"Not bad." Ning Wan and I echoed, "Chongzhen has already committed a taboo in the military family!" ”

Fan Wencheng continued: "My Qing soldiers only need to choose a blow on the land route of thousands of miles, and the grain road of the Ming army will be cut immediately, and once the grain road is broken, the Ming army will be defeated!" ”

Ning Wan continued: "Therefore, the strategy proposed by Heng Jiu and Hou Fangyu to attack the soft underbelly of the Ming army is worth trying, even if the Ming army's grain route cannot be cut off in the end, at least it can form a confrontation with the Ming army near Jinghai County." ”

It was also the same sentence that moved Dolgon, it is better to confront each other near the Jinghai Sea than in Beijing.

"If it weren't for the two gentlemen, I almost missed a big deal." Dorgon "came to his senses."

After a pause, Dolgon said to Fan Wencheng again: "Please ask Mr. Xiandou to draft the edict for me." ”

"The minister is terrified." Fan Wencheng made a thousand strokes with one hand, and hurriedly sat down at the table and spread out the white linen paper.

After pacing back and forth for a few words, Dorgon said, "The report of defeat has been received, and the secretary does not have to blame himself for it. ”

"Yan Yingyuan's fang is very ferocious, rare in ancient and modern times, and I was also defeated at the mouth of Dagu, not to mention Qinghu?"

"The strategy offered by Qing and Hou Fangyu to attack its weakness is very desirable, and it is advisable to follow it as soon as possible to cut off its grain route......"

"As for the affairs of the Horqin, Chahar and Tumut tribes of the foreign vassals and Mongolians mentioned by the Qing, I know it, and I will soon order the foreign vassals and Mongolia to come to the pass, but the outer vassals and Mongolia are far away and difficult to gather, and it is urgent and difficult to arrive, so I can make the Eight Banners Mongolia attack the Ming army's grain route first, and when the Ming army is tired, cut it off in one fell swoop! Eagerly awaited. ”

……

That night, Dolgon's edict was sent to Jinghai County in an expedited manner of 800 li.

After reading Dolgon's edict, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be grateful, the master is Shengming!

The night before yesterday, he lost 200 red-coated cannons, more than 6,000 self-made firearms, and more than 6,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, but instead of a word of reproach, the master encouraged him in every way, and even did not hesitate to excuse him by blackening himself, what luxury is there to be as a slave?

Hou Fangyu is so jealous, why is the surname Hong?

This is obviously my strategy, right? This is what I brought up!

However, at the moment of the great enemy, Hou Fangyu could only suppress the jealousy in his chest.

At that moment, Hou Fangyu said: "Hong Butang, since the master agrees with our strategy, let's hurry up and follow it, after all, every day we delay here, Beijing City will be in more danger." ”

Hong Chengchou hummed lightly and asked, "Is Bart back?" ”

Hong Da immediately said: "Back to the old man, Bart has just come back." ”

"Okay." Hong Chengchou immediately ordered, "Immediately send an order to Bart, let the Eight Banners Mongolia take a team of 1,000 people to attack and harass the grain route of more than 500 miles from Dagukou to Chenguantun to Beijing, and from today onwards, the Ming army can no longer be allowed to transfer a grain and a pound of gunpowder to Beijing!" ”

Hong Chengchou's order was quickly conveyed.

Not long after, the four city gates of Jinghai County quietly opened.

Immediately, groups of Mongol cavalry rushed out of the city gates.

After reaching the outside of the city, the Mongol cavalry quickly split into dozens of units, about 40,000 horsemen, divided into 40 groups, and galloped away in different directions.

Hong Chengchou's primary target was the grain route from Dagukou to Beijing.

The next step was to wait until the Mongol cavalry of Horqin, Chahar and Tumut arrived, and then attack the seaside grain route between Dengzhou and Dagukou, which was nearly 1,000 miles.

All in all, in a word, let the Ming army's grain road never have peace.

However, while sending the Eight Banners Mongol division to attack the Ming army's grain route, Hong Chengchou was also preparing for the worst.

That is, if the Eight Banners Mongolia had no way to cut off the grain route of the Ming army, even if they added Horqin, Chahar and Tumut foreign vassals of Mongolia, it would still not work, then they could only have a decisive battle with the Ming army.

But if you have a decisive battle with the Ming army, you must figure out how you lost the night before?

Until now, Hong Chengchou was still confused about the battle the night before.

At that moment, Hong Chengchou asked Hong Da to invite Wang Fuchen to come to his line, there are many things, and he still needs to consult the generals who lead the troops on the front line, such as Wang Fuchen.

Hong Da walked to the door of the barracks, and Lang Zhongzheng was treating Wang Fuchen's wounds.

"Mr. Wang, bear with it, today may hurt more than yesterday."

"It's okay, you just have to let it go, although this town is not as good as Guan Yu, and there is no ability to scrape bones to cure poison without discoloration, but people can still stand it by stabbing the wound a few times with chopsticks."

After saying this, Wang Fuchen asked Hong Da again: "Is there something the big housekeeper looking for?" ”

"There's no hurry." Hong laughed and said, "Mr. Wang, let's treat the injury first." ”

"There is a big housekeeper to wait for a while." Wang Fuchen immediately signaled that Lang Zhong could start.

Lang Zhong picked up a chopstick and wrapped it in gauze, put it in salt water and soaked it, and then directly took the chopsticks wrapped in gauze and stabbed it into the gun hole on Wang Fuchen's right arm.

In the battle the night before, Wang Fuchen picked up a life, but he was also shot in the arm.

Fortunately, it didn't hurt the bones, but it was pierced in the arm by lead.

As soon as the chopsticks poked through one end of the gun's hole, blood gushed out from the other end.

Lang Zhong glanced at the blood and said with a smile: "There is no sign of suppuration in the wound, which is a good thing, but Wang Zongzhen must not be careless, he still needs to pay more attention, especially avoid alcohol." ”

"Got it." Wang Fuchen's lips trembled slightly.

In any case, it will not be good to let people poke back and forth in the wound with chopsticks.

When the blood from the wound turned bright red, Lang Zhong finally pulled out his chopsticks, put them down in salt water and soaked them to clean them, then poked them into the hole of the gun again and struck them back and forth several times, and finally bandaged them again.

Only then did Hong Da arch his hand and said: "Mr. Wang, the ministry is invited." ”

Wang Fuchen knew that he couldn't hide, so he could only follow Hong Dalai to see Hong Chengchou.

"Fuchen, is the wound on your right arm better?" Hong Chengchou said with concern.

"Lord Huibutang's words, it's much better." Wang Fuchen raised his right arm slightly.

"Huh, don't move." Seeing this, Hong Chengchou hurriedly dissuaded, "It will take a hundred days to hurt your muscles and bones, and you can't be sloppy." ”

"It's fine, it's just a minor injury." Wang Fuchen didn't care about his face, he really didn't care about the injury, what he cared about was that he didn't know how Hong Chengchou would punish him?

Anyway, punishment is sure to be punished.

After all, it was such a big defeat.

Even if the responsibility is not his, he will still be punished.

Aren't all these civil servants this bird? The credit is theirs, and the blame lies with these generals under them, and he has been used to following Jiang Hao for so many years.

It's just that Wang Fuchen miscalculated this time.

"Auxiliary minister, Chen Guantun's defeat is due to the failure of the Ministry of Justice."

Hong Chengchou said sincerely: "The soldiers of Datong Town have performed very well, the headquarters have already made the inside story clear to the regent, and the regent has also made a decree to reward Datong Town with the headquarters of the department, and the fallen soldiers also need to be compensated." ”

"Huh?" Wang Fuchen was immediately stunned, this matter was really beyond his expectations.

"Sit." Hong Chengchou motioned for Wang Fuchen to sit down, "There is something I would like to ask about in the main department." ”

"The last will be terrified." Wang Fuchen was so frightened that he quickly stood up again, the civil official was so polite, there must be nothing good, and it was a matter of asking him to sell his life if it was not good.

But Wang Fuchen miscalculated again.

Hong Chengchou just wanted to ask a few questions.

"Fuchen, when you were chasing after the victory, why did you suddenly stop when you reached the third platform?"

"Hong Butang, the last general doesn't want to stop, but it can't be stopped if you don't stop, the Ming army's self-generated firepower is too fierce, and we can't rush up at all."

"Didn't the Ming army have already fled? Can you still organize a repeat shot? ”

"The general is also very confused about this matter, the Ming army has obviously collapsed, but in the blink of an eye, it is standing in line, as if it is not a rout, which is unbelievable."

"Is there such a thing? Is the Ming army already so strong? ”

From the moment of rout and escape to the formation defense, Hong Chengchou only saw it in one army, that is, Eight Banners Manchuria, never thought that the Ming army had reached this point now?

After a pause, Hong Chengchou asked again: "What about the mines?" ”

"Hong Butang, I can't say anything about this matter." Wang Fuchen could only smile bitterly, "Before the first explosion, the last general and the soldiers of Datong Town were waiting in the trench, and when they heard the continuous explosions and looked back, they saw that the entire artillery position had been completely swallowed up by red light, burning their eyes. ”

"Then I saw the signal light from this formation."

"But we've only walked a few steps when the trench has exploded."

Speaking of this, Wang Fuchen's face showed fear again, and the terrible scene at that time also floated in front of him again, only to see that the field of vision was full of red light, one after another suddenly bloomed, and the huge continuous explosion sound shattered people's eardrums, and the Datong soldiers who were blown away were like leaves blown up by the wind floating everywhere.

To make matters worse, many soldiers were shot into sieves by mine fragments.

Wang Fuchen stepped on the heads of his subordinates and climbed to the ground in time to survive.

Hong Chengchou said: "You mean to say that the mines on the artillery positions and the mines in the trenches were detonated by the Ming army in two times, right?" ”

"That's right." Wang Fuchen replied, "Detonate it twice." ”

"And then the number of mines is also very large? The range is also huge? ”

"Yes, to say the least, there are tens of thousands of mines, the range is very wide, the entire artillery position and the outer trenches of the first two platforms have been blown up, and no place has been spared."

"Generous, the Ming army is really a big stroke."

Hong Chengchou muttered: "It turns out that landmines can still be used like this. ”

Wang Fuchen said: "Hong Butang, next time we will also let the Ming army taste the taste of the mine array." ”

"I'm afraid it's hard to do." Hong Chengchou said abruptly, "Although the Qing Dynasty Military Bureau also built mines, the number of mines cast each time was not large, and it was impossible to do such a big deal as the Ming army." ”

"Now if we let the war be made, I'm afraid it's too late in time."

Even if it is built, it will not be transported, because Beijing has been surrounded by the Ming army.

(End of chapter)