After being summoned by Duoduo for a military meeting, Wanyan Yechen, Zhang Cunren, Geng Zhongming, Sun Zhiqi and others, of course, did not dare to slack off, and immediately rushed to the Chinese army commander's tent.

After Dodor simply threw out the question, everyone was in a heavy mood, and knew that it was time to make a decision.

Mou Zhu Cunren also saw Duoduo's hesitation, and took the opportunity to persuade: "Lord Wang, so far, the hatred of the same enemy brought about by our army's hair shaving order seems to have been temporarily resolved by Zhu Shuren. Zhu Shuren's determination to defend and consume is great.

At the beginning, we fought with Zheng Chenggong, and the terrain was unfavorable, so we had to pay three or four times the casualties to kill and injure a Ming soldier, and the losses were all my Qing elites!

In the past few days, Zheng Chenggong's firepower in guarding the temple has become more ferocious, and the lower officials estimate that it must be the new musket allocated to him by Zhu Shuren! If we continue to fight, we may not be able to kill five people and kill one Ming soldier!

At present, our army should try to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army in the field, and must no longer fight a war of attrition with the Ming army on a battlefield where the Ming army can grasp the convenience of reinforcements and increase troops at any time! Otherwise, this remaining army of sixty or seventy thousand will ...... sooner or later."

He casually mentioned a number, "670,000 troops", which shows that compared with the Qing army at the end of the Nanjing Campaign, there were still more than 80,000 soldiers to fight, and in the past ten days, another 10,000 or 20,000 people have been consumed.

Not all of these 20,000 people died in battle, but a considerable number of them were injured and lost their combat effectiveness, or their physical functions declined during high-intensity combat and fell seriously ill.

Duoduo was like a grumpy lion, angrily reprimanded: "Of course, this king also wants to fight a decisive battle with Zhu Shuren, but he just shouldn't fight, and he only guards the city and guards the passes. Isn't the Jinshan Temple also trying to break through its blockade!

Since you can't find a field battle, and you can't attack Jinshan Temple for a long time, you can only find a place where you can break through this blockade circle, and you are not afraid that the local defenders will be continuously transported into by Zhu Shuren! Then it will be possible for our army to break through, or encircle the point to send reinforcements! ”

In the process of reprimanding and complaining, Duoduo's own thinking gradually became clear:

Under the current circumstances, the reason why it has become unwise to hit Jinshan Temple is because this place is directly backed by the Yangtze River, and the mountain temple is too close to the river! There's no way around the back to block the docks.

Don't look at the territory controlled by the Ming army, but as long as there is backup, Zhu Shuren uses this place as a meat grinder, and it is a meat grinder that the Ming army occupies a favorable location, it will be very terrifying.

A place where the blockade is immortal and cannot completely besiege the city, it will be meaningless to fight a battle of attrition.

If you can surround and die, then the war of attrition is still meaningful, even if the Ming army wants reinforcements, it also needs to be reinforced by land, and the Qing army can encircle the point to send reinforcements and seize the opportunity of field warfare!

The reason why there is no way to encircle the point and send reinforcements now is that this "aid" can always come by water, and even the last mile can be completed by water!

How could the Qing army, which boasted of being invincible in land warfare, seize the opportunity to send reinforcements?

Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, in the battle of the Song and Yuan dynasties, Xiangyang was able to hold on for seven years, the key is that the second city of Xiangfan is directly backed by the Hanshui wharf, in the case that the Song army has an absolute advantage in the water division, the Yuan army consumed how many Song people defend the city, and the Song army can continue to transport reinforcements through the Han River. In the end, it was the Yuan Army's naval division that overtook the Song Army and controlled the Han River Channel, and the Xiangyang Lu family collapsed.

And to use an analogy that modern people can understand: Zhu Shuren's reinforcements are delivered directly to the door by water! You don't even have to take the hundreds of steps of "going to the rookie station to pick it up"! The hooligans want to take advantage of the owner's downstairs to walk to the community post station, and they can't rob the road!

Therefore, Duoduo summed up a new point of attention with blood to encircle the point of reinforcement: that place, it can't be that the reinforcements can be delivered to the door by water! At least the last kilometer will give you a chance to intercept by land!

Those wharf camps near the river, don't think about it! Where there is a waterway, the Ming army is invincible!

After eliminating these options for the invincibility of the Ming army, there were three options left in front of Duoduo's eyes:

First, rushed up to fight with Zhu Shuren, went west and returned to the vicinity of Nanjing, and even bypassed Nanjing to fight the big victory pass and entered the area of Ma'anshan in Wuhu.

Secondly, it is to go south from Jintan County over Tianmu Mountain, try to enter the mountainous area of western Zhejiang, and then cross Mogan Mountain, and kill to Huzhou and Hangzhou.

In the end, it was to go east to kill through Jiangyin, plunder Wuxi and Suzhou, expand the base of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River, and plunder more wealth and shave their heads to recruit soldiers.

Anyway, the defeat of Jinshan Temple is to exclude the option of "fleeing to the north" for Duoduo, and of course there are three options left, east, west and south, which are very reasonable and strict, and have exhausted all possibilities.

Duoduo was not sure of the big victory, the place was backed upstream, Zhu Shuren didn't know how many reinforcements could be filled in Huguang, and Duoduo felt that the remaining troops at hand were no longer enough.

Fighting Tianmu Mountain, Zhu Shuren can also transport Huguang reinforcements from behind, from Wuhu and Jiangxi to the back of the checkpoints of Tianmu Mountain. So in the end, it will still be a war of attrition, the Ming army will hold the dangerous pass of Tianmu Mountain, there will be a steady stream of troops, and Duoduo will attack the fortifications, purely looking for death.

Only Jiangyin is left as an option, which seems to be the most reasonable. Because Jiangyin was in the easternmost part, the road leading to Jiangyin by the Ming army around Nanjing was divided by the occupation area of Duoduo.

Therefore, if Duoduo attacked Jiangyin, Zhu Shuren would not be able to transport reinforcements from behind the besieged checkpoint, so they could only go through Duoduo's occupied area to reinforce.

And as long as Zhu Shuren wants to break through Duoduo's land occupation area, he will inevitably be caught by Duoduo to capture the opportunity to send reinforcements in the decisive battle on land!

In this way, the aggrieved state of Duoduo who has been fighting siege warfare for more than half a month will be completely reversed!

In his mind, the Qing Dynasty, which was invincible in land warfare, could finally fight a field battle with the cowardly Southern Barbarians!

It's not easy, for most of the past half a month, Duoduo has been in tears when he thinks about it, and he has been forced to attack the fortifications, it's too difficult.

After a brief discussion, Dordor made up his mind and finally consulted with his subordinates to fill in the gaps:

"This king wants to move his army to attack Jiangyin, and if he can break through, he will be able to at least mess up the puppet Wuxi, Suzhou, Huzhou, Hangzhou and other wealthy places. If you get money, food, and materials to fight again, you can also rely on the shaving order to coerce the Han people who are ten times more likely to betray the pseudo-Ming, what do you think? ”

Zhang Cunren, Sun Zhiqi and other strategists all felt that this idea was okay in principle, but Zhang Cunren thought about it in more detail, and still checked and filled in two small troubles:

"Lord Wang, fighting Jiangyin is indeed a better choice for us at the moment, but there are also a few small problems to pay attention to. First of all, although Jiangyin is not as directly backed by the river as Zhenjiang Jinshanzhou, since its place name is called Jiangyin, it can be seen that it is not far from the river.

If Zhu Shuren can still send reinforcements to Jiangyin directly from the Yangtze River by water, then all our previous summing up and reflection and changing strategies will become useless! If we want to fight Jiangyin, we must first plan well, how to prevent the defenders of Jiangyin from getting reinforcements from the waterway of the Yangtze River, so that the Ming army coming along the river has to fight with us in the field! ”

Duoduo is in control of the overall situation, and he hasn't thought much about fighting Jiangyin before, and he is not ashamed to ask: "Have you ever planned carefully?" How should I pay attention to it? Grab the map! ”

Zhang Cunren had thought about this problem in advance, and when the guard next to him brought the map, he immediately pointed to the map and analyzed it for Duoduo:

"Lord Wang, please see, in fact, our army has also made a harassing attack on the Jiangyin area a few days ago, and I want to see if we can quickly expand the occupied area of our army without paying any price.

However, the Jiangyin side was heavily guarded, and it was ineffective to infiltrate and divide with light soldiers and rangers, so it stopped. However, if we attack with the main force and heavy troops this time, most likely there will still be a chance.

The reason why the Jiangyin area is difficult to penetrate is that the Ming army was divided into three divisions there - in the center is the county seat of Jiangyin, which guards the low-lying area of the plain between the two mountains on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

North of Jiangyin County, all the way to the Yangtze River, is Huanggong Mountain, Changzhou Governor Yan Yingyuan divided his troops in advance to set up a village in the dangerous place on Huanggong Mountain, and Huanggong Mountain has been extended to the Yangtze River, and there are deep-water berths, so it is impossible to besiege the Huanggong Mountain Fortress, it will be the same as Jinshan Temple here, and the Ming army waterway reinforcements will be transported directly from the river into the village.

If we want to attack Jiangyin, we will have to intersperse a part of the besieging forces into the narrow area between the south of Huanggong Mountain and the north of the north wall of Jiangyin City, divide the two Ming armies, and focus on fighting Jiangyin County alone, without going to fight with the Ming army of Huanggong Mountain, and only besiege Huanggong Mountain without fighting.

If Jiangyin County is in danger, and the Ming army of Huanggongshan takes the initiative to go down the mountain to fight with us in order to rescue the defenders in the city, it will be in the hands of our army, and it will take advantage of the invincibility of our Qing Dynasty field battle to encircle and annihilate the enemy who will go down the mountain to help annihilate it! ”

Duoduo listened very carefully, and through Zhang Cunren's detailed analysis, he relied on the plane map to make up the local topographical imagination.

The terrain of the Huanggong Mountain area in the north of Jiangyin City may not be well understood by later generations of officials, but as long as you give an example, you can make up for it:

In 37 years, the Japanese army basically won the Battle of Songhu at the end of October, but finally entered Nanjing in December, committing inhumane atrocities. In the middle of this time, the Japanese army was actually mainly gnawing at the Jiangyin fortress on Huanggong Mountain.

The fact that the Japanese army in 1937 was able to attack the fortress for a considerable period of time shows the danger of the local area.

As for the end of the Anti-Japanese War later, when it came to crossing the river, there was also a fierce battle in Jiangyin Fortress, but Chang Kaishen's troops were infiltrated by the underground organization in advance, and they were taken in one fell swoop.

And the reason why this place is the throat of Jiangfang, but also because the Jiangyin area, is the narrowest position on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, look at the Baidu map of later generations to know that the place where the Jiangyin Bridge was built, the Yangtze River is only one kilometer wide!

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese navy actually tried to use the Yangtze River to invade Nanjing all the way against the Yangtze River in August, but it was blocked by the Huanggongshan Fort of Jiangyin Fortress, and it was delayed until the Jiangyin Fortress was lost in December, and the Japanese Navy could pass through (at that time, the Chinese Navy also sank many ships on the river surface of Jiangyin Fortress to block the channel)

The reason why the Yangtze River is narrow here must be due to geographical reasons.

Mainly on both sides of the upstream and downstream rivers, there are plain river beaches, there is no landform to bind the Yangtze River, and the water surface is wide. In the north of Jiangyin City, Huanggong Mountain was inserted all the way to the riverside, and the Yangtze River was narrowed.

Such a mountain, which is inserted all the way into the river, can of course ensure that there is a deep-water wharf directly on the northern slope of the mountain, which is absolutely impossible to be blocked by the army.

Although none of these things have happened today, the geographical characteristics are the same in ancient and modern times.

After listening to Zhang Cunren's analysis, Duoduo also gasped, and immediately set the tone of "only blocking the traffic between the Huanggongshan camp and Jiangyin County, but never taking the initiative to attack the Huanggongshan camp".

After solving this precaution, the next precaution also became logical, Zhang Cunren continued to analyze: "The same as Huanggong Mountain, there is another mountain in the south of Jiangyin County, which is Huishan, the boundary mountain between Jiangyin County and Wuxi County.

Although the terrain of Huishan is not as dangerous as Huanggong Mountain, but there is a vast hinterland behind it that cannot be grasped by our army, if we attack Huishan, the Ming army in Wuxi can be reinforced, and the main force of the Ming army around Nanjing in the upper reaches can also detour from behind Tianmu Mountain, and then cross the Taihu Lake, and continue to reinforce Wuxi and Huishan, we are impossible to completely encircle the local.

Yan Yingyuan, the pseudo-governor of Changzhou, seems to have obtained Shi Kefa's permission to dig a section of the canal of Taihu Lake through the west of Wuxi County, and used the water level of the local canal to be slightly lower than the surface of Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River, and flooded hundreds of thousands of acres of low-lying fields, resulting in no other roads to go around except for high places such as Huishan, all of which are Zeguo. Therefore, our army can only give up the attack on the southern road, and can only focus on Jiangyin County. ”

Zhang Cunren's words, Duoduo didn't quite understand at first glance, mainly because there were some technical details that he couldn't imagine - why the water level of this section of the Jiangnan Canal connecting Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River would be both lower than the Yangtze River and lower than Taihu Lake at the same time? So much so that as long as the Ming army dug up the canal embankment, it could directly release water to flood the low-lying areas?

Zhang Cunren had to explain a few more words: it turned out that when the Grand Canal was built in ancient times, it was very good at using the drop in the water level to reduce the cost of sailing.

In fact, the canal between Wuxi Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River has two independent rivers far apart, the cao boat sailing from south to north drives one river to the east, and the cao boat traveling from north to south drives the other river to the west.

Among these two channels, the water point selected for the east side of the river that sails from south to north is the point where the water level on the side of Taihu Lake is high and the water level is low when it eventually flows into the Yangtze River, and it is more downstream when it is injected into the Yangtze River. In this way, the canal water will naturally have a speed of flowing from south to north, from Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River, and the boat does not need to paddle with a penny, just follow the current.

The water level of the Yangtze River at the point of the Yangtze River that sails from north to south is higher than the water level of Taihu Lake in the upper reaches.

This dual channel design of the south, high and low north plus south and low north ensures that each canal channel has a potential energy source with a higher water level than the middle section, and as long as the middle embankment is excavated, the water can be immediately released to flood the low-lying area.

The river channel from the south to the north will flood in after the excavation of the Taihu Lake. The river channel from north to south will flood in after it is dug up.

Therefore, Yan Yingyuan didn't need much construction at all before, and in the first few days when the Qing army had just crossed the river, he did it very quickly, so that it was too late for the Qing army to sneak attack and overpass with light horses.

There were even a few teams of Qing cavalry scouts at that time, because they caught up with the Ming army to break the embankment and release water, and when they infiltrated Huishan and Wuxi, they were directly "flooded by the Seventh Army", but unfortunately the scale was too small, and only a few small teams of scouts were flooded.

And the cost of Yan Yingyuan's doing so is nothing more than the impact of about hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in Wuxi County and Jiangyin County. But compared to the consequences of indulging the Qing army's infiltration into Wuxi, Suzhou and other wealthy places, resulting in the erosion of Jiangnan, this price is completely worth it.

First of all, the water level was not deep, and the people were evacuated in advance, and no one drowned, and the locals were transferred by Yan Yingyuan to Jiangyin County and Wuxi County to help fight to the death.

As for the farmland, it is winter now, and the crops have been harvested, if the Duoduo can be destroyed before next year's spring planting, and then the river bank can be rebuilt and drained slowly, these fields can still be planted next year. At most, we can't grow high-priced cash crops that require less water, and we can only grow rice, which should be fully irrigated in advance.

Considering that there are frequent disasters and famines today, it is not a bad thing to change all to rice, wouldn't it be beautiful to make less money and solve the problem of eating more.

……

Duoduo, Zhang Cunren and others, after combing in the middle of the night, finally decided on a follow-up strategy for moving to Jiangyin.

Although he hadn't fought yet, he originally looked down on unknown people like Yan Yingyuan, but with the end of the military discussion, Duoduo, who had always been arrogant, rarely calmed down, and even had a hint of danger.

This Yan Yingyuan, no matter how good his ability to fight is, at least the pre-war blockade preparations are very sufficient! One soldier is useless, so he blocked two of the three possible attack directions of the Qing army!

Huanggongshan can't fight, and Huishan can't fight either, the only thing that can be fought is to divide and besiege Jiangyin County! It also put an end to the possibility of the Qing army's detour and infiltration!

Duoduo can completely imagine that since Yan Yingyuan can force the Qing army to only fight the county seat, the defense of the county must be very tight, otherwise no one will force the enemy to only fight a key point that he is not sure to defend.

He didn't know how Yan Yingyuan would prepare, but he must have been fully prepared.

This is a "defend the enemy's attack" layout.

With this faint uneasiness, in the early morning of the next day, the main force of the Qing army still started one after another, retreated from the front line of Jinshan Temple, and contracted to Danyang County and Wujin County.

The Qing army was not afraid of the Ming army pursuing in the field, because if the Ming army was willing to pursue, Duoduo would be very happy: after holding back for more than half a month without a field battle, the Ming army was finally willing to get out of the turtle shell fortifications! Then don't hurry up and kill back!

Because the first time the Qing army moved was relatively hidden, and it was transferred in batches, the Ming army did not immediately find the clues.

It's just that during the day, Zheng Chenggong suddenly found that the offensive of the Qing army on the battlefield of Jinshan Temple had slowed down a lot, and later it developed to only occasionally fire artillery and arrows, and did not really send people to charge the meat grinder.

After a day of confirmation, the next day the Ming army learned that Duoduo's main force had really been transferred, and only some of the palace's troops remained in the direction of Zhenjiang.

Of course, this news was immediately transmitted back to Nanjing, and also to Jurong County on the front line, and sent to Zhu Shuren.

Stationed at this forward base in Jurong County was Cao Bianjiao, a famous cavalry general of the Ming army, who immediately asked Zhu Shuren to pursue the retreating Qing army.

"Ministry! Duoduo must be weak in succession, and he wants to go east to Jiangyin, so let the last general lead the troops to chase and kill! Taking advantage of the transfer of the Qing army, it will inevitably be chaotic and out of touch! ”

Zhu Shuren has already hung up the title of secretary of the military department, so the generals no longer call him the governor, but call him the ministry instead.

When Zhu Shuren heard this, he immediately raised his hand to stop Cao Bianjiao's eagerness to fight: "General Cao doesn't need to be impatient, although Duoduo has been frustrated, the military strength of the field battle is still enough, and we will catch up now, and we will be in Duoduo's arms."

I also estimate the supply of Duoduo, this time in the Jinshan Temple for more than ten days, the loss of ammunition must be extremely huge, no less than the battle of Nanjing. It is estimated that at least 70 per cent of the army's firearms stockpiles have been used.

If there is such a fight again, he will still be frustrated under Jiangyin City, and the trapped beasts will not be able to break through, I am afraid that his artillery will be completely scrapped, and without ammunition it will be a bunch of iron lumps.

The Qing army did not pay attention to muskets, only to cannons, and the ignition guns would also become burning sticks. It is not possible to miss the arrow, but the future is worrying. Let's wait for him to finally run into a bloody stream under Jiangyin City, run out of consumables, and finally wipe out Duoduo in one fell swoop! ”

Cao Bianjiao was a little unwilling, and said worriedly: "What the ministry has seen, of course, is serious. But what the last general is worried about is that Jiangyin County may not be able to hold on for much time.

If we don't force it up immediately, Jiangyin will soon be lost, and rich places such as Wuxi and Suzhou will inevitably be slaughtered and looted by the Qing army!

This Jiangyin County is not as good as Jinshan Temple, although Jinshan Temple is dilapidated, there is no city wall, only a hard village, but after all, there is a riverside wharf, and our army can continue to fight for consumption. Even though Jiangyin is stronger than Jinshan Temple, the reinforcements cannot be transported into the city by water! How many cannons can the walls of such small counties withstand the Qing army? ”

Zhu Shuren still looked like he was holding a pearl of wisdom: "Don't worry, Yan Yingyuan has been with me for many years, and he has won the true inheritance of the essence of defending the city that my subordinates have learned, and I estimate that his ability to defend the city is not under my cousin Zhang Huangyan."

And I sent him to Jiangyin before the war just in case. Now it has been nearly twenty days since Duoduo crossed the river, and Jiangyin was not the main direction to bear the pressure, and he had so many days to prepare for the emergency repair of the fortifications.

In addition, I took advantage of the fact that the Qing army had not yet passed, so I allocated some guns and ammunition to him in advance from the Yangtze River, even if he is now besieged, just relying on the little materials that were transported in before, it is enough for him to defend the city.

Let's wait for Duoduo to be frustrated under Jiangyin City for ten days and a half months, further deplete the sharpness, further deplete the materials, and then go to the decisive battle to clean up the battlefield! ”

The other generals under him, seeing that Zhu Shuren trusted Yan Yingyuan, an old subordinate, so he firmly believed that Yan Yingyuan could hold on for a long time, so it was difficult to say anything.

The main force of the Ming army around Nanjing was completely like a stubborn village to fight a dumb battle, although it was to advance, but it was to walk dozens of miles to set up a village, and never give the Qing army the opportunity to immediately turn back and seize the field battle.

As soon as the Qing army turned back, the Ming army immediately held the camp and forced the Qing army to attack the camp.

This oppression also made Duoduo lose his temper, and in the process, he did not send Yan Yechen to try to kill the horse pistol suddenly, but the return horse pistol directly hit the iron plate, and there were hundreds of casualties in vain without any benefit.

The two sides pulled like this, allowing the Qing army to arrive at the city of Jiangyin and began to attack the city with all their might.

This is also the last attempt of the Qing army to break through the direction, and if you can't break through here, you don't need to break through.

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ps: 6,000 words will not be split. It is also necessary to avoid trouble in the trial, and it has been strictly controlled recently.