Beginning in September, the first part of the Fu Han Army suddenly came out of Nanyang, broke through Fancheng and approached Xiangyang, and the whole of Hubei was shaken.

At this time, the eyes of the whole world were focused on Huai'an, focusing on the '50,000' Qing army in the south, no one thought that the turtle-like Henan Fuhan army would be killed violently, and the Huguang official mansion was taken by surprise.

Just as no one would have thought that Lu Xi's Mixed Yuan Doctrine Army was so bold and shameless that he would go to the point of drawing Confucius, in the last few days of early September, the portrait of Confucius with a money rattail was sprinkled on the battlefield by the Mixed Yuan Doctrine Army, and the secret camps in Shandong also took the opportunity to post that kind of portrait in various towns and cities in Shandong in the name of the Mixed Yuan Doctrine Army.

Although many of the portraits are quite rough, because it is impossible for this thing to be sent to the hidden camps of every state and every prefecture, only a few key state capitals and local stations have wooden block engraving molds, and the others are hand-painted, so many portraits are seriously out of shape, and even if the old Confucius in it is not marked with a name, no one will realize that it is the old Confucius Confucius.

The Confucian family in Qufu wept and wept, and several generations ran to the Dacheng Hall to kowtow and howl, and some of the elders of the Kong clan vomited blood and cried in the Dacheng Palace. Although Kong Zhaohuan is just twenty-seven years old. At the same time, the Meng family in Zou County also cried bitterly in the Meng Temple, and the old Confucius was slapped in the face of the entire Confucian sect, which is the most vicious slander and the most spicy irony. Meng was also a member of Confucianism. But they were secretly glad in their hearts, because after the Mixed Yuan Sect had brought disaster to Old Master Kong, they did not extend their poisonous hand to Old Master Meng again.

After all, the Kong family inherited the famous title of Yan Shenggong, and the Meng family guarding the Yasheng Temple has only one hereditary doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, and there is more than one Meng family with such titles, such as the Yan family, the Zeng family, the Zhong family, the Duanmu family, the Dongye family, the Min family, etc., and there are already twelve families so far.

"Confucius is very beautiful, Mencius is very lonely". This is a figurative expression commonly used by the locals of Zoucheng. The Meng family has grievances and dissatisfaction in their hearts, and the status of the Meng family in Shandong is far inferior to the Confucian family in Qufu. But now they feel extremely happy. If the same fate falls on Mencius's head, they, the descendants of the Meng family, will have no shame to see the world again.

Because of Kong Zhaohuan's 'illness', the Kong family withdrew from the competition sequence in the battle for the minister of regimental training in Shandong, and soon this position fell to the ground. Chen Ming had also instructed the Shandong secret camp to assassinate Kong Zhaohuan and Liu Yong in order to provoke conflict, but now this plan has failed. So who is this person who got the Minister of Shandong League Training? He is, of course, Liu Yong.

Liu Yong, who is nearly fifty years old, is definitely qualified and qualified to serve as the minister of this regimental training, after the outbreak of Confucius's time, Liu Yong also rushed to Qufu as soon as possible, it is conceivable that Shandong Shilin will definitely be able to burst out of a powerful force for this matter, but this force is still in the gestation.

Of course, Liu Yong, who had just sat in the position of minister of regimental training, was also faced with a grim task, he had to summon a group of Shandong Lian Yong to cooperate with the Qing army in the south.

Confucius P Diagram !!

Chen Ming released a fierce beast, but he couldn't grasp the specific destructive power of this fierce beast. The only thing Chen Ming can be sure of is that when the P picture of Confucius spreads all over the world, there will be some scholars who will hate braids - the number will not be too many at first, and people will be ashamed of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. And the status of Confucianism among the people will also be greatly impacted, and this matter will dig a cornerstone on the foundation of Confucianism!

Now this matter has been brewing in Shandong, and then it will quickly spread in the base area of the Fu Han army, and 'soon' it will spread to the whole territory of Henan, the whole territory of Hebei, the whole of the north, and finally the whole of China, but these are not things that Chen Ming needs to face urgently, he needs to urgently face the Qing army in the south.

"Governor, the morale of the army is still ......, it's a bit of a problem."

Obviously, the soldiers of the Qing Army are approaching, but the soldiers in the team are still relaxed, and they don't seem to be able to raise their strength. Huang Jie, as the general who led the troops, can understand this feeling very well, and the Third Brigade is now lacking a sense of strength and urgency.

Chen Ming kept pacing in the room, what Huang Jie could see, why couldn't he 'see'? The morale of the army was not high, and the half-month recuperation did not seem to have allowed the troops to survive the 'war-weariness period'.

"Governor, in five days at the latest, the Tartars will be able to kill the Yellow River......" Chen Dawei said worriedly. The great enemy is coming, but the Fu Han army itself can't raise its high-pitched fighting spirit, how can people not be worried? Everyone here today is anxious.

"The Governor ......"

"The Governor ......"

There are expectations in every call, and the generals present expect Chen Ming to be 'magical' and be able to turn this situation into a disaster. They also believed that Chen Ming had this ability, because the Fu Han army was invincible under Chen Ming's men.

And as long as the 20,000 or 30,000 Fu Han troops regain their fighting spirit, what if the Qing army on the opposite side really has 50,000? After the Qing troops who went south to fight the '50,000' Beijing division entered the Shandong territory, they successively collected some local regimental training, plus more than 10,000 people were withdrawn from the Shandong battlefield, and the current strength is really 50,000.

"The Governor ......"

The generals were anxious, and when they saw that Chen Ming was silent, they unconsciously shouted again. The hope in that cry made Chen Mingzhi anxious.

"Stand down first, and Pontus will make his own decision." Chen Ming maintained a calm face, and after letting the generals retreat, he walked in circles in front of the map alone, and he couldn't think of a way to quickly boost the morale of the army for a long time.

"Governor, with the current morale of our army, we can't beat the Tartars heading south?"

Liu Wu's voice made Chen Ming stop and sit on the chair, Chen Ming frowned: "I won't lose, but I'm not sure to win." The Qing army had 40,000 or 50,000 people, and the Zhili Green Camp Horse Team plus the Eight Banners Horse Team in Beijing City had at least 5,000 men and horses. There are also hundreds of cannons...... "The strength of this Qing army is really strong, very strong."

Chen Ming set the battlefield in Huai'an, also because Huai'an had dense waterways, although it was not as dense as Jiangnan, but there were some restrictions on the horse team -- Huai'an was the center of the area controlled by the Fu Han Army in the northern section of northern Jiangsu, and at the beginning, Chen Ming did not think of retreating to make room for the Qing army.

An infantry whose morale is not very high is most afraid of a large force of cavalry. But if he patted his head again, Chen Ming couldn't think of any way to quickly boost morale.

"Metropolitan Governor, since you can't win the war, can you take a step back first......" The current situation in Jiangnan is quite serious, the Qing soldiers in Songjiang and the Qing army in northern Jiangsu are crazy and counterattack towards the Han army, Liu Wu feels that if he knew that the army would not be able to recover its morale if it was suspended in northern Jiangsu, it would be time to go back to Jiangnan to suppress the places south of the Yangtze River.

At least don't let the Jiangnan Qing army become so rampant! And the Yangtze River waterway is blocked by the water division battalion, and the Qing army has 500,000, can they still swim across the Yangtze River?

"If you withdraw from the army at this juncture, I am afraid that the morale of the army will only be more depressed." Isn't this afraid of the Qing soldiers? Moreover, Chen Ming told his father that he swore to fight the Qing army in Huai'an, but he retreated before the battle, which made Chen Ming feel very uncomfortable.

"But the Metropolitan Governor, we really can't stalemate with the Qing army......" Liu Wudao.

Of the 40,000 or 50,000 Fu Han troops, more than 30,000 were concentrated in Jiangbei, including most of the main forces, and in the huge Jiangnan control area, Changshu, Wuxi, Jintan, Changzhou, and so on were all lost, leaving only Jiangyin, Zhenjiang, and Nanjing along the river.

Chen Ming was not prepared to fight a protracted battle with the Qing army, and the victory was decided in a battle, and then he quickly returned to Jiangnan.

He was preparing to fight back to Huguang in the coming year, but the withdrawal of the Han army from Jiangnan was by no means a retreat after the Qing army was untenable, but must have taken the initiative to retreat.

Now Chen Ming has also tasted the taste of a trapped beast, and the torment of this choice is really painful to the extreme.

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Autumn mornings are beautiful, with fresh air, mist and a touch of coolness that is not found in summer. The yellow sun peeked out of the east, and it finally jumped out of the horizon, and the light passed through the veil-like mist, casting the morning light over the earth. Before you know it, the smoke has disappeared without a trace. The canal in the distance clearly revealed the silver-colored waves, and the trees nearby still had the last trace of greenery, like the eyes of a girl, flashing with nostalgia.

"Beep, beep, beep......"

With a sharp whistle, a group of soldiers of the Han army drove out of the city of Huai'an, and they headed south along the canal. Just as the Manchu imperial army was moving south and approaching the Yellow River, Chen Ming finally made an absolute retreat.

This was a bold choice, and it was also a choice that surprised the entire Fu Han army. No one would have thought that the Metropolitan Governor would retreat from the battle, and many battalion officers felt that someone was correcting the order when they received the military order, and even thought that Chen Ming had encountered something wrong. Chen Ming personally came out, inspected the whole army, and bluntly said that the army had no fighting spirit, weak fighting spirit, and was not suitable for a decisive battle, and the army returned to Yangzhou.

The team of the Fu Han army going south was very silent, Chen Ming did not say much, but it was like a sharp knife peeling off the strength of the surface of the Fu Han army and piercing the weak heart of the Fu Han army. Many soldiers were not convinced by Chen Ming's 'outspoken words', but they knew that they were really a little war-weary.

The morale of the army was a little low, and Chen Ming looked at it in his eyes and kept sinking. If the large army arrives in Gaoyou and Yangzhou, the army will not be able to restore its morale -- Chen Ming feels that this kind of 'slap in the face' behavior may be able to inspire the soldiers' unwillingness and fighting spirit, and he will really withdraw to Jiangnan. The army first found morale in the Qing army in Jiangnan, and then dealt with the Qing army in Jiangbei!

Anyway, the Fu Han army held the sailor battalion in their hands, and even if the Qing army pushed to the Yangtze River, they would not be able to cross the Yangtze River.

"Driving ......" a group of horses passed by the side of the ninth battalion queue. This is a centaur team, which is the formation of a cavalry battalion. The speed of the horse team is not fast, not on the battlefield, and the horses rarely gallop at full speed, and when they march, they are more slow.

The cavalry battalion was the most arrogant team in the ranks of the Fu Han army, and the artillery could compare with it, and only the tank battalion in the infantry ranks could stand side by side with them. But today the cavalry battalion seems to be a little too arrogant, and the 9th Infantry Battalion, as an old battalion leader, clearly paid their respects to them, saluting, but the cavalry battalion passed by with a loud whip and turned a blind eye to the 9th Infantry Battalion, which was like a meeting between two fleets on the sea, one of which fired a salute first, and the other did not show the other.

The enraged battalion officer of the 9th Infantry Battalion shouted loudly at the cavalry battalion horse team, but the horse team did not stop at all, only a platoon commander with the rank of corporal on his face, and looked at the battalion officer of the 9th Infantry Battalion with a haughty contempt: "Cowardly soldiers, brave men, also worthy of our cavalry battalion to return the salute?" He walked away haughtily. Leaving four or five hundred officers and soldiers of the Ninth Infantry Battalion with angry faces.

"These bastards are too deceitful!"

"The **** cavalry battalion is not a thing......"

"Who the fucking cowardly enemy is cowardly, the Tartar is coming, watch Lao Tzu beat him for ten ......" (to be continued.) )