Nanming Yiming

Chapter 181 Surrounding Nanjing Again
After annihilating Tan Tai, the Ming armies from all walks of life joined forces under the city of Poyang.

金声桓的江西军在刘一鹏的35000人抵达后，兵力增加到了10万5千人；李元胤部经过连番厮杀还有24000人，钱默将靖南营留在了广信府，带着神机营和湖州营的14000人以及4000蒙古骑兵来到了鄱阳。

Although Qian Mo had the fewest troops, Jin Shenghuan and Li Yuanyin did not dare to underestimate the Governor's Mansion of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.Through these two battles, they also knew the strength of the Zhejiang Army. If there was no Shenji Battalion, how many troops would they have to fill in?
Jin Shenghuan clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for sending troops to help me, and breaking the siege of Poyang for me. It's just that Poyang and Nanchang have been besieged by the Qing army, and the food and grass consumption in the city is extremely high. I'm afraid it will be difficult to supply the food and grass for the two of you."

It stands to reason that Qian Mo and Li Yuanyin are guest soldiers, and they came to help Jin Shenghuan fight the Qing soldiers, so Jin Shenghuan should be responsible for the food supply.But when Jin Shenghuan was at his peak, he had 30 troops. Although he has lost troops in successive battles, he still has nearly 20 troops in Jiangxi.

Before the military rations were supplied by the Qing court, he naturally didn't feel it.Where does the Yongli court pay the food and salaries now?With the strength of Jiangxi Province, he must not be able to support so many soldiers. If he and Wang Deren had not made a lot of money before, they would have run out of food.

Qian Mo knew Jin Shenghuan's situation well, and knew that he was really out of food.In fact, Qian Mo was also responsible for the shortage of food in Jiangxi.Before and after Jin Shenghuan raised his army, Qian Mo bought grain at low prices in Jiangxi, causing a sharp drop in the grain stocks in the hands of people in Ganzhou and Nanchang, so that he could sell grain at high prices and make huge profits. In fact, he was the one who caused the grain shortage in Jiangxi.

Qian Mo said: "I understand the situation in Jiangxi. The Duke of Yu really has no food. Don't worry, the young governor. Huizhou and Guangxin are not far from Raozhou. The grain and grass for your army will be supplied by the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

"Susong and northern Zhejiang are rich in supplies. Originally, I was supposed to subsidize Duke Yu with some food. However, due to the heavy rain in northern Zhejiang, there was almost no harvest in summer. I am too busy to take care of myself now. I hope Duke Yu will not blame me."

Jin Shenghuan had a good impression of Qian Mo, and now he was able to survive until now only by the information and weapons provided by Qian Mo.However, this Yue Guogong is really not simple. Don't look at the beautiful words, he provided Li Yuanyin's military rations with additional conditions. This is to admit that Guangxin Mansion belongs to his Jiangsu and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion.

Although Jin Shenghuan has never occupied Guangxin Mansion, and Qian Mo also recovered Guangxin Mansion from the Qing army, but geographically, Guangxin Mansion belongs to Jiangxi. Qian Mo wants Jin Shenghuan to recognize his rule over Guangxin Mansion. .

Now Jin Shenghuan has a request for Qian Mo, and it is unrealistic to ask Qian Mo to spit out the meat he ate, so he said: "Having Yue Guogong sit in Guangxin and Huizhou can ensure the safety of our two wings of Raozhou. You can sit back and relax."

Seeing Jin Shenghuan's cooperation, Qian Mo fortunately gave him another favor, saying: "Young commander-in-chief killed Ahadan, the general of the Qing army, and the Duke of Yu killed Tan Tai, the general who conquered the south of the Qing Dynasty. Both are unprecedented achievements. I will write a letter here." The Son of Heaven asks for credit for the two of you!"

Hearing what Qian Mo said, the two felt a little embarrassed, and they said: "This time, the annihilation of Tan Tai's tribe is all due to the master's strategizing, and I dare not take credit for it!"

The news of Yongli bestowing marriage to Qian Mo has spread all over the world. Everyone knows the difference between closeness and closeness, so naturally they dare not erase Qian Mo's credit. Qian Mo can give the credit for beheading Tan Tai to Jin Shenghuan. That's enough.

Li Yuanyin said excitedly: "Tan Tai's entire army has been wiped out, and now the defenses in northern Jiangxi are empty. I think we can divide our troops into two groups. The Duke of Yu led the army to reinforce Nanchang from the front; the Duke of Yue and I conquered Hukou and Jiujiang from the other route. We copied He Luohui's retreat route. In this way, we can gather and annihilate He Luohui's army under the city of Nanchang."

Li Yuanyin's words had to make Qian Mo look at him again. His route of attack was almost exactly the same as Qian Mo expected.At this moment Bil Tahar hurried to Qian Mo's side and whispered a few words.

Although Qian Mo acted calmly, the slight frown still gave people a bad feeling.

Qian Mo said: "The situation has changed. He Luohui has withdrawn its troops from Nanchang and is preparing to retreat to Jiujiang. It seems that the news of our complete annihilation of Tan Tai has leaked out."

"This is the little prince of the Horqin Tribe of Mongolia, and also Qian Mo's sworn brother An Da. The Mongolian cavalry under his command is willing to help me fight against the Ming Dynasty. The 1 Mongolian cavalry in Nanchang took this opportunity to break away from the army of He Luohui and are on their way. Poyang joins our army, please also ask Duke Yu to order the defenders along the way not to block them."

Qian Mo's words are a bit too informative, and He Luo's sudden withdrawal of troops will make the previous assumption completely come to nothing.What is even more surprising is that he actually persuaded the little Mongolian prince to betray him.

Li Yuanyin saw with his own eyes how Qian Mo used the Mongols to kill Li Guohan step by step, so he was no stranger to this. Jin Henghuan still hadn't fully understood Qian Mo's coquettish manipulation.

But he still said: "Duke Yue, don't worry, I'll give the order."

Qian Mo said: "According to reliable sources, Boluo's troops have already arrived in Luzhou. In five or six days at the most, the Qing army will surely return to the city of Nanchang."

"According to the current situation, it is not advisable for us to go north to pursue He Luohui. It is too late to attack Jiujiang and Hukou. We should take this opportunity to strengthen Nanchang's defense force and fight against the main force of the Qing army under the city of Nanchang."

Jin Shenghuan said: "Nanchang City has Wang Deren's 8 soldiers and horses, and I will lead another 10 troops to reinforce it. But in this way, there are only 5000 people left in Poyang City. Please help me."

Qian Mo said: "Since Boluo has arrived in Luzhou, Hauge's army is probably not far from Nanjing. I will send my army north to capture Qimen County, occupy Huizhou, and then go to fight against Hauge. Please help the young governor to guard Poyang."

Jin Shenghuan also clasped his fists and said, "Then please trouble the young governor to help guard Poyang!"

Li Yuanyin said: "I must ensure that Poyang is not lost, but this food and grass?"

Qian Mo said: "There is no need to worry about the young commander. I will mobilize food and grass from Huizhou and Guangxin. I believe that Boluo has learned the lesson from Tan Tai's division of troops to attack Nanchang and Poyang. This time, he will not divide his troops to attack Poyang again, and stick to Poyang. It shouldn’t be a big problem, the most important thing right now is Nanchang.”

After the confluence of the remnants of Boluo and He Luohui, there were 16 troops. After removing the soldiers and horses they stayed in Hukou and Jiujiang, at least 4 to 6 horses could attack Nanchang City.And they have a full 18 Manchurian Eight Banners in their hands. To be honest, Jin Shenghuan's [-] army really has no advantage at all?

Qian Mo said: "Boluo is coming fiercely, and most of them are from the Eight Banners of Manchuria. I will draw 2000 elites from the Shenji Battalion and hand them over to Commander Qian Ning, commander of the Intelligence Department, to help Duke Yu defend Nanchang."

Qian Ning had been serving as Qian Mo's envoy to obey Jin Shenghuan's orders, and Jin Shenghuan naturally recognized him, but now that he had the firearms, there was not enough food.

Originally, Wang Deren only had 8 troops, and the food and grass in the city could last for half a year. Now that Jin Shenghuan's 10 reinforcements entered the city, they might not even be able to last for 3 months.

Even if the Qing army temporarily withdrew from the encirclement this time, the grain that could be transported by the surrounding prefectures and counties was only 20 shi, which was a month's ration for an army of 18.

Qian Mo said: "I am acquainted with Huizhou merchants, and they should still have a batch of grain in their hands; now that the price of grain in Nanjing has risen to 1 tael and 2 silver a stone, I asked them to sell it to Duke Yu at the price of 1 tael." , I don’t know if Duke Yu might accept it?”

Jin Shenghuan knew that this price was actually very conscientious, the food in Nanchang city was more than this price.Now that wars are raging, food prices are generally skyrocketing everywhere. Except for Qian Mo's grain control at 8 yuan or even lower, other war zones have generally exceeded 1 tael.

So he said: "I am willing to purchase 40 shi of grain, but with these grains, I am afraid that I can barely support it for half a year."

Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren still have 80 taels of silver in their hands, but he can only spend half of it to buy grain at most. These are all he has searched in Jiangxi for the past two years. He was absolutely reluctant to take it out to buy food.

At this time, he finally understood why Qian Mo didn't wantonly expand the army. Qian Mo currently occupies the whole territory of Zhejiang, plus Suzhou, Songjiang, Huizhou and half of Changzhou in Jiangxi Province, as well as Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi, but his Jiangsu and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion There are only 10 people under his command including the navy.

It is easy to recruit soldiers, but difficult to raise them!
Qian Mo reckoned that this time the siege of Boluo might not be easy to break through, and it might take more than a year of stalemate, and half a year's grain storage would not be enough at all.Historically, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren held Tan Tai in Nanchang for 8 months.

So he said: "Jiangxi is a land of fish and rice. In a few months, after the autumn harvest, there will be no shortage of food. Duke Yu might as well use Jiangxi's autumn grain tax as collateral to borrow grain from Huizhou merchants."

"I'm willing to make a guarantee to let Huizhou merchants borrow another 60 shi of grain from you. After the autumn harvest this year, use the taxes paid by various prefectures in Jiangxi to repay Huizhou merchants 78 shi. How about it?"

Jin Shenghuan was instantly overjoyed. Although there is 3% interest, the current grain price must be much higher than the grain price after the autumn harvest. In fact, he is not at a disadvantage.So he said: "It's very good, so I can be sure to block the Qing army in Nanchang."

Li Yuanyin also said: "Duke Yu, please rest assured. Once my commander-in-chief conquers Fuzhou, he will definitely lead his army northward to Jiangxi. As long as you can stick to Nanchang City, the advantage is still on our side."

Jin Shenghuan led his army to Nanchang full of confidence, and Qian Mo hurriedly led his army northward.

He now has 14000 Mongolian cavalry, 8000 Shenji Battalion and 4000 Huzhou Battalion.This free Mongolian mercenary is useless.

Outside the city of Qimen County, Wu Tai, the governor of Mongolia, shouted: "I am ordered by Gushan Ezhenhe Luohui to garrison Qimen to prevent the Ming army from going north. Why don't you open the city gate?"

The county magistrate of Qimen saw that there were densely packed Mongolian cavalry under the city, and he did not dare to hesitate.No sooner had the city gate been opened than the Mongols rushed in.Originally, there were not many defenders in Qimen County. After a while, Qimen was occupied by the Mongols.

Qian Mo said with a smile: "The troops in Chizhou, Ningguo and other places have long been exhausted by Tan Tai and Ma Guozhu. There are only a few thousand green battalions in total. We have to give Hauge a big gift before he arrives in the south of the Yangtze River."

Although Tan Tai's troops were completely wiped out by the Ming army, it was impossible to hide the Qing army's spies in such a large-scale battle.Soon after, Tan Tai, the general who conquered the South, died in battle, and the news of the annihilation of his army spread to Nanjing.

Ma Guozhu, governor of Liangjiang, was dumbfounded on the spot when he heard the news. Tan Tai had 1 Manchurian cavalry with the yellow flag.

To make matters worse, the Ming army marched all the way north and invaded Chizhou Mansion and Ningguo Mansion.These two prefectures are currently empty of troops, but Ma Guozhu dare not send troops to reinforce them.

Because there are only 6 troops left for him to mobilize.Among them, 2 horses were stationed in Changzhou and Zhenjiang to confront the Ming army on the line from Wuxi to Jiangyin, 1 horses were stationed in Liyang County to the south of Yingtianfu to monitor the Ming army in the direction of Huzhou, and 1 horses were stationed in Dasheng Pass to the west of Nanjing. .

In fact, there were only 2 Qing troops guarding the city of Nanjing. With the lessons learned from Qian Mo's sneak attack last time, Ma Guozhu dared not act rashly this time.

But when he stood still here, Qian Mo became even more unscrupulous.In just 3 days, the Ming army successively conquered the entire territory of Chizhou Mansion and Ningguo Mansion, and Dongliu, Chizhou, and Tongling along the Yangtze River all fell into the hands of the Ming army.In Ningguo Xuancheng and other places, if no reinforcements were seen, they directly opened the city gates and surrendered to the Ming army.

When the Ming army approached Wuhu, Ma Guozhu finally couldn't hold back, and he sent [-] troops south to garrison Dangtu.Unexpectedly, the Ming army only took a feint and captured Guangde Prefecture at the junction of Ningguo and Huzhou.

After the fall of Guangde, the southern gate of Jiangning Mansion was opened.The last time Qian Mo went north to Nanjing from Lishui in the south of Jiangning Mansion, Ma Guozhu was so frightened that he gave up Liyang directly, and quickly transferred the 1 people in Liyang to Lishui.

At this time, in the city of Nanjing, news of the Ming army approaching the city again was flying all over the sky.

The situation this time is much more serious than the last time. The last time the Ming army went deep alone; this time the Ming army directly captured Chizhou, Ningguo, and Guangde, which are south of Jiangning Mansion, and pushed them all the way.

Although the Hongwu, the largest tonnage of the Ming army, was not dispatched, all four 4-ton battleships appeared on the scene and bombarded the fort piers in Zhenjiang, Guazhou, Nanjing, and Yangzhou all the way, making the Qing army panic.The city of Nanjing was even more besieged on all sides, and there was even news that the Ming army would directly use the navy to land in Nanjing.

At this time, Ma Guozhu realized a very serious problem. The reason why he sticks to Nanjing and abandons the surrounding areas.It was because Hauge's army had already arrived in Jiangbei, and he could cross the river to support Nanjing at any time. As long as Hauge's army crossed the river, it would be easy to recover these areas, so he was unwilling to take the risk of being eaten by Qian Mo to go out to support.

But now the Ming army not only surrounded Nanjing from the land, but even blocked the Yangtze River. Hauge's soldiers and horses could not cross the river at all, so how to support him?

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