"What does Shen Lian eat? Such important information can't be discovered? Yu Feng said angrily.

Li Yi shook his head: "You can't blame Shen Lian, if Hong Chengchou deliberately set a trap, he would definitely set up all kinds of ecstasy arrays, and it is normal not to find them for a while." Now that Shen Lian is trapped in Jinan City, I only hope that he can send out the information of the green battalion soldiers in the city as soon as possible! ”

"What shall we do? Are you still storming the city of Jinan? Yu Feng asked.

"How can you attack if you don't know the enemy's situation? Most of your men are cavalry, and send more people to find out where Hong Chengchou's army out of the city is hiding. The army brought out by Hong Chengchou is more than 100,000, and it is not easy to escape the detection of our army's spies, and it must be far away now, just waiting for our army to attack the city and stalemate before suddenly killing it! If our army doesn't do it, he will definitely continue to wait! ”

Li Yi sneered: "In this case, let him wait a few more days, anyway, our army has enough food and grass, and all the clothes and quilts to keep out the cold are enough, let's see who consumes whom?"

Since Hong Chengchou fought our army's idea, there were not many green battalion soldiers who went to Jiaodong, so the prince would definitely be able to defeat the remaining Qing army in Dengzhou soon and join Wu Ping. immediately sent someone to the north to detour to Jiaodong, but reported to the prince that it may not be long before the prince can lead the army back, and then it will be Hong Chengchou's death! “

This time the dispatch of troops seems to be hasty, in fact, Chen Yue has been secretly preparing, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Fengyang, Jiangbei Sanfu did not collect taxes and silver according to the custom, but collected grain. Tens of thousands of cotton cloths and a large amount of cotton were purchased from Songjiang, in order to prepare winter clothes for the soldiers who were recruited, and until half a year after the training of recruits in Jiangxi, in addition to the combat experience, other aspects were no different from the Pingnan Army in the past, Chen Yue felt that he would send troops to the Northern Expedition.

And for the sake of the suddenness of the Northern Expedition, he still chose to send troops before Enke's division, not to mention that the Manchu court could not think of it, but the vast majority of people in the Ming court also did not think of it.

Therefore, Li Yi, who is rich in materials, is not afraid of fighting a protracted war at all.

Back in the camp, Li Yi ordered to strengthen the camp defense of the two camps, dig deep trenches outside the camp, increase the height and strengthen the camp wall, and put on a posture of guarding the city for the winter.

......

At the head of Jinan City, Li Chengdong, who should have left with Hong Chengchou, stood quietly at the head of the city, looking at the camp of the Ming army in the distance.

It has been two days, but the Ming army has not attacked Jinan at all, which makes Li Chengdong uneasy.

Li Chengdong proposed to Hong Chengchou that the whole army would attack Jiaodong in order to attract the Ming army from Liaocheng, and as a counselor, he was naturally entrusted with the important task of defending Jinan. Of course, Li Chengdong played the banner of Liu Zhongma Quan's second general in order to confuse the Ming army.

Could it be that his own plan was discovered by the Ming army? Looking at the direction of the Ming army camp that had no intention of attacking the city, Li Chengdong secretly calculated, in the cold winter weather, dripping water turned into ice, hiding behind the city wall and still couldn't stand the cold, the Ming army camp was standing in the field, if it wasn't aware of the intention, how could it be wasted there?

What to do? Originally, with the idea of consuming the strength of the Ming army in Jinan City, and then attacking inside and outside it in one fell swoop, but now the Ming army is shrinking in the camp outside the city and not attacking, if you want to defeat the Ming army, unless you take the initiative to attack, but then it will become your own attack and defense of the Ming army, and the Ming army has a solid camp, and it is not easy to defeat them!

"Lord Wang, are we sending troops out of the city to attack and lure the Ming army?" Hu Maozhen, the deputy general on the side, suggested.

"Tempt a fart! Our army is less than 20,000 people, the number of people sent out of the city is less, there is no threat to the Ming army, there are more troops sent, and there are more than the Ming army, and the Ming army is in the west and north of the city in two places into a corner, let's attack one of its camps, if the other place is sent troops, our army out of the city will be cut off the way back, maybe it will be wiped out! ”

Li Chengdong was upset, listened to Hu Maozhen's stupid suggestion, and couldn't help but scold.

Hu Maozhen's face turned pale when he was scolded, and he gritted his teeth and stepped aside.

Li Chengdong's righteous son Li Yuanyin glanced at Hu Maozhen sympathetically, and said to relieve the siege: "Father, in fact, what General Hu said is not unreasonable, if we don't send troops, what if the Ming army doesn't attack the city?" You must know that the army of Inspector Hong is also hiding in the wilderness a hundred miles away? If Chen Yue of Jiaodong leads his troops to kill, it will be troublesome! ”

Glancing at Yizi dotingly, Li Chengdong sighed: "I didn't know that delaying time was not good for us." However, the major affairs of the country of soldiers must not be neglected. The Ming army may just be making siege equipment such as ladders, preparing for the siege, and then attacking the city when it is fully prepared.

Besides, the Ming army may not have discovered the vision in the city! In order to keep the Ming army, how much preparation did this king and Hong Inspector make, that is, our army is also under the banner of Liu Zhong and Ma Quan, plus the four gates of Jinan are closed, and the internal and external transportation is cut off, how can the Ming army easily know the vision in the city? We were originally pretending to be Liu Zhong and Ma Quan's very weak combat effectiveness and belly army, how could such an army dare to go out of the city to provoke the Ming army? If we do this, wouldn't it be clear that the Ming army is not a weak soldier in the city? ”

"Father is wise!" Li Yuanyin said admiringly.

Li Chengdong waved his hand, "Wait for two more days, you go down first, this king has to think about it." ”

"Yes!" Li Yuanyin and the generals left the city one after another, leaving Li Chengdong alone to face the hunting north wind.

"General Hu, General Hu go slowly!"

After Li Yuanyin went down to the city, he chased after Hu Maozhen, who was in advance.

Hu Maozhen stopped the war horse and looked at Li Yuanyin with a cold face, "I don't know what the little prince commands?" ”

Li Yuanyin smiled bitterly and said: "General Hu must not be sarcastic about the little nephew, what a little prince, my father has his own son, and this throne will not be my turn to inherit it anyway." ”

Hu Maozhen's face softened: "Yuan Yin, you grew up with Uncle Hu, you are a good boy, and you know Uncle Hu's temper, but today, the prince is too disgraceful to Uncle Hu!" ”

Li Yuanyin said with a smile: "Since they are all old brothers, my father treats Uncle Hu and you as his own, so he speaks more casually, now the Ming army is besieging the city, and the king of Qi Chen Yuebing is in Jiaodong, and the pressure on his father is too great, and sometimes he rushes when he speaks, Uncle Hu, don't be surprised!" ”

Hu Maozhen nodded: "Uncle Hu knows, I don't blame him......"

"It's cold, please go back to the camp early, and I'll invite Uncle Hu to drink in the evening!" Li Yuanyin smiled and clenched his fists, watching Hu Maozhen leave.