The waves crashed against the embankment, the turbid waves were churning, the turbulent waters of the Yellow River seemed to be hanging overhead, and under the high embankments, there were vast plains, dotted cities and towns. The water of the Yellow River hangs high over the heads of millions of living beings along the river, making people worry about when this monstrous turbid wave will break through the embankment and destroy everything around.

There is a way that the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky, and this majestic Yellow River is only in the Kaifeng River section, which is really the water in the sky hanging over people's heads.

It is said that the Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese people, and if you don't reach the Yellow River, you are not a good man, and the golden river is surging, and it seems to be flowing unchanged for thousands of years, like an old man who has been weathered, taking slow and solid steps, no matter how you change in the wind, frost, rain and snow, spring flowers and autumn moons, he just moves forward slowly.

Below the embankment is the Kaifeng Mansion in Bianliang, Tokyo.

Although, at this time, the Kaifeng Mansion and the head of the city have changed their banners again, but they are used to seeing the changes in the army like you coming and going, and the residents in Kaifeng City still have to live.

The original residents of Kaifeng Prefecture, plus almost most of the wealthy families and official families in Henan Province have moved into this city, and the people of Kaifeng Mansion City have reached nearly one million. With such a large population, the daily demand is very huge, and above the Yellow River alone, there are constantly merchant ships transporting goods from Shandong in the east and Jiangnan in the south. Business travelers compete for the crossing, and there are people with all kinds of accents.

Without the consumption of the third Kaifeng siege and the excavation of the Yellow River embankment in Majiakou to irrigate the city, Kaifeng Mansion was still prosperous. It is still the capital of Henan Province, where the Kaifeng Prefecture is governed, with Xiangfu County as the attached Guo, the provincial, the government and the county three pole official offices and yamen gather in one place, and the official offices are all in the southwest of the Zhou Wangfu. With the Bell Tower as the center, the Chief Secretary for Administration is located on the West Street of the Bell Tower, and the Command and Embassy Office is located on the East Street of the Bell Tower, and there are Divisions such as the Judicial Division, the Prison Division, the Governor's Office, and the Experience Division. Around these government offices, there are continuous official residences around them, with high walls and red doors, and magnificent buildings. It's just that at this time, the gates of these yamen houses are all set up with the banner of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and there are Qing soldiers with shaved hair and braids standing at the door.

The pale yellow sun shines on the Bianhe River, which is like a forest, and on the state bridge where cars and horses and pedestrians are constantly flowing. This bridge is at the east entrance of Xiaozhifang Street, across the Bianhe River, and is called Tianhan Bridge in the Song Dynasty. Because this bridge is built like a jade belt, tall and magnificent, the water surface is low, the boat does not have to go to the mast, the people of Bianliang like to admire the moon here, so it becomes one of the eight views of Bianliang, that is, the so-called "bright moon of the state bridge".

Li Mengyang has a poem: Zhongshan Ruzi leans on new makeup, and Zheng Nu Yanji is good at it. Singing the Xianwang Xinle Mansion, the moon outside Jinliang City is like frost. However, the king of Xian mentioned in the poem, that is, the palace of the first king of Zhou, changed the owner again. People say that Kaifeng City presses the city, in addition to revealing the changes of the Yellow River, but also implying the feeling of dynastic change. The palace of the Ming Dynasty is also the king flag of the city again. On the top of the city. In front of the Yin'an Palace, the original fluttering of the Ming Sun and Moon Flag, the banner of the camp, Li Huayu's Li Zishuai Banner, Li Zicheng's Fengtian Advocacy of the Generalissimo of the Civil and Military Marshal, and now with the return of Kaifeng Mansion to the Qing Dynasty, these flags have changed again, becoming the banner of the eight banners of the Qing Army, standing in front of the Yin'an Palace, is the general, Prince Yu Duoduo's weaving gold dragon and banner.

It's just that the princes who live in the palace don't have Yaxing to make people have fun at all, and they chose to gather the generals and hold a meeting together.

When the people were almost here, Duoduo invited them to eat a white meat banquet first, but it seemed that no one had any appetite, they all ate a little hastily, and the ten good fat pigs prepared were only eaten less than one, and the rest were all given to the generals' domestic slave guards, and it seemed that they had completely forgotten that this seemed to be too faceless for Duoduo.

Duoduo also knew what was on everyone's minds, so he said straight to the point: "Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you to come today, in addition to eating this heavenly white meat, the main reason is to discuss countermeasures with you. This king is a rough man, so let's be straightforward, the current situation is really not good. Li Zicheng and Li Shouhan, the two bastards, are now embarrassed, and even disregard Daming's face, they directly attacked Zuo Liangyu. On the Shandong side, Lu Mahong and Wu Xing went south to Jianghuai and expanded their territory, and I heard that in addition to Yangzhou, they had taken Jianghuai as much as possible, so that the Ming troops stationed in Jiangbei did not dare to move. Not to mention Xie Qian, a grass coward, defeated the Zhangling Tiger Cavalry and the Liulin Regiment in Gaolouzhai, and now he has faintly converged with the soldiers and horses of Lu Mahong and Wu Xing. If we let them connect, then our lives will be better! From the perspective of the situation, the two Li blockade the Yangtze River, Wuxing Lumahong threatens Jinan, our army must choose one of the three to defeat, otherwise once it falls into attrition, it will be very disadvantageous to me, I don't know what good strategy you have? ”

"Master! The slave is foolish, let's fight the thief Li Zicheng first! ”

As the identity of Jueluo and Baylor, and Cao Zhenyan, who was born in Manchuria with two white flags, and was born as a slave of the Duoduo brothers, although his status seems to be slightly low compared to other Baylors, his experience, qualifications, military exploits, and the strength of the soldiers and horses under his command are undoubtedly the one who has the most say among the Eight Banners relatives and nobles present.

"Cao Beile, please tell me, why did our army fight Li Zicheng first?" Jing Luo Hong Chengchou, who was sitting on the side of Duoduo, asked with a smile with a beautiful beard twisted in his hand.

"Yu Jinglu, since the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it is to use the strategy that your old man praised for the regent, and inform the officials and people of the Ming State that the soldiers and horses of this dynasty entered the customs, not for the land and wealth, but for the revenge of your father. It is precisely such a dignified banner that my Qing soldiers and horses are regarded as the king's division by the officials and gentry, the military and the people in various places. ”

"It is precisely because of this strategy formulated by your old man that since our army entered Henan, it has been able to move thousands of miles in a day, and the officials and gentry and people in various places have killed the false officials who broke into the thieves, and expelled their garrison soldiers and horses to the front of our army to surrender, so that we can settle this Henan!"

"Therefore, the minions are stupid, thinking that our army should continue to go south to Huguang with a large army, pursue Li Zicheng, a thief who retreated from Henan and Shaanxi to Huguang, and is attacking Zuo Liangyu's troops and horses with the troops and horses of Liang Guogong of the Ming State! Then, with a force of soldiers and horses swept through Henan, exterminating the remnants of the thieves everywhere. It is also a bright and clean Henan. After defeating Li Zicheng, our army turned around and came back to fight Shandong, along the north bank of the Yangtze River, all the way east, and wrapped the Ming Kingdom's forces in various parts of the Jiangbei into a big dumpling! In this way, at least, we can rule by rowing the Yangtze River with the Ming Kingdom. ”

"Cao Belle is right!"

"Well said! The minions think so too! ”

Eating persimmons and picking up soft pinching is human nature. At the same time, Li Zicheng also has a banner of "avenging the revenge of the monarch's father" to be a fig leaf for the big guys, and he can get human, material, and financial support from the gentry group, so a fool won't do it! As for why we only talk about dividing the river and ruling the country, this is also the habitual thinking of history. You must know that before Kublai Khan, almost all the regimes formed by the nomadic fishing and hunting peoples in the north could not cross the river to the south. Even the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, who was even more famous in history than Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, wrote "If the big handle is in your hand, the breeze will fill the world", Wan Yanliang, only looked at the ocean on the north bank of the Yangtze River and sighed: "I know that the reason why the sky is divided into north and south!" (What, you don't know who Wan Yanliang is?) So, you've always seen the Condor shooting, right? When Yang Kang and his adoptive father Wanyan Honglie tried to steal Wu Mu's suicide note in Lin'an, when they listened to Liu Yong's Wanghaichao tunes in the restaurant, they recalled the great achievements and heroic bearing of their predecessors. In addition, this Wanyan Liang, or King Hailing, is still the male protagonist of many Hs. If you are interested, you can find it and read it. I believe that everyone is reading with the attitude of learning China's traditional culture and grasping the development context of the Ming and Qing dynasties! ）

Beat Li Zicheng, and soon occupied the majority of support among the people in the palace.

Soon, however, there was another voice.

"General, Cao Belle. It is certainly right to beat Li Zicheng. However, if our army moves south, then the hinterland of Henan will inevitably be empty. Not to mention that there are still many remnants of thieves everywhere, that is, the polders and militias scattered all over the place, all of which are the henchmen of my Qing Dynasty. Although this generation says that he has no ambitions, he only knows how to loot goods. However, it is also a constraint for our army to raise food and supply the army. ”

The person who spoke was the governor of Henan at this time, Luo Xiujin.

This person was born in Guangningwei, Liaodong, and was a banner man of the Han army. It is also the early batch of Conglong, otherwise, he would not have held such an important position as the governor of Henan.

Although Luo Xiujin is not famous in history, he is also a bull. After Li Zicheng withdrew west from Beijing, there were quite a few remnants of the Dashun Army left in Henan. Weihui, Huaiqing, Yuanwu, and Xinxiang are full of remnants of the Dashun Army or other anti-tax and anti-Qing armed forces, which can almost be described as difficult to get out of Kaifeng Mansion by decree. As a result, this guy actually pacified the remnants of Henan's Dashun army by mobilizing the gentry and capturing the thief and the king, and it only took a few months for Henan to quickly become the general base of the Qing army going south.

Not only is he a good hand in government affairs, but he is not bad in military affairs.

In November of the second year of Shunzhi, he was promoted to the right of the military department, and the governor of Huguang and Sichuan. Zicheng descended from Zijin to the Ming Dynasty and invaded Hubei. Embroidered brocade to Jingzhou, brocade led the crowd to attack. Shuncheng County King Luck Dehun came to the aid from Jiangning, but Jin was defeated and left. Luckd Hun division returned, brocade came again, embroidered brocade handsome division royal, brocade regained defeat and left. There are Hu Gongxu, according to the eight hundred continents of Tianmen, four out of the burning and plundering, Zhou Shiqing of the Yandao, Xiujin sent Tang Guochen, the deputy general of the Chinese army, and Yang Wenfu, the chief soldier of the Agency, to ask for it, and obtained the public Xu, destroying its nest. In June of the third year, Xu Yong, the chief military officer, broke through the Macheng cottage and won his Qu Meizeng and Zhou Wenjiang; Gao Jiaolong, the chief military officer of the Yuezhou Bureau, and others slashed the big strong, and won the dragon Jianming. In September, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, He Tengjiao, Kou Yuezhou, embroidered brocade sent the generals to the palace, and many were captured. In October, Zheng Siwei sent the general army to Yiling, Zhijiang, and Yidu counties. In four years, the general of Dingnan obeyed Wang Kong Youde and others to take Changsha, Hengzhou, Baoqing, and Chenzhou prefectures. Embroidered brocade strips are added to the town association, and the lower part of the council is arranged. Wang Guangtai rebelled against Yunyang, and ordered the squire Lang Kakhamu to ask for it, embroidered brocade and joined forces to conquer Yunyang, and Guangtai went to Sichuan. In five years, Jin Shenghuan rebelled in Jiangxi, Hunan was in turmoil, and Changde, Wugang, Chen, and Yuan prefectures re-entered the Ming Dynasty. Xiujin stayed in Kaqam to garrison Jingzhou, while the detachment commander-in-chief Xu Yong and Ma Jiaolin guarded the key passes, and repeatedly defeated the Ming general Ma Jinzhong and others. Shangfu ordered Prince Zheng Jierharang to lead his division to Hunan, and gradually collected the counties. Xiujin Shu please move to the hinterland, so that the division will not be reverted to the rest of the instigation, and the words of Jia Na will be given.

He was able to defeat Li Guo, who commanded the rest of the Dashun army after Li Zicheng's death, and defeated Jin Shengheng and others who surrendered the Ming army. Otherwise, he would not have been awarded the title of secretary of the military department after his death.

"It's okay to be constrained. The officials and guards in various places will be able to find a way to level them one by one. However, if it was to the east, Lu Mahong, Wu Xing and others of the Nanyue Army, who were entrenched in Linyi and Jianghuai in southern Lunan, swept over from the east with a punch, and they just hit the waist and abdomen of our army. Have you ever thought about this? ”

"So, lord, the slave thinks that the current rebellion is already a frightened bird that has been beaten by my Qing soldiers and horses, but you don't have to take it to heart for the time being. A soldier and horse should follow closely behind, and he should not be given a chance to breathe. As for the main force of our army, it should move its division to the east and break through the Lumahong, Wuxing, Liao Dongzhi and other departments between the Lunan and Jianghuai rivers. Push the forces to the seaside. Let our army's left arm worry-free! ”

Luo Xiujin proposed a completely different plan. Let's put Li Zicheng for the time being, and first fight Lumahong and Wu Xing in Lunan and Jianghuai!

"If our army fights Li Zicheng first, even if Lu Mahong and the others don't move, they just sit in their lair and watch the success or failure, but they have the advantage of sea transportation, and there are canals running through the north and south, and obtaining supplies is as simple as searching for supplies. Over time, it will become a situation that will be difficult to manage. Therefore, the minions thought that it was the best policy to hit Luma Hong first! ”

"The minions seconded!"

Wu Jingdao, the political envoy of Henan, stood up and expressed his agreement with his superior's opinion.

According to the detailed report, Lu Mahong, Wu Xing, Liao Dongzhi, Fan Xiaozeng and other generations suffer good people in their nests every day, and select and train soldiers and horses. If it drags on for a long time, the good people in all parts of Lunan and Jianghuai will be slaughtered by them, so that their arrogance will be cultivated, and if our army wants to conquer again, it will be difficult to do so several times! ”

Wu Jingdao, who assisted Luo Xiujin in history to quickly pacify the anti-Qing forces in Henan, and was promoted to governor of Henan after Luo Xiujin was promoted to the governor of Huguang, left such a report card in history: "When Hebei was initially decided, the remaining Kou of the five prefectures in Henan was not appeased. Baofeng Song Yangqi, Xinye Chen Jiao, and Mall Huang Jingyun each gathered thousands of people to invade the city. Jing Daoyu's general Gao Di and deputy general Shen Chaohua were arrested and punished, and they were punished and punished. In four years, Yunyang Tukou Wang Guangtai led more than 1,000 people to attack Xichuan, and Jingdao sent the general You Jian and others to join forces with the general Zhang Yingxiang to defeat him. In five years, Luoshan Tukou Zhang Qilun according to the chicken coop cottage, plundered, Jingdao sent the capital Zhu Guoqiang, Tong Wenhuan and other overseers to ask for it, broke the village, captured Qilun, and his party Zhu Zhiming, Zhao Hushan, etc. Cao County Tukou Fan Shenxing and others instigated Ningling, Shangqiu, Kaocheng, Yucheng, Yifeng, Lanyang, Xiangfu, Fengqiu County Bandits, and became thieves, Tun on the north bank of the Yellow River. Jing Dao was the first to supervise the soldiers, Kou retired to protect Changyuan, the first to follow it, and Kou went to Lanyang. Jing Dao sent Wen Huan to supervise the troops to pursue and cut more than 1,000 ranks. In Bocao County, Kou Liezha refused. Kong Xigui, the chief soldier of Jingdao, defended himself in Feicheng, and walked in the east of Kou. Guerrilla Zhao Shitai, Dusi Han Jin and others led the elite cavalry to divide the lanes and attack, fought in Dongming, annihilated thousands of Kou, and were punished with caution, and the rest of the people were scattered. Xu Gong, plus the military department squire. Seven years, into the book. In the eighth year, Shangzhou Tukou He Zishan and others plundered the Lu family, attacked the Shitai camp at night, and the first overseer strangled and went to the south of Shang. Jing Dao should be Xiang to supervise the soldiers to ask for it, and Kou was annihilated. In the ninth year, he broke the mouth of the Saibian River and gave him a saddle horse and a crown with Yang Fangxing, the governor of the river. Ten years, begging for old age. Thirteen years, died, gave the crown prince Taibao, and was a concubine. ”

The two feudal officials of Henan said this, which immediately set off waves in the hearts of Duoduo and Hong Chengchou. After all, the opinions of local officials, they also have to take it seriously. Moreover, the opinions of Luo Xiujin and Wu Jingdao do have merit. Your army has gone out to wave, what should we do if people hit our home plate? Moreover, during this period of time, whether it was Lu Mahong or Wu Xing, in addition to training and expanding the army, they were immersed in the construction of grassroots political power, starting from the village and township level. In the city, it starts with the chief of the li. It's really been a long time, and they have built up a strict grassroots organization regime, not to mention that they should cooperate with the officials and gentry inside and outside, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to inquire about the news and survive!

"A few days ago, the letters and military information sent by the people of Confucius and Mengfu in various parts of Shandong to the slaves are becoming scarce day by day. The paperwork of officials, gentlemen, and scholars in various parts of Jianghuai and Shandong is also decreasing day by day. I think it is because the guards of Lu Mahong, Wu Xing and others are also becoming stricter and stricter, and the traitorous people in various places are bought and used by them because they forget their righteousness for profit. ”

As a strategic envoy specially responsible for the work of appeasing and luring surrender, Hong Chengchou's status in the eyes of the officials and gentry in various places is extremely lofty. His appeal in the eyes of the gentry far exceeded that of the general and Prince Yu Duoduo. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have military power in his hands, Dolgon wouldn't have been relieved to let him come out on this errand.

With Hong Chengchou's stated attitude, he supported the first army to the east, solve the Lumahong, Wuxing and others who occupied the southern part of Shandong and the Jianghuai region, remove the threat of the flank, and rescue the good people of the Lunan region and the Jianghuai region from the tyrannical methods of Lumahong. The Yin'an Hall has become two very different opinion groups in full swing.

One is the opinion of the generals at all levels of the Eight Banners headed by Cao Zhenyan, who continued to move south and pursued Li Zicheng. They were the backbone of the Qing army, holding military power and having a strong right to speak.

On the other hand, Luo Xiujin and Wu Jingdao put forward the idea of attacking Shandong, Jianghuai, and removing the flank threat. They were local officials in Henan, and they were supported by Jinglue Hong Chengchou.

Duoduo also had a hard time making decisions in his heart. Suddenly, he saw a sneer on the face of a man in the crowd. A sneer with a strong taste of mockery!