After entering Tashan City, Zheng Cheng's front-line military information was suddenly much more detailed than what he learned from Wu Sangui a few days ago.

After all, Li Fuming has been fighting and holding on here for half a year, and although he has been surrounded, he can still find out who the enemy is and how many soldiers and horses there are.

Now that we want to cooperate sincerely, Li Fuming will also tell everything he knows:

“…… This is the case with the enemy around Tower Hill now. I heard that the old slave has been seriously ill since last year.

Now those who remain in the siege and partition between Song, Xing, Ta, and Jin are mainly the pseudo-county kings and white flag lords stationed at the front. and the puppet prince and the lord of the Blue Banner who besieged Jinzhou in the rear.

The deployment of the Tartars is to cut off the communication between our three cities and besiege Songshan with Azig as a whole, and use Zilharang as a backup. Azig himself is now stationed in the town of Machang between Songshan and Xingshan, camping across the Xiaoling River, and has also temporarily built a bridge over the Xiaoling River.

In this way, no matter where there is someone on Songshan and Xingshan who wants to break through and contact, he can divide his troops to block the attack, and there is no need to temporarily cross the river to gather troops.

Under the command of Azig, there are also two Jiala, which are inlaid with white flags, respectively in the kiln township between Songshan and my Tashan, and Beitun between Xingshan and Tashan, which are the main roads that must be passed through to connect my Tashan and the other two cities.

Alas, God really bless me Daming, to say a word of conscience, the troops left by the Tartars now are at least half less than during the war half a year ago - at that time, the eight banners were exhausted, and we fought a bloody battle, and now only two flags are left to besiege the city. If the old slave had become ill a few months earlier, and the illness was before the decisive battle, maybe Inspector Hong would have won the bet! ”

Li Fuming said and spoke, and became emotional again, thinking of the regret, he couldn't help but pat his thigh, and the nail leaves made a loud sound.

His last emotion was already well known in the Ming army on the front line, but Zheng Chenggong and others didn't know, so they couldn't help but ask curiously.

Li Fuming also said a few more words, telling them that Huang Taiji, the pseudo-sweater, was actually seriously ill during the decisive battle in early winter last year, and the specific illness has not been found out so far, anyway, he will go back to recuperate after the fight.

Later, I heard that in winter, the old slave's pseudo-concubine died of illness (Hai Lanzhu, Bumu Butai's sister), and the old slave was seriously ill again.

After Zheng Chenggong listened, he inevitably regretted it for a while.

After all, according to history, Huang Taiji only has more than a year left to live, but there are no traversers here, so no one knows this. If Shen Shuren was here, he would never be surprised.

Many people in the wild history say that Huang Taiji was murdered by Dolgon during his last serious illness, but these are obviously not credible, and Huang Taiji's health was already very poor for more than a year before his death.

It was useless to worry more about the health of the enemy chieftain, Zheng Chenggong quickly recovered his forward-looking mentality, and after a little total, he said:

"That being the case, this Songjin battlefield now has a total of two banners of Tartar. I have heard that the Tartars have one banner and five cara, and one cara and five oxen, and each ox records three hundred households, and each household has one ding in wartime.

Therefore, one Jiala is 1,500 horsemen, one flag is 7,500 horses, and the full strength of two flags is 15,000 horses. Our officials and soldiers in the three cities, there are still tens of thousands, right? Why are you so surrounded that you can't move at all? ”

When Li Fuming heard this, he couldn't help sneering, feeling that Zheng Chenggong was a gentleman, and he didn't know how thick the sky was: "Say it lightly!" There are a lot of two flags, and in the decisive battle last year, although the eight flags were exhausted, our army also had eight total soldiers and 130,000 people!

After the decisive battle that day, as many as 50,000 or 60,000 of our troops were annihilated, and countless people were trampled to death in Beacon Hill! The soldiers and horses left in the three cities are no more than 50,000 at most.

This has taken another half a year, we and Xingshan have fewer people, but the consumption of military food is slow, and the main force is in Songshan, I'm afraid that we have already begun to eat the dead. Such a tired division would never be able to face the two flags. What's more, this just means that there are two banners from Manchuria, and Azig also has the Mongolian army flag and the Han army flag. ”

Li Fuming was also afraid of increasing the enemy's morale, so he didn't say the words "Jurchen is invincible", but the demeanor and tone in his words were already very obvious.

Zheng Chenggong also knew that he didn't understand the situation, and he was young and shallow, so he immediately said that he was humbly taught.

Li Fuming saw that he was only an eighteen-year-old boy, and his blood was strong, and it was enough to be anxious and righteous to come to the rescue, so he didn't dwell on it.

The two re-worked together and planned a specific way to break through.

After summing it up, Zheng Chenggong suggested: "Now it seems that it is impossible to save Songshan's Inspector Hong." You have only seven or eight thousand men here, as long as our fleet at sea is well hidden enough not to be discovered by the Tartars in advance.

It is only twenty-five miles to Beacon Hill, taking advantage of the gap between enemy patrols, and the infantry marching may also rush to Beacon Hill, where there are deep-water berths, and large ships can directly dock on the shore, and they can get on board quickly, even if they are caught up by the Tartars, they can reflexively fight to the death, and buy time for friendly troops to board the ship. So, it should be no problem to rescue your department.

But according to what you said, there are at least more than 10,000 friendly troops at the Cao Junmen Gate in Xingshan, and they are not far from the sea, and it is about forty-five miles to the Beacon Hill Wharf.

Why don't we agree to meet you at Beacon Hill at dawn the day after tomorrow, and you can calculate your own time and go out of the city in the middle of the night to try to avoid the eyes and ears of the Tartar scouts, or simply make sure to intercept and kill a group of Tartar scouts.

If you can, it would be better to distract the Tartars by making it look like they are going to flee southwest with a small number of cavalry and land, so that they can escape at night.

On the other side of Xingshan, I will send a small sampan to Beiwan to land tomorrow, and try to inform that whether or not we are notified of the Xingshan defenders, we will go to Beacon Hill at dawn the day after tomorrow to meet them. ”

Zheng Chenggong thought very clearly, if he directly asked Li Fuming to go overland and go to Xingshan, sixty miles away, to inform Cao Bianjiao, then he would definitely be intercepted by the Qing army.

Therefore, it can only be a detour, first sneaking back to the sea in the dark, and then sending a few ships to the northeast for a detour of sixty miles, and then find a shoal to go ashore.

The Tartars were very careful to guard the main roads of communication between the cities, but they did not guard against the long shoreline shoals. Coupled with the Ming army's telescope, there is always a gap to be found.

However, Zheng Chenggong's plan was still found by Li Fuming in two flaws. He thought about it again and again, shook his head and said disoptimisticly: "There are still two loopholes in this method. First, there is at least a day difference between Zheng Tiju's notification of our army and the notification of Xingshan Cao Junmen.

But before you entered the city in the dark this morning, you intercepted and killed a small group of Tartar scouts on the way, and now the Tartars may have discovered that one of their scouts did not return to the camp, won't they be alert? If it drags on any longer, it will inevitably startle the snake and dream a lot at night.

Therefore, if we have to inform Xingshan Cao Junmen to launch together, we still have to do some drama today, at least one hundred and ten cavalry, pretend to break through and want to escape back to Shanhaiguan by land, and we have to fight with the enemy squad scouts to expose your whereabouts, so as to cover up your visit.

Otherwise, maybe the siege around this tower mountain will be strengthened a lot from tomorrow, and when the time comes, you will want to sneak out of the city, which is a fool's dream. ”

Zheng Chenggong thought about it, it was indeed the same reason, it was too difficult not to alarm the Tartars in advance.

Seeing that the other party also recognized, Li Fuming's face turned cold, and he turned his head and ordered his guard Li Tongtai: "How many war horses are there in the city?" ”

Li Tongtai felt a chill in his heart, and had a bad premonition, but he still said: "It's just two hundred, many injured and sick horses have been killed and eaten meat, and we haven't transported military rations for five months, and we all rely on grain storage to survive to this day." ”

Li Fuming gritted his teeth and said: "At dusk tonight, you take a hundred horsemen to break through, take all the horses away, strive for one person and two horses, and then bring the only remaining meat in the city."

Try to choose the warriors and martial arts officers in the army, so that you can fight when you encounter Tartar scouts. It's dusk when you get out of town, and you should be able to get out of it after dark.

Then try to flee to the south as much as possible, and run back to Shanhaiguan by yourself if you are lucky enough to be intercepted and killed halfway, the other Pao Ze brothers will also remember you, even if you are the main force to divert the attention of the enemy army and delay time.

I will give you a personal token of mine, Shanhaiguan Wu Sangui should recognize. As long as you get there alive, you won't be considered a deserter. ”

Li Fuming didn't dare to write a secret letter to explain the situation to Wu Sangui, what he was afraid of was that if Li Tongtai was intercepted and killed by the Tartar cavalry halfway, the secret would be leaked.

If only the token is brought, there is no risk for Li Tongtai to orally relay the situation, anyway, the Tartar can't understand the token when he sees it, and the token itself has no confidential information to interpret. Even if Li Tongtai was wounded and captured, he would not be able to take the initiative to confess confidential military information that the Tartars could not predict.

After listening to the orders of the general soldiers, Li Tongtai knew that this thing had been accomplished, and it was indeed possible for him to sneak away with the only war horse of the Tashan Army and return to a safe place faster than Paoze. This also did not allow him to refuse, and he agreed as soon as he gritted his teeth.

After Li Fuming confirmed that there would be no mistakes here, he turned back to Zheng Chenggong and pointed out another flaw in his plan: "You want to pick up at Beacon Hill at dawn the day after tomorrow, this idea is very good, but I don't know much about the enemy's situation."

Beacon Hill is a peninsula to the east of this place that will be isolated from the land at high tide and connected with the land at low tide. Only half a year ago, before the Battle of Songjin began, there was a temporary granary built there to pile up the grain transported by sea from the rear.

After the defeat of the decisive battle, Azig led people to burn and seize the grain stored on Beacon Mountain. Since it was well equipped, it was impossible to leave it without defenders. Nowadays, it seems that there is also a formation of Jiala, stationed in the other.

Considering that the Tartars had suffered a lot of losses in the previous battles, it was impossible for one Jiala to be a full force of 1,500 horsemen, but even if it was a thousand horsemen, plus one or two Niu Lu were occasionally sent out to patrol the sentry, and three Niu Lu who were not satisfied with the formation were stationed at the pier of Beacon Hill, it was not something that you few sailors could defeat in haste.

And you can't do it in advance, because if you do it in advance, you'll be startled. Only if it is not long before the dawn of the day after tomorrow to meet the appointed time for response, at most half an hour, or even a quarter of an hour, can you suddenly attack.

And the retreat of our army and the Cao Junmen of Xingshan, if you want to join forces with you to attack the defenders of Bijia Mountain, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky. The Tartars are already brave, and relying on the dock camp, our army has to rush to gallop twenty-five miles at night, and Cao Junmen has to gallop more than forty miles in a hurry to march in the dark. ”

Li Fuming didn't know Zheng Chenggong's military strength, and of course he didn't dare to expect the other party to land on the beach to annihilate the Qing army guarding the dock before responding.

When Zheng Chenggong heard this number, his heart was also slightly chilled. But he was only eighteen years old after all, and he didn't feel that his life was worth anything, anyway, he hadn't made much contributions, so he quickly adjusted.

He has been taking Brother Shen as an example in the past few years, Brother Shen has made contributions and is well-known in the world, how can he be famous in the world if he does not take any risks to be loyal to the country!

"Don't worry! Our army actually has 5,000 soldiers this time! There are also Hongyi cannons on the sea boats, rushing to attack a dock, and the advantage of the Tartars' cavalry may not be able to be brought into play! That's it, the thunder can't move!

Our army is taking the Beacon Hill Pier at dawn the day after tomorrow! Whether you and Cao Junmen come or not, we will stick to the Beacon Hill Wharf for an hour and a half! Retreat to the sea at the beginning of the hour! Expire without waiting! In an hour and a half, how many people can break through to Beacon Hill and escape to the ship, each with its own destiny! ”

Zheng Chenggong definitely didn't dare to stay longer, otherwise the main cavalry force of the Tartars might arrive. The cavalry marched at night and in a hurry, and it was possible to do it in an hour and fifty miles.

Zheng Chenggong had already seen the map pointed out by Li Fuming just now, and the Machang Town on the banks of the Xiaoling River, where Azig himself was stationed, was only fifty or sixty miles away from Beacon Mountain.

The retreating troops of the Ming army encountered the Tartar cavalry of the Jiala level, and it was possible to block and delay, and when they encountered the banner level army, it must be more than lucky.

After Li Fuming listened, he was also silent. He knew that after Zheng Chenggong sneaked away tonight, he would not send someone to contact him again, so even if there was a change in the follow-up, he could only choose to go or not, and it was impossible to have a chance to make another appointment.

If Zheng Chenggong didn't do it, but he broke through with the main force of the Tashan defenders in the second half of the night tomorrow, and rushed to Bijia Mountain in the early morning of the day after tomorrow but didn't find the receiving troops, then the Tashan defenders would be equivalent to giving up the fortified city and being lured and annihilated by Azig in the wild.

For a moment, Li Fuming was still wondering even at this moment, "Zheng Chenggong is a spy sent by the Tartars to trick us into giving up our geographical advantages."

But reason told him that with so much evidence, and the battle dragged on for so long, everything should be true. If there was to be a deception, the Tartars should have done it a long time ago.

Now, even if the Tartars do nothing and besiege for another two months, they will still be able to take Tashan - with the grain storage in the city, people will eat people in another month, and in another two months, I am afraid that everyone will eat up all of them.

"That's it, just rush to Beacon Hill for a field battle! It's enough to kill a few more Tartars! If you really wait to starve to death in Tower Hill City, maybe the number of Tartars killed in the end will be less than the vigorous one the day after tomorrow! ”

Li Fuming and Zheng Chenggong discussed until the evening, and as it was already dark, Li Fuming asked Li Tongtai to take more than 100 horsemen to take the lead out of the city and break through by land in the direction of Shanhaiguan, so as to be a suspicious soldier in advance.

After Li Tongtai left, he stayed up until late at night, and Li Fuming personally escorted Zheng Chenggong and others out of the city.

At the end of the day, Li Fuming still had a trace of apprehension in his heart, and asked the last question: "You are coming to help this time, and your actions must be confidential, right?" The Tartars have done a lot of work, and there are many traitors in the DPRK and China who are easy to be bought, if this matter is detected by the Tartars in advance, it will be the end of the entire army! ”

Zheng Chenggong was very confident, and he was very proud that the other party finally asked about this worry, and he said proudly: "Of course, how unreliable this Beijing Gonggong is, Brother Shen has long expected it.

Therefore, from beginning to end, Brother Shen paid out of his own pocket and posted money to be anxious for justice and justice, and the DPRK didn't know the details at all. We only get paid for the transportation of military rations, but we have done so much more at the right time!

Things that even the ministers of the DPRK and China don't know, where did the Tartars go to buy and spy on the military! ”

Zheng Chenggong's simple truth immediately made Li Fuming think it was true, and the last stone also fell to the ground, and at the same time, he had a higher level of understanding of Shen Shuren and Zheng Chenggong's righteousness.

Zheng Chenggong's style at this moment is like Admiral Hippert of the German Navy in World War I - the German Enigma at that time had long been deciphered by the British army, including the Battle of Jutland, all the battles carefully planned by the German army were actually calculated by the British.

But General Hipper, however, would often improvise and go alone, and while cruising outside with his battle patrol detachment, he would maintain radio silence and take a temporary vote. As a result, this kind of plan, which even the German staff did not know, often worked wonders, and instead won some British results.

After all, even the things that his own General Staff did not know, and it was impossible for the British to decipher the Enigma to get it.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, those confidential officials of the military department in Beijing did not know how many traitors were bought by the Tartars. This degree of espionage can be said to be much better than the British's deciphering of the Enigma.

It's a pity that even Chongzhen, Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia don't know what Zheng Chenggong wants to do and how to do it. The spying of the Tartars, on the contrary, will only lead to their paralysis and carelessness, and darkness under the lamp.