"The situation in Zhenjiang is dangerous, and the three crossings of the river are based on the river, and they have been used as a place for soldiers in ancient times. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info If the Tartars want to cross the river, the upstream must be from the quarry, and the downstream must cross the Jingkou from Guazhou......"

Zhenjiang North Solid Mountain Pillow River, Stone Wall Plateau, Mountain Danger and Solidity. Zhou Shixiang, Zhang Huangyan, Gan Hui and others stood on the top of the mountain Ganlu Temple and overlooked the river, but it was difficult to get a glimpse of the river because of the fog, and they could not see the water camp of the Qing army in Jiangbei. This Ganlu Temple is said to be the place where Liu Bei and Liu Xuande recruited relatives during the Three Kingdoms.

There are three gangs in Zhenjiang, namely Beigu Mountain, Jinshan and Jiaoshan, and the three mountains are equipped with forts. Because the Yangtze River turns to the southeast in this place, there is obvious siltation, the river surface is forty miles wide in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty is reduced to eighteen miles, and it is less than six miles at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the water flow is more and more rapid, so it is called "the crossing of Jingkou, the most dangerous in the world", the north is particularly shallow and urgent, not conducive to boating; In the south, there are three mountains in a row, and it is convenient to control the natural danger.

Because Shunzhi set up a large camp and a water camp in Jiangbei, Zhou Shixiang could not go all out to sweep away the Qing army in Jiangnan and Fujian, Zhejiang, and the existence of the Jiangbei camp was a major threat to Nanjing, so after refusing Shunzhi's peace, Zhou Shixiang decided to go to Zhenjiang in person, first uproot the tumor of Jiangbei Water Camp, and ensure that the Qing army in Jiangbei could not cross the river, so that he could free up his hands to clean up Liang Huafeng and Guan Allegiance in Jiangnan.

At present, the Taiping army rushed to Nanjing with less than 30,000 troops, and it was necessary to ensure that the city of Nanjing, Wuhu, Ningguo and other places in the upper reaches of the city, as well as the left side of Zhenjiang, were somewhat insufficient. And Liang Huafeng in Changzhou and Guan Allegiance in Suzhou have about 10,000 soldiers, and they are all elite soldiers, not weaker than the Taiping army. Therefore, after sending Ge Yi to seize Zhenjiang, Zhou Shixiang ordered him to focus on defending and not take the initiative to attack Liang Huafeng in Changzhou, but only let Liang Huafeng and Guan Xiaozhong contain each other.

Lang Tingzuo made a great effort in this matter, not that Lang Tingzuo had the intention of turning around and defecting to Zhou Shixiang, but that after he learned from Yue Le and Esehei that the emperor wanted to capture the horse, Liang and Jiang, he was a little gloating, and once unintentionally told his cronies about it. As a result, in order to save his life, this staff member told the whole story, so that Zhou Shixiang could do something from it, so that the Manchurian soldiers could reveal the news.

As expected, Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu shrank in Suzhou, Liang Huafeng and Esehei were in a dilemma, on the one hand, the Taiping army was eyeing the tiger, and on the other hand, Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu, who wished they were finished quickly, even though there were thousands of elite soldiers who had hit the Zheng army hard, they could only nest in Changzhou and could not move an inch.

Ge Yi and Suna and other generals wanted to directly pacify Jiangnan and destroy Liang Huafeng and Guan Zhong, so that Jiangnan was in hand, and the Taiping army could have more room for maneuver. Zhou Shixiang disagreed, he thought that now Liang Guan and the two were suspicious, and neither of them wanted the other party to die, but if the Taiping Army really wanted to do it, it might be self-defeating, and the two would be forced together, and they would first fight against the Taiping Army, so that the gains would outweigh the losses. Now the situation is very good, Zhou Shixiang is not in a hurry to solve Liang Huafeng and Guan Zhongzhong, he is in a hurry to solve the Jiangbei Shunzhi army, at least, he must also pull out this so-called Jiangbei camp.

For some reason, when he heard that Shunzhi had set up a camp in Jiangbei, Zhou Shixiang's eyebrows jumped for no reason, because his soldiers were called the Taiping Army. Fortunately, Shunzhi was a fool and made some secret purpose, which caused Liang Guan to be wary of each other, otherwise he would set up a Jiangnan camp to come out, which would be enough for Zhou Shixiang to drink a pot.

On the fifth day of the capture of Nanjing, Zhou Shixiang formed the Jiangnan Naval Division of the Taiping Army, which was dominated by the officers and soldiers of the Zheng Army of Gan Hui and Yu Xinsuo and the rest of the Zhejiang Army who escaped from the pursuit of Jin Li. If it weren't for the Qing army's acquisition of more than a dozen large ships they had captured from the Zheng army, this sailor would not even be as good as the bandits on Poyang Lake in Jiangxi. Thinking of the thousands of warships under Zheng Chenggong's command, Zhou Shi felt more and more urgent about forming a powerful sailor belonging to the Taiping Army.

Money, Zhou Shixiang has a lot now. After conquering Nanjing, the Taiping army obtained a total of 18 million taels of silver by searching and killing the property of Mancheng and traitor officials and gentry. Zhou Shixiang ordered all this batch of silver to be included in the public treasury, and when the prison state arrived in Nanjing, the Ming ingots and silver dollars were minted, and the new silver dollar and grain stamp system were fully implemented in the areas controlled by the Taiping army. Under the circumstance that there is no shortage of money and food, to build a naval division and even a navy, it is at least necessary to ensure that the navigation rights of the Yangtze River are in hand, which is the unanimous understanding of Zhou Shixiang and the staff generals. If there was a powerful naval division like Zheng Chenggong at hand now, Zhou Shixiang would not feel troubled by the so-called Jiangbei water camp of the Qing army at all, and he would not even have to go to Zhenjiang in person to command the removal of this cancer.

Bullying the small with the big and running rampant like Zheng Jun is really a desirable thing.

The Jiangbei water camp of the Qing army was located in the south of Yangzhou, at the exit of the canal on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The east is the naval battalion, and the west is the shipyard. In the Yangtze River between Guazhou and Zhenjiang, there is a small island of Beixinzhou, which is two miles wide from the north bank of Guazhou. The Qing army built a fort on the east side of the island to protect the exit of the Jiangbei Shuiying. The east of the fort is protected by a deep ditch and a wooden village, and there are 4,000 garrison green battalions.

Zhou Shixiang is not accustomed to water warfare, but Zhang Huangyan, Gan Hui, Yu Xin and others are masters in this, so he did not directly command with self-righteousness, or give orders like a bald head in later generations, but handed over the authority to attack the Jiangbei water camp to Zhang Huangyan and Gan Hui.

Zhang Huangyan pointed to Guazhou, Jiangbei and continued: "The first pass to capture Guazhou is the iron chain between Jinshan and Jiaoshan, which the Tartars call the Rolling River Dragon. After Yanping retreated, the Qing army reset the rolling river dragon, one was afraid that Yanping would come back, and the other was afraid that our Zhejiang army would escape from the Yangtze River. After breaking the rolling river dragon, you can go to take the North New Continent, otherwise, it will be difficult to approach. ”

Zhou Shixiang nodded, and said happily: "Lord Shangshu has entered the Yangtze River three times, and he is familiar with the situation in Jingkou, so he asks Shangshu to take full command and suppress the Qing army in North Xinzhou with artillery fire, and then General Gan Hui will lead the troops to cut off the rolling river dragon and land on the shore to seize the fort." ”

"Good! I tried my best to command the soldiers to fight, and this time there will be no boat left in the Tartar water battalion, and the Tartar chieftain will sigh when he looks at the river! Zhang Huangyan agreed without hesitation.

Zhou Shixiang turned his head and instructed Ge Yi: "Surrender all the soldiers in your army who are good at swimming to Lord Shangshu under the command." ”

Ge Yi had already been prepared, and had already selected more than 600 soldiers who were proficient in water to standby, half of which were newly surrendered soldiers from Zhenjiang, which was just right for them to work hard.

Gan Hui, Yu Xin, and the generals of the Zhejiang Army, Guo Faguang, Wei Dalong, and others discussed, and they all felt that they had a great grasp of success. Although the Jiangnan Naval Division is not as good as the Yanping Zheng Army, it is not much worse than the Jiangbei Naval Division of the Tartars. More importantly, the officers and men of the Zhejiang Army and the Zheng Army are all good hands in the water, and the quality of the soldiers is not that of soldiers recruited in a hurry by the Tartars.

Gan Hui also suggested: "However, there is another wooden floating camp in the upper reaches of Guazhou, in addition to blocking navigation, there is also artillery, I will go to take Beixinzhou, so that Yu Xin and Wei Dalong can lead the troops up to break the wooden floating camp." After we had succeeded in both places, we attacked the Tartar Water Camp, blocked him in the harbor, and bombarded them with the artillery of the North New Island and the Mufu Camp. ”

Zhang Huangyan agreed with Gan Hui's opinion, Yu Xin, who was just injured, and Wei Dalong, who was eager to avenge his brothers in the Zhejiang army, rubbed their fists, just waiting to show their skills.

Zhou Shixiang asked everyone: "Do you still have high opinions?" ”

Zhang Huangyan and others said that there was no problem, and this strategy was the best. Zhou Shixiang made a final decision: "There is no opinion, then tomorrow the army will enter the army, seize the river defense and natural danger, break his Tartar water camp, and when the upstream army arrives, the national prince will cross the river to meet the blessing of the child for a while!" (To be continued.) )