Where Zhu Youdong looked at Jiang Chao's finger, there was indeed a canyon more than ten miles long. Then he said: "But how can you be sure that the Mongolian Eight Banners will take this road to the south?" Can't you go around the Lujiang River? ”

Jiang Chao said: "Your Highness, please see, if the Mongolian Eight Banners don't take this road to the south, they can indeed take a detour to Lujiang." But then they would have to walk a hundred miles. It stands to reason that even if it is an extra hundred miles, it is not a big deal for the Mongolian Eight Banners, which are all cavalry. But now Wei Du and Wang Qing are stationed in Daguan Town with those Manchurian Eight Banners. ”

Jiang Chao said triumphantly: "They are not only stationed in Daguan Town, but also released the news and deliberately let the Mongolian Eight Banners know." In this way, the Eight Banners of Manchuria, as the master, have arrived. The Mongolian Eight Banners, as a minion, will they make a detour of more than a hundred miles and let the master wait here? ”

Feng Shuangli continued: "And now Wei Du and Wang Qing have also sent people to find the Mongolian Eight Banners, saying that we have occupied Tongcheng. Now they were bitten by the Eight Banners of Manchuria and trapped in Tongcheng, so they immediately rushed over to attack Tongcheng. With this information, the Mongolian Eight Banners will definitely no longer think about taking a detour to the Lujiang River. What's more, for the Qing court now, the land south of the Yangtze River is an absolutely safe place for them, and they will not consider being ambushed at all. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Then how is our army arranged now?" The Mongolian Eight Banners have entered the canyon, how to trap them? ”

Jiang Chao said: "After the Mongolian Eight Banners come to Daguan Town, Wei Du and Wang Qing will find a way to put some condiments for the Mongolian horses." Temporarily incapacitate their horses, and if they can't, disrupt their horse team. Then Wei Du and others took the lead in attacking and drove the Mongolian Eight Banners into the canyon. Let's just send someone to cooperate with Wei Du and others to make a show first. ”

Feng Shuangli said: "We are ready to let Wang Qing's two thousand households, Li Gui and Jiao Hongcao, with six thousand cavalry, take the Lujiang River to detour to Shucheng, and prepare to cut off the back road of the Mongolian Eight Banners." Then let Liu Zhen lead the army to cooperate with them in Weidu and drive the Mongolian Eight Banners back to the canyon. I took the army to the Beixia Mountain, and did not let the Mongolian Eight Banners break through on the mountain on the right. Jiang Chao took the pair to Lu Heng Mountain and blocked the left slope of the Mongolian Eight Banners. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "There is nothing wrong with your arrangement, but there are only 6,000 people on the northern front, is this strength enough?" I feel that the troops are a little weak, and if they can't stop the impact of the Mongolian Eight Banners, they will run away. It just so happened that I came with Xia Guoxiang's army, so it was better to let him go directly into the mountains, through Lu Jue Mountain, to support Li Gui and them. ”

Jiang Chao said: "I don't know if it's too late now, two days ago, Lin Zhuang's Intelligence Department sent us news that King Jin had suffered heavy casualties. He had to give the Mongolian Eight Banners an order in advance, and it was estimated that tonight or early tomorrow morning, the Mongolian Eight Banners would arrive in Shucheng. When the time comes, if Xia Guoxiang and the others want to rush to Shucheng for dozens of dozens, they must continue to rush in the mountains. If the Mongolian Eight Banners headed south collide, I am afraid that our plan will be exposed, and the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "This is also a problem, and they don't expect to be in time, they are still in Longmian Mountain." Feng Shuangli said: "Why don't I let my army support Li Gui and them, and let Xia Guoxiang and them rush to my position to block the Mongolian Eight Banners." ”

Jiang Chao said: "How can this be done? Your predetermined location is in Beixia Mountain, and Xia Guoxiang is going to your location about the same distance as going to Shucheng. And it has to cross the entire mountain to go to the official road, which is easier to find. I think so, let's stop fighting, let me transfer 6,000 people to support Li Gui and them, and then let Liu Zhen transfer to my position. Now let Xia Guoxiang and them go north immediately to cooperate with Weidu and them to act. ”

Liu Zhen said: "Yes, this is okay, and the army of Xia Guoxiang has been rushing for so long, and it can show that they are fighting to the death." It can also mislead the Mongolian Eight Banners and make them believe even more that we have no way out and are fighting the trapped beasts. They certainly didn't want to fight too many casualties, and chose to retreat into the canyon to avoid the edge for a while. When our morale is lost, we will lead a large army to counterattack us. In this way, we can reduce our casualties even more. ”

When Zhu Youdong heard this, he said, "That's fine, let's decide like this first." What's going on with the Mongolian Eight Banners? Jiang Chao was about to speak, when he saw Lin Zhuang holding a piece of information and hurriedly walked in. Lin Zhuang looked at everyone, and then said to Zhu Youdong: "Your Highness, there was information just now that the Mongolian Eight Banners have arrived in Shucheng, and it is estimated that they have already met with the people of Weidu." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Then we can't wait for tomorrow's departure now, we must set off immediately, and let all troops enter the predetermined battlefield as soon as possible." It is best to annihilate these Mongolian Eight Banners with minimal losses. ”

Suddenly, the entire Tongcheng moved, and Zhu Youdong himself followed Feng Shuangli to Beixia Mountain. Now all the Restoration Army does not dare to light the torches anymore, and if they are sent down by the scouts of the Mongolian Eight Banners, they will lose their previous efforts.

Weidu also got the news at this time that the Mongolian Eight Banners had arrived in Shucheng, and immediately asked everyone to get ready. The barracks, which was still tight and quiet just now, suddenly became lively. Fortunately, there are a large number of Manchu Eight Banners among these people, and they don't need to disguise themselves, they are already arrogant and used to it, and now they are just letting them show the state they should be.

As a result, some of the soldiers of the Restoration Army in the barracks suddenly became unaccustomed to it. But now they had to cooperate with the arrogance of these Eight Banners, and they had to endure this anger. Sure enough, it didn't take long for two Mongols to come. Wei Du and Wang Qing glanced at each other, nodded to each other, and immediately sat down in the position of their subordinates, letting Hilgen sit at the top.

Originally, a veteran of the Manchurian Eight Banners like Hilgen would resolutely not surrender. However, his son Kasitai was captured by the Restoration Army, and after Wei Du revealed his identity, he first persuaded Kasitai to surrender. Kaxitai was just Yue Le's personal soldier, and when Yue Le fled, he didn't take care of him, and was captured alive in Wuchang City.

At that time, after being intimidated by Weidu, he threatened him with his family. Then he said that if he didn't surrender, he would directly let people spread rumors that both their father and son had surrendered, and let Shunzhi kill his entire family. The young Kasitai could withstand such intimidation, and before the guards could say anything more, Kasitai surrendered in tears.

Then in the face of the persuasion of his direct son, Wei Du said to Hilgen even more viciously: "You surrender now, I will let you change your name and surname." In the future, if you drive the Qing Dynasty out of the Central Plains, as long as your family is still alive, you can still be reunited with your family. But if you don't agree, I'll let people spread the news that your son captured Yue Le and gave it to us, and then it led to the defeat of the army. ”

In the face of Weidu's shamelessness, Hilgen was naturally angry. But looking at the smiling Wei Du, and his son who had already surrendered, he finally had to compromise and surrender to the Restoration Army. This time, Hilgen was asked to deal with the Mongol scouts, so Hilgen was put in the position of the main general.

Of course, Weidu would not let Hilgen himself summon the Mongol scouts alone, Weidu and Wang Qing, as well as several generals of the Restoration Army, were in the big tent. In front of Hilgen, Kasitai was taken into custody. He almost said directly to Hilgen: "If you dare to say a nonsense, I will kill your son in front of you." ”

In such a situation, of course, Hilgen did not dare to make a mistake. Seeing the two Mongols coming in, Hilgen immediately said directly: "Why are you two coming?" Why didn't Lord Badali come? The Mongol scout said, "General, the prince of Badali is leading a large army and is stationed in Shucheng. Since it's too late today, I won't be able to come until tomorrow. ”

Hilgen said, "Well, you go back and tell Badali that they come with the army as soon as possible, preferably early tomorrow morning." The Ming army here has been trapped in Tongcheng by us, but we don't have enough manpower to attack Tongcheng, so we have to work with the Ming army here. ”

Wei Du said: "Yes, now that the arrival of Prince Badali has arrived, we are much better." The prince of Badali has an army of 30,000, as long as these troops arrive, these Ming troops will never talk about it again. They've robbed a lot of money along the way. ”

Hearing that there was a lot of money, the two Mongolian scouts suddenly lit up their eyes and said, "I don't know how much money this general has robbed the Ming army, but our prince has an army of 30,000." Hilgen said: "There is no specific number for this, but they have broken more than a dozen cities along the way, how can there be millions of taels of silver." ”

When the two Mongolian scouts heard this, they immediately drooled, one million taels, this is a lot. But when the two of them thought about it immediately, they seemed to be lacking in interest. Said: "It's only one million taels, I don't know how many of you Manchurian Eight Banners are here?" When the time comes, you will have a big head, and our lord, how much silver will you have in Taiji. When we go, we will only get a few taels of silver. ”

The two obviously didn't believe Hilgen's words, and both said that the Han people were rich in the place, how could it be that a dozen cities were only one million taels of silver, and the money of the government alone was more than that.

Wang Qingdao: "Of course, it's not just that, these are the treasury silver in the official mansion of light calculation." Think about it, what about the money of the officials everywhere? How much they want to hide, it is estimated that they alone will be no less than three million taels. Not to mention those rich Han people, they have accumulated wealth over several lifetimes, which is even more amazing. Can't you count it if you don't have tens of millions of taels? ”

Wang Qing was still talking to himself, when a person came in and whispered a few words to Wei Du. Immediately, Wei Du's face was happy, and his eyes lit up. Hearing that Wang Qing was still talking there without concealment, he waved his hand to let the man withdraw, and looked at Wang Qing. But Wang Qing ignored it at all, and still said: "So please also ask Prince Barda to go south as soon as possible and attack Tongcheng with us." ”

Seeing that Wang Qing ignored him, Wei Du hurriedly opened his mouth to stop: "Songgeri, what are you talking about so much?" If Prince An and the others know, will we still have it then? Then he thought about the two Mongol scouts and said, "Don't talk too much when you go back, otherwise the Taiji will know about it by then, and they will share the big share, and we won't have it." And when the time comes, it is estimated that you will still not have much to share. ”

When the two Mongol scouts heard that there was so much money, they were immediately overjoyed that they could not find the north. Hurriedly nodded and said: "We understand this, let's say that there are only two million taels, so that the princes can bring troops as soon as possible." Hilgen, who was sitting in the handsome seat, saw the change in Weidu, and immediately said: "You don't need to urge too much, but it makes the princes suspicious." I think you can just report the information, just let the princes have a good rest. ”

"Hey, what's going on? There must be something we don't know about. As soon as the two of them heard Hilgen's words, and wanted to match the attitude of the guards before and after, they suddenly felt that something was wrong. Suddenly, the Manchurians asked them to stop urging, as if they were still a little afraid that our Mongol army would go south.