Song An glanced at Wu Zheng and said, "What the two generals Wu and Lu said is reasonable, and they should be interrupted continuously, but they will be chaotic...... But no matter what the prince decides, I, Song An, have nothing to say, listen to the prince. ”

Wu Zheng glanced at the generals and saw that no one was talking, so he gritted his teeth and was about to make a decision.

At this time, Chi Er said in a dull voice: "In my opinion, the equipment and strength of our army are far better than those of the Qing army, the Qing army is known as 180,000, but the real combat power is nothing more than those Manchurian banner soldiers, how many are there?" Ten thousand? Twenty thousand? 30,000 or 40,000 at most! If they attack us, we will be saved, so why don't we fight back and they will be saved? It's just a fight to the death in the end, what are you afraid of them doing? ”

As soon as these words came out, not only the generals were stunned, but Wu Zheng was also in high spirits.

That's right, he beat him, I beat mine, you attack my Yingtianfu, I destroyed the 60,000 Qing troops on the other side of you, and occupy your Yangzhou Mansion.

As soon as Yangzhou Mansion was lost, the Qing court had to worry about Shandong's gains and losses.

If Wu Songshui is allowed to cooperate with Dagu to bombard him with a few more cannons, the Qing court is afraid that it will be shaken.

Wu Zheng laughed, patted the back of Chi Erhan's head and praised: "You kid, you really haven't seen it, you have urgency at a critical time...... So, it's still good for me to let you study, and look, the military school hasn't been in vain in the past few months, right? ”

Chi Erhan said with a smile: "Yes, yes, the young master's words have always been right." ”

Wu Zheng was even happier and said to Song An: "Listen, listen, our family Chi Erhan also knows how to slap horses." ”

……。

"This royal order!" Wu Zheng made a decision.

The generals stood up in unison.

"Order, Jin Shanwei is covered by the Wusong Water Division, cross the river to attack Tongzhou, and must defeat the Qing army in Tongzhou before sunset tomorrow, advance to Rugao, and form a siege of the Qing army in Taizhou."

"Order, Hangzhou Wei was covered by the Zhoushan Water Division, crossed the river to occupy Shizhuang, and then quickly went north and entered Taizhou."

"Order, Jiang Quanyi's department, immediately cross the river to occupy Taixing, hold on to and wait for reinforcements, and wait until Hangzhou Wei occupies Huangqiao Town, and cooperate with Hangzhou Wei to attack Taizhou City on both sides."

"Order, after completing the cover of Hangzhou Guard, the Zhoushan Water Division quickly moved west to the Dantu waters, and cooperated with the Xingguo Gongshui Division to block the Zhenqing army to cross the river."

"Order, after the Wusong Water Division completes covering Jinshanwei, go north to the sea and carry out artillery bombardment on Dagu."

"Ling Lihaiwei immediately went north to take over the defense of Suzhou Prefecture, and sent a powerful unit to Changshu just in case."

"Order Yan Zhouwei to go north to Ningguo Mansion to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river from Jiangpu from going south."

…… At the same time, Wu Zheng sent people to Yingtianfu in a hurry, suggesting that Xia Wanchun's Jianyang Wei garrison was stationed at Dashengguan to block the Qing army crossing the Jiangpu River.

……。

This is a local strategic scenario.

At least Wu Zheng now, he doesn't think that this is a real Northern Expedition.

At best, it was to encircle Wei and save Zhao.

But Wu Zheng is optimistic about the prospects of this idea, and Chi Erhan is right, there are not many people in the really powerful Eight Banners Army, and it is even more impossible for Dolgon to deploy the elite in the direction of Taixing and Tongzhou, which feint and contain the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Then, the Qing army opposite him, even if there are 60,000 people, is still a paper tiger, and a swift assault battle is enough to defeat these Qing troops or Han Chinese armed forces that should have been their own.

Only when it hurts Dolgon and hurts the Qing court, the Qing army will take the initiative to shrink, so as to relieve the pressure on Ying Tianfu, in fact, this method, in the previous Zhenjiang and Dantu defensive wars, Wu Zheng also used it, and it was the same.

The first day of June was just after the first child.

A commando team of 3,000 men led by Jiang Quanyi's troops in Jingjiang launched a surprise attack on the north shore with more than 60 ships.

Half an hour later, the vanguard swept away hundreds of Qing soldiers blocking the river bank along the river with lightning speed, and advanced in the direction of Taixing at the beginning of the ugly time.

At the beginning of the Yin period, the sky was still dark, Jinshanwei and Hangzhou Wei crossed the river at the same time, and nearly 1,000 boats of all sizes were densely spread on the river, and even the door panels and bed boards of the people's homes that were temporarily collected were used to drag the materials and equipment behind the boats.

But the trained soldiers of the two guards were busy but not chaotic, they boarded the ship in an orderly order, and marched in the darkness of the night on the shoulders of the soldiers in front of them, and it can even be said that there was not even a cough.

At three o'clock, the vanguard troops landed on the shore, and after defeating and expelling the small Qing troops along the coast, they immediately divided into several teams and guarded a five-mile radius to cover the landing of the follow-up brigade.

From Taixing to Tongzhou, in three directions, in more than three hours, nearly 20,000 troops successfully landed on the opposite bank.

Then three arrows are formed, advancing north.

……。

At the beginning of the Mao period, the Qing army, under the deployment of Dolgon, launched an attack to the south in three directions at the scheduled time.

The Qing army in Taizhou attacked Taixing.

In the direction of Yizhen and Jiangpu, thousands of ships appeared on the shore.

It was a battle that both sides considered a surprise attack.

And the main target is precisely the direction that the opponent could not have predicted before the war.

Wu Zheng thought that the information sent by Shen Zhiyuan was correct, so he mistakenly deployed his troops.

Dolgon thought that Wu Zheng had been fooled, but he didn't want Wu Zheng to find out that something was wrong more than a day before the battle, so he changed his tactics and quickly changed from passive defense to active attack.

It's a completely asymmetrical battle, you fight yours, I fight mine, and see who can't hold out in the end.

……。

Jiang Quanyi is a ruthless person.

He was not a ruthless person originally, but after such a tragic defensive battle as Yizhen before, no matter how Buddha nature a person is, I am afraid that he will also become a ruthless person.

This ruthlessness, from the heart, unforgettable.

He was arranged by Wu Zheng to study at the military academy for half a year, and at this time, due to the sudden outbreak of war, he was temporarily transferred back to Jingjiang to command his troops.

The time required to train and use these two things is much shorter than that of musket training.

To put it mildly, even if you are illiterate, you can learn to use it in two or three days, of course, it is impossible to be proficient, and you don't need to be proficient on the battlefield, it is enough to be able to use it.

From the river bank to Taixing, and Taizhou to Taixing, the distance is more than doubled.

That is to say, when Jiang Quanyi's troops occupied Taixing, the vanguard of the Qing army in the south of Taizhou only walked half the way.

The generals who have gone through the tragic battlefield are indeed more courageous than ordinary people.

At this time, Jiang Quanyi only had 3,000 people in his hands, and the follow-up troops were still on the way.

According to Wu Zheng's order, Jiang Quanyi should deploy defenses in Taixing City and wait for reinforcements, so as to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive and cooperate with Hangzhou Wei to attack the Qing army in Taizhou.

Cooperation, this is the primary and secondary, the first credit is Hangzhou Wei.

Of course, Jiang Quanyi also understood that this was not Wu Zheng's favoritism, but that no matter in terms of equipment, training, or the full strength of the troops, Hangzhou Wei was invincible to his own troops, and it was not inappropriate for Hangzhou Wei to serve as the main attacker.