In addition to the generals of the First Group Army, such as Shi Dewei, Guo Sheng, Zhang Chao, and Yan Yingyuan, Shi Lang, commander of the Fujian Naval Division, Huang Degong, commander of the Fourth Group Army, and Ma Shiying, deputy commander of the Fourth Army, were also present. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

An operational staff officer took out a piece of intelligence and was analyzing: ".......... Don't look at the momentum of the Qing army, but in fact, they want to make a desperate bet! According to another report from the spies, the Qing army is short of grain and grass, and there has been a grain robbery incident, even if we don't move him, the local people can make them anxious. ”

Obviously, Stilwell and the others not only knew the Qing army's offensive plan, but also knew the predicament that the Qing army was facing today.

"The local people, those are also Han people, and they are also the people of my Ming Dynasty, we can't control the north, but in the south, we can't let the Tartars scourge anymore!" Guo Sheng's consciousness is getting higher and higher.

"That's right, we can't hope that the conscience of the Tartars will find out that this time our army will not only resist the attack of the Tartars, but also firmly contain it on the line of Chibi and Yueyang, so that it will not be able to free up its hands and attack the people in the rest of the places." Zhang Chao also proposed.

With the current strength of the Ming army, there is still no big problem in biting this part of Haoge's troops, as long as it can be dragged on the front line of Yueyang and Chibi, even if it is dragged, it can be dragged to death.

"What are you doing all those twists and turns? Anyway, I don't understand, so let's go down and have a drink first, and when you discuss it, tell me a word. Shi Xian's nephew, you are the biggest official here, how you say how to fight, I will bring in how to fight! Everyone was still digesting the information just now, and a rough voice suddenly came from the generals present.

There is no need to think about it, the person who spoke must be the commander of the Fourth Army, Jingnan Hou Huang Degong, who is a heavy drinker.

Don't look at Huang Degong, this person has a rough appearance, no culture, fortunately, he is greedy for wine, and he drinks a few buckets of wine every time he fights, which is a bit like a madman who goes crazy with wine.

But this person was born with a loyal heart and courage, and in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that he was one of the few high-ranking generals who took the national righteousness as his own responsibility.

At the age of 30, he was promoted to deputy chief officer and was in charge of the garrison of the Beijing Division.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), the thirty-two-year-old Huang Degong led the forbidden army to follow the governor Xiong Wencan, and went to Wuyang to suppress the peasant army.

Later, in August, he followed Xiong Wencan, suppressed the peasant army general Ma Guangyu in Wucun and Wangjiazhai in Zhejiang, and won a big victory again.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640), Huang Degong followed the eunuch Lu Jiude and defeated the peasant army at Banshi, forcing the leader of the peasant army, Ge Liyan, and other five battalions to surrender.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), he guarded the imperial tombs of Fengyang and Sizhou with Wang Xian as the chief soldier.

In the same year, Huang Degong garrisoned Dingyuan, Zhang Xianzhong captured Tongcheng, and held the battalion general Liao Yingdeng to the city to lure him to surrender.

Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo combined forces to defeat the Chuang army in Baojialing, Huang Degong was wounded in the face by an arrow during the battle, but he was more courageous, and fought with the thieves for more than ten days, and the part he led killed and injured the largest number of enemy troops.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Huang Degong moved to Luzhou, and the peasant army captured Lujiang and Fengyang counties.

Huang Degong was ordered by the emperor to guard in Dingyuan County, when Zhang Xianzhong's bandits were hiding between Yingshan County and Taihu County, Huang Degong used 5,000 cavalry to suppress them, and met them at Shipai.

With the previous encounter, Zhang Xianzhong was very afraid of Huang Degong, and when he heard that the person who came was Huang Degong, he didn't engage him at all, but turned around and fled.

Huang Degong led the troops to chase all the way, and the closest distance from Zhang Xianzhong himself was not even about a foot, Huang Degong wanted to capture the other party alive, so he did not release a cold arrow to shoot him, but by mistake, he was escaped by the other party.

In the end, Huang Degong only took over the more than 10,000 civilians looted by Zhang Xianzhong, and ordered them to return to their hometowns and return their weapons and baggage to the imperial court.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Huang Degong crusaded against Liu Chao, a rebel general, and was named Jingnanbo.

In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen (1645), Huang Degong, who was only thirty-nine years old, defeated the Zuo Mengeng rebels in Jiujiang, and led the army back to Nanjing in time.

Huang Degong's promotion speed all the way can be regarded as a miracle, and he does not have Li Hongfei's "immortal" identity as a cover, in addition to relying on a ruthless force, the rest may be loyalty to the Ming royal family.

Such a reckless man, and he will never betray the Ming royal family, Zhu Youzhen is even more relieved than Li Hongfei, how can he not let him have a smooth journey.

Even the problem of alcoholism was specially permitted, so that Huang Degong's personal guard battalion, every time before going to the battlefield, each person had to make a big bowl of wine, these soldiers who had drunk alcohol, the battle was indeed brave, but the casualties were often much greater than the rest of the troops.

In Li Hongfei's view, where is this war, it is clearly a drunken trouble.

Therefore, when Li Hongfei's First Group Army promulgated the prohibition of alcohol, it even used Huang Degong as a negative teaching material.

The negative textbook is the negative textbook, but Huang Degong's qualifications are there, even if Li Hongfei is present, he has to respectfully call Huang Taishi (Prince Taishi), he gags in the council hall, and no one can take him.

"Commander Huang, if you don't want to listen, you can leave at any time, but this is a conference room, please don't disturb everyone to discuss the military situation." Stilwell said to Huang Degong with a serious face.

At this time, Stilwell had to speak out to save face for him, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

"Na....... It's not that I'm leaving, it's the commander-in-chief who asked me to go out for a drink, Ma Shiying, you have a meeting here first, just tell me when you're done. As soon as Stilwell spoke, he took advantage of the situation to flash people, and did not forget to mutter: "Little brat, the official is not big, and the shelf is not small........

In the entire coalition army, only Stilwell can speak up against Huang Degong, and only Huang Degong will call Stilwell, who is about the same age as him, a "little kid".

Because Huang Degong and Shi Kefa are brothers, Shi Dewei must call him uncle according to his seniority.

The generals in the entire conference room were made to laugh by the phrase "little brat", and the originally serious combat meeting seemed to have changed all of a sudden..........

Without Huang Degong, the meeting would have to continue, and Shi Dewei didn't care about Huang Degong's departure, to put it bluntly, as long as the other party listened to the command during the war, as a junior, it didn't matter if he lost some face.

Moreover, in this battle, the naval division is the main force, even in the land battle, the First Army is the mainstay, and Huang Degong's Fourth Army will be used as a reserve to supplement the battlefields at any time.

This is also the fundamental reason why Huang Degong was so depressed that he wanted to drink, in order to avoid Huang Degong from going crazy on the spot and embarrassing himself, Stilwell had already greeted the other party in advance............

A general who mainly charges into battle, and now let him stay as a reserve, it is no wonder that Huang Degong is in a good mood.

However, Ma Shiying was quite satisfied with Stilwell's left-behind mission, although the Ming army had won successive battles during this time, but in Ma Shiying's view, it was the main force of the Qing army that had not yet arrived.

Now that Haoge has brought 300,000 troops at once, if he really wants the Fourth Army to be on the front line, then this battle will have to be fought, after all, not all the generals of the Ming Army are as belligerent as Huang Degong and Guo Sheng.

Without Huang Degong's troubles, the army's operational deployment was quickly completed, but as for the naval division, it encountered relatively serious differences.

The reason is very simple, the difference lies in an order sent by Li Hongfei.

"This Lord Li's army is indeed very set, but he may not understand water warfare! Now where is my Daming Water Division, it is in the west of the Qing Army's Water Division (the Qing Army is going to cross in Wuchang, and Chibi is just west of Wuchang), plus it is a cold winter, blowing the northwest wind, our army from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, down the wind and water, occupy the sky, will be able to take advantage of the Qing Army to cross the river, in one fell swoop to defeat their water division. If I had implemented this plan, I would have been 50% sure that I would have won a big victory, but now it's good that we let more than 1,000 warships make a feint, and then take that treasure .......... Baoshan Shipyard transferred 100 Fu ships to attack from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, isn't this a blind command? Not to mention how much combat effectiveness those 100 ships have, in the case of going against the tide and wind, the Qing army can send a few hundred small boats to completely intercept them, so how can we talk about attacking at that time? Shi Lang, with the professionalism of a fleet commander, judged the battle plan formulated by Li Hongfei this time.

It was not so much a judgment as a criticism, and Shi Lang directly denied this combat plan in front of everyone.

"Can you think of this, can't the Qing army sailors think of it? I dare to assert that when Dai Shan's army crossed the river, the Qing army's naval division definitely had no less than 1,500 warships to guard against our naval division stationed in Chibi. Stilwell said.

The Qing army sailors are not fools, they will definitely focus on guarding against the upstream combined fleet, and they really have to fight hard, and the combined fleet may not be able to beat the other party, after all, the number of warships is there.

"I said it, you are looking at the navy with the thinking of the army, the wind direction now belongs to the northwest wind, and the fortune ship is a large warship, and the speed itself is extremely slow, not to mention that it is still against the current and against the wind, the Qing army only needs to go down the river and release hundreds of sub-mother boats, chain boats, I am afraid that these hundred fortune ships have not rushed into the opponent's camp, and they will suffer heavy losses. Unless Lord Li can borrow the east wind like Zhuge Wuhou, accelerate the speed of the fleet, and shake off the entanglement of the Qing army's small boats, it is possible to really break through and disrupt the enemy's formation. In order to prove his point, Shi Lang even used the metaphor of "borrowing the east wind".

"Humph! Lord Li's ability, how can you know, let alone borrow the east wind, in all directions, no matter what wind, Lord Li can borrow it! Yan Yingyuan, who knew the inside story, couldn't help but retort.

The power of the steamship, Yan Yingyuan is well aware of it, even if it does not use any wind power in the water battle, its speed is not inferior to those small warships, but now out of the need for secrecy, he can't reveal this killer feature to Shi Lang.

"Pretending to be a ghost, even if Zhuge Wuhou is borrowing the east wind, then he has to go to Chibi to observe in person, Master Li is in Nanjing, don't only borrow a fortune in Nanjing at that time, then the joke will be big." Shi Lang scoffed.

Indeed, Zhuge Liang was not so much borrowing the east wind at the beginning, but through field investigations and observing the local weather conditions, he calculated when there would be an east wind, and Li Hongfei himself was not here, how to know the local weather.

Even because of the Battle of Chibi, when Shi Lang led the army to garrison Chibi, he specially asked the local old farmers who knew the weather, and at this time, there was no change in the direction of the wind.

Obviously, Shi Lang did not believe that Li Hongfei had this ability.

"Enough! This is not only Lord Li's plan, but also the arrangement of the national surname, and the national surname will personally lead this naval fleet, you just obey the order, if you have any questions, you can personally mention it to the national surname after the war! Stilwell once again exercised the authority of the commander-in-chief and directly decided the battle plan.

At this moment, Stilwell's heart was really depressed, in the past, when the Ming army went out to fight, he had the post of supervising the army, which seriously restricted the decision-making power of the chief general, and now although the supervision of the army has been canceled, Li Hongfei also suggested that Zhu Youzhen should organize senior generals and hold pre-war meetings every time the army wants to conduct a major war.

It is said that it is for the purpose of brainstorming, so that all army generals have the right to make suggestions, so that they can better come up with a combat plan.

But now it's good, not only are there various orders airborne above, but the generals below are also expressing their opinions, and every time they meet in battle, they have become like the courtiers of the court, slapping the table and smashing the stool, if it weren't for the fact that these generals understood that the consequences of private fighting in the army were very serious, it is estimated that a fight would have started by this time.

Although Stilwell could exercise the authority of the Supreme Commander at any time, if the generals did not agree, the problem was still serious.

If the battle is won, it is better to say that once the battle is defeated, then the commander who makes the final decision will bear the main responsibility.

If it weren't for Li Hongfei and Zheng Chenggong both giving orders this time, and Stilwell also knew the power of the steamship, he really wouldn't dare to take the responsibility of this thunder.

Shi Dewei was forced to give the order, and there was Zheng Chenggong's military order in it, Shi Lang naturally didn't dare to make any more trouble, at this moment he finally realized Huang Degong's mood, and engaged in it for a long time, not only in terms of land warfare, it was their First Group Army as the main force, but also the naval division was also the main attack of the Yangtze River Naval Division, and the other two coalition forces were not all waving flags and cheering for Li Hongfei's men............