Zhu Hong's good calculations, and the Qing army is not a fool. Yue Le is also a veteran of the battle formation, and he saw through Zhu Hongsan's tricks at a glance, so Yue Le led people to lurk to the north of Ansan Lake, just at the foot of the Taishan Mountain Range.

According to Yue Le's calculations, if the Ming army wanted to escape into the mountains, then he would go the opposite way, attack the Ming army from the north, drive the Ming army into the East Henan Plain, and at the same time, after defeating the Ming cavalry, Wu Sangui's department could outflank the Ming army in turn, so that Emperor Shenwu could not run at all. At the same time, on the plain, the cavalry of the Qing army was not afraid of the main force of the Ming army far away in Tai'an to come to the rescue.

But Yue Le understands, but people are not as good as heaven, he knows that Wu Sangui's 50,000 horses were defeated so quickly, and at the same time, the Ming army was even equipped with heavy cavalry, so Yue Le had no choice but to retreat to Dongpingzhou at the foot of the Taishan Mountains.

After Yao Qisheng's explanation, Zhu Hongsan found out that Yue Le had run into the place of death, that is, the Feicheng Basin in the Taishan Mountains. If there is a Baidu satellite map at this time, you can see that the Taishan Mountains are divided into two forks after passing Jinan, and then end in Dongpingzhou, so that a small basin is formed in the Feicheng area. This basin is centered on Feicheng, with Pingyin County to the west, Tai'an Province to the east, and Dongpingzhou to the south.

Zhu Hongsan is also a figure who has fought all his life, and he reacted when he heard Yao Qisheng say this, and asked: "Xizhi wants to say that as long as we hold Pingyin and Tai'an, we can close the door and fight the dogs, and completely annihilate Yuele's Qing army in Feicheng?" ”

Yao Qisheng nodded again and again: "What Your Majesty said is very true, but the east is not to guard Tai'an, but to guard Feicheng, and there is an official road to Jinan Mansion in the south of Feicheng, just in case it is safer to guard Feicheng!" ”

"This strategy is very good, Feicheng is only more than twenty miles away from Tai'an, and Zhao Guodong can arrive in one day, but who will guard this Pingyin?"

All the generals in the house are silent, who else can go? Only the emperor is the most suitable for you to go, and now the closest to Pingyin is the emperor himself, only one day away. But the emperor has just gone through a life-and-death battle, and his Praetorian Guard division has suffered heavy casualties, if he is unlucky enough to be killed by the Qing army in Pingyin, this black cauldron is not easy to carry, so the general in the house does not want to be this bird.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that he was the only candidate, and it was unlucky to guard Pingyin, but the temptation of annihilating the Manchu cavalry was too great. As long as Yue Le's cavalry is completely wiped out, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no mobile troops in Guanli, so they can only rely on the city wall to play positional warfare with themselves, and positional warfare is the strength of their own infantry.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan gritted his teeth and scolded: "You turtle bastards, don't you just want Lao Tzu to go to Pingyin to fill the pit in person?" Good! Lao Tzu promised you, Lao Tzu took the Praetorian Guard to fill the pit! ”

Hearing the emperor himself say this, all the generals and Wenchen breathed a sigh of relief, and said in unison: "Your Majesty is blessed with all the heavens, and you will definitely be able to meet the difficulties of Chengxiang!" ”

Zhu Hongsan looked at the group of Wenchen generals under him, and scolded in his heart: These bastards usually talk about the mountain sound one by one, what kind of death to repay the grace of the king, now they want to die one by one and don't speak! Zhu Hongsan thought of this and looked at Li Chengen beside him, and at the same time remembered that when the war was unfavorable, Li Chengen said that he wanted to die with him, Zhu Hongsan was moved in his heart: These stinky old nine are not as good as a dead eunuch, it seems that Li Chengen is still loyal!

Of course, even if Zhu Hongsan dies on the spot, those civil and military generals will not suffer any losses, and when the new emperor comes to power, they are still governors and generals, but eunuchs like Li Chengen are different, they rely on the imperial power to grow, as long as the emperor is changed, the eunuchs trusted by the previous emperor will not die well, this is the truth verified by more than 270 years in the Ming Dynasty. So in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor trusted these dead eunuchs the most.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the loyal Li Chengen and said, "Lao Li, you are very loyal, if Lao Tzu comes back alive this time, your nephew will go and be a county magistrate!" ”

Li Chengen's nephew Li Zhun is twenty-eight years old this year, and he has been idle, although he has a hereditary position of Jinyi Wei because of his uncle's relationship, but it is a pension title, and he has no political status. But the county order is not the same, it sounds like a seven-grade sesame official, but the county order is a first-level official position in the bureaucratic system, and being a county order is mixed into the system, and it is not comparable to any honorary title at all.

Li Chengen naturally knew what was important, and hurriedly knelt down to thank him, but some ministers in the emperor's house did not agree. Although the official position of the county order is small, it is a part of the system, and it has always been held by the Jinshi, if there is no Jinshi to raise people, it is okay, but no emperor personally said that he would let a Bai Ding go, and this Bai Ding is still the nephew of the Dongchang factory governor, this is still it!

Hou Sui, as a vested interest in the imperial examination system, must come out to speak at this time, and he stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Gonggong Li's nephew is Bai Ding, and he will serve as the county commander, this is not in harmony with the law!" Why don't you wait for next year's township exam to let Gonggong Li's nephew take the test, wouldn't it be better if he won the lift? ”

Hou Xun said it was already very tactful, and asked Li Zhun to take the township test, Li Zhun didn't talk about the township test, he couldn't pass the test when he was a child, and he didn't recognize the words of Douda, how could he take the exam? Hou Sui means to delay it first, wait until next year to get a reputation for Li Zhun, and it is okay to raise people and show talents, although the Ming Law stipulates that only people can be officials, but the matter is man-made, as long as it is not impossible to operate the show well.

But Zhu Hongsan's dog and bear temper came up to care about this, stood up and shouted: "Lao Tzu is going to die, and you still don't agree to Lao Tzu's request?" Good! Emperor Lao Tzu is inappropriate, Lao Tzu will go back to Wuchang and be a hooligan! ”

Hou Sui heard that Zhu Hongsan wanted to pick a son and not work, and he was very anxious, there were emperors in the Ming Dynasty who did not go to work, but there was no founding emperor who did not go to work, how could this be good!

Yao Qisheng listened to it on the side, he had been by the emperor's side for a long time, and knew that this emperor was very mixed, and if he was really going to make trouble, he would delay the big thing, so it was better to think of a compromise first.

Yao Qisheng thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, is this good?" Can Li Zhun be born as a jinshi, let him go to Guozijian to study first, and after a year and a half, he will be selected and transferred to the local county magistrate, does His Majesty think it is appropriate? ”

Yao Qisheng's method is also a good idea, first give you the status of a national civil servant, then go to the Central Cadre Academy to study, and wait until the rumors pass to give you a real county order, which is already the biggest concession made by the bureaucracy.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, and asked Li Chengen beside him, "Lao Li, are you satisfied?" ”

What else can Li Chengen say, and quickly kowtow to thank his nephew Li Zhun. Lee Seung-eun himself is a child, and he knows the exclusivity of the bureaucratic system, and today this is already the biggest concession, so Lee Seung-eun is still very satisfied from the bottom of his heart.

In fact, Zhu Hongsan's fight for the position of Li Chengen's nephew today is partly to thank Li Chengen for his loyal words, and partly to test the tolerance of the bureaucracy.

Of course, the result made Zhu Hongsan very disappointed, and in the end, Li Zhun had to enter the Guozijian first before he could become an official. On the surface, the emperor's wish has been fulfilled, but in essence, it is still the same as the selection of officials. Hou Sui usually looks like a good man, but when it comes to the basic interests of scholars, he also has to speak for his own class.

Zhu Hongsan thought about the current war, let's talk about this kind of thing later!

"Okay, I'll rest for one night, and I'll go to Pingyin tomorrow! Li Yuanyin, you and Zhao Hu set off now, don't give Yue Le a chance to breathe, and drive all the Qing troops into the Feicheng Basin! Yao Qisheng, you give an order to Zhao Guodong in the name of the Military Aircraft Department, and ask him to send two divisions to garrison Feicheng to prevent the Qing army from escaping! He also gave an order to Yu Yinggui, the governor of Liangjiang, to organize the fleet to go north again and deliver supplies! Han Sanqiang, you organize the manpower, see how much the slender man is still alive, let them try to salvage the sunken ship, gunpowder can't be used, but artillery, muskets, and supplies can still be used! ”

Zhu Hongsan's series of orders were issued, and all the generals and officials took their own positions and began to act one after another.

Han Sanqiang took the logistics department to organize the slender man to salvage the shipwreck, fortunately, Ansan Lake is now in the dry period, and the shipwreck is not far from the shore, most of the artillery and muskets were salvaged, and at the same time, several ships were not sunk, and the gunpowder on them was also intact, so that Zhu Hongsan's Praetorian Guard Division would replenish the supplies to half of the normal level, and they could fight a small battle.

Li Yuanyin and Zhao Hu continued to pursue the Qing army with their cavalry, and the Ming cavalry also fought for a day, but fortunately, their fighting intensity was not strong and they could still hold on.

Unlucky is the Qing army led by Yue Le, Yue Le originally planned to reorganize the army again after withdrawing ten miles, who knew that the Ming army was coming, and the Ming army did not know where to learn the rogue tactics. The Qing army ran in front, and the Ming army was chasing and releasing guns in the back. If the Qing army stops counterattacking, the Ming army will dismount and play with the big phalanx like a hedgehog, and then the heavy cavalry will give you a cold shot on the side. If the Qing army turned to the defensive, this was in line with the will of the heavy cavalry, and the heavy cavalry on the frontal battlefield would slaughter the infantry without fortifications, and then the dragoons would then expand the victory.

Yue Le had nothing to do under the rogue tactics of the Ming army, and all the tactics he would not use, so he had no choice but to fight and retreat, so he was slowly driven into the Feicheng Basin by the Ming army.

In this way, Yue Le retreated and fought under the harassment of the Ming army, and it was less than 300 miles from Anshan Lake to Feicheng, and Yue Le walked for 20 days. In the past 20 days, the Qing army suffered heavy losses, and Yue Le's 100,000 men and horses were left with less than 50,000, and even these 50,000 were wounded.

After learning that the front is Feicheng, Yue Le was overjoyed, no matter what, he finally came across a county seat, Feicheng is a historical city in Shandong, with a population of 50,000 or 60,000, although the harvest has not been good in recent years, but it is not a problem to supply the Qing army with a few meals.

Seeing the walls of Feicheng, Yue Le gave an order to encourage the soldiers: When the whole army enters Feicheng, you can take a three-day holiday, and everyone has a good rest! The holiday is just burning, killing, plundering, and the Qing army that was driven by the Ming army to run around naturally boosted their morale, and they accelerated the speed of their horses one by one and went to Feicheng.