The Ming army is coming!

It is along the north bank of the Yellow River, and the number of people has exceeded 100,000! Before the arrival of the infantry brigade with artillery, baggage, and people, the horse team had already arrived one step ahead, and about three or four thousand "black guns and mule soldiers" were deployed around the two camps of the Qing army in the north and south of the Yellow River in companies or platoons, holding the large and small intersections, occupying the surrounding villages, and isolating the two battalions from the outside world. There were more than 1,000 "Yanmar soldiers" who came with the "black-speared mule soldiers", who also marched on mules, and at the same time led tall and burly Yanmars with folded ears, and everyone carried carbines on their shoulders, and the tips of their pistols all rushed up, glowing with a terrible cold glow in the winter sun.

More than 1,000 "Yanmar soldiers" were divided into two teams, and they were dangling in the open space four or five miles away from the Henan camp and the Hebei camp, which was to clearly deter the Qing army in the two camps - the Ming Iron Cavalry, invincible in the world! If you have the courage to try your edge, let the horse come! When you come, you're dead!

Chen Tai and Tu Hai both went to the "upper platform" of the Henan camp to watch the formation, holding binoculars, and looking at these Ming cavalry with gloomy faces - these cavalry are not only good horses, but also everyone has a black plate armor, which has a deterrent effect!

Both of them know soldiers, Chen Tai is a "veteran" who has been in battle for a long time, although Tuhai has not been on the battlefield much, but he has read a lot of military books, and he is not ashamed to ask questions after following Chen Tai, and he has also learned the skills of using soldiers. So both of them knew that although the number of cavalry of the Ming army in front of them was not large, if they set up a field battle, it would be enough to crush the 20,000 troops under them.

"He's N," Chen Tai put down his binoculars and scolded, "Even the cavalry is not as good as others, how can this battle continue!" ”

Tu Hai was also holding a telescope as he watched the Ming infantry pass over the ice of the Yellow River, and then unfolded, camped, and occupied high ground or key points on the south bank of the Yellow River in an orderly manner.

Among them, the highland is the embankment of the Yellow River, and the terrain around Kaifeng is very flat, that is, the embankment of the Yellow River has become an artificial highland for thousands of years. The two camps in the north and south of the Yellow River of the Qing army were built according to the Yellow River embankment, so the two camps have two floors, of which the upper layer is built on the embankment, and the role is two, one is to prevent the Ming army from seizing the entire embankment - the purpose of the Qing army's Henan camp is not to cover them to dig the Yellow River embankment so that the Henan Prefecture can be flooded? If the embankment is completely occupied by the Ming army, where will they dig it?

Another role of the "upper echelons of the big battalion" was to cover the retreat of the defenders of the big camp in Henan. Although the Henan camp is strong, once the water of the Yellow River rushes down, most of them will not be able to bear it. So after digging the dike, the Qing army also had to retreat, otherwise they would not have dug the dike, but buried their own graves.

If the Qing army in the Henan camp wanted to retreat to the Hebei camp, they had to cross the pontoon bridge, and the two ends of the pontoon bridge were connected to the second floor of the north and south camps.

It is precisely because of these two uses that the second floor of the North and South Camps is the key to the battle between the North and South Camps of the Yellow River in Tuhai's view.

The Ming army seemed to have noticed this, and a group of musketeers formed a very dense formation on the embankment four or five miles east of the second floor of the Henan camp. Behind them, there were many soldiers and civilians carrying large bags and piling up barriers......

Tuhai put down his binoculars, his eyes still staring at the group of musketeers in a dense formation - this musketeer looked strange, the team of at least 2,000 people was all muskets, and the formation was so dense that they were shoulder to shoulder......

"Lin Zhou, what do you see?" Chen Tai also discovered Tuhai's abnormality at this time.

"Commander," Tuhai pointed to the army's musket team, "do you see those Southern Barbarian musketeers?" They seem to be in a dense formation! ”

"I saw ......," Chen Tai said, "It's a little denser, but it's a pity that the top of the embankment is too narrow, and it's not easy to use cavalry, or it will be miserable if you don't rush them." ”

Chen Tai didn't seem to care much, although Tu Hai felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything, so he didn't pay attention.

Chen Tai said to Tu Hai again: "Linzhou, don't worry...... Our battalion is extremely strong, and a large number of Franc cannons and Hongyi cannons have been laid, as well as 2,000 firecrackers. If you really use the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood to pile up, you will fall into the hands of the imperial uncle. ”

"The Commander's words are true." Of course Tu Hai was worried, but in the opinion of his superiors, he still couldn't take it seriously, and look at it, maybe he would know the door if he looked at it again.

......

"Admiral, our No. 1 barrier on the Yellow River embankment has been repaired!"

Yan Yingyuan took a small Chinese army headquarters, and as soon as he crossed the Yellow River on the ice, his military advisor Xu Ermo sent him good news.

"No fighting?" Yan Yingyuan asked.

"No," Xu Ermo said, "our flintlock regiment has no chance to perform. ”

What Tu Hai saw was a flintlock pistol regiment, the same as the "Great Yanma Regiment", which was Yan Yingyuan's trump card at hand!

This flintlock unit had an overwhelming advantage over the arquebus unit because it could form a denser formation, reload and fire faster, and was less affected by bad weather.

And on the embankment of the Yellow River, the cavalry was useless, so the pikemen were of little use, and this flintlock regiment of pure muskets was just the right thing to do. If the Qing army sent musketeers to fight, they would definitely die an ugly death.

"It's good that they don't send musketeers!" Yan Yingyuan said, "This is our hole card...... Save it for Duoduo. ”

"Admiral," Xu Ermo said, "and the second base!" ”

Yan Yingyuan said with a smile: "There is no problem, they can watch us build the No. 1 base, and they will not interfere with our No. 2 base...... No. 1 and No. 2 have been completed, and then there is the siege of the dam, and the problem now is that there are not necessarily enough people. ”

"Manpower is not a problem," Xu Ermo said, "Deputy Admiral Feng (Feng San) has made a package ticket, and another 100,000 people will come over within half a month!" When the weather is warm, it is time to dig the earth to build the dam...... We will work for a month at most, and by the beginning of March, we will be able to dig up the Yellow River dam and blister the Henan camp of the Dongyu Army! ”

It turned out that this was the method that Yan Yingyuan and Xu Ermo used to deal with the Henan battalion of the Qing army! Aren't you going to dig a dam?

Okay, let's dig it too, and dig before you do. Before digging the Yellow River embankment, a circle of embankments was built around Daying, Henan, to form a flood storage area. Then bring in the water of the Yellow River, and do not divert it when the water is high, so that it is easy to break the embankment of the besieging city. In March and April, it was slowly diverted, and while the water was diverted, the embankment of the besieging city was reinforced. Finally, soak the Henan camp of the Qing army in water!

This Henan battalion is a fortress made of sandbags and dirt, which can fire artillery, but cannot protect against blisters. Even if the blisters can be prevented, Duoduo dug up the Yellow River dam, and the plan to flood the Henan Prefecture was also ruined.

Of course, the amount of work involved in this style of play is huge. At least 200,000 people would have to help dig the dam, which would require a lot of expenditure! Not only do you have to feed so many people, but you also have to pay for it.

Therefore, Feng San, the head snake in Henan, was transferred from Runing to Yan Yingyuan's army, and was specifically responsible for spending money to attract people.

In addition, Zhu Cihong also transferred a group of tricksters from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households (who were in charge of the canal) to be responsible for directing the construction of the siege dam.

Xu Ermo said with a smile: "The imperial uncle of Dongyu probably doesn't know how many dams we have built and how much soil we have dug in the Huanghuai Yun project...... We have dug a way for the Yellow River to enter the sea! He wants to compare river workers with us, which is really humiliating. When our siege embankment has some appearance, it is estimated that this imperial uncle should come to the Yellow River to die! ”

Yan Yingyuan sneered: "If you come, you will have to fail miserably!" Both the Yanma cavalry regiment and the flintlock regiment were prepared for him! I don't believe it, his new army of firearms can compare to ours? ”