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"The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March; The lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is endless, and only the Yangtze River skyline can be seen. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

On the Yellow Crane Tower, Chen Ming cooperated with the generals behind him, watching the boats on the river below, the red flag fluttered, and looked west from this building, stretching for I don't know how many miles long, and the Yangtze River was blocked. Wuhan on both sides of the Yangtze River also gathered I don't know how many people, the call of 'Wansheng' is endless, that is really endless pride soaring to the sky, strong and fierce. These are his soldiers, and they are all his capital to dominate the world. "Meng Haoran is in Yangzhou in March, and we are now in February."

"Meng Haoran" for a lot of landscape music, frequent boating", he prefers to take the waterway, March Yangzhou is the east tour of Wuyue, Yangzhou is the first stop on his itinerary. And let's go east this time, although Yangzhou can't be the first stop, it will definitely arrive. ”

"The army returned to the south of the Yangtze River, and the battle was to cut off the north-south communication of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and capture the southeast money warehouse. Ladies and gentlemen, don't let go of this great opportunity to be rewarded for meritorious service. With the cheers outside, Chen Ming smiled very easily. He began to undisguised his mobilization of men and horses years ago, and the Qing army also concentrated its forces in the south of the Yangtze River and withdrew all the troops fighting Fujian, so the two sides would have another showdown.

The Fu Han army does not have the capital to lose now, but after the soldiers are all wearing armor, Chen Ming has the certainty of a decisive victory in his heart.

Now he doesn't go to Jiangbei to collide with the Manchu horse team, he just fights Jiangnan. If the Qing army was willing to put the cavalry in the land of the water towns south of the Yangtze River, then Chen Ming would also laugh.

"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng......"

The gongs and drums sounded by the river, and the auspicious time for the army to go on the expedition was approaching. The masses of people on both sides of the strait once again burst into loud cheers. "Liu Dezhao is doing a good job~" Liu Dezhao is doing a good job. No matter how many nurseries he, the prefect of Wuchang, has inserted in these crowds and how much money he has sprinkled, the atmosphere is really brought out. Chen Ming watched the morale of the soldiers on the ship suddenly rise, and it was really in full swing.

"The morale of the soldiers is boiling, and our army will win this battle." Chen Erbao's voice sounded on the side, and this voice was more solemn and solemn than the compliment just now. Chen Erbao's face was full of serious expressions, and a pair of eyes looked at the fleet below shining.

"Only a small part of the Manchu soldiers and horses in Jiangnan came from Jiangbei, and the rest were mostly soldiers from southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the ancient rich paradise of fireworks, there were no strong soldiers, at least after Qi Nantang, I have never heard of any strong soldiers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”

And Chen Ming hit Jiangnan this time, it was a land and water advance, unlike the last time, he was lame. In the waters of the Yangtze River estuary east of Jiangyin, in the last battle, the naval division of the Fu Han Army did not have the capital to compete with the Qing army's foreign naval divisions at all, but relied on a large number of artillery to jam one after another in Jiangyin and Zhenjiang, preventing the possibility of the Qing army's warships entering Nanjing westward.

This time it was different, Yueyang, Wuchang, Jiujiang, Chen Ming dragged out all the sailor warships in his hands. He really tried his best to compete with the Qing Army's foreign naval division in Wusongkou. Otherwise, how could he break the north and south of the river!

Since the spring and summer of last year, up to now, the construction period of the three shipyards has been completed three rounds, that is, the big ship of the thunder boat, which has also completed two construction periods, 12 ships under Dongting Lake, 10 ships under Wuchang, 12 ships under Jiujiang, and bird boats.

The three shipyards were like dumplings and small warships, and the silver in Chen Ming's hand was stuffed into it as if it had touched a bottomless pit, but the Fu Han army swept along the Yangtze River and seized a large amount of storage materials from the Qing army, and the real cost was much less than that of empty-handed shipbuilding. However, in the past half a year, we have been building ships non-stop, and the ship materials reserved in the three places have gradually come to the end, especially Jiujiang.

At present, the platoon gangs on the Yangtze River and the Han River have reappeared. But those big pieces of wood that were transported to Wuchang by the Han Dynasty with great difficulty, Chen Ming couldn't use them to build ships immediately. Chen Mingzhen didn't know how to quickly dry the wood for shipbuilding, but he vaguely remembered that when the Europeans made sail warships, some of the wood was steamed by steam, which was softened and pinched, and after drying, it was fixed and would not be deformed. But the devil knows what kind of room is in this process, it is estimated that it is a steam room, how it is built, and how many matching standards there are. And when was this technology invented, and whether there were any other requirements, Chen Ming didn't know.

The Fu Han Army's current way of handling timber is still the same old-fashioned, and the persons in charge of the three shipyards also listened to Chen Ming's words, and organized a group of capable forces to carry out experiments constantly, but none of them succeeded. Therefore, the storage speed is slow, and everything is still a long way to go!

For the eastward advance that had already begun, Chen Ming assembled a total of two brigades, the Guards Brigade, the cavalry regiment, all the 1st Division, the 16th and 17th Brigades of the Fourth Division, all the 1st Garrison Division, the 13th Brigade of the 2nd Garrison Division, and six independent artillery battalions, with 50,000 soldiers on land alone. The total number of logistics troops and sailor battalions is overwhelming.

As early as a few years ago, when the remnants of the First Division and the two brigades of the Fourth Division arrived in Wuchang, the movements of the Fu Han Army attracted the attention of many people, and after the year, the cavalry regiment and the troops of the 1st and 2nd Garrison Divisions also went south to Wuchang one after another.

For the purpose of this army-

The newspapers avoided talking about it, and the people kept talking about it.

......The sound of cannons on the river interrupted Chen Ming's reverie, and the army set off, with a full fifty or sixty warships in advance. The six warships at the head were draped in red and hung with colors, and the soldiers of the Fu Han Army wearing red military uniforms stood on the board of the ship with their heads held high, and in the thunderous cheers on both sides of the strait, they sailed in front of the Yellow Crane Tower full of pride. Both sides of the Yangtze River are crowded with people, but I don't know how many Manchu spies there are.

"Now, among the bustling crowds on both sides of the river, there must be people who are cursing God for why he didn't strike thunder, and hit the Yellow Crane Tower, and he would be happy to kill all the people upstairs." Chen Ming said to Chen Erbao beside him.

Chen Erbao had just arrived in Wuchang for a few days, and he was about to leave again. He was the commander-in-chief of the former army.

"Haha, if this is really a thunderbolt on a sunny day and destroys the entire Yellow Crane Tower, God will have no eyes." Chen Erbao didn't have the seriousness just now, his tone was very relaxed, he was just like Chen Ming for this eastward march of the army, full of confidence. "If God could really use thunder to split people, he should have directly killed the wild boar skin with a thunderbolt." The tone was full of frivolity and contempt, as if Nurhachi was a living person, and he had some enmity with Nurhachi.

Chen Ming laughed when he heard this, God will not split people, but God can pass himself through, Chen Ming still has to maintain the necessary respect for it.

His eyes swept over the generals around him with smiles on their faces, and the brigade commanders and commanders standing on the side at this moment were all smiling, Chen Ming didn't think how fake these smiles were, but on the psychological side, he once again felt that people were really complicated animals.

Take Chen Erbao, who just called Nurhachi into a wild boar skin, if you want to tell him about national righteousness three years ago, it is better to throw a piece of silver to him. But what about now? The whole person shows the appearance of a three-point 'national fighter' every day. This is not because he realized the 'Huayi defense and national righteousness' in the uprising, but that Chen Erbao is rich and noble.

After this person wants to be rich, it is time to pursue the connotation. It's too red fruit, and you can enjoy it directly without caring about it before, but now it's too straightforward. Now Huayi's great defense and national righteousness are in Lushan, which has become a brand and a cover for many high-level officials of the Chen and Han regimes.

At the beginning of the uprising, they were forced to be cornered - not only the Manchu government forced them, but Chen Ming also forced them, and then when they became stronger, they pursued glory and wealth. Now that the momentum is even bigger, there is really a bit of a taste of the world, and they have raised the high-sounding signs one by one very formally. In order to show that he is holding his head to rebel, what he pursues is not to covet glory and wealth, and to be a prince for hundreds of generations, but for the sake of national righteousness and Huayi's great defense. Chen Hui mentioned several times in his letter to Chen Ming that the Seventh Prince, the Ninth Prince, and the old Uncle Huang, the eldest uncle, and the second uncle, are now reluctant to lose the words "drive out the Tartars and restore China".

The atmosphere on the Yellow Crane Tower was very relaxed, but the army was mobilized, and there were more than 2,000 transport ships, military ships, and warships in front and back, which was a big project. Huang Song, Gao Yanming, and Chen Jiqing, who have been following Chen Ming since last year, were so busy as Chen Ming's clerical staff officer that they didn't even have time to drink water a while ago, but now they are relaxed.

"Your Highness should let the former army stop at Hukou for a while, it will definitely scare Wu Shaoshi's heart and spleen." Gao Yanming's eyes looked at the fleet that drove out in waves amid the cheers of the cannons, and there was a sense of fulfillment in his heart. This time, Chen Ming handed over the charter planning to the General Staff Department, and he was also a member of the General Staff.

Gao Yanming, who is a few months younger than Chen Ming, can no longer see the immaturity of the year on his face. Everything urges people to grow old, and in a situation like the Fu Han Army, it is very simple to mature a person.

"The Qing army of Liangguang is happy, and Fujian Tiandi will be even happier." Huang Song also said. He's just as mature.

When the news of the large-scale assembly of the Fu Han army came out, the three places that worried him the most were Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Jiangnan. Huang Song was one of Chen Ming's confidential secretaries and had been exposed to a large number of letters and newspapers in the secret camp. Since the Fu Han army assembled in Wuchang on a large scale, Guangdong's troops in Fujian have suspended their offensive against Tiandihui, and dispatched 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers to gather in Shaozhou and Nanxiong one after another, obviously trying to rely on the mountains there to defend the northern border.

Such a tense atmosphere lasted until Chen Ming led the army from Hunan to Wuchang, and the Qing army in Guangdong breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Ming went north to Hubei, and there was no possibility that the Fu Han army would go south to attack Guangdong. And now, the 20,000 or 30,000 Cantonese soldiers gathered in Nanshao have become a major threat to Hunan.

Two days before Chen Ming in Wuchang, he sent a letter to Zhao Yongji in Hengyang and Zhou Zhilin in Chenzhou, asking them to guard against a possible attack by the Qing army. Chenzhou is also the southern gate of Hunan, with many mountains and few fields, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"Nanchang falls on the edge of Poyang Lake, which is a ripe peach for us, when you want to pick it, you can reach out and hook it."

The army of the Fu Han army gathered in Wuchang, and the second anxious thing was Jiangxi, from Huguang to Jiangxi, and then from Jiangxi to attack Jiangnan, which was Chen Youliang's strategy back then. And Jiangxi has Poyang Lake, the Qing army that has lost its water surface advantage is equivalent to carrying a big burden, and the army of the Fu Han Army will be able to attack Nanchang directly if they want to go down by boat.

It's just that Chen Ming's goal is always Jiangnan.

The Third Division led by Huang Jie still firmly held the three places in Nanjing. Now that the army has entered Jiangnan, such a large-scale attack and killing, can the Qing army in Jiangnan be able to stop the 50,000 armored Fu Han army?

The answer is pretty much self-evident. Chen Jiqing had no doubts about the final victory of this eastward advance.

"The Tartars only have tens of thousands of soldiers in Jiangnan?"

"In this battle, it's no problem for us to sweep Jiangnan twice. If you take it again this time, you won't need to leave. "I don't know when, the entire Fuhan Army has formed the concept of 'my combat effectiveness is strong'. The total strength of the Qing army in southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the total strength of the soldiers and braves were only a little over 100,000. How could this person resist the 50,000 Fu Han army? In the eyes of many people in the Fu Han Army, the capture of Huguang and the Fu Han Army in the southeast also have the fate of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In the past year, Qianlong sent some green battalions from Zhili and Shanxi to the south of the Yangtze River, but the main increase in the strength of the Southern Qing army was the soldiers organized by the Jiangsu and Zhejiang government after the "liberation." After seeing no hope of conquering Nanjing, Qianlong set his sights on Fujian, and the Heaven and Earth Society was beaten to the ground in the second half of last year. A few years ago, the Fu Han army gathered heavy troops on land and water in Wuhan, and it may point to the south of the Yangtze River at any time.

Chen Jiqing, like Huang Song, is also a secretary next to Chen Ming, and he is not contaminated with the military. It's just that because his brother is doing a secret camp outside, Chen Jiqing especially doesn't pay attention to that news. He is responsible for the information exchange in the logistics and baggage of the army. In Chen Jiqing's eyes, the logistics of the Fu Han army relied on the convenient waterway of the Yangtze River, but the Qing army's passage on the Yangtze River was only a small section of the estuary.

"Qianlong doesn't want to lose this money bag in Jiangnan, Zhejiang has now shrunk back the soldiers who invaded Fujian, and the Qing army in Shandong is also going south to northern Jiangsu. Obviously, Wang Lun is making trouble, not to mention that Shandong is in the north. "When troops are transferred in winter, the military salary must be scattered first.

Several of the top and first-class second generations of the Chen Han regime gathered around the stove, exchanging views with each other, ridiculing the Qing army and Qianlong, not knowing that at this moment, Chen Erbao in the Yellow Crane Tower had already taken the generals of the former army down, and in a small room, Chen Ming summoned the three major generals of the Naval Division of the Fu Han Army who were now in front of him.

"The newly built warships of the naval divisions in Yueyang and Wuchang bring together the original naval divisions of our army, and the number of warships has exceeded 100, plus the new naval divisions in Jiujiang, as well as the warships of our army cruising in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the total number will reach 176."

"Among them, there are sixteen bird ships and thirty-two thunder ships. There are 80 large sampans, 26 long dragon boats, and 22 fast crab boats. "The naval warships originally built by the Fu Han Army were also destroyed or damaged in more than a year.

In the room, in front of Chen Ming and the three generals of the water division is a very interesting sand table, a large sand table, which summarizes the middle and lower reaches of the entire Yangtze River. On this sand table, Yueyang, Changsha, Dongting Lake, Jingzhou, Wuchang, Hanyang, Jiujiang, Hukou, Poyang Lake, Nanchang, Anqing, Wuhu all the way to Nanjing, Yangzhou, Wusongkou, are clearly visible. There are also Banbi Mountain, Tianjia Town, Xiaochikou, Chengzi Town, Ma Yuan and other Yangtze River key points.

This sand table cannot be tightly matched with the field, this is just a sand table that Chen Ming asked the logistics to construct according to the existing map and take 'roughly not bad' as the standard. In order to let his subordinates have a concrete understanding of the battle situation.

Yang Shijin, the commander of the inland river division of the Fu Han Army, pointed at the position of Wuchang with a teaching whip, and the Yangtze River in front of Wuchang was full of red wooden boat models, and there was also a group of red small wooden boats in the area of the lake mouth not far away, and there was a small flag with the word 'Chen', which was Chen Dai, another heavy general of the sailor battalion. Then on the road from Anqing to Nanjing and Zhenjiang, there are also sporadically placed several models of red small wooden boats. On the surface of the Yangtze River below Zhenjiang, there is a small wooden boat of another color - black.

"Just by comparing the number of warships and artillery, our army is absolutely superior to the Qing army."

"But."

"Since its establishment, the battalion of our army's sailors has never experienced such a big water battle. There has not even been a bitter or vicious battle. "This is the biggest shortcoming of the naval division of the Fu Han Army.

Xu Youruo and Luo Daliang, who were sitting on the side, pursed their lips and said nothing, Yang Shijin's words were very harsh, but they were the truth. Since the establishment of the Sailor Battalion, whether it is the Taihu Lake Naval Division that fought the Qing Army on Taihu Lake, or the Two Lakes Naval Division that fought against the Lake and the Vast Lack of Artillery in Wuchang and Yanzhou Bay, they have all relied on Chiguoguo's strength and bullied the weak, and there is a huge difference in strength and weakness. Then now the situation is different.

The Qing army's naval division in Wusongkou was not as good as the Fu Han army in terms of the number of warships, and the artillery was not as sophisticated as the Fu Han army, but it was not without the strength of a fight, their officers and men were all veterans on the warships, and the officers who commanded the naval division were also people who fought hard in the waves, and when it came to organizational ability and command ability in battle, it was difficult to say that the naval division of the Fu Han army was stronger than the Qing army. In order to make up for this, Chen Ming also sent people to Fujian to meet Zhang Qiu, Zheng Lianfu, and Zheng Lianchang, and asked for a few veterans of foreign bandits who could speak official language from their ranks, but it is doubtful whether this can work and how useful it will be.

On both sides is the battle between the tiger and the hungry wolf, but the former is a tiger that grew up in a zoo.

Maybe the naval division of the Fu Han army is now stronger than the naval division of the Qing army in terms of courage!

"But the battle of the rivers relied on the strength of the ships and the artillery, and the bravery of the soldiers. In these two points, our inland water division battalion is definitely superior to the Qing army. Yang Shijin said that his eyes were shining, and he knew best what the morale of the team was. Chen Ming did not doubt the courage of the Sailor Battalion to fight.

Lu Yong of the Fu Han Army redeemed the military merit field, and of course the sailor battalion also redeemed the military merit field, but it was obvious that the number of fields above and below the sailor division was obviously not as good as that of the army.

The current military merit field is no longer a flower in the moon and mist in the well for the soldiers of the Fu Han Army, it is a real thing. Chen Ming did not want to admit that he had failed in ideological education, but it was obvious that the military merit field was far more powerful than the national righteousness that inspired the soldiers' combat courage. The current Fu Han army is like Chen Erbao at the beginning, they eat straightforwardly, and their eyes are on the benefits. The current Sailor Battalion is a clear example of this. Even this force itself has played a huge role in the expansion of the sailor battalion, and when Yang Shijin and them recruited sailors.

"Your Highness. The Qing army's sailors come from many sources, and in the fierce battle, can the Shandong sailors fight desperately to save the Guangdong sailors? Can Jiangsu sailors die with Zhejiang sailors? ”

"Our army's sailors do not have this defect. Although they are in three places, they will work together in the war, and they will not dare to abolish the public with their own interests. ”

According to Chen Ming's plan, it will not take a month for the former army to arrive in Nanjing, because the two important places of Jiujiang and Anqing are firmly controlled by the Fu Han army, and the Qing army can only pose a certain threat to the Yangtze River in Wuwei and Hezhou in southern Anhui and Jiangbei in Anhui. There will be a lot of battles.

In this way, after the front army arrived in Nanjing, Lu Yong rested for three or two days, and then swept towards southern Jiangsu with the Third Division. And the sailor went straight to Chongming and Wu Song!

In the eyes of Yang Shijin and other naval generals, this is their best opportunity to seek military exploits. (To be continued.) )