In Beijing, Prince Rui's Mansion East Warm Pavilion.

After talking about internal affairs, general strategy, and vertical and horizontal, Hong Chengchou began to talk about the detailed military strategy.

"Master, if Nanming launches a large-scale northern expedition, it will inevitably march along the waterway, either the Grand Canal or the North Sea."

"If you can't march along the waterway, such a huge number of troops and baggage, just logistics can drag them down."

"So the focus of our defense is along the Grand Canal and the North Sea coast, along the Grand Canal has been built all over the platform, safe and sound, the only thing to worry about is the North Sea coast."

"One is that the coastline of the North Sea is too long."

"The two are also harassed by the Ming army in Dagukou and Gaizhou."

"Of the three, I really can't recruit enough people."

"So it's probably very difficult to build platforms all over the coast of the North Sea."

Hearing this, Dolgon said: "It's not that I'm afraid, but it's absolutely impossible, because in order to build towers along the Grand Canal, Gyeonggi and Wei River, the Qing treasury has almost been exhausted. ”

"It is absolutely impossible to build platforms along the coastline of the North Sea that is longer and more extensive."

After a pause, he continued: "And it is useless to build a platform on the coastline of the North Sea, the Ming army only needs to break through one of the points, and the entire defense line will collapse in an instant, unlike the Grand Canal and the Weihe River along the platform, the Ming army broke through the defensive platform in front, and there are countless defensive platforms waiting for them in the rear." ”

"Master Mingjian." Hong Chengchou deeply believes that it is indeed unrealistic and useless to repair the platform around the coast.

After a slight pause, Hong Chengchou continued: "Not only is it unrealistic to surround the Beihai coast to repair the platform, but even the garrison around the entire coast can't do it, because the number of garrisons is small and useless, but if the number of garrisons is large, then the strength of our Qing Dynasty will become overstretched, causing the emptiness of other directions." ”

"At this time, if the Ming army comes to avoid the real and attack the false, it will be in big trouble."

"Therefore, we can only build beacon towers around the coastline of the North Sea, and then garrison heavy troops in several important places."

"Repair the beacon?" Sony, Suke Saha and other Manchu ministers looked at each other, and Guan Yu Shoujing used this method in the popular romance of the Three Kingdoms, but in the end he left Maicheng, which seemed to be useless.

Dolgon also questioned: "Hengjiu, can it be useful to repair the beacon tower?" ”

"At least it can be warned in advance." Hong Chengchou said, "Once the whereabouts of the Ming army's naval division are discovered, the Qing Dynasty can mobilize troops in time to resist the Ming army before it lands, and rush to repair the platform." ”

"As long as the repaired platform can withstand the first wave of attack of the Ming army, it will be able to gain time."

"Next, the Qing Dynasty can mobilize all the coats and people to rush to repair more and stronger guns after the first batch of guns, and then you can use the guns to form a confrontation with the Ming army."

Speaking of this, he added: "In short, it is no problem to form a confrontation. ”

"As long as our Qing soldiers stick to the defensive strategy and avoid field battles with the Ming army, they will have a chance."

Hong Chengchou's overall strategy is based on a conservative word, withstanding the first wave, forming a stalemate, and then waiting for the opportunity.

Hearing this, Sony, Zhan Dai and other Manchu ministers were suddenly unhappy again, and said: "It's a confrontation again, a confrontation, my Qing soldiers have always advocated attack, what kind of defensive war to fight?" ”

"That's right, when did my Qing soldiers ever fear a field battle?"

"Isn't it good to destroy the Nanming army in one battle and settle the outcome in one battle?"

"Master, don't listen to Hong Chengchou's nonsense, these Han people have no eggs, they are greedy for life and afraid of death."

As he spoke, Sonny and the other Manchen began to personally attack Hong Chengchou, and then it affected all the Hanchens, no matter how good Hong Chengchou and their Hanchens were, their faces were not very good-looking.

Dolgon's face was even more embarrassed, and he felt a faint sense of anxiety in his heart.

He no longer had the same words as before among the Manchurians, and people's hearts began to become turbulent.

In this way, it seems that before the decisive battle with the Ming army, one more prestige must be established.

Otherwise, people will be confused, and then there is no need to fight at all.

……

"Beacon?"

Xu Yingwei was a little confused, and Chongzhen also felt speechless.

I didn't expect Yan Yingyuan to sacrifice this hand, but the possibility is very high.

The beacon tower was used to transmit warnings in ancient times, and it could transmit warnings hundreds or even thousands of miles away in a short time, so that the Central Plains Dynasty could recruit and mobilize a large army in advance.

Guan Yu also once built beacon towers all over the north bank of the Yangtze River to guard against the Eastern Wu army.

But in the end, he was cracked by Lu Xun crossing the river in white, and finally ended up defeated and died.

So was it useful for Jiannu to build beacons on the coastline of the North Sea? It's so useful!

With the beacon tower surrounding the coast, Jiannu was able to discover the Ming army's sailors coming from the sea in time, and he could make troop dispatches in advance, and rush to repair the platform on the Ming army's march route.

In this way, the surprise attack directly turned into a strong attack, and the conspiracy became a conspiracy.

Recalling that he had asked the scholars to keep it secret just now, Chongzhen felt a little ridiculous.

If Jiannu really builds a beacon tower on the coastline of the Beihai Sea according to the method Yan Yingyuan said, then there is really no need to keep it a secret, anyway, it will eventually form a confrontation and turn into a strong attack.

After a long time, Xu Yingwei said: "Even so, our army still chose to land at the mouth of the Chaohe River. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Tianyi immediately took a few soldiers to place the wargame representing the Ming army at the mouth of the Chaohe River.

"Wait a minute." Yan Yingyuan said, "When the Ming army's naval division was still twenty miles away from the shore, the Jiannu sentry guarding the beacon tower could see the mast of the Ming army's warship or the signal light at night and light the beacon fire. ”

"That is to say, the Jiannu on the North Sea coast will have at least an hour to react."

After saying this, Yan Yingyuan pointed to the sand table and said: "In view of this, I will station 20,000 cavalry plus 40,000 infantry in Cangzhou, Tianjin, Liangcheng and Luanzhou respectively, so as to ensure that after receiving the alarm, at least one 20,000 cavalry will arrive at the landing point of the Ming army before the Ming army goes ashore, and 40,000 infantry will be killed within two hours." ”

Hearing this, Xu Yingwei's face became even more embarrassed, and Chongzhen's face was not very good-looking, because this meant that the Ming army had to fight a beach-grabbing landing battle at the mouth of the Chaohe River before going ashore.

In this way, Xu Yingwei's tactical ideas have completely come to naught.

Because Xu Yingwei's tactical concept was based on the fact that before Jiannu had time to react, he rushed to Sanhe County with lightning speed, and there were only more than 100 miles from Sanhe County to Beijing, even if he moved forward inch by inch, he could move to Beijing within three months, and then it was a decisive battle to attack Beijing.

But now, Yan Yingyuan only used a hundred beacons to make Xu Yingwei's tactical idea come to naught.

If you have to face the Jiannu group of Gongtai from the beginning of the landing, you have to move inch by inch, let alone three months, even a year, you may not be able to reach Beijing, because there are 300 miles from Beihai to Beijing.

To make matters worse, Jiannu can also continue to repair the platform in the rear.

Seeing that Xu Yingwei's tactical ideas were frustrated, the soldiers of the Ming army camp began to admonish one after another.

"Brother Wanheng, you stationed 60,000 troops in Luanzhou, Cangzhou, Tianjin and Liangcheng respectively, adding up to 240,000, Jiannu has so many troops? Don't make up the numbers. ”

Yan Yingyuan said: "240,000 elite soldiers, Jiannu can still make it up. ”

Another scholar advised: "The coastline of the Beihai Sea stretches for thousands of miles, even from the Yanshan section to the Changli section is more than 1,500 miles, and there is more than one suitable place for landing." We can choose a few places and log in at the same time! ”

"That's right, multiple locations landed at the same time, how many places can Jiannu's 240,000 foot cavalry hold?"

"Jiannu has cavalry, don't we have cavalry? It can make the cavalry go ashore first to expel the Jiannu cavalry, and prevent the Jiannu's coat from building a platform. ”

However, Yan Yingwei shook his head again and again when he heard this.

"Landing in multiple places, the results won't make much difference."

Chongzhen also nodded and said: "Yes, the Ming army can land more, and Jiannu can also separate up to resist the enemy, this is a yang conspiracy, and it is impossible for the Ming army to break through to Sanhe County with lightning speed." ”

"Since it's a conspirator, let's attack!" Xu Yingwei said in a deep voice, "Even if Jiannu knows the movements of our army in advance, even if Jiannu adjusts the deployment of troops in advance, even if it pushes forward inch by inch, our army still has a great chance to recover the Beijing Division." ”

After a pause, he continued: "After the sailors approached the coast near the mouth of the Chaohe River, they first forced the Jiannu cavalry back three miles with naval artillery firepower, and took advantage of the gap between the retreat of the Jiannu cavalry, and the two cavalry brigades went ashore first to take up the guard. ”

Jiang Tianyi immediately took a few soldiers and began to move the war games.

First, the model of the naval division's warship was moved to the vicinity of the mouth of the Chaohe River.

Then two models of the Ming cavalry were placed on both sides of the mouth of the Chao River.

There is nothing wrong with this, with the cover of the naval artillery fire, it is impossible for Jiannu's cavalry to approach at all, and it is inevitable to retreat to three or even four miles away, so the cavalry brigade of the Ming army can easily go ashore.

However, the soldiers who belonged to the Jiannu camp on the other side were not idle, and they were also mobilizing troops.

Soon, the Mabu army in the direction of Cangzhou, Liangcheng and Luancheng were all moved.

Yan Yingyuan said: "At most, in two days, the Mabu army stationed in Cangzhou and other places can arrive, and the Jiannu army gathered along the Chaohe River will exceed 200,000, and the army will also build a sufficient number of guns, and after the construction of the front line, more guns will continue to be built in the rear." ”

While Yan Yingyuan was speaking, the scholar placed a large number of models along the Chaohe River.

Xu Yingwei smiled: "Since it is a Yangmou, since it is a strong attack, there is no need to advance along the Chaohe River, the reason why I wanted to march along the Chaohe River before was just to take advantage of the convenience of water transportation, in order to reach Sanhe as quickly as possible, but now that the Chaohe River is blocked, the convenience of water transportation has been lost, so there is no need to move forward along the Chaohe River." ”

After speaking, Xu Yingwei took a long wooden pole and stroked the sand table.

Lao Tzu doesn't take the tide river anymore, take the land route!

(End of chapter)