Chapter 825: Countermeasure Three

"Therefore, His Royal Highness wants to succeed in one fell swoop, and the victory or defeat is not in Jiangnan, Liangguang, but in Beijing, specifically in Tianjin, as long as the army can land in Tianjin, the general trend has been decided." Qi Jingtong said.

Zhu Houhuang is not very unfamiliar with this opinion, because this is what he put forward.

Imitating the Opium War, the army directly forced Tianjin and landed from Tianjin to attack Beijing.

However, everything has changed since the time when Jeongdeok was dying, after a scuffle in Gyeonggi.

The Ming court is not a fool, even a fool can see the key points of Tianjin to Gyeonggi, so in the past few years, the northern border defense has not valued the nine borders the most, but Tianjin.

Da Ming's cannon casting ability is not too bad. Now that Tianjin has become a fortress, I don't know how many cannons have blocked the coast, and it is not too easy to imagine that it was so easy to land in Tianjin as last time.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Tianjin is the key business place of the puppet emperor, how dare you break it." ”

The word puppet emperor already explains Zhu Houhuang's attitude.

Zhu Houhuang clearly felt his military regression.

Also, Zhu Houhuang understands very well that for elites like Daming, he is just a talent. It's just because of the education in his previous life that Zhu Houhuang has a broader vision and has alternative values, and his values have brought him a lot of benefits, but after a long time, the background of his previous life is not enough. And Zhu Houhuang also reappeared in his position during this period of time, and he was the king of Yong, not the general of Yongguo.

So he also changed Dongyong from a war mode to a state of recuperation. As soon as he let go, he felt that there were many people who had surpassed him in military literacy.

For example, Qi Jingtong.

can only understand the strength of the Yongjun Naval Division, and it is easy to classify the landing ability of the Yongjun Naval Division into the war.

And what Qi Jingtong said was not Qi Jingtong's plan alone, but the plan of the Privy Council.

Zhu Houhuang put forward a plan for an imaginary enemy, and ordered the Privy Council to formulate a plan for any place, this thing was Qi Jingtong was responsible for at the beginning, Wu Ming had just taken over the Privy Council, and he had not yet familiarized himself with the plans in the archives one by one, Qi Jingtong said: "Your Highness, the minister had made a plan at the beginning, but how many Ming troops crossed the sea, and the sailors had the ability to cross the sea, however, in order to ensure the future plan, we decided to let the Ming army land, and after the Ming army landed, we would defeat the Ming army's sailors." It was for the total annihilation of the Ming army's landing force. The army that dared to cross the sea was definitely an elite division. Only the annihilation of the first battle broke the backbone of the southeastern army. The rest is nothing to worry about. ”

Qi Jingtong said with a hint of disdain in his tone.

Qi Jingtong understands too well what kind of virtue the Southeast Guard is. Qi Jingtong himself is an officer of the guard, and he knows very well what the strength of the Daming Guard is like, the combat effectiveness of the Daming Guard is already degenerate enough, and the Southeast Guard is the most degenerate among them, and even the county soldiers of Dongyong can beat almost all the Southeast Guards.

Moreover, Zhejiang is the focus of the embroidered guard, and the embroidered guard is even clearer than Yang Yiqing himself about the movements around Yang Yiqing.

In many cases, intelligence work is not useful because of geographical time constraints, but the distance between Zhejiang and Dongyong, if it is fast, is only a one-day sea journey, which is not too far. For Zhejiang, it can still be fed back in time. And Yang Yiqing doesn't seem to have a single tendon of counterintelligence in his head. Because there are very few such delicate intelligence warfare in this era.

Regarding the strength of Yang Yiqing's command, Qi Jingtong understands very well that only Yang Yiqing's recruits are about fifty or sixty thousand. This is a heavy army group with combat effectiveness, but in addition to this army, that is, the people recruited by the counties, as for the guards, they are not counted in the combat effectiveness at all.

This different calculation method makes both sides think that they have a chance to win. Yang Yiqing felt that he was tens of thousands against 10,000, how could he win, as for those county soldiers who were just some people, he didn't have to care much at all. In Qi Jingtong's eyes, Yang Yiqing's southeast male soldiers are simply paper-paste.

"After the annihilation of the heavy army group." Qi Jingtong said: "The soldiers are divided into two routes, all the way to attack Fujian. Shaofu has a lot of relations in Fujian, and there is no problem in going down to Fujian, and the other way to attack Zhejiang by sea, focusing on Ningbo and Hangzhou. Yang Yiqing sat in Hangzhou and fought a battle with Hangzhou, even if Zhejiang had other troops, it was destroyed in the first battle. ”

"Your Highness can send officials to accept Fujian, change Fujian Province into a national system, according to Dongyong's calculation of Fujian Province, at least one million strong men can be replenished to the army. Based on these millions of strong men, after breaking Hangzhou, they went up the river and besieged Nanjing. ”

"Nanjing filial piety mausoleum is located. The imperial court had to be saved, and our army only needed to reorganize its troops and horses, besiege but not attack, and wait for the border army to go south. If the border army does not go south, it will take Nanjing, then the south of the Yangtze River is in hand, Fujian and Zhejiang are in hand, the two Guangxi are shaken, and the north has a river to rule. Beijing will never allow this, all the border troops will inevitably go south, as long as the border army goes south, and when the border army enters Shandong, or when the south is directly subordinate, 20,000 elite soldiers, cross the sea to attack Tianjin, if the Tianjin fort is difficult to fall, then bypass this place, go straight to Gyeonggi, although only 20,000 soldiers, can shake the hearts of the people in the world. If Beijing recalls the border troops, it will occupy a city in the Gyeonggi area, with Tianjin as the top, and use the sea route as a backup to contain the troops. The army went down to Nanjing and cut off the Yangtze River. So that Beijing can't take care of both ends of the end. ”

The more Qi Jingtong talked, the more excited he became, this was a grand plan. He didn't say much about Yang Shen's plan to liberate Annan, but between his words, he also had a feeling of agreement.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Tens of thousands of troops are needed like this? ”

If the situation can really be planned like Qi Jingtong, then the world's major events can be decided, but before all the plans are determined, they are just waste paper.

"Your Highness." Qi Jingtong hesitated for a moment and said: "This plan was drawn up a few years ago, and the big framework can not be moved, but the specific forces used need to be verified in detail, and for a while, the minister cannot give His Highness detailed data, however, His Highness needs to pay attention to one point, that is, the current strength is far from enough." ”

Although Wu Shumi proposed a plan to expand the army, the time was too fast, and it had not yet had time to implement it, only the strength of the eight battalions of the Yongjun army and the tenth battalion of Annan, while the three battalions of the Dongyong garrison, the two battalions of the Yongjun battalion, the first battalion of the Annam battalion, the battle of Java, the four battalions of the Yongjun battalion, the four battalions of the Annan battalion, the two battalions of the Annan battalion of Xijinzhou, and the first battalion of the Thang Long garrison Yongjun battalion. These are not transferable. ”

"So now the only people who can be put into battle are the three battalions of Annan, plus the garrison in Dongyong, a total of 40,000 people, which is absolutely not enough. Therefore, the expansion of the army has become inevitable. Qi Jingtong said.

"So how much is needed?" Zhu Houhuang said: "Qing can't give an accurate number, just give an approximate number." ”

Qi Jingtong thought for a while and said: "In the direction of Annan, it is still up to His Highness to make a decision, but the troops used in the southeast direction are at least 100,000 people. To occupy Fujian, a minimum of 50,000 garrisons are needed, otherwise Fujian cannot be claimed as one's own, and at least 50,000 are needed for the battle with Hangzhou. Otherwise, we cannot shoulder the heavy responsibility of strategic showdown. ”

The essence of Fujian is in the coastal provinces, although Dongyong has many related households in Fujian, but not all related households are willing to sell the imperial court for the sake of interests, how can Fujian not have the power to fight against the Yongjun, do not want Fujian is a strong province in the imperial examination, I don't know how many Shilin predecessors, the former high-ranking officials are now the existence of the squire, they are the key to fighting against the Yongjun.

If you want to turn Fujian materials into materials for the Yong army, tens of thousands of troops are indispensable to suppress them.

There were not many people in the battle on the Hangzhou side. After all, there are too many ants to bite the elephant, and there are not enough troops to complete the plan of the Battle of Hangzhou, even if Qi Jingtong looks down on the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the southeast.

"There is one more point, Your Highness needs to pay attention." Qi Jingtong pondered for a while, and finally decided to say, "Your Highness." If our army wants to expand its army on a large scale, it also needs a backbone, and the backbone is the eighth battalion of the Yongjun army, so it is necessary to withdraw the army from Java, otherwise there is no way to talk about expanding the army. ”