(Thanks to Gongsun Tang Shuyou for the reward)

The ultimate goal of this military operation was to break the siege of Feng and drive the Liukou out of Henan.

Today, most of the territory of Henan has been occupied by the rogues, and the situation is extremely critical.

In the first month of the 14th year of Chongzhen, after Li Zicheng led his troops to conquer Luoyang, Henan, he heard that the defenders of Kaifeng were weak, and after discussing with the generals, he led more than 30,000 people in February of the 14th year of Chongzhen to gallop for three days and three nights to attack Kaifeng City.

Gao Mingheng, the governor of Kaifeng, led the army to defend it, and also recruited warriors out of the city to attack with heavy money. The Ming general Gao Qian was ordered to lead his troops to gallop to Kaifeng, and the general Chen Yongfu joined forces to fight hard against the city, and won all three battles, Li Zicheng's troops suffered many casualties, and were forced to break the siege and go to attack other states and counties.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, that is, in the first month of this year, Li Zicheng once again led the army to attack Kaifeng.

Kaifeng guards Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu led the army to defend the city, and once again hit the Liukou. Li Zicheng was shot in the left eye, but he still led his army to fight hard and repelled the reinforcements of the Ming general Ding Qirui. Later, Li Zicheng took the advice of his staff and blew up the city by digging tunnels and planting explosives. However, the Kaifeng city wall was strong, and tens of thousands of catties of explosives could not collapse the city wall, and after the explosion of the explosives, the earth and stones flying sideways injured many rogues, and Li Zicheng had no choice but to order to withdraw the siege and go west.

Li Zicheng, who could not attack Kaifeng twice, was angry, and led the army to storm Xiangcheng, and killed Wang Qiaonian, the governor of the three sides, after breaking the city.

In March of the 15th place of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's troops broke more than 10 cities in the east of Henan, in order to prevent the reinforcement of the Ming army, Li Zicheng sent Li Yan and Liu Zongmin to lead more than 100,000 horses to the north, attacking Taiyuan and Datong, threatening the Ming Jingshi.

In May, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai once again joined forces to attack Kaifeng three times, but they still could not break Kaifeng, so they could only besiege the city with a large army, and the other army attacked Bozhou in the east. Now there are only more than 10,000 defenders under Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu in Kaifeng City, and the food is scarce.

There have been dozens of urgent requests for help from Kaifeng, which have been placed on the desk of Emperor Chongzhen, but at that time, the army of Jiannu was pressing, although Emperor Chongzhen ordered Sun Chuanting to lead the army to reinforce Henan, but Jiannu did not retreat, and Sun Chuanting could not make the trip.

Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to send other horses to reinforce Henan, for fear that the Beijing division would be lost, so he recruited the division of King Qin. The mobile forces of the Ming army moved in large numbers in the direction of Beijing. In the end, the Jiannu army was defeated in Datong, the crisis of the Beijing division was solved, and Emperor Chongzhen did not forget the danger of Kaifeng, and immediately ordered Sun Chuanting to lead the army to reinforce Kaifeng. Sun Chuanting naturally knew the critical situation and led the army westward as fast as possible, and he didn't even have time to attend Cao Yue's wedding.

Now Sun Chuanting now has three trump cards in his hands: one is the Shaanxi soldiers, that is, the original He Wenlong's people; the second is Cao Bianjiao's Eastern Alliance Army; The third is the Datong Army that was taken over from Cao Yue. These armies are the people he relies on the most, especially the tens of thousands of elites of Cao Bianjiao.

These armies are the men and horses that Sun Chuanting is confident that he can fully command, and the Datong army trained by Cao Yue will be personally led by him as his own Chinese army. Zhao Xin, the newly promoted general soldier of Datong, is also extremely gracious, and he is given the best treatment in terms of money and food.

In addition to these three moving troops that Sun Chuanting can definitely command, there are also Zuo Liangyu's Huguang soldiers, Kong Zhenhui's Sichuan soldiers, Liu Qingze's Shandong soldiers, and Zhu Dadian's Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers. These people are also under the command of Sun Chuanting.

It can be said that in addition to the men and horses belonging to Hong Chengchou in Liaodong, most of the other Ming officials and troops were under the command of Sun Chuanting.

In terms of quantity, there are nearly 300,000 men and horses under the command of Sun Chuanting, but people with a discerning eye know that whether it is Zuo Liangyu, Liu Qingze, or Kong Zhenhui, they will not completely obey Sun Chuanting, the trilateral governor, they all have selfish intentions and want to preserve their strength.

Sun Chuanting also knows this. He didn't expect much from the coordination of these people, so he could only pin his hopes on the Datong army trained by Cao Bianjiao and Cao Yue.

Kaifeng was in danger, Sun Chuanting knew how serious the consequences of the fall of Kaifeng would be, so he ordered his men and horses to quickly advance westward, preparing to attack the Liukou from several directions, and join the army under Kaifeng City.

Sun Chuanting's arrangement was like this, he personally led Cao Bianjiao, Gao Jie, and Zhao Xin to attack the Liukou in Shaanxi, and ordered Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, Kong Zhenhui, and Zhu Dadian's men to attack Henan.

Sun Chuanting's arrangement was carefully considered. He is ready to use this battle to completely eliminate the main force of the Liukou, so that Li Zicheng will no longer have the ability to recover. Therefore, the combat strategy of attacking in a roundabout way and attacking from several directions was adopted.

As long as the other people can attack, they don't expect them to win, as long as they can contain Li Zicheng's troops, Sun Chuanting will be satisfied.

Under Sun Chuanting's orders, hundreds of thousands of troops will enter Shaanxi and Henan, preparing to flank Li Zicheng's men and horses left and right.

Cao Yue didn't know the specific arrangements of Sun Chuanting, but he had an unexplained worry, because in history, Sun Chuanting was defeated in this battle and finally died. He didn't know if the arrival of him, a time-traveling person, could change history, change the fate of Peng Ming, and change Sun Chuanting's ending. But he predicted that this military operation would not go as Sun Chuanting wished.

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Shengjing, the royal palace of Dolgon.

During this time, Dolgon was in a bad mood, and the main reason was, of course, several defeats under Cao Yue.

He knew that compared with the Ming army, the Qing army was not inferior in terms of overall combat strength, and the disadvantage was only in weapons and equipment. Dolgon was not a rigid man, and after seeing the power of firearms, he also came up with the idea of equipping the Qing army with muskets in large quantities.

On this day, Dolgon asked Fan Wencheng and Tong Yangxing to be summoned to his house.

"The two of you must be aware of the current situation, my Qing army was defeated by Datong City, and the military advantage has been wiped out, if you don't solve this crisis, the situation in the Qing Dynasty will become more and more critical in the future, this king summoned two of you today, just to discuss countermeasures with you!"

"Master, don't worry too much, the Ming court is in trouble both internally and externally, Chongzhen Xiaoer is suspicious, even if there are capable people like Sun Chuanting, Cao Yue, and Cao Bianjiao, he can't reverse the situation, presumably the master already knows that Cao Yue was relieved of his post as the general soldier of Datong and sent to Nanjing to take up his post, this must be Chongzhen Xiao'er's vigilance, and the Datong army was taken away by Sun Chuanting, and now the nine soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the defensive strength is not as good as before," Fan Wencheng said cautiously on the side, "Master, now Haoge is dead, Master, your head and abdomen are also gone, Prince Zheng is sick again, the affairs of the Qing Dynasty are all up to you, the master is eloquent, and he must have such a plan to deal with the Ming Court. ”

Previously, Fan Wencheng suggested to Dolgon that he send a fine work to Beijing to drive a wedge between the Ming monarchs and ministers, and spread a large number of Cao Yue and Cao Bianjiao, as well as Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou who had different intentions, and supported the army and wanted to be self-reliant. Previously, he successfully induced Emperor Chongzhen to kill Yuan Chonghuan through the discord scheme, and he hoped that the discord plot would work again.

However, Fan Wencheng knew that Dolgon summoned him and Tong Yangxing over today, definitely not to discuss the matter of the divisive plan, but should have another purpose, maybe related to the development of firearms.