Sun Kewang's final misdecision led to the disastrous defeat of the Ming army in the southwest at the battle between the forks of the road. The Qing army seized more than 700 war horses and two war elephants. They had no military weapons and many killings.

However, there was an example of the last ambush by Li Dingguo, and the Qing army was also killed and injured in the battle just now. Many generals and soldiers including Wei Zheng and Wu Jing, including the two Mongolian Meilezhangjing, were killed in battle. After defeating the Ming army, Tunqi did not dare to continue pursuing, nor could they launch a pursuit. They just took over again after the Ming army gave up Baoqing.

The battle at the fork in the road was a turning point in the southwest battlefield. Chen Wen knew very well what this meant. Now Hong Chengchou is so passive. The only answer is that he is waiting for the result of the southwest battlefield, because Jiangxi where he is located is the connection between the southeast and the southwest, and it is also the province that is most able to reinforce Huguang.

Chen Wen can't remember clearly when the battle at the intersection occurred, but it will never be true in April, because the situation at that time should be the outbreak of conflicts between Sun and Li, and Li Dingguo gave up Yongzhou even if he had internal strife. As a result, the Qing army discovered the matter and then occupied it, and then sent troops to attack northward. They seemed to have a greater target and their combat effectiveness may not be as good as that of Sun Kewang's army in Li Dingguo. The battle at the intersection broke out like this.

Chen Wen remembers that the first battle of Zhaoqing in Li Dingguo entered Guangdong in history seemed to be at the end of March and early April, and the following historical events followed one after another, so the outbreak of the battle at the forks of the road could only be in March.

Once he figured out this, Chen Wen quickly summoned the generals and staff to decide the next action of the Ming army in Zhejiang. However, these generals and staff talked about each other, and his ideas became increasingly chaotic.

After repelling the generals, Chen Wen sat alone in the garden of the headquarters for a while. After calming down for a while, he realized that he had been wrong from the beginning. The staff system he designed was not originally used to decide what kind of battle to fight, but to design details of the combat plan for the goals he decided. Now he is in a hurry to seek medical treatment, but instead he has found generals and staff to discuss the next goal. How can he not be confused in this way?

However, Chen Wendao also heard some useful things in the midst of these conversations, with at least a few options: the central generals mainly tended to attack Yushan County and thus entered Jiangxi; and the staff seemed to think more and have greater differences. Some believed that they should turn north to Ningshao, some thought that they should go south to recover Wenzhou, and some thought that Yanzhou Prefecture should be taken down first...

Several surrounding prefectures have made proposals, but there is no Taizhou. Chen Wen is very clear that attacking Taizhou is no longer as simple as a strategic issue, and this has developed into a political issue.

Taizhou, Chen Wen did not plan to go. Today, with Chuzhou Prefecture in hand, there is no point in attacking there. Even for the purpose of estuary, he should attack Wenzhou. After all, it can open up the trade route from northern Fujian to Quzhou. It is just to seize Wenzhou. Although it can open up the trade route and have an estuary, and through trade, it can also roll snowballs bigger and faster, but it cannot quench near thirst.

After the Battle of the Fork Road Crossing, the situation in the southwest became flat, and the Qing army would definitely fight in the southeast. The Battle of Haicheng in history broke out not long after that. Now the confrontation between the Ming army in Fujian and the Qing army in Fujian has been formed. With him in southwestern Zhejiang, the Qing army did not dare to continue to increase troops to southern Fujian. Besides, even if it could not be defeated on land, Zheng Chenggong could still retreat to the sea. His navy was invincible and invincible coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, which was not a joke. The Qing army could only find a way to remove him first before moving Zheng Chenggong.

The Qing army was about to encircle and suppress the enemy. At this time, Wen would not gain much even if he won. Instead, he would consume his vitality. So, he could only try to attack those areas that the Qing army attached more importance to, so as to disrupt Hong Chengchou's plans and arrangements. Chen Wen had only two such goals, one was Nanchang and the other was Hangzhou.

Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi. The residence of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiangxi Province, Cai Shiying, is of great political significance. With Jiangxi's geographical location and terrain, if you capture Nanchang, you can train a navy on the Poyang Lake, and then enter the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River goes south, and the strategic significance is also very important. In addition, due to the existence of Poyang Lake and the spread of plains in Jiangxi, it is quite beneficial to Chen Wen's military merits to support heroes with land, at least much stronger than those mountainous areas in eastern Zhejiang.

However, the core of Chen Wen's current occupied area is the Jinqu Basin. From Anhua Town in the north to Hulu Town in the southwest, this is a strip area. Once cut off by the Qing army, it will inevitably be impossible to look after each other. Nanchang, located west of Poyang Lake, if Chen Wen wants to attack there, he must first enter Guangxin Prefecture, and then enter the boundary of Nanchang Prefecture from the south of Raozhou Prefecture or the northern Fuzhou Prefecture, so as to achieve the siege of Nanchang Prefecture.

In this way, the front line is too long, collecting and transporting military supplies is not easy, and it is too dangerous to go deep into the army alone. The efforts of a man who made mistakes in the past few years will be wasted.

Unless Li Dingguo comes from the west, he meets Li Dingguo in Nanchang from east to west, only in this way can he quickly conquer Nanchang. However, where Li Dingguo is now, Chen Wen has no news about it. It is the mountainous areas in western Jiangxi that delayed Li Dingguo's pace, or Li Dingguo did not march into Jiangxi at all, he knows nothing about these. The only thing that can be confirmed is that Li Dingguo must have not arrived near Nanchang now, and even did not put forward a threat to Nanchang. Otherwise, Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie would have given up Yushan County to return to Nanchang to defend.

It is better to begging for others than to ask for others. Instead of fantasizing that Li Dingguo can meet him in Nanchang as promised, it is better to do what he should do first, and it is better to assume that it is safer for him to not invite Li Dingguo.

Once he thought of this, his previous anxiety and hesitation were immediately wiped out, and Chen Wen returned to his usual state, and the pressure brought by Hong Chengchou began to gradually decline.

But since Nanchang cannot succeed, then you can only go north to Hangzhou.

Since Jinhua attacked Hangzhou, there were two ways to go. One was to enter Yanzhou Prefecture, go downstream and go straight to Hangzhou, and the other was to go north to Shaoxing Prefecture and then cross the Qiantang River.

If it is richer, Ning Shao is naturally far better than Yanzhou, which is everywhere in the mountains. Moreover, the birthplace of the army under his command is Dalan Mountain between Ning Shao. The desire to return to his hometown is also full of temptation for many generals and veterans who have followed him for many years.

However, even if he was able to successfully capture Shaoxing Prefecture and cross the Qiantang River to the west, the Qing army in Zhejiang still had a large army of Dinghai General Battalion, which consisted of more than 8,000 soldiers composed of Shaoxing Green Camp and Zhoushan Green Camp. The Qiantang Navy can also connect with each other, and Su Song's Green Camp can also take a boat to help. The result of dividing troops eastward was to weaken the efforts to siege Hangzhou. But if you ignore it, you will always have to leave some soldiers behind to ensure the safety of the way back. It is difficult to see no matter how you look at it.

Since that's the case, we can only attack Yanzhou Prefecture along the way, and we don't think about the results of the battle. As long as we can force Hong Chengchou to take action in advance, it will be much better than waiting for this traitor to prepare everything before responding passively. (To be continued.)

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