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Chapter 433 Breakthrough in the Center, Both Wings Fly Together

Before this expedition, Zhu Shuren once made a solemn promise to his wife:
Basically, I don't personally supervise the battle in the field, so I stay in Hefei City.If they won the field battle and were able to fight back, at most they would go to the city for a visit after Fengyang, the central capital, was restored.

The first half of this guarantee has already been broken by Zhu Shuren, who personally supervised the entire battle of Feishui before.

Fortunately, he still has a chance to abide by the second half of the guarantee.

No, on the third day after the restoration of Fengyang City,
The Ming army just gathered together the remains of the city and lit a few huge fires. They also took the broken beams and pillars of the broken houses destroyed by the war in the city as fuel for the fire, and burned most of the corpses. They were concentrated and roughly incinerated, and then buried in several large pits outside the city.

After they had done a little bit of sanitation work so that they could barely see it, and there was no high probability of being infected with the plague when they entered the city, Zhu Shuren entered Fengyang in light clothes and held a simple military parade, which was regarded as an inspection of this newly restored city. The central capital of Ming Dynasty.

"The city has been destroyed like this, it's better to clean it up and build a new city. It's too miserable." Seeing the broken walls and bloody ruins everywhere, Zhu Shuren couldn't help covering his nose and frowning.

In the final melee, the Qing army appeared extremely bloodthirsty and violent. After all, there were 4 or [-] people under the command of Boluo and Yue Le at that time. He will jump over the wall in a hurry and slaughter crazily.

This kind of battle is still difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. The two sides are intertwined. After killing red eyes, the nerves are tense to the point of confusion.

Especially when he knew that he had to retreat in the end, he even made an extra slaughter to vent his anger.Fengyang was originally the central capital of Ming Dynasty, and the generals of the Qing army knew the significance of this place to Ming Dynasty, and they would definitely not want to leave a intact city to Ming Dynasty.

In the eyes of the Tartars, any important city that has political significance to Ming Dynasty, if it has to be abandoned, and it can be abandoned by breaking through, it should be scorched earth.

Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong next to him knew that the prince was sympathetic, so they could only try their best to speak out:

"My lord is kind, but the Tartars are cruel. Some things cannot be avoided. Fortunately, Huainan has returned to the imperial court. The robed Ze and the innocent people who died in battle are enough to comfort me."

Zhu Shuren held his nose: "How much is the final annihilation? Have you estimated it?"

Huang Degong: "Fengyang City finally broke through and went to Huaibei. It is estimated that there were 2 people. The Qing army died in battle, captured and surrendered, about [-]——

In fact, at least 1 of them were caused by the forced rebellion of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han army and the killing of the Manchus. Only a small half of them were caused by the imperial army chasing down the remnants of the enemy after entering the city.

This time, the last general did not dare to take the credit. That old traitor, Geng Zhongming, was really very tenacious in order to protect himself.Before Geng Zhongming's death, most of his troops were killed and wounded, and he also killed thousands of elite Manchu soldiers.

In particular, the Manren Zhenglan Banner, which was controlled by the Boluo Yuele brothers, was the most violent among the troops sent by the Tartars. They were originally ordered to trap and kill Geng Zhongming, but in the end they were exposed early and turned into a full-scale fight.

If these Tazi cavalry were to fight outside the city, they would be able to exert a strong combat power, but God bless me, Daming, these troops were finally dragged down by Geng Zhongming and consumed in the street fighting inside the city, which is really satisfying. "

Zhu Shuren nodded in satisfaction, as he had figured out the secrets before and after the Fengyang Battle.

Then, Cao Bianjiao added some additional information on the side.It is nothing more than the fact that in the past two days, after learning that Fengyang had been captured, the Qing troops in Huaiyuan and Linhuai also abandoned those two counties with no strategic value, and directly crossed the Huaihe River northward with their remnants in a hurry, fleeing to Gui, Bo, rendezvous with Boluo and Yuele.

With all the fighting and calculations, the last fresh force of the Qing army to escape in the Fengyang theater was nothing more than thirty to forty thousand.

At the beginning, Abatai brought more than [-] to [-] main soldiers, plus a number of second- and third-line defenders and strong men, and finally returned to Huaibei with only a few people left after the bloody battle. It can be said to be terrible.

The returning troops only accounted for more than [-]%, and [-]% to [-]% were wiped out.

The Huainan part of the Anhui region in later generations has been completely recovered by the Ming Dynasty so far!Not a single county was left behind!

The Qing army's losses were so miserable, especially in the Manchu cavalry units of its direct descendants, which suffered heavy losses repeatedly.

In the previous battle of Feishui, 9000 people died, and in the subsequent pursuit battles and battalion breaking battles, there were also two to three thousand losses in total.

In this melee in Fengyang, the only remaining Zhenglan Qi with decent combat power lost several thousand in one fell swoop.Calculated before and after, the total casualties of Zhenglan Qi have already exceeded half.

It's just that the Zhenglan Banner is no better than the two white flags. After all, the active troops of the two white flags were wiped out and rebuilt three years ago, and they can't even make up the reserve population.But the Zhenglan Banner was not completely wiped out that year, and this time when we go back, we can squeeze in a crowd of retired veterans in their forties to make up for it again.

Adding up the three banners of the Manchus, the cavalry unit that returned alive barely had a little over 1 people left, which is not bad.The remaining more than 2 Han and Mongolian troops are also separated from Germany.

Boluo fled back to Shangqiu County, the seat of Defu, and refused to defend Shangqiu.And dispatched his elder brother Yue Le to station in Bozhou, trying to reorganize a new line of defense.

The distance between Bozhou and Fengyang County is said to be [-] to [-] miles, and there is a Mengcheng County that is not dangerous in the middle.Of course, the Qing army would not stay in Mengcheng, but directly chose the scorched earth strategy when retreating.
Kill every village you see, slaughter every city you see, directly kill all the people in Mengcheng who don't want to be soldiers and don't want to withdraw with the Qing Dynasty, take away all the materials that can be brought, and burn them if they can't take them away, so as not to be used by the enemy Ming dynasty--

It's not that the Qing army suddenly became more brutal, but Mengcheng and Bozhou are also nominally within the territory of Fengyang Mansion. The Qing army could have seized the central capital of Ming Dynasty, so of course they hoped to use this as a springboard.But now that they have been made so miserable by Da Ming's despicable and shameless provocation of internal strife and treachery, of course they also want to vent their anger on the people of Da Ming Zhongdu, and destroy it if they can't get it.

For other state capitals that had no political significance, the Qing army would not be so ruthless.

So later generations from Huaiyuan to Mengcheng to Guoyang, along the [-]-mile road on both sides of Guoshui, were almost killed by the fleeing Qing army into a semi-no-man's land.This was obviously done to create logistical obstacles for the Ming army's follow-up pursuit, so that the Ming army could not get anything along the way because of food.

If it wasn't for the chasing and driving of the Ming cavalry, they couldn't take the time to kill slowly. When they saw the Ming cavalry approaching, they would have to hurry and continue to flee to the northwest. I am afraid that this kind of killing would continue for many days.

Seeing the miserable conditions of the people along the way, the chasing soldiers of the Ming army naturally shared the same hatred, and became more and more hostile to the Tartars. There is nothing to hold back against enemies who slaughter innocent people.

The high-ranking generals of the Ming army in the rear, after finding out the situation ahead, their morale was also high, and they called for battle one after another, hoping that Zhu Shuren would further command the troops to cross the Huaihe River in an all-round way, take advantage of the victory to pursue the victory, and take down the Guide Mansion, officially advancing the battlefield to the territory of Henan Province .

However, Zhu Shuren poured cold water on this overly optimistic plan:

"Don't be reckless! It's true that our army is winning consecutive battles, but the loss of materials has reached its limit in continuous battles. Since the Qing army has retreated [-] or [-] miles in one breath, it has created a [-]-mile wide road halfway. In the scorched earth and no man's land, how can we guarantee logistics when we attack with all our strength?
Now that the massacre scorched-earth troops of the Qing army have been driven away, and the Qing army has temporarily stopped killing, there is no problem of rushing forward to save the people, so it is better to take a breather.

Our army has a large number of firearms, and the requirements for supplies are very high. Once the battle advances, the bullets, shells, gunpowder, and firearms cannot be supplemented and maintained, and the combat power will drop by several percent!

Especially before, in order to take advantage of the internal hidden dangers of the enemy army, they pretended to storm Huaiyuan and other places, but actually attacked Fengyang in a detour.Our army's firepower preparations for a feint attack on the front line in Huaiyuan were actually consumed. How long will it take to replenish the shells?

The logistics conditions of the Huainan battlefield and the water conservancy of the canal were built by our army after two or three years of rest, so the logistics supplies for the Huainan battle were like a finger.

Once you arrive in Huaibei, there are all bad places that have been destroyed by the Qing army for many years, and the Qing army is poor in the rear, and they don't expect to transport supplies from the north to the south at all. The grain and grass of the Qing army in Huaibei are all settled on the spot, so they don't need to improve The water transportation system has never been built in the past few years.

Our army's style of play, which is extremely dependent on supplies, cannot rashly form a salient from here, otherwise it will frustrate the imperial court, which is no small matter. "

Zhu Shuren's reasoning, people of later generations will definitely understand it as soon as they hear it, the more advanced the army, the more it needs logistics.

And generals who are good at fighting also know that laymen look at the battlefield, and experts look at logistics.

In particular, the style of play similar to "Van Vleet's ammunition volume" has been tested, so you have to wait for it to return to blue.

Of course, the ancients were not so impressed by these principles, so Zhu Shuren had to change the angle and strengthen the evidence from the side:

"Even if you don't read much, you always know the allusions of Yue Wumu in the former Song Dynasty? When Yue Wumu wanted to go north to Heluo and recover Bianliang, how did Zhao Gou and Qin Hui frame him?

Didn't they let the other Southern Song armies retreat, and then said that Yue Wumu had become a lone army in Huaixi and would go deep into the enemy's rear, and would be surrounded by golden soldiers, so twelve gold medals in one day forced him to withdraw his troops? "

When Zhu Shuren mentioned Yue Fei, Cao Bianjiao, Huang Degong and other generals were naturally invigorated, but they were also resentful:
"The emperors and ministers of the former Song Dynasty were just a group of shameless people who framed Zhongliang. I, the Holy Son of Heaven, is now in the court, and I have no doubts about the prince's employment. According to the saying in "Three Kingdoms", it is "There is no difference between the mind and the mind, and the king and the ministers are the most important." ', why bother?"

Cao Bianjiao and the others do not read much, but the popular "Three Kingdoms" still loses a few sentences, so they invariably compared the trust of Emperor Longwu in Zhu Shuren to Liu Bei's trust in Zhuge Liang.

Seeing that these fierce generals hadn't figured out the prince's deep meaning for a while, Gu Yanwu, the aide next to him, helped him speak:
"Generals, be calm and don't be impatient, and carefully consider the meaning of the prince: Zhao Gou and Qin Hui are shameless, but they can't recall Yue Fei for no reason. They first created the established fact that 'Yue Fei has become a lone army', which shows the formation of Solitary forces are indeed dangerous in their own right.

Therefore, for the current plan, if I want to avoid the formation of a lone army in the middle, I have to count on the east and west to take advantage of the opportunity to advance together, to thicken the strategic depth of the Lianghuai theater as a whole, and to push the entire front in parallel to the north. Shangqiu, Bianliang?
What's more, Shangqiu, Bianliang and other places have no special significance to my Ming Dynasty. They are no more eager to restore the old capital than the former Song Dynasty, and it is better to be steady and steady.

Besides, the former Song Dynasty wanted to rush forward twice to recover, and what happened in the end, have the generals forgotten?Before Jingkang, Tong Guan was known as Fuyan, but it only lasted for a year, which made the Jin people see through the decay and weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty.

More than a hundred years later, when Song Meng destroyed the Jin Dynasty, Song Lizong was eager to "duanping and enter Luo", but he only recovered Bianliang for less than a year, but it made the Mongols see through the weakness of the Southern Song Dynasty.This kind of thing should not be put all in one basket for a certain strategic goal. "

Gu Yanwu's help in explaining in this way can be regarded as completely persuading everyone's eagerness to continue to make contributions, so that everyone can be patient and wait for comrades from other fronts to catch up.

Unwilling, Huang Degong asked: "My lord, please give me advice, what should be the first offensive for the court in the next step? I will stay here in Fengyang at the end. Is there any other chance to fight?"

If not, can the troops and horses of the headquarters be transferred to other battlefields to help?It's not that the last general doesn't listen to orders, he just wants to have more fighter opportunities and make more contributions to the country! "

Zhu Shuren falsely raised his hand, signaling to everyone to be calm: "Don't worry, if there is a chance, the king will naturally have a good bowl of water, so you are afraid that there will be no battle?

As for the specific arrangements, my Hefei war zone was originally centered on three routes, but now I have made a breakthrough first.According to the original plan, the next step should be to attack the East Route Army and suddenly cross the Huaihe River from Huai'an to the north.

Take the part of the territory of Huai'an Mansion located north of the Huaihe River, and then go northward from Pizhou along the Sishui River, and go straight to Xuzhou, the hub of the three provinces of Henan, Shandong, and Nanzhi, on the east road!

After taking Xuzhou, go east to the sea, you can push the front to the border of Shandong, and you can also echo Liu Zeqing who is wandering in the Denglai Mountains in the north, and completely connect the front of the East China Sea.

Moreover, compared with the Tartars, my Ming Dynasty has the absolute advantage of the navy. If the main attack is from the west, the advantage of the navy cannot be brought into play.Mainly attacking from the east road, but able to cooperate with the waterway, and finally a little aggressive and deep, without fear of being cut off and surrounded by the Tatars, and even retreating to the coast of Haizhou (Lianyungang) if it is not enough, so that we will remain invincible. "

As Zhu Shuren spoke, he asked someone to bring a map, and made some gestures on it.

Now that Fengyang has been recovered, the middle section of the Huaihe River has turned northward near Fengyang, forming a bulge.If the Ming army in the east can also do the same and move northward quickly, it can level this bulge and pull it eastward to the sea.

And Xuzhou is also considered to be the north-south rush. It has been a little dangerous to defend until Xuzhou is hit. From then on to the northeast, you can rely on the mountainous areas in the southwestern part of Shandong, including Mount Tai, Mengshan and the swampy area of ​​​​Juyeze.

If you can't fight all the way to Xuzhou, there is no danger to defend Suzhou and Pizhou in the middle of the way. Even if you cross the Huaihe River from Huai'an, there will be loopholes everywhere.

Therefore, in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, it is enough if you don’t cross the north. As long as you cross the north, you must advance at least to Xuzhou in one breath.

All the generals are well-informed soldiers. After looking at the map and thinking about it for a while, I have to admit that the prince's view is correct.

Gu Yanwu, who was next to him, saw that everyone had unified opinions, so he continued to help explain: "Besides, our army was originally on the west road, so we deployed a heavy army. In the past two months, Governor Zhang and Azig have been fighting each other. West Road must have been fully prepared. Even if Governor Zhang is forced to organize a counterattack, it will not be sudden.

On the east road, the Tartars did not attack, and our army has been very quiet, showing no threat, so if we attack suddenly, we will be able to catch the enemy by surprise.

Right now, the enemy's defense against the East Road has dropped to the extreme.According to the confessions of prisoners of war compiled and summarized by our army, the Tartars had four troops, Man Dahai, Shang Shan, Geng Zhongming, and Kong Youde, stationed in the direction of Huai'an before the war.

Before the Battle of Feishui, Shang Shan and Geng Zhongming were transferred, leaving only Man Dahai and Kong Youde.This time Geng Zhongming directly fought with the Tatars with the entire army anyway, and both sides suffered losses, and the other Tatars also suffered heavy losses.The Tatars will definitely worry about our going north to Guide, and maybe they will continue to deploy troops from the rear and Huai'an to reinforce Guide.

If the troops in Huai'an and Xuzhou are further weakened, the sneak attack on the East Road will be easier to succeed. "

After hearing this explanation, all the generals couldn't help but their eyes lit up. Huang Degong reacted the fastest, and immediately called for a fight:

"So...Fengyang will no longer attack this way, just saying that it will no longer be the real main attack? But there is still the task of feigning an attack to lure the enemy? Otherwise, how can we put more pressure on the Gui and Bo Qing troops and force them to draw more Xuzhou defenders? Come here? The general is willing to take on the task of feinting to attack Bozhou! Please allow me, my lord!"

This time, Zhu Shuren did not refuse: "It's fine to feint, but you must not be impulsive or greedy for merit, and you must always think clearly in your heart what you are going to do.

At present, Fengyang and Huaiyuan are captured by our army, which can just block the waterway of Woshui, one of the main tributaries of Huaihe River and Huaibei.If General Huang wanted to go, he would start from Huaiyuan County, enter the vortex from the Huai River, and advance along the vortex water all the way to Bozhou and Luyi, but there must be no extra details.

The soldiers and horses sent to you by the king are also mainly warships, sailors, cavalry, and light cavalry guns, and will not give you bulky troops to attack fortifications.Only in this way can you mobilize the enemy flexibly, bluffing, but you don't have to really attack.If you build up momentum, it will be considered a meritorious service. "

"The general obeys orders!" Huang Degong quickly accepted it all.

……

The Ming army in the middle battlefield, under Zhu Shuren's dispatch, quickly shifted into a state of "continuing to feign an attack, building momentum, but not really attacking the fortifications".

Huang Degong's acting skills are good. On the battlefield hundreds of miles away on both sides of the Guoshui, he also came and went like the wind, harassing everywhere, and once surrounded Bozhou and Luyi.At the same time, using this method of completely encircling the city and cutting off the communication between the Qing army inside and outside the city, created panic and suspicion among the Qing army.

For example, when Huang Degong's light and sharp division arrived in Bozhou, he actually had no spare energy to attack Bozhou, which had more than 1 elite troops, as well as several second-line green battalions and strong defenders, and his supplies could not keep up.

But because Yue Le, the elder brother of Bo Luo, the commander of the Qing army in the war zone, was besieged in Bozhou City, the relationship between Bo Luo and Yue Le brothers is still relatively strong. The army threatened and further asked for help from the rear.

Whether it was Dorgon in Beijing, the governor of the Qing army in Shandong, or Man Dahai in Xuzhou, they all received Boluo's request for help, causing panic inside the Qing court.

(End of this chapter)