Of course, the Protector didn't know this, he didn't even know that this woman was Dong Xiaowan......

He really hadn't seen Dong Xiaowan.

Because of his evil behavior of robbing Li Xiangjun back then, Dong Xiaowan never dared to come to the door, at most, he sent a maid to send a letter to Li Xiangjun and these people, and these women occasionally get together for a meeting, this kind of thing is still very common, but he dressed himself up and sent it to the door......

Well, she's very guarded.

In this way, the protector of the country and her have always been on the same side.

And then tonight......

Nothing tonight either!

The protector of the country and the people enjoyed together, and on behalf of the empress, he rewarded candy to spend the Lantern Festival together, didn't he just send her a handful of candy! We are innocent between us, don't always think cranky, what wives are pregnant men and Sichun young women don't exist! However, Dong Xiaowan, who is actually only twenty-seven years old this year, still amazed the Protector more or less, so much so that the steam car drove more than a dozen steps, and he looked back again, but the beauty had disappeared in the sea of people, and the Protector could only look back in amazement......

"Protector, that's Dong Xiaowan!"

Jin Yiwei, a cronie next to him, said cautiously.

"I'm looking for those two men!"

Protecting the country is righteous and righteous.

"The one who looks stronger is Xie Yuan Fang Yizhi of Nanzhili Medical College, and the other one is Dong Xiaowan's husband Mao Xiang."

The cronies said.

"Didn't there be another of the four sons of the Restoration Society back then?"

Yang Qing said.

"Back to the Duke of the Protector, there is also a Chen Zhenhui, who was mistakenly involved in the Zhu Shuren case before, but he was released after the trial of Dali Temple, and he was also in the liberal arts move to Beijing this time."

The cronies said.

Chen Zhenhui and Chen Yutai were both released, and the trial presided over by Shi Kefa was still very fair, they were originally caught in the trap by mistake, and Chen Yutai also took the opportunity to climb the relationship with the protector. As the champion of the year, he was re-activated by the Ministry of Officials, and it happened that a prefect was vacant, and he was already satisfied with his post, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

"Prosperity will eventually return to dust!"

Yang Qing sighed like a melancholy poet.

The name of the Restoration Society has come to a complete end, and even Chen Zilong, the former boss of the Restoration Society, is too busy with official business to pretend to be forced, and the once famous sons and prostitutes have all returned to the ordinary one after another, maybe this is their true face.

The only one who can really stand the test here is Fang Yizhi.

Others......

It's all blown!

It's just that the literati are touting each other, whether it is Hou Fangyu, who offered us a plan to dig the Yellow River, or the turtle-like adventure to open up the territory, even if it is Chen Zhenhui, who pretends to be an old man, he still does what he does without talent, and he is undoubtedly far away from the countryman. Chen Zhenhui is just a seclusion, he was very heroic in writing "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos and Public Exposure", scolding Ma Shiying when he was brave and fearless, and when the Qing army came, he could only shrink in the hut to find a few friends to drink and secretly scold.

He also knew that public scolding would cut off his head.

However, because of the monopoly of written records, future generations will only know their deeds, and those who are really fighting to the death for the nation are mostly lost in the yellow sand because there is no record.

It has even been misrepresented as a traitor.

History is like this, and what is recorded in the history books is not necessarily true, it is not a record of the truth, it is only a record of what those who control the right to record want future generations to know. The peach blossom fan records a tear-jerking love, but it will not tell future generations that the male protagonist did not hesitate to instigate the latter to dig the Yellow River to flood the Qing rebels in order to flatter the alien race. It is also not recorded that after the heroine married into his family, she was immediately driven to Chai Yuan, and the children she gave birth to were not allowed to be surnamed Hou, and then died of hunger and cold within a few years.

See, that's the real thing.

At this time, an officer hurriedly walked down from the city wall not far away, took out the waist card of the staff headquarters and showed it to both sides, and the policeman who maintained order quickly stepped forward and blew a whistle to separate the crowd for him, and led him straight to the steam car.

"Protector of the country, urgent military situation!"

He said.

After speaking, he handed an official document to Yang Qing.

No one around immediately spoke, all of them looked at Yang Qing with wide eyes, and the Protector opened the official document and glanced at it, then raised his head and looked around, with puzzled eyes all around......

"People, there is someone who is not trying to use his mantis arm as a car, how should we deal with him?"

Yang Qing suddenly shouted.

"Beat him!"

"Stomp him to death!"

……

There was an exuberant roar.

"Very well, you sing and dance and dance, and I'm responsible for trampling him to death!"

Yang Qing held up the official document and said.

There was a roar all around......

Li Zicheng finally raised his army.

Li Zicheng swore in Chang'an ten days ago, and led 100,000 elite troops eastward, including 30,000 cavalry, on the pretext of asking the Son of Longxing what the crime was. The 10,000 main infantry and 40,000 commune soldiers of Yuan Zong's first division in Luoyang had already been assembled, and the war between the Qin domain and the Ming Dynasty officially began.

But this time, no one in Nanjing was afraid.

Because they had the real Great Wall, which was enough to protect them from all dangers, the fireworks continued in the Royal Street, and the city continued to sing and dance, except for the Protector to return to the palace.

Half an hour later the staff headquarters.

"Protector of the country, the cavalry army reported, Jiang Hao sent someone to report that 20,000 Mongolian cavalry, 20,000 Manchurian musket cavalry, and 100,000 Eight Banners infantry have been assembled in the Daimyo, Zhangde, and Kaizhou areas. Jiang Hao also received an order from Dolgon to go south out of Tianjing Pass on February 2, but Jiang Hao said that he did not dare to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and his 50,000 troops would attack Handan east as long as the Protector gave an order. He also said that he did not dare to be an enemy of the imperial court when he surrendered to Jiannu, but only wanted to use the hand of Jiannu to force Li Zicheng to return to his teacher to relieve the danger of Nanjing. ”

Yang Qing's new assistant to the chief of staff, Zhang Guowei's son Zhang Shifeng said.

The General Staff Headquarters is a group of second-generation people.

Not only the military general system, but also the second generation of the civil official system, even if it is from the Donglin department, Zhang Guowei was indeed Yang Qing's political enemy before, and he has already admitted defeat and withdrawn at this time. But Zhang Guowei's influence in Zhejiang, his protégé and former official system is still there, and letting Zhang Guowei's son be his assistant chief of staff is the same as letting Shi Kefa's heir be the same intention.

And Zhang Shifeng is also good.

Originally, in history, as a general soldier, he always followed his father Zhang Guowei to resist the Qing Dynasty, and after Zhang Guowei committed suicide after defeat, he and his generals refused to surrender and were beheaded by the Qing army in Hangzhou.

"Uh, so he's still meritorious? Then he didn't make a reasonable explanation for the betrayal of the first emperor in the first place? ”

Yang Qing said speechlessly.

"Not really!"

Zhang Shifeng said.

"Don't worry about him, he is nothing more than bargaining, he just wants an official position, if he is sensible, he will take the initiative to attack Handan, and I will save him from death in the future, if he is not sensible, he will trample to death together!"

Yang Qing said.

There is no need to give a good face to a pure warlord like Jiang Huang, he did die in anti-Qing, but it has nothing to do with the word loyalty, it is just an uneven distribution of spoils and internal strife, the Jiang family was an important accomplice of Jin merchants smuggling before, and the three general soldiers of the family are almost the emperor of Datong. Then he surrendered Li Zicheng and sold Chongzhen, then surrendered to the Qing army and sold Li Zicheng, and now he wants to sell Dolgon, this kind of goods can spare his life is already considered a preferential treatment, and he still wants to bargain so he will die.

Otherwise, Chongzhen's souls in the sky will be difficult to rest in peace!

It's not just Jiang Jiu.

The same is true for the three knots in Hanzhong.

These guys were all sold to Chongzhen back then, although they were not cleared this time, but it only saved them from the death penalty.

"February 2nd, it seems that this is the day when Li Zicheng and Dolgon will do it!"

Yang Qing looked at the map and said.

"Protector of the country, Vice President Wu asks how to deal with it?"

Zhang Shifeng said.

The core of this war was on the battlefield of Zhengzhou and Weihui, and Wu Guogui was under the command of the Xuzhou Metropolitan Division, the deputy commander of the Metropolitan Department and the cavalry army, and ruled this relatively isolated salient department, and withstood the attacks from the Shun army and the Qing army, and even Jiang Xuan's department. If the Yellow River was unblocked, he would have a steady stream of supplies and rescues, but now that the Yellow River is frozen and even if it opens, it will have to pass the flood season first, and he will have to be isolated for at least two months. Although there were still old official routes to the north of Chenzhou, this transportation line was not enough to support the advance of reinforcements and the decisive battle after arrival, and it could not stop Li Zicheng's cavalry attack.

This is the age of firearms.

To a large extent, the war is about logistics, and even if an army continues to fight, it cannot be supported by the old official road transportation, and even if there are four-wheeled carriages, it is difficult to do.

"Hold on, send orders to all places, whether it is in the face of Jiannu or Li Zicheng's attack, all of them are not allowed to attack, everyone in Huangzhuang retreats into the nearby fortress, the outside is strong, a grain of grain and a livestock are not allowed to stay, and when the thaw is thawed, it is time for us to counterattack!"

Yang Qing said.

That's what his Henan buffer zone does.

This buffer zone hundreds of miles deep has only a population of hundreds of thousands, and it is all Huangzhuang with the neighboring fortress as the core, and all the people who can eat outside are evacuated to the fortress with an order, and then rely on the materials stored in the fortress to hold on. As long as the winter freezes are over, the Ming army will bulldoze all enemies like a dormant monster that has awakened, and by that time the attackers are exhausted under the strong fortresses, there is no plunder, the food is basically exhausted, and the Ming army, which relies on the river to fight back, is almost devastated.

And the Huai River is the bottom line of this strategy.

As long as the enemy army does not pass the Huai River, Henan will be used to destroy it.

This strategy is very ancient, from the Wuhu to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the south has been doing this, but the latter's strength does not necessarily realize this established strategy. If it is realized, it will be a wild victory in the battle of Zhongli, and if it cannot be realized, Tuoba Tao will stand on Guabu Mountain and pretend to be forced.

Of course, Li Zicheng does not have the possibility of pretending to be forced on Guabu Mountain.

"It's time for me to meet him personally!"

Yang Qing said.

He was going to Chenzhou in person to meet Li Zicheng's main force.