After Cao Bianjiao led his troops to attack Zhangde, Dayong called Wu Heyin, who was in charge of the Military Intelligence Department, and scolded him for being bloody, not because of Cao Wenzhao's death, but because Wu Heyin had really not achieved enough in the past two years, and he had more than enough failures. Dayong asked him to hype that Hong Tai died at the hands of Dayong, but three years later, the world still only knows that Hong Tai died of illness, and does not know that Hong Tai was killed by Dayong. In addition, the quality of the spies of the Military Intelligence Department is also seriously low, and the intelligence on the Dongyu spies is limited to Niu Lu and below, and almost none of the high-level movements can be found, and the rebellion against the Han military banner has also been fruitless, and it has damaged a few traitors who have been cultivated with great difficulty.

In addition, when Chongzhen was in the sixth year, Dayong asked the Military Intelligence Department to pay more attention to the movements of the Liukou and insert some spies into the Liukou to prepare for the future thieves, but this work was not effective when it came to Wu Heyin. For more than a year, in addition to learning about the movements of the Liukou from the Tang Daily, Dayong has not received a letter of effective information about the movements of the Liukou from the Military Intelligence Department.

Before the army set out for the expedition, Dayong specially asked the Military Intelligence Department about the latest movements of the Central Plains Liukou, and Wu Heyin patted his chest and said that the Liukou did not dare to confront the officers and soldiers head-on after the battle of the Carriage Gorge, and only knew how to wander around, but when they encountered the officers and soldiers, they ran away. Da Yong believed that it was true, and was mentally prepared to pursue the Liukou for a long time, so he didn't even bring artillery guards, just to be able to run faster than the Liukou, but now the bad news came, the Liukou could not only break through the heavily defended central capital Fengyang, but also defeat the Northwest Iron Cavalry led by Cao Wenzhao in the field battle. I'm afraid that going south to level the thieves is not as simple as I imagined, but a bloody battle no less than the Battle of Daling River back then.

Wu Heyin was also very aggrieved after being scolded, he was a small pen paste style of Houjin, except for running errands for the master, he had not done anything big, in order to survive, to keep his own family, this was to Dayong to offer advice to attack Shenyang, in addition to using his knowledge of the Eight Banners, to offer a strategy of differentiation and disintegration, although the strategy did not work because of Dayong's massacre of the clan in Shenyang, but it did not lose a trick, he has always been proud of this.

Dayong also had high hopes for him, and did not interfere with him in bringing Abatai's wife into the house, and appointed him as the head of the newly established Military Intelligence Department.

Who would have thought that since he was ordered to set up the Military Intelligence Department, Wu Heyin found that he was a little proud, things were not at all what he thought, he tried his best to make the Military Intelligence Department run effectively, and several plots against the Han Army Banner were planned one after another and failed, and the secret agents sent to Shenyang were also smashed by the Dongyu, and the personnel suffered heavy losses, so that no one in the Military Intelligence Department dared to go to the Dongyu to act as a detail. Spending money to buy the Han people in Shenyang City did not work, the fire in Shenyang City was considered to have completely destroyed the image of the Ming army in Liaodong, and now the Han people in the territory of Dongyu gritted their teeth when they heard the Ming army in southern Liaoning, as if they had an enmity against the heavens.

In addition, Wu Heyin couldn't understand the things that Dayong explained to him at all, and he couldn't understand the true meaning of some new words that Dayong said.

After three years of doing nothing, but suffering heavy losses, Wu Heyin has long had no face to do it anymore, so he has long wanted to quit this errand, but he is afraid that he will lose his foothold in the Liaodong Army, and the wealth in his hands will disappear again, so he has stubbornly held on to the present.

After being scolded by Dayong, Wu Heyin realized that he couldn't go on like this, otherwise maybe one day Shi Dayong would be happy with his head, and immediately knelt down and asked to resign, but he didn't want Dayong but didn't agree, only with a cold face and asked him to immediately send someone to investigate the route of the thieves Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Lao Huihui and others to the west, this time you must give a letter, otherwise you can't do it if you want to.

After leaving with Wu Heyin, who was worried and uneasy, Dayong pondered for a while, wrote a letter to summon the guards, and ordered it to be sent to Cao Bianjiao as soon as possible

Cao Wenzhao's death made Cao Bianjiao sad and inexplicable, he lost his father since he was a child, but his uncle raised him single-handedly, and took him to grind his experience in the army, knowing that he had the intention to go to Liaodong to kill the Eastern captives, and he was the governor of Liaodong at the time, Qiu Hejia, who recommended his nephew to him. Before leaving, I even laughed and said that I Caomen will shine with two tigers in the future, reflecting the bright sun and the moon.

When he first heard the news that Cao Wenzhao was killed in battle, Xiao Cao didn't quite believe that his uncle in his impression could fight well, and all his troops were elite cavalry, how could they be killed by the rabble's rogues, but then the exact news came that Cao Wenzhao was surrounded by tens of thousands of rogues and outnumbered and died. Suddenly, Xiao Cao felt that the sky had fallen, and after being stunned for more than ten seconds, he fell to his knees and cried, the cry moved the listeners, and they were all sad, that is, Hou Sui listened to Xiao Cao's crying, and he was also embarrassed, and wrote the "Ming Cao General Ping Thief War" to show his condolences.

Cao Wenzhao's death not only made the deeply distressed Dayong change his decision to go south to Jianghuai, but also made him re-understand the combat effectiveness and organizational strength of the Liukou.

In my impression, for the Central Plains and the Northwest Rogues, Dayong is still at the level of bandits who can run and are extremely poorly equipped, as long as they do not establish a base for a day, they will never be able to become a climate, and they can be exterminated only when they have their hands free.

Dayong, who no longer had the intention of underestimating the enemy, immediately convened a military meeting and deployed a northward strategy. The key point of this strategy was to hold the mouth of the Yellow River, force the Liukou to go north to Baoding or be trapped in the narrow area of Zhending, Shunde, and Zhangde, and never let them flow to the south of Henan or cross the Yellow River to Shaanxi.

Close the door and hit the dog!

This gate is the Mianchi Ferry on the bank of the Yellow River, and the task of seizing the ferry was naturally handed over to the vengeful Xiao Cao

On the way to Zhangde, Xiao Cao's mind from time to time appeared the face and voice of his uncle Wen Zhao, every time he thought about his childhood, he was as strong as Cao Bianjiao and couldn't help but cry like rain, and his heart was full of revenge, and he hated to break the corpse of that rogue into thousands of pieces.

Starting from Guangde, it only took three days, Cao Bianjiao had already led his troops to Zhangde Mansion, passed through the mansion without entering, and went straight to the Yellow River crossing.

The newspaper said that after the northward march to Liukou Yu Zhending besieged and killed Cao Wenzhao, he turned to the southwest and wanted to cross the Yellow River and enter the Shangluo Mountains in southern Shaanxi to avoid the official army.

Zhending to the north is Baoding Mansion, since Chongzhen's five years of Liukou troops into Xishan to threaten Gyeonggi, the imperial court strengthened Baoding's defense, if it continues to advance north, Liukou is bound to fall into the official army heavy surrounding. This is a dead end, Liukou will not take it, and even if Baoding is broken and hit under the city of Beijing, what can it be, can it be that Liukou can break through the Beijing division with his current strength.

On the same day, the Rongyang Assembly of the 36th Battalion of the Liukou decided that He Yilong of Geli Eye and He Jin, the king of Zuojin, led the men and horses of the headquarters to the south to block the official army of Huguang and Sichuan; The reincarnation king allowed to change, shot the sky Li Wanqing, and mixed 100,000 Ma Jinzhong to lead the headquarters to block Hong Chengchou; Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Hui Dengxiang led the headquarters to guard the areas of Xingyang and Bishui, and defended the officials and troops of Kaifeng, Guide, Henan, and Ruzhou; Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the eight kingdoms, Zhang Yichuan, the king of sweeping, and Liu Guoneng of the collapse of the sky led the headquarters to conquer Anhui; The old man returned to Ma Shouying, and the nine dragons Guo Dacheng responded back and forth.

After the old Hui Ma Shouying and Guo Dacheng joined forces with Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Guotianxing Huideng to besiege and kill Cao Wenzhao, the momentum was no less than Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, who went south to Jianghuai, and the officers and soldiers were also frightened after the death of Ai Wanlong and Cao Wenzhao, and they shrank one after another, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, was even more helpless, and there was no deployment for two months in a panic, which made Zhending Liukou even more bold, and Hui Dengxing even led his troops to approach Baoding, pretending to attack the city, and the officials and troops of Baoding were so frightened that they almost did not abandon the city and fled.

The official army is so soft, naturally it is more powerful, and the old Hui Ma Shouying thinks that the encirclement of the official army is over, and everyone doesn't have to run anymore, it is better to occupy the three prefectures and counties in northern Henan to live a happy life, and it is not too late to wait until the imperial court really comes again, and the army will run again. His idea and Luo Rucai, who is greedy for beauty and pleasure, are in agreement, and at the moment, the 130,000 rogues are really stagnant in the area of Zhending and Shunde, and none of the surrounding officials and soldiers dare to step forward.

After the Liukou on the Jianghuai side broke through Fengyang, Gao Yingxiang, at the suggestion of Li Zicheng, thought that it was necessary to march to the northwest immediately, cross the Yellow River, break through the imminent encirclement network of the official army, and take the men and horses to the Shangluo Mountains in southern Shaanxi to rest, and then either enter Xi'an, or cross the Yellow River again, and drag down the encircled Ming army with a large-scale runaway, and then attack it again.

Since the uprising, the reason why the officers and troops have been able to defeat them again and again is that they have relied on long-distance maneuvers to drag down the pursuing Ming army, or gather heavy troops to counterattack the exhausted officers and troops, or force the officers and troops to withdraw. Li Zicheng proposed that Gao Yingxiang naturally recognized it very much, and although the capture of Zhongdu and the burning of the imperial tomb made the righteous army feel great, but what followed was a more fierce retaliation by the imperial court. How do you know that Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, did not agree to return to Shaanxi with Gao Yingxiang, but led the people of the headquarters to go to Huguang without saying goodbye, leaving words that Shaanxi's hard life is enough, and my eight kings want to go to Sichuan to live a happy life this time.

Helpless, Gao Yingxiang had no choice but to send someone to contact them back to them, and was ready to take someone back to meet them first, and then discuss.

On the imperial court, in view of the failure of Hong Chengchou's plan to pacify the thieves in June, and the encirclement and suppression of the officials and troops of various ministries were hurriedly and embarrassed by the rogues, Chongzhen was disappointed and decided to use Lu Xiangsheng.

The young Son of Heaven was so heartfelt, that despite the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty, he promoted Lu Xiangxiang, the governor of Xunyang, to the right deputy governor of Yushi and the governor of Huguang, and then to the prime minister of the five provinces, and the military affairs of Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, Huguang and other provinces, and coordinated with Hong Chengchou to conquer and suppress.

After Dayong saw this appointment from the Tang newspaper, he immediately shook his head, so that there are two big men in the encirclement and suppression of these five provinces, and I would like to ask who the general soldiers below listen to? Who do the governors of these five provinces and the prime ministers of the five provinces listen to! The Governor is going east, the Prime Minister is going west, what the hell is going east or west!

The Son of Heaven is really anxious and confused, isn't such an appointment like a bald head in later generations!

Dayong felt helpless, but fortunately, Cao Bianjiao had already seized the Mianchi Ferry, and he only needed to lead the main force to Anyang to contain the mouth of Zhending and Shunde Liukou's southern channel.

On the way to Anyang, but seeing that the villages along the way were dilapidated, ten rooms and nine empty, and the people encountered were all yellow and hungry, and they would fall to the ground and starve to death at any time, Dayong urgently ordered the homeless people who accompanied the army to distribute relief food, and asked the victims if they were willing to go to Dengzhou, and those who were willing to go arranged for someone to send them back, and those who did not want to give them a certain ration to let them go to Weihui.

When they arrived in Tangyin County, the forward came to report that there was a village in front of them to defend themselves, and from a distance, the people guarding the wall were wearing white hats.