Chapter 67: The Prelude to the Battle of Luoyang

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." Thousands of troops shouted, and the sound shook the mountains and fields.

Zhang Xuan came to the Longmen camp.

Cao Zongyu led the generals to greet him in person.

Zhang Xuan was wearing an imperial robe, surrounded by countless armor soldiers, each of whom was wearing gold armor, shining in the sun. Countless flags are waving, almost covering the sky and the sun.

The pomp and circumstance are so large that they are miles away.

It's not that Zhang Xuan wants to put on this pomp, but when he has time, when he reaches this status, he doesn't want to put on a show, and he can't.

Zhang Xuan took a few steps forward, helped Cao Zongyu up, and said, "Brother Cao, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

"The minister doesn't dare to be called that by His Majesty." Cao Zongyu immediately saluted.

Cao Zongyu has read history books since he was a child, although by chance, he got his current status, but he is very sober, and he wholeheartedly learns a person.

It's Xu Da.

He never made friends with other generals, and he didn't care about anything except fighting.

Zhang Xuan grabbed Cao Zongyu and said, "I came to see you this time." Zhang Xuan and Cao Zongyu walked hand in hand, and many generals looked at them.

For a while, many dark tides dissipated.

Cao Zongyu has been leading troops outside all the year round, and with such a big victory, he naturally has his own team.

However, what Cao Zongyu wants is not necessarily the same as what his subordinates want.

Zhang Xuan suddenly drove the expedition in person, in the eyes of many people, it was almost obvious to grab credit, they felt that this Luoyang City, opinions were available.

Naturally, there is an undercurrent.

However, Zhang Xuan showed Cao Zongyu's intimacy and calmed down a lot of dark tides.

Zhang Xuan entered the big tent of the Chinese army.

At this moment, the opinion of the Chinese army is strictly guarded by the forbidden army brought by Zhang Xuan, and the first thing Zhang Xuan has to do is to reward him for meritorious deeds, and millions of silver dollars are smashed down like flowing water.

Naturally, there was thunderous cheer in the army.

After pacifying the whole army, Zhang Xuan had a secret conversation with Cao Zongyu.

Only two of them were in the tent.

Zhang Xuan relaxed, and he didn't have to look like he was facing outsiders. But Cao Zongyu still stood respectfully, as if he hadn't even moved a single hair.

Seeing this, Zhang Xuan's movements suddenly froze.

I finally understood that many times they can't go back to the past.

Zhang Xuan sat down and said, "Sit down." ”

Cao Zongyu said: "The minister obeys the order. ”

Cao Zongyu sat on a horse in an orderly manner, and Zhang Xuan asked, "How is the situation in Luoyang?" ”

Cao Zongyu said: "The minister has divided his troops to the periphery of Luoyang, and smashed all the units of the Qing army one by one, Luoyang is already a lonely city, as long as His Majesty gives an order, it can be surrounded by an iron wall." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Each

What about the outer battlefields? ”

Cao Zongyu said: "The King of Dian has attacked Fengxiang Mansion, and Wu Sangui has been in a stalemate for a while, but the grain route of the King of Dian is a little too long. ”

"The minister has already contacted Wang Fuzhi, and sent a lot of weapons to cross the river, thinking that Wang Fuzhi can gain a firm foothold in Shanxi."

"As long as General Xu reports the military situation, most of the Qing army has retreated. It's just that General Xu, I don't know if the Qing army wants to kill a horse pistol, so he doesn't dare to pursue. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded. Zhang Xuan knows all these news. He continued to ask, "How long will it take to attack Luoyang City?" ”

Cao Zongyu was silent for a while, and said: "In the opinion of the minister, there will probably be two results, the first result is that the pseudo-King Zheng gives up Luoyang City, if this is the case, the gains and losses of Luoyang City will be within these few days." However, if the pseudo-King Zheng wants to defend Luoyang City. ”

"There are still tens of thousands of Manchu elites in the city, and the city has also been strengthened a lot, if you want to attack the city, you want to come for about fifteen days, or a month. before they can be captured. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Ten days. He said with a serious face, "It's only ten days." Within ten days, he will go down to Luoyang City. Otherwise, the situation will not be easy to clean up. ”

"Now the Manchu Qing army is divided into three parts, one in Luoyang City. One is in Guanzhong, the other is on the north bank of the Yellow River, and it has also been Hong Chengchou for a long time. ”

"In addition to these three places, there are probably more than 300,000 people, and there are many people in the rest of the departments, and Shandong is especially empty."

Liu Guoxuan's headquarters was only a few battalions, even in several counties, sweeping through the coastal counties. If it weren't for the fact that there were too few people, I guess he would have been aiming for Beijing. ”

"I'm not going to lie to you. It's not that I want to suppress Zheng Chenggong, but if this Northern Expedition, Zheng Chenggong goes to Liaodong, Shandong, Hebei, and the Great Wall to win the first merit of the Northern Expedition, I really don't know, it's time to deal with the Zheng family like this. ”

"So, you have to be the first to advance into the city of Beijing."

"The merit of breaking Beijing, no matter what, can't give Zheng Chenggong."

"So, you only have ten days."

In fact, Zhang Xuan gave more than ten days.

Sometimes the tide of battle changes, beyond their imagination, especially when the army is collapsing, you have no idea how fast they will collapse.

At this time, even ordinary people in the world know that the general trend is in Xia, not to mention the previous strong Qing army in the face of the Xia army's offensive and retreating, just to say that the rumors spread all over the world almost overnight.

The story of Zheng Chenggong's dragon vein.

It's even very eloquent.

When you dig up Fuling, everyone can't dig it. Zheng Chenggong held the sword of the Son of Heaven and slashed at the Qingfu Mausoleum, and in an instant, the wind and rain were great, and someone saw a red dragon and a black dragon fighting in the clouds. The red dragon kills the black dragon. The Qing Fuling fell into the ground, the spring was like blood, and the Manchu dragon vein was really cut off.

I know it's a lie, but the people below believe it.

That's it

Like Wang Qiaonian digging Li Zicheng's ancestral grave and seeing a small snake beheading it, although Li Zicheng can't become the emperor.

If you think about it, you will know that a member of the imperial court like Wang Qiaonian ordered the grave to be dug up, and it was absolutely impossible for him to go into battle to do this dirty work in person.

After this rumor spread all over the world, many Qing army officers came to vote.

For a time, people in the Qing army were panicked.

The Manchus were inherently unpopular. It depends only on force.

Now he is not strong enough to be feared. The speed of the collapse, naturally, is very fast.

Zhang Xuan didn't want Zheng Chenggong to pick up this big bargain, which was also a natural thing.

Cao Zongyu listened, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty has an order, and the ministers dare not disobey." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Don't worry, I won't let you do the impossible." Before I came, I had already written a letter to Wu Sangui, persuading him to go west, as long as he went out of the Ming realm, he could still dominate one side, and he would agree soon after, Wu Sangui didn't want to agree, and the King of Dian would let him agree. ”

"Wait a while, I will give an order to Fu Shan and let Wang Fuzhi go south and attack Luoyang first. If I want to cut off the back road of Luoyang, I don't believe that there are still many people loyal to the Tartars in Luoyang, a dead land. ”

"Rear, I'm also ready, I'll double how much you use."

"Just storm. Everything else has me. ”

Cao Zongyu immediately said: "Your Majesty, the minister will definitely break the city within ten days." ”

It seems that Zhang Xuan did not deprive Cao Zongyu of his command, but in fact, as soon as Zhang Xuan arrived in Luoyang, the strategic decision of this big war was in Zhang Xuan's hands.

All Cao Zongyu can master is the hard bone of conquering Luoyang City.

Zhang Xuan said: "Brother Cao, you crawl out of the pile of dead people together, don't say anything else, this Northern Expedition is the first meritorious, the hero of the Qing Dynasty, in my mind, it can only be you." After this battle, I will be in Luoyang, when you take the city of Beijing, it is not too late to inspect Beijing. ”

Cao Zongyu was moved in his heart and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the ministers will not let go." ”

Cao Zongyu is not the same as Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong has his own team, and he has the Zheng family's financial system, if he is in power, it will be very difficult to clean up, but although Cao Zongyu also has his own team.

However, the overlap between Cao Zongyu's team and Zhang Xuan's team is too high. Many times, in fact, Cao Zongyu is in charge of the army as Zhang Xuan's spokesperson.

At least the officers below him, many of them are Zhang Xuan's descendants.

Zhang Xuan is not afraid of Cao Zongyu's high position, even if in the future, Cao Zongyu will have two kings, he is not afraid. But Zheng Chenggong is different.

Once Zheng Chenggong gains power, he can even cause internal divisions in Great Xia.

Zhang Xuan arrived at Longmen Pass with such a big momentum, he couldn't deceive people at all.

Countless voices of long live have long been transmitted to the hands of Tanma, and spread to Luoyang City, for a time the Qing army's hearts fluctuated, and they all invited Prince Zheng Jierharang.