"Go and ask the military advisor to come over, I have something to discuss with him. (”

Lu Yan said to one of the guards.

"Yes, my lord."

Attacking Nanzhili and Guangdong was a rather difficult task.

Although his strength has grown to more than 70,000 (not including the navy) after such a long period of fighting.

But he also occupied the territory of nearly two provinces, which had just been occupied, the people's hearts were unstable, and in some places there were bandits and rebels who had fallen grass, so it was necessary to garrison some soldiers to maintain order.

In this way, a large number of his troops were contained.

Fortunately, thanks to his policy of dividing the land, he won a lot of popular support.

A large number of poor people were willing to work for him, and these poor people took the initiative to denounce suspicious strangers on his behalf.

Some of the brocade guards were reported one after another, and then beheaded for public display.

Some people formed a village under Lu Yan's organization and took the initiative to maintain local order.

Even some of the Ming troops who fled home after defeat took the initiative to take refuge.

Therefore, their families were also allocated some fields, and those who served as soldiers could not be rich people, and they did not want to see these fields taken back after Lu Yan's defeat.

It was precisely because of those Ming troops and Xiangyong who took refuge that Lü Yan only needed to send about 20,000 soldiers plus some Xiangyong and surrendered troops to roughly maintain order in Fujian and Zhejiang.

Therefore, he could send about 50,000 soldiers to attack Guangdong and Nanzhili.

Lu Yan thought about it for a while and decided to send 20,000 soldiers and half of the fleet south to attack Guangdong.

And he personally led 30,000 soldiers and the rest of the fleet to the north, and Nanzhili was the richest area in the entire Ming Dynasty, and if he could occupy these areas, then his strength would definitely be able to grow explosively.

It didn't take long for Jia Xu to walk in.

After listening to Lu Yan's words, he first fell into deep thought, and then said to Lu Yan eloquently: "For Nanzhili, the Ming army has two things that must be saved. One is Fengyang, the other is Nanjing. In these two places, the Ming army will definitely garrison heavy troops for defense. ”

Hearing this, Lu Yan nodded.

For these two places no matter what, the Ming Dynasty will strictly guard against them, and if they lose any of them, the world will shake, and even the emperor will be condemned.

"I heard what the lord said, that Xiong Tingbi is also a famous general. It's a pity that his forces are too weak, and he must defend these two places, I'm afraid he doesn't have much room to play. ”

Jia Xu continued.

"Fengyang is the location of the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty, I heard that in order to prevent the destruction of the dragon vein feng shui, it is forbidden to build a city wall, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

Jia Xu asked.

"Yes, it is."

Lu Yan said with a smile.

To say that the ancient Chinese royal family attached great importance to dragon vein feng shui, even the Ming Dynasty was no exception.

"I think we can send a large army and openly declare that we are going to attack Fengyang. Under the fear of the Ming army, they will definitely keep increasing troops to Fengyang. Our army has always been good at field warfare, and if we can eliminate a large number of Ming troops in Fengyang, it will be of great benefit to the capture of Nanzhili in the future. ”

Jia Xu said.

Lu Yan nodded, the siege battle was really too many casualties, if the Ming army could be wiped out in Fengyang in large numbers, then the Ming army would not have too many troops to defend the various cities in Nanzhili in the future.

This was completely a move to change the passive to the active, and the attack on the enemy would be saved, so that the Ming army had to go out of the city to fight with him in the field.

"As long as we capture Fengyang, presumably that Xiong Tingbi will not be far from death."

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Jia Xu's face.

Lu Yan also laughed, as the supreme commander of all kinds of armies.

If Fengyang is lost, Xiong Tingbi will definitely have to bear great responsibility, even if he doesn't die, he will have to peel off the skin.

"I heard that Nanjing is the strongest city in the world?"

Jia Xu said.

"That's right, Nanjing was built by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang for 28 years, using countless manpower and material resources. The city wall is at least four zhang high, and the city is four zhang thick or even six zhang. Moreover, Nanjing is close to the Yangtze River in the north, and can get all kinds of reinforcements from the Yangtze River, so it is very difficult to capture Nanjing. ”

Lu Yan said.

Even if he had Hongyi artillery, it would be very difficult to capture Nanjing.

Because the city wall of Nanjing is too strong and too thick.

Just to collapse a 100-meter section of Nanjing's city wall, the amount of gunpowder and shells needed is absolutely astronomical.

"If the lord is ruthless, I have a solution."

"What's the solution?"

"We attacked the Ming Tomb, so that the Ming army in Nanjing City had to come to the rescue."

Jia Xu said with a smile.

The Ming Tomb is the burial place of Zhu Yuanzhang, located in Zhongshan outside Nanjing, which is now the Purple Mountain.

But Lu Yan shook his head, "This is not appropriate, our banner is King Qin and not rebellion, and it may be unrighteous to attack the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum." ”

Jia Xu nodded, righteousness is still very important, and he also mentioned it casually.

This thing can't be seen or touched, but the more powerful the person, the more important it is.

Even if the United States, as the world hegemon in the future, acts extremely hegemonic, it will have to find a plausible excuse for attacking other countries.

Otherwise, the spit stars alone will drown them, and the people of their country will not agree.

"If you want to attack a fortified city, you have to cut off its reinforcements. Nanjing's backdrop to the Yangtze River made it very difficult to cut off its reinforcements. ”

Jia Xu said with a frown.

Lu Yan also understands this, if it is backed by the sea, it is better to say, his fleet can easily defeat the sailors of the Ming Dynasty, but it is the Yangtze River.

Because the Ming Dynasty occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, as long as groups of arson ships were to go down the river, those Lu Yan's fleets would suffer heavy losses.

His fleet was most afraid of fire.

Even the enemy will use mines and drifting mines to ambush his fleet, which is simply impossible to prevent.

"We can occupy the whole of Nanzhili and then attack Nanjing, so that we can form a large encirclement of Nanjing. It can even attack all the way upstream along the Yangtze River to ensure that it cannot get reinforcements. ”

Lu Yan thought for a while and said.

Jia Xu nodded, "It's all about now." ”

The two discussed some details again before the meeting ended.

So the next day, there were soon rumors among the soldiers that Lu Yan would gather 100,000 troops to attack Fengyang and strive to fight against Fengyang.

After these news were discovered by those brocade guards, those brocade queens were all frightened, and hurriedly sent the news to the city, and then Pegasus reported to Nanjing and Jingshi.

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As the sun set, a group of black-armored cavalry was escorting two carriages and a few servants in the direction of Hangzhou City.

Li Sancai sat in a carriage, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and his eyes were worried.

He had just recently been promoted to the title of Shoshu of the Nanjing Household Department, which made him very happy.

Although Nanjing's Hubu Shangshu is a role for the elderly in the eyes of many people, many people know that this is just a springboard for him.

As long as he has this springboard, then he can quickly return to the center of the Ming Dynasty and then show his strength.

Regarding Li Sancai's return to the court, those party officials were very jealous.

Because they all know that Li San is a shrewd and capable person, and he is definitely one of the most capable figures in the Donglin Party.

With Li Sancai, then the power of the Donglin Party will inevitably skyrocket.

It's a pity that even if they are strictly guarded, he, Li Sancai, finally returned to the court.

Thinking of this, Li Sancai's face couldn't help but smile.

But soon he became sad again, because the task of the trip was not clear.

The bottom line of the imperial court is to crown Lu Yan as the chief soldier of a province, and even knighthood.

This kind of battle related to the fortunes of the country can not be fought without fighting, not only the emperor is afraid, but even those ministers are afraid, in case of defeat, the consequences are too serious.

And judging from Lu Yan's record, his chances of winning are still quite large.

However, it is absolutely impossible to divide Fujian, and the disaster of the Tang Dynasty's feudal towns is known to all the people.

For the warriors, all the civil servants are on guard.

Whether from the perspective of the ancestral system or from the point of view of containing Lu Yan, it is simply impossible to agree to Lu Yan to secede Fujian.

Moreover, Lu Yan's wolf ambition is well known to the world, if he is crowned king, how can he guarantee that he will not want to go further.

However, according to his estimates, Lu Yan will not agree to this condition, and this battle will definitely be fought.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Sancai sighed, I was afraid that the task of his trip would be difficult to complete.

In addition to this, he also has a mission, which is Donglin Academy.

Now the Donglin Academy in Wuxi has been occupied by the rebels, and when he thinks of this, Li Sancai feels that one head and two are big.

Donglin Academy is the place where the Donglin Party preaches and lectures, and it is precisely because of the Donglin Academy that the Donglin Party can accept their ideas and unite them around the Donglin Party.

It is also the Donglin Academy that the Donglin Party can become a desirable existence in Shilin, and those people are not amazed when they mention the Donglin Party.

Therefore, it can be said that Donglin Academy is the spiritual holy place of the Donglin Party and many scholars.

But this holy place is now occupied by a group of unreasonable Qiuba!

Since the war was now decided, in order to stabilize the situation, the rebels in Wuxi imposed military control on the local area, prohibiting people from gathering in groups to form associations, including lectures, of course.

Some of the students who thought they were masters were so dissatisfied that they gathered dozens of scholars to protest against the rebels.

As a result, he was rushed down by the cavalry of the rebels, and he was slaughtered.

Only then did the readers of the Donglin Party know how ferocious and terrible the rebels were, and how ridiculous their most powerful weapon, the benevolence and morality of the mouth, was in front of the rebels' butcher's knife.

No wonder the ancients had clouds, and when they met soldiers, they couldn't explain it clearly.

It's really a small word, and the ancients didn't deceive me.

The teachers and students of Donglin Academy were completely stunned by this tragedy, and some of them were so frightened that they even ran away overnight.

Some people were so angry that they mobilized public opinion to smear the rebels.

This is their forte, not to mention the rebels, even the emperor is often scolded by them.

Some people are also planning to mobilize the people to protest, can you kill dozens of scholars? Can you kill the people of this city?

Fortunately, however, there were also people among those who understood that such radical protests might lead to even bloodier purges, and they stopped them one after another.

But the campaign to discredit the rebels is still going on in secret, and the people certainly have a lot of respect for the Donglin Party.

Whatever the Donglin Party says, they believe.

Originally, everything went very smoothly, and under the instigation of the Donglin Party, the people of Wuxi thoroughly realized the true face of the rebels' brutal reaction.

Many people don't have any good feelings for the rebels, although they don't say it on the surface, but they keep scolding the rebels behind their backs.

But then...... Later, the rebels began to divide the land.

After this point, half of the people's hearts they focused on were scattered.

Many people went to the rebels to divide the land, and when it came to protesting against the brutality of the rebels, many people were squirming.

After all, the mouth of eating people is short, and the hands of people are soft.

It's a little embarrassing to take the land that people have divided, and it's a little embarrassing to say that people are cruel.

This made those masters feel heartbroken, and it was really the ignorance of the world, and they still needed to come out and uphold justice.

But what they hated extremely much was that after someone left the ground, they went to the rebels to tell the rebels about the Donglin Party's secret smear of the rebels.

As a result, the rebels acted overnight, not only arresting hundreds of teachers, students and students of the Donglin Party, but even Donglin Academy was completely closed.

However, they also felt that this matter was important, and decided to report to Lu Yan and ask what to do.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Sancai was so anxious that bubbles appeared on his mouth.

If the government dared to do this, Li San would have countless ways to make Da Ming humble to Donglin Academy.

The world's scholars will also respond in droves, attacking the imperial court to massacre the scholars and banning speech.

After a series of operations, their Donglin Academy will not only be unsealed, but even become famous, and maybe even go to the next level.

But now it is the rebels who are doing it, and in this chaotic world.

Now people are concerned about where the rebels have fought, whether the city of Nanjing can be defended, and some people even discuss whether the rebels can conquer the whole world.

What is the point of a mere academy being sealed in the face of these major events?

Even if the soldiers responded en masse, the rebels would not have taken a look.

People have even rebelled, and they are afraid that you will be scolded by a scholar.

really provoked people, I'm afraid it was a burst of butcher knives cut down, and then I don't know how many heads fell to the ground.

So what he wants to do most now is to see Lu Yan as soon as possible, and then ask those teachers and students for a favor.

"How far is it from Hangzhou City now?"

Li Sancai poked his head out of the carriage and asked a cavalryman.

"It's not far away, and it's half an hour away."

The cavalryman said.

Li Sancai nodded, and then returned to the carriage.

At this time, the carriage behind stopped, and then Wei Guangwei, the right attendant of the Nanjing Rite Department, walked quickly to his carriage.

"Master Li, I don't know if I can let my little nephew in and sit down."

Wei Guangwei said.

Li Sancai snorted coldly, this Wei Guangwei is also a famous minister, his father Wei Yunzhen used to be a waiter in the Wanli period, and one of the three giants of the Donglin Party, **Xing, is a friend of eight worships.

and he are also equals, but I didn't expect his son to join the eunuchs.

It's really sad and lamentable.

However, Li Sancai is also a scheming person, so he said: "Wei Xian's nephew, please come in." ”

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