When Zhu Linmiao and his entourage approached Lishui County, which is located in the southeast of Nanjing, and it is also the location of the camp of the Longwei Army in the plan, he found that there were many fewer craftsmen repairing the wooden tracks along the way, and he walked more than ten miles before he saw the first craftsman.

Could it be that the officials in charge of this section of the track were corrupt or derelict in their duties? There is a war going on right now, and if the wooden track is broken, the military situation will be delayed! He ordered Shi Lin to call the craftsmen on the side of the road, and when he asked, he learned that this thirty-mile-long wooden track was built by Tianrui, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. This person had repaired wooden rails in Yunnan and knew that wooden rails were easily damaged. Therefore, after repeated pondering and experiments, when building the wooden track in the Lishui section, he made long iron bars embedded in the top of the wood, which greatly improved the durability of the track. These thirty miles of wooden rails require more than four times fewer craftsmen to repair than anywhere else.

Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but sigh, the Chinese nation really has a lot of talents, and there is no process for casting rails, so they try to strengthen the wooden rails, even he, a later generation, did not expect such a clever plan.

Why didn't he apply for a patent? Zhu Linmiao instructed Shi Lin: "Go back and summon this Tianrui to see me." ”

"Yes!"

After walking for another half an hour, Zhu Linmiao and the imperial camp had arrived near Lishui City.

The camp of the Dragon Guard Army is located next to the mountains and forests six or seven miles northwest of the county seat, Zhang Jiayu and Yu Debao are about to take the holy car, and they have already brought hundreds of guards to wait next to the wooden tracks.

"How's the enemy ahead?" Zhu Linmiao got out of the car, returned a military salute casually, and waved to Zhang Jiayu and Yu, "Go back to the camp and talk while walking." ”

Zhang Jiayu waited for him to get on the horse, followed by a horse head behind, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, this time Duoduo led his troops south from Zhenjiang, and the soldiers and horses coerced the people and many people, and the momentum was unprecedented.

"Now the thief army relies on Dantu County, the company camp is more than 20 miles, building a large earthen fortress, the ravines are dense, the camp is widely arranged, and the troops are stationed in Wuzhou Mountain and Shuangling Mountain, which are the horns of each other."

Zhu Linmiao frowned, "It seems that Duoduo is going to fight steadily and steadily and encroach forward." ”

Zhang Jiayu nodded and said: "The Holy Lord sees it, and the last general and others also think the same way." Jianyu was both Chen Bing Zhenjiang area, and its purpose was mostly to attack Nanjing. ”

Zhao Shichao said on the side: "But it is also possible to continue to go south, attack Ningguo, Guangde and other places, and then invade Hangzhou." Cut off all the routes for our army to reinforce Nanjing, and eventually make Nanjing an isolated city. ”

As for the possible movements of the enemy's troops, the Jiangning General Staff Division meeting had already given full consideration, but Zhu Linmiao was not surprised, and asked: "How is the deployment of our army?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the battalions have left Jiangning the day before yesterday and rushed to the ambush site......

Zhu Linmiao raised his eyes and saw the Lishui station, so he gestured to the big camp and said, "Let's go into the big tent and talk about it." ”

After entering the camp of the Chinese army, Zhang Jiayu asked people to spread out the map, pointed to Chunhua south of Nanjing, and continued: "Your Majesty, the 5,000 men and horses of Yu Zhen, Sun Qi, and Shi Qin's troops in the broken camp have arrived in Chunhua that day. The last general and Xuanqing led the Chinese army of 6,000 to Lishui. ”

His fingers continued to move eastward, "6,000 troops from Jin Wu, Tie Dake and other troops of the Poyu Battalion are going to Fangshan, and 6,000 troops from Deng Shan, Ma Wenhu, Gan Hui and other troops are going to Jintan.

Commander Yu personally led Jiao Lian, Huang Qishou and other elites of the Dragon Guard Army to Dushan. According to the time estimate, they should have arrived, but they have not yet sent the message back. ”

Zhang Jiayu pointed to the Liyang line further south, "In addition, more than 25,000 people from the Zhejiang Army, the Jiangxi Army and the Nanzhi Garrison have already marched to Liyang, Shijiuhu and other places, and they will be able to arrive in two days at most, forming a defensive line on the outside of the Longwei Army and the Broken Camp." ”

Zhu Linmiao looked at the map and nodded slightly, counting the important places of Nanjing, Chunhua, Lishui and Dushan, from west to east to Zhenjiang, faintly forming an encirclement situation, whether Duoduo attacked Nanjing to the west or Hangzhou to the south, the Ming army could gradually converge according to the enemy's movements.

At that time, Yu Suo, who was located on the northeast side, led the elite to intersperse behind the enemy, cooperate with Li Dingguo's swift battalion to cut off the retreat of the Jianyu, and then attack at the same time, and the Qing army will immediately fall into a heavy encirclement.

At the same time, there were also Zhejiang Army, Jiangxi Army and other units on the periphery to intercept the enemy troops who might escape. Although their combat effectiveness is weak, it should not be a problem to deal with the rout of the army that flees in panic.

According to the current deployment situation, as long as the Ming army does not reveal its strategic intentions and waits patiently for the completion of the encirclement, the 150,000 troops of Duoduo will basically have to be buried here!

Zhu Linwei pointed to the Yangtze River again and asked, "What is the situation on the side of the water division, can it be intercepted when the enemy army retreats?" ”

Zhang Jiayu said with some regret: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the report of the Swift Battalion, the water level of the Yangtze River is extremely low at present, and the warships near Zhenjiang that can travel at most more than 200 tons are very easy to run aground if they are larger.

"And the thieves and the two sides of the river built forts, the river is only fifty or sixty paces wide, and it is difficult for the warships to deploy, so it is absolutely difficult to get close to attack the enemy......"

In this regard, Zhu Linmiao did not complain about bad luck. Although the dry water of the Yangtze River is not conducive to the performance of the Daming Water Division, it will also make Duoduo more confident and bold to invade the south, which can be regarded as both advantages and disadvantages.

Later, Zhang Jiayu said some things about the relocation of the people, the arrangement of confusing the construction captives, etc., which were basically implemented in accordance with the plan, and they were also done very properly.

Zhu Linmiao was relieved. After his long-term efforts, the Long Wei Army and the Broken Battalion have their own "souls", and a large number of officers with modern combat concepts such as Zhang Jiayu and Yu have also matured.

According to this trend, it won't be long before you can let them take charge of themselves. The future of the Ming Dynasty will be as far as the five continents and the four oceans, and it is impossible for them to follow the expedition everywhere all the time, and this strong army that has initially had the ability to safeguard national interests is really gratifying.

Seeing that it was getting late, he finally instructed Zhang Jiayu: "Tomorrow, we will start to follow the strategy agreed in advance and gradually lure the enemy deeper." He prepared to order all the generals to go back to rest, after all, a great battle was about to begin.

"Yes!"

As soon as Zhang Jiayu's words fell, a hussar galloped to the left and said in a loud voice: "Huguangdi newspaper!" Then he went in and handed a letter to the officer at the door.

Zhang Jiayu opened the letter box and immediately smiled, "Your Majesty, good news, Changsha is a great victory!" ”

Zhu Linmiao took the newspaper and looked at it carefully. It turned out that Zhai Shiyun and Yang Zhan had besieged Changsha for many days, so they deliberately left a gap in the defense line, and the rebel Liu Tiren was eager to break through the siege and join Wang Jincai's men and horses, and immediately led the army out of the city when he saw this, and was ambushed by Zhai and Yang's troops, and most of them were killed. Liu Tiren fled back to the city with only 16,700 men.

After the military department ordered Zhai Shiyun and Yang Zhan to recover Changsha, they immediately rushed to Nanjing to help in the war. At this time, although Changsha was not taken, it was basically in the bag, so Yang Zhan's 5,000 Sichuan army and 3,000 Gui army had already set off for Wuchang, preparing to take a boat along the Yangtze River to enter Nanzhili, leaving only 5,000 Gui troops to continue to attack the city.

Zhu Linmiao put away the military newspaper and couldn't help but smile: "It seems that the war in Huguang has been settled, and we will have to concentrate on cleaning up Duoduo from now on!" ”