Zhou Peigong’s strategy turned out to be quite powerful!
The news that Zhu Heji received before that the Qing army was dividing its troops westward and entering Hunan turned out to be his plan to attack the east and attack the west!
At that time, Tuhai did cross the Ganjiang River and headed west. But I didn’t go far, and I walked during the day and came back at night. It was a completely false shot. The 20,000 to 30,000 people he took away quietly crossed the river back to the east of Ganjiang River in two nights, and lurked between Shicha Town and Sanjiangkou Town.
This plan seems to be really successful now!
Zhou Peigong's second plan was to wait for work...and now it seems to have been successful. Zhu Heji's army marched in hastily and found that Kang Mazi was in the Shicha Town. Without adequate rest, he launched a river-crossing campaign with inferior troops.
Zhou Peigong's third plan was to use bricks to attract jade, and the high imitation Kang Mazi was just the bricks! And jade is of course Zhu Heji. As long as Zhu Heji can be lured across the Ru River and eliminated, it will be worthwhile even if the brick of high imitation Kang Mazi is thrown to pieces...
And after the strategy of throwing bricks and attracting jade has achieved complete success, we have to use the strategy of half-crossing and striking! If Zhu Heji's more than 10,000 people had crossed the Ru River, the brick of high imitation Kang Mazi would have been thrown away in vain.
Therefore, Zhou Peigong designed a "fake fire boat strategy" to burn some of the wooden boats in Sanjiangkou Town, and then let the Ming army seize a dozen boats. In this way, the Ming army did not have enough boats to ferry most of their troops across the Ru River quickly, but at the same time they could ferry some people across the river.
If the "Great Qing Ma Lord" appears again on the north bank of the Ru River at this time... and with Zhu Heji's adventurous character, seeing the "Great Qing Ma Lord" coming, there is no reason not to catch Kang Mazi in the river!
And as soon as he crossed the river...haha, tens of thousands of troops swarmed up, forming at least a ten to one advantage!
Even if Zhu Heji has thunder from the sky, "flying swords", and all kinds of "demon magic", as long as tens of thousands of troops from the Qing Dynasty fight under the leadership of "Ma Lord", the probability of killing Zhu Heji is Still big.
Once Zhu Heji died, Zhu Ming in Guangdong would have to stop for a while. Then the high imitation Kang Mazi used the remaining power of the victory to advance into Hunan and took Wu Sangui's retreat... In this way, Wu Sangui, who was facing off against the real Kang Mazi on the front line of Huguang, had to be attacked from both sides!
By the way, the high-imitation Kang Mazi Fuquan still doesn’t know that the real Kang Mazi Xuan Ye has been defeated miserably on the front line in Hubei, otherwise he would have to think carefully about whether to throw him away as a "brick".
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"It seems that Kang Mazi is dispatched, and there seem to be only tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers around him..."
"There are yellow dragon flags, yellow mandarin jacket guards, and two yellow flags and white flag guards. That's right, that should be Kang Mazi."
"That's not quite right. Are there a few soldiers guarding Kang Mazi? There can't be any fraud, right?"
"What kind of deceit can there be? He has already divided half of his people to go west to Hunan. There are only 30,000 Qingyaos left in Nanchang Mansion. It is a lot to be able to gather more than 10,000 people in a hurry!"
"That's right, the Tatar emperor has not many troops to protect him. The total number of Eight Banners in Manchuria is about 50,000. Among them, the Eight Banners soldiers from Shangsan Banner can only be 20,000 at most, and it is impossible for them all to come to Jiangxi... .Beijing has to keep some, right? It’s already a lot to take out 10,000 people now.”
The generals and staff who gathered around Zhu Heji had already noticed Kang Mazi, and started talking about it.
Although everyone is here to catch Kang Mazi, everyone also knows that this goal should be difficult to achieve.
After all, Kang Mazi is the Lord of Ten Thousand Vehicles, so he shouldn't appear in the enemy's sight easily, right? But now he only appears on the front line with more than 10,000 people, which seems a bit fake.
But some people hold different opinions...
Of course, the people around Zhu Heji could only discuss it, but it was Zhu Heji who really made the decision. So at the end of the discussion, everyone stopped talking and just turned to look at Zhu Heji, waiting for him to make up his mind.
"Cross the river!" Zhu Heji did not hesitate, "Even if Kang Mazi is fake, the more than ten thousand Eight Banners soldiers can't be fake, right? How many strong men are there in the Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Mongolia, and Eight Banners Han troops? I'm afraid not To 100,000, right? The more than 10,000 people on the other side are only one-tenth... How can we let it go? And Kang Mazi must have come up to supervise the battle. Liu Jinzhong will soon be attacked. The Gu family will not be able to cross the river. , How can Liu Jinzhong withstand it?"
"Your Majesty," Zhuge Zhengyang, who was in charge of the first town's commander-in-chief, came up and said to Zhu Heji, "General Liu's men only grabbed a dozen boats, which didn't look too big. I'm afraid they only managed to capture a few boats at a time." You can transport one or two hundred men and horses across the river. You are worth a thousand dollars, so I think it is better to cross the river later."
"It doesn't matter," Zhu Heji waved his hand, "Soldiers are no longer large, but elite...and more than a thousand of Liu Jinzhong's people have already crossed the river. His people are no better than ours, and they are still a little afraid of the Eight Banners soldiers. , so the Gu family can’t hide in the south bank all the time.”
"Then, Your Majesty, please let the fourth group cross the river. It can't be any earlier," Zhuge Zhengyang said sternly, "No matter what, we have to let Meng Renling bring a battalion of elite soldiers to cross first. We also have to let them bring more grenades. Hammer and lance.
Only when the fierce men Ling and Liu Zongrong secure their positions can you cross the river in the fourth batch. If you don't agree, I won't be the commander-in-chief of the first town. I will have to accompany you across the river! "
The fierce man Ling he was talking about was Ling Zongjun, who was the most powerful general under Zhu Heji. Now he serves as the deputy general of the four associations under the First Town together with Yu Xiaoqian, Su Zhanhai and Zhao Hongkui.
"Okay." Seeing that Zhuge Sanhe and his son were resolute, Zhu Heji nodded in agreement - he had great trust in Zhuge Sanhe and his son, as well as the Second Military Advisor Yang Qilong.
He smiled and said: "Little Zhuge, don't worry too much. Now Liu Jinzhong's people have invaded Sanjiangkou Town... It seems that they can win it.
The sheepskin rafts he brought to the other side are about to return to the south shore. If they go back and let them go again, they can pass more than a thousand people, and they will be stable by then! "
After all, the sheepskin raft is not a boat, so it is not that fast. Moreover, there were ten people rowing when we were crossing the river, but only one person was rowing when we were coming back. The speed was too slow. Because the speed is too slow and the raft is relatively light, the raft will float downstream for some distance, and then it will have to be pulled back before it can be released again.
If Zhu Heji's more than 10,000 people had to cross slowly in small boats and more than 100 rafts for more than ten days, it would probably take five or six hours to cross.
And these five or six hours can't be considered a long time... so Zhu Heji has no reason to give up.
After all, Kang Mazi has appeared, how can Zhu Heji not follow?
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"Long live! Long live! Long live the saint..."
When Zhu Heji's two banners of "The world is for the common good" and "The world is unified" appeared in Sanjiangkou Town, which had just been occupied by Liu Jinzhong's troops, all the Ming troops on both sides of the Ru River cheered.
The cheers were so loud that even Pseudo Mazifu, who was five or six miles away from the river bank, heard them clearly.
"Long live the saint...Did Zhu Heji cross the river?" Fu Quan asked Tu Hai beside him.
"It must be him!" Tu Hai looked excited, "This traitor not only opposes our Qing Dynasty, but also opposes modern Confucian Neo-Confucianism and psychology, advocates restoring Confucian etiquette, and even calls our Qing Dynasty's shaving of hair and changing clothes. Wearing your hair with the left fold is really treasonous!"
Fuquan nodded and said: "This traitor is really arrogant and rebellious to the extreme. Even in order to clean up the house for Confucius, we have to get rid of this traitor! Tu Zhongtang, he has crossed the river now, how are we going to capture him?"
Tu Hai smiled and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, all the servants have been arranged. Prince Kang will join Deng Guangming, Ma Xiong, Zhang Mengji and other generals to join Geng Zhaozhong's people to fight from the northeastern coast of Wuyang... ...When they have almost exhausted Zhu, I will lead the Eight Banners soldiers to give them the final blow and send Zhu to meet his grandfather, Emperor Chongzhen!"
Wuyang Water is very close to Sanjiangkou Town. The so-called Sanjiangkou is actually the confluence of Ru River and Wuyang Water. Zhu Heji could not even cross the Ru River before, so of course he could not detect the situation on the east bank of the Wuyang River, so the 40,000 Qing soldiers who were ambushing there were not discovered.
"This is the best!" Looking at Sanjiangkou Town ahead, which was already controlled by the Ming army, Fuquan whispered, "If we can't defeat this thief this time, we may not be able to spare the strength to enter Hunan!"
