Looking at the place Wu Sidaozhuzhang pointed, he was not referring to anything else, but was the Hangzhou City that Yuan Qi had not even taken away from his scheming.

"Test Hangzhou?" Liao Huanzhi was stunned, stood up and looked at the map for a long time, and then showed a thoughtful expression.

"Can Mr. Wu say it carefully?" Zhu Yicheng guessed Wu Sidao's thoughts, but he was not sure yet, so he asked immediately.

"Your Highness, Mr. Liao, come and see!" Wu Sidao pointed at Hangzhou and said, "Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province, and its geographical location is extremely important. Once you take Hangzhou, you can connect with Susong to the east, go west to Huizhou, and then go directly to Poyang Lake and Jiujiang, and Hangzhou can go north to Jinling, not to mention going south, you can say that you will take away the entire Zhejiang in Hangzhou and almost all of us."

Speaking of this, Wu Sidao's legs and feet were inconvenient for a long time. He sat down and continued, "When Yuan Qi revolted, he was probably planning to fight in Hangzhou. Unfortunately, Yuan Qi was too eager to win and did not know how to advance and retreat, which led to the final defeat of Hangzhou. But now it is different. My elite troops in the Ming Dynasty have 50,000 soldiers in Zhejiang, plus Susong, Wenzhou, Taizhou and even Taiwan, with a total force of more than 100,000 troops. There are Ningbo Navy, Chongming Navy and the Taiwan Navy that are now being formed. They are powerful."

"The Qing court is now trying to defeat people with strength and adopt various tactics of defeat, and then mobilizes all its forces to attack our Ming Dynasty. Although our army cannot directly assist Yuan Qi, Zhu Jiancai and Chen Wuxian's troops, they must not avoid war and rest. Once the rebel troops are defeated, when the Qing court frees up their hands, the pressure on our Ming Dynasty can be imagined."

"I know this, and the gentleman said just now that the grain transportation is cut off, and the fires in various places are everywhere, and the Qing court is also clear that it cannot be delayed." Zhu Yicheng nodded, but he asked again: "From Mr., how will the Qing army deal with it after taking Hangzhou?"

"Haha, you have to ask your highness how to decide after taking Hangzhou." Wu Sidao immediately smiled and said, "Whether to the east, west, or simply to the north? This requires your highness to make a decision."

Hearing this, Zhu Yicheng immediately smiled: "I understand, then I will ask the two gentlemen to negotiate with the General Staff Headquarters and come up with a feasible plan as soon as possible."

"Respect the order!"

Liao Huanzhi and Wu Sidao responded quickly, and the strategic direction of attacking Hangzhou was determined.

After the Battle of Taiwan, the General Staff Headquarters formed by Zhu Yicheng was the first to show its strength. Although the victory of this battle was much easier than expected, the various plans proposed by the General Staff Headquarters before the war made it extremely helpful to attack Taiwan, whether it was marching, fighting, landing, clearing up, including the final recovery of Taiwan and stabilizing the place.

According to Zhu Yicheng's request, the General Staff Headquarters sent many low-level staff officers to the front line to assist in the battle, so as to keep abreast of the front line movement and conduct military staff as front line commanders at any time, and also accumulate their staff experience to prepare for the expansion of the General Staff Headquarters in the future.

This time when the General Staff attacked Hangzhou, the General Staff did not dare to neglect it. As the chief of staff, Zhuang Yan summoned all personnel to organize information and conducted a detailed investigation on all aspects before the war. He had not met for many days and finally came up with a preliminary plan. After Liao Huanzhi and Wu Sidao first saw it, he handed it over to Zhu Yicheng.

When Zhu Yicheng decided to send troops to Hangzhou, while starting to arrange the arrangements, Chen Wuxian in the hinterland of Fujian became increasingly critical. As the troops from Guangdong and Guangxi went north, Chen Wuxian's territory was constantly compressed, and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Nian Gengyao led his troops from the east and north to attack. Although Chen Wuxian's unit was brave enough to take the lead, his two fists could not match four hands, and he was outnumbered and lost the territory of the two counties one after another.

"Brother, it would be too late to break through!" Chen Wuxian's old brother Chen Hua advised from the side, losing the territory of the two counties one after another. The rebel army now has only Dehua and the other towns. Moreover, the rebel army had a huge casualty in battle with the Qing army. Although the entire army is still known as 30,000 troops, in fact, only more than 4,000 people can actually fight, and the rest are either old, weak, sick or disabled, or make up for the numbers. Once the Qing army encircles Dehua, the strength of the rebel army will not be able to defend at all.

This time, the people who led the troops from Guangdong and Guangxi to the north were not ordinary people. They were the land admiral Lan Li of Fujian back then. This was a powerful general and was even more known as the Blue Tiger among the people. However, because of insufficient military expenditure, Lan Li was extorted and investigated by Kangxi after learning about it. However, now it is the time to hire people. Not long ago, he was reinstated as the admiral of Guangxi by Kangxi.

After taking office, Lan Li sent troops from Guangxi, united the troops of Guangdong and Guangxi, heading north to take Chen Wuxian's nest. Lan Li and the rebels won several consecutive victories. Now Chen Wuxian clearly felt the crisis of Dehua, and he could not even deal with Lan Li. Once Nian Gengyao from the north rushed over again, the rebels would be completely finished.

"Retreat!" Chen Wuxian was also a decisive person. He immediately made a decision and took the initiative to withdraw from Dehuacheng, preparing to go west to avoid the Qing army, and at the same time, he broke all the troops in his hands into pieces and scattered away. You should know that Fujian is full of mountains, and although the mountain roads are difficult to walk, it can hide people. However, so many people gathered together is a huge problem. The whereabouts are too exposed and they will be easily discovered by the Qing army.

Chen Wuxian took the initiative to evacuate Dehua, and Lan Li rushed over as soon as he left. Because the rebel army voluntarily gave up Dehua, Lan Li directly recovered Dehua almost without any damage. On the surface, capturing Dehua means that Chen Wuxian's troops in the hinterland of Fujian have been broken up and cannot afford to threaten the Qing army for the time being. However, Lan Li, who once served as the admiral of Fujian, was a person who seemed reckless but careful. He knew very well the consequences of not dying from a snake. Moreover, Fujian is full of mountains. Chen Wuxian took people into the mountains. If he did not completely solve him, he would have endless troubles.

After taking over Dehua City, Lan Li immediately ordered the removal of all the people in the city. As long as anyone who had something to do with Chen Wuxian's troops would be arrested and severely beaten. Not only did he ask about the whereabouts of Chen Wuxian's troops, he also used the threat of the local party's kinship relationship and asked the people to lure the rebels who fled to the mountains to take the initiative to go down the mountain.

I have to say that although Lan Li's set was rough, the effect was good. In just a few days, many deserters appeared in Chen Wuxian's troops who fled into the mountains. In addition, Lan Li sent his subordinates to lead a team to search in the mountains, and Chen Wuxian and other remaining troops became more and more sad.

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more critical, and because of the pressure from his family and the persuasion of the town party, more and more Chen Wuxian's subordinates came out to surrender. It would not take much time for Chen Wuxian to have nowhere to hide. If he hadn't broken it into pieces in advance, Lan Li would have known where he was hiding now.
Chapter completed!