After coming to Daming for a year, Li Hongfei is no longer the little salesman he was at the beginning, not to mention how high his military command ability is, but the basic common sense, with the experience of later generations, will not be much worse than the Ming Dynasty generals who have been defeated repeatedly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The waterway of the Yangtze River has now been cut off by Li Hongfei from the direction of Zhenjiang, and the Qing army has no warships in Yangzhou and the downstream naval division cannot come up, and it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of Qing troops to land from the east of Nanjing.

Therefore, there are only two paths for the Qing army to go south, the first is to take the fleet provided by the general Zuo Mengeng, go straight to Nanjing, and forcibly land from the north of Xuanwu Lake.

This is the fastest way, so after Guo Sheng entered Nanjing, he immediately stationed troops at Xuanwu Lake, in order to prevent the Qing army from a surprise attack and buy time for reinforcements from all walks of life.

The second offensive plan, if the Qing army is unwilling to force the crossing, will quietly cross the river from a relatively compromised place, the greatest possibility is to land from the Taiping Mansion, near Dangtu County (now Ma'anshan area), attack Yuhuatai, and take Jinling City directly.

It is true that the vicinity of Tu County is suitable for landing, but there are many areas upstream that are also suitable for landing, Li Hongfei has limited troops, and there is no sailor to help, it is impossible to prevent the entire Yangtze River waterway, let alone bet on this "possibility", so he can only send troops to defend Yuhuatai, which is a necessary place.

Li Hongfei guessed the two methods, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, the first advantage is that the suddenness is very strong, once the Qing army has a firm foothold in Xuanwu Lake, that is to advance and attack, retreat and defend, and be invincible.

The disadvantage is naturally the number of warships, with the number of warships now, the Qing army will not land more than 60,000 soldiers at a time, and they are all lightly armed infantry, the infantry has no artillery support, and the cavalry has no war horses to gallop.

The second method can avoid this embarrassing situation, and even when marching along the river, you can get all kinds of material supplements for the river fleet at any time, which is equivalent to meeting the Nanming army in its heyday.

However, although this plan does not need to rush to land, it also takes time, after all, the siege is not a light march, a large number of artillery needs to be used, and once the Qing army does this, it is equivalent to being sandwiched in Nanjing, and Huang Degong Ma Shiying and other reinforcements, once Nanjing cannot be taken in a short period of time, then it has to face the danger of being flanked before and after.

Li Hongfei dared to assert that after suffering the setback of the landing battle on Chongming Island, the Qing army was very likely to implement the second set of combat plans, and in addition, the Qing army had always been known for its ferocity, and with 350,000 troops in hand, how could it be afraid of being attacked from both sides?

Therefore, Yuhuatai, or Xuanwu Lake, will become the main battlefield of the defense of Nanjing.

Soon, Zhang Chao Steawell was ordered to go down to arrange the army, and Wang Guoxing took Li Hongfei to the mansion of Xu Shilin, a scholar of Wuyingdian University.

Xu Shilin followed King Fu to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so that the whole family was implicated, not only the property of the house was confiscated, but the immediate family members were all escorted to the prison and waited to be beheaded.

Zhu Youzhen only searched for more than 4 million taels of silver from the mansion of three cabinet ministers and one king of Fu, and if all this silver was used for military expenses, it would be more than enough to raise an army of 200,000.

Even Li Hongfei's all-firearms new army can form about 50,000, which shows that the greed of these officials has reached an outrageous level.

Because Xu Shilin's mansion was confiscated, and it was only five miles away from Yuhuatai, it was very suitable as Li Hongfei's temporary headquarters, so under Wang Guoxing's arrangement, Xu's mansion quickly replaced the plaque and became the Zhennan Hou Mansion.

Li Hongfei handed over the affairs of his new home to Chen Yuanyuan, and he accompanied Wang Guoxing to the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

Nanjing Ming Imperial Palace, by the Ming Dynasty Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, was built in the 26th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1366), the address is in the northeast suburbs outside the Yuanji Qing City, the initial name is "Wu Wang New Palace", and later also known as the "Imperial City".

Because Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet been proclaimed emperor at that time, the scale of the new palace building was limited, only the outer court and inner court buildings on the middle road, and the open space on the east and west sides did not build palace rooms.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as emperor, with Yingtianfu as Nanjing and Kaifeng as Beijing, and built the central capital in Fengyang the following year.

Due to the manpower and material resources, all of which were concentrated on the construction of the Zhongdu city and the palace, the expansion of the Nanjing Palace was terminated again, and only the necessary repairs were carried out to the existing palace in the following years.

In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), Zhu Yuanzhang gave up the plan to build the central capital and concentrated on building Nanjing, but due to the limited site selection, although it was built several times, there were not many palaces.

In the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), Zhu Di, the king of Yan, broke through the Beijing division, Emperor Jianwen fled, and Queen Ma died of self-immolation in the palace.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he still lived in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, but at the same time ordered Beiping as his camp and prepared to move the capital.

In the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), the Beijing palace was completed, and the following year Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, after which the Nanjing palace was no longer used, but it was still used as a palace to stay in the capital, and the imperial family and ministers were appointed to manage it.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Zhu Youzhen regained power in Nanjing, at this time in the Ming Imperial Palace, most of the palaces have collapsed, and the Nanjing Temple has long been burned.

Zhu Youzhen is also a thrifty person by nature, and he only carried out some simple restoration work on the palace, and then lived here, which can be described as extremely shabby.

However, such a "tofu scum" palace is too close to the outer city, how can it resist the artillery of the Qing court?

Li Hongfei walked all the way, and shook his head, Zhu Youzhen, this guy, has simply arrived at home, and such an important place as city defense can even be settled.

Fortunately, Li Hongfei did not study Shi Kefa and defended the city..........

"By the way, General Wang, you are the general of the protector of the country, the prime minister of Nanjing Defense, what do you think of this defense of Nanjing?" It was quite boring along the way, and Li Hongfei simply asked Wang Guoxing for his views on the current situation.

"Mr. Li said with a smile, I am the head of the brocade guard, it's okay to engage in intelligence, and if you really lead the troops to fight, you have to go out in person, and the four guards in Beijing will also obey Mr. 's dispatch." Wang Guoxing said with a smile.

He originally wanted to say that he was in charge of intelligence and assassination, but after thinking about his trip to Fujian, he forcibly crossed out the assassination.

"You're not kidding, I'm just a mere general soldier, and it's already the limit to be able to command my troops with full authority, how can I order your Praetorian Guard." Li Hongfei doesn't take this pit.

The mobilization of the forbidden army requires the authorization of the emperor, if he dares to command blindly, even if he wins the battle, he will be impeached by a group of ministers.

This is also the fundamental reason why Li Hongfei is unwilling to stay in Nanjing.

"I'm not joking, when Mr. has seen the saint, it will naturally be clear." Wang Guoxing pretended to be a mysterious.