Let's go back and talk about Jiannu.

He followed the south bank of the Yellow River all the way west until he reached Heyin before finally stopping, because He Luohui had finally found a shoal that could get rid of the Ming army's sailors.

Because the course of the Yellow River to the north of Heyin has become extremely wide, full of 20 miles wide.

As a result of the widening, the river has become shallower, and the rainy season has not yet begun, which is often referred to as the dry season, so the depth of this section of the Yellow River is even less than three feet.

The water is shallow, and it is divided into multiple strands.

At this time, the Ming army's sailors were left with dry stare.

He Luohui immediately returned and reported to Dorgon: "Master, I have found a crossing point, which is the river bay north of Guangwu Mountain, because the water is shallow, and the sailor warships of Minggou cannot enter the river bay. ”

"Okay." "Then you can quickly lead someone to build a pontoon bridge." ”

"Huh!" He Luo would kneel on the ground and beat a thousand, then turn over and leave on his horse.

As soon as He Luohui left, the real stone map inlaid with the white flag armor came over to report: "Master, Li Zicheng sent a messenger, saying that he wanted to exchange prisoners of war with us. ”

"Li Zicheng wants to exchange prisoners?" Dolgon, stunned, asked, "Who does he want to replace?" ”

Shi Tu said: "He wants to exchange King Huaishun and King Gongshun for Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing's father and son." ”

Dolgon's face showed embarrassment, it was okay to change Liu Zongmin, but Niu Jinxing's father and son couldn't.

The reason is also very simple, Niu Jinxing and his son have already surrendered to the Qing court, so they can't be sent back to the pseudo-Shun, right?

Hong Chengchou persuaded him: "Master, Niu Jinxing father and son are just mediocre talents, I have more than two of their fathers and sons, and there are many of them father and son, but King Gongshun and King Zhishun are rare generals, both of them are born in Dongjiang Town, especially good at water warfare and firearms, and they can be of great use when they conquer Nanming again in the future." ”

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan also echoed: "Please master Mingjian." ”

"That's fine." Dorgon nodded immediately, "Then agree on a place to exchange prisoners." ”

Shi Tu said: "They have also decided on the location of the prisoner exchange, which is under the Bishui Pass. ”

"No, they said that under the Bishui Pass, it will be under the Bishui Pass?" Dorgon shook his head.

"Change the place, it's between Bishui Pass and Heyin County, and the time is set for noon tomorrow."

Speaking of this, Dolgon said again: "Shitu, you are responsible for the prisoner exchange at noon tomorrow, if you have the opportunity, you will destroy the puppet Shun army, and then snatch Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing father and son back, if you don't have a chance, forget it, in addition, you have to be careful, don't let the puppet Shun army calculate." ”

"Huh!" Shi Tu got up and left.

Seeing the stone map leave, Dolgon turned his gaze to Kaifeng again.

Hong Chengchou then turned his head to look in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion, and said quietly: "Calculate the time, the blue flag should have dug the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Kaifeng Mansion is about to be flooded." ”

Fan Wencheng said: "It's a pity that the amount of water in the Yellow River is a little low this year. ”

"It's a shame indeed." Ning Wanwan also had some regrets, "At most, Kaifeng Mansion and Guide Mansion will be flooded, Xuzhou will not be sure, and Huai'an Mansion will definitely have no hope." ”

Dorgon was silent.

……

The bursting of the Yellow River is terrible.

But it's not so easy to get the Yellow River to burst.

Tun Qi will be jumping to his feet and scolding his mother: "A group of pigs and dogs, what are you doing to eat?" ”

As he spoke, he immediately ordered the banner to push all the hundreds of coats that were digging the embankment to the edge of the Yellow River and behead them, and in an instant, rows of heads fell down the embankment.

After killing hundreds of Baoyi in one go, Tun Qi finally ran out of anger.

Then hundreds of coatings were found and the Yellow River embankment was excavated again.

This time, because the construction was on top of the original gap, the progress was greatly accelerated.

The original gap was dug for two days and nights, but this time it took less than half a day to dig the gap again.

As soon as the gap was dug open, the turbid river water immediately overflowed and flowed down the gap.

Then wait not far from the gap.

Although Tunqi was dissatisfied with Dolgon's arrangement, Jiannu had extremely severe tribal punishments, so he did not dare to ignore the task given by Dolgon to set the blue flag.

Didn't see the Yellow River completely burst, Tunqi didn't dare to leave.

However, after waiting for almost an hour, the river never flooded.

With doubts in his heart, Tun Qi returned to the embankment with Qiding.

As a result, I was dumbfounded at first glance, and the gap that had been dug up was plugged again.

"What's going on?" Tunqi couldn't understand, "The gap in the river embankment that has been dug up can be plugged by itself?" Doesn't it say that the Yellow River breaks twice in three years, and changes course once in a hundred years? Deceptive, right? The gaps dug can be plugged by themselves, what kind of opening? These Ming dogs are so bad that they blindly report the disaster situation and deceive the imperial court of disaster relief money. ”

At this time, a wrapper said: "Master, the slave knows the reason." ”

"Why?" Tun Qi asked with an unkind expression, "What is the reason?" ”

Bao Yi said with some trepidation: "Because the water of the Yellow River carries a lot of sediment, if the river water does not flow fast enough when it overflows the gap, the sediment will be deposited on the gap, and then the gap will be blocked." ”

Tun Qi seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand: "What should you do?" ”

"The gap is shallow." Bao Yi said fearfully, "Dig at least two feet deep." ”

"Do you want to dig that deep?" Tunqi was skeptical, but after thinking about it, if he couldn't complete the task, Dolgon would definitely not spare him when he returned, so he immediately decided to give it a try.

At that moment, Tun Qi shouted: "Dig deep for me." ”

"If you don't dig up to two feet before dark today, you will die for me!"

Driven by Tunqi and Qiding, hundreds of Baoyi waded barefoot into the mud of the gap, wielding hoes or pickaxes to re-excavate the embankment, digging deeper and deeper.

……

At this time, a fleet of sailors was rushing down.

"Fourth uncle, let's go back to Xuzhou like this?" Zheng Cai said a little unwillingly.

"Or else? What else do you kid want? Zheng Hongkui said angrily, "The depth of the Yellow River is less than three feet, and if you go up further, it will run aground, what does it mean to be stranded, you shouldn't need the fourth uncle to tell you, right?" ”

Zheng Cai couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, of course he knew what it meant to be stranded.

At this moment, the sentry on the mast suddenly shouted: "Commander, look at the south bank." ”

Zheng Hongkui, who was talking to Zheng Cai, hurriedly rushed out of the battle shed and climbed down the ladder to the roof of the war shed.

The whole bird ship, except for the lookout on the main mast, has the best view from the command position on the roof of the tent.

After Zheng Hongkui climbed to the roof of the tent, he opened the telescope and aimed at the south bank of the river, where the water surface of the Yellow River is also extremely wide, and it is conservatively estimated that it is at least ten miles or so.

So even if it is a telescope, it can only be seen approximately.

"Looks like there are a lot of corpses?" Zheng Hongkui said in a deep voice, "Lean over." ”

At Zheng Hongkui's order, the sailors on the ship immediately adjusted the direction of the sails, and then slowly sailed to the south bank of the Yellow River with the coordination of the stern rocking oar.

It's closer, and it's finally clear to see.

I saw a row of corpses lying on the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River, at least two or three hundred, and all of them were headless corpses.

If you look at the surface of the river with the telescope, you can even vaguely see people floating in the turbid water.

"Entering the mother thief, Jiannu is harming our people again." Zheng Hongkui also said that these hundreds of headless corpses were all ordinary people, and he couldn't help but be half angry.

"General Town, there seems to be a Jiannu outside the embankment!"

The sentry who climbed on the mast lookout climbed high and could see far away, so he saw the coat of the river digging with a hoe and an iron pickaxe, and the flag man with a blue flag on the watch.

Seeing this, the sentry immediately shouted: "They are digging the embankment!" ”

"What?" Zheng Hongkui's face immediately darkened, "Dig the embankment?!" ”

Once the embankment of the Yellow River is dug up, once the Yellow River floods, the consequences are unimaginable!

At that moment, Zheng Hongkui shouted sharply: "Pass my order, all the warships line up and dock to stop them." ”

A total of six bird boats immediately lined up and quickly approached the south bank, a distance of about two hundred paces, Zheng Hongkui ordered to drop anchor, and then turned the ship sideways to face the south bank.

At this time, Jiannu outside the embankment on the south bank also discovered the Ming army's sailors.

Even if hundreds of Jiannu rushed to the embankment on the south bank and tried to shoot with the big bow in their hands, they found that the Ming army sailors were 200 paces away, so they could only shout and curse across the surface of the Yellow River.

For the prey sent to the door, of course, the Ming army sailor will not be polite.

With just one round of shelling, more than a dozen Jiannu on the embankment fell, and all of them were shattered.

Hit by the solid iron bullet of the Hongyi cannon, if it can still remain intact, it is not human.

The Jiannu on the embankment hurriedly hid under the embankment and no longer showed his head, but this could not help Zheng Hongkui and the artillerymen of the Ming Army's naval division with rich experience in artillery operation.

Under the guidance of the sentinel on the lookout,

The sailor's ship-borne Hongyi cannon successfully made a curve.

This is not only the Jiannu suffered, but also the coat who was desperately digging the Yellow River embankment.

The whole excavation operation soon did not continue, because the location of the excavation site chosen by Tunqi was not very good, and the Yellow River embankment was not enough to provide adequate shelter.

The shells of the Ming army's sailors can easily hit Jiannu.

But there seemed to be a capable person on Jiannu's side, and he quickly changed the location.

The position that Jiannu chose again was very tricky, because there were two dirt bags near the river embankment, which seriously blocked the firing angle of the sailor's ship's guns and could not be hit.

Seeing Jiannu start digging the embankment again, Zheng Hongkui suddenly became anxious.

At that moment, Zheng Hongkui shouted to the deck: "Ah Cai, you quickly take four people to take the sampan to transfer troops, and transfer all the nearby warships." ”

After a pause, he said: "Then go to Xuzhou to report the news!" ”

"I'm afraid we sailors alone won't be able to stop Jiannu."

"Please send a large army to stop Jiannu quickly, be quick!"

"Yes!" Zheng Cai responded and immediately led people to put down a sampan.

Then Zheng Cai took four sailors from the bird boat down to the sampan, the four sailors also brought the boat pulp, only to see the four boat pulp flying up and down, stirring up pieces of water, the small sampan in the shape of a shuttle slid downstream like an arrow from the string, Zheng Cai sat at the tail of the sampan to grasp the rudder and control the direction.

……

In the middle of the night.

In the night, a fast horse galloped from the direction of Kaifeng Fucheng.

When Kankan passed through an intersection, a dozen mutton fat torches suddenly ghostly lit up in the darkness around him.

The cavalry that was galloping on the official road was taken aback, and with a sharp rein, the war horse under the crotch stood up, and the huge iron hooves kicked several times in the air, which could be contained.

"Contempt beggar!" A voice shouted.

Immediately, a dozen horsemen came out of the firelight.

"General Hu!" Yi Ding, whose name is Confucian, said with great joy, "Quick! Hurry back to Xuzhou to play the Shengshang, please send the army to Kaifeng Mansion quickly, and Jiannu will dig the Yellow River embankment! ”

"What? Jiannu wants to dig the Yellow River embankment?! Hu Guozhu's heart suddenly sank when he heard this.

The next moment, Hu Guozhu turned around and shouted: "Ba Hanzhen, immediately take people to Guide Mansion, let Lord Jin lead the cavalry battalion to Kaifeng Mansion quickly, and then return to Xuzhou to play the Shengshang!" ”

"Yes." Bahanzhen turned around and galloped away.

Ba Hanzhen left with several horses.

"Let's go, go to Kaifeng Mansion." Hu Guozhu reined in and left.

"General, we only have nineteen horsemen, and now there are only fourteen left."

A horse caught up with Hu Guozhu and said loudly: "What's the use of going even if you go?" ”

"Then hurry up and inform the other Yiding, and go to Kaifeng quickly." Even Hu Guozhu himself didn't realize that after staying by Chongzhen's side for a long time and getting along with those diligent princes for a long time, his way of thinking had changed dramatically.

Although he is a Mongolian, Hu Guozhu's way of thinking has been completely sinicized.

Even in his heart, Hu Guozhu didn't think he was a Mongolian.

And only think that he is a Ming man.

That's a big deal.

……

Early the next morning.

Kim Hyun draped neatly and walked out of the tent.

In the quiet morning light, the three thousand cavalry of the cavalry battalion were having breakfast.

Breakfast was served as usual, but this time it came out too quickly, and there was no pot to bring boiling water, so I could only knead the rice with tempeh and a small piece of vinegar steamed cake, mix and chew, otherwise I couldn't eat it at all.

If your mouth is really dry, eat a piece of black plum to moisten your throat.

Although Kim Hyun is a civil official of the fifth grade, he can only eat the same dry food.

And Kim Hyun didn't look like he was hard to swallow at all, and Ume didn't need it.

For a ruthless person like Kim Hyun, this bit of suffering is not even suffering.

After eating breakfast in a hurry, Kim Hyun was about to gather his men and horses, when the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in front of him.

Immediately, a few horsemen flew in, and the first one rode Ba Hanzhen, who was one of the top ten loyal and brave men in front of the emperor.

Without waiting for Jin Xuan to ask, Ba Hanzhen shouted loudly: "Lord Jin, Jiannu wants to dig up the Yellow River embankment, Hu Junmen asks you to lead the cavalry battalion to Kaifeng Mansion to stop Jiannu!" ”

"Huh? Jiannu wants to dig up the Yellow River embankment?! ”

Jin Xuan's color changed: "Pass my military order, the whole battalion will get on the horse and go to Kaifeng Mansion!" ”

Jin Xuan gave an order, and the three thousand iron horsemen turned over on their horses one after another, and followed Jin Xuan to Kaifeng.

Ba Hanzhen led several horsemen to lead more than a dozen horses from Jin Xuan and went straight to Xuzhou.

(End of chapter)