Wang Yan was in high spirits, and the generals behind him also laughed loudly, but after laughing, everyone looked at the ancient capital of several dynasties in China, and saw that the city was more than three zhang high, the moat outside the city was wide, and there were low walls to resist horses and antler pits, and the supporting facilities of the city body were also extremely perfect, and there were many urn cities, enemy platforms, horse faces, and arrow towers, and there were 40,000 Qing soldiers in the city.

Such a big city, except for Nanjing, is rarely able to match it in the world.

The circumference of Luoyang City alone is more than 20 miles, and it is really necessary to attack it, according to the art of war, the Ming army is afraid that it will take 200,000 troops in order to gnaw Luoyang City in a short time.

Li Guo saw that Wang Yan was full of confidence, and while pulling the reins, he asked, "What is Your Highness's good plan to take down this Luoyang City?" So that the grade has a base in mind. ”

When he was a thief, Chongzhen followed Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng into Luoyang in eight years, but was defeated by the official army, when Chongzhen was fourteen years, the Ming Dynasty was already the end of the strong crossbow, Li Zicheng was wrapped in millions, and attacked Luoyang again, but also because of the surrender of Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai in the Ming Dynasty, and the unpopular Fu Wang, so Luoyang was broken.

In his opinion, with the strength of the Qing army in Luoyang, I am afraid that it will not be easy to fight.

Although the generals echoed Wang Yan, but after thinking about it, they didn't seem to have come up with a strategy to break the city quickly.

At this time, although the Ming army had a huge advantage, the Qing army did not seem to have reached the point where the wall was pushed down by 10,000 people and the drums were beaten by 10,000 people.

The last straw that crushed the Qing army has not yet appeared, and the Qing army seems to be ready to fight.

If the Ming army can defeat the main force of the Qing army in the Central Plains, then the entire north will inevitably fall to the wind. Now the Qing army still has a large army of nearly 300,000, Manchu and Mongolian and Liaodong Han generals, and also has a large number of troops, and it seems unlikely that there will be a situation of surrender without a fight.

Therefore, when everyone heard Li Guo's question, they all looked at the king of Chu, wanting to hear how His Royal Highness would break the enemy.

Wang Yan looked at the majestic Luoyang City, but said with a smile: "The matter of the battle formation lies in promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses. And the siege is the bottom, and the heart is the top. Now our dynasty is internally stable, the national strength is strong, the materials are abundant, the capture of Luoyang is not in a hurry, but Dolgon is not good, he now has Shanxi is uncertain, Hebei people are turbulent, and the money and food are exhausted, there is a lonely king army outside the border, he will seek a quick battle. When the Lone army is approaching the city, he will inevitably return to the division to rescue, wanting to defeat the Lone King first, solve the threat from the south, and then calmly quell the rebellion in Shanxi! ”

Wang Yan said, raised his horsewhip and drew half a circle around Luoyang, and said with a smile: "But the lonely king will not let him get his wish, just wait for the Dolgon army to enter Luoyang, this king will be on the bank of the Yishui River, Yique, Wan'an Mountain, Longmen Pass to take down the fortified village, delay time, on the one hand to use the advantage of the country's money, food and materials to consume the Qing army, on the other hand, wait for the East Route Army to take Xuzhou, outflank Kaifeng Tiger Prison, trap the main force of the Qing army in Heluo, and then fight with the Qing in the field, defeat its main force in a battle, then Luoyang can go down without a fight!" ”

Li Guo and others understood that Wang Yan meant to lead the main force of the Qing army to Heluo, but the Ming army took advantage of resources and national strength to deliberately delay the decisive battle, and waited for the Qing army's material consumption to be almost the same, and after the Eastern Route Army took Xuzhou and outflanked it, it would fight with the Manchu Qing with 300,000 people.

As long as the Ming army won the battle and defeated the main force of the Qing army, the Qing army in Luoyang City had only two ways: surrendering and abandoning the city and fleeing, and the Ming army did not have to attack Luoyang City.

When he told these words to the generals around him, everyone felt that this battle did not seem to be difficult to fight, and the Ming Dynasty was crushed by national strength.

Everyone nodded, but Li Dingguo opened his mouth to remind: "The key to Your Highness's strategy is the word "stability", but I want to remind you that if Dolgon is a large army to come back, he will definitely not sit still, and the Qing army will definitely storm the camp, and harass our army's food road, forcing our army to fight a decisive battle!" ”

Wang Yan bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Dingguo is right, so the Lone King chose to settle down the fortified village along Yique, Wan'an Mountain, and Longmen Pass, and the grain road is guarded by the rampaging horse army, which will inevitably ensure the supply of the army!" ”

Wang Shixiu, Zhao Shenkuan, Tan Tai and other generals of the horse army immediately clenched their fists, "Your Highness, rest assured, we will ensure that the grain road is unblocked, and we will not let the Qing cavalry approach the grain road." ”

Wang Yan nodded in satisfaction, and at this moment, behind the hillside where they were, countless Ming troops began to appear in the wilderness.

On the city wall, Shang Kexi, who was peeking at Wang Yan and his party, suddenly heard an exclamation around him, he hurriedly put down the clairvoyant mirror, only to see a blurry figure in the distance, he immediately picked up the clairvoyant mirror again, and the circular vision scanned the wilderness.

At this time, he saw that within the range of sight, there was a sea of people, and it was not enough to describe the prosperity of the Ming army.

The Qing army on the city stood at the head of the city, and as far as the eye could see, there was a piece of saucer helmet moving, and the Ming army was like a rolling red cloud.

In the sea of people, the banners of the various departments of the Ming army hunted in the cold wind, such as the spear of the forest, the reflected cold mang, like the sparkling sea, Luoyang City seemed to be submerged by the sea.

140,000 Ming troops, rolling like a tide, so many people, what is worth fearing for them, not to mention Luoyang City, even the Yellow River can also be crossed.

Wang Yan only left Hao Shaoqi to lead 10,000 people, and then gathered more than 20,000 soldiers to defend the direction of Hanzhong, and the elite army in Hubei can be said to be pouring out.

The army advanced slowly, relying on momentum alone to overwhelm the Qing army at the head of the city, clenching their weapons one by one, looking outside the city, and then looking at the comrades around them, trying to find a sense of security from them, but seeing everyone's faces, there was a look of panic.

The Ming army was like a red blanket, covering the wilderness south of Luoyang City.

The cavalry led by him walked to the back of the hillside where Wang Yan was stationed, and suddenly waved his hand, and the carpet that was wriggling forward stopped.

There were so many people, but there was no sound, only the creaking of soldiers in the snow, and the snorting of war horses.

Shang Kexi looked at the scene in front of him, his heart had sunk, but the Ming army did not stay in the city for a long time, and after showing up a little, he retreated from the village.

The Qing army in the city was taken aback by the Ming army, and hurriedly grasped the preparations for defense, they collected artillery, made artillery carts, arrows, gunpowder, sent troops to the city wall, and strengthened patrols day and night, while the Ming army except for the sentry cavalry to reconnoiter the deployment of troops in the city, and counted the number of enemy platforms and arrow towers, horse faces, and artillery on the city, but there was no Koucheng, and even did not carry out siege operations.

Shang Kexi sent people out of the city to investigate, and found that the Ming army had its back to Wan'an Mountain and set up a long camp, and it seemed that there was no intention of attacking Luoyang.

At the end of February, the main force of the Qing army, which Wang Yan was waiting for, finally entered Heluo.

When Dolgon heard that the army was approaching Luoyang, he personally led an army of 70,000 troops south from Taiyuan Starry Night, and arrived at Huaiqing Mansion on the other side of Luoyang in less than eight days, and then crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin and rushed to the outside of Luoyang City.

When he learned that the Ming army had gone down the mountain and did not attack Luoyang, Dolgon had insight into Wang Yan's intentions at a glance, but he had already been unable to ride a tiger, so he could only mobilize the elite and seek to fight Wang Yan and break the enemy quickly.

Dolgon immediately gave an order to Doni stationed in Kaifeng, asking him to leave 10,000 people to guard Kaifeng, lead 20,000 people, and then transfer 10,000 people from the Tiger Prison Pass to Luoyang to find a decisive battle with the Ming army.

In this way, together with the 40,000 Qing troops in Luoyang City, the forces seeking a decisive battle were gathered under Luoyang City, reaching 145,000 people, which was the same as the strength of the Ming army.

At the same time, in order to help the Qing State win the war and maintain the current situation of three points, Meng Qiaofang, the king of Yongping of the Jin Kingdom, also led 40,000 troops, and Haoge allocated another 10,000 from Taiyuan, a total of 50,000 people, and rushed to Luoyang in two ways to participate in the battle.

At this point, the two warring sides were basically in place, and Wang Yan, the king of Chu on the Ming side, led 140,000 people against the combined army of the Manchu regent Dolgon and the king of Yongping of the Jin state.

This war, which has a bearing on the direction of the world, will break out in the heart of China.

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