The cold wind was howling, and Zhu Quan and Xu Ying were standing on the bank of the wide Songhua River. Zhu Quan turned his head to look at the countless busy people in the distance who were wielding their hoes, digging the ground on the large open space between the four military camps, and couldn't help laughing: "Zhu Laosi's trick is really ruthless, it is unclear whether this land will be harvested or not to get grain next year, anyway, don't think about the grass to grow." Stretched out his hand and touched the thin layer of ice floe on the surface of the river, and said with a smile: "When the river freezes, let's make a sleigh to play." ”

Xu Ying blinked and smiled, "Sled, what is that?" She was born in the south of the Yangtze River, and she has never seen the scene of the river frozen, and naturally she doesn't know what a fun thing a sled is.

When Zhu Quan said the sled, he recalled in his mind the scene of a thick layer of ice on the surface of the Songhua River during the cold winter in the Northeast that he had seen on TV before. ”

Xu Ying was taken aback by him, frowned and said with a wry smile: "I really don't know where you got such strange things and ideas in your head." ”

Among the commanders of the Chinese army, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Zhu Di, Lan Yu and others had already arrived, and they each sat upright to listen to Zhu Quan explain his playing style.

Zhu Quan walked to the side of the map, turned around and smiled at everyone: "We may not only be able to sit here and stalemate with the Yuan army of Liaodong, but we can also take the initiative to attack and make them unstable." ”

Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, looked at the vast Liaodong Plain on the map, frowned and asked: "The vast plain of Liaodong, but it is difficult for us to know where the Nahachu army is stationed, even if we know its location, by the time our army arrives, they will have already run away without a trace." ”

Zhu Quan raised his wooden stick, pointed to the winding Songhua River basin on the map, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "The 170,000 cavalry under the command of Nahachu, along with a large number of war horses, also need to drink water every day, so according to the estimation of this king, the place where their army is stationed will never be too far away from this great river. Our army does not need to be dispatched in full, the foot soldiers are all left in the barracks to defend steadily, and the deputy marshal only needs to personally command 50,000 cavalry to search along the river, and we will definitely be able to find the traces of the Liaodong Yuan army. ”

Fu Youde frowned and said: "Although our army has about 55,000 cavalry, Nahachu is also a Northern Yuan general who knows how to fight well, and there are 170,000 cavalry under his command. ”

Zhu Quan nodded and said with a smile: "The attack is enough, as long as our army restrains his hundreds of thousands of cavalry, so that they can't take water from the river with peace of mind." ”

The crowd didn't understand it for a while, and wondered in their hearts: What is the difficulty of getting water? How to disturb?

Zhu Quan suddenly said in a deep voice: "At this time, the river has begun to freeze, if it encounters continuous heavy snow, when the weather is cold and frozen, there is a thick layer of ice on the river, I am afraid that if his hundreds of thousands of troops want to take water from the river, it will not be so easy." ”

At this point, it dawned on the eyes of the people that the soldiers and horses did not have enough water, and it was obvious what it meant. Feng Sheng stood up and handed down the military order: "When the weather turns cold and the river freezes, please ask Lao Fu to lead Lan Yu, Chang Mao, and Chang Sheng, and lead all the cavalry in the army to the north along the river to search for the location of Nahachu's army." At present, the barracks also need to reserve drinking water, and when the river freezes, it will be difficult for us to get water in the river. Turning his head to look at Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who were eager to try, he smiled and said: "The two highnesses, please rest assured that you will be stationed in the military camp with this commander." ”

Zhu Quan and Zhu Di couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly when they heard his decisive tone, both of them had the intention of following Fu Youde's cavalry to attack, but at this time, Feng Shengnai was the commander of the Northern Expedition, and every word was a military order that had to be respected, even if the two of them were princes, they were helpless.

In the night, in the tent of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, there sat Zhu Di and an old bald monk, who were Jing Kun, Qin Zhuofeng's old friend monk Daoyan. The two big men standing next to him were Zhu Di's henchmen Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng. East#Fang#Net.com

Zhu Di finished telling the plan of taking the initiative that Zhu Quan said today, and chuckled: "Zhu Quan, this kid followed Lan Yu to fight a bloody battle of 30,000 yuan in Gyeongju, and resisted the 80,000 people of Nahachu, and his military talent should not be underestimated. ”

Seeing that there was no worry between Zhu Di's words, Monk Daoyan couldn't help but smile and asked, "Isn't His Highness not worried about His Royal Highness King Ning at all?" ”

Zhu Di smiled and waved his hand and said: "At this time, almost all the civil and military officials above the temple are loyal to His Royal Highness the Prince. At the moment, I can't say that he is an enemy, this is obvious, and I think he knows it in his heart. ”

Monk Daoyan nodded with satisfaction, he chose His Royal Highness King Yan Zhu Di to assist, it was because he saw that he was sober-minded and knew how to judge the situation, which was difficult for ordinary people to achieve. Secretly thought to himself: Qin Zhuofeng, that old man, when I made an agreement with Jing Kun, he said it nicely, what do you not help each other, at this time, his apprentice and Zhu Quan are in love, so he naturally stands on the side of King Ning, thinking about it is really hateful and hateful.

After three days, under the howling north wind, goose feathers and heavy snow fell in the vast wilderness, the temperature dropped sharply, and the wilderness was bitterly cold.

Feng Sheng ordered all the sergeants and civilians to take shelter from the cold in the barracks to avoid frostbite.

Ma Sanbao beat him hard with a hammer before he got two ice cubes and put them in a pot of water to boil water to make tea. It turned out that under the cold weather, all the water stored in the tank froze into a large block of ice like a stone.

Zhu Quan looked funny, and thought in his heart: I have so much trouble boiling water and making a cup of tea, you Nahachu 170,000 cavalry, and 170,000 horses want to drink water, but I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort.

After two days of snowstorms, the snow finally came down. Under the leadership of Feng Sheng, the generals of the Ming army walked through the vast white wilderness and came to the riverside to check, only to see that the wide Songhua River was already frozen. Zhu Quan was bold enough to walk on the ice, only to feel that his feet were as solid as stepping on the stone slab, and he was very happy in his heart, and he jumped on it lightly twice, and the ice layer was also silent, and it was obvious that it was already frozen quite solidly.

Returning to the barracks, Feng Sheng immediately issued a military order, asking Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Chang Mao, and Chang Sheng to command all 55,000 cavalry to prepare to set off to search for the location of the Northern Yuan army.

Fu Youde asked the Chang brothers to go out to reorganize the military horses, feed all the war horses, and the sergeants carried rations and spirits to keep out the cold. Turning around and pointing to the stretching mountains of the Great Xing'an Mountains on the map, he said to Lan Yu: "The sky is freezing right now, whether the Yuan army is burning a fire for warmth, or burning a fire to melt ice and snow to drink, a large amount of firewood is needed. You and I divide the army into two teams, not too far apart, from the south to the north along the river, you take 20,000 horses to walk close to the side of the mountain, if you find that the Yuan army went up the mountain to cut wood and wood, chase and kill, and attack, you can't fight. I took 25,000 men and horses along the river, so that the Tartar army could not get water from the river with peace of mind. ”

Half an hour later, Fu Youde and Lan Yu led tens of thousands of cavalry to slowly walk across the solid ice, set off mightily, and went to the other side of the river. Zhu Quan found Fan Wengang from the Firearms Department of the Ministry of War, led a hundred Ming soldiers, took a lot of gunpowder, clay pots, bamboo and other things and walked towards the river.

When he came to the location of Jiangxin, Zhu Quan asked Sima Chao to dig a small pit on the ice, and then put the clay pot filled with gunpowder and sealed with oiled paper into the pit, and the rest of the sergeants did the same, digging pits on the ice every ten zhang and putting in a clay pot full of gunpowder.

When the people saw him commanding this, they couldn't help but wonder. Zhu Quan took a bamboo and said with a smile: "All the bamboo joints in the bamboo tube have been pierced, let's set it up with a medicinal twist, and we can detonate these mines." ”

After the sergeant slowly passed the medicine twist through the bamboo tube, Zhu Quan squatted down, gently knocked a hole in the side of the "mine" exposed on the ice, inserted the bamboo tube with the medicine twist into the "mine", and then connected the rest of the bamboo tube behind, all the way to the riverside barracks, after the connection, let the sergeants take some snow to cover it, bury the "mine" in the snow and hide, turned his head and smiled: "If Nahachu attacks the deputy marshal cavalry, maybe he will draw a gourd like this, so that we can't get water." These things are for the Yuan army. ”

An open place on the bank of the Songhua River, with a tent stretching for more than ten miles, is where Nahachu's Liaodong army is located.

Nahachu and Guantong were standing by the river, watching more than a thousand soldiers chisel the ice on the surface of the river, dig holes one by one, and then draw water from buckets, their hearts were heavy. It turned out that the weather had been freezing for several days, and the night was especially cold, and the soldiers had to burn a fire to keep warm. Although countless cauldrons were placed in the barracks, filled with snow to melt and drink on the bonfire, if they wanted to satisfy the quotation of 170,000 soldiers and horses, it was still a drop in the bucket, so they had no choice but to send people to dig ice and get water on the river, and on the other hand, they sent soldiers to the Daxing'an Mountains in the west, not far away, to cut down the firewood necessary for the fire.

At this moment, a Yuan scout galloped on horseback, reported due south to Nahachu, and found a Ming cavalry rushing towards him.

Nahachu knew that this time Feng Sheng's northern expedition army, the cavalry was only about fifty or sixty thousand, and when he heard that the other party actually came with fewer strikes and more attacks, he couldn't help but be unexpected, frowned and ordered the three armies to fight, turned his head and said to Guan Tong: "The cavalry of the Ming army is outnumbered, and it is obvious that there is another trick, you lead the army to wait and see what happens, and I will lead 60,000 horses of Wuliang Ha Sanwei to meet the enemy." Seeing Guan Tong bowing down to receive the order, he immediately got on the horse and led the leader of the three guards, and his 60,000 elite soldiers to usher in the direction of Fu Youde.

At this time, the 25,000 cavalry of the Ming army led by Fu Youde was still dozens of miles away, and he heard the scout's report that he had encountered the Yuan army scouts, and knew that this place was not far from the Yuan army camp.

This book was first published.

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