"On the water?"
Zhu Heji immediately understood what Zhuge Sanhe meant.
He said "on the water", not the sea or the river. Instead, the rivers and seas were linked together to control their subordinates, and besieged Kang Mazi in Nanjing, just like the Hunan and Huai armies used to besiege the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from the east and west.
Zhu Heji asked with a smile: "What the military advisor means is that while we fight Kang Mazi on the front battlefield in Anqing, we will send troops to go north by sea to Ningbo, Dinghai, and Songjiang, and then fight from the east to Nanjing City?"
"The supervisor is a wise man!" Zhuge Sanhe said with a smile, "But the sea route is not only to go north to Ningbo, Dinghai, Songjiang... but also to go north to Tianjin when the time is right to give Kang Mazi the final blow!"
Yes, this is the route of the British and French forces!
After all, Kang Mazi is not Master Hong. In addition to Nanjing, he also has a city in Beijing!
"Military advisor," Zhu Heji asked again, "how are we going to attack Anqing? Is it a feint attack or a real attack?"
Zhuge Sanhe said: "Supervise the country, I think we should really fight!" He paused and then said, "According to the latest information we have obtained, Qingyao's new Eight Banners Army has a land division of Eight Banners, plus a naval force of 20,000,000, The total strength is as high as 160,000. If we don’t suck them tightly on the Anqing battlefield, it will not be easy for our troops who landed in Ningbo, Dinghai, and Songjiang to quickly open up the situation... maybe there will be more Let Qing Yao drive him into the sea."
"That's right, Anqing must be fought well!" Zhu Heji said with a smile, "This will make it difficult for Kang Mazi to take care of both ends. When he loses both ways, my father will go north to Tianjin and defeat the third prince Zhu. The banner may be able to be circulated to Beijing!"
It's impossible to decide Beijing by sending a message, but it's possible if you add two hundred thousand taels of gold!
Zhuge Sanhe was not very interested in the matter of "buying Beijing". That was Yang Qilong's responsibility. His attention now was still on the battlefield, especially the Anqing battlefield.
"Supervise the country," Zhuge Military Advisor said, "The terrain in Anqing is not very favorable to us, and Kang Mazi's people have been deployed in Anqing for several months... Not only did they pull up seven lines on the river near Anqing, They locked the river with iron chains, built two pontoon bridges, and even built a bastion on the south bank of the Yangtze River opposite Anqing City!”
"Bastion?" Zhu Heji was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, "It's the good deeds of those Portuguese slaves!"
Zhuge Sanhe said: "It is said that the bastion was built in a decent way. On the inland side, layers of fortifications were built. Two trenches were dug. There were also sloping embankments, outer walls, etc. Concave-corner fort, half-moon fort, hollow bastion, solid bastion, battlements... It's so complicated!
In addition, there is news that Anqing City is now being renovated with the help of those Portuguese slaves, and it will soon be as troublesome as this south bank bastion. "
Zhuge's military advisor's intelligence was actually a bit inaccurate. The Anqing City reconstruction plan and the Anqing South Fort construction plan were not proposed by Kangxi's Portuguese slaves. The main designs of these two bastions were actually made by Kangxi himself!
He is a top student!
Moreover, the Dutch East India Company had bad intentions and presented a batch of books on fort building to Kang Xueba last year!
Kang Xueba didn't sleep for several nights, so he stayed up late and read all these books, and he understood them clearly.
Then he proposed a draft for the reconstruction of the Anqing City Bastion and the construction of the Anqing South Bastion. Masuik, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, sent several Dutch engineers and Kangxi's Portuguese slaves to Anqing with Emperor Kangxi's drawings. During construction, Kangxi's plan was modified according to the actual terrain conditions. After working hard for several months, it finally took shape.
"No matter how complicated the bastion is, we can defeat it... This matter will be taken care of by me!" Zhu Heji was full of confidence. "Strategic Advisor, tell me your strategy for the Battle of Anqing!"
"Jian Guo, please come over here." Zhuge Sanhe shook his goose feather fan and moved a few steps along the long table. He came to a map of Anhui spread out on the long table before stopping. and.
Zhu Heji also moved over and stood beside the map. He looked down and found that many red and cyan lines had been drawn on the map. These lines all carry arrows, pointing to Anqing from three directions: east, west, and north.
In addition, three large circles are drawn with cyan lines in Anqing City, Anqing Nancheng, and Guichi County. In addition, there are some small circles outlined with red lines.
Zhu Heji took a closer look at the red lines and found that they marked the attack routes for the two stages before and after. The first stage is marked with a dotted line, and the second stage is marked with a solid line.
The red dotted lines in the first stage are all in the south of the Yangtze River, starting from Madang Town in Jiangxi, advancing eastward along the Yangtze River, and capturing Xiangkou Town, Jiande County, Dongliu County, Zhangxi Town, Yanpan Town, and Huangshiji After waiting for the stronghold, we then marched to Anqing Nancheng. And around these strongholds that were "captured" by the red dotted lines, small circles were drawn with red lines. The meaning is obvious, it is to fortify!
This should be a step-by-step, hard-to-advance plan.
At the end of these red dotted lines is the Anqing Nancheng Bastion - the red dotted lines form a semi-encirclement around the Anqing Nancheng Bastion.
The solid red line in the second stage starts from Xiangkou Town in Anhui.
The solid red line will cross the Yangtze River, capture Huayang Town on the other side, which is under the jurisdiction of Wangjiang County, and then capture Wangjiang County, and then pass through the narrow flat land between Wuchang Lake and Bo Lake, heading straight for the Anhui River. Shipai Town. After crossing the Wanshui River from Shipai, they bypassed the hills north of Anqing City and went around to the north of Anqing to attack Jixian Pass. After taking down Jixian Pass, we can complete the siege of Anqing North City on three sides.
However, Shi Lang's Yangtze River Navy is not finished. No matter Anqing's north city or south city, there is no way to trap them to death.
"Shi Lang's navy camp is in Guichi?" Zhu Heji glanced at the map and saw the blue circle around Guichi County.
"Just in Guichi," Zhuge Sanhe said, "it is reported that Qingyao Guichi's water camp has no less than 20,000 soldiers and hundreds of large and small ships.
In addition, the Qing army installed artillery that can shoot on the river in Anqing and Anqing South City... Once there is a water battle on the river near Anqing, our navy will have to fight with the land forts and water warships at the same time. wage war. "
"Understood!" Zhu Heji nodded, "We have to destroy the Anqing Nancheng bastion first, then the water battle, and finally the Anqing Beicheng siege!"
"Supervise the country," Zhuge Sanhe said, "I predict that once the south city of Anqing is in danger, Kangxi may mobilize the main force of the Eight Banners' new army to attack southward from Luzhou Prefecture and fight with me north of Anqing!
And once his army goes into the decisive battle of Anqing, Songjiang and Ningbo will be empty...the opportunity will come! "
"Okay!" Zhu Heji clapped his hands, "Then Dao Scarrong and my father's chance will come!"
As soon as Zhu Heji finished speaking, King Zhu Tian's laughter suddenly rang out in the courtyard outside: "Dao Scarong, can you see if I can pinch you? We just entered the courtyard, so he's already here." !”
Immediately afterwards came the voice of Da Bo Ling, who Zhu He had been thinking about day and night: "Abba, the Crown Prince didn't mention Sister Nu and Shuzhen... His calculations are still not accurate enough!"
Hearing this voice, Zhu Heji couldn't bear it any longer. He quickly took three steps into two steps and ran out of the Cunxin Hall like flying. When we arrived outside the main hall, we saw a large group of people already in the courtyard!
Not only Zhu Tianwang, Dao Scarong, Da Bo Ling, Qiu Shuzhen, but also Bei Jiaxin, there are also Princess Kunxing and her apprentice Yang Xiaoqi, and Zhu Hexinna's concubine Zhou Yubing... Oh, There are also three wet nurses holding babies!
Da Bo Ling and Bei Jia Xin were both safe as mother and daughter... and both gave birth to a pink and tender girl for Zhu Heji. So Qiu Shuzhen, the eldest lady, was also very happy. When she saw her husband coming out, she went up to him and reported both the merit and the good news: "Brother Pao, A Ling and A Xin are both mother and daughter, and they have given birth to a daughter for you." , you have to reward them well!"
