Chapter 19: The third inning of the catalpa
This has already affected Chen Wen's next strategic direction. At least before that, whether it is to go west to Jiangxi and gain the right to enter the Yangtze River waterway on Poyang Lake, or go north to Anhua Town to defend the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, or attack Wenzhou to obtain the sea outlet, it is a very good choice. But if you integrate into the three games of the Lu Ping, you will probably not be able to control yourself.
Chen Wen's hesitation also infected Sun Yu, who was sitting on his attack. Although the ice face melted a little, his IQ did not turn into liquid and was discharged from his body. This plan sounded like a very successful one for him who was not in charge of military affairs, but once he reached a covenant with Qian Qianyi, he would be unable to control himself strategically, and he could still understand this principle.
"Mu Weng, this matter is of great importance, and the army is still in Quzhou. Why not wait a few days before discussing it?"
Seeing Sun Yu get into trouble, Qian Qianyi knew that such a big thing could not be decided in one breath, but Deng Qixi and Yao Zhizhuo, who came with him, looked unhappy. After all, Qian Qianyi's identity was there, and he came to ask for advice from a junior who could be his grandson at the age of his age. He was still a warrior, so he was fine. He even had to say something to others. It was really rude.
But at this moment, Chen Wen's drooping eyelids suddenly raised and his eyes became aggressive. Not only Deng Qixi, but even Yao Zhizhuo, who had been fighting against the Qing Dynasty for many years, was shocked. On the contrary, Qian Qianyi, who had been in the officialdom for a long time, was unmoved and even added some joy.
"Mu Weng said very much. If the royal army in the southwest and southeast can merge and cut off the Yangtze River, it will be possible to consolidate the army in the north for several years or as little as one or two years. Once the Tatars lose the southeast, they will not be able to support those bannermen who are not working and officials from various northern provinces, and the green camps..."
Whether it is refuting the elders as younger generations or refuting civil servants as military generals, these are things that cannot be recognized by this era. They are taboos for the respected people, so there is no need to deny Qian Qianyi's strategic layout for the sake of verbal benefits and do such thankless things.
"As the prefect Sun said, the army of the last general is still besieging the city of Quzhou, and this time he vows to take Chen Jin, a dog traitor. But Chen Jin is also the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian of the Tartars. If he dies, the Tartars court will definitely send another one. Although the last general now has the initiative, the Tartars' military strength is still far more than me, and the strategic direction will inevitably be affected to a certain extent..."
If you don’t refute, you don’t refute it, but you must leave yourself a room for reversal. Although even if you don’t say it, once the Qing army is dispatched, he will definitely need to respond. At that time, it will go against the plan and will not be able to say anything. However, there is actually no need for this at all.
Because, there are actually two most important problems here, two issues that have been ignored by Qian Qianyi and others.
The first one is time!
"After walking, it lasts thousands of miles. I guess it will be next summer. Mu Weng meant that it was going to let the Mo General go west to Jiangxi to meet the Southwest King's Division, or something else?"
Hearing this, Qian Qianyi and others were stunned. Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the southeast were several thousand miles apart from Guiyang in the southwest, and it was thousands of miles apart by the Qing Dynasty along the way. After they left Jinhua, they had to discuss with some anti-Qing people in Jiangbei and set off again. It would be extremely difficult to arrive in Guiyang next summer. After completing the contact, they would return. They might spend the next year on the road.
For a year, the Southeast was of great importance, and the Qing army must have taken action. Moreover, it is unknown whether Sun Kewang, the leader of the Ming army in the southwest, agreed with this plan. It is obviously unrealistic to rush to refine the strategic plan now.
Through history, Chen Wen knew that Sun Kewang was a supporter of this strategy, but Qian Qianyi and others didn't know. At this moment, Chen Wen didn't even point to the map, but just expanded a point they ignored accidentally, which made everyone present stunned. Yao Zhizhuo and Deng Qixi were not fools, and Qian Qianyi was even more of a person with a lot of IQ. Chen Wen made a little trick and they immediately understood that it was actually meaningless to discuss the strategic issue immediately.
For a moment, the people who needed time to consider changed from Chen Wen to Qianyi and others. It was not until a long time later that Chen Wen had already begun to think about whether to invite Qian Qianyi and others to taste the ham dish in Jinhua Mansion in the evening that Qian Qianyi gave up his plan to continue to give advice.
"A year later, how likely is Fu Ren to win?"
"Mu Weng, as far as I know, the Tartars in Jiangxi are mainly concentrated in Jiujiang, Nanchang and Nangan, and most of the other prefectures have only a few hundred people. The Tartars have sent a horse to explore the Guangxin Prefecture in western Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang, northern Fujian and Jiangxi. There will be actions after recovering Quzhou. As for a year later, if the Southwest King's Army breaks through the defense line of the Huguang Tartars and enters the Yangtze River Basin, the Tartars will naturally send a large army westward to open up the waterways of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River."
Although the Ming army in the southwest went north many times in history, it never broke through the defense line of the Qing army in Huguang. Although the Qing army in Huguang gathered heavily, there was no way to deal with the Ming army in the southwest. Whether it was Sun Kewang or Liu Wenxiu, they were much different from Li Dingguo in terms of ability and luck, and this gap just tilted the gap between the two armies on the Huguang battlefield. Therefore, for several years, the two sides were always in a stalemate. It was not until the three kings were in internal conflict that Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty to break the balance.
Qian Qianyi may have developed confidence in the three rounds of the three rounds of the Li Dingguo might have been through Li Dingguo's killing Kong Youde and his victory in the southeast. However, he did not know that Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo would soon get into evil. Although the southeast battlefield had deviated from the track, Chen Wen did not believe that Zheng Chenggong had the ability to bypass half of China to attack Huguang from behind and take the Ming army in the southeast. If he had this strength, he would have gone straight to Nanjing long ago, so how could he waste this time?
And this is the second question, the capabilities of the Ming army in the southeast and southwest!
Since Qian Qianyi did not ask where he planned to march, Chen Wen naturally gave the blame to Sun Kewang. Because Chen Wen could not tell Qian Qianyi about these things, he would not believe them even if he said them.
The plan is certainly a failure, at least it is impossible for him to change before his fan reaches the southwest battlefield. However, there is neither the need to give up Qian Qianyi's support nor the need to tie himself to that plan in order to obtain support. The best of both worlds may be impossible for ordinary people, but Chen Wen suddenly found that he had the opportunity to achieve this impossible.
Since that's the case, I have to temporarily aggrieved Qian Qianyi. At worst, I can help him restore his reputation after recovering Nanjing. Isn't this the biggest reason for this old man to work so hard?
The matter was settled, and the guests and hosts were having fun. At the next dinner, Chen Wen specially found a chef to make some local famous dishes from Jinhua to let Qian Qianyi and the other two taste it. It was obviously the first time Deng Qixi and Yao Zhizhuo, but it seemed that Qian Qianyi was not new to the dishes on the table.
Instead, he thought that it was normal. Qian Qianyi had come to Jinhua many times to instigate him. As far as Chen Wen knew, Ma Jinbao seemed to be very proud of being able to interact with Qian Qianyi. If Qian Qianyi had never eaten this food from Jinhua Mansion, it would be fresh.
After dinner, Qian Qianyi talked with Chen Wen about the prospects of cooperation between Chen Wen and his disciple Zheng Chenggong, the possibility of instigating the Qing army and his views on the war situation in the southeast.
Qian Qianyi naturally guaranteed the cooperation with Zheng Chenggong. After all, that was his student, and Chen Wen did not go against his plan. He just doubted whether the joke about Zheng Damu having sex with his master's wife in the later movie describing Liu Rushi had actually happened.
As for instigating the Qing army, although Qian Qianyi did not explicitly mention the targets of instigation because of Ma Jinbao, and only made a little hint, through the analysis of later generations, Chen Wen still knew a little - Admiral Su Song Zhang Tianlu, Admiral Tian Xiong of Zhejiang, General Ma Jinbao of Jinhua, and Governor of Jiangxi Cai Shiying.
Chen Wen has an impression of these four people, and from the above official titles, Qian Qianyi is more inclined to catch a big fish in one net to instantly change the enemy-to-me situation on the southeast battlefield. Unfortunately, the possibility of these four major positions is not very high anyway.
Su Song was the admiral Zhang Tianlu, who accumulated merits and became the general officer during the Chongzhen period. During the Hongguang period, his younger brother Zhang Tianfu and his younger brother Zhang Tianfu followed Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong to the Qing Dynasty and entered the Han army's yellow flag. His greatest record was to capture Huang Daozhou, a senior clerk of the Longwu Dynasty. As the admiral Su Song, he held heavy troops and was indeed worthy of hard work, but his younger brother Zhang Tianfu was the general officer of the Han and Qiang in Shaanxi, which meant to kill his younger brother anyway. The most speechless thing was that this person's resume was mentioned by Qian Qianyi himself while suggesting it.
Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong is already Chen Wen's old rival. Not to mention the fact that Tian Xiong's general Li Rong was killed by Chen Wen, this person used Emperor Hongguang as his condemnation when he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. If such a person dared to correct him, it would be new.
Although Zhejiang Governor Cai Shiying is a civil servant, his family has a lot of power in the Han army flag. However, this powerful force has reached the point of "one of the eight major families of the Han army flag". Why bother to be an alien to the Ming army anyway?
In contrast, Ma Jinbao, a bandit, had no psychological burden of loyalty and righteousness. Through the behavior of this rat-headed disciple, it was proved that Qian Qianyi was not in vain. However, this man was dead. Even if he did not die, he would only sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight in the battle in Nanjing, rather than just anyway.
If you look at it from the perspective of Zhuge Liang in hindsight, instead of wasting time with these people, it would be better to put your efforts into Taizhou General Ma Xin, Zhoushan Deputy General Ba Chenggong and later Ningbo Deputy General Zhang Hongde. At least they have indeed been corrected in history, even if they are forced to do so.
But the history is different now. Chen Wen is not easy to predict whether these will happen or whether there will be something. So he had to tactfully express his hope that Qian Qianyi should still take the principle of preserving himself, and at the same time reiterated his view on the green camp generals - a group of fencemen, and the wind is even stronger there, so he runs there.
Chapter completed!