A few days later, Shi Lang set off for the economic south to Denglai, from the mouth of the Yellow River to the south. In the middle www.biquge.info of the ship, he kept chewing and recalling what Li Huayu had told him.

"My father is right, all parts of the Central Plains have been ravaged by disasters and famines, and it is difficult to find food and grass, and the people are poor. The Liao thieves are also not durable to fight. Now our firearms are sharp, the supply of grain and grass is sufficient, and there are new rebel soldiers and horses, and there are Liao people from the thieves to write a letter to contact, others do not mention, there is a person named Sony, write a letter to ask, said that if you can protect the life of the emperor Taiji family, willing to choose the opportunity to revolt. Fan Wencheng Ning also sent a letter from the Beijing Trading Company, saying that if the red and blue flower trade could continue, Liaodong Wenchen would also be willing to choose the opportunity to return to obedience. It would be a pity if we didn't take advantage of such a good opportunity. And field warfare is my strength, Shandong consolidation is like a rock, even if there is disadvantage, just stick to Jinan. It's foolproof. ”

This is tantamount to throwing Li Shouhan's defensive offensive strategy behind him, and insisting on using the aftermath of victory after winning the first battle to pursue the victory. Shi Lang had to smile bitterly, he still had to think about it, how to face the thunderous anger that greeted his father after seeing him! He couldn't help but press the tightly sealed worship box on the table with his hand, which was a message written by Li Huayu to his father, asking him to hand it over to Li Shouhan. It explains in detail the reasons why it is necessary to take the initiative and attack the Liao thieves.

With this post, even if Li Shouhan wants to get angry, he will not be too embarrassed. He couldn't help but smile wryly. However, thinking of what Li Huayu said about sticking to Jinan, I couldn't help but feel a sudden burst in my heart. In Jinan Mansion these days, there is a lot of trouble, and the commander of the Jinan Garrison Brigade, Zhang Linghu, always makes him feel uncomfortable in his heart, as if there is a thorn in his back. He had daily contacts with the gentry and celebrities from all over Shandong, and it is said that he had a close relationship with the Yansheng Mansion in Qufu. And Wu Fengxian, the commander of the Changqing Garrison Brigade stationed near Jinan, heard that it was also a daily door, wine and meat were expelled.

"I hope there won't be any mess in Shandong."

Li Shouhan and his son are not bad at all, the Yellow River Basin has been flooded and drought for many years, and the war of swords and soldiers has already turned countless fields into thorns and weeds, and teams of foxes, rabbits, and wolverines haunt places. In the barren grass and yellow sand, from time to time, you can see a white skeleton covered by the yellow sand through the long grass that is blown by the cold wind. It's normal to walk on the road for a few days and nights without seeing a person.

Many of the official roads are waist-deep weeds, and the fields are overgrown with weeds, artemisia grass, and reeds everywhere. Sometimes it stretches for hundreds of miles, and people who don't understand it think that they have arrived in the grassland outside the Saiwai. In this once fertile field, now it has become barren and grassy, and even more so, among the grass, wolves walk back and forth in tens and hundreds of scales, their eyes flashing with a green and faint light.

In order to ensure the daily consumption of soldiers and horses, the Qing army stationed in Zhangde and other places sent countless rangers to go out to collect food. The so-called grain grabbing is actually synonymous with grabbing grain.

As a result, the beasts and beasts all over the four fields also suffered, and from time to time, fast arrows flew and shot through their bodies, becoming a source of fat and protein for the Qing army. The siege built by those squires who raised funds for self-protection was the first choice for the Qing army to raise grain and grass.

The thousand-year-old experience tells the people that when the world is in turmoil, it is more dangerous to live in the county town. As a result, there was often enough food stored in these forts for food. When the troubled times came, the most vital people were actually these rural landlords and powerful clans, they had a lot of food and wealth, but at the same time, they were high walls and deep villages, and the internal ties and blood of the clan were extremely united, and it was not easy to capture their villages.

The typical representative is the Linfeng village of Jiaxian, they started from the north and south dynasties, along the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming dynasties, generations of standing next to Fengxi, even if the Japanese army encountered such a village during the Anti-Japanese War, it was also a detour.

This kind of village is also known as Wubao, only the rich family, the clan and the township party, and the powerful clan have the ability to build, and it is very difficult to fight.

For these strong sieges, the Qing soldiers often politely declared that the Qing soldiers had come here to sweep away the Liukou in the Central Plains in accordance with Hong Chengchou's instructions to appease them. If the heroes and people of insight from all parties are willing to help, the Qing Dynasty should not hesitate to reward their official positions. It's not that the Qing soldiers have changed their temper, but that those stockades and forts are really difficult to deal with. Not to mention that it is stronger than the county seat of Zhizhou, there are short walls of ditches under the city, and the city is full of swords, guns and firearms, and even artillery is erected at the head of the city. For this kind of walled dock fort, most of the Qing soldiers are pleasant, if these dock forts are acquainted, they are willing to hand over some grain, bean fodder, firewood and grass as sponsorship, not to mention that they will also get a flag sent by the Qing army, they are inserted in the city, that is, to tell the Qing army in the past, this fort is our own people. The head of the village often received a letter of confession issued by Duoduo and Hong Chengchou, and from then on he was an official of the Qing court.

However, for those small villages that are not strong and have no reputation, the Qing army does not have so many scruples. Everywhere, countless people's homes were destroyed, their children's wealth, grain, and rice were plundered, and their houses were demolished and turned into firewood and grass.

The periphery of Zhangde Mansion City is densely covered with Qing military camps, and all kinds of flags are fluttering, that is, in Zhangde City, the banners of the two white flags of the Qing army are flying everywhere. Inside and outside the city, there was an endless stream of grain, rice and wealth entering the camp. The morale of the Qing army was reinvigorated with the arrival of a new army.

In the palace, in front of the lobby, there is a golden dragon silk of the great general Duoduo, and the banner of Hong Chengchou, the envoy of Qincha and Jingluo. Along the road, there were two rows of Baya soldiers dressed in two layers of armor, each armed with swords and guns. His eyes watched the surroundings without blinking. In the lobby, there was a burst of laughter and talking. In the wide hall, there were Qing generals in gilded armor, each with their helmets removed, all of them with iron blue and shiny foreheads and scalps, and a slender money rat tail flicked behind their heads.

The words are also mixed, some speak Manchu, some speak Mongolian, and more speak the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.

Many of the generals and officials of the Qing army were naturally inlaid with white flags, Prince Yu, Pingnan General Duoduo and Qincha, and Xuanfu Jinglu made Hong Chengchou the highest. On the left side of the lower head, the princes and generals of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army sit proudly. On the right side of the lower head, there is a large group of former Ming army generals who surrendered to the Qing army after entering the customs.

In the crowd, the focus of everyone's eyes was not Duoduo and Hong Chengchou, but Cao Zhenyan, who came from afar with a very special identity!

This person is the regent's coat, but he is also Jueluo's identity. What's even more dazzling is that he is vaguely the core link of the people in the Tashan system. Many things that were inconvenient for Dolgon to come forward were because he was running to contact below, and he was also a hot figure in the Korean and Chinese armies.

"Although General Gao Zhengxiong was born in the Ming Kingdom, his loyalty to my Qing Dynasty is extremely sincere. A person like General Gao who is so loyal to His Majesty and loyal to the regent is beyond the reach of even Cao. ”

Cao Zhenyan solemnly introduced to the master of Duoduo and Hong Jingluo a general standing behind him and wearing the uniform of the general army. From the color of his clothes, facial features, and the traces of the bun on his scalp, he knew at a glance that this person was also a general of the Ming army.

"On that day, Li Huayu's troops were rampant, and there was a rebellion of traitors from the Zhenglan Banner, and the prince of Shuotuo was unfortunately killed. I suffered heavy losses in the Qing Dynasty. The Han army garrison, more than 1,000 generals, Eight Banners Niulu, and more than 100 generals and generals above Pashiku were killed. Among the generals of the Eight Banners, dozens of people surrendered. Only General Gao was loyal and did not surrender, commanded his subordinates to fight against the southern army, fought and walked, and contained the remnants of the scattered soldiers of various departments along the way, and reserved tens of thousands of soldiers and horses for our Qing Dynasty. With such loyalty and courage, and such results, this general has asked for an increase in rank and knighthood for General Gao since he became the imperial court! ”

It was Pingnan General Duoduo who spoke, and his words aroused the voice of gratitude from Gao Zhengxiong present, and at the same time made the Qing generals of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners feel awkward.

Hong Chengchou, who was sitting next to Duoduo, also smiled reservedly. For a Ming army general like Gao Zhengxiong, Li Huayu was able to grit his teeth and persist in resisting to the end when he attacked in a big way, and he could also guess some truth.

Zhenglan Banner turned against Manchuria, and killed Shuotuo, which was considered an uprising in front of Li Huayu. There is a petition for nomination, and a great contribution has been made. Nature is treated differently. The rest of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were captured, or surrendered, they were able to save their lives. However, only these former Ming descendants will have to fight to the end.

Because, in the eyes of the Li family's father and son, this group of traitor soldiers are all people who act for the tiger! Even more abominable!

Therefore, these generals knew that they were guilty of great sins, and they would definitely have no good fruit to eat after being captured by the Nanyue army, so they simply coerced their subordinates to resist desperately. In this way, in the past, these guys who were all defeated in front of the Qing army and fled in front of the Shun army actually fought well and impressively in front of Li Huayu's Shandong soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army.

"Everyone else can surrender, but we can't!" This is often the howl of the surrendering Han generals, the leading officers, and the desperate resistance of the soldiers under his command.

If it is said that when they were in the Ming army, they made a noise and mutiny because of their troubles, plundered prefectures and counties, and slaughtered villages to obtain wealth, then after surrendering to the Qing army, they slaughtered cities everywhere, and they absolutely could not bargain in front of the Li family's father and son.

In the Qing army, the Manchurian Eight Banners were the core, the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Domain Mongolia were kinship, and the status was naturally different, while the Han army and the Ming army that surrendered after entering the customs were victorious in numbers. Now that there has been an explosive increase in combat effectiveness, it is natural that the status of the boat is rising.

In the capital, at several court meetings, the elders of the Liaodong faction proposed to withdraw to Guanwai, but they were all vetoed by the Guannei faction and these Han army generals. Back to Liaodong? Lao Tzu doesn't have any foundation there, what are you doing there?

The number of Han troops is increasing, and its combat effectiveness exceeds that of the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Domain Mongolia, which undoubtedly makes Hong Jinglue's status invisibly improved a lot. Among these Han generals, many of them were his former subordinates, and now there is a faint smell of him as the leader. Although Hong Jingluo is very vigilant and tries not to interact with these people as much as possible, so as not to have the impression of being very close and having a high degree of achievement, he does feel the difference now.

He regarded himself as having a different identity, so naturally he couldn't shout wildly with the smelly Manchurian generals and Mongolian princes present, so he could only show a happy look on his face, gently stroke his beard, nod slightly, and express his appreciation for the behavior of Gao Zhengxiong and others.

"And one more good thing." Duoduo is not as able to be moody as Hong Jingluo, and he does not have the cultivation of hypocrisy.

"My Qing soldiers are also good news in Shanxi! Manchuria's first Batu Lu Aobai, personally led the left wing of the Shenji Battalion, with a spear and a sharp axe, to break through Li Zicheng's defense line in Yuanping, Wutai, Qilan, Xinzhou, at present, the British prince Azig, Pingxi king Wu Sangui's 200,000 troops have been directed to the city of Taiyuan! The gentry officials and generals in Qixian, Taigu, Pingyao, Yuci and other places revolted one after another, echoing the army. A large number of former Ming troops joined my Qing soldiers! A large area of land anyway! ”

"Li Chuang's army in Shanxi is unstable, and there are officials and gentry everywhere. Therefore, Shanxi will be included in my big bag in the near future. As long as Li Zicheng is driven out of Shanxi, then Prince Ying's army of more than 200,000 can fight the thieves with the king's army! Now, my Qing warriors took advantage of this great victory, summoned up Yu Yong, continued to go south, and then waved their troops to the south, breaking the thief Liu Zongmin's department and the Ming army's Li Huayu department in front of them! ”

After the Qing army broke through Li Zicheng's defense line in Xinzhou and other places, Azig Wu Sangui's troops approached Taiyuan, and their morale was very loud and rampant. On the contrary, the morale of Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses became more and more low, and people kept defecting to the Qing Dynasty. Such a reversal of the situation made the Duoduo and the Eight Banners Manchurian Banner Lords and the Eight Banners Mongolian Banner Lords in Henan also feel tremendous pressure while rejoicing.

also commanded the troops out of Beijing, Azig attacked the city all the way, and surrendered the rebels. From tens of thousands of horses to more than 200,000 horses, and it covers most of Shanxi, seeing that it is about to drink the Yellow River, the blade threatens Li Zicheng's nest in Shaanxi. This military merit far surpassed Duoduo who confronted Liu Zongmin and Li Huayu in Henan! Not to mention that after breaking through the city along the way, the generals can plunder on a large scale, and countless people, as well as a large amount of gold, silver, grain, rice, cattle and horses, wealth and other goods have become their spoils. This is tantamount to making Duoduo and his subordinates and the banner lords and princes and Baylors envious, jealous and hateful, like a basin of cold water coming down from their heads, and the cold feeling penetrates the whole body.

The size of the population is the best statistical indicator of its strength. Regardless of whether it is withdrawn from Guanwai in the future or to take root in the land of the Central Plains. What's more, there are so many goods, gold and silver, which one of them can enhance one's strength?

Even Duoduo wouldn't care, Azig was his own brother anyway. However, he could not ignore the thoughts and requirements of the generals and princes under his command.

In addition to conveying good news in two directions to the generals today, it is necessary to mobilize and deploy before the war.

First of all, it is necessary to boost the morale in front of them and let them know the comparison of enemy and enemy forces.

After the expedition from Beijing, especially after the Battle of Zhanghe, these soldiers and horses under Duoduo were more defeated than victorious. The loss of soldiers and horses was as high as tens of thousands, especially in the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the loss of bannermen was thousands, the loss of war horses was tens of thousands, and the loss of abandoned armor and equipment was even more. The Manchurian, Mongolian and Han banners were all defeated in front of the Dashun army and the Nanyue army and suffered heavy losses. The heart has long been shadowed, and he is afraid of fighting the Dashun army.

Fortunately, at this time, Cao Zhenyan brought Gao Zhengxiong to let everyone know that it was as elite and brave as the Nanyue Army, as long as the former Ming troops dared to fight to the death, they could also retreat under the unfavorable situation of the overall situation, and gather the rest of the friendly army. Since the soldiers and horses of the former Ming Dynasty can do it, then our Eight Banners soldiers and horses are naturally even more of a problem! What's more, now Cao Zhenyan's 10,000 spearmen have also arrived, and there are tens of thousands of reinforcements under the command of Hong Jinglue, as well as tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Gao Zhengxiong who retreated from the east road to the middle road, all up, there are more than 100,000 horses in Duoduo's hands at the moment. What's even more advantageous is that although Xu Dingguo was beaten by Liao Dongzhi and cowered in several cities, he also restrained a large part of Li Huayu's troops. When the timing is right, it is a force that can turn things around.

However, although the situation is good, there is also a crisis lurking.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria with Blue Banner Banner Lord Jierharang stared at the map hanging in the hall for a long time, and suddenly said to Duoduo: "General Pingnan, the army of Prince Ying defeated the thieves, so that all the state capitals in Shanxi quickly came under the banner of our Great Qing Dynasty anyway. However, if the thief led the troops out of Shanxi, he came to Henan to meet the thief Liu Zongmin. Although Prince Ying led more than 200,000 people to pursue behind him, but after the thieves in Henan got the news, their henchmen must have greatly boosted the morale of the army, and Liu Zongmin himself is known for being tough, if they resist stubbornly and secretly collude with Li Huayu of the Nanyue Army, what should we do at that time? I'm afraid there are ......"

Zilharang is a scheming man. There were two enemies in front of the Qing army's Duoduo headquarters. One is the hundreds of thousands of elites of the Dashun army, and at the moment there is the commander of the battalion and the commander of Liu Zongmin, the Marquis of Ru, and he wants to hand over the command to Li Zicheng, who was pursued all the way from Shanxi by Azig. The other enemy was the Shandong soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army that slowly pressed over from the east, and Li Huayu's command was close to 100,000 people.

Which one to hit first, which one to hit last? Or who to focus on, the question immediately cooled down everyone's originally excited mood.

This question, to put it mildly, is related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the middle road, and it is also related to the fortune of the Qing Dynasty. Once the choice is wrong, not only will hundreds of thousands of lives be thrown in, but I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will also run out of oil. In the lobby of the ancient temple that was as silent as a deep mountain, everyone turned their attention to Duoduo and Hong Chengchou. (To be continued.) )