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Chapter 381
Now that we know that three or four counties have been lost, and even if we delay for a while, the territory lost will not exceed five counties. The Jiangyin line has a high probability of defending and preventing the spread of Tartarism.

Then, Zhu Shuren didn't have too much urgency, he insisted on underestimating the enemy, and immediately turned to a full-scale attack on Duoduo.

After all, Duoduo still has more than 8 battle-ready soldiers. Although he is exhausted, when Zhu Shuren arrives at the Danyang and Jurong battlefields, the Qing army will have at least two or three days of rest, and their physical strength will be greatly restored. There is not much weakness to take advantage of.

In contrast, if the damage is controlled within the range of five counties, and Doduo's supplies are slowly consumed, and when he is full of strength, he will be exhausted again and again, and he will fight much easier and more stable in the end.

Considering that Duoduo has already entered the rich and prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Shuren reckoned that it is impossible to consume until the other party runs out of food.

If there is a real shortage of food, it is estimated that the people in the five counties of Chang and Zhen will be massacred and looted first, and the loss will be too great, and the damage to the sustainable productivity of the Jiangnan area will be too great.

Therefore, in terms of food supply, at most, as the winter deepens, the feed for the horses will become worse and worse, which will relatively weaken the continuous combat endurance of the Qing cavalry.In addition, the food quality of the Qing army also has a high probability of declining——

Now Duoduo has just crossed the river for four days, relying on robbery, he can even maintain the life of the troops with wine and meat.The reason why they were able to attack Nanjing so ruthlessly before was also related to Duoduo's willingness to spend money and spend money to reward the army.Which of the soldiers participating in the siege didn't eat wine and meat for two days to boost morale.

As for the extravagant life of wine and meat, Duoduo only lasted for ten days and a half months at most. After eating up the wine and meat accumulated by the wealthy households in the five counties of Changzhen, no supplies from outside were brought in, and they were blocked. As for being hungry, I will definitely become a vegetarian soon.

If the stalemate lasts for nearly a month, there may even be a shortage of fresh vegetables and refined grains, and they can only eat pickled vegetables or at least coarse grain pancakes.

In addition to the decline in the quality of food and grass, Zhu Shuren's expectation for the supply of the enemy is to gradually weaken the supply of weapons, ammunition and arrows of Duoduo.

In terms of weapons, the armor rate of the Qing army will rapidly weaken as they continue to launch sieges.In the two days under the city of Nanjing, despite the soldiers of the Eight Banners, less than 3000 people died in battle, and the rest were Han and Mongolian troops.However, there are already more than [-] pairs of excellent iron-clad cotton armor left on the bodies of those who died in the Eight Banners.

When the Qing army attacked fortified positions, they often put several sets of heavy armor on the elite dead soldiers, but usually they didn't have so many armors, and they didn't use them in field battles.Therefore, they are all temporarily allocated before the siege, so that the lightly armed troops who do not need to ascend first can even out the armor and lend it to the dead soldiers temporarily.

The loss of these dead soldiers under the city means that at least twice their number of armored armor has been left behind. A considerable part of the surviving Eight Banners soldiers will turn into light armor, or have to strip the high-quality soldiers of the Han and Mongolian soldiers. armor.

The loss of swords, guns and weapons in these aspects is nothing, and the Qing army is not bad for this kind of swords and guns.Another shortcoming of armament supply is mainly firearms, ammunition and arrows.

In Nanjing during those two days, the artillery of the Qing army was used too intensely. On the first day, four or five doors were injured by the Ming army and damaged in battle. Intensity fired, bombing and other damage occurred.

The combat power of Duoduo's Hongyi cannon dropped from 46 at the beginning of crossing the river to barely 30. Even if a few can be rescued after subsequent repairs, the total number will not exceed 35.

Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it began to try to cast cannons in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and it was considered stable mass production in the eighth year of Chongzhen. After that, it took ten years to save more than 200 Hongyi cannons. More than a dozen doors, slowly climbing to [-] doors per year.

After entering the customs, relying on the inventory of the Ming army and the Chuang army who seized half of the north, the total number of Qing army's Hongyi cannon stock exceeded the peak of [-].After integrating the military production capacity of North China, the total annual cannon castings in the Qing control area can be further increased from [-] pieces outside the customs to about [-] pieces.

Therefore, Duoduo lost fifteen or six Hongyi cannons in a few days. This battle loss is definitely not a small number, which is equivalent to one-third of the total production capacity of the Qing Dynasty next year.As long as Zhu Shuren destroys more than [-] heavy artillery pieces of the Qing army every year in the future, the artillery force of the Qing state can be reduced.

The loss of artillery is just a microcosm, behind it is the rapid depletion of Qing army consumables.

According to the limited intelligence Shi Kefa collected from the captives, Zhu Shuren estimated that with one or two more battles like the Nanjing Battle, the Qing army's cannons would all go silent due to lack of ammunition.

Consumables such as musket ammunition and crossbow arrows will also be exhausted after three or five battles of this intensity.Of course, if the Qing army was willing to use cannons to shoot stone balls, they could squeeze some gunpowder from the musketeers for the cannons, but anyway, the meat would rot in the pot, and the cannons would consume a lot of ammunition, so the muskets would have to be scrapped in advance.

Of course, Zhu Shuren was always very clear about the prerequisites for realizing all this: he had to ensure the thoroughness of the blockade, and completely cut off even the last trace of contact between Duoduo and the Qing army in Jiangbei.

In the future, even if there is no field battle, it does not mean that the Ming army has done nothing.The water warfare patrols on the river must always maintain a high intensity, and the division of troops on land must not be lax in chasing and intercepting the mouth. Finally, in the mobile warfare of the Qing army, they caught the loopholes and hit them with one hit!
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After deploying this strategy and resolutely implementing it, in the next three or four days, the smoke of land battles on the Changzhen battlefield really dissipated for a while.

Duduo was mentally prepared at the beginning, "Wait for Zhu Shuren to chase rashly, and then he will turn around and fight back. Before the morale of the Qing army is extremely low, hurry up and fight a decisive field battle to gather around the point to fight for reinforcements."

Therefore, after he retreated to Jurong County, he showed weakness and asked the rear army to put on a look of embarrassment. On the way back to Jurong from Nanjing, he even left some looted heavy property and war-damaged veterans First.

It's clear that Wen Chou, who had watched too much Romance of the Three Kingdoms and wanted to imitate Cao Cao's false retreat by throwing away property to lure Yuan Shaojun into disorder, snatched property and advanced lightly.

With Zhu Shuren's IQ, how could it be possible for him to covet such petty profits and fall for such tricks?So Duoduo's acting skills this round are in vain.

In contrast, on the way back to Jurong and Danyang, Duoduo was very concerned about getting supplies from Jiangbei again.

After his main force crossed the river some time ago, the fleet of the rear army was intercepted and killed by the Zheng family's uncle and nephew.But at that time, there were still a small number of warships and small boats that Duduo stopped the loss in time and pulled them back to the wharf of Longtanwei to hide.

Relying on this small boat, it is absolutely impossible to transport the army back to Jiangbei after the failure of the storming of Nanjing. Even if there are loopholes for the Ming army to patrol the river at night, how many people can this small boat transport?Dodo can't abandon the army and flee, can he?
In addition, Duoduo didn't feel that he was dying until now. He didn't want to escape at all. He was just afraid that the prolonged battle would lead to insufficient supplies of shells and gunpowder, so he wanted to use these ships to sneak back to Jiangbei to transport some of the most scarce armaments.

Food, arrows, armor, these all take up too much space, there is no need to transport them from Jiangbei, and the remaining precious transport energy cannot be wasted on these heavy things. Duoduo made repeated calculations and decided to use all the smuggling capacity to fight A handful, all used to make gunpowder.

On November [-]th, two nights after Duduo's Nanjing campaign ended, Duduo, who had returned to Danyang, ordered to gather the only fleet under his command and sneak around to avoid Jinshan Temple on the river. Depart from the wharf of the town, go to Yizheng County, Yangzhou Prefecture, Jiangbei in the dark,

In order to get in touch with the generals of the Qing army who were stranded in Yangzhou, and transfer gunpowder.The Qing army also stationed a large amount of gunpowder in Yangzhou, including those that were slowly transported from the rear during this period. If the materials in Yangzhou can be used for the Jiangnan campaign, Duoduo will definitely have to fight.

However, although the scale of this smuggling was many times smaller than that of the troop transport a few days ago, and it seemed to be many times more secretive, it still fell into the trick of the Ming army patrolling the river.

Zheng Hongkui's navy was stationed in Jinshan Temple, and the scout boats were scattered very densely, and the Ming army also spent a lot of money. A few days ago, after Zhu Shuren learned that Duoduo had crossed the river, he immediately asked his men to allocate another batch for Zheng Chenggong. If Zheng Chenggong can't use up the telescope, he can give some to his uncle.

Zhu Shuren is not worried at all about the proliferation of high-power telescopes with higher precision than this era. Even the low-level officers of the scout fleet of the Ming army can be distributed. Even if there is a risk of being captured by the enemy during the war, he doesn't care.

Anyway, the telescope is not too heaven-defying equipment in land battles, mainly because the navy is very useful, and the navy of the Ming army is an absolute advantage.As long as Duoduo can be completely killed and sealed this time, this risk is worth taking.

What's more, if in the water battle with Doduo, the officers of the scout ships of the Ming army were occasionally captured and captured, as long as Doduo was completely wiped out in the end, wouldn't these captured things be returned to Zhu Shuren's pocket?

To use a famous saying in the 21st century, it is "the things that kill you are mine, and you don't need to give them to me."

Unless new equipment was seized during contact with the Qing army in Jiangbei, it would be completely lost and analyzed and guarded by the enemy.

In addition, in order to better intercept and kill the smuggling ships of the Qing army, Zhu Shuren took out a new equipment during this period of time and used it with the telescope-he equipped the scout ships of the Ming army with some reflective cups made of shiny metal. That is, some bright metal is punched into a concave surface and covered behind the torch to focus the light and achieve the original searchlight-like effect.

This kind of thing is actually technically worthless. As early as BC, the lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt used a copper mirror reflector to reflect the flame of the lighthouse.It’s just that the ancient reflectors don’t have mathematical blessings, they don’t calculate the reflection curvature, and the efficiency is relatively low. The craftsmanship and precision of this era can be improved a little bit, so that the searchlight can be easier and farther away.

The Ming army had so many new weapons for patrolling the river. Duoduo's attempt naturally ended in failure. Most of his last dozens of ships that could cross the river were discovered by Zheng Hongkui's scout boats from Jinshan Temple, Fireworks resembling sky-swapping monkeys were immediately released on the river as a quick warning, attracting a large group of warships to intercept and kill them.

Duoduo also killed hundreds of elite soldiers who participated in the smuggling in vain, and he was so angry that he was almost out of breath.He also ignored that the troops under his command were still clearing Wujin County and wanted to attack Jiangyin.On the Zhenjiang side, he couldn't help but want to open a new hole again, and divide tens of thousands of troops to kill Jinshan Temple first, and pull out Zheng Hongkui, the existence with a bone in his throat.

(End of this chapter)