head of the Tartar is a proof of military merit, and if we recover more prefectures and counties, there will be more land for military merit, and this kind of delaying the army will not succeed at the root. ”

"I see."

Zhang Huangyan and Wang Jiang listened to Chen Wen's narration infatuatedly, and these fresh theories seemed to open the door to a new world for them, not only to understand the reasons for Zheng's success and defeat in the Battle of Nanjing, but also to fascinate them with these new ideas.

In fact, the strategy of delaying the army only allowed some more reinforcements in Nanjing, but in terms of the quantity and quality of reinforcements, the threat to Damu was not very great. The key to this fiasco lies in the loss of military discipline of the Wang Division, which led to the army completely becoming a plate of scattered sand. ”

"It's true that there is a problem with military discipline."

In history, Zhang Huangyan wrote the "Northern Expedition Record" afterwards: "The stone division was frustrated, the soldiers were released and frolicked, Qiao Su came out in all directions, the camp was empty, the enemy spy knew it, and used light cavalry to attack and break through the front tun." The position was closed and the account was moved suddenly, the army was not ready, the enemy poured into the city, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit and were defeated. ”

"The severity of Damu's rule of the army is not inferior to that of the subordinates. This military discipline was completely collapsed in just over ten days, and the reason for this was that the family members entered the camp, which caused the soldiers to have no heart to fight. There is a sentence in Du Gongbu's "Farewell to the Newlyweds": Women are in the army, and their morale is not high. That's what happened. ”

The fiasco of the Battle of Nanjing was precisely because the family members entered the camp and caused the collapse of military discipline, so they were caught off guard by the previous defeated generals. Otherwise, even if Zheng Chenggong really squatted under the city of Nanjing for a month, the Qing army in Jiangnan would only have a dead end.

"This ......"

Zhang Huangyan was stunned when he heard this, but Wang Jiang was the first to react: "Furen, in the fifth year of Yongli, you led the army to attack Jinhua Mansion, and at that time, you would rather only take a small number of troops to risk than take the old battalion to fight, is it because of this?" ”

"Exactly."

Chen Wen's attainments in the art of war really shocked these two senior civil officials at the top of the court pyramid, but they didn't know that Chen Wen was actually just standing on the shoulders of giants, these giants include Qi Jiguang, some soldiers in later generations, and even Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo, heroes of his time, their successful experience, Chen Wen will learn as much as possible, and their failures are also Chen Wen tried his best to avoid in the army.

"As for the reason why Damu carries the soldiers' families, Cangshui should be able to think of something."

Zhang Huangyan nodded, and then said to Chen Wenhe, who already knew this, and Wang Jiang, who was ignorant: "At the end of the fourth year of Yongli, the Tartars went down to Guangzhou and Guilin, and the soldiers pointed straight at the line. Da Mu heard it, the army Qin Wang, but on the road, the left office where he was stationed was secretly attacked by the Fujian captive division, and his savings for decades from his father were wasted, and the officers and men in the army also strongly opposed the expedition of the army from then on. In recent years, Damu's headquarters soldiers and horses have basically been in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong and the Tartars have been tug-of-war, if you don't take your family to go out this time, I'm afraid that the army has not passed Wenzhou has already made a mutiny. ”

"Huh?"

In the fourth year of Yongli, the Ming army of Siming Mountain was annihilated, and Chen Wen won the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain under the crisis, and preserved a trace of fire for the anti-Qing movement of Siming Mountain. Wang Jiang didn't know that in that year, almost at the same time, the Ming army was also in a situation of collapse in Liangguang, and King Zheng Chenggongqin was attacked by the Qing army, and such a huge loss was unheard of.

"It's really fate."

Zhang Huangyan sighed, and then sat there dejectedly, silent.

Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty led to Zheng Chenggong's army structure and his tendency to be under the city of Nanjing, and the attack on Zhongzuo at the beginning of the fifth year of Yongli led to the carrying of the soldiers' families, and the imbalance in the army's troop ratio not only led to the rush to nothing, but also intensified Zheng Chenggong's tendency to appease, and the emergence of this tendency led to the occurrence of family members entering the camp.

These are not all certain, such as Zheng Chenggong's tendency, such as the fear of unstable military morale and let the soldiers reunite with their families, this is an impact on him rather than a direct decision, but this influence eventually triggered a chain reaction - the army slowly moved on the waterway after recovering Zhenjiang, and walked for ten days before arriving at the city of Nanjing, and then the siege plan was stranded by a paper surrender, Zheng Chenggong, who was waiting for the surrender of the Qing army under the city, was afraid that after the victory, he would not let the soldiers and their families gather together, which would lead to the unstable morale of the army, and as a result, the collapse of military discipline, This led to the night attack under the city and the fiasco of Guanyin Mountain.

"No, Cangshui, this is not fate, and it shouldn't be Damu's fate. The fiasco under the city of Nanjing can not hide the glory of the two great victories in Guazhou and Zhenjiang, a hero, there will always be a place to shine, I firmly believe that in the coming days will definitely make new contributions to China. ”

The defeat of the army under the city of Nanjing in history seems to be a great victory for the Qing army, but Zheng Chenggong's troops alone killed a large number of Manchurian generals, including the Manchurian first-class light car commander, Jiangning co-leader Hu Shenbulu, the cavalry commander Sobodo, the cloud cavalry captain Donei, Zuo Ling Ese, Basali, Saltai, etc., although the Qing army won, but the losses were equally heavy. Even Liang Huafeng, the first hero of the Qing army in this battle, still said with palpitations afterwards: "There are many strong enemies, and there is no one like the Zheng family's army." ”

After the Battle of Nanjing in history, Zheng Chenggong soon won a great victory in Xiamen, the new generation of backbone generals of the Eighth Banner Army, Dasu, the rebel generals Shi Lang, and Huang Wu were not the same enemy, the Qing army's coastal provinces and naval divisions were almost completely annihilated, and the Eight Banners Army was even more defeated, and there were very few people who could escape back to the shore, and the Manchurian generals who could find their names from the historical materials alone were as high as more than 60 people, of which there were as many as 25 people in the three banners.

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the heavy losses of the two white flags in this battle directly led to their complete overwhelm by the two yellow flags, and Ao Bai's dominance among the auxiliary ministers in the future, which is even more a later story.

Later generations evaluated Zheng Chenggong as a national hero and focused more on recovering Taiwan, but it was this hero who was deliberately ignored by some people who gave a heavy blow to the Eight Banners Army on the battlefield of resistance to the Qing Dynasty again and again. Even, Chen Wen, who has now replaced Zheng Chenggong as the leader of the Southeast Battlefield, only surpassed Zheng Chenggong in history in killing the Eight Banners Army after this victory in Qiaosizhen and the recovery of Hangzhou.

"I, I admire him very much, he has insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty for nearly 20 years, and he has done what ordinary people can't do at all, he is a hero!"

With the killing of Yue Le and Zheng Chenggong's defeat in Nanjing, Chen Wen officially replaced Zheng Chenggong in history and became the absolute leader of the anti-Qing movement in the southeast. The next task is still heavy, but Chen Wen is ready.

"Furen, Damu is already like this for the time being, Huguang over there, what is the situation now?"

Huguang's Fan Wencheng and Sun Kewang have involved too much energy from Chen Wen, and they can be paid attention to by the reincarnated Mr. Kong Mingfan and Nanming's only pit goods who can compete with He Tengjiao at the same time, Chen Wen has no sense of honor at all, but is eager to kill them completely, it is best to tie them up together and kill them, who let these two bastards come together to make trouble for him.

"The captive division in the northern part of Huguang has already retired, and it will be retired at the end of May, when I have just returned to Nanchang."

"End of May?"

According to common sense, this is impossible, because the battle of Nanjing has just ended at the end of May, and it is impossible for Huguang to get the news, and the historical commander of the Huguang reinforcement army, Gushan Ezhenming Andali, is an example. Could it be that something happened here?

"That's right, it's the end of May, Chen Tai died, so the Tartars had to retreat."

"Huh? Was he killed by that marshal? ”

Hearing this answer, Zhang Huangyan was stunned for a moment -- the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies against the Eighth Banner Army had now reached the point of chopping melons and vegetables, and they didn't even need Chen Wen to make a move, and this combat effectiveness was really incredible. It's just that at this moment, Chen Wen and Wang Jiang's faces suddenly became a little unnatural.

"That guy died of illness himself, it's so cheap for him."

The Battle of Changde in history took place in April and May of the ninth year of Yongli, but Chen Tai, the general of Jingkou in Ningnan, as the commander-in-chief, was not able to participate in the battle, because he happened to die of illness in May. But even so, with Hong Chengchou here, Liu Wenxiu still did not take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime advantage. Now even Chen Wen hasn't been able to pick up this bargain, and he doesn't know what to say.

"What about Qin Fan?"

"Qin Fan?" Hearing this word, Chen Wen smiled coldly, and then said: "It should be said that it is the Western Thief Sun Kewang, this guy probably knew that the Tartars withdrew and the Yongjia division of our department rushed to Jiangxi, and a few days ago he had already given up the confrontation outside the Lingling Pass, and invited me to Changsha to participate in his Hongmen banquet, so Lao Tzu didn't have time to deal with him." ”

Sun Kewang rushed to provoke Chen Wen when he went north to attack Hangzhou, making it clear that he was pinning him down, in case Chen Wen's strength climbed too fast and pressed him down. In fact, in addition to the emperor in his hands, Sun Kewang's strength has been suppressed by Chen Wen, which his staff should be self-aware, so when Fan Wencheng withdrew his troops and Chen Wen's mobile troops entered Jiangxi, he immediately ended the armed confrontation and put on a posture for peace talks.

"Then what's next, what is Furen going to do?"

"What else? Rioters, climbing the tech tree, and waiting for the Tartar of Zilharang to go south. Next time, if Sun Kewang dares to come, he must let him know what cruelty is. ”

Although he didn't quite understand the strange words in Chen Wen's mouth, Zhang Huangyan could still feel the confidence in it, and he was about to come out.