Jade Emperor Mountain, Zhu Cihong looked at the north, ten miles away from the Shunjun camp is vast and endless, spreading more than 20 miles from east to west, and all kinds of fluttering flags are dense like a forest.

In the vast wilderness between the two armies' defensive lines, gunfire rang out from time to time, and groups of cavalry fought each other, trying to spy on each other's camp deployments.

General Zhu Cihong threw almost all the Longxiang night into the surroundings of Qufu, and in front of the two armies were the regimental subordinates and cavalry of each department.

Through the snooping of these days, the Ministry of Intelligence made a judgment that the Shun army had a large number of artillery battalions, and most of the artillery in it was captured, and it was conservatively estimated that there were 100 Hongyi cannons of various types, and there were no large or small Franco cannons.

Fortunately, the Hongyi cannons of the Shun army were not large, rarely more than eight pounds, and the firing range was limited.

However, this also limited the strategy of the Tianwu Army to take the initiative to attack, and Zhu Cihong could not let the flesh and blood of the Tianwu Army carry the artillery to prove his toughness, which would be too brain-dead.

Zhu Cihong's strategy was very simple, let the Shun army take the initiative to attack, defend a wave first, let the heavy artillery of the Shenwu army sober them up, disperse their momentum, and then calm down in one go.

Zhu Cihong also believed that Li Zicheng would take the initiative to attack, after all, there was a big problem with the logistics of the Shun army, they had many soldiers and horses, and there were many war horses, and they consumed a lot of grain and grass in a day, at least about 20,000 stone of grain and grass, not counting the loss or anything, what did Li Zicheng feed?

The Shun army is the first time to go out to fight, and it has changed the usual routine of looting along the way, and has played a regular supply line.

Coupled with the fact that the Shun army began to march at a very fast pace, the logistics simply could not keep up.

On the other hand, the Ming army is only 300 miles away from the military town of Xuzhou, Xuzhou is under the rule of Nanzhili, where a large amount of grain and grass has already been hoarded, and the Ming army is only 100,000 people, Zhu Cihong did not panic at all.

Sure enough, under the condition of logistics failure, the Dashun army began to sell old crafts and start robbing!

The first to suffer is the Confucian family of Yanshenggong, the Confucian family has not fallen for thousands of years, and its strength is naturally the strongest, and most of the paddy fields and fertile land in Qufu belong to the Confucian family.

Since the Song Dynasty, Song Zhezong gave Confucius's 46th grandson Kong Zonghan a hundred hectares of sacrificial fields (each acre is 100 acres, each acre is 720 square steps, three acres), and later gave a hundred hectares of sacrificial fields.

The two emperors of the Jin Dynasty each gave 200 hectares, and the Yuan Dynasty emperors gave another 50 hectares.

In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Confucius 2,000 hectares of sacrificial fields, and other emperors successively gave more than 600 hectares of sacrificial fields, and until now, the sacrificial fields of Confucius Mansion are basically maintained at about 2,600 hectares.

The sacrificial field is only part of the Confucian family's land, in addition to this, there is also the study field given by the imperial court, the private field of the Confucian family is north to Dongchang Mansion, south to Xuzhou Mansion, even the rent of the good man of Shuibo Liangshan was not wrong, and people from Feng County often went to Xuzhou Mansion to sue the Confucian family for encroaching on their fields.

With such a golden mountain in front of you, can the Dashun army not rob it? Liu Zongmin was the first to roll up his sleeves and do his old job, whether he is Confucian or not, he will be over after grabbing it!

Li Zicheng turned a blind eye to the affairs of the Kong family, he couldn't have a big war imminent, and let the Dashun army fight hungry, right?

He didn't live in the Yansheng Mansion anymore, so he directly moved the imperial camp to the front line and personally supervised the battle.

As soon as he arrived in front of the army, Li Zicheng couldn't rest, and immediately asked about the situation of the battle in the past few days.

Cihou Liu Fangliang said: "King Chuang, the Tianwu army wanted to take Chai Mountain and Wuying Mountain, but they were all repelled by my left battalion, and their offensive on the eastern front has become more and more weak in the past few days. ”

Li Zicheng looked surprised and said, "Oh? Are you so powerful in the left battalion? ”

Liu Fangliang laughed and said: "That's natural, my left battalion has always been the vanguard of the Dashun army, and I haven't fought any tough battles!" ”

Hearing that the two sides are currently in a stalemate, no one can help anyone, Li Zicheng's mind is slightly relaxed, he has always been worried that the Dashun Army is not the opponent of the Tianwu Army, and now it seems that this battle can still be fought!

He rode his horse to look at the mountain, only to see that the left side was surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the right side was a vast field, the land was flat, and the trees were scarce, which was very suitable as the main battlefield of the Dashun army.

These days, the Shun army also discovered the location of the imperial camp of Emperor Tianwu, which was located on the Jade Emperor Mountain on the western front.

He carefully looked at the topographic map of Jade Emperor Mountain drawn by the spies of the old battalion, and a thought flashed in his mind, can he attack the east and the west, pretend to attack the eastern front, and then the army of the Dashun army will all press on the Jade Emperor Mountain and make them dumplings?

The Jade Emperor Mountain is not high, and it does not occupy a wide area, so it is not necessary to use many soldiers and horses to besiege it, and there are flat rivers around it, so it is very difficult to break through.

The old battalions of the Dashun army are all lightly armoured, the escape speed is fast, and the pursuit speed is also fast, as long as Emperor Tianwu is surrounded, it is not easy to run.

Li Zicheng raised his eyes and looked at it for a while, and saw dozens of horse teams running around in the field, the clothes and armor of both sides were easy to identify, one side was the cavalry of the Tianwu Army, and the other side was Liu Fangliang's left camp horse army.

He watched it for a long time, and saw that the two sides were chasing each other, the fight was very fierce, and the casualties were also half, so he put his mind at ease and completely believed the that Liu Fangliang had just blown.

Li Zicheng muttered: "This battle can't be delayed any longer....."

Yesterday, Henan was in a hurry, Luoyang was recovered by the Ming army, and there was a way for the Ming army to attack Kaifeng Mansion, if Kaifeng Mansion could not hold, the Ming army in Henan was bound to advance eastward, threatening the Dashun army from the side.

Fortunately, the Jingwu army in Dengzhou, Shandong Province crossed the sea and went north to the outside of the pass, which made him breathe a sigh of relief and avoided the trouble of the left-wing threat and the division of troops with the Shun army.

After being silent for a long time, Li Zicheng finally spoke: "Order the generals to discuss the affairs of the imperial camp and prepare for a decisive battle!" ”

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On the same day, Li Zicheng issued a military order in the Chinese army: Bohou Li Guo led the rear battalion to attack and contain the Ming army of Panlong Mountain, and the remaining four battalions of men and horses attacked with the whole army, and pressed over with four iron walls to the top of Mount Tai, destroying the imperial camp of the Tianwu Army of Jade Emperor Mountain!

On the second day of the second month of February, the dragon raised its head.

Shandong Qufu battle clouds are dense, in a banner like a sea, people shouting horses neighing, like a tide of Dashun army continues to converge to the Jade Emperor Mountain.

In the Shun army, Li Zicheng looked at the Jade Emperor Mountain in the distance, and immediately ordered: "Order, attack on all fronts!" ”

Over the years, the Dashun army has been invincible and invincible, and now there are also guns and artillery, these hundreds of thousands of horses, even if they use human lives, they can also pile up to the opposite side, there is no reason why this battle cannot be won!

The horns sounded one after another, and there was a commotion in the Shun army, and there were constantly some tens of thousands of troops coming out of the big array and attacking towards the Jade Emperor Mountain.

In addition to shieldmen and spearmen, there were many men pushing heavy cannons and columns of musketeers armed with muskets.

Wang Zhen, the mighty general beside Li Zicheng, looked at the army dispatching and moving forward, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and the decisive battle was finally coming.