Chongzhen Undergraduates

"He himself said that he was a Tanhua of Chongzhen for 16 years, a disciple of the emperor, and only the emperor can kill him." The staff officer explained.

"The emperor will not see him." Cheng Xianzhen just arrived at the scene.

Now that you have Cheng Xianzhen, Yuan Zongdi has nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter if you are Tanhua or a student of the emperor, as long as you don't surrender, you will be killed.

"Pull up the cannon," Yuan Zongdi ordered.

Chen Mingxia stood upstairs and watched the Ming army pull up several cannons outside. He was so frightened that his face paled and he became incontinent.He never thought that he would be directly bombarded to death by cannons in his life.

This was the only shelling used by the Ming army when they attacked Dezhou.

Chapter 5 Fourteen: Two Heroes Competing for Hegemony and Computing Minds

Hong Chengchou didn't talk about the fact that the Ming army would abandon several big cities and merge the main force into two major groups to march towards the capital. He originally wanted to use the time difference between the Ming army's four-way march to repel the Ming army.

The so-called "no matter how many ways you come, I will go all the way" is not a magical skill.In the hands of people like Hong Chengchou, this tactic is completely child's play.Naturally, Hong Chengchou also had a mobile force, which was the coalition force composed of the main forces of the Beijing Jurchen Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners in the capital.

This is a pure mule-horse army. Except that the cannons are not as good as the Ming army, its individual weapons are not much worse than the Ming army, otherwise there is no need to fight this battle.

Hong Chengchou now has generals under his command including Tong Yangjia, Ning Wanwo, Ma Degong, Meng Qiaofang, etc.; civil servants under his command include Liu Zhengzong, Xiong Wenju, etc., and Chen Mingxia who just died.

As for Wang Duo, Hou Xun, Hou Fangyu and others, they had already defected to Wu Sangui.

It was also very difficult for Hong Chengchou to solve this chess move of the Ming army, because the troops were mobilized and concentrated and then scattered, such a battle was not easy to fight.However, the battle in Dezhou made Hong Chengchou see a turning point.

If the Ming army forcefully conquered Dezhou, then the Ming army's own casualties would not be small. The Ming army of the two armies became one and a half, and the other Ming army went to the direction of Xuanfu. This was the result Hong Chengchou wanted.

Dry!Hong Chengchou decided to fight.

"Hurry up and tell the battalions to gather towards Bazhou as soon as possible. There must be no mistakes." Hong Chengchou didn't tell Dayuer directly about this, because the military power was already in his hands.

In the whole of Northern Zhili, except for the defenders in Taiyuan who are far away, there are many troops in Baoding, Hejian, Cangzhou, Bazhou and Tianjinwei.According to Hong Chengchou's calculation, as long as he looks for an opportunity to eat up the Ming army marching northward in Dezhou, he will have a chance to come back.

Even if there is no comeback, at least there is a bargaining chip.Of course Hong Chengchou didn't want to die, his so-called negotiation was actually to ask Zhu Youjian to let them go, because he still had Dayuer and Fulin in his hand, and a group of Meng Babanners.

According to the traditions of the past dynasties, the Central Plains generally did not really care about the affairs of the north.A strong military will have a bargaining chip on the political table. Hong Chengchou knows better than anyone else, so he wants to win a game.

Hong Chengchou's eyes are now fixed on the direction of Dezhou. He hopes that the Ming army will move quickly so that he can make the next deployment.

……

Dezhou, Liu Tichun Department finally arrived.

The whole of Dezhou has become a material supply battle, and countless grain trucks are continuously transported here from the direction of Jinan and Dongchangfu.

Li Yan and Zhu Youjian had just arrived with a convoy when they saw an unexpected situation. A large number of civilians did not leave Dezhou, but served as laborers for the Ming army.

"What's the situation?" Zhu Youjian asked Cheng Xianzhen.

"Returning to the emperor, these are the people around Dezhou. They were captured by Chen Mingxia in Dezhou City. They originally wanted to prevent our army from attacking the city. Unexpectedly, Yuan Zongdi played a night attack and stirred up the entire Dezhou City into a pot of porridge. The common people I survived immediately. After that, these people will not leave, and they will go back to the south with us, no matter how much we persuade them, we cannot persuade them to leave." Cheng Xianzhen explained.

"This is what people want!" Li Yan said with emotion.

"This is our first battle to regain the hearts of the people. We must settle the people well this time, and we must not chill the hearts of the people. In this way, you, the Shandong parent official, recruit some coachmen around to help the army with logistics."

Zhu Youjian thought for a while, instead of driving these people home, it is better to let some of them participate.Zhu Youjian wanted to see if the people in Beizhili still had any resentment towards him.

"Your Majesty, what if you have a coachman and no car?" Cheng Xianzhen asked.

"Allocate all the carriages of the Jinan logistics transport team to Liu Tichun and the others. This should be enough for them to supply food and grass for at least 20 days." Li Yan answered.

According to Li Yan's plan, once the second army of Liu Tichun and Yuan Zong went forward, they could not supply supplies from Jinan, and had to attack all the way to Tianjinwei.Because the logistics from Jinan to Tianjinwei are easy to be targeted by Hong Chengchou.At present, no extra troops can be transferred from Jinan to reinforce the Northern Expedition.

"I want to go north with Yuan Zongdi and the others." Zhu Youjian started to get confused again.

"That's not allowed. Your majesty's image is now printed on the silver dollar. Even if you are recognized by an enemy, you will be in danger. This is absolutely impossible." Cheng Xianzhen jumped up and objected.

"But I want to follow them to kill the enemy." Zhu Youjian was full of longing.

"I suggest that the emperor can land from Tianjin Wei at a later time, so that he can go deep into the battlefield and have the navy to protect the safety of the emperor at any time." Li Yan didn't say to find a way out for Zhu Youjian, so he said The emperor is too shameless.

"Then this matter is settled like this. Don't object any more at that time." Zhu Youjian stepped off the donkey and firmly stated that he must go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

Two days later, the Ming army on the eastern front finally moved, but Hong Chengchou never imagined that this army would have two thousand carts of grain and three thousand carts of fodder.

Zhu Youjian grinned. He originally thought that Cheng Xianzhen would be able to find at most one or two hundred coachmen who were willing to join the army, but who knew that 2000 people came all at once.Li Yan was cruel and gave the entire logistics personnel and vehicles to the army.

But turning around, Zhu Youjian began to worry again: "Li Yan, how do you think Hong Chengchou will deal with it?"

There was an inexplicable anxiety in Zhu Youjian's heart, even if he had never been so anxious during the most difficult time of the Jianghuai War.He felt that this was a manifestation of his lack of self-confidence, or that Chongzhen in his body also had this kind of lack of self-confidence when facing Hong Chengchou.

Compared with Dorgon, Hong Chengchou is the real strong man in this era, even if he is called "Hong Crazy", it is difficult to conceal his power.

"I feel that no matter how Hong Chengchou responds, there is a weakness that cannot be overcome." Li Yan said seriously.

"What's the problem?" Zhu Youjian became interested, he needed someone to give him some stimulant.

"Hong Chengchou is short of men. If he goes to Tianjin Wei in person, no one in the capital can challenge him. If he doesn't come to Tianjin Wei, then he will not win this battle. No matter how powerful Hong Chengchou is, he will face I don't care about the situation of the back."

When Li Yan said these words, he was also a little nervous. Although he had summed up this point of view for a long time, Li Yan's self-confidence was not enough.

"Zuo Maodi should have arrived in the capital, right? I don't know how things are progressing with him?" Zhu Youjian took out two cigarettes and Li Yan lit them respectively.

"Things in the capital are not so fast. In the final analysis, Hong Chengchou's foundation must be squeezed out to make the situation better. What I am most worried about now is the cavalry army. They are the sharp swords of our army. They will seal their throats when they are unsheathed." The main force." At this time, Li Yan's ability was obviously better than Zhu Youjian's.

Li Yan is different from Hong Chengchou, and Zhu Youjian is naturally not the former Chongzhen Emperor.

At the level of this strategic struggle, Li Yan feels that Zhu Youjian's ideas are not enough, but he can still keep up with his thinking.But governing the court, especially knowing people and using them well and using new methods is far better than him.There are some methods and ideas that can be said to be subversive, and the effect is excellent.

So Li Yan believed from the bottom of his heart that the emperor was a person who could create the future, but Daming now lacked someone who could help Zhu Youjian bring Daming back to normal, and Li Yan wanted to do this well.

Looking at the back of the army going north, a map of Beijing and Tianjin immediately appeared in Li Yan's head, and he calculated every resource and possibility that Hong Chengchou could use step by step.

As for Xuanfu, the First Cavalry Army was wandering around Ying County.

Chapter 5 Fifteen: White Soldiers Bloody Battle at Yanmen Pass

"Looking for a human way among sheep and horses, there are no homes outside Yanmen Pass. In the past, I heard that there was Yunzhong County, but today there is no cloud and there is sand in the sky."

Yanmen Pass is the first difficulty in front of the cavalry army. It is less difficult than food shortage, and even less difficult than breaking through the world's first pass "Shanhai Pass".

The First Cavalry Army underestimated the difficulty of passing the Yanmen Pass and wasted a full three days.Attack Yanmen Pass with the tactics of riding an army. After a round of artillery fire, the Xiongguan Pass still stands majestically, and there is not much damage.

"Huh, so hard?" Li Laiheng opened his mouth wide. The Chuangjun did not go to the northern route, and the Xuanfu only expressed submission. In fact, Dashun's actual control power did not reach the Xuanfu.

After the artillery bombarded the infantry and rushed, the infantry of the first cavalry army encountered a violent counterattack before they rushed to the pass.All kinds of weapons are like a historical exhibition of the Central Plains siege battle the year before last.

Rolling logs, rolling stones, oil pipes, golden juice, rockets, cannons, stone cannons... By the time the infantry cavalry had tasted them all, it had been a long time.