"That's right, the red-coated cannons are all pulled out!"

Xie Yuancai said: "Brother Wanheng, Jiannu is definitely going to storm the Chenguantun camp again." ”

"Then let them come." Yan Yingyuan said in a cruel voice, "I was not afraid of them in the last night sneak attack, but this time in broad daylight, I will not be afraid of them, hum." ”

Yan Yingyuan really hoped that Jiannu would attack again.

However, Yan Yingyuan's wish was ultimately disappointed.

As soon as the words fell, there was movement at the city gate.

I saw that immediately behind the green battalion, another group of people drove out of the city.

Moreover, these people all carried shovels, pickaxes, dustpans and other tools, and even rammers.

"Huh, what is this?" Xie Yuancai was immediately stunned, "What's going on?" What does Jiannu want to do? ”

Yan Yingyuan was Yan Yingyuan in the end, and he immediately guessed Jiannu's intentions, and said in a deep voice: "Understood!" ”

Xie Yuancai immediately looked back at Yan Yingyuan and asked, "Brother Wan Heng, what do you understand?" ”

Yan Yingyuan said: "Brother Xingdou, don't you still understand? Jiannu is planning to repair the platform! ”

"Of course I know about the Repair Tower." Xie Yuancai asked again, "The key is to repair the platform and do something?" ”

After a pause, Xie Yuancai said again: "Hong Chengchou is worried that there are not enough platforms outside Jinghai County?" ”

"Definitely." Yan Yingyuan said, "Hong Chengchou should plan to start from Jinghai County, build the platform all the way to the south, and eventually connect with Qingxian County in the south. ”

"Oops, isn't our army's food route cut off again?"

At this time, Xie Yuancai also reacted, and said with a dark face: "This Hong Chengchou has some ability, and he actually came up with this bad move, but we must not let him repair the platform." ”

After a pause, Xie Yuancai said again: "Why don't you ask the cavalry town to attack and stop Jiannu from repairing the platform?" ”

"Nope." Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said, "Jiannu has all set up a position, and there are hundreds of Hongyi cannons and Furlong machine guns, and the cavalry will be faced by Jiannu's guns and cannons when they go to town." ”

"Then let the Holy Lord transfer the main force back."

Xie Yuancai said: "It's just a decisive battle with Jiannu. ”

"No, either." Yan Yingyuan said, "As soon as the main force comes back, Jiannu will definitely retreat back to the city, and when the time comes, will the main force of our army storm Jinghai County, or will it go north again to encircle Beijing?" ”

"To storm Jinghai County, we need to seize thousands of platforms on the periphery first, so it is better to fight Beijing."

"But what if we go north again, and after the main force leaves, Jiannu, who is hiding in Jinghai, comes to repair the platform again? And let the main force come back from Beijing? Tossing back and forth? ”

Xie Yuancai was speechless for a moment, as if it was really not good.

At this time, Zhu Cijiong, Hu Guozhu, and Xia Wanchun also rushed to hear the news.

After learning of the situation, Hu Guozhu said: "Our cavalry town will attack first and do our best to prevent Jiannu from building a platform to the south, otherwise once the grain route is cut off, it will be a big trouble." ”

Xia Wanchun frowned and said, "The key is that even if the cavalry town attacks, it can't be stopped." ”

Zhu Cijiong also said: "Yes, Jiannu dispatched so many cannons, no matter how fast the cavalry runs, they can't get close." ”

Hu Guozhu said solemnly: "If you can't stop it, you must stop it, even if you fight the entire cavalry town, you must not sit back and watch Jiannu build a platform to cut off our army's food route." ”

"The question is, why fight the cavalry?" Yan Yingyuan said disapprerovingly.

"There is obviously a better way to crack Jiannu's offensive tactics, why do you have to send out the cavalry town to fight hard? There's no need for that. ”

"Yan Zhizhi has a better way to crack it?" Zhu Cijiong asked.

"Yes." Yan Yingyuan pointed ahead, and then continued, "Isn't Jiannu in use?" ”

"Yan is saying that we will also repair the platform?" Zhu Cijiong's eyes lit up suddenly.

"That's right, we'll fix the platform too." Yan Yingyuan stretched out his hand to draw a cross in the void, and said, "Jiannu wants to build a longitudinal platform chain to connect Jinghai with Qingxian County in the south, then we will build a horizontal platform chain to connect the camp of Chen Guantun with the stronghold of the sweet water well on the coast." ”

"In the end, it was Jiannu's chain that cut off our grain route?"

"Or is it that the chain we repaired cut the chain of Jiannu in half from the middle?"

After a pause, Yan Yingyuan said again: "We are not afraid of building slaves in the field, and we are also not afraid of building slaves in the repair of the platform, how many people can Jiannu mobilize?" Can it be compared to Daming? ”

……

In Beijing.

The Ming army mobilized tens of thousands of people, starting from the Sili Bridge outside Chaoyang Gate, to dig blockade trenches in the north and south directions, the trenches were two zhang deep and more than six zhang wide.

Up to now, the blockade trenches in the north have been extended to outside Andingmen, and the blockade trenches in the south have also been extended to Zuo'anmen, almost encircling one of the three Beijings.

This put a lot of pressure on the nobles of the Eight Banners and the Han gentry in Beijing.

Seeing the blockade trenches of the Ming army extended, but the Qing army was powerless, this sense of powerlessness and depression was undoubtedly very torturous, so the dissatisfaction with Dolgon and Hong Chengchou broke out again.

The discontent of the Eight Banners nobles, led by Duoduo, was mainly directed at Dorgon.

However, the Han ministers led by Sun Zhiqi and the Han gentry led by Zhang Jinyan were more dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, and they all felt that Hong Chengchou's incompetence had caused the current passive situation.

Sun Zhiqi and Zhang Jinyan even went to Prince Rui's mansion to complain to Dolgon.

To say that it is a complaint is actually to make a greedy statement, which is also the basic operation of Han officials.

Han officials have been fighting with each other for thousands of years, and they have cultivated a good ability to fight against differences.

"Regent, the slave has a word of advice, don't vomit or be unhappy." Sun Zhiqi is a serious way.

"Hong Chengchou is known as a soldier, but his name does not match the truth, although he had a small victory in suppressing thieves back then, most of them were the work of Ercao, He Renlong and others, Hong Chengchou really has no merit, for the Qing Dynasty, the master needs to replace Hong Chengchou as soon as possible."

Dolgon frowned and didn't speak, he actually looked down on Sun Zhiqi in his heart, because this guy had no backbone, when the Qing soldiers had just entered Beijing, the first day of the court meeting, this Sun Zhiqi couldn't wait to shave himself into a money rat tail hairstyle, and tried to mix in the Manchu class, but was kicked to the ground by Azig.

Sun Zhiqi could only return to Hanchen's shift with a disgraced face.

As a result, Han Chen deliberately stayed close together, and Sun Zhiqi could not squeeze in and could only stand at the end of the shift, and since then he has become the laughing stock of courtiers in Beijing, and no one looks down on him.

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But it's one thing to look down on Sun Zhiqi, and it's another thing to treat him.

Even if it was just to set an example, the Qing Dynasty couldn't be too harsh on Sun Zhiqi.

Therefore, Dolgon could only listen patiently to Sun Zhiqi's nonsense in the East Warm Pavilion.

But when Sun Zhiqi proposed to replace Hong Chengchou with Duoduo, Dolgon finally became angry.

"Sun Zhiqi!" Dolgon stared at Sun Zhiqi gloomily, "How many benefits did the Ten Kings promise you?" ”

"Why did the master say this?" Sun Zhiqi hurriedly knelt on the ground, "The slave did not accept the slightest benefit from the ten kings, the slave is really for the sake of my Qing Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, and I also ask the master to check it." ”

"Then you're teaching me to do things?" Dolgon's eyes grew colder.

"Master Mingjian, the slave dares to do this." Sun Zhiqi's face turned white.

"Then you don't talk in front of me." Dolgon's gaze swept over Zhang Jinyan, and said, "Go back, take care of the minions in your house after you return to the house, don't talk nonsense." ”

Sun Zhiqi and Zhang Jinyan had a boring discussion and left in embarrassment.

Dorgon's state of mind was somewhat affected.

For no other reason, just because Hong Chengchou suffered another defeat.

In the Battle of Daliuli, nearly 20,000 Mongol cavalry were reimbursed by one guy.

To make Dolgon even more angry, he also lost 200 camel cannons.

As for Hong Chengchou's proposed offensive against the platform, Dolgon was not optimistic.

First, because the repair of the platform is too slow, how long will it take to connect Jinghai with Qingxian?

Second, because the Qing Dynasty can build a platform, can't the Southern Ming Dynasty? They can also build a platform, and when the time comes, won't it become a competition to repair the platform, a competition for manpower and material resources?

Compared with manpower and material resources, how can the Qing Dynasty be better than Nanming? Defeat!

It's just that he didn't give an order to stop Hong Chengchou, he still had luck.

What if the Ming army didn't have time to react and really let Hong Chengchou do it?

……

Almost at the same time, Chongzhen also received an urgent delivery from Yan Yingyuan.

After Wang Jiayan, Xu Yingwei and others finished reading the urgent delivery, Chongzhen asked, "What do you think?" ”

Jiang Tianyi said: "Shengshang, the minister thinks that Wan Heng's proposal is very good, Jiannu repairs the platform, we also repair the platform, Jiannu and our Ming Dynasty are more manpower than looking for death." ”

Zheng Sen echoed: "That's right, even if it is consumed, it can be consumed alive and destroyed." ”

Xu Yingwei said: "But after the completion of the construction of the platform, it is necessary to send troops to garrison, and now there are 13 large battalions on the more than 1,000-mile logistics channel from Dengzhou to Beijing, in addition to more than 70 small strongholds, a total of more than 80 large and small camps but only seven infantry brigades of the remaining troops, which is already stretched." ”

"If you connect the camp of Chen Guantun with the stronghold of Tianshuijing in a line,"

"Then at least 210 platforms need to be built in this 150-odd mile."

Speaking of this, he added: "According to the calculation of leaving one outpost on a platform, at least 210 sentry posts are needed, 70 in total, that is, fourteen infantry battalions, and nearly three infantry brigades are enough. ”

Chongzhen said in a deep voice: "Then transfer the second town back." ”

Three more infantry brigades remained outside the 2nd town.

Just in time the three infantry brigades were transferred back to protect the grain routes.

Wang Jiayan said again: "Holy Lord, we still need to recruit some people from Shandong to come." ”

Chongzhen thought for a while and said: "Forget it, Shandong's people's power is already insufficient, and now spring has begun, and spring plowing is about to begin, so don't recruit people from Shandong, just recruit from North Korea." ”

As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the life and death of the people of Shandong still have to be managed.

As for the life and death of the Korean people, he Chongzhen can't care about it.

"Immediately send an urgent delivery to Dengzhou, let Min Guogong lead the sailors to North Korea to dignitaries, and by the way, the 20,000 Korean troops in Liaodong will also be transported over, maybe it won't be long before it comes in handy."