"But general, even if we want to go back to the Dashun army, this direction is not right? Why don't the other people in Pucheng follow us all the way? ”

Along the way, although the soldiers basically reached an agreement with themselves, they still couldn't figure out what to do with He Sanjiang's next arrangement.

"Yes, General! Even if we go out of Dashun, with the strength and territory we are now operating in Pucheng, and with the Yellow River moat as the backing, why should we go eastward in one more move? ”

"Hehe, do you think that Lao Tzu has been in Dashun for so many years, and he is really hardworking and doing nothing?"

Until now, He Sanjiang still maintains the most important secret posture as a spy, and he does not plan to tell his true identity to this group of henchmen around him before receiving the instructions from the base camp.

And in order to give a reasonable explanation for his future plans, he began to lie now to deal with the group of soldiers around him.

"It's not just Lao Tzu who wants to rebel against Dashun, Lao Tzu has already discussed with some familiar leaders earlier, and they are also willing to follow Lao Tzu against his mother!"

"And let me tell you a good news, Baiyushan, who fought the world with Lao Tzu back then, has already opened up a territory in Shandong waiting for us, let's go and join them, even if that Dashun Li Zicheng wants to attack us, then we have to see if our bones are hard, or their strength is strong!!"

Until now, He Sanjiang actually didn't know how many people were lurking in the Dashun army in the base camp except for himself and Bai Yushan, but when Su Dajun came to join him, he let himself take people to the bank of the Yellow River adjacent to Puyang to meet the Hongmen spies who rebelled against Dashun with him.

Although Hongmen did not want the Dashun army to go to Hebei, Jingshi and other places to let the Ming Dynasty fall apart, but when Jiangnan was not chaotic and his own layout was not completed, he still needed the buffer of the Dashun Dynasty, so that the Jingshi and Jiangnan could be gradually separated, so that they could continue to calmly lay out Jiangnan and Jiangnan.

Therefore, if He Sanjiang and the Hongmen forces lurking in the Dashun army were to suddenly attack and attack the Dashun army, Li Tianyang would not dare to say that he was 100% sure that the Dashun country would suffer heavy losses, but at least the strength of the Dashun army would be reduced by more than sixty percent.

And the Dashun army, which is less than forty percent at most, wants to continue to maintain the form of separating Jiangnan and Jingshi in the counterattack of the Ming army that has reacted, I am afraid it is impossible.

In the case of choosing the most favorable situation for Hongmen, the base camp gave He Sanjiang and the Hongmen spies who were lurking in Dashun an order, but to let them reverse Dashun, instead of suddenly attacking Dashun, so that when their strength was damaged and there was one more strong enemy, they would retreat and stop their northward footsteps.

If Li Zicheng still insists on going his own way, then it is impossible to say that Li Tianyang will really let He Sanjiang and them attack Li Zicheng's Dashun army with their backhand in order to ensure that the Ming Dynasty is not destroyed.

"General, you have been ready for a long time, then our brothers have nothing to say!"

"It turns out that you have already contacted General Bai, and only told your subordinates about these things at this time, so Bai makes us worry!!"

"Hmph, if Lao Tzu is not fully prepared and leaks some clues, who knows if there are such eyes and ears in our team!!"

After Ran Maochang and his entourage were puzzled, they also felt a little more confident in their hearts, although everyone's will to follow He Sanjiang had never wavered, stemming from their loyalty to He Sanjiang, but to be honest, with their current strength, if they really had to face the full force of the angry Dashun Army, everyone's confidence was still insufficient.

Coming to the edge of the Yellow River in Puyang, because it is in the downstream zone, there are few waves on the wide surface of the Yellow River, but at this time, there are a lot of river boats and fishing boats on the calm sea.

And on the bank of the river where they were about to arrive, they didn't know when they had set up patches of simple military camps, and the figures in the barracks were shuttling, but they were not lively.

"Stop!!"

Only three or five miles away from the other party, He Sanjiang issued an order to stop the soldiers and horses, and then with a wave of his hand, a cavalry rushed out of the team, beat the horses and drove to the opposite military camp.

The cavalry soon approached the barracks, and after taking out some tokens and other things, the northerners brought them into the barracks, and then the barracks was reopened, and out of it came a team of twenty or thirty people, led by the previous cavalry, and greeted them without carrying weapons.

"Subordinate Han Yao (Wei Long, Shi Ran...... I have seen the general, and on the orders of the general, my subordinates have led the soldiers under my command to come to converge!! ”

The group approached He Sanjiang and where they were, and a neat dismount and a one-knee military salute indicated their identities, which put Ran Maochang and the others on the side at ease.

"Get up, thank you guys!"

He Sanjiang was actually unfamiliar with many people under him, and even this was the first time they had met each other, but in order to cover up the facts, he acted as if he had met an old acquaintance, greeted everyone calmly, and called them up.

"'Have you been troubled or noticed by the Dashun generals along the way?'"

After He Sanjiang called the person up, he asked him to be parallel to himself, and at the same time asked slowly.

"And no one notices it, now there are frequent transfers in the Dashun army, and we have some connections to get the military order, and the journey is very smooth."

"Then how many soldiers do you have now?"

"General, there are now a total of 13,137 soldiers under the command of his subordinates, and 23,200 soldiers and auxiliary soldiers."

"Okay, then you go back and call the soldiers to pack up and follow us off!"

"No!!"

A mighty army marched in pursuit of the large army that had already set out for most of the day.

And it wasn't until He Sanjiang and his team had been gone for almost two or three days that the Ming army and other scouts reported this information to Sun Chuanting, the supervisor who was waiting for the Dashun army in Zhangde Mansion.

"What?? The army of Dashun in Puyang City is nowhere to be found, Puyang City has been emptied, and there is no army stationed there. ”

Supervisor Sun Chuanting was shocked, for the north bank of the Yellow River, which was nailed to the front line of Hebei Province, Sun Chuanting has not taken action these days, but under the strict defense of He Sanjiang, a thief, he was stunned and did nothing.

In the battle with He Sanjiang and his subordinates, Sun Chuanting, the marshal of the Ming Dynasty, had a full understanding of him, and attached some importance to him because of the unsuccessful attacks again and again.

Compared with the general Dashun army, He Sanjiang's subordinate stationed in Puyang City was one of the countless battles between Sun Chuanting and the peasant army, and few of them were comparable to the elite of the Ming Dynasty in terms of overall combat strength.

Even in Sun Chuanting's heart, he felt that the overall quality of the He army was probably stronger than the elite of the Ming army, but the He family army had been stationed in Puyang for more than a year and had been on the defensive, and there were few attacks on the territory of the Ming Dynasty army, which gave the Ming army the illusion that it could advance and retreat, thinking that it was at most comparable to the strength of its own army.

At this time, such an army with a size of 70,000 people is gone, and for Sun Chuanting, who has a total number of Ming troops under his command, which is actually only in his early 200,000s, how can he not be annoyed.

"Check, check for this official, be sure to send the other party's movements!!"

"No!"

"Tell Zuo Liangyu and Deng Xi that these general soldiers, cheer up Lao Tzu, and you must not carry anything, the garrison of each family is lost, come and see you!!"

"There is no one waiting for Puyang City, what should we do?"

The staff on the side reminded Sun Chuanting.

"Hang it aside first, and scatter all the scouts out to see, I'm afraid this is a confidant of the Dashun army!!"

Under the circumstance of the large-scale mobilization of the army of the Great Shun Kingdom, he Sun Chuanting must not be sloppy in the slightest, and he must be cautious and cautious, and nothing goes wrong.

What kind of mess is in the north, Sun Chuanting, as a feudal official of the first dynasty, is very clear, and at this time, the peasant rebel army in the southwest and Li Zicheng, the great Shunguo who is now the emperor of the upright and upright country, is also under great pressure for Sun Chuanting, who has experienced a miserable white and heavy damage in Runan.

Even Sun Chuanting himself did not have the confidence to guarantee that with the more than 200,000 rabble he was injured, he would be able to block the 670,000 troops of the Great Shun Kingdom from Hebei.

The scouts of the Ming army could not have imagined that He Sanjiang's army did not go north to invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty but went east into Shandong, so that the target of its tracking was wrong from the beginning.

It wasn't until the scouts reported that within a radius of more than 100 miles from Puyang, not a single soldier or horse such as He Jiajun was found, and even the ordinary people who originally lived in it mostly disappeared without a trace.

In the end, the news of He Jiajun's whereabouts was from the spies under the command of Fu Si in Jinyi Weibei Town, and he learned from the Dashun Dynasty a letter written by He Sanjiang to Li Zicheng.

I heard that for this letter of severance, Li Zicheng killed more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs in the Luoyang Imperial City at that time, which barely calmed his anger.

"Broken off the book? What is this? ”

Receiving the information sent by the Fusi of Beizhen, Sun Chuanting felt incredible.

"I heard that it was He Sanjiang's letter that rebelled against Dashun and established himself as king!!"

The Jinyi guards who came to deliver the letter always felt like a rumor until now, but they had to admit that this news was indeed top-secret information obtained by spies such as the Zhenfu Division in Luoyang Palace.

"No wonder these days, the military movements of the rebels in the south are still frequent, but there is no big move, so it is!!"

Although Sun Chuanting still couldn't believe it, the Dashun army that was originally preparing to attack on the other side these days suddenly seemed to have withered like money, although the action was still the same, but there was no tension.

"But why did He Sanjiang make such a move at this time? Isn't he one of the five tiger generals under the command of Li Thief, and we have also seen the attitude of loyal ministers towards Li Thief over the years! ”

“……”

Sun Chuanting fell into a long silence, and he was slow to solve the biggest doubt in his unhappiness.

"But that's okay, this He Sanjiang rebelled against Dashun at this critical time, but he helped our Da Ming, this time I think that Da Shun Li thief still has the courage to dare to cross the Yellow River and fight to the death with my Da Ming army!!"

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it again, even if He Sanjiang's He Jiajun is removed, he Sun Chuanting still has a powerful Dashun army to face, and he can't afford to scatter more energy for a partial division from Dashun.

"But please also bring a word to the governor, so that Commander Li can pay more attention to where this He Sanjiang Department has gone? If you want to check the whereabouts of the other party, please also ask Jinyiwei to pass the book quickly and inform the governor. ”

After coming, Sun Chuanting still didn't feel at ease and asked Jinyiwei to bring a word to the commander of the Zhenfu Division, and asked him to help investigate the traces of the disappeared He Sanjiang's department, and now it has been ten days since He Ministry's mysterious disappearance, and until now there are no whereabouts of these hundreds of thousands of teams, so that Sun Chuanting still does not dare to take it lightly.

"No, the subordinate commander agreed on behalf of my family, and please rest assured!"

Now everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, even if there is no Sun Chuanting's request, Jinyiwei will send more people to find out where He is located.

However, obviously, there was no need for Jinyi Weijia to send people to investigate, He Sanjiang's He Jiajun quickly jumped out by himself, and a letter of help from Wang Gongbi, the governor of Shandong, finally confirmed the location of He Jiajun.

All the way east, along the way was originally a place of chaotic warfare, between Shandong and Henan and other borders, because of the frequent turmoil, the imperial court sent troops to the north to support, so that the control of the government itself has been weakened to an extremely dangerous point.

Coupled with the geological disasters that have occurred in successive years, the imperial court and other levies and factions, the people have long been living in poverty, and the bitter official mansion has been for a long time, when He Sanjiang and they waved the banner of the rebel army to the outside of the city, there were countless people in the city who rose up and became its internal response, so that it easily occupied several cities.

As for the villages and county offices that passed along the way, they did not bring much trouble to the He family's army, but expanded the team of the He family's army to the east, and a large number of people who could not survive joined the He family's army one after another, and followed the left and right to become a large force under his command.

Knowing that when they arrived in Caozhou, Shandong, there was an army of more than 30,000 people in Baiyushan hidden among the lakes, mountains and rivers, and they were waiting for He Sanjiang and them to arrive with joy.

And when He Sanjiang and Bai Yushan converged, the main army had reached more than 100,000 troops, and the army easily took Caozhou, an important town in Shandong, the governor of Shandong at this time suddenly found that there were so many behemoths in his territory.

At this time, most of Shandong's army had been recruited by the imperial court to support Liaodong in the north, and Wang Gongbi knew that it was impossible to protect Shandong Province with Shandong's only strength, so he hurriedly asked Sun Chuanting for help.

(End of chapter)