Two miles below Lanling City, Duoduo led more than 160,000 troops to this place, looking at Lanling City from afar!

On the city wall, the military flag flutters, embroidered with a domineering five-clawed golden dragon, which is the military flag of the Ming Ying Dragon Army, and the five-clawed golden dragon symbolizes the emperor's pro-army.

"Ying Longjun!" Duoduo stared at the conspicuous military flag, his face cold. For this Ying Long army, which is known as the first elite of the Ming Dynasty, Duoduo is still a little jealous in his heart.

Half an hour later, the scouts sent to inquire about the information returned.

"Lord Qi, there are about 20,000 Ying Long troops in the city, and about 30,000 ordinary Ming troops, about 50,000 horses." The scout reports to the Dordor.

For this big battle, the Manchu Qing prepared very well, not only drew a detailed map all the way to the city of Nanjing, but also developed a dark line in almost every prefecture and county, the reason why the Manchu scouts were able to know the details of the Ming army so quickly was from the dark line in Lanling County.

"Lord, whether to attack the city." A white-flaged general asked at Dord.

Although the Ming Yinglong Army is famous, they still don't pay attention to the 50,000 Ming troops in Lanling County.

"Don't worry, since Lanling County has the Ying Long Army stationed, it means that the Ming Emperor must have arrived in Xuzhou, presumably the regent should have a move, Jining City is just around the corner, and when the Jining War resumes, this king will lead the army to make a detour to attack Xuecheng, cutting off the retreat of the Ming army in Jining City in one fell swoop, and destroying more than 100,000 Ming troops in Jining City!" Duoduo laughed.

He and Dolgon had a plan, as long as the Ming Emperor entered Xuzhou, he would make every effort to take Jining City, annihilate more than 100,000 Ming troops in Jining City at the fastest speed, and the troops would come to Xuzhou City to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army in Xuzhou City. Because of Li Huaxi's relationship and the decisive battle in Xuzhou, they are already sure of victory! Duoduo sneered and clenched his right fist.

"Order, camp on the spot!" Dodor ordered.

The army under his command was less than ten days, and took more than 30 county towns in Shandong in a row, although the morale of the soldiers was high, but also to be tired, he planned to let the army rest for a day, and when the news of Jining City came tomorrow, he secretly led the army to make a detour to attack the retreat of Jining City, Xuecheng!

The Qing army quickly set up a battalion commander.

In Lanling City, the military headquarters of the Fourth Army of the Yinglong Army, Yan Yingyuan and more than a dozen senior generals were deliberating.

"Report!" A soldier of the Ying Long Army reported loudly at the door.

"Come in!" Yan Yingyuan's voice came out.

"Report to the military seat, the Qing army's more than 160,000 troops have just set up camp two miles outside the city, and there is no sign of attacking the city!"

Yan Yingyuan pondered for a moment and said, "Closely monitor the movements of the Qing army, and report any abnormal movements at any time!" Yan Yingyuan couldn't see the intentions of the Qing army for the time being, so he could only order someone to monitor him at all times.

"Yes!" The soldier of the Ying Long Army took the order, turned around and walked out.

"Report!" Another soldier of the Ying Long Army came to report, looking at the grief and eagerness on his face, something big must have happened.

"Come in!"

After the Ying Long Army soldier walked in, his voice choked and said: "Junzao, the Qing captives are too hateful, I just got the news that the people of Linyi County have been killed by the Qing captives!" There's a river of blood, O Throne! ”

The nearly seven-foot-tall man, after finishing speaking, couldn't hold back anymore, cried bitterly, and the generals in the hall were all shocked!

"How dare the Qing captive!" Yan Yingyuan's face was blue, and the anger in his eyes was about to erupt!

"Bang!" Feng Houdun slapped the table fiercely and stood up suddenly: "Big brother, the Tartars are not human at all, the people of a county, unarmed, even said that they would be slaughtered!" It's not as good as a beast! I waited to go out of the city to fight with the Qing prisoners and avenge the innocent people of Linyi City! ”

The other generals were also angry, but unlike the generals of the Ying Long Army, who wanted to go out of the city with murderous intent and desperately fought with the Qing army, those ordinary generals of the Ming army did not say much, they had heard such things more than once, and some of them were even expressionless.

"Ben will think it's inappropriate!" A general sitting at the head of Yan Yingyuan stared at Feng Houdun sarcastically and said: "The Qing army of more than 160,000 people, almost all of them are cavalry, and going out of the city is simply looking for death!" You have to go by yourself, don't bother everyone! ”

This person was the chief soldier of the 30,000 ordinary Ming army, named Chang Shunhou.

Although Chang Shunhou was restrained by Yan Yingyuan, he was the same as Yan Yingyuan in rank, and he had always been extremely dissatisfied with Yan Yingyuan in his heart, thinking that Yan Yingyuan was just a small historical background, and after fighting a battle, he was appointed by the emperor as the head of the first army of Ying Longjun, and because Ying Longjun was the relationship between the emperor's pro-army, he actually pressed him, so naturally he did not have a good face for Yan Yingyuan's three brothers.

"I think you're afraid of death!" Feng Houdun's temper was already a little impulsive, how could he stand Chang Shunhou's ridicule, and immediately glared at Chang Shunhou and said.

Chang Shunhou stood up suddenly, and said angrily: "The little general, but he is a reckless man, he has no brains, he actually speaks to this general soldier like this, he doesn't understand the rules at all, I really don't know how you became this general, I think you must have fooled the emperor and grandstanding!" When Chang Shun said this, he looked at Yan Yingyuan again, and continued in a strange manner: "Commander Yan, take care of your subordinates, don't let him be embarrassed!" ”

Not to mention Feng Houdun now, Chen Mingyu, who had always been quiet, was also angry, and his face was slightly pale. Chang Shunhou meant something, although he was scolding Feng Houdun, but in fact, he scolded the three brothers together.

"You old horseman" Feng Houdun scolded, but as soon as he scolded, he was immediately interrupted by Yan Yingyuan.

"Enough! Feng Houdun, shut up for me! Yan Yingyuan glared at Feng Houdun, although he was also angry, but he knew very well in his heart that the qualifications of the three brothers were too low, and they were in a high position with only Tai'an's record in one battle, which was indeed unconvincing.

Originally, he didn't dare to be the main general, and wanted to give it to Chang Shunhou, after all, Chang Shunhou was the chief soldier of a town in Lingnan ten years ago, and he had profound qualifications, but the emperor didn't listen to his resignation at all, and he should have given him the main general of Lanling. He knew very well that Chang Shunhou was not satisfied, but because of the emperor's holy decree, he did not dare to disobey!

"Big brother" Feng Houdun was angry, and he couldn't wait to fight with Chang Shunhou, how could he be willing.

"Shut up!" Yan Yingyuan's face darkened, and he said angrily: "I've told you a few times, in the army, you want to call me a military seat or general!" If there is a repeat offense, military law will be conducted! ”

"Yes, big brother!" Yan Yingyuan's prestige in Feng Houdun's heart was incomparable, although Feng Houdun was not convinced, but he didn't dare to refute it, and immediately snorted coldly and stopped speaking.

Yan Yingyuan took a deep breath and said calmly: "Qingyu is indeed hateful, and the blood feud of the innocent people in Linyi County cannot be avenged, but the task assigned to us by the emperor is to firmly hold down Duoduo's hundreds of thousands of troops in Lanling County, and prevent him from cutting off the retreat of the Jining City army. This time, the Qing captives gathered the troops of the whole country to go south to fight a decisive battle with our Ming Dynasty, which is very important, and the war will inevitably be protracted! We must not disrupt the emperor's layout because of the slightest mistake due to my hatred, and we must take revenge, and there are many opportunities in the future, and we are not in a hurry! ”

Chang Shunhou glanced at Yan Yingyuan, still disdainful in his heart, but Yan Yingyuan's calmness made him slightly recognized.

Xuzhou City, as the news of the slaughter of the people of Linyi County reached Zhu Cihong's ears, Zhu Cihong was immediately angry, although he did not scold out, but the hatred and murder in his eyes were extremely impressive, and the suffering of the people of the Ming Dynasty would eventually be rewarded ten times and a hundred times more to the Manchu Dynasty.

"Where did the cannon go?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Back to the emperor, the 1,000-kilogram and 1,500-kilogram Xiaoweiyuan cannons and Weiyuan cannons have all been transported to Xuzhou, and the red-clothed cannons and the 5,000-kilogram super Weiyuan cannons have just gone down the canal, and it will take four days to reach Xuzhou." Jin Yiwei commanded Peng Cheng replied.

In order to distinguish the categories, the new cannons cast by alloy steel are uniformly called Weiyuan cannons, of which the 1,000-kilogram class is the small Weiyuan cannon, the 1,500-kilogram class is the Weiyuan cannon, and the 5,000-kilogram class is the super Weiyuan cannon. Since Xiao Weiyuan and Weiyuan are no more than 1,500 catties, the transportation speed is faster, and it will arrive in Xuzhou City first. The super Weiyuan cannon weighs 5,000 catties, and the red-coated cannon is nearly 4,000 catties, and the land transportation is very slow, but fortunately, the canal water in the Jianghuai section is deep enough, and the super Weiyuan cannon and the red-coated cannon can be transported to the east of Xuzhou City through the canal, which is a hundred miles east, otherwise if you also take the land route, it will not be nearly a month, and it is impossible to reach Xuzhou City.

Zhu Cihong nodded, settled down and said:

"The blood feud of the people of Linyi County will be put aside for the time being, I will not forget it! According to the original plan, he ordered Ji Feng of Jining City to continue to hold Jining City for at least five days, and when everything was ready in Xuzhou, all the military horses in Shandong would withdraw to Xuzhou and fight a decisive battle with the Qing army in Xuzhou! ”

Xuzhou city is high and deep, it is the first important town of Jianghuai, it has always been a place where soldiers must fight, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Ming army is not as good as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, only relying on Xuzhou, in order to have a chance of winning in the decisive battle.

"The emperor is wise!"

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