After crossing the river, Yang Qing immediately left the First Guards Army and rushed forward along the national highway, and arrived in Chenzhou in three days by constantly changing horses.

Zeng Ying, the commander of the Tenth Army, brought him into the city.

Zeng Ying is a native of Fujian, Chongzhen moved to Chengdu with his father who was an official in Sichuan before crossing to the south, and then Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he followed the Sichuan governor Chen Shiqi to fight with Zhang Xianzhong, and he can be regarded as one of the most capable of fighting in the Sichuan army. Later, like Ma Gan, Yang Zhan and other Sichuan officials and generals who were unwilling to stay under Zhang Xianzhong, they led their troops to withdraw, and were reorganized and promoted to the control by Yang Qing.

Originally, after the death of Zhang Xianzhong in history, Sun Kewang and other Western troops went south, and he led the Ming army to meet the battle at Fotu Pass, and was killed by an arrow falling into the river.

At this time, the Qing army was already crossing the river in Yifeng.

Dai Shan's son, the newly lost Prince Kang's father Mandahai, led 3,000 Mongolian cavalry and 10,000 Eight Banners to cross the river on the solid ice on the Yellow River, building forts and cutting down wood to build pontoon bridges on both sides of the river, but did not continue to go deeper, but only to ensure this crossing point.

The Ming army also did not attack.

All the Huangzhuang militia along the Yellow River were withdrawn into the city of Kaifeng, which was rebuilt and rebuilt.

The latter was even built with a fortress.

However, the scale is much smaller than the past Kaifeng City, after all, the population is much smaller, the real fortress of the Ming army in this area is to return to Germany, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou and Weihui on the north bank, Qinyang, the core is still Zhengzhou, there is a real fortress group. These five fortresses accommodated 45,000 garrisons, 100,000 militiamen and more than 200,000 family members on this battlefield.

And the outside has been fortified and cleared.

Originally, there was nothing to plunder, it was nothing more than some wheat seedlings that had not yet returned to green, at most they were gnawed by the horses of the Mongolian cavalry, and they did not even affect the regrowth after the beginning of spring, but the Qing army, which could not plunder the grain, could only transport it from Kaizhou, that is, Puyang, to the front line.

In this cold winter, it is not easy to transport supplies from Puyang to Lankao when there are almost no roads, especially when the local Han people are passive and even run away. This problem has reached the point where it is uncontrollable, to put it bluntly, the people in the north are waiting for the Ming army to go on the Northern Expedition, and even some local heroes have lost confidence in our Qing Dynasty. The only thing the Qing army can really rely on is the gods, and in order to support our Qing crusade against the tyrants, some of the families of the gods participated in the transportation under the leadership of the elders. The scene of those women and children pushing wheelbarrows against the wind and snow, struggling forward in the vast wilderness is indeed embarrassing, for the sake of our Qing Dynasty, the divine army can be said to go all out.

Men should fight, women should be lucky!

If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, and the gods will be with the Qing Dynasty......

It's just that their enemies are eating canned whale meat and roasting the fire in the city!

The Lord Protector ordered a ban on sorties.

There's no need to go out and toss on this cold day!

In fact, the Ming army's ability to carry the cold is still a lot worse than that of the Qing army, which must be admitted, after all, the vast majority of these Ming troops came from the south, and they are not as good as those militias to adapt to the cold of winter.

In that case......

Then go ahead and eat the meat and roast the fire!

Anyway, it would take two months at most to restore navigation, and two months would not be enough time for them to eat up the reserves in these fortresses.

Just eat meat and drink wine openly.

The poor Qing army was blowing the cold wind mixed with snowflakes in the tent in the cold winter, eating the hard cakes sent by their wives and children for hundreds of miles, and their enemies were drinking wine and eating meat by the coal-burning stove!

How sad!

"Protector, the last general is a little strange, Jiannu has not really attacked so far, neither these who crossed the river nor those on the north bank have attacked. Yifeng's crossing of the river was also abnormal, and the most reasonable thing for them was to cross the river between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, quickly complete the encirclement of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, and then build a pontoon bridge to prepare for the next long-term attack. But it is very inexplicable to run to Yifeng to cross the river, and the main force of Hebei Duoduo has only advanced to the war zone, and there are still fifty miles away from Weihui, only their cavalry, especially the Mongolian cavalry, are wandering around, trying to find some remaining supplies from our abandoned Huangzhuang. ”

Zeng Ying said.

"Not only that, but today a group of Mongolian cavalry also ran to us, but after our cavalry attacked, they immediately fled, and there was no battle at all."

Li Zhanchun, the commander of the cavalry brigade next to him, said.

He is Zeng Ying's godson, and Yu Dahai is Zeng Ying's right-hand man, originally in history after Zeng Ying's death to take over his department, but still defeated Sun Kewang, and then fled into seclusion, the Qing army sent people to persuade him to surrender and was killed after refusing.

"That's fun!"

Yang Qing said with interest.

Obviously, Dolgon is not at ease, afraid of being put together by Li Zicheng, Yang Qing feels that it is very abnormal for Li Zicheng to take the initiative to jump out, of course Dolgon cannot not have this kind of awareness, Li Zicheng and him are the real enmity, but there is no enmity with Yang Qing. What if Li Zicheng had sinister intentions, dangled a false shot, lured him to take the initiative to attack, and then sat on the side and watched the tiger fight and waited for the Ming army to beat him violently? Anyway, Li Zicheng just said that he wanted to ask the sin of Nandu, but the Shun army has not left the country so far, in case Dolgon here makes a move, and he returns to Chang'an with the army on his side, then Dolgon is not a question of who to cry to, and the Qing army that is alone in the deep will be drawn into a dog by the encircled Ming army.

Dorgon didn't dare take any chances.

Dolgon is also waiting, he has to wait for Li Zicheng to really start a war with the Ming army, and wait for Li Zicheng to show sincerity with practical actions, otherwise he will easily lose if he rushes into the battlefield.

But Li Zicheng is also waiting.

Li Zicheng's 150,000-strong army was stationed in Luoyang, and so far not a single soldier has left the pass, and the Shun army of Shangzhou has only reached Wuguan, and the Hanzhong Sanjiedu Department has only responded to the call of the King of Qin, but has also not launched an attack.

The latter is normal.

Hanzhong Sanjiedu has secretly sent people to contact to see if they can defect to the battle, they will not really dare to attack Yunyang, at this time the Han River has not thawed, and it is impossible for them to go east. However, Li Zicheng's army on the Luoyang and Wuguan fronts has increased to 200,000, and he is still holding his troops, so it can only be explained by his unease with Dorgon. Their plan is actually to use the Qing army as cannon fodder, responsible for the siege of the city that is sure of a large number of deaths, and the Ming army is not easy to fight any of these fortresses on the northern front, and if you want to succeed in the active attack, you can only use human lives.

And Li Zicheng is the obstruction.

However, it is a fact that Dolgon can't break the Ming army fortress, so he can't get food, and in order to get the food he urgently needs, he can only choose to be this cannon fodder.

But what if he just wanted to see Li Zicheng and Yang Qing go to war? After all, for the Qing army, it is best to defend if they want to survive, attacking will only make them die faster, and their original strategy is to defend as much as possible. If Dolgon also just shook a shot to coax Li Zicheng and Yang Qing to fight, and he retreated to watch from the sidelines, then no matter what the outcome was, it would not be a bad thing for him......

At least it can make him breathe longer.

Two guys who were originally rivals, in order to survive the alliance formed by the last few people, it is impossible to have any mutual trust, and they will not hesitate to pit each other.

"Protector, it's better for us to take the initiative."

Zeng Ying said: "Jiannu riding the river made it clear that as soon as the situation was wrong, he immediately ran back to Kaizhou, since they don't trust each other, let's break each other, stabilize Li Zicheng and beat Jiannu first." The Guide garrison also crossed the river to attack it, let's attack it, Jiannu didn't run away, we were surrounded in Yifeng, if they escaped, it would be up to Li Zicheng to do it. ”

He meant to continue to tear the two families apart, and the Ming army would attack the Qing army first, and if Li Zicheng did not come out of Luoyang, then Dolgon would be even more uneasy.

Then the Qing army will be more cautious.

He is cautious, and Li Zicheng will follow suit.

In this way, everyone is waiting, and no one dares to do anything and drags it out until the river opens.

When the river opened, the Ming army beat them violently.

"Don't worry, I have to meet Li Zicheng first!"

Yang Qing said.

"Uh, Lord Protector, this is too dangerous!"

Zeng Ying said.

This is to play a single knife club!

But Guan Yu is just a town general, and his single knife will die at most is a loss, and the single knife of the protector will be at the risk of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

"Danger? It's not like I haven't done this before, I want to know now what Li Zicheng is doing, he wants to beat me to accompany him, and if he wants to act, he has to cooperate! ”

Yang Qing said.

Indeed, it wasn't like he hadn't done it before.

He was still very suspicious of Li Zicheng's true purpose.

It is very necessary for both sides to be frank, and he went directly to see Li Zicheng, which is undoubtedly the most frank, no matter what Li Zicheng wants to do, the two of them sitting together to talk is the best solution. If he really wants to fight, there is nothing to say, he has other purposes, and he is also honest with each other, so as to avoid the two sides from misjudging and leading to a real war.

In the end, Yang Qing still doesn't want to fight, he still wants to avoid this war as much as possible.

"Protector, it's better for the last general to go for you."

Zeng Ying said.

"You? What does Li Zicheng know about your surname? Don't worry, I want to go, no one in the world can stop me, I dared to see him alone in Yangzhou back then, let alone now! ”

Yang Qing said.

He's still very confident in that.

Not to mention that Li Zicheng's subordinates don't have the guts, even if they have the guts, it's no problem to retreat with his ability, but it can't reach this level, then Li Zicheng's entire army will have no way out. The Ming army is 400,000 elites, and millions of militia will fight them to the end, in fact, without Yang Qing at this time, the Ming Dynasty will continue to operate normally. After all, Her Majesty the Empress already has an heir in her belly, even if she gives birth to a girl, Yang Qing's cronies will keep this court running normally, and the huge Ming army will continue to bulldoze all enemies.

Besides, Li Zicheng doesn't know that he can restart on the spot even if he kills him.

In this case, Zeng Ying no longer stopped him, but it was still not possible to let the Duke of Huguo go alone, and then Li Zhanchun gathered his cavalry brigade, and on the second day of arriving in Chenzhou, Yang Qing embarked on a journey to Luoyang under the escort of more than 2,000 cavalry.