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Chapter 387
After being summoned by Duoduo for a military meeting, Wanyan Yechen, Zhang Cunren, Geng Zhongming, Sun Zhixie and others, of course, did not dare to slack off, and immediately rushed to the commander of the Chinese army.

After Duoduo briefly asked the question, everyone felt heavy, knowing that it was time to make a decision.

Adviser Zhang Cunren also saw Duduo's hesitation, and took the opportunity to persuade him: "My lord, it seems that Zhu Shuren has temporarily resolved the common hatred brought about by our army's hair-shaving order. Zhu Shuren's determination to stick to it is extremely great.

At the beginning we fought with Zheng Chenggong, the terrain was inconvenient and we had to pay three or four times the casualties to kill a Ming soldier, and the losses were all my Qing elite!
In the past few days, Zheng Chenggong's firepower in guarding the temple has become a little more fierce, and the officials guessed that it must be the new musket allocated to him by Zhu Shuren!If the fight continues, we may not be able to kill five people and kill one Ming soldier!

Right now, our army should try to fight the Ming army in a decisive field battle, and we must never fight a battle of attrition with the Ming army on this battlefield where the Ming army can grasp the convenience of reinforcements at any time!Otherwise, the remaining [-] to [-] troops will sooner or later..."

He inadvertently mentioned a number in his mouth, "8 to 2 troops." It can be seen that compared with the end of the Nanjing Campaign, the Qing army still had more than [-] battle-ready soldiers. In the past ten days, another [-] to [-] people were consumed up.

Not all of these 2 people were killed in battle, and a considerable number of them were injured and lost combat effectiveness, or their physical functions declined and became seriously ill during high-intensity combat.

Duoduo was like an irritable lion, angrily reprimanded: "Of course this king wants to fight Zhu Shuren in the field, but he just doesn't want to fight. He just guards the city and guards everywhere. What can I do? Fighting Jinshan Temple is also trying to break through its blockade!
Since they couldn't find a field battle and couldn't attack Jinshan Temple for a long time, they had to find a place where they could break through the blockade and not be afraid that the local defenders would be continuously sent in by Zhushu people!Only then will our army be able to break through, or encircle and fight for aid! "

In the process of Duduo himself angrily complaining, his thinking gradually became clear:

Under the current circumstances, the reason why it is unwise to attack Jinshan Temple is because this place is directly backed by the Yangtze River, and the dangerous mountain temple is too close to the riverside!There is no way to go around and block the pier.

Although the territory controlled by the Ming army is not large, 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, it will be terrifying.

It would be meaningless to fight a battle of attrition in a place where the undead cannot be completely besieged by a blockade.

If it can be surrounded to death, then the war of attrition is still meaningful. Even if the Ming army wants reinforcements, it must also be reinforced by land warfare.
The key reason why it is impossible to gather aid now is that this "aid" can come all the way by water, and even the last mile can be completed by water!
How did the Qing army, which claimed to be invincible in land battles, seize the opportunity to fight for aid?

Let alone the Qing Dynasty, Xiangyang was able to hold on for seven years during the Song-Yuan War. The Song army was able to go through the Han River and continue to bring in reinforcements.In the end, it was the navy of the Yuan army that overtook the Song army and took control of the Hanshui waterway, and the generals of the Lu family in Xiangyang collapsed.

And let's 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 walk the hundreds of steps to "go to the Cainiao Station to pick it up"!The hooligans wanted to take advantage of the owners going downstairs to the post station in the community to rob and rob the road!
Therefore, Duoduo used his blood to sum up a new point to pay attention to when encircling a point to fight for aid: that place cannot be where reinforcements can deliver goods to the door by water!At least the last mile will give you a chance to intercept and kill by land!
Don’t even think about those camping mountain temples on the piers near the river!Where there are waterways, the Ming army is invincible!
After excluding these Ming army invincible options, Duduo still has three options in front of him:

First, rushed up to fight Zhu Shuren, headed west and returned to Nanjing, and even bypassed Nanjing to fight the Dasheng Pass, and entered the Ma'anshan area of ​​Wuhu.

The second is to cross Tianmu Mountain from Jintan County to the south, try to enter the mountainous area of ​​western Zhejiang, and then cross Mogan Mountain to kill Huzhou and Hangzhou.

In the end, it was to go east to kill 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 for conscription.

Anyway, the defeat of Jinshan Temple ruled out the option of "fleeing to the north" for Duoduo. Of course, there are three options left, east, west and south. This is very reasonable and rigorous, and has exhaustively covered all possibilities.

Guan Duoduo was not sure of the big victory, the place was backed upstream, and Zhu Shuren in Huguang didn't know how many reinforcements could fill it up. Duoduo felt that the remaining troops on hand were not 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 defends the dangerous pass of Tianmu Mountain and has a steady stream of troops. Duoduo went to attack the fortifications, purely looking for death.

The only option left is Jiangyin, which seems the most reasonable.Because Jiangyin is in the east, the road leading to Jiangyin by the Ming army around Nanjing was divided by the occupied area of ​​Duoduo.

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

And as long as Zhu Shuren wants to break through Duduo's land-occupied area, he will be caught by Duduo as an opportunity to encircle and help in the decisive land battle!
In this way, the aggrieved state of Duoduo crossing the river for more than half a month, which has been fighting a siege battle, will be completely reversed!
In his mind, the Qing Dynasty, which is invincible in land battles, can finally fight a field battle with the cowardly Southern barbarians!

It's not easy. In the past half a month, Duoduo cried when he thought about it. He has been forced to fight hard. It's too difficult.

After a short discussion, Duduo made up his mind, and finally asked his subordinates to check for omissions and fill in the vacancies:
"This king wants to move his army to attack Jiangyin. If he can break through, he can at least ruin the hypocritical Wuxi, Suzhou, Huzhou, Hangzhou and other rich places. If he gets money, food and supplies to fight again, he can also rely on the hair-shaving order to coerce ten times more What do you think of the Han people betraying the hypocrisy?"

Advisers such as Zhang Cunren and Sun Zhixie felt that this idea was fine in principle, but Zhang Cunren thought about it in more detail, so there were still two small troubles:
"My lord, Jiangyin is indeed a better choice for us right now, but there are still a few minor issues that need attention. First of all, although Jiangyin is not as directly backed by the river as Jinshanzhou in Zhenjiang, since its place name is Jiangyin, it can be seen that Lijiang is not far away. Far,
If Zhu Shuren can still send reinforcements to Jiangyin directly from the Yangtze River by water, then all our previous summaries and reflections and changing strategies will be useless!To fight Jiangyin, we must first plan carefully, how to prevent the Jiangyin defenders from receiving reinforcements from the Yangtze River waterway, and let the Ming army coming along the river have to fight us in the field! "

Duoduo is in control of the overall situation. Before that, he hadn't thought much about fighting Jiangyin. Naturally, his concept was vague. He was not ashamed to ask: "Have you ever planned it carefully? How should you pay attention to it? Bring me a map!"

Zhang Cunren 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:
"My lord, please look, in fact, our army has already launched a harassing attack on the Jiangyin area a few days ago, wanting to see if we can quickly expand our army's occupied area without paying any price.

But Jiangyin was heavily guarded, and it was not effective to infiltrate and divide with light soldiers and rangers, so they stopped.However, if we attack with the main force and heavy troops this time, we will probably still have a chance.

The key reason why the Jiangyin area is difficult to penetrate is that the Ming army was divided into three parts there-the middle one is Jiangyin County, which guards the low-lying plain between the two mountains on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

To the north of Jiangyin County, all the way to the Yangtze River is Huanggong Mountain. Yan Yingyuan, the prefect of Changzhou, divided his troops and set up a stronghold on Huanggong Mountain in advance. Moreover, Huanggong Mountain extends all the way to the Yangtze River and has deep water berths, so it is impossible to besiege the Huanggong Mountain fortress. Yes, it will be like the Jinshan Temple here, encountering Ming army waterway reinforcements directly transported into the village from the river.

If we want to attack Jiangyin, we can use part of the siege force to intersperse the narrow area between the south of Huanggong Mountain and the north of the northern wall of Jiangyin City, divide the two Ming armies, and focus on single-handedly attacking Jiangyin County, instead of spending it with the Huanggongshan Ming army. Tear, just surround Huang Gongshan and not fight.

If Jiangyin County is in danger, and the Ming army of Huanggongshan goes down the mountain to fight with us in order to rescue the defenders in the city, it will hit our army's arms, and it will take advantage of our invincible field battle in the Qing Dynasty to encircle and annihilate the enemies who are going down the mountain! "

Duoduo listened very carefully, and through Zhang Cunren's detailed analysis, he imagined the local topography with the aid of a flat map.

The terrain around Huanggong Mountain in the north of Jiangyin City may not be well understood by future generations, but just one example can make people think:
Huanggongshan was a Jiangfang fortress until the Anti-Japanese War period. The Japanese army basically won the Songhu Battle at the end of October in 37, but finally entered Nanjing in December, committing brutal and inhuman atrocities.In the middle period of time, the Japanese army was actually mainly gnawing at the Jiangyin Fortress on Huanggong Mountain.

The fortress that allowed the Japanese army in 1937 to attack for a considerable period of time shows the danger of the place.

As for the end of the Anti-Japanese War, when it was time to cross the river, there was also a fierce battle in Jiangyin Fortress, but Chang Kaishen's troops were infiltrated by underground organizations in advance to instigate rebellion, so they won it in one fell swoop.

And the reason why this place is the throat of Jiangfang is also because the Jiangyin area is the narrowest place on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. If you look at the Baidu maps of later generations, you will know that the place where the Jiangyin Bridge was built, the Yangtze River is only about one kilometer wide!
During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese Navy actually tried to use the Yangtze River to invade Nanjing in August, but it was blocked by the Huanggongshan Fortress of the Jiangyin Fortress. Many boats sank on the river and blocked the waterway)
The reason why the Yangtze River is narrow here must have geographical reasons.

Mainly, both sides of the river upstream and downstream are plain river beaches. Without landforms to bind the Yangtze River, the water surface is wide.But to the north of Jiangyin City, Huanggong Mountain has been inserted to the riverside, narrowing the Yangtze River.

Such a mountain that reaches all the way into the river can of course ensure that there is a deep-water pier directly facing the river on the north slope of the mountain. It is absolutely impossible for the army to block it.

Although these things have not happened today, the geographical features are consistent from ancient to modern.

After listening to Zhang Cunren's analysis, Duoduo also took a deep breath, and immediately set the tone of "only block the traffic between Huanggongshan camp and Jiangyin county, but never take the initiative to attack Huanggongshan camp".

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

Although the terrain of Huishan is not as dangerous as Huanggongshan, there is a vast hinterland behind it that cannot be controlled by our army. If we attack Huishan by force, the Ming army in Wuxi can reinforce it, and the main force of the Ming army in the upper reaches of Nanjing can also detour from behind Tianmu Mountain. After crossing Taihu Lake and continuously reinforcing Wuxi and Huishan, it is impossible for us to completely encircle the area.

Yan Yingyuan, the pseudo-prefect of Changzhou, seemed to have obtained Shi Kefa’s permission before, and excavated a section of the canal from Taihu Lake passing through the west of Wuxi County. Taking advantage of the water level of the local canal slightly lower than that of Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River, the release of water flooded hundreds of thousands of mu of low-lying fields, resulting in the destruction of Huishan. Other than the high places, there is no other way to go around, it is Zeguo.Therefore, our army can only give up the attack on the South Road, and can only focus on Jiangyin County. "

Duoduo didn't quite understand Zhang Cunren's words at first glance, mainly because he couldn't imagine some technical details—why the water level of the section of the Jiangnan Canal connecting Taihu Lake and Yangtze River is lower than that of the Yangtze River and lower than that of Taihu Lake at the same time. Low?So that the Ming army can directly flood the low-lying areas with water as long as they dig the embankment of the canal?
Zhang Cunren had to explain a few more words: It turns out that when the Grand Canal was built in ancient times, he was very good at using the drop in water level to reduce the cost of sailing.

The canal between Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River in Wuxi actually has two independent river courses that are far apart. The tank boats sailing from south to north use a river that is closer to the east, while the canal boats sailing from north to south The boat was on another river channel to the west.

Among the two rivers, the river on the east side sails from south to north, and the water level point selected is that the water level on the side of Taihu Lake is high, and the water level at the point where it finally flows into the Yangtze River is low, and the point where it flows into the Yangtze River is further downstream.In this way, the canal water will naturally flow at a speed from south to north, from Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River, and the tank boats don't need to pole and paddle, just go along with the current.

As for the river course sailing from north to south, the point selected to flow into the Yangtze River is further upstream, and the water level of the Yangtze River at that point is higher than the water level of Taihu Lake. The water flowing to Taihu Lake can also wade directly into Taihu Lake.

Such a double-channel design of south high and north low plus south low and north high ensures that each channel of the canal has a potential energy with a water level higher than that of the middle river section. As long as the middle embankment is dug, water can be released to flood the low-lying areas immediately. .

The river channel from south to north will be flooded with water from Taihu Lake after excavation.The river channel from north to south will be flooded with Yangtze River water after excavation.

So Yan Yingyuan didn't need much construction work before, and within the first few days after the Qing army just crossed the river, it was done very quickly, and it was too late for the Qing army to attack and cross.

There were even a few teams of cavalry scouts from the Qing army at that time. Because they caught up with the Ming army breaking the embankment and releasing water, when they infiltrated Huishan and Wuxi, they were directly called "flooding the seven armies". Unfortunately, the scale was too small and they were flooded. Only a few small teams of scouts.

The cost for Yan Yingyuan to do this is nothing more than the impact of hundreds of thousands of mu of fertile land in Wuxi County and Jiangyin County.But compared to the consequences of letting the Qing army infiltrate into rich places such as Wuxi and Suzhou, leading to corruption in the south of the Yangtze River, 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 was drowned. The local people were transferred by Yan Yingyuan to Jiangyin County and Wuxi County to help fight to the death.

As for the farmland, it is just winter now, and the crops have already been harvested. If Dodo can be wiped out before spring plowing next year, and then the embankment is rebuilt to drain water slowly, these fields can still be planted next year.At most, it is impossible to grow those high-priced economic crops that require less water, and can only grow rice, which should be fully irrigated in advance.

Considering the frequent famines in the world today, it is not a bad thing to replant all rice. Wouldn't it be nice to earn less money and solve more food problems.

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Duoduo, Zhang Cunren and others, after sorting out in the middle of the night, finally made a plan for the subsequent transfer to Jiangyin.

Although he hadn't fought yet, he looked down on Yan Yingyuan and other unknown people at first, but after the military discussion ended, Duduo, who had always been arrogant, rarely calmed down, and even had a sense of danger.

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

Huanggongshan can't fight, and neither can Huishan. The only thing that can be fought is to divide and siege Jiangyin County!It also eliminated the possibility of the Qing army's detour and infiltration!
Duoduo could imagine that since Yan Yingyuan could force the Qing army to attack only the county seat, the defense of the county seat must be very tight, otherwise no one would force the enemy to attack only a vital point that he was not sure to defend.

He didn't know exactly how Yan Yingyuan would prepare, but he was definitely well prepared.

This is a layout of "whatever defends the enemy must attack".

With this vague uneasiness in mind, in the early morning of the next day, the main force of the Qing army continued to move out one after another, retreating from the front line of Jinshan Temple, and retreating to Danyang County and Wujin County.

The Qing army was not afraid of the Ming army chasing it in the field, because if the Ming army was willing to pursue it, Duoduo would be very happy: after holding back for more than half a month without fighting in the field, the Ming army finally came out of the tortoise shell fortification!Then fight back quickly!

Because the Qing army's transfer was relatively concealed at the first time, and it was transferred in batches, the Ming army did not immediately discover the clues.

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

After a day of confirmation, the next day the Ming army knew that Duoduo's main force had really shifted, and only some rear troops stayed in the direction of Zhenjiang.

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

Cao Bianjiao, a famous cavalry general of the Ming army, was stationed at the advance base in Jurong County. Cao Bianjiao immediately asked Zhu Shuren for instructions to pursue the retreating Qing army.

"Butang! Duoduo must be weak in his successors. If he wants to go east to Jiangyin, let the last general lead his troops to chase after him! Taking advantage of the transfer of the Qing army, it will be chaotic and out of touch!"

Zhu Shuren has already given the title of minister of the Ministry of War, so the generals no longer call him the governor, but instead call him the minister.

When Zhu Shuren heard this, he immediately raised his hand to stop Cao Bianjiao's eagerness to fight: "General Cao, don't be impatient. Although Duoduo is frustrated, he still has enough troops in the field. We are going to catch up now, and it is in Duduo's arms.

I also estimated the supply of Duoduo. This time, the battle at Jinshan Temple lasted for more than ten days, and the consumption of ammunition must be extremely huge, no less than the battle of Nanjing City.It is estimated that at least [-]% of the army's firearms reserves have been used up.

If this happened again, he was still frustrated under the city of Jiangyin, unable to break through the siege, and his artillery would be completely useless. Without ammunition, it would be a pile of iron bumps.

The Qing army did not pay attention to muskets but only to cannons, and the muskets would turn into fire sticks.The arrows may not be shot, but the prospects are worrying.Let's wait for him to meet in the city of Jiangyin and die, and the consumables are exhausted, and finally wipe out Duoduo in one fell swoop! "

Cao Bianjiao was not reconciled, and said anxiously: "What the ministry has seen, is certainly prudent. But what the general is worried about is that Jiangyin County may not be able to hold on for a long time.
If we don't push forward immediately, Jiangyin will soon fall, and rich places such as Wuxi and Suzhou will be slaughtered and looted by the Qing army!

This Jiangyin County is no better than Jinshan Temple. Although Jinshan Temple is dilapidated, there is no city wall, only a strong mountain village, but after all, there is a dock near the river, and our army can continue to fight for consumption.Even though Jiangyin is stronger than Jinshan Temple, reinforcements cannot be transported into the city by water!How many times can the walls of such a small county withstand the Qing army? "

Zhu Shuren still looked like he was holding the pearls of wisdom: "Don't worry, Yan Yingyuan and I have been with me for many years, and I have learned the essence of city defense from my subordinates. I guess his ability to defend the city is not inferior to that of my cousin Zhang Huangyan." .

And I sent him to Jiangyin before the war to prevent accidents.Now it has been nearly 20 days since Duoduo crossed the river. Jiangyin was not the main direction to bear the pressure. He had so many days to prepare for emergency repairs.

In addition, before the Qing army fought over, I allocated some guns and ammunition for him from the Yangtze River water transport in advance. Even if he is besieged now, the supplies brought in before are enough for him to defend the city.

We will rest assured to wait for Duoduo to suffer another ten days and a half months of frustration under the city of Jiangyin, further deplete his vigor and supplies, and then go to the decisive battle to clean up the battlefield! "

The other generals under his command saw that Zhu Shuren trusted Yan Yingyuan, an old subordinate, and firmly believed that Yan Yingyuan could last for a long time, so it was difficult to say anything.

The Ming army fought steadily like this, advancing slowly. The main force of the Ming army around Nanjing looked like they were going to fight in a stalemate. The army immediately turned back to seize the opportunity of field battle.

Whenever the Qing army turned around, the Ming army immediately guarded the camp, forcing the Qing army to attack the camp.

This oppression also made Doduo lose his temper. During the process, he sent Wanyan Yechen to try to kill the carbine suddenly, but the carbine hit the iron plate directly. He didn't get any benefits and hundreds of casualties were in vain. Thousands of people.

The two sides just dragged each other like this, allowing the Qing army to arrive at the city of Jiangyin and began to attack the city with all its strength.

This is also the last attempt of the Qing army to break through the encirclement. If you can't break through here, there is no need to break through.

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PS: [-] words will not be disassembled.It also avoids the trouble of interrogation. Recently, the management has been strictly controlled.

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