Due to the insistence of Yuan Jiasan, the commander-in-chief of the front, the Qing army's siege operation this time was quite resolute, starting in the morning and fighting for a whole day, until it was dark, and then it was temporarily stopped because it was not good at field warfare.

In just one day, the Qing army lost more than 4,000 people, that is to say, 4,000 people lost their combat effectiveness, of which 3,000 were lost during the attack on the West Gate, all of which were Yuan Jiasan's headquarters soldiers and horses, or Miao Peilin's soldiers and horses.

Of course, relatively speaking, the losses of the Huai'an defenders were not small, although the losses of the defenders of the West Gate were not large because of Feng Zicai's proper arrangement, but because it was the main attack direction of the Qing army, the casualties also exceeded 200 people, and the number of losses was the sum of the two gates in the north and south.

In other words, in a daytime defensive battle, the number of casualties of the Huai'an defenders exceeded 400, most of which were wounded by stray bullets and Qing artillery fire.

Fortunately, most of the casualties of the Jingwu Army were injured, very few died on the spot, and the total number of deaths did not exceed 30 people, as for the wounded, because there was a better medical system, or better anti-inflammatory drugs, hemostatic drugs and bandages, plus it was the defender of the city, it could be carried down in time for treatment, so basically a life was spared, so in fact, the real loss of the Jingwu Army was not large.

On the other hand, the Qing army, although it was also injured more and less dead, but because it was a besieger, the death rate was very high, and the medical system of the Qing army was very simple, the seriously injured were basically ignored, and the lightly injured were simply bandaged and put behind, so the total loss rate was very high.

The battle was so hot on the first day, which was not expected by the commanders of both sides, and in the Chinese battlefield of this era, siege warfare was rarely fought so fiercely on the first day. Because according to the convention, the first day is generally a tentative battle, which is to test the reality of the defenders, and at the same time adjust their own deployment accordingly, so the first day is often not deadly. Killing people like this as soon as they came up, and causing so many casualties, is a rare thing in the Qing army in recent years.

You must know that the Qing army is now corrupt as a whole, the Eight Banners have long been unusable, the Green Battalion soldiers are no better, and not even half of the 300,000 troops can really fight. In terms of the current overall situation of the Qing army, it is already quite rare to be able to fight like this.

Especially Miao Peilin of Yuan Jia's third department, his headquarters has no more than 30,000 soldiers and horses. On the first day, he lost 3,000 people, with more than one-tenth of the casualties, which can already be said to be painful, and it really hurts him very much.

If it is normal, Yuan Jiasan has already proved his loyalty in this way, so in the following days, he doesn't need to work so hard anymore. In fact, he couldn't continue to maintain this kind of attack intensity, after all, Miao Peilin's department suffered heavy casualties, so he still had to force it. Miao Peilin couldn't figure it out on the spot, and when other people saw this situation, they would definitely be afraid of it, and they couldn't continue at all.

So. Originally, Yuan Jiasan wanted to stop and continue to engage in siege tactics, but who knew that this tragic siege battle let Seng Lingqin know, which touched a certain nerve in him. This makes things change again.

After Monk Greenqin knew Yuan Jiasan's bravery, he was greatly excited and transferred 30,000 people to Yuan Jiasan again. He also came to Yuan Jiasan's line, while commending his bravery, while encouraging him to make persistent efforts, and also shot his own camp tent at you Yuan Jiasan, to personally command the siege.

The commander went to the front line in person, issued an order for a general attack, and encouraged the whole army with heavy rewards and punishments, and the other departments could not continue to grind foreign workers, especially those officers who were named, for the sake of their own official hats, they no longer cared about the life and death of their own soldiers, and began to prepare for the next day's general attack.

Just when the Qing army began to take the opportunity to adjust its deployment at night and re-boost morale, Wang Sanwu in Huai'an City was also discussing today's gains and losses with his deputy chief of staff.

What I particularly want to say here is that although the general staff is a permanent military post in the elite army, as long as it is a combat unit above the battalion level, it has a general staff, such as the battalion staff department, the regimental staff department, and so on.

But in fact, because most of the chief officers in the Jingwu Army were transformed from the Qing Dynasty, and their thinking was still the way of the ancients, most of them treated the staff department as a staff class, and regarded the chief of staff as a military advisor, that is to say, most of the chief of staff above the regimental level were the personal cronies of the regiment commander.

However, because when the reform of the military rank system was started later, Li Yongji carried out a series of internal reforms by the way, one of which was the reform of the General Staff.

In the past, the chief of staff of the General Staff was Zhang Wei, but since Zhang Wei led a division alone, he stepped down from the post of chief of the General Staff, and the General Staff began to become a unit directly under Li Yongji, serving only Li Yongji personally.

On the other hand, the general staff departments of the armed forces at all levels, such as the general staff at the division, regimental, and battalion levels, have also begun to be vertically under the leadership of the general staff, and like the chiefs of staff of the troops at all levels, the appointment power can only be the general staff.

That is, from now on, the chiefs of staff at all levels are actually similar to the airborne cadres of the central government, a bit like the ancient supervising army.

Although chiefs of staff at all levels have only the right to establish operations and obey the commanders of troops at all levels, such as battalion commanders and regiment commanders, they can completely obtain all the information of the troops at all levels and then report to the General Staff Headquarters in a timely manner, so that the General Staff Headquarters can keep abreast of the situation of the units under them in a timely manner. In this way, it will not only facilitate the unified coordination and command of the General Staff Headquarters over the various units under it, but also effectively avoid the situation of supporting the troops and respecting themselves.

However, in exchange, in the past, chiefs of staff appointed by commanders of troops at all levels could continue to remain in the general staff headquarters and become deputy chiefs of staff or ordinary staff officers, and their salaries would still be uniformly distributed by the financial department of the General Logistics Department of the Elite Army.

That is to say, at present, Situ He, the chief of staff of the Second Division, is actually an airborne cadre just sent by the General Staff, and he has been here for less than two months, and now the deputy chief of staff of the Second Division, Lin Yongsi, who is chatting with Wang Sanwu behind closed doors, does not look at the position is a little smaller than Situ He, but he is Wang Sanwu's real cronies, or the real private army division.

Speaking of which, Lin Yongsi is thirty-two years old this year and is a frequent acquaintance. is still a man, he was a personal aide found when Wang Sanwu was in Changshu.

This kind of situation of looking for private staff is very common within the Jingwu Army, not only Wang Sanwu does this, other senior officers who have the opportunity to lead the troops alone basically have the behavior of recruiting private staff, such as Zhang Wei has his own private staff, and even Zhou Da, Lin Chunsheng and others also have their own private staff team. Then, these people formed a small circle of cronies, and the small circle was combined. It became a faction.

For example, within the Jingwu Army, there are actually three factions within the sect, the first faction is the martial faction dominated by Wang Sanwu, the second faction is the Wei faction dominated by Zhang Wei, and the third faction is the newly rising academic faction dominated by Yu Hongrui.

Among them, Wang Sanwu and Zhang Wei's factions are both old factions, and they each have a group of their own protégés, as for Yu Hongrui, he is also the chief of the general staff and the principal of the Qingpu Military Academy. It is a new faction newly promoted by Li Yongji.

Of course, these are the three powerful factions that are more recognized internally, and there are some other sub-factions, such as Zhou Da, who has his own circle. Lin Chunsheng is not ambiguous, most of the artillery is almost brought out by him, so the factional problems within the Jingwu Army are also very complicated, but it's just. Because of Li Yongji's strength and the fact that the communication system is too advanced, these factional problems have not yet had any negative impact on the Jingwu army. At least there won't be any such thing as death or disobedience.

In short, although the chief of staff of the Second Division is Situ He, the real confidant of the division commander Wang Sanwu is indeed the deputy chief of staff Lin Yongsi, who is also Wang Sanwu's real military division.

Lin Yongsian don't look at himself as just a lifter, but his family has been an official for generations, his grandfather once did the supervision of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his father did the highest general judgment, but unfortunately to his father's generation, the family was in the middle, Lin Yongsigh that he once became a master in order to make a living, but soon became famous for his intelligence and intelligence, so he was invited by the famous Wang Sanwu to be a staff member. Because Wang Sanwu was born in the government, he instinctively distrusts those officials, but he trusts these people and the like, and he thinks that these people are the real hidden talents.

Even if Wang Sanwu hit the luck, Lin Yongsi really has a lot of ghost ideas, at least so far, almost all the strategies implemented by Wang Sanwu were planned by Lin Yongsi.

For example, this strategy of showing the enemy weakness, luring the enemy to attack, blossoming inside and outside, and annihilating the enemy in the city, and even the strategy of encouraging Wang Sanwu to intercept Caoyin before, and then forcing the Qing court to have a showdown with the Jingwu army, are also his ideas. It can also be seen from this that this Lin Yongsi, not to mention anything else, at least has a thorough understanding of all kinds of advanced weapons of the elite army, especially the radio communication system.

"Sir." Seeing Lin Yongsi, Wang Sanwu was no longer as old as the god outside, but rubbed his hands a little uneasily, "I have just taken the initiative to tell Yongji the truth of the matter according to your instructions, although he didn't say anything else, just said that he would do his best to bring troops to support me, but I always feel ...... Do you think he can forgive me? Will I be okay? ”

"Don't be in a hurry." Lin Yongsi smiled faintly, "The thing has been done, and it is useless to regret it now." As for whether the marshal will do anything to you, don't worry about this, you are the marshal's own uncle, and you have a reputation in the army, or an important force to balance Zhang Wei's faction, and you won't do anything to you.

In addition, although you didn't ask for instructions before, it was all for the good of you. Although we are a bit suspicious of adding a yellow robe to doing this, as long as you are willing to lower your posture and insist that you didn't think so much when you intercepted Caoyin at that time, you just want to share more military expenses for the elite army, and everything else will be fine.

According to my thoughts, since the marshal took the matter down to the outside world at the beginning, and said that your behavior was in accordance with his instructions, he just didn't want people to know about your private actions, so even if he wanted to punish you, it wouldn't be too heavy, probably a fine or something, but he would definitely continue to let you lead the troops, because without you, who would fight against Zhang Wei? ”

"Well, I hope so." Wang Sanwu sighed, "Since the matter has been done, I can't regret it, I really don't know if I listened to you right at the beginning." ”

"Hehe, don't worry, everything is in my hands." Lin Yongsian smiled faintly.

It turned out that from the previous interception of Caoyin, to the current strategy of showing weakness to the enemy, attracting the enemy to attack, and flowering inside and outside, it was all Lin Yongsi's serial plan.

When Li Yongji launched the summer offensive, Wang Sanwu's task was to capture Zhenjiang and Yangzhou. That was also the established goal of the Northern Route Army of the summer offensive, and as for the later north attack on Huai'an City, it was not in the plan of the summer offensive, because Huai'an City was too far away from the old nest of the Jingwu Army at that time, and it was not the goal of the Jingwu Army.

However, at that time, the Taiping army and the foreigners' troops were fighting Huai'an, and Wang Sanwu's attack was too smooth, and the Taiping army gave him a message before retreating, that is, Huai'an City had a large amount of silver and grain.

Seriously, Huai'an City has a lot of information about silver grain. At that time, Wang Sanwu was indeed very tempted, but it was not so dizzy, it was this Lin Yongsi who really made him make up his mind to fight Huai'an!

In fact, when he heard the news that a large amount of silver had not been shipped away in Huai'an City, Lin Yongsian began to have a ghost idea, and thought of a series of plans in his mind, he didn't mean that he liked the silver, he wanted to take the opportunity to make the Jingwu Army officially break with the Qing court. It is best to attract the elite army to build a country on its own.

Once they establish their own country, the benefits to these people will naturally be self-evident, but unfortunately, based on Li Yongji's past appearance, I can't see that he has the intention of breaking up as soon as possible. Therefore, Lin Yongsi persuaded Wang Sanwu to intercept Caoyin and further sever the relationship between the Qing court and the Jingwu army, if the emperor of the Qing court was in a hurry. It would be better to beat the Jingwu Army into a rebel as soon as possible, so that a new version of the yellow robe can be added.

Later directions. It was basically in his expectation, and even the fact that Monk Lingqin led troops to attack was also in his expectation.

In his opinion, the strength of the Jingwu Army is strong enough, not to mention anything else, only Wang Sanwu's second division of 20,000 people, if the two armies face each other, they can completely beat the 100,000 troops of the Qing army all over the ground.

However, due to technical reasons, the military system of the elite armed forces is different from that of other places, especially after the reform of the staff system, when the army conducts a campaign at and above the regimental level, it must apply to the general staff headquarters, and only after obtaining the consent of the general staff can it launch a war.

In other words, after the Jingwu Army expanded again, especially after the regiment was changed to a division, it seemed that Wang Sanwu's power became greater and he became the division commander, but in fact it was not as free as before, and the control of the army was actually firmly in the hands of the General Staff, or Li Yongji.

The last time he was able to defeat Huai'an, it was also thanks to the blessing of the overall battle of the summer offensive, so that he could make a decision on the spot during the local battle and add a few tactical targets, but if he wanted to continue to the north after defeating Huai'an, it was absolutely impossible, because the General Staff was not allowed.

At this time, if you still want to achieve your will, you need to force the Jingwu Army, and it is estimated that it will not be useful to directly ask for war, because everyone can see that Li Yongji does not want to break with the Qing court for the time being, so in turn, they can force the Qing court, and then let the Qing court force the Jingwu army as a whole!

What could touch the nerves of the Qing court? There is no doubt that it is to intercept the silver!

Sure enough, after Wang Sanwu intercepted Caoyin, the Qing court reacted immediately, but fortunately, Emperor Xianfeng was still a little rational at that time, and it was not too much, and Li Yongji also began to deal with it coldly, and things seemed to have a chance to ease.

However, at this time, Lin Yongxi quietly encouraged the radicals in the army to start cutting their braids, and this time, Emperor Xianfeng couldn't bear it anymore, and directly sent troops over to beat the Jingwu army into a rebellion.

In fact, at this time, the safe way should be to lead the troops south, give up Huai'an to Yangzhou, so that you can connect with the Jingwu army, no longer such a lonely army to go deep, anyway, as long as the silver and grain are transported back by water, the Qing army is mostly northern soldiers, not good at fighting in the south, and there is also the Taiping army in the south to help, and then the situation of the Three Kingdoms will become.

However, Lin Yongsigh doesn't see it that way, in his opinion, the Qing army seems to be strong now, but in fact it is the weakest, the 300,000 army is already the goods of the Qing court, once the 300,000 army is annihilated, then the Jingwu army can take advantage of the Northern Expedition, seize Beijing City in one fell swoop, and then rely on the power of victory, establish a country and ascend the throne, and then command the world, and then the world will be at your fingertips.

On the contrary, if we continue to wait and give the Qing court a chance to breathe, so that the Qing court can relax and reorganize the new army, the consequences will be unpredictable, after all, it is no secret that the Qing court is now colluding with the Russians.

In this way, Lin Yongsian formulated the trick of dividing the troops to guard, getting himself into a predicament, and showing the enemy weakness, that is, to let Wang Sanwu himself be the bait. Trapped in Huai'an City, and then wait for the Qing army to attack, then give up the outer city, stick to the inner city, and wait for the Jingwu army reinforcements to come, and the Qing army in Huai'an City to blossom inside and outside, and wipe out the Qing army in this Huai'an City!

It is precisely because he had this idea for a long time that Wang Sanwu had already made a series of arrangements during his garrison in Huai'an, such as organizing and training a large number of militia units in advance, such as demolishing the houses around the inner city in advance. For example, a large amount of gold, silver and grain were stored in the inner city in advance, and the defenses of the inner city were strengthened, and even a reconnaissance tower was built in the inner city!

Wang Sanwu once deduced that as long as the main force of their elite army entered the inner city, with their firepower, no matter how many people the Qing army came, it was useless, and if they wanted to break through the inner city, it would be impossible to have more than three months, and in this time. With the high efficiency and high mobility of the elite army, reinforcements have already come.

Once the reinforcements come, it will become a decisive battle situation, and the Qing army will definitely not be able to defeat the elite army in the field. In the end, it must be to retreat into Huai'an City, so that their internal and external flowering policies will also be ripe. At that time, there will be Wang Sanwu's inner city troops inside, and there will be an army of elite troops besieging the city outside. I'm afraid most of the soldiers and horses of the Qing army will have to be explained here.

After the main force of the Qing army was lost in Huai'an, the north was empty at that time, and Li Yongji had no excuse to shirk. can only lead the troops to the Northern Expedition, and when the time comes, it will be natural to defeat Beijing and establish the country as the emperor.

Of course, there are dangers in doing this, and the biggest danger is Wang Sanwu, the initiator, because his serial plan is tantamount to forcing Li Yongji to rebel, and even if the other party didn't see through these strategies at first, but as the plan progresses, Li Yongji will understand what this qiē is going on sooner or later, and when the time comes, there will definitely be a pimple in his heart.

Although Wang Sanwu didn't care, he felt that as long as he could help his nephew, he would be fine, and he didn't think that Li Yongji would do anything to him, but Lin Yongxi didn't think so.

Lin Yongsian has not had much contact with Li Yongji, but Wang Sanwu often praises his nephew in front of him, so Lin Yongsian also has some vague understanding of Li Yongji.

In his mind, Li Yongji could pull up such a powerful force as the Jingwu Army in such a short period of time, and he could quickly occupy such a large territory, and even while raising troops, there was no problem with the finances, which was definitely not an ordinary person.

These people who have risen in a short period of time and are in high positions must be very suspicious, otherwise they would not have engaged in any staff system, so he didn't expect to be able to keep his tricks at all, so the key is to use the current situation, coupled with Wang Sanwu's identity, to resolve Li Yongji's doubts about Wang Sanwu in advance.

You know, Lin Yongsi has now been labeled as Wang Sanwu, Wang Sanwu is good, he is good, if Wang Sanwu loses power, he will not have a good life, so he thinks about it, so he lets Wang Sanwu take advantage of the opportunity of being attacked by the Qing army and asking Li Yongji for help, and directly say the cause and effect, of course, it must not be said that it is his Lin Yongsi's idea, it must be said that Wang Sanwu means, and even Wang Sanwu is ready to punish and wholeheartedly plan for Li Yongji to say it.

According to the rhetoric that Lin Yongsi prepared for Wang Sanwu, that is, after the Qing army attacked the city, he immediately called Li Yongji for help, and while asking for help, he first explained the current situation to him, and then took the opportunity to ask for guilt, and told the previous plan, and even the strategy of internal and external flowering in the future.

After saying this, Wang Sanwu wanted to plead guilty again, and lowered his posture, saying that he could accept any punishment, but hoped that Li Yongji would be able to make an early Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, expel the Tartars, and restore China after this battle.

That is to say, the attitude must be correct, the admitting of mistakes must be sincere, and the purpose must be clear, and this unauthorized action must be raised to the level of the state and the nation, and if it is smaller, it must be raised to the level of completely thinking about Li Yongji, regardless of his own intentions, in short, he must serve Li Yongji wholeheartedly.

In this case, even if Li Yongji is angry, he will not take it too seriously, even if he wants to punish Wang Sanwu, it will not be too much, after all, it is still the time to employ people.

In other words, in fact, no matter whether Wang Sanwu admits his mistake in advance or not, Li Yongji will not punish him too much at this time, at least he will not cut off his military power, and the only effect of admitting his mistake in advance is to make Li Yongji feel comfortable or not, that is, to directly point to Li Yongji's heart, so that he will not give Wang Sanwu small shoes to wear in the future.

In a sense, admitting his mistake in advance, combined with the current situation, is another form of persecution, which is to force Li Yongji not to mention this matter again in the future, but this kind of persecution is weaker and more secretive and undetectable.

You must know that if Wang Sanwu admits his mistake in advance. Tell his plan in advance, put on a pretentious appearance at your disposal, and it shows that you are loyal.

Look at all the emperors who have monopolized power throughout the ages, they are not afraid that you will make mistakes, they are not afraid that you will make mistakes, they are afraid that you are not loyal, and they are afraid that you have something to hide in your heart! On the contrary, those who seem to be big and heartless, as long as they are loyal, even if they do something wrong, they can often be forgiven by the emperors.

Therefore. Lin Yongsia taught Wang Sanwu the method, no matter how complicated the process is, but the core is a loyal word, we must continue to express the meaning of Li Yongji wholeheartedly, and let Li Yongji really feel that in this way, even if he is doing bad things with good intentions, even if he actually persecuted Li Yongji, as long as he admits his mistakes in advance. Relying on the relationship of his relatives, there must be no problem.

It should be said that Lin Yongsi, as an ancient, has a very general understanding of modern culture. But the grasp of people's hearts is three points, not to mention, Wang Sanwu did this according to his method, Li Yongji really didn't say anything. It's just that he will do his best to lead troops to rescue.

It seems that he also knows that it is a little redundant to worry about Li Yongji's opinion now, so Wang Sanwu quickly mentioned another thing to Lin Yongsi: "By the way, Brother Zhongya (Lin Yongsi's word)." Today's daytime battle is over, and although the Qing army is attacking urgently, I think they have already exhausted all their strength, and there may not be another such offensive in the future. Even without our support, I am afraid that those militias alone will be able to hold the outer city. In that case, if the Qing army never fails to break through the outer city, can our strategy of flowering inside and outside still be used? ”

"Don't worry." Lin Yongxi shook his head, "Monk Greenqin is not so fragile, on the contrary, according to his previous style, he is the kind that gets more and more crazy, this kind of battle, it can't scare him, there will definitely be more fierce battles in the future." Well, judging from the current situation, although the West Gate is the worst, Feng Zicai does have some ability, and there will be no problem for the time being, and the North Gate is also okay for the time being, but the South Gate is a little dangerous.

You know, the South Gate had been attacked by the Taiping army and foreigners before, and it was their main direction of attack, and there was a lot of damage, and we didn't repair it much later, and now we can still hold it, which is also because the Qing generals in that direction did not exert their strength. However, the defenders of the south gate have no experience, and they will almost consume the materials today, and if they fight again tomorrow, even if they can hold it, I am afraid that time is running out. ”

"In other words, do you think the South Gate will miss?" Wang Sanwu asked.

"That's right." Lin Yong sighed, "If the Qing army maintains this offensive, at most three or five days, the south gate will be lost, and at that time, the other city gates are estimated to be in danger, and it will all depend on us." ”

"I'm not afraid of that." Wang Sanwu said, "My elite infantry regiment, cavalry regiment and 20,000 militia units that can fight are all in the inner city, the food and ammunition are sufficient, and the morale of the officers and soldiers is also high, not to mention the city defense, there is absolutely no problem in defending here." However, I'm afraid that the people of the outer city are going to suffer, so it would be nice to take them into the inner city in advance......"

"There's no way around it." Lin sighed, "If we want to succeed, we must always make some sacrifices, if we take them into the inner city in advance, so many people will also be a pressure on ourselves, and in that case, the meaning of giving up the outer city will be too obvious, and the tone will not be good for us in the future." On the contrary, at the present time, at least we still look like we are trying to defend the city, even if we put the main force into the inner city in advance, it will be a more effective use of our strength, as a reserve, to avoid being broken by the other side. ”

"This ......" Wang Sanwu thought for a while, nodded and said, "The truth is this, but we haven't supported the defenders of the outer city for a day today, and even if we haven't fired a single shot, it seems that it can't be justified, right?" ”

"The defenders of the outer city are fighting very well, why do you want us to open fire." Lin Yong sighed and said, "When the city gate is broken, let's open artillery to support, not only to kill and injure the Qing army, but also not to scare them away, otherwise they can't enter the city, how can they stay here?" Especially those cavalry, if they don't come, how can we keep them? ”

"Speaking of which, how are you so sure that their cavalry troops will enter the city?" Wang Sanwu said, "The cavalry should be outside the city, right, isn't it to give up their advantages when they enter the city, they will be happy?" ”

"Hehe, if it's our elite army, it's naturally forbidden, but the Qing army is not." Lin Yongsan waved his hand confidently, "The Qing army is a group of rabble, such as their main infantry, which is actually the green battalion soldiers from all over the country, and the cavalry is dominated by Mongolian cavalry and Eight Banner soldiers.

Once the city defenses are broken, it means a big robbery, such a good opportunity, do you think their cavalry troops will be lost? Will you watch the green battalion soldiers of the Han people make a fortune inside, but they Mongols and Manchus are watching outside?

Therefore, in the end, it must be the Mongols and the Manchurians who come first to plunder, they are the main force of the cavalry, as long as they come in, they will definitely not be happy to go out, and we will not let them out, when the time comes, we should cooperate with the outside, and we can eat this army! ”

"It's a matter of getting the timing right." Wang Sanwu said, "In this way, we can't let them enter the outer city too early, we have to grind for a while, so that our reinforcements have time to come over, otherwise their cavalry will enter the city too early, and it will be difficult to go out if they have grabbed enough." ”

"That's just as well." Lin Yong sighed and nodded, "Although I see that as long as the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry enter the city, as long as we stick to the inner city and do not come out, and do not take the initiative to attack them too much, ordinary people will not give up the world of flowers in the city and continue to suffer outside. However, I can't say anything about marching and fighting, so how to fight it depends on you, division commander, to make your own decisions. ”

"Got it." Wang Sanwu squinted his eyes, "Just now the marshal said on the phone that if he mobilizes with all his might, he will be able to lead the army to come in about fifteen days at the latest, then I will find a way to let the people in the outer city guard him for thirteen days, leaving two days for the Qing army to enter the city, presumably it should be enough!" (To be continued......)