As soon as Li Yan returned to the camp, Li Nian and Li Mu surrounded him.

Li Nian said: "Brother, does Chongzhen Lao'er agree to surrender?" ”

"Nope." Li Yan shook his head and said, "Chongzhen is very angry. ”

"Look." Li Mu spread his hands and said, "I'll just say it's too much." ”

Li Yan smiled and said, "I didn't expect Chongzhen to surrender. ”

"Huh?" Li Mu said, "Then brother, why are you still running to see Chongzhen?" ”

Li Yan waved his hand and said, "Because my original intention was not to persuade Chongzhen to surrender, but just to tell him that the Mongol army will soon be killed here." ”

"What does that mean?" Li Mu looked confused.

Li Nian suddenly said: "Well, the little brother understands, the elder brother is scaring the snake!" ”

"Yes, scare the snake!" Li Yan nodded and said, "The Ming army camp is surrounded by rivers on three sides, and the front is a trench and a parapet wall, if you attack strongly, I am afraid the loss will not be small, not to mention that there are two thousand cavalry of the Gongtu Department watching on the side, if the Gongtu cavalry suddenly attack when our army and the Ming army are fighting, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Li Nian and Li Mu nodded, they all understood this truth.

After a pause, Li Yan said again: "But we can't delay for a long time, because this is Chahar, it is in the territory of the Mongols, and until the Chahar Mongol army arrives, we will not have the slightest chance, even if General Li You and General Gu Kecheng arrive, we only have about 7,000 cavalry, and it is still difficult to beat the Mongols." ”

"That's why my brother has to startle the snake." Li Nian said solemnly.

"Yes, force Chongzhen to break through tonight." Li Yan nodded and said, "If nothing else, tonight the Ming army will cross the river and break through from the east or south, and considering that there are thousands of cavalry from my Dashun and Mongolia on the side, the Ming army will most likely use the main cavalry as bait to lure away the pursuers, and then use a small number of family members to protect Chongzhen and break through in the opposite direction." ”

Li Yan is worthy of being Li Yan, and he predicted the reaction of the Ming army, and he really expected the enemy to be the first.

Li Mou's expression tightened and said: "If this is the case, the main cavalry of the Ming army will definitely break through to the north, and Chongzhen and the few families accompanying him will definitely flee to the south!" ”

"I'm afraid it's the opposite." Li Nian said.

"I think Chongzhen will do the opposite, and go north instead!"

Li Yan smiled slightly and said: "It's getting dark, give the order, the whole army will step up to bury the pot and make rice, and after a full meal, wade across the river at night and ambush in the northeast direction on the other side of the river!" ”

"Yes!" Li Nian and Li Mu responded in unison.

……

Smoke rises from the camp of thieves to the north.

He withdrew his gaze from the camp of the thieves and said in a deep voice: "Let the sons and daughters hurry up and cook mare's milk and roast mutton, have a full meal before dark, and then wade across the river at night to the southeast to ambush." ”

"Huh?" An underage boy asked, "Abba, why is that?" ”

He touched his son's little head lovingly, and said: "The eagle on the grassland is destined to soar in the air, and the hare without fangs is also destined to be eaten by the steppe wolf. ”

"I can already smell the restlessness of my prey in the air."

"If nothing else, the prey will run away tonight."

Speaking of this, he said: "And the direction of escape is most likely to be the southeast direction, as long as we hold the southeast direction of the Hara Loop, we can catch the prey." ”

The boy's eyes lit up.

……

There was already a commotion in the camp of the Ming army.

As soon as Wang Jiayan finished speaking, Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and other civil officials seconded the proposal.

Wei Shichun and Zhang Qingzhen, the two nobles, also seconded after a little hesitation.

Of the more than a dozen noble officials who broke out with Zhu Gaoyuan, only Jin Xuan and Gong Yonggu did not squeak.

Zhu Gaoyuan's face completely collapsed, and sure enough, when he has been winning the battle, hello, I am hello, everyone, but the situation was slightly frustrated, and the honorable officials immediately rebounded.

You can't Chongzhen, you can't command blindly.

We have to go back, get back on track, we can't fool around!

It is said that people's hearts are like water, and the most difficult thing in the world to control is really people's hearts.

There is still a long way to go to make these noble officials obedient and obedient, and it may never be possible to do so.

There's an old saying about it?

It is more terrible for a clean official to do bad things than a corrupt official.

By the same token, loyal ministers who are not afraid of imperial power are more difficult to submit than traitors.

But now, they need to think in one place, force to work in one place, ten people and ten mouths are not enough, they must teach these guys a lesson, first unify their thoughts.

In other words, he "Chongzhen" must establish absolute authority.

And it has to be the kind of authority that the ministers fear from the heart.

It's like Huaixi Xungui to Zhu Yuanzhang, and it's like Jingnan heroes to Zhu Di.

At that moment, Zhu Gaoyuan turned his eyes to Jin Xuan and asked, "Jin Qing, why don't you speak?" ”

Jin Xuan said: "The minister didn't speak, because he didn't dare to agree with what the right Sima Shicai said, the minister thought that the main force to protect the saint to break through or have a glimmer of life, if the soldiers are divided into two ways and only a small number of fine horses to protect the saint to break through, it is tantamount to a sheep into the tiger's mouth, if so, then the saint is in danger, I am in danger!" ”

"Shut up!" Wang Jiayan said angrily.

"You are a lowly official from the fifth grade, what do you know?"

Jin Xuan was not intimidated, and said: "Although the official position is humble, but I have read a few books on the art of war, I know that there is a difference between master and slave in battle, and there is a distinction between master and guest on the battlefield, and I also know that the Mongolian cavalry has a large number of habits of spreading the night when fighting. ”

"What about discovery?" Wei Shichun said, "Kill it." ”

"Then Xuancheng Bo, you are going to kill?" Kim Hyun was not so polite to Hoon-gye.

"You?" Wei Shichun was speechless, he had already lost the bravery of his ancestors.

After Chongzhen was martyred in history, Wei Shichun only set himself on fire and martyred the country, and did not dare to call his family to fight.

In fact, Gong Yonggu, Liu Wenbing, and Zhang Qingzhen are also like birds, determined to burn their families to death and martyrdom, but they do not have the courage to scatter their wealth to recruit troops and horses to fight with the Dashun army.

In a word, the noble group of the Ming Dynasty has been completely rotten.

As for the civil servants, they are rotten on the whole, but there are still a few seeds.

Wang Jiayan said abruptly: "In any case, there is still a glimmer of life to break through at this time, and when the Mongolian army arrives, everyone here will definitely die!" ”

Now Kim Hyun was also silent.

Because what Wang Jiayan said is indeed the truth.

When the Mongol army arrived, they were really dead.

Although Jin Xuan opposed the breakthrough and felt that the breakthrough would inevitably fail, he also had a lot of opinions about Zhu Gaoyuan's practice of bringing them from Yanshan to this military Jedi.

In fact, it's very good in Yanshan.

Why do you have to go deep into the grassland?

Now cornered, right?

Zhu Gaoyuan seemed to see what Jin Xuan was thinking, and asked: "Jin Qing, do you think that it is impossible to break through, and we are already desperate and dead?" ”

"Isn't it?" Kim Hyun snorted.

"Of course not." Zhu Gao said, "There is still a chance to break through." ”

Wang Jiayan was overjoyed when he heard this: "So, the Holy One has agreed to break through?" ”

"Wang Qing, don't be too happy." Zhu Gao said from afar, "I agree to break through, but it's not the breakthrough method you just said, your method can only be to send you to death!" ”

Wang Jiayan frowned and said unhappily: "Then how should I break through?" ”

Zhu Gaoyuan snorted lightly and said: "Li Yan came to persuade him to surrender just now, ostensibly to persuade him to surrender, but in fact, he was scaring you and my monarchs and ministers, and wanted to force you and my monarchs and ministers to break through at night. ”

Wang Jiayan said: "The ministers also saw this, but we had to break through." ”

Zhu Gaoyuan said: "If nothing else, after dark, the thief cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry will wade across the river and set up ambushes in the northeast and southeast directions on the opposite bank. ”

"But I'm not what they want."

After a pause, Zhu Gaoyuan said again: "I can't miss the river!" ”

"Huh? Break through from the front? Kim Hyun and Wang Jiayan's eyes lit up instantly.

Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and other civil officials, as well as Gong Yonggu and other nobles, were still confused.

After a pause, Zhu Gaoyuan said again: "Spread the decree, let the man hurry up and make a good meal, the whole army will have a full meal and sleep beautifully, and break through from the front in the middle of the night!" ”

……

Just after the unitary hour, the sky gradually darkened.

At this time, the cavalry of the Arch Rabbit Department had already eaten a full meal and was ready.

But he did not rush to cross the river, but waited until the end of the day (9 p.m.).

Estimating that the time was almost there, he called Hai Rigu to him and advised: "Hai Rigu, I will leave you three hundred warriors, you must take care of our home, don't let the Dashun army burn our grain and grass." ”

He was not worried about the Ming army in the river bay, but about the 2,000 Dashun army in the northwest.

"Don't worry, Chief." Hai Rigu patted his chest and said, "You just have to take your sons and daughters across the river." ”

After a few more words of advice, more than 1,500 riders quietly crossed the Baihe River more than one meter and a half deep from the downstream to the east bank under the cover of night.

The whole process did not make any sound.

The horse's bits, the people's grass, and the horses' hooves are all wrapped in cloth.

After crossing the river, the cavalry of the Gongtu Department put on their clothes and armor, and pushed their horses to the ground, and then began to wait quietly, waiting for the more than 1,000 Ming troops in the river bay to come forward and throw themselves into the net.

Time passed slowly in a boring wait, and finally it was time.

He stilted his head from the knee-deep grass and looked north, but saw that dozens of bonfires in the camp of the Ming army on the river bend were still lit, and the Ming army did not seem to have any movement.

Her brow furrowed.

This situation doesn't look right.