"You're going to be disappointed!"

Zhu Youzhen looked at the courtiers in front of him and couldn't help but scold.

Immediately after that, he convened a military council of the Generalissimo's Palace.

This is a military war, so naturally it is more important than the military meeting of the Generalissimo's Palace rather than the court meeting of the Qianqing Palace.

Moreover, at such a meeting, Zhu Youzhen no longer concealed military intelligence, and directly asked Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, to tell the Qing army's accurate departure time and the number of soldiers and horses and other information.

"800,000 troops, this Dolgon is really willing to spend his blood, the northern Han people are only afraid that more than half of them will be siphoned off, if these 800,000 people are annihilated, there will be no more soldiers inside and outside the Manchu Qing Pass in the future, and even if there is, it will be difficult to have the scale of going south."

Qin Liangyu, the privy envoy and chief of staff of the Generalissimo's Office, was a battle-hardened veteran in the end, and after knowing the information, he was not afraid at first, but behaved calmly, and even discovered the meaning of victory in this war while calming.

"As Qin Aiqing said, the most important thing for us this time is not how many cities to hold, how much territory to hold, but whether we can eat these 800,000, we have 600,000 elites, plus the number of guards and militia in various places is not less than a million, we have this appetite and strength, as long as we eat these 800,000, he Manchu will be a lion without claws, and the success of our Northern Expedition in the future will be an easy task!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Wang Yingxiong, the privy deputy envoy, and Ruan Dayue, the secretary of the military department, both nodded, they were not as clear about the military formation as Ma Shiying and Li Yan, and they could only prick up their ears to listen at this time, but Wang Yingxiong had just been transferred back from the southwest and had experienced some wars, so he still said some sincere advice:

"That being said, Weichen still has the courage to show His Majesty, the current war in the southwest is scorching, and the war between us and Jiannu cannot be delayed for a long time, although the money and grain are hoarded very much now, but if it drags on for a long time, it will also cause the Ming Dynasty to fall into the difficulties of turnover on both sides, once one side is out of control, it will fall into a situation where the whole situation is bad, and this is the case in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen."

"What Wang Aiqing said is very true, maybe this is also the reason why Dolgon still insists on going south to conquer my Ming Dynasty again, and he also wants to take advantage of the fire to rob, just like Zhang Xianzhong! However, there are some things that cannot be rushed, and this time the battle against the Manchu Qing must be flexible and mobile, with the main combination of movement warfare and annihilation warfare, and the defense of the city as the secondary."

Zhu Youzhen said and asked Qin Liangyu to explain his thoughts after discussing with her.

Qin Liangyu stood up: "According to Your Majesty's intentions, since Jiannu is going south in three ways, with Hong Chengchou and Le Kedehun as the main force to go to Henan, and Tan Tai and He Luohui as the partial divisions to go to Shandong and Huguang respectively, then we can implement the principle of concentrating on fighting all the way, and fighting its main force, and implementing the policy of watching two and fighting one;

The so-called two is to let the First Army and the Fourth Army resist the enemy in Huguang and Shandong, and increase the distance between the Manchu armies by actively abandoning and refusing to defend some cities, and then the Third Army and the Second Army will seek opportunities to surround Hong Chengchou's main force in Henan and annihilate it! ”

"Hong Chengchou took command of the expedition this time with his own combat methods and the real purpose of Jiannu's current purpose, it must be steady and steady, step by step, and strive to occupy more territory, rather than necessarily quickly destroying the Ming Dynasty, they no longer have so many Manchurian iron cavalry in the past, and it is impossible to quickly break through to Nanjing to destroy the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, so Hong Chengchou will definitely rule a city every time he occupies a city, restore the people's livelihood, appoint officials, etc., I am afraid that there will be a political and military grasp."

Qin Liangyu said his and Zhu Youzhen's analysis.

"Therefore, as long as we open the distance between the Qing army's various armies, and arrange the task of blocking and sending reinforcements, we will be able to find an opportunity to annihilate Hong Chengchou's department, Hong Chengchou has always been cautious, so we may be able to induce it to go deeper in the early stage, in addition, such a movement and annihilation war need the support of Jinyiwei's fast horses and local people, and then Wu Commander must arrange it, fortunately, now the gallop has been renovated, and the governors of the theaters have also strengthened some measures for reconnaissance and communication convenience, so that there will not be too big a mistake, as long as there is no mistake, We will win this war! After all, we are defending our homeland, and the Manchus in the north have always been invaders! ”

Zhu Youzhen said and began to order:

"In terms of the Generalissimo's Palace, in addition to Ruan Dayue's military rations and ordnance that went to Zhenjiang to control the choke water route to transport into Nanjing, the privy deputy envoy Wang Yingxiong stayed in the capital to temporarily lead the troops of the military department and the militia to transfer and train all matters, and the privy envoy Qin Liangyu was crowned as the general of the Zhenguo State, and led the four armies of the Guards Army to resist the Qing army going south."

The position of general was established during the war, and Xu Da, Feng Sheng, and Lan Yu in the early Ming Dynasty all served as generals.

And in the late Ming Dynasty's "Answer to Yuan Jiehuan (Yuan Keli) Dengfu", there was also a statement that "However, there are only more than 3,000 generals, and it is difficult to blame".

Generally speaking, the general will add the title in front of him, so Zhu Youzhen's appointment of Qin Liangyu as the general of the Zhenguo State is not his own move to learn from the Manchu Dynasty.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen let Qin Liangyu take command is because there are no qualified veterans in the country except Qin Liangyu, and only Qin Liangyu can convince Liu Fangliang, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong and other general officers of the Ming Dynasty who led heavy troops in the local area.

And after all, in wartime, the four armies of the Guards still had to have a commander in chief, and it was taboo to fight separately and without anyone coordinating all parties.

Although the actual commander has always been Zhu Youzhen.

But he is the emperor in the end, and he has no experience in coordinating 600,000 or even millions of troops, so at most he is strategically oriented.

When this kind of actual commander-in-chief involves logistics, transportation, charge, intelligence gathering and reconnaissance, etc., he is not as good as Qin Liangyu, who has experienced countless battles from the Wanli period to the Chongzhen Dynasty.

When he first selected the generals who were in command of the Western Expedition, Zhu Youzhen did not send Qin Liangyu, firstly, considering that Qin Liangyu was too old to withstand the miasma of the long-distance trek and the southwestern subtropical jungle, and secondly, to prepare for today.

Fortunately, Qin Liangyu's body is still healthy, and this time he was in command to resist the Qing army's southward movement, and many times it was just the chief officers of the four armies of the Guards Army fighting by themselves, and it was just that Qin Liangyu needed to give orders in unified scheduling.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen will always be in the military center with Qin Liangyu at any time in the name of inspection.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen will not be Chang Kaishen, and he will not interfere with Qin Liangyu's command.

He just wants to provide Qin Liangyu with power guarantee from time to time.

The Second Guards Army in Yingtianfu began to assemble, preparing to cross the Yangtze River north to cooperate with the Third Guards Army, while at the same time, the Ming Navy also began to assemble in Songjiang Prefecture to prepare for the mission of attacking the Manchu ruled areas along the coast.

Military orders from the Generalissimo's Office were also sent to all theaters one after another, ordering Zhou Yuji of the First Army of the Guards, Liu Fangliang of the Third Army, and Huang Degong of the Fourth Army to prepare for the enemy.

(End of chapter)