Chapter 892: Hangzhou Conference II

The so-called several meters under the pot.

How many things, how many things to do.

When the Yongjun attacked the Ming Dynasty from Dongyong, there were only 100,000 people, of course, these 100,000 people were not considered sailors. But in the past six months, the Yongjun army has expanded a lot.

The area occupied by the Yongjun army is a long and narrow area, from Zhangzhou to Ningbo, all along the coast are occupied by the Yongjun army. In addition to the 100,000 troops in Hangzhou, there are also many troops in other places.

The first is Zhangzhou, which has at least 10,000 troops, because he is facing Guangdong. Although the troops in the Liangguang region are confronting the Annan army, Zheng Sui has done a good job, involving all the troops in the Liangguang region to Zhennanguan, and some are on the Leizhou Peninsula, who let Qiongzhou also be occupied by the Yong army, in fact, there is no enemy opposite the 10,000 army in Zhangzhou, so most of the 10,000 troops in Zhangzhou are recruits.

There are also garrisons in the inland provinces and counties of Fujian, as few as more than 1,000 and as many as 5,000, many of whom are placed here by the elite men collected from the surrendered Ming army, which is used as an early warning. Anyway, Dongyong only needs the coastal essence area, as for those deep mountains, Zhu Houhuang doesn't care.

As for the arrival in Zhejiang, the troops are even more thin, the four prefectures in the southwest of Zhejiang, led by Jinhua Mansion, originally Qi Jiguang's main attack direction was this side, however, under He Wenyuan's three-inch incorruptible tongue, they all remained neutral here, and there would be no big moves until the final result came out. However, even so, Wenzhou and Taizhou, and even Ningbo could not fail to garrison a single soldier.

This is the case alone, from Zhangzhou to Ningbo, there are tens of thousands of troops almost garrisoned, although the combat effectiveness is not very good, most of them are recruits and prisoners, at that time, under the training of Dongyong instructors, the combat effectiveness is improving.

Don't look at the 100,000 troops in Hangzhou, but these 100,000 troops are not all the mobile forces of the Yong army, at least a large part of them must be stationed in the Jiangnan area, and the Jiangnan area is not small in such a prosperous area, at least 10,000 or 20,000 garrisons can be satisfied, after all, it is a new place.

Therefore, the number of troops that can be used, that is, the mobile force, is only 80,000, and there are several ways to divide the troops, if they are evenly distributed, there are only 10,000 or 20,000 all the way.

Such a force is simply too thin.

This is also what Zhu Houhuang is worried about.

"Your Highness," Qi Jingtong said, "Your Highness is determined to be in the world, and you shouldn't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place. ”

Zhu Houhuang immediately understood what Qi Jingtong meant, which meant to draw troops from somewhere else.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Then you are going to ----"

Qi Jingtong said: "Your Highness, in the opinion of the ministers, all the way on the water, you should rely more on the water division, and you only need to send 10,000 land divisions. There is no need to make more contact with enemy forces along the river. And to intercept the reinforcements in the west, it doesn't take much troops, it's just a formality, only 20,000 or 30,000 is enough, and the army should go up the canal, and it should create a powerful momentum. The rest of Hangzhou's troops all went north from this road. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Then where to draw troops and go north to Tianjin Wei?" ”

Qi Jingtong said: "Draw troops from the southern capital. ”

Zhu Houhuang frowned and said, "Draw troops from the Southern Capital? ”

Not only Zhu Houhuang frowned, but even everyone else frowned.

Not why?

Because there are not many troops in Nandu, there are only Wu Ming's troops in Nandu now, and there are as many as 20,000 or 30,000 in the full battle, and there are many places where troops cannot be transferred, even if they give up Coconut City, it is not enough to transfer 20,000, or even less.

And the consequences of the redeployment of these forces are severe. If the southern capital is empty, it is easy to lose. After all, the south is not without enemies, and the Francophone has never known to rely on, and the Manchurian country is also one of the hidden dangers.

Zhu Houhuang laid the southern capital, but it was also the direction of the Yongjun's key business for several years, the southern capital was established, and the families of generals at all levels also settled down in the southern capital.

Let them give up, all of them are unwilling.

It's a big adventure.

Seeing this, Qi Jingtong said: "Your Highness, we want to draw troops to attack Beijing, mainly in a surprise attack. That's why we also focus on suddenness. Therefore, in the end, it is not possible to transfer troops in Jiangnan, because troops can be transferred from Jiangnan to Tianjin Wei. Because you can't hide it from anyone. ”

Zhu Houhuang took a deep breath and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Yu Dayou said: "Let His Highness decide." ”

"Let Your Highness decide."

Such a major event has always been decided by Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang took a deep breath, he thought about everything he should think, and he thought about everything he shouldn't think, and the only thing left was to decide.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Since this is the case, I will do what Master Qi said." ”

Although Nandu is dangerous, it does not mean that it is necessarily dangerous.

The Franc machine is entangled in Aceh, and the Manmu Kingdom is also entangled in Banten. Within a year, I'm afraid there will be nothing that will not be dangerous, and with the aftermath of the Yongjun army, there should be no problem.

After a long time, maybe there is no problem. But within a year or two, there will be no problem.

The weight of the scale, on one side is the Ming Dynasty, and on the other side is the Southern Capital. Anyone will choose, but it takes courage.

However, it is not said that things can be settled and finished. There's a lot left to do.

Zhu Houhuang first had to determine the commander-in-chief of each army after the division of troops. This is something that must wait for Zhu Houhuang to make a decision. No one else can do it. This is also where Zhu Houhuang's authority lies.

Zhu Houhuang did not decide immediately, but after the meeting ended, he slowly considered it.

All the way up the river, Huang Shilong is the main general, and Liu Bochen is the deputy general, because this road is mainly based on the water division, and Huang Shilong's authoritative qualifications are also above Liu Bochen.

And Liu Bochen also mixed up in the sailors. It is also more appropriate here.

As for the western road, Zhu Houhuang decided to let Qi Jiguang and Li Ziyun go over.

In Zhu Houhuang's estimation, there will be no large army in the upper reaches of the river to help, with the mobilization strength of the Ming Dynasty, it will take several months from the assembly of the army to the east, plus the contradiction between the host and guest armies. So the speed of the army is not fast.

In addition to the southwest, the army of the nine sides is in a state of combat readiness all year round. It takes a while for armies everywhere else to get into a state of march, especially the more peaceful it is.

Therefore, it is very likely that the army that goes west to intercept will not encounter any enemy, so it can only shake a false shot to deter Beijing, and let Beijing know that if not, the northern troops will go south, and Nanjing will be lost.

As for the main army, it is naturally Zhu Houhuang as the main commander, Yu Dayou as the deputy, and Qi Jingtong is in Hangzhou, as for He Wenyuan, he was also promoted.

After the capture of Hangzhou, a large number of officials surrendered, and He Wenyuan also became the head of the surrendered ministers. And He Wenyuan also made a lot of contributions, many of these ministers were recruited by He Wenyuan, He Wenyuan also pacified the four prefectures in southwest Zhejiang, so that Zhu Houhuang's rear was a lot more stable.

He Wenyuan represented the interests of the ministers, and Zhu Houhuang appointed him as the deputy minister of Dongyong, second only to Yang Shen's position. Yang Shen maintained the operation of the entire Dongyong in the rear. After waiting for a while, after the matter is arranged, Yang Shen will also come over.

Now, Dongyong's Wenchen is headed by He Wenyuan, and Zhu Houhuang has He Wenyuan in charge of the surrender affairs. After all, He Wenyuan showed up to say that many Ming officials were willing to join Zhu Houhuang's command.

As for the army that raided Tianjinwei, it could only be planned slowly. However, it is not enough to rely on the army left behind in Dongyong. Because it was not enough, only 20,000 people wanted to break into Beijing City, but they didn't take Beijing City seriously.

However, what Qi Jingtong said is also reasonable, the movements of tens of thousands of troops cannot be covered up at all, and when it is rumored that the Yongjun army is going to sea, Beijing immediately knows what is going on, and it cannot play the role of a surprise attack.

After all, in the land of the Ming Dynasty, it is not too much to take Jinyiwei seriously.

So this matter can only be discussed in the long run, Zhu Houhuang felt that in the process of the conquest, it would be broken into pieces, and then some troops would be transferred from the south, and the elite troops would be slowly transferred to the sea.

Anyway, there is still a period of time to get to Nanjing, and it is not too late to find a way to get to Nanjing, so there is no need to be too anxious about this matter.

Because at this time, it was Jingshi who was really anxious, and what Zhu Houhuang was worried about was the irritability of happiness, but what Jiajing was worried about was not so happy. What he faced was nothing short of miserable.