"The Ming army took advantage of the water division and continued to harass along the Qiantang. Our army had to be divided into different places, and even though there were more than 100,000 men and horses, they could barely move. Hong Chengchou said angrily, "At present, only by clearing the strong wall on the north bank of Qiantang and retreating to a place where the southerners cannot attack by boats, can we regain the initiative." And these people don't distinguish between priority and priority, and they are hindered everywhere in the court! ”

This is also the countermeasure he came up with after thinking for a long time - to move all the people on the north bank of Qiantang to the north for a hundred miles, while the Qing army abandoned the coastal towns and retreated to fifty or sixty miles offshore to deploy defenses.

As a result, once the whereabouts of the Ming landing force were revealed, if they wanted to return to the ship, they would have to march more than 50 miles—about two days' journey—to reach the Qiantang River.

In this process, he Hong Chengchou has room to flicker and move, whether it is to chase and cover the kill, or to set up an ambush on the way back of the Ming army, etc., can make the Qing army get rid of the unfavorable situation in front of him and find the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

But he didn't expect that he would write this strategy and send it back to Beijing, which was immediately condemned by Feng Quan and others.

Yang Zhihe said on the side: "My lord, it is said that Chen Gebu, Wu Yushi and even Lord Tan Bai all agree with your proposal, but the court and the central government are headed by Feng Quan, and the people of the southern party have repeatedly insulted you with words such as 'avoiding war and fearing the enemy', 'dedicating northern Zhejiang to the enemy', and 'abandoning important towns without permission', and even 'colluding with the Ming people', and there was a lot of noise in the Wuying Hall at that time. ”

Hong Chengchou let out a long sigh, but his thoughts drifted back to the Chongzhen Dynasty.

At that time, the Donglin Party was the leader, and the Eunuch Party and the Zhejiang Party were fighting, and all the courtiers could only shout and shout to kill, stretching their necks and desperately asking the front-line officers to take the initiative to attack. Whoever dares to shout weakly will immediately be attacked by the enemy party as "fearing the enemy" and "betraying the country," not to mention strategic retrenchment.

Under such an atmosphere in the DPRK and China, the generals of the unified army could only blindly attack regardless of the strength of their troops, and many battles were lost because of this.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, because Jinzhou Dongguan guarded Wu Bashi to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Jinzhou was surrounded by the Huang Taiji Army, and Jinzhou guarded Zu Dashou repeatedly complained to the imperial court. So Emperor Chongzhen sent him with an army of 130,000 to rush to reinforcements.

At that time, the Qing army built a lot of camps near Jinzhou and set up iron bucket arrays. Seeing this, he did not attack the besieging enemy, but stationed his men and horses in Ningyuan, which was more than 100 miles away from Jinzhou, and formed an echo with Jinzhou.

Then he attacked everywhere, repeatedly harassing the Qing army in the area of Tashan and Daxingbao, causing heavy losses to the enemy, and the Qing army was restrained by the Ming army of Ning Yuan, and did not dare to attack Jinzhou City.

Just as his strategy of step-by-step and steady progress achieved initial results, Chongzhen listened to the courtiers say that he Hong Chengchou "did not dare to attack the enemy" and "retreated in fear of war", and repeatedly ordered him to "march into the army immediately" and make a quick decision.

He then wrote to the imperial court, saying, "The great enemy is in front, the soldiers are in danger, the siege is relieved and the brocade is rescued, the moment is difficult to relieve, the dead are buried, and the wounded are not raised." Within half a month, the decisive battle will be fought again...... Jinzhou urgent! ”

But even during the half-month buffer period, the imperial court did not give it to him, and sent Ma Shaoyu, Zhang Ruoqi and others to supervise the war.

In desperation, he led his army out of Ningyuan in July and fought a decisive battle with the Qing army between Songshan and Xingshan. Unexpectedly, Azig burned the grain and grass he hoarded on Bijia Mountain, and Wang Puyi, the general soldier of Datong, retreated against the order, which eventually led to the collapse of the Ming army.

Subsequently, the Qing army took all the land of Songjin, and the defense system that the Ming Dynasty had built for many years in Liaodong completely collapsed.

The Battle of Songjin was always a thorn in Hong Chengchou's heart, and he surrendered to the Qing court only after he was captured after losing the battle. He believed that there was no big mistake in his strategy at that time, it was all the party struggle between the DPRK and China, and Chongzhen's partiality to listen to and believe, which buried the entire Liaodong.

And now there are people in the court who attack him for "avoiding war and fearing the enemy", which is so similar to the Chongzhen Dynasty!

He couldn't help but think of the night he surrendered. Concubine Zhuang said conclusively that the sons of heaven in the Qing Dynasty are all saints, and the court is purged, and the officials are Qingming, and the Qing Dynasty must be a prosperous era of Datong. But now it seems that it was the previous military victory of the Qing army that covered up all the problems, and now that the war is a little stalemate, all kinds of ghosts and ghosts immediately surface.

Also, the courtiers are still the same people, and the party is still fighting back and forth, but with a change of emperor, can you expect earth-shaking changes?

He sighed again, "These people sit in the middle of the court, but they always point fingers at the war, and the old man will have to be harmed by them sooner or later......"

Yang Zhihe nodded and said, "My lord, this is also a helpless thing. The courtiers only knew that our army was more than 100,000 and the southern army was only 30,000 or 40,000, so they all thought that the army was pouring down like a flood, and Fujian and Zhejiang would be obtained overnight. ”

Hong Chengchou has repeatedly received reports from the Qiantang Coastal Mansion recently, knowing that his men and horses have been eaten by no less than seven or eight thousand people, and he has long lost his contempt for the Ming army, so he shook his head and said: "These southern armies are far from the past, and their elite is not even inferior to the Eight Banners of Jianzhou, but it is not so easy to clean up. ”

He glanced at the folds on the ground, and snorted coldly: "Conquer Fujian and Zhejiang? Then I'd like to send a warship to the old man! Could it be that more than 100,000 troops swam through Qiantang? ”

He looked at Yang Zhihe again and said, "By the way, where is Zheng Zhilong?" ”

Yang Zhihe's face immediately changed, and he said: "Go back to the capital hall, this is another thing that has been marked here to report." Cheng ...... He was recalled by the regent to the Bohai Sea to suppress the Ming ships that were harassing Tianjin and Shengjing......"

"What?!"

Hong Chengchou suddenly lost his cool when he heard this, without Zheng Zhilong's sailors, he would never be able to cross Qiantang and go south, and the recent repeated attacks by the Ming army along the river to harass the north bank will continue.

He grabbed Yang Zhihe and shouted, "Didn't you send Jiaodong Water Division to help prevent Shengjing and other places?" Why do you want to transfer Zheng Zhilong again?! ”

Cold sweat was oozing from the latter's forehead," said Tang Bao, who had just arrived in Beijing...... The Jiaodong Navy Division was wiped out by the southerners, and not even a small boat to report the news could escape. There was also a civil unrest in Liaodong, and Taizu's mausoleum was almost destroyed by the rebellious army, and the DPRK and China were shaken.

"The regent no longer dares to wait for it, and has already transferred 8,000 Beijing battalions to Liaodong to help, and summoned Zheng Zhilong's sailors to make a detour with the enemy's ship."

Hong Chengchou was stunned, the Jiaodong Navy Division also has thirty or forty warships, even if they are invincible, they won't even be able to escape, right?

How did he know that the thirty or forty ships built and captured were not enough for the Ming Naval Division Expeditionary Force to plug the teeth. Zheng Chenggong first introduced the Jiaodong captives into the deep sea with a small boat, and then the capital ships such as the Shao Wu suddenly rushed out, and a few rounds of salvos were basically all settled.

Yang Zhihe whispered: "Xu is the general of the Jiaodong Army to surrender to the enemy." ”

Hong Chengchou's heart moved, and he hurriedly ordered Lu Shiyang on the side: "Order, the armies on the north bank of Qiantang will stick to their respective jurisdictions, and they are not allowed to take half a step back!" ”

"Subordinates obey!"