"The mountains and rivers are dying, China is here, and the sun and the moon are reopening tomorrow" These fourteen words were hung on the north gate tower by Wang Wu.

These 14 characters are not only slogans, but also clearly show that the military and people of Jingzhou will officially restore the Ming Dynasty from now on, and will no longer be the land of the Qing Dynasty and the people of the Qing Dynasty.

Restoring his sight is the only banner that Wang Wu can play now.

Even if there is not much market for the restoration of sight, it is even impossible to "bewitch" the people of Huguang, where Jingzhou is located, to rise up against the Qing Dynasty and set off a vigorous anti-Qing movement in the third year of Kangxi.

But apart from this banner, Wang Wu has no banner to play at the moment.

Independent resistance to the Qing Dynasty is unique, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

After Wu Sangui rebelled, he dared to establish the Zhou Dynasty on his own and continued to fight with the Qing court, but the Wu army was strong and strong, and it had become a general trend, won popularity, and had the qualifications to win the championship.

Wang Wu doesn't have the strength of his father-in-law.

At present, without the banner of restoring the Ming Dynasty, he can't even make his subordinates work together with him, because eighty percent of the main generals under his command are from the Ming army.

Regaining his sight, he decided without any hesitation.

After the blood of the city was exhausted, a meeting that decided the fate of more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Jingzhou was quickly held.

After the generals who had been killing all night received military orders from all over the place and rushed to the venue, the venue was instantly filled with the smell of blood.

Looking around at the generals who were all covered in blood, Wang Wu did not investigate why yesterday's military order was out of shape and caused an incident, which led to all his previous efforts and plans in vain, because there was no point in pursuing this matter.

Get straight to the point and ask directly whether the generals will stick to it or fight out.

Even though Wang Wu is the backbone of everyone, and this team of people and horses was also brought out of Wushan by him desperately, and has a high prestige in the eyes of generals and soldiers, but in the grand strategy related to the life and death of everyone, Wang Wu is not arbitrary, but wants to listen to the opinions of the audience.

His vision may not be right.

Even if it is correct, if there is a disagreement with the others, or if some of his subordinates do not agree with him, then it is difficult to say that there will be no mistakes in the implementation process.

Historically, many battles have been lost because of divisions within the camp.

For example, if a general has reservations about the above opinions, he may be resistant to or dissatisfied with the task when he leads the army.

In this way, even if there is no betrayal, the execution will inevitably be greatly reduced.

Don't advance when it's time to advance, don't fight when it's time to fight, don't retreat when it's time to retreat, and don't advance when it's time to join forces

All kinds of mistakes are superimposed, and what ushers in is failure.

At present, the strength of the Ming army in Jingzhou cannot withstand any blows.

That is, there is no chance of fault tolerance.

A small mistake will bury this team that has just cut its braids and killed the tartars to reopen the big tomorrow.

Therefore, Wang Wu needs to unify the opinions of his subordinates, twist all the forces into a fist, and let everyone exert force in one direction.

Instead of a group of people facing forward, a group of people hesitating to face backwards.

Also called to participate in the military meeting were Guo Faguang, Luo Zimu and others, and Jin Guansan and Li Wen were also present.

Hedong Junliu is mother and daughter were placed elsewhere, and Wang Wu didn't want the mother and daughter to be frightened by these generals who had just slaughtered the city.

Ma Changyuan, the commander of the artillery battalion, was the first to speak, thinking that since it was reversed, he would simply leave Jingzhou, and the two battalions of water and land immediately dispatched the whole army to attack Wuchang, and then desperately developed to Jiangxi and Jiangnan downstream.

It is roughly the same as the route of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they all think that as long as they take the southern capital, they can have half of the capital.

Xu Deyi, the commander of the baggage battalion, agreed to seize Wuchang, but did not agree to attack the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but thought that Henan should be attacked immediately, causing the Central Plains to shake, and taking advantage of the fact that the Tartar court in Yanjing did not react, he went straight to the heart of Yanjing, making the center of the Tartar court unstable.

This strategy is a bit like the Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army.

I have to say that Xu Deyi, who was born in the old Shun army, is very bold and adventurous.

Both strategies are based on "attacking".

However, no matter which strategy is chosen, it means that Jingzhou and Wuchang must be abandoned, because with the current strength of the Ming army, it is simply impossible to divide troops and defend them, and at the same time make every effort to forge ahead.

There are only a few thousand soldiers who can fight, and only a thousand can be called cavalry.

Therefore, Wang Wu first ruled out the proposal to enter Henan for development.

He did not directly deny it, but asked Xu Deyi how long the Qing army would inevitably mobilize cavalry to besiege the Ming army after entering Henan, and how long it could hold out in Henan with the current infantry and cavalry combat strength of the Ming army.

"This"

Xu Deyi wiped the dried blood clots on his eyelids, "When the first emperor entered Henan, he responded to every call, and there were more than hundreds of thousands of followers."

It means that no matter how many cavalry there are in the Tartars, as long as the Ming army enters Henan, it will instantly change from one to ten, from ten to hundred, and from one hundred to ten thousand

As long as it can form a huge momentum in Henan, the Tartar cavalry will be killed by the heap of people.

Wang Wu shook his head secretly when he heard this, Xu Deyi obviously made a dogmatic mistake, and thought that it was now the Chongzhen period.

Before he could speak, Zhang Tianfang, the commander of the middle battalion, said: "Back then, Henan was full of disaster victims, but now there are disaster victims in Henan?" Even if there are disaster victims, we will be asked to come out with hundreds of thousands, but what's the use? Tens of thousands of people asked dozens or hundreds of cavalry to chase after them, is there still a lot of them? ”

Zhang Tianfang thinks that Xu Deyi's strategy is simply a joke, and it is a death to enter Henan with such a few people.

There was no need for the Tartar court in Yanjing to send a large army, and the Ming army would be trapped and die in Henan.

Because, a single strong wall can make the Ming army without a foundation starve to death.

There is a precedent for this.

Four years ago, when Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, and Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the military department, entered the Yangtze River, an anti-Qing uprising led by Yang Yuhuan broke out in Henan, with more than 100,000 people.

As a result, Jia Hanfu, the governor of Henan at the time, simply cleared the wilderness with a strong wall, and suppressed more than 100,000 rebels by means of hardening the village and fighting in a daze.

It took less than half a year.

People Yang Yuhuan is more than 100,000 young and strong, how many people are there?

"If you can't enter Henan, then follow the old horse's, let's go to Jiangnan."

Xu Deyi is also a real person, knowing that he thinks too simply, so he supports Ma Changyuan's strategy instead.

Zhang Tianfang did not object to the strategy of eastward expansion, and it was Wang Wu who opened his mouth to ask Wang Shengming, who was in charge of commanding the water camp, how many boats the water camp had now.

"At present, there are more than 60 warships, and the rest are civilian ships, merchant ships, and even fishing boats."

Wang Shengming told the truth.

At the beginning, more than 100 Qing warships were captured in Wuchang, but some of the warships were originally in disrepair and fell into disrepair. Therefore, after his rectification, there are now more than 60 ships that can really be called warships.

Wang Wu nodded and asked how many people could be transported eastward at one time if all the ships were added.

Wang Shengming estimated, giving a maximum figure of 10,000 people.

Wang Wu asked again whether the current combat effectiveness of the water battalion could break through the blockade of the Qing army in Anqing and Jiujiang.

"Can't!"

Guo Faguang, the chief soldier of Zhang Huangyan's department, who was born in the "navy," actually "rushed to answer," but he did not say that the current strength of the water camp could not defeat the Qing troops in Anqing and Jiujiang, but that as long as the order was given to the eastward march, the Ming army would have no water camp.

"Why is it gone!"

Ma Changyuan and others were puzzled.

Guo Faguang didn't know who Ma Changyuan was, so he only asked the other party: "As far as I know, the soldiers in your water camp are all fishermen and locals recruited from Wuchang and Jingzhou, why did these locals follow you and leave their hometowns?" ”