Tianjin Wei, inside the Yang family's mansion.

Yang Qilong, Zhao Liangdong, Shi Lang, and Zheng Desheng have already read two handwritten letters from Empress Yang - one for Yang Qilong and one for Zhao Liangdong.

The content of these two letters is similar, one is to tell Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong that she, Yang Xiaomi, temporarily appeased Kangxi and gained his trust, but once Kangxi repelled the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty, the situation would be reversed immediately!

Because Kangxi no longer trusts the Yang family!

It's the most ruthless emperor's family!

The second is to tell Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong that now a Ming army with tens of thousands of people is advancing towards Beijing City, and this is the opportunity for the Yang family to turn the tables! As long as the Yang family can use the excuse of King Qin to take Beijing City, the old empress dowager Bumu Butai and the crown prince Baoqing in their hands, then there is a chance to arch Kangxi into the emperor!

The third is to tell Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong that she has ordered the troops under Changning and Bahai to be transferred back to Dongping Prefecture from Jining Prefecture and Ziyang.

The fourth is to tell Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong that she has given Daniel Zhang an edict to let Daniel Zhang let Yang Qilong and Zhao Liangdong's army enter Beijing City!

After reading Yang Xiaomi's letter, Yang Qilong, Zhao Liangdong, Shi Lang, and Zheng Desheng all took a breath - Yang Xiaomi is going to launch a coup d'état! Moreover, regardless of the overall situation, when Kangxi and Li Zhongshan were in a decisive battle, she took advantage of Kangxi's short-term trust for the sake of the overall situation to resolutely launch a coup d'état, which was decisive and ruthless, which really did not match her appearance and her long-term style of acting with Rou Kegang.

Zhao Liangdong, Shi Lang, and Zheng Desheng were stunned for a while, and they all looked at Yang Qilong, as if waiting for him to make an idea, but Yang Qilong just frowned, didn't look at it, and seemed to be thinking hard.

Zhao Liangdong suddenly said loudly: "Kangxi worships Ao, seeks to level the west, and Tu Fuquan, but he doesn't recognize his six relatives. No matter how cautious we are, we will not be tolerated, so we might as well stand up! ”

Shi Lang also nodded: "Fight, the Great Sui Meritorious Cause may be there. Sui Guogong, do it! ”

Zheng Desheng also said: "Sui Guogong, give the order!" ”

"!" Yang Qilong slapped the table, "It's done. As long as we take Beijing, we can retreat outside the border, and we can enter according to Yanyun, and stand undefeated. Otherwise, once Kangxi wins and returns, we will all die without a place to be buried! ”

On the sixth day of October, night.

After working for almost a whole day, Emperor Kangxi, who finally rearranged his 100,000 troops, was really a little unbearable. Since he led his troops to leave Dongpingzhou, he has been in a state of excitement and nervousness, except for squinting for a short time this morning, he hasn't closed his eyes again, even his iron body can't bear it, let alone a ridiculous and unscrupulous emperor?

So after dinner, Emperor Kang, who was really tired, fell asleep on a recliner in the south study (Kangxi has a south study where he was). I was dreaming that he skillfully used his troops in the decisive battle of Zou County, lured the enemy deep with one hand and then added a move to attack half-crossing, and used a powerful cavalry corps to attack the Ming army that was crossing the Beisha River head-on. It's just so beautiful!

When he was dreaming of an orgasm, he suddenly found that someone was shaking himself, and he was shaking while shouting: "Your Majesty. Oh no! ”

"What's wrong with that? This is all won, what else can be bad? When Kangxi was just shaken awake, he was still a little dazed, and replied in passing, as soon as the dream words came out, he had already seen Li Guangdi's face full of expressions of "big things are not good", and he suddenly woke up.

The battle hasn't been won yet, and the situation may not be very good!

"Li Guangdi, what's going on?" Kangxi hurriedly sat up and asked.

"Your Majesty, the cavalry we sent to Ziyang and Jining Prefecture to investigate the enemy's situation has returned."

"How's it going?"

"Your Majesty, last night they encountered the Ming army's brigade of infantry on several official roads between the White Horse River and the Si River, and the losses were not small!"

"What." Kangxi was scared into a cold sweat at that time, "Between the White Horse River and the Si River? Brigade foot riding? How many other official roads are there? That's the Ming army that attacked Jining Prefecture and Ziyang interspersed over! What does Changning eat? What does Bahai eat? ”

According to the information that Kangxi had before, the Ming troops attacking Jining Prefecture and Ziyang were all about 50,000, that is, one corps, while the defenders of Jining Prefecture and Ziyang were around 20,000. 20,000 against 50,000, at first glance the advantage is in the enemy. However, it is not a matter of counting the number of heads on the battlefield, and if there are more people, there will be an advantage, and if there are fewer people, it will not work. There are many factors to consider in fighting a war!

And in the absence of a generation gap between the two sides, it is theoretically not an easy task for 50,000 troops to evacuate from the fortified city guarded by 20,000 troops. Especially when the rear of these 50,000 troops was cut off by the opponent's 100,000 army. At this time, the evacuation and transfer were carried out, which was to both spank the troops defending the fortified city and prevent the enemy from setting up an ambush in front of them in their retreat.

But why did they swagger and kill between the White Horse River and the Si River, and beat the cavalry of the two battalions sent out by Kangxi violently?

"Your Majesty, maybe King Gong and Bahai were negligent for a while." Li Guangdi analyzed, "Maybe the Ming army left enough palace troops to block the pursuing soldiers of King Gong and Bahai." ”

Kangxi nodded: "Mostly. King Gong and Ba Hai have borne the sin of picking up the Yellow River, if the Ming army succeeds, how will they be spared? ”

"Your Majesty." Li Guangdi asked, "Your Majesty, should we shrink our forces now, and then divide our troops to defend Zou County and Qufu, so as to become a horn?" ”

Li Guangdi made this suggestion, of course, because he knew that the situation was not good.

Now Kangxi is a red-eyed gambler, and he has begun to realize that his own pre-war calculations are becoming miscalculations - Kangxi used to fight first to attack a legion of the Ming army to attack Qufu, and then take advantage of the victory to cut behind the two legions of the Ming army attacking Ziyang and Jining Prefecture, forcing them to retreat. Then use this victory to prove to the Han people in Shandong and Zhili that the Qing Dynasty is still okay In this way, Li Zhongshan, who does not get the support of the Han people's strong grain and grass, will inevitably retreat from the army, thus following in the footsteps of Zhuge Wuhou.

But the current situation on the battlefield is completely different from Kangxi's clever calculation, the Ming army's attack on Qufu was not beaten, but retreated while fighting, and introduced the Qing army brigade into a big pocket!

At the same time, the two corps of the Ming army attacking Ziyang and Jining also smoothly moved from under the cities of Ziyang and Jining to between the Baima River and the Si River, and began to threaten the flank and rear of the Kangxi army.

And south of the Beisha River, now there is a Ming army brigade led by Li Yat-sen himself!

Kangxi's army seemed to be about to fall into the predicament of being flanked by the enemy's superior forces.

In addition, the Ming army also sent tens of thousands of troops to attack Beijing in a roundabout way. The closer this army is to Beijing, the more the hearts of the people in Zhili and Shandong will be towards the Ming Dynasty!

Once the Haoqiang of Zhili and Shandong turned to the Ming Dynasty, then Li Zhongshan's 800,000 army would not have the problem of food shortage

In this case, it is probably the wisest choice to give up the decisive battle, retreat to Beijing, and seek an ending of stopping losses and losing less.

However, Li Guangdi also knew that Kangxi couldn't listen to it, so he came up with such an idea of sticking to Zou County and Qufu.

"It's not good, it's not good" Kangxi waved his hand unexpectedly, "Sticking to Zou County and Qufu is not an arrangement for winning the battle at all, but a strategy for losing the battle!" ”

Kangxi stood up as he spoke, walked quickly to a map table in the south study, pressed the edge of the map table with both hands, leaned down, and stared at the map. At this time, the light in the south study was a little dim, and Li Guangdi hurriedly brought a candlestick and lit it for the red-eyed emperor, so that he could see more clearly before placing a bet.

"There it is!" Kangxi had a flash of inspiration, and he had already thought of a strategy to break the enemy, he pointed to the Beisha River on the map and said to Li Guang: "I will fight Li Zhongshan here and attack him for a half, what do you think?" ”

"Half-crossed?" Li Guangdi looked at the map, "Does the emperor mean to pretend to retreat first, lead Li Zhongshan's army to wade, and wait for them to cross halfway, and then attack with a large army?" ”

Kangxi nodded: "The north of the Beisha River is the Jiehe, and there are not many pontoon bridges on the Jiehe River, as long as I send someone to block the Jiehe pontoon bridge, causing the illusion of congestion of the army, Li Zhongshan will definitely supervise the army to cross the river to pursue At this time, I will order someone to burn the Jiehe pontoon bridge again, and have a backwater battle!" The last battle plus the half-crossing attack should be foolproof, right? ”

"Your Majesty. Shengming! Li Guangdi looked at the strange look on Kangxi Ma's face, and had no choice but to send a "Shengming".

"General, general, Kangxi is going to run!"

In the early morning of the seventh day of October, Li Zhongshan, a general of the Ming Dynasty who was sleeping in the camp of the Ming army on the south bank of the Jinggou River, was suddenly woken up by the voice of Zhou Chang and Zhou Peigong outside.

Without saying a word, he quickly got up from the narrow marching bed and shouted, "Come in and talk." ”

Immediately afterwards, I saw Zhou Chang and the two personal soldiers of the Shanzi battalion walking in together, and the two personal soldiers brought a change of clothes for General Li and a washbasin, a tea jar, a bristle toothbrush and so on. Li Zhongshan didn't need the two hairy soldiers to serve, he directly waved his hand to let the two leave, and then asked Zhou Changdao while dressing himself, wearing socks and boots: "What's the matter?" ”

"General, the Qing army on the north bank of the Beisha River is moving in the direction of the Jiehe River, and it looks like it wants to run!" Zhou Chang said, "It seems that Kangxi has discovered that the troops of Li Junmen and Chang Junmen are covering his retreat." ”

"The reaction is pretty fast!" As Li Zhongshan spoke, he took the teapot and toothbrush, and began to brush his teeth and rinse his mouth.

"General, you can't let Kangxi run back to Qufu. Shang Shuying sent someone to report last night, saying that Kong Shenggong had agreed to take refuge, and most of the 5,000 Shandong soldiers who were staying in Qufu now could be controlled by Kong Shenggong, as long as Kangxi's army could not enter Qufu for a while, then Qufu would soon be ours. She also said that Kong Shenggong still had 800,000 stone grain and 340,000 bundles of hay on hand that could be dedicated to the general! ”

Li Zhongshan had already finished brushing his teeth, and immediately laughed: "Shuying has made a great contribution this time. Not bad, not bad! Looks like I didn't hurt her in vain! ”

"General, let's do it now."

Li Zhongshan wiped his face with cold water again, and suddenly became more energetic: "Is the command tower set up?" ”

"It's already set."

Li Zhongshan had already put on his shoes and said with a smile: "Order the First Army and the Fifth Army Corps, all of them will be dispatched to line up on the south bank of the Shahe River to Peigong, let's have some breakfast casually first, and then ascend to command together and beat Kangxi!" ”

"Yes!"

With Li Zhongshan's order, the camp on the south bank of the Jinggou River, which was originally sleeping, completely woke up in less than a stick of incense. In the camp of the Ming army, which was originally hidden in the darkness, countless lanterns and bonfires were soon lit, and the firelight was dotted with stars, covering the wilderness, like a sea of stars on the ground.

The operational arrangements for the formation on the south bank of the Beisha River and the operation involving the crossing have long been drawn up by the Military Orders Department led by Zhou Chang, and now it only takes Li Yat-sen's order to make an order, and the 100,000-strong army will run in a step-by-step manner, and there is no need to draw up a plan like cramming for the sake of the moment.

Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang's breakfast is a Cantonese-style mooncake with sweet mooncakes, bean paste filling, and a very dry and hard mooncake crust. Eating moon cakes for breakfast is not because General Li received too many moon cake gift boxes during the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat them, but because moon cakes are high in calories, and they are relatively easy to store and carry, and the taste is also very good.

A large piece of moon cake plus a cup of hot salted tea, plus a piece of hard salted jerky, the heat and salt can be made up at one time, and you can withstand it for two hours on the battlefield, if you cut people and starve, it doesn't matter, because there will be four more moon cakes and two pieces of jerky before going to the front line. Two months of cake and a piece of jerky is lunch, and the rest is of course dinner, plus a large pot of tea mixed with a little salt, and it will be almost a day.

Don't underestimate this field ration, without the world's No. 1 sugar industry, who can use moon cakes as dry food? These days, the price of sugar is more expensive than beef!

When Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang finished breakfast and walked out of the camp tent, the sky outside was only a little bright, but the whole camp had begun to operate at full speed, the assembly call sounded one after another, the soldiers were already dressed up, according to the queue formation, the team leader, the deputy and the four platoon commanders of each team began to check the soldiers' equipment and dry food one by one in accordance with the combat regulations of the Ming Army, and after each inspection, they patted the soldiers on their shoulders, and the soldiers would carry flintlock pistols.

When a whole team of soldiers are sure that it is correct, the team leader and team deputy will wear their own helmets on their heads, the helmets of the team leaders and team deputies are different from the helmets of ordinary soldiers, ordinary soldiers have red helmets on their helmets, and the helmets of each team leader and team deputy are yellow, so that the soldiers on the battlefield can easily find the commander. Even if the troops are scattered, they can easily find the commander of the "Yellow Helmets" and join his team to return to organized combat.

Each Ming army had four platoons under its command, so that they could easily form a hollow phalanx, and when marching on the battlefield, they would generally form a longitudinal formation with a relatively wide front, and when they were in a firing formation, they would become three or two horizontal columns.

"Brothers, the Tartar tyrant Kang Mazi, who dug the dam of the Yellow River and flooded our fertile soil for thousands of miles in Huaibei, is on the north side of the Jiehe River. What should we do? ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

"Brothers, the general has an order, if you can kill Kangxi or destroy his main force today, the whole army will have a heavy reward, and the recruits can be promoted to the country, the countrymen can be promoted to the country, and the countrymen can be given land in Liaodong."

"Hooray!"

When Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang, escorted by the cavalry of the Shanzi Battalion, rode out of the camp and walked towards the pontoon bridge over the Jinggou River, cheers began to resound in the large camp that could accommodate 100,000 people. This is the officers who are then mobilized before the war. Of course, the soldiers of the republican Ming Dynasty could not give in vain, and the General's Mansion had already prepared satisfactory rewards for them.

This kind of reward is divided into "collective merit" and "individual merit", and the collective merit is divided into two types: large collective and small collective, the former after the victory of the battle, everyone has a share! The latter belong to the group that has performed particularly well in combat.

As for individual military merits, they generally belong to officers and combat heroes, and ordinary soldiers are not easy to get.

In the midst of this piece of cheering, the 100,000 Ming army began to walk towards the battlefield that would decide who would be under heaven!

(End of chapter)