Due to the defeat of Beixinzhou, the commander of the Guazhou water camp and the Manchurian Zhenghongqi have been demoted by the emperor by three levels, but only because there is no one among the Manchurian generals who knows more about water warfare than Duobi, he was ordered to listen to the army and make meritorious contributions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the attack on North Xinzhou was taken by the Taiping Army, the water camp in Guazhou did not have a day of peace. The sailors of the Taiping Army would come to attack the Guazhou Water Camp every once in a while, sometimes they could shell for half a day, sometimes they would withdraw after a few shots, and sometimes there would be water ghosts sneaking to set fire to the Guazhou Water Camp late at night, which made the Deguazhou Water Camp feel aggrieved.

Duobi didn't think about leading the water division out of the camp to fight with the Taiping army, but he couldn't get through the North Xinzhou Fort. Fortunately, the sailors of the Taiping army can only blockade the Guazhou water camp, and cannot force it in, and the Taiping army is advantageous on the whole, but as long as the Guazhou water camp is there, they cannot completely control the Yangtze River. This is like a nail, as long as this nail is not pulled out, the Taiping army will not be able to put an inch of foot on the north of the river.

When Duobi went to Daying the day before yesterday, he heard that the ministers had suggested to the emperor that they should cross the river from the area of Quarry Rock or Anqing upstream, so as to avoid the superior naval forces of the Taiping army downstream. The emperor was considering this policy, and it was not yet decided whether to accept this opinion. After all, whether it is upstream or downstream, the Qing army's naval division is weak, and the only way to cross the river is to find a place where the Taiping army's defense is extremely weak.

This strategy is to "avoid the real and make it false", but if you really want to follow this policy, the mobilization of the army will be a troublesome matter, not to mention how to avoid the eyes of the Taiping army in Jiangbei, how to raise enough ships upstream to cross the river is a big problem. The emperor issued an order on this matter to inquire about the meaning of Kuenbu, the governor of the Jiangnan River in Anqing, and Kuenbu replied that the Anqing water battalion had suffered heavy losses in the last Anqing defense battle, and could not bear the responsibility of crossing the river with a large army. He suggested that the emperor should still cross the river at the right time downstream, and never move lightly.

In addition to "avoiding the real and making the false", the new governor of Caoyun, Cai Shiying, offered the emperor a strategy of "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea". This strategy originated from the battle of the Sui army to destroy Chen that year, and it was the method used by He Ruobi, the general of the Sui Dynasty.

After He Ruobi led the Sui Dynasty army to be stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, in order to paralyze the Chen army stationed at Jingkou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, he sold the old horses in the army, bought a large number of Chen Dynasty ships, and after buying them, secretly hid these boats, and then bought fifty or sixty small broken boats and parked them on the bank of the river. After Chen Jun snooped and learned about it, he thought that the Sui army did not have a boat to cross the river. Secondly, He Ruobi ordered the soldiers stationed along the river to gather on the shore when they took over their shifts, raise their banners, and camp all over the field. At the beginning, once or twice, the Chen army on the other side of the river saw it, thinking that the Sui army was going to cross the river in a big way, and hurriedly mobilized troops to strengthen the guard. But after a few times, I found that this was just a handover of soldiers, so I got used to it and neglected my precautions. In addition, He Ruobi often led his soldiers to hunt along the river, and the people and horses were shouting, which was very lively. Gradually, no matter what big movements there were on the other side of the river, Chen Jun didn't care. As a result, when He Ruobi Zhen led the army across the river, Chen Jun did not react at all, and the Yangtze River was lost.

Cai Shiying's strategy of "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea" has been supported by many people, but Duobi is disdainful of this whimsical method, why? First of all, the Qing army could not buy a boat from across the river, and secondly, it was the Taiping army, not the Qing army, who came to harass and confuse them every day. Cai Shiying and others were in the rear, talking on paper, thinking that they could succeed by copying the successful examples of their predecessors, but they did not know the real situation on the front line. Duo Bi only agrees with this bullshit "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea" after his brain is pumped, what he is worried about now is which day the sailors of the Taiping Army will really attack, and whether his subordinates who are harassed by the Taiping Army every day will be able to react in time.

The emperor and the Manchurian generals said that he knew how to fight water warfare, because when he attacked Korea with Emperor Taizong, he had fought with the Ming army on the Dongjiang River at sea with a partial division. But in that water battle, Duobi was lost, but Emperor Taizong did not blame him for the crime, but said that after this battle, my Manchurian sons will eventually have someone who understands water warfare. After that, Duobi was known for understanding water warfare among the Manchurian generals, and after more than 20 years, everyone said that he Duobi was really a good hand on the water, and when the Guazhou water camp was formed, the emperor was also the first to think of him Duobi, but he didn't know that Duobi actually didn't understand water warfare. His only water battle was lost, and it was an ugly loss, only to be wiped out.

If there is a loss of wealth, there will be a lesson, and there will be a success next time. Duobi laughed at himself, since he lost that fight, he had not fought a water war for more than 20 years, and how could he have succeeded. The emperor made him the commander of the water camp, and he really drove the ducks to the shelves and tortured him alive.

The northerners are good at horses, and the southerners are good at boats, which is an iron law for thousands of years, and it will not change due to personnel.

Duobi is self-aware, knowing that he actually doesn't understand water warfare, so he trusts several Han naval generals under his command, and half a month ago, he even asked the emperor to transfer Shi Lang, who had defected from the Jinxia thief Zheng Sen.

Shi Lang was a famous general in the Jinxia Zheng Army, but after surrendering to the Qing court, he was not reused, and his life was very poor. When Duobi played him, this person relied on his wife as a female tailor in Beijing to supplement the family, otherwise he would not be able to sustain three meals a day.

Shunzhi approved Duobi's invitation, and quickly Ma Jing ordered Shi Lang to immediately go south to Guazhou Shuiying to listen to it, and awarded the post of general soldier in Yangzhou. However, Shi Lang won't be able to come for a while, so what Duobi can rely on now is the generals from Jiangnan in Shuiying. Among them, Yizhen's general soldier Jiang Daqing is a leader in water warfare. This person was originally a water bandit in the Gaoyou area, and after the Qing army went south, he took the initiative to take refuge, and successively served as the general manager of Qian, the capital division, and the deputy general, and was promoted to the chief officer when the Guazhou water battalion was formed.

Jiang Daqing did not live up to Duobi's trust and high hopes, and although he was powerless to change the disadvantage of the Guazhou water battalion after the Beixinzhou fort was seized, under his auspices, the water battalion's defense was very effective. The last time he went out of the camp and the Taiping Army's naval division in the battle east of North New State, he also won a lot.

Because yesterday evening, the sailors of the Taiping Army had attacked the camp, so just after breakfast, Jiang Daqing invited General Duobi to order, and brought a few boats out of the camp to inspect, if the Taiping Army sailors were not found, Jiang Daqing was ready to organize people to deploy the iron chain of the barrage, which is commonly known as the "rolling river dragon". Originally, the Qing army had a "rolling river dragon" on the river in front of the North Xinzhou Fort, but it was destroyed by the Taiping army. Jiang Daqing planned to re-distribute a few roads this time, although the effect was limited, but at least it could delay the Taiping army and give the water camp enough time to give warning.

Jiang Daqing led the people out of the camp very carefully, and several boats were divided into two teams, three in the east and two in the west, to remain vigilant. When I first left the port, I didn't see anything wrong on the river, it was empty, and the Taiping army on the side of North Xinzhou did not move. Jiang Daqing was a little relieved, the secret path thieves had been harassing for many days, and they must have been tired, and now there was no fog cover, so they had no reason to come again. No, I just asked the clipper to go back to report the news, and let the water camp start to lay out the "Rolling River Dragon", and there were war drums beating on the river to the west.

The sound of war drums of "dong dong dong" resounded on both sides of the river.

Jiang Daqing and his subordinates clearly saw that on the upper reaches of the river, hundreds of warships were sailing mightily. (To be continued.) )