"Trap! This must be a trap! ”

"Trap! It must be a trap set by that guy Li Huayu for us! ”

Hearing Cao Zhenyan's military briefing, all the Qing army generals present, from the two brothers Duoduo Azig to Qin Zimian, all judged the conspiracy behind Li Huayu in unison. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally! This is a thing that cannot be reasonably explained! Changing any of the generals such as Duoduo and Azig will not suddenly stop the pursuit when the enemy army is about to collapse and their own side occupies not to say absolute superiority, but will instead gather their troops and slowly retreat.

Such tactics, if used on others, may also be deceived. However, Duoduo and Azig, as well as the entire Liaodong anti-thief group, are familiar with such tactics. If this kind of tactics were not used to lure the Ming army away from the fortified city, then Hong Chengchou, the commander of Hong, who has always valued the power of the front and the light of the guard, is afraid that he is still a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty!

At this time, the Xuanfu envoy of the Qing Dynasty also frowned his slender eyebrows, thinking bitterly about what the Nanyue Army's action was for.

"The art of war is cloudy, profit and temptation, chaos and take, real and prepared, strong and avoided, angry and scratched, humble and arrogant, hard work, kiss and leave. Attack it unprepared, take it by surprise. The fact that Li Huayu's division of the Nanyue Army was able to suddenly stop when his side already had a chance of winning, which shows that he is planning greatly! Two princes, don't be careless! ”

Hong Chengchou straightened the sleeves of his robe, saluted Duoduo and Azig respectfully, and expressed his opinion.

"So, in the opinion of the gentleman, what should I do?" Before entering the customs, Hong Chengchou's many strategies for Dolgon were so effective that the brothers Duoduo and Azig had to put away their arrogance and began to treat Hong Chengchou with courtesy, instead of treating each other as servants like Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and others.

"More factions, more sentinels." Hong Chengchou paused for a moment, "You can select competent people, carry a large amount of gold and silver, and go to the camp of the Ming army to find out the reality of the Southern Yue army." In addition," he looked at Cao Zhenyan, whose face was blackened and gray by gunpowder smoke and charcoal ash, "I would like to ask Lord Cao to work hard, return to the former enemy, and observe one or two." ”

"Lao Cao! General Dingnan has already written a joint recital to the regent with this king, and is ready to ask the regent to promote you to Baylor! "Dordor rightly threw a tempting carrot, yes! If you want the donkey to pull the mill, don't you give him a carrot?!

"Please rest assured, master! Before the minions returned, they had already ordered the dog Cao Eryu to lead the people of the headquarters at the front line to wait for him, so that the Nanban would not have any chance! Cao Zhenyan is also loyal and courageous.

"In addition, please issue a military order, all departments must build fortifications, deep ditches and high fortifications, and must not be dispatched at will. Even if the gold and silver in front of him are like mountains, and the Nanban is lying naked and lying down, he will not have to fight in the camp! ”

"Please rest assured, sir! This is not Chang'an or Tongguan! He Li Huayu is not Ma Chao, we are not Zhong Xuan and Cao Hong, he wants to play with this hand, it is wishful thinking! ”

This tactic, not to mention Hong Chengchou, who is familiar with military books and has been on the battlefield for a long time, even the generals of the Eight Banners who have only listened to the pen and read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are familiar with it, and Duoduo's words immediately caused a smug laugh in the lobby. After the laughter, the generals of the various ministries went separately to arrange and not mention.

Sure enough, Cao Eryu, who commanded the rearguard troops for his father Cao Jueluo and Cao Zhenyan, first discovered some clues of the conspiracy of the Nanyue Army.

Taking advantage of the night, Cao Eryu led hundreds of elites, wearing soft armor, horses to Luanling, holding a piece in his mouth, and wrapping his horse's hooves, and quietly touched the position of the Nanyue Army. During the day, looking at the fourth line of positions that the Nanyue Army was ready to abandon, the people were sparse and the banners were scattered. Judging from the morale of the army, it seems that they are all signs of retreat. However, Cao Eryu, as the coat of Manchuria under the white flag and the noble class, naturally refused to easily believe that the Nanyue army would easily retreat under such a favorable situation. What's more, he found some irrational phenomena in the previous positions and camps.

"The toilets and stables of the Nanban are full of human dung and horse manure, if the army has been withdrawn, how can there be so much dung and urine? Also, in the camps everywhere, a large number of vegetable residues, gnawed bones, without tens of thousands of people, there would not be so many eggshells, bones and fish bones! You say, if the Nanban withdraws to Laochao Shandong, how can there be so many elites here? ”

According to the supply standards of the Ming and Qing armies, those who can eat three meals a day and ensure that there are meat, fish and eggs are all proper core elite troops.

Moreover, what made Cao Eryu even more frightened was that in each camp, there were traces of carefully filled gun positions, although they were carefully buried and destroyed, but those turned loess played a counterproductive role in trying to cover up.

In every position, in every barracks, there are dozens of large and small artillery barracks that have been carefully buried with loess. Moreover, not far from the gun position, there are deep grooves on the ground that have been pressed out by heavy objects, and it is difficult to press such deep traces on the frozen soil without the weight of hundreds or thousands of catties! Moreover, under the search of several experienced scouts, Cao Eryu also found a small amount of gunpowder.

"Shao Jueluo! You see! This should be the amount that Nanban accidentally spilled when carrying gunpowder! The scout pointed to the black powder in his palm, "This is the Nanzhong gunpowder produced in Nanban!" Minions used to use it in the first place! Familiar with this thing! ”

"These damn Nanban! This is clearly a copy of the plan to reduce the stove and increase the troops! Cao Eryu became more and more firm in his judgment.

Tonight, he took people to the Nanyue Army camp to observe, just to further find out the truth and truth. If possible, grab a few alive and come back for interrogation.

Looking at the Nanyue Army camp in the darkness through the night, I could only see faint red dots flickering in the night. Cao Eryu knew that someone should be there to eat cigarettes when the light was on and out.

Speaking of this tobacco, as early as the Apocalypse years, it was introduced from the south to Liaodong Town on the nine sides, and then it quickly spread to several important military towns in the remnants. The special army often marched out to fight, ate and slept in the open, and the sergeants were prone to rheumatism and malaria, so tobacco was very popular in the army in the late Ming Dynasty.

Thanks to the geographical convenience, the Qing army also has a large number of smoking guns, and tobacco is also extremely sought after.

At this time, people called smoking smoking, and this saying still exists in some remote areas in modern times. Many people put tobacco leaves in their mouths and chew them, and some clever people smoke with paper or pipes. However, at this time, paper is precious, and the people are also respectful of paper as a god, especially the paper with words, if anyone uses paper cigarettes, they will be poked in the backbone in private.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty smoking wind is extremely prosperous, it is said that tobacco can dispel miasma, treat head lice mold insecticide, and treat wind, cold and dampness and other effects, a pound of tobacco leaves outside Liaodong Pass can be exchanged for a good horse, so tobacco is planted everywhere in the country.

The cultivation of tobacco in the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period has been widespread, especially in Junzhou and Xunyang Mansion in Hubei Province is the tobacco base, because the profit is far more lucrative than growing grain, so there are a lot of people who grow tobacco, Emperor Chongzhen strictly forbade several times, all of which have little effect. Because the people have a variety of tobacco and do not farm wheat, Emperor Chongzhen issued a holy decree in the twelfth year to ask the disciples to be more severe: "Those who eat tobacco die." However, the profits of tobacco planting are quite high, even no less than the cotton spinning and silk industry in the south of the Yangtze River, and in the face of huge interests, Emperor Chongzhen has even made many orders to kill his head.

The Southern Yue Army is also not exempt from vulgarity. What's more, in the Luzon region controlled by Li Shouhan, it itself was a springboard for tobacco to enter the East Asian continent. In the face of the huge profits brought by tobacco plantation and the goal of better control and assimilation of the land, Li Shouhan and the high-ranking members of the Southern Yue Army opened up a large area of tobacco plantations on Luzon Island, and encouraged local natives to work on tobacco plantations.

Large quantities of high-quality Luzon tobacco are transported by sea to the mainland and sold at seemingly low prices. However, the cost advantage of large plantations and the natural advantages brought about by the land in Luzon, which is very suitable for tobacco growth, have greatly reduced various costs, taking the selling price in Mongolia and Liaodong as an example, the price of three catties of tobacco leaves for a cow and four catties of tobacco leaves for a horse has made huge profits, and through the special product tax of up to 80 percent collected in the sales and circulation links, the taxes of the Guogong Government and Li Shouhan's personal income have increased substantially.

At present, Nanzhong is carrying out an economic blockade of the Liaodong anti-thief group, but it is only limited to grain, oilseeds, salt, iron, cloth, gunpowder and other things related to the national economy and people's livelihood. For luxury goods such as silk, tobacco, porcelain, and jade, not only did not restrict, but was encouraged and acquiesced. For other materials exported to the mainland, all kinds of approvals and licenses are required, and for the above-mentioned materials, only a tax payment certificate is required to go all the way unimpeded.

At this time, in the Central Plains, whether it was the Qing army, the Ming army or the Dashun army, the phenomenon of smoking tobacco was very common, and under the cruel war, tobacco also helped to relieve pressure. Others don't say it, Cao Eryu himself is an old smoking gun, and he also has several very good cigarette pouches and pipes in his hands, what jade cigarette holders, jade cigarette holders, wind-ground copper cigarette bags and pots, all kinds of tricks, have long been a fashion in the upper echelons of the Eight Banners.

Cao Eryu fanned his nose twice, and sniffed the smell of tobacco wafting in the air: "It's actually authentic Luzon tobacco leaves!" The good life of this group of southern barbarians! ”

"Young Belle, this must be Lord Li's headquarters! If it weren't for his headquarters, where would those Ming dogs get such good tobacco smokers? The leader of his guards also lowered his voice and prayed to him.

"Who's smoking where?! I don't want to live anymore! A rather majestic, but equally low-voiced voice floated over.

"My lord has repeatedly ordered and reaffirmed, and there are also military laws and regulations now, but you are hiding behind the gun emplacement, smoking, and you don't want to live anymore?! Behind you is a powder keg! A single Mars will send you back to Nanzhong! If you want to die, you can choose a way to die! With this shouting and scolding, those red dots that were flickering and extinguishing quickly and gradually extinguished. The smell of tobacco in the air has gradually faded a lot.

"Good guard! Delay the big thing of the adults, be careful of your skin! ”

The sound faded away, and the sighs and curses of the people could be faintly heard.

"Sure enough, there was an ambush!" Cao Eryu couldn't help but sweat on the top of his head. Just now, he quietly counted the positions of the soldiers who were smoking cigarettes, roughly the same as the gun emplacements he had counted.

"Fluke!" Cao Eryu secretly sighed, and kept thinking in his heart, sure enough, the Qing Dynasty has national fortune, and the ancestors and ancestors blessed, so that today's thing is possible.

This combination of Cao Eryu's military intelligence obtained from personally arriving in front of the Nanyue Army camp is naturally extremely credible. It further established the belief of Duoduo and others that the current retreat of the Nanyue army was a strategic bait to lure them out of the city and position, preparing to destroy them in the wilderness.

"Humph! You have a thousand clever plans, and this general has certain rules. I just don't go out of the city, see what you can do with me! Duoduo sneered and tossed aside the many military reports sent from the front. Compared with the withdrawal team of the whole army pursuing and breaking away from the established positions to pursue the Nanyue Army, Duoduo is now thinking more about how to keep the capital and bargaining chips of this group of troops to make the final turnaround.

However, several secret reports with diametrically opposite conclusions appeared on the desk of the Xuanfu envoy Hong Chengchou Hong's signature room through different channels.

After entering the customs, Lord Hong gave full play to the advantages of being familiar with the home battle, and fully displayed his ability and talent in front of Dolgon and other Eight Banner nobles, which made Dolgon stunned, but also secretly admired Huang Taiji's vision at the beginning, "The emperor said well. What a good party to lead the way! ”

These secret reports and letters on Hong Chengchou's desk are the news he obtained from the gentry and generals in the area controlled by the Ming army through various meticulous work, secret envoys, and investigations. These people, who were loyal and always looking forward to the early settlement of the Central Plains by the Qing Dynasty, the elimination of traitors and rebels against the party, and the return of a prosperous and peaceful world to the world, all provided such a similar message to the envoy of Lord Hong after receiving the gold, silver and jewelry sent by Lord Hong and accepting the official letter of the Qing Dynasty.

"Why did the Southern Barbarians retreat in a hurry? That's because the Qing soldiers and horses killed an important person of theirs! In order to maintain the morale of the army, so I hurriedly went south to go back to Shandong Laolair! ”

As for who the people who were killed by the Qing soldiers and horses, there are various theories. Some people say that it was Li Huayu who was killed, some people said that it was Fan Xiaozeng, and some people said that it was the commander of a town in Nanyue Army who died. Some people even say that he killed Li Shouhan, the Duke of Eliang who had just arrived from Nanjing to supervise the war. In order to rush back to Nanjing as soon as possible to stabilize the situation, Li Huayu adopted the method of keeping the situation secret, and was prepared to tell the brothers after he had brought the situation in Nanjing under control, so as to prevent them from competing with him for power. There are all kinds of sayings, and they all have their own sources. Moreover, they all said that they had noses and eyes, as if they had seen them with their own eyes.

"Is it true that Li Weiru is dead?" Hong Chengchou quickly rejected the idea with a smile. Now Li Shouhan is the pillar of the Nanjing court, and he and Ma Shiying, a noble warrior, and an official from the branch family, work together to control the political situation in Nanjing. How could it be possible to take risks lightly and come to the front line of Beizhili? Moreover, with his status and status, if he had left Nanjing, it would have been known to the world long ago, so how could he keep it secret? Therefore, even if the big man in the Nanyue Army really died, it would not be Li Shouhan himself.

Could it be that in order to achieve the goal of annihilating the main forces of the Qing Dynasty led by Prince Yu and Prince Ying in one fell swoop, Li Huayu did not hesitate to deceive his death and hide his name, and released false news that he was dead, and then ordered the army to retreat slowly to lure the Qing soldiers and horses south? Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but shudder. Based on his understanding of the Li family's father and son, father and daughter, the family is not much to read (Four Books, Five Classics, various military books and the like), but they are people who do not learn skills. I don't know if they will be like the masters of the Qing Dynasty, and use the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as an art of war. According to the tricks in the Three Kingdoms, he used it the other way to scare away the dead Zhuge and turn the living Sima into a fake dead Li Huayu killed the fooled Azig and Duoduo?

However, just when Hong Chengchou, Duoduo, Azig and others were racking their brains about what had happened in the camp of the Nanyue Army opposite, rumors began to spread in Shunde Mansion, Zhangde Mansion and other places.

"On that day, Master Li led the elite cavalry to personally inspect the Qing soldiers and horses, but unexpectedly the Qing soldiers found out, and fired a volley of guns, Li Dagongzi was wounded by a guns, and died after returning to the camp!"

Such news was constantly sent to Duoduo and others. The sources are also becoming more and more convincing. Many generals of the Ming army who were subordinate to Li Huayu's command and moderation also expressed their determination to be in Cao Ying's heart in Han through various channels to the two princes of the Qing Dynasty and Lord Hong. This had to make Duoduo and Hong Chengchou suspicious.

Suddenly, in the midst of the chaotic information, Hong Chengchou suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he couldn't help but shout: "Civil strife!" It must be that there is another civil strife in Nanzhong! Li Shouhan wanted to go back to quell the chaos, so he transferred Li Huayu back to Nanjing to control the situation there! Hong Chengchou remembered the past of civil strife in the south and central China when he went north to King Qin. Presumably, this time it was also Nanzhong who had civil strife!

"Since it was the civil strife in Nanzhong, Grandpa Li was bound to go south to rescue and quell the turmoil. Otherwise, his fundamental place is lost, and how can he gain a foothold in Jiangnan?! Duoduo made a decision, "Since it is a change in the south, whether it is true or not, then Lao Tzu has to bet on this!" Spread the general order of the general, and the whole army will go south from now on! ”

The recklessness of Dord's personality once again played out in important moments.