"Great Khan, I heard that Huang Shike is still in Beijing." Amin said coldly: "He has the courage of ten thousand people. ”

"Didn't you keep saying that Liaoyang was fake?" Lin Dan Khan remembered that Amin had vehemently opposed this statement, and he also swore that he was by Nurhachi's side when he died, and that it was purely a rumor that Zhendonghou single-handedly sniped Nurhachi. Lin Dan Khan has always been suspicious of Amin's words, well, in fact, the doubt is far greater than the belief, Lin Dan Khan always thought that this was his brother-in-law deceiving himself for the sake of face.

"It's been all these years." Amin said faintly: "I don't remember very well, the person I was accompanying at that time may really be a stand-in, Lao Khan was really killed by Huangshi." ”

"Then, let's go to Shanxi," Lin Dan Khan decided to go around the Jingshi, according to recent reports, the Jin army, like the other Ming border armies, was copying the model of the new army, and all the Ming armies believed that the most important thing was weapons, and Zhendonghou had long been known for his attention to weapons.

"A strong soldier is strong, so one can be worth ten. This is what Huang Shi said, and after that, he was busy casting cannons and armor. "Of course, Lin Dan Khan knows that the secret of Zhendonghou must be more than this, but the Mongolians have not experimented in other things, from the church to the establishment, whether it is the Mongolian army or the Ming border army, it has been imitated, but the effect is not good. With the exception of the immediate benefits of weapons, all of the reforms did not benefit much, and caused problems to the traditional chain of command, which in turn affected the combat effectiveness of the army, and was eventually eliminated by the Ming and Mongol armies.

"I used to think that the teaching team was the key," Lin Dan Khan didn't think about learning this system, but the method of training officers in the teaching team seriously damaged the balance of interests between the Mongolian nobles, so it didn't have any effect, and in the end, Lin Dan Khan also had some regrets, but now he has a different opinion: "Huangshi's eldest disciple Xu Ping didn't have such a team, but it was still as powerful, obviously there was something in Huangshi that was hidden from others." ”

There was no opinion on entering the pass to rob Amin before, but he has always been opposed to it in the past two years, in Amin's words, it is impossible to make mistakes again and again, and the Ming army was beaten too badly, so the Ming court re-activated Zhendonghou; Now if the Ming army is in a hurry, the Ming court will inevitably give Zhendonghou more power.

"In today's world, it is actually the Great Khan and the thieves competing for the world," Amin disagreed with Lin Dan Khan's military adventure, believing that even if he grabbed something, it would not be worth the loss: "If Huangshi doesn't plan to work for the Ming court anymore, it will be three." ”

"Will Huangshi betray the Ming Court?" Lin Dan Khan didn't believe it at all: "He is the reincarnation of Yue Fei." ”

"There is such an emperor in the Southern Dynasty, even if the real Yue Fei is going to be reversed, let alone Yue Fei will be reborn, but it is best if Huangshi is not reversed, so his ability will not be revealed. As long as Chongzhen is still the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, he will bring in all the capable people of the Han people, and it will be useless to come to Jiang Ziya, Zhuge Liang or something, and it will be a doomed fate. Amin said that he estimated that no matter how loyal a courtier was, he would inevitably have different intentions after staying in the Chongzhen Dynasty for twenty years: "The Southern Dynasty is dead, only a fool would want to accompany this mediocre and cruel emperor to his life, Huang Shi is not stupid at all, except for my dead cousin Hong Tai, I have never seen him more shrewd." As for loyalty, if Huangshi is a loyal minister, I am Qi Jiguang of the Southern Dynasty. ”

"It's best to let Huang Shi fight to the death with his disciples, as long as Huang Shi is embarrassed to put up an anti-flag one day and return it to Chongzhen, I think Xu Ping still has a chance." Amin didn't know what kind of person Li Zicheng was, which he frankly admitted to his brother-in-law: "But no matter how ignorant you are, it won't be worse than Chongzhen, let Huangshi go and fight Xu Ping, it's better to lose both, and finally wait for Xu Ping to wipe out all the troops of the Southern Dynasty for us, and Huangshi will still pretend to stay under Chongzhen." We launched a sudden attack, and then formed an alliance with Xu Ping to deal with Huangshi, so that although we don't know what happened in the end, I think we can survive this life safely. Amin has no ambitions, and after the great change in Xifengkou, years of precarious life have endured all his ambitions, and now his only wish is to live the rest of his life quietly. Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and Amin doesn't want to worry about it anymore.

……

Shandong

"Ji Weisi has fled to Henan, and it is believed that he has arrived at the camp to meet Li Zicheng and Xu Ping."

The Dongjiang Army finally lost its fighting spirit under the pressure of the 12th Battalion New Army, and Ji Huisi took a group of old brothers to escape far away before the New Army had time to close the siege, and went straight to Henan.

"Kaifeng hasn't fallen yet, but the situation will never be good."

Yang Zhiyuan strongly advocated the immediate pursuit of Ji Huisi into Henan, while He Baodao preferred to trim for a while.

"Of the 12 battalions, only six are close to full strength," He Baodao pointed out that the new army also set out in a hurry this time, and although it has been replenished from the Beijing division, until now, the new army, which is known as the 12 battalions plus the direct guard, has only the actual strength of nine battalions, and there are many differences in weapons and equipment. Although the equipment of the new army was constantly intercepted in various places, the strength of the new army increased by 500 men every day on average, and the difference between guns and artillery was constantly filled: "No matter how quickly Xu Ping's troops recover, it is impossible to be faster than us." ”

"It's hard to say," Yang Zhiyuan is not as optimistic as He Baodao, the production of flintlock pistols has gone out of control, the officials responsible for supervising the manufacture in Fujian have accepted a large number of bribes, and it is impossible to verify how many weapons were manufactured in various arsenals. Even the relatives and friends of those responsible officials have used their power to smuggle arms, and these people are all officials sent by the imperial court, and they have a tacit political understanding and agreement with the Marquis of Zhendong. They will give the Forces nouvelles quite convenient within their authority, but in turn they have become a black hole of arms loss, and the Forces nouvelles estimate that thousands of guns are now flowing into the black market every month, and a large number of officers and soldiers, bandits, and of course there are also businessmen who buy them for the camp. A large amount of arms trade stimulates more businessmen to engage in such trades, and now in Fujian, the private production of arms is no longer even a thing that dare not be said to others, and more and more businessmen openly talk about this lucrative business, that is, they cannot directly participate in it, and they have also tried to become upstream material suppliers for gun production: "Now Xu Ping may be slower than us, but there are countless businessmen who are waiting for the fall of Kaifeng with their eyes wide open, waiting to send their caravans. Gunpowder and even artillery will pour into Henan like a tide. ”

"Sun Chuanting, declare that he will never send troops to participate in this encirclement and suppression." He Baodao had no politeness to Sun Chuanting by name, and after He Renlong's incident, he once went to meet Zhendonghou to ask the other party to come forward to impeach Sun Chuanting. Zhendonghou did not meet He Baodao's request, because he felt that the imperial court would not meet his own request, and Zhendonghou explained to He Baodao: The imperial court will never tolerate Zhendonghou pointing fingers at other armies.

This reason was accepted by He Baodao, and in addition, Zhendonghou also assured his old friend: It is not that he will not report it, the time has not come, and he will definitely seek justice for He Baodao in the future, so that Sun Chuanting will pay for his blood debts.

"The governor of the three sides should not have sent troops to attack the thieves," Yang Zhiyuan also regretted this, Sun Chuanting hurriedly sent troops without waiting for the Chu army and the Hebei army to arrive, and after the defeat, the Qin army completely lost its offensive ability, and now when the other Ming armies began to besiege the Kaifeng Chuang army, the Qin army could only stare dryly: "If you start now, Li Chuang will be difficult to separate, and he will not be able to deal with the two sides of the Qin army and the Chu army at the same time, so Xu Ping's forces will also be scattered." ”

"Sun Chuanting, what does he know? He Baodao scolded angrily: "Because the Qin army was able to defeat Gao Chuang's rabble at that time, he picked up this cheap, and now the Qin army can't beat Li Chuang's five battalions, so he can't do it." But if it weren't for him, the Qin Jun brothers wouldn't have been defeated so badly and died so many people! Sun Chuanting deceived the emperor, he really deserved death. ”

Yang Zhiyuan was silent, in recent years, He Baodao has almost scolded the people around Chongzhen Tianzi, but there has never been a direct scolding of the emperor like twenty years ago.

"The emperor actually said that he would hand over the military power of the seven provinces to Sun Chuanting, give him a chance, and let him lead the troops to attack Li Chuang," He Baodao shouted angrily: "How can the world's elite generals, the children of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty in the past two hundred years, be handed over to this scholar?" Hou Ye actually agreed, and Hou Ye didn't angrily denounce Sun Chuanting's incompetence to the court! ”

Hearing that He Baodao suddenly pointed the finger at Zhendonghou, Yang Zhiyuan hurriedly defended: "As long as it is about the military outside the new army, the more the adults oppose it, the more the emperor and the cabinet will agree; The adults wanted to pretend to agree and induce the emperor and the cabinet to remove Sun Chuanting, but they didn't want to agree this time. ”

He Baodao no longer nagged about the military affairs of Shaanxi, but talked about the Chu army and the Hebei army: "Yang Wenyue came with the Hebei army again, but after he entered the Daimyo's mansion, he refused to take another step south, but the Chu army was more active, Zuo Shuai claimed that 800,000 Hunan and Chu children had already looked down on the county, and they would advance and retreat with us just waiting for us to set off." ”

"There is no need to count on advancing and retreating together," Yang Zhiyuan snorted: "If we defeat Xu Ping, Zuo Liangyu will dare to go in with us to fight Li Chuang, but if we can't do anything about Xu Ping, Zuo Liangyu will leave us first." ”

"If the Qin army is still ......" He Baodao couldn't help but sigh again, although it is now claimed that the four-way army will attack Henan to relieve the siege of Kaifeng, but the Chu army may not be able to contribute, and the Hebei army may not even work.

Yang Zhiyuan saw He Baodao with a stunned expression again, the Qin army was defeated repeatedly, and He Baodao, who was in the Beijing Division, received letters from his hometown again and again, and every time the world friend was gone. As for the recent defeat, He Baodao didn't have time to grieve for He Renlong, and he kept receiving letters of mourning for several days: there were two uncles from his maternal grandfather's family, as well as two uncles from his father-in-law's family, and countless cousins and in-laws......

"At least there is Yu Shuai of the Jiangbei Army," Yang Zhiyuan set his sights on Nanjing, the Jiangbei Army, as the last of the four-way army, now claims to have gathered in Bozhou, but Yang Zhiyuan, most of the generals, have little hope. Only Yu Dong is probably still useful, this Yu Shuai is the only Ming army general who has defeated Xu Ping so far, he has been fighting with Xu Ping for a long time, and recently he has been in Bozhou to make Xu Ping's general Sun Kewang Wangcheng sigh: "Yu Shuai doesn't know how to prepare?" ”

Originally, the new army always thought that Yu Dong was just taking advantage of a small advantage, and took advantage of Xu Ping's just organized and trained the army, and when he was unfamiliar with the western camp and had no stable base, some people estimated that Xu Ping might have been defeated at that time. But now there are many people in the new army who secretly admire Yu Dong, and feel that even if Yu Dong had all kinds of advantages at that time, as long as he can defeat Xu Ping once, it is not simple. Now if someone in the new army says that Xu Ping is a fraud, there will immediately be a voice defending Yu Dong: first, it is not easy to force Xu Ping to use fraud, and it is even more difficult considering that Yu Dong did not have a flintlock pistol at that time; Second, in the face of Xu Ping, surrounded by friendly troops like the Bianjun army, Yu Dong not only did not wipe out the whole army, but also successfully and temporarily retreated to Guide - even if Xu Ping's main energy was on the governor of Henan at that time, even if Xu Ping's troops were insufficient at that time, even if there were more and bigger goals at that time to act as Yu Dong's substitute ghost, it was not easy.

"When the Pu brothers relieved Kaifeng, Yu Shuai unfortunately fell ill, and as a result, there were no friendly troops to cooperate with our new army," Yang Zhiyuan also had a good impression of Yu Dong, so many times after being severely injured by Xu Ping and being chased and killed, Yu Dong still did not lose his fighting spirit, but firmly guarded the front line against the invasion army - Bozhou.

After relieving Ji Huisi's threat, He Baodao and Yang Zhiyuan immediately sent someone to contact Yu Dong, but they have not received a reply from Yu Dong so far.

……

Guide,

Sun Kewang ordered all the field troops of the province to concentrate on Guide City, the war in Shandong was over, and the new army could launch an attack on Henan at any time.

"The two battalions of Xifeng and Xirui must leave Guide and march towards Kaifeng immediately," After gathering all his generals, Sun Kewang unabashedly explained that he planned to retreat immediately: "Guide here may become a battlefield at any time, and our two battalions are definitely not the opponents of the new army of the 12th battalion, even if they hold the city, so we must immediately go to join the general." ”

Zhang Xianbao is already a general under Sun Kewang, and all the elites of his subordinates have been reorganized into the Xifeng battalion, and he heard that the commander has the intention of giving up returning to Germany without a fight, he has a little regret: "My lord," now Sun Kewang's subordinates have become accustomed to calling him an adult instead of the third master's name of a bandit: "The new army may not come to us to return to Germany, and we may not all come, so we are not all without the strength to fight." ”

"If we don't come, then there is no need for us to stay in Guide, if the new army all goes to the general, we obviously have to help. It would be better if the new army came partially, we would first help the general to make the gang that went to Kaifeng, and then it would not be too late to come back to clean up the trouble that came to us. Although Sun Kewang ordered the field troops to leave Guide, he did not let the local troops retreat, but instead concentrated them in important cities to hold on, and he explained to his subordinates: "I estimate that the new army does not have the energy to fight with our regiment, if I am the general of the new army, I will never waste the field troops under the fortified city with the enemy's regiments and peasants, and if we defeat our main force, those militia groups should also surrender, and the soldiers can get our fortress without blood." ”

"The only thing that worries me is Yu Dong," this guy insisted on refusing to exchange an oath of non-aggression with Sun Kewang, although Sun Kewang also saw Yu Dong's little abacus clearly, but it was hard to say that he would not take the opportunity to come to the Defu to harass him. If the local troops can use the strong city fortifications to consume part of the field troops of the new army, then Sun Kewang will not feel sorry for losing the city, but if he can only consume some of Yu Dong's troops, then Sun Kewang still thinks it is not worth it.

"Forget it, just let this guy run rampant for a while," before leaving, Sun Kewang said viciously: "If this guy dares to come to Guide and spoil my grass and trees, in the future, I will fight not to send the baggage from Jiangnan, and I will first pull out Bozhou and cut this guy with a thousand knives." ”

……

Ji Guisi arrived in Kaifeng to meet with Li Zicheng, who arranged a reception banquet to surprise Ji Guisi, and on the other hand, summoned the rebel generals of the two battalions of Chuang and Cao to discuss the upcoming war.

At the meeting, Luo Rucai still advocated capturing Kaifeng as soon as possible, allowing the two battalions of Chuang and Cao to restore their mobility, and then fighting guerrillas in the Central Plains with officers and soldiers according to the old method. However, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, and other generals who broke into the camp were opposed to this strategy, and the new army was not the kind of Ming army that could only walk less than ten miles a day, and the mobility of the new army exceeded that of other officers and soldiers several times, and it was also above the camp. Although Luo Rucai's Cao battalion was dominated by cavalry and might not be caught up by the new army in the short term, even Cao Ying could not march dozens of miles a day for months and days, so it was unrealistic to expect to drag the new army down.

Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and others fiercely opposed and retreated without a fight. For more than a year, Henan has been operating bazaars, setting up tax cards, and building a large number of ordnance production camps; if mobile warfare is adopted, these achievements will be destroyed in one fell swoop, and the combat effectiveness of the camps will be greatly reduced after the loss of these production bases.

Seeing this, Xu Ping came out and said that the policy of attacking Kaifeng's heart had been very successful, and many Kaifeng defenders had begun to contact the camp, and it was difficult for the new army to launch a large-scale offensive against Henan within a month, so Xu Ping advocated not to rush to decide whether to meet the battle or retreat. As for Kaifeng, there is still time to make more rigorous siege preparations.

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