The people who are now followed by Zhu Hongsan are all civil ministers, and they are all newly attached civil ministers, these people have superior administrative ability, but military ability is not good. Hou Sui was a governor back then, but his strength was logistics coordination and selection of talents, and Hou Sui was not good at real marching operations. It is precisely because of this that there is no one with military ability around Zhu Hongsan, which makes Zhu Hongsan so nonsense. If Zhu Hongsan is now surrounded by people with military experience such as Li Zhi and Zhang Jiayu, he must not let Zhu Hongsan use any fire attack strategy.

Zhu Hongsan is the emperor, and the emperor's words are holy decrees, so Zhu Hongsan gave an order, and all his subordinates began to prepare for an ambush on the peaks around the official road.

Zhu Hongsan's strategy was very simple, that is, at the exit of the official road, bury gunpowder on the cliff, and then blow up the mountain rocks to block the road ahead, and then learn from Zhuge Liang to throw flammable things into the valley and burn these Qing troops to death.

After all the preparations were made, Zhu Hongsan led people to ambush on both sides of the valley, waiting for the arrival of the Qing army. But after waiting for half a month, there was no news from the Qing army, and Zhu Hongsan once thought that Li Yuanyin was powerful and wiped out the Qing army in Feicheng, but he didn't expect that the Qing army would come half a month later.

Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed when he learned that the Qing army had entered the valley, and he was overjoyed to see that Lao Tzu also played a fire to burn the company camp!

The official road of Pingyin was not very long, only more than twenty miles in the valley, and soon the Qing army fell in front of them. Seeing that the Qing army had entered the ambush circle, Zhu Hongsan gave an order to blow up the mountain rock in the mountain pass and block the advance path of the Qing army.

Zhu Hongsan stood on the peak of the mountain and saw the success of his strategy, and laughed and said: "Yue Le, you bastard, you almost beat your Lao Tzu out of shit in Anshan Lake, this time Lao Tzu burned you!" Come on, set fire! "Someone on the side of the Ming army quickly threw the collected firewood and grass into the valley and set it on fire!

Yue Le just saw that the road ahead was blocked, and he was in a hurry, this is the end, 50,000 of his own people will be buried here! But Yue Le calmed down and looked around, and was overjoyed, finally not having to die!

It turns out that Shandong is different from Sichuan, Shandong has tens of millions of people in the province in peacetime, Pingyin is close to Jinan, and it is also a place where the canal passes, and the population is very dense. Although the population in the Taishan Mountains is not as large as the plains, there are quite a few, and there are still a few small roads in the mountains that can be passed in addition to the official roads.

Yue Le saw a few paths that stretched up the mountain, Yue Le was overjoyed in his heart, and shouted: "Daishan, you take a thousand people, go up the mountain from this path, and catch the dog emperor for Lao Tzu!" ”

In fact, Zhu Hongsan has blocked some paths, but his manpower is too small, and he has only found more than a dozen paths in the past half a month, and there are still many paths hidden in the grass that have not been found. The Qing army had a large number of people on this side, coupled with the explosion of potential at the moment of life and death, they found a few paths on the steep cliff, and some people climbed the cliff one after another and rushed towards Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan originally thought that it should be like in the play, the fire was together, and all the Qing troops were burned to death, and then he became an emperor like Li Shimin and was admired by later generations. But who thought that the ending was different from what he thought, the Qing army was able to climb the cliff, Zhu Hongsan was frightened and hurriedly shouted: "Come on, escort!" ”

At this time, the Qing army had climbed up with five or six thousand people, and Zhu Hongsan's side sent eight thousand people out of order to ensure that there were people on the entire official road to prevent fire, and now there are less than 1,000 people around Zhu Hongsan. Under the leadership of Han Sanqiang, these people firmly surrounded Zhu Hongsan in the middle to protect them, preparing to deal with the Qing army that rushed up.

Although the Qing army has a large number, after all, they have not had a good rest in the past half a month, and they have not eaten a proper meal, and at the same time, because they are climbing the cliff, the weapon is only a short knife, and it is not enough to look at the Ming army armed to the teeth, Zhu Hongsan looks critical, but there is no danger to his life.

Yue Le's personal soldier captain saw that there were not many Ming troops on the mountain pass, so he hurriedly asked people to go outside to move the rocks away and let the Qing army team leave.

At this time, Li Yuanyin's Ming army was killed in the back, and for a while, the Qing army couldn't care about the emperor who captured Zhu Hongsan, and moved the mountain pass and rocks away, and most of the Qing troops who were surrounded in the valley escaped.

Zhu Hongsan stood on the top of the mountain and saw Yue Le fleeing from the valley with more than 20,000 people, bypassing Pingyin County, and fleeing in the direction of Dongchang Mansion. Books are so fucking dead!

In fact, if Zhu Hongsan didn't do these tricks, honestly guarded Pingyin County, and used artillery to block the exit of the valley, Yue Le would not have been able to escape with so many people. But who knows what Zhuge Liang Zhu wants to learn and what tricks he has to do, now Yue Le fled with most of the Manchurian Eight Banners and some Mongolian nobles, leaving a lot of trouble for solving Dongchang Mansion in the future.

Although there were some flaws in the end of the Central Plains War, the main purpose of the campaign was achieved, all the 150,000 mobile troops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were wiped out, and the more than 20,000 people taken by Yue Le only fled the battlefield on foot, and the horses and baggage were all lost in Pingyin. Now there are only a few fortified cities left in the entire Central Plains battlefield that are still in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, that is, Liaocheng in Dongchang Mansion on the canal, Zhangde Mansion in Henan, and Jinan Mansion in Shandong. There are still more than 100,000 Qing troops in these three fortified cities, but most of these people are the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the new annexed army of the previous Ming Dynasty, and their combat effectiveness is completely incomparable with Yue Le's 150,000 cavalry, and it is only a matter of time before these three cities are breached.

The emperor was in Pingyin, and in the next few days, several major army leaders of the Eastern Route Army rushed to Pingyin to meet the emperor. Zhu Hongsan has also been very depressed these days, because of his sake, he let go of tens of thousands of Qing troops and Yue Le, Zhu Hongsan is not worried about the tens of thousands of Qing troops, he is worried about Yue Le. Zhu Hongsan knows that this guy is not simple, and if he lets him go now, he may make some trouble in the future. But things have happened, how can there be regrets taking medicine, Zhu Hongsan has no choice but to accept the reality.

After resting for a few days, Zhu Hongsan passed on the holy decree and asked several military leaders to visit him in his camp to study what to do next.

In addition to Li Yuanyin's cavalry, there were a total of seven divisions in the Northern Expedition, and two divisions did not come in Tai'an, and the others came. Several division commanders, led by Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong, entered the big tent to meet Zhu Hongsan.

Everyone knows that because of the emperor's great achievements, Yue Le and more than 20,000 Qing troops were released, but no one is a fool, and they all bowed their heads and did not speak after entering the big tent.

In the end, it was the old fritter Hou Sui who spoke first, and he said: "Your Majesty, the Central Plains War has finally ended, and all the mobile cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains have been wiped out, what should I do next?" "Hou Sui is very good at talking, and only picks good things to say, has the Manchu cavalry been wiped out? As for Yue Le's run, it was just an elbow and armpit problem, and it couldn't affect the overall situation at all.

Zhu Hongsan's face softened a lot when he heard Hou Sui say this: "What Mr. Hou said is very right, there are 300,000 troops brought by Jierharang, and now 150,000 have been wiped out, and the remaining troops are only distributed in the three cities of Zhangde, Liaocheng, and Jinan!" These three cities are a stumbling block for our army to go north, so I decided to take these three cities, and then go north to Tianjin to attack Shuntianfu! ”

Everyone knows that this time is probably the last big war, as long as these three cities are resolved, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no vitality in the pass, and can only withdraw from Shanhaiguan, and then he and others will be the great heroes of Zhongxing Daming. All the teachers present here are teachers, and they are full of excitement when they think that they will be able to be crowned princes and marquis like Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong and others at the time of the founding of the country in the near future.

Zhu Hongsan looked at his generals and said, "Jinan is handed over to Zhao Guodong, you take three divisions with you, you must not let Jierharang escape!" Liaocheng of Dongchang Mansion is handed over to Qian Yong, you take two divisions to ensure the smooth flow of the canal supply line! Zhangde handed over to Ma Kun, and the news from Jinyiwei that they had crossed the Yellow River in Kaifeng, and they would be able to reach Zhangde in ten days! Li Yuanyin and Zhao Hu, you take the cavalry to Dezhou, and you must not let the Qing soldiers retreat to Tianjin, do you know? ”

The generals hurriedly stood up and bowed down to receive the order, Zhu Hongsan sighed and said: "As for me, I am a little tired for more than a month, and I am waiting for your good news here in Pingyin!" ”

Zhu Hongsan originally had some confidence in himself, and felt that even if he was not as good as the military genius Li Shimin, at least he was better than Zhu Yuanzhang, who was asking for food. But after this Central Plains War, I found that I was not the material to lead the troops to fight at all, I was good at strategy, and the tactics were a little worse, just like Zhao Kuangyin! Because Zhu Hongsan realized his shortcomings, he decided not to make trouble, but to hand over the military to professionals, and he just had to be his own emperor. Didn't Han Xin say to Liu Bang, I can generalize, but the king can general. I, Zhu Hongsan, will be the general!

Zhu Hongsan ordered all the generals to be very happy in their hearts, they all knew that the emperor liked to command blindly, but it was not okay not to obey the order, now it was okay, and he could finally let go of his hands and do it.

After the meeting, everyone began to move, and Zhao Guodong returned to Tai'an with his second division, where there were still two divisions, which were all his troops to attack Jinan.

Jinan is guarded by Jierharang, with a total of 80,000 Qing troops, in addition to the 50,000 Han army and eight banners, there are more than 30,000 local troops, and Zhao Guodong has only 45,000 people. However, the combat effectiveness is not simply the sum of the numbers, Zhao Guodong's subordinates are the army that confronts the Manchus in Yangzhou all the year round, and the combat effectiveness is the crown of Zhu Hongsan's group, and it is precisely because of this that Zhu Hongsan can rest assured that the task of attacking Jinan will be handed over to Zhao Guodong.

Zhao Guodong returned to Tai'an to convey the emperor's order, and his subordinates were also very happy, but Jiang Pengju, the commander of the second division, asked: "My lord, Jinan is a strong city, and it is difficult to break through the city wall with our army artillery alone!" ”