Duoduo's plan to smuggle across the Yangtze River regardless of the back road must have been sudden, but in Zhang Cunren's opinion, it was still too risky.

But neither he nor Wanyan Yechen has the power to dissuade Duoduo, and the final decision-making power is still in Duoduo. If Duoduo wants to bet on this, they can only execute.

Calm down and think about it, Zhang Cunren can also understand Duoduo's excitement - in Duoduo's opinion, if this bet wins, the benefits are too considerable! If the city of Nanjing is taken, it can be regarded as the whole world has been captured.

Since ancient times, the confrontation between the north and the south, the psychological comfort of Nanjing City for the southern regime is too great, Nanjing City can be defended, half of the south will feel hopeful, if Nanjing City is lost, even if there are still a few provinces left, it is often garbage time, depending on the spread.

How many dynasties have changed over the years, and the southern regime in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian basically will not fight, and taking Nanjing City can basically be equivalent to completely taking the land of Wuyue.

Even if there is still stubborn resistance to secession in the upper reaches of Jingchu and Bashu, and it can be carried more, it can only be regarded as a local separatist regime, not a dynasty.

In contrast, even if you lose the bet, the loss is acceptable.

Not to mention that Duoduo is conceited, he will not be so easily hit hard along the way, even if he retreats 10,000 steps, his troops will only account for one-third of his current strength in the Qing Dynasty.

In other words, in the case of losing the worst bet, Daqing still has nearly two-thirds of the capital left for the next turnaround. If the Ming Dynasty loses, it will go directly to the table.

Bet your forty percent of your chips on the other party's life, why not bet?

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Three days later, on the twelfth of November, it was time for Dodor to wait for a day when the wind was in the right direction.

On this day, there was no wind for most of the day, or only pure northwesterly winds. This kind of wind direction is very unfavorable for the fleets in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to move quickly to the upper reaches.

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Zheng Hongkui's fleet is mainly seaworthy ships at sea, with a deep draft at the bottom and a relatively high freeboard, which is not suitable for paddle acceleration, after all, ships sailing in the sea rarely use paddle power, so naturally the seaworthiness of oars will not be considered.

After a few days of skirmishes, Zheng Hongkui's defense focus had really been placed between Jinshan Temple and Guazhoudu, fearing that the Qing army would land at Jinshan Temple first and seize a ferry bridgehead in the area near the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Duoduo had already taken advantage of this misdirection and secretly gathered most of the small boats of the Qing army in advance to the upstream Liuhe County and the harbor on both sides of the river.

The river is a small river on the other side of Nanjing, in the north of the Yangtze River, and its source can be traced back to Luzhou (Hefei), but most of the river section is located in the territory of the capital of the state.

The water flow of this small river is not through Huai and Huai, so the boats brought by Duoduo from the north could not theoretically enter the river directly, so they had to enter the Yangtze River from Yangzhou from Hangou first, and then go upriver along the north bank of the Yangtze River to the mouth of the river in Liuhe County, and then turn back from the Yangtze River to the river.

It was precisely because the civil and military officials of the Nanjing court were aware of this geographical feature that they were not too wary of the Qing army's fleet coming out of the river, but only focused on the mouth of the Hangou River.

Because of the rivers that flow into the Yangtze River within hundreds of miles nearby, only Hangou is the water that leads to the northern hinterland.

In the past few days, Duoduo has been secretly moving ants to make small moves, taking advantage of the dark hours every night to let Liu Liangzuo attract Zheng Hongkui's attention in front of Guazhou, in fact, let the small boat fleet not play lanterns, move in the dark, stick to the north bank, and sail into the mouth of the river before dawn.

After dawn, the sailors of the Ming army patrolling the Yangtze River could not see any flaws, and they moved unconsciously.

Today, at this moment, at the point where the poor dagger saw it, the fleet that Duoduo had secretly ambushed and transferred finally made a desperate bet and began to cross the river!

"Concentrate the main elite of the whole army and rush to cross the Yangtze River! Before the Ming army reacts, at least 50,000 or 60,000 people must be crossed to the south of the Yangtze River! ”

Duoduo gave an order, on the wharf on both sides of Liuhe County, hundreds of boats competed for a time, and in the middle of the night, Haohao soup entered the Yangtze River in the dark, and went straight to Nanjing Huangtiandang and Qixia Mountain on the south bank!

This area is located in the suburbs outside Nanjing, but there are also a small number of Ming troops stationed, but there will always be a gap in the dark night to patrol the river, when the Ming army found that the Qing army broke through from here, it was impossible to completely stop it.

A battalion of the Ming army on the south bank of the Yangtze River, subordinate to Longtanwei, was originally stationed in the area of Qixia Temple at the foot of Qixia Mountain, in the face of the landing of the Qing army, the Ming army also tried to resist the enemy on the beachhead, and wanted to take advantage of the geographical advantage to kill the Qing army that had just tried to go ashore back into the water.

The Ming army's bows, crossbows, and firearms fired at the shallows along the river repeatedly, which also caused some casualties to the Qing army for a while.

This place is not a traditional place with ferries, so the Qing army could not directly find the pier trestle to go ashore, so they could only drive small boats to force their way to the muddy river beach, and then jump into the river at least waist deep and wade to the shore, moving very slowly.

The loss and lead bullets flying everywhere could harvest a few lives from time to time, and in a short time at least hundreds of corpses of Tartar soldiers were left on the river beach. Once those heavily armored soldiers were wounded and fell, even if they were only waist-deep in water, they were often dragged down by the iron armor and could not get up, and they fell directly to the river and drowned, or were trampled on in the chaos.

On the big boat in Jiangxin, Duoduo observed the progress on the shore by the faint light of the fire that had just started before landing, his face was very solemn, and he couldn't see the emotional waves, but he coldly urged his subordinates to work harder, don't care about casualties, everything is based on standing firm.

Under the landing of the Qing army regardless of casualties, the Ming army soon showed its decline - the landing line of the Qing army became longer and longer, almost involving the river bank of more than ten miles nearby. And the Ming army has only one battalion here, blocking leaks everywhere and taking care of one or the other, and the main force in Nanjing City cannot come so quickly.

So a quarter of an hour later, the Ming army only killed more than 1,000 elite Qing troops on the river beach in front of Qixia Temple, but they were still successfully landed on a large scale by the Qing troops on the left and right flanks.

As the Qing army gained a firm foothold and flanked and encircled it, the Ming army soon collapsed, and the Ming garrison in charge of Longtan Wei could only grit its teeth and lead the soldiers back to Qixia Temple, defending the danger.

The Qing army tried, because it was difficult to go up the mountain after dark, and the Ming army held Qixia Mountain dangerously, bursts of muskets, bows, crossbows, rolling wood and stones, smashed down wildly, and the Qing army paid hundreds of lives, so they had to temporarily choose to besiege Qixia Mountain without attacking, only caring about receiving more rear troops to land.

More than an hour after the Qing army landed, this important military situation was sent to the outside of Nanjing by the emergency fast horse scouts sent by the Longtan garrison for the first time.

The Nanjing garrison couldn't see the situation clearly at night, and did not dare to open the city gate, so they put down the hanging basket and hung the messenger scout to the city, and then immediately sent it to meet Shi Kefa to report the military situation.

In addition to reporting to Nanjing City, he also sent fast horses to the quarry rock further upstream to report the news, so that Zheng Chenggong, a friendly army of the river defense there, also guarded against the Qing army's sneak attack across the river. The last messenger was to go to Jinshan Temple downstream and inform Zheng Hongkui, the general of Jiangfang, there.

Two hours after the Qing army crossed the river, Zheng Chenggong of the upstream quarrying rocks and Zheng Hongkui of the Jinshan Temple in the lower reaches hurriedly organized troops to board the ship in the middle of the night and set off, and surrounded Liuhe County and Qixia Mountain from two directions.

But in the time difference of more than five hours, the small boats that the Qing army secretly hid in the river had already rushed at least two groups of men and horses across the river.

Everything went more smoothly than Duoduo expected, and he almost transported the Manchu cavalry under his command with two banners and the Mongolian cavalry with two banners to the south bank of the Yangtze River! There were also about three Han servant armies the size of Han military flags.

In the whole process, the Qing army also paid a total of thousands of losses - in the process of the beach landing battle, the total number of casualties was controlled within 2,000, which is more than 1,000.

The remaining two or three thousand were produced when they were intercepted by Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong who rushed over, mainly because some of the palace's ships on the river were just caught, and the last group of Qing soldiers were attacked by Bandu and killed directly in the river.

Hundreds of Qing warships were also annihilated on the river after the Zheng family's uncles and nephews arrived.

But compared to the total casualties of less than 5,000 people, Duoduo felt that it was completely cost-effective to cross the Yangtze River with so many elite main forces.

It doesn't matter if the southern barbarians have the advantage in the water battle on the river, now he has crossed the river, and most of the Hongyi cannons followed the first batch of main forces across the river, and they were not intercepted and lost too much. Now he has cavalry and artillery, Jiangnan is not at his mercy!

Remaining in the north of Yangzhou Jiangbei, there was only one banner of Manchurian cavalry, as the backbone of the rear hub, to ensure that the field in Huainan could be suppressed, to prevent the Ming army from counterattacking, and then there were some Mongolian soldiers and Han soldiers, which added up to about a quarter of the total strength of Duoduo this way.

The core combat strength of the whole country of the Qing Dynasty is only the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, plus some newly surrendered troops and servant armies, this time Duoduo crossed the Yangtze River with seven of the twenty-four banners at once, and he felt that relying on this strength alone, even if he didn't need reinforcements, he could completely mess up Jiangnan!

On the day of crossing the river, Duoduo first concentrated his forces to destroy the Longtan Wei of Qixia Mountain, and the remaining more than 2,000 Ming troops in the guard could not withstand the attack of the Qing army, and they were destroyed after only resisting for less than a day.

They bought this day's time, but let the other departments of the Ming army react, hurriedly shrink the battle line, guard the key points, in the city of Nanjing, Shi Kefa and Shen Tingyang after finding out the enemy's situation, also had to urgently convene the imperial military meeting, urgent discussion of countermeasures.