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Chen Wen took three steps and made two steps, dragged Zhang Huangyan's arms, and stopped him from saluting.

Seeing this, Zhang Huangyan had no choice but to bow his hand instead, and Chen Wen also returned the salute. However, when I got closer, I looked closely, and the national hero, one of the "Three Heroes of the West Lake", was very good in appearance, especially the eyes, which were unusually bright, and Chen Wen could even feel the firm will in them.

From the first year of Hongguang in Ningbo to resist the Qing Dynasty, to the third year of the Qing Dynasty Kangxi was killed in Hangzhou Bijiaofang, insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty for nearly 20 years, almost throughout the entire Southern Ming Dynasty. There is no doubt about his integrity, and more importantly, he can endure each other and serve the country under the banner of fighting against the national oppression of the Manchu Dynasty, which is what was most lacking in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

"It's a great country, but it's a pity that it's fishy!" This sigh full of grief and indignation probably won't appear.

When Chen Wen looked at Zhang Huangyan, Zhang Huangyan was also looking at Chen Wen. The age is similar to him, even younger than him, and more importantly, his temperament is sharp and gentle, combined with the senses and things that Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Tai have mentioned, as well as his relationship with Chen Wen's subordinates during this time, this person is by no means as unreasonable as Li Zhichun and those gentry during this time said.

"Cangshui, I haven't seen you for many years, and you are better than back then."

Compared with Chen Wen, Wang Jiang and Zhang Huangyan are old acquaintances, when Wu Shengzhao failed anyway, Zhang Huangyan set up a cottage in Pinggang to resist the Qing Dynasty, and Wang Yi and Wang Jiang had a close intersection with Wang Yi and Wang Jiang in Dalanshan at that time, and even participated in Wang Yi's battle to capture Shangyu County. Later, Lu Jianguo returned to Zhejiang from Fujian, set up in Zhoushan, Zhang Huangyan entered the guard, and the two never crossed paths again.

"Yes, uncle, it's been six years, I really didn't expect that the reunion would be in Nanchang."

The reunion of old friends inevitably has to recount each other's experiences, especially today when most of those common friends have disappeared from state affairs, it is even more embarrassing.

"In the past, thousands of elites were supported in a corner of Dalan Mountain, and now Nanchang can be restored to this, and the talent of the eldest uncle is enough to enter the temple."

Being able to see people's livelihood restored, even if this is not Zhang Huangyan's hometown, is enough to make him feel relieved and happy. However, Wang Jiang did not accept this credit with emotion.

"Cangshui doesn't know anything, in fact, Zhejiang and Southern Jiangxi are also the same, all of which are the credit of Furen's insistence on light and light labor and serious governance."

"Hey, uncle, you always say that. I went back to Zhejiang for more than half a year, and it was clear that you were in charge of everything in Jiangxi during this time, and now I am praised, but it is my credit, and I deserve it. ”

Chen Wen laughed, and Zhang Huangyan's gaze returned to Chen Wen's body: "Your Highness......"

"Look, you are a friend of the eldest uncle, and I am also a friend of the eldest uncle, so the two of us can also be regarded as friends. This is too outward, Your Highness is shouting, do I have to care about Cangshui, you call Zhang Shangshu? ”

"Don't dare, it's just that Your Royal Highness is already a famous lord of the court, and you are a vassal king, so you can't mess with your dignity."

"Cangshui, just listen to Furen, he has the most no rules. Moreover, this is only private, and we also use official titles in public. ”

"Exactly."

"Ugh." Zhang Huangyan sighed, he couldn't bear the two guys singing and harmonizing: "Then it's disrespectful." ”

"That's it."

The problem of salutation has been solved, and the relationship between each other has been invisibly narrowed.

Zhang Huangyan knew that Wang Jiang was rescued from Nanjing by Chen Wen only last year, and before that, the civil affairs of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang had always been jointly responsible for a civil official named Sun Yu and Chen Wen. However, at that time, the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was only the Ming army of Zhejiang, and now the occupied area is more than three times the territory of that time, or even nearly four times the territory of the time, and it is also divided into the three governors' jurisdictions of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Southern Jiangxi, which are respectively responsible for Gu Shouli, a close confidant of Sun Yu, Wang Jiang and Chen Wen.

"In the defeat of Chizhou, thank you Furen for helping, otherwise I am afraid that there is no reason to be spared."

In history, Zhang Huangyan did not die in the thousand-mile escape after the Battle of Nanjing, but he also experienced hardships, being pushed around by various gentry and rebels along the way, and finally the whole army was annihilated. However, this time, if Zhang Yingxiang is really caught, it is estimated that the tragedy of Bijiaofang will be repeated in Nanjing, which has not yet been recovered by the Ming army.

"Cangshui is polite."

In the Battle of Nanjing, Zheng Chenggong was still defeated, and Chen Wen also obtained specific information from the Nanjing Station of the Military Intelligence Department when he was in Nanchang, which was not much different from the Battle of Nanjing in history, and even the strength of the Qing army was far inferior, which only allowed Zheng Chenggong to escape more routs, and was not able to turn it around.

"Fu Ren already suspected that Damu might fail?"

Chen Wen shook his head, he had done his best, Nanjing was more than five hundred miles away from the northernmost point of the area he occupied, and there were the armies of Hangzhou Jiancheng and Yue Le in the middle, he could not help Zheng Chenggong avoid this fiasco with a dignified army, but in the end, even Liang Huafeng could not change the outcome if he failed to participate in the battle, which really made Chen Wen feel speechless.

"After the news of the victory in Zhenjiang came, there was no news of Nanjing's recovery for too long, and I was just in case."

"Oh Mu, hey."

The fiasco under the city of Nanjing was a dash of hope for both Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan. Historically, this was the last large-scale counteroffensive operation of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it was a pity that Zheng Chenggong's carelessness in the case of having already won the first victory point, which eventually led to failure.

For example, Zheng Chenggong opened five kills, super god, the opposite Qing army hung up and let Zhang Huangyan go to dismantle the tower, at this time, the opposite side of the single management allegiance came to the sentence "We still don't have much time to get to the point, not enough to open another game and nothing else to do, you slow down and let us play for a while, and everyone will open the black together in the future", Zheng Chenggong really believed it, let people develop online and in the wild area, and when they went out of the mountain again, Zheng Chenggong, who had hung up for a long time, found that he couldn't beat it.

This battle of Nanjing seems to be a good game for Zheng Chenggonglang to lose. In fact, it's not that simple at all.

"Damu's strategy is right, he can come from Fujian to the sea, and this courage and control of the army are rarely comparable to it today."

There are no less than 100,000 auxiliary troops in the cross-sea battle to attack a crucial strategic node, and he won in the first half, Zheng Chenggong's talent is enough to crush the vast majority of military generals in this era. Zhang Huangyan didn't expect that Chen Wen's evaluation of Zheng Chenggong would be so high, especially since he didn't know that Chen Wen was not so much evaluating Zheng Chenggong's battle, but rather evaluating Zheng Chenggong, who was more mature in history.

"Furen's words are reasonable, and Damu is a person, and he is indeed extraordinary. After the army entered the Yangtze River, it first broke through the defense of the Guazhou River, and then almost completely annihilated the mobile forces of the Yuting in the south of the Yangtze River in Zhenjiang, and there was no flaw in the first half, which was perfect. It's just that after recovering Zhenjiang, how to look at his actions is unpredictable. ”

Chen Wen remembered that Zhang Huangyan in history was also puzzled by Zheng Chenggong's actions after recovering Zhenjiang, and even these incomprehensions were understood by many people in later generations as Zhang Huangyan saw through Zheng Chenggong's selfishness but was unwilling to speak out and other groundless slander. Originally, he couldn't quite understand it, but according to the experience he had accumulated over the years of using soldiers to substitute Zheng Chenggong at that time, many things that seemed incomprehensible were not difficult to understand.

"The details of Damu's defeat, I received the news not long ago, and I also have some immature understanding, maybe I can take it out for details."

"But please be outspoken."

Chen Wen has been in the army for five years, and has grown step by step from a small army with hundreds of soldiers to a strong vassal with 100,000 armor under his command, and his record is only comparable to that of Li Dingguo in the southwest, and he is now the most warlike marshal on the side of Nanming. There are various theories on the art of war, but in terms of authority, Chen Wen is definitely much more reliable than other generals, especially those scholars who don't understand military affairs at all.

"After Damu recovered Zhenjiang, the first mistake that seemed to be that he did not travel by land and drove hundreds of miles to Nanjing, but is there such a thing?"

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Zhang Huangyan nodded, and then said: "It is true that there is such a thing, I have already gone to Nanjing at that time, and I am not in the army, but when I heard that the middle governor Gan Hui had strongly persuaded Damu to march by land, but he was blocked by the generals. ”

"Damu did the right thing about this."

"What?!"

Chen Wen's words were amazing, not only Zhang Huangyan, but even Wang Jiang was stunned. He has also read the report of the Military Intelligence Department, obviously if Zheng Chenggong attacks Nanjing, the Qing army will not be enough to guard the city wall of Nanjing for dozens of miles, but now it is right in Chen Wen's mouth, this is really incredible, is Chen Wen also crazy?

"As far as I know, after Damu recovered Zhenjiang, he did not rush into the army, but repaired in Zhenjiang for a few days. And Cangshui attacked Nanjing during this period, but it was unsuccessful, but this is the case? ”

"It is true."

There is a small episode between the great victory of Zhenjiang and Zheng Chenggong's siege of Nanjing, that is, Zhang Huangyan and Yang Rongzhen marched into the surrounding prefectures and counties of Nanjing together, but were defeated by the Qing army, and retreated to Pukou by boat, and the eight Ming troops disembarked and scared the Pukou defenders away.

This episode sounds like a joke, but one thing about it is that, unlike the clowns of the Pukou defenders, the Qing army near Nanking still had the courage to intercept the Ming army after the defeat, and even dared to attack and repel this advance force.

"Does Furen mean that the Tartars will still try to intercept or wait for an opportunity?"

"Exactly."

"No, it was me, not Oki, who was intercepted at the time."

Hearing this, Chen Wen smiled and said, "In the eyes of the Tartars, is there a difference between Cangshui and Damu?" ”

There is really no difference, they are all Ming troops, and they are all here to attack Nanjing and ask for their lives. The difference is only that one is sparsely armed, while the other is strong.

"But when Damu later marched into Nanjing, he was not intercepted by the Tartars."

"Of course, Da Mu is moving with all his troops, how dare the Tartars intercept it?"

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Zhang Huangyan fell into silence. Seeing this, Chen Wen continued: "Cangshui was in the Damu Army at the time, so he should know how many military supplies he brought this time, and at the same time, he also brought the families of the soldiers and soldiers, right?" ”

Zhang Huangyan nodded, although Chen Wen didn't know the details of this time, but he could see it more clearly through history: "Damu's army is dominated by infantry and firearms, but there are almost no cavalry. The baggage and family were on board. The whole army moved, and the Tartars did not dare to move lightly. Suppose that Damu divided a force sufficient to carry out the siege of Nanking, and marched forward in a hurry, carrying baggage and artillery in five or six days, he would indeed be able to reach the city. However, at that time, the Yangtze River was against the water and wind, and it was necessary for the slender man to pull the sea boat to advance, which would further widen the distance between the front army and the rear army. After the division of troops, once the main force of the rear team is intercepted, how can the front army deal with itself? ”

In this era, the army was generally based on infantry, supplemented by cavalry, artillery and other arms. However, Zheng Chenggong's army, infantry and artillery were very large in size and training, but the number of cavalry was too small, and the types of troops were too serious.

Especially in this battle, from the floating sea in southern Fujian, nearly half of the distance of China's coastline, the war horse is not a tank, and it is difficult to put into battle if the body is weak, so the battle of Zhenjiang Zheng Chenggong is completely based on foot and horse, and he won such a great victory. However, without a cavalry of sufficient size, the speed of reacting to changes in the surroundings during the march is bound to be greatly slowed, and if there is danger, the failure to react means a crushing defeat.

Zheng Chenggong's days under the city of Nanjing proved that the army lost order, and no matter how strong the army was, it would become undoubted that the common people would become stronger.

The distance between Zhenjiang and Nanjing is only 100 miles, and if Zheng Chenggong runs a marathon as Gan Hui said, he will encounter the Qing army.

But if, as Zhang Huangyan was puzzled afterwards, "although the infantry are all iron armor, it is difficult to rush, and the day is thirty miles, and five days should also reach the stone city", the front army is separated from the rear army that protects the baggage and family, and the Qing army can use the mobility advantage of the cavalry to harass the rear army and lead the front army to rescue, and wait until the front army runs half of the marathon and then gather the crowd to annihilate this tired army that has lost order, this kind of trick has been played by Sun Bin two thousand years ago!

Moreover, Zheng Chenggong at that time had to face "heavy rain, the rivers and ditches were full", and the roads were muddy, which was really unfavorable for the march. Even as Gan Hui said and Zhang Huangyan guessed, whether it can be achieved is a question. Moreover, the strength of the Nanjing city wall is rare in the world, can the army really be able to rush down in one drum?

In this case, instead of taking a risk, it is better to move the whole army to be safe. Even if it is a day or two slower, it is better than being caught by the Qing army and causing all the previous efforts to be in vain.

"Furen, I remember the time you defeated Shi Tingzhu in Jinhua back then, it seems that the infantry also traveled a hundred miles in one night."

Zhang Huangyan was still digesting Chen Wen's statement, Wang Jiang had no personal touch on it, and his feelings were not as profound as Zhang Huangyan's, and his thoughts quickly flew to similar things.

"Uncle, do you know that at that time I left all the artillery, baggage, and a lot of stragglers on the road, and all the cavalry was scattered, even the guards. And this is still in Jinhua Mansion, at that time I have been recovering there for a long time, the official road is rebuilt, there is a beacon tower at every distance along the way, it is very safe. There are similar examples, and the same is true when Qi Shaobao ran for hundreds of miles and defeated the Japanese in Huajie. Qi Shaobao and I were both inside maneuvers at that time, but Da Mu was marching in the hostile Tatar occupation area this time, which was different. ”

After a long time, Zhang Huangyan finally digested these, and then bowed to Chen Wen: "Listening to your words, it is better to read for ten years, and Cangshui has been taught." Speaking of this, Zhang Huangyan's words changed, and then he asked Chen Wen: "The defeat of Nanjing, when I was troubled for a long time, I dare to ask Furen for advice." ”

"About the plan to delay the army and the fact that Oki is carrying his family?"

"Exactly."

The Battle of Nanjing was extremely important for Zhang Huangyan, and even more so for the anti-Qing movement in the Southern Ming Dynasty. However, this time is different from the past, although Zheng Chenggong was defeated, Chen Wen is still there, and he is not particularly anxious.

"Don't worry, it's already this hour, let's wash the dust for the water first."