After coming out of the cabinet, Ren Siqi did not go to the mansion in Qinhuai River given by Ma Shiying, but went directly out of the city gate and returned to the military camp located by the river. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Shen Tingyang entered Nanjing City to visit his old friends, and in the big tent, Li Yanzhi, Song Liben, Mao and others gathered together to listen to Ren Siqi talk about what he had seen and heard in the cabinet.

"This Ma Shoufu values you very much to your uncle, and he allocates money and grain and sends it to the mansion, or we just stay in Nanjing." Song Liben said with a grin.

For this kind of thing, Mao Shibai has always only listened to it and not said it, as long as it is something that Ren Siqi decides, he will carry it out without hesitation. Now he is just sincerely happy that Ren Siqi was made an earl.

"Director Song is right, from the perspective of the interests of our Daishan Army, staying in Nanjing is the most correct choice. Yangzhou has Shi Kefa, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops of warlords in various towns, which should be able to resist the attack of the Qing army. If they can't resist it, plus we will not help. It's better to stay in Nanjing, with the combat power of our navy, it is enough to block the Yangtze River and block the Qing troops in the north of the river! ”

Li Yan saw that Mao Shibai had not spoken, so he also expressed his opinion.

Can Shi Kefa resist the Qing soldiers? Ren Siqi smiled bitterly in his heart, in real history, Yangzhou only lasted a few days before it was broken by the Qing army. Hundreds of thousands of troops? How many are willing to resist the Qing soldiers? It wasn't that as soon as the Qing soldiers came, they surrendered on their knees.

If Yangzhou is allowed to be broken by the Qing army, with the surrendered Ming army, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has an army of 300,000 or 400,000 people, how can the tens of thousands of people in the Daishan army resist at that time? Relying on the Yangtze River moat to block the soldiers in the north of the Yangtze River is just a fool's dream.

The Qing soldiers crossed the Yangtze River with hundreds of thousands of surrendered troops, and they couldn't hold Nanjing with their own tens of thousands of people, because there were few people in Nanjing who were willing to fight with the Manchus from the emperor to the ministers and nobles, and then to the ordinary soldiers, because they wanted to save their lives more.

The general trend is like this, what can I do in vain?

There is such a group of accomplices in the city, no matter how strong Nanjing City is, no matter how strong the Daishan army is, it will not help at all. The best result is to fight your way out of the encirclement and return to Daishan. If you are not careful, you will end up in total annihilation.

If you want to turn the tide, the only way out is for the whole army to rush to Yangzhou to assist Shi Kefa in defending the city. As long as Yangzhou City is there, as long as Shi Kefa is there, those warlords in Jiangbei will not surrender easily. Historically, after the fall of Yangzhou and the death of Shi Kefa, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo were surrendered.

If he can assist Shi Kefa to hold Yangzhou, and then give the Qing soldiers a heavy blow, breaking the myth that the Manchurian army is invincible, it will definitely boost the morale of the Ming army in Jiangbei. There wouldn't have been so many people surrendering without a fight.

Without the surrender of the Ming army, the green battalion soldiers were not enough to conquer Jiangnan with the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty alone. In fact, the reason why the Qing Dynasty was able to occupy the whole country was not because of how strong the combat effectiveness of the Manchu soldiers was, but because there were too many Ming troops who surrendered. In the later battles to attack all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, it was not the Eight Banners that really made a big move, but the Green Battalion soldiers who surrendered.

So what Ren Siqi wants to do now is to strike hard at the Eight Banners, break the myth of the invincibility of the Manchurians, and boost the morale of the Ming army. At that time, even if Yangzhou still falls and the Daishan Army is annihilated, more and more Ming people will inevitably join the queue to resist the Qing Dynasty, instead of crying and shouting and kneeling to surrender.

But Ren Siqi couldn't say these words in his heart. Because at this time, if he said that the four towns in Jiangbei would surrender without a fight, Yangzhou would soon fall, who would believe it? Even the closest people around him won't believe their words.

"Brother Eighteen, what do you think?" After pondering for a long time, Ren Siqi looked at Mao Eighteen.

"Xiucai, I will do whatever you say," Seeing Ren Siqi ask himself, Mao Shibai grinned, in the entire Daishan Army, he is now the only person who calls Ren Siqi Xiucai, not that Mao Shibai relies on the old and sells the old, but that his personality is like this, so he feels that calling Xiucai is much more cordial than any general's uncle. And Ren Siqi didn't care at all, if Mao Shibai called him uncle, I'm afraid Ren Siqi himself would feel uncomfortable.

"What's so great about the Eight Banners, I Lao Mao has long wanted to meet them." On the last trip to Shandong, Mao 18 just took the fleet to the Wa Kingdom, and did not catch up with the battle with the Eight Banners, and afterwards listened to Jin Yufei and others, Mao 18 felt very regretful, and now he has the opportunity to compete with the Eight Banners, of course he does not want to miss it.

"It's comfortable to stay in Nanjing, but it's not a good thing for our Daishan army." After pondering for a while, Ren Siqi said.

"The combat strength of the army has always been fought, not just by training. Although our Daishan army has been training for more than half a year, it has not experienced a real battle. And with the number of soldiers we have now, it is simply not enough to fight against the Eight Banners alone.

And going to Yangzhou is different. With strong walls and hundreds of thousands of friendly troops, we are not alone.

If we can win a few battles and make more achievements, wouldn't it be better to improve the strength of our Daishan Army? ”

Seeing that Ren Siqi had made up his mind, Li Yanzhi sighed secretly and shut up.

In Li Yanzhi's heart, it's good to lose Yangzhou City. In that case, the Daishan army will be the only force that the imperial court can rely on, and its status will be completely different. Even if Nanjing can't be defended at that time, it can protect the emperor to retreat to Hangzhou and other places, and then coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and order the Ming army to Qin Wang in the world. If the Qing soldiers can be defeated, the power of the Daishan army will be in full swing, and it is not impossible for Ren Siqi to replace Hongguang and establish a new dynasty!

Li Yanzhi believed what he meant, Ren Siqi knew, but since Ren Siqi insisted on reinforcing Yangzhou with the whole army, it meant that he did not agree with his plan. Also, it is too dangerous to plan by yourself, it is based on the fact that the Daishan army can withstand the attack of the Qing army alone, can the Daishan army defeat the Qing army alone with the current scale? Li Yanzhi himself knew that it was impossible.

Since the Daishan army has unified their opinions, Ren Siqi ordered to send a detailed team to explore the form of Yangzhou, and prepare for the whole army to attack and reinforce Yangzhou.

Not long after Ren Siqi returned to the camp, one after another people came to the camp to visit, and the nobles in Nanjing City invited Ren Siqi and invited him to the banquet, and even the people of the Donglin Party came to the camp, taking Qian Qianyi's post, and inviting Su Lubo to Qian Mansion for a while.

But since he had made up his mind not to stay in Nanjing, Ren Siqi naturally didn't want to deal with these people anymore, so he politely refused under the pretext that he was busy with military affairs and physically and mentally exhausted. (To be continued.) )