As soon as he said this, Hou Fangyu didn't answer Gong Dingyu, and only listened intently to the arrangements of the prince and the generals of Zhuzhen.

He saw that there was also a handsome staff officer, who reacted quickly and had an excellent memory, and wherever the prince and the generals of the towns said, this staff officer put the small flag that showed the position of the Ming and Qing armies and bandits wherever they were.

The small flags are of different colors, representing how many people they are, and they are placed on a huge sand table, which is clear at a glance.

Hou Fangyu is really not interested in military affairs, and he doesn't know much about it. Fighting is really an unsustainable drudgery for a son of a family like him.

However, the characters who have spent a few months in Zuo Liangyu's camp also knew about it when they heard that the military conference was about to end.

This time, the Henan side is still dominated by cavalry, but last time it was a long-line attack by stragglers, and this time it was to shrink the three cavalry battalions into fists and fight them out in one go.

The target is, of course, Prince Hauge and his subordinates, but it's hard to say how much effect it has.

The three battalions of cavalry plus the auxiliary commander, the number of soldiers and Wang Yuan, the general, are directly under them, and they are about 5,000 cavalry, which is a strong cavalry force on either side.

In addition to the cavalry directly under him, Li Chengdong, the chief military officer of Suizhou Town, was the main officer, and the Suzhou Association and the Pizhou Association had to send troops to coordinate, and a total of four battalions of more than 6,000 soldiers were dispatched.

With the addition of auxiliary troops, the scale of troops sent to Henan is about 20,000.

The Qing army on the opposite side only had three or four thousand people in the main force of the Eight Banners, plus the Han army and the local garrison army would not exceed 10,000 people.

As for Shandong, it was originally a situation in which the Gushan Ezhen Huai Tower was the mainstay, and the Shandong governor surrendered to the Han army as an auxiliary, and the Ming army was divided across the Yellow River, with a balance of forces and peace with each other.

But the governor of Shandong is Zhu Dadian, acting decisively, vigorously and resolutely, the generals are controlled, the Shandong Ming army has been quite improved under the rectification of Zhu Dadian, Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, the whole territory is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, Yanzhou and Dongchang, Jinan three prefectures are across the river, the whole situation, and the original history is completely different.

The original history at this time because of Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying's short-sightedness and stupidity, the entire Shandong almost all fell into the hands of the Qing army, a good situation, and they were easily buried, and the Qing Dynasty gained more manpower and material resources from Shandong and half of Henan, and it was almost given by the Ming Dynasty for nothing.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty had most of Shandong, manpower, material and financial resources were sufficient, Zhu Dadian set up four battalions for his own superintendent, three infantry battalions and a cavalry battalion, Yanzhou, Dongchang, Qingzhou set up three towns of general troops, each with a town standard battalion, Dong'e, Qidong, Jiyang Liuxie Department of the dissatisfied garrison battalion, Zhu Dadian under the command of about 11,000 soldiers, including nearly 2,000 cavalry, plus auxiliaries, is a huge team of more than 30,000 people.

The soldiers are strong and full of confidence, and Zhu Dadian already has the ambition to go north to challenge the Dongyu.

Many of his subordinates were local soldiers who had originally started an incident in Shandong, and they had fought against thieves and the Qing army, and they were all brave and experienced.

But Zhu Dadian was able to gather such a large group of troops and horses in less than half a year, and there was such a good situation, and the material support sent by Qingjiang from Xuzhou was the most important reason.

Grain is hundreds of thousands of stones, which has stabilized the morale of the people and the army in Shandong, and Zhu Dadian's prestige and authority have also skyrocketed.

After all, an empty governor and a governor who can get money and food are two different things.

In addition, Zhu Dadian's decisive skill in killing was enough, and he also brought more than 1,000 people to the north, plus hundreds of thousands of stone of grain given by the prince, more than 100,000 silver taels, thousands of armor stomachs, and hundreds of war horses and more mules and horses.

In short, the axe used in the hands of Zhu Dadian with so many materials is very effective.

Shandong's soldiers were more than several times that of Henan, and in the face of the threat of the Ming army, Dolgon also sent more troops and horses from Yanjing.

Abatai, the king of Raoyu County, should have gone to Shandong for a short time in the second year of Shunzhi, and returned to Beijing after exterminating a powerful local bandit army.

Abatai was the king of the county until his death, and he was not allowed to make greater achievements.

As for his sons, Yue Le has always made greater achievements at the end of Shunzhi, the prince who was added during the Kangxi period, and the later big stage was only revealed when Jingzhou and Wu Sangui's main force were fighting, and the name was achieved.

Even so, the headquarters of Abatai can bring out at least two or three thousand elite Eight Banner soldiers, of which there are at least two or three hundred white armor soldiers, plus about two thousand Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han army, and the original Huaita soldiers and horses also have one or two thousand people, all of which add up, the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners may have about six thousand to eight thousand people, and the number of Ming troops recruited and absorbed in Tianjin and Shandong and other places is not much, and the number of soldiers who can go to the battlefield will not exceed five thousand, but all of them add up, and they have exceeded the strength of the Ming army in Shandong.

To be honest, it was also Dolgon who pressed the Qing army to the south, otherwise with the arrogance of the Qing army, in the case of the small number of Ming troops on the opposite side, the Eight Banners would have been able to cross the Yellow River and fight directly to Xuzhou.

Now Zhu Cihong wants to take the initiative to attack, most of the Qing army in the direction of Henan was taken away by the Huaiqing Battle a while ago, Haoge's strength is too weak, once the fight starts, I am afraid that in a certain period of time Haoge will be beaten to the ground, extremely embarrassed.

Before Duoduo catches up, Shandong should be a breakthrough for the Qing army.

"I've made up my mind, this time I'll give Tartars a good one in Shandong!"

Zhu Cihong slapped heavily on the wooden drawing, and the entire wooden drawing was photographed by him and jumped up.

"Okay, great!" Wang Yuan grinned widely, smiling from ear to ear.

For generals, I like the top position the most to be able to make up my mind and make a clear decision. Even if the decision is not very thorough and detailed, there must always be this kind of courage to move forward and look at everything.

Since the crown prince fought Yanjing and trained the internal soldiers, he has been doing things so clearly and decisively, which is convincing.

"Zhang Quanbin, Cao Qing, Jin Qianli!"

"The minister is here!"

The three standards clenched their fists in unison, bowed, and their faces were also very excited and nervous.

"You are already the standard commander, but this time you go north to meet the enemy, the main force is the army of the towns in Shandong, the camp Sima Sun Chuanting is the superintendent, and the troops of Xu Town are facing the enemy, you each bring a battalion, and the teams under each battalion are also drawn from the battalions, from the officers to the soldiers, all choose the best and hand them over to you, this time, you must make a good example to show me!"

In the direction of Henan, three cavalry battalions were prepared, led by Wang Yuan, the deputy commander-in-chief, and behind Wang Yuan were Suizhou soldiers and horses, and an artillery battalion would be sent to the camp to provide fire support.

Shandong is the main battlefield, but the prince did not send the general of the town to go, but transferred three battalions of troops to the north, unlike the Henan battlefield, of course, all the soldiers of the main infantry battalion went to Shandong.

This kind of arrangement is mainly based on prudence.

The soldiers were trained for half a year, but almost none of the soldiers had ever been on the battlefield, and the main force was all out at once, and the number of Qing troops in front of Shandong was not large, and it was not possible to win on the battlefield just by having a large number of people.

The host-guest transposition interfered with the command of Sun Chuanting, Zhu Dadian and others.

If Zhu Cihong himself commanded the commander, it would be fine, but this would be tantamount to raising the level of the campaign and turning the local war into a full-scale decisive battle.

Even if there are plenty of reasons to start fighting now, it is by no means the time for a decisive battle.

Everyone present was very clear that in the future, the three battalions sent this time can be regarded as one vanguard, and it will not be an easy task to learn from experience and remember lessons.

The three standards were all solemn, leaned down, and said: "The ministers must obey His Highness's orders, and they must make a good appearance, so that everyone in the world will know the name of our Pingyu Army!" ”

"Well, I'm going to have to scare that boy from Dorgon." Zhu Cihong held up the three standards one in one hand, and said with a smile: "It's best to arrest Abatai for me and snatch his county king's honor guard for me." ”

"Yes, the minister must remember what His Highness said, it must be done!"

Zhang Quanbin and Jin Qianli are very steady, but Cao Qing is impassioned, each chief officer's surname is different, and the battalion head brought out is also different, and the teams assigned to Cao Qing must also pick the craziest and most daring kind, otherwise the chief officer's surname will affect the state of his subordinates, and it will be half the effort.

"Alright, that's it for now."

After so many major events and a lot of executions, Zhu Cihong's excellent body is also very tired. He rubbed the bridge of his nose and smiled at everyone: "I don't like to eat wine today anyway, so it's better to disperse early." ”

"Yes, the ministers are leaving."

Speaking of this, everyone smiled, and Chen Mingxia smiled at Zhu Cihong: "Your Highness, the minister is now the third master of the crown prince, and it is also the responsibility of this matter, you must ask the emperor for the guilt, and please allow His Highness to ask." ”

"Well, you are."

Zhu Cihong is quite satisfied with the first assistant of this ambitious civil service team, everyone is ambitious, and he can often see the small flame in Chen Mingxia's eyes.

But so what, anyway, civil officials can't threaten the imperial power, and this will not be the time of the founding of the country. Chen Mingxia has such a fire, he will only sleep for less than three hours a day, every day Qingjiang and Yangzhou around the run, the camps are also always concerned, the entire camp, there is no place he does not care about and can't manage.

It's really a good thing to have such an auxiliary minister here.

For a while, everyone dispersed, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Jiayu stayed behind, sorted out the arrangements for today, and then the Secretariat unified the official documents and archives to record them, and all government orders and military affairs are the same.

Zhu Cihong was lying comfortably in the circle chair, and his feet were not gracefully put on another chair, he, the crown prince, was plain and dignified and rigorous, and such a characterless thing would only be exposed in front of the most trusted people.

When Zhang Huangyan and the two finally resigned, Zhu Cihong lazily asked: "What do the two secretaries think of today's matter?" ”

The two looked at each other, and Zhang Huangyan, who was still better at official speaking, bowed down and replied: "Your Highness has never acted so casually and carelessly, but the ministers think that they have done a good job...... Well, it's really good! ”

(To be continued)