The Nanyue army retreated for several days, and surrendered all the large and small cities in Shunde and Zhangde to the Qing army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Azig and Duoduo are also in the division with the partial teachers led by Wu Sangui and Aobai. The main force of the Dashun Army led by Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin also slowly retreated south, preparing to cross the Yellow River and retreat to Henan to hold on.

"Chase! Catch up! Don't let Nanban have a chance to breathe! This is the unanimous view of the Qing army.

Since the capital sent troops to the south, it has been suppressed and beaten by the Nanyue army to anger and resentment, and finally found an outlet to vent, the morale of the Qing army was bursting, and they chased down the retreating route of the Nanyue army with a wild howl.

Anyang, Linzhang, Tangyin, Linxian, and other counties and Shexian County, Wu'an and other places under the jurisdiction of Cizhou, all of them are looking at the wind, and the government treasury is rich in seized, so that the generals of the Qing army who have been worried about military food and fodder are all smiling.

Looking at the warehouse full of hemp bags that were about to overflow, after everyone went in, they couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and casually picked up a sack to see that all the golden sorghum millet was flowing inside, and the Qing soldiers couldn't help but smile and cheer.

"This is rice!"

"This is white noodles!"

"Here are fried soybeans!"

From time to time, cheers rang out throughout the city, and the Qing soldiers shouted loudly to inform the public of their findings. Among the many mansions in the city, public buildings such as temples, Taoist temples, ancestral halls, etc., were important targets for the Qing army to search and pay attention to at this time. Here, they were all warehouses of the Nanyue Army, or a concentration of local officials collecting various materials for the Nanyue Army.

The Qing soldiers used all the wagons, wheelbarrows, and all kinds of burdens and porters along the way, and loaded all kinds of materials in the warehouse.

"There's jerky here! Bacon! ”

"Windy chicken! Bacon! ”

"Salted fish, meat porcelain jar!"

The shouts of surprise attracted the Qing troops of all departments to flock away, and the bitter fighting for nearly a month was rolling in blood and fire every day, although under the efforts of Dolgon Hong Chengchou Fan Wencheng, the Qing army had never been like the Ming army, which had to be stationed in one place for more than three days in order to have the treatment of local supply of grain and grass, and basically you could eat enough, but the huge physical exertion and high mental tension were huge for the consumption of fat and protein. Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops gathered in one place, and in addition to middle and high-ranking officers and generals, ordinary Qing soldiers and low-level officers rarely saw meat.

Now that there is meat in front of you, how not to drive these people crazy?

In front of their eyes, a real wine pond meat forest appeared.

The whole wind chicken and salted duck were tied with fine hemp rope and tied to bamboo poles; The long bamboo pole is bent by the hanging of too many wind chickens and salted ducks, and it gradually becomes like a crescent moon from the two ends of the wooden frame. Almost to the tall wooden frame on the roof, I don't know how many bamboo poles full of chickens and ducks are hung densely. And in this tall and spacious warehouse, such wooden frames are even more innumerable!

People's eyes were quickly illuminated by the dark red wind chickens and salted ducks, and the great sense of happiness made them temporarily fall into a temporary state of brain death.

However, in an instant, he came to his senses again. The meat that is placed in the treasury is not your own, only what you eat in your stomach is your own! "Move!"

"Rob!"

This is the inner thought of almost all Qing soldiers!

A farce quickly unfolded. From scrambling to swearing each other, from pushing and grabbing to adding fists and kicks, and then to drawing knives against each other. By the time the generals of the Qing army heard the news and arrived, dozens of corpses had fallen to the ground.

"A stupid minion with no interest and no knowledge!" After hearing the people around him tell him about the fire incident caused by the wind and chickens and salted ducks, Duoduo pouted and was very disdainful.

"Tell those minions below that General Ben will not pursue this incident, and each of them will bury their own people. In front of Nanban, there are a lot of good things! If you want something good, you can catch up with this king with all your might! Kill the southern barbarians, kill into Shandong, and kill to the edge of the Yangtze River, there are so many gold and silver beauties! ”

Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops kicked up smoke and dust on the official road from Kaizhou, which is today's Puyang to Jining and Tai'an. At this time, the Puyang area did not have a large number of Yellow River water loops formed in Puzhou, south of Fanxian and northwest of Yuncheng because of the Yellow River's rupture in the Tongwaxiang of Kaocheng, and Pushui, a tributary of the Yellow River and Jishui, had never been flooded and silted up by the Yellow River, just to provide drinking water for the army.

Boom, boom, boom, the loud sound of hundreds of thousands of horses and livestock marching is nothing less than thunder on this winter day.

As the thunderous heavy sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, on the northeast Henan plain full of dry grass, those Qing cavalry dressed in various colors of armor got closer, they were either wearing lightning rod-style iron helmets on their heads, or Ming army-style eight-petal hat iron pointed helmets, sabers, three-eyed guns, bones, pick knives, tiger tooth knives, horse lunge bows hung on the body, and the horse's four iron hooves hit the frozen hard ground, making a rhythmic dull sound. From a distance, the solemn murderous aura is much colder than this winter day.

The Qing army marched all the way south, full of desolation, depression in the four fields, the countryside was everywhere, all ten rooms and nine emptiness, and on the side of the road, the lodging corpses could be seen from time to time.

The long-term drought, military disasters, horse thieves and the looting of various armies have made Henan miserable everywhere. Looking around, the plains are reckless, there are few trees, occasionally some sparse forests, and the river is dry and dry. There are many villages, dotted with some locust trees and other miscellaneous trees, but most of them have been destroyed, and the remaining villages that have not been destroyed, as well as the big villages that have formed villages to protect themselves, seem to be drowned in the rags of war at any time.

In the middle of winter, the scenery in front of me is already a sense of slaughter, a cold wind is blowing, the grass and treetops are shivering, and the yellow dust is blowing.

Qin Zimian immediately looked out in all directions, and it seemed that in the depths of the horizon on all sides, there were large puffs of smoke and dust, covering the sky. This is the scene of hundreds of thousands of horses marching.

"The biography will be ordered! Let the minions shake off their legs and hurry hard! Further east is Fan County, let's first exterminate the Yushuyuan thieves in Fan County. Grab all the money and food they have accumulated! Then enter Caozhou, go down to Dongping, enter Shandong, and get promoted to make a fortune! ”

"Enter Shandong, get promoted and make a fortune!"

A wolf's howl resounded in the ranks of Qin Zimian's army.

The Yuyuan thief in Qin Zimian's mouth is an armed organization of hungry people relying on the elm forest in Fan County, Puzhou and other places. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640), Kaizhou, Puzhou, Fanxian, Qingfeng, Nanle and other prefectures and counties, there was a great hunger, a great epidemic, fireworks were almost extinct, there were even fathers and sons cannibalism, and the hungry people were swarming. Puzhou Zhang Qi, Ren Qi, Fan County Liang Min and others led the people to revolt, and the Yuyuan Army echoed with Li Qingshan, the Liangshan Righteous Army; The rebel army in Kaizhou, Qingfeng and other places rose, and Peng Jie, the righteous head of the Daimyo Mansion, led more than 10,000 people to attack Puzhou and was blocked, and the rebel army lost more than 1,000 people, and the corpses were eaten by the hungry people.

For this armed force, Wang Shizhen's "Juyi Lu" recorded: "At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the thieves in Yuyuan took Fan County, Puzhou as a cave, because the land was deserted and not cultivated, the elm money landed, and the years became a big tree, the first seven thieves, Zhang Qi and other roaring gathered in it, the hungry people returned, the number was million, the officials and soldiers arrived, there was no path to enter, the thieves dug tunnels, and from time to time they entered and exited, and the officials and soldiers were repeatedly defeated. Spread Chaocheng, Guancheng, Guocheng, Chengwu counties, where hundreds of miles, travel bound by the foot for several decades. In the twelfth year of Shunzhi, the Yellow River broke Jinglongkou, the water irrigated the elm garden, the trees were exhausted, the tunnels were also bad, the officials and soldiers took advantage of it, and the thieves were annihilated. ”

In other words, the Yuyuan Army began in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen and persisted until the twelfth year of Shunzhi before it was completely suppressed. During this period, in the seventh year of Shunzhi, the main force was eliminated due to the three provincial governors Zhang Cunren and the deputy general Zhang Dan taking measures such as opening the Yellow River to irrigate the Yuyuan Garden and setting fire to it.

In his "Collected Works of Zhuang Confession Hall", there is a text in the "Hou Fangyu Governor of the Three Provinces (Zhang Cunren) Suppression and Pacification Discussion", which clearly mentions that the five suppression proposals are: through the suppression of the hole, the desperate road, because of food, the encouragement of the enemy, and the dispersal of party aid.

As a result, the Yuyuan Army, which had restrained a large number of troops of the Qing army and had been crisscrossing the Central Plains for more than ten years, became a wisp of heroic soul in the surging yellow water and rolling flames with the full cooperation of a merry son, a scholar and a martial artist. This is somewhat reminiscent of the sacrifices of two anti-coalition generals, Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi, both at the hands of the Chinese.

Traitors such as Hou Fangyu, Zhang Cunren, Zhang Dan and Cheng Bin, who forced Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi to a dead end, as well as many names that we are familiar with now, are not the same kind of people?

Qin Zimian didn't care about that much, he only knew that the commander behind him was Cao Beile Cao Zhenyan, and Lord Cao commanded tens of thousands of elite soldiers, horse infantry, as well as a large number of spearmen and musketeers, and the artillery team reached the scale of dozens of heavy artillery.

Not only the surrendered Ming army, but also a lot of Eight Banners Han Army, Eight Banners Mongolia, Eight Banners Manchurian soldiers and horses under the command of Cao Zhenyan, like Tong Jia's Zhun Tower, who followed the old slave to rebel, Fei Yingdong's son Tulai Yildnushan and others were very aggrieved and obeyed orders in front of this nouveau riche tent. Aobai, who has the title of the first Baturu in Manchuria, is on the left flank of Cao Zhenyan, leading 30,000 horses as another attack arrow.

Therefore, in the eyes of Qin Zimian and others, exterminating a group of bandits along the way, and then going straight to Shandong, is just a great merit at your fingertips.

Puyang, Fanxian, Taiqian and other places, everywhere as far as the eye can see, are the banner of the Qing army, people shouting horses neighing, and they are very noisy.

"Keep it up! Tonight, drive Li Huayu and this group of barbarians back to Shandong, let's go to Shandong to drink wine and eat meat! "The officers of the Qing army in various departments constantly cheered up the soldiers.

However, vaguely, Qin Zimian felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. Near the horizon, there were non-stop sentinels of the Nanyue army, holding their horses from a distance and observing the marching ranks of the Qing army with binoculars. Before the scouts he sent arrived to expel them, they whipped them away.

One has just left, and the other has come. As if to tease the Qing army to advance.

"It's broken! Let's chase so fiercely, don't fall into an ambush, right?! Qin Zimian suddenly seemed to be pouring a bucket of snow water, calming down his blazing mind.

According to Murphy's Devil's Law, if one thing shows signs of going negative, it must be rapidly developing in a worse direction. Before Qin Zimian's thought flashed, the side horses and sentinels on the north and south wings flew towards the marching team as if they were galloping towards the marching team.

"In Taiqian County to the north, there is a large group of soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army pressing over from north to south! The number should be more than 20,000 soldiers and horses! The banners of two garrison brigades appeared in the ranks. In addition, there are four or five flags of general soldiers looming behind the brigade! ”

"In the territory of Puyang County in the south, there is also a brigade of Ming troops! Attacked from the south to the north! The dust is rising, and there seem to be thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses! There are also three or four garrison brigades, and the Ming army of the brigade is close behind! ”

"In Fan County in the east, about 10,000 Dongfan soldiers were killed, and our forward scouts were more than 200 cavalry, and they were faced with a platoon of guns, overturning more than 100 people, and only more than 20 cavalry fled back!"

Brigades of Ming troops appeared in three directions, like three sharp machetes, directly slashing at the brigade of the Qing army. The forward team led by Cao Zhenyan and the team led by Azig and Duoduo are vaguely divided and cut off!

Chendikou in Fan County.

This small village sits behind a gentle hill with locust trees, elms, and other miscellaneous trees growing on the edge of the hills. Behind the bushes and weeds is this small Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi is a common village in the north, with adobe courtyard walls, covered with thick thatch, and occasionally a few ruined houses with tiles, which have been destroyed at this time, leaving only broken walls. This kind of small village, which did not have time to build a polder, has long been destroyed in the war and banditry.

Fan Xiaozeng stood on the hill and looked westward, and saw a dirt road winding out of the hill, branching off from the village, winding to a small river that had dried up and broken in front of him, and then crossed the river by a broken wooden bridge with only half of the bridge deck, and continued to wind its way into the distance.

Boom, boom, boom.

At this time, around the mouth of the Chen Dikou, the tide of soldiers and horses was pouring to the west, and they did not see the head in front of them, and they did not see the tail in sight, running on the dirt road of the village, stirring up the dust in the sky.

Because on both sides of the road, as well as near the dry river, there are large areas of abandoned land, and the terrain is flat, so the vast and endless infantry artillery team runs on the ground for many roads, just galloping forward, not necessarily only on dirt roads.

In fact, the plains, and the dry rivers, gave them too much to walk on.

"Lord Qiyu! The North Road Soldiers and Horses have been in place! ”

"Lord Qiyu! The South Road has arrived in accordance with the arrival! ”

"Lord Qiqi, the commander of the artillery team, Lord Zuo, ordered his subordinates to come and ask for instructions, when will the attack begin?"

The flowing cavalry signal team transmitted Fan Xiaozeng's orders one after another to every corner of this large battlefield within a radius of more than 100 miles.

"Tell Lao Zuo that hundreds of heavy artillery pieces of the whole army have been handed over to him, and you must give Lao Tzu a brilliant shot!!"

Suddenly there was a wind on the plains.

The strong wind that tore through the sky and the earth rolled up the loess in the sky, mixed with grass clippings and sand, and beat the Qing soldiers who marched from northwest to southeast could not open their eyes.

"Damn it! In the middle of winter, why did the southeast wind suddenly rise?! Qin Zimian was just about to open his mouth and order his subordinates to gather their formations to guard against the attack of the Nanyue army. I just opened my mouth, but I was swept up by the wind and stuffed it into my mouth. Choked so much that he coughed incessantly.

After a while, the wind became a little lighter, and the soldiers were able to open their eyes and rub their eyes, but the scene in front of them frightened their legs and stomachs to tremble, and some of them almost urinated out.

In the east, from north to south, dozens of large and small phalanxes were opened! Countless flags fluttered in the cold wind, like a flame beating above people's heads.

Before the infantry phalanx, two huge artillery positions were placed on the flanks of the Qing army's forward. Zuo Wuwei, the commander of the artillery team of the Nanyue Army with a thin face, held a telescope in his hand, carefully observing the distance between the Qing army and his artillery team.

In front of him, almost all the artillery of the Shandong soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army were concentrated, and all the artillery pieces of more than eight pounds, including the big Buddha Lang machine, were equipped in echelons according to the weight of the bullets. The two artillery groups composed of hundreds of artillery pieces, like the two sides of a vice, firmly clamped Qin Zimian's troops!

"Old Qin! Why did you stop moving forward? Are you scared? If you're afraid of death, get out of the way and let my Eight Banners Mongolia go first!" Qin Zimian was still at a loss there, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, and the Eight Banners Mongolian White Flag Bai He Rabul Hafan Demutu rushed to Qin Zimian's main formation from the back of the team with dozens of Eight Banners Mongolian cavalry.

Although Qin Zimian is a descendant who has just raised the flag for a few days, he is not very convinced of the second ancestor in front of him, who can only rely on his father Wu Nag to follow the old slave to raise troops from the dragon in the early years, and the bloodline of the Borzigit clan to gain a foothold in the upper echelons of the Eight Banners. He knew that if this guy hadn't been able to use people everywhere because the Qing soldiers had to enter the customs, he wouldn't have been able to come back after being stripped of his deprived Mele Zhangjing and his official position as a political officer. This guy was stripped of his official title by Huang Taiji and fined half of his family wealth because he lied about his military exploits under Jinzhou City. That is, relying on Borzigit's Mongolian identity, he got on the line of Zhezhe and Bumubutai, and relied on this background as a backer to be powerful in front of Qin Zimian and other newcomers. In fact, what kind of goods he is, Qin Zimian knows very well in his heart.

"As long as Lao Tzu fights a good battle and earns some military merits, he will have a higher status than you, a Mongolian Tartar, in front of the regent prince!" Qin Zimian sneered twice in his heart, and didn't say much, just used his chin to nunu and motioned to Demutu to look east.

Demuru only glanced at it, and was almost frightened to fall off his horse. Since going south to engage Li Huayu's troops, the Mongolian cavalry and the Eight Banners cavalry have been beaten by Li Huayu's cavalry. If it weren't for the fact that there were not enough cavalry under Li Huayu, and the hussars were mainly formed by Tuha's Eight Banners, they would always be a little sick to use, and the cavalry of the Qing army would really not be enough!

"Chief Qin, you are here to command, and the officer will return to the team first!" Without finishing his sentence, Demutu turned his horse and left!

"Boom!"

Zuo Wuwei ordered someone to light the letter cannon, and white smoke and flames began to rise between the two artillery groups.

The Battle of Pu Fan kicked off.