The scouts sent by the Qing army crossed the Yellow River this time in a scattered manner, after all, if there were too many people, it would be easy to be discovered, and if they were scattered, they could avoid being seen by too many people. The Qing army that the scout saw was a small squad of three Tartars.

Under the urging of the scout, the little scout was finally helpless, riding a war horse and heading towards Mengjin City at the fastest speed, he knew what it meant, the Qing army was coming, the little scout was a little nervous, from the big war to the present, the wolf howling regiment has not participated in the war, for the wolf howling regiment, there are still some of its soldiers who have not fought, have not been on the battlefield, and are all pure recruits.

"Drive!"

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Urgent! Urgent! ”

The little scout soon came to the city of Mengjin, and after entering the city, he shouted loudly to let the people around him give way, and now it was snowing heavily, and there were few people on the street, so no one stood in his way, but his shouting attracted a lot of people from the inns on both sides, and soon he had come to the place where Zhang Yuan was stationed.

"Report!"

Zhang Yuanyuan heard the little scout's high voice, and his heart suddenly sank, thinking that he was afraid that the enemy was coming.

Sure enough, the little scout soon came to Zhang Yuan's side and reported to Zhang Yuan what they had seen. Zhang Yuan's heart sank when he heard this.

The enemy had 30,000 horses, and he himself had 2,000. If the Yellow River is still in danger in normal times, even if they come by boat, it will be easy for the defenders, but now that the Yellow River is frozen, like flat land, it is impossible to defend it.

"You can go down and rest for a while." Zhang Yuan waved his hand at the little scout, and the little scout completed his mission and walked down easily.

"Immediately send the general a message that the Qing army has reached the north bank of the Yellow River, and it is estimated that the enemy army will cross the Yellow River tonight or tomorrow morning and reach Mengjin. Ask for reinforcements from the general. ”

When the guards around him heard this, they immediately said, "Yes!" ”

"In addition, the order is given, all the soldiers enter the first-level combat state, all the idle soldiers return to the camp, and send a large number of scouts to monitor the enemy army at all times, and at the same time send a large group of men and horses to annihilate all the enemy scouts who cross the Yellow River, and be sure not to leave any of them."

"Also, inform Mengjin County to let Huayanchi prepare for defense, and at the same time evacuate the people outside the city, so that the people outside the city can temporarily enter the city to hide."

Several guards quickly walked down with Zhang Yuan's order.

The county mansion, Hua Yanchi was reading in the study at this time, he was not reading the Four Books and Five Classics, nor was it a Confucian classic, but he was looking at books on civil affairs and law, because he keenly found that if he read the Four Books and Five Classics, the future would definitely not be big, if he read more books on civil affairs, the future would definitely be very broad, after all, with the experience of the last time, Hua Yanchi knew that if he was promoted in the future, he would definitely take the books on civil affairs, not "Confucius", "Mencius" and other books.

"Sir, sir, a soldier in the army asks to see."

Hua Yanchi was a little surprised, but he remembered what he heard about Zhang Yuan yesterday, so he panicked and hurriedly said, "Come and invite, hurry." ”

The butler listened, although he didn't know why Hua Yanchi was so excited, but he didn't ask, but walked out of the study to let the soldier in. After all, as a servant of others, you must have the consciousness of being a servant, and the master's mind is not something that you can inquire about as a servant.

With the sound of chaotic footsteps, the wooden door of the study was opened again, and this time in addition to the butler, there was also a soldier of the Wolf Howling Regiment in a neat military uniform.

The soldier bowed to Hua Yanchi, who was sitting on a chair holding a book, and said, "On the order of the regiment commander, I have something to report to the magistrate. ”

After hearing this, Hua Yanchi waved his hand to the butler and motioned for him to go down, and the butler immediately closed the door of the study and walked out.

Hua Yanchi said: "But what about the Qing army? Hua Yanchi said the conjecture in his heart and asked.

The soldier was a little surprised, but instantly returned to normal, and said, "What the county magistrate said is right, it is the matter of the Qing army." According to the news obtained by our army, the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Qing army have reached the banks of the Yellow River, and I am afraid that they will be able to cross the Yellow River tomorrow and reach Mengjin, so the head of my family asked the little one to inform the magistrate of the county and let the magistrate prepare for defense. ”

Hua Yanchi was a little scared in his heart, after all, he was just a literati, although the Pingbei Army was very powerful, if Mengjin City was broken...... Hua Yanchi couldn't help but think in his heart, his body couldn't help trembling, but he thought that he was a scholar and should have the style of a gentleman, how could he be afraid to escape? Then the heart full of fear calmed down again.

"You go back and tell the head of your family, and you will say that the county knows. I will cooperate with your army to prepare for the defense. ”

"Yes! The little one retired first. With that, the soldier hurried away.

The news of the arrival of the Qing army soon spread in the city of Mengjin, and the people became nervous, and many people also prepared their belongings and drove to Luoyang. After all, Luoyang was the base camp of the Pingbei Army, and they believed that it would be safe there.

In order to stabilize the people, Jiang Xin, the deputy head of the Wolf Howling Regiment, and Hua Yanchi, the county commander, both took to the streets to tell the people that as long as they worked together, they would definitely beat the enemy away, and the reinforcements to Liu Xia were on the way, as long as they held back the Qing army for a while, they would be safe.

Now the main force of the Pingbei Army is in Hugao Pass, except for the strength of a regiment in Mengjin and the strength of a regiment in Hangu Pass, all other places are in a vacuum, even if it is not safe to flee to Luoyang, after all, Luoyang is only the strength of a battalion.

The war broke out, and the personnel of the arsenal sent Liu Xia another 2,000 guns, which were still arquebuses, which were obviously not suitable in this snowy weather. When fighting with the Qing army in the Tiger Prison Pass before, the 1,000 guns of the Guards Regiment did play a good role, so Liu Xia was also happy to accept the 2,000 firearms, but Liu Xia ordered the personnel of the Arms Department to hurry up and develop the flintlock pistol, and it must be developed as soon as possible.

Liu Xia gave the death order, and the personnel of the munitions department were also urgently busy, and all of them looked through books, or consulted some master craftsmen to find the craftsmanship of production.

Meng Jin, in addition to the men and horses of a regiment of the Wolf Howling Regiment, there are also the five hundred soldiers of the musket battalion that Liu Xia asked Zhang Yuan to take away, these five thousand musketeers are useless now, because it is snowing heavily, although it is not like the rain that directly extinguishes the fire rope, but it also seriously affects the musket. So the long muskets became burning sticks, useless.

This is also the reason why Liu Xia asked people to urgently develop flintlock pistols, flintlock pistols are much better in this regard, and arquebuses are too restrictive.

During the night, none of the people in Mengjin slept soundly, and some of them dreamed that the enemy had attacked and beheaded them.

On the other side of the Yellow River, Duoduo was lying in a large tent at this time, and Duoduo was thinking about tomorrow's deployment. Mengjin City is in front of you, across the Yellow River is Mengjin City, after Mengjin is Luoyang, as long as Luoyang is taken, Luoyang's base camp is destroyed, then Liu Xia's Pingbei Army will have a big drop in morale, and it will be easy to break through.

Duoduo couldn't help but ask himself, is he going to slaughter the city this time? After thinking for a while, Duoduo's heart was horizontal and cold. I thought: I must slaughter the city, I must let the people of the world see, and the fate of resisting my Qing Dynasty is not only to slaughter the Han dogs of Mengjin, but also to slaughter the Han dogs of Luoyang.

Compared with the people on the south bank of the Yellow River who were worried and scared to sleep, Duoduo, located on the north bank of the Yellow River, was excited and very happy to lie on the bed and fall asleep. In the dream, Duoduo dreamed that he had taken Luoyang City, and then carried out the Luoyang Massacre, exterminated all the Han people, and by the way, took several of Liu Xia's beautiful wives and daughters for himself.

Then he returned to the court with his own class, and then beat Dolgon down, occupied the beautiful Da Yu'er, and left Fulin off his horse, and became the emperor himself.