Now that the direction has been decided, it's time to discuss specific tactics. It may be that the Shanzhai Nanyue Army is used to it, and now, Dashun also learns from the appearance of the Nanyue Army, and whenever the campaign is planned, a big sand table is set up to guide the country on the sand table. However, the General Staff Department Dashun was not adopted, because in the eyes of the generals of Dashun, since there is already a staff group, what kind of staff is there to do? Therefore, Dashun does not have the habit of speaking first among staff officers. The first to speak was Li Yan.

Li Yan tapped two points with a wooden stick and said, "Your Majesty, now our army is divided into two parts, one is led by General Gao Yigong, and drags Wu Sangui and others in northern Shaanxi. At present, the slave chieftain pseudo-British prince Azig and Wu Sangui converge, and there is a large force of Mongolian Tatar cavalry to help the battle, Yulin and other places have rebelled against the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, General Gao does not have many soldiers and horses, and can only use the terrain and terrain to deal with Azig Wu Sangui and others with the help of deep ditches and rivers. But after all, the strength is weak, and it is a matter of time before we can't withstand the rampant attack of the two thieves and soldiers, so the key is that we are in the direction of Henan and Hubei. Xiangfan has a little tiger sitting there, which can be said to be foolproof, so there is no need to think about it. What needs to be considered, one is Luoyang, and the other is Lushan Baofeng. ”

Niu Jinxing arched his hand to Li Yanyi and said: "Prime Minister Li, you said that I understand that Luoyang is an important ancient capital of Luoyang City, where the grain and grass are, and communicates with Shaanxi and Henan, and the throat is the main road." But this Baofeng Lushan is just a remote town, why should it be ranked with Luoyang? ”

Li Yan smiled and explained: "Your Majesty and all the ministers, please see, although Baofeng Lushan is small, it is a communication artery between Xiangfan and Henan, and there is no strong city to rely on. And the transportation is convenient, it is the main road in and out of the mountains of Funiu, Tongbai and other places in western Henan, which is convenient for the passage of the army. There are many Tartars and a lot of artillery, if you don't find this easy to attack and difficult to defend the army, will you not be able to waste people's lives in Luoyang with us? ”

"And, there's another factor that has to be taken into account. Over the years, Cao Zhenyan has defeated the Nanyue army several times, which can be said to be a megatron, and his official position has been promoted all the way, and it is even rumored that Dolgon wants to crown him as a prince. Regardless of whether it is true or not, Dongyu will inevitably be unconvinced. Therefore, I expect that someone will fan the flames within it, begging for a quick battle with me and sharing the credit of Cao Zhenyan. Therefore, my opinion is that His Majesty's pro-unified army will fight a decisive battle with Dongyu in Baofeng Lushan, and the enemy army will come from afar and seek a quick victory, and we will only need to make careful arrangements to defeat the enemy. “

After Li Yan finished speaking, the ministers expressed their approval, and Liu Zongmin first said in a loud voice: "Lin Quan, I have to say that you scholars have a lot of crooked intestines, what my old Liu didn't say, you say a word, let me beat me as much as I want." “

Niu Jinxing also laughed and echoed: "Lin Quan, I don't have anything else, I want to find a way to meet the military food and grass." After speaking, Niu Jinxing said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, I see that everyone recognizes Lin Quan very much, how about following Lin Quan's method this time?" ”

Li Zicheng didn't know why, his eyebrows furrowed, this detail was keenly discovered by Niu Jinxing, but he pretended not to be aware. But in an instant, Li Zicheng stretched his brows and said with a smile: "Lin Quan is really my pillar of Dashun, I agree." However, there is one thing you should not stop, I want to personally lead the horse team, come to him to make a decision, and vent his evil anger. “

These words can scare the ministers of Dashun a lot, what are you kidding? It used to be before, when there was no way for the thieves to chase the heavens and the ground, and Li Zicheng personally went into battle, even if he went into battle in person, he still played like this, if something happened, who was responsible? So it didn't matter who organized it, and they opposed it with one voice, and the scene was very chaotic for a while. In this chaos, Li Yan did not oppose in a hurry, but waited for everyone to talk a little tired, and then leisurely went out and said: "Your Majesty, your divine power and bravery, the world knows, if you lead the horse team, you will naturally be invincible." It's just that one of the subordinates has an idea, I think it's not bad, Your Majesty can take a look at it first, and then it's not too late to decide. “

Li Zicheng nodded, and ordered someone to present Li Yan's recital, at first Li Zicheng was a little careless, and then the more he looked at it, the more fascinated he became, and finally Li Zicheng put down the recital and asked Li Yan: "Lin Quan, who is this Li Jinbao?" “

Li Yan Shili replied: "Li Jinbao was originally a subordinate of Wang Long, but later repented of training cavalry for our department. He is clever and studious, and he is good at associating with the people who returned to me in Beijing at the beginning, which can be regarded as a true inheritance. This time I intend to fight with the Eastern Prisoner, he is very active, with cavalry artillery repeatedly rehearsed tactics, the minister personally watched, think it is very feasible, but I don't know what Your Majesty thinks? “

Li Zicheng silently put down the fold, sighed and said: "It seems that I am really old, there are talented people in the country, and the future is for young people." Li Yan smiled and said: "Your Majesty, why should you be humble, if you don't have Your Majesty's discernment, he Li Jinbao is just a scoundrel in the countryside." Since Your Majesty has agreed, then I will let him lead the horse team and make ten decisions for Your Majesty! “

In the development of Li Zicheng's peasant army, in addition to his; In addition to the basic lineage of the old eighth team, which can never be abandoned, among the rest of the battalions and peasant army teams, today under the banner of Cao Cao, tomorrow under the command of Zhang Xianzhong to eat food and receive salary, the day after tomorrow may be broken up by the Ming army, and it is not new to turn into Zuo Liangyu's inner camp. This kind of thing is also commonplace in the eyes of the generals of the Dashun Army. This is also the reason why Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Li Guo and others do not look down on Hao Shaoqi, who once left Li Zicheng halfway.

Now this Li Jinbao defected to Li Yan from Wang Long's command, but it is the opposite, which can be regarded as abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, which shows that Dashun is much stronger than Cao Ying.

Under the leadership of the Imperial Camp Army, Li Jinbao, nicknamed Ma Harrier, was brought to Li Zicheng. For this Li Jinbao, Li Zicheng has also seen it a few times. It's just that at that time, he appeared as a partial general under Luo Rucai's nephew Wang Long. For him, Li Zicheng can only be said to be a little impressed. However, it is not very impressive.

After carefully looking at Li Jinbao in front of him, Li Zicheng suddenly had a good impression of Li Jinbao, who was seven feet tall, with a fair complexion and two silkworm eyebrows. is not only because Li Jinbao was born with a look like Lu Bu, but also because Luo Hu has recommended and praised Li Jinbao in front of Li Zicheng many times.

"You are Li Jinbao?"

"If you go back to the emperor, Weichen doesn't dare. Weichen was originally surnamed Wang, and was later adopted as an adopted son by the family surnamed Li, so he was surnamed Li. "Li Jinbao is also an extremely smart person, he knows very well that now in the Dashun Army, the surname Li is regarded as a national surname. He is a newcomer, and if he says that his surname is Li, he will inevitably cause countless troubles in the future. It was at this time that the original surname was restored.

This sycophant happened to hit Li Zicheng's heart.

"Since you have filial piety and want to restore your original surname, then I will give you to restore your original surname. Can it be named? ”

"Weichen was young at that time, and he only knew his surname Wang, but he didn't have a name."

"This ,。。。。。" Things have progressed to this link, generally speaking, Li Zicheng, as the monarch, will reward a name to this general Wang. However, Li Zicheng, whose cultural level is not very high, couldn't find a suitable name for a while.

"Your Majesty. From the minister's point of view, General Wang has both the courage of ten swings and ten decisions, and the loyalty of abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, which is the auxiliary Bi Liangchen of my Dashun founding country, why don't you ask Your Majesty to give you the name of the auxiliary minister? ”

Li Yan gave Li Zicheng a good step.

"Fuchen, Wang Fuchen. Very good! Come! Go to my entourage of war horses, take two horses and give them to General Wang as mounts! Let him have a leg power when he rushes forward to kill! ”

White robe, red horse, double armor, horse lance, long knife and hard bow. In front of Li Zicheng, Wang Fuchen was as majestic and mighty as Lu Bu on the stage and in the script, and he couldn't help but make Liu Zongmin and the following Dashun civil and military ministers applaud in unison.

"Good!"

"He is worthy of being a figure that General Luo Hu is optimistic about!"

"Lin Quan really has a good eye!"

After praising the majesty of Wang Fuchen, Li Zicheng issued an order, named Wang Fuchen as General Guoyi, and listened to the call in front of the car in the past few days, straightened out the soldiers and horses, and led the army to the area of Baoshan Lufeng after the soldiers and horses were ready, preparing to meet the Qing army's brigade. Wang Fuchen went down to inspect the soldiers and horses by himself, and asked for equipment, but did not mention it.

Following.

In the early dynasty, the ministers saluted as usual, but Li Zicheng hurriedly coped with it, and then set his eyes on a twist. This recital came from Luoyang, and it was a battle report from the guard general to Li Zicheng, in which the guard general wrote: Dongyu is menacing and has excellent firearms, and its commander is even more wildly speaking, saying that regardless of the Jincheng soup pool, there are hundreds of cannons, just bombard, and there is no city that cannot be broken. However, the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang were grateful for His Majesty's grace for saving that day, and would rather die in the city than under the city. Therefore, although the cannons of the eastern captives were like rain, they had collapsed the city wall for dozens of zhang, but the soldiers and civilians defending the city carried bricks and stones with their bodies, or threw them to hit the thieves, or filled the gaps, and the arrows and projectiles rained down, and the soldiers and civilians suffered a lot of casualties, and often the corpses and bricks and stones fell together to fill the gaps, and the thieves could not break the city in the end. The minister is His Majesty's courtier, and he should be loyal to His Majesty, but Luoyang is dangerous, and the minister is unpredictable tomorrow, so he hopes that His Majesty will send reinforcements as soon as possible, so that Luoyang will not turn into Suiyang.

Li Zicheng frowned and repeatedly read the fold a few times, and then asked people to hand over the fold to the ministers to circulate, and when the main ministers had read it, Li Zicheng said: "Ladies and gentlemen, according to the report, the Dongyu relied on heavy artillery to storm Luoyang, but fortunately, the Luoyang army and people fought desperately to resist the enemy, so that Luoyang was well protected. Lin Quan, do you say that this attack on Luoyang by the Eastern Captives is a suspicious soldier or the main elite? ”

Li Yan thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, why do you want to play tricks on me, whenever you attack a fortified city, you must first clean up the periphery, and then slowly plan it." Although the attack was ferocious, it was unconventional, and I think this just proves that our judgment is correct. And today I just heard about a happy event, and I would like to congratulate Your Majesty. ”

Li Zicheng shook his head and said, "Lin Quandon't want to make fun of me, what good news do I have?" ”

Li Yan said: "Your Majesty, something big has happened in Shandong. I heard that there was a captain of the watch team of the Southern Guangdong Army stationed in Zichuan in Shandong, named Xie Qian, because Dongnu implemented shaving orders in various prefectures and counties in Shandong, those who did not obey were often beheaded and confiscated, and there were evil policies such as enclosure and surrender, which caused a lot of public sentiment. Xie Qian has already raised an incident in Gaoyi, killed the local tyrant Zhang Shenghu, besieged Zichuan County, and killed the traitor Sun Zhiqi, who first advocated shaving his hair and making it easy to obey, and inserted his bristles into his whole body, known as his hair transplant, and the women in his family were all humiliated by the soldiers. He also claimed that Li Huayu was not dead, and called on the military and civilians in Shandong to expel the Tartars, restore China, support the new policy, and kill all the rebels. Although the mountain is high and the road is far away, the news is inevitably exaggerated, but Li Huayu once killed the Liao thieves, and I expected that the Liao thieves would inevitably give priority to solving the rebellion in Shandong. Therefore, Luoyang's offensive is just a bluff, and the focus of Dongyu must still be Lushan Baofeng. ”

In the entire strategic posture of the Qing army, Shandong belonged to the left flank and the eastern front. Once the rebels in Zichuan and other places echoed with the soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army in Lunan, or were washed to the sea by Xie Qian, and obtained the supply support of the Nanyue Army from the sea, then the eastern front of the Qing army was at risk of collapse.

Therefore, Dolgon's main energy is bound to be held back by Shandong. On my Dashun side, the front line of Luoyang and Baofeng is just a feint to contain our army! ”

Li Yan's analysis is reasonable, reasonable, and well-founded. In the eyes of Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, and Li Guo, these Dashun monarchs and ministers who have fought all their lives, it is completely logical. With such a good opportunity, Liu Zongmin couldn't help rubbing his big hands full of calluses, "Straight!" Take advantage of his illness to kill him! Let's kill his Tartar's Western Road Deviation Division first! Regain Shanxi and Shaanxi! Drive the Tartars out of the Great Wall and gnaw the sand! Let's kill Dolgon with Liang Guogong! ”

The Dashun generals present echoed the proposal of Ruhou Liu Zongmin, and a group of young generals such as Zhang Nai and Wang Si'er asked for war one after another, willing to be the pioneer of the king, kill Cao Zhenyan and his way, and also let out this evil anger of aggrieved from Shanhaiguan to Henan for my Dashun.

Li Zicheng sighed when he heard this: "Ladies and gentlemen, maybe I am really not suitable for the Son of Heaven, you tell me that the Son of Heaven should sit on the arch, but I always feel that if I can't go to the enemy in person, if I know the enemy, it is really difficult to make up my mind." I have already decided, I will personally take the old camp to Lushan Baofeng, and everything will be decided when I understand it. ”

When the ministers heard this, they hurriedly objected, but Li Zicheng was stubborn, and just when the two sides were deadlocked, Wang Fuchen spoke: "The ministers agree with Your Majesty." Your Majesty, there is a saying that since ancient times, there has been no sitting in the middle of the rise, and the world has taken it immediately since ancient times. The minister thought that His Majesty was the Han Gaozu of the year, and Dongyu was Xiang Yu, even if he was fierce for a while, he would eventually be scattered under the wall. The minister is not talented, and he is willing to be a pawn who pursues and kills Xiang Yu, and presents the head of Dongyu to His Majesty. ”

Although the words are expressed in different ways, they all oppose Li Zicheng coming out in person. Although going to the front line to personally observe the terrain and the enemy's situation is a good habit that Li Zicheng has cultivated for many years, it is still a good habit at this time. Now he is no longer the general of the old eighth team, the king of the camp, but the Yongchang son of the Dashun court! It can be said that it is the most important thing in the world.

(In real history, his habit of patrolling the terrain from the front line to observe the enemy's situation was cheaper than Cheng Jiubai and others who planned to make a fortune on a few scattered "thieves".) If it weren't for such a habit, as the commander of an army and an emperor, at least hundreds of people would accompany him when he went out. There are more than 900 ruffians in the countryside, and they are scared to death and dare not come to make a fortune. ）

"Your Majesty, the minister has something to do." Niu Jinxing, who had not spoken for a long time, tidied up his robes and clothes, and bowed down to the class with a wat board in his hand.

"Mr. Niu, please speak if you have something to say."

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what the prime minister said is very true. Now that the Dongyu and the Southern Army have a deep blood feud, I think that Li Shouhan has already been gearing up to fight hard in order to avenge the killing of his son. The minister is foolish, and he has heard that the art of war has a cloud of distant friendship and close attack, the enemy is clear, the friend is undecided, and the friend is led to kill the enemy. The enemy of my enemy is my ally. What's more, our Dashun and the Southern Army have always been good friends, and they have been constantly trading in private, and they have met on the grain, grass, ordnance roads. ”

"Mr. Niu, our relationship with the Southern Army is well known to everyone, so don't start with Tang Yao and Yu Shun's era. Just say yours. Liu Zongmin, who was quick-tempered, was very dissatisfied with Niu Jinxing's calm and stable style. The opening interrupted him.

"Prime Minister Fang Cai has already said that the southern army wants to look for bad luck in Shandong and other places, and my Dashun army and horses will attack on the western front. In this way, the relationship between our army and the Yugoslav army is that of an allied force. In order to make this relationship more consolidated, at the same time, with the heart of the Liang Guogong. The minister thought that His Majesty might as well send down a holy decree and make it clear to the world. Li Shouhan, the Duke of Liang, was crowned as the king of Liang, and he was hereditary and did not listen to the announcement. The general consul Jiangnan, Sichuan, Liangguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, and southern and central places are. ”

Niu Venus's move can not be described as not vicious. Everyone in the world knows that although Li Shouhan is currently the white jade pillar of the Ming Dynasty, the sea purple gold beam. However, in the final analysis, he is not the same as the Ming court. Many people in the Ming court even regarded Li Shouhan as Cao Cao of the Han Dynasty, and they all wanted to go as soon as possible. Among the Nanyue Army, they have long been resentful of the behavior of the DPRK Chinese and the military and political system of the Nanyue Army. It's just that due to the current war situation in Jiangbei and the current enemy, it is not easy to tear the skin.

If the will of the Dashun court to enshrine Li Shouhan as the king of Liang is revealed to the world, then this fig leaf covering the two major groups of the Nanyue army and the Ming bureaucracy will be completely torn off. As the saying goes, when yellow mud falls in the crotch of your pants, it's not but!

If this trick can work, there is no doubt that it will be of great help to the Dashun army. For the sake of his own interests, Li Shouhan would also make great efforts to fight against the Qing army in Shandong, Henan and other places. This is undesirable for the Dashun army.

"Your Majesty, I think Mr. Niu's move is inappropriate. Not only is it useless, but it will offend Liang Guogong and cut off the source of our army's food, grass and ordnance. Li Yan smiled at Niu Jinxing and rejected his suggestion.

His reason is very simple, with Li Shouhan's strength and status, how could he accept Dashun's canonization? You know, at this time, Da Shun is stronger than his strength in which aspect? Soldiers, horses, territory, money, or legal status?

"Your Majesty, if you want Liang Guogong to accept my Dashun's canonization, we must rely on ourselves. Use our victory on the battlefield of the Western Road to show our strength. This is what makes it possible for him to bow down in front of His Majesty! ”