The Northern Expedition fleet going up the river was moored under Jiangyin City at this time, and the officers and soldiers on the fleet were preparing for tomorrow's sacrifice, spreading the red cloth on the deck one by one.

This red is the red of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the flame of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhang Huangyan, who had just finished trying on the newly sewn big red auspicious suit, frowned tightly when he walked out of the cabin, different from the happy face of the ordinary volunteers, who was reflected in the red cloth, but his face was full of melancholy.

How is it good?

Again, the previous argument on the Yanping Throne Ship came to his mind,

"The defenders in the city, closed doors, if you want to attack the city without a bloody battle, today our army is strong, why don't you ignore it, bypass from here, arrive at Nanjing as soon as possible, and attack Nanjing with all your might!"

Since entering the Yangtze River, "going around the city" seems to have become a rule, Zhang Huangyan naturally knows the idea of the king of Yanping, he wants to go straight to the Yellow Dragon, take Nanjing in one fell swoop, and then take the power of the city to conquer Jiangnan in one fell swoop.

Unlike Zheng Qun, Zhang Huangyan may not know the sea, but he knows the Yangtze River well, and he has the experience of marching into the Yangtze River many times, and he is more familiar with the Yangtze River than anyone else.

"If the Jiangyin people close the city gate and dare not go to battle, if they do not give them color and let them know the past troubles, they will inevitably make them look down on our army, and if our army takes a detour, they will definitely take the opportunity to exploit loopholes behind our army, and then our army will not let go and capture Nanjing......"

Zhang Huangyan understands the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River is not a vast sea, and if you can't pass through the city along the way, it will only make it a problem for the belly and back of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

However, the king of Yanping still insisted on what he had seen, and the generals of the Zheng clan also supported the detour, hoping to take advantage of the situation to take Nanjing. Now that the Northern Expedition is gaining momentum, these people who know the army naturally know how to take advantage of the situation, so they are unwilling to waste time for a mere "small town".

"Once the Qing army returns to the division, Nanjing is still in the hands of the enemy, what should I do?"

It is precisely for this reason that the king of Yanping made the decision to go around the city, of course, this also has a lot to do with Zhang Huangyan was originally a person in the camp of the king of Lu, although he has nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, but these years he has completely relied on the Zheng family, as an outsider, he is naturally a person in front of the king of Yanping.

And now the reason why Zhang Huangyan is worried is not only because he has bypassed Jiangyin, but also because he has bypassed too many cities along the way, just like Chongming, which is the gateway to the rivers and seas, because the Qing army is closed, it is still in the hands of the Qing general Liang Huafeng, which may not only lead to the Northern Expedition army being attacked by the enemy, but more importantly, because Chongming is still controlled by the Qing army, which means that if any accident occurs in the future, the army will have no foundation in the Yangtze River, and there is no plan to make a comeback from the east mountain.

But for King Yanping, there is no so-called "what if", and it is precisely because of this that he will be desperate to fight Nanjing.

"Those who worship Ming are really limbs, such as Jiangyin, but only for the torso, my Northern Expedition army should be directly inserted into Nanjing, which is like the heart, and then the cities along the river will be self-defeating!"

Whispering about the decision of King Yanping, Zhang Huangyan couldn't help but smile bitterly, if it weren't for the fact that half of his army was old and weak, and Jiangyin City was well walled, otherwise I was afraid that it would ......

"Hey......"

When Zhang Huangyan, who was staring at the surging river, let out this long sigh, there was a burst of words behind him.

"What the adults are worried about, but the city of Jiangyin doesn't pass by?"

When he first heard the official voice behind him, Zhang Huangyan thought it was a colleague, but when he turned around, the voice behind him only made him stunned, only to see a six-foot-tall man, standing behind him, and then looking at the long and short hair on his head, it was obviously a righteous man who had shaved his head.

"Who are you? How do you know the worries of your own officials? ”

The person in front of him is Zhang Huangyan, who generously went to death under the city of Hangzhou five years later, "sat and received the sword", looking at the red official uniform on his body, looking at the Han-style bun, Zhu Mingzhong, who had just relied on Xu Yuanda's life-saving grace, let him and Heizi set up a small boat to send this river boat.

"Returning to Lord Zhang, under Zhu Mingzhong, the word Chengren, the south is directly affiliated with the Jiading people's clan, and now he is a medical officer in the army. ……”

If there is any benefit to Zhu Mingzhong in this era, I am afraid that it is a tragic massacre, so that he can perfectly hide his identity, which is also the reason why he chose Jiading, under the three massacres, how many aborigines have been spared?

As long as he bites himself to death is the master who finds it in Yu Jiading's pool of blood, who can refute himself? As for the parents - I'm sorry, I hope you two don't blame me.

"Chengren...... People with lofty ideals are benevolent, there is no survival to harm benevolence, there is killing to become benevolent. ”

Reading the origin of the word "Chengren", Zhang Huangyan nodded silently, but the person was distracted.

Seeing that Zhang Huangyan seemed to be a little distracted, Zhu Mingzhong was in a hurry, this was not what he expected, he was originally prepared to be full of lobbying, first snorted, and then said.

"What the adults are worried about, but the Jiangyin Qing army will stick to the city, and they will be lured by many ways and not go out of the city to fight?"

Compared with the people of this era, the map popularized in later generations made Zhu Ming loyal to Jiangyin just between Nanjing and Jiangkou, and in a specific era in later generations, Jiangyin and Zhenjiang were also called "the throat of Nanjing", which naturally shows its importance.

Previously, from the mouths of those soldiers, Zhu Mingzhong already knew the differences between Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong, and tried to take Jiangyin City in one go, because the Qing army defenders were determined to hold the city and failed, unlike Zheng Chenggong's proposal to go around the city, Zhang Huangyan advocated heavy troops to seize the city, and even once contradicted Zheng Chenggong, which was naturally unacceptable in the eyes of the soldiers in Zheng's army.

But as a latecomer, Zhu Mingzhong didn't know the correctness of Zhang Huangyan's proposition, if Zheng Cheng's function swept along the river during the Northern Expedition and could capture Chongming and other places, how could there be a panic retreat after the defeat of Nanjing, and how could there be a Qing army on the riverbank, resulting in a rout that the army could not even retreat to the sea along the river.

It is precisely because of this that in Zhu Mingzhong's view, Zhang Huangyan will be his "ally". That's why we must seize this opportunity to show my face in front of Zhang Huangyan, not just be a so-called medical officer.

As a medical officer, he may be able to treat many people, but if he can influence Zhang Huangyan, he may have the opportunity to change the fate of this nation for hundreds of years in the future!

"How do you know what the official is worried about?"

Zhang Huangyan's brows furrowed, and he looked at the medical officer and asked rhetorically.

"The kid heard that the adult failed to convince the country's surname, and now he sees the adult standing on the side with a sad look on his face, and he thinks that he is worried about Jiangyin!"

Facing Zhang Huangyan's gaze, Zhu Mingzhong said calmly, but at this moment, he found that Zhang Huangyan's brows were locked, and his expression seemed to be a little wrong, as if he was angry.

What's going on?

Shouldn't he ask himself what he has to do, and then he will shake the goose feather fan in his hand and offer a good plan, so that he can leap into the dragon gate from then on?

But now this seems to be something wrong?

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