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Chen Xinjia has actually seen Sun Chuanting's recital, for this Sun Chuanting, he, Chen Xinjia, like Yang Sichang at the beginning, does not want to see Sun Chuanting, feeling that this person is disobedient and dares to contradict and offend him, so when Chongzhen asked him, he immediately said: "Qi Shengshang!" This matter is not difficult to judge! Holy Lord, please think, if the Xingtian Army wants to attack the Jingshi, what is the best thing to do first? From what Weichen can see, there is no doubt that they took Jining Prefecture first, cut off the canal transportation, and cut off the Jingshi to get food and salary from Nanzhili, so that the Jingshi is in chaos! They don't need to divert the tiger from the mountain, just take Jining Prefecture and cut off the canal, and they can easily disintegrate most of the officers and troops! Why bother?

Therefore, Weichen thought that it was true that the thieves took Jining Prefecture, and it was a suspicious plan to increase troops in the north of the Yellow River! Just want to confuse Sun Chuanting so that he doesn't dare to easily lead his troops to Jining Prefecture.

Of course, it is not possible to prevent the punishment thieves will take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to the north, so Weichen thinks that it is not easy for the troops in the Xuanda area to be transferred to Funan, and the soldiers and horses of the other general officers of the roads will converge to the south, but to defend Xuanda, and at the same time send troops to rescue Taiyuan Mansion, and order the soldiers and horses to replace Sun Chuanting all the way, and use troops against Zhangde Mansion, so as to prevent the Xingtian thieves from taking the opportunity to go north, and can drag some of the Xingtian thieves, as long as Sun Chuanting leads his troops to defeat the Xingtian thief army in Jining Prefecture, and then wave his army eastward and go straight to Henan, It can make the thief lose ground and finally lose! ”

After Chongzhen listened to Chen Xinjia's words, he unconsciously had a cheerful feeling, and felt that the Chen Xinjia recommended by Yang Sichang was actually quite discerning, from Chen Xinjia's words, he felt that what he said was very reasonable, if the Xingtian Army wanted to go north to attack the Beijing Division, then the best way was undoubtedly to cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal first, and first choke the throat of the Beijing Division. It's very easy to take the Beijing Division, why bother to do it, what kind of plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, before there is a complete food shortage in the north, it will take a lot of effort to go north to the Beijing Division? Therefore, what Chen Xinjia said should be good, Sun Chuanting said that the Xingtian thief has signs of increasing troops in the north of the Yellow River, in fact, it should be that the Xingtian thief is using a suspicious strategy, which is to confuse Sun Chuanting, so that Sun Chuanting is worried that the Xingtian thief will go north and dare not go to Jining Prefecture.

In this way, the Xingtian thieves can mobilize heavy troops to attack Jining Prefecture and cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, in that case, the Beijing division will also be in danger!

And Chen Xinjia said that he considered everything, and at the same time said that the situation in Shanxi and the defense of Funan, if according to what Chen Xinjia said, then it is really possible to defeat the Xingtian thieves!

So Chongzhen no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered Chen Xinjia to give Sun Chuanting an order in the name of the military department, ordering him to immediately divide his troops and lead the main force to Jining Prefecture after the reinforcements went south, so as to hold Jining Prefecture, and defeat the Xingtian thief army in Jining Prefecture, and then wave his army east into Henan, in the shortest possible time, first seek to return to Defu and Kaifeng Mansion, force the Xingtian thief to advance and retreat, and then seek to destroy it in one fell swoop.

And at this time, news came from Xuzhou, saying that it was found that the Xingtian Army had been marching all the way, and it seemed that there was a momentum of entering Xuzhou, so Chongzhen and Chen Xinjia strengthened their views, and the Xingtian thieves simply wanted to cut off the Grand Canal and jam the throat of the Jingshi, not at all to take the opportunity to wave the army north, so they immediately sent an order to Sun Chuanting, ordering him to act immediately, so as to rush to Jining Prefecture to deal with the Xingtian Army in the shortest possible time, and at the same time ordered Ding Qirui to quickly send troops to strengthen the garrison of Xuzhou, The Xingtian Army can't be allowed to take advantage of the loophole to occupy Xuzhou, anyway, as long as either of these two places is lost, the transportation of the Grand Canal will be cut off immediately, so neither place can be lost.

After Sun Chuanting received the order from Jingshi, he thought about it, and combined with the news from Xuzhou, he also began to feel that his judgment might be wrong, no matter from any point of view, as long as the Xingtian Army captures Jining Prefecture or Xuzhou, it will be of great benefit to them, and they can't play any trick of diverting the tiger from the mountain and taking advantage of the situation to go north, so that it is likely to be a suspicious plan to increase troops in the north of the Yellow River, but he forgot the third point he originally considered, that is, the Xingtian Army may take advantage of this opportunity, chose a place to fight with him, so on the day of February 23, Sun Chuanting arrived at Shunde Mansion with Wu Sangui, Ma Ke, Bai Guangen and other troops in the south, and in the camp outside Shunde Mansion, after meeting with all the generals, after a stern order, these generals were not allowed to retreat, and then left 11,000 soldiers and horses led by Bai Guangen, responsible for defending Shunde Mansion and Guangping Mansion, strictly preventing the Xingtian Army from sneaking north, and the rest of the soldiers and horses immediately followed him to set up camp and start the village. A total of more than 50,000 troops were assembled, and the troops were divided into four routes, with the Ma Ke Institute as the vanguard, and marched towards Jining Prefecture.

At the same time, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, also gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, together with the 7,000 Xuanfu soldiers and horses of Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, and attacked in the direction of Shuozhou, including 10,000 yuan of the superintendent army in the direction of Luzhou in Nanzhili, and also mobilized 20,000 troops to aid Xuzhou, and Ding Qirui, who was sitting in Nanzhili, also mobilized nearly 50,000 troops in Nanjing. Since then, it has also kicked off the prelude to the biggest showdown between Da Ming and Xingtian Army.

On the other hand, the Xingtian Army is also prepared to deal with it, and the armies in Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and other places have also been completely mobilized, including reserve battalions and people in various places, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses have also been mobilized, waiting in all directions, ready to fight, and one after another men and horses have driven from all over the country to the areas they are responsible for defending, and the entire hinterland of China can be said to be covered with war clouds.

At this time, the strength of the Xingtian Army is no longer as at a complete disadvantage in the confrontation with the official army as before, and its main force may not be as many as the official army, but the auxiliary force is far more than the official army, especially this time involving the official army may invade the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, threatening the lives of the people who have just obtained the land and have not lived in peace for a long time. Farm tools or launched their wheelbarrows and joined the ranks of helping the war, no one wanted the stable life they had just obtained to be taken by the government and become the object of exploitation and bullying by the government again, so after receiving the mobilization order, the people everywhere were surging, and they joined the ranks of fighting against the imperial court.

A large number of people rushed to the place where they were needed, although they could not be put into battle, but they could help the Xingtian Army to transport supplies, strengthen the city defenses, dig trenches, build fortifications, and build attack tools, defensive tools and other things, at least greatly supported the actions of the main force of the Xingtian Army.

This is also the best embodiment of the hearts of the people to win the world, the court to this time, has long lost the hearts of the people, in addition to the vested interests that follow the court and iron heart to help the court, the people around the country have mostly betrayed the Ming Dynasty.

What Xingtianjun can give them is a stable life, but what the court gives them is only boundless harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

And especially the common people in the area that the Xingtian Army has controlled, they are all the beneficiaries of the rebellion of the Xingtian Army, if it is not for the Xingtian Army, they will also be burdened with the heavy exploitation of the government and the court, they may be starved to death, they may be killed by the officials and soldiers, and they may also become victims of bandits, but because the Xingtian Army controls their place of residence, they are exempted from the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on them, give them grain seeds, redistribute land to them, and give them a peaceful life. Now that the imperial court is coming to take away the hope they have just hoped for, how can the common people sit idly by? After this truth is explained, the common people will naturally make their own choices, but all those who have the strength want to keep this hard-won life, so the mobilization order of the Xingtian Army has been issued, and the people everywhere will naturally respond to the call and join the ranks of helping the war.

At the junction of the area controlled by the Xingtian Army and the area controlled by the government, a large number of people rushed to the outside of the Xingtian Army's military stations and cities, and under the command of the garrison generals of the Xingtian Army, they braved the severe cold to do it. At the same time, a large number of people pushing wheelbarrows pushed wheelbarrows to transport all kinds of materials for the Xingtian Army, and they did whatever the Xingtian Army wanted them to do, and even some people close to the front line did not hesitate to tear down their own doors and bed boards and send them to the fort garrisoned by the Xingtian Army for them to use as a large shield for defense, and even did not hesitate to set fire to their own houses to complete the task of clearing the wilderness.

Countless Xingtian soldiers and generals saw this scene, and they were moved beyond measure, and they were even more gearing up to fight to the death with the officials and soldiers to the end, not for anything else, just for the support of these ordinary people, they felt that they could not be deserters, even if they died, they had to defend their territory and protect these people.

And Xiao Tianjian left Luoyang City on February 13, by this time, the mobilized soldiers and horses have basically been transferred to the designated position, this time in the northeast of Henan, Xiao Tianjian gathered Liu Bao, Luo Li, Liu Yaoben and other departments a total of 30,000 elite soldiers and horses, in addition to nearly 60,000 auxiliary soldiers and help the people to fight.

When he left Luoyang City, Liu Bao had already led his troops to launch an offensive against Jining Prefecture, first after defeating Juye County, the troops pointed directly at Jining Prefecture, and at the same time in mid-February, Dongshan Tiger and He Yilong, who were sitting in Suzhou, began to assemble troops in the east of Suzhou City, pretending to attack Xuzhou, and sent a wave of scouts, directly appeared along the Grand Canal, and from time to time attacked the boats that docked on the shore to rest, which made Nanzhili panic, and the Xuzhou guards were even more anxious to Nanjing.

In this way, the imperial court also had to believe that the Xingtian Army really wanted to use troops against Xuzhou and Jining Prefecture, and wanted to cut off the canal transportation, so Xiao Tianjian's strategic feint in the early stage of this campaign had completely achieved its goal.