"Marshal, we have two divisions and 30,000 people on hand that can be mobilized, and the military rations can support about 10 days."

"There's not enough military rations!" Shi Kefa hesitated again.

Without the lifeline of the Grand Canal, the supply of the Northern Expeditionary Army would be a problem! In history, many Northern Expeditions of the Southern Dynasties and the Southern Song Dynasty have had enough of the hardships of logistics.

So Shi Kefa now has to count the military rations to fight......

"Enough!" Tian Qingyi said, "Dashuai, aren't we going to fight Shunzhi?" ”

"That's right!" Shi Kefa said, "The opportunity is rare...... If you are lucky enough to catch it, Beijing Xu will be able to take it without blood, and there will be no shortage of food at that time. ”

Tian Qingyi smiled: "Bad luck, it's nothing more than not being able to catch it or pounce on it...... If he couldn't catch it, Shunzhi hid in Tianjin. Let's besiege him, and then send people to the countryside to collect grain!"

We have besieged the emperor of the Manchurians, and the people around Tianjin Wei are still not allowed to eat pot pulp to welcome the king? Are you afraid that you won't have anything to eat when the time comes?

If it is empty, it is Shunzhi who abandoned the city and ran away...... He ran away as the emperor, who else dared to defend the Tianjin Acropolis? Let's scare it, maybe we can take down the Tianjin Acropolis. With a city, are you afraid that you won't be able to collect food? ”

"Hahaha, that's good!" Shi Kefa smiled and nodded, "Pass on the order of the Governor, and the whole army will change direction...... Don't leave those useless Mongols, let's pounce on Tianjin Wei and capture the Emperor of Dongyu! ”

"Whoa!"

The horsemen who followed Shi Kefa responded with a bang, and then flew away one after another.

Tian Qingyi on the side reminded Shi Kefa again: "Dashuai, there is also Gao Jieshuai!" He's still chasing the Mongols west of the canal, should you call him? ”

"No," Shi Kefa said, "there is no need for so many people to be crowded together...... You can let him go to Qingxian to join Li Yuanyin, and then go to Dacheng, Wen'an, Baoding County (not Baoding Mansion, nor in Baoding Mansion, but in Shuntianfu), Bazhou, and then turn east to copy Shunzhi's retreat. ”

Shi Kefa gave Gao Jie the task of inserting between Beijing and Tianjin. In his opinion, once Emperor Shunzhi was defeated in the south of Tianjin, and was attacked by his troops led by the governor of Shida, it was very likely that he would abandon Tianjin and go to Beijing..... If you are unlucky, you will bump into Gao Jie's army, and then a "Prince Da Ming Gong" will not run away!

In the seventh year of Hongxing, on the afternoon of the fourth day of the first month. The two armies of the Ming army, the middle and west routes, on the battlefield of Hejian Province, began to change the direction of their march under Shi Kefa's orders.

Originally, the middle of the Ming army marched against the frozen canal, and the two divisions were on the left and right of the canal, marching mightily beside the embankment, and from time to time there would be battles with small groups of Mongols. According to Shi Kefa's chance, the target of the Middle Route Army was Qingxian, and after defeating the Mongols besieging Qingxian, they would join forces with Li Yuanyin, who was guarding Qingxian. Now they have only one goal, Tianjin Wei, where Emperor Shunzhi is located!

Gao Jie's Western Route Army, on the other hand, marched thirty miles west of the canal, aiming to outflank the Mongol army in the Qingxian area. Now their goals have become two, one is Qingxian; The second is the retreat of Emperor Shunzhi, who outflanked Tianjin.

If you count Huang Degong on the East Road, Shi Kefa marched in three ways this time. And Shunzhi really "went all the way", but his "all the way" did not necessarily win against Huang Degong, one of the three roads of the Ming army.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the first lunar month, the battle in the area of Guanyin Hall had become more and more intense.

A battlefield that is now divided into two parts: the inner and outer lines. The outer part of the line is a melee between infantry and cavalry. Huang Degong sent four regiments, all of which were split into battalions, and 16 battalions were scattered in a circle and distributed around Guanyintang-Zhuangqiao Village, blocking the cavalry of the Qing army and preventing them from approaching Guanyintang, where fierce battles were taking place.

There is also a battalion of lancers (mule soldiers), which are dispatched in turns as a company unit to serve as a firefighting team, rushing around the battlefield. Support an infantry battalion in a bitter battle or charge the repulsed Qing cavalry.

The inner line was a positional attack, and Huang Degong sent four regiments to take turns to fight round by round with the support of 12 3-pounder guns to defeat the Qing army defending Guanyin Hall.

The bloody battle began early in the morning and lasted until the afternoon!

The 2,500 Qing troops commanded by Zhuo Butai went all out, used all their strength to eat, and fought hard for several hours against the enemy four times their size, and repelled more than ten offences of the Ming army before and after, and several of them the spearmen of the Ming army even rushed into the wall of Guanyin Hall and fought hand-to-hand with the Qing army!

In hand-to-hand combat, the sword and card soldiers of the Qing army played well, repelling the spearmen of the Ming army again and again, and defended the Guanyin Temple without losing.

But as the war dragged on, the crisis on the side of the Qing army gradually came!

The arquebuses they used were of slightly inferior quality and had no spare guns, so after a few hours of firefighting, they were badly damaged, many of them had cracks in their barrels, and some were simply unusable. Their firepower grew weaker, and by the evening there were less than 1,500 men under his command, and less than 500 muskets remained.

All the men were exhausted, and the battlefield was littered with corpses...... The Ming army, on its part, suffered at least 2,000 casualties – including the loss of 16 battalions of cavalry resisting the Qing army on the periphery.

However, Huang Degong's eight regiments had a total of 20,000 people, and the current loss was just over 10%.

So a new round of offensive was quickly organized by Huang Degong.

It was again a frenzied fire of 12 3-pounder guns, and then a battalion phalanx of 8 restaffed infantry battalions pressed up...... Huang Degong also used all his strength this time, and invested 4,000 soldiers!

Both the offensive and the defensive sides know that this is the final decisive battle!

......

Outside the Guanyin Hall, love Xinjueluo. Baiyintu also invested the most elite cavalry battalion and forward battalion, more than 4,000 heavily armed cavalry, all of them unfolded one shock formation after another on the north side of the outer battle line of Guanyin Hall.

Of course, Huang Degong also noticed the movements of the Qing cavalry, and he integrated the remaining 8 incomplete battalions at hand, and made up 4 relatively complete infantry battalions, plus all the "black lancers", all pressed on his northern front.

Eight infantry battalions of the Ming army lined up, forming eight battalion-level Morris phalanxes, and in their rear, there were 16 cavalry platoons (mule soldiers), which also launched an impact formation, ready to launch a counterattack at any time.

Bai Yintu stood on the stirrups, looked at the 8 phalanxes of the Ming army, and then stretched his neck to look at the Guanyin Hall in the distance, which was being bombarded! It is estimated that Shi Kefa (he didn't know that it was Huang Degong who was "surrounded" by him) was also desperate! The onslaught of the Ming army is about to begin, and I don't know if this wave can withstand it?

If Zhuo Butai's firearms battalion is eaten by the Ming army, then the next battle will not be easy to fight!

Bai Yintu took a breath and said to the left and right: "Beat the drums, blow the trumpet, this time we must let Shi Kefa and his Nikans know how powerful we are!" ”

With the order of Bai Yintu, the sound of military trumpets and war drums suddenly resounded in the sky, and then there were the shouts of people and the neighing of horses. The essence of the Manmeng cavalry began to launch a landslide-like impact!

The first wave of onslaught was initiated by 1,800 Tishel cavalry led by Namushengge. All of them were warriors selected from the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Monan and Mobei tribes, all of them wearing two layers of heavy armor, riding the best Mongolian horses, holding spears, assembled into a horizontal formation, and under the urging of horns and war drums, they spread like a tide towards the three phalanxes in the center of the Ming army's battle line.

The speed of the impact became faster and faster, and thousands of horses' hooves pounded on the ground, as if the whole earth was shaking. However, the Ming army formation in front of them did not move, and the pikemen did not even put down their spears, which were more than a foot long. The musketeers were already lined up in three rows in front of them, and the last two rows of guns rushed up, and only the one standing at the front leveled the Hongxing three-year arquebus, which had been loaded with ammunition in his hand.