Li Yanzhi's words made Yu Feng and the others unable to refute it anymore, and even Chen Yue had to admit that what Li Yanzhi said was very reasonable after thinking about it carefully.

If you can persuade Wu Sangui to defeat Manchu as soon as possible, so that the army can reduce a lot of casualties, as the commander of the army, even if you are disgusted with Wu Sangui in your heart, you have to accept Li Yanzhi's strategy.

And after all, in this time and space, Wu Sangui did not kill Emperor Yongli, nor did he destroy the Ming Dynasty with his own hands.

In this time and space, although Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, it was not Wu Sangui who really forced the Ming Dynasty to a dead end. In fact, at that time, Dolgon had already listened to Fan Wencheng's words, and led the whole country to attack Ming, and the army was already on the way to Jizhou, even if Wu Sangui did not sacrifice the Shanhaiguan, Dolgon would choose to cross the mountains and cross the border wall from the north to enter the customs.

Chen Yue's dislike of Wu Sangui was more influenced by later generations. As Li Yanzhi said, Tang Tong, Guo Hu and others, who could accept the surrender of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, why couldn't they accept Wu Sangui anymore?

Chen Yue raised his hand and stopped Yu Feng's continued argument: "Brother Yanzhi, Wu Sangui didn't choose to surrender to the Ming Dynasty when the Manchurian and Manchurian armies overturned, do you think he will surrender now?" ”

Li Yanzhi analyzed: "Lord Wang, Wu Sangui did not choose to return to Ming at the beginning, there are no more than two reasons, one is that he and his family members are under the control of Manchu, if he chooses to return to Ming, it will kill everyone's family members." Moreover, when the Manchu Qing army was defeated at that time, his surrender would not be valued by the imperial court at all, at most he could save his life, and it was impossible to keep his power. ”

"And now? No, that's not the case. ”

Li Yanzhi shook his head and said: "It's different now, now our army is fighting against Manchu, it can be said that it is evenly matched, Wu Sangui's surrender can play a decisive role in our army's defeat of Manchu, which can be regarded as a great achievement, but it is much better than the defeat and surrender of the army." ”

"But if you want to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender, I'm afraid it's difficult, right? And what about his family members you just mentioned? Now he doesn't care about his family as well. Li Yi couldn't help asking.

"This is exactly what I am going to say next," Li Yan said straightly, "Lord Wang, the family members of Wu Sangui's army should still be outside the Shanhai Pass, which is close to the Bohai Sea, if we find out the location of his family, with the strength of our sailors, we can send an army to go along the waterway by boat and snatch his family in our hands." As long as Wu Sanguijun's family is in our hands, he will have to surrender.

Moreover, now that most of the Manchu forces are concentrated in Linqing Prefecture, if we send an army to attack the city in its rear, its military spirit will inevitably be shaken. If we can force them to divide their forces to save them, we have a better chance of defeating them. ”

Listening to Li Yanzhi's words, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up. It was a very fresh idea to transport troops across the sea to the rear of Manchu to conquer the city. Now that almost all the Manchurian army is in Linqing, and its rear is extremely empty, Li Yanzhi's strategy is very likely to be realized.

"In that case, why not send an army from Dengzhou to the ship, from Dagu ashore, straight to Beijing, if you can capture Beijing's nest that has captured Manchu Man, wouldn't it be better." Yu Feng said with a smile.

"Forget it, how far is Linqing from Beijing, before you get from Dagu to Beijing, the cavalry will have already arrived. As Mr. Li said, it is more reliable to send troops to Shanhaiguan by boat, as long as 10,000 or 20,000 troops can capture and block Shanhaiguan and cut off the way for Manchu to return to his hometown in Liaodong. Li Yi said with a smile.

Chen Yue glanced at Li Yanzhi approvingly, he had also been thinking about how to use the advantages of the navy before.

After all, there are 100 sea ships in Dengzhou, including three Galen ships carrying hundreds of red-coated cannons.

Compared with the high mobility and strong night combat ability of the Ming army, the advantage of the Ming army is that it has a large number of firearms, the army is well-trained, and the other is that it has a large number of naval ships.

The superior number of firepower troops can only guarantee the holding of the Liaocheng line, but cannot guarantee the defeat of the enemy in Liaocheng, after all, field warfare is not the strength of the Ming army.

But the water division is different, the Qing army now has no water division at all, and the Ming army's water division has an absolute advantage over the Qing army. However, the fleet could not sail to the shore after all, and Chen Yue initially thought about whether to use the navy to go ashore from Dagu, or simply attack the Liaodong Peninsula and attack the old nest of Manchu Shengjing. Now most of the Manchurian army has entered the pass, and there are not many people left behind in Liaodong. As long as thirty or forty thousand troops are dispatched, there should not be many problems in capturing Shengjing.

Why can only you attack, but you can only defend? Only with the advantage of the naval army, you can choose by the way where to open up a front from the entire Bohai Sea. If he heard that Liaodong's nest was attacked, would he choose to retreat?

However, it is not enough to just make Manchu retreat, if you want to completely defeat Manchu, you must annihilate Manchu's living force as much as possible. So Chen Yue has been hesitating about how to use the water master.

And now Li Yanzhi's suggestion made his eyes shine. Sending sailors ashore from Shanhaiguan, robbing Shanhaiguan, and then capturing Wu Sangui's family, may really force Wu Sangui to surrender.

And Wu Sangui's troops occupy a considerable weight in the total strength of the Manchurians, if they can really surrender, maybe it is not impossible to annihilate the Manchus of Linqing.

If these tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers can be annihilated in one battle, the national strength of the Manchu Qing will be completely exhausted. In this way, Wu Sangui can also be regarded as a great achievement, which can make up for his mistakes in the past.

Thinking about it, Chen Yue had a smile on his face, "Brother Yan's strategy is very brilliant, you can act according to this strategy!" ”

Yu Feng, Li Yi and the others looked at each other and couldn't raise any objections.

"Lord Wang, leave this matter to the last general!" Jin Xin, who had been silent, said suddenly.

"Ahh Chen Yue was stunned for a moment, "Chief soldier Jin, this king asks you, do you know how to fight water?" Do you know how to sail? ”

"This ......." Jin Xin opened his mouth to stammer, and Li Yi, Yu Feng and the others snickered.

Li Yi led his army to capture Jinan and defeated Hong Chengchou's army. Looking at the brothers who were equal in the past, Jin Xin has always been very depressed, he once took the initiative to ask for orders to lead the army to march quickly to defeat Hong Chengchou and make great contributions, but he failed to rush to the battlefield. So in order to make meritorious contributions, he has always refused to let go of any opportunity, but he didn't think about whether he was suitable or not.

As a result, everyone knew that the task of leading the naval army to attack could not be accomplished except for Wu Ping......

"That's it, Jin Xin, I will appoint you as the garrison of Jinan and replace Wu Ping to guard Jinan." Chen Yue said with a smile.

Jinan still has 30,000 or 40,000 horses, which can be regarded as a stand-alone one. Maybe he will be able to make some achievements when he fights with Man Jian in the future, and Jin Xin suddenly felt better when he thought of this.