Chapter 65: The July War

Hundreds of miles of Poyang Lake are misty, and Zhang Xuan is looking at the boundless lake on the east shore of Poyang Lake at this moment.

It was almost August, the rice fields in Jiangxi were about to ripen, and Zhang Xuan had also returned to the battlefield in Jiangxi for a while.

During this period of time, there was nothing to mention about the war with Fang Guoan.

Although Fang Guoan was able to chase Zhang Xianzhong, he was never able to threaten Zhang Xianzhong's main force, which shows that Fang Guoan's strength is no more than that, and Fang Guoan's military discipline is not much better.

After the Battle of Fuzhou, the armies of the two sides only made a slight contact, and Yang Shenzu was ordered to retreat. In addition, Zhang Xuan rushed to Nanjing, and the war in Jiangxi was temporarily presided over by Cao Zongyu.

Cao Zongyu is a safe person.

He knew very well that his prestige could not be compared with Zhang Xuan, so his strategy was very simple, that is, to defend, and only to protect Guangxin Mansion.

There is Guangxin Mansion as a foothold, and the rest of Raozhou, Fuzhou and other places are not temporarily abandoned. It's not too late to wait for Zhang Xuan to come back and then counterattack. Anyway, the rule of Cao Ying in these places is only superficial, even if it is to defend the city, it is estimated that there are many people who sacrifice the city in the middle of the night.

Only Guangxin Mansion is Zhang Xuan's first stop in Jiangxi, Zhang Su personally handled the affairs of Guangxin Mansion, so that Cao Ying has a certain foundation in Guangxin Mansion, coupled with the topography of Guangxin Mansion, it is a long and narrow river valley area, guarding the valley mouth, Guixi County, Fang Guoan can not break in.

It's just that when Zhang Xuan came back, he found a side benefit.

Zhang Xuan to the people and gentry in various places, is to be blocked, will also levy taxes, but according to the amount of taxes in various places, basically, the Ming Dynasty levied more, Zhang Xuan levied as much, and every time the righteous army went to a place, they cleaned up the officials and sent people to collect money and grain directly.

But Fang Guoan is not like this.

Every time Fang Guoan went to the city, he asked for military expenses in the city, tens of thousands more, and 100,000 less, depending on the size of the city. Moreover, Fang Guoan's army has never had rules, and all kinds of messy things happen frequently. On the contrary, the gentry felt that the official army was not as good as the righteous army.

Therefore, when the army counterattacked, the gentry who had been helping the officers and soldiers instead watched from the sidelines.

Fang Guoan lost two battles in a row and retreated to Raozhou, Zhang Xuan chased to the edge of Poyang Lake, but only saw Poyang Lake, Fang Guoan had already crossed Poyang Lake and arrived on the west bank of Poyang Lake.

"The last general, I can't pursue it too late, I let go of the officers and soldiers, and I ask the general to punish him." Yang Shenzu said.

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Xuan said: "In this battle, Fang Guoan retreated without a fight, but it was the general's tiger might, what a crime. ”

Having said that, the battle between the two sides in the east of Poyang Lake did not completely annihilate most of Fang Guoan, and letting him pass Poyang Lake was also one for Zhang Xuan

It's a troublesome thing, after all, there is no sailor, and it is too difficult to stand on the surface of Poyang Lake, which is hundreds of miles away.

"The last general is willing, go south to Fuzhou, bypass Poyang Lake, and come to Nanchang." Yang Shenzu said.

"The general has no need to blame himself." Zhang Xuan said: "Now that the big thing is on the front line of the Yangtze River, our army should not be distracted by him." After the Zheng Sailor enters Poyang Lake, it will be the time for us to show our talents. ”

On the Yangtze River, the big war has not yet begun, but the outpost battle has already begun.

Yuan Shizhong led 20,000 troops to attack Luzhou from Fengyang, and was under the city of Luzhou at the moment. Li Rugui cut off the relationship between Luzhou City and Anqing, isolated Luzhou City, and cut off foreign aid from Luzhou City, only to see what Yuan Shizhong could get down to the city.

Luo Rucai had already led the army to the front line in Wuhu and joined Yang Chengzu, which was the main force of Cao's camp, with as many as 1230,000 people, including Zheng's sailors.

During this period of time, the combined forces of Zheng's sailors and Shen Tingyang and Huang Fei were on the Yangtze River, fighting day by day, and the sound of artillery along the river continued, all the fishermen did not dare to come out to fish, and the trade routes up and down the Yangtze River were also cut off.

Shen Tingyang's hundreds of ships, coupled with Huang Fei's thousands of miles from Shandong to bring the main force of the Liaodong Naval Division, although he fell behind for a while, Zheng Zhilong may not be able to completely annihilate the other party.

When Beijing fell, Huang Fei was in Tianjin and wanted to invite Chongzhen to the south, but now that Jiangnan is occupied by Cao Ying, Chongzhen is even more reluctant to go south. After the fall of Beijing, Huang Fei had to settle in Penglai first, and later heard that after Emperor Hongguang Wuchang ascended the throne, he traveled thousands of miles to congratulate him.

At this time, Ma Shiying only knew about Huang Fei's people.

Ma Shiying was naturally overjoyed, and immediately summoned Huang Fei to Wuchang. After all, on the Yangtze River, water warfare comes first, and water warfare cannot occupy an advantage. No matter how hard you fight on land, it's half the effort.

Before the arrival of Zheng Zhilong's sailor, Zhou Fuchen's subordinates could not block the Yangtze River channel at all, and could only watch him pass.

Water warfare is not better than land warfare, land warfare is many times, within a day, can decide the victory, but water warfare is generally difficult to do, starting a fire attack, because of the artillery power of this era, the power is limited, it is difficult to sink ships. Even if it is sunk, it is a rather long process.

Plus each other, chase and escape, battlefield problems. Mutual attacks. It is also relatively easy for one side to avoid war.

Therefore, the two sides fought for more than a month, and the battlefield gradually shifted to the west, while the Shen-Huang coalition army fell behind, and still did not completely lose. But Zhang Xuan estimates that it won't be long.

After Zhang Xuan appeased Yang Shenzu, Yao Qisheng came over, and Yao Qisheng said with a worried face: "My lord, Zhang Shangshu has sent a letter, saying that Zhejiang Province will no longer supply us with food, and we have to solve the remaining shortfall ourselves." ”

Zhang Xuan sighed and said, "How is the autumn grain in Raozhou Mansion?" ”

"I've checked it and this year's harvest is okay." Yao Qisheng said.

Zhejiang's drought is getting worse day by day, and the grain harvest has been greatly affected, so it has to limit the supply of materials from the secondary aspects, mainly supplying the main force on the Yangtze River, but Zhang Xuan's situation is better, after all, Zhang Xuan's place is Jiangxi.

Jiangxi was quite rich in the Ming Dynasty, and even in the early Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan was not as good as Jiangxi, if you don't believe it, to look through the number of Jiangxi officials in the early Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the Manchu Dynasty and half Jiangxi, but also after Yan Song, Jiangxi was weakened.

Of course, there is a reason why Zhu Yuanzhang relied on Jiangxi to start his business, but there is also a reason why Jiangxi is rich, after all, political strength and economic strength can also be transformed into each other.

Although Jiangxi is in decline at the moment, but who do you want to compare, Jiangxi has always produced a lot of grain, Zhang Xuan stood on the east bank of Poyang Lake again, here is the land of fish and rice, if you want to get some food, there is still some, it is nothing more than spending more money.

The knife handle is in hand, and the silver, as long as you want, there is always it, and it is nothing more than a matter of eating appearance.

But what is more difficult than Zhang Xuan is Yuan Shizhong's all the way, Yuan Shizhong can only rely on the grain of Fengyang's Tuntian to support the army, which can also be regarded as Zhang Pu's credit, which is also the reason for Yuan Shizhong's slow progress, it is estimated that Yuan Shizhong is the same as Zhang Xuan, and then wait for the autumn harvest.

After the autumn harvest, if we can have one more season of grain, the food shortage of the army will be alleviated a lot, and it will be much more advantageous to have a grain attack.

"My lord, the king has also issued an order, asking us to divide our troops all the way north and attack Huizhou Mansion, Ming Imperial Shi Jinsheng sticks to Huizhou, and because the place is dangerous, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, General Luo Dai has repeatedly attacked and asked us to attack on both sides." After Yao Qisheng reported this incident, he immediately said.

Zhang Xuan said: "Let Luo Dai attack the fortification, this is not too reliable in the first place. ”

Zhang Xuan knows Luo Dai too well, he charges into battle, he is a fierce general, but he doesn't like to use his brains, and Huizhou is a mountainous area, and many times he encounters hard nails, which can be beaten down without a hard attack. And now Huizhou, is also very important.

Why, Huizhou is sandwiched between Zhang Xuan and the main force, forming a protrusion.

Although Huizhou has been semi-surrounded, if the nail of Huizhou Mansion is not pulled out, both Zhang Xuan and Luo Rucai will divide their troops to pay attention to Huizhou Mansion.

"Let General Cao take his headquarters to Huizhou Mansion." Zhang Xuan said.

At this time, Zhang Xuan's first thought was Cao Zongyu. Only Cao Zongyu does things that make him feel at ease, no matter what kind of battle he is fighting. For Cao Zongyu, Zhang Xuan is more at ease than himself.

"Yes." Yao Qisheng said.

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