After all the precautions, the Ming army finally took advantage of the loophole. Then, a one-sided battle did not break out. The morale of the Qing army who defended the city was already low, and now they were attacked by the Ming army. They immediately asked for surrender. How could they dare to do so?

Resistance again. Just like when Li Chengdong led his elite cavalry to pretend to be Ming troops and raided Guangzhou City, Li Jianjie also took over the city without much effort. When Chen Kai arrived at Nanxiong Fucheng, he even

He presented a gift - Su Yangzhi who was really seriously injured.

"Admiral Huang captured Dong Dayong in Tingzhou Prefecture, and Jia Xiong is dead here, and Su Yangzhi was captured. There are not many people left in Nangan."

The urgent military information Chen Kai received before he decided to attack the city immediately was sent by Huangshan from the ancient town. The Ming army from Tingzhou Prefecture, with the cooperation of the Tiandihui in Ruijin County, captured the city and captured Dong Da alive.

Waiting for a large number of Qing troops, the Qing court's defense line facing Fujian in the southern Jiangxi area was completely penetrated. Tens of thousands of Ming troops poured into Ruijin County. With the support of rumors, Hu Yousheng was forced to withdraw to the capital of Ganzhou in a hurry.

Everything is a chain reaction. Even if there are no rumors, once Tingzhou Fucheng falls, Hu Yousheng will rely on his past experience to defend Ganzhou Fucheng in front of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong. He will immediately set off to return to Ganzhou Fucheng to defend it.

People are often accustomed to doing things according to their successful experiences, not to mention that Hu Yousheng succeeded three times in a row in the past few years. When the battle situation becomes unfavorable, inertial thinking will immediately control his brain. This is the most important thing for Chen Kai.

It's a good thing to predict. And with this prediction, as long as Chen Kai is sure that Hu Yousheng will withdraw his troops, then Su Yangzhi and Jia Xiong will definitely try to withdraw the Ganzhou Fucheng Co-defense. He only needs to be stuck at this time to attack them.

Launch an attack to gain maximum results.

In the Southern Gan area, the Qing army mainly consisted of eight troops: Nan Gan Ti Biao, Nan Gan Fu Biao, Ganzhou Zhen Biao, Nan'an Zhen Biao, Chenzhou Zhen Biao, Tingzhou Zhen Biao, Shaozhou Zhen Biao and Nanxiong Zhen Biao.

There are 26,000 troops. This does not include the numbers of those who guard the city and the garrison of Union City. These alone are actually much larger than the military strength invested by the Ming army in any direction.

However, not to mention that these troops need to be stationed in various places. After Chen Kai's operation, the establishment of the three troops of Tingzhou Zhenbiao, Nanxiong Zhenbiao and Shaozhou Zhenbiao was completely wiped out. The mobile troops of the Qing Army in Southern Gansu were completely wiped out.

The number of soldiers dropped by 9,000, which is almost one-third. The bigger problem is that even if they defend the capital of Ganzhou, the Chenzhou town sign cannot be moved lightly, because it is the main road connecting southern Jiangxi to Huguang, and the Qing army

It is absolutely impossible for Chen Kai to be allowed to threaten Hong Chengchou's retreat.

Calculated in this way, even if the Qing army in Southern Ganzhou abandoned Nan'an Prefecture, they could only muster 14,000 troops in Ganzhou Prefecture, as well as an uncertain number of city defense troops whose combat effectiveness was certainly not comparable to that of each town.

.With this number, the two armies of the Ming Army from Fujian and Guangdong became a completely inferior confrontation.

After this series of operations, the Ming army successfully encroached on the outer areas of the Southern Gansu region, and at the same time effectively weakened the Qing army in Southern Gansu. This is undoubtedly a good start, especially since Tiandihui is among them.

It has played a practical role and has a large or small impact on the war situation in Tingzhou Fucheng and Ruijin County, which makes Chen Kai even more gratified.

Before setting off, Chen Kai had written a letter to Hao Shangjiu, who was in charge of Huizhou Prefecture, and Zhang Jin, who was in charge of Chengxiang counties, and asked them to organize their troops and wait for orders. Now that the preliminary results of seizing southern Jiangxi have been achieved, he naturally needs more troops to go north.

Help in the fight.

"He ordered the chief military officer of Huizhou Town, Xintaibo Hao Shangjiu, to lead his troops out of Heping County and recover the two counties of Dingnan and Longnan in the south of Ganzhou Prefecture; and to Guan Chengxiang County Zhongkuang Bo Zhang Jintong's troops and horses to return to Changning and An'an.

Two counties away; the army crosses Meiling and takes Nan'an Fucheng!"

The order was issued, and Admiral Ke Chenshu led the army to move north. Chen Kai was temporarily stationed in Nanxiong Fucheng to clarify the grain transportation from Shaozhou Prefecture to Nanxiong Prefecture. This distance is actually not that far, compared with the previous trip from Guangzhou Fucheng

As for Shaozhou Fucheng, there is also a river connection between here and Shaozhou Fucheng. With convenient water and land transportation, grain and grass can be continuously transported northward.

There is not much that Chen Kai needs to do here. The staff of the Guangdong Governor's Yamen are fully qualified and may even do better than Chen Kai. However, when the general needs to cross Meiling and transport supplies to Nan'an Prefecture, there is no one.

Without water transportation channels, it can only be transported by land. The only good thing is that Nan'an Fucheng is located in the south of Nan'an Prefecture, in Dayu County on the upper reaches of Zhangjiang River, which is actually only separated by a mountain from Nanxiong Fucheng.

"Back then, when the King of Ningxia entered Jiangxi for the first time, he took this path, right?"

The King of Ningxia was the posthumous title of Li Chengdong, so Chen Kai naturally called him that in front of Li Jianjie. When asked about this, Li Jianjie nodded solemnly, and then replied to Chen Kai: "The adoptive father was

The troops were divided into two groups, one going to Longnan and Xinfeng, the other going straight from Nanxiong Prefecture to Nan'an Prefecture, down the Zhangjiang River, and joining forces in Ganzhou Fucheng..."

The Ming army's attack on Southern Gansu went quite smoothly this time. Compared with Li Chengdong's two attacks on Southern Gansu, which ended in death, it can be said to be a sharp contrast. From the beginning of the march into Shixing County, Chen Kai felt that

Li Jianjie's state was a little too excited. After the battle in Mashi Town, Chen Kai, who arrived later, heard Wang Qifeng talk about Li Jianjie's sudden idea, and this feeling was further confirmed.

Here, Li Jianjie talked eloquently and talked about the past events in a clear and logical manner. He was an eyewitness to those two wars, and Chen Kai basically understood Li Chengdong's strategic thinking from his words.

His first attack on southern Gansu was against the background of Jin Shenghuan. Wang Deren was unable to conquer the capital city of Ganzhou for a long time. Instead, he waited for the Eight Banners Army and had to return to Nanchang. Due to the war situation at that time, the Eight Banners Army besieged Nanchang, and Li Chengdong went north.

By capturing southern Gansu, he could form a north-south pincer attack with Jin Shenghuan. Therefore, Li Chengdong's idea at the time was to follow the Zhangjiang and Xinfeng rivers to capture the capital city of Ganzhou. After seizing this important point, he would go north to join Jin Shenghuan and jointly attack the southern general Tan Tai.

As a result, the Eight Banners Army under his command marched north with tens of thousands of troops and reached a city garrisoned by only five or six thousand people. Because they underestimated the enemy, they were caught off guard by the Qing army in the southern Jiangxi Province before they could gain a firm foothold, and "lost soldiers and laborers."

Ten thousand, armor, cannon, horses, mules, half of the equipment", and had to return to Guangdong to rest.

This was the first time, and the second time was already in February of the next year. This time, Li Chengdong decided to proceed steadily, first collecting the counties around Ganzhou Prefecture, and then besieging the city of Ganzhou Prefecture. However, by this time, the Eight Banners Army had already captured

When they arrived in Nanchang, Tan Tai ordered the Zhenghong Banner and Zhengbai Banner Manchu troops led by Meile Zhang, Jing Glue Merchants and others to come as reinforcements. Although Li Chengdong's troops were still superior, the Qing army passed through Nanchang and Ganzhou, and the two soldiers were in high morale, so they directly took Li Chengdong and stationed them there.

In Xinfeng County, he was defeated and eventually drowned in the river.

Li Jianjie always seemed so impassioned when talking about the army's two marches northward, but once he talked about defeat, he inevitably lamented, especially in the section about Li Chengdong's death.

This is human nature. Chen Kai patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him. Now Jia Xiong has been conferred and Su Yangzhi was seriously injured and captured. It is all due to Li Jianjie's contribution in the first battle. At this point, he can be regarded as repaying his adoptive father a little.

Hatred.

"The general went to Hong Kong Island to defect to the Fu Army because he firmly believed that the Fu Army could lead the general to avenge him. Facts have proved that the general was right!"

This was an old thing many years ago. After calculation, the friendship between him and Li Jianjie was forged when he went to Guangzhou to deceive Du Yonghe. Later, Li Jianjie, Zhang Yue and the others went to Qiongzhou, and they were there again in Qiongzhou.

They all went to their own destiny. Only Li Jianjie chose Chen Kai after the death of his brother Li Yuanyin. Now it seems that it was indeed the wisest choice.

At this moment, Li Jianjie seemed to be recalling the past of those years, with some tears in his eyes. In response, Chen Kai just smiled, and then joked: "We haven't captured the capital of Ganzhou yet, it's too early to say this now.

"

The situation was excellent, and Chen Kai was just joking about it. The matter of the grain road was quickly clarified. There are official roads in these two places that can be used. The Ming army marched along the official road, and the grain and grass could naturally follow the official road.

The road was sent to the front of the army. Once Nan'an Fucheng was captured, the Zhangjiang Waterway could be used openly and returned to the state of water transportation.

Chen Kai did a good job in the rear. On the front, Ke Chenshu led the army to the north. As expected, Nan'an Fucheng had turned into an empty city. According to the descriptions of the officials who had not left there, the green camp soldiers and officials had all flowed down the river.

Next, they went straight to Ganzhou Fucheng along the Zhangjiang River Waterway. Of course, they did not forget to take all the boats away before leaving, and they also set fire to the pier of Fucheng, euphemistically calling it a strong wall and a clear wilderness.

However, even after taking away the boats and burning the docks, there was no way to stop the Ming army's advance. Following the waterway of Zhangjiang River, the Ming army marched northward, passing through the equally unguarded Nankang County and reaching the outskirts of the Ganzhou capital. At the same time,

At the same time, the Fujian Ming Army group marching west from Ruijin quickly captured Huichang, Shicheng, Ningdu and other counties with the close cooperation of the Tiandihui in the counties of Ganzhou Prefecture.

The department has reached contact.

The Qing army assembled heavy troops in the capital city of Ganzhou and built strongholds one after another based on the mountains, rivers and existing villages and towns outside the city in order to strengthen the defense of the capital city in Ganzhou and buy more time.

This undoubtedly blocked the path for the Ming army to join together. Fortunately, Chen Kai did not intend to completely surround the city. The two armies reached contact south of Ganzhou Fucheng, and soon Chen Kai rushed directly to the agreement under the escort of cavalry.

The place to meet Huangshan.

The meeting place was a small village. Chen Kai knew Huangshan well. Although the two did not have much interaction, they were both old men under Zheng Chenggong. After following him for many years, there was always a friendship. Not to mention the fact that Zheng Chenggong had swept the Eighth Route Army.

In Fujian, when Chen Kai was in the rear, he also had the right to exercise restraint over Huangshan. At that time, he even modified the Ming army's food routes and strategies for attacking Tingzhou Prefecture, and Huangshan also fulfilled his duties as the executor.

"Those righteous men who were lurking in Ganzhou under the orders of the Fu army were in great trouble. Along the way, they provided food and grass, civilians, acted as guides, spread rumors, instigated the rebellion of officials and generals, and even repaired roads and built camps.

, done very impressively. Starting from Tingzhou Fucheng, the final general did not put in much effort. Most of the counties were waiting for the wind to fall. By this time, they had reached the outskirts of Ganzhou Fucheng, and they had not yet fought with the enemy with real swords and guns.

The wheel is here.”

Huangshan was very excited that such a large-scale attack turned out to be successful. Thanks to the help of the Tiandihui along the way, he was like a duck to water. Most of those members are still assisting in government affairs in various counties and were not able to come. However, Tao Qian

, Huangshan could see that this man seemed to be the leader among the "lurking martyrs" in Ganzhou, so he specially brought him here this time.

After several years of separation, Tao Qian seems to have matured a lot and gone through a lot of vicissitudes. The Tiandi Society will keep in touch privately from time to time, especially in the southern Jiangxi area, which is not too far from Guangdong. The relationship between Chen Kai and Tao Qian

There were written exchanges. Even this time, Chen Kai initiated the Ganzhou Heaven and Earth Society through Tao Qian.

The Heaven and Earth Society performed very well in this attack, and Chen Kai naturally praised Tao Qian and his comrades. As for more, he did not mention it, and they only understood each other tacitly.

After all, Chen Kai still has no way to explain the affairs of the Tiandihui to Zheng Chenggong, so naturally it is not easy to put it in front of Huangshan so directly.

In the final analysis, the purpose of meeting each other is for military affairs. At this stage, the Qing army still has no less than 14,000 troops in the capital city of Ganzhou, and the Ming army is advancing from two directions, and its actual strength is about this number, plus

Working together does have obvious advantages, but if they cannot join together, it will ultimately be a huge disaster.

"Advance steadily and don't rush for success. Keep in touch. If the Imperial Army concentrates its forces and wants to defeat them one by one, then turn to the defensive. In the final analysis, the Imperial Army only has so many troops in southern Jiangxi. Even in Jiangxi, it can

What is being mobilized is Jiangxi's bid raising and Jiujiang's bidding, both of which take time."

The fall of the two provinces last year greatly changed the geopolitical structure of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Qing army in the southeast originally had a large area of ​​control surrounding a small number of strongholds occupied by the Ming army. However, after that incident, it became a

The confrontation pattern between the two armies of the Qing Dynasty. As the front line of the confrontation, Jiangxi has always not had many soldiers, because this province has suffered repeated military disasters in the past many years, was ruined and landless, and was located in the hinterland. But now, it has become again

After reaching the front line, the Qing government put a large number of troops into the key points of southern Gansu, Jianning Prefecture, and Guangxin Prefecture to block the Ming army's way into Jiangxi. It was already stretched thin. Now, it is even more unsustainable.

However, the Qing army in Southern Ganzhou was already an elite force, and their poor performance earlier was ultimately due to the fact that the strategic and tactical levels of the two sides were not on the same level. Now they have returned to guarding the capital of Ganzhou, their best job, and the two Ming armies

If the two armies are unable to merge for a while, the match point will inevitably begin to shift.

After many conversations, Huangshan also had a clear understanding of Chen Kai's strategic intentions. Time was tight, especially since Huangshan was still the coach of the Xijin Group. After discussing the key points, both parties could return separately. But when Chen Kai returned to the Beishang Group,
Chapter completed!