"Huh?" Wang Pu was also shocked and lost his voice, "This thing is really strange." ”

Liu Ru is beautiful eyes turned, and said in a condensed voice: "Could it be ...... Is this really a conspiracy between Ezhe and Dolgon? ”

"Unlikely." Wang Pu said categorically, "With Ezhe's identity and status, he should really want to cooperate with Daming." ”

Liu said: "That is, Ezhe's actions were accidentally exposed and were known by Dolgon, and then Dolgon set a trap to lure our central army out of the periphery of the city, but it really triggered a rebellion of the Mongol Tatars, and Dolgon did this as playing with fire [***]." ”

I can't help but admire Liu Ruye's judgment, a seemingly simple analysis, but I guessed the ins and outs of the whole thing.

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North Naoli, the Daimyo's house.

On the banks of the Wei River, two fat otters were lying on the grass by the river basking in the sun, squinting to enjoy the winter sun, when the two beasts suddenly felt a little strange, and then squeaked into the dark and damp cave.

The originally calm earth suddenly began to tremble, and the calm water surface of the Wei River also began to ripple layer by layer, the ripples on the water surface gradually expanded, and then a faint rumbling sound sounded from the western sky, like thunder in the distance, dull but containing a terrifying power that makes people dare to palpitate.

The faint thunder grew louder and louder, and finally turned into a roar that resounded through the heavens and the earth.

In the overwhelming roar, the black-pressed cavalry rushed out of the barren horizon, countless horses' heads were undulating, long manes were wavy behind the horses' necks, countless horses' hooves were churning on the wasteland, and billowing smoke and dust were gradually rising from under the endless iron hooves, confusing the gray sky......

In front of the black oppressive cavalry array, a horse with a red body and four snow-white hooves galloped like flying, and suddenly caused a long neigh, and the neighing of Qingyue's horse pierced the sky in an instant, and behind the horse, countless war horses followed the neighing of the head high, and the endless neighing of horses resounded through the world in an instant.

The red lady in a red suit, with a red silk handkerchief on her head, straddled this flaming horse, her two round and slender thighs were straight, her round and plump buttocks had completely left the saddle, and her graceful and toned body almost stood up from the stand, standing straight on the horse's back.

Suddenly, the wide Wei River came into the red lady's field of vision.

"Appeal ......"

The red lady suddenly retracted the reins of the horse, and the red horse under the crotch suddenly neighed and stood up, then turned to the north and galloped, and rushed out of more than 100 steps before slowly retracting the horse's steps, and finally stopped on the cold wilderness, behind the red lady, 40,000 cavalry also slowed down, and finally stopped on the west bank of the Wei River.

Two days ago, the red lady received Wang Pu's flying pigeon message.

The lover was called, of course, the red lady would not have the slightest slack, immediately ordered 40,000 cavalry to set off from Zhangde, the dining style slept in the open, day and night rushed to Shandong and pounced, the time only passed a day and two nights, the red lady's Henan cavalry has already crossed hundreds of miles and appeared on the bank of the Wei River in the Daimyo's mansion.

In the chaotic sound of horses' hooves, Monk Zhang, Jing Maocheng and Li Hu, Li Yu, Li Dong, Li Kai and other Li children rode horses to the red lady, Li Hu pointed to the wide Wei River in front of him with a horse whip in his hand, and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, this is the Wei River, across the Wei River is the boundary of Dongchang Mansion in Shandong, and then go two hundred miles to Liaocheng." ”

The red lady was delicate and condensed, and said coldly: "Send someone to probe the depth of the river immediately......"

"Sister-in-law, you don't need to probe the depth of the river." Li Hu said, "It is the dry season of winter, the Wei River is not deep, and you can pass it on horseback, but the army has been rushing for a day and two nights, and the war horses and brothers are already exhausted, and it is almost evening, so why not camp on the west bank of the Wei River for a night?" Wait until tomorrow after dawn to continue eastward? ”

"Nope." The red lady said categorically, "Since the Wei River is shallow, the army will immediately cross the river and continue to march eastward, and we must rush to Liaocheng before dark tomorrow!" ”

As soon as the Red Lady gave an order, 40,000 cavalry immediately crossed the Wei River and continued to march eastward, like a rolling torrent heading straight for Liaocheng.

The biggest reason why the red lady is in a hurry to Liaocheng is, of course, because of the call of the lover Wang Pu, and the red lady doesn't want to thin the face of the lover.

But it is undeniable that the bloody deeds committed by Jiannu and the Mongol Tatars in the Central Plains are also an important reason for the Red Lady to send troops, and it is also an important reason why the officers and soldiers of the Henan Army are willing to cooperate with the official army.

The Red Lady thought that she would be fiercely opposed by the soldiers, but that almost all the generals of the Righteous Army were in favor of the Eastern Crusade without exception.

In fact, the Henan Army of the Red Lady and the Shaanxi Righteous Army led by Li Yan are in the same line, and they have had the experience of cooperating with the official army as early as the same period, so the Henan Righteous Army is not emotionally averse to cooperating with the official army, especially not averse to cooperating with Wang Pu, not to mention that the Righteous Army's crusade to the east is still to kill Jiannu and Tartars.

At the beginning of the year, the bloody plundering of Jiannu and Mongolian Tatars in the provinces of Beizhi brought great disasters to the Han people, many of whom fled south to Henan, and there were many horse households among these people, and later they all participated in the cavalry of the Red Lady, and they had long been looking forward to repaying the blood debt from Jiannu and Tatars.

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Dongpingzhou.

Corpse Mountain Blood Sea, real Corpse Mountain Blood Sea!

However, it is not the corpses of people who are piled up, and it is not human blood that flows, but the corpses and blood of war horses, standing in front of the corpse mountain of war horses, stopping in the sea of blood soaked in the blood of war horses, Duoduo is sad, nearly 200,000 war horses have been slaughtered alive, what a loss for the Qing Kingdom?

Horse plague! Damn horse plague!

The heavy snort of the war horse suddenly sounded from behind him, Duoduo slowly turned his head, and finally his eyes fell on his beloved mount "Dark Cloud", the dark cloud fur was black and bright, and his appearance was incomparable, and he ran like the wind, which can be called a good horse in a million, and followed Duoduo to the east and west for many years, and experienced countless bloody storms together.

For Dórd, the clouds were more than just a mount, they were his companions in life and death.

It seemed that he was aware of his fate, and two bean-sized tears actually dripped from the dark clouds' eyes, and Duoduo's expression suddenly became extremely gloomy, and the dark clouds at this time seemed to be still the same, showing no signs of being infected with horse plague, but Duoduo couldn't let it go, and he had to kill it.

Not just because of Dolgon's military orders, but also because of the terrible horse plague!

The horse plague is too terrible, Duoduo will never dare to take the risk of bringing the horse plague to Liaocheng and bring his own mount, if he really wants to bring the horse plague to Liaocheng, then the more than 10,000 white flag elite soldiers here are likely to all die in the Central Plains, so the hope of the Manchurians will be ruined in his hands Duoduo.

"Master!" The groom who took care of the war horse for Dordor fell to his knees in a pool of blood, crying silently, "Don't kill the dark clouds, it didn't get horse plague, it didn't ......"

Ignoring it, Dodor drew his sharp sword inch by inch.

After combing the clouds at the end, the sword in Duoduo's hand stabbed into the clouds without warning, splattering blood, and the clouds hissed in pain and fell to the side of blood.

Turning around again, Duoduo's face had become extremely cold.

The staff leaders, assistant leaders, and Ezhen of the Zhengbai Banner consciously gathered in front of Duoduo, and Duoduo's cold gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and said word by word: "Order, throw away all the baggage and light equipment, and march towards Liaocheng as quickly as possible, remember, there must be no stops along the way, even if you meet a Han village, you are not allowed to stop!" ”

"Wow!"

The staff leaders, assistant leaders, and Ezhen of the white flag agreed to the promise and took the order.

According to the past practice, when Jiannu encountered a Han village, he would definitely wash the village in blood, kill all the Han people, rob all the Han people's livestock and property, and then burn the entire village, but this time Duoduo uncharacteristically strictly ordered Jiannu not to burn, kill and loot during the march.

Duoduo's prudence finally saved this army of more than 10,000 Jiannu, and also preserved the last trace of vitality for the Jurchens, because the 40,000 cavalry of the Red Lady were rushing to Liaocheng non-stop, if Duoduo's army was slightly delayed on the way, it was very likely that the Red Lady would rush to Liaocheng later, if so, the last hope of Jiannu would also be annihilated.

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Outside the city of Jining.

The melee between Jiannu and the Tartars has been going on for several hours, and the rebellion of the Khalkha, Tushetu, and Chahar tribes was finally bloodily suppressed by Dolgon, and most of the more than 70,000 people in the three tribes were killed in battle, and all the wounded and captured were also executed, and only a few small groups of Tartars took advantage of the chaos to escape and disappeared into the vast wilderness.

Before the rebellion, the Horqin four tribes still had nearly 90,000 troops, but when the rebellion ended, the total strength of the four Horqin tribes was less than 30,000 people.

For the last remaining 30,000 Korqin people, Dolgon did not immediately raise the butcher's knife, because these 30,000 Korqin people are loyal to Jiannu, and there is no need to attack them now, Dolgon still wants to take these 30,000 Korqin people and the remaining more than 20,000 Jianzhu to escape back to the Guanwai!

Although Dorgon has already explained the future to Dorgon, although Dorgon has entrusted the future fate of the Jurchens to Dorgon, this does not mean that Dorgon has the determination to die, and it does not mean that Dorgon does not want to live, on the contrary, until the last moment, Dorgon will never easily give up the hope of life.

But......

Dolgon will not give up hope of life easily, and Wang Pu will not let him go easily!

Almost the melee outside the city has just ended, the closed north gate of Jining City will be opened, the heavily armed Central Army soldiers are like a flood of beasts surging out, the first to go out of the city is Wang Huzi led by two thousand Central Army cavalry, at this time the Jiannu and Tartar soldiers melee has just ended, and there is no time to clean up the remnants of the army, let alone have time to take a breath, it is the time for the Ming cavalry to exert its might.

Of course, the cavalry of the Central Army will inevitably be affected by horse plague in the end when they go out of the city to raid at this time, but Wang Pu can't keep up with these, as long as he can annihilate the Jiannu and Mongolian Tartars outside Jining City, what is the loss of only 2,000 war horses? Wang Pu can still afford this capital.

"Master Hou said ......"

The king's beard straddled his horse and raised his sword, and ran to the front of the cavalry, "Capture the Dolgon...... Ten thousand taels of silver! ”

"Ten thousand taels of silver!"

"Ten thousand taels of silver!"

"Ten thousand taels of silver!"

The two thousand soldiers shouted like a tsunami, and their eyes began to become scorching. How much of a fortune would that be? According to the current market value of the Ming Dynasty, 10,000 taels of silver is enough to buy 800 acres of good land, and the annual land rent alone is a huge wealth......

(To be continued)