Where to wash away dust, Chen Wen chose Tengwang Pavilion, which is one of the three famous buildings in Jiangnan. The other two are all in Huguang. I won’t consider it for the time being, but this is a rare and good place.

In the Tengwang Pavilion, famous dishes from Jiangxi took turns to the table, and many Chen Wen had never eaten them. This time, it was only because of Zhang Huangyan's glory that he had forgotten about in Jiangxi last year. There were even more performances of the Jiaofang female musicians during the meal, but most of Chen Wen and others were absent-minded, which was not as impressive as those dishes.

After drinking and eating, Chen Wen and his party watched the scenery of Ganjiang River on Tengwang Pavilion. During the meal, Zhang Huangyan wanted to know the answers, but he always followed the etiquette of the guest following the host. Since Chen Wen said that after receiving the favor, he would continue to talk about the topic just now, Zhang Huangyan pressed this desire for knowledge.

When they returned to the headquarters, their residence had already been arranged. They drank the tea soup for drinking. Chen Wenhui retreated and the three of them continued to talk about the afternoon topic.

"Fu Ren talked about the reasons for advancing by land at noon. After thinking about it over and over again, it is indeed more in line with the situation at that time. So, what happened next?"

Before Zheng Chenggong arrived at the city of Nanjing, Zhang Huangyan had already set out to the prefectures and counties upstream of Nanjing to recruit pacification. He only knew what happened and why this happened. With Zheng Chenggong's temperament, he would probably not explain to him. Now only by asking for help from Chen Wen can he answer his questions.

"Arriving at the city of Nanjing, is Damu ready for the siege?"

"Some, as far as I know, Damu originally planned to attack the city, but later Guan Xiaozhen sent someone to send a letter saying that the Tartars had a law and held the city to be punished for the 30th day of the city, so Damu did not launch an attack."

"That's right."

Zhang Huangyan's personal experience is no different from what Chen Wen saw in later historical books, and the rest is easy to explain.

"This matter is also news, but the matter is very simple. The Tartars in the city claim to be considering their families far away in Beijing, so they hope that Damu will show kindness. It was because of Damu's kindness that they achieved a delaying plan. But why Damu chose this? I think there are two reasons for this matter."

"Politically speaking, Damu is for other Tartar officials and generals, just like he wrote in his manifesto, whether it is Han officials, Green Camp generals, or even the Chen Han army in Liaodong, Mongolian Eight Banners, or even the Eight Banners of Manchuria, as long as he is willing to surrender, he can live without any blame. This is to isolate opponents politically and achieve the purpose of focusing on attacking the Tartar ruling group."

"From a military perspective, Damu's army is inherently inadequate, the military combination is imbalanced, and there are too few cavalry. This not only leads to the military warning range being too small, but many normal tactics cannot be used. More importantly, on the battlefield, Damu cannot count on the Tartars to use cavalry to hit his Iron Man Army every time, so after the Battle of Zhenjiang, you can't fight without fighting, preventing this fatal flaw from being exposed to more people's eyes."

Zheng Chenggong was in Fujian. He fought with the Qing army for many years and always fought tug-of-wars in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong. However, these places did not produce war horses, and his record was not bad. However, after a series of consecutive victories, there would always be a one-night defeat before liberation, and the seizure could not keep up, so his cavalry unit could not increase in size, which directly led to an imbalance in the matching of troops.

Zheng Chenggong simply used infantry to wipe out tens of thousands of elite Qing troops in the Zhenjiang victory. More importantly, his ability to tactical design and use infantry, especially the Iron Man Army as the core, was achieved. But next time, the Qing army knew that the Iron Man Army was not easy to fight, and the cavalry had strong power. He went around to fight those weak fronts. Can the few Iron Man Army still chase the butts of the cavalry to chop?

"Political, military..."

Chen Wen explained these things clearly, but the listener still needs more time to digest them. Wang Jiang did not mention that technicians, financial management and administration are good at managing and managing the government, and it would be good to not be held back in the military. Even Zhang Huangyan's actual experience and scale of leading troops were very small, and he was more of a military supervisor. What Chen Wen told was politically clear, but the military content must be understood.

"Fu Ren, I remember that when you attacked Hangzhou last month, Xiao Qiyuan used a similar method. Don't you care about the Tartars fighting to the death in the future?"

Wang Jiang's thinking has been tilted to other places as always, but this time it happened to be a problem that Chen Wen wanted to mention next.

"It's still an old problem, the situation is different. I'm not saying that the Zhenjiang victory is not as good as the Qiaosi Zhen victory. The effect on the Tartars is actually the same, but the problem is that the army and Damu are composed differently."

"composition?"

"That's right." After saying a lot, Chen Wen took a sip of tea before saying: "My Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings' Division started in Dalan Mountain. Now it is 100,000 iron armor, and they are basically recruited from good families among the people. Although there are some surrendered generals, such as Ma Xin, Hu Laijin, and Zhang Hongde, Kang Risheng, who are about to enter the camp in this expansion of the army, the overall proportion of surrendered generals is very low, and most of the generals and schoolmen are from soldiers in our army to work step by step."

This is the truth. The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has a strong internal cohesion, and the army has a faint hostility towards the gentry and other Ming army. These are all derived from the development process of this army. In comparison, Zheng Chenggong's Ming army in Fujian is completely different.

"Since Damu started his army, he has collected too many surrendered generals. Even though most of these people had generals who served his father back then, too many surrendered generals led to Damu's subjective tendency to recruit and adapt to achieve rapid expansion of the army, which led to hesitation under the city of Nanjing. If it were our troops, in the eyes of the soldiers, the Tartars' heads were certificates of military merit. If they were to recover more prefectures and counties, there would be more military merits and land. Such a delaying strategy would not be successful at the root."

"So that's the case."

Zhang Huangyan and Wang Jiang listened to Chen Wen's narration intently. These fresh theories seemed to open the door to a new world for them. They were not only to understand the reason for Zheng Chenggong's failure in the Battle of Nanjing, but also to intoxicate them.

"In fact, the delaying strategy only gave more reinforcements in Nanjing City, but in terms of the number and quality of reinforcements, the threat to Damu is not very big. The key to this crushing defeat is the loss of military discipline of the Wang Shi, which has completely turned into a mess of sand."

"It's true that there is a problem with military discipline."

In history, Zhang Huangyan wrote the "Northern Expedition Record" later: "The stone army was defeated, and the soldiers released their troops and played. The woods and suspense were everywhere. The camps were empty. The enemy spies knew that they attacked the front garrison with light cavalry. The tent was moved suddenly. The Ming army was not settled, and the enemy went to fight in a siege. The soldiers had no fighting spirit and were defeated."

"The strictness of Damu's military management is not inferior to that of the less. This military discipline was completely broken in just over ten days. The reason was that the family members entered the camp, which led to the fact that the soldiers were not in a fight. There was a sentence in Du Gong's "Newly Married Farewell": A woman in the army may not be as strong as a soldier. This is what she said."

The disastrous defeat in the Battle of Nanjing was precisely because of the collapse of military discipline by the family members who entered the camp, and he was caught off guard by his previous defeated generals. The soldiers were full of wives and children in their minds, so it would be strange if they could have a fighting spirit. Otherwise, even if Zheng Chenggong had been squatting under the city of Nanjing for a month, the Qing army in Jiangnan would have to die.

"this……"

Zhang Huangyan was stunned when he heard this, but Wang Jiang took the lead in reacting: "Fu Ren, in the fifth year of Yongli, you led your army to attack Jinhua Mansion. At that time, you would rather take a risk with only a small number of troops than take the old camp to fight. Is this because of this?"

“That’s exactly that.”

Chen Wen's attainment in military tactics really surprised these two senior civil servants at the top of the pyramid of the court. But they didn't know that Chen Wen was actually just standing on the shoulders of the giants. These giants include Qi Jiguang, some military strategists from later generations, and even Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo, who were his heroes of his contemporaries. Chen Wen would absorb their success experience as much as possible, and their failures were also avoided by Chen Wen in the army.

"As for the reason why Damu brought the family of soldiers, Cangshui should be able to think of something."

Zhang Huangyan nodded, and then said to Chen Wenhe, who had already known this, and Wang Jiang, who was ignorant, "At the end of the fourth year of Yongli, the Tartars went to Guangzhou and Guilin, and the troops were directly aimed at the road. Damu heard this and set up a large army to serve the king. As a result, he was on the way. The Zhongzuo Station where he was stationed was attacked by the Fujian army. His decades of savings were wasted. The soldiers in the army also strongly opposed the army's expedition. In recent years, Damu's main troops were basically in southern Fujian and in eastern Guangdong. If he did not bring his family to the expedition, he would be afraid that the army would have already changed before the army passed through Wenzhou."

"ah?"

The fourth year of Yongli was the year when the Ming army in Siming Mountain was destroyed. Chen Wen won the Battle of Siming Mountain in a crisis and preserved a trace of fire for the Anti-Qing movement in Siming Mountain. Wang Jiang did not know that it was that year, almost at the same time, the Ming army was in a collapse situation in Guangdong and Guangxi, and Zheng Chenggong was attacked by the Qing army on behalf of the king. Such huge losses were unheard of.

"It's really fate."

Zhang Huangyan sighed, and then sat there dejectedly, silently.

Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty led to Zheng Chenggong's military structure and his tendency to be under the city of Nanjing. The attack on the Zhongzuo at the beginning of the fifth year of the Yongli period led to the carriage of soldiers and family members. The imbalance in the military's military ratio not only led to the rushing attack but also intensified Zheng Chenggong's tendency to recruit people. The emergence of this tendency also led to the occurrence of family members entering the camp.

These are not all certain, such as Zheng Chenggong's tendency, such as reuniting his soldiers with his family for fear of unstable morale, which was an impact on him rather than a direct decision. However, such influence eventually triggered a chain reaction. After the army recovered Zhenjiang, it slowly walked on the waterway and walked ten days before reaching the city of Nanjing. The next plan for siege was stranded by a surrender. Zheng Chenggong, who was waiting for the Qing army to surrender under the city, was afraid that the soldiers would not reunite with their families after the victory, resulting in unstable morale of the army, which led to the collapse of military discipline, which led to the night attack at the city and the disastrous defeat of Guanyin Mountain.

"No, Cangshui, this is not a fate, nor should it be the fate of Damu. The disastrous defeat under Nanjing City cannot cover up the glory of Guazhou and Zhenjiang's two great victories. A hero will always shine. I firmly believe that in the future, we will definitely make new contributions to China."

The defeat at Nanjing City in history seemed to be a great victory for the Qing army, but Zheng Chenggong's rear troops alone killed a large number of Manchurian generals including the first-class light chariot commander of the Manchurian, Jiangning Xiehe, Husunbulu, Cavalry Commander Suobodo, Yunqi Commander Dune, Zuolengere, Barcelona Li, Saltai and other people. Although the Qing army won, the losses were also heavy. Even Liang Huafeng, the first hero of the Qing army in this battle, said with lingering fear afterwards: "There are many strong enemies, and there is no one as hard as the Zheng family army."

After the Battle of Nanjing in history, Zheng Chenggong quickly won a great victory in Xiamen. The new generation of the Eight Banners Army, Dasu, the rebel generals Shi Lang, and Huang Wu were not enemies of one unit. The navy in the coastal provinces of the Qing army was almost wiped out. The Eight Banners Army suffered losses and lost their troops. Few people were able to escape back to the shore. There were more than 60 Manchu generals who could find names from historical materials, and among them, there were as many as 25 people on the Three Banners.

In the Qing Dynasty, the heavy losses of the two white flags in this battle directly led to their complete overwhelming over by the two yellow flags, and Oboi's future dominance among the ministers of the regent is even more a story.

In later generations' evaluation of Zheng Chenggong, Yu national heroes focused more on regaining Taiwan, but this hero who deliberately ignored his achievements repeatedly hit the Eight Banners Army on the battlefield of the Qing Dynasty. Even Chen Wen, who has now replaced Zheng Chenggong as the leader of the Southeast battlefield, only achieved the success of Zheng Chenggong's record in killing the Eight Banners Army after this great victory in Qiaosi Town and the recovery of Hangzhou.

"I admire him very much. He has persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty for nearly 20 years and has done something that ordinary people cannot do. He is a hero!"

After killing Yue Le and Zheng Chenggong's defeat in Nanjing, Chen Wen officially replaced Zheng Chenggong in history and became the absolute leader of the Southeast Anti-Qing Movement. The next task was still very heavy, but Chen Wen was ready.

"Fu Ren, this is the case with Damu for the time being. What is the current situation in Huguang?"

Fan Wencheng and Sun Kewang from Huguang involved Chen Wen's energy, and he could be watched by Mr. Fan Kongming and the only cheater in Nanming who could compete with He Tengjiao at the same time. Chen Wen had no sense of honor at all, but he was eager to kill them completely, preferably tied them together. Who asked these two bastards to cause trouble for him?

"The barbarian army in northern Huguang has retreated and retreated at the end of May. At that time, I had just returned to Nanchang."

"End of May?"

According to common sense, this is impossible, because the Battle of Nanjing has just ended at the end of May, and it is impossible for Huguang to get news. In history, Huguang reinforcements commander Gushan Emaki Andali is an example. Could it be that something unexpected happened here?

"Yes, it was at the end of May, and Chen Tai died, so the Tartars had to withdraw their troops."

"Ah? Was it killed by that great man?"

Hearing this answer, Zhang Huangyan was stunned. The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had reached the point of cutting melons and vegetables against the Eight Banners Army, and it didn't even require Chen Wen to take action. This combat power was incredible. However, at this moment, Chen Wen and Wang Jiang's expressions suddenly became a little unnatural.

"That guy died of illness by himself, it's so cheap."

The Battle of Changde in history took place in April and May of the ninth year of Yongli, but as the head coach, Chen Tai, General Kou of Ning Nanjing, was unable to participate in the battle because he happened to die of illness in May. But even so, with Hong Chengchou, Liu Wenxiu still did not take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime advantage. Now even Chen Wen has not been able to find this advantage, and he doesn't know what to say.

"What about Qin Fan?"

"Qin Fan?" Hearing this word, Chen Wen smiled coldly and then said, "It should be said that it was the Western thief Sun Kewang. This guy probably knew that the Tartars withdrawal and the Yongjia division of our troops arrived in Jiangxi. He had given up the confrontation outside the Lingguan a few days ago and invited me to Changsha to attend his Hongmen Banquet. I had no time to pay attention to him."

Sun Kewang sent troops to provoke Chen Wen to attack Hangzhou north, which was clearly restraining him in case Chen Wen's strength rose too fast and suppressed him. In fact, except for the emperor in hand, Sun Kewang's strength had been suppressed by Chen Wen's. His aides should have self-knowledge of this. So when Fan Wencheng withdrew his troops and Chen Wen's mobile troops into Jiangxi, he immediately ended the armed confrontation and put on a peace talks.

"What's Fu Ren's plan next?"

"What else can it be? The violent soldiers, climb the tech tree, and wait for the Tartars of Jirgalang to go south. If Sun Kewang dares to come next time, he must let him know what cruelty is."

Although he didn't quite understand the strange words Chen Wen said, Zhang Huangyan could still feel the confidence in it and was about to emerge.
Chapter completed!