A conspiracy was thus determined.

Hong Chengchou quickly left the capital and went to Wu Xiang's station.

The latter is based in Gwangju.

As for whether Wu Xiang joined......

There is no suspense about this, because Yang Xin is not even outside the gate even if Juntian, although Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou are indeed very serious in encroaching on the land of the guard, but their little land is not worth mentioning at all, and the king of Zhennan is not even worried about these two melons and dates. After he purged the two major Jiangmen groups of Guangning and Liaoyang before, what remained was nothing more than Ningjin and Liaonan, that is, the area of Fuzhou, but because of the climatic conditions at this time, there was very little land income.

Winter wheat cannot be grown there.

Just that crop a year, even if you plant corn, you can't produce much, and these generals rely more on industrial and commercial cooperation with the Yang family.

Timber.

Fishery.

Canned manufacturing.

……

They are also detached from the land.

Wu Xiang will be obedient, and besides, he doesn't have the guts to be disobedient.

As for Sun Chuanting, just send someone to talk to Zhang Shenwu, and by the way, hint to Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting will know how to do it, and there is no need to call too many people, just have Zhang Shenwu and Zhou Yuji go south, they are also close.

Twenty thousand cavalry!

Then get some full 30,000 from the fried flowers.

Such a large army entered the customs and spread rumors on the side of the Qing monarch to the outside world, in fact, it was like playing in Liaoyang back then, and conducting a military exercise could be regarded as testing the combat readiness of the various armies outside the pass, but the wind released to the outside world came to the side of the Qing monarch. Their 30,000 troops entered the pass and then Wu Xiang went north in the south, and this kind of momentum should be enough to coax those governors to really raise the banner of the Qingjun side, as long as they are on the Qingjun side. The rest is to clean, catch a thief and bring out countless thieves, anyway, the vast majority of the northern gentry can be killed, and when the heads are rolling, then Juntian, which officials and gentry don't do it are a gang of anti-thieves.

At the same time, he drove King Shin to continue to flee.

Baoding can't stay, he will definitely flee to Taiyuan, so what should the Shanxi gentry do? Is it to honestly wait for King Juntian of Zhennan, or is it believed that King Fengxin will take advantage of the natural danger of Taihang Mountain to make resolute resistance?

Preferably the latter.

Then Yang Xin can clean it again.

Then King Shin continued to flee south.

This game can be played for a long time, even if those gentry tie him up and send him over, it will not delay Juntian, the king of Zhennan......

To send it over is to admit defeat.

At most, those who admit defeat will not raid their homes.

"I'm so wicked!"

King Zhennan said with a wine glass.

The evil one did not know that at this moment, this war had already begun.

Yuankou.

"Where's the bridge?"

Sun Shoufa looked ahead in amazement.

On the frozen Daqing River in front of him, the Yongji Bridge had turned into a charred wreckage.

He was the commander of the cavalry army.

At the same time, after the departure of the king of Zhennan, the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang People's Volunteer Army was under the control of his cavalry army, guard brigade, guard battalion, a total of 15,000 cavalry, 20,000 horses and camels The huge army went north. In order to save time, when the canal had been frozen, they took the main road from Qingxian to Jingnan and went straight to the capital, and the main throat on this road was the Yuankou Yongji Bridge.

"Mah, not only did the bridge burn, but even the ice on the surface of the river was chiseled!"

Zhang Xianzhong said angrily.

On the Daqing River in front of them, not only was the Yongji Bridge burned, but even the ice that could have been passed on the river surface was chiseled open, and although it had been re-frozen, it was even more dangerous......

I don't dare to go.

No one knows if the ice, which had been apparently broken and re-frozen, would suddenly crack under the horse's hooves.

The water in this place is very deep, the Daqing River shrinks into a throat here, and the water flow in summer and autumn is turbulent and even forms waves, and the autumn waves in Yuankou are also a local scene.

At this time, at the Yuankou Station opposite, many people are gathering to look at this side, and even set up a few Furlong machines, and the rest are also some old-fashioned turtledoves, it is obvious that they are the local group exercises, they are the ones who burn the bridge, and they are the ones who dig the river, these guys are deliberately blocking them from entering Beijing. In fact, there were many cases of gentry making things difficult along the way, such as not selling them wine and meat, deliberately digging up the road, etc., but because there was no real sense of pass, it was just to add some blockage to them.

It's clearly escalated into a block.

And there's nothing surprising about that.

After all, the gentry of the Northern Zhili have already begun to hold large-scale group exercises, and it is inevitable that they will be a little irrational, after all, everyone understands what it means for them to arrive in the capital, and it is normal for some group exercises to react strongly, and there is no unified command for these group exercises. The fact that the gentry can keep their sanity does not mean that all the gentry can maintain their sanity, in fact, there are a large number of gentry who can't restrain their anger, and they can't blame them, this kind of thing really can't be restrained, if it weren't for Yang Xin's fierce reputation, the gentry along the way would have copied the guys a long time ago, so that this lone army would have tasted what public anger is.

"But this can't stop us, I don't believe they have the ability to dig hundreds of miles of the Daqing River!"

Sun Shoufa said speechlessly.

"I'll go upstream to take a look, and it's estimated that it's only one or two miles."

Li Zicheng said.

Then he beckoned a group of cavalry, turned his head and headed straight upstream along the riverbank.

And Sun Shoufa and Zhang Xianzhong continued there, holding binoculars and looking at the group exercises on the other side, where a middle-aged man in a green shirt was also holding a telescope to look at them.

"This person looks a little familiar!"

Sun Shoufa said.

As he spoke, he handed the binoculars to his own soldiers.

The latter took the binoculars, followed the direction he was pointing, and immediately found the target.

"Liu Hanru, a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, the teacher of King Xin!"

The soldier said.

"Hmph, it looks like he made it up."

Zhang Xianzhong sneered.

In his telescope field of vision, King Xin's teacher, Liu Hanru, who was originally the imperial history of the left deputy capital of the Qing Dynasty and ranked among the second ministers, also had a confident smile, and the rogue he mainly faced in history looked at each other quietly across the ice surface of the wide Daqing River. Behind Liu Hanru, including the reinforcements of the Baoding regiment, thousands of regimental training were waiting for the battle, and the gentry and family members who were hastily put together, supporting the old-fashioned turtledove gun, set up the Fran machine eliminated by the Ming army, and looked at the torrent of iron horses here.

Fortunately, there was a wide river in front of them, and the river was nearly a hundred zhang wide to isolate them from these terrible iron horses, so that they could still keep their composure and not collapse in the wind.

At this time, Li Zicheng was still looking for a crossing point upstream.

It is impossible for these regimental exercises to dig the entire river channel, and in fact they only chisel the vicinity of the Yongji Bridge, which is of no use at all.

This area is indeed a swampy area.

This is actually the core of the Great Wall of Water in the Northern Song Dynasty, in front of which is the famous three passes of the Northern Song Dynasty, the three passes of Yang Liulang's three passes, the front is from west to east, starting from Xiongxian County until Xin'an, Waqiao, Yijin, Sikou, and the three passes are lined up. Including the famous underground Great Wall of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is also on the other side of this river, but after crossing the river, this miracle national defense project should still be sleeping underground, but there are indeed some ancient legends among the people.

This modern has shrunk into a small Baiyangdian water network swamp, starting from Baoding and stretching to Tianjin, Triangle Lake, Desheng Lake, Wuguan Lake, Baiyangdian Lake, plus the Daqing River and tributaries that connect them together form a natural barrier.

There is also a branch of the Lugou River to the north.

It can be said that it has completely formed a swamp of water network spanning 300 miles.

The main road in the middle is Yuankou, and the only bridge in Yuankou is Yongji Bridge.

But......

It's the New Year.

The temperature has reached minus 10 degrees, and even occasionally exceeds minus 20 degrees.

This kind of temperature swamp or something is not to mention, at most the reeds are relatively deep, just like the Baiyangdian in the old movie, both sides of the strait are vast reeds, and even the entire Yuankou post is in the reeds, the south bank is actually better, because the front is Baoding County, more than ten miles away from Yuankou. Baoding County, which has nothing to do with Baoding Mansion, does not belong to Baoding Mansion, but belongs to Shuntian Mansion, and the reeds on the north bank stretch all the way to Bazhou City in the north.

Li Zicheng took nearly a hundred horses to walk carefully through the reeds, and soon walked out of nearly a mile.

At this time, they finally found the ice boundary that had been chiseled, quickly turned their heads and stepped on the Daqing River, and carefully walked forward on the solid ice.

Soon they were in the middle of the river.

Li Zicheng made sure that the ice beneath his feet was strong, and then asked the two cavalrymen to go back to report the news, while he continued to reach the north shore with the rest.

The north shore is still reedy.

And then......

"Grenade!"

Li Zicheng said.

A cavalryman hurriedly took out two grenades and handed them to him, and at the same time lit a section of the fire rope, Li Zicheng put the fuses of the two grenades on the fire rope at the same time, and when the two grenades sprayed sparks at the same time, they threw them forward one after another at the fastest speed. Then, as fast as he could, he removed his two flintlock pistols, and quickly opened the hammer, and the two grenades fell with sparks in the reeds ten feet away, and the next moment the two flames exploded almost simultaneously.

The dry reeds were immediately set on fire.

But at this moment, there was a chaotic scream among the reeds.

Immediately after that, a large number of group training ran out of it in horror, and Li Zicheng raised the short gun in his right hand and pulled the trigger on the top of the head of a group training.

As soon as the shots rang out, the man fell to his knees in fright.

Li Zicheng and his cavalry burst into laughter at the same time.

"That's it, ambush!"

He said with a smile.

But at the same time, a few fires erupted from the reeds, and with the whistling of bullets, one of the cavalrymen immediately fell backwards......

"Fire!"

Li Zicheng roared without hesitation.

All the cavalry behind him pulled the trigger at the same time, and the muzzle flames of nearly a hundred carbines erupted, and the cavalrymen who had finished a round directly pulled out their sabers, ignoring the sporadic bullets fired from the opposite side, urging the war horses to rush towards those regimental exercises in the chaos, and the reeds that were ignited by grenades and muskets on both sides of them were forming a raging flame, billowing smoke into the sky......