Li Yan secretly admired Bai Qi in his heart, it stands to reason that attacking him halfway, or attacking when the enemy army has just crossed the river and has not yet gained a stable foothold, is a good opportunity to win, but the Qing army is really just like Bai Qi guessed, not trying to win a small victory. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

After establishing the beachhead, Li Yan sent back a boat to report the situation and ask the army to cross the river immediately.

Not long after, thousands of sails competed on the river, blowing wind and waves.

Until nearly dusk in the afternoon, the Qin army and Zhang Huangyan's men and horses crossed the river, and the 50,000-strong army set up a camp on the opposite bank and guarded it strictly.

After Bai Qi crossed the river, he sent someone to inform Li Zicheng and asked him to lead the 5th battalion of Gezuo and the Dashun army, and then cross the river.

Within three days, the entire Yellow River was full of ferries, sergeants and horses, military supplies, grain, and so on, all of which were crossed to the other side. If Li Zicheng hadn't collected thousands of boats, it would have taken at least ten days for such a huge army to cross the river in general.

Just after crossing the river, someone came to report that Zuo Liangyu's men had arrived.

Li Zicheng was overjoyed when he heard this, he was a person who had already been called the emperor, so he naturally wanted to show a broad heart, so he ordered Niu Venus to replace him and cross the river to go back to greet him.

Zuo Liangyu sent Ma Jinzhong, who had a good relationship with the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo and knew Li Zicheng. Niu Jinxing came with a hundred retinues to greet him, and after meeting, he made a cold noise for a while, and then arranged a ferry to cross Ma Jinzhong's men and horses across the river.

Ma Jinzhong took 30,000 horses with him and quickly crossed the river. Come to the other side.

When Li Zicheng heard about it, all the people who led the fifth battalion of the revolution left went out of the camp and came to greet him in person. As soon as they met, Li Zicheng was very affectionate, took Ma Jinzhong's hand, and called him a mixed number: "Mix 100,000, I didn't expect it to be you, it seems that we are still a family, and if we have difficulties, those who can reach out and pull a hand are brothers." ”

As he spoke, he hugged Ma Jinzhong with tears in his eyes.

Ma Jinzhong and the people around him were a little moved, but they didn't expect Li Zicheng to be so affectionate. They didn't know that Li Zicheng saw the mixed 100,000, and remembered Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Collapse of the sky, S collapse, Crossing the sky, Mantianxing, Zhongdouxing and others, now Gao Yingxiang is dead, Luo Rucai was killed by himself, Chuang Collapse and S Collapse have already descended the official army, I heard that at this time the garrison is in the Jiangxi area, and it is not reused, and Hui Dengxiang, the star of the sky, is also under Zuo Liangyu's account at this time, full of stars and Zhongdouxing, has been sacrificed in the battle with the Qing army.

It turned out that the brothers who had an incident together and drank blood with a knife had already dispersed, and now only he and Zhang Xianzhong are the ones who have persevered.

The old Hui Hui and Ge Liyan of the fifth battalion of Ge Zuo also stepped forward to hug Ma Jinzhong, everyone laughed, and then let them enter the big tent, Li Zicheng set up a feast in the imperial camp to entertain Ma Jinzhong, and at the same time let Li Guo bring cattle wine and go to reward Ma Jinzhong's people.

Li Zicheng also invited Bai Qi and Li Yan, and everyone drank together, and the wine was drunk until the palm lamp was dispersed.

When Ma Jinzhong came, he had already ordered his men and horses to camp on the edge of the Fifth Camp of the Revolution, and Li Zicheng did not say anything about this, he knew in his heart that Zuo Liangyu was guarding against himself, and Ma Jinzhong had the best relationship with the Fifth Camp of the Revolution, so it was reasonable for the two sides to be next to each other.

The next day, Bai Qi issued an order to the generals of the battalion commanders, asking them to turn the day and gather in Bai Qi's big tent before the hour to discuss important military affairs. The general order specifically mentions that if anyone dares to be late, no matter what the reason, he will immediately be pulled out of the tent and hit the sixty boards again.

This is the first general order of Bai Qi since the establishment of the coalition army, so all battalions attach great importance to it, Li Zicheng, as the emperor, it is impossible to condescend to the noble, go to the camp to listen to the order, so he ordered Liu Zongmin to represent himself, although Liu Zongmin is a little dissatisfied with Bai Qi, but since he is the general of the governor's people, he will violate the military order if he does not listen, and the sixty boards must be on it.

Liu Zongmin is naturally not afraid of playing the board, but in front of everyone, this face cannot be lost no matter what. Li Zicheng also repeatedly told him that Bai Qi was extremely strict in governing the army, and he must not violate the military order, besides, people came to help in the war, and if the people on his side did not obey the order, they would not be able to say anything.

Liu Zongmin nodded in agreement.

In the turn of the day, Liu Zongmin got up at dawn, hastily ate some food, and then took a hundred cavalry guards to the front of the Qin army camp.

The hundred elders of the Qin army guarding the camp gate knew Liu Zongmin and smiled slightly: "Master Liu has arrived, please come in, my general is already waiting for you." Liu Zongmin snorted, and led people into the camp, and the hundred elders stretched out their hands to stop: "The general has an order, and each general can only bring a maximum of five followers into the camp." ”

Liu Zongmin sneered: "What? Are you Qin Jun still afraid of me, a hundred centaurs? ”

The hundred long said: "The order is so, the villain is just acting on orders, and I ask Liu Ye to forgive me." ”

Liu Zongmin was displeased, and secretly thought about a big shelf, because of Li Zicheng's orders, so Liu Zongmin pressed the anger in his heart and shook it back with a whip: "The five of you follow me, and everyone else will stay." ”

After saying that, he took five of his own soldiers, jumped past the hundred chiefs, and entered the camp on horseback.

After a short time, the commanders of each battalion arrived, and each of them only brought in five personal soldiers.

Seeing that the hour had just passed, everyone had arrived, Bai Qi stood up, bowed his hand to everyone, and said: "Everyone, as of today, we have five coalition forces, nearly 400,000 people, huge momentum, high morale, this is a good opportunity to attack and break the enemy, you will not give up, let me be the governor of the whole army, as a general, I thank you again." However, there is a sentence that I have to say earlier, since I am elected as a general, I will be in charge of the affairs of the army, no matter what the order, no matter who is assigned to it, I must not shirk, if I dare not obey the order, I should be executed with seven prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings in the army, and I will not tolerate it. You get the idea. ”

Everyone said: "I understand, I know, we absolutely listen to your general's ......"

After everyone finished speaking, Bai Qi pressed it with his hand, signaled everyone to calm down, and then he sent someone to carry the sand table, which was made yesterday, and it was the terrain within a radius of a hundred miles.

Bai Qi invited everyone to gather around the sand table and said: "I sent people to carefully explore the terrain, and interviewed many local elders who are familiar with the terrain, and asked them to draw it together, which is very accurate." ”

Everyone gathered around the edge of the sand table, and sure enough, they saw that the sand table was very exquisitely made, and various terrains were arranged with soil and sand and stones, including plains, hills, rivers, valleys, and woods, and the terrain within a radius of 100 miles was clear at a glance.

Liu Zongmin pointed to a small white tent on the east side of the sand table and said, "Is this the Qing army camp?" ”

Bai Qi said: "Exactly, where the Qing army camped, there is a river on the left, a mountain forest on the right, and a plain in front, which is an expert." No need to ask, this is Hong Chengchou's idea. Those Qing troops were all cavalry, and they used to camp on the grassland desert, which was very scattered, and there were no such rules. ”

Ge Li pointed to the black tent on the west side and said with a smile: "Here, this is our army." ”

Bai nodded: "Yes, our army is camping here, but it is backed by the Yellow River, which is a little disadvantageous. ”

Lao Huihui looked at the sand table carefully, and said: "General, between us and the Qing army, there are some plains, this is the decisive battle site that the Qing army has chosen for us, this is the most suitable place for the Eight Banners and the Guanning Iron Cavalry to go back and forth, and we will definitely suffer a loss in the fight." ”

Bai Qi said: "In the decisive battle in Luoyang City, we have taken advantage of the time, location, and people, but here, the time and place are not on our side, in the final analysis, we only occupy people." Therefore, in this battle, I will try my best to ignore the favorable time and place, and bring the Qing army* to the point where it cannot be used. ”

Ma Jinzhong said: "Is there a way for the general?" ”

Bai Qi said: "The art of war has clouds, and all battles are won by coincidences and odds." When two armies fight head-to-head, they must form a confrontation situation, and then surprise the army, or complete the encirclement, or cut off their rear roads, or cut off their food routes. As long as one of these three points is completed, the battle can be won. ”

Li Yan said with a smile: "Just like the general did in the First Battle of Changping, he blocked the Zhao army with a strong camp in the front, and then sent out two surprise troops to cut off the back road and grain road of the Zhao army, and then surrounded it to the death, not letting it protrude and surround it." ”

Bai Qi nodded slightly, but his face was very gloomy.

It was the most proud battle of his life, but it was also the one he was most reluctant to mention. Because after this battle, in order to greatly hurt the morale and vitality of Zhao State, he ordered to bury 400,000 Zhao army prisoners alive, since ancient times, the 400,000 unjust souls did not haunt him for a moment, until Bai Qi was finally given death, he also once looked up to the sky: I have been born in vain, and I have made countless meritorious contributions, why should I be given death by the king?

Then he smiled with relief: In the first battle of Changping, I buried 400,000 Zhao Jun alive, and I should have died a long time ago.

At this time, Li Yan didn't know his thoughts, so he used this battle to boost Bai Qi's spirit.

Bai Qi understood what he meant, so he didn't say much, but continued: "But the Qing army is not Zhao Kuo, Hong Chengchou and Dolgon are both scheming and cunning, and it is impossible to lure them out of the camp and drive straight into our ambush circle. Moreover, between us and the Qing army, there are no lofty mountains and mountains to ambush. Therefore, this trick will not work. ”

Li Yan said: "If you can't surprise the soldiers, then simply face to face with the Qing army." We have hundreds of thousands of horses, several times more, and we are afraid that we will not be able to win? ”

Liu Zongmin shook his head: "Li Gongzi, that's not what he said. At the beginning, in a piece of stone, our Dashun army, also several Yu Qing army, to say that the heroism of the soldiers, is no different from today, but we were still defeated. It's not that my Dashun army is incompetent, it's that the Qing army fights, it's too fierce, too cunning, and too difficult to fight. ”