Chapter 491: Zhang Huangyan's Insight

Because Zhang Huangyan is Ren Siqi's brother-in-law, everyone has no opinion on his important position. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhang Huangyan is an unsuccessful person after all, and he is a new person from Lu Jianguo, everyone doesn't know what he is capable of, and many people are quite suspicious of him, for fear that he is a spy sent by Lu Jianguo. However, for the sake of Ren Siqi's face, it is inconvenient for everyone to say more, so they can only listen patiently to what profound insights this surnamed Zhang has.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in my humble opinion, the two armies are at war and the two countries are fighting, not only fighting for the soldiers' essence and food, but more about the word 'potential'!" Zhang Huang talked eloquently, but did not directly say the reason why he had to send troops.

Force? What does this have to do with sending troops or not? Everyone present fell into doubt, Li Yanzhi frowned in contemplation, Shen Tingyang pondered, and Ren Siqi straightened his waist with great interest, looking at Zhang Huangyan with blazing eyes. Everyone present didn't know Zhang Huangyan's talent, how could Ren Siqi not know? In another time and space, Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong joined forces to attack Nanjing, if Zheng Chenggong was willing to listen to Zhang Huangyan's persuasion, it would not be a problem to take Nanjing and occupy Jiangsu and Zhejiang, maybe history would change.

"Li Shun's thief soldiers went out of Shaanxi, all the way through Shanxi to attack Beijing, and where they passed, the officers and soldiers surrendered without a fight, why? It is not because of the repeated victories in the face of the official army, as strong as Sun Chuanting was defeated under his hands, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xi'an, countless famous cities and towns have fallen one after another, and the officers and soldiers in Shanxi and even the capital have long lost the courage to resist.

Why did the Qing soldiers go south so smoothly last year? Along the way, from Beijing to the south, attacking the city and plundering the land is like exploring the bag, until Yangzhou is blocked by the prince? It is not because they have defeated countless officers and soldiers and killed too many Ming ministers and captured too many fierce generals, the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners has penetrated into the hearts of most officers and soldiers.

The so-called momentum is the view rooted in the hearts of the people and soldiers, the general trend, attacking the city and plundering the land is like boiling soup and melting snow, and if the general trend is lost, it will be difficult to recover the situation even if it is killed and fought.

In Qingzhou, Yangzhou, and Nanjing, our Chongming Army has won countless victories and forged the prestige of Shuo Shuo, and in the hearts of the people, it has long been the only army that dares to fight hard against the Eight Banners without falling behind. Why did you uproot the gentry of Nanzhili without encountering much resistance, it is because no one dared to make a move under your prestige, and even if a few gentry dared to resist, not many people followed. So in the eyes of the people of the world, you already have a general trend!

But now, the Qing army is attacking the city and plundering the land everywhere, hundreds of people are waiting to be fed and urgently need our rescue, and the orthodox Longwu court has also sent you a holy decree for help, if we still do not move, in the eyes of many people, we are afraid of the Qing army, and dare not fight with the Qing army, so the general trend will gradually be lost, and then the people's hearts will be lost and can no longer be cleaned up! ”

"Naorou is a bit alarmist, isn't he?" Li Yanzhi said dissatisfiedly, his suggestion to stand still was said by Zhang Huangyan to be afraid of the enemy, which made him very unhappy, "My Chongming army is just to recuperate, refine the soldiers, at most half a year will send troops to attack the Qing, how can I be afraid of the enemy!" ”

"Privy envoy forgive me, Huang Yan did not say that my Chongming army was afraid of the enemy, but only analyzed the general situation." Zhang Huang said.

"Brother Yanzhi don't be impatient, Xuan didn't mean that." Ren Siqi waved his hand to appease Li Yanzhi and motioned for Zhang Huangyan to continue.

"From the perspective of Huang Yan, the Manchu Qing Dynasty seems to be fierce, but in fact there are many weaknesses. The Manchu Qing Army's troops in Jiangnan together with the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion were more than 100,000 people, but so many people were distributed in the huge area from Huguang to Jiangxi, and the troops were weak, so there was no need for our Chongming army to attack on all fronts, but only needed to choose a point to send troops, strike hard at the enemy, and win one or two victories, so that the Qing soldiers would no longer dare to be unscrupulous, and the crisis in Jiangnan could be solved immediately. ”

"Although the Qing army is scattered throughout Huguang and Jiangxi, the main force of the Eight Banners has always been entrenched in Jiujiang, do you know that they are not waiting for us to move?" Li Yanzhi frowned.

"This has to analyze the intentions of the Qing army, only by knowing what the Qing army has planned, can we make the corresponding strategy of sending troops!" Zhang Huangyan smiled, looking confident.

"The intentions of the Qing army? Of course, it was to first defeat Fujian, eliminate the Longwu court, and then attack Zhejiang from Fujian to the north, surround us from three sides! Li Yan was in charge of the Privy Council, and all the information related to the Qing army passed through his hands, so he naturally knew the intentions of the Qing army.

"What the privy envoy said is very true, but since we know the intentions of the Qing army, how can we allow their intentions to succeed? With the strength of the Qing army and the weakness of the Ming army, it will not be too difficult to capture Fujian within a few months, if we really let them surround us on three sides, even if we are trained to be elite soldiers, it will not be so easy to break through the encirclement, right? ”

"This ......" Li Yan glanced at Ren Siqi and kept silent, because some words were really difficult to say, could he say in public that the reason why he suggested that the troops should not be moved was to let the Qing army destroy the Longwu Imperial Court so as to eliminate dissidents?

Zhang Huangyan glanced at Li Yanzhi deeply, and saw through his thoughts, "The Qing army is powerful, and it is difficult for us to resist the Qing Dynasty independently with our own Chongming strength, only by uniting the Ming army from all over the country and helping each other can we involve the Manchu Qing forces and win time for the development of our Chongming." I believe everyone understands the truth of the cold lips and teeth, if you really close yourself off, let the Ming army in various places be broken by the Qing army one by one, and let the vast territory fall one by one, I am afraid that you will be able to fight against the Manchu Qing in a corner, at that time do you really think we can win steadily? ”

There was silence in the hall, and everyone fell silent. All in all, it was selfishness and reluctance to face the aggressive offensive of the Manchu Qing that he had the idea of using the hands of the Qing soldiers to eradicate dissidents.

In the main position, Ren Siqi was also a little embarrassed, he didn't plan to wait for the Qing troops to attack Fujian and destroy Longwu, and then send troops. But if the Qing army was really allowed to invade Fujian and surrender the Ming army belonging to the Longwu Dynasty, the power of the Qing army would be even stronger, and it would not be so easy to recover it at that time?

"Everyone," Ren Siqi was about to speak, when he suddenly saw a personal guard hurriedly walk into the hall.

Xiong Er walked out from behind Ren Siqi, took the note from the guard's hand, and put it in front of Ren Siqi.

Something is wrong! Everyone present had this idea in their hearts, otherwise the guards would never have broken into the hall during the deliberations.

Ren Siqi opened the note, watched it intently, and saw that it was written, "Azig went south from Jiujiang on the tenth day, and it is suspected that he is attacking Fujian with all his might."