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"The situation in Zhenjiang is critical. Liangang has three spans over the river. It has been a place for military use since ancient times. If the Tartars want to cross the river, the upstream must pass through Caishiji, and the downstream must pass through Guazhou to Jingkou..."

Zhenjiang Beigu Mountain lies across the river, and the stone walls are steep and the mountain is dangerous. Zhou Shixiang, Zhang Huangyan, Gan Hui and others stood on the top of the Ganlu Temple and overlooked the river, but because of the fog, it was difficult to get a glimpse of the river, let alone the Qing army water camp in Jiangbei. This Ganlu Temple is said to be the place where Liu Bei and Liu Xuande recruited relatives during the Three Kingdoms period.

There are three hills in Zhenjiang, namely Beigu Mountain, Jinshan Mountain and Jiaoshan Mountain, all of which have forts. Since the Yangtze River turned to the southeast here, there was obvious siltation. The river surface was 40 miles wide in the Tang Dynasty, reduced to 18 miles in the Song Dynasty, and less than 6 miles by the end of the Ming Dynasty. The world is the most dangerous”, especially in the north, the water is shallow and urgent, which is not good for boats; in the south, there are three mountains, which are easy to guard against natural dangers.

Because Shunzhi set up camps and water camps in Jiangbei, Zhou Shixiang was unable to wipe out Jiangnan and the Qing army in Fujian and Zhejiang with all his strength, and the existence of the Jiangbei camp was a major threat to Nanjing. Therefore, after rejecting Shunzhi's peace talks, Zhou Shixiang decided to go there in person. Zhenjiang, first remove the cancer of Jiangbei Shuiying, to ensure that Jiangbei Qing troops cannot cross the river, so that he can free up his hands to clean up Jiangnan Liang Huafeng and Guan loyalty.

At present, the Taiping army has arrived in Nanjing with less than 30,000 people. It is necessary to ensure that Nanjing City and the upper reaches of Wuhu, Ningguo and other places, as well as to ensure that Zhenjiang is near, the force is somewhat insufficient. However, Liang Huafeng of Changzhou and Guan Zhongzhong of Suzhou had about 10,000 soldiers, and they were all elite soldiers, no weaker than the Taiping army. Therefore, after sending Ge Yi to capture Zhenjiang, Zhou Shixiang ordered him to focus on defense, not to attack Liang Huafeng in Changzhou, but to let Liang Huafeng and Guan Xiaozhong restrain each other.

Lang Tingzuo made great efforts in this matter, not because Lang Tingzuo had the intention of turning to Zhou Shixiang, but after he learned from Yue Le and Ese Hei that the emperor wanted to take charge of the horse, and wanted Liang to take charge of Jiang Zhi. Some schadenfreude, once inadvertently told the matter to his cronies. In the end, in order to save his life, the aide revealed the whole thing, allowing Zhou Shixiang to play tricks on it, and making Man Mengbing reveal the news.

Unsurprisingly, Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu huddled together in Suzhou. Liang Huafeng and Forehead Black were in a dilemma. On the one hand, they were the Taiping army who were eyeing them. The elite soldiers of Zheng Jun were severely damaged, but they could only stay in Changzhou and could not move an inch.

The generals such as Ge Yi and Suna wanted to pacify Jiangnan directly, eliminating Liang Huafeng and Guan Zhongzhong, so that the Taiping army would have more room to maneuver. Zhou Shixiang did not agree. He thought that the Liang Guan and the two were jealous now, and no one wanted the other to die, but if the Taiping Army really wanted to do something, it might be self-defeating, forcing the two together and fighting the Taiping Army in a group first. . The situation is good now. Zhou Shixiang is not in a hurry to solve Liang Huafeng and Guan Xiaozhong. What he is anxious to solve is the Jiangbei Shunzhi army. At least, he has to unplug the so-called Jiangbei camp.

For some reason, when he heard that Shunzhi set up the Jiangbei Camp, Zhou Shixiang's eyebrows jumped for no reason, because his soldiers were called Taiping Army. Fortunately, Shunzhi was a fool and had some secrets, which caused Liang Guan to be wary of each other.

On the fifth day of the attack on Nanjing, Zhou Shixiang formed the Jiangnan Navy Division of the Taiping Army, mainly composed of Gan Hui, Yu Xin's troops, and the rest of the Zhejiang Army who had escaped from the pursuit of Jinli, and also absorbed Jiangning. Some Qing troops in the water camp raided upstream and downstream ships and built a navy, but most of them were civilian ships. If it hadn't been for the dozen or so large sea ships they had captured from the Zheng Army from the Qing army, this navy would probably be inferior to the water bandits on Poyang Lake in Jiangxi. Thinking of the thousands of warships under Zheng Chenggong's command, Zhou Shi felt more and more urgent to form a powerful naval division belonging to the Taiping Army.

Money, Zhou Shixiang has a lot of money now. After conquering Nanjing, the Taiping Army obtained 18 million taels of silver by searching and killing Mancheng and the properties of the traitors, officials and gentry. Zhou Shixiang ordered all this batch of silver to be included in the public treasury. After the supervising country arrived in Nanjing, the Daming Yuanbao silver dollar was cast, and the new silver dollar and food stamp system were fully implemented in the area controlled by the Taiping Army. In the absence of money and food, to build a navy and even a navy, at least the control of the Yangtze River must be guaranteed. It is the consensus of Zhou Shixiang and his generals. If there is a powerful navy like Zheng Chenggong at hand, Zhou Shixiang would not be troubled by the so-called Jiangbei water camp of the Qing army at all, and he would not even have to go to Zhenjiang to command the removal of this tumor.

Bullying the small by the big and running rampant like Zheng Jun is really a desirable thing.

The Jiangbei water camp of the Qing army was located in the south of Yangzhou, at the exit of the canal on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The east is the navy camp and the west is the shipyard. In the Yangtze River between Guazhou and Zhenjiang, there is a small island, Beixinzhou, which is two miles wide across the river from Guazhou on the north bank. The Qing army built a fort in the east of the island and set up a fort to protect the exit of the water camp in the north of the Yangtze River. The east of the fort is protected by a deep ditch and a wooden village, and 4,000 soldiers are stationed in the green camp.

Zhou Shixiang was not familiar with water warfare, but Zhang Huangyan, Gan Hui, Yu Xin and others were masters in it, so he did not direct command in a self-righteous manner, or gave orders indiscriminately like a bald man from a later generation, but let go of the power to attack the Jiangbei water camp. Give it to Zhang Huangyan and Gan Hui.

Zhang Huangyan pointed to Guazhou in Jiangbei and continued: "The first hurdle to capture Guazhou is to block the river between Jinshan and Jiaoshan. The Tartars call it the Dragon of the River. When I entered the river with Yanping, I once broke the Dragon of the River. After Yanping retreated from the army, the Qing army reset the Gunjiang Dragon again, one was afraid that Yanping would come back, and the other was that our Zhejiang army would escape from the Yangtze River. After the Gunjiang Dragon was broken, they would be able to take Beixinzhou, otherwise , inaccessible."

Zhou Shixiang nodded and said happily: "Master Shangshu has entered the Yangtze River three times and is familiar with the situation in Jingkou, so he asked Shangshu to take full command of the Qing army in Beixinzhou with artillery fire, and then General Gan Hui led the troops to cut off the river dragon. Go ashore and grab the fort."

"Okay! I will do my best to command the soldiers to fight. This time, I will call the Tartar Water Camp without a single boat left, and I will call the Tartar Chief Wangjiang to sigh!" Zhang Huangyan agreed without hesitation.

Zhou Shixiang turned his head and instructed Ge Yi again: "Bring all the soldiers in your army who are good at swimming to the command of Lord Shangshu."

Ge Yi had been prepared for a long time, and had already selected more than 600 soldiers who were proficient in water to stand by. Half of them were newly descended soldiers from Zhenjiang, which just made them work hard.

Gan Hui, Yu Xin, and Zhejiang army generals Guo Faguang and Wei Dalong discussed it, and they all felt that they were very sure of success. Although the Jiangnan navy was not as good as the Yanping Zheng army, it was not much worse than the Jiangbei navy in Tartar. More importantly, the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army and the Zheng Army are all good in the water, and the quality of the soldiers is not the soldiers that the Tartars hastily recruited.

Gan Hui also suggested: "However, there is another wooden floating camp in the upper reaches of Guazhou. In addition to blocking navigation, it also has artillery. I will go to Beixinzhou, so that Yu Xin and Wei Dalong can lead the troops to break the wooden floating camp. After we succeeded, we attacked the Tartar Water Camp, blocked him in the port, and bombarded them with the artillery of Beixinzhou and Mufu Camp."

Zhang Huangyan agreed with Gan Hui's opinion. Yu Xin, who was just injured, and Wei Dalong, who was eager to avenge the Zhejiang Army brothers, were gearing up to show their skills.

Zhou Shixiang asked everyone, "Do you have any ideas?"

Zhang Huangyan and others said that there is no problem, this strategy is the best. Zhou Shixiang made a final decision: "Since there is no opinion, then we will march in the morning tomorrow, seize the Jiangfang natural danger, and destroy his Tartar water camp. When the upstream army arrives, the prince of our country will cross the river to meet the blessing for a while!" (To be continued! .) Mobile users, please browse and read for a better reading experience.