Hamo was originally the leader of the Mongolian blue flag, and was promoted by Hong Chengchou to serve as a deputy general under Zhou Ze, so he naturally also had the meaning of monitoring Zhou Ze.

However, this Hamo may be sincere, and after hearing Zhou Ze say this, he couldn't help but admire Zhou Ze very much, and hurriedly said: "Lord Admiral, like Zhuge Liang, is a good plan, a good plan." ”

"General Ha has a good reputation, and now General Lao Ha quickly sent someone to report to Hong Zhongtang, saying that we have outwitted the Xinghua Battalion, the main force of the Guards has withdrawn to the east, and whether our troops will stay in the Xinghua Battalion or continue to pursue, please show Lord Zhongtang."

After Zhou Ze finished speaking, he called one of his cronies, Li Yongxing, over: "You also go with you and write a battle report for this official to Lord Beile." ”

Zhou Ze asked Li Yongxing, a brocade guard who pretended to be his own soldier, to restore Luck Dehun's life, and naturally he also wanted Li Yongxing to take the opportunity to explore the dynamics of the main force of the Qing army in Hong Chengchou's department.

Hong Chengchou learned that Zhou Ze occupied the Xinghua Camp here, but he just smiled faintly.

But at the same time, Luck Dehun also received a letter from Zhou Ze, but he slapped the table happily: "Good minion, Ben Baylor likes his cleverness, so he used two hundred horses to deceive the Xinghua Battalion, Hong Zhongtang, you have to ask for this merit for Admiral Zhou." ”

"Please want to be invited, but Lord Belle, the main forces of this family have all withdrawn eastward, and occupying an apricot blossom camp is nothing more than occupying an empty city."

Hong Chengchou smiled slightly as he spoke, and Luck Dehun didn't say anything more.

He also had to admit that Zhou Ze's victory was indeed a little watery, and at the same time, he was also very annoyed in his heart: "Zhou Ze, a dog minion, report himself for a battle exploit, why is it okay to pull the main force of others to retreat east?" ”

"Lord Belle, Hong Zhongtang, Xia Guan thinks that the important thing at the moment is not the matter of Admiral Zhou's occupation of the Xinghua Camp but the matter of the main force of the Guards retreating eastward, if it is really as Admiral Zhou said, the main force of the Guards retreats eastward, but Wu is very puzzled, retreating east into Fengyang, is it possible that the main force of his Guards Army wants to return to Nanjing?"

Wu Sangui stopped the dispute between Luck Dehun and Hong Chengchou in time, and hurriedly got down to business.

And Hong Chengchou couldn't help but smile and said: "Where is this where is the main force of the Guards retreating eastward, this is obviously going north!" ”

"Going north?" Luckedhun stood up: "My minion clearly wrote that it was the Guards who retreated eastward. ”

"What Admiral Zhou saw was just an appearance, there was no point in retreating eastward, if you were Zhu Youzhen, would you withdraw the main force eastward, wouldn't you immediately go north to reinforce and block our way back, so that we could eat us between Xuanwuwei and Sunjia Ferry?"

Although Hong Chengchou looked down on Zhou Ze, the governor of Henan, he also thought that Zhou Ze, the governor of Henan, had no great ability, and thought that Zhou Ze could recapture the Xinghua Battalion just because he was just clever, otherwise, since he could outwit the Xinghua Battalion, why couldn't he judge that it was meaningless for the main force of the Guards to retreat eastward?

Zhou Ze also guessed that Hong Chengchou would think so.

So he didn't make a big move, saying that he predicted that the main force of the Guards would go north, so with Hong Chengchou's mind, he would not believe his own words, but would instinctively deny his own opinion.

And if he behaved stupidly and only said that he saw the main force of the Guards retreating eastward, with Hong Chengchou's conceit and wisdom, he could naturally guess that after the Guards retreated eastward, they could go north and cross the Yellow River north from Lanyang and Li Jinggaokou to reinforce the ferry defense force.

Therefore, at this time, Hong Chengchou also firmly believed that he had not made a mistake, and another main force of the Guards in the south of Kaifeng City had gone north.

In this regard, Hong Chengchou was also quite annoyed, he thought that the main force of the Guards was not in Henan, and he did not expect that the Guards would suddenly appear on the north bank of the Yellow River.

As a civil servant who is good at governing the army, and he has always had a strong memory, he also knows that there are three places to cross the river from Henan, one is to go out of Xuanwuwei to the Tiger Prison Pass, one is to pass the current Sunjia Ferry, and the other is to go from Lanyang to Lijiagaokou.

But because he didn't expect that the main force of the Guards was still in Henan, he didn't expect that the main force of the Guards would cross the Yellow River to block his retreat.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but blame himself secretly, thinking about how he had forgotten that the safety of the grain road was the most important thing, so that he had fallen to such a point.

Fortunately, Hong Chengchou's authority in the Qing army is still there, so after he said this, Luck Dehun and Wu Sangui all thought so.

Hong Chengchou also directly ordered: "Tell Zhou Ze to let him stay in the Xinghua camp for the time being, and send scouts to investigate the movement in the direction of Xuanwuwei!" ”

"Listen to Zhongtang's meaning, our more than 300,000 horses still want to seize the Sunjia ferry and river defense, instead of seizing Xuanwuwei and get in touch with the first-class prince He Luohui, didn't Zhongtang just say that the main force of the Guards has gone north, why do we have to fight hard?"

Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, raised his doubts.

"The march of the Guards is very strange, Hong sometimes doesn't dare to be sure what the Guards will do next, although according to common sense, he is naturally going north, but maybe it will be a Lost Soul Array, and he wants us to retreat, after all, after we cross the river, it will be the hinterland of my Daqing, and his Guards will not be able to stop us."

Hong Chengchou was suspicious, and now that he realized that the guards had played him once, he became more cautious, and he was also worried that the guards would deliberately let him fall into a trap.

Therefore, he thought that if it was not far from the bank of the Yellow River, it would be better to attack once, if it was not the main force of the Guards, the main force of his Qing army could naturally easily cross the river and retreat, if it was the main force of the Guards, his 300,000 Qing troops should not suffer any losses, and the worst thing was to withdraw and join forces with Zhou Zebu to attack Xuanwuwei in the north and south.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou still insisted on continuing to go north.

……

Yan Yingyuan took Xia Wanchun and other 1,000 people directly under the association, and kept following closely behind the main forces of the Qing army such as Hong Chengchou.

However, Yan Yingyuan did not take Xia Wanchun and others to harass Hong Chengchou and other main forces of the Qing army along the way.

Yan Yingyuan directly grabbed Xia Wanchun:

"Brother Duan, Yan thinks that it is not a good strategy for His Majesty to let us attack Hong Chengchou and other main forces of the Qing army, think about it, if you are an old fox like Hong Chengchou, you will definitely be very careful, if we attack and disturb along the way, he will definitely think that we don't want him to take the main force of the Qing army north, which makes him desperate to speed up north."

"Commander Yan, you dare to question Your Majesty's resolution, but what you said seems to be reasonable, but it doesn't seem to be reasonable, don't forget, Your Majesty let us attack Hong Chengchou and other main forces of the Qing army in order to assist the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards."

Xia Wanchun looked at Yan Yingyuan with some astonishment.

Thank you for the book friend Siqiu Nianhu 99 book coins reward, I'm too sleepy, I'll write another more, almost exactly 10,000 words

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