"Nanjing Luobi came with news that the Second Army and the Third Army of the Guards were transferred to Shandong and Huguang respectively, and it seems that the Ming Army really believed that we put the main force in Shandong and Huguang, but in fact I didn't know that we had been recruiting in Henan."

Hong Chengchou twisted his beard and laughed, and confidently wrote calligraphy on the desk.

"Not only that, Lu Zhenfei has begun to take the initiative to reply to us these days, and it seems that there is a great hope of successfully recruiting Lu Zhenfei, and he is still a prophet in Zhongtang."

Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, echoed from the side.

"The Third Army of the Guards Army will not go to Henan but to Huguang, if the official is Lu Zhenfei, there will be some resentment."

Hong Chengchou seemed to know Lu Zhenfei very well, picked up the pen and sighed: "Speaking of which, Lu Zhenfei is still quite talented as an official, if he can really belong to my Qing Dynasty, he will also be a good minister of a country." ”

"Zhongtang, do you say that this Lu Zhenfei will inform the Zhu Ming court of our main force in Henan and our appeasement of him, so that the Zhu Ming court will know that our main force is in Henan", Ao Bai, the commander of the Manchurian Protector Army, couldn't help but ask at this time.

Hong Chengchou still smiled kindly and said: "Commander Ao doesn't know, if it was a few days ago, Hong did have worries about this, but now that there are the accurate movements of the Third Army and the Second Army of the Guards, it seems that Lu Zhenfei did not inform the court of our appeasement of him, and he didn't even know that our main force was in Henan." ”

As he spoke, Hong Chengchou looked at Luck Dehun: "Lord Belle, the main force of the army can go to Fengqiu City in advance, and when the time comes, it is necessary to let Lu Zhenfei know that our 800,000 main force is about to attack his Henan, and he does not have any Third Army of the Guards to rely on at this time, so he can't accept the appeasement!" ”

……

When Hong Chengchou thought that everything was expected, the governors and commanders of the various armies of the Guards had already gathered in Fengyang for a temporary meeting.

Qin Liangyu also appeared for the first time in front of the governors and commanders of the main forces of the Guards, just as Zhu Youzhen and Hong Chengchou expected, at this time, Zhou Yuji, Liu Fangliang, Li Banghua, Li Mingrui, etc. did not accept Qin Liangyu as their own commander, and they also knew that Qin Liangyu was standing behind Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

The impromptu meeting was brief, with a brief announcement of the generalissimo's strategic arrangements and the plans and suggestions of the leading figures of the Guards against the enemy.

Immediately afterwards, the governors and commanders of the various armies of the Guards rushed back to their war zones to prepare for battle.

Qin Liangyu also rushed to Kaifeng, Henan with the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards, and on the sixth day of December, Qin Liangyu arrived in Kaifeng to meet with Lu Zhenfei, the governor and chief military officer of Henan.

The First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army had to leave Kaifeng and go to Qixian County, Henan.

At this time, the two main forces of the Second Army and the Third Army of the Ming Guards Army, totaling 300,000 troops, had all entered Henan, and began to initially form an encirclement posture against Hong Chengchou's main force, just waiting for Hong Chengchou's Qing army's 500,000 main forces to drill inside.

However, this second decisive battle between the Ming and the Manchu Qing was fought not in Henan, but in Shandong.

Lu Zhenfei continued to release his willingness to join the Qing Dynasty with Hong Chengchou in accordance with Qin Liangyu's instructions, paralyzing Hong Chengchou's nerves, and Hong Chengchou was not in a hurry to attack, and continued to slowly transfer the army to Fengqiu.

However, Shandong's Tan Tai Department did not have such good patience as Hong Chengchou, and after the Yellow River seized the Huai into the sea, there was no defensive barrier in northern Shandong, and Tan Tai's advance was faster, completely ignoring the cold climate and directly began to work with the First Army of the Guards.

Zhu Cijiong, the Yongwang under the pseudonym Zhu Keqing, has also arrived in Jinan, Shandong.

"What does this Ruan Dayue want to do, why did he put King Yong here as his official!"

Li Mingrui slapped the table on the spot after knowing that the true identity of Zhu Keqing, the fifth student of the Ming Army Military Academy, was Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of the Ming Dynasty.

"I'm afraid that this Ruan Dayue deliberately wants you to stand on the side of King Yong, and maybe it also has His Majesty's intentions."

Wang Yanxun, the commander of the battalion directly under the governor of the First Army of the Guards, said with a smile and then asked: "Look, do you want to greet His Royal Highness King Yong?" In addition, do you need to find a separate house for His Royal Highness Yongwang to live in? ”

"No, although His Majesty deposed the crown prince, it is not certain who will inherit the unification in the future of this world, this official is a civil official in charge of the army, which is different from the civil official in the capital, and if he is not careful, he will be suspicious of His Majesty, and he can't be so easily put into the command of His Royal Highness King Yongwang, let him dry him for a few days first, and there is no need to arrange his residence, since he is here to join the army, let him live in the military camp and sleep in the Chase bunk with other soldiers."

Li Mingrui said and asked Wang Yanxun: "What about General Zhou?" ”

"The chief soldier has led the main force to Dezhou, saying that it is enough for Jinan to have you in charge, as for His Royal Highness King Yong, the chief soldier said that since the ministry arranged to join the army with you, the governor, it is naturally up to you", Wang Yanxun replied.

"This old fox is running very fast", Li Mingrui said.

Li Mingrui really didn't see Zhu Cijiong immediately in the past few days, and Zhu Cijiong, as the eternal king, gradually became a little annoyed, he didn't expect that his dignified son would come to join the army for the governor, and the governor refused to even see him.

At this time, Zhu Cijiong, as the prince, understood that even if he was a prince, it was not easy to be respected by officials.

He had to endure it, obediently obeyed the dispatch of the entire Governor's Palace, and was only responsible for participating in the statistics of the war situation in various parts of the Shandong Theater every day.

"According to the battle report of the Dezhou front, Tan Tai, the general of Jiannu Dingnan, has led 200,000 troops to Wuqiao, his advance cavalry has arrived in Dezhou, and my first corps has all crossed the Tuhe River under the leadership of the general army!"

As soon as the soldiers in charge of communications brought the news from the front, the troops in the Governor's Palace had to immediately deduce the possible outcome of the war and the predictions and suggestions of the war situation based on the map and sand table, and then submit them to the Governor Li Mingrui for reference, and then Li Mingrui would pass them back to the commander-in-chief Zhou Yuji.

Yongwang Zhu Cijiong is only in charge of this kind of work now, but he is not familiar with these things just now, and when he heard the signal soldiers say that the 200,000 Qing troops had arrived at Wuqiao, he instinctively panicked:

"Ah, there are 200,000, it seems that Texas is not far from Jinan, how is this good, what are your good plans."

The messenger didn't answer, he ran out, and the other soldiers looked at him and smiled, and then they went their separate ways and began to point to some icons on the map and discuss:

"According to the meaning of the Generalissimo's Palace, we are going to resist the enemy every day, Tan Tai brought 200,000 people to go straight to Dezhou, but I am afraid that I want to hit the Zhangtai Ferry along the canal, and then go directly to the Guandao through the plains and Yucheng two cities, and then surround Jinan."

Yongwang Zhu Cijiong looked at these unwilling to take care of his own army with some embarrassment, he was a little annoyed and angry, but he also remembered that his father asked him not to reveal his identity and not to bully others, he could only endure it, and unconsciously stood up, wanting to see how these soldiers worked.

(End of chapter)