In order to avoid adding fuel to the tactics, the enemy really besieged the city and sent reinforcements, and the army led by Fei Ruhe arrived in Tianjin after a full month.

During this period, he has been gathering troops in Bazhou.

The four divisions of Fei Ruhe, Huang Shun, Wan Sitong, and Li Dingguo combined, plus some peasant troops, and there were 50,000 people who could fight. In addition, a large number of people and boats continue to come here from the Huitong River and the Grand Canal.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Huitong River had to flow into the triangle lake first, and then connect with the Grand Canal.

Together with the people, more than 100,000 people camped between the Triangle Lake and the Grand Canal, where Li Zicheng had camped before.

There is a triangle lake in the north, a large canal in the south, and a small river that communicates the triangle lake and the Grand Canal in the east.

If Li Zicheng and Hao Ge wanted to fight, they would either attack from the triangle or the Grand Canal, and it would be easiest to attack across the small river to the east.

The war is completely deadlocked!

Due to the terrain, whoever attacks suffers. Li Zicheng and Haoge could only continue to fill the river with soil and bombard the city wall. Moreover, before the Wei River and the Haihe River were filled, they still had to shell on the periphery, the distance was too far, and whether they could hit the city wall or not depended on the will of heaven.

"Your Majesty, you can't fight like this," said Dang Shousu, the general of Dashun, "and the military rations of the puppet can be easily transported from the south along the Grand Canal." We don't have much food in Hebei, and we have to transport military food from Shanxi. It has been a stalemate, and after a few months, our food will run out. ”

Zhang Nai said: "Your Majesty, it is better for the child to secretly lead the cavalry and go around Bazhou and Baoding County (northwest of Wen'an). The puppet army in Hebei is out together, and there must be emptiness on the Bazhou side! ”

Yuan Zongdi said: "No matter how empty Bazhou is, there are still thousands of defenders, where can your cavalry be defeated?" ”

Zhang Nai said: "If Bazhou can't be defeated, it will be beaten in Yuanjiakou between Bazhou and Baoding County." It is extremely important there, and the occupation of Yuanjiakou can cut off the connection between Bazhou, Baoding and Tianjin. ”

Yuanjiakou was originally called Jiakou Village, which was built by Chai Rong to resist the Khitan.

Yang Yanlang, the Song Dynasty inspection history, sent the school captain Yuan Gui to garrison Jiakou Village, and built a dark pile in the water to train soldiers, and Jiakou Village has since been renamed Yuanjiakou.

In the story of the Yang general, Yang Liulang's Xiyingpan is not far to the west of Yuanjiakou.

This kind of battleground for soldiers, as long as the brain is not confused, how can it not send troops to garrison?

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "Yuankou Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the waterway is convenient, not far or near, I am afraid that it is a place where the puppet army hoards grain and grass." If you run with cavalry, even if you can defeat Bazhou, it is impossible to defeat Yuanjiakou. ”

"If you want to win in the face of danger, you have to try." Zhang Nai said.

Li Zicheng didn't have any good way, so he had to say: "If you want to go, you can bring two thousand horses, and it will be easy to expose your whereabouts." If you can capture Yuankou Pass and burn all the grain there, you will already win half of the battle. ”

Afraid of being discovered by the Datong Navy in the Triangle Lake, Zhang Nai took two thousand cavalry and retreated to the vicinity of Yang Village, and then read the Fenghe River to the west.

Zhang Nai's supply of grain and grass in Dong'an County, and then crossed the Hunhe River to Yongqing.

Yongqing also belonged to Li Zicheng's territory, and after a little supply, he went south to Xin'an Town. Prepare to quietly cross the Huitong River at night, and then kill Yuanjiakou by surprise.

"Woo woo woo !!"

Just after Xin'an Town, Zhang Nai's face was ugly, he collided with the Datong Dragoon, and the Dragoon directly blew the warning horn.

"Eat!"

Zhang Nai gave an order and pounced on the Dashun cavalry. He had 2,000 horsemen under his command, and the dragoons in front of him were only a few dozen horsemen.

The dragoons turned around and ran, not wanting to engage the enemy at all, and blowing their horns as they ran.

Chasing two miles to the south, the dragoons suddenly increased.

However, in order to protect the military rations, Fei Ruhe left a dragoon here, and he would go out every day to investigate the enemy's situation.

The general who commanded the cavalry was Jiang Xuan, who first surrendered to Li Zicheng and then to Dolgon. During the Henan War, he took the Jiading cavalry and took the initiative to return to the Datong army, and in order to cover the Datong army, he carried Wu Sangui's cavalry charge, and even his younger brother was killed on the spot.

Today, Jiang Hao is already the commander of the cavalry, shouldering the heavy responsibility of protecting military rations.

Zhang Nai sounded the order and signaled the whole army to stop the pursuit.

Jiang Hao took the initiative to step forward, and shouted with a smile: "Which old man is on the other side?" Why don't you just submit to my Datong court? ”

The distance was too far for Zhang Nai to hear clearly.

At this moment, these Datong dragoons only gathered more than 800 cavalry, but they took the initiative to approach 2,000 Dashun cavalry.

"Withdraw to Yongqing!"

Zhang Nai obviously had the advantage of troops, but he directly ordered a retreat.

Because the Datong dragoons have been blowing horns all the time, the devil knows how many there are nearby.

The two sides chased and fled, Zhang Nai successfully retreated into Yongqing City, and Jiang Hao could only truce and return to Bazhou.

Tianjin, on the other hand, is still confronting.

Zhang Nai returned to the Dinggu camp and said with a depressed face: "Your Majesty, the child has not completed the military order. As soon as he passed through Xin'an Town, he encountered the puppet cavalry, and Bazhou and Yuanjiakou must have been heavily guarded. ”

"Reasonably, it's none of your business," Li Zicheng frowned, "I received a report from Liu Zongbin in the morning, and he led people to attack Xin'an and failed. A few days ago, a reader said that the first line of the pseudo-Tong defense line was the Great Wall of Water in the Song Dynasty. ”

"The Great Wall of Water?" Zhang Nai's first heard.

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "It's the Great Wall of Water, which is used to defend the Khitan." ”

The so-called Great Wall of Water is to dig the river embankment and divert the river water to connect the swamps of Hebei into a line. He also set up hidden piles in the water to block the passage of ships, so that the Khitan army could not move south.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty withdrew to Liaodong, Zhao Han did not send cavalry to attack and seize Beijing, just because Beijing was not easy to defend.

Now the Hebei direction of the Datong Army roughly coincides with the Great Wall of Water in the Northern Song Dynasty. It's just that some of the terrain has changed, the swamps have become farmland, rivers and lakes, and some rivers have been fully formed.

Basically, it is along the rivers and garrisons in critical positions for defense.

If Li Zicheng wants the army to go south, he must fight hard one by one, and he will have to pay the price wherever he hits. Or like now, join forces with the Manchu Eight Banners and annihilate the main force of the Datong Army!

Continuing to confront each other for a month and a half, Li Zicheng made all kinds of temptations, and even feinted to lure him, but Fei Ruhe did not order the pursuit.

Why chase?

In Fei Ruhe's eyes, the battlefield situation is very clear.

The enemy has many soldiers, but his own soldiers are few. But the enemy's grain routes were longer, and they had to be transported from Shanxi and Liaodong. With its backs to two large rivers, it can transport military rations by ship at any time, and the consumption on the way to transport grain is far less than that of the enemy.

Then it will be slowly consumed, and whoever can't hold up the military rations will definitely show the flaws first.

Anyway, it is bordered by a lake to the north, a canal to the south, and a small river to the east. If the enemy wants to die, then cross the river and fight, and it is so comfortable to cross and hit halfway every time.

"Governor, the Tartars are moving!"

Fei Ruhe said: "Raise the hot air balloon and observe the enemy's situation." ”

A hot air balloon slowly rises into the air, towed by a rope, and floats over the battlefield.

Each hot air balloon can last up to 25 minutes. Several hot air balloons rotate, one about to fall and the other to rise, and as long as there is enough fuel, they can stay there for the whole day.

"It's that kind of ascending ball again, and I don't know how it flew up." Hauge rode his horse and looked up at the sky ahead.

Over the past few days, the hot air balloon has been lifted into the air many times.

Although it is only used to observe the battlefield, every time it rises into the air, it will bring a morale blow to the enemy. Some Dashun and Manchu soldiers felt that it was a divine object, and the Datong Emperor must have been blessed by the gods.

More than 20 minutes passed, the first hot air balloon landed, and the observer ran to report: "Dudu, the Tartars are back to the south, and it seems that they want to confront our army across the river." ”

"Running around, they're not tired." Fei Ruhe said with a smile.

The Manchu army returned to its original camping point, and in order to prevent itself from being dumpled, it had to send thousands of cavalry to spread more than ten miles south and west to investigate.

Hauge is also helpless, if he doesn't come back, let alone fight, he won't even be able to see the face of the Datong army.

Only when he comes back, he may be able to fight Li Zicheng on both sides.

Siege and reinforcements, to this extent, is already a complete failure.

The Datong reinforcements came, but they were not in a hurry at all, and they camped seven or eight miles away from Tianjin, and there was no sense of rescue at all. Because there is no need to save it, Tianjin is not in danger at all, this city is too difficult to fight.

From the day when the Datong Navy Division controlled the triangle, Li Zicheng and Haoge had already fallen into a passive situation, and all the favorable terrain was occupied by the Datong army. They didn't even dare to take the initiative to intercept Fei Ruhe's reinforcements halfway, that was their only chance to win.

On both sides of the canal, there was constant shelling every day, and every day there were sentinels running back and forth.

Both sides were preparing for the enemy to cross the river, and they were always planning to send small forces to cross the river and attack.

Another half a month passed.

Man Dahai said to Haoge: "Withdraw the army, Tianjin can't be defeated, then Fei Ruhe belongs to the turtle." The more the camp is built, the stronger it becomes, the more the trench and the earth wall are dug more and more, and if we continue like this, even if we are allowed to cross the river safely, attacking the camp will be the same as attacking the fortress. If it continues to drag on, the rainy season in western Liaoning will come, and it will be even more difficult to transport military rations, and then it will inevitably be defeated due to lack of food. ”

"After spending so much money and food, this time it's just a trip for nothing?" Hauge was unwilling.

Man Dahai asked rhetorically: "Otherwise, what else?" Can you defeat the city of Tianjin, or can you destroy the southern barbarians on the other side of the river? ”

Haoge said: "Do you want to divide the troops to attack Jinghai County first?" ”

Man Dahai asked, "How much do you divide to fight?" If you get less, you can't beat it. There are too many points, and there are few soldiers here, so Fei Ruhe will definitely do it. ”

Hauge said: "Set up many empty camps and quietly divide the troops and leave, at least you can deceive the other side for a few days." ”

Man Dahai said: "The Southern Barbarian has a flying sphere, standing in the sky and looking at it with a clairvoyant mirror, can you see that you are all empty camps?" Even if you can't see it, can you guarantee a few days to capture Jinghai County? ”

Fei Ruhe's use of soldiers has the flavor of Xu Dan.

At that time, Wang Baobao had 100,000 troops, sitting in Taiyuan, Xu Da captured two strongholds, and he was busy building camps, and there was no decisive battle at all.

It has always been time-consuming and consuming military food, so that Wang Baobao can't sit still.

Wang Baobao then pretended to go to Dadu, lured Xu Da to send troops to rescue, and wanted to fight Xu Da halfway. As a result, Xu Da did not go to save Dadu at all, but went to attack Taiyuan, where Wang Baobao had just left.

Wang Baobao's siege and reinforcement became Xu Da's siege and reinforcement.

Wang Baobao hurriedly came back with his troops and wanted to fight Xu Da in a decisive battle. Xu Da didn't move again, and wholeheartedly strengthened the camp.

Wang Baobao was arrogant and impatient, wanting to fight but couldn't get it, but he relaxed his vigilance, thinking that Xu Da would always stay in the camp and not move.

Xu Da moved, sent troops to attack at night, and Wang Baobao's tens of thousands of troops were wiped out overnight.

As for the grasp of the timing, Fei Ruhe is still difficult to say for the time being, but his patience is definitely comparable to Xu Da. Do you want a decisive battle? Hehe, I don't move, I don't move, I'm disgusting to you!

Fei Ruhe did not move, but Henan's Datong Army moved, and the troops were like a bamboo!

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